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This is Green Don't forget that Green can still be a business. You don't have to be a communist to be Green. Green can be very commercial.

@Finland3286 Technically it is an ideology or belief. Both are misguided beliefs. Both are closedminded beyond help in most cases. Both are egotistical. Atheism NOT a lack of belief. It is just a negative belief. The belief is obviously there if the atheist just bothers to introspect self-honestly. Atheists believe that God is absurd, irrational, impossible, imaginary, and unscientific. An opiate of the masses.

I didn't say JP is Hitler. I used those extreme examples to illustrate that merely having a life purpose is not automatically a good thing. The details matter. Passion and intelligence are a double-edged sword. You can be smart, passionate, and wrong or pathological. When intelligent or passionate people are wrong, they tend to get really stuck in it. JP has some good teachings, just be mindful that they are a Trojan horse for stage Blue/Orange conservative political ideology. Which is what made him so popular. Without the Trojan horse you would not know who he is.

@General 2 I struggle with that myself.

@Haumea2018 Celebrity & success are like ego crack. Sam Harris is too famous to really seek deeply. Same with JP. If Sam Harris ever came back from a retreat and told his cult-like rationalist followers that God is actually real, they would turn on him like a pack of hyenas. Sam's whole market base is stage Orange atheists who want validation of their atheism and rationalism.

https://www.actualized.org/articles/how-to-harness-your-intuition

@General 2 That's tricky. I'm not sure what the causes of that were for you. It could of have been egoic resistance to living up to your full potential, or it could have just been that it wasn't your true passion. There are various solutions. Personal development and spiritual inner work is usually the answer for dissolving egoic resistances. I still have resistance to following my life purpose after 5 years. It's not easy to be at the cutting edge of your potential. Sometimes you just gotta act despite the fear and excuses. Obviously you shouldn't physically overwork yourself. Try not to work more than 40-60 hours per week, otherwise it becomes unsustainable.

@Preetom Even if everyone in the world was fully enlightened, survival, selfish manipulation, and power games would still have to take place. Finite resources still must be distributed in some way. You cannot escape the game of survival unless you are physically dead. Enlightenment alone does not resolve the finite resource distribution problem. Better systems must be invented for that and they will never be perfect enough to give everyone the resources they need to survive. So fighting will always take place if you care about living. If you don't care about living, then you have the option to physically die without putting up a fight.

@EternalForest God is not something to be debated with those kinds of people. Therein lies the whole trick of God. You cannot communicate it. Absolute Truth is outside the realm of proof, reason, thought, or speech. So talking about it is pointless. The problem is that someone like Matt Dillahunty does not understand why Truth must be incommunicable. Absolute Truth is non-symbolic. Atheism is like a religion. You cannot reason with it because its premises are not grounded in reason but in faith. Of course the irony is that all atheists will vehemently deny it. Which is why they cannot be reasoned with. The only way Matt will realize he is wrong is by going through the radical existential crisis called enlightenment. But of course his whole game is to avoid enlightenment. Which is why he's an atheist to begin with. See how sneaky the mind is? The Truth cannot penetrate a recalcitrant mind.

@Good-boy I could remove the video ads. My business isn't really reliant on ads. They are just there for kicks.

To an almost total extent. Nearly 100% As psychedelics clearly demonstrate. The problem with neurofeedback is that it's too expensive and complex for most people. I've done lots of neurofeedback on myself and it's pretty powerful. Psychedelics are the better option money-wise. And they are also more powerful.

That's what relative means. You are judging the relative from the Absolute. Which isn't relative, but Absolute. Which is actually relative because the Absolute doesn't judge anything or limit anything, including the relative. To not make room for the relative truth will lead to all sorts of foolishness, so watch out. When the cop stops you for speeding, you will not be able to get away by saying, "But in the Absolute sense there is no right and wrong." In the relative domain, might makes right. Survival rules the day. You can choose to disregard the relative domain, but you will not survive long, so before you make that choice, make sure you're okay with death.

