Of course it's both.
There are many technical aspects of game if you want to get really good. But there are also general principles of being more attractive and high value as a man. Ideally you master both.
No amount of high value will help you if you cannot do such a simple technical feat as open your mouth and talk to girl you've never met before, and do it in a charming, non-creepy, non-panicked way.

That's what happens when you start to self-actualize. You see more and more how much time and potential you squandered by doing other useless shit like a monkey.
That deep regret is a sign of you becoming more conscious. Most people are so asleep they never even know what they missed. They live and die in blissful ignorance.

@PenguinPablo You have to do some serious limiting-belief busting.
There's no way forward in life so long as your mind is full of those recirculating toxic beliefs.
I had to do a lot of busting of my limiting beliefs when I was starting out in this work.
The problem is, your potential in life is so monstrously huge that your mind will not believe it is real. It sounds too much like a pipe dream. The mind needs to be whipped into opening itself.

Exactly. Tradeoffs.
It is every girl's dream to catch a player and lock him down.
Well, it's playing with fire. Maybe you can lock him down, maybe you can't. Depends on what you're offering.
Dating is a sort of market auction system where buyers and sellers have to meet each other's value propositions.
The better you make yourself the higher your bids can be. The key, as with other areas of life, is to bring massive value to the negotiating table. Then you can get what you want. But most people are too lazy to up their value. They want to leech value.

Of course!
You act like this is some special handicap unique to you.
Literally EVERY guy struggles with this. Even experienced PUAs still get approach anxiety on their first few sets of the night. That's why warm up sets are so important, and building up state.
You really need to watch some old school RSD videos circa 2012, where all this is explained and addressed.
There is no trick to overcoming this problem. You must do hundred of approaches by facing your fears. You will realize all your fears are illusions. But no amount of logic will resolve this. Only approaching will.
You overcome it by realizing you're being a pussy, and by forcing yourself to approach regardless of how you feel.

There too many ways to list them all:
Grooming better Dressing better Having a strong sense of life purpose and direction Developing charisma Developing humor Developing confidence, leadership skills, speaking skills Earning money, becoming successful, reputable, famous Building a social circle of cool and positive friends Being more social Gaining experience with women Doing pickup & cold approach Developing flirting skills Improving your vocal tone and body posture Going to the gym and shaping up your body Improving your diet Building an amazing life for yourself Developing amazing sexual skills Developing emotional connection and your feminine side Meditation & consciousness work Self-love and self-acceptance Developing misc skills such at: cooking, home repair, home defense, sewing, arts & crafts, martial arts, yoga, photography, etc. Becoming a good human being Improving your communication skills Improving your relationship skills Learning, reading, knowledge Building an awesome bachelor pad/home that will make a girl wet just from walking in Traveling around the world And more... You could invest 10 years of full time work developing all that.
None of it is necessary to get laid, but all of it ups your value.
Bottom line: become awesome, and awesome people will gravitate towards you. Or stay lame, and lame people will gravitate towards you. But don't expect to have awesome people in your life while you're lame and too lazy to change yourself. A lazy, sloppy, victim attitude instantly makes you repulsive, since you are a value-leech, expecting something for nothing. If you want something special you must be eager to work for it.

Nothing. It just takes some courage and confidence in yourself.
If you can't muster the courage to even walk up and introduce yourself, why on earth would she ever let you inside her legs? A weak guy like you doesn't deserve a hot girl.
The solution is to become a strong guy. Strong guys get hot girls.
When you want something in life, you have to be willing to work your ass off for it. Amazing shit is not just gonna land in your lap. You must BUILD what you want. Do you want to be a strong guy? Then BUILD it! Don't ask "But how?" Just get started.

Evil does not exist. It is a projection of your mind.

Trump is 1000% uglier in private than in public and stories of his private ugliness will leak out for decades to come. But none of it will convince Trumpists.
By this point, any decent person understands that Trump is rotten to the core and a menace to democracy.

Yes, no different than if you were a man in a conservative small town, and started saying you're a woman.
People would look at you like you are insane. Because hardly anyone understands that these categories are mentally and socially constructed.

The idea that Trumpists think Trump does anything out of altruism -- "for the good of the people" -- rather than to increase his ego, is laughable.
Trump's only motivation, ever, is whatever most benefits him personally.

It's more accurate to frame it as: consciousness can suffer, but it doesn't have to.
Suffering is just one of an infinite number of things that can be held within consciousness, like the color red, or a bird, or time. Consciousness can hold it, or not hold it.

Girls often fall in love for douchey asshole deadbeat guys who can't keep a job, but they give the girl emotional stimulation and adventure. That is sort of the player stereotype. The manwhore
I bet that a lot of professional women in their 30's and 40's who work boring corporate jobs but make good salaries would kill to have a player boyfriend who fucks her real good and provides her an outlet to be playful and go on adventures.
Girls just wanna have fun and feel their feminine side. Which the proper guy can do for her. That's when she falls hard in love, and he can then exploit her emotional soft spot for him.

All identity is relative.
But of course biology plays a huge role. You identify as human because of your biology. Although of course "human" is still a relative, imaginary, constructed identity.
But it makes more sense for you to identify as human than as a kangroo.
Yes, relativity is easily abused.
We have them. But all agreed upon rules will be challenged and questioned, which is what is happening.
The fantasy is thinking that we can agree on some rules and that's the end of the story. All rules must evolve and all rules have exceptions.
Conservatives love to play the game of agreeing to some rules and then pretending that these rules were not merely an agreement but objective reality handed down by God.

