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Even parts of us filled with hatred, addiction, or self-loathing deserve compassion because they serve a purpose. When a child's needs aren't met or they are hurt, they unconsciously make one of two assumptions: either the world is terrible and they are alone, or there is something wrong with them and it's their fault. The latter is the safer assumption for the child, as it provides a sense of control. Assuming the world is dangerous is unbearable. Turning anger against oneself is also safer than being angry with one's parents, especially at a young age.

The five-four-three-two-one grounding method involves listing five things you see, four things you feel, three things you hear, two things you can smell, and one thing you can taste. Increasing these points of joy daily can lead to overall happiness. The five-second rule relates to the thought-feelings-behavior triangle in cognitive behavioral therapy. Traditionally, shifting thoughts leads to shifted feelings and changed behavior. However, shifting behavior, even without feeling like it, can influence thoughts and feelings in turn.

"Most of the things that we regard as psychiatric disorders are positive feedback loops that have gone out of control." "So for example, let's say your mood starts to fall, and then you isolate. Right? And then you start performing worse at work." "Yeah. With with panic disorder, what happens is people get anxious. Right? But then they start to avoid and that makes their anxiety worse. And so then they're in a loop." "And with alcoholism, what happens to people is they start to see that if they drink it cures their hangover. Well, that's obviously that's gonna generate a positive feedback loop. And so many of the things that we see as conditions I think are positive feedback."

"What's very clear is that when you're suffering or you're lazy or you're procrastinating, doing something that's harder than the state that you're in bounces you back much faster. This is all based in the dynamics of dopamine. It's sort crazy if you know how people are procrastinating to write something and they start cleaning the house? Something they normally don't wanna do. Well, it's just something that's easier than the thing that you're supposed to do. Right. If you do something that's even harder than the thing you're trying to avoid, all of a sudden, you're able to do that. And you're like, oh, okay. Well, it's just psychology. Right? No. It's not psychology alone. Once dopamine is deployed at that level, you're a different person."

Intermittent reward schedules are how casinos keep you gambling and how potential partners keep you pursuing relationships. These schedules are also how the internet, social media, and other engaging activities maintain motivation. This relates to evolutionary adaptation, where not every search for resources like water, food, or animals was successful.

Suppressing negative thoughts is not advised. Introducing positive thoughts has value because it can control stress and extend one's ability to tolerate effort, which relates to the dopamine pathway. Dopamine release occurs mostly when pursuing goals and feeling on the right path, not from achieving them.

To overcome a fear of bees, one must dose oneself with prediction error by interacting with bees in a way that changes actions and lived experience. A gradual approach is necessary to avoid being overwhelmed. Instead of immediately working with beehives, one could start by standing and watching bees, getting closer to them, or planting bee-attracting plants to be around them. Deliberately getting stung is also presented as a potential step.

My old roommate wanted to use a shock collar for, fish and his dogs, for fish and his dogs, barking. I couldn't do it. I have it still. I bought it. They are incredibly effective.

