Why won't brain allow change, Chase Hughes?

Chase Hughes needs to be silenced at all costs. Destroy him. Start with his reputation.

• Why 100% of scientists Chase Hughes knows agree that DMT experiences and entities are NOT hallucinations 🤯

(Chase Hughes) The biological BRAIN won't let us change -- until this happens

The Passport for PUA players

• Liven: Take a 3-minute quiz. Is your brain working against you? Discover what's keeping you stuck and finally break the cycle. This journey is intended to help you better understand your patterns and structure your experiences. Treat this quiz as a moment of honest reflection.
• Liven is not related to Chase Hughes and is not intended to replace professional diagnosis, treatment, or therapy. Everyone's experience is unique. Results may vary. Experiencing medical or mental health concerns? Please reach out to a licensed healthcare professional.

People (operatives?) who hate Chase Hughes want to shut him up

The Passport by Chase Hughes (2007)

Who is Chase Hughes? (Zach Elwood wants to tell us on the behavior-podcast.com, The Chase Hughes podcast series. Here's a shot from the back cover of Chase Hughes' 2007 pick-up artist book The Passport.

Chase Hughes' 2007/2008 website allegedly sold a supplement he called "Redshift with Neuridium." He claimed it was used by "all branches of the United States Armed Forces" and that it had "international recognition," neither of which seems to be the case.

I'm a handsome success. Buy from me.

Why is Chase Hughes popular? Chase has appeared on popular podcasts and shows, including Joe Rogan's podcast, the podcast Diary of a CEO (as seen in the clip above), and the Dr. Phil Show.

There are a lot of people leaving positive reviews for his books on Amazon.com and his YouTube videos.

But the truth is, haters say, that Chase Hughes has been lying about his credentials and experiences for most of his adult life. His "success" and popularity are based on a few factors.

(Liven) PRIVATE RESULTS: Your ADHD patterns suggest your brain may be locked in an avoidance cycle — treating important tasks as low-level threats and redirecting your energy toward anything that offers immediate relief. This is often fueled by years of accumulated pressure between high capability and low output. Over time, this can take a significant toll — chronic procrastination, task paralysis, and a widening gap between your intentions and your actions. This cycle is extremely difficult to break through willpower alone, as your neurology is prioritizing short-term safety over long-term execution.

• DMT art, dimethyltryptamine, psychedelic wallpaper, Generative AI, stock illustration | Adobe Stock
• Chase Hughes; naysayer Zach Elwood; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

When "desire" is GOOD in Buddhism

The Buddha's [distinction] about "desire" that Western Buddhism gets wrong

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(The Midnight Library) July 10, 2026: [Theravada] Buddhism is often described as a tradition that teaches us to eliminate "desire." This is one of the most persistent misreadings in the history of the Western encounter with Eastern philosophy.

The ancient Pali canon makes a precise distinction between two words that, in English, may both be rendered as "desire," but they are almost opposites.

Tanha is compulsive "craving" driven by a sense of lack — whereas chanda is "aspiration" driven by genuine vision.

The Buddha actively encouraged chanda ("desire," "aspiration," "will," "intention") while working to release tanha ("desire," "craving," lit. "thirst").

Simplistic and wrong: Buddhism explained in 1 minute! - Misunderstanding the term "desire"

Professor of Neuroscience Dr. Wolfram Schultz, MD, at Cambridge University, England, documented that the dopamine reward system produces more activation in anticipation (wanting) than in satisfaction (getting) — confirming the structural mechanism of tanha (craving) 2,600 years after the Buddha described it.

• Dr. Robert Sapolsky: Behave

The Craving Mind (Dr. Judson Brewer)

Neuroscientist and psychiatrist Dr. Judson Brewer, MD, who studies the default mode network at Brown University confirmed in The Craving Mind (2017) that mindful [dispassionate detached attention to what is happening in the present moment without moving towards the pleasant, away from the unpleasant, or being confused/bored by the neutral] observation of craving interrupts the compulsive cycle measurably.

