BlessedLion

After long and deep thought on this topic, I have come to the conclusion that "manifesting" is utter, egoic, bullshit. My argument is multi faceted: On the one hand, you have people who have literally nothing, they barely make $1/day and live in horrible conditions. They were born into this. Are you seriously going to gaslight them into thinking "You're just stuck there because you aren't vibrating high enough" (ironically most of these people are actually emotionally vibrating higher than someone in a city with money, I live in Indonesia and i have seen people living on the street with nothing with some of the lightest, happiest, grateful energy i have ever seen) Are you going to tell these people that they have some subconscious desire to be living like that otherwise it wouldn't be their reality? What a psychological mind rape... Further, when i listen to people explain manifestation it's clearly just an elaborate belief system which loops back onto itself. You can't reject it because the way it is set up is unfalsifiable. Then the people who teach it , obviously preach that it is real because they were the lucky few who things actually worked out for. Enough people try to blow up on social media through manifesting, then it happens for one, and they attribute it to manifestation skills. It's like Bruno Mars saying "just follow your dreams" , or "find your talent", it's easy to give that advice when you are 1 in a billion talent wise which is non replicable for 99.99999% of people. Many of the theories in manifestation advice do work but it's not because of some universal vibrational energy you are calling in. It all comes down to the mind and self concept, so i will give them that. In attraction for example if you already have an adubndance of lovers and success with women you literally hold and carry yourself in a way that other women subconsciously pick up on as "this guy is high value because he has success with other women". So if you "act as if it's already true" then yes you will show up in a way that is more succesful than being a nervous mess. But it's not because you are manifesting things into reality through magic it's a very real and measurable way of acting in reality. I think a lot of this magic stuff is just people's way of trying to explain the subconscious dynamics that we don't consciously register. I think there is a quote that says something like "The master might look like they are producing magic, but they know that there is nothing magic about what they are doing at all" Much more powerful than manifestation is understanding how things work and then mastering the process behind success. Fuck magic take responsibility for your experience and results. This video is proof of my arguement, can you see that she is just blindly preaching a belief system (she is one of the lucky few that things fell in place for, don't underestimate luck in life as well) :

never heard this take on ACIM before, are you sure about this?

You think infinite consciousness is so limited?

With all due respect when will you admit you might be wrong on this one? Literally no teacher, mystic or consciousness Titan is in agreement with solopsism in the definition that others are not conscious and the way of framing it is unfalsifiable, how do YOU know that you’re not just firewalled into your own consciousness and don’t have access to other minds? Why can't multiple consciousnesses exist at once and just be closed off from each other?

Good post. I find the difference between teachers like Ralston and Leo is what they will speak about. Leo has helped to give me a framework/map of what's possible and i actually appreciate that he "gives all the answers", but Ralston, who i've worked with directly for a while now and read all his books, really rips you down to the bare bones of your direct experience. And this has led me to what i would call genuine awakening, otherwise i was lost in concepts and beliefs about the truth and there is a difference there. Ralstons approach is quite unique, it takes longer and is less comforting, but is extremely powerful and makes it "yours". In the end though, even he needs to go, there should be no authority outside your consciousness when it comes to Truth. I agree with you about psychedelics, personally i think they are garbage for serious consciousness work, life is already the psychedelic and to me they are cheap glimpses that are sometimes even innacurate. I don't think solopsism is the case, if you mean it in the sense that others are not having a conscious expereince, i think that is delusional

Totally agree, even though it is a bit delusional, it's still a more powerful way of living and will bear more fruits than being nihilstic or a victim simply because people who "manifest" are open minded, optimistic, and creating the possibility of something profound to happen. Victims and bitter people are closed off to any "magic" appearing.

Strong writing! I agree, this is essentially the essence of Mastery. Mastery is much more potent than Manifestation

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Wow, i must say i thought i was going to get a lot of push back on this, but the level of nuance and insight in these responses is inspiring. Thank you all <3

fair enough. but i will say there are some really interesting and deep women here who are open to something serious, as i think deep down most women really don't even want casual

I found this to be a pretty eye opening interaction, i might even do a video breakdown of it, basically this woman is feeling like her man is spineless she even says "he's a wimp, he cares too much about pleasing others, etc" then in a turn of events, the hosts of the show shame her about this and call her the bad person. While not addressing the underlying issue, which is that she has completely lost attraction to her because he puts her on a pedastal and lets her walk all over him. If anyone needs a talking to , it's actually him.

Living in Ubud Bali i find endless deep spiritual and intelligent women who are also hot and can hold their own in complex philosophical topics. I usually end up fucking their minds open from the gate, then we hook up. It's crazy to me how many guys seem to struggle finding deep and spiritual women, they seem to surround me. Even in Brazil , when i lived there, i met a hot girl who was open to spiritual discussions and practices and could go deep and asked great follow up questions about whatever i was explaining. I agree with you about the checkbox thing, tbh from reading Miguels posts in the past it seems like he is very picky and no woman is quite good enough for him which can be a trap.

Hey guys, i made a video on modern dating dynamics and basically why it is such a shit show. I think essentially it comes down to a questioning of the actual need of a relationship and equality in resources. Let me know what you think, well thought out intelligent responses only please!

