Leo Gura

As your mind develops and your consciousness expands you will have to take on the burden of realigning every aspect of your life with a higher vision and purpose. This includes your career/biz, your relationships, sex, how you interact with people, your diet, etc. That's what makes this work so challenging and rarely done. Upgrading all that stuff is hard. No one is gonna hold your hand through it. You must learn to lead yourself.

No, most people aren't trolls and they got bigger fish to fry than using a fascist clown for entertainment. If you're an immature teen who plays games all day on Twitch, maybe you find Trump entertaining. Because you are selfish and ignorant of the stakes.

Their entire identity and bank accounts come from acting oppressed.

Hahahaha... You've much to learn about how the world works.

As soon as we meet an alien we should hog tie him and beat out of him all his secrets. Then we mount his head as a trophy in the Oval Office.

Mein Kampf is a terrible source because you're reading his own ego-mind's rationalizations. It's silly to expect Hitler to give you a honest and accurate analysis of his own motives and biases. He absolutely did. Where did all his ideas come from? He certainly didn't invent them. They were in vogue his era. No human mind naturally comes out as Hitler's did. That kind of worldview only comes from deep indoctrination and cultural programming. Frustrated with his personal life, Hitler found succor in radical right-wing ideologies which were popular at the time. He turned his life's purpose into fighting his own shadow. He chose the lesser vs the Greater Jihad. And of course he would not admit this to you if you asked him because he was unconscious of these ego dynamics. The goal of world domination was just part of his indoctrination in ultra right-wing nationalism which believed that Germans are the best ethnicity and their proper place is to rule over all the others. His project to exterminate the Jews was even more important to him than world domination. Hitler diverted a lot of energy way from fighting WWII towards exterminating Jews. If Hitler hasn't been so obsessed with exterminating Jews, he might have actually won the war. My analysis is anything but surfacy.

@Philipp Yes, I've studied a bit of structuralism and post-structuralism. I even have a great video about it: https://www.actualized.org/articles/derrida-deconstruction-postmodernism-nonduality But I never bothered to seriously understand Lacan. It's just way too arcane and impractical in my opinion. There are better things to spend your time studying. And I do not buy into the Oedipal Complex. In the history of Western intellectual tradition, I think it's one of the dumbest and most overrated ideas. It won't help you improve your life.

Very good. You got a good dose of God-consciousness. Now spend a few months chewing it over in your mind.

Good analysis this.

Shunyamurti is huge into Lacan. Personally I find it far too convoluted and not useful.

@UDT Creativity can be fine life purpose but it's too vague. You need to need to clarify what aspects of creativity you want to manifest, how, and why. There are at least a million unique ways to manifest creativity.

It is empty sugar calories without much nutrients. Most high-calorie staple foods are like that. By design.

If that ever happened you'd be the last one to know about it.

Just let it go. No more pasta ever. Cheats meals are harder than just eating clean all the time.

@PeaceOut96 Take it easy bro. Your journey has just begun. No one trip is gonna get you there. This a long process which takes years of inner work.

He's good.

Frozen is good l think. Hard to know about the pesticides. Definitely go for organic berries in all cases.

So..... After years of running this forum and watching things unfold, I have come to a firm decision that what this place has been lacking from the very beginning is a high bar for quality. People who join here get the impression that since this is a "public" forum, they should be free to spout whatever nonsense their ego wants. They get the impression that this forum is just like any other dumping ground on the internet. Well, not any more. My initial attitude towards this forum was to moderate as little as possible and to be as lenient as possible, treating everyone with kid gloves and giving them many second-chances to correct themselves. Unfortunately, people who post crap are usually people who are incapable of correcting themselves. It's become clear to me now that such a permissive attitude drags down the quality of the entire forum and makes this place unappealing for my most serious students. It is also a giant waste of time to deal with. So, from now on, this forum will not only be moderated for all the basic, common-sense guidelines which are necessary to keep an online community from turning into a toxic troll-hive, we are going one step further to moderate for quality. Posters who are unable to demonstrate a certain moderate level of ego maturity and show a certain moderate level of post quality will now be banned. The bottom line is this: to be a member of this forum is to be part of a special class of human who is able to conduct him/herself with a certain maturity, wisdom, openness of mind, humility, intellectual honesty, kindness, compassion, thoughtfulness, and well-spokenness. The kind work we do here requires a relatively high level of maturity which, unfortunately, many in the general online population are just not capable of -- and as of today we will no longer be accommodating to such people. There are plenty of places on the internet where such people can congregate. Actualized.org should not be one of them. I've updated our Forum Guidelines to reflect this. Please read and adhere to them. It's really not too much to ask. Our Mods will now be keeping an eye out for low quality posts and immature posters, issuing more warnings and bans than before. But if you are a mature and thoughtful member here, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. I know 90% of folks here are good folks and post quality stuff. It's the bottom 10% that we want to cull. So just don't be that guy. Thank you for your support. Let's raise the bar and make this the best community for serious self-actualization work. P.S. Of course I will be accused of "censorship" by some for this decision. So be it. Quality stuff doesn't happen without filters. For every troll or ignoramus that we allow here, we lose at least one serious member who doesn't have time to deal that shit. By being too lax, it's the best members who end up punished.

Look man, don't get anal about it. It's not like eating a few bananas will kill you.

There are many degrees of ego. Of course ego can learn. Learning itself can be a big part of ego.

Low sugar fruits are definitely a must for good nutrition. Berries and such. All that colorful plant pigment is like natural medicine. Just try to avoid overly sugary and carby fruits like bananas and watermelons.

@Fran11 Time is just something you're imagining. If no human ever told you about time, you could live your whole life not knowing it exists. An ant knows nothing about time. Yet it lives just fine. Babies live just fine without time. You even live without time most of the time Time is a human invention. But change is more fundamental.

And any fool can get a therapist credential and hand out anti-depressants like candy. As if a traditional therapist knows what he's doing.

No You are lost in duality.

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