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It is the case that women want and need commitment. However, that doesn't mean you can't find women for casual sex. Many women will do casual sex for a while. But not forever.

Retire to a Buddhist monastary.

Suicide it is

Justifying why you will never change is already an epistemic and attitudinal mistake.

This is an obsessive and mentally unstable person who was given many opportunities to correct their forum behavior and arrogantly refused to do so and even asked to be banned. I will engage with this person and topic no further. If you call yourself Jesus, this forum and Actualized.org is not for you, and I will not engage with such people.

I don't imply that. I simply mean it is not a good cost/return ratio for beginners. Perhaps for advanced practioners it is useful. But as a beginner focus must go on pranayama and mahamudra. You can always add stuff later once you are feeling some core effects from your practice.

That's like criticism from below not above. You gotta learn success within capitalism first before you reject it. Just rejecting capitalism will leave you broke and miserable, so be careful about that trap.

Hey, ya'll, I need your help! I want to create a comprehensive list of video examples of prototypical stage Yellow thinking. This is not meant to humiliate or demonize stage Yellow. It's meant to be an educational tool for people learning about Spiral Dynamics. So towards that end, scour Youtube and find all the videos you can which exhibit stage Yellow thinking. Try to find videos which are short and sweet. The more diversity we can display here, the better. Try to find examples from various cultures: Europe, Middle East, Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Africa, South America, etc. We will create a mega-thread like this for every stage in the Spiral, from Red to Turquoise. But here, let's just focus on Yellow. Each week I will start a new mega-thread topic for the next stage. Do not start a political debate in this thread! It is not our goal here to defend our personal political positions or to judge any stage, but simply to compile examples. Thanks for your help! I'm excited to see what kind of juicy stuff you dig up. Try to be selective with your choices. This can turn into a really cool list. Stage Yellow Values: Nuance & complexity Openmindedness Perspective Novel concepts & POVs Generating fresh insights Understanding Systems thinking Nonlinear dynamics Sustainability, long time frames Going meta Big picture vs technical analysis Holistic analysis Synthesis Connecting the dots Penetrating to the core of an issue Identifying & solving root problems A multi-disciplinary approach Mixing hard & soft sciences Creativity, outside-the-box solutions Ecology Responsible ways of being Studying models Spiral Dynamics Natural hierarchies Education, knowledge, research, reading Reading lots of diverse books Clean content, concentrated information Life-long learning Expertise, competence, experience Context, learning from history Developing skills to become an instrument for the greater whole Independent thinking Neutrality: Being objective/impartial Designing solutions for the entire Spiral Meeting people where they are at Building bridges Social engineering Ecological designs Reducing the suffering of living systems Pulling ideas from many sources Combining different ideas, models, theories Left-brained Vision & purpose, being a visionary Requisite variety, mental flexibility Self-actualization Paradox Uncertainty Responsibility, independence, autonomy Being a lone-wolf Stage Yellow Examples: Abraham Maslow, Eben Pagan, Fritjof Capra, Carl Sagan, quantum mechanics, fathers of quantum mechanics, David Bohm, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, Arthur Eddington, Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, John Archibald Wheeler, Joseph Campbell, Erich Fromm, Clare Graves, Don Beck, Spiral Dynamics, Ilya Prigogine, chaos theory, cybernetics, biomimetics, NLP, Alfred Korzybski, the leading edge of academia, futurists, StarTrek humans & Vulcans, Prime Directive, sustainable living, ecology, eco cities, conflict resolution, Wikipedia, Buckminster Fuller

There is no answer to this question. It varies wildly from person to person. You just have to make an investment and see what happens.

I have not. But you should not expect anyone's experience to be like yours. It's better to feel changes than to feel nothing change. So I would say you're getting exactly what Kriya is supposed to get you. Kriya us supposed to active all sorts of eneries and states. That's why you're doing it. Don't get cold feet as soon as stuff starts happening, just carry on with your practice. Kriya yoga can be done for decades, 8 hours a day. So you've just scratched the surface.

Yes, that's the whole point. It changes your nervous system, which is different from a temporary change in state. Because I don't blindly follow anything. I question and test all human ideas.

Kriya is supposed to rewire the centeral nervous system. It does a lot more than just dreams.

Given the popularity of trip report threads on here, I think we need to start indexing them. This thread is for linking to all trip report threads on the forum. Do not actually post the content of your trip report here, just post a link. Someone please use the forum's search function and make a list of the best trip reports we've got and post links here. It'd be nice to organize them by substance, with sub-headings like: Mushrooms, LSD, AL-LAD, DMT, Ayahausca, 5-MeO, etc. I think this can become a valuable online resource for serious non-dual psychonauts. That kind of thing doesn't really exist elsewhere. Most places that list trip reports are recreation-focused, not spirituality-focused. Thanks!

Be careful with wild generalizations. Won't lead you to truth

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Yes. I get weird tingely sensations in my skull. I also feel a difference in my dreams, like the pranayama rewired some of my brain stem. 36 per sit. And I try to do 2-4 sits per say.

They are unrelated. Kriya is not as intense. It is subtle and long-term. You need to do it for months for it to build up its effects. You're not going to feel anything from a few sessions.

I skip it. I only do pranayama and supreme fire. Supreme fire feels important. You can always add in more practices after a year of solid pranayama. So don't worry about it. Your first goal should be to start to feel the effects from a lot of solid pranayama. Once you are feeling that, you can think about more fancy techniques. I like to strip away all superflous techniques to get to the bare essentials. Pranayama + supreme fire is that. You can also include maha-mudra in that but I am currently even cutting that out.

Once you sleep with her and she is your girlfriend, texting is normal and do it as much as you want/need. Calling is also fine when appropriate.

Economic issues are too wonky to excite average people. People are excited by culture war identity politics. This is true of right and left wings. A debate about marginal tax rates does not mobilize the political activists. It has to be some outrage like molestation of children, shooting a black man, etc. The issues that are popular are reptile brain issues. In this way politics is like social media. You don't win in politics by doing deep serious, long-format videos, you will with TikTok slop. That's what Trump understood well. Trump is the king of reptile brained content.

Korea is a corrupt capitalist dystopia. The more you learn about it the uglier it gets. Koreans are laid back? Ha! Have you seen their school system? It looks like a factory farm and a pressure-cooker in one. If you want laid back happie vibes you should try island life.

It's an expanded notion of solipsism. You first realize the absoluteness of your own mind. Then you consider a possibility beyond that. You're trying to grasp Infinity in one shot, and that's just not going to work. You have to experience/realize it in stages. You reach a crazy new level of consciousness and then later you say, "Well, what if I can imagine something even bigger?"

That's why it's affordable. You can't have everything without a fee. You want perfect weather? Pay 3x higher rent.

I don't see this as a problem. An easy unifiying message is to crack down on corruption and the rich. That is enough to transcend race/ethnicity/gender. The real battle is between the rich and the not-rich. Dem's messaging needs to be virulently anti-oligarchy and anarcho-capitalist dystopia.