Exactly, and i think that's the key difference. I think for most people, honestly, reading meditating contemplating etc sounds like a sort of hell and is extremely boring for them. It just doesn't fit, which is totally fine. But I do believe that some people are just born with a more "mystic/wisdom" archetype and that when those people don't honor that, they are miserable. How freeing is it to just own who you are without gaslighting yourself because it doesn't fit societies mold of "normal". I'm the same way, i fucking love living alone, only like 3-5% of my day is social. Great analogy. And i think the beauty here is that we can still love and celebrate the people in our lives who aren't like that. I love the shit out of my brothers but i don't want their lifestyle and they likely don't want mine. It's not a better than/ worse than thing. But i must admit, i really fucking love being a mystic and pursuing wisdom without being tied down. Even romantic relationships or mariage, i question if that will happen for me

I understand the sentiment here, but i think this can be a trap. If every guy is going around telling themselves they are the prize (which is like Chat GPT dating advice) there will still be some getting success and some being incels. Dating and sex is a brutal game and there are winners and losers in it, those who take it seriously end up having sex at the end of the day. Most guys have lots of low hanging fruits in this domain.

Good question, I've have been considering this for a while, and i think becoming a father is a beautiful part of life for many. But i also have to be honest with myself and my personality type. I thrive in solitude, i love peaceful, predictable days where i can read, meditate, write, relax, nap, have sex or spontaneously travel. I don't want to introduce unnecesary stress and potential hardship into my life, I live completely on my terms and am free financially. If i had kids all that would likely go away. Money would become a source of stress and i would have to get some lame job probably, sex would go down with a wife and kids, i wouldn't have time to read and rest or contemplate. I see myself as a bit of a Tantric Yogi who will be a master one day like a Ralston or Wilber (hopefully), so i see myself taking on the archtype of wise sage, I also want to take my time with what interests me in life which is consciousness, discipline and habits, understanding of many aspects of reality, sexuality and dating dynamics, and kids don't really fit there. I just don't find it very profound and the day to day grind of it seems like hell for someone like me. Luckily my brothers will have kids so i can be cool crazy uncle who lives in Bali and Mexico hahah. You?

There are few better feelings than a woman willingly following your lead and seeing you as dominant and powerful, also makes for great sex

i actually feel this, i think if i'm going to be in relationship it will need to be a radically unique container not a traditional relationship. It is quite exhausting.

if people could actually just manifest what their egos wanted it would ruin the whole game of reality on a foundational level

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

this is actually really helpful reminder, even having a life purpose and passion and following it is already the win.

This is what I am living now. I love making videos and coming up with models for the topics I am passionate about. Mostly consciousness, sexuality and dating, work and purpose/craft, discipline, and understanding of reality (evolution, relationships, etc). It lights my soul up because it has been such a medicine for me to even talk about, even with less than 1K subs on a YT channel. But i've poured my whole soul into and 3 years of work including interviews with authors like Ralston and it just isn't budging. I am not getting the viewership, subscribers, or success i had imagined. I'm not going into a victim mindset about it and honestly making videos in itself has been so fun and developing i would never regret it, but it is a bit draining to see what i think are unique and powerful perspectives basically go nowhere (with others). Honestly, I'm finding making Life Purpose actually work to be really tough. However, YT is only a small subset of my life purpose, it's just a reflection of it, my whole channel could get deleted tomorrow and nothing would change because my life purpose is mastery of all those mentioned pillars for it's own sake. However, it would feel nice to see some success in that domain. If i hadn't saved up a ton of money to pursue this I would be absolutely fucked, so i am definitely priveleged to have the time and freedom to pursue something like this. Had i stayed in tech i would probably have 1M+ now, but also, fuck living without passion, i'd rather just die and money means little to me once basic needs are met

Agreed. Thank you for the feedback Personally i find dating and women as one of the best self improvement tools because they are such sharp mirrors and the market doesn't lie, similar to business.

Great feedback, thank you! I agree, i don't really like making it about money, which is why i made the point about "being above" in terms of character or spiritual understanding for example. And i don't think we need to look at development as a way of "fixing ourselves because we are broken" but doing it simply because it is badass in itself, like a game, how well can you improve your avatar for the fun of it. I appreciate the thoughts and agree with most of what you said.

I see what you are saying with this post, but also it's tough to deny when you genuinely notice yourself aligning almost perfectly with the explanations of a certain stage. Like when i hear Integral post a video on Stage Yellow like this one shared, it almost perfectly explains my values and way of thinking right now. And then i think back to 5 years ago when i was living in a hippie yoga village in Mexico and it basically perfectly aligns with Green. If i was to hear a Green video now, it likely wouldn't resonate so much, same with Orange. I even tested this out, i lived in an extremely Stage Orange environement and while i wasn't judgemental and could appreciate it, it felt limited in certain ways. I don't think we should put Tier 2 SD as this impossible and super rare thing to achieve, once you know about it and study it properly and actively work on it, it should only make sense that you would move up the spiral. Do some people over shoot and create an ego about it? Absolutely (like the person saying they are Stage Coral here) but I don't think everyone who genuinely asses themselves in Tier 2 is automatically cringe. If they use it as a weapon or superiority thing, then yes, that's super cringe and an almost immediate indicator they are not in Tier 2. Also, part of SD is to go back and "clean up" as Ken Wilber says, to integrate shadow parts of previous stages, so if someone in Stage Yellow wants to "dip back into" Stage Orange to maybe integrate some of their sexuality, power, and money making, that is totally healthy and encouraged. Those are not "lower than" Stage Yellow, they are integrated, like rungs in a ladder. Good post though, a reminder not to create a superiority complex about it