Leo Gura

Both. You should feel subtle weekly gradual effects and eventually some bigger breakthroughs. The gradual effects can really add up. Which is the whole point. I am more interested in Kriya for the gradual effects than the breakthroughs. I can easily create breakthroughs via psychedelics, but they don't stick so well. Which is why Kriya is important. To me those are optional. Talabya is probably quite good, but takes a lot of training to achieve. I recommend you don't bother with it until your core routine is solid. Gamana I combine everything into one routine. Ideally you'd do this routine twice per day but right now I'm only managing once per day. Not now. Build your core routine and do it for a few years. Then you can revisit that question. You're not supposed to do those routines until you have 3-5 years of solid practice.

Not even close. Practice more not-knowing. The greater the model, the bigger the problem.

There are no tricks to focus other than focus. If you want to seriously work on it, you can start doing concentration practices like I talk about in my video: Concentration vs Meditation I guess Modafinil is an easy trick for focus. But you shouldn't rely on it too much.

That's right. This is normal and it's tricky. The whole trick is that you need to be able to use existential questions to inform your everyday life, but you also need to be able to partition everyday life from existential matters. It's tricky to explain how to do this. It's like a selective filter you can develop. One of my most important least-appreciated videos is this one: https://www.actualized.org/articles/balancing-theory-vs-practice Where I tried to address this point. This video made many subtle points that few people understand. I recommend watching it several times and really contemplating each point. Getting really good at converting theory into practice and practice into theory, without getting stuck in either, is like a super-power. It will take you lots of reading, research, and life experience to figure out which things in life are worth pursing. Although I've also addressed this a lot in my videos. Like this one: https://www.actualized.org/articles/65-core-principles-of-living-the-good-life Yes, the LP Course would save you years of groping around in the dark. No, the answer is not avoidance of pain and pursuit of pleasure. That's what you're already doing, that's what every ego is doing, and it rarely produces good results. You might almost say the answer is the opposite: you must face the things you resist facing. Yes, creating and love are important pieces of the puzzle.

Fighting devilry is just more devilry. Instead, put your energy into conscious observation of your devilry.

@Wisebaxter This is where it becomes extremely important to distinguish between existential inquiry and practical life. You need to be able to both compartmentalize them but also allow one to inform the other. When it comes to practical survival issues like: pursuing sex, finding food, getting a job, running a business, etc. Don't get too philosophical. You can find practical how-to advice and books on each of these topics which can give you step-by-step instructions on what to do. Yes, these books are filled with concepts, but concepts are highly useful, which is why they are everywhere! Your ability to pursue sex, food, a job, business, etc. has little to do with Truth. Most of those things are accomplished through pragmatic action-taking. You don't need to know the Truth to drive a car successfully. It's just a skill you develop. This skill has right and wrong ways of doing it (relative to the result you want to get). Driving a car successfully requires you obey certain rules. For example, you cannot press the breaks and the gas at the same time. Relativity does NOT mean: anything goes. If you want specific outcomes, there is a right way and a wrong way to go about it. There is also Absolute Truth, but this has little do to with achieving simple practical outcomes. You need to be able to distinguish relative and absolute truths. I've have a video about this in the future. Survival and success are accomplished through relative truths.

That's why most people never awaken: lack of focus. Focus is a rare thing these days. Regardless of your personality type. I struggle with focus too.

@Cepzeu You are missing a few important points: Firstly, not-knowing. It is okay to say "I don't know". In fact, that is the truth in 99% of cases. So in the case of the Earth or a conspiracy theory, the correct answer isn't to grasp at straws, pretending to like you know something you don't. Just admit, "I don't know if the Earth is round." That is the truth! This is not at all the same as being a FlatEarther. The problem with FlatEarthers is that they definitely believe the Earth is flat and that a round Earth is a vast evil conspiracy by elites. Secondly, learn to distinguish more clearly between belief, experience, inference, and not-knowing. Find the referents of each of these in your experience. Notice when something is a belief for you, when it is an experience, and when you genuinely don't know. For example, how many pounds do I weigh? The truth is, you don't know. So notice that, rather than trying to guess or make shit up. The key mistake that people make when it comes to epistemology is that they refuse to admit not-knowing because it seems like a bad thing. Culturally we are expected to know, otherwise we are told we are bad or stupid. Well, this is just bullshit. Most people who claim to know things actually are in a worse position than not-knowing, they have wrong knowing. P.S. Reality cannot really be known. Being is prior to knowing. So get used to a lot of not-knowing. Not only is not-knowing not bad, it's the Truth! Notice that nothing you know about reality is what is (by definition). Knowledge is that which separates you from what is. All knowledge is conceptual. All concepts are symbols. All symbols are not what is. Truth is found non-symbolically. All scientific and social knowledge is relative, probabilistic, partial, and highly fallible. Nobody actually knows how many people there are on this planet. Nor is it really possible to know because by the time you finish counting them, some of them will have died and new ones born.

@Truth Addict Yup Imagine trying to teach someone who hasn't ever existed what existence is. How would you go about doing that? They'd never believe you.

Yeah, that is quite a problem. Then again, Truth is very simple: it's whatever is the case.

