You don't need to remember the details.
Underline every book as you read it, then you can quickly re-read a book within 20 mins just by reading the underlined parts -- if you need to refresh your memory. Underlining is crucial and it takes way less time than taking notes.

He's got something. Whether it is God-realization, I don't know. I can't stand listening to those Neo-Advaita types.

He ain't got shit.
You ain't got it until you realize you are God.

I don't know the laws in your country. But resisting arrest should not justify murder in my opinion. Such a defense is cheap. 
 

@John Iverson It's not accepted because it's mostly narcissistic. Pick-up generally appeals to guys who don't really want a connected relationship, who are just horny and want to get laid. It's mostly teaching guys how to be a used-car salesman to get into a woman's pants.
I'm not going to make moral judgements against it, I'm just calling it what it is, mostly. There are exceptions. If cold-approaching is authentic to you, you will find a way to make it work not just for yourself, but for all involved. If it isn't and you're doing it just to get laid, you will come across as a sleazebag.

"Definition of a new age person - someone who is generally ignorant of science and philosophy, but is happy to proclaim with certainty on the most difficult questions."

Devil is a tricky word. It can definitely be misunderstood by newbies. Must be careful with it.
But it's also a fun word, it's provocative -- which can be good as times -- and once you understand what a devil actually is (by watching my What Is The Devil video) then it becomes a very powerful concept for making sense of the world.
It's important for newbies reach a point in their development where they realize, "Holy shit! I really am a devil, aren't I?" That takes maturity and honesty to admit. People who are in denial that they are devils are the biggest devils. Admitting you're a devil is already to have solved half your problems. This is the chief reason why I like to call people devils. It forces them to confront the fact that the devil is not an external force but an internal one. The ego loves to see itself as a hero and an angel. So telling an ego that it's the devil is very shocking and destabilizing to it. It's like poking a hibernating bear in the eye with a pointy stick.
Of course an even deeper understanding comes when you realize that all devilry is actually love.

It's a huge problem for today's Zoomers. Most of them don't know how to tie their shoelaces, yet they think they have all the answers for the world's more complex economic, political, and social problems. It's dangerously dumb.

@Harikrishnan Yes, he's nondual and there are many nondual sufi writings.
Rumi is one.
Ibn Arabi is another.
Hafiz is another.

@Caitwin The most useful thing would be to distinguish between dualistic philosophies vs nondual ones. If it's dualistic it can still have some nuts of wisdom, but it will also contain a lot of misguided things.
If you're using impure sources you will waste a lot of time sorting the the truth from the delusion.
Sometimes I start reading a book, see too much dualistic delusion, and just stop reading. Such an impure source is not worth the effort to untangle when crystal clear sources exist.

@Caitwin Not a fan. There are much better philosophies to read.
Try Nagarjuna or Plotinus instead.
Remember, there is A LOT of dualistic delusion within Western philosophy, so be careful not to waste your time wading through bullshit. Go straight for the highest nondual teachings.
You can easily spend 20 years reading Western philosophy and still not get any closer to Truth. With that said, there is the occasional gem and I still encourage everyone to think through philosophical questions for themselves. Philosophy is not meant to be read or believed, it must be DONE! -- as in: contemplate everything for yourself.
The power of philosophy lies more in the questions than in the answers. If you are not contemplating for yourself, you are not actually doing any philosophy.
 

This is junk to lure in normies, not real Kriya yoga.
Do not fall for watered-down stuff.

@SamueLSD Cultivate healthy self-love. You can still care about someone and still choose to walk away, because you have respect for yourself. I've done it before, and like Leo and others have said, identify early on and cut off before getting attached. Observe, don't absorb.

@SamueLSD
A) You should have broken up with her years ago.
B) Make sure you never get back together with her.
C) You need to screen girls harder in the future and cut them off immediately if they are this toxic. You can't cure people like this. Cut them off ASAP before you get too attached. You need to be more ruthless here rather than practicing idiot compassion.
D) Raise your personal standards. Why are you dating someone this broken? Have some respect for yourself. Set stronger and clearer boundaries, and if she crosses them more than twice, dump her.

I have a buddy who moved to Colombia to hunt for hot latinas. He seemed to love it.
The thing to be aware of is that girls from those kind of countries will be deeply entrenched in stage Blue.
It could be viable strategy though if you find the right girl.

Well, the classic way is alcohol.
But if you want to do it sober, you gotta pump up your state by approaching a lot immediately and push yourself to be hyper social. After 30 minutes of doing this, and getting a few rejections, you loosen up, your state builds up and you become very social and uninhibited.
You can basically hit the same state as alcohol without drinking, But it requires some balls of steel to do it. Alcohol makes it effortless, which is why people drink.
You could also try micro-dosing psychedelics instead of drinking since it is healthier, and use the mild psychedelic buzz to teach yourself how to loosen up and be sociable. Then try to do it without microdosing.
You can actually learn valuable lessons from being mildly intoxicated, which you can than translate over into sober game.
Socializing is very easy on a mild psychedelic. It's effortless. Your best game will come out on a mild psychedelic.

