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During meditation, a powerful insight struck me: Motivation is like thirst, needing constant replenishment. This led me to consider how I seek inspiration, often consuming motivational content that builds up an intense internal energy—like a volcano about to erupt. However, I realized I lack a clear purpose to channel this energy, only vague desires to 'be better.' This is dangerous: repeatedly getting excited about my potential without a true goal, then falling into despair because I fail to apply that motivation constructively, becomes detrimental to self-improvement.

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Make a high consciousness group on Facebook or something like that or start your own community group and hire an app designer. This is something Sam Harris did with his app.

Some of my musings As you settle in for rest, breathe in deeply. You have become a good friend to yourself here on your fabulous path. Let your muscles relax as you exhale. Breathe in again and feel your shoulders drop. Let your arms become heavy. Listen to a poem by Jane Hirshfield and realize your extraordinary power to heal. There are names for what binds us: Strong forces. Weak forces. Look around, you can see them. The skin that forms in a half empty cup Nails rusting into the places they join, Joints dovetailed on their own weight. The way things stay so solidly Wherever they have been set down — And gravity, scientists say, is weak. And see how the flesh grows back Across a wound, with a great vehemence. More strong, Than the simple untested surface before. There's a name for it on horses, When it comes back darker and raised: proud flesh, As all flesh, Is proud of it's wounds, wears them. As honors given out after battle, Small triumphs pinned to the chest - And when two people have loved each other, See how it is like a scar between their bodies, Stronger, darker and proud : How the black cord makes them a single fabric That nothing can teal or mend.

You can mentally pleasure yourself endlessly, a true cerebral acrobatics, and the only reason you can is because it's utterly meaningless. A vacuum, a null-set of purpose. But building a life from actual suffering – now that's got some heft, some real conceptual density. Imagine you're just a big, empty space, a pure void. Nothing, absolutely zero, could make you happy. To suffer is to actively make that void even worse, a deliberate descent into something more, something less blank.

What's the key difference between pseudoscience and esoteric science please?

I agree there's not much merit to it. Bogus slogan invented to attract Trump brigade.

They are Tier 1 people and you can't change them. You have to let them be. You also have to engage with them at their level to get along with them or to thrive among them. Their survival agenda is too constricted and non-inclusive.

Your definition of sanity was near perfect. You seem to operate on a logical paradigm. My question is, why is it hard for you to know what insanity is?

Isn't it easy to differentiate (based on your definition), between who is and who isn't? I mean it's easy to conclude that someone is insane if their interpretation is totally incoherent with human logic, isn't it so? Why would need anyone to tell you what's insanity and what's not?

Brain is a muscle and it's how you exercise this muscle. Type A personalities exercise it way too much. That's how they get things done besides raw genetics. Then it becomes a habit once they are in a feedback loop.

This can mean that our feelings towards ourselves influence how we see our reflection, potentially creating a "vicious cycle" if self-feelings are negative. You have to try mirror gazing but without any preconceived notions. It's like the mirror is not lying but perhaps you want the mirror to lie because it's too difficult to confront the truth

How would you define sanity yourself?

You don't need to think God. You have to be God.

Leo has a list of 10 rules that I'm really appreciating. But I have decided to revise reframe and expand it a bit and add a bit to it. So here's my addition. 1. Pursue truth for the sake of truth. Only truth, no lie. This is applicable to all categories including how you treat people. There shouldn't be even the slightest omission of information. Perfect transparency is the way to go. 2. Direct experience is king. Such direct experiences should be shared via reports, video reports might even be better. This gives a direct visual understanding of the direct experience in a comprehensive manner. 3. Always respect the sovereignty of other. Always. There should not be exceptions to such a rule. Others include everyone. It should be a fair game. 4. Never try to manipulate anyone. Transparency always reduces manipulation or the opportunity for it. There should never be any agenda beneath the expression of one's narrative nor the need to suppress the narrative of others to further one's own agenda. 5.The truthful pursuit of real philosophy, metaphysics and epistemology will lead you towards a truthful life. Such an endeavor can be carried out solo too. But within a group, it's important to consider the need of others to follow an honest and truthful path and their truth and honesty should be honored to the highest degree. 6. Question all of your assumptions and biases. Always. Even when it comes to others. Welcome their assumptions and biases too and be ready to dismantle them using truth. Suppression of their assumptions will not help them come to the truth. 7. Always be on the lookout for self deception in yourself! Self deception is how the devil corrupts you.Always be on the lookout for self deception in others too. Question their self deception to the necessary extent possible. Give them the freedom to such questioning. 8. Pursue independent thinking! Stop looking for daddy figures to spoon feed you ideas or truth. There are lot of daddy figures in the market mushrooming everyday trying to spoon feed you with the ideas of truth. Needless to say stay away from such. Critical thinking on your own will bring you closer to the truth. 9. Study spiral dynamics! Make sure you integrate in yourself all the healthy aspects of the tier 1 stages while avoiding their negative aspects while striving to deveop into tier 2. Make sure to not ever display or engage in the negative aspects of Tier 1 stages to achieve your goals, in other words do not use them as a means to your end. 10. Develop high integrity. Developing high integrity comes at a cost. Be ready to understand the cost and be fully invested in maintaining such high integrity without any under the table tradeoffs. Last but not the least smoke some 5 MeO-DMT to get tripping on truth!

Damn, bro, I just love leo's post on this one. I like religion to some extent I'm ngl, and I have been contemplating leaving christianity but at the same time it just bugs me because religious attachments can be heavy and difficult to let go off if. It gives you a structure you don't want to leave and the sense of comfort that comes with it like having a cup of coffee with your mates at church or in the evening a sense of connection and belongingness you don't want to miss. A lot of my friends are trump supporters and I don't want to piss them off.

