This is a VERY important point! So listen close. This IS THE KEY TO THE ENTIRE ENLIGHTENMENT PATH:
You will NEVER become enlightened unless you surrender all EXPERIENCES. This includes all pleasures, all people, and ALL of life AND reality itself!
The whole point of this path is to gradually (or suddenly) work yourself up to that. You are already enlightened. The only thing standing in the way is your clinging to experience, and your conviction that "good" experiences are valuable and desirable.
This is what makes enlightenment so rare. Few people are willing to trade life for Nothing. It's too counter-intuitive to do in practice for 99.9999% of people.
*Note: to surrender ALL experience does not mean you will never experience again, or that experiencing is wrong. But you do have to deeply grasp that all experience is SUFFERING. The reason you want "good" experiences is because you suffer, but the reason you suffer is, ironically, because you cling to experience and refuse to let it go. So you're stuck in hell, unless you wise up and wake up.
As you meditate, you should be constantly paying attention to how every experience arise and passes away, and leads to suffering. By deeply grasp this core dynamic of reality, you will develop the nerve to quit the whole shebang. You basically have to say, "FUCK YOU! I QUIT!" to all of life/reality.
Only then can there be true happiness. And this level of "happiness" is not like an MDMA high or anything else. It's ETERNAL! FOREVER! You have broken all of reality. Reality stop being real at this point. You have literally transcended death. You have stopped being human.
And then you proceed to chop wood, eat Cheetos.
If this doesn't appeal to you, it's because you haven't suffered mindfully enough yet. Suffer some more -- a lot more -- and then maybe in 10-20 years you'll think back, "Hey, I vaguely remember that crazy Leo guy saying something about all experience being suffering. Now I'm starting to see his point. How do I break out of my self-created hell-hole? I'll do whatever it takes, because this is no longer tolerable."
Or... you just have to be deeply curious about TRUTH at all cost.

We are all different and have different spiritual talents. Some people get enlightened in one weekend, others take 30 years, other never.
I have some special talents which many people don't have.
It's impossible to compare what he and I have integrated. I have no idea what he's integrated. Maybe he did more than me in those 20 years. Hard to say.
I don't recommend it either. He did very high doses which is dangerous. My approach is doing moderate sizes doses but doing them more often.
I wouldn't call it the same. There's no way to know or compare these things nor should you try.
I have been contemplating the metaphysics and epistemology of reality since I was 16 years old. So I had laid a deep theoretical foundation. And I'm also very good at contemplating metaphysical things.
Of course. Why not? Almost any psychedelic can be used to have serious spiritual insight and the insights will be similar.
You could do what he did using almost any psychedelic if you're committed enough. The magic is not in the psychedelic as much as in your intent to use it to understand reality.
What we're talking about is understanding.
His doses were way too high.
I recommend low to moderate doses which won't be so difficult to integrate.
I don't recommend you copy me in doing 30 days of 5-MeO-DMT. That's too much and it's not necessary. I did it because I wanted to push the edge and explore uncharted waters. I was only able to do it because I had a deep theoretical foundation and I had several years of prior experience working with psychedelics.
For a normal person such as yourself, you should be aiming for small doses done once or twice a month, with breaks in between.
A good starting dose is 1g-2g dried mushrooms or 125ug of LSD. Or the equivalent of that on any other psychedelic.
There are dozens of wonderful psychedelics or research chemicals you can use to achieve a similar result. Through experimentation you can find which molecule works best for you. Don't assume we are all the same. Your brain chemistry is unique.
In general I would say you're getting ahead of your skiis. Do a few small trips and just see how psychedelics make you feel. They may not be right for you, or you may find that they are perfect for you. It all depends. There are too many variables to know ahead of time. This is a domain which requires exploration and careful trial and error.

The brain is a hallucination.
You're not getting how radical this is. Reality has no ground. Anything which you think is grounding the present moment is false. Nothing is grounding anything.
The ego-mid is playing tricks in order to maintain a sense of "reality". You must cut through all the false grounds it constructs. Including brain, Earth, universe, atoms, birth, your childhood memories, etc. It's all pure fiction!
Nothing you think is real!

