Syding’s latest newsletter post, How the World Work, is very rich in theosophical and existential treaties. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Obviously, I can’t reproduce it here, but he’s keen on *meetings* being the core of everything and consciousness, not matter or time, is what defines existence. [I spoke about the non-existence of time already back in 2019]. Karl-Mikhael Syding ends up signing his newsletter with the title “Aspiring Sheng-Jen”. According to the Oxford dictionary, a Sheng Jen is in China, one who hears the way of Heaven (Tʾien) and develops understanding, often translated as ‘sage’. Sheng-jen is therefore the ideal wise person who penetrates the hidden meaning of all things and lives accordingly.”

This year, I brought to your attention the Indian mystic Sadhguru . I hope you’ve read my book review of his latest book weeks earlier, and that contemporary mystic Sadhguru has inspired you.

In the beginning was a field…Syding says. Not the Big Bang. What happens is human mind can only perceive snapshots, beginnings and ends, labels. These are our limitations. Past, future. Snapshots of the human mind.

I see this “field” as emanating from the present. The future is made now…and so is the past. Poor human snapshots of reality the mind of the common folk is unable to grasp. The Universe is marching towards its end as well as towards its “beginning” concurrently, because there is no “beginning” or “end” to begin with.

In the Zone (Sadhguru’s latest short video) with former rugby player Jonny Wilkinson, CBE.

Before that, the best option was surgery – “removing the ruptured ACL, harvesting a graft from the shin or elsewhere, sewing that tissue into the knee, and hoping both surgical sites heal well.” –AAMC

Here are some highlights from it…

“Everything existing in the world ‘falls to the bottom.’ The ‘bottom for any part of the Universe is its nearest stability, and this stability is the point toward which all the lines of force from all directions converge.”

Beezelbub’s Tales to His Grandson

“Eldest of my grandsons ! Listen and always remember my strict injunction to you: In life never do as others do.”

C.I. Gurdjieff

“If you go on a spree, then go the whole hog, including the postage.”

C.I. Gurdjieff

Was C.I. Gurdjieff reading this blog ?

“Time in itself does not exist, there is only the totality of the results issuing from all the cosmic phenomena present in a given place.”

C.I. Gurdjieff

The hell ? I wrote as recently as last year that time does not exist…

This book is a difficult read…many of you will drop it after 20 pages…

Meanwhile, I wish Gurdjieff had quoted me…

Max Cantor quote never seen by Gurdjieff:

Taking a controlled breath, via @NYTimes

The best Meditation apps according to NYT Wirecutter

1. Beets shot. It used to be beet juice, now it’s red beets shot. Red Ace Organics of Boulder, Co. makes a red beets 2. fl. oz. “performance enhancer”, where “3 beets are packed into each bottle.”

2. Algae Oil (for cooking). Thrive Algae Oil says it has a high smoke point up to 485°, which means it doesn’t burn at high temperatures.

In the video below, the author says he only eats once a day. I eat twice a day. It seems to me that when we eat less meals we give ourselves more time to restore and recalibrate. (Remember, IF means you leave at least 15 hours between the last meal and first meal of the day.)

3. Tulua of Huntington Beach, CA makes ginger shots, mixed with other cold-pressed juices. They come in the same 2 fl. oz. packaging.

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Steve’s email appropriately says:

“Max has done more to opening my eyes than any of the crummy, big name operators. In the men’s Internet space, there is only one Max Cantor.”

Steve

Thank you, Steve. In a world full of crummy wannabes and Twitter jockey scum, I run this blog going on 7 years straight providing useful information to better the lives of thousands.

Yale University is offering a free course online — The Science of Well-Being — that teaches you “how to be happier”.

Hurry this course starts today, Oct. 9th and from what I can read 428 thousand people already have enrolled. Business Insider wrote a article on this course last Spring (Mara Leighton, April 4th, 2019). FYI, if you wondered what about Harvard…the world’s most elite institution, guess what: the most popular course in its history is also a course on happiness. It is called “Positive Psychology.” (this one it is not available online or for free to the public).

If you don’t know how to swim…or just need help with it, the Swimator Blog has the basics.

Tai Chi – it seems that Tai Chi is not just for old people, and it is an actual martial art (I had no idea that it was)

My note: Should I teach a course ? Should I do an online course, I was asked recently. My answer:, maybe. Don’t expect it to be free, however. And don’t expect it to be a course on happiness, either. When you’re competing at the level you and I are competing, this course is going to be something else. Something that has never been done.

Now let’s not leave Stanford Uni jealous on Yale for its mention.

We have to thank Fink and Theo, two long time readers, for these updates.

