🧵1) I am going to start a series of posts on an ancient thought system I use called #huna. It has helped me go from depressed, lost, poor and lonely, to really quite happy, well-to-do and successful- and weirdly lucky.

On top of helping me feeling great and enjoy success, #huna is a clear, concise philosophy that allowed me to structure my thinking based on very few core assumptions. It is really very rational.

But it is, at its core, an esoteric philosophy. This is a strength: in addition to a strong appreciation of science and technology, it also boldly accounts for religion, extrasensory perception, death, astrology, charisma- and magic.

But that might also be a weakness of sorts. Magic? In 2024? By a system claiming to be rational? Preposterous! That's what I thought too. Until I tried it.

But there is a very clear worldview and a philosophy that you can reason about. There is nothing you need to take on faith. You just can't dismiss it for dishonest reasons, if you want to learn more about it.

Based on this idea, the system proposes to assume a worldview similar to the simulation hypothesis, because that worldview was considered most effective by the makers of the system.

Our scientific state of the art does not dismiss the simulation hypothesis, but questions its value. So what if everything is simulated? If we have tp do things as if they were physical anyway, what difference does it make?

Here is where #huna adds something distinct to the simulation hypothesis: a way to use the simulation nature of reality to your advantage. A shortcut, a cheat code. A hack.

The means to make life changes comes in the form of another assumption we are advised to take by the system: that our simulated life events are set up so that they correspond to the things you believe to be true.

This means the events that are ordinarily called consequences or coincidence actually come about as a process of duplicating the thoughts we hold in our minds.

Therefore, if you change what you believe, different sorts of stuff happen to you.

There is a lot of intricacy to doing this effectively in areas that are very important to you, but you can test it for yourself by using something obscure yet unimportant.

The classic move is to think if a purple feather lots of times per day.

Then observe if one turns up somewhere.

If you do find a purple feather turning up, you have a bit of evidence in favor of the mind-blueprint-simulation-hypothesis. This is a smart-sounding way to say that not only is magic real, but that it is a perfectly normal and natural phenomenon for everyone.

This idea has extreme explanatory power. It explains charisma. It explains luck. It explains why faith-healing works sometimes but not always. It explains superstition. It explains religion. It even explains why materialists don't experience supernatural phenomena.

There is only one tweak you need to give to the scientific method in order to research this properly. You need to accept your thinking as data, because otherwise you cannot compare it with the physical result.

Empiricism is a study of experience, and it has mostly been used to study sensory experience- that which can be seen and heard and touched. But it doesn't specifically preclude including thought, either.

I'm not holding my breath for academics to do this kind of research. They can't even research overly interesting topics within their own field, because the funding process is conservative, demanding more of the same.

But luckily for you, if this sounds interesting, and perhaps more different than unreasonable- you can work with the assumptions recommended by the #huna system and see for yourself if you get better results than before. I certainly did. Massively better.

And I didn't have to give up my rationalism! Just consider a different worldview.

I hope I was able to show that it's not crazy to consider esoteric thought systems, that they don't have to be creepy and mysterious, but can be simple to understand and straight forward.

I also hope I was able to give a glimpse of how powerful the #huna thought system is. I introduced two of its core ideas- the simulation hypothesis, and the life-as-mind-duplication idea, and showed how it's actually plausible you can turn your life around by changing thought.

I also showed how this explains so many phenomena in people's behavior that materialist scientists just can't grasp- why do people experience things in so many different ways, and all are all convinced theirs must be right? This idea explains it perfectly.