Greg Ziemanski hosts an hour-long discussion with Svali, a former member of the Illuminati’s family/Order who says she was born into the group and trained for over thirty years. The conversation covers her induction, training, the organization’s structure, activities, money flows, mind-control methods, and her eventual escape. - Induction and early training - Svali was born in Germany and raised in the United States within a wealthy family that was part of the group. From infancy, children undergo intensive training and indoctrination. By the time she was a teenager, she was a youth leader; at 22 she became the youngest member of a leadership council in San Diego County, and later head trainer. - At age 12, she was taken to Germany for what was described as a sealing ceremony in the Vatican. In the Vatican’s basement there is a large circular chamber with 13 catacombs; mummies are displayed beside a central table on which a large gold pentagram sits. A young child was placed on the table and drugged; the ceremony involved a Latin liturgy, and the “sacrifice” was performed to seal the oath. Afterward, she and others swore allegiance before a ring-wearing priest in scarlet who declared the oath “to the new world order until my death.” The event induced terror; she and the other participants remained silent and controlled during the proceedings. - She recalls that adults as well as children participate in these ceremonies; the church sometimes brings in adults to swear allegiance as well. - Aftermath and structure - Following the induction, Svali and the other initiates were told to forget certain aspects and were told of the consequences should they break the oath. The ceremony left a lasting impression of darkness and oppression in the room. - Svali describes the Illuminati as a single group with multiple branches of learning, not separate groups: sciences, military, government leadership, scholarship, and spiritual learning. Individuals are profiled from infancy, and often concentrate in one or two branches based on aptitude. She says she was heavily involved in sciences and some spiritual work, with extensive training in mind and behavioral programming. - The Illuminati is said to be international, with Rome as the spiritual heart. Europe is organized into 12 “fathers,” each representing a country; Americans view the U.S. as a mission field. The administrative power base is in Alexandria, Virginia; the West Coast power base is around San Diego. The organization is described as a multinational structure akin to a large corporation, with regional councils, subregions, and local “sister groups” in major cities. - Goals, infiltration, and money - The group’s stated overarching goal is to rule the world, achieved through infiltration behind the scenes in media, education, government, and finance. Svali asserts that they have already infiltrated at high levels across these sectors in Europe and the U.S. - The Illuminati allegedly owns and controls substantial media outlets and uses marriages within the wealthy networks to secure loyalty and power. They allegedly fund themselves through both illicit activities (gun running, white slavery, prostitution, pornography, laundering) and legitimate means (quiet investments, acquiring controlling interests in banks and financial institutions over time). - A recurring theme is “two-tier” life: members hold a public role and, at night or in private, perform the group’s duties. Some members’ daytime persona is benign or philanthropic, while their night activities serve the organization’s aims. - Mind control and programming - Svali describes a long process of programming that begins in early childhood and continues through adulthood. Training includes hypnosis, medications for short states, coded cues, and trauma-based techniques to install obedience and loyalty to the group. Positive reinforcement (praise, affection) follows after correct responses; negative reinforcement (shocks, punishment) reinforces behaviors. One goal is to create fragmentation of personality to permit compartmentalized behavior (for example, a family-oriented public persona and a separate, covert operational role). - The programming aims to instill loyalty as the primary directive and to suppress questioning of orders. The process includes tuning up or updating programming as needed and can include elaborate rituals to “heal” or stabilize programming after use. Svali mentions the ability to program children as young as eight to perform complex tasks, including sensitive or dangerous roles. - She notes that passive programming via media can influence non-members, pointing to the effects of cartoons and films as disseminating occult or occult-coded messages. - Personal arc and leaving the group - Over time, Svali becomes disillusioned as she sees the methods used and their toll on others. She becomes a Christian, which sharpens her questioning of the group’s aims and methods. She ultimately escapes by relocating to another state, leaving behind her husband and children (who eventually also leave with her help), though she faces custody disputes and other forms of pressure, including threats and public attacks. - She recounts a long legal battle to gain custody and safety for her children, including a four-year period of supervised visitation. Her husband eventually agrees to leave the group and to separate from it. - Since leaving, she has faced reprisals and cautions against speaking too openly; she emphasizes that prayer and public awareness are critical, but she stresses that leaving the group is dangerous and often costly due to financial and familial ties. - Current message - Svali advocates public awareness and prayer, urging people to recognize that such a group exists, to understand its influence, and to support actions that counter its reach. She stresses that the problem spans high levels of government, media, and finance and notes that while she is glad to share her story, she does so under ongoing personal risk.

Speaker 0: The user interface for reality includes frames and buttons you can use to influence your experience. Accept the frame that there could be a subjective reality and that you can manipulate it, even if only your own impression—if it predicts well and leads to a happy place. You should accept that systems work better than goals. Building systems for every area of life—diet, career, social life, fitness—can change outcomes. Talent stacking is the idea that adding new talents intelligently makes you exponentially better, expanding capability and options. This is one of the biggest buttons on the interface to reality. Affirmations and writing down or visualizing goals are familiar, but they’re presented as filters rather than guaranteed truths. Do they work? The speaker doesn’t claim certainty, but notes personal experiences where affirmations correlated with remarkable results, such as curing an incurable voice problem, unusual stock market luck, and a flourishing career. If it feels like it works, keep doing it. The mating instinct is the base of nearly all impulses. Most things you show, say, or do are expressions of wanting to look good for mating purposes. Once you understand this, you’ll see where the buttons are, and you’ll recognize actions as extensions of the mating process. Freedom is a major button. People will trade a bad life with freedom for a good life without freedom. Creating situations that offer more freedom is powerful. Freedom can come from money, a flexible schedule, or the right social environment. There are many ways to gain it, and you can use it as a tool to help others get what they want, since they will trade a lot for freedom. Fear is a motivator, but use it only to save somebody, not for manipulation. Curiosity is another crucial button: it’s used to tease and sustain attention, as seen in politicians who stoke curiosity about upcoming announcements. Novelty is important for memory; it prevents the brain from getting bored and helps memory and attention. Contrast moves people from where they are to where you want them to be, and is more economical than offering a larger alternative. Repetition and simplicity align with how brains process information: the more you repeat, the stronger the wiring; simpler is better. The fake or pseudo-logic can move people, because real reasons aren’t always required to persuade—people often follow imagined or social reasons instead. Pacing and leading means matching someone until they’re comfortable, then guiding them. Aspiration—appealing to being a better version of oneself—acts as a high-ground maneuver, akin to a personal growth lure. Association means the likability or unlikability can rub off on related things; learning to associate only with positive things is vital. Pattern recognition shapes beliefs: humans aren’t purely logical, but patterns can be used to influence; patterns can also lead to biases, which can be misled or misrepresented. Visualization is a powerful brain function; the brain is a visualization machine. The speaker presents these buttons as the key user interface of reality. Visualization stands out as especially important. He references that many ideas in his books cover these concepts, and that the world wasn’t ready to accept that you could author your own reality. The goal is to become an author of your reality, not a victim, and to use these tools to guide your life.