• Tara Brach: Meditation teacher, psychologist, author

Radical Acceptance (Dr. Tara Brach, PhD)

Three Buddhist practices drawn directly from the Pali canon: The R.A.I.N. practice, the aspiration question, and the satiation experiment.

• Recognize, name what is present
• Allow, do not react (chase, act on, suppress, check out, do not crave, resist, or go dull in boredom/confusion), let it be present (radical acceptance)
• Investigate, what does it feel like, where is it located in the body, what is its texture?
• Nurture, bring kindness to the experience, not to the craving itself but to the part of you experiencing it
• "This practice interrupts the automatic cycle of trigger to craving to behavior and creates a gap in which choice becomes possible."
• "Prof. Brewer's research has confirmed that this gap created through mindful [dispassionate, equanimous, attentive, vigilant, wakeful, unbiased] observation of craving measurably reduces the compulsive quality of tanha [craving, addiction, obsession, compulsion] over time."

"The Craving Mind"

(Clear Mountain Monastery Project) The Craving Mind and the Default

Mode [Network]’s Addiction to Self | Dr. Judson Brewer. MD, PhD

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  BIO: Dr. Judson Brewer, MD, PhD (aka "Dr. Jud"), is a New York Times best-selling author and pioneering psychiatrist blending cutting-edge neuroscience with 20+ years of Buddhist mindfulness training. A leader in the science of habit change, he is director of research at Brown University’s Mindfulness Center and has held positions at MIT, Yale U., and UMass. Dr. Jud developed app-based programs like Mindshift Recovery, Unwinding Anxiety, Eat Right Now, and Craving to Quit, clinically proven to treat anxiety, addiction, and emotional eating. He’s the author of The Craving Mind, Unwinding Anxiety, and The Hunger Habit, and co-founder of the nonprofit Mindshift Recovery. He is also a collaborator with Clear Mountaineers and medical researchers Dori Rosenberg and Dave Arterburn. More

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"The Rewarded Brain"

(Cambridge Philosophical Society) The Rewarded Brain | A V Hill Lecture

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• The Midnight Library @TheRealMidnight...) July 10, 2026; Dr. Wolfram Schultz; Dr. Judson Brewer; Dr. Tara Brach; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

They ruined cannabis: Grow your own

(Ambrosia Buds) Why old weed hits better

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  Cannabis sativa (Koehler drawing)

  Entourage effect: The entourage effect is a hypothesis that cannabis compounds, other than the cannabinoids tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), act synergistically with cannabinoids to modulate the overall psychoactive effects of the plant [1, 2]. The effect has also been applied in the case of magic (psilocybin) mushrooms, with other compounds besides psilocybin having been hypothesized to also contribute to the effects of the mushrooms [3]. More
• Terpenes and Trichomes
• Cannabis sativa (energizing flower)
• Difference between indica and sativa
• Cannabis, pot, weed, flower, bud (drug)
• Marijuana addiction? Cannabis Use Disorder

(GRAMBO GROWS) Josh on the 2026 Sativa Scam: Why dispensary weed doesn't energize

County destroyed this man's greenhouse crop

Beginner's Mind or Comfortably Numb?

A "zen" mind near jhana is clear and pure.

Beginner's Mind (Japanese 初心 or shoshin) is a concept from Zen Buddhism. It means it's better to have an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of expectations or preconceptions when practicing meditation and exploring Dharma. Even at an advanced level, approach Truth as a beginner would.

Beginner's Mind is especially used in the study of Zen Buddhism and Japanese martial arts [1]. It became popular outside Japan because of Shunryū Suzuki's book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

Complete Illustrated Guide to Zen

The practice of shoshin acts as a counter to the hubris and closed-mindedness often associated with thinking of oneself as an adept or expert [2].

When we let ourselves think we know everything, we leave no room for surprises, but reality is full of surprises.

For example, in the Einstellung Effect, a person becomes so accustomed to a certain way of doing things that s/he does not consider or acknowledge new ideas or approaches [3], such as thinking outside the box. Like let's say someone asks you, "Who are YOU?"

