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Even if you study Consciousness for 10 years it is going to be shocking when you lose that premium state afford to you by biology.

I agree with this, the statements I made assumed the person was already doing all of this. If someone has a self development mindset there going to work with the problem indefinitely for the rest of their life. Slowly making discoveries and progress but it is such a massive burden and derailment of one's life. Most people and spiritually inclined do not need to go down this path, it is very difficult. The loss of State that I was talking about is when it's not avoidable regardless of everything you're doing. With a mature routine that aims to maximize your daily State you'll still have this burden you have to deal with for life. The average person doesn't have to deal with the worst case scenarios. But past 60 years old in general most people will experience immense suffering because they did not study consciousness when they had the chance.

If you take a hundred people who do the same job, each of them will self-report how hard they felt that job was. And you'll get a spectrum, where some people found the task psychologically much harder, while others felt it was psychologically effortless. When someone wakes up, psychologically everything becomes a lot easier. You still have to do work, but there's less resistance to it. The above is what basic spirituality is about and why Eckhart Tolle and every spiritual teacher can just sit there and explain to you how to be a Buddhist and how to end suffering. That's about it, they're just explaining how to let go of resistance to reality. But there is a prerequisite to this. The prerequisite is that you have a healthy body. Without a healthy body, you cannot produce the chemicals to stay in a good state. You experience sobriety, and sobriety to life is brutal. State is everything. And you lose that premium state when there's biological issues. Losing that premium state is the highest loss you will ever experience. And for most of you it's going to come probably in your 50s>.

I cant believe the hypocrisy of removing his checkmark and suppressing his tweets. FREE SPEECH? How can you be this intellectually bankrupt.

Example: You wake up everyday in chronic pain. The body is not working properly in various ways. And there's no solution. That is now your life. Permanently. The quality of every moment of your life is affected by this. Every experience you have is Tainted for life. What happens is then you're forced learn to not care that you're suffering. And be okay with it. While a normal person is living and bathing in premium biology and natural hormonal drugs that they have no idea is even happening. And when you lose these natural drugs your body is flooding your system with, you experience a brutal soberness to life. There is no Grand Awakening and enlightenment to alleviate this, it's always going to be hard until you die. You're only allowed to sit there and Bliss out if your body gives you the drugs to do so. You need premium biology to be blissing out.

There's two kinds of responses those that come from people who suffered in a normal way and had normal struggles throughout life but managed to get through life and succeed or are still struggling but it's basically within the degrees of acceptable expected struggles of life. This is the spiritual New Age camp. And then there's people that experienced immense endless Relentless suffering and they had to do everything imaginable to survive and fix their debilitating issues, and have a very clear understanding that life is utterly brutal and whatever hard struggle you had before was Child's Play. Most of you have no idea how bad life gets. You're living with premium biology and have absolutely no understanding of that. Your entirely high on biology and don't understand that you are, you take absolutely all of it for granted. And all of your struggles pale in comparison to the real thing. It's like when you see a teenager struggling with growing up crisis and offended by everything. That's 99.99% of adults who have not woken up yet. Everyone is having a crisis before the ship even sunk. When the ship sinks you'll know what a real crisis is.

musty smell in Old buildings is caused by mold. And it's super toxic. It's possible that those kinds of things aren't triggering your sensitivity. After all you feel a lot better?

This one's truly showcases elon's egocentrism. Him and asmongold had a short conversation some kind of controversy, about Elon cheating at Diablo by purchasing people to rank up his character. And Elon removed asmongolds x Official check mark. This is such a blatant hypocrisy, abuse of power and suppression of free speech.

@NewKidOnTheBlock I thought that way most of my life the situation I'm in is: I can't access the gym at this moment, I don't have indoor equipment to train, it's winter and very cold, I can't go outside full workout, all I have is a floor, so to get the motivation for basic training I turned this on, and it gives me all the ideas/motivation I need to execute.

I found this the other day and it's so 80s/90s and cheesy, it makes for such a great workout! I've been doing it every day. Admittedly, I can't quite finish the entire hour, it's pretty intense.

@Thought Art 🤣 what you're saying is true. But in the foreseeable future there's no reason we shouldn't be developing technology to redesign the brain and create instant enlightenment. Psychedelics is one tool, we need more tools.