A woman is not like a guy. She has to be turned on and seduced into horniness.
You gotta stimulate her emotions, build an emotional connection, and then escalate physically.
You build an emotional connection by sharing parts of your personal life story and being vulnerable with her.
You should be looking in her eyes non-stop. This builds massive intimacy and trust.
Make your touching playful to start. Treat her like your little sister. Be playful and put her in a playful mood.
Rather than doing a serious kiss, you can try something like making her laugh and then doing an eskimo kiss.
If she is willing to hold deep eye contact with you, and she's willing to let you stroke her hair, she's willing to kiss you.
If she rejects a kiss, you just act cool, like nothing bad or weird happened, and you try again in 10 minutes after you make her laugh.
Always escalate physical during emotional upswings. When she is laughing or smiling or happy.
Give her hugs. And start putting your hands on her hips. If she's letting you hold her hips, she willing to fuck you.
Sometimes girls are cold. You gotta warm them up.

It's pure, 100% mystery.
Throw away all concepts and ideas and just bask in the mystery of the present moment.

@dflores321 You need to stop being a pussy and develop confidence.
Women are attracted to CONFIDENCE most of all.
You can be introverted, but rid yourself of shyness, weakness, meekness, and social anxiety.

You need to stop this mental masturbation and second-guessing and simply talk to more girls.
When in doubt, talk to more girls.
Girls are mostly not attracted to you because you're not able to convey your personality properly. You are simply uninteresting and don't subcommunicate the qualities of an awesome man.
You need to make your personality pop. You need to stand out among all the other lame dudes out there who are sitting on forums worrying about their looks.
Just the fact that you even care about your looks already shows how weak of a man you are.
A man is not a doll. That's not what women need from men. Women need men to have balls.

Sorry. I stand corrected. I was not thinking of it as a percent.
0.2% is more realistic for a newbie. Although I knew a newbie in Vegas who slept with 25 girls in like 3 months. So it very much matters your geography and also how quickly you learn.
The biggest problem will be that you will attract a LOT of hot girls, but you will be unable to close them for stupid logistical reasons.
The most important element for getting a high lay count in pickup is becoming an absolute master of handling the logistics. You will lose 90% of girls due to logistics. Which means, 90% of girls who are ready to fuck you, you will lose. At least as a newbie. As a vet you will get good at handling all the bullshit obstacles.

I never claimed I have. Be careful what you assume about me.
Pickup has an extremely steep learning curve. The first few years you will suck so bad and get very low numbers. Most of your numbers will come 5 years in. Guys who get laid a lot are either naturals or very experienced and veterans of the game.

It doesn't really take that much. That's just in the very beginning as a total fool.
The results curve is exponential. So you will get a lot better.
Also, when I count approaches, a lot of those approaches a very brief. Most of them are not long conversations since you will get blown out a lot very fast.

@Lyubov Just start being emotionally vulnerable and the right girls will appreciate it.
Integrating your feminine side is one of the most important things you can do to make yourself a stronger, more attractive man.

More excellent work from Abby Martin and Chris Hedges.
Chris Hedges is brilliant.
 

You fundamentally misunderstand what pickup is about.
It's not about running a script. It's about learning how to be authentic. Guys struggle with social awkwardness A LOT. Guys are not as socially intuitive as women who practice socialization their entire lives.
Again, you're not understanding because you have no genuine curiosity in this topic. You're looking at it and judging it from your female self-agenda.
What you're doing is akin to me telling women: Don't watch any YT make up videos and don't shop for panties at Victoria's Secret and don't do anything to improve yourself. Don't wear heals. Don't wear bras. Don't do your hair up. Don't shave your legs. Don't shave your pussy. Don't do your nails. Don't hold in your farts. Don't go out and don't socialize at night with any guys. Just sit at home, be normal, and you'll get a great husband.

In stage Blue society getting laid is a lot easier because you just go to church and marry some girl your church friends introduce you to.
But also, men have been hitting on women since the dawn of time. You just learn about it today thanks to the internet.
Bars and clubs and alcohol exist for one reason: for people to get laid.
We live in a highly alienated time and culture.
You know, in Quaker society none of the boys have a problem getting laid. Their parents just set them up to marry the girl next door.
My dad met my mom by approaching her on a street corner. If he didn't have the balls to approach her, I wouldn't be here, and neither would you.

