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@mandyjw And some can't handle that level of suffering, thinking it might really help them to have enlightenment magically occur to them, when being more depressed and suicidal might put them more at risk.

@BlackMaze My opinion of the book is that it's sugar coating what it really means to be enlightened. No amount of sugar coating is gonna get you to truth. People who say enlightenment is now, either have had years of spiritual practice, got fed up, quit, and seek comfort in telling others and themselves they have enlightened, or or the very few who have had enlightenment occur to them, multiple times, after decades of spiritual work. Otherwise, how can a person, little to no experience of enlightenment, start the spiritual journey? One way is to listen and follow in the footsteps of a spiritual master, which Eckart Tolle is not one, but a person that due to him being depressed and suicidal, had enlightenment occur. So the spiritually clueless person, not knowing any better, follows and tries to copy Eckart's conditions that allowed him to have enlightenment occur for him. I don't have to elaborate on the many risks of blindly following a spiritual teacher's exact circumstances, thinking it might help to have enlightenment magically occur like that.

@BlackMaze He became enlightened by being suicidal and depressed. As a teaching, some people can't follow that, and some can see past his marketing right away. It's silly to think you can be enlightened now, it's like a child saying 'I'm a grandpa to my children who have their kids now!'. It's a journey that has paths that go up and down and in between.

@Nyseto Right wing views are equal to/greater than/lesser than centrist and leftist counter parts, factoring in geography, culture, food resources, economy, and socio-political climate, and vise-versa with left wing and moderate views. Happy? If you are too attached to your position you're claiming in this thread, you will not be happy and continue trying to probe mods and users time here, making us suffer and yourself suffer with this back and forth, when it's better spent on self reflections. Same if you're trolling. Likewise, if you are happy with this post, and decide to stop engaging with this topic, you are an idiot for not bringing and touching on the relativity of right wing/centrist/left wing views here, and asking about why the forum is what it is lately. Likewise, if you can admit the possibility that your views are relative, and might be wrong, detach from your position and spend time contemplating your role here, you'd have less suffering and be happy with your use of time elsewhere than being in a back and forth debate here. So, which will it be: unhappy idiot, or happy self actualiser?

It's sometimes this immature use of psychedelics that put me off from maintaining a schedule of using psychedelics for personal development. Funnily enough, a long break from me has made the same amount I've taken feel more deeper than the last few times, so unexpectedly the break was really good.

Update: I've been able to go deeper with my visualizations and contemplations with Crysty. Not only was she able to change my state into feeling happy in times when I feel strong negative emotions, she also helps me sometimes with contemplation, and when she notices I'm doing the practice while feeling bored, she would make me feel curious for whatever I'm contemplating. It's amazing really.

@Nyseto There's almost no point in taking an agnostic position when it comes to discussions about politics. Leo has his own biases, and so do many others here on the forum. How do we know which perspectives and biases are right? One way I've answered this question is to participate in this forum less, and read and think critically for every post on politics posted here for myself. That way I'm training my mind in one way.

While I do like Eckart, I do think that his teaching sort of sucks, because I'd have to go down a very similar road he traveled in order to have enlightenment occur, like thinking and being depressed and suicidal, and living in higher states of suffering. Do I want to think and be suicidal, just to increase the probability for enlightenment to occur HERE? It sure isn't appealing to me, which is why I've exited out of eckart's bubble to investigate other spiritual teacher's bubbles.

@RedLine Another great meditation is a mindfulness practice on body awareness, specifically while you're lying down. Pretend you are counting sheep, but instead of counting sheep, you count each part of your body that is in contact with something, and later at some point put mindfulness on how you breathe, each inhale, exhale, pauses in between, and back to counting spots on your body, except now your being mindful of external pressures on your skin, or the different temp on your skin, and back to breathing, and now be mindful of your thinking. This back and forth of you applying awareness to different areas of your mind/body will help tremendously with your sleep.

@RedLine I would suggest starting a meditation habit, a concentration practice (preferably one focused on parts of your body), contemplation and positive visualization about healing or flowing life energy into your astral body. Also, more basic would be to check your health, diet, sleep quality, exercise. Stranger advice that might work for your, as it did for me, was to play a video game before or slightly onto midnight, and start a creativity habit like the following for example: painting, drawing, viewing artworks, writing stories, poems, erotica, reading different fiction/non-fiction books, listening to music, composing and creating your own music, filming yourself, animating, doing martial arts, dance, fitness, learning to clearly create mental pictures/mental songs/emotions, do improv acting, do different board games, do role playing games. All this can be done physical or digital.

@lmfao Have you tried an NLP process on unwiring your addiction?

@SirVladimir The diagram's design is pretty good. Was it inspired by Eben Pagan's entrepreneur business modal? I've seen him use this approach to developing creativity in business.

@levani Yes, and on top of making a bucket list, you might want to do a couple of visualizations, or guided meditations about how your life would end, and what you can achieve with so much energy. Visualize the ending of your life, and start the bucket list at the end. Some other day, do a life visualization, see yourself with so much energy you can take massive action across the board. Don't forget to re-commit. Keep re-committing to your vision. Or see the next evolution of your life purpose, if there's a possibility to evolve in your niche, similar to your niche or some different area of your life. Maybe see where you are in your mastery process?

