{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Ffd41e15e-5cff-4871-b6dd-1073a21a0fcc","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Altered Brain States with Garnet Dupuis","description":"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 Altered Brain States and the technology behind the NeuroVIZR!\r\n\r\nGarnet 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.\r\n\r\nBesides 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.\r\n\r\nCheck https://biohackersummit.com for upcoming events & tickets!\r\n\r\nDevices, supplements, guides, books & quality online courses for supporting your health & performance: https://biohackercenter.com\r\n\r\nKey moments and takeaways:\r\n\r\n00:00 Introduction\r\n03:15 The value of constant learning\r\n04:15 Garnet's life experience\r\n05:30 The two \"pills\" that changed society\r\n06:40 Travelling before Social Media\r\n08:10 The freedom of Counterculture\r\n09:20 How different generations perceive cultural change\r\n13:30 Growing up amidst technological milestones\r\n14:20 How progress impacts the average healthspan\r\n15:35 Let's play The Imagination Game\r\n16:50 Why the Hippie generation had an interest in the Orient\r\n18:10 The key experience of finding yourself\r\n19:55 Asian spitirual traditions had things figured out a long time ago\r\n21:25 How much was really Lost in Translation\r\n27:15 Oriental spirituality vs. Fast Food Culture and consumerism\r\n28:40 Seeking revelations in India vs. the Amazon\r\n30:55 Teemu's first exposure to mystical experiences\r\n33:40 Nature is not different from ourselves, we are an aspect of it\r\n34:10 Our brain is naturally psychedelic\r\n35:10 Psychoactive agents don't cause experiences, they tap into an ability\r\n36:45 Intense breathwork can induce altered states\r\n40:05 Transcendent experiences from meditation vs. compounds\r\n42:35 The magnetism of Eastern / Asian cultures\r\n44:30 What happens in October 2024\r\n45:05 How to induce altered states using technology\r\n46:00 The concept of First Language\r\n47:50 The abstract nature of sound vs. music\r\n48:20 The experience is not what you see and hear, but the feeling evoked by those stimuli\r\n51:25 Fire flickers around Central Alpha\r\n52:30 Hallucinogens like LSD suppress Alpha\r\n53:40 Technology is catching up - we're close to manipulating light like we manipulate sound\r\n55:30 Teemu's take on the NeuroVIZR\r\n56:50 Agency is secondary to capacity\r\n57:05 Sane vs. unsane vs. insane\r\n58:00 Why a typical NeuroVIZR session lasts 11 minutes\r\n59:20 There won't be legislation that outlaws flickering lights\r\n60:55 NeuroVIZR induces neuroplastic change\r\n61:10 The benefits of an accessible, portable, immediate on/off experience\r\n62:20 Technological progress will connect photobiomodulation with other disciplines\r\n63:00 A NeuroVIZR collection to fit the theme of the upcoming Biohacker Summit: Expanding Consciousness\r\n64:45 To Go Out Of Your Mind At Least Once Per Day Is Tremendously Important\r\n65:30 The people Garnet is looking to work with in the future\r\n66:20 The idea is not to use light to express what the music is saying: explicit vs. implicit\r\n68:20 Brain Entrainment\r\n69:50 How to communicate information for positive neuroplastic change: repetition vs. surprise\r\n73:25 Brain Engagement\r\n74:10 Attention followed by different degrees of destabilization\r\n78:05 The Secret Sauce\r\n80:00 Western medicine and science is unable to treat certain conditions (yet)\r\n81:30 Neurological top-down and bottom-up processes\r\n84:30 Freud, Pavlov and the human organism's capacity to resolve","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/994a4dc2-d8ee-473e-90f7-64ba267f7447/1HLH5ewEnrOlTcvoo06QtdFI.jpeg"}