No, intellect is an aspect of consciousness. Consciousness is intelligent.
I have a video called What Is Intelligence?
It's hard to define. But intellect is that aspect of conscious which is understanding and making sense of this communication right now. Right now you are understanding me. You might be tempted to dismiss that as "just concepts", but something way more profound is happening than that. The Universe is literally understanding itself as you listen to me talk. This requires extraordinary intelligence.
We might say that intelligence is a holistic, high-level self-comprehension which transcends concepts & symbols, but also makes use of concepts and symbols.
Without intelligence you couldn't open a can of Coke.
God-realization is similar to opening a can of Coke, but it's a can that requires infinite intelligence to open. The only one who can open this can is God itself, because only God posses sufficient intelligence to do it. You can't understand what you are without intelligence. Which is why just sitting in meditation is not God-realization. When a dog sits in silence it is not grasping what it is or what reality is. It may have a perfectly still mind, but it has no clue what's going on in the metaphysical sense. It doesn't understand where it came from or why it exists. Nor does it even have enough intelligence to care about such things.
Just to ask existential questions like "Why is there something rather than nothing?" or "Where did I come from?" requires extraordinary intelligence which even many scientists lack. The depth of these matters is not being understood by most human minds.
So what I teach is how to access the highest levels of intelligence which are necessary to fully grasp the nature of reality and self.

Then text her this: "??"
BTW, one mistake you made is trying to set a date on the weekend. Girls will flake the most on Fri & Sat when they are busy hanging out with friends & family. You should try to set dates for Mon, Tue, Wed -- the slowest nights of the week. Then there is less chance that her friends will grab her attention away from you.
She will always prioritize her friends over you until you have sex with her.
So the reason she's not texting you back and the reason why you won't get a date this weekend is because she is busy with her friends and you didn't think through the logistics of that properly. You should have been eyeing Mon-Wed from the beginning. And what's more, you should not set dates for Fri & Sat because those are the days you always go out to talk to more girls! Don't sacrifice your best nights out (Fri & Sat) for a date that will flake anyway. This is a rookie mistake. Thurs, Fri, Sat is for getting numbers. Mon-Wed is for doing dates.

Philosophy, in my opinion, is the incorrect approach. The mind is a question creating factory, and each answer only brings about more questions. Philosophers go on and on chasing their own tails, trapped in their intellect. Spirituality does not require your intellect, rather the opposite. 

I'm black and I have no problem with this. 

I am a pretty lazy and slow reader. For me it's not about some fancy reading skills, it's just a life-long commitment to learning. Over a decade, the books add up.
And lately I mostly just listen to audio-books. Far more efficient.

@Husseinisdoingfine Don't get ahead of your skiis buddy. Give yourself a good 10 years to figure out spirituality. You don't need the highest fucking teaching at 19.
Relax and enjoy learning about life. Enjoy building a good life for yourself.

Honestly I don't even want to charge $1k. I woud prefer to price it lower. I don't like overpriced courses.
$1k is a lot for many people around the world. And one's income isn't necessarily a good indicator of one's readiness of serious awakening.

Lol
Same as any other girl.

In Vegas it's very possible.
Other towns probably harder. Usually guys who do threesome consistently do it by first landing a bi girlfriend. Then she serves as the winggirl and learns to seduce girls.
It's gonna be very rare to pull two rando girls for a threesome. Much easier if one is already your gf.

Dude, I get rejected by 10 girls a night.

Watching porn on 5-MeO is a religious experience.

Definitely get toys involved.
And always carry some Viagra or Cialis in your pocket when you go out. It's an essential tool of the trade. You'll never know when you might need it.
The worst thing is having a hot girl in your bed begging for your dick but you can't get hard for whatever reason. Don't use it all the time, just when you need it. Threesomes especially will give performance anxiety.

