The Paradise Paradox

In the last few months, many people around have been feeling an increase in their anxiety, and may not even know the cause. If you're nervous, your mind can run away trying to find justifications, and that can lead to a downward spiral - nerves leading to fear, combining into anxiety, imagining awkward situations, and so on.

You don't always need to know the causes to feel anxiety, and as it turns out, many times you don't need to know the causes to solve it either. In this episode, Kurt goes through some perspectives and techniques to help you address, overcome and start to transmute your anxiety and other emotional problems into something beneficial.

Topics discussed include:

Pranayama or breathing exercises

The importance of being open-minded

Dropping anxiety like a weight

Coping mechanisms and thriving strategies

Tech detox

Meditation - mindfulness, seated, walking

The way you think

The power of language over your state of mind

Black and white thinking

How to stick with a habit

How resistance to anxiety causes you to become more anxious; and

Having a little faith

Hatha Yoga Pradipika

https://jivamuktiyoga.com/fotm/hatha-yoga-pradipika-0/

Does the Earth's Magnetic Field Cause Suicides? New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13769-does-the-earths-magnetic-field-cause-suicides/

Meta-Health and EFT Tapping with Sam Neffendorf

https://theparadiseparadox.com/205

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

https://amzn.to/2ofx2T1

Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-about-facebooks-secret-mood-manipulation-experiment/373648/

Practicing the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

https://amzn.to/334mSDE

Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins

https://amzn.to/2M8XV32

 Karla Urbina is a painter living in Guadalajara, creating wonderful and unusual artworks that often portray personal and societal struggles, questions about well-being and progress in society. Karla is also an entrepreneur and co-founder of a streetwear company, Existing Is Hard.

In this episode, Kurt interviews Karla about her creative process, how she comes up with the ideas for her artworks, her methods of interpreting the world to influence creativity, how looking at clouds or stains on a ceiling can provide inspiration, what it's like to provide the artwork for a graphic novel, and what it's like to start a company in Mexico.

Karla on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karlathemonster/

In a sense, our genetic code holds the wisdom of every generation that has come before us - the keys to millions of years of survival, and even some of prosperity. Is it possible that we can tap into that knowledge? Perhaps even tap into knowledge that is hidden on a spiritual level?

According to Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson, every human being and brain has the ability to access that ancient wisdom, using their own "morphogenetic circuit".

In this episode, Kurt discusses some techniques that people might use to achieve this wisdom, including some from R.A. Wilson's book "Prometheus Rising", Carlos Castaneda, The Secret, and the Dimensional Jumping subreddit.

Find the wisdom and power within in this exciting episode of... The Paradise Paradox!

Owner's manual to the human brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwmDGfIkiks

Transcendental circuits of consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjV19sV0z2Y

Dimensional Jumping: https://www.reddit.com/r/DimensionJumping/

According to the case made in the book "The Sovereign Individual", the nation state rose to power as a natural consequence of the conditions of the industrial age.

Gunpowder made obsolete the old technology such as armed cavalry, and castles. That set the stage for the efficient smelting of iron, which lead to factories.

Factories are very centralised - making them vulnerable to vandalism and also to taxation. The factory owners needed the protective watch of governments to maintain their properties.

Now we are moving into the information age, and it is much more common to have digital property, in the form of websites and cryptocurrency. In many ways, the nation state is powerless to protect these new forms of property, and in many cases it is powerless to tax them.

Still the belief in the authority of the nation state remains. How long will it hold up? Kurt explores that question and more in this episode of The Paradise Paradox!

A lot of people have been feeling anxious lately. It's hard to say exactly why, but whatever the cause, we all have to find a way to deal with it.

In this video, Kurt explains five tips you can use to improve your state of mind:

1. A yogic alternate breathing exercise.

2. How giving in to your anxiety can help your anxiety.

3. Using a journal to gain a healthy distance from your problems.

4. Being aware of your body and your surroundings to stay centred.

5. How identity affects your emotional state.

I didn't think I'd be welcomed into the USA by being interrogated and stuck in a small room for 48 hours, but that's life.

Arriving to O'Hare airport, I was told to wait so they could ask me a few more questions. I was detained for hours and finally told I would not be allowed to enter the USA on the ESTA visa waiver program, due to my deportation from Mexico two years prior, and as a perpetual traveller, it wasn't clear where my home was.

