Teemu Arina sits down for a fantastic conversation with Garnet Dupuis. Get ready for a deep dive on how western culture approached, embraced and sometimes misunderstood Eastern mysticism, hear different generations' perspectives on societal change, learn more about Altered Brain States and the technology behind the NeuroVIZR!
Garnet Dupuis is the CCO of Lucid Studios/NeuroVIZR, He currently resides in the tropical mountain rainforest near Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. A life-long meditator and practitioner of Tibetan Dzogchen, Garnet is also active in wild animal rescue and conservation and has built, manages and funds a sanctuary for apes.
Besides an incredible wealth of life experience, Garnet has a broad education including college, university and graduate trainings in Classical and Clinical Homeopathy, Oriental Medicine, Massage Therapy/Bodywork, Hydrotherapy, Remedial Exercise, Biofeedback, Psychology and English Literature.
Learn more about Garnet and the NeuroVIZR at https://www.neurovizr.com!
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Key moments and takeaways:
00:00 Introduction
03:15 The value of constant learning
04:15 Garnet's life experience
05:30 The two "pills" that changed society
06:40 Travelling before Social Media
08:10 The freedom of Counterculture
09:20 How different generations perceive cultural change
13:30 Growing up amidst technological milestones
14:20 How progress impacts the average healthspan
15:35 Let's play The Imagination Game
16:50 Why the Hippie generation had an interest in the Orient
18:10 The key experience of finding yourself
19:55 Asian spiritual traditions had things figured out a long time ago
21:25 How much was really Lost in Translation
27:15 Oriental spirituality vs. Fast Food Culture and consumerism
28:40 Seeking revelations in India vs. the Amazon
30:55 Teemu's first exposure to mystical experiences
33:40 Nature is not different from ourselves, we are an aspect of it
34:10 Our brain is naturally psychedelic
35:10 Psychoactive agents don't cause experiences, they tap into an ability
36:45 Intense breathwork can induce altered states
40:05 Transcendent experiences from meditation vs. compounds
42:35 The magnetism of Eastern / Asian cultures
44:30 What happens in October 2024
45:05 How to induce altered states using technology
46:00 The concept of First Language
47:50 The abstract nature of sound vs. music
48:20 The experience is not what you see and hear, but the feeling evoked by those stimuli
51:25 Fire flickers around Central Alpha
52:30 Hallucinogens like LSD suppress Alpha
53:40 Technology is catching up - we're close to manipulating light like we manipulate sound
55:30 Teemu's take on the NeuroVIZR
56:50 Agency is secondary to capacity
57:05 Sane vs. unsane vs. insane
58:00 Why a typical NeuroVIZR session lasts 11 minutes
59:20 There won't be legislation that outlaws flickering lights
60:55 NeuroVIZR induces neuroplastic change
61:10 The benefits of an accessible, portable, immediate on/off experience
62:20 Technological progress will connect photobiomodulation with other disciplines
63:00 A NeuroVIZR collection to fit the theme of the upcoming Biohacker Summit: Expanding Consciousness
64:45 To Go Out Of Your Mind At Least Once Per Day Is Tremendously Important
65:30 The people Garnet is looking to work with in the future
66:20 The idea is not to use light to express what the music is saying: explicit vs. implicit
68:20 Brain Entrainment
69:50 How to communicate information for positive neuroplastic change: repetition vs. surprise
73:25 Brain Engagement
74:10 Attention followed by different degrees of destabilization
78:05 The Secret Sauce
80:00 Western medicine and science is unable to treat certain conditions (yet)
81:30 Neurological top-down and bottom-up processes
84:30 Freud, Pavlov and the human organism's capacity to resolve trauma
85:55 What the hell IS information?
87:00 An example of explicit vs. implicit: the Two Mountains
88:10 Delta Dynamics
90:15 Does everyone see different patterns when using the NeuroVIZR?
92:25 Knowing Without Thinking
94:50 The whole point of a surprise
97:10 Don't resist Prediction Errors: it's not just Blinking Lights
98:50 Everybody's Best Friend
100:25 How often do you need to exercise your brain?
100:45 Exercise disguised as Entertainment
101:25 Your Whole Body is Your Brain
102:20 Closing statements & announcements