Shadowraix

Follow which one you resonate with best! Personally I really like the poly no label kind of form of dating. But that does get complicated when you connect to their social network. In my perspective I had realized that my capability to love people isn't restricted to a singular person and what I do with one person doesn't make what I do with another any less meaningful. Of course there is still jealousy and desire towards exclusivity out of a feeling of specialness that occurs but you work it out. Its a very free flow rule-less style kind of like how having friends is. But while that works best with my desires it may not for you. If you are curious about the more poly style of dating, give it a try! Experimentation is how you'll find whats best for you

I think OP is referring to material success beyond the essentials. Ya got it. Material success just becomes a goal, its a game you play. Play it! Have fun!

https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2014/06/what-is-respect/ ^ This link I find to be a very good breakdown on how to define respect because those in society definitely do not adhere to any specific definitions and its largely relative to them. The tl;dr is that there are mainly two big forms of it. The acknowledgment of what is being said or the obedience to align with their view. And likewise disrespect is the shrugging off or disobedience to their view, but it all comes to a single thing - following or not following their expectation of how you should behave. A projection of what they want onto you. Very interesting to think about. Shunned for breaking their mold of you. And yet you find that adhering to everyone's form of respect isn't practical yet you are shunned for disrespecting someone. I've seen the word respect thrown around in a very manipulative way due to society's high regard for the word. I think a lot of questioning about the meaning and value of this word would be beneficial because it definitely can be vague at times.

While Reddit does have that problem its a tradeoff because the upvote system helps you find content which its helped me find content I wanted to look at many times. Its a very situational thing. Less of a problem on posts that are around for good fun and not any serious discussion.

Having a grand realization about reality doesn't necessarily mean you are personally developed. Depends what you mean by woke. Looks more like he is just trying to process that he feels like he lived a lie for so long.

Nobody can tell you that but you. Experiment and find out what it is.

You gotta really look at your own case. You may find yourself using more or less over time but its not about some number. A number won't tell you much. But look at what the impact is. Is the frequency having a positive or negative impact on you? You could drop once a year and it still have a negative result. Your body will tell you, just gotta learn to listen to it. For me I just follow my desire when it pops up to do psychs instead of doing it every opportunity like I used to in fear of it being my last time. I do it much less frequently but the quality of each trip is always very beneficial.

Why would it imply that? Yes consciousness is the most fundamental form of everything. Reality is a manifestation of it. Laws and principles simply describe some reoccurring pattern. If you find the law of attraction to be true in your experience then use it. it'll be useful.

Leo has mentioned it before but one thing I always found funny about many nihilists is they assign a negative meaning to meaninglessness. Its quite the trap many people and even I albeit only briefly found myself into.

Thats the cost of experimentation, your time. Decide if its worth it for you or not. Nobody can tell you the correct path to take.

The illusion of free will comes from not knowing. Which is why it is ever present in your relative perspective. From the absolute perspective, everything already is occurring simultaneously. So yes its all scripted and predetermined. But yet God can still experience this scripted story genuinely through you.

I see a lot of people who are depressed also have some frayed connection with the world around them. Starts with a negative repeated outlook then repetition sinks you further and further in until it becomes increasingly difficult to break. For me, my realizations repaired such frayed connections. I let go. I stopped resisting which dramatically reduced my suffering. I was no longer restricted to such one sided perspectives which allowed me to regain control. Enlightenment and happiness it is true it isn't necessarily connected but through the process of enlightenment your own personal development can go up repairing yourself.

I very much resonated with this. Thank you for that. Well I don't know if they will always care even if it is direct experience haha. But I would say the majority of what I say does come from direct experience. I try to be mindful if I ever veer out of direct experience, but I don't think its really cut back the 'you're crazy, insane' etc comments. It comes off as pseudo-science to many. A lot of those around me in person noticed dramatic changes in how I am and they seem very receptive to learning about how I have changed, but thats not going to be a factor people can see in many online discussions.

