I found his articles years ago about lucid dreaming, and also subsequently found lots of his 30-90 day experiments very interesting. What makes him stand out i

I found his articles years ago about lucid dreaming, and also subsequently found lots of his 30-90 day experiments very interesting. What makes him stand out in my mind is that he actually does the challenges as opposed to so many other people writing blogspam articles or whole books without the work. It got me into self-experimentation - not with any dogmas in particular, but seeing people actually doing rather crazy long experiments gave me some courage. Also he introduced me to a lot of interesting concepts. I haven't really seen other people actually do this. The biphasic sleep experiment, and the water fast experiment were especially tough, and no one without serious discipline could do that in my mind. This was years before "fasting" became a thing. He was also an early adopter of both the diet and sleep experimentation (that didn't really take of), lucid dreaming and all kinds of other fads i have seen become mainstream later on. So i don't think he has "no authority" or whatever, even though he maybe a freak, but i generally like freaks who are on the fringes if they do the work and can write about it. So i thank him for for introducing me to these concepts that i have been practicing for years now, ie. fasting, having an interest in dreams and general worldview, and experimenting seriously with diet (though i eat completely differently than him). So all in all he is very much a self-hacker - he tries stuff even though it's weird, very tough and obscure - that's a lot of points in my book. (never bought anything from him though or read any of his books). Small off-topic rant about "science": Also yeah when people really take a deep dive into meditation / lucid dreaming stuff just "gets weird" - so he is not that different from a lot of highly educated meditation teachers i have run across, you just gotta say "whatever" if it's not your cup of tea. Another example is Daniel Ingram who i respect but is also doing weird psychedelic stuff or have "crazy" worldviews (many more than most people think in my experience especially in the math/physics sphere). After diving into this stuff myself i would say to my old self: reality is way, way weirder than i thought when i was young - especially when you begin to really go deep (no drugs here). I personally went from a "science is some isolated emergent property of history", to science is an extremely vague subset or evolution of certain historical developments that are all still completely traceable to weird esoteric, fuzzy, diffuse lineages or worldviews that are much more philosophical/religious in nature. A good starting point is "The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast" - for a very academic and rigorous introduction to why the current science-history historiographical paradigm is very wrong. Then afterwards go to a few retreats, meditate 1+ hours a day, practice Koans on science, math and philosophy and slowly see your reductionistic perspective vanish, while you actually get better at doing science and "normal everyday work".