Leo Gura

Nah.... I don't buy it. There is a Green awakening happening, and a huge backlash to that. But there is no Turquoise level awakening happening. Less than 0.1% of the world is at the Unitive stage of ego development and I don't see that number shifting significantly in our lifetimes. There will be a big Green awakening over our lifetimes though as stage Blue and Orange become increasingly morally bankrupt and outdated. The number of people actually grasping nonduality is pitifully low, and that will not change without better government infrastructure, massive education reform, serious redistribution of wealth, and some kind of serious checks on capitalism. The reality is that most of the planet is stuck in stage Blue, fighting tooth and nail to get to Orange. And it will be that way for decades to come.

I bet it will probably get a 9/10 or 10/10 rating and sell something like 30+ million copies. Unless it turns out to be turd. I think they've been developing it so long because they know if they can hit a 9/10 rating they will earn a billion dollars off this title. So it's really in their benefit to make it good. If it matches the quality of Witch 3, they will earn a billion dollars.

@Bryanbrax After the success of Cyberpunk, they will soon be corrupted. Their top talent will burn out and leave and CD Projekt Red will turn into EA, Blizzard, Bethesda, Bioware. That's what always happens. The more success they get, the more money they earn, the bigger their hits, the more corrupt and heartless they become. Once you reach that level of success and size, it all becomes a corporate machine and it will never be about the art. AAA game development is basically unsustainable from a creative/artistic POV. It's fucking meatgrinder.

Actually, Vegas is a super affordable place to live. If you are a local here, every club has free entry for locals on Sundays-Thursdays. Parking used to be free, now it's like $10. Drinks are $18 here, but I have never bought a girl a drink in my life and have no intention of starting. Dates can be super cheap. A date for me is a $5 coffee or ice cream. If you want to hit up the hottest clubs in the world on Fri/Sat, that will cost you $40/night. But the clubs in Vegas are off the hook amazing. You've never seen so many hot girls in your life. $40/night is worth it if you're serious about developing your skills and you have a decent salary. If you are clever, you can do pickup very cheap or even free. Depends a lot on location. Drinks in Austin, TX are like $3 and none of the bars have cover. Over my entire time in pickup I spent little money. Most of my money was spent simply on traveling to the best cities. And once I paid $2000 for a bootcamp. You don't need total financial freedom to do pickup. Most of the guys who I met in pickup were not financially free. They had normal 9-5 jobs and gamed at night or on the weekends. The biggest challenge is not money, it's time and energy. Pickup eats up a ton of time and energy. But still guys are able to do it while holding down regular jobs. I have met accountants, pilots, engineers, doctors, dentists, salesmen, etc. who did serious pickup. Personally, I took a lot of time off work/biz to invest into pickup, and it was worth it. Of course I could only do that because I already was financially independent. But don't let this be a limiting belief. You don't have to be. But also, why not do both?!

Well, of course Trump is an elite, but his supporters are too dumb to see that. Of course there is no elite conspiracy. Elites are just wealthy and powerful people acting out their self-agenda, as all people are. And they often have different agendas. Elites fight with elites all the time.

You clearly didn't watch all my Spiral videos.

That's precisely false. You can't refuse the draft out of narcissism. There is no such right as the right to ignore a war your country is engaged in.

Removing the electoral college would require a Constitutional amendment. It basically won't ever happen because no conservatives will support it as it will take away their one hope at winning elections in the future. "War criminal" is a dumb label. It is meaningless when applied to presidents and heads of state. Leaders of giant countries and militaries are forced to make combat decisions that involve the loss of thousands of lives. It is part of their job description. Trump is worse than Biden and Obama. Trump does more drone strikes than Obama. See, this is why such a label is dumb. You use it to create a gross false equivalency. It's like saying, "What's the difference between going bowling with my next door neighbor, Jim, who kills chickens to feed his family, and going bowling with Charles Manson? They're both killers. So I'll just go with Manson since he's already in the car and ready to drive." You lack imagination to see just how dangerous Trump's decisions can be if he was presented with a serious military emergency. It's very much possible that Trump's idiocy and narcissism could kill 1 million or 10 million lives.

As the propaganda and culture war against stage Green heats up, people get polarized and are forced to take sides. Thus people like Hulse take the side of Blue/Orange vs Green in the culture wars, which can seem like regression (or it may be actual regression as their minds are slowly rotted away by right-wing propaganda). As the center of gravity of American culture shifts to solid Green, many people will dig in their heels and refuse to budge. Even going so far as the pull hard in the opposite direction to the "good old days" they remember.

By definition if you are regressing down one stage, it's unconscious. Regression IS a lapse in consciousness. People are not choosing these things. These "choices" are simply baked into their habitual low-consciousness behaviors.

