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  2. Environment I'd say is the foundation of overall health, and you can't be mentally healthy if your body is toxic. We cannot deny the physical. As within so without.
  3. I've never heard of that. Is there any evidence to back up that claim?
  4. Temporary experience, sure they come with understandings and insights, and love, but you come back from any state you experience. Kriya Yoga changes your body physiologicaly and energetically and you master the necessary skills, so that God consciousness could be your moment to moment default state if you wish. How does these even compare? Imagine dating God over and over (in psychedelics) versus making her your girlfriend and living with her!
  5. Why is it followed by 2 billion people? Conformity, fear of castigation and/or torture. All religion is. It's more social and cultural then it is of a true belief system. When a human being is brought into the world, they have a full clean slate which is then immediately manipulated with others belief systems, religious dogma, right and wrong, etc. the list goes on The entire point of this is that you don't actually own your thoughts, they were just given to you and shaped from outside sources. Which then shaped your entire identity. Which then becomes fragile if shined light upon all the self deception because you lose your grounding-ness. How can islam be actual truth for a person who's never heard of it? you wouldn't even know about it and your mind would never go there. And this is the case with anything. If everything is a figment in the infinite god mind, then islam in its entirety is the equivalent to a mailbox. It's a human function to do the separating in order to justify survival and ground a mind in this reality of earth. Humans look for things to cling to in order to feel safer and to give/invent meaning. People willing to fight and die for islam, is literally what happens when a clean slate mind is filled with the contents of that religion, and then spread to a system of entire cultures where it becomes learned behavior that you must die for it. That you won't be accepted by your society if you don't adhere to the belief. That itself is complete lunacy, pure self deception, and a game of the mind. I could write a book about lizards and if i threaten people with death or fear to believe it, you better believe they will accept it as their truth. Do this over centuries and now you have a self sustaining organism of that thought form regurgitating itself over time into the fabric of the culture. So as for all the people that practice islam, or (insert any religion), they are just as removed from truth as a self proclaimed atheist (a religion of non belief) . Because its all conformity. Go watch Leo's recent video. Where you grow up in the world is a good indicator of the personal viewpoints you will cater to in your life. People in north korea literally think Kim jung is their god. Self deception goes so deep and most humans who unknowingly feed into this deception, live a completely world then someone else who doesn't. There is no truth to islam whatsoever. And if there is a truth to it, its the same truth that every religion has. The fact it is just more content in the mind of god. Don't fall for the self deception. Don't try to look for something to cling to out of fear. It's not easy to undo programming but its necessary if you want to ascend to a higher stage of consciousness. So as for all the 2 billion or more people that blindly follow islam, yes they are of lower development of mind as is much of the world. Someone who points to the Quaran as their truth, doesn't understand that the finger they use to point at the book, is just god pointing at itself.
  6. Americans have become increasingly dissatisfied with the political system. Trust in government, trust in democracy, trust in media, trust in institutions—all of it is near historic lows. Yet at the same time, the major structural barriers that prevent reform seem completely locked in. Here’s the contradiction I’m noticing, and I’m curious how others here think about it: 1. The public clearly wants systemic reform. Polls show: Huge majorities want limits on money in politics. Majorities think politicians don’t represent ordinary people. Confidence in democracy is falling year after year. People across the spectrum think the system is corrupt or captured. There’s a widespread feeling that “something is fundamentally broken.” 2. But the major choke points for reform aren’t moving. Citizens United and Buckley v. Valeo have effectively constitutionalized unlimited outside spending. The Supreme Court is nowhere near overturning them. Congress doesn’t have the votes for federal campaign-finance reform. Most state legislatures don’t either, especially in red or purple states. The donor class and large economic interests continue to dominate the political process. So the legal and political architecture that created the current system is essentially frozen. 3. This produces a weird pressure cooker dynamic. People feel the system is illegitimate, but the system has no viable institutional path to correct itself. In other words: Public dissatisfaction grows, but the reform channels remain blocked. Historically, when a political system has rising dissatisfaction and blocked reform pathways, the pressure tends to escape in other ways: Right-wing populism Demagogues Cynicism and apathy Lower democratic engagement Institutional distrust Localized flare-ups Attempts to “smash” the system rather than reform it Political nihilism (“both sides are corrupt so why vote?”) We’re already seeing many of these patterns in the U.S. 4. Politicians behave rationally within a broken structure. Even Democrats who privately dislike the influence of big donors still rely heavily on PACs, wealthy individuals, bundlers, and corporate money. And realistically, why wouldn’t they? In our current environment: If a candidate unilaterally swears off big money, they’re at a competitive disadvantage. Their opponent’s Super PACs will still spend millions. Congress/Supreme Court won’t fix the rules. Unilaterally “disarming” doesn’t change the system—it usually just gets you beaten. The few exceptions (AOC, Bernie, Mamdani, etc.) are structural outliers with unusually favorable conditions. So the behavior of most politicians reinforces stagnation, not because they’re evil, but because the incentive structure rewards conformity. 5. So here’s my core question: What happens to a society when the mass public grows more frustrated, more cynical, and more distrustful—while the structural mechanisms for reform stay shut? Does the system: Drift into a soft oligarchy? Become more populist and chaotic? Enter cycles of strongman politics? Fragment into local experiments of reform while the federal system decays? Or eventually face a legitimacy crisis big enough to force some kind of overhaul? I’m not asking from a partisan angle—I’m asking from a systems / consciousness / long-term societal development perspective. Where does a democracy go when the public is angry but reform is structurally impossible? What’s the “next stage” in a scenario like this? Would love to hear people’s thoughts, especially from a developmental psychology or systems-theory lens.