Some of my musings. The time has arrived. This is your time. The knight has arrived in full armor. You are a living, breathing, human being that deserves to connect with how the air feels right now, warm or cool, how the scents filter in through the window or how the steam rises in swirls from a mug of tea. Breathe in now and grant yourself this time to integrate your experiences from the day into your growing body of wisdom. There's nothing you need to do right now but rest. Breathe deeply. Notice. It is not only your habits that are changing. You're developing the ability to look straight into the heart of difficulty and use it to move forward. These are the treasures you're discovering along your fabulous path.

Great question buddy! I wish I had more to say about your post but I'm a bit tight on my resources right now. I have a meet with a friend. I agree with Lordfall. Working a blue collar job is a great way to have a structure in your life. If you lay off the stage green thing, you can quickly navigate through such environments without it being too bothersome to you. Just don't join a cult because that's a huge possibility out there especially with those structural environments usually created by cultists. By the way I'm contemplating this same question and post to my own life as well as I lack structure and capability to hold it all together and responsibility as well. It's tough out there and i kept switching many many jobs as they didn't suit me that good. When I was unemployed for some time, it felt terrible to feel good about life or anything at all. I even wanted to abandon spirituality and thought nothing worked. Sometimes all of this can be a cesspit that draws you in and you have to wiggle your way out of it. Try it if you must. Experiment it. Join a religious group or organization and see how that feels and fits for you. The belonging to a shared group or organization, whatever it may be, even if it's religious, can be a vital motivator to bring stability to your life and carve a way forward. I hope you enjoy it and find what you are looking for. Don't judge yourself for it and there's absolutely no harm in trying. In fact I want to be on the same path now. I'm not exactly religious but I would like to explore as much as possible whatever is out there that makes living sustainable.

It means a lot of things and it depends on the version you ask. Trump's version is probably this - (though Trump's version keeps flip-flopping depending on his mood and a week ago he said that it means whatever he wants it to be in the moment) "Make America safe again, make America affordable and energy dominant again, drain the swamp, bring back American values." This is the Trump version as of late, at least till his most recent campaigning before the election. Historical versions also exist. It was a popular republican slogan in the 1800s and President Woodrow Wilson used to mean that America should be neutral and out of the first world war and should have nothing to do with it in a way to say American priorities first. It was also used by Charles Lindbergh during WW2 to keep America out of foreign wars. It had strong resonance with Make America Great Again. It was also an anti-semite slogan in the 1950s used by anti-immigration movements. It was then picked up by the rise of Ku Klux Klan and used as a nativist racist slogan to mean that America only belonged to predominantly white people. It was a way of saying me first,only my version of America here. (Which meant 100% American blood or 100% Anglo-Saxon. There was this so called one drop rule, a racist rule, at the time in America that meant that one drop of black blood made someone legally black and subject to slavery or Jim Crow laws.) And that meant nobody else who is — anybody who's not white, not Protestant, not what they saw as a native born American, an old style American - should be allowed on American soil. The age old debate on what kind of country country we want to live in, and who has the right to be here. It was turned from an isolationist slogan to a nativist white nationalist slogan. When Bannon refers to "economic nationalism" it has the same meaning. It bears similarities with the phrase "American dream" which is another popular catchphrase that Trump often uses. But the phrase had different implied meanings in the 1950s which was very inclusive, it meant racial justice and liberty for all and a prospect for everyone to achieve the American dream. It was then changed into making America as Trump wants it to be. As in Trump's version of America is the cartoonish version of 1950s America where Trump has it easy and he wants to presumably bring back that version of America. Trump feeds into the resentment that many people have they can't see the 1950s America anymore which means predominantly white groups. The struggle between liberal democracy and authoritarian fascism. America first speaks directly to that segment of white America that felt they were losing their power, their dominance.

A quote from leo's recent blog perfectly rhymes with your thread lol, "Mankind survived just fine in the jungles and deserts for millennia without science. But they couldn't without sense-making. Also, when you leave your laboratory at the end of the day, you can leave your science back there, but sense-making must stay with you 24/7."

From Leo's blog post, My god this is so helpful. I'll just slobber this shit up. Survival, sanity, psychology, and sociology come first, science comes a distant second at best. Some more, leo keep it coming. I can write from my own understanding of the entire domain of philosophy, psychology, epistemology, metaphysics, and spirituality. It writes effortlessly because I know it all like the back of my hand. But it still takes hundreds and hundreds of hours to write it all out, to phrase everything elegantly and beautifully. Mastery at its finest.

Ask Claude — what challenges do humans face that are counterproductive to human evolution and civilization?

Thats some absurd extreme stuff I just watched. But basic masculinity, for example, going to the gym, eating well, sports, athletics etc, all that doesn't adhere to such absurdity. There's emotional value to how you grow yourself and the paths are different for men and women. Like you said masculinity needs to be forged, trial by fire. Sadly views on masculinity are quite reductionist in modern society partly because men are never allowed to be vulnerable in a hyper dominant "you're a misogynist if you lay down your male perspective" environment.

I sleep at 10.15pm and permit 10-10.15 as last screen time where I quickly check and deal with some news, emails, texts. The period 8-10pm, I allow for entertainment so that's screen time too but it's passive consumption. The hours 5-8pm are for dinner and meditating. So for me the evening is all a gradual wind-down of screen time.

I use nova relaxing music + combined with asmr videos. Then switch off the screen when I'm sleepy. One example, Honestly I think I should just copy your pattern, seems very helpful to wind down.