Ego is biased love.
It's both.
A few have. But people are too selfish to care.
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." -- Albert Einstein

In general, the topic of death is very taboo in society. And for good reason. If you question death too much, you might cease to fear and hate it, and then how would we live? Life requires a fear and hatred of death. That is the ultimate bias. And playing with this bias is dangerous. Which is why exoteric religions demonize and try to control esoteric religion. Esoteric religion fundamentally is about questioning death. And you cannot allow that in a civilized society.

@thedoorsareopen You just need to work on constructing a material life worth living. This is where life purpose, career, relationships, family, art, and education come into play.
What you need is not God but construction of a rewarding and meaningful life.

Get some wingmen and learn to have fun and enjoy yourself. This is key.
It's not supposes to be a grind, it's supposed to fun. You gotta learn to have fun partying moreso than picking up women.
Do you understand that all those folks you see out at night, are just out to have fun?

You are dreaming the Earth.
Stop assuming it has existence outside of your mind.
You are taking for granted that stuff exists.
"Physical" doesn't exist. It's a construction of your mind.

The whole challenge of life is that a human isn't omnipotent. You struggle against this core truth every day, and there is no escape other than death.
This is not news to anyone. Everyone knows this, just not so explicitly.
Life is all about learning to surf waves which are too big for anyone to control.

Literally the American and Israeli way.
You can have a huge paradigm shift when you realize, "Wait a minute, what if America and Israel are the evil ones?"
Until you start to think like that you aren't doing serious politics, you're just jerking off to your own reflection in the mirror.

@PenguinPablo It's best not to think of racism as racism but human nature.

Not necessarily. It can occur within your 5 senses.
Consciousness and mind can get massively enhanced without going beyond your 5 senses.
For example, you can imagine that a rat mind has the same basic 5 senses as humans, but notice how much more depth a human mind has: what a human mind can understand about the universe vs a rat mind. The human mind has totally new alien capacities relative to the rat mind, and yet, the human still experiences the same 5 basic senses as a rat would.
Most of the heavy lifting of consciousness isn't done at the level of adding new senses, but higher orders of abstraction.

New Age spiritual drivel.
These people are spiritual larpers.

Of course.
Most people in the world are racist.
Conservatives understand this and liberals do not. That's what makes liberals stupid.

I know there is the famous 10 ox picture journey. But this can be further developed/improved with today's modern tools. 
I ask me if there is already a map of the psychedelic path out there or if we can create one here. Like reaching milestones. I make a first start (I know it can get better)
 first psychedelic handshake doses. Discover alternatives states of consciousness  first spiritual insights  Shadow work/purification  First ego death/transformations First Breakthrough on 5 Meo (Optional: Kundalini awakening ) Discover infinity  Discover immortality  Discover god Discover Madness God realization Infinite love awakening  Integration into sober life( seeing beauty, love , unity) Deep understanding how universe works on metaphysical level  Alien mind? ...
 
 

Brother, that's how society has always been for 10,000 years. People in power get to make those calls. And they can lose their jobs and lives for it. That's the tacit bargain.
There cannot be some magic perfect system. And corruption, error, and bias will always be at play.
That's why we have elections.

You can introspect and just notice in yourself when you are trying to get handsy with her just because you are desperate to feel her body. When you notice that neediness, make the counter-intuitive move to not act it out.
There is a difference between esclating because you feel it's proper vs desperately grasping as much as you can as soon as you can. The latter comes from neediness.
Make her crave your touch by strategically withholding it.
One of my pickup buddies put it this way:
"My touch is gold. She has to earn it."
If you adopt his attitude, you will not over escalate.

If you're gonna do that you gotta pull that same night, otherwise she will feel too slutty to go on a date with you later.
It's important to note that girls operate in two modes: 1) fun party horny mode, and 2) dating boyfriend mode.
If you're at a nightclub getting frisky, that's mode #1 and you gotta close fast because if she sleeps it off she will be out of that mode and never call you again. And if you're doing mode #2 then don't get too sexual too fast, take her on a date first.

If you were tortured, eventually your ego would collapse and you would accept it.
What do you think the crucifixion means?
Christians literally worship surrender to torture.
Christians don't even understand what they worship.
The entire point of Jesus is that he accepted his torture as Love! That's what makes Jesus God and everyone who worships him a rat.

Most people don't think at all, they react emotionally and rationalize their biases.
Most people have zero intellectual foundation, they are just surviving by whatever ways are most convenient.
People do not understand nor appreciate how government actually works, they are instead reacting emotionally to culture war issues.
That's what happens when the populace is poorly educated and lacks wisdom.

I think one of the most profound discoveries of my life is that human interaction does not really produce happiness. It can be a nice experience, but it’s ultimately an impermanent fleeting experience, and it doesn’t really fundamentally make me feel any better than if I didn’t have it. In fact, just being alone in my own awareness is far more satisfying than having to play human. All human conversation is also usually about past, future, problems, and pop culture, it really drags me into concepts, thinking, meaning making, and judgment, which all really produces quite a bit of unhappiness and obscure being. Playing human just ultimately feels like a chore, I was just wondering if anyone else could relate?

Real estate has skyrocketed in the US as well, but it's not because illegals are buying up all the houses, it's due to covid inflation, printing money, and excessive capitalism.
You have to be very careful about jumping to conclusions and attributing self-biased causes to such issues.
Causation in an economy is a very complex thing. It's never as simple as: more immigrants = higher prices.
Don't forget that immigrants contribute to your economy. If anything Canada's population is too low and ya'll aren't fucking enough.

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Hey friends, thought I would share a little bit of the glossary I started working on. I was feeling incredibly creative and had a vision for a comprehensive and concise list of every possible aspect and facet of consciousness work. My plan is to describe each facet in the most honest and clear way I can, based on my current understanding. Here are a few to start:

Consciousness: the Infinite Reality of Being
Death: the dissolution of a form
Enlightenment: when Consciousness is presently aware of its True Nature; a direct recognition of the Absolute Reality
Insight: when Consciousness becomes directly aware of some novel relative truth
Matter: the physical manifestation of Infinite Consciousness; a condensation of Infinite Mind
Mystical Experience: an unexpected and ineffable shift in Consciousness

Memory is not the same as what is usually meant by "direct experience".
But memory is far superior to belief, theory, or fantasy -- which is what most people are operating on.
Since reality is nothing but experience, without sufficient experience you are simply lost in fantasy.
Experience does not guarantee truth, but it's a lot better than not having experience.

@Bandman I'm sorry you're facing such health problems and dispair. I understand suffering from health problems.
The point of my statement above was merely to point out the truth of not-knowning. It's important in this work not to fool ourselves with beliefs and fantasies about things we lack experience with.
In this case all you have to do is to be honest with yourself: do you actually know what death is? The answer is probably no. So then the best attitude is one of not-knowing and openness.
But there is still the possibility for Awakening and higher consciousness where you might come to a direct insight into the nature of death.
So my advice would be that if you want a better understanding of death, pursue Awakening. And if you are suicidal, seek out help and support from others.
Don't leave the forum. Isolating yourself is not good for your condition.