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Update: I went down town yesterday, and I felt a pull from Crysty towards one of the art stores. I ended up buying some new art supplies today, some calligraphy pens and duel nib brush pens. I've been testing some of them out today, and while I was meditating I see Crysty trying out a few herself, and I observed her draw.

@Cykaaaa He might be, to some degree. What's worse is how he reinforces this by making money from his YouTube content, affiliates, selling mercs around poking fun at obesity. Add to that attention seeking, negative/positive attention from fans and viewers, and it worsens whatever he had to begin with. Nice violin skills, but apparently his lack of vision, discipline, ability to motivate and get out of that regression, was not enough.

@LSD-Rumi The greatest ego backlash I've ever seen so far, in both intensity and persistence. So much to unpack here from a spiral dynamics view in terms of regression, and ego development view, and how exploitative the digital echo chamber can be if one doesn't have/develop sufficient self awareness. I'm more in agreement with what coach Greg says here, Nikocado Avocado's takes are a garbage influence on people trying to work on their health and lose weight. https://youtu.be/uOwmtN1YTuo

@Rilles Probably the beauty in this situation is that it serves as a warning that, no matter what, value your health and don't ruin your body. Kind of like a negative motivation of what not to become, and work not to be.

@spiritual memes I'm in, and that includes December too. When I don't nut too often, I have way more energy, confidence, self control, willpower, motivation, increase in thought, better mood overall, and aggressive energy. While I'm still youngish, similar to some people here, I'm not too interested in women, nor do I make them top priority. Quality of mind and body, finding and working my passion is top priority. No fap, in this context, is a very useful resource to use if you have a direction to channel that sexual energy towards. Some examples from me include punching 300 pound bags, bending iron rods, reading books, thinking more slowly, visualizing more in 3d, feeling emotionally fit, feeling more mentally fit.

The main issue is not that 'follow your passion' is wrong, but that Cal Newport is hitting the zone of excellence/zone of genius fallacy, in that he believes that passion is firstly developed only after through taking many actions in that field, making mistakes, learning from mistakes, practice a lot correctly, and gaining some success in that field of interest, and not that passion is innate to each unique individual and that passion firstly is the driving force of the craftsmanship in the first place. I think his main gripe is on people who follow their passion without enough infrastructure in facilitating that change of job/career, and not enough training.

While it might be inspirational to be doing self experimentation, it has a lot of downsides practically speaking, and unknown variables that could go wrong. This scientist might be on a lucky streak, but at any moment it could go south so quick.

Oh alright thanks guys. I just found the article about the video covered. Really hate how some videos are not available internationally.

I can't access the latest blog video because it's blocked in my country. Can someone tell me the title of the video? thanks.

On a side note, when he's able to pull this off, it saves me the time to explain what I can see when I visualize people and locations.

@Tim R This is why we need a stronger government to keep the richer business companies more accountable.

Thank god I didn't pursue body building too seriously while I was growing up. I had a feeling that kind of fitness program wasn't right for me, despite how some of the people I know pursued it to that degree.

Nowadays I have trouble logging into this forum and main webpage using my phone, but it's ok when I use the computer. What is up with the tech issues lately lol. Could this latest issue be from the latest solar flare from the sun?

@Amannl3in Thanks. She says to me to ask you if you can see thoughts about the future? And to imagine paths/doors going forward, with varying distances to you and each path/door, and pretend to take a peek with each one. Treat it like exploring a hidden room for gold, and she also says have fun even if it gets boring.

@Raptorsin7 I would agree if this was mostly in the era of the mystery method, and if some of those men hadn't had enough intrapersonal intelligence that's developed more than innate before niching down into dating and PUA. I agree if he's referring to the very hard cases out there that really struggle with dating, who are deeply traumatized, have some mental and physical defects that need long term fixing, who have sociopathic tendencies, psychopathic tendencies etcetera, but I don't agree if it's for the 80% out there.

Savage.

@Consept I view the whole evolution of the generations as a big wheel we all are stuck on. As time goes on, whether we like it or not, we are getting older and will become future boomers. Ideally, we will have to work towards understanding each of the three generations, the one we are a part in, the other we moved from, and the one we will become, because it's also part of knowing yourself as well. Music is a sub field under Art, and like the other sub fields, there's a history of how that field evolves, which differs from culture to culture. I'll assume the comments are about a few high quality, which I would say while it is relative, if we consider the skill set the band/solo music artist has, innate/trained in, we can say it is impressive, in comparison to today's electronic assisted music generators and mainstream pop music. Of course, art is subjective is a claim that allows opinions to be easily refuted, the common trap here is being close minded and dogmatic about one particular music over another, due to bias. Ideally, we consume art to fuel thinking big picture, then create art that is creative and unique to our self identity/cultural identity, aka finding your niche and niching down further specifying your brand, your skill set, your role, your unique passion, your product/service value, your customer/client.

@Buba I wouldn't consider it far fetched to enter somebody's dream. I've had times when Crysty enters my dreams, and times when I on occasion managed to enter hers. sometimes it is accidental, and other times it was intentional. If some paranormal phenomena allows psychic events to occur, remote viewing included, it isn't impossible to enter another's dreams. Entering intentional, though, may require a bit of training, which I don't know of that well. May involve having high focus and access to deep meditative states.