I sat and meditated quite a lot during those couple of days, looking for reasons to be grateful. It's funny, because in good times I don't always think too much about how to be happy. But in tough times, I always put in the extra effort, so paradoxically I can be happier in the face of adversity. And so, despite external factors, I must proclaim my visit to the USA as a success.

A one-time home to liberty, then people could arrive in the US by Ellis Island as ship crew, passenger or even stowaway and receive an immigration visa. Now, that is certainly not the case. At least I know there are plenty of places in the world that will treat me more kindly.

Arielle Friedman is the former co-host of the Crypto Hippies Podcast, and now a co-host of The Multiversity Project, a podcast for exploring higher-dimensional education.

In this interview we talk about what got her on the path of questioning what governments told her, noticing that their stated intentions weren't aligned with their real intentions. We talk about how that lead her to take an interest in philosophy, particularly in the works of Hegel. And we talk about the future of governments with things like private security and seasteading.

Check out: https://multiversitypodcast.com

Katy Kelly is one of four hosts of The Multiversity Project, a podcast for "higher-dimensional education", and is known for forming a voluntaryist meet-up in Austin, Texas, as well as in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. Years ago, she decided to leave her comfortable life in the US and head to Mexico to explore greater depths of self-knowledge and understanding a foreign culture, and to find a less stressful life.

In this episode Katy and Kurt discuss Katy's past, how she came to be an advocate in world peace who was set to join the military, discovered libertarianism and voluntaryism, exploring non-violent communication, founding meet-ups, why she decided to move to Mexico and the strangeness of being in a very different culture, how she found work online, why she now has doubts about voluntaryism and the NAP, the philosophical basis of property rights, and how culture can be more important than government in deciding the fate of a nation.

Note: in this episode we mention the structure of Luxembourg, but we were actually thinking of the principality of Liechtenstein.

Check out The Multiversity Project: https://multiversitypodcast.com

Roxii Love is an anarchist activist who loves to explore questions about how truth is being hidden, and how our health and well-being might be affected by things like poor-quality vaccines and chemtrails. You can check out her show, Roxii Love's Radio Rebellion, on Facebook. 

In this episode we discuss weird laws, such as penalties for carrying a fish suspiciously or voting in a cactus for mayor, how nice Mexico is and why you shouldn't trust the government when they warn you about a country, how "Monsters Inc" relates to "Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas", what billionaires are like as people, the tarot, synchronicity, how the Tasmanian government seeded clouds and possibly lead to flooding, what people would gain if they found out the earth was flat, whether Australia really exists, and how fake NASA footage is.

Roxii Love's Radio Rebellion on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RoxiiLovesRadioRebellion/

Cloud seeding before Tasmanian floods: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-10/cloud-seeding-carried-out-over-tasmanian-catchment-before-floods/7499226

Dr. Aiden Gregg is an associate professor at the psychology department of the University of Southampton, where he lectures and conducts research. Dr. Gregg has done a lot of thinking and research about psychopathy, sociopathy, anti-social personality disorder and related ideas.

In this section of the interview, Dr. Gregg further explains psychopathy, and his idea of "redrawing the lines" of psychopathy, sociopathy and anti-social personality disorder, in an idea he calls "the pococurante" - a person who doesn't care about the truth, other people, the future, or even himself in the future. He also talks about the data from Kent Kyle's MRI experiments with psychopaths, how they might indicate an explanation under Freudian theory, with a lack of an ego to negotiate between the sensible and baser desires of a human.

Dr. Aiden Gregg is an associate professor at the psychology department of the University of Southampton, where he lectures and conducts research. Dr. Gregg has done a lot of thinking and research about psychopathy, sociopathy, anti-social personality disorder and related ideas.

In this section of the interview, Dr. Gregg explains his perspective on psychopathy, how it can be like looking into an abyss, how psychopaths may lack something that ordinary humans have, the link to myths like vampires and reptilian aliens, the history of "moral insanity", the vagueness of the term "psychopathy", the distinction between signs and symptoms of a disease, definitions from Hervey Cleckley and Robert D. Hare, Jon Ronson's book on "The Psychopath Test", and psychopaths in society.

