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MEE NATHESON
No, mostly the voices in your head are produced by psychological mechanisms. Identifying with those voices is one of the basic mistakes that humans make which prevent them from recognizing what I call “true self.”
Your mind makes a model of the world that you live in, and it makes models (more than one!) of the self. It does this for prediction and control, it needs to be able to anticipate what will happen in response to a given action, for example, so it needs to have a model of self and world.
Being biased toward “survival of the ego”, the mind does a lot of internal scenario-building: mocking up imaginary situations in which you take some action and then simulating how others will respond, etc. The voices represent the viewpoint of yourself or others, as imagined in these mock-ups. At other times, the mind reviews your actions and thoughts and presents them to an imaginary jury to judge them, or imagines what others must think of you, and so forth.
The basic theme of all this internal drama is to refine and sustain the self-concept web. To the degree that you believe you’re defined by the self projected by those mechanisms, you tend to just not notice the lack of “grounding” or authenticity inherent in the voices and images and thoughts of that constructed identity.
That results in an overall “poverty of freedom”: if you believe that you are that persona, then a large portion of the mind’s resources are devoted to the maintenance of it. Ego maintenance becomes the 800-lb gorilla in the mind, and other possibilities of being and thinking and self-expression are ignored or unexplored.
Recovering your freedom and authenticity requires you to take ownership of those mechanisms — to see them for what they are, accept them as the product of automated thinking, but not fall for the illusion that “these thoughts tell me who I am.”
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“Make of yourself a light”
said the Buddha,
before he died
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On a high-fat diet, blood sugar response can be nearly double what it may be on a high-carb diet.
Just one high-saturated-fat meal can make carbohydrate intolerance, the cause of diabetes, worse within only four hours.
advanced glycation end products (AGEs).
AGEs are found concentrated in animal-derived foods that are high in protein and fat, and have been implicated in Alzheimer’s, cataracts, strokes, and other degenerative diseases.
AGEs are in our body from two sources: We eat them preformed in our diet or make them internally from methylglyoxal if we have high blood sugar levels.
Treating diabetes with a ketogenic diet may not only make the underlying diabetes worse but mimic some of the disease’s dire consequences.
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Nobody knows.
We have no real evidence of consciousness existing without a brain. On the other hand, we don’t actually have a whole lot of evidence of consciousness existing within a brain, either. All we know for certain is that they go together.
It could be that the relation between brain and consciousness is something akin to a TV. You definitely need one to watch, say, Midsomer Murders. But the show exists, for some definition of the word, even if you don’t have a TV, and asking where Barnaby actually resides is the wrong sort of question altogether, as is the question of where he goes when you turn the TV off. It could also be that it’s simply an effect of a brain that’s in good working order, and it’s got nothing to do with anything that isn’t the actual matter inside the skull.
The thing here is that we don’t actually know what consciousness is. You can put electrodes on the scalp and say whether the brain inside is conscious or not, but that doesn’t actually explain what it is we’re looking for; when you try to define exactly what it is, you get lost in a maze of circular definitions. We can recognise it in ourselves, we can infer that other people have it too, and we can be quite certain that a chimpanzee has something that is, at the very least, very similar to ours, and that a rabbit has some aspects of it but maybe not the whole set, as it were. But that’s really as far as it goes.
It could also be that it’s all an illusion, but that sort of raises the question of who it is that’s having the illusion in the first place, and if so, why.
You could actually read a small library of more-or-less popular science books on the subject, and be none the wiser. Trust me on this – I did.
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BRAIN HARDWIRE X MIND SOFTWARE
BRAIN KNIFE X MIND EDGE
Best analogy: Your brain is hardware, your mind is the software it's running. That software appears to influence the hardware (and the rest of the body), but there's always corresponding physical processes that are actually at cause. For example, when the mind experiences fear, that seems to make the heart race, but what's actually going on is that the physical processes that gave rise to the fear also triggered, directly or indirectly, the heart-racing. In the same way, software appears to make the hardware do things, but underlying all software is actually just extremely low-level activities in hardware.
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MTFRMN
Sold originally as Glucophage (meaning “sugar eater”), metformin is now prescribed more than eighty-five million times a year in the United States alone.150 Despite all the strides in biotechnology, Big Pharma has yet to come up with a safer, more effective, first-line treatment for type 2 diabetes than an AMPK-boosting drug that retails at pennies per pill.
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Modern identifiable humans emerged around 300,000 years ago.
White skinned caucasions emerged around 40,000 years ago.
Blue eyes emerged around 10,000 years ago.
Adult lactose tolerance emerged around 8,000 years ago.
That’s a few changes. There are more.
So it’s not true that humans have not changed “even a slightest bit.”
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Add to that FOXp2 gene and the ability to speak probably happened 60,000 years ago. The existing people who are most representative of “original” homo sapiens are the Khoi-San people. They have the widest variety of genes, and look like a mixture of African and East Asian phenotypes. Without evolution and differentiation, we would all look similar to them.