I talk about a lot more than the Absolute. Mostly I talk about relative stuff.
But also I point to the Absolute in various ways.
Wilber's 4 quadrants is fundamentally dualistic because it requires cutting the world up with distinctions. Wilber's model is relative and cannot be applied to the Absolute itself. The Absolute is not divided into subjective/objective or I/we.
Subjective experience is the ground for everything else. So in this way Wilber's model is misleading. Wilber's model is itself only exists within your subjective experience, as does Wilber, for that matter.
There is nothing but your subjective experience. Period.

It's not a function of time, it's a function of grabbing her attention and making an emotional connection.
You could do this within 5 minutes or fail to do it after 60 minutes.
The conversation needs to be emotionally engaging, it needs to broadcast your personality, and it must have sexual tension without ever talking about sex.
You must also work on all your sub-communication so it's tight: eye contact, body posture, vocal tone, smile, facial expressions, your mood, etc.
Asking too many questions is problematic. Instead of asking questions, make statements and observations, and lead the conservation by talking about yourself a lot. In the beginning you need to carry 90% of the conversation rather than asking her to carry it for you.
The best way to carry a conversation is by learning to talk about yourself a lot. This is something extroverts do naturally but introverts almost never do.

Even if you are the hottest hunk on the planet, not every girl will like you and you will not be able to attract every girl.
You should aim for maybe 1/3rd of girls liking you. The rest you ignore.
Of course girls have different types. If you're not her type then you won't be able to attract her.
The way you solve this problem is by talking to 5,000 women.

God cannot be Love unless it allows you to be selfish.
If God hated or judged selfishness, that would make God evil/selfish.
So by asking God to eliminate selfishness, you are asking God to be a devil.
Only selfish people have a problem with selfishness. Get it?

Toxic Masculinity: Guys who look up to and admire Trump as their ideal of a man
Toxic Masculinity: Guys who use the phrase "soyboy"
Toxic Masculinity: Guys who consider themselves alpha and fear being beta.
Toxic Masculinity: Guys who fear that masculinity is under attack and threatened with extinction.
Toxic Masculinity: Guys who love to complain about and blame feminists but never read a single feminist book and are proud of it.

Who gives a fuck?
Be a man and go get the girls you want! You are the hunter. Stop sitting around waiting for them to hunt you. You should be the one who's screening girls to find which ones are worthy of your love.
If a girl can't see how awesome you are, that's her stupidity and it is beneath you to try to second-guess yourself by assuming she is somehow right. Own your awesomeness rather than waiting for girls to validate it for you. Adopt the frame of a man who understands his own worth regardless of what the outside world is telling you.
When the outside world tells you that you're not awesome, you need to tell yourself, "They're crazy! I'm even more awesome than I previously realized. How can they be so blind?"

So clearly there's something amiss in your inner game. It's a mind thing. You need to become more conscious of what your mind is doing at the moment when you penetrate and go soft. What is your mind thinking? What is the fear? What are you visualizing? What are you feeling?
Get very clear and honest about that.
Sound like you might have fear of premature ejaculation or that you're putting so much pressure on yourself to perform in bed in a certain way. Good sex requires getting out of your head and into the feelings in your body. Try literally moving your awareness out of your head and out into your body.

Russell Brand isn't a skill. It's his natural disposition. He's off-the-charts extroverted and charismatic. An introverted guy is never going to be able match that.
Brand's a natural. You can imitate him, but you ain't ever gonna be as slick as him unless you got his unique type of personality.

@iceprincess
Most guys are really turned on my femininity. So anything you can do to amp up your expression of femininity will drive them nuts. Just by acting up your femininity in bed this will make the sex 10x hotter. Acting up femininity is stuff like sweet talk, gentleness, moaning, squirming, going into heat, being submissive, etc.
Nonsense!
You just need to find the right guy and get turned on in the right ways.
You can have a deep vaginal orgasm without even any physical touch.
Hell, I can almost have a vaginal orgasm and I'm a dude.
Sex is not about the physical. Sex is all about how you use your mind.

Yes, for sure.
Brand is a great example to study and emulate for introverts.
You will never be like him. But you can maybe go 10%, 20%, 30% towards his direction. Which will significantly improve your social life.
I've definitely done that and I highly recommend it.

That's what good game looks like. It doesn't just charm women, it charms all humans.
It feels totally effortless and natural. There is nothing creepy or scripted about it. It's like improvisational art.