Jeffry Martin, Jeffrey Epstein, and high decoupling

some messy thoughts, would love y'all's takes

I. Jeffrey Martin tried to sell “enlightenment” to Jeffrey Epstein for $10 million USD.

More importantly: In the DOJ emails, he asks for “..a few (legal age) slave girls of my own choosing, in the event that at least some of your press coverage is accurate... ; )

But how can we trust Epstein? There's not enough evidence in there in this case... to quote Marco Beneteau “most people who know [Martin] think that the "slave-girl" quote was fabricated / injected by Epstein as it's out of character for Martin. This is possible and even likely given that Epstein was positioning himself as a professional blackmailer. There is also no reason for Martin, a serious businessman, to compromise himself in this way with a known criminal.”

Martin’s emails are shady AF, but to me (and most) Martin always seemed shady. That doesn’t discredit the genuine contributions he’s made; it does point to us being incredibly discerning about what he says and where it comes from.

It also points to whatever Martin is teaching being pretty weird; the concept of enlightenment is weird and sketch, so it asks us to be more discerning still.

II. High decoupling is an idea that you can separate the pieces from the whole.

Eg: MLK can be a womanizer yet still a civil rights role model. It’s super necessary for science to figure out causality by separating variables, and it’s helpful for the pursuit of truth since the key evolution into 3rd person objective, rational thinking is that stuff exists outside of its context. Newton had to actually prove this about physics—before him people genuinely didn’t know if gravity operated differently in America v Europe v the moon.

A person could be enlightened and charge $10 Million for it. A person could have useful tips and not be "enlightened" whatever that means. A bunch of other decouples...

III. Wholeness must include fragmentation to be whole

I talk a lot about seeing wholes, interconnectivity, and relationships, which one might think of as low-decoupling, or re-coupling, or something. But just like surrender includes your desire, the world being neutral means you get to fully engage in it, true wholeness includes parts and division. Your limited self-concept can’t threaten how much people love you, and decoupling can’t threaten the universe’s inherent interconnectivity. High decoupling and low decoupling are like directions on a circle -if you take either far enough the meet on the other side. eg:

• decoupling for love: consider a toddler behaving like a little dictator. Decoupling rather than seeing them as one thing might increase the love
• decoupling for truth: eg pulling what's good and useful from Martin's "research" and throwing out the rest