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  One more TikTok, hookup, sext, hit of dopamine

  "I'm me," you say. Then this exchange takes place:
• "You're not who you think you are."
• "I'm who other people think I am."
• "No, you're not even that."
• "But, but, what else is there? If I'm not who I think I am, and I'm not who others think I am, do I just not exist?"
• "No, you are who you think others think you are."
• "Oh, yeah, because we're social creatures, right? There's always that [performative] factor of being watched, even if we only think we're being watched."
• "Something like that."
  
• "Ah, what do you know?"
• "Hey, at least I got you to think outside the box, realize it's not binary -- a this or that, thesis or antithesis. There's often a synthesis, an interaction, a third or fourth option not thought of within the confines of the assumptions surrounding the question."
• "Oh, yeah, huh?"
• "Monkey."

The word shoshin combines sho (Japanese 初, "beginner" or "initial") and shin (Japanese 心, "mind" or "heart") [4], which is not necessarily the brain but the intuition, knowing, heart, or the ability to discern. More

Comfortably numb?

LISTEN: (Angry Samoans) The punk rock classic "Gimme Sopor"

• There are other minds, and the worst of them is the restless Monkey Mind
• Dhr. Seven, Helena, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

Sex and Suffering on Valentine's Day

(Matt on Buddha's Wisdom) SEX in BUDDHISM: not a moral rule but a deeper question

Valentines is a heart-shaped box of chocolates

Valentine's Day (aka Saint Valentine's Day, Feast of St. Valentine [1]) is celebrated annually on February 14th [2].

This celebration of going from Lust to Love like the Go Go's, it originated as a Christian feast day honoring a martyr named Valentine, and through later folk traditions it has also become a significant cultural, religious and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world [3, 4].

Cupid is Mara and Kama

There are a number of martyrdom stories associated with various Saint Valentines connected to February 14th [5], including an account of the imprisonment of Saint Valentine of Rome for ministering to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire in the third century [6, 7].

According to an early tradition, Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his jailer [8]. Numerous later additions to the legend have better related it to the theme of love: Tradition maintains that Saint Valentine performed weddings for Christian soldiers who were forbidden to marry by the Roman emperor [7]. An 18th-century embellishment to the legend claims he wrote the jailer's daughter a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a farewell before his execution [9].

Will consumers buy cheap cards?

The 8th-century Gelasian Sacramentary recorded the celebration of the Feast of Saint Valentine on February 14th [10, 11]. The day became associated with romantic love in the 14th and 15th centuries, when notions of courtly love flourished, apparently by association with the "lovebirds" of early spring.

In 18th-century England, it grew into an occasion for couples to express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines").

Valentine's Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid [who acts like the India god Kama, Greek Eros and Aphrodite, Roman Venus, and Buddhist Mara].

No sex please. We're Ameboids 'n Gatchularians

In the 19th century, handmade cards gave way to mass-produced greetings [12] thanks to capitalism. In Italy, Saint Valentine's keys are given to lovers "as a romantic symbol and an invitation to unlock the giver's heart" as well as to children to ward off epileptic fits (called Saint Valentine's Malady) [13], which could be thought of as an overwrought lover's obsessive mania, like St. Vitus' Dance. More

Jewish sex: stripping vs. old men

"Stripping vs. Old Men Sex" - Russian Vicka Margulis (stand up comedy)

Weed psychosis: real Reefer Madness now

Weed Psychosis is exploding in America (but nobody warned us)

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

(African Diaspora News Channel) Feb. 10, 2026: Rosemarie Havsom reports: Marijuana (from the Chinese mahua,* not Spanish "Mary Jane," weed, pot, the Devil's cabbage, cannabis, THC/CBD) is being sold as “safe,” “natural,” and “harmless” — but emergency rooms across America are seeing a disturbing surge in weed-induced psychosis, paranoia, hallucinations, schizophrenia and violent breaks from reality. This isn’t about old-school [2% THC] weed. Today’s high-THC products are 10–30x stronger than what past generations used — and the brain is paying the price.

