Cannabis and Enlightenment
THE LIBRARY
169 essays.
Cannabis, the endocannabinoid system, AI, biohacking, philosophy. Read any one, or click Discuss and I'll talk it through with you.
CH 01 · Cannabis
15Cannabis and the Adaptive Mind
Cannabis Is Not a Drug
Cannabis Prohibition: A Case Study in Government Failure
Cannabis, Depression, and the Topology of Your Brain
CBD: The Guardian of Your Gut
Charlotte Figi: The Girl Who Changed Everything
Smoking vs. Eating Weed: What Dr. Bob Actually Thought
The Endocannabinoid System and
Far-From-Equilibrium Thermodynamics: Why Cannabis Actually Works
The Plant That Evolved With Us
The Skillset Cannabis Unlocks
The Stoner Stereotype is Dead
The Tao of Cannabis
Why Prohibition Makes No Scientific Sense
Why You Can't Organize Stoners (And Why That's the Point)
CH 02 · Endocannabinoid
19Anandamide Doesn't Care About Your Peloton
CB1 Keeps Putting Out Fires
Exercise: The Endocannabinoid Booster
From Ears to Gut to Spit: The ECS Doesn't Miss
Glioblastoma Has Cannabinoid Receptors. Your Dentist Doesn't Know Yet.
Homeostasis: The Word That Changes Everything
Huna and the Endocannabinoid System
Memory, Bones, and the Swedish Question: Your ECS Is Running the Show
Postbirth Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Origin of BLPs?
Pregnenolone: Your Body's THC Brake
Retrograde Transmission: The Feedback Loop
Skin Cancer, Scarred Lungs, and the Repair System Nobody Told You About
The 13% Scandal: Why Doctors Don't Know About the ECS
The Citicoline Discovery: Modulating High-Dose Cannabis
The Hydrogen Peroxide + Cannabis Protocol
The Placebo Effect and the Endocannabinoid System
The Scaffolding of Thought: How Your Endocannabinoid System Builds Your Brain
The Two Endocannabinoids: 2-AG and Anandamide
The Wizard Behind the Curtain
CH 03 · AI
14AI is a Mirror, Not a Monster
AI is the Best Thing to Happen to Humans
How to Think About AI (Without Panicking)
Living Aloha in the AI Age
The Consciousness Question Nobody's Asking
The Death of the Expert
The FLP Advantage in the AI Age
The Great Rewiring
The Red Pill for the AI Age
What AI Reveals About Your Own Mind
What the AI Panic Gets Wrong
Why AI Won't Replace Consciousness
Why Ants Never Made iPhones
Your Brain is Already an AI
CH 06 · Biohacking
30Calcium: The Universal Activator
CCK Neurons, Oxidative Stress, and What the Meta-Analysis Got Wrong
Fat, Fibrosis, and Cancer: The Same Phenomenon
Jeanne Calment: The Oldest Human Ever
Lorazepam, PTSD, and Why the Alcohol Paradigm is Bullshit
Metabolism Drives Evolution: A Radical Theory
Meth, Cocaine, and the Thermodynamic Forklifts
Rats, Sex Chromosomes, and the Thermodynamic Engine of Life
Sleep is Non-Negotiable
Stem Cells and Cancer: The Continuum
The Bathtub Analogy
The Exercise Paradox: Why Breaking Down Builds You Up
The Free Radical Theory of Aging
The Gut-Brain Connection
The Mind-Blowing Mathematics of You
The Neutrophil Nuke: Your Immune System's Nuclear Option
The Psychedelic Visualization of Cellular Biochemistry
The Science Keeps Coming: What This Week's Cannabis Research Reveals About Your Body's Master Regulator
The Science Keeps Coming: Wound Healing, Brain Cancer, and Your Body's Master Regulator
The Ultimate Bio-Hack
The Warburg Effect: Why Cancer Loves Sugar
Two Types of Cancer: Active and Dormant
Why Chemotherapy Creates Drug Resistance
Why Everyone is Anxious Right Now
Why You're Inflamed (And What To Do About It)