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So there's a misunderstanding of what he said. The topic is social conformity. To follow a specific groupthink methodology unconsciously because it suits your survival agenda. It is a low consciousness because you are unconscious of your own Survival agenda and how it's playing tricks on you. And how you're attracted to all the things that suit your own Survival unconsciously. Which of course leads you down the path of untruthfulness in everything. Because what suits your survival is rarely true, you're just biased and you cannot see your own self deception mechanisms. Fooling yourself into thinking you know what is true. Basic emotional responses are largely learned through early family dynamics, like whether crying was met with comfort or punishment shaping our relationship with vulnerability. Our "personal" aesthetic preferences often trace back to what our early environment celebrated or dismissed, from music tastes to ideas of physical beauty. The very language and concepts we use to think and process reality were installed through our cultural and educational conditioning. Our sense of life purpose and what constitutes "success" is heavily shaped by familial and societal expectations we internalized before we could critically examine them. The range of "choices" we believe are available to us is unconsciously limited by what our social conditioning has framed as possible or appropriate. Our deepest moral instincts, while felt as universal truths, largely reflect the specific value system we were raised in. Even our perception of time and relationship to past/future is culturally conditioned rather than objectively given. The ways we experience and express core human needs like love, belonging, and self-worth are patterned on our early attachment experiences. Our default ways of relating to authority, conflict, and power dynamics often unconsciously recreate our family system's patterns. The fear of ostracism and social rejection activates the same brain regions as physical pain, creating a powerful motivation to align with group norms. People quote studies they haven't read just because they support their existing beliefs Changing your natural accent or way of speaking to match the dominant group Buying specific brands or clothes just because they're popular in your social circle Hiding interests or hobbies that might be seen as weird or different Laughing at jokes you don't find funny to seem agreeable Pretending to like certain music or movies just to have common ground with others Adapting your personality to be more extroverted/introverted based on the setting Changing your opinions to match whatever group you're currently with Censoring parts of your life story that don't fit the "normal" narrative Mimicking others' body language and mannerisms unconsciously Downplaying your intelligence or success to avoid standing out Pretending to share common struggles even when you don't relate Hiding cultural practices or traditions that might seem different Avoiding expressing controversial opinions even when you feel strongly Changing your food preferences to match what others consider normal Suppressing emotional reactions that might make others uncomfortable

@trenton I'm glad you found peace. Let's imagine a scenario where what really changed was that the air you were breathing changed and therefore now your mind is not hyper Vigilant anymore. And your whole family is toxic because they're all the breathing that toxic air in that house hyperstimulating them all day and night. Notice the problem of epistemology here. You moved house and your mental health problems changed in a very short period of time, an incredibly astonishing short period of time that took you 20 years to not solve. But you contribute your success to everything else except that you moved house. The idea that everything is in your head is one of the most toxic ideologies and cultural problems we are living in. It is such a massive blind spot that half of reality cannot be seen.

It is a self-invented game that you're playing with yourself deciding if you're worthy or worthless. I was bullied like crazy throughout the first 13 years of schooling, and never once that I think the awful things they were telling me had anything to do with my self-worth. It didn't affect my self worth because it never occurred to me to question my self worth. The question of "who I am" and "if I am worthy" is something you're asking yourself and battling with. Why? Why would anything ever have anything to do with your self-worth? I'm not seeing the connection. There is nothing external or internal that has anything to do with self-worth. Self worth doesn't exist. It's a game you're playing. Respect or being disrespected doesn't exist it's a game people are playing. Choosing to play unconsciously. Pride is a game people are choosing to play. These kind of things disappear when you grow up. Not that you have self-respect not that you have pride not that you have self-worth, that they just don't exist at all, and you never think about it again. When you have self-confidence, you don't think that you have confidence, it it becomes completely automatic and outside your awareness, like breathing air. As you grow up these things will Disappear Completely. Respect, Pride, Worth or confidence vanish.

