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After my recent breakup, I knew I needed a change. So, I have decided to commit to a solo international travel journey, first to Bali, Indonesia - Then to somewhere in Thailand, and then possibly India or Vietnam after. Has anyone here solo-traveled internationally before? I would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions if you have. I'm excited, a bit afraid, and also deeply called to take this trip. I know it will be worth it for the growth, and who knows what cool experiences and people await me. It quite literally feels like the next step on the path to the evolution of my soul. It feels quite mystical, like I'm "supposed" to do this. Thank you in advance for any tips. Cheers!

I'm going to see Jordan Peterson live on tour Tuesday. I paid $215 for a 4th row seat so I could get the full experience. I'll let you know my thoughts after

That’s awesome. I feel the same way. I’ve traveled in the U.S. before, with my family, friends, and girlfriend, but never alone, and never to another country. It’s like the perfect challenge for me, and I know this is exactly what I need. I really can’t explain the feeling. It’s a very deep spiritual call.

Hell yeah.

At the end of his interview with Andrew Huberman, Robert Greene (Author of 48 Laws of Power) discusses how he had a stroke and realized "the self is a construct" and that "the brain creates illusions" I'm sure this flew over most people's heads as Huberman's audience is mainly into science and not deep metaphysical truths, but it was glaringly obvious to me that Robert got a glimpse into true nature through his NDE. Pretty cool. Video starts where he is talking about it:

This is insanity. I can't wait to use it: https://openai.com/sora

One of the hallmarks of true spiritual maturity is the deep sense of humility, of just being apart of it all, and not better than any other part of it. It's as Ram Dass famously said: "I was no longer needing to be special, because I was no longer so caught in my puny separateness that had to keep proving I was something. I was part of the universe, like a tree is, or like grass is, or like water is. Like storms, like roses. I was just part of it all."

“It suits the generous man to give money, but truly the generosity of the lover is to surrender his soul. If you give bread for God’s sake, you will be given bread in return; if you give your life for God’s sake, you will be given Life in return.” ~ Rumi Mathnawi 2235-2236

A synchronicity can become a mystical experience if you comprehend deeply and directly what it means and why it has occurred, which is: you are One with the Infinite Mind, the All That Is, and you tapped into a dimension of being higher than normal human consciousness which allowed the synchronicity to take place. If you don’t comprehend that, then a synchronicity is just a synchronicity - which is still really cool and mysterious in nature, but not nearly as profound as deeply comprehending WHY it has occurred. When you see cleary why it has occurred - actually, then that is when you go beyond it just being a cool synchronicity and you enter a mystical experience… a truly divine encounter with the transcendent One.

Hey friends, the past few weeks I have woken up from my nights sleep into pure insight. Literally. I wake up and some truth or insight regarding the mind, my life, culture, relationship dynamics, and things of that nature are glaringly obvious and clear to me. It’s like I can “see” something perfectly as soon as I wake up. It’s feels like God is leaving me little Easter eggs in my sleep, so I can wake up to them sitting in my lap. For example, I woke up a few days ago “into” an insight regarding the ego, and how it can project its own deficiencies and insecurities outward onto the external world in an inverted and twisted way, so that it demonizes the very thing it feels it lacks or is insecure about. Now that’s not too crazy of an insight, in fact I know it’s sort of a a common understanding that the ego projects in that way, but the fact that I immediately woke up from my sleep “into” that realization and the perfect clarity of its truth is what baffles me. I've never experienced this before, and what’s odd is I haven’t smoked weed or done and psychedelics recently. I’ve been completely sober for months. Anyone ever heard of something like this before? All I can do is be grateful it’s happening, but regardless, it’s still very mysterious. Would love to hear your thoughts! Thanks

This is why I can't justify voting for either one. If you vote for Biden you are voting for someone you know is unfit for the position because they are mentally incapable. If you vote for Trump you are voting for someone you know is unfit for the position because they are way too immature and divisive. So, if you vote for either one, you essentially voting to preserve your party's survival and not because you are voting for the person that is the most capable for the position. - To me, RFK Jr. is literally the only option that makes rational sense when it comes to who actually deserves to be the leader of our country. I can't rationalize voting for anyone else. It would go against my integrity and moral compass. - ...If we all voted for the most capable leader - the one who actually deserves it - that's what we would get.

He always wears crazy ass suits There was a lot of Mormons there. 😂

It was and I did! Sure I'll elaborate more tomorrow in a post.

Update: That was pretty fucking awesome. Being that close to him was a bit surreal after watching so many of his lectures through a screen. His talk was focused mainly on the biblical story of Abraham and the archetypical correlation to the call to adventure and the theme of sacrifice in our own lives. He did a pretty intensive walkthrough of certain parts of the story, referencing passages and then exploring their meaning in-depth. Felt like I was in one of his classic YouTube lecture videos. It also reminded me a lot of Leo’s talks on life purpose and the importance of answering the call to fulfill your higher potential. Love or Hate JP, he definitely has a passion and a calling to speak on the topics he does, and the amount of people there reflected that genuine alignment to me. I’m glad I decided to go. Now time to reflect and digest the wisdom shared ✍️🤔

Update: can’t believe how many people are here.

