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

  Kurt is joined again by Chris Guida, long-time Bitcoin enthusiast and co-host of The Multiversity Project. In this episode Kurt and Chris discuss the prevailing zeitgeist of capitalism and anti-capitalism, how personal development and responsibility fit into that picture, how the structure of organisations is likely to change in the future, about how companies like Google already give their employees 20% of their hours to work on whatever project they like, and how cryptocurrency enables similar experimentation with business models. Check out The Multiversity Project: https://multiversitypodcast.com Full interview with Chris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8WjeTEM3Qc Purchase a Trezor to keep your crypto safe: https://trezor.cryptonomics.space Please upvote on Steemit: https://www.steemit.com/@cryptonomics1  Watch on BitTube: https://bit.tube/theparadiseparadox Website: https://cryptonomics.space  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cryptonomics.space  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheParadiseParadox

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

 Welcome to The Paradise Paradox. I'd like to present this interview with my friend and co-host of The Multiversity Project, Chris Guida. Chris is an adventurer and investor. I'll always remember the first time I met him. One of the first things he said to me was "What's your opinion on the nature of objective reality?" I thought, okay, this guy goes straight to the deep questions. In this episode we talk about what it takes to form an open-minded person, how Myers Briggs personality types can help us explain open-mindedness. We also talk about organisational structures - hierarchical and horizontal, how each has its place. We talk about cryptocurrency as an anti-fragile system and how that's similar to the way we live our lives. Remember to check out multiversitypodcast.com and look for The Multiversity Project on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. In the next couple of weeks I'll be putting up interviews with the other hosts, Katy Kelly and Arielle Friedman where we talk about what helped them form their own philosophies and open their minds. Check out The Multiversity Project: www.multiversitypodcast.com

 For a long time, people in the Bitcoin community have hoped that it could reach mass adoption, that everyone would start using it and abandon fiat currency. That hasn't happened yet. Is it possible that a multinational corporation could take this technology and use their existing user base to introduce it in a way that's user friendly, and dominate the whole market? And if they do, what's the worst that could happen? Let's talk about Facebook's proposed coin, the Libra. Purchase a Trezor to keep your crypto safe: https://trezor.cryptonomics.space Please upvote on Steemit: https://www.steemit.com/@cryptonomics1  Watch on BitTube: https://bit.tube/theparadiseparadox Website: https://cryptonomics.space  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cryptonomics.space  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheParadiseParadox

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.

 The total crypto market cap has gone up from $140 B to nearly $170 B over the last month. A lot of people out there are skeptical. They say the price is going to crash, the market is still manipulated, it's a dead cat bounce. Other people say "look at all this doubt, people are wary, the market isn't coming back." It seems like a lot of people out there still don't understand market cycles. Disbelief is a part of the cycle, and it might be a very positive one. How can you turn their skepticism to your advantage? Purchase a Trezor to keep your crypto safe: https://trezor.cryptonomics.space Please upvote on Steemit: https://www.steemit.com/@cryptonomics1  Watch on BitTube: https://bit.tube/theparadiseparadox Website: https://cryptonomics.space  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cryptonomics.space  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheParadiseParadox

There's a lot to know when it comes to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, but a lot of people just want to know the basics - how can I buy it and what am I even meant to do with it? In this episode, Kurt explains how to buy Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, by purchasing from a regular exchange in your country, arranging a purchase on localbitcoins.com, buying from a decentralised exchange such as Bisq, or buying in person. He also explains the opportunities after you buy your coins - store them and hope the price goes up, trade them for other tokens to speculate or use, or use them for purchases such as Amazon gift cards - or illicit goods on the dark net. Important links: Nobody cares about cryptocurrency - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSxHuxz9KuQ https://www.localbitcoins.com https://bisq.network https://www.coinjar.com https://www.coinbase.com https://exodus.io https://binance.com https://icowatchlist.com https://egifter.com https://gyft.com https://abitsky.com https://coinmarketcap.com https://coincap.io https://cryptocompare.com https://www.torproject.org  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country_or_territory Purchase a Trezor to keep your crypto safe: https://trezor.cryptonomics.space Please upvote on Steemit: https://www.steemit.com/@cryptonomics1  Watch on BitTube: https://bit.tube/theparadiseparadox Website: https://cryptonomics.space  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cryptonomics.space  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheParadiseParadox