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I enjoyed his video on libertarianism. It confirmed many things I suspected about the philosophy but couldn't put into words. He has a conspiracy video? I'll have to give it a watch, given I hold some beliefs that might be considered "conspiracy" though I fully admit it doesn't really matter if 9/11 was an inside job or not.. "world events" don't really matter, they are a distraction that fuels the ego, in my opinion. I still think some here on these forums hold positions that are too strong and dogmatic in some respects, and they'd be better served by relaxing a bit and realizing that they can't force the entire world to be like them, nor should they get upset if they can't. It does no good to "hate the haters."

Dopamine stimulation and consumerism. Corporations play on our inbuilt biological drives and market products around them. This is especially true in the US where Hollywood, Media, and corporations sensationalize and play on our emotions even moreso than in foreign countries. It's one reason half the population thinks the world is 'going to hell' .. because they watch the news. All of it is based on Freud and Yung and evolved from much of their works. Give people what their inner ape inside wants... leo's video on the happiness spectrum correctly talks about the types of happiness that would be more worth pursuing, but really what makes something "worth" pursuing? Are we just kidding ourselves? Maybe the people who stuff themselves and watch Football all day have it right.... maybe most of us here are the neurotic ones and the "sheep" are the ones doing it right... something I ponder from time to time... Would you take the blue pill? I often ask myself that....

The way I look at conspiracy theories, is it doesn't really matter if they happened or not... I personally think 9/11 was an inside job but I really don't care... it doesn't matter in my personal growth. Just a distraction from what I'm trying to accomplish in my life. I used to be into that conspiracy stuff more. The one mistake I think people make here in this forum is getting too caught up in world events... especially if they fill you full of negative emotions... they distract you from personal growth, unless you were put on this planet in this life to help others and fight for a cause, then by all means I wish you the best. As history is written by the victors, I do believe a lot of conspiracies end up being true. But again, it doesn't really matter what is true or not in our "history" ... it's done. I've learned in part thanks to Leo I'm too analytical for my own good. The biggest progress I've made has come in moments when I quiet the thinking mind and go into a complete state of mindful self acceptance of the present moment. From there I build my house on a solid foundation rather than one made of quicksand.

We are animals. As a guy who believes in evolution first, you just have to look at the animal kingdom. Nature is not really pure and innocent. In reality the roots compete with each other for resources.. some trees are better equipped to handle an area than others. If you get a hard freeze in an area not equipped to handle it, massive amounts of plantlife can die. Lions kill zebras to eat. Nature basically recycles itself through a harmonious process that can appear from an outsider's perspective to be immoral. What human beings do is take nature and try to make it fair, like that song "The Trees" by Rush talks about. In my opinion nature is amoral.. it's only our human perception that gives it morality, and since everyone is developing at their own pace, I don't sweat the so called bad things that happen in society nor do I worry about waking other people up. If a human being acts "evil" it's because their brain chemistry is fucked up. Chances are they might not even like the person they are and wish they could take the "blue pill" .. Leo posted a great video on psychopaths vs sociopaths vs narcissists.... I suggest watching that one and related videos to get an understanding of human psychology. Our brains are complex and it doesn't take much for them to get messed up with such a complex species. These are the people who have no remorse for what they do.... so they are wired that way, sometimes from birth. The media takes the worst cases and bombards them with you daily, which is why I recommend limiting how much news and media you consume. It really makes the world seem worse than it is, when in reality our species has never been more peaceful and tolerant in it's history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr04gHbP5MQ Pretty dry material for most of the video but provides more evidence that the progressives simply run with this pandemic stuff as though it's gospel and think anyone who disagrees is flat out wrong and immoral, and they seem to think we should lock down the entire world for a year over a virus that mostly affects the elderly. There in fact some very powerful corporate interests that are making a killing off the reaction to the virus. I'm not staunchly anti-mask but I like to keep an open mind. It's easy to use the media to manipulate people. See this much better video (not related to covid) that talks about that... BBC documentary that has 4 total parts, the first 3 in particular are quite good. These guys were the pioneers of modern psychology...

