I don't ignore those factors. Those factors matter, but they assume a decent genetic foundation.
People who hyper-focus on nutrition and exercise are actually people who have great baseline genetics and they fool themselves that it's their nutrition and exercise which gave it to them, when that's not the case. This is a very common point of self-deception within the whole health industry.
A person with bad genetics will never be as healthy as a person with good genetics no matter how good he eats and no matter how bad the healthy person eats.

No one has ever had an easy life. This notion is a joke.

I've taken so many psychedelics and understood God so clearly that the entire room I'm sitting in is God. I just sit and admire God.
God is the room you're sitting in. Just keep returning your consciousness to it.

@WikiRando You need to get out and socialize. That fear is holding back your development. You're like a king who has locked himself in his castle.

Your own life's work should be too important to you to care what other people think about it.
Leadership is knowing what the best values are, what the best vision is, and then following through on it despite what anyone else says. As a leader you understand that average people are clueless, blind, and lost. The opinions of the blind, ignorant, and corrupt are entirely irrelevant to your life's creative work. You should care about your work so deeply that everything else is just human noise.

Of course, because you never realized what God is. And you still don't.
Christianity is a trap because it makes you feel humble, but actually it is a vast epistemic and ontological arrogance. So much is believed and assumed.
It take the highest arrogance to adopt all of Christianity's ideas as true with any direct experience, inquiry, or validation.
Feel free to follow whatever path you want. But are not doing truth-seeking. Which means you'll end up in self-deception.
The very idea that you believe Christianity is humble is self-deception. True humility would be to sit in silence in pure not-knowing without a single religious belief in your mind.
All religion is arrogance and idol worship.
When you reach the point in your journey where you realize that you know absolutely nothing. THAT will be true humility. You will have nothing to ground you and nothing to give you hope. And that very moment you will be closer to God than you've ever been in your life. God is not-knowing.

It's not intentional. It's just unconscious survival.
It is a lack of prime directive. The prime directive ought to be truth, but this directive is missing in 99% of people. Which is why a circus results.

The issue is you're too mature.
Most women we sleep with are not as mature as you.

Corruption is such a deep force that most high IQ people are still very corrupt.
High IQ cannot save you from corruption and bias.
The reason people support Trump is because they are corrupt. So corrupt they don't even know what corruption is.
Corruption gravitates towards corruption regardless of all other factors. Corruption is the real master.
Having an Awakening is not enough to understand corruption.

I've never said I quit weed because I was never a chronic weed user. I done weed like 5 times.
I support your decision to quit. Go for it!
 

Yes, I trade because the situation is just too crazy for simplistic long-term buy and hold. I'm not losing half my money to Trump's epic stupidity.
Once the stupidity shakes out, then I will do long-term buy and hold. But you don't buy and hold at the top of an obvious bubble unless you're a masochist.
Long-term I like Bitcoin, gold, and various tech stocks. But not at crazy inflated prices.

Hardcore meditation retreats.
You need to transition away from the psychedelic crutch eventually anyway. You don't want your connection to God so dependent on an external force.
What's also very helpful is just replaying those memories in your mind. The memories alone can be a powerful way to get you in touch with God right now. It's better than reading scripture or listening to humans.

You guys need to understand how much deeper this work is than merely having an awakening experience. You have to rework your whole understanding of reality, society, mankind, and your relationship to all that.
It's not going to be this simple process of having a few awakening experiences and being done. We are talking about a decade of serious inner work at least to integrate and develop.

Of course. It's all survival.
Man. Woman. Crocodile.
Same force.
You learn this when you do a lot of pickup. The fantasy is stripped bare.
Human love, like all human activity, is corrupt.
Nothing humans do is ever about truth.
If you dare to tell women the truth, kiss your relationship goodbye. Only a fool or a madman would tell a woman the truth.
Note: This is not a license to lie to women. There is a difference between outright lying and just not verbalizing hard truths.

Women are fooling themselves a lot too. Since women date and mate unconsciously, they suffer plenty for it.
What you're describing here is basically Red Pill, not blackpill.
When you enter pickup you go through a phase where you realize how brutal and ruthless mating is. You go through a feeling sorry phase, then you get over it.

I think some travel would be good for you to flush your system with new experiences. You could use that to make some new friends if you travel to the right places.
Investing in some coaching or therapy would be good.
Any other activities that feed your soul and your top values.
But also, don't feel you have to spend it all. Having a large savings is very good for security.
The best investment would be to use that money to transition yourself into a career/biz that could sustain you in the future so you don't have to grind away at a job you dislike.

Look. I'm extremely careful with how I spend the little money I have! To me is common sense to buy a book recommended by someone like you who I look up to, than to buy a book which was marketed the hell out of. Example Jordan Peterson's books which all have flashy covers. And until I finish every book from your book list, why care about buying books I know nothing about?

The issue isn't profit per se.
The issue is that over the last 20 years marketing gurus have taught everyone the idea that to become a respected expert in any field you must publish a book. So now everyone with any degree of fame writes a book just because they need to in order to establish that they are somebody important. So we have millions of people writing shitty books with very low substance just as part of self-promotion. This has diluted and corrupted the whole book industry. Books have been corrupted into self-promotion vehicles.
Book buyers are not aware this corruption has happened. They just assume a book is a book.

It would be interesting to run a test where people eat nothing but pure glucose for 10 years.
Who knows, maybe they would come out healthier? Think of how many toxins and chemicals and pesticides and heavy metals they would avoid.
Compared to a SAD diet it would probably come out on top. But SAD diet is such a low bar.
And eating glucose for 10 years is no fun.

@OBEler Spirituality cannot be learned through a book. That's the bottom line.
Stop reading spiritual books and invest that time into your own serious philosophical inquiry, from scratch. You need to transition to generating your own insight. The insight in books is dead to you. It's like buying dead fish to stock your aquarium. You need live fish that you catch yourself.
Selling dead fish by the ocean.

Yes they are.
This does not contradict having good starting conditions.
Many people had computers and did nothing with them. Still the case today.
You could start a $1B AI company today. But you won't. Because you have neither the vision, nor the skill, nor the intelligence, nor the work ethic.

People get into this work, do it for a while, it becomes a kind of echochamber, and they forget that the rest of mankind is a century out from doing this kind of work.
Never forget how rare what we're doing here is.
It only seems obvious once you're neck deep in it. But most people will never even know this work exists.

I do daily meditation on and off just because I like to retreat into stillness. I often combine meditation with contemplation. The stillness helps me focus and get into a contemplative flow, away from the noise of the day.
For some people a bit of daily mediation is effective. Personally for me it does not produce progress. People's brains work different. Find what works on you.
The ultimate goal is to unlock new permanent baseline shifts. But this requires hardcore effort. It won't happen easily.
I will do whatever I need to to raise my baseline state.
There's definitely changes in me. The changes are subtle but significant. The change is not as radical as being on a psychedelic 24/7. That's a wrong expectation.

Yes, yes. That's how group-think works. Nothing new here. Remember, just 80 years ago people were following Hitler and Stalin into utter madness.
Humans are zombies running on group-think.
What you found with Actualized.org is so cutting edge, so advanced, that it's a century ahead of mankind.

@Daniel Balan You have to accept their level of development. You cannot logick anyone out of their level of development any more than you logick a cat into being a dog.
It takes 5 years of serious inner work to move up one development level, from Blue to Orange. And that assumes the person wants it and is proactive about it, which almost no one is.
You have to accept that Romania will not be Green in your lifetime. This stuff requires 50 years.
Work with what is -- reality -- not fantasies.