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This guy is great at deconstructing yoga bullshit. He's now a chiropractor, but he was a 700-hour trained teacher. Most of his older content focuses on yoga: Anyone defending Lotus needs to watch this.

Did she seem really uncomfortable? If not, you're totally fine. Just be cool about it, don't push the issue and be friends with her instead. Now next time you come back to the bar, you have someone you know.

I would go to a private, local tailor. I would not buy anything online. Your body is unique and trying to find a true fit online is essentially impossible. All clothing is homogenized for mass consumption. I'd also not go to a mall. Mall tailors are not likely to be high quality. Brands vary a lot depending on what you're specifically looking to buy. In general, I'd avoid anything excessively logo'd.

I find Caitlyn attractive, at least physically. I don't want to start turning this thread too much into a conversation about their attractiveness though. That's not what is most important here.

If you're interested in my sources I can share a few.

In people were that effective at intuiting what is right for their body, they'd just avoid postural yoga all together. Passive stretching is bullshit.

No, that’s also not a thing. There’s no good biomechanical reason full lotus would be good for scoliosis. Lotus requires a high degree of symmetry and flexibility that those with scoliosis don’t have. There’s no reason for it. You’d be better off just sitting cross-legged. If by “doctors” you mean some fringe yoga doctor, maybe. But that’s not even close to a consensus position. My position is not close-minded at all. I was very opened minded to postural yoga and did it for years until I realized it was almost entirely bullshit. So yes, I am dismissing much of their work. It’s a great example of fake spirituality.

It's worse than transcendence. Yogis don't claim to transcendence biomechanics, they make biomechanical claims all the time. It's just their understanding of it is typically extremely poor. The situation is way worse than the average yoga practitioner understands. Modern postural yoga is essentially a complete joke.

He is a lifestyle influencer essentially. People tune into this content not just for information, but for the Aubrey Marcus show. To watch what he is doing and to fantasize that maybe they'll be super rich and spiritual and fit and hot one day. It's like reality TV.

@kray Going out solo is always just harder. Best option is just to start talking to people ASAP and make some friends. You're not going to stop those thoughts otherwise.

The course is definitely real. I remember them promoting it with Layla Martin: Skip to the end to hear them mention it.

No, this is bullshit. These stretches and poses are completely unnecessary and not healthy for you. There really is no such thing as "safe" full lotus. "Safe" full lotus essentially just means you have way over-externally rotated your hips. Yogis do not understand biomechanics.

I don't have kids but I'd be open to it if I met the right person. My sense is that it would help round out my development. Kids are definitely a distraction from spiritual work, but I've also already had a lot of success in the spiritual domain. Not having kids at this point leaves me feeling a bit lopsided. There's also an argument to be made about having kids being important to society. I don't think about it in terms of an "investment" when I'm older or anything like that. Although that probably is true.

He makes some fair western critiques. But he also obviously has a pro-islam bias.

Indeed. Such a corruption of Integral Theory.

@Magnanimous don't do full lotus. Horrible for your body, does nothing to improve consciousness.

Center for Integral Wisdom defending Gafni: https://worldphilosophyandreligion.org/evolving-public-culture/ciw-statement/ Note: this was in 2016

The most obvious proof is that it's based on faith. No one seriously interesting in truth-seeking would accept that.

@eTorro Leo basically just did a whole video on this topic: Personally, I'd recommend leaving religion behind for anyone who is a serious seeker. I spent about two years deconstructing the religion I grew up with and have never looked back. I don't regret it for a second. It is a more challenging way to live though in some respects. Spirituality requires great sacrifice. And if you're new to spiritual work, the reality is that you don't really understand what those costs are. You don't understand yet what you're asking for or where this leads. What you probably understand if you're a serious seeker is that you care about Truth. You want to know what is true. You want to live a life that is truthful. Well, what are you willing to give up for Truth? This is a very serious question one can only answer for themselves.

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I see Leo is dropping his Aubrey Marcus response video This was episode was a good reminder for me. I've been doing so much survival lately that my "doing nothing" time has mostly slowly slipped away. Keeping it all balanced is a challenge in of itself. Thankfully, I will have a lot of free time coming up. The insights over the next year or so should be insane. I'm aiming to fit in multiple retreats.

You surrender to not-knowing what you're going to say and trusting yourself to figure it out in the moment. Talking about literally anything is preferable to nothing. Just force yourself to speak words. I opened one of my ex-girlfriends by talking about the wall she was standing next to. There was nothing particularly interesting about the wall, nor did I plan that in anyway. I'm not sure what I said even made sense. As long as the vibe is relatively good, you'll get away with it. You can study lines to get a sense of what works. But you want to get to a place where you forget about all that. All pre-memorized lines are a constraint on your intelligence. Generally speaking, avoid talking about "things" too much. And instead focus on talking about you and her.

Pickup is not about homosexuality. That's just absurd. Pickup exists because men want to have sex with women. Yes, some PUAs have emotional and ego issues. But that's not the reason pickup exists. Every guy is doing some version of pickup, it's just a question of how healthy it is.

Only a small minority of guys who get into pickup ever sleep with 100s of women. The vast majority couldn't even do that if they tried.