It ain't just a problem in Islam. Any society below stage Green will have patriarchal views of women, womanhood, and femininity. Humans are a patriarchal species up until stage Green. Even in America this problem has not be fully resolved. About half the US population is not evolved enough to understand feminism. Your views of sex and gender roles are pretty much a straight-up indoctrination from whatever culture you grew up in. Notice you are just like a monkey following the herd. You have almost no original thoughts of your own about gender. Monkey see, monkey believe, monkey do.

It would definitely be offering systemic solutions. Read some of the systems thinking books from my book list. That should give you lots of ideas. Most businesses are not offering systemic solutions to root problems, they are opportunistically seeking max profit. For example, McDonald's doesn't care about solving systemic problems in human nutrition.

@Nichts Seems like a good life purpose, but you must be very careful here not to make your LP fear-based. Nevermind what you fear will happen to Germany, what do you actually wish to create? Do you want to create a more Spirally-informed world? Do you want to help people understand each other more simply because that's what you're passionate about? Then do that. That is valid. Don't make your LP a reaction to anything happening in the world, especially politically. Think of it more like this: If the world was just fine, what would you enjoy doing?

@Girzo Usually that will be a hindrance because the ego will get you chasing pleasure or positive states -- which always creates suffering. True happiness isn't what you think it is. True happiness is Truth. See? Without Truth you do not know how to distinguish between true vs false happiness. Without Truth, you literally have no idea what you are doing. So of course tragedy and catastrophe follows. Which is why really wise people value Truth above all else.

@John West That is because you're lost in the realm of abstraction. Contemplation must be grounded in something: being / direct experience. To understand how grounding works, see my video: What Is Actuality? Here's how you understand contemplation: contemplate the question, What is fear? To do this, you must actually pull up a direct experience of fear and observe it. Armchair philosophy would be theorizing about what fear is. Contemplation would be actually observing fear in your direct experience as it is happening, or perhaps a memory of it. Contemplation is very similar to observation. It must be grounded in the present moment. You must "feel" into what is actually there. If you're still at the level of concepts, that's not good enough. What is fear REALLY, ACTUALLY?! Not your ideas of fear, but actual fear! Take a good long look and see what pops up. Once you get good at contemplating something tangible like fear or pain, then you can begin contemplating more abstract things like time or existence.

@EvilAngel You are not understanding Spiral Dynamics.

Yes, you can want truth. It's actually very important in this work. But you must be extremely careful not to confuse your egoic wants for want of truth. Wanting actual truth is very rare. Mostly when people say they want truth they are lying to themselves. They have confused egoic ideas of truth with actual truth. The problem with wanting truth is, since you don't actually know what the truth is or means, how can you really know want it? Even so, it is possible to want truth simply for truth's sake. But that means stomaching the costs to one's ego. If the truth would kill you, would you still want it? If not, then you don't really want truth, you want a fantasy of truth (AKA, you want falsehood).

Running and managing a healthy high-consciousness institution is a full-time job. More than that, it requires the commitment of one's whole life. It's not an easy thing to do well and requires enormous levels of development. I am not developed or conscious enough yet to do this. Nor are most people here. I recommend you focus your energies on developing yourself before you get too carried away with transforming the world. The videos are designed to be an efficient and cost-free way of learning. You don't really need a brick and mortar self-actualization institution. What you really need is do the inner work. Which of course no one wants to do. Going to a school and passing tests is not it. The whole trick with this work is that it's so delicate and personal it cannot be easily institutionalized. It's good to have a sense of life purpose that inspires you, but you must also be very careful not to get ahead of your skiis here, or you will easily create a cult which will hurt lots of people. I have deliberately held off from growing Actualized.org into a big institution. The impulse to do it is always there. But my higher wisdom says No. Making a big organization leads to unconsciousness and devilry.

It's usually easier to develop the cognitive line versus the other lines. So you can be cognitively at Yellow but you're not actually able to fully embody it, you're just thinking from it whereas the bulk of your life and emotions are run from Orange. Why listen a lot to my videos you will start to think from Yellow, but very likely your embodiment will very poor, at Orange or even below. Such is the nature of doing this work through YT videos. You're always gonna know more than you can embody.

@Knock Said the devil.

@Tom T Living in a cave is not as easy as it sounds. It will basically feel like hell. And I doubt it is sustainable for years at a time because you're gonna run out of essential supplies like food and water. You'd have to plan it out very well and you'd have to select a spot which has sources of food and water. I know some yogis, for example, live on coconuts which grow nearby them. This kind of thing is easier to pull off in tropical countries I think. It's much more realistic to live in a small remote cabin which offers heat, small kitchen, pantry, toilet, shower, etc.

Good, you're getting closer. Still not there yet. But these mild trips are all necessary stepping-stones to the final mindfuck. You are doing great.

@Dorotheus Great work! That's what I want to see more of around here, not all the keyboard-jockeying.

Covered this topic extensively in my video: Making Sense Of Paranormal Abilities All of this stuff is well-documented, if you'd just get off your ass and do the reading & research.

@Emerald Sounds like you've never been with a guy who knows how to turn a girl on. Most guys suck at sex, so it's understandable. But a guy who knows what he's doing can give you an amazing orgasm just through text messages, never mind in person.