Yes, I had to resort to it because that is what's realistically required to get laid.
The idea that you can "just be yourself" and hot women will sleep with you is childish. That's not how it works.
It's not so much that I have had to resort to games, it's that I taught myself the games that everyone else was already playing but I wasn't.
I'm not distrustful of women. I have a very positive view of women and I have no problem trusting a girl after sex. I just understand the games they play until sex.
Gaining confidence is the technique.
Haha
You frame it as though I use some kind of secret tricks to trick women into bed. That's not what I do. I just understand how to approach, how to flirt, how to be humorous, how to have fun, how to deal with loud and chaotic environments, how to deal with bitchy friends, how to deal with guys stealing my girls, how to lead, how to handle logistics, how not to get used by girls, where to take girls, how to text girls, how to escalate, how to make her feel comfortable with me, how to get her horny, how to deal with her bullshit, and how to give her great sex. These are practical skills that any guys who's serious about women needs to develop regardless of how lovable he is.
It doesn't matter how lovable you are if you don't know how to touch a girl without creeping her out.
Being lovable and worthy of affection does not get a guy laid any more than it gets a guy a house to live in. Women will not fuck a guy just because he is lovable.
You don't know how I perceive relationships. You assume a lot about me.
I talk about attraction here, not relationships.
I would not distrust my girlfriend.
Obviously.
That's from your female POV.
Yes, there is no need from your POV as a female to close fast when you got 10 dudes orbiting you, wanting your pussy.
No, the real reason is because attracting women costs a lot of time and energy for guys, and until sex women are completely flakey, uninvested, disloyal, and unreliable. I don't want to waste my time investing in women who are flakey. I got better things to do. Women don't weaponize sex, they just act so flakey it wastes a lot of time.
Dealing with that flakiness is 50% of game.
Well, that guy seem kinda weird. I'm not saying what he did was right. There's definitely the possibility of being too pushy or taking advantage of a girl. I'm all about making sure the girl is satisfied with the sex and there is proper foreplay and all that good stuff. I love foreplay.
I know guys who take advantage of women in ways like that and much worse. I definitely don't endorse such behavior from men. The bottom line is the girl needs to be satisfied with the sex. That's my rule of thumb. Make it so she doesn't regret sleeping with you. It all boils down to that.

The education around the games women play when it comes to sex is also horrific.
How is a guy supposed to know how to escalate? It's not like you ladies can be trusted to be truthful about that.
You play games and then act surprised when guys play games to counter your games. Then you deny you play games.
So here we are.
I would love nothing more than to not have to play games about sex. Yet my hand is forced into it.
I would love nothing more than to walk up to a woman and say, "Let's have sex" and her simply saying, "Cool. Let's go." But no, it has to involve a bunch of bullshit.

No, it's leadership and persistence.
What I said doesn't contradict that.
No, it's simply me being a man and following through on my intent. If my intent is to sleep with someone I will work to make it happen. A few obstacles are not going to stop me.
Getting laid is not about ego validation, it's about getting laid.

Yes, it seems that way because detachment from outcome is very counter-intuitive and paradoxical.
It is a larger point than just dating or girls. In life the best results come when you have a very clear and strong intent to achieve something, but at the same time you're detached from outcome. Yet even though you are detached from outcome you will work like hell to make it happen. And if you should fail, you immediately let it go and move to the next thing.
This isn't just the secret to getting girls. It's the secret to running a business and many other pursuits. So you would be well to learn this lesson.
Guys shouldn't chase after girls. But once you got a girl in your bed, you should move mountains to close her. She didn't get in that bed to play patty-cakes. If it takes 5 hrs of foreplay to get her to open her legs, that's what it takes. If you want her, you do what is necessary to get her. This is not neediness. This is getting shit done.
I gamed from 12am to 10am to get that girl. 10hrs! That's how you get shit done. Apply this attitude everywhere in life and you will see great results.

You're doing great. Don't logic with her about sex. Just seduce her and get her horny. She will clearly have sex with you, you just need to seriously seduce her into it with proper physical escalation and old fashioned romance.
Took me 2hrs once to get a girl to let me fuck her once I got her into my bed. 2hrs of patiently escalating and slowly seducing her despite her token resistance and coyishness. I had to pull her pants off inch by inch. Every inch took work. 2 fucking hours in my bed till sex. The sun was already up! Finally she said: Go get a condom. This was the hottest girl I ever fucked. She played so many games with me.
Girls will play silly games with you. Ignore all that and be persistent. Do not let her games throw you off your course.
And if she's on her period, fuck her anyways. Use condoms well.
Don't wait around. Lead and make it happen!

I expect many incels are too far gone into toxic ideology to get good with girls. It's a damn shame.

+sugar consumption raises your insulin level, a hormone produced by pancreas to help with sugar digestion. Which is a good and natural thing. The problem is that too much sugar causes insulin resistance and can result in Diabetes II. Over-consumption of sugar spikes your insulin level which results in following crash and more hunger, energy deficiency, sleepiness and mood swings.  Over long term can contribute to things like blindness
+ sugar is stored in your muscles as glycogen, short term fuel, if unused becomes a fat around your waistline, 
+ it decays your teeth unless you wash them after every sugary meal
+ it promotes a growth of cancer cells,
+ kills your libido
+ it is addictive, worse than heroine, coffee, alcohol and tobacco combined!!
+ contributes to accumulation of LDL cholesterol ( the bad one) in your arteries, resulting in increased pressure, heart disease and potential for heart attack. 
 
Since it is not possible to avoid it, just make sure you cut as much of the white sugar as you can, dont overdo fruit and stay away from artificial sweeteners. 
 

