Leo Gura

A) American healthcare has massive profit margins. You cannot compare it to other countries. Cutting those profit margins is very hard because they don't want to give it up. It's like taking away crack from an addict. B) If all the sick people are offloaded onto public plans, public plans will pay all the cost while private plans will offer cheap insurance for healthy people who don't need it. For the public plan to be affordable it needs to contain many healthy people to offset the sick ones. This is how insurance works. Having a single giant pool is ideal. Then everyone is invested in it and no one can manipulate it or want to cut it. People on private plans will want to cut public plans because it doesn't benefit them.

Don't even think about it.

@CreamCat Private companies will offload the sickest people onto government plans, driving up public plan costs. Which is why private plans are not allowed in many countries which have a public system.

When you're ready to be mind-raped.

Hehehe... There are no other or people. Watch your assumptions! You are asking for Absolute Truth without realizing it. "Other" is not a valid notion.

@ActualizedDavid Hahaha...

This is fairly typical if you go deep into the work. The devil is not controlling you. The devil is purely imaginary. If you're feeling lost and down, you can lean on the power of love. Self-love is what you are missing. Psychedelics can give you a powerful love awakening which really helps to take the sting out of this work.

Look, people have different genetics, brains, and psyches. They process things differently and chemicals affect them differently. Clearly psychedelics are not for him. Sounds like he is extremely sensitive to them and he has zero foundation for it. Don't forget that some people actually are psychotic, psychopathic, etc.

Good example of how a stage Blue racist really thinks when push comes to shove: Great example of ego, ego, ego.

@Nivsch Of course it's helpful if your name is something people can understand. "Niv Sch" will confuse people because it will mean nothing to them. They will not even recognize that as your name and they won't know how to pronounce it or spell it. It is helpful to create a catchy brand name that's unique and easy to remember and pronounce. That alone won't ever make you successful or popular, but having a low quality brand name just makes your life needlessly difficult. If I named by channel: "dksfulxkjNdfww", that would be a problem.

You miss the whole point of this work. What you are doing is engaging in ego games.

This thread has been moved out of the High Consciousness Resources sub-forum due to not meeting quality guidelines. This is not a high consciousness resource. But carry on.

You're misunderstanding a few key points. 1) All models are limited. There is no such thing as "a valid model". 2) You are expecting a social consensus and authority on cutting edge insights which almost no humans know about. That's not how knowledge works. Maybe in 100 years you will have that. But by that point your presention will be useless because everyone will already know it. The whole point of cutting edge teachings is that people will deny them like subborn mules. So this idea of using authority firgures to prove your point is backwards. 3) You need to spend a lot more time studying Spiral Dynamics and developmental psychology in genernal before you can appreciate what SD offers and its limitations. 4) SD is a very complex model which maps very complex phenomena. This is not like mapping a few molecules or billard balls, which is easy compared to mapping the collective human psyche.

I told you, love is nothing.

Good work. That's how tripping is done.

You are bastardizing the notion of self-deception. The real self-deception here is thinking you know anything about the future. The truth here is very simple: nobody knows what will happen in 2020 until it happens. Everything here is guesswork and speculation. It is okay to speculate sometimes. But at least be honest with yourself that you are speculating. Claiming that something as dicey as the 2020 election is inevitable is the very definition of self-deception and goes against everything I teach. Accept that you just don't know. That is truthful. You are not surrendering to reality here, you are constructing fantasies and confusing them for reality.

There is no theory or framework at that level. There is nothing.

I thought that was pretty obvious.

Not really. They are nothing. Existence as you're using that term is still dualistic and something your mind is imagining. It's all absolutely nothing in the final analysis.

That is an acceptable texture and color. Texture and color of 5-Meo-DMT can vary quite a bit. Depends on which lab made it. Depends on freebase vs HCl vs oxalate. But don't assume that all freebase or all HCl looks the same. There is still a lot of variety in texture and color. Some is like a very dry fine powder. Some is almost sticky and clumpy. Some is more crystal-like. None of that matters so long as it's 98%+ pure 5-MeO-DMT. Which it probably is if it's 5-MeO-DMT at all. If a lab is capable of making 5-MeO-DMT at all, it doesn't cost them anything to make it 98% pure. There is little point in cutting research chemicals with junk. It's not cocaine or heroin which gets cut with junk by a long chain of middlemen to drive down costs. The research chemical industry doesn't work that way. The biggest risk with research chemicals is if they accidentally give you the wrong substance simply due to mislabeling it. 5-MeO has a subtle distinctive smell you can learn to distinguish. This makes for a nice easy sniff test. It's not fool proof, but a good way to make sure it's on the right track.

It all depends on specific substances. There is no country in the world where everything is legal or illegal. The devil is in the details.

You are not conscious of what you are doing. You create suffering because you are attached to being a self and staying alive. To stop creating suffering you'd have to die. But that's unacceptable to you. You're stuck inside your own insane dream, not understanding how you locked yourself inside. Awakening is the process of investigating how you locked yourself inside.

Ideally you'd get to a point where you are satisfied with just sitting silence. But that's a tall order to fill. I like to take late night drives around town and look at the city. Act activity you do you're gonna eventually "wear out" unless you're able to be satisfied just sitting in silence like a cat. The ego-mind constantly craves stimulation, excitement, and newness -- which creates suffering. A large part of the function of meditation is to train that out of you so you can be more cat-like and thrive off of presence and being alone. But again, this takes lots of training and it will come with suffering through lots of boredom which the ego-mind will create. Imagine a state of mental development in which you are happier sitting like a cat than others are playing video games, watching movies, smoking pot, or having sex. Can you see how powerful this would make you?

@Michael Paul You're not getting it. There are no people! People are something you invented, including your own personhood. Personhood and humanness are imaginary. You're not appreciating the depth of this whole thing.

It's not really rigged, it's just asymmetrical. For every girl playing Tinder there's a guy playing Tinder. Ladies don't just play Tinder. Ladies invest a ton of energy rigging their lives to attract guys. Most of it is done unconsciously. For example, how much time and money does a lady spend shopping and applying makeup in her life? How much energy does she invest in building and maintaining a social circle that later feeds her vetted mates? 1000s of hours go into this for attractive females. Mating is a highly sophisticated game which goes on under the radar of our consciousness. It's more sophisticated than a game of chess. But all of it just happens automatically.