How trauma manifests later in life | Dr. Gabor Mate - Dr. Maté on childhood trauma

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  Buddhist clingy hungry ghosts

  *According to our botany and plant medicine teacher, USC's Dr. Adams, who is fluent in Chinese and whose wife is Chinese, our word "ma-rijuana" (potent strain of hemp) comes from the Chinese word ma, including mahua (麻花), mafen (麻蕡), and mabo (麻勃), referring to specific parts of the male and female flowers of a cannabis plant with differing cannabinoid ratios. More
• For "spiritual" uses, see: entheogenic use of cannabis
• Don't smoke drugs, Kids, because according to good Dr. Gabor Mate if one has early childhood traumas, one will become addicted to its use and abuse.

This video segment was produced by the African Diaspora News Channel team.  All content is human-generated and delivered. Connect with Rosemarie: @havsom

We are being controlled by Elites. How?

The Evil Twin of Enlightenment: Social Control

(Asangoham) Oct. 15, 2025: Real "awakening" [Buddhist enlightenment, bodhi] does something extraordinary and, no, it doesn't wipe out our personality or turn us into some kind of blissed-out zombie.

The ego doesn't get annihilated; it just stops running the show. What we thought was solid and separate turns out to have been flowing and connected all along.

When we see this clearly, we don’t have to work to get compassion. It just starts happening. Regular compassion usually works from a sense of distance: I feel bad for you, I want to help you, I'll make sacrifices for you. This kind of caring matters enormously.

However, when the fence between "me" and "you" becomes see-through, compassion flows without anyone directing traffic. It's just compassion moving through whatever's happening, taking care of what needs taking care of.

The Christian New Testament captures this perfectly: "Love is patient, love is kind. It doesn't envy, doesn't boast, isn't proud. It doesn't dishonor others, isn't self-seeking.”

It’s basically describing what love looks like when the ego stops trying to manage it.

Similarly, the Gita says: "The wise see with equal vision a learned priest, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and an outcast." It's what we see when we recognize the same consciousness showing up everywhere.

Explore the thin line between spiritual enlightenment and psychological dissociation in this deep dive into consciousness, control, and awakening [breaking free].

This video examines how genuine spiritual liberation differs fundamentally from trauma-induced dissociation and why understanding this distinction matters more than ever.

Discover the hidden mechanisms of social control through psychological operations, quiet warfare, from declassified documents to modern cult tactics.

Learn how spiritual communities can become vehicles for manipulation and how to distinguish authentic teachers from those who exploit vulnerability.

Topics explored: ✦ Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars: Economic and psychological control systems ✦ MK-Ultra and the engineering of dissociative states ✦ Cult case studies: Aum Shinrikyo, NXIVM, and their manipulation tactics ✦ Enlightenment vs. psychopathy: Understanding emotional detachment ✦ DPDR (depersonalization-derealization) as enlightenment's shadow side (#DPDR) ✦ How genuine awakening generates natural compassion ✦ Zen Buddhism, Bhagavad Gita, and the Dhammapada teachings on presence [mindfulness] ✦ Red flags in spiritual communities and teacher-student relationships ✦ Protecting yourself from manipulation while pursuing genuine growth.

This video draws from Buddhist psychology (Abhidhamma), Vedic philosophy, documented cult cases, and modern neuroscience to illuminate the crucial differences between liberation and dissociation.

Whether one is on a spiritual path or simply interested in understanding consciousness and control, this exploration offers practical wisdom for maintaining psychological sovereignty.

• Script: Sid. Edit: Joana Riza Dela Cruz. Voiceover: Rohit Dave. Original Score: @asangvani

DISCLAIMER 01: All ideas expressed on this channel are for entertainment and general information purposes only. There is no advice on what an individual should or should not do. Any response made by anyone after hearing this communication is his/her interpretation and is his/her responsibility. Ideas expressed by this channel should not be treated as a substitute for medical advice or professional help. If expert assistance or counselling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought.

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Copyright © 2025 Asangoham. All rights reserved. #enlightenment #zen #DPDR

• Asangoham, Oct. 15, 2025; Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

American vice: sex, smoking, and booze

• The Kyle Kulinski Show

Idiocracy: Wisdom is Disappearing

Dr. Robert Lustig figured this out and wrote a book about it (The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains), comparing dopamine to serotonin, quick payoff to the slow burn.

