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I'm sharing another cure for Tinnitus. It's called Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT). Basically, how it works is that you buy special red laser earbuds and wear them 20-30 minutes each day. The red light from the laser is very strong and penetrates deep into your inner ear. This red light has the ability to stimulate cell healing and regeneration. Clinical studies show that red light of certain wave lengths can help to stimulate cell healing and improve the healing of wounds. How reliable are such studies? I don't know, but if you're suffering from tinnitus you'll try anything.

There is solid anecdotal evidence that LLLT has helped to reduce some people's tinnitus. But keep in mind that these results are highly variable. Not all tinnitus is the same and LLLT does not work for everyone who tries it. But I have read credible reports where it significantly helped people with tinnitus, and from my own case it seems to have helped me, although not entirely. It's a partial remedy at best.

How to do LLLT:

• You need to purchase very specific red laser earbuds. Click Here for the product I recommend. This is the product I use. It costs $840. This includes a device and two sets of earbuds, each emits a different wavelength of light. One is visible red (660nm) and the other is barely visible infrared (808nm).
• If you think this price is expensive, it's actually the cheapest version of this device. Other brands cost $1500+. There's not many brands available. You can potentially try to buy a used version.
• You can buy that device on this page. There are many versions of the device for sale, with various headsets and colors. I recommend the following model: emLas-520BCB. That's the black colored version, you can also buy it in white color if you prefer.
• Once you receive the device, start low and slow. Don't use it more than 15 mins per day for the first week or two. During this period pay close attention to how your tinnitus changes, if at all.
• Be careful because there is a small chance that this could make your tinnitus worse. Test gradually.
• In practice LLLT can temporarily make tinnitus a bit worse, but after a few days your ears should heal and improve and ultimately the tinnitus lowers over weeks. So expect that kind of process. Healing will not necessarily feel better every day.
• Alternate between the two different sets of earbuds every day. So, do a day of 660nm light, followed the next day by 808nm light, and keep switching. Using multiple wavelengths gives you more chances to activate healing.
• As long as your tinnitus is not getting much worse, increase the duration that you use the earphones each day, up to 30 minutes per day.
• Once I realized that this device is not making my tinnitus worse, I started using it 20 mins on 660nm + 20 mins of 808nm light each day. For 40 mins total. And I plan to increase that even more in the future.
• Keep doing this practice every day for at least a month. Possibly more. It just depends on how things feel for you.
• I recommend you buy some extra ear tips for your device on that website at checkout. They sell various sizes of ear tips. Buy various sizes because you can't predict which set of tips will fit your ears best. The cost is minimal relative to the shipping fees you'll have to pay to order a single set of tips. It's also good to have extra tips in case you lose one or they get too dirty.
• It is recommended that you modify the ear tips you receive by cutting off 1/3rd of the base. This ensures that the red laser emitter sits closer to your ear, so the light penetrates deeper into your ear. This modification is easy to make with small sharp scissors or Exacto-knife.

Here's a link to a forum where this treatment protocol is discussed in great detail.

Do your research before trying this method. I make no promises that it will work for you, and it could potentially make things worse. So use your best judgment.

Note: This is not a sales promotion, affiliate offer, or sponsorship. I receive no money from you buying this device.

Ana Kasparian of TYT is finally transcending Stage Green.

Read Ana's Blog Post

She's an interesting case study. I hope this is legit Tier 2 and not some horseshoe theory crap.

If you are conscious and you spend 5+ years in progressives/leftist/woke/socialist circles you should start to realize that you've fallen into another, higher-level trap. One day the limits of Green will hit you in the ass, as they did for Ana. Unfortunately she doesn't have a roadmap for what is happening to her and why. That's because it is impossible to have a deep understanding of politics without sufficient understanding of psychology, epistemology, and development.

Welcome to Tier 2, Ana. I hope it sticks. Don't let Greens get you down. They know not what they do.

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They are super sharp and pointy. Worth their weight in gold.

If you use nail clippers to do your nails you are a barbarian.

I love this film. Such an underrated classic:

This is how the majority of mankind lived until recently. Study and understand why humans live this way.

I study and try to understand many social systems. But I noticed the following devilish paradox at the heart of this endeavor: Any social system you try to understand will happen from either inside or outside the system. Either you are an intimate participant in the system or you are an alien outsider looking in. If you're looking from inside, you have a lot of direct experience and intimate detail, you know its workings much better, but at the cost of being co-opted by the system. Just to be in the system you must be part of the system, which means part of the system's survival. Your survival gets interlinked with the system, infecting your mind with bias, blinding you just by virtue of being too close. But if you're looking from outside you lose that all-important direct experience of the system, but you gain objectivity. Your survival is no longer tied with the system so you can't get infected by the bias and group-think of all the insiders.