CDC COVID-19 Survival Rates Age 0-19 — 99.997% Age 20-49 — 99.98% Age 50-69 — 99.5% Age 70+ — 94.6% I don't like to argue about wearing masks or not but as a guy who has always been into science, survivial of the fittest, natural selection, and psychology, it seems like a lot of the response to this virus such as taking away kid's childhoods is doing more damage than the virus itself. To me it seems like an over-reaction when the better idea would be to make sure high risk people try to take extra precautions and open society back up. I just wonder how long a vaccine will take, how effective it will be, and how long they expect kids to learn from home and people to wear masks and social distance and shut all of society down, and how many people will be psychologically affected by it versus how many people we save. I see far too many progressives that have taken this lockdown stuff and ran with it as though their position is gospel, the only right position, and anyone who challenges or questions it is evil or immoral. I've even heard articles that say this is the new normal, that when we go on a bus or into a store we are just going to have masks on... forever. Um, no, not happening, sorry. I like to do a cost benefit analysis before I take certain actions and to me this is a gross over-reaction to something that mostly affects people in nursing homes. I won't reply to any criticism of this post because I've tried with progressives in the past and get nowhere. I just wanted to give my opinion.

As a moderate I see the opposite.. I see democrats cheating with mail in ballots and voter harvesting, condoning these riots and violence, censoring moderate and conservative views within the media (I believe in total freedom of speech... let people make up their own minds) ... an ideal democrat party would be what they wish to see in others, rather than this tactic of dividing people up into groups and getting them to play the victim card. I see them promoting a welfare state and giving people fish rather than teaching them to fish. I see a lot of "neuroticism" among the left that is brought on by their own thinking. I get it, stage green types think they are right and will attack orange and blue... I do get it.. this is why it's important to have a stage yellow president that has mastered their emotions more and is more moderate and not the radical left that gets so much media attention. We need a diplomat as president.. someone who can see both side's points of view and come to a consensus. Obviously that is not Trump, but I'm kind of disappointed with the democrat party lately.. they are letting Trump troll them basically. They can't see it's all a game to him to get them to react... but I suppose it takes some level of stage yellow to see this. It be nice if we had "honest politicians" who believed the end didn't justify the means.

There's some things that God Consciousness will never heal.. it will heal mostly stress related ailments because spirituality of this sort tends to strengthen/restore the parasympathetic, but type 1 diabetes, hypothyroidism, or in my case, a bicuspid aortic value.. it's not going to magically become tricuspid from this sort of healing. Genetics are what they are... part of having to incarnate in these bodies is deal with their primitive emotions and ailments. Look back at some of the genetic disorders some of these people who practiced inbreeding like "king tut" had... they were bad. No amount of God consciousness can do anything.... The big thing to remember... this stuff has always been around. We just never had names for them before. A lot of people are under the mistaken perception all these ailments are exclusive to modern times. For this ailment: If Hashimoto's disease causes thyroid hormone deficiency, you may need replacement therapy with thyroid hormone. This usually involves daily use of the synthetic thyroid hormone levothyroxine (Levoxyl, Synthroid, others). You really need these hormones if you have this disease. Also you mentioned stomach pain... you can ask for a gastric emptying scan to see if you may or may not have gastroparesis. If you are stressed out for any reason, say like a lot of lefties they are stressed out because they see humanity as not advancing fast enough for them and get too caught up in world events or life drama, detach from world events.... turn off the news, stay away from politics... make sure you are truly relaxed.... I would also try getting a blood glucose tester and test your blood sugar 1 hour after a meal or get an A1C test. Celiac disease tests? Hepatitis tests? Ferritin test? B12 test? These will rule out a few things.... Have you ever tried Traditional Chinese Medicine by chance? Just curious.... I haven't but I've thought about it. It's on my bucket list. David Hawkins has a book "Healing and Recovery" that deal with radical acceptance of your ailments if nothing else works. He talks about healing various issues from it. You already read one of his books I noticed. Sorry I know you said to not give you suggestions but medicine is one of my interests. You can remove the post if you want.

It's all a matter of habits, which are things that are repeated enough times that they become automatic. The subconscious mind is the domain of habits. If you have a habit of sitting on the computer hours a day browsing forums, it will take effort and you will feel discomfort (I see it being called emotional labor in this thread... very accurate) when you try to do something else, even if that something else makes you feel good, because your body has this old habit ingrained in it like a groove in a record. It's almost like an addiction. Not everyone enjoys smoking or fapping but they do it anyways because they are habits that create cravings and stimulate the dopamine release when thoughts about doing them are made, which increases dopamine until the activity is done.. basically the more you think about doing it or try to resist doing it, the more you are going to want to do it. Replace old habits with new, do them every day, until they become automatic. Replace thoughts of the old habit with something more productive. Good luck.