@Craigxt22 Mushrooms can be more challenging than 5-MeO. 5-MeO is very straight forward. It doesn't screw around.

It is a fact that you can be more conscious than you currently are.
End of story.
Everyone is in the present moment, but that doesn't mean everyone is equally conscious of it.
I'm sick of arguing against this neo-Advaita over-simplified shit which refuses to acknowledge differences in consciousness.
Just because you are surrendered to the present moment does not mean you are deeply conscious of anything.
What I care about is CONSCIOUSNESS, not surrender and not liberation and not freedom from suffering and not lack of ego and not some permanent condition. But CONSCIOUSNESS!
It makes no difference to me how long it lasts or what its consequences are.

This is a phony distinction. Whether a state "sticks" or doesn't is completely irrelevant from the POV of truth/reality. This is a criteria that you -- the ego-mind -- is placing upon the situation. Who says that a thing must be permanent for it to be valid or true? The mere fact that it can exist, even for 5 seconds, is enough. Nothing sticks forever. Even your so-called Buddha-level enlightenment will eventually be lost as God will fall asleep at some point after it awakens. Otherwise there wouldn't be any asleep people in the first place.
And yes, some people do have "permanent" states which are very different than all the classical ones you know or could ever access via meditation. Your "permanent" state totally hinges on your neurology, genetics, and brain chemistry. If we tweak your brain to start pumping out new chemicals, you will be permanently living in a new reality. Well, as long as you're in that body.
In the not too distant future we will have a Neurolink-like device which will be installed in your brain which will consistently pump out whatever cocktail of neurotransmitters you want, and you will be able to dial in your baseline state of consciousness to whatever you want. Such a device will be the most important and revolutionary technology that mankind has ever invented.

It's crucial that you address those root issues. Modafinil can give you focus and a mood-boost but it cannot correct for metal toxicity if you got it.
You can start doing heavy metal chelation without many tests, and just see if you feel better from it.

@WHO IS Don't worry, that's where life will end up.
If you really want to go there permanently, just set that intention on your deathbed.
But also, don't be too much in a rush to get there. Enjoy the dream.
Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
And the grass is always greener on the other side. Once you're there, you'll want to be back here.
There is a good reason why you're here. To experience here. Don't take here for granted. Every corner of God is worthy of exploration.

By definition, Infinite Love Forever cannot have any form or person there. It feels a lot like if you were physically merged with every living being in the universe to the point where all of you became an undifferentiated soup of Love. It's like entering a black hole of Love from which there is no desire to return. You give up the desire to have any concrete personhood or form so that you could merge for fully with every part of the universe.
It's like having an infinitely long, infinite intensely orgasm that is so intense that it kills the body and just keeps going forever beyond the body because the body cannot contain so much Love. It is literally an Endless Ocean of Love in which all memory of having been a human or a person is lost. That is God in its purest form. But this degree of Love is not possible for humans because they choose to be finite and separate from things.
Imagine becoming ONE with a chainsaw. That's real Love

The biggest thing money buys is not happiness, but freedom to not be someone else's bitch.
Being someone else's bitch can make you very miserable.
But once you stop being someone else's bitch, life will still be difficult and full of new challenges. Now you gotta grapple with the biggest challenge of all: not being your own bitch.

You are doing it right, but this is just the early phases of self-inquiry.
For self-inquiry to get serious, now you have to keep focusing awareness on awareness itself while quieting the mind down so it just rests on the awareness of awareness without moving. And just sit like that for as long as you can.
It takes lots of training. The "What am I?" question should become internalized, so to speak, such that it doesn't need to verbalized non-stop. You just sit in silence and focus the awareness of awareness.
Or just take a psychedelic.

You can frame it that way if you want. There are various ways of framing it.
I make no distinction between the field and Brahman, Self and no-self.
In the end there is only ONENESS. Slice it up however you want. People will naturally slice it up in different ways, which will cause disagreements.
But I sometimes notice that people dismiss the important of the transparency or opaqueness of the field. Which I think is a big disservice to students. The transparency/opaqueness matters a lot in practical terms. The point of all spiritual work is to increase transparency.

No it isn't. It's still all one consciousness.
Light is not turned into two substances by increase or decrease of intensity.
If you want to be a stickler and insist on pure, absolute, unmitigated nonduality, then you can become the Godhead itself, which is just formless infinite consciousness which increases in intensity forever without end. But at this point your human life will be gone, as will the entire material universe.

Consciousness is an infinite field which is capable of being more or less conscious of itself, more or less transparent or opaque to itself. Similar to the light in empty space. You can have very little light or you can have our sun, or something that's 1 million times brighter than our sun. All of that is the same light, but many degrees of brightness.
An ant is definitely not conscious that it is God.
Children are definitely not conscious that they are God.
99.9% of adults have no consciousness of what God is.
But you could become God-conscious. This takes some doing. It isn't your natural state. Your natural state is a state of humanness.
This infinite field of consciousness, because it is unlimited, is capable of dialing itself down from infinity to some finite consciousness, like that of a rock. When God is dialed down to a rock, God isn't aware that it is God.