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@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

Yea I asked a question on this forum a while ago and this video gave me the answer when I found it. Good perspective on how to use psychs in a not necessarily clinical setting for personal transformation and also not for spirituality necessarily either.

Oo great video Yea it's wack how devilish politicians coopt stuff like this. What about my conservative bud who says volcanoes release much more carbon than us?

I'm in highschool too. This is why I don't do sports. The extra time could be so good if you use it well. You need all the time you can get at this age

Sounds like progress to me

@Joker_Theory You'll be the first. Ever

I done heard there's some kick ass architecture schools in the U.S. How sure are you you need the spanish one? Maybe there's a school you'd like with a better environment.

@flume I have near no experience. @Girzo What about like just growing a few things and selling some to get basic necessities for living. I'm looking at this as a way to support a really really simple lifestyle. I'm not claiming that I do know a method of doing this but that's what I plan on researching. What about monks and shit, like the stereotypical ones that live in a cave and everything close to that. I'm not looking to make a lot of money or anything just to literally survive.

I just got back from my 10 day meditation retreat. I signed up for the vippasana ones but got declined the past two years because I'm under 18. I got my mom to let me stay at her cabin for the retreat although I had to text my parents daily. I sat 6 hours a day. 4 hours vippasana 2 hours kriya yoga. I did this because I was sleeping a lot, cooking my own meals, and I wanted time to just sit informally. No fap no distractions so it was a legit retreat. It was a sick location, saw lots of wildlife. The first few days were super hard emotionally but that passed and the rest were brutal too. Halfway through the first day I was just planning when I would leave early. At the end of the second day I was doing kriya yoga and my body was pulsing with energy, at the top of the breath on kriya pranayama. I left my body and just felt a singularity of energy, and saw spinning red fractals. This happened again about half a dozen times. On the 6th day this happened and I think I entered some kind of state of cessation or some altered state. I came back to my body falling to the floor in a state of sheer confusion. It took me a while to figure out who I was or what I was doing. I think this was a result of the cessation of the narrative of the ego because I couldn't remember thinking or experiencing anything in that time. This state emerged after seeing the fractals and feeling the buzzing, and hearing alien clicking I might add, it felt before it like I was going through a tunnel. I also felt extremely, distractingly creative for some times, and experienced some pure joy for a while towards the second half of the retreat. The vippasana felt like a failure. I know it wasn't because I worked through the resistance that lingered through it. Regardless I never got into many deep meditative states from it because of all the emotional resistance physical pain, restless energy. My Question is whether this was a result of the low amount of the technique or if this is all fine and good for a first retreat, i.e. was this an error or part of the process.

Mastering the core teaching of the buddha is great all around. 1000 has some very good models of awakening however I think the book is too poetic and way to autobiographical. I third the book of not knowing. I liked Ken Wilber's integral psychology, also but less integral spirituality. He has some very good insights in application of systems thinking if you can stand the dense repitition. What kind of books are you looking for?

I'm a highschooler reading this forum to look for career ideas

Elliot released a 5 part series on fasting and how to get into it, he talks about spiritual and physical benefits. If you sort the wheat from the chaff he aint all bad. Elliot has always been like this with politics. Back in the day, over 5 years ago he was a big Alex Jones fan. He hasn't exactly changed on this front. I think some of his political points are valid, but they are all so painfully partial. He is certainly teir 1

I used the word farm loosely. I want to have plants and animals on a piece of land.

anyone remember avatar the last airbender

@Beard That's a cute tweet and all but it doesn't have Maslow's top level, self transcendence.