Leo Gura

I don't go by "studies".

So you imagine.

Yes it is. It's always an option. Dude, college is like being inside a nightclub all year round with none of the distractions. It does not get easier than college. Talk to every girl, go to every frat party and social event. What more do you need? If your college is tiny, transfer to a bigger college.

"If you find truth you will become invincible." — Epictetus

No worries

So you dream. NASA only exists in your mind. You just did it. Fooled yourself.

I am a fan of ACIM. I recommend the workbook. However, every teaching must be cherrypicked. Not all parts are good. This particular part about guilt is inaccurate. Other parts of ACIM are spot-on. Yes, Christians in general have a lot of hang-ups around guilt, because they are brainwashed to be so damn anally repressed and moralized to. But that does not mean the whole of reality revolves around your guilt. It's just brainwashing. Lol Only in your dreams

You tell me. Stop discounting your unique gifts and strengths. Why do you value yourself so cheaply just because some chimps smile more than you in some narrow context? Never forget, you are amazing. Anything less than amazing is a lie. It is not like how you think. You think you are being truthful when you sell yourself cheap, but actually you are being a liar. Which is one reason why it's good to pursue Truth. The Truth is guaranteed to be nothing less than amazing. You are a diamond in the rough but all you see is the roughness and think you are an ordinary rock. But I see the diamond in you, because I am you.

Guys, cool it. You're obviously not understanding each other due to attachment to your own perspective. Arguing from that point is just digging your own hole deeper.

Survival "Being stuck in a certain state" is what you call "life" and "sanity". The problem is you don't want to be stuck, on the other hand you want to keep being a human self. Well, this is an absurd contradiction. You can't have it both ways. Human and God identities are mutually exclusive. Pick one.

Why aren't you reframing this as a blessing in disguise? Kundalini activation is something many people spend years trying to achieve. And here you got it for free. I have a book on my book list which talks about how to active kundalini safely and how to deal with obstructions and problems.

My smarts are directly correlated with my not caring about trivial person level stuff. On the contrary. While you do a circle jerk of fearmongering over petty survival stuff, you will drive the whole world crazy while wisdom and vision is lost on you. Yes, of course, but that is self-inflicted. There will not be action on climate change precisely because people are so preoccuped with petty personal survival issues that they don't give a fuck about the climate. Until it melts their face off. Then they start to care and action gets taken. So the suffering is absolutely necessary here. Trying to reduce the suffering is not a solution because most people only move their ass when they suffer. That's not who my teachings or communications are for. And telling people that climate change will collapse civilization is not helping anyone. In fact, it leads to depression and apathy. Mine is a message of hope. My message is the most pro-humanity. You doomers and gloomers in this thread have an anti-humanity message and are getting lost in fear and hopelessness due to mypoia. That was my only point in this thread.

Yeah The more wrong you are the worse it gets. Ego hates to realize it's been horribly wrong. Which is what we see driving the entire Republican party right now.

From what I've studied (which isn't too much) it seems like a real disorder commonly caused by toxins, chemicals, bad diet, and other such factors.

Certainly there's a lot of denial going on. But calling it guilt is horribly misleading, if that is what is meant. And still, state runs the show.

Then the atrocity of Covid and vaccine denial should give you pause. The very thing you fear is the very thing your fear creates.

We could power the whole world if only we figured out how to tap the negative mental energy of Incels.

That's exactly right. The small picture doesn't concern me much. If you wanna sweat the small stuff, be my guest. But don't expect me to join you.

Why do you assume humans are evolved enough to care about such things? If enough people cared to know the solutions, they would be taught. But no one cares. So here we are.

@Daniel347 Firstly, your child would either die or become severely mentally ill from that isolation box you put him in, thus making your experiment moot. Such experiments have been run. But assuming you could magically get around that... The child could still see devils. Nothing precludes that. But he will be very likely to see cats instead of devils, since those are the symbols more natural to him. You will tend to see and think in whatever symbols are most natural to you. But Truth and consciousness are independent of symbols. He will still experience God & Infinity. He's likely to see cats during a bad trip. Psychedelics will reveal that there is no difference between inside and outside. Certainly new information can and will be brought in, but also much existing information will be re-doubled and rehashed. There will be both new and old data. God is not something you can expect to happen in your trip. Actual God will take you totally by surprise, regardless of whether you believe in God or not. God is not any symbol. Cats or devils are irrelevant as far as that goes. Rather than doing silly thought experiments, how about you do an actual experiment on yourself and realize you are God? This would solve your questions very directly.

Relationship dynamics are very important. Be mindful of your selfish biases. It is skewing your view of things.

Solar, geothermal, wind, ocean, outer space, fusion, nuclear There is infinite energy from solar alone on this planet. Energy is not a problem. I'm talking 50, 100, 200 years into the future.

If it takes you that long to figure this out, your epistemology needs a lot of work. Owen Cook is not someone you should listen to blindly. There are plenty of things he will mislead you on if you just let him fill your head with ideas. When I share resources with you I expect you to have keen discernment and independence of thought. My shares are not an invitation to mindless info consumption. Mainstream media actually lies very little. They have higher journalistic standards than any indie media. They have certain blindspots and perspective, but this is not lying. Survival does not afford us such luxuries as sitting around for years and stewing in toxic mindless cynicism. While you sit and doubt, millions of people die from inaction and the spreading of false ideas.

Good thing he's God

Overall, sounds to me like you're in a great spot in life. You're only 21 years old and you're already worried about being too old. This is silly and counter-productive. You haven't even begun to live yet. Yes, invest time building your foundation and skill set. Yes, it will be a tricky balancing act that only you can figure out through personal experimentation. So being experimenting. You're perfectly positioned for big success. But big success requires laying a foundations for 3-10 years. So set the proper expectations in your mind for what you are doing. It is okay that you don't know yet exactly how you will combine all these various skills and interests. You will figure that out over the next 5-10 years as you get your hands dirty with the work. So don't worry too much about that. Just start taking action and making your best guesses. It will all get massively refined over the next 5-10 years until eventually you'll know exactly what your niche is. You may feel you are behind the curve and late to the party, but actually you're way ahead of most people. Be ware of psyching yourself. Be ware of self-sabotaging negative thoughts. Focus all your mental energy on being constructive and productive. It is smart to design your life so that you have enough financial breathing room to build the skills you wanna build and do the work you wanna do. If it takes you a few years to set that up, that's totally worth the investment. Then again, you can also design a situation where you work a low-effort job which allows you plenty of free time on the side to work on your projects. Both strategies can be viable, it just depends on your situation.