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They'll be unable to fathom what they're dealing with unless they try psychedelics (and correctly)

@Alfonsoo awesome additional info Ty

Yeah so as the title suggests I'm concerned that my meal replacement protein shakes are inhibiting my weight loss. My metabolism is quite slow and I'm a good smidge overweight. But I'm 5ft9/10inch tall and I'm broad and naturally muscular so I carry it well. I'm using the meal replacement protein shakes at morning and night instead of breakfast and late night snack (like crisps). I do low physical activity but trying to do more. Doing walks 1-3 times a week and doing moderate weight lifting sessions focusing on lower weight higher reps. A good diet day for me would look like this: 1 meal replacement protein shake (with creatine) @10am > 4 eggs and a banana @3pm > white chicken breast + some beans at maybe 6pm > 1 meal replacement protein shake around 10pm or 11pm. Drinking water lots through the day. Steering minimise carbs (bread, rice, pasta) and trying to mix some fruit and veg in there. (I allow myself a cheat meal once or twice a week). I don't want to try lose weight rapidly I'm more focused on long term maintenance and not starving myself (i.e. I enjoy it and feel relatively full). I'm 15.5 stone currently, but as I say I'm very muscular naturally so I carry it well.) Is my plan alright? (I'm also avoiding things heavy in fats and calories like nuts.) I like sugar free malt wheat Tesco cereal.

Nah nah nah, philosophy is a gold mine. This community is like finding a gold mine, then seeing some opal, mining it, breaking the wall and finding an opal mine behind it which makes the golds value pale

I suppose keeping it public is advantageous in the sense that it's open and honest. It's transparent. Not to mention the fact that the forum members are likely to dwindle if it's made private. Seeing other people posting is what could encourage more to join in. It also shows openly that there are real people really doing the work and helps them with stuff.

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Nice I'm noticing joy starting to rise too. Just in the last few months. For the last decade I've been tearing my ego apart and I've also got to a point now where I know that such an absolutely enormous energetic purging has now come to completion. And I'm just leaning into Love. I personally do plan to go for the big cheese, really it's not even a choice for me...but the little moments of joy are so nice, especially when they start to come consistently. I think it's best to really capitalize on these kinds of moments, really satiate the heart with the love and joy.

@Mmartinez as far as I can conclude, Leo's basically extremely accurate with a profound dedication towards a lack of bs. So just know that he's not some cult guy with a massive hard on for random philosophical stories. The only reason I follow him is because he shocks and disturbs me. I just got to a point where I cba with being lost any more. I'm like 99% sure it's all true. After a couple heavy psyc breakthroughs...you'll know something's up. Ps: just because your being told not to believe him, doesn't mean you should disbelieve him.

Jordan Peterson Vs. Jordan Peterson.

Should've been a Hindu

@Leo Gura how has your health situation been? Do you think you will never touch psychedelics again? I hope your well brother

I talk with god on the reg. Talking with my one true love. It's romantic no homo

I suppose you could say I'm already enlightened, the difficulty is that that I is not yet that which I am, or that which I realise myself to be. This is the spanner in the works of this kind of teaching. Not looking for the no-needle won't cut it.

Second hand. Boom

I don't like the whole thing where you stand up and identify yourself as an "alcoholic" or "addict." Intuitively, I think that kind of reinforces the ego identity of addiction

https://www.japan.go.jp/kizuna/2022/03/ikigai_japanese_secret_to_a_joyful_life.html

This is also good, pressure grows the ego most in a good way. I mean walk before you can run, but if you put yourself into a situation where you have to support yourself more and more independently (and it's not too much for you) you'll have less time to entertain your addictions. Things like life purpose or moving country... Doing something with your life. This is ultimately what will fill the hole your trying to fill with food and porn.

Get addicted to making money?

Lots of people pour their energy all into self improvement in some aspect. If you can find something to lose yourself in that builds yourself up It can ease the tension of a difficult situation.

Our parents didn't have the internet so they're more limited than us. More blatant recognitions of generational failures points to a steeper increase in us. It's kinda like when Leo said about how the more you experience cringe when looking back on your past self the better...it shows major progress. I guess

Mongolian techno lol

This is actually more of an interesting topic than a lot of people consider. From an economic standpoint and social evolution, it's pretty obvious that on the whole country's like the USA in the United Kingdom are generally more evolved. These countries are called MEDC's (more economically developed countries) if my memory serves. What's interesting though is being higher on the evolutionary scale on average produces a lot of strange and weird results that I find to be unexpected. For example, a significant amount of the population seem to be lulled into a sort of low grade, benign stagnation. Essentially my understanding is that this probably comes from a polarization of classes. In certain areas there's a lot of stupidity too... Where you might find that something is common knowledge in the likes of a poor country, where people tend to be slightly more street smart, people living in the United Kingdom are sort of in a protected bubble of McDonald's, Amazon deliveries and supermarkets. I know for a fact that this likely comes because; prosperity breeds complacency. So it's not a simple upward movement of a country just because it is economically developed. Some of the stupidest people in the world live in the most developed countries. And so while Western countries do tend to be more economically developed, this stage in the evolutionary process is typically seen to induce all kinds of malnourished, deformed and f***** up people and situations. Without doubt it's a temporary thing until such a time as Western countries learn how to maneuver masterfully in the new world of smartphones and microwaves. I see that the self improvement industry (especially with teachers high quality as Leo) meaning of instrumental importance in this process. But it'll probably take many years. You could research the study done by sepian labs on the state of the mental health of each country and the rank. The United Kingdom for example is the second most mentally ill country in existence. The USA is about middle. There is so much work to do it's unbelievable. Ultimately we just have to keep making the correct moves and trusted the energy of God will keep correcting itself, which it will. But in terms of personal lives and living in one of these Western countries, do not make the mistake of assuming the people are happy here. It is my full intention to move away from the United Kingdom. It sucks major ass.

@Rigel I'd be interested in hearing more about your progress bro, there's a decent chance I'm going to teach beginner piano at some stage. What instrument do you teach?