Joël Valenzuela is known for his work with the Dash Force public outreach program, delivering presentations, planning conferences and other events. Valenzuela writes for Dash Force News and also oversees the content creation and distribution. Joël is also known for being a man who lives solely off cryptocurrency - specifically Dash.

In this interview we discuss Joël's background, growing up in Mexico and living through the peso collapse and revaluation of the early 90s, how that gave him perspective on sound money and helped him to understand Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, the connection with gold and silver, the current state and future of Dash, the technical foundations of the user-friendly Dash Evolution wallet and the challenges with its development, and how commercial and central bankers are reacting to cryptocurrency.

Check out: https://dashnews.org

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Hamilton Souther is a medicine man, given the title of "master shaman" by his mentors in the Peruvian Amazon. For 17 years he has conducted ceremonies with the sacred brew ayahuasca, and used scores of other plants to help seekers find their way to forgiveness and empathy.

In his 20s, Mr. Souther started to have a spiritual awakening, having visionary experiences, leading him to search for answers in shamanism, and looking for deeper understanding of healing and the human psyche.

Important links:

https://www.bluemorphotours.com

https://whitemorpho.net

Source Independent - https://www.youtube.com/user/intysource

Sometimes we use words without thinking too much about their meaning, without putting the intention or the weight behind them which they might deserve. We say "You're welcome" without feeling that someone is welcome, or "good bye" without remembering the original meaning of the phrase - "God be with ye". Similarly, French people say "Adieu" and Spaniards say "Adiós" without thinking of them as blessings.

However, in some parts of the world, people do mean what they say. In Thailand, the common greeting and farewell is "sawatdii", which is actually the Sanskirt word "svasti" meaning "goodness". Every hello is a blessing in Thai, and when you hear Thai people say it, you can feel the goodness.

How can you use your words to bless people, to let them feel welcome in your presence, to increase their comfort? How much of a hello is your "Hello", and can you introduce yourself and reveal a little of your soul? Let's talk about it in this episode of The Paradise Paradox!

Check out: https//www.theparadiseparadox.com

A few weeks ago, ex-patriate John Galton was tragically shot dead in Acapulco, and a friend of his was also injured with three bullet wounds. The question of his death is complex, and in many ways it's not ours to discuss.

The other question which it raised for many is, how safe is Acapulco? Every year many libertarians go to Anarchapulco to explore freedom in its many forms. Are they in any danger? And how can they best protect themselves?

In this episode, Kurt interviews Luis Fernando Mises to ask his opinion of Acapulco and Mexico, the four parts of Acapulco. Kurt explains some basic safety precautions that people should be aware of when in Latin America. We also discuss the practice of "shaktipat", when a devotee receives spiritual energy from a yoga guru, why Luis invests in Ripple, our love for Mexican food and the search for the perfect quesadilla.

Join us on another beach-faring, sun-catching, freedom-seeking episode of... The Paradise Paradox!

I can't enter Mexico legally, still banned from the country. So I decided to send a special musical message of love and peace all the way from Europe. With the help of my friend DJ WhoAmI, we recorded this bedroom set.

0:01 To Acapulco

3:31 Welcome speech

6:47 Pineapple Juice

9:39 Captains Of Industry

13:32 Why love? speech

16:54 Caterpillar Butterfly

19:29 False Flag

22:38 Don't Hold Dollars (Q.E.)

27:15 Be Grateful My Friends speech

30:15 Independently Minded

34:06 Brother #1

37:28 Potential speech

38:39 You Can Do Anything You Want

40:03 To Acapulco Reprise

Since 2015, hundreds of people have gone to Acapulco every year to celebrate liberty, and discuss how to make the world more free. Some of them decided to never leave, and some decided to keep coming back. In this episode, Kurt is joined by Acapulco expatriate Michael Nimetz, and Anarchapulco performer, MC ELAmental.

If you've ever worked in a large organisation, you probably know that the rule is "The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing." That's why Michael is presenting a workshop on his method of "Ethical Emergence" at Anarchapulco this year 2019 - all about how to improve communication in organisations, fostering relationships between individuals and departments, enabling people to best use their skills and form synergy with others' skills. Nimetz has used this method in the construction industry, improving the efficiency so much that it reduces large projects by many months.