I think muscle testing is open to errors and that it must be done by a person of advanced consciousness to be effective, but his whole message rings of non-duality. He best books in my opinion are "I, Reality and Subjectivity" , "Healing and Recovery", and "Letting Go" It's a good addition to the enlightenment buffet.

It's great for helping men develop stage orange traits they may lack. Like it or not a lot of men are raised by the school systems emasculated. Women are taught to be strong, men are taught to be weak, and men are taught by Hollywood that women are these innocent angels to be treasured when frankly that's nonsense. A lot of men are complete doormats who put women on a pedestal and the women take advantage of their niceness with no intention of getting into a long term relationship with these men. How many stories do you know of men paying for women's this and that.. Leo has multiple videos on this topic including "why women use you for money" and this one.. I see nothing wrong with men being exposed to information to help themselves understand women more and be more of a man, to toughen them up, get them developing a dominant yet playful personality, so they can attract women, keep them attracted, and keep from being taken advantage of. Like any source of information you have to take the good with the bad and discern between the two. I see it for the average American male as doing much more good than bad. As for the MGTOW men, many aren't willing to admit their personality sucks... many of them don't have a personality. They are too serious and controlling. Frankly there are plenty of examples of men in happy relationships around me to know much of the philosophy needs a bit of tweaking. Many of them give up after just a few women and use their experiences to describe all women. Dating is a numbers game. Like it or not it takes work to attract a woman. Do an experiment and create a tinder profile with a female picture, even an average looking one, and watch what happens. The dating market is really skewed in a woman's favor. There's simply a lot of lonely men out there. In a free market when supply and demand are skewed in this manner, such as in real estate where there may be a housing shortage, what happens? You have to pay more to get the home. Men these days have to work on themselves to get the girl. It's not like 100 years ago where you just got the girl. Plus with the lack of wars means a higher male population and more competition. Rather than browse that subreddit if you simply watch Leo's videos on women it should give you all the info you need without getting you into "women hating" mode which is what you have to watch out for. A trap I get into is having an aversion towards "shallow people" regardless of their gender... not caring about what most people talk about.. which is other people (he did this, she did that, blah blah blah) , sports, sex.. it's something I'm actively working on rewiring in that brain of mine. I feel sorry for many of the incels and MGTOW. Like most angry people, it's really just a cry out for love and understanding. What they need is compassion, not judgment and ridicule. They have to find their own path. I wish them luck.

If it doesn't bother your digestive system keep drinking it. Coffee is a potent source of anti-oxidants and good for people in any quantity they can tolerate. It's the largest source of anti-oxidants in many people's diets.

They are fine. In fact they might be better than some forms of cooking such as grilling because the food only gets headed up to the boiling point of water compared to grilling which can generate carcinogenic compounds from heating food at high temperatures.

Have a consistent sleep schedule. Try to sleep in a pitch black room. Use your bed for sleeping and sex only. Most importantly, find a way to cultivate your parasympathetic before bed. Don't stimulate yourself. I find "do nothing" meditation can work, but so can meditation where you focus on a single point and hold your focus there, which will naturally cause me to start breathing deep, rhythmic breaths which is when I know it's working. Another piece of advice is if you can't sleep, don't even get upset about it in any way, just roll with it.. use it as an opportunity to practice "do nothing" meditation. Don't ruminate over the fact you can't sleep. You might find yourself surprisingly refreshed despite not sleeping if you get to mastering this approach. Good luck! One more thing yet... practice emotional release...if you need anxiety pills read this article.. https://www.unlearninganxiety.com/amygdala/ If you bottle up emotions chronically and start to do mindfulness meditation they may start to release... let them.. be that emotional superconductor Leo talks about in his video... read articles on emotional release.... learn to ride the waves of emotions... great thing to do if you can't sleep also... sit there and observe any emotional garbage that comes out without judging it.. just let it flow out... like taking a dam and blowing it up with an IED and suddenly all that backed up water is flowing freely... it can take some time for it to drain all out.

Read books on serial killers, psychlology, and/or brain chemistry if you want the answers you seek. It's a combination of factors including upbringing, being bullied, a loner, etc. that make a person kill for the first time, and if it gives them pleasure and not disgust, this will drive them to do it over and over, like any other fetish or addiction. There's a very specific psychological profile virtually all serial killers have that the FBI/CIA have nailed down. For me understanding psychology and brain chemistry/function really helped kick start my own personal development. Simply reading non-dual texts didn't do it for me. I had extreme health anxiety for awhile so reading about the amygdala, fear response, desensitization, parasympathetic response, etc. allowed me to cure my own anxiety and eliminate panic attacks, but really helped me understand why everyone else behaves the way they do also. Just another piece of the puzzle for my own growth... I can see why serial killers end up that way in part thanks to this knowledge.

