Jake Orthwein
@JakeOrthwein
Movies, minds, meaning and meditation | 📺 Video essays @ Frame Problems | 📨 http://frameproblems.substack.com
Extremely excited to announce that I'll be premiering my new film, produced in collaboration with the @wakingup app, at the @PsychedelicSci Conference in Denver this week! It's called "Unraveling the Dream: Psychedelics, Meditation, and the Brain"
I am so delighted to be working with Winslow and our team on this new project!
2) Consciousness is what we are. It's a shame that the most potent techniques for developing our consciousness are squirreled away in esoteric traditions that are neither scientifically validated nor legible to mainstream modern culture. Such techniques should be made broadly…
Twitter is the best dating app because instead of swiping through the thousandth profile with silly responses to meaningless questions you can just do this
how it started | how it’s going
This is actually what is going on, as far as I can tell
You are loved. You are free. Goodnight.
If you've met @sashachapin you already know he's the wisest, most caring, best vibes-generating man in the Bay -- but since not all of you have had the pleasure, I wrote a post about it in honor of his 37th birthday yesterday. (More below.)
the guy at apple in charge of making sure the airpods fly in two opposite directions when you drop the case is doing really good work
🆕🎙️ New podcast on @JimRuttShow! We discussed All The Things—honor, courage, confidence, dignity, decency, and magnificence for example—and had a lot of fun. 🔗 Link in reply tweet ⤵️
This is an awesome film! I highly recommend seeking out a viewing... Premiered at psychedelic science to a packed room.
have been working on an explainer here for a good long while now — excited to share it soon! h/t @guytrefler for the beautiful animation
"Make markets somewhat fairer for working families." "Protect nature! Up to a point!" "Welcome, to a managable number of actual refugees." "Make Trans accepted and EXCEEDINGLY rare." "Manage M1 but do not print your way out of debt." "Accept Gays and Lesbians...but don't…
one thing i do wonder is if the left moderate really exists the right moderate and just moderate seems to exist but left moderate seems like it has almost entirely disappeared or maybe right moderate is just 90’s left
Elon bans hashtags. The Shinzen account marches onward, undeterred. #meditation #mindfulness
Instead of trying to banish thoughts, we drop into a "global unfixated state." Listen, below: mindbodpod.com/p/spontaneous-… #meditation #mindfulness
New SS post --> The Strange Attractor at the Heart of Myth. It's also Chapter 1 of my upcoming book "The Return of the Great Mother". See the attached images for a summary of the similarities between the "meta-mythology" and strange attractors. Link in bio.
Watch it, it will change your life. My research is heavily cited in the @petersonacademy course on “Intelligence, Rationality, Wisdom, and Spirituality” by @DrJohnVervaeke. Go and take it all in.
Still can barely comprehend that my name gets mentioned in John Vervaeke's new video course on "Intelligence, Rationality, Wisdom, and Spirituality". Thank you so much, @vervaeke_john, I am deeply grateful for you acknowledging my contribution to your thinking about these…
I ran into Jake yesterday and we talked about how this Twitter interaction made us both feel positive. Here’s Jake taking a big leap toward mutual understanding (despite my combative tone earlier in the thread).
In the interest of agreeing, here are some things I think are true: - it is possible and appropriate to say many bad things about Trump without being dishonest - op-ed pages need not conform to exactly the same standards of neutrality that news pages do (but I think they ought…