This is true of all social systems like: the CIA, the military, the Catholic church, science, academia, the Senate, the Israeli government, a terrorist organization, a cult like Scientology, a corporation, a marriage, voodoo, etc. (Try to think of more examples where this applies.)

For example, I can't know as much about Israel as a native born Israeli who was raised there for 20 years, who went through the Israeli education system, who spent 3 years in the army, who consumed 20 years of Israeli media. So I'm missing that direct experience vital for grounding my understanding. However, since I'm looking at the Israel situation from the outside I can be more objective because I have no horse in the race. My survival isn't at stake. I don't have to be loyal to the system. I don't have friends who will ostracize me. I don't have 20 years of pro-Israel self-bias to work through. This allows me to see Israel in a more objective way than a native born Israeli.

However, the trickery doesn't end there. The paradox gets even deeper because detachment from a situation creates its own kind of bias, a bias that comes from taking the imperatives of survival in the Middle East for granted. It's easy for me to sit securely in America and criticize Israelis who have to endure rocket attacks on a regular basis. It's easy to fool oneself by turning survival into an abstraction while sitting in a position of comfort where one's survival is handled thanks to one's excellent government infrastructure or just good fortune, like having rich parents. I see scientists make this mistake in assuming that they have the best handle on reality because they are seemingly so detached from the human condition. But are they really? Maybe they aren't as detached as they think. Or maybe their detachment and so-called "rationality" and "objectivity" is precisely their blind-spot.

So you're damned whether you study such systems from the inside or the outside. Each vantage point presents unique biases that are difficult to correct for. When studying such systems try to notice which vantage point you're looking from, inside or outside, and try to anticipate the biases and blind-spots that correspond to each. It's easy to misunderstand social systems as an outsider. But its also easy to misunderstand them as an insider! For example, as a teenager it was easy for me to see that a war in Iraq was a bad idea, even though I didn't have any government or military experience. Actually, it's precisely because I didn't have that experience and I wasn't an American citizen filled with patriotic outrage post 9/11. But many highly experienced government and military people couldn't see it because they were too close to the system, they were insiders. But at the same time this doesn't mean that I was qualified to speak on or handle foreign policy matters.

Here's another way to look at this: Consider the epic task of trying to understand mankind as a whole, as a system. How would you do it? You could do it from inside, as a human living on planet Earth who went through the entire human education and enculturation system. Or you could do it from outside, as an alien looking down at Earth through a telescope. Now, here's the interesting question: Which view would give you a better understanding of mankind? The alien would have a much more objective view of mankind, free of all the petty human biases, dogmas, assumptions, tribalism, and ideology. But would this alien really appreciate what its like to be a human and why humans behave as they do? Can you really know what being a human means unless you've lived through all the human biases and had to survive as a human, under all the limited social and political conditions of Earth? That's a very hairy sort of thing that no self-respecting alien would want to dirty himself with. But then again, if you really wanted to understand the human condition you'd have to expose yourself to it a lot more than through a telescope. But if you did, you might end up like one of those dirty biased dogmatic humans.

Sometimes I wish I had more of an inside view of systems like academia, science, Scientology, Al Qaeda, the CIA, the Israeli government, etc. Then again, if I did I would be so corrupted and co-opted by those systems that I could not do the work I do with Actualized.org. Could you imagine understanding Nazi Germany from inside vs outside? That's tough. But wait, it gets worse. Could you imagine understanding the Holocaust from the inside vs the outside? Ahhh, there's the rub! Now you see the problem. Does anyone really understand the Holocaust from the outside? Then again, how much would you have understood it from the inside?

So add this to the heap of all the other epistemic challenges you face.

How is it possible to understand a system without intimately participating in it? And yet, how is it possible to understand a system by participating in it when participation distorts your view of it? The entanglement problem strikes again!

And finally, consider this interesting possibility: This is such a deep existential problem that God himself cannot know what terrorism is without becoming a terrorist. In order for God to be Omniscient he would need to experience terrorism from the inside, because outside would not be good enough. How could God be All-Knowing if he didn't know the interiority of terrorism? And that's why terrorists exist! Contemplate that.