Altered Brain States with Garnet Dupuis

Biohacker's Podcast

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