A few questions keeping in mind I only ordered your book list today so some of the books may answer them... Have you read the "Journey of Souls" books and if you have do you have an opinion on life between lives and reincarnation in general? In my opinion they are the book on reincarnation that most resonated with me. How do animals fit into the picture? Do they have souls? It would seem they can't really achieve enlightenment because they lack egos, only having basic instincts. What about alien civilizations? Multiple dimensions? In theory if another species achieve sentience say Dolphins they would be facing many of these same existential questions? Or alien civilizations? If true enlightenment is nothingness, why pursue it? Why not just do whatever we want? It seems like most humans just try to chase pleasure and avoid pain, so being obsessed with feeling states. Isn't pursuing enlightenment more of the same? By that I mean chasing certain feelings or feeling states. What do you think of the text of "revelations of an insider?" This one should only take you 60 minutes to read. http://goo.gl/cl1Jjz Thanks!

For men who are wired to be a "Nice guy" or didn't have a father figure to teach them "how to be a man" there's a quarantined subreddit full of material that partly PUA, partly personal development. It will make you understand women better and grow you as a person in a hardcore stage orange sort of way... it's the red pill sidebar. You can download the whole sidebar here: https://theredarchive.com/TheRedPill Sidebar.epub And visit the subreddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/ This is strictly stage orange (and perhaps some blue also) material mostly, directed towards young and middle age men. Don't discount the usefulness it can provide in building self discipline and good habits... for example fitness and dietary goals, learning new skills, breaking bad habits. Leo distills down a lot of this stuff in his video "What Women Want In A Man - 5 Factors That Hook Women Like Crack" but there's a ton of useful information here regardless. It's good to have a stage orange perspective on life so that you don't get swallowed by stage green propaganda (which mostly floods media outlets these days) .. I like to understand all the stages and I can confidently say I'm much better off with this information than without it. It's important to not take this stuff as gospel. Never take any one philosophy as gospel, EVER. Question everything.

Having anxious feelings is a result of the limbic brain being in unfamiliar situations which can naturally be seen as a "threat" to the brain and is completely normal. Just gotta go with it, accept these sensations as they come and press on. In time you will desensitize to the new stimulus and not get anxiety anymore. Face that fear... https://www.unlearninganxiety.com/amygdala/ Emotional mastery isn't about suppressing emotions or always feeling good, but about being able to sit with whatever emotions your brain throws at you and not react to them... Leo has videos about this.. "how to deal with strong negative emotions" and others... be an emotional superconductor...

It helps to be a well adjusted person in order to advance up the spiral dynamics stages. If you are wired to be an introvert that doesn't want to socialize and even has an aversion towards people or negative feelings towards them, that comes from childhood, so "faking" it in this manner will wire your own brain to crave socializing more, and thus over time can make you a happier, more well adjusted person. Learning to socialize is like learning any new skill... it takes time and repetition to wire it into your subconscious mind and make it come natural to you. I always think of that line from the movie "Avatar" when I want to learn a new skill, where he talks about "it's like field stripping a weapon, repetition." A person must get over their negativity towards people if they want to grow, period. There's no quick fix around that. That phrase "fake it until you make it" has some merit. You don't necessarily have to be an extrovert, but if you have any hangup towards people whatsoever it must be addressed in some manner. The concept of "being yourself" ... well personality is actually a very impersonal aspect of one's being... I prefer to think of it as something I can hack and change to suit my goals....