You can always get matches. It's always a function of quality.
I absolutely will make that assumption. Don't bullshit us. Sex is all about maximizing survival value. You will only have sex with those people who match your minimum desired level of quality.
That means you will have to work even harder to get laid.
What are you not understanding is that sexual value is a finite resource. If you want it, you will have to compete for it. Competition requires standing out from everyone else. Tinder does not allow you to do that unless you are exceptionally physically attractive.
When you expect lots of sexual value for a few button clicks, just like every other fool, you end up getting nothing.
Tinder's entire business model is to monetize lazy fools who want to leech sexual value. Tinder is basically a get-rich-quick-scheme trap with sex as the bait. It is like those rigged ring-toss games at the carnival. It's made for suckers. Tinder has fooled you into thinking that is the proper way to find a quality mate. Which of course is the opposite of what's true.

Getting results
If you do something for a few months and don't see/feel any results, then you gotta adapt.
You cannot turn this into an algorithm. You must feel, listen, and adapt using creative intelligence and consciousness.
Playing around is not sloppy per se. That's an important part of experimentation. Sloppy is more like being lazy, skipping days, not doing it earnestly, etc.
There is a big difference between being lazy about the gym vs experimenting at the gym. Experimentation is actually one of the goals.
In practice getting great results in life requires A LOT of experimentation and trial and error. And failure. Way more than anyone expects.
I have tried a lot of different meditation techniques and most of them have failed for me. I was not happy with the results. So I had to adapt. You can't just do these things robotically and hope that they will work. You must find what specifically works for you. It makes no difference what works for others, only what works specifically for you.
Getting significant growth in this work tends to take many years as you waste a lot of time upfront just getting to know the field, babbling in stuff, and wasting time. The results curve for genuine growth is very long and flat at first, then it skyrockets after you reach a certain critical mass. Which is why few people grow much, but those you devote themselves to it can grow to super-human levels. It is a big investment and most of the rewards come years later.
But this is not say you should continue doing practices which you feel aren't generating results within a few months. It should not take years to start feeling some results. That means your method is too ineffective or inappropriate for you.

@Phyllis Wagner Like I told you guys before, if you don't have above average looks, you should not be wasting your time with online dating at all. It will not work. Not amount of editing your photos will suffice. You will just make yourself depressed.
Change your strategy to real-life game. You know -- the way humans have done for 400,000 years.
And stop using covid as an excuse. Covid will pass, life will go on. The best girls are not found on Tinder.
You want hot girls? Work for it! You will instantly feel much better as soon as you start doing serious work rather than clicking buttons and praying for luck.

Spiritual talent of course cannot be changed, which is why I don't discuss it much other than to warn you that the masters you blindly follow are coasting on it while you are not.
But spiritual talent is not all there is to spirituality. You can go far with spiritual practice even if you aren't very talented. The same cannot be said for your physical looks.
Spirituality is a lot more like building up your game skills. You can develop a lot of skill through hardcore practice that will trump your looks.

Most of this stuff is implicit and subtle, which is why it's difficult to work with. The majority of anyone's understanding of anything is implicit, not explicit.
In practice people navigate life through holistic gut instincts and vague intuitions.

@WhatAWondefulWorld Either do the practices, or stop talking about metaphysical issues.
Metaphysics without rigorous spiritual practice is pure BS.

A) Take psychedelic to have your first glimpse of "direct experience".
Although of course you have direct experience without psychedelics too. If I tell you the sun shines in the morning, you don't need to believe me. You can experience it for yourself.
B) All language is relative. But within the relative terms we generally agree upon, a pretty accurate description of reality is possible. But of course you don't have reference experiences yet for terms like God, Love, Infinity, Truth, Good, Consciousness, etc. So you'll have to acquire those reference experiences before you can know what they really mean. The only reason you know what a "sun" is, is because you have reference experience for that word.
Don't forget, the map is not the territory. The notion of "the sun" is not the same as the actual sun itself.
I give direct, definitive answers, but they are still just a symbol, not the thing itself. For some reason you have no problem accepting when someone tells you clearly and definitively that the sun is shining outside. Yet you have a problem with my answers.
I can be so certain because I became infinite conscious. You can too.

By shutting up your mind and just looking at it.
What you see is Absolute Truth.

That's why spiritual practices are required and enlightenment is required.
Taking a psychedelic does not make you enlightened. It gives you a peak at what you can become with hardcore spiritual practice.
You got the peak, but you don't want to do any hardcore spiritual practice. That's your problem. You are expecting psychedelics to be a magic pill.