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@How to be wise I've been thinking a lot about not going. I have like 7 months to decide. (or take a gap year to)

I've spent the last 3 months researching colleges and with how these schools are as far a price and reputation for doctoral work or getting a job, I don't think it's worth it. If you want to study transpersonal psychology, which is great, I think you're better off doing it on your own whether or not you go to college. CIIS for example is 22k. Let me know what you find or think. I'm in a similar pinch as you and am not sure of myself at all.

oops i posted this too after you but in self actualization section

Where did this idea come from anyway? But yea that'd be a sick video

I loved the paper! It's cool how Wilber's books make a little more sense when he mentions her now.

I've always wondered that, and in a sense I guess we can only speculate. I've kind of thought that their minds had a lot of free time you feel. Maybe psychedelics revealed it to them.

Congratulations! That's interesting how your experience was different and seems more advanced

Iceland is i think 100% geothermal, which unlike nuclear can't cause radioactive leaks

@TheAvatarState that's so cool

It sounds cool. What would your medium be? Videos like rsd, workshops like rsd, something else? books?

@Leo Gura Could you elaborate on jesus not being human? Isn't the highest form of awakening realizing there is no difference between the ordinary world and enlightenment. Such that the goal isn't to be in a state where you are constantly g0d and never on autopilot, but to not see a difference in the two? As Daniel Ingram says mindfullness always waxes and wanes. @Ella yea what you said

For the past couple of years I have listened to music very rarely because I was under the impression that it's low consciousness, just a distraction, essentially a drug. Also, I've had from what I understand from bioenergetics to be an emotional blockage. For a year or two I didn't cry once. In the last year or two, after I started meditating and doing bioenergetics and shamanic breathing, I've cried every few months. It always feels like a huge emotional release and relief. It's happened randomly, one time was from listening to a song, one was because I was under a bunch of pressure. Last night it happened again from listening to music. I found some artist I really like like a week ago and have since listened to their 20 or so songs a lot, I thought they were really good so I just said fuck it. Last night I was going to bed soon and I just laid on my couch and played two of those songs with a sad vibe, and I felt like crying but then the usual strained resistance came up. I realized I wasn't crying because I wanted to, and just tried to let go. Then I burst into sobbing for 10 minutes straight. It felt like all my emotions from the past few years came up and I feel so much clearer now. So do you guys think music can be helpful in this regard? As a therapeutic tool. Also does anyone have any advice for my situation with not being able to cry, beyond what I'm already doing.

Might have something to do with your first paragraph

@Leo Gura Could you elaborate on why you think the stages you've reached are beyond what most are capable of. I mean the people on this forum are far more conscious that average people, and what if they did the same amount of work you did, or double. It's not like you were accessing higher states of consciousness than others before you started the work. Yes, you have gone deeper than lots of other teachers, faster too, but what if we are using your methods?

that gave me a good chuckle

The emperor has no clothes! he looks old

SPIRAL Take Leo for example, he is certainly changing the world positively and has time to meditate, do retreats, not overwork. Also keep in mind the type of projects Elon is taking on. They are extremely technologically ambitious. Changing the world in this way could be more demanding than other ways like politics or spirituality.

I've heard from rogan that you can;t get all the way with natural because the other drugs make you knock out after one hit or so. With synthetic you can take more hits and its more 5meo per hit. Idk if anyone has plugged natural lmao

@Leo Gura You should watch this. You seem interested in UFO's and your view of them will be terribly incomplete if you don't get what he's talking about.

Absolutely great video. McKenna's explanation of Jung's view on the materialistic paradigm is lovely.

I thought we already knew there were planets outside of our solar system

@SFRL I have 5 dogs. Get yourself some dogs

I think of all the political sentiments environmentalism resonates with me the most. However, I've heard good arguments that climate change is natural and that it isn't. It seems to be that republicans claim it is natural and democrats that it is man made. Both sides claim to have science on their side. From the research I've done it seems science really isn't on either side, and my best guess is that we really don't know. So it surprises me that all politicians talk about is climate change. It seems that they should be more concerned with upset of ecological systems through other means than climate change such as pollution, deforestation, world population, greedy capitalism, oil, etc. The democratic side seems so focused on the damned climate change and the republicans make some good points against it but have nothing to say against the other things, which they don't care about due to spiral development. Am I wrong. Can someone enlighten me as to what's going on here?

David Richo, author of Shadow Dance had an experience of collective suffering and he describes the collective shadow