Our other guest, MC ELAmental is performing at Anarchapulco's Turtle party. MC ELAmental makes conscious hip hop, and is an advocate and activist creating eco-friendly products by hand, such as T-shirts with natural dyes using berries and other plants - in harmony with nature and even helping plants to grow.

Thanks to Michael, ELAmental and to you for joining us in this interesting conversation.

Michael explains his method: https://steemit.com/ethicalemergence/@mikeonfire/ethical-emergence

ELAmental's Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/elamentalemcee

ELAmental on Steemit: https://steemit.com/@elamental

Earth Tribe on Steemit: https://steemit.com/@earthtribe

ELAmental's Anarchapulco shirts:

https://steemit.com/dtube/@elamental/sbvolzk0

https://steemit.com/tribesteemup/@elamental/tribe-steem-up-t-shirts-are-here-and-ready-to-be-shipped-to-you-all-details-inside

Dunbar's number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

Hacking of the American Mind speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4sRsb0a30Y

Full notes: http://www.theparadiseparadox.com/202

The other day I sat down with my friend Chris Guida, long term Bitcoin enthusiast, software developer and all-round nice guy, to discuss some questions about cryptocurrency that people had raised on the Internet.

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Firstly, do we regret investing in cryptocurrency? Both of us started buying years ago, so the answer was a clear no. However, there are many people who didn't have the good fortune to buy so early. Chris says it's likely that the crypto market will come around again - just like with a traditional market, there's a boom and bust. It's easy for a lot of folks in the media to say that bitcoin is dead and will never come back - but literally hundreds of pundits have said that before, and it hasn't stopped crypto yet.

We also discussed whether the crypto bubble of 2017 was a pump and dump scheme, a manipulated effort by whales and market makers, pushing money in and loudly and taking it out quietly. Wherever there are markets, it's almost guaranteed that people are trying to work them in their favour, but in this case it's unlikely that there's one grand conspiracy to push up the price. The price, and the bubble, is a result of a lot of individual actors, buying, selling, holding, and saying the truth or saying lies about what they're doing.

Since the dawn of man, and maybe a few hours before, people have been using psychedelic substances to expand their consciousness, give them a greater perspective, and get in touch with something divine. Psilocybe mushrooms, peyote and other substances were seen as holy, a sacrament, a way to connect something deep within us.

These days, many might consider that superstition, but as the public discourse and awareness of psychedelics grow, more people are talking about the sacraments' relationship to spiritual experiences, and even contacting wise and ancient entities, with knowledge to impart and calm guidance. Some call them our ancestors, some call them "self-transforming machine elves".

On this episode, Kurt interviews Peter, known by his YouTube channel 434, about his experiences talking to these spirits or angels during and after his mushroom journeys. Much like the mushrooms themselves, Peter is building a network, branching out to find like-minded individuals. We discussed a lot of subjects - the intelligence of plant and nature, how good and evil are very human concepts, near death experiences, and the origin of species.

Welcome to another life-changing roller-coaster ride on this next episode of ... The Paradise Paradox!

Watch Peter's videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM_-69pwiy8VGNB6kobm9Mw

 If you want to invest in crypto or stocks or even your own business, you need to get capital first. I know from experience that saving small amounts of money every week can add up over the years. But you gotta find that money to save, to put that money into a fund to buy your own financial freedom, and it all starts with paying yourself first, being conscious of your money, learning restraint, and being grateful.

You Need A Budget review: https://beeverythingbeautiful.com/the-best-budgeting-app-to-get-your-finances-under-control

Purchase a Trezor to keep your crypto safe: https://trezor.cryptonomics.space

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In 2017, Kurt was deported from Mexico for overstaying his tourist card, serving as a warning to all those ex-pats who let their papers lapse.

In the detention centre, he met many fascinating characters, a kind drug-dealing hippie, a Romanian credit card fraudster, many Central Americans and many Indian gentlemen, trying to get to the United States to earn an honest living.

In this episode Kurt is joined by former Paradise Paradoxian, Mr. Aaron Battle, and we discuss being deported, the culture of bribery that exists in most of the world, how Trump's presidency has put pressure on the Mexican government, Mexico's new president, and all kinds of fun stuff.

Join us for another involuntary world trip on ... The Paradise Paradox!