@AION being agreeable and disagreeable is different from your energy and personality. These are different things. In the response you gave you've merged being disagreeable with personality + energy and not creating a distinction between them. I agree on this this is on point. With this same statement we can see that some people who have awful energy and personality and who are highly disagreeable, like if you ever seen a angry protester. Their energy is exhausting and does not add anything to the conversation. Or if you ever interacted with my father it would be very clear that disagreeableness is not some magical virtue that adds to every conversation lol

If you have absolutely no health problems of any kind and have perfect biology then all your suffering is in your head and all you have to do is grow up. (which is a condition) If I take you hostage and then skin you alive slowly over to next 30 Years I guarantee none of it is in your head and you will not live a second of happiness again.

We should have mandatory surgery to remove the part of the brain that experiences the stress response.

He’s playfully disagreeing and it’s fun and engaging. if your energies off doesn’t matter what you say, you’re not gonna be taking more serious than anyone else. The average disagreeable person has exhausting energy and you want to run the other way after interacting with them. So it’s not what you say it’s how you say, it the topics you take your pointing to, your overall presence and to be balance. he was not 100% disagreeable in the social interactions. He often agreed towards the end to alleviate tention or create the joke/connection.

@Hardkill I think the area of study here is how to sell and marketing. The domain of business.

@Hardkill there's a sucker born everyday, part of what keeps the capitalist consumer engine running is that there is always fresh meat to make the same mistakes that someone else did over and over again. People can learn from mistakes but there's always going to be a fresh Supply of fools to buy a bunch of garbage they don't need because they haven't learned that lesson yet. Infinite Supply born everyday.

For as long as I can remember, I could not follow the basic principles of breathing deeply and relaxing. There was always a cue that I had to focus on, like focusing on your breath, or focusing on some kind of sensation in your nose, or focusing on some relaxation in your body, or focusing on whatever. And none of this got me any results at all; it, in fact, caused more tension within my body. If I focused on the sensation of relaxation within my body and muscles, it caused me to over-focus on all of my nerves and become too aware, and my whole body just becomes physically in pain. It's the same thing with focusing on the breath; I become too conscious of it, and it causes stress overall. But recently, I found a method that works for me, so I thought I might share it. Instead of thinking about focusing on your breath, try this: Inhale the relaxation substance that's in the air. There is a substance in the air that is pure relaxation, and imagine yourself inhaling it and consuming it. This sounds like a fantasy, and it pretty much is; there's no logic to it, but for me, it works incredibly well. It allows me to become present and feel the entire room that I'm in and the entire house that I'm in, and have a much more atmospheric presence. The concept of consuming shifts my perspective in a strange way that allows me to deeply relax, as if every time I inhale, I go deeper and deeper into a sea of relaxation and become conscious of the substance of relaxation as a product of the entire environment that I'm in. Relaxation becomes a substance of the entire reality and not just isolated to my nose or my body, so the entire world becomes relaxed not just my physical body. The way I view everything and my perspective of everything becomes relaxed and I'm not trying to just relax my body. I understand some of you guys are gifted, and none of this matters to you; you just naturally relax. But for people who have a hard time with meditation, this might be the perspective you need. Shifting outside of trying to relax your body and instead trying to relax the association you're making with all of reality seems to be a better approach in my opinion.

What is the insight here? How do relatively intelligent people consistently have terrible politics? Based on the videos you made on Jordan Peterson and the things you said on Elon there seems to be a wide range of reasons. But I'm trying to find if there's one specific General pattern that causes this?

For most of my life, I believed guns should be banned entirely because it would reduce the crime rate, and it doesn't make sense that you can buy a gun at Walmart in the United States. For the most part, unregulated guns don't work, with the United States being a perfect example. But guns have a very important purpose, and only one real purpose that matters, which is to take power away from powerful people. Guns allow you to kill a powerful person, and this is a vital component for limiting corruption. Unfortunately, it goes both ways, giving the powerful more ability to oppress. But when a kid from high school almost ended the life of Donald Trump, it puts things into perspective. Completely removing access to guns limits the population's ability to regulate their own government. It's part of the social contract the people have with the government. The government is an extremely useful tool, and we give up some freedom so that we can collectively have the freedom we really want. Guns are needed to keep freedom in check. It's hilarious how guns and freedom truly are connected but then this was idealized by the right wing and demonized by the left.

Nope. Men love watching attractive women talk on YouTube.