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That's the joy! These are pretty good for psychology: 50 Psychological Classics Everybody Lies Elephant in the brain Laws of Human Nature

😂 AI has brought up ToM twice in the past week, so I searched here and found your post. This topic is gold! It's really interesting that children can have highly developed ToM. I think this explains a lot about my childhood and I suspect it could answer lingering questions a lot of us have about who and why we are what we are. For some reason, I believe we became very open as children, and that openness was one of the key factors that contributed to our expanded consciousness. Just an early idea but what if ToM is just tracking the consequences of openness?

"Pretty good" my ass. He should easily make it into your top 10. Rupert Spira ain't got shit on Hawkins. Like he's "somewhat useful", as if he's among the ranks of Eckhart Tolle or fuckin' Deepak Chopra. I get the sense most people either haven't explored his work or they were first introduced to him in Power Vs. Force and/or Truth Vs. Falsehood. These two books are shit and should be avoided, or, if you do consume them, you have keep an open mind until you explore the rest of his works, but you ain't missing anything if you skip his 2 most popular books. Don't go on the internet and look up what everyone else thinks about him if you easily succumb to groupthink. I've shared Leo's work with several people in the past and not a single one of them saw the value in it. The same reason those people didn't see the value in Leo's work is the same reason people don't see the value in Hawkins.

@Leo Gura What do you think of this: Yes, "weird" isn't effective to change minds. If someone with conservative values winds up in a voting booth in Nov, they'll likely vote Republican. But! A lot of factors go into whether they'll show up to vote. I know conservatives who weren't going to vote this year. They felt defeated and that it was hopeless. Then, their will to participate in the election increased sharply after Biden defeated himself in the debate. Then, after the assassination attempt, they were never more ready to vote in their lives. Why? What happened? Their values didn't change. Energy from narratives and ideas changed. Before those two events, they felt defeated and weren't gonna show up. Now, they feel defeated again. And the weird attack did play a part in that. 😂 The "weird" attack contributed to the energy of the left and diminished the energy of the right. You don't see it this way?

I'm not worried about the vote count anymore, but I would be very surprised if the The Heritage Foundation doesn't have hundreds of Jesus warriors ready to cause chaos before or during the election, which could lead to God knows what.

To anyone who doesn't like Hawkins because their first impression came from Power vs Force or Truth vs Falsehood, you wrote him off too early. Here's a sample audio preview of a random excerpt from Reality, Spirituality, and Modern Man: https://recorder.google.com/e49138f0-90f0-42a7-be46-61c7c309e4c6 To sit upright with an actual paperback book requires too much energy and needless friction. Audible. I'm repulsed by his two most popular books but often cycle through these: Reality, Spirituality, and Modern Man Transcending the Levels of Consciousness Discovery of the Presence of God I - Reality and Subjectivity The Eye of the I

When it comes woo woo stuff I can't corroborate myself, I give Hawkins the same leeway I give Leo. I don't buy Hawkins' calibration technique but I also don't buy Leo's Alien conscious and channeling stuff. Why? Because I can't corroborate those things. But I'm not going to say Hawkins or Leo is full of shit because I can't corroborate that either. When I heard Hawkins say a fox news piece calibrated at level 350, I was like, c'mon David, don't do this! 😂 That said, he was talking about some of Leo's highest teachings way before Leo was. For example, instead of "Structure vs Content", Hawkins called it "Essence vs. appearance/content". Instead of "paradigm lock", Hawkins spoke of "paradigm blindness". Hawkins harped on the "narcissistic core of the human ego" and how its main goal was survival and its nature was wickedly deceptive. Sound familiar? I noticed a lot of overlap in their works—so much so that at one point I wondered if Leo was just lifting shit from Hawkins. Over the years, I found quite a few people Leo seemed to have been inspired by and it seems a common sentiment that they just be poo-pood for not being absolutely perfect. Hawkins' deserves more respect than he's getting here. Not only was he highly spiritually developed beyond what most of us ever will be, but he actually took to the time to share the knowledge and was one of the most accessible and eloquent teachers I've found. I don't think it's a stretch to say Hawkins had a profound impact on Leo, which follows, this entire community. So yeah, he's got some strangeness to him and it might even be bullshit, but he's one of the giants whose shoulders we're standing on. The thing I like most about Hawkins and John Diamond (the guy who taught Hawkins about Kinesiology), is they actually reached a level of spirituality that made them truly love their fellow humans. Something in me thinks that you have to reach that level of being before you can go very high. Hawkins and Diamond very clearly reached those levels, and Hawkins went way beyond... anyway. Show some goddamn respect! 😂

Interesting, thanks @DocWatts! @Leo Gura More than just Trump supporters have fallen for this. I see this defense they've mounted as particularly pernicious to the collective epistemology. It's not your run-of-the mill denial and delusion that only Trump fanatics fall for. Trump apologists, distinct from Trump supporters, have spent years formulating, revising, polishing, and providing new releases of their latest and greatest defenses that allow Trump supporters to handwave away Jan 6, which sat in the back of all their minds as an unresolved, incoherent piece of reality. To date, their collective hard work has produced the defense of "ignore the essence, zoom into and focus on the literal and clearly discernable and say that trying to discern the essence is foolish", or whatever. I think there is huge opportunity for collective epistemic growth if enough thought leaders and influencers figure out how to effectively articulate and disseminate this sneaky tactic of the ego.