@kev014 I have little interest in doing any kind of public debates with people. That's all just a game. Mostly I just care about putting forth my ideas. I've got enough ideas to share for years to come. Doing collabs just tends to dilute my work because I find few popular figures thinking at the integral level I like thinking at. The problem is that the most popular public intellectuals are rather crude, un-integral, closedminded, and ideological in their approach. Which is precisely why they became popular. And precisely why I don't want to have much to do with them. A discussion with Joe Rogan would be one exception. He and I could have a deep discussion. The kind of stuff I like to talk about is never ever going to go mainstream.

@Joseph Maynor By your logic, Hitler, Alex Jones, and Bin Laden deserve an A+ There are tons of lunatics in society with a firm sense of life purpose. Doesn't make it a conscious or good thing. There can be healthy life purpose and pathological life purpose. JP can believe whatever he wants, but the problem is that his ideology is radicalizing people and misinforming them about post-modernism and stage Green. This is actually a big problem, as you can see just by reading the YT comments that JP fans make. Their understanding of these issues is extremely polarized, unsophisticated, egocentric, and naive. Part of the problem is that these are young directionless males, age 18-26 who are still very immature, naive, and lacking in compassion. You realize, right, that in the Middle East, terrorist groups recruit members using the exact same techniques JP is using? They target exactly the same age-range of males, and they radicalize them using cultural and identity issues, by demonizing stage Orange American decadence and liberalism. "How dare those liberal Americans let women drive, get a divorce, and walk around with their tits hanging out! What chaos! They are destroying the hierarchy of Allah! Letting gays have sex without killing them is ridiculous!" If JP was born in the Middle East, he would be railing against stage Orange Western secular capitalism and trying to build a theocracy. This has nothing to do with JP per se. It's just a Spiral mind virus. Minds work in predictable ways (to those who make a careful study of the workings of the mind).

@Brittany Actually that would be worse because he would just deny all the important points being made. He is not interested in reforming himself. He's out to promote his ideology. So a discussion is useless.

That is true. And it is also false. Depends on your POV. You guys are falling into the trap of not being multi-perspectival. You will not understand reality using a one-perspective-only approach. Every stage up the Spiral requires a +1 increase in the number of perspectives you can hold at once.

No Ego is the idea that you were born. Ego is not a brain part. Ego is a thought. The thought that you are an individual who was born and is looking around at the world, and that it is important that you not die. If you stop thinking that you were born, you will actually die. Try it

@Edogowa Conan Lol You are conflating absolute and relative domains. The wage slavery video was not a nondual teaching. Be careful trying to push everything through the nondual strainer. This is the problem with too much Neo-Avaita style teachings. You turn understanding of reality into an over-simplified nondual flatland. Many of my videos put forth RELATIVE truths, not absolute ones. And of course there is no literal pyramid out in the world. This was a metaphor, a map. Obviously you shouldn't go out in the world looking for an actual pyramid. You will never find it. Just like you will never find "gravity" or "the United States Of America" or "cats" out in the world. See my recent blog video about All Understanding Is Metaphoric. You're still falling into the trap of literalism. Nothing I say is ever literally true. It's a pointer or a filter through which to look at the world in a useful way.

@Zeldor Keep doing the work, grasshopper. You've only seen a few hairs of the ox's tail.

@MM1988 No, there is nothing random about it. That is a silly idea of the materialist paradigm because you are not yet conscious of infinite intelligence.

Well, at least you didn't meet any bears

Lol, of course ego-mind cannot be relativistic proper. Its job is to be self-biased. Survival, survival, survival. Relativism can only be actualized through deep awakening and dissolution of the ego. Then it is possible. That's how a Buddhist monk can set himself one fire. The fact is that everything is relative. But to accept this fully is tentamount to death. And only the wisest of human beings will surrender to this brutal truth. Stage Green post-modernists are not truly relativistic. They are phoney relativists. They have not actualized ontological relativism. They have turned relativism into a religion. Why is relativism so denied? Precisely because it is true. The ego cannot handle it.

@MM1988 No! You are just assuming so.

Exactly