Peter Ralston in particular has made some incredible contributions to mankind's understanding of itself, but virtually nobody recognizes it. He really deserves to be as well-known as Einstein. But, alas, that will never be the case.
Being well-known is largely a marketing game. It has little to do with the depth of one's work.

@rd5555 I wouldn't put up with human bullshit in one's living situation.
Move out and find yourself a solitary place where you can feel right.
You shouldn't have to abide fools and devils cavorting in your living space.
Yes, it's annoying to move, but you'll be glad you did. Consider it part of your personal development process. An important part of personal development is setting up your own personal sanctuary at home where no assholes can interrupt you. Don't treat this as unimportant. Your home is important.

For me it was of momumental importance. It was not about the sex. It was about my growth into a man.
In practice, yes. The order of operations is: become skillful at survival, then transcend survival.
For a few exceptionally gifted people this order of operations is not needed, but for most people it is. It is hard to be serious about spiritual work when you are horny and lonely and craving it.

@KGrimes Your problem is very simple, you are hitting on too few girls. When your numbers are so low you will constantly be frustrated because the reality is that this is a numbers games. If you hit on 5 girls a year, chances are that none of them will pan out no matter how good you are. If you hit on 1000 girls per year, now you'll get some results.
Talk to more girls. Don't expect any one of them to pan out. Don't focus on attracting any one girl -- that's just a recipe for misery. Girls will be extremely fickle and flakey until they sleep with you. So the trick is to hit on lots of girls and don't hold your breath for anyone particular one to sleep with you. Majority of them won't.
It's just like sales. It is foolish to hinge your entire business on one customer. Your business should be structured such that you are so busy no particular customer matters. You shouldn't need any customer's business and you should be willing to lose it without a hint of threat to your business.
The paradox is that when you structure your business this way, more people will want to buy from you. And more girls will want to sleep with you.
That's creating abundance vs being stuck in scarcity. It's counter-intuitive and girls will tell you they don't want that. But practice they love it because it os am honest signal of a high value guy. A high value guy has lots of options and girls can smell it and they LOVE the smell even though they will deny it if explicitly asked about it.

You understand how a door works.
Don't take that for granted. That is a profound thing.
And don't dismiss it as "at the level of mind", since whatever your mind is doing, is by definition something consciousness and the Universe is doing.
How is it possible that the Universe can understand how a door works?
Contemplate that.

Of course!
This very much depends on you, your genetics, your specific issues. For example, if you have heavy metals in your brain, chelating those metals out will be one of the biggest permanent boosts to your brain chemistry. But not everyone has that problem, so if you don't have that problem, chelation will be useless for you.
That is just one example.
In general, rigorous spiritual practices like mediation, mantras, and yoga will all change your neuorchemistry if you do them hardcore.
Psychedelics of course are the most powerful way to change neurochemistry, although it doesn't tend to be permanent change. There is a tradeoff between permanence and degree. Permanent changes tend to have much lower degrees of change.
To what degree can it be change is unknown. If someone invents a device that we install in your brain which releases a constant stream of DMT, that will be change so radical it would eclipse all spiritual practices.

Of course spirit is everywhere, because it is everything. It's only a matter of how intensely conscious are you of it?
Your visual field is always made out of spirit and it is always Absolute. You just tend to ignore it as you go about survival.
Never forget, the entire visual field is God.

Yes
99% of humans are in a non-enlightened state. Obviously. Just look at how they act. Like zombies and animals.
There is no contradiction. Non-enlightened states are still fully Absolute and Truth. The only difference is that the person is not aware of this fact. For example, when you are in dream state at night, you are conscious and you're aware of stuff, but you are usually not aware that you are dreaming. If you become lucid in your dream, now you are aware that you dreaming. But the dream is Truth regardless of whether you are lucid or not.
It's sort of like, you can have cancer, but that doesn't mean you know you have cancer. Think of Truth like hidden cancer. You have it but you don't know you have it until you awaken and realize, "Oh! Of course! Truth was always here the whole time. Why was I so blind?"
This issue is easily resolved with null state. The null state is what Buddhist aspire to and hold as the Absolute. The null state is of course Absolute, but it is no more Absolute than non-null states.
When consciousness is totally inactive, totally not dreaming, it enters the null state of pure formlessness. But it is a serious mistake to confuse this null state for "The Truth" or "The Absolute". That is a sneaky bias as now you identify with the null state more than all other states. In fact, the null state is not better than more important than any other state, including the state of total monkey mind.

If you really want to crank up your retreats, combine it with water fast. Don't eat any food during the whole retreat. Your mind will become crystal clear. Food fucks with your consciousness.
Water fasting is painful though the first few days. It really tests your self-discipline and tolerance for discomfort.

Metaphysical and epsitemic contemplation is required to make psychedelics fully flower.
A big trip without intense sense-making effort is sort of a waste. The point is to use the psychedelic experience to clean up your sense-making. Otherwise you drop out the high state and right back into your old sense-making paradigm.
But with all that said, Adeptus still got a very profound awakening experience. He just needs to do more sense-making work with it in the future. What he's describing is Godhead/Infinity.

The key difference is that I do not use the stock market to make my money.
It is a problem when you guys try to use the stock market as your method of getting rich.
Stocks are fine for holding some savings and getting a 8% average annual return. The problem comes when you expect your stocks to give you 10x returns and make you rich.
Make yourself rich, then put some of your riches into the market to avoid inflation.

