Leo Gura

Notice how this issue involves a struggle to draw a boundary/duality between: alive vs not-alive, conscious vs not-conscious, autonomous vs not-autonomous, part of the mother vs not part of the mother, fully human vs biomass, human vs fly, right vs wrong, moral vs immoral, etc. The mind wants to ground reality in such boundaries, but all such boundaries are untenable because reality is ONE. Which is why you struggle and struggle to draw those boundaries but will always fail. And why people disagree so much about where the boundaries lie. There is no point at which a baby is conscious or alive or autonomous or human. There is no point at which a baby is separate from a pine tree. Getting that takes you meta. Learning this lesson is one of the most important things Actualized.org has to teach you. Stop falling into the trap of objectifying dualistic distinctions. If you manage to do that, your mind will be set radically free and peace can come to the world. Or, continue fighting over imagined dualities.

Funny, last night after reading this thread I took 5-MeO-DMT in my dreams and I tripped harder than in "real life." Unbelievable.

It was totally expected if you understand LSD dosages. 20ug is almost nothing. You got exactly what you were supposed to get with a micro-dose. A solid trip requires 100ug+

I always trip solo. That is the best. But that is my bias, you may have other perferences.

Surrounding observers are part of your imagination. If you put on sunglasses the world doesn't tint for everyone else. Consciousness compartmentalizes itself, otherwise things would become a shitshow. How silly would it be if my putting on sunglasses tinted your world? That would spoil the illusion of objective reality. We could code a video game to work that way, but why? You have to carefully think through the consequences of your imagined scenarios. Life has a very intelligent design. It is not some willy-nilly stuff that some idiot threw together. It is a design of utmost genius that allows for rich experiences like that of humans. This requires some serious design constraints. The flaw in your thinking is not taking into account that your are currently putting enormous energy into imagining exactly your current reality. To enter a new reality you'd have to stop imaging this one. If you fully imagined a new reality nothing would be left of the current one. That would basically be a totally new life. And then you would still ask, "But why can't I be in some 3rd reality?" You can! But then you lose the 2nd one. You can't be in two realities at once. You have to pick one, which means excluding all others.

He who smelt it dealt it.

You got your causality backwards. That's what low consciousness egos do. Narcissist != psychopath Stage Red is not psychopathy. It just appears that way to higher stage people who lack the nuanced understanding of these complex issues. It's all too easy to call dictators and strong-men psychopaths or "crazy" because the mind is looking for a way to dismiss them as so "other" as to be incomprehensible. But that's not the case. Stage Red explains Trump's actions quite well. Study Stage Red more.

@Jahmaine You are a short flight from Netherlands. Why not just go there?

Sounds about right

When we inquire into the existential nature of a thing -- like in this case the notion of reproduction -- we do not limit ourselves by survival concerns. Rather, we go for what is true. What is reproduction? That is the question. Do not corrupt this question with egoic fears. If it is true that reproduction is an illusion, then that is what's true! Even if it means the whole human race will die out as a result of knowing it. And of course it doesn't have to mean that at all. Good luck getting 7 billion people to stop fucking. Even the intelligent ones. Even the enlightened ones still manage to fuck like rabbits.

Personally I would not make such a promise, but most people blindly follow their culture like sheep.

Nothing less will work. So long as you are attached to needing to survive, you are enslaved to falsehood and all your actions will be corrupted by devilry. This is what is really means to sell your soul to the devil. Your birth was the selling of your soul. Now you are in a struggle to get your soul back. You sold your soul the day you said, "I am a human." How does a devil scrub himself of himself?

Ahem... https://www.actualized.org/articles/how-you-must-think-about-failure

Big difference from the human POV when you are lost in moralistic fantasies.

@Meetjoeblack Dude, chill with your immature cuck talk here. You have confused this place with a Red Pill sub-reddit.

Every microsecond since the Big Bang has been deciding the future of mankind.

A deeply religious man who spent his whole life studying the Bible hears a knock on his door. He asks, "Who is it?" "It's God. Open up. I have come to show you the way." "Oh wow! This is amazing! But please come back next week, I'm really busy right now reading about you in this Bible."

Of course! How else could it be? This is the fundamental nature of knowledge/science. You're damned if you do but you're even more damned if you don't. Hold ideas loosely, is the key.

Because the alternative is often worse. Commitment just means you're not a selfish child who runs away at the first sign of trouble or something better on the horizon. It's not different than commitment to a business plan or showing up on time to a meeting. It's hard to create anything worthwhile in life without a commitment. Try executing any major project without a serious commitment. See how far you get. You couldn't even keep a hamster without a commitment.

Why do you want to make stuff up? Why not just sit in awareness?

A really good example of the Blue vs Green worldviews: Notice how both Blue and Green are incapable of understanding each other's worldviews. Each one just sees the other as insane.

You can make any stance you like. Just be aware you made it up.

In practice that's hard to pull off. Public corporations are so competitive that even the CEO could get fired any day if he fails to perform up to expectations. Of course there are always exceptions but most large corporations do not tolerate nepotism these days. Competition is just too fierce to allow such things to fly. Of course there are other problems with hierarchies and domination which have nothing to do with simple nepotism. There is more sophisticated devilry at work within large corporations. The devilry gets extremely sophisticated in order to sneak under the radar.

@Parththakkar12 Such things don't even warrant an response or a defense. The reason your examples seem popular is because men's rights groups and conservative groups have waged a PR war against feminism by purposefully strawmanning and demonized it. This is all part of their denial and collective ego backlash against integrating what feminism brings to the table. Demonization of feminism, progressivism, and socialism is very popular on YT and in right-wing circles. It's a cottage industry. People make entire careers of it -- such as Jordan Peterson. But really his positions are so ignorant that they do not even warrant serious intellectual engagement. It it an insult to a true intellectual to have to defend against such right-wing ignorance.

I just don't take such positions seriously. I don't know any serious person who believes or advocates "men are trash" or some such. That's not what feminism is about. A quality feminist understands the value and importance of masculinity and men. You can find all kinds of nonsense on the internet. That doesn't mean it represents what feminism is about. There are fringe people in every social movement who spout crazy nonsense. To cherrypick those fringe ideas and make them representative of the entire movement is intellectually dishonest and shows a lack of nuance and lack of understanding how movements work. By your logic we can demonize all of science as long as I can find a few articles written by some fringe scientists about how black people are genetically inferior to white people. But it would be absurd to use such fringe examples as representative of science as a whole.