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these sound about right, particularly the later. But, I’m guessing you need some minimum baseline level of consciousness from the employee? How can you look for consciousness development in an employee?

And do these actually work? I feel like they sound “prepackaged “ and a bit unthoughtful solutions (maybe because many of these have been hammered in my brain at school). Won’t an employee feel like you’re trying to buy them off?

In my opinion, something that can be done is that first world countries help the unstable countries progress, obviously not in a USA-Middle East kind of way. Cause to a big extent, first world countries largely contribute to the third world being how it is. Now, what “helping them evolve” would actually translate to in the real world. Or if it would even outrun the crisis, idk. Maybe they can contribute monetarily towards third world’s education and corruption etc; assuming the country helping was developed enough to not keep doing harm.

I’ve seen in in the service industry. Hospitals, restaurants, hotels. Also in retail.

Leo puts his book under the Paranormal list instead of the Enlightenment/Consciousness list, so it makes me wonder, does Campbell make a better job at explaining the paranormal than he does reality as in as a whole? Why give priority to the paranormal aspect when the book clearly states a different objective. Note: I'm sorry If the answer is right in the book itself but I've only started it and I can't shake off this question.

@PurpleTree idk but I think causing damage on Russia would further encourage them to keep destroying? And the Russian people will “see” that indeed Ukrainianians are monsters and need to be killed. Im guessing Ukraine best hope is playing martyr. Either way I think they’re dammed.

@Heaven If they know they’ll loose anyways why sacrifice their people like disposables just to “make it hard” for the Russians?

From my social circle, at university, I wanna try approaching a girl but she’s always with a couple other girls and I’m somewhat sure they’ll make a big fuzz and start teasing us and shit when I try the extraction and this is probably gonna make the girl too uncomfortable and she’ll abort the interaction. Any tips? I’ve never tried dating in my inner social circle.

I’m not talking about watching a horror flick a night before tripping. I mean this more long term, “chronic exposure” so to speak. for example, I’ve read porn interferes with the dopamine and long term reward system and stuff. Maybe some other form of strong content like horror movies Can do something similar, maybe cause some background accumulative anxt or trauma. Maybe during trips this surfaces or gets amplified (the hypothetical psychological changes).

@Judy2 yes and?

Is the supercharged health restoration enabled by long strict water fasts enough to chelate heavy metals? Does it even have an effect?

@Average Investor what about those that pup up as first results on amazon. "Water Express", "Whirlpool" brand and such that are like 250-300 bucks? What about the Amway filter (eSpring)?

(By investing I mean stocks/dividends, real estate, cryptocurrencies) How much do you recommend relying on passive income / investments? Is it better to rely 100% (or near) on the income generated by one's life purpose? Isn't it a good strategy to supplement and boost the life purpose with some investments? I understand the trap that lies behind the passive income life but I would expect a little more recognition for investments, at least for the financial part of the life-game. Isn't having some financial safety net, like investments, a nice play towards self-actualization? I'm asking this mainly because they sound like a good way to lift a business (the life purpose's business) by the bootstraps . What other ways do you suggest to build a business from scratch?

@Nahm no, sorry. Maybe it’s my bad English

On the topic of incorporating alcohol into a dish, like marinating with wine, flambé with some liquor: Do you think it diminishes considerably the healthiness of a dish? (even though he alcohol supposedly evaporates, but all sorts of sugars and stuff remain) Is the taste worth it for you? What about using high quality alcohols in the dish? (few ingredients, organic, etc) When eating out, would you avoid dishes cooked with alcohol for health reasons?

(Good quality) red meat is not a problem. You could live a healthier life on nothing but red meat than with the average American diet.