@dflores321 Of course trying to escape your job is harder and more stressful than not doing so.
If this was not the case, everyone would escape. But very few do.
Realistically, to escape wage slavery requires working twice as hard as other people work.
When I escaped my job I was working so hard, nonstop, days, nights, weekends, holidays -- it was so emotionally stressful I would just cry sometimes. It was extremely difficult. But here's the kicker: it was the best thing I ever did for myself.
You get from life what you put into it.
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation."
In the end it all boils down to what you're willing to put up with. You're willing to settle for a shitty life and boring job -- that's exactly what you'll get.
Personally, I would rather kill myself than work a boring job my whole life. Which is exactly why I was able to create an alternative for myself. I refused to settle. The pain of escaping wage slavery was high for me, but the pain of surrendering to a boring job was higher.

Then you will not be at peace.
Trust me, if the pain gets high enough you will automatically surrender. Extreme pain actually destroys the ego. Pain is actually something that ego creates, so when the pain gets too high the ego cannot keep creating it any more.

Your motivations are backwards.
You are asking how you can be a bigger leech. What you should be asking is how you can provide massive value to the world. That is the proper way to get rich.
This is counter-intuitive. Your selfishness will backfire on you. It would be wiser to solve your situation through selflessness.
I am not saying crypto is bad, I am saying your selfish mindset will keep you poor. So if you really wish to be rich, start thinking seriously about reversing your mindset before it is too late.
Notice how you want something for nothing. This is sure way to failure. If I did business this way, I would be broke.

Do not be sexual.
If the girl truly likes you, you don't need to game her much. The problem is they don't really like you to begin with, otherwise they would be receptive to a simple "Hey there".
Keep in mind there is a lot of fake profiles and girls just looking for validation and ego-boosts on apps like Tinder.
Girls are not above using guys purely for validation with no intention of fucking them.
Your best opener is gonna be a short unique funny line.

Even that is not so easy to find in most places during the day.
You are going to waste more time looking for the girl than talking to her. It is much more efficient to just to the mall for 3 hours on the weekend and do all your approaches back to back. You will also build up a nice momentum that way.
You have to be pretty skilled to just cold-open a random girl you see walking past you as you're going about your day. Most guys will never muster the balls to seize that opportunity. They will just talk themselves out of it. It takes a lot of approaching to get confident enough to the point where you can seize such a spontaneous occurrence. It will take you 30 minutes just to psych yourself up do it unless you are experienced.
It's much easier to talk about approaching than actually doing it.

@Phyllis Wagner Like I told you guys before, if you don't have above average looks, you should not be wasting your time with online dating at all. It will not work. Not amount of editing your photos will suffice. You will just make yourself depressed.
Change your strategy to real-life game. You know -- the way humans have done for 400,000 years.
And stop using covid as an excuse. Covid will pass, life will go on. The best girls are not found on Tinder.
You want hot girls? Work for it! You will instantly feel much better as soon as you start doing serious work rather than clicking buttons and praying for luck.

That's why spiritual practices are required and enlightenment is required.
Taking a psychedelic does not make you enlightened. It gives you a peak at what you can become with hardcore spiritual practice.
You got the peak, but you don't want to do any hardcore spiritual practice. That's your problem. You are expecting psychedelics to be a magic pill.

Yes, but if you think you can rely on development to awaken you, you'll be very disappointed. It won't.
If you want awakening, the only way to get it is to work your ass for it with intense focus and clarity of purpose.
No hardcore spiritual practices, no awaken. It's that simple.
Which is the reason 99.9999% of people are not awake and will never be awake.

Need to learn to get out of your head and be focused enjoying her.
The best advice for having sex with a woman is that once the clothes come off, you throw out all your doubts and hesitations, you grab her, and do whatever you want with her. Don't be meek here. Fuck her how you want to fuck her. She wants you to take her without any reservations. Take her in your unique and authentic way.
Put 100% of your focus on that process, and you will find yourself not in your head any more.

The verbal content of your opener is basically irrelevant.
I've opened with "I have the most amazing sperm."
I've opened with "Hey ladies, what's your opinion on glory holes? Pro or con?"
I've opened with "I'm looking for a wife."
I've opened with "Hi, I'm Sprinkles. Who are you?"
I've opened with "I love you."
I've opened with "I hate you."

No one cares about your muscles but your own ego. No girl is gonna fuck you because of your muscles unless you look like a pro bodybuilder. You would get more sex if you invested your time at the gym into talking to girls.
Grooming, dress, and hygiene you should certainly optimize. But that's so basic I don't even consider it "looks".

https://mega.nz/folder/WhcVgCIa#NVGdXEj7lLbB1y6EGwLXHQ

That's some oldschool Tyler gold.

Counter-intuitively yes. Lot of pickup actually teaches you how to be more expressive like a girl. To flow more with your feelings. Most guys are so stuck in their heads they are disconnected from their feelings. Feelings are not just feminine, they are also masculine.
You will attract way more girls by being emotionally expressive than you will by being stoic.
It's similar to how you talk to children or dogs. You adopt an over-emotionalized, playful attitude. You don't treat the interaction seriously. Likewise when attracting women. Treat women like children when trying to flirt with them.
Watch videos of men flirting with women.