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@Thought Art Why? I think the biggest reason would be the degree (environmental studies) would be a safety net for a decent job. Might be good for saving money before I can garden/farm full time. @okulele Good advice, will sit down and think for a while this summer. Long term it's hard to tell, is the degree or the young-person-time more valuable long term. @SLuxy Looks like good stuff

TLDR I like healthy food production I hate college should I drop out or stick it out? To start off, I found the life purpose course amazing. I took it twice and it took a lot of work, but I went gradually from having absolutely no sense of life purpose and being nearly completely clueless as to what I wanted to do to having a very strong sense of live purpose that consumes most of my thoughts. The first time I took it I was a junior in high school, now I am a freshman in college, and just finished the 3 months of contemplating my life purpose every morning (an assignment I started around the time I finished the course). My life purpose statement is "I cook and farm ecological food, making people and the earth healthy" I care about beyond-organic, permacultural, biodynamic, regenerative, sustainable and healthy food production. I love gardening and cooking as mediums. My vision for the future long term involves a farm with a restaurant, where I make an impact by changing peoples minds about food production. I love ecovillages and am interested in having a community surrounding this. I'm open to how this will actually play out, any of the above might take place. I've gone through a series of small bets, and am now on a pretty big one. Gardening in my backyard last summer wasn't an intentional small bet, but still was a great one. Last fall, I went and worked on an organic farm for a month. This summer, I am starting a market garden. I will invest around $1000 or less into it, so am keeping it low budget and a learning experience. I've found a great place with people letting me use their land. I have a full ride scholarship, I in fact get paid extra, it is absurd but I'm very fortunate. If it wasn't for this I would have dropped out a while ago, I think I definitely have enough discipline and determination to do much better without school. In my case, the money and degree security seem worth it. I think I will stay in college just to be safe, but I have been having doubts. My classes are sometimes good, im taking a sustainable agriculture course next semester, but overall, college is soul draining, unenjoyable, and now is starting to really get in the way. To really pursue market gardening I need springs and falls for harvest. This spring college is online and im working 20+ hours per week getting starting. This fall i will go to college and my harvest will be fucked. Might have to catch a flight back. I feel as if I could be doing so much but am wasting my time with school. If I was working a job I could find a stable place to live and start market gardening spring through fall and get to a point where that's my living in 3-4 years. I was very excited to hear Leo's advice, but his video on the topic ended up suggesting basically that if you have enough drive it's not worth it, it's hard to factor in the value when I am actually making money from college. Thanks! Lots more to say lmk what might be helpful info.

@Forestluv Very well said Also, I have very bad seasonal allergies, which makes me worry about anything to do with meddling with my immune system. From my research I don't see any way the covid vaccine could cause harm to my tree and ragweed pollen allergies. Leo is getting it while having hashimotos, he also seems not worried about this.

Hard to sort through anti-vax concerns, most of it is nonsense, but obviously there is some (probably low and less than covid itself) risk. So, are you not concerned that these pharmaceutical companies are not liable for any negative effects while they have a past of knowingly not stopping drugs that do have negative effects for money? https://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/09/02/Pfizer.fine/index.html

@SLuxy That's very helpful I look forward to watching that video. You're definitely right about limiting beliefs I should watch that course soon. This is overall a very positive situation with lots of potential I just need to see it that way more and not focus on and exaggerate the limitations. Thanks!

so, y'all buying? anyone buy early? you holding? I love bernie

Great essay Leo, so well written and insightful thoughts.

I am listened to about an hour of the podcast with joe rogan, and about 53 minutes in, in very clear yet not explicit terms, Mackey describes spiral dynamics. I was curious about this because mackey gave a 2006 speech about spiral dynamics. It is apparently also present in his new book. He clearly thinks he is describing yellow capitalism and criticizing green socialism from above. https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/tips-and-ideas/archive/upward-flow-human-c2-a0development I was really shocked by Mackeys positions on Rogan, and am glad to see Leo's response. Nevertheless, I think Leo missed something when he said that Mackey doesn't understand human development. He has been working with spiral dynamics for a long time, from 2006 to 2020, as we can see.

https://www.integratedsociopsychology.net/2018/looking-beyond-the-midterm-elections/ Can't find anything about 'our' Don Beck liking Donald

@Leo Gura And yours depends on you giving us accurate insights into the nature of capitalism. Yay! @Girzo Exactly. I remember reading Memenomics and how Said Dawlabani praised whole foods as a yellow corporation. It fit his model of conscious yellow politics. Interesting. I might reread those sections in light of Mackey's position on Joe Rogan. I wonder if there's any contradiction in there.

I love Frank Yang! This was a great video. His last one too, Re: actualized.org had so many great concepts.

@Average Investor yea I ordered some masks that will block out ragweed. I was tested so I am pretty sure it's just ragweed and tree pollen. When I'm inside it's pretty much fine. The problem is being outside. My life purpose is sustainable agriculture so this is an issue. At this farm I will be going to, I won't have AC or any filter. Maybe I should get one before going. Yea, I am avoiding those. I tried one this year and it didn't even help. @Michael569 I already have a bunch of Paul Stamets mushrooms including a mixture of 5 types and lions mane, I will try this. Great advice thanks @Brian Wolfe I know lol @Sri McDonald Trump Maharaj That's fascinating maybe in a few years if nothing else works. Carnivore scares me. Thanks so much everyone!

depending on how much money you make this can even be a way to save more money than you would make spending that time working. I spent many hours building gardens earlier in the spring and now I grow almost all my own vegetables, with no chemicals. After this its very low labor. I plan to long term solve this problem by living in a permaculture farm or ecovillage

Same! I have 4 of those jugs and I go to an RO place just 10 minutes away and then add pink himilayan salt to remineralize. Apparently according to Paul Chek you should add clay to it too. Does anyone know what type of clay that is?

Big ENFJ (as oppposed to INTP and I thought the last video was the best video I've ever seen

great idea!!!! would be very helpful

@roopepa great video. doesn't seem like we're doing it right tho but idk

I'm not a follower of this guy, but he seemed alright so I started to watch the movie. I know he had some stuff going on with David Icke but from this movie it seems he is actually a pretty good person who cares about the environment(a major theme of this movie, along with ayahuasca) a lot. I cried many times so I wanted to share it. As you can see by the thumbnail, lots of great voices. Dan Pena and Jordan Peterson narratives were not the thesis of this movie, but actually Pena was used as contrast. Edit: not sure what the deal with this Dan Pena guy is. Aapparently he has 50 billion dollars.

His descriptions of spirituality seem to be very in agreement with Leo's, such as with saying you are god, and about love.

perhaps in the grand scheme of infinity, everything that makes up the current spiral will be gone, and there will be more sequences of evolution that go from lower to higher forms of consciousness. I don't think turquoise turns into beige in any way.

But the challenge of policing lays in stopping these people, which involves difficult things like preventing police officers from becoming this way, and screening out the bad ones. It's not an excuse, the cop was in the wrong. It wasn't difficult for him to act better, it was difficult for the system to stop it. Edit: I live in the suburbs of Minneapolis. This stuff is crazy. burning building and looting down there,

yuuuuup. I haven't though

Troy Casey is a fan What is the point of it though? why would your body pee it out if you shouldn't get rid of it? Is it some way that our bodies aren't working as they naturally should?

@Felli Great post! that video is in my watch later.

Have you read his books? His recent The way of the psychonaut is an awesome one. I don't see him on the book list though.