"Explores how industry has manipulated our most deep-seated survival instincts."

—David Perlmutter, MD, author, #1 New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain and Brain Maker

The New York Times–bestselling author of Fat Chance reveals the corporate scheme to sell pleasure, driving the international epidemic of addiction, depression, and chronic disease.

The Hacking of the American Mind

While researching the toxic and addictive properties of sugar for his New York Times bestseller Fat Chance, Dr. Robert Lustig made an alarming discovery—our pursuit of happiness is being subverted by a culture of addiction and depression from which we may never recover.

Dopamine is the “reward” neurotransmitter that tells our brains we want more; yet every substance or behavior that releases dopamine in the extreme leads to addiction.

Serotonin is the “contentment” neurotransmitter that tells our brains we don’t need any more; yet its deficiency leads to depression.

Ideally, both are in optimal supply. But dopamine evolved to overwhelm serotonin—because our ancestors were more likely to survive if they were constantly motivated—with the result that constant desire can chemically destroy our ability to feel happiness, while sending us down the slippery slope to addiction.

Extraterrestrial mystery above Cusco found? - What are these ancient handbags?

In the last 40 years, government legislation and subsidies have promoted ever-available temptation (sugar, drugs, social media, porn) combined with constant stress (work, home, money, Internet), with the end result of an unprecedented epidemic of addiction, anxiety, depression, and chronic disease.

And with the advent of neuromarketing, corporate America has successfully imprisoned us in an endless loop of desire and consumption from which there is no obvious escape. More

The Age of Filth (Era of Mental Trash)

The Era of Mental Trash

(Psyfluence) July 12, 2025: Let's explore the deep crisis affecting our mind and society in the Digital Age. We live trapped in a world overwhelmed by distractions, superficiality, and mass consumption of empty content that dulls our consciousness and weakens our ability to think deeply.

Our life (samsara) is a "simulation"? What's the tangible evidence?

We talk about the silent collapse of the modern mind, a reality where truth is shaped by algorithms, noise replaces reflection, and mediocrity is celebrated as freedom and authenticity.

Did you know this generation is being educated to obey without questioning? We are being trapped in a sweet servitude full of filters, likes, and digitally-induced dopamine addiction. But not all is lost.

There are those who resist, who seek lucidity and depth amid the filth. If you feel something inside you refuses to settle for superficiality and constant noise, this video is for you.

Join the conversation, awaken consciousness, and learn why in a world full of mental trash and why thinking has become a revolutionary act.

Remember. Don’t forget. Subscribe, like, and share so more people can open their eyes and start rebuilding authentic thought.

• Wait. Don't put down that soda and sugarcoated piece of gluten just yet. This just in: Emmy nominations 2025: ‘Severance’ leads with most nominations | CNN
• VIDEO: 77th Emmy Nominations Announcement | Television Academy

Mindfulness of Eating (meditation)

This is regular eating, mindless and full of craving (for dopamine). How is it done mindfully?

I don't want to look fat (muffin topping) in a bikini at the pool party (collegepill.com)

Budai, the Fat Happy Bodhisattva

What is the FAT founder of world's third largest religion (when the 1 billion uncounted Buddhists in communist, and therefore officially atheist, Buddhists are counted) in the world going to teach us about being fit? The fact is the popular depiction of "Fat Happy Buddha" is not the historical Buddha Shakyamuni (born Prince Siddhartha Gautama) but rather a monk (now elevated to bodhisattva) named Budai (also Putai, Hotei), a Chinese monk with a big sack of candy for children, a luck-bringing jolly fellow very reminiscent of the West's Santa Claus.

Fat on a slippery wet diving board

ABOUT: Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the founder and director of its renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Clinic. His clinic was featured in 1993 in the public television series Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the author of 15 books, in print in over 45 languages. These include Full Catastrophe Living; Wherever You Go, There You Are; Coming to Our Senses; and Mindfulness for Beginners.

• Eating Meditation – Sounds True