A post submitted by CGI member Sonik_Cat.

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https://youtu.be/3POQMm3xZiI

"A.I. is your new religion, your new legal system, your new daddy. That is the major theme of the Davos World Economic Forum that is happening this week." -(Redacted News).

While watching this video, it was apparent to me that practicing MEDITATION is a real secret weapon, as it both requires & enables the practitioner to become un-attached from external influences, step outside them, & see with a clearer & more conscious mind than before. It's also helpful as a practice while seeking truths, it does not depend on any scriptures that are too frequently processed & edited to support a certain agenda or narrative, & when you have been meditating for a while, it's easier to tell whether something is based on truth instead of being expected to have faith & or belief in something that is not truly known. One set of books worth studying is the whole set written by Carlos Castaneda, as he described how to deal with PETTY TYRANTS (there are ways of getting around them, etc.), & one very good insight into a type of meditation (he describes stopping the "internal talk" which when stopped or slowed down allows you to "stop the world" & get off of it, it's a way of poking outside of ordinary "reality" & seeing beyond it). I practiced this technique permanently since 1973 & it benefitted me endlessly, I'm still existing because of it. There are of course many other knowledge sources in Hindu & Buddhist philosophies, I have been influenced by Tibetan Buddhism as well as Gnosticism.