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@znet The ego is like the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

@Stephyk8 Yes, it tends to be a male-dominated field. But you can find more feminine versions of it as well if you google around.

What he means is that you need proper instructions.

Great work right there. That's how deep you gotta dig. We very easily forget stuff like that once we're older. Much of this LP discovery process is getting back in touch with those kinds of long-suppressed, long-ignored passions.

Yoga There are many kinds of yoga. Kundalini yoga Kriya yoga Sadhguru's yoga etc.

Just about finished rendering my newest video. This one will have lots of pretty graphics. Excited to share it with you guys.

@rush If someone told me 7 years ago that I would be well paid for sitting around, reading books, meditating, taking psychedelics, and doing philosophy all day, I would have laughed in their face. What market could there possibly be for that???

That's why LSD comes in packs of 10

You are making this some grandiose thing. There is no leap of faith. Just live your life with passion and joy. That's all self-actualization is saying. What is the point of living a life you hate? That is just stupidity and laziness. When you realize this, and you get serious about living a good life, you will discover that personal development and raising your consciousness are the best tools for that. And when you raise your consciousness high enough, there you will find God. All your current ideas about God are wrong, and so were Kierkegaard's.

@Max_V What you will eventually discover is that even "awareness" and "consciousness" are misleading terms. The closest word is Nothing. Reality simply "knows" being by being. The problem with terms like awareness and consciousness is that imply a human agent or a mental process. But that is NOT how reality knows itself. It knows through being. To be true, is to be known.

@Serge Careful not to get carried away with your radical models. Don't confuse nonduality with anything-goes. It's the opposite of that, actually. You want to become hyper-aware of the narratives your mind is building about reality, and drop them as much as possible. The fact is, most of the stuff you believe, you have zero experience of. It's very easy to abuse this work and hurt people. So be very careful with your theorizing.

@John I'm not sure what you mean. You find your LP, you set a strong vision, and you work towards it as best you can without quitting. You only quit if something even better comes along. Emotions will come and go. There will be good times and bad times. You just keep at it. Success in business is no easy thing. People grossly underestimate that. The marketplace does NOT just pay you money for your work. You have to fight for it.

@egoless Stop making nonsense posts. You are distracting not only yourself, but other people with your monkey mind.

I never claimed it was THE BEST book on kundalini. It is just one which I read which I liked.

In last week's book list update, I forgot the single most powerful book I read this year! Doh! It has now been added to the list at the very top. Make sure you read it.

The reason people seek for decades and never get it, is because they aren't seriously contemplating. They are running around doing all sorts of spiritual practices, new age practices, retreats, worshipping Ekhart Tolle, hugging gurus, adopting beliefs like "we are all one", and reading books, but they are not questioning their actual identity for realz. Of course! That's just one the traps within the trap. Most people who do spirituality do a softcore version of it. They are looking for comfort, not truth. And they get stuck following one teaching, which is often insufficient to point them to the truth. Or they have no focus and dabble in a bunch of stuff without any depth. Which is why psychedelics are so good. They cut through all that human crap and force you to go existential.

@Feeble Dave Concepts can mirror reality in a very simplified and crude way. A model is a loose abstraction of the territory. Notice that to make predictions you can use all sorts of alternative metaphysical models. The power of mathematical modeling is precisely in that it is so abstract as to say nothing about anything other than the observed RELATIONSHIPS between two variables.

@Charlotte It's a baby step in the right direction. Keep at it. There is staggering depth to Absolute Infinity.

Good insights

Taylor Swift and PewDiePie make music and funny videos. That guys makes MATH videos.

@blazed Lol, that music.

All webs of belief are groundless of course. I haven't even gotten into that topic yet.

It's that time of year again! The book list has been updated with 13 new and amazing books! As always, if you've already purchased the book list, this update is free for you. Just log into your account and you can find the new books listed at the top of the list. I have some really exciting books in this update. Be sure to especially check out the 2 new books about evolution. You will never see evolution the same way again. Over the next few months I will be releasing videos which cover topics from this latest batch of books. So do your homework and start reading up. If you've been on the fence about purchasing the book list, you shouldn't be. These are rare books you will probably never hear about anywhere else, and they will change your entire perspective on life. The list now has 207 books and it continues to get better every year. This is the 5th free update!

@krazzer Yes, that's correct of course. But you still haven't penetrated the full depth of it. Not only is something a necessary contrast to nothing, and vice versa, but something LITERALLY is identical to nothing. Contemplate this even more deeply. Until you can walk outside for a stroll, and each tree you encounter, you look at it, and you clearly see it does not exist.

@Capethaz Yes, daily practice is critically important. Without it, the rest falls flat on its face. Then again, people who want to masturbate will find a way to masturbate all the same. A bridge must be built from regular life into hardcore consciousness work. It doesn't happen overnight. Yes, there will be lots of masturbation, but gradually it tends to auto-correct if you're serious about this work. This forum isn't an endpoint, it's an entry-point. If everyone here adopts a mandatory minimum of 1 hr per day of consciousness work (either meditation or self-inquiry or yoga, or whatever), that will ensure that the mental-masturbation eventually auto-corrects itself.