Leo Gura

What you must realize is: THAT is ego! Self-denial, being a doormat for others, people-pleasing, putting on a fake front of selflessness, trying to be a good boy or girl << ALL of that is ego. This is the ego playing the role of the selfless saint. This is not true selflessness. It's ego aping selfless behavior, which is actually very selfish and problematic. Yes, that is ego, but it's a better, more honest, more developed form of ego than what you were doing before. The trap you've fallen into is that you've adopted the selfless saint ego while in your mind harshly judging normal healthy ego which needed fro satisfying basic survival needs. Life requires that you satisfy your needs within reason in healthy ways and don't act with fake selflessness. When you try to act and pretend as though you don't have needs but really you do have needs, this becomes a big problem because it is untrue and dishonest. You are being dishonest with yourself. It is much healthier to say, "I'm horny and I need sex" than it is to say, "I'm so pure I don't need that dirty thing called sex", but then secretly you have sexual fantasies all the time. In this case the more developed and healthier form of ego is to just be honest and admit: "I need sex. I love sex! I'm like a sex-addicted animal!" << Good! That's progress. At least that's true! You always want to start from a position of honesty and realness, not fakery. If you don't worry about your own survival, who else will? The ego's function is survival. This is very necessary if you want to stay alive. Not at all. This is a big misunderstanding of detachment and ego-death. Ego-death makes you feel alive inside. What you must realize is that detachment and egolessness cannot be faked. The only way to truly be selfless is to reach such a high state of consciousness that you are directly conscious that the ego isn't real. When an ego tries to pretend to be egoless but it doesn't have sufficient consciousness to realize it isn't real, that's disaster. If you want to really grow, you must start but admitting and giving up all your spiritual fakeness. The ego loves to adopt high spiritual ideas as if it can embody them. It can't. The ego has to realize its own unreality.

All that is still under-selling psychedelics.

@No_thing__ Sorry to hear of your situation. I see a couple of issues here: 1) I wouldn't worry about personal or spiritual development right now. You don't need that extra stress. Take it easy and focus all your efforts at healing. You can return to self-actualizing once you're healed. In a sense this is a wake-up call for you to start taking your health much more seriously and be proactive about it. 2) The question of facing your death is a very serious one. The best way to achieve this quickly is through psychedelics like mushrooms or LSD. These are proven to help people cope with fear of death. What you can realize is that you are not this one life or this one body/mind/persona. So if you can get your hands on some mushrooms, they can help ease your fears about death. Death is not a bad thing. It is Infinity/Love/God. It is good to have some direct experience of this as you face life and death matters like this cancer. Spiritual understanding will give you peace. I've done so many psychedelics that I'm kinda looking forward to my death now. This human realm is so limited. Nothing of great importance will be lost. Greater things lie ahead. 3) I would focus a lot of your energy on researching various possible health solutions for cancer. Don't just blindly follow the advice of Western doctors. You need to look into alternative methods, read, research, talk to people, find healers, etc. There is much about cancer and its treatment which conventional Western doctors do not understand and will never tell you about. But of course take the medicine you need. Never give up researching. You can find some amazing stuff.

Stop! You're gonna give Mike Pence a heart attack.

To have motivation you need an exciting vision worthy of you getting up early in the morning.

Beautiful example of stage Blue Boomerism:

I use it. Hard to say how effective it is given all the other stuff I use/try. Probably not as effective as DMSA + ALA For zeolite to be effective is needs to be in synthetic nano-particle form, no merely clay. The clay is not gonna pass the blood-brain barrier, but the nano-particles should.

Use the money you make to invest in your passion until your passion becomes the source of your money.

Just start. There is no cute shortcut.

Basically ANY art can be turned into millions of dollars if you are serious enough about it. Makes little difference what the art is: singing, dancing, sculpture, films, cartoons, novels, video games, woodworking, painting, design, legos, 3D modeling, etc. Success comes from turning it into a business. No one is going to do it for you or hand you a bunch of money. You must build it.

It all depends on how it is "forced". Obviously the "force" has to be subtle and soft, not a literal quota to hit simply for sake of diversity. And the diverse people have to be well-qualified.

So did Biden. That's simply because people have become a lot more politically engaged since 2016. The outrages have polarized both sides and made politics exciting again. So more people show up to vote, both smart ones and dumb ones. Remember, majority of people don't vote at all. All you have to do to get to show up is to make politics exciting again.

The level of delusion and denial at these Trump rallies is off the charts: This is what happens when populism goes awry.

A) Many MAGA people wears masks. B) Masks aren't a guarantee of anything. Mass gatherings are still problematic with masks.

Basically any masterful artist or creative professional.

Talk about criticism from above vs from below. Lol P.S. Watch your double standards. If Libs were marching against Trump, would you be so concerned about Covid?

This work is not about asking for opinions. Go find out for yourself what reality is. No one can tell you.

Tolerance is around 7-10 days.

That's cute and all, but in the end what matters is consciousness. Nothing can substitute for raw consciousness.

Types (masc/fem) cut across all stages.

He didn't vote for Trump either. He is brilliant but he's rather idealistic and moralistic. He doesn't like to compromise his integrity. I appreciate that, but politics sometimes require compromise.

That's a great point. The reality is that populism empowers a lot of dumb people.

Hedges is brilliant, although a bit impractical: he didn't vote for Biden.

Good interview

@PhilGR I am defining success in the conventional way that out culture defines success.