5 Ways to Find Meaning and Trust in a Skeptical World – Jamie Wheal, Part 3 with Dave Asprey – #847

• For the first time ever in human history, more people don’t belong to anything than belong to all the other things. That is a radical unmooring of who we are and how we identify.  – 3:51
• There’s no more Walter Cronkite, right? There’s no more sane. – 6:46
• There’s just some very bottom of the Maslow’s hierarchy kind of things that have to get done and aren’t getting resolved in a meaningful way.  – 8:55
• How much of this is actually just quiet people in the middle being, “Could you idiots just shut up on both ends? We want to just live our lives.” Do you have data or a sense of that?  – 10:57
• If we can declutter the dysfunctional things and we can make healthy, positive choices more readily available and supported, most people will choose to do the right thing.  – 14:16
• We’ve actually got to dial back the clock and say, “Bottom four billion has got to be cheap or free.”  – 15:48
• We’re all suffering micro-PTSD, and many of us have hits of macro-PTSD. If we have ways to discharge that, if we have ways to get back to zero, just level balance, then we have a chance to live forwards giving it our best shot, not forever dragging anchors behind us.  – 21:25
• Our monophasic culture of the Western world is typically tired, wired, and stressed. That’s how we often feel. It’s hyperactive beta wave activity, super focused executive function and default mode network rumination, poor air exchange, often a lot of persistent fight/flight stress, neurochemistry, norepinephrine, cortisol, all the things that are great for fleeing the tiger and rot your bones. – 24:03
• Seven of the top 10 companies in the world right now are all about stitching up our noosphere, about creating a shared meshwork – 30:53
• Fundamentally, Dumbledore’s Army versus the Death Eaters. He’s like, “There’s going to be people that are drawn towards this global humanist project being lived by love, and there’s going to be people that aren’t and that are resisting it and digging in their heels and looking to smash and grab.” – 31:49
• Another book that I’d super recommend on this front is called The Ministry for the Future,  – 34:19
• You came up, after all of the research you did, both the hard science as well as looking at traditions and looking at various cultures, and you said there’s really five techniques, and that’s what it all comes down to. What are the five techniques?  – 36:45
• These aren’t the only five, and you could absolutely have your own list and make a case. But the ones that seem to come up again and again were respiration, embodiment, sexuality, substances, and music.  – 37:08
• So that kind of gets us to the dying part, right? Do you want to dive into that?  – 42:21

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