Extreme Z7

I know. . . I know. . . I'm sharing sort of. . . click-baitey content here that you're likely much better off not watching. But I couldn't resist sharing another ideological nutjob with his own pet theory to how mystical traditions arise. Feel free to ignore this video if you have much better things to do with your time.

This is some really amazing shit, brah. . . http://tommynikon.photoshelter.com/gallery/Them/G0000wFa8xMPT8hw/0

Hehe, it's like you're turning into Robert Greene. . . or trying to compete with him. Something like that.

Isn't that somewhat tangentially similar to how the AI enslaved the humans in the movie "The Matrix"? I don't know, just an observation.

@Leo Gura Oh man, I can't believe I haven't asked this question yet. . . Anyway. . . uh. . Any thoughts on your book project you mentioned in your Why Rationality is Wrong video that you may or may not have been working on?

It's funny how it's an educational talk on "Bla Bla", literally.

I can relate. Even before I learned of psychedelics from you, I already had little playful ideas in my mind involving psychedelics (and rainbows too, for some reason). Now that I do know about it, my imagination is still pretty much the same but I am yet to actually take psychedelics for myself. Maybe I'll do a little "Before and After Psychedelics" comparison with my art to show the results when it happens.

I think you got a typo there. You probably meant "with a sense of hollowness and lack of fulfillment".

I got an article from a newsletter in my inbox today about a form of meditation I've never heard of before, Trataka meditation. It's meditation that focuses on calming the mind through the means of calming the eyes. It's pretty cool. Check it out.

I'm still a new recruit. But I'm interested. . .

@Arman @Anna Konstantaki Thanks, I guess. . . .

<01-13-2017> Turned 20 Today It's my birthday today. I know it's not a personal development topic so . . moving on, business as usual. I've been encountering the term 'illusion' a lot in the personal development content I've consumed today. I read it in some of Leo's posts today and also in this Sadhguru video. I've also been studying a lot of the board games that my parents have bought but barely played out of curiosity and found myself connecting the illusory nature of the games with my own so called "real life". And of course, I did another 1 hour self-inquiry/self-observation session and the term 'illusion' kept coming up in my mind. Maybe reality really is trying to tell me that it's not reality at all, it's all illusion. Business as usual. . . thanks for reading. . . see you tomorrow.

<01-12-2017> Using Pre-Mortem To Help Me Graduate I'm getting really close to something I've been waiting for for a very long time, graduating out of college. I'm not really that excited about graduating on its own, I'm just tired of all these college work that has been holding me back from working on myself and my life purpose for several months now. I decided to sit and do a pre-mortem on the remaining work I need to get done before I graduate. It's not too difficult but there is still chance of me messing up if I'm not careful. Also, I finished reading 'The Law of One' Book 1 today. I plan to start reading other stuff now and leave the remaining four books for another time.

I personally find it slightly depressing that we're happy that Leo's content is free when he provides the kind of content that should just be a part of school and mainstream culture in the first place. But I suppose we should just be happy that we've been extremely lucky to find one of the rare water sources that aren't contaminated instead of thinking of the fact the majority of the population is drinking dirty water. Should we?

I'd personally refrain from calling Tai Lopez's business a scam although I myself don't find his content very useful. I believe that his business is genuine and that his intentions are genuine but in the end he's a (relatively) shallow guru with some relatively shallow content. Even just the average kid who likes to make self-help material for a hobby does a better job at giving valuable information than Tai. Case in point, this guy's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUizzYFAqgwZxuHnEfNWHFA/videos

@Leo Gura How about if I define perception as "having content in direct experience"?

@Leo Gura Would simply not perceiving an entity be the same as it reverting to a state of nothingness? You know, the classic "if a tree falls and nobody hears it, does it even exist"?

@Mattylonglegs I don't walk around. I just stretch my legs while still sitting down on the bed.

About half an hour to 45 minutes. . then I let my legs stretch out for about 5 minutes before going back.

@Mattylonglegs My personal method of combating sleepiness is just to meditate cross-legged. Although if you already do meditate cross-legged then, welp, I don't know how to help. . .

<01-05-2017> Starting 2017 With Some Baby Steps First of all, I would like to apologize for not posting in my journal for a very long time. I just temporarily lost motivation to write here and lost some momentum. Also the Christmas partying had its own effect. I decided to start 2017 with one commitment to end the year being massively better at drawing than I was when the year started. It may not seem like much but being able to have high expertise in drawing is one of my dreams in life and I feel that this year will only feel well spent for me if I focus it on my drawing practice. It was on mid-2016 when I decided to start drawing daily and I plan this to be the first year in my life where I draw everyday with no excuses. This counts a project so I'm taking advantage of Leo's pre-mortem technique. I'm not going to get into too much detail but I will say that my main strategy is to focus on learning something new in drawing everyday. Whether it's from a tutorial or some fun new idea where I learn something from the process. I am very much still a rookie/amateur at this so focusing on making drawings that will inspire me won't be my main focus, yet I will certainly not dismiss drawing something because of inspiration. Aside from this, I am also near finishing reading the first book of 'The Law Of One'. I'm not too emotionally invested as to whether what is shown in the book is true or not but I give it a 50:50 possibility that it may or may not be true. Either way, I find some of the information still useful. Most recently, I read a part where it says that ego and materialism is not to be overcome to become enlightened, in fact it is highly discouraged because it creates imbalance or whatever. But rather that one is to experience, understand, analyze and accept the experiences from ego and materialism. Whatever is unnecessary falls off on its own. That's it for today. I leave you in the love and the light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai.

@Gabriel Antonio You are projecting your own ideas as to how higher-consciousness is actually like. I've never been to a Buddhist monastery before but I suspect that there is good reason why you are , for example, not allowed to speak up against the Zen master or question the practices. I don't think it's for the same reason why you are not allowed to speak up when being indoctrinated by a religious group. There's just a little more nuance that is found when you go deep and examine non-duality vs dogma. They may look similar in the surface but the small details and connections can show a world of difference. Also, take into account the fact that only low-consciousness loves to argue.

I dunno, I just want to make comics based on random stuff I come up with. http://extreme-z7.deviantart.com/gallery/60967327/Laughable-Comics

@Leo Gura . . .