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The way metformin boosts AMPK is by impairing our body’s ability to produce energy by acting as a mild mitochondrial poison, so, not surprisingly, it may undercut physical fitness achievements from exercise, including aerobic capacity154 and muscle gains.1
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Krishna is a Purna Avatar of Vishnu. A Purna Avatar is a full Avatar, meaning that the Avatar has the full being, the full power and consciousness and sacredness of the God, not just a portion of it. So Krishna is 100% of Vishnu. That’s not a lesser little spirit sent down on Vishnu’s behalf; that is 100% Vishnu just standing right there, so to speak. Worshipping Krishna is fully as spiritually valid as worshipping Vishnu; indeed they are essentially interchangeable.
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the drug actually made things worse for nondiabetic obese individuals without the family history of diabetes.158 So, healthier individuals may not reap the benefits of metformin that we try to extrapolate from longevity studies on diabetics.
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DNOS
Eventually. The dark night of the soul is actually a Roman Catholic term. There are 2 types of the dark night of the soul
- Where the aspirant, who has begun walking the path, is attempting to control his/her passions, lusts and desires. In addition, the person is moving away from old patterns and moving into a higher level of consciousness. This is very difficult. It’s moving away from the “pleasures of the flesh.” This is very hard to do. Also, walking the path is very difficult. So, this process can be quite a challenge.
- The second dark night of the soul, occurs when the soul has a taste of that supreme bliss, a connection with the spirit, but then it is withdrawn. This is when the initiate has had an experience of that ecstasy, but it is then taken away. He/She feels completely abandoned and alone. It is a sense of utter anguish and almost unendurable pain.
It is a time of testing and a process of purification.
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FOODS THAT MAY IMPAIR AMPK There’s a type of saturated fat called palmitic acid that suppresses AMPK.159 Although originally discovered in palm oil, palmitic acid is most concentrated in meat and dairy fat.160 Of all saturated fats, palmitic acid appears particularly pathogenic when it comes to metabolic disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and inflammation,161 which is at least partly attributable to AMPK inhibition. This may be why saturated fat can be so toxic to the liver.
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basically, overfeeding sugary foods, like candy and soda, can increase liver fat by 33 percent, whereas overfeeding the same amount of saturated fat (butter and cheese) increased liver fat by 55 percent.166 Overfeeding unsaturated fats, like pecans and olive oil, only caused a 15 percent increase in liver fat,167 presumably because unsaturated fats don’t impair AMPK as potently as do saturated fats.
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here are two types of fiber: insoluble and soluble. Insoluble helps to add bulk to your stool, whereas soluble fiber slows digestion by absorbing water and turning into a gel-like texture.
You will find soluble fiber in whole plant foods such as:
Diet Suggestions For Increasing Soluble Fiber
Here’s a simple, balanced 7-day meal plan that emphasizes foods high in soluble fiber:
Day 1
- Breakfast: Oatmeal topped with sliced bananas and a sprinkle of chia seeds.
- Lunch: Lentil soup with whole grain bread.
- Dinner: Grilled quorn with a side of steamed broccoli and quinoa.
- Snacks: An apple; a handful of almonds.
Day 2
- Breakfast: Smoothie with spinach, berries, and a tablespoon of ground flaxseed.
- Lunch: Salad with mixed greens, chickpeas, avocado, and olive oil dressing.
- Dinner: Baked quorn with sweet potato and green beans.
- Snacks: Orange slices; carrot sticks with hummus.
-- Victoria Holt
Day 3
- Breakfast: Greek yogurt with mixed berries and a drizzle of honey.
- Lunch: Turkey and avocado wrap with whole grain tortilla.
- Dinner: Stir-fried tofu with mixed vegetables (carrots, bell peppers) and brown rice.
- Snacks: Pear; a handful of walnuts.
Day 4
- Breakfast: Whole grain toast with peanut butter and banana slices.
- Lunch: Quinoa salad with cucumbers, tomatoes, and feta cheese.
- Dinner: Grilled quorn with asparagus and a side of barley.
- Snacks: Peach; yogurt.
Day 5
- Breakfast: Berry and banana oat bran muffin with a side of cottage cheese.
- Lunch: Black bean soup with a side of mixed greens salad.
- Dinner: Roast quorn with Brussels sprouts and sweet corn.
- Snacks: Apple; a handful of sunflower seeds.
Day 6
- Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with spinach and whole grain toast.
- Lunch: Quorn salad (with Greek yogurt) on whole grain bread.
- Dinner: Quorn with carrots, potatoes, and peas.
- Snacks: Orange; a few slices of cheese.
Day 7
- Breakfast: Smoothie bowl with kale, banana, almond milk, and a sprinkle of granola.
- Lunch: Quorn and vegetable stir-fry with brown rice.
- Dinner: Baked quorn with roasted vegetables (zucchini, bell peppers) and farro.
- Snacks: Kiwi; a handful of mixed nuts.
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