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Freedom and Fulfilment

Personal Development, Spirituality & Psychedelics

Top Posts

These are the best posts on this site as well as those containing the core ideas, grouped loosely by category below.

Personal Development

  • Playing the Game: How to Reconcile Spirituality and Self Improvement – How I reconcile the seeming tension between self improvement (constructive focus on the self) and spirituality (understanding of no-self)
  • Doing Costless Good – How and why it makes sense to look for opportunities to do good at no cost to oneself
  • How to Experience Heavenly Glory – About accessing the inherent meaning in everyday experience

Spirituality

  • No-Self as Counterintuitive Truth – Explanation and argument for the idea of no-self, which I believe to be the core insight of spiritual practice
  • How to Directly Experience Nonduality – What nonduality means (non)conceptually, and 3 ways to bring about nondual states
  • Consciousness and its Contents – An alternative conception of subjective experience based on the idea of no-self

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Psychedelics

  • How to Have Mystical Experience: A Research-Based Guide – A comprehensive guide to having mystical experience, based on psychedelic research
  • Mystical Experience & Psychedelics: Meaningful, Measurable, Life Changing – A literature review of sorts covering psychedelic research and mystical experience
  • How Psychedelics Take Us Back to the Garden of Eden – Playing around with our evolutionary history, Adam & Eve in Genesis, and psychedelic phenomenology
  • 7 Remarkable Things I Learned at Psychedelic Science 2017 – What I learned at the Psychedelic Science 2017 conference in Oakland, CA

Meditation

  • The Practical Benefits of Meditation – Positive phenomenal changes I’ve noticed from about 6 years of practicing meditation
  • A Simple Body Awareness Meditation in 5 Steps – A basic meditation you can do anytime; good for beginners
  • Why Life Tastes Better with Meditation – Explains many of the benefits of meditation and the “gift” that it gives you

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Health & Diet

  • How to “80/20” Your Nutrition with 5 Simple Rules – How I think about nutrition; how to get 80% of the benefits of good nutrition by implementing the most essential 20% of information
  • How to Make Tasty Salads for Better Health, Energy & Digestion – Ingredients and preparation for delicious and healthy salads

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Big 5/OCEAN

  • How to Manage High Openness & High Conscientiousness – Strategies I’ve found useful for managing these opposing personality traits

INTJ

Myers-Briggs has issues but I have still found it valuable as an interpretive framework. I test as an INTJ, a type with a unique set of gifts and challenges, and here is a long post detailing my thoughts on that.

Productivity

  • How to Destroy Procrastination in 10 Days – Review of a short book that was extremely effective in helping me overcome terrible procrastination problems
  • How to Use Attention to Detail to Improve the Quality of Everything You Build and Make – Breaking down attention to detail as a meta skill; what it actually involves and how and why it’s useful to cultivate

Lifting Weights & Gaining Muscle

Although now I mostly do other forms of exercise, lifting weights was a big part of my life for 5-6 years. Here’s a before and after picture:

Before and after pictures of lifting weights and gaining muscle

    • How to Lose Fat & Get Lean Faster – Methods for fat loss that you can combine and stack to lose fat quickly and with relative ease
    • My Awful Deadlift Mistake (and What You Can Learn From It) – Several years ago I badly injured my back deadlifting; this post explains how to avoid injury and deadlift safely

Misc.

  • Life is Like a Colouring Book
  • Questions to Think Deeply On
  • How Love Might Feel

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