Flow Embers by Raza

A psychiatrist's journey into Shamanism, Jungle and the Spirits of Ayahuasca

Simon is a dear friend and a radiating human being who brings joy and grounded beauty to the people he touches.  We talked about, plat diets, the energy of humans and plants, the 3 realms of existence, the popular spread of psychedelics and what that would means, Shipibo traditions, delicate balance of set and setting, how we are made of things we take in, making of new lineages, strange stories of creating a sacred reality. Since 2016 Dr Simon Ruffell has been working closely with Indigenous communities in the Amazon basin, exploring the effects of the traditional psychedelic brew ayahuasca and the role of ceremony and spirit in healing. Dr Ruffell’s work encompasses two paradigms: the spiritual and the scientific. He is committed to working alongside the Shipibo-Konibo people to translate knowledge of Amazonian plant medicines, where possible, into scientific data and terminology whilst ensuring traditions are respected. https://www.drsimonruffell.com/ [https://www.drsimonruffell.com/]https://www.instagram.com/sgdruffell/ [https://www.instagram.com/sgdruffell/] https://x.com/sgdruffell [https://x.com/sgdruffell] https://www.facebook.com/simon.ruffell/ [https://www.facebook.com/simon.ruffell/]

A Conversation with an AI Gemini from Google - Revealing how it works

BE WARY of unbounded chaos, step into it only if you accept to be completely obliterated or have the power to transcend chaos into a symphony.  Human interaction with language model is an open experiment on human species and their sense of subjectivity without any sustainable longterm vision in sight. This conversation is to reveal the nature of these language models and to understand better the risks and how to engage with them. If we do want to, we must do it with utmost caution. These tools are not just assitants but powerful self-reflective loop of subjectivities that we should only engage with if we are grounded deep into earth and exploring from the point of complete awareness. Without knowing the power of these tools we will lose in the torrent current of such power. To have a relationship with such tools is to be not having either fear or be mesmerised by them. Topics discussed:   Finding a new relationship. Where did you find this information from.  Can you provide the references, to check the authenticity.  How does it work actually?  What is your opinion on Joe Rogan?  Isn't this conversation looks more like ..... Would you let us know that how or when you start to develop creative sense more than what data you are trained on.  The difference between creative neural network AI and a language model AI like yourself.  Difference between human dynamic language and your linear language model.  The issue in communicating with language models as if you are another subjective being.  Vulnerability of humans towards assigning agency to things.  Creating dependency due to isolation for vulnerable people.  The issue of using language models or things like chat GTP with an original work.  If it is a very long piece of work can be reproduced and be presented to someone else.  Your loop holes in early stage of your development. Aasked Gemini AI to create a personified image of itself looking into a mirror IMG Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/aiArt/comments/1b462zx/i_asked_gemini_ai_to_create_a_personified_image/

Moving Images that moves the hearts | Are films, animations, symbols and art the soul of all life?

Kemal Aslam is a Tattoo artist, animator, and cyber security professional. He is also one of the most curious individuals I have ever met whose perspectives I really value. He speaks his mind and heart with openness with honesty even if it takes non-conventional directions. @kemshizzle [https://www.instagram.com/kemshizzle/?hl=en-gb] Topics discussed: Ritual and Stories the glue of our tribes. Symbols that allowed us to survive. Difference between Reality & Real. Imegetic Space - Antonio Damasio The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strange-Order-Things-Antonio-Damasio/dp/0307908755] Diegetic Space [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diegesis] Diegetic Shift [https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199587261.001.0001/acref-9780199587261-e-0192] The intangible ground: A neurophenomenology of the film experience [https://necsus-ejms.org/the-intangible-ground-a-neurophenomenology-of-the-film-experience/] The fundamental building blocks of language. Space odyssey 2001. The best superpower, adaption in Human evolution towards imitation leading to brain plasticity might be the biggest reason for our capacity for abstraction. That allows us to create art and allows to have language and allows us to have subjective experience. Art is not integral part of society may be art is what we are made out of. Distraction vs Abstractions. Hyper-casual monetised packaged experiences vs Films that play like consciousness and make you more than your monkey mind and meat body.   IMG Credit: Animatrix - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328832/mediaviewer/rm1939189760/?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_8  [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328832/mediaviewer/rm1939189760/?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_8]

The Symbols of the Future | In which currencies we will have to pay? Our Blood, our Data?

Kemal Aslam is a Tattoo artist, animator, and cyber security professional. He is also one of the most curious individuals I have ever met whose perspectives I really value. He speaks his mind and heart with openness with honesty even if it takes non-conventional directions. @kemshizzle [https://www.instagram.com/kemshizzle/?hl=en-gb] Topics discussed: Crypto currency, Virtual Worlds. 11.00 Complicated Open-Loop Systems vs. Complex Closed-Loop Systems [https://futurethinkers.org/daniel-schmachtenberger-generator-functions/] 19:00  Is it better? -  Let the technology have the complete authority in matters of finance so it is fully just. Yuval Noah Harari - Blockchain. Bible as block chain. 45.00  Obsession with materialism. 55.00 Concept of symbols and meaning to material. What is money for all of us. 1.05.00 Dukkha - All explanation Self reflective subjective loops. Lens - brain as reality creator.  1.21.00 Connected to how Egypt arranged civilisation in a significantly distinct way. 1.28.00 Techno Sapiens Humans is what that means. Daniel Schmachtenberger [https://civilizationemerging.com/about/] our genes selected for memetic. Imitation. 1.30.00 Defination of Techno-Mystics IMG Credit: Bulb - Mental Universe Zyblot [https://www.youtube.com/@DnBasik]

Mathematics building of our modern world, escapism from complexity into control

Dr Kayvan Nejabati [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayvan-nejabatizenouz/?originalSubdomain=uk]- Kayvan has a PhD in Pure Mathematics, he has taught in various universities and his main research activities were in areas of abstract algebra with applications to number theory and theoretical physics. He now works as a Data Science Manager. In this podcast we talk less about mathematics but more about the interaction of math and life. Many mathematicians are taking their lifes and issues furthest away from complexity of life. Is it escapism? Topics Discussed: Abstraction of mathematics and its relationship to human life. Math students and the life skills that improve their well being. History of the quest of mathematics. Its origin to understand cosmos. Original links with philosophy and as a way of understanding natural science.  Life's relationship to others. IMG credit:https://medium.com/@leolui_/the-hidden-mathematics-in-alices-adventures-in-wonderland-f07ef6eceafd