You have to be careful when framing global worldviews as some sort of evil. The above things you quoted are a basic trend of moving from stage Blue or Orange to Green. You develop a more global perspective. But that isn't even Trump's problem. Trump's problem is far below that of being some neoliberal elite. It's too heartless, narcissistic, and ignorant to be an effective neoliberal globalist type.

Trump wasn't some hippie contentious objector. He was just too selfish to service his country. Shunyamurti was draft dodger. But there is a big difference between saying, "I will not fight an unjust war and protest against it's injustice" vs "I don't want to fight this war because I would rather have sex at nightclubs and make money back home". I can't believe I have to spell this out to you.

Existence itself is formlessness. It is definitely possible to have pure empty existence minus any forms. Nothing (as we use it on this forum) is not a concept, it is a direct consciousness of one's true nature. Whatever awakening you've had, is good. But you also have much deeper to go, so don't stop inquiring.

There is no one there behind all experiences. The only problem is that you think there is someone there. So enlightenment simply entails getting ride of this feels of someone having ever been. No. All experiences are enlightenment once you simply realize there was no one ever behind them. Experience isn't the problem, the only problem is that self-image which keeps feeding itself, telling itself that there is someone to whom the experiences are happening to. Experience does not happen to anyone. You can become conscious of Absolute Truth. This is quite an achievement. But Absolute Truth is not anywhere elsewhere but here and now. Just remove the ego sense and all will be revealed as Absolute Truth. Enlightenment is not merely another experience, it's a meta thing in which you realize the true nature of all experiences.

It would be cool if they set up this nothing conference, sold all these tickets, and then on the day of, there was just nothing. No speakers, no videos, no news updates. Just a total blank.

You can talk to them and get a feel for their worldviews. I've hung out with and listened to a lot of guys in the pickup community. They tend to treat rape as a joke. Some of them are actual rapists. When speaking with such guys, they clearly don't think of rape as anything wrong or harmful. A lot of immature guys tend to think of rape like this: "Well, if I got raped by a hot girl, that would be cool and I would be happy, therefore, rape isn't a big deal. Those feminist/SJW types are just making a big deal out of nothing. Besides, girls are sluts and whores anyway, so what difference does it make?" It's a very self-centered view of sex. Women are simply seen as convenient objects to satisfy one's own sexual needs, and then discarded. The belief is, they are all sluts anyway, so they lose nothing and they aren't really hurt.

Why would they be? The purpose of most AAA game companies is maximizing profits, not creating art.

His draft dodging tells you everything you need to know about the kind of guy Trump is. The suckers are this supporters who believe he gives one shit about them or America.

@Arzack Sorry, but that says nothing. There are hundreds of possible different better states which may or may not be related to enlightenment. If you want to actually have a meaningful discussion, you should explain what it is you exactly became conscious of.

Perhaps a common mark of toxic masculinity ideology is that it interprets the term "toxic masculinity" as meaning: all masculinity is toxic. But to say that some forms of masculinity are toxic does not mean there isn't healthy masculinity.

Describe what you became conscious of and what "enlightenment" means to you. Lots of people here claim many things, but often they are fooling themselves.

If you ever awaken deep enough, you will realize that the opposite pole of your own is just something you imagined in order to identify as your pole. If you identify as masculine, you will realize feminine is something you imagined as "not you". If you identify as feminine, you will realize that masculine is something you imagined as "not you". The Ultimate Truth is you are both, and beyond. Masculine and feminine identification is like a schizoid rift in the Mind of God. God is suffering from multiple personality disorder.

I don't think I've ever seen a Goth over 25 years old. It's like some fad that teens go through as they try to sort out their identity issues.

Not it isn't. If you take a moment to contemplate this, you'll realize that "harm" is a purely relative notion. "Harm" is always defined relative to some ego's needs and desires, which are themselves relative and selfish. Harm is a relative, subjective, biased, egoic notion. YOU think rape is harmful. A rapist certainly doesn't think that. And your view has no higher epistemic position than that of a rapist in the absolute sense. Lots of men genuinely believe that rape is not harmful. And that is true from the POV.

It's simple, really: pursuing women can be turned into a larger healthy self-actualization journey or it can devolve into ideology, toxic masculinity, ego-aggrandizement, and mindless pleasure seeking. Similar to business. Similar to psychedelics. These things can go really well or really sour depending on what intentions you're doing them with. For me, pickup led to the creation of Actualized.org. For other guys it can lead to rapey type of behavior. Pickup very much magnifies your true intentions and character. If you're a scummy guy deep down, then pickup will magnify that. Much like how if you give a evil person a $10 million dollars, he will use it to do evil things. But if you give a good guy $10 million dollars, he will use it to advance mankind in some way.