All the time I am finding people discussing things that are sorely off track. I know monks and gurus often let the seeker seek their knowledge out instead of going directly to them. There have been many times I have spread such knowledge and it gets heavily rejected - which is fine. They are at least now aware of it. I no longer pursue to change minds, just spread knowledge. But I do wonder if that effort is better spent on those who directly seek my advice and myself. How far do you go to spread what you have learned?

People may present seemingly green ideas but the motives definitely aren't always green. You look at the actions and it reveals lower stage thinking.

This sounds like a big conflict on what 'enlightenment' is to you and the 'proper' way to seek it. To me it doesn't matter what the motive is for this 'enlightenment' because the further you go in your journey such a motive will evolve with your personal development. We all start somewhere.

Why don't you find out, This isn't about blind belief like modern religion promotes, everything that is talked about you should be verifying through your own direct experience. You will receive many benefits hence why it becomes smarter to follow it. But there is no correct or incorrect path. Its just a path.

A friend and I want to set up a passive income project but its gonna need a lot of advertising/marketing knowledge to do it. Any books on such subjects? Anything that could benefit as someone who has never done this shit before would be useful. Thanks!

@Equanimitize I have a couple of outlets in which I can bounce my realizations off of which are quite receptive to it. Even some real life friends. Its mostly random internet conversations in which they are talking about something and I try to point them in the right direction and I get totally shut down. But you can easily lead yourself in an endless amount of conversations of people not ready to be receptive to what you give them. Which like I said I am content with since I stopped trying to change minds, but it can become tiresome to respond to every off track thing you see and ends up a major distraction at that point. I'm mostly trying to learn the criteria in which you guys decide to engage in such conversations.

The ego doesn't exist. But when talking about ego and what we are trying to point to via then is more just about becoming more aware of yourself. To be aware of what you are once blinded by, not rejecting it. I like to visualize the ego as some routine in your 'program' that you can override, tweak, and manipulate.

I get exactly what you mean. Finding such value in the bodies seems like an oddly materialistic thing to me. I don't need the body to remember or grieve. I didn't care about the body, but the personality and connection I formed I did care about. When it is no longer present with the body then it became like any other inanimate object. But from the absolute I see what I formed a connection with is not done for and is ever present in everything that exists.

Seems to be more of a personal development problem than any sex/gender issue.

Yesterday I had my first experience with salvia. And oh man, was this a wild ride. Definitely not for the faint of heart, It is an intense mind fucking confusing experience only to leave you in hysterical laughter post trip at the pure 'wtf' feeling of the substance. I took a pretty light hit of 20x concentration and that was enough for me to really start feeling this substance. What I do remember, I had felt like I was living another life like my life was just a story in a book in which I felt myself literally folding on on myself as if I was a book turning a page. My perception of what I was seeing was super whacky. Almost indescribable. As I peaked, I started wondering what I was doing. I wanted to go out and do things, live out my story to which I found the effort to get up, I walked to my friends ready to say something then it hit me that im not feeling like how I usually do which prompted me to go and lay back down. But this perception of the world i was in was fully believable at the peak. No doubts about it. I know if I had smoked more I would have dissolved into the infiniteness and experience some alternate reality as something else. It was an experience that I think can give insight to whats out there and what you are beyond this body and ego identity. I definitely intend to try it again with full spiritual intent.

Independence is great, being able to be on your own. Its going to help you a lot flow with reality when people leave your life. A key word here is a strong need which I question what you mean by this. Desire? Necessity? I definitely desire building relationships for others simply because I enjoy it and they help me grow. If there ever comes a point they leave my life, so be it. Desiring something and feeling like you need it to thrive or the world will end seems to be different feelings. The value of something is whatever value you assign to it. If there is less value for it to you, then thats fine. The key thing to me here is that you aren't suffering from a lack of interpersonal relationships. Although you may find it valuable to know how to build them when you do want them for whatever purpose and not worry so much about all the shit you learn in psychology.

Attraction isn't that simple from my experience. I've met girls and initially found them unattractive and through getting to know them I actually start finding their physical features attractive. Its like connection building can reprogram your attraction to them.