  7. Deconstructing Rationality Coming Soon

    ExploringReality replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Leo Gura Robert Greene really highlights how humans are irrational creatures, especially the so called rational ones. We are irrational in our rationality. We like to think of ourselves as rational and logical, we are not.
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  9. Have you even considered they may not need to? or your advice? or you trying to change them? Growth is in your example, its one thing to know you are God, its another to actually walk it.
  10. When the mind thinks its grasped it then goes to try make a post about it not realizing...
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  12. People fear the unfamiliar. The answer is fear!

  13. Trying Out a 4-Substituted Tryptamine & More

    Clarence replied to Nemra's topic in Psychedelics

    Have you done it again since sharing your trip report in your Worst Bad Trips video?
  14. Every path taken is perfection, but knowing it's also where you stand is the freedom!
  15. Good genetics.
  16. There is irrationality, but the problem is that rational people are irrational because it requires consciousness to see the contradictions in one's worldview. Ironically, rationalists do not have enough consciousness to see that they are being irrational.
  17. Staples started following Why is it impossible to convince a religious person out of their faith ?
  18. Because in order to be convinced, one has to be open to changing their mind. The issue is they don't want to be convinced. There is nothing you could say to make them change their mind. They have to decide to do it themselves, which may never happen.
  19. Carl-Richard started following Feeling Depressed After Empowering Insight
  20. You have discovered the gas pedal, the executive functioning. Now you should re-integrate the brakes, the limbic system (or the gas and the brakes can be flipped depending on how you interpret the metaphor). Why does watching the YouTube video feel compelling? Maybe it's something you want to do or feel like doing? What is that feeling that you just want to do it for the sake of doing it? Maybe that is not just a valuable resource but fundamentally the basis and point of your life? The trick is to not just do what you don't feel like doing but getting to the point where doing the right thing is what you feel like doing. Then the inspiration and wonder of the YouTube video is what drives your action. That requires getting a sense for what your values are like @Miguel1 mentioned.
  21. Exactly right, Islam can stop being true if you imagine it's not. Therefore it's not ultimately true.
  22. Its not the religion its the individual. There's no such thing as a religious person. There is a only a person that is religous.
  23. It really is a fascinating topic. Perhaps it's also like this: Imagine having children and then when they are a bit older they try to talk you into Scientology, Mormonism, or something similarly ubsurd to you.
  24. Carl-Richard started following What is superior to any single diet, supplement or workout
  25. Being mentally healthy, as in free of mental conflict, with yourself. Because if you are in conflict with yourself, all the resources of your body are turned against themselves. Then it matters less that you better any single resource, because the resource goes into supressing another resource. What you want is all your resources to align under a shared goal. That's what an organism fundamentally is. When a part of the organism deviates from that goal, you have cancer, you have civil war, you have neurosis, inner conflict. It eats itself up. To be healthy, to be whole, the whole organism must be playing on team with itself. Self-determination in behavior, on all levels.
  26. I know some people aren't the biggest fans of Owen-but this video is legit. Anytime I get carried away with spiritual work to the point where it turns into inaction and bypassing, I turn to this video. It's a great reference for building a solid material foundation, getting shit done. Which then makes it easier to do deep spirituality Fight the inner DERP !

  27. Distinction Journal

    Emull replied to Emull's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Sunday: November 16th, 2025. Personal grief and actual depression are not the same thing.
  28. I asked God where I was and he replied: Nowhere
  29. Good to know, thanks. I made the mistake of neglecting remineralizing before and it's no fun. Not for long, but enough to notice. Then when I did remineralize it didn't feel quite right either, so I gave up on RO. I hope you find something that works for you.

  30. Should i stop being vegan ?

    Carl-Richard replied to Majed's topic in Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Supplements

    I ask because vegans are 3-4x more likely to be single.
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