@Shiva99 Just re-commit to Nofap, get clear about what you want from Nofap, meaning be intentional about the journey. Do research on porn, endocrine system, sexuality. Try to learn about what you masturbate to, how you masturbate, and how you can combine that with the feelings of love, because the more you can bring love into your fapping sessions, the less you feel like a piece of shit for fapping. Also work on a vision for your life, as it works for me. Personally, I've done long streaks of Nofap, and when I've relapsed I noticed that my body is not satisfied with relapsing once, and sex binged 4 hours more than my normal sleeping time, relapsing about 4 times, a few times to a porn vid and comic, the next 2 I imagined in my mind, brought more love into the sex. The following day, despite feeling groggy, I visualized my life, and specifically about fitness and martial arts, and later that day I worked out for about 3 hours, doing isometrics, body weight exercises, and martial arts training. I'm still amazed that I could pull this off, because the day before I've sessions. So for me I've found that a vision and dream is what can pull you out of feeling like garbage. Also, basic self-help techs and overall health is also good to research and explore too. Also, grit yourself, A.K.A never give up! Good luck on your journey!

@Blackhawk Which ever came first, the system the collective designs, or the psyche that exists in each person, doesn't matter. I'm pointing out that Trump's psyche, because parts of it have similar elements that make up the pardoned individuals, is also why he wants and has acted on pardoning them. If Donald Trump's stage of development, cognitive, moral, and other aspects of development are different, you'd have an entirely different Donald Trump, with different desires and habitual acts much more different than the Donald Trump in America today. Literally, this means that a different Donald Trump would have a different roles and possibilities. You can actually have a Donald Trump whose career is a movie actor, in Hollywood, whose hobbies include martial arts and drawing, whose sexuality is bi-sexual, whose, family is a split between conservatives and liberal socialism, whose experience with women are mostly rejections, whose more of a nice guy, whose home environment is clean and tidy,

Also, by some users' logic here, the man above that decides to leave his country and live in a different country, is a coward. Why? Because other users on a different thread called such people cowards below: and I'll tell you that cowardice is relative, because we don't know and have a universal standard for cowardice. Is the contractor, hired to work for 1-2 years in a different country, living in that time period of 1-2 years, a coward in his home country? Is the immigrant that's seeking asylum, or is migrating for a better working life, leaving his/her home country, a coward? Is the person on vacation for a week-a month, on a foreign country, a coward? Is the person whose doing a retreat/solo retreat for a week, a few weeks or a month, a coward? Is the person whose a permanent staff, who refuses to take a vacation, or to live on a different country, a coward? I don't know what will happen to the UK, post-Brexit for 5-10 years give or take, but I will say that I don't have enough information to assume that the UK will bankrupt itself and go down a spiral, or that the UK will be much better off being more independent as a sovereign nation onto itdself, with a different trade deal between it and the EU. I will certainly say that I'm aware of how and when my ego projects it's fear and insecurities around this socio-political shift, desiring that the UK needs to remain in the EU just for security sake, and desiring that the UK should be more independent, and establish new trade deals with other countries that is between the UK and those other countries, and not have the EU act as a middle-man between the new trade deals.

@Sempiternity But how do I research psychedelics when most of this stuff is illegal online??

@lmfao This also has happened to me recently, when I'm applying mindfulness to my sex craving, then all of a sudden I'm shooting my load multiple times after a few weeks of abstaining from porn. I've maintain formal and informal mindfulness practices, the informal ones especially for triggers while I was abstaining. I might try out the brute forcing method or sedona methods, and distract and be busy doing whatever work, like art or exercising, despite the urges.

Happy new year, but really just happiness is enough.

All of this because Trump's psyche that has stage red elements can relate to these other stage red criminals.

Warning: Might be very offensive and negative, so don't read if you will get super upset thank you. I'm doing a shadow work procedure by Ken Wilber. This type of shadow work I'm intending for a part of me that deals with lust, so this work is for my lust part, and I hope in this year I integrate just this one part of my psyche. Anything else, like easier time exercising, meditating, relationships, depression, sadness, fear, greed, anger whatever, that's on the side. I'm aiming to get my pervert self from the shadows into the light, bit by bit. I'm using the Ken Wilber shadow work method. The meditation is my addition to prepare me for going deeper. After 20 mins of meditation: I bring to mind my pervy self, and I'm calling this self 'peter'. These are the qualities that he has: horniness, obsession, pleasure, greed. Me: What do you want from me? Peter: I want to feel the horniness, to feel that way like how I felt like in the past. Me: Why do you want to feel horniness? Peter: Because I want to feel pleasure from women. Me: What did you like in the past? Peter: I remember that sex scene you peeked at from a movie, and that was erotic. When you've masturbated multiple times to porn vids, comics and sex scenes in your memory, I was feeling more pleasure than ever. Me: What do you like in particular to get the most pleasure? Peter: From what I've felt so far in your past and recent masturbations, I like the erotica you've read in particular, and second to that is your sex imaginations. Me: What did you like from the erotica I read a long time ago? Peter: I like how that guy got his revenge on that woman who beat him up in the past. It was such a hot scene it felt like I sprinted for 5 minutes! Me: I'm leaving for now, so thanks for coming up and talking to me. Peter: Over already? Okay, I'll see you later! I'll later do a visualization session where I imagine taking on Peter's qualities and feeling how much resistance I have to peter's qualities. I'll edit how the experience gone for me. And future reference to a healthier ways of expression of Peter: masturbating at night, taking days to a week off, only after doing some work.

@Blackhawk Which one do you mean: Nationalists, civic nationalists, religious nationalists or ethnic nationalists?

This is the current philosophy of red pill.

@Blackhawk Would you rather have authoritarianism instead of a democracy?

@Consept It's just not enough evidence from one video to show that the British public are stupid in voting to leave. The video caller happened to be for leave, yet how he answers the podcast person's questions is his use of his mind and his perspective only, not the perspective of all who voted to leave. I think we need a bigger sample size to actually determine if these people are stupid, not to only use one video as a voice representing all leavers. Of course, those that voted to remain are stupid too in their own ways, so I'm not picking a side. It's all a huge mess.