This probably is breaking the materialistic paradigm 101, however I'm having real trouble with this: Is there any difference between dreams, imagination and physical material "reality"? I'm guessing the answer is no. Which would mean that what we ordinarily know to be different things are actually a unified infinity broken apart by the imagined distinctions, right? Again, everything seems to point towards the answer being yes. However I'm having a really hard time integrating it into my perception. When I look somewhere I automatically see "different" things. I don't see a chair and think of it as me, let alone feel like it as me (here we can see it in action, me making distinctions between a chair and not a chair, me and not me). How can I dissolve these distinctions? Perhaps all boils down to meditating and questioning more and eventually it'll happen naturally, but it really feels like I've hit a wall here. Leo says that my brain, my dick, my hands are all my imagination, but he also says that things really do exist (i'm guessing he means that they're not a matrix simulation) and its got my mind spinning. When "I" see my "hand" there is something that exist however it is not a hand. The "hand" (the distinction that lets something be a hand) part of existence is the imagined thing. I think I got this right... now all im missing is to integrate it, but I don't even know what that looks/feels like. What is supposed to happen? What am I supposed to do? (As a result of these distinctions having a very strong presence, allows for all sorts of prejudices, fears, assumptions, etc to exist and its really bugging me)

So a gave it a try. I tried to discover what makes a pen a pen and when is a pen not a pen. What I found out is that there’s not a single distinction that fully defines a pen . Then I though that maybe it’s the sum of its parts but not a single combination of distinctions seemed to be what absolutely defines a pen. I was left with a bad after taste there, I’m not fully sold on the results but I just couldn’t prove what made a pen. So maybe it’s just some very deep unconscious attachment that remains. Me not wanting to accept deep down that there’s nothing that makes a pen, that the pen is imagined. then I came to the idea that, just like machine learning, we learn to differentiate things by swallowing example after example of whatever the teacher thought of as pen. Until it became an unquestioned mechanism to call whatever resembles the source material, a pen (whether it’s an object or the idea of). That’s kind of how it works right? What I couldn’t break down was the difference between two presently existing objects. “Perhaps the distinctions of a pen are all made up, whoever that object over there is definitely not this one over here“ that’s how my mind went. What two objects are is not the problem. Now is the physical separation that I couldn’t dissolve. Is that imagined too? on a side note: I would love to have this kind of investigation during psychedelics but I just get drowned in all the stimuli and anxiety that I forget to do the work or just can’t concentrate. I’ve just done a couple of trips at low dosage, but not in a single one have I gotten even close to achieving this. Does the concentration come with practice (taking many more trips until I get more comfortable and used to it) ?

For those who don’t know , sous vide is a cooking technique where you vacuum seal whatever you’re gonna cook (in a plastic bag) and throw it in a container filled with water and a special circulator heats the it and creates convection. So the steak is cooked perfectly and evenly to a precise temperature. Howeveeeer, using a plastic bag is very sketchy. Supposedly there are special ones that don’t leach any chemicals but it still seems dangerous. All the info I seem to find online seems very bias towards it being safe. Maybe someone here has some better more serios stuff. And maybe someone knows a plastic free alternative to the bag because the sous vide really kicks ass. I’ve seen some use silicone bags (like those waste free ziplock style bags) but idk about silicon either. Can it be safely heated?

Yes. And I just found some article about silicone and it seems to have the same problems. It just requires higher temps (and lipid compounds). Specially dangerous with all the cheap adulterated silicone going around https://3dinsider.com/silicone-safety/?amp

@Nahm observation as you would say (I guess hehe)

The site seems to have some good content on health, meditation, yoga, history, psychology, paranormal etc. but there are some stuff that really look like big conspiracy theory red flags. Is it worth the time and money (because it is subscription based) having to sort the good and bad content? gaia.com

@The Lucid Dreamer much appreciated

@Nahm So I just accept it, let it come?

@Nahm @flowboy I've definitely tried facing the boredom and a very strong feeling of anxiety and unease start to arise. I get the urge to fidget with my hands or start to bounce my leg. Every second passes by painfully slow. It's like if I was next to something burning, all you can focus in is the discomfort and every second is worse than the last. When I'm meditating, it doesn't feel uncomfortable probably because I feel like I'm doing something ("I'm meditating, therefore I'm doing something") but if I where to find my self in line at the bank, for example, the feeling creeps in. Those situations where you feel like the time is being wasted are prime triggers for this anxiety. If I try to muscle through the feeling I either get lost on thought, get sleepy or give up and pull out a distraction. This really becomes a problem when tripping btw. What does it mean? What is there to work at?