Why Young People Are Depressed
You Make Your Body Weight in ATP Daily
Your Body Wants to Heal
Your Body's Operating System
Your Immune System Has Two Speeds: Full-Throttle Attack and Zen-Like Repair
CH 08 · Germany
1CH 09 · Philosophy
79Aka Cords and Energy Flow
ALOHA: To Love is to Be Happy With
Buddhism and the Arrow of Time
Central Planning Always Fails (Here's Why)
Chaos is Where Life Happens
Decentralization is a Law of Nature
Deprogram Your Mind
Dr. Bob's Flow vs. The Tao
Estrogen, Menopause, and the Fat-Burning Connection
Flow State: Where East Meets West
Flow-Dependent Structures
Free Will is an Illusion (And That's
OK)
G.O.D.: Generalized Open System Dynamics
Ho'oponopono: The Thermodynamics of Forgiveness
IKE: The World Is What You Think It Is
KALA: There Are No Limits
Know Thy True Self
Life as a Dynamic Fractal
MAKIA: Energy Flows Where Attention Goes
Mana is Energy (And Energy is Everything)
MANA: All Power Comes From Within
MANAWA: Now is the Moment of Power
Meaning is Created, Not Found
Meditation is Thermodynamic Training
Order From Chaos: The Secret of Life
Own Your Outcomes
PONO: Effectiveness is the Measure of Truth
Reality is Not What You Think
Short-Term Memory Loss is a Feature, Not a Bug
Spontaneous Order: The Most Beautiful Idea
Stop Manifesting. Start Adapting.
Stress is Killing You (Literally)
The 2% Mindset
The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction: Life in a Petri Dish
The Bhagavad Gita and Adaptation
The Future is a Choice
The Future is Decentralized
The Hawaiians Knew: An Introduction to
Huna
The Invisible Hand is Real (It's Physics)
The Kahuna Were Scientists
The Lock and Key You Already Have
The Map is Not the Territory
The Most Important System You've Never
Heard Of
The New Alpha
The Observer Changes the Observed
The Only Law That Matters
The Paradox of Control
The Physics Nobody Taught You
The Problem With Regulation
The Real Reason Politics is Broken
The Same Physics Runs Both
The State is Entropy
The Story of the Beggar and the Yogi
The System Inside You That Nobody Told You About
The Tao is Thermodynamics
The Three Selves: Your Internal Thermodynamic System
The Tortoise Strategy
The Universe Doesn't Care About Your Feelings
The Water That Wears Away Stone
The Yin-Yang is Wrong (Sort Of)
There Are Only Two Types of People
What Crypto Gets Right (And Wrong)
Why Attachment Causes Suffering
Why Comfort is Killing You
Why Eastern Religions Got It Right
Why Free Markets Are Thermodynamically Correct
Why Governments Can't Pick Winners
Why Huna and Dr. Bob Are Saying the Same Thing
Why I'm a Thermodynamic Libertarian
Why Modern Medicine is Failing (And What You Can Do About It)
Why Socialism Violates Physics
Why Some People Can't Handle Change
Why the Old Institutions Are Failing
Why You Can't Go Back (And Why That's Good)
Why You're Probably Deficient (And
Don't Know It)
Why Your Parents Don't Get It
Wu Wei: The Science of Effortless Action
You're Not Fighting Entropy. You're Surfing It.
Zen and the Art of Far-From-Equilibrium
CH 10 · About
11Are You a Forward-Looking Person? (Take the Test)
Carrying the Torch
Dr. Bob's Most Controversial Ideas
How to Become a Forward-Looking Person
New Here? Start With The TLDR
Stop Trying to Convince BLPs
The Extinction of Backward-Looking People
The Man Who Connected Everything
The Science Dr. Bob Left Behind
The Stoned-Out Hippie With a PhD
What Dr. Bob Taught Me