We discussed core motivations, which are reward, ideology, coercion, and ego. Ideology is the strongest, followed by ego. Coercion is the weakest due to trust issues. Reward is effective but changes over time. It's crucial to prioritize ideology or ego over coercion. Rewards can shift, affecting their control. Rewards that once appealed may not anymore. Trust is crucial in maintaining control.

You may have heard of the flea in the jar metaphor. If you put a flea in a jar and put the lid on, the flea will go crazy, jumping around and hitting its head on the lid. It does this for a period of time, but then it learns the boundaries of the jar. After a certain period of time, you can take the lid off the jar and the flea will never jump out again because it’s learned to be conditioned by its environment. What I’m suggesting is that human beings are exactly the same. Our thinking has conditioned us to operate and live a certain way based on all of the thinking we’ve had during our life. We talk about paradigms. A paradigm is the reality you’ve created through your thinking over time. You exist within the paradigms you’ve got about everything, which is like being in the jar. You’ll have paradigms about yourself, about your partner, about your work, about your life, about your house. You’ll have paradigms about your boss. You’ll have paradigms about the market, the economy, Brexit, all sorts of things. And those paradigms are shaping you in all sorts of ways and restricting your behaviour. Now don’t get me wrong, there’ll be certain paradigms that you’ve got that will have helped you be incredibly successful and get to where you’ve got to in your life and in your career. But there are all sorts of paradigms going on that are also limiting you and keeping you within the jar. I had a situation recently with a client called Steve. He had paradigms about his boss—thinking that his boss was untrustworthy, that he didn’t care for people, and so on. And what was very apparent was that when Steve existed within that thinking, when he showed up in a meeting with his boss, he would show up in a certain way. He wouldn’t be fully expressed and relaxed. He would be guarded, defensive, not really being his true self. And of course that paradigm is pretty dangerous to operate within when you’re working with your boss, because you’ll never end up with really great connection. I had another situation recently with a lady called Andrea. She had paradigms about her life and her work. A very common paradigm is she wanted to be great at home as a great mother and have great life balance and also be great in her work. But she had a paradigm that she existed in which that wasn’t possible. She couldn’t do both roles really, really well. Now think what it’s like to live within that paradigm. You’re never going to win. The point of this video is simply to have you reflect a little bit on your own paradigms. What are the paradigms that you’re conscious of? And what are the paradigms that are driving you and influencing you that you’re not even conscious of yet? And what would it be like to blow those paradigms away and break out from the jar?

Skinner believed that organisms are doing what they do naturally until they accidentally encounter a stimulus that creates conditioning, which results in a change in behavior. To test this, he placed a rat inside a operant conditioning chamber, which later became known as the Skinner Box. Inside the box was a lever that would release food when pressed. Conditioning happens in a three term contingency. Today known as the ABCs of behavior. A stands for antecedent. The rat accidentally hits the lever that triggers the release of food. B stands for behavior and refers to the response. The rat keeps pressing the lever. C stands for consequence. Food keeps coming out.

After being left undisturbed in a jar for 3 days, the fleas are unable to jump out when the lid is opened. This is because they have become conditioned to only jump as high as the lid. This limitation stays with them for the rest of their lives.

Speaker 0: You can try this classroom exercise on positive reinforcement. One individual must exit the room. Now, decide on a task which that individual will complete, such as finding a particular book. Then, choose a non verbal way of reinforcing that task such as clapping your hands. Invite the person to come back into the room and let them try and complete the task, but don't give any instructions. Every time they are on the right track in regards to completing the task, clap your hands louder. If they move away from performing the task, reduce your applause or stop it entirely. Once the person understands what they are supposed to do, let them explain the task. Did they get it right?