Course: Analytics Storytelling for Data Science: (on Edx from Microsoft instructors)

Length: 6 weeks

Price: Free

Starts: Today: Aug. 17, 2019

From the Course Description:

What you’ll learn

• How to apply storytelling principles to your analytics work
• How to improve your analytics presentations through storytelling
• Guidelines and best practices for creating high-impact reports and presentations

Conference to attend: HustleCon (2-day in December)

50 Startup Interview Questions from pathrise

I looked at these job-hunter questions chuckling sometimes (How do you measure success ?) but I understand job-seekers have a lot of work ahead of them.

Remember, If you got the Book of The Underdog if are ahead of your competition. You’ve jam-packed a solid boss frame and you know who’s interviewing you and what they are really looking for.

Startup pitch (after Series A,B)

Revenue by Use Slide

Uber’s Pitch Desk

Uber IPOed in May, and here’s their pitch template

That’s it for today. As always, you can comment below (social media comments get ignored and no DMs, please) if any of these links and suggestions were useful to you.

I find great value in the talks and lectures of Alan Watts (1915-1973).

If you have 45 minutes, here is one of them.

Quotes from Alan Watts:

“You don’t aim and then shoot: it’s all one action. Not to decide and then act, but to act and decide all at once.”

” Live in such a way that nothing is advantage nor disadvantage.”

Practice fasting of the heart.

“Knowledge is much like the expansion of a flower from the stem to the bud.”

“I don’t know whether I was walking in the wind or the wind was walking on me.”

Most people live in assessment-hope living.

The invisibility of one’s head is the secret of being alive or Mushin = “no head” [Chinese]. If you want to see the inside of your head you keep your eyes open.

When your shoes are comfortable, do you feel them ? You don’t ! -That’s living.

And not you and “your life” -it’s the process. There’s nobody in the trap -it takes something trapped to make a trap.

Alan Watts

Readers have been writing back in doves. I got 10 emails with 48 hours.

My readers are tired of the online garbage out there.

They don’t want to read the scrap and crap of the Internet bottom barrel.

For the Free Resources I thought I would make one available a month.

I never thought I get overwhelmed by them.

I’ll get right to them.

Or at least get to one of them tonight. To clarify, readers suggestions can be anything, from articles to links to other blogs, authors, videos, classes (like the one I wrote about on June 13th), book reviews by others. I’m not the only one doing book reviews. MOOCs. On anything and everything that you found useful. Let other readers know. What do you like, and what did you learn. Let me know.

Here’s the example free class reader Stewie suggested.

Paradox and Infinity MIT class

From: MIT

About this course 

The class is divided into three modules:

• Infinity: Learn about how some infinities are bigger than others, and explore the mind-boggling hierarchy of bigger and bigger infinities.
• Time Travel and Free Will: Learn about whether time travel is logically possible, and whether it is compatible with free will.
• Computability and Gödel’s Theorem: Learn about how some mathematical functions are so complex, that no computer could possibly compute them. Use this result to prove Gödel’s famous Incompleteness Theorem.

Paradox and Infinity is a math-heavy class, which presupposes that you feel comfortable with college-level mathematics and that you are familiar with mathematical proofs.”

Link to this class, which starts June 18th, 2019 , has a length of 12 weeks at presupposes an effort of 5 to 6 hours a week.

And we have a quote of the week as well:

“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.”

The The Dispossessed  -Ursula K. Le Guin

You don’t need to look any further than Tony Robbins. Tony Robbins does so many things -and I am happy to share them. From his website:

You may have heard of cryotherapy (2.5 minutes or less in a gaseous pod at -240 F) but have you also heard of:

–PMF machines. This stuff was featured on the Dr. Oz show. I have seen devices sold for as low as $225 ( the OMI PulsePad PEMF Battery Powered Portable Local Applicator Pad ). I don’t know if it works, and how it works yet, but it is time that I get some information on it beyond newspapers and Wikipedia. I’ll start with this book, PEMF – The Fifth Element of Health: Learn Why Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) Therapy Supercharges Your Health Like Nothing Else! by Bryant A. Meyers . (I don’t benefit anything if you purchase any of these things, since I have no seller’s link.)

Dave Asprey, the Founder and CEO of Bulletproof also has an introductory article on the subject (here) and he has a studio (actually two) in the Los Angeles, CA area where they offer many of these “biohacks” . Does PMF fixes pain and inflammation ? If you have experience with those, do let us know.

–Hyperbaric oxygen chambers. I remember being in one of those many years ago. It is already used for dive care and wound care in medical centers around the world.

I read on Cloe Paltrow’s blog that hyperbaric oxygen chamber approved uses include:

• Diabetic Wounds like diabetic foot ulcers
• Tissue Damage by Radiation
• Failed skin flaps and grafts
• Acute Traumatic Ischemias or Crush Injury
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection
• Chronic or non-healing wounds
• Decompression sickness
• Gas gangrene.

Tell you what, it’s amazing that Tony Robbins came out with a 20% increased lung capacity…after jumping 1,000 times during his 12-hours plus marathon seminars. And better bone density after ?

Now, with these, and others (stem cell therapy) Tony avoided shoulder surgery.

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