Don't discourage people from pursuing success. Success is a good thing when done in a reasonable way.
Everyone needs a decent amount of success to be secure.

What is there to say? It's already happening. How far it will go is hard to predict.
Vlad Vexler thinks that the 2030s in America will be more fascist than today. He thinks Trump is just the warm-up act.
That's a terrifying notion but he might be right. He could also be wrong.

You were doing great up until this point, when you fell flat on your face.
Absolute certainty of God/Consciousness/Truth/Existence/Love/Infinity is possible. That's what Awakening is.
Awakening destroys skepticism. It turns out that skepticism was a self-deception.
Your certainty that there is no certainty is an epistemic error.
Ta-daaaa!
You are God. This is absolutely certain and true.

Yes. The normal conceptual mind is always prone to self-deception.
The only solution to self-deception is consciousness of God.

No, he was not a normal guy. He was an immature egomaniac with bipolar disorder before he ever watched my videos.
If Hitler watched one of my videos, people would be crying: "Look! Actualized.org created Hitler!"
Any excuse not to take responsiblity.

A retreat will not raise your baseline consciousness, but they are educational.

Tucker has always been a clown since the first time I saw him on CNN back in 2001. And nothing has fundamentally changed.

The solution to self-deception is not-knowing.

No. Not thinking is not thinking.
But all of these so-called enlightened people think. And they think poorly.
Ralston is very enlightened, but he still thinks, "Psychedelics don't raise consciousness" and "Love is just a human emotion".
Ramaji still thinks, "I can map consciousness on a scale from 1 to 1000".
So much for no-mind and not-knowing.
All these motherfuckers think stupid thoughts.

God does not care what your ego cares about.
To exist as an ant is very intelligent. Just not from your egoic POV.
You are not appreciating how selfless God is and how selfish you are. That's why you fail to understand God.
You don't get it: God has nothing to lose. There is no cost to God because it has no self and no death.

@ElvisN If you find absolutely nothing fascinating or interesting about reality, it's impossible to help you.
It takes extraordinary arrogance, blindness, and ingratitude, not to find all aspects of reality deeply fascinating.
A miracle is happening all around you every minute and all you can do is shrug your shoulders and say, "Meh".

They can be, depending on how deeply you pursue them.
But if you're just dabbling in those things then it won't be enough, it won't be very meaningful because it's such a weak, shallow, self-absorbed purpose.
What is the point of all your reading of books? What will you do with it? Just sit there looking at your toilet? That's not inspiring.
See, if you were reading books in order to help mankind colonize Mars, that would be deeply meaningful and inspiring.

Of course. Because your life has no meaning. You haven't created anything worth getting up for.
When you find something meaningful to work towards you will leap out of bed. You will be unable to sleep. You will wake up 3hrs early excited to get to work.

You have to pick a domain of mastery that aligns with your passion and your strengths.
You don't just try to master something randomly.
You can't master any random field, but you can master a handful that suit your strengths and passions. The trick is finding that perfect fit. Which is what my Life Purpose Course is about.

Look, every atom in the universe reacts to every other.
Culture wars are like a pinball bouncing around the machine. There's reactionary behavior all around.
The right-wing is always reacting to progress. That's been happening since the beginning of humankind.
500,000 years ago there was some right-wing caveman reacting against not being allowed to rape his own mother.

My genetics is a factor, but also I've done so much philosophical work, like 15 years worth.
Psychedelics work on most people. Most people just don't apply them seriously. They trip for fun a few times in their life. I turned psychedelica into a hardcare existential practice.
What hippie has done over 40 different  psychedelics over 500 times, combined with 15 years of deep contemplation?

Such nonsense.
These people are self-deception incarnate.

I struggle every day to find books worth reading. Most books I start I have to quit because they are just not worth the time.
These days when I find one great new book it feels like Christmas morning to me.

@Schahin That is not a doorknob, that is a human/God dreaming it is a doorknob.

Hippies were not doing serious epistemic or ontological work, they were just chasing spiritual group-think and that is still common today. That's the whole New Age movement.
Also, some of those hippies did go into serious spiritual work, so it didn't fail. Very few people are serious about anything.

Ralston's greatest weakness is that he has isolated himself from everyone else. He lives in his own world and does not study or take ideas from others. His own mind/life/consciousness is very powerful but it then becomes its own island, so anything that exists outside that island is like it doesn't even exist. He does not listen to anyone but himself and that leads to blindness. He is too dismissive of the spiritual experiences of others, acting like they have nothing to contribute. He is not willing to learn from others.

Of course you can. Just replace coffee with DMT. That's exactly how it works.
Btw, self-inquiry is just coffee.
Ralston acts like his retreats are not coffee but DMT is. But both are. There is no fundamental difference between attending a Ralston retreat vs smoking DMT. Only the DMT is more direct and powerful.
If Ralston's students had access to DMT Ralston would be out of a job.

The high quality of Ralston's work is precisely what makes it so deceptive. You will be so seduced by the quality that you will completely overlook the falsehoods in it.
I don't expect any of Ralston's students to be intelligent enough to spot the falsehoods. It's extremely tricky. It took me years to understand where he is wrong and I was only able to do it because I took enough psychedelics to kill an elephant.

On the other hand, it is great that this issue forces you guys to test this matter for yourselves rather than believing either one of us.
I don't want you to believe me, I want you to test if psychedelics raise consciousness. This is a simple empirical test.

Ralston is doubly wrong. Not only do drugs absolutely raise consciousness, no sober effort of any kind can raise your consciousness as much as drugs can.
It is not just that drugs can, it is that those who haven't taken drugs can't even imagine what drugs can do.
I have seen Ralston's students. None of them are conscious of what I have become conscious of and they never will be.
Self-inquiry is a joke.
Ain't nobody at Ralston's workshops conscious to the level of DMT. Nobody!!! Stop this BS.
It is hard for me to even recommend Ralston any more because of how wrong and dogmatic he is on this issue. He is misleading all of his students about psychedelics.
One breakthrough DMT trip is worth 10 Ralston workshops.