Spend 30 days going to nightclubs and opening every girl physical and do rapid physical escalation. Get lots of blowouts. This is just for practice.
I have spent months practicing physical openers in loud ass clubs. You literally gently grab girls and pull them into you until you develop a magic touch. It takes a lot of practice to be able to do it without creeping girls out. You learn to get smooth so the girl doesn't bristle. You have to do it with rock solid confidence. If you hesitate it comes off creepy. That confidence comes with massive experience. Practice, practice, practice.

When it comes to physical escalation you must read her face and reaction when you touch her. If she bristles or subtly avoids your touch, then you immediately pull back, and even push her away a bit. Physical escalation should never be something the woman bristles at. You can easily tell this just by observing her face whenever you touch her.
Example:
When I pulled that Instagram model, I tried to lead her to my car by simply taking and holding her hand. The most mild physical escalation possible. She pulled her hand away and refused to hold hands. I immediately pulled my hand away, played it cool, and just walk with her to my car. Then drove her home. Sometimes a girl will refuse to hold your hand but she will come home with you and let you fuck her. All game must be calibrated to the girl. If she bristles, pull back but lead forward as if nothing happened. It's on until she tells you to go away.
Nothing is gained by forcing your touch on a woman who bristles at it. Only increase touch if she likes it or doesn't resist.
If she is resisting your game and you keep running the same game, you're making a mistake. Adjust your game to suit her.

Mark Hyman says sth. different than Dr. Greger how says sth. different than Max Lugavere who says sth. different than Dr. Morse.
Here we are again. Everybody has to see for him/herself what works and what works not. But it's beneficial to compare the information nonetheless.

Yes. If you are gonna play that victim game then you will get stuck. You will most likely become too stuck to ever succeed in spirituality.
Spirituality is about taking responsibility and ownership over your life, first and foremost. Without that, nothing else is possible.
Getting laid is way easier than awakening. If you can't learn to get laid, forget about awakening.

Long meditation retreats.
But be ware, any technique you use to produce deep insights will have the potential to destabilize your life and mind. There is no way around that. Waking up requires facing your own bullshit.
Meditation, kriya yoga, shamanic breathing -- these can all be as traumatizing as psychedelics. You can't do deep spiritual work without facing your demons.

When I began my practice, I immediately jumped into the deep end using this sequence as a base for my practice. There’s no way I would have been able to stick with practice without the cycling between techniques like this… it was paramount to my early success. The constant cycling is both stimulating to the mind which helps curb boredom, and powerful for training the mind in different ways. Observing the differences in a technique’s effect is huge in numerous ways.
 
After having built this foundation of consistency and persistency PLUS seeing how different technique interact and gain the benefit of the different techniques, I was ready for a more consistent technique for the whole sit. I started exploring The Mind Illuminated which also served as an enormously powerful foundation for future practice. Cannot highlight this book enough. 
 
At that point, I started exploring dry insight vipassana, self inquiry, and do nothing, all of which have been powerful. Yet the foundation of my practice was that 60 minute cycle. 
 
Regardless of what technique you choose, consistency is paramount for your success. If we’re constantly starting and stopping, always changing our technique strategy, or filled with doubt about the path, we wont succeed. Some amount of faith/intuition that this path is THE path of wisdom and happiness is helpful. Consistency will provide evidence for this intuition, as the experiential positive effects of meditation are undeniable.
Do not listen to Leo talk about how ineffective meditation is for reaching extremely powerful states of consciousness. He’s truly full of shit on this one but just doesn’t know it. The reason people lack absurd, mind blowing results with meditation is nuanced and has much less to do with meditation, and more to do with the context in which meditation is practiced. 
 
For example -
Are you consistent? Are you going on annual retreats or even more? Do you contemplate and deconstruct your world view with sound epistemology? Do you emphasize life practice in addition to formal practice? Are you working with a teacher? Are you exploring psychedelics in with a sacred intention? Are you reading books? Are you learning from a variety of mystical traditions? Is your practice holistic or have you slipped into a dogma of one particular approach/lineage/tradition? Is your mind comfortable with paradox? 
 
Most meditation practitioners are not nearly holistic enough with their approach to see the mind blowing results that are possible. They are not deconstructing their reality deeply enough to see the actuality of direct experience. But when you do apply deep holism and radical consistency and effort to practice, it comes alive in ways that are magical and more powerful than psychedelics, heretical to say on actualized.org I recognize but true nonetheless. 
 
I wish you and everyone reading well. I also deeply caution everyone with Leo’s point of view on meditation practice. He is not an advanced practitioner, nor is he particularly serious. If you adopt his beliefs on meditation, whether consciously or subconsciously, it will negatively impact the results you get from practice.