"How Not to Die" by the aforementioned Dr. Michael Greger but be careful about swallowing any particular philosophy as though it's the only right one. He has things in there about cancer viruses in chicken... don't let that scare you away from eating chicken once in a while if you enjoy it, especially the canned chicken you can get at costco which won't have any live viruses in it. Handling raw chicken or undercooking it would be more of a concern (wash your hands) Also be careful about eating too much fructose. His book promotes a lot of high sugar items like dates and date syrup and the like... too much fructose in the diet is detrimental. These supposedly "healthy" forms of sugar like honey are not really much different from corn syrup.. it's just molecules of glucose, fructose, sucrose. Still the book has lots of great advice that will extend your lifespan, particularly when it comes to consuming anti-oxidant rich items like cocoa, cinnamon, ginger, and also cold milled flaxseed is a superfood of sorts that is really inexpensive. Consider getting a "vitamix" blender and you can make some great healthy smoothies with berries and flaxseed and this blender will pulverize the ingredients good. In my opinion the best diet would be his diet, scaling back on the sugar and adding some lean meats and fish, so the Mediterranean diet. Also pretty much eliminate all addictive processed american junk food (hot pockets, pizza, and crackers loaded with MSG which makes them too addictive) except for once a week, your treat or splurge day which would coincide with a weight lifting or heavy cardio day if you exercise. Of course if you read David Hawkin's books on non-duality he'll tell you that once you reach a certain point in your development it doesn't matter what you eat, but that doesn't mean I'd go and drink gasoline or anything. Fact of the matter is plenty of people live well into their 80's on a standard american diet, so it's up to you. I love this diet and the spices that americans tend not to use in their foods though that give them so much more flavor, so it works for me...

I'm reading "Disappearance of the Universe" right now along with the book written by his wife about healing which is pretty good. I also bought some of Ken Wapnick's books on kindle. I find the Course itself to be so complicated in the way it's written that it doesn't resonate with me. Another hangup of sorts is I have all this scientific knowledge in my brain about evolution, psychology, how the human brain works (the older limbic brain comprises most of our emotions) and also ponder things like "what about animals?" ... do they practice forgiveness? Do they have souls? They mostly operate on instinct minus consciousness, so more limbic brain and less prefrontal cortex... and what about other planets in the universe? Are we all just trying to get back to the source? Part of me wonders if "enlightenment" isn't simply a chemical release of oxytocin in the brain and if pure evolution isn't the ultimate truth. Never having had an enlightenment experience, out of body experience, near death experience, or any sort of psychic encounter, I guess I should perhaps get ahold of some psychedelics so I can experience for myself, or go to a haunted house, something so I can get some concrete proof of this "afterlife" for starters which will make all this enlightenment stuff stick more to my scientifically minded brain. In the meantime I understand all this spiritual work is meant to strengthen the parasympathetic nervous system, reduce sympathetic activation, and thus calm us down and make us more at peace. I understand the amygdala and other related structures create the emotions we know of as fear, anger, stress, anxiety, combined with our thoughts and some instincts our DNA comes pre-wired with. If anybody has read any books that merge spirituality (specifically enlightenment) and science (focusing in particular on evolution and human psychology) if you could post them that'd be great. Thanks! In the meantime browsing these forums more might get me some more insights. One of my new rules is to only browse forums that promote laughter, playfulness, or growth, and not anger, hatred, divisiveness (godlikeproductions, lunaticoutpost, and city-data politics forums were my favorites in that catagory)

Replacing almond milk with cashew milk or better yet soy milk would also be water friendly. Almonds take lots of water to grow, and in a part of the country (California) that doesn't have reliable precipitation. I have cut back on meat just because of the book "How Not to Die" .. I just feel better when I only eat it once or twice a week. There's so many multi-grain products and plant based proteins along with spices like cinnamon, ginger, cocoa, etc. that can make eating plant based really delicious. A vitamix is also a great tool for the plant based eater.

The smell of a fart and a piece of cheesecake.

Buy as much AAPL stock as you can. Hold it forever. Have father do it too. My stage orange advice to my 15 year old self.

Study your history and listen to more of Leo's videos. Life back then was stage red/blue. Modern life is stage orange/green. There's still a lot of disadvantages to today's system but in general if you get injured on the job and have to take time off they won't just see you as useless and kill you like might happen back then. You have the freedom to choose your friends, your job, where to live, your passions, etc. Back then a lot of these things were chosen for you. There were less/no social protections. The list goes on. My stage orange thinking at work here... I do think technology will solve the world's problems.. especially when we get free energy and complete automation where we no longer need humans to do things like slave away at an amazon warehouse all day with their every task timed and every move monitored... at least as long as the robots don't gain consciousness and turn on their masters. A lot of humans still do really crappy, hard work for low wages in many countries around the world... even US factories can feel like prisons... but we are making progress. I've listened to a number of videos that have opened my eyes while driving on my trip the last few days.. the debunking libertarianism video, democracy video, and the spiral dynamics stage blue/orange and part of the green video, so I'm thrilled my perspective on the world is opening up more.. I can feel it...