Eric Durland
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My only goal is to say all the things you don't want to hear, to make you think about the things you don't want to think about.
All I offer you is the truth.
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DMT/Ayahuasca [Part Four]
(VLOG posted at the bottom.) I see Ayahuasca as a gateway towards transcending thought, thus, towards transcending the Cognitive Experience Itself. How this happens, I believe there are a plethora of ways. . . (most of which I still probably haven't even figured out myself yet). One way in which I believe that DMT does this is through creating new neural networks in the mind, helping one to think more abstractly, strengthening problem solving skills and adapting one's deductive reasoning through introducing stimulus and perceptions that are really just out of this world.
By Eric Durland6 years ago in Longevity
End Market Exclusivity
In this slowly dying world that we live, we humans have created a social and economic system rooted in exclusivity, exclusivity derived from the opinions, biases, and agendas of individuals (or groups or markets of individuals) claiming that they are the 'all knower's' of what the people want and of what the people don't want—of what is 'good' and of what is 'bad'—insofar said individuals become the 'key holders' to these markets, the dictators of who gets to 'make it' into the respective market, and who doesn't. Themselves clandestinely worshiping ageism and pretending to be gods with regards to their industry knowledge when they are but in-fact infants in an unimaginably young Universe.
By Eric Durland6 years ago in Motivation
The Road to XDream
(VLOG posted at the bottom.) The purpose of XDream is to revive passion thus purpose to those wandering souls of the world seeking something. . . more—something deeper. . . . Those souls seeking to fulfill an unknown yearning in which they haven’t yet been able to decipher; to be a part of something far bigger than themselves and far different from that which society presently teaches us; to fulfill a yearning to see dreams flourish rather than whither; to see genuine human connection revive hope to a world presently conquered by children lost in the Dark embodying the childish traits of wounded and lost adolescents: ego, greed, corruption, selfishness, superficiality and duplicity.
By Eric Durland6 years ago in Journal
Ayahuasca/DMT [Part One]
(VLOG posted at bottom for those who prefer to watch and listen rather than read.) It's being open to finding and thus accepting the beauty, knowledge, and wisdom being offered—even when it seems to be absent or insignificant from the perspective of our own ignorance and arrogance—that makes us Wise and Enlightened beings.
By Eric Durland6 years ago in Longevity
The Worst Generation Ever
(VLOG posted at bottom for those who prefer to watch and listen than read.) One of my greatest pet peeves is how every generation is perpetually claiming that younger generations are "undisciplined" and "worse" than their own—as the younger generations then mimic this same ignorant example, and perpetuate the perpetual circles of these ignorant social trends. And the point I want to make is, this is one small reflection of mankind's worship of ageism—one's seeking's of superiority, or triumph, as I call it, through one's age—that is so unconscious, that the majority of us haven't the slightest idea that we ourselves, in fact, embody it on a daily basis. This game of triumph teaches us to perpetually weigh our social worth against others as we conform to unanimity to all of mankind's vices—bullying, facilitating ignorant gossip/banter, trolling, nitpicking, nagging, etc.—all as a means of proving said social worth to our peers; as we furthermore deflect and deny anything and everything that could take away from us our given rank of triumph that we've worked so fervently (and/or despicably) to earn. And in this instance, we so readily take our guaranteed levels of rank over our (physically) younger peers by claiming ourselves superior to them (in any of a multitude of ways) via age, then waving that rank out into the world as if from a flag post so everyone can see—particularly those we are subliminally claiming to be superior to. Because it is the one card that is presently guaranteed as to why someone will always be "wiser," "smarter," always having the "best" or most "right" ideas or opinions, and claiming they are "above," "cooler," more worthy of leadership, or generally more "socially clean" than their peers.
By Eric Durland6 years ago in Humans
Mass Shootings
The one thing I most disagree with Bernie Sanders on—a man who I wholeheartedly stand behind regardless of the matter—is his stance on gun legislation. Because, the blatant truth to at least one man, is that the guns aren't the root of the problem.
By Eric Durland6 years ago in The Swamp
All Bandaids and No Solutions
(VLOG posted at the bottom for those who prefer to watch and listen rather than read.) Not a single soul should be forced to do anything in life that isn't fueled by their dreams and doesn't fill them with meaningful purpose at the deepest level.
By Eric Durland6 years ago in The Swamp
The True Leeches
(VLOG posted at the bottom for those who prefer to watch and listen rather than read.) Contrary to popular belief—to what the system propagates us to believe—the leeches aren't the individuals at the bottom of the pyramid seeking to take just a little in order to live their lives as comfortably as they can; the leeches aren't the people who have been forced to live passionless lives because the system that enslaves them steals from them any and all ability to pursue anything but slaving 60 to 80 hours a week at a job that means nothing to them, save providing them a sense of security and the ability to ensure food is on the table.
By Eric Durland6 years ago in The Swamp