Hahaha 😂

What can't this guy do, my goodness. 😂

hahaha! You guys are great. I love the banter. Sure, I will let you know. This is mainly why I got the closer seats. I feel like it will be a really cool experience to actually get a feel for his energy up-close and not through my computer screen or phone. I have always been a Jordan Peterson fan, especially on the practical life advice side of things. I also really like his takes on the bible and the biblical stories. I think his intuitions about a lot of spiritual stuff are spot on. For me, I'm really going because I get unspeakable joy from connecting the dots between all these sources of information. When I see a connection that runs all the way through JP's view, Leo's view, eastern traditions like Zen or Hinduism, Indian sages like Ramana Maharshi or Nisargadatta Maharaj, modern nondual teachers like Rupert Spira or Mooji, 70's gurus like Alan Watts or Ram Dass, and my own direct experience with awakening and psychedelics - every cell of my being is jumping with excitement, because I can see the Truth is Meta and expresses itself in yet another individual human's perspective. It's really satisfying to tie it all together in my mind. It feels like sacred alchemy. It's like I'm creating my own divine gold when I can connect that divine light of Truth between so many different beings. Jordan Peterson is just one of many that I see that Truth in. That's on my bucket list.

Damn

It is until you're bored of it, haha. Glad you enjoyed the story. Every time I go there the people working are nice. Definitely a great atmosphere.

So around a month ago, I broke up with my girlfriend of four years. I felt like it wasn’t really going anywhere, and I felt I was ultimately in a different stage of my life than her. So as hard as it was, I ended it. This was my 3rd long term relationship in the past 10 years. In those 10 years I’ve spent around three months single, so while I’ve had plenty of experience in the bedroom, and in relationship, I have very little flirting and dating for fun. While I still feel repulsed by the idea of actually getting into a relationship and I have absolutely no desire to do so for a long while, I’m always interested in improving myself and pushing my boundaries. I recently watched Leo’s three-part series how to get laid and I have been interested in where I’ve went wrong and the mistakes I’ve made dating in the past. Oh boy has there been a lot. Fast forward to today – I’m at my local natural grocers to get some kombucha and organic chocolate that I eat right before I work out (good source of organic sugars that my body can use right before I hit it hard in the gym), and I noticed a super hot, 8-9/10 hippie looking girl with curly black hair and a bandana scanning items and checking people out. The flashing thought of “fuck this girl is hot” goes through my mind and the following scenario unfolds as I step into her checkout line: I set my kombucha down on the moving conveyor and the conveyor doesn’t stop like it normally does when an item gets close to the cashier. My kombucha slams into the scanning area almost shattering into pieces. I don’t get embarrassed, but instead make a joke out of it and go “whoa, WHOA!” In a comical style of voice. I completely owned the spontaneous unfoldment with ease. The Elderly gentleman in front of me laughs, and the hot hippie check chuckles and says something like “that happens a lot.” She places a divider bar in front of the censor to get the conveyor belt to stop so I can place my things down. I do. The elderly guy in front of me grabs his stuff and leaves. I step up and face her to checkout, she looks directly into my eyes with divine feminine beauty - testing to see if i will maintain eye contact. I do, solidly, and then say to her teasing, “does this thing always break when you’re here?” Hook, line, and sinker. she giggles and says “most the time.” her eyes and face blush, i don’t think she was expecting me to be so direct. silence for a few seconds as I’m putting in my member number to the credit card machine. she breaks silence almost instantly asks ”what are you up to today?” I point at the chocolates and say “I’m going to lift some weights, those are my pre workout.” now mind you there are 4 large chocolate bars here, so it’s not a single serving at all. It’s about 20 servings of chocolate in total. These bars are huge. she says ”you eat them all?” I say “well yeah.” she goes “wait really?” Smiling and confused, as if she’s mindblown I eat all this chocolate before every workout I say “no I’m kidding.” she says “oh that would be wild if you ate them all before you worked out” giggling i pivot hard again and go “well i do eat them all before I workout.” Fucking with her intentionally. she’s completely dumb-struck. I can literally see her emotions fluttering as she’s trying to figure out what the hell im saying, if im being serious, if she misheard me, or if im playing with her. I felt like a cat playing with a toy mouse. she goes “wait, Really?!” awe-struck that I am now saying I ACTUALLY EAT THEM ALL I go “yes.” Dead serious, maintaining eye contact. shes in disbelief. A few seconds pass, I tell the truth: ”haha, just kidding. I eat a few squares from one bar before I workout, it helps me get a pump.” she starts laughing, and says “oh my gosh! I knew that would be so crazy if you actually did!” completely amused by the “game” I was playing with her. I can tell how much she enjoyed it. She says “want your receipt”? (this whole time I’ve been scanning my card, putting in my member number to the credit machine, etc. i say “nah im good, ill need a box though.” (they use boxes at my natural grocers so people can take their groceries out and not use paper bags - all the boxes to use for this are held in a giant storage area at the end of all the checkout lines I start walking over to look for one, she immediately “qualifies” herself, passes by me quickly saying “oh no i can do it” I stop in my tracks on the way to grab a box. I say “thank you.” she grabs a box for me and meets me back at the checkout line, fills it up with my stuff. a few seconds of silence and she hands me my stuff, looking into my eyes and says “enjoy your workout” smiling I smile back and say “I will. enjoy that runaway train you got” (referring to the conveyor that doesn’t work.) she giggles i leave. —————————— While I probably could’ve ended by closing her and asking for a number, as I said, I really have no desire to date a girl right now, especially after being in a relationship for so long. But this interaction, with a super hot girl that would’ve normally taken my balls from me, gave me confirmation that I’m on the right path - to see the push and pull, the tease, the game, and to watch this 9/10 girls emotions become so dynamic and ”turned on” that she is 100% attracted to me. Such a great feeling. 😎

I’m 23. My girlfriend was 21. My 3 relationships of the past decade have been so physical that I would be willing to bet I’ve had sex around 1000 times. That’s why I said that I don’t have a problem in the bedroom or later stages of attraction / relationship, just with the initial flirting / dating stages.

Damn.

Wow. I have no words.

My god those videos are incredible.