@SQAAD Definition of assumption: assumption noun 1. a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof. "they made certain assumptions about the market" Similar: supposition presupposition presumption premise belief expectation conjecture speculation surmise guess theory hypothesis postulation conclusion deduction inference thought suspicion notion impression fancy guesswork guessing reckoning guesstimate 2. the action of taking on power or responsibility. "the assumption of an active role in regional settlements" Similar: acceptance shouldering handling managing tackling taking on Read the above carefully, and contemplate what is an assumption, and the similar ideas to it, and maybe also it's opposite, for a week or a month until your confusion settles down. If you are confused, that's ok. The claim he made came from a list of examples that are a mix of metaphysical and practical implications for how assumptions effect reality and have real world consequences. If you don't have similar experiences to Leo, or a level of intuition he has, most of those epistemic and metaphysical claims will be confusing at first. I like the second definition, it has a lot of practical value and hints at how assumptions are also survival, you take on action and responsibility, regardless of how much or how little you know of the situation beforehand.

@Focus Shift Younger generations mainly struggle as part of their ego development and SD development. There are definitely some differences inn world views and epistemology between the older and younger generations, but that's the way it is. Also, while there and many evils to the older generation, they do provide some value to the younger generations, in that the older generations within a family unit or collective structure can pass in recorded knowledge, sometimes wisdom, and more importantly historical context, which makes up a good chunk of middle to younger generation's epistemological frameworks to their world views, their set of values(spiral dynamics stage values), moral framework, cognitive and states, are largely implicitly given to make sense of the world from YOUR point of view, and the group's point of view. Both the Boomers and the Gen z and future generations have strengths and weaknesses that need to be considered and integrated going forward, because with the exception of tranhumanism, the epidemic framework of humanity in understanding has always been 3 generations: new, middle, and old. There are definitely blindspots when one person or group grows and transitions from one gen to another, which need to be considered, because today's Gen Z will become the mid generation, and finally we will become boomers ourselves.

@Raptorsin7 To some extent, Japan and Korea has already in place rental partners and rental families in one of it's business sectors. I'm not sure about the other eastern cultures today, but I think that western cultures have yet to implement their infrastructure around renting partners/family members yet, and the west still has a long way to go being collectively comfortable doing that.

@Rilles Very nice list. Will definitely apply this to my interests.

@SamC In terms of spiritual development, my meeting with Crysty roughly 7 years ago has made me more open minded to spirituality, and the paranormal. Of course, this also includes the ghost haunting I had in my childhood, which did have a bigger effect on my view with the paranormal/supernatural regardless of the negativity I experienced. With Crysty in particular, from that meeting to living with her for 7 years has both gave me a more positive view of these fields, as well as living with her for that long has normalized me to her presence. Has this effected my cognitive development? It sure has. For example, if we took a rationalist/materialist/scientist, who has never experienced the relevant paranormal event, will think from his/her point of view under the materialist paradigm, which often discounts paranormal experiences. Comparing my thinking to theirs, while I think similarly, the significant difference in thinking is that life made me more open minded, mentally and emotionally, to the paranormal, and to whose who have had paranormal experiences I don't dismiss them like materialists do. As to my moral development, my empathy to those who were victims of negative supernatural events is more than lip service, as I have had a haunting in the past so it's not just thinking based empathy but much deeper. Also, I can relate, understand and empathize to those who are cognitively different, like schizophrenia or hyper mania, those who hallucinate in a bad trip, hallucination based trauma. Those who don't have this experience tend to have lower moral/circle of concern to those who are effected, because they can only develop their moral as far as their intellect can go, or they have more mind bias which makes it harder to develop their heart based empathy. Specifically with Crysty it has been mostly positive, and being with her has shown me my potential in mastering my own emotions, as sometimes when I do experience strong negative feelings, her being by my side does have a calming effect on my mind and heart. Not that I entirely depend on Crysty handling my strong emotions, as I know of and practice other spiritual techniques and psychological techniques to handle those emotions, it's so far very positive.

@Blackhawk I believe you will experience a mystical experience eventually. Just don't let yourself get jealous that others experience it faster than you. In some cases, it was never warrented, like with NDE, nobody in their peak right mind would seek out NDE intentionally. Eckhart Tolle had to go through suicidal thinking and depression to experience enlightenment in his point of view.

@Bacher I can say for sure that what you've shared has some truth to it. I've dealt with a haunting in my childhood, and the entity was real. The symptoms were similar to some of what you've listed but much worse. It took a few healing methods. One was medication for the fever, but it didn't help much. The other was chinese medicine to lower my fever like symptoms, using dry powder made from earth worms. One of my family members had to go visit a magic person who can do magic, deals with entities, and that one did help me a bit on my recovery although most of this particular ritual I don't know much of as it was done secretly. Also one of the local priests visited later to say some prayers and bless me with holy water, which also helped a bit. Each type of healing I gone through helped me in some way, so I can say that from my lived experiences and perspective, entities that are non corporeal do have some degree in the harming or healing of the body/mind, to some tiny degree. I say this regardless of the traumatic nature of what that supernatural event did to me. While I am in agreement with your perspective, I am also in agreement with Leo's as well, specifically with regard to reducing all of diseases, mental illness, accidents and death being directly affected by entities that are non corporeal, and assigning too much importance onto them. While there can be slight indirect causation, the case still stands that the person needs physical or mental treatment that directly matches closely to the affliction. If the person is dehydrated, give them water, not a water spirit...yet.