@Leo Gura Regarding self-deception, have you touched on something like "the letter of the law vs. the spirit of the law"? Not necessarily pertaining to the law but rather to someone's words or actions? For example, Trump said to "peacefully" protest on the 6th. His apologists use this as a sort of "letter of the law" defense where they say "well, technically speaking...", while completely ignoring the "spirit" or the "essence" and writing off any attempt to ascertain the essence as wishful attempts to read his mind because you don't like him and since they themselves aren't suffering from TDS, they don't have any reason to read his mind. This argument put forth by Trump apologists appeals to many and I don't really see anyone countering it successfully. I think this concept of "letter vs spirit/essence", for lack of a better term, is the key to counter it.

Kamala and Walz need to bring in Steve Schmidt as a spokesperson or strategist. This dude fucking CRUSHES.

I think this is correct. Calling Trump an Orange Devil certainly appeals to me and you but not to the average conformist. It's safer for them to avoid making such polarizing judgments, otherwise they risk becoming "weird". Conformist instinctively desire to put space between themselves and what is seen as weird. It doesn't matter who is calling a thing weird. If large numbers of any group are calling a thing weird, it will trigger their instinct to demonize and distance themselves from the weird. That's why it's so clever! I can tell I'm viewed as "weird" by my community and I've seen them huddle together and talk about other "weirdos". I know they do the same about me when I'm not around. To them, it would be an absolute nightmare if others huddled together and had a conversation about how they were weird. I've called conformists weird before—they take that shit seriously. 😂

Optics wise , Kamala and Walz look great together. Side by side comparison, these two look competent, energetic, and ready to roll up their sleeves while Trump and Vance look like burnt out bullshitters who need a break from their con games.

Think about it. What scares adult conformists the most? The last thing they want to be is weird. I wonder if that’s the main reason the attack works. It’s the effect on their energies that is important, not the message. It really was a clever attack IMO, but it’s time for it to die before it becomes cringe.

Good insight. Fear of the unknown. Imagine being raised alone in a sealed, robot-controlled lab, unaware of the existence of other humans. As far as you know, you're the only human that has ever lived. Your skin is green. On your 20th birthday, a door opens, revealing an expansive outdoor area where you see groups of people for the first time. One group is white, one black, and the other green. Which group are you most likely to approach? The greens, right? This thought experiment seemingly reveals that we all have a benign, natural tendency to align ourselves with those most like us because to do otherwise carries more risk. The tendency itself seems to only manifest toxicity in low-conscious people. I've been trying to use logic and reason to beat the low-consciousness out of them, but the shit doesn't work.

Why aspire to inspire figments of imagination inside of an imagining? What else is there to do for someone driven by that passion? The figments demand engagement. If Mario suddenly finds himself in a world of monsters and coins, he should make the monsters his enemies and the coins his friends. There's literally nothing else for Mario to do. He is compelled to move. His entire world was created for him to engage with it. 😂 So funny! This connects to Bashar's main piece of advice about following your passion. Each main character has their own world/reality/construct and what they're most compelled to do is right for them in that reality, so it seems.

Misc Audible books on psychology, consciousness, and history. David R. Hawkins: Transcending the Levels of Consciousness I - Reality and Subjectivity The Eye of the I Discovery of the Presence of God Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man Letting Go Healing and Recovery James Allen - Complete Premium Collection E. H. Gombrich - A Little History of the World

This concept keeps coming up and is very interesting. I think of an octopus wrapping it's tentacles around 8 different objects and perceiving them all at once. This seems impossible from my limited perspective. It seems the 8 legs are looking for something specific to its survival and when they find it, that single thing becomes the focal point of perception. I've contemplated the implications of holding multiple perceptions/focal points simultaneously but there's a block I can't get through 😂. Obviously. But when you think about it... what would be the point of it? I think Leo has a good argument—one seems good enough, but that doesn't satisfy my curiosity here.

Nice! What was your overall impression? Was he pretty much the same as in his YT vids? Are you glad you did it?

It’s useful for some.

😂I have this too. Not sure it's a complex but it's the highest purpose I can find for living, so...

I thought I already understood Trumpism but you can't fully understand it without knowing about Paul Weyrich. A guy named Paul Weyrich has basically architected nearly EVERYTHING we see today as Christian nationalism. He's why Trump became president. He's why people like Charlie Kirk exist. He co-founded Moral Majority in 1979 and get this, The Heritage Foundation in 1973. They've been working very patiently and intelligently to amass power—and it's working. One man and his will to power is why my nephews were taken out of public school. Check out this excerpt from his protege's manifesto: This was written in 2001. It fucking worked, and they're doing this on many levels. They have this idea of conquering the "7 mountains" Education, Government, Family, etc.. They're making their own schools. Jordan Peterson just launched his own "university", PragerU, The Daily Wire school thing, that's what all of these are about. I thought it was just capitalism and fame but now I think they've grown bored of their old toys and now want POWER. They want dominion. They literally think they are the "Watchmen On the Wall". Literally! They join together and chant the Watchman's oath 😂 You gotta see this shit if you're like me and didn't know. These assholes have a database of mentally ill, desperate addicts who they track down and convert to Christians. They scout preachers from all over the U.S so they can provide them instructions for their flocks. Crazy. It's free on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100020971/bad Here's the referenced manifesto: "The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement"

Yeah, you're probably right. It sucks to have members of your inner circle this far gone though. I've split with 2 of them in the past week and it was of course them who attacked me and ran when I got too close to their foundation with my jack hammer. LOL . It's fucked up.

I just checked out his rally in GA. It seems like a large segment of his audience knows he's full of shit and can see the overt manipulation and some of the lies. He literally just told them to the only way to stop their families getting murdered and raped is to prevent Kamala from winning. I think most of them can see through that by now, but not sure.

"If Harris wins, a never-ending stream of illegal alien rapist, MS-13 animals and child predators will flood into your communities." — Trump, ≈7:00 PM, 08-03-2024