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It's not that good. There's a better book that goes much more in depth.

@Meta-Man Well said. What could offer more power than living like this? As soon as you go deep, nobody is needed anymore to satisfy you.

It's one thing to significantly reduce down masturbation and sex, but it's another level of difficulty to fully sustain abstinence of both physical and mental sex.

@Kshantivadin Of course, sometimes people remember little to nothing about wet dreams, other than the mess. About the conscious part, if you or anyone here ever had lucid dreams you'll get the gist of it, but it's a skill that often starts when you remember a dream about anything other than sex, or when you accidentally go lucid in a dream. Most cases, most people wake up from the excitement experienced. I've had varying experiences in cases like these, and I'll say without undergoing any mindfulness training or visualization training, it's difficult to apply consciousness into a sex dream that's occuring in your unconsciousness real-time. Takes some practice, but it's quite rewarding when you can sustain that.

@EntheogenTruthSeeker That's the hardest version, which most average males are not ready for.

@Jacob Morres Depends on your tolerance and sensitivity, usually better to go less than 100. Better date sober most times than psyched, otherwise it'll be a crutch, and could go much worse.

@Shir @Arcangelo It doesn't matter what the aquarium is called, it's the same aquarium you've been raised in. You say you are extremely liberal and secular, but that's how you've been brought up as inside the aquarium, just like how a person who's religious is brought up that way in a different themed aquarium. It's a household ideology or the culture you grew up in that programmed that belief into you. Here, we tend to try to deconstruct limiting beliefs so that we belief in better things, to progress at different areas of life or if you're into spirituality, to be able to experience mystical states or have enlightenment occur, this belief of a sacred marriage will be challenged by others, but also it is expected you challenge this belief you hold onto. If you're not comfortable ripping this belief to shreds, then that's ok. I'm trying to give a heads up with what will be in store for you if you want to go all the way to help yourself.

Also, most people don't realize that Nofap and semen retention has some health effects to it, and greater resilience to illness.

@Kshantivadin This is similar to how not retaining affects me physically. If people say relapsing has little effect on fitness, then even a moderate fap a day, or a binge would not effect me much, except it does lessen my energy and my need to hit the gym. While retaining, my recovery and my ability to exert more force and endurance is improved. My reaction times also went up. With wet dreams, it could vary, but mostly the fluids aren't seminal fluids, but mostly clear fluids with some semen. Dream sex, in most cases, lacks that extra conscious effort in real sex, when you're close to ejaculating you put effort into ejaculating, whereas in dreaming it's a different level of consciousness that whether or not you're lucid, you don't put as much into contracting into the ejaculation, hence most times not as draining.

Remove pornography and all virtual was of exploring sexuality, and you force the majority of the average males to physically explore all types of sexualities. Doesn't matter if you personally have great imagination, you can't speak for most people. Better regulation, not prohibition.

It's full of wisdom, but it's probably worth more to answer this yourself than pass it along to someone else expecting them to answer for you. At least you discover for yourself@Halcyon Iconoclast

I've had sex binges a few years back, probably a sexual shadow, if that's what you meant. It's normal when you pursue spirituality and contemplate deeper, you muddy the waters and you fish out a sea monster. Sometimes it happens and that's that.

@Shir I've seen enough of your posts to say that you are very similar to religious types, how religious types can't go beyond literal meanings and is very set on beliefs is very close to religious way of life.

@Schnaby Emotional abuse, classic gaslighting behavior. Either confront him with his behavior and draw a clear boundary that you will not compromise or leave that relationship quickly. Also, with styles of dress, is experimental, so

@K Ghoul I also agree. There are a few cases when it's extremely traumatic will there be 180 degree changes. However, it also depends on how fluid the personality and mind there other person has. I've met some people that have this flexibility of mind.

I just can't see how this will not be abused. Yes, you will have an edge against other average men without micro dosing before a date, but oh boy will your ego abuse this method easy. There are problems with working out exact dosages in particular for you, despite any recommended ranges. I think test at home first before in-field, because when you approach a woman with a more than higher state you haven't tested beforehand, and she's clearly not wanting anything to do with you, in that state is very easy to lose control of yourself.

@--George-- Osho, the tantra guras, Swami Vivekananda and Daoist priests have enlightenment occur to them while in an energetic state of being.

Don't let anyone tell you differently with this path. It's like going to the gym, you won't get stronger by letting the coaches do the workouts for you, you do the workouts.

How does your workouts feel while retaining? Noticed any changes with muscle contractions and recovery before/after semen retention?

@Giancarlo How is this ridiculous?

"Appreciate that some people will seek retribution onto you for ruining their illusion." Yogic proverb.

It's an ok video. The problem I see is how he doesn't cover compulsion very well. Compulsion is a complex issue, not just because many hard and soft addictions types, but how each compulsive behavior can overlap, like over masturbation to porn(hard) can lead to procrastination (soft), which leads to drinking moderate or too much coffee(hard), which leads to masturbating that excess energy off, or eating too much to cause sleepiness and to cope with stress...the list can go on.

However, all this is relative to karmic baggage, the development of the psyche, and the needs of different people. You can only speak for yourself in your first post, but not about another woman's sexuality. In fact, women are more sexually powerful than men, as they can have multiple types and degrees of orgasms compared to men. I'd suggest to maybe explore more of your sexuality instead of resisting and suppressing it, because suppression will be very costly later to your life.

@Someone here There is a way to overcome suffering, but not without going classical. I'll do my best not to go down well travelled paths. Firstly, when a personhood is born after the physical body settles down into it's form, that's when suffering slightly increases. As a default, you only have one choice: continue life, gathering life experiences along with suffering that follows each life experience, like Pacman. From that, you eventually intuit, with enough experience from people, places and life, that you could improve your situation. This stage is when the mind becomes less dependent on body's mouth to feed itself, and starts developing a mental mouth for consuming ideas and concepts of people and the world. As soon as this happens, suffering increases as a consequence, because even though you now could think more deeply about a subject, in exchange for this articulation you must also give up more mental room and be more removed from being in the present moment at a young age. As time passes, your mind quickly develops mental maps of the body's sense organs, which alloys more complexity in figuring out life, but again suffering is also amplified, that even a concept about some situations that give raise to worry or fear are now taken seriously, as opposed to facing the problem directly. Also, there are tendencies to forget about the mind's development, because of how quickly it grew it's abilities in your blissful ignorance. In ignorance, attachments can occur right after direct experience of an object or situation, and your mind quickly wraps it with many more attachments, also meanings, to further solidify it as an 'important' idea, skipping over that the object or situation is impermanent. One way it masks impermanence is when it ties emotional signals with memories that stimulated the body or mind greater than normal, and makes the experience important by the fact it gave such strong emotions in you, and encourages more attention placed at emotionally charged memories versus any other type of memory it deems less useful to it. There are many ways of reducing or transcending suffering, but those tend to in general involve empowering yourself more and more until a point is reach when your entire being now wants to let go of the over accumulation of ideas and experiences and head to the reverse. There are various spiritual traditions and techniques that exercises the capacities of the reversing, but also there are other fields of interest besides spirituality that exercises the first half of this general cycle, the empowering accumulation, that strengthens your ego.

I've done some psyches but without going into social/dating situations. One of those psychedelics in some of those trips, I've destroyed some of my room. Microdosing was great, except I still feel a bit aggressive. I wouldn't try being high will dating/social context.