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@Talinn I worked night shift for about a year. It definitely wrecks havoc on your system, especially if you're having to come in and off that schedule all the time. Which is not to say you can't do it. I just didn't find it to be the healthiest choice.

@Mr Being It's been interesting to watch his development for sure. I remember when he was just putting out strength / motivational videos and touched on important topics like trauma release. It really seemed like he was heading to become more of a hippie spiritual teacher. It's good that he wants to help men. He definitely could be a strong role model for a lot of guys. But somehow that has gotten twisted up with an obsession around male dominance, patriarchy, biblical morality and other conservative perspectives. It'll be interesting to see what happens to him in another five or ten years. He seems to change fast so who knows, maybe he'll drop all this at some point in the future.

Sounds to me like you're in a good spot. You can both offer online training by creating videos with your artistic skills. And then your premium product for people who really want the most coaching can be to work with you in person. I think you're jumping too far ahead by feeling that you don't have anything unique to offer. Your offer will BECOME unique the more coaching you do and the more you learn. Don't expect it to be totally unique day 1. Also, some people just don't need something totally unique. What they need is your help, even if it's just the basics. There's nothing wrong with that. Just start working people the best you can. Let it evolve over time.

@aklacor727 It's case by case basis. Sometimes you can't find a Win/Win, in which there is a compatibility problem or the need for a paradigm shift. However, most of the times you can find a Win/Win. That's what Steven Covey talks about in 7 Habits. You got to find a way for everyone to get what they want, assuming the needs are genuine.

You'd have to point me to specific examples of what you're talking about. Having a successful business and a girlfriend doesn't inherently say much about someone's level of consciousness. Those things can easily be accomplished unconsciously. In general, the problem with TRP is that its philosophy is extremely biased against women. It may be useful to step into that perspective temporarily, but I wouldn't get stuck there. Are there maybe some useful ideas floating around TRP? Sure. TRP is not a monolith, it's a collection of a wide variety of perspectives, some of which are more conscious than others. And paradigm lock does serve a function. But thinking you've found the deepest truth because you found out about TRP is laughable.

@Brandon Nankivell To quote Eckhart Tolle, there is one certain way to measure progress. The degree of peace that you feel. I like this definition because it reminds us what is important, while simultaneously not giving us complex mental model to get lost in. There is of course value to models produced by those like Hawkins, but at the end of the day what you really want is to be in alignment with God. And peace is the surest indicator of that alignment.

@SLuxy Congrats! Keep it up, this is just the start.

@Ibgdrgnxxv Actually lying is great! It lets me avoid problems and manipulate people to my benefit. I’m obviously kidding but we do need to acknowledge what benefit we get from lying in order to let it go.

@Raphael Part of it could certainly just be a clinging to the past. Or a “grass is always greener” effect that the mind likes to play on itself. But what I see is that the narrative of societal “development” is largely false. This narrative essentially says that we were primitive, dumb apes and that we’ve over come that through modern technology and human civilization. In other words, it’s a belief that life was “nasty, brutish and short” as Hobbes puts it. But over time we’ve overcome nature to make it better. In some comes that may be true. It’s 1000x more comfortable and less risky to travel around the world than it would have been before modern civilization. And yet, with all these supposed advancements, what has been lost? For instance, you likely do not grow or procure your own food. This would never have happened before modern civilization. While this may be more efficient, what is the cost of something like that? One cost is that you are totally disconnected from the food you eat. You have no idea how it was made and what went into that. Another example could be the shift from manual labor to knowledge workers. Modern society incentivizes people who work with their head (engineers. CEOs, programmers, etc) and tends to disincentivize manual labor. What is the cost of that? Perhaps that we now live sedentary lifestyles and must use the money we make at our job in order to purchase a gym membership or a personal trainer. Another example could be the development of temperature control, i.e heating and air conditioning. What is the cost of that? Well it you study something like Wim Hof method, you know that the body is highly adaptive and can be trained. In fact, extreme temperatures can be tremendous mental and physical benefits, e.g ice baths and saunas. My point is that we have made many attempts to try and control life. And we associate these attempts at control with progress, not understanding their true costs. So I think there is something to the “good ol days” narrative, albeit for different reasons than many people would claim.

You’re dismissing what is being said here because “that’s only the absolute level”. The absolute level is the deepest truth. And the absolute and relative are not separate. Your question has already been answered. Fear is the illusion that you are not God. This illusion is necessary to a certain degree because it’s the only way God can know itself. On a relative level we could talk about how society perpetuates this fear. But that’s not the deepest realization. If you still don’t get it, that’s perfectly fine. People have struggled with these questions for years and years. Go meditate or whatever your chosen spiritual practice is and come back to it. The more work you do, the more it will make sense.

Merry Christmas everybody! Love you all.

you’re missing it. There is no way to fail at this. You and everything else is God, and there’s no way you could not realize that. At worst you can delude yourself until your “death”. The few rare ones you are talking about are also you. All souls will return to God because there is no other possibility. This game is perfectly rigged in your and everyone else’s favor. All setbacks are only temporary and are what allow for the journey to take place. But I get it, the journey can be brutally hard at times. You can go through deep darkness, depression and fear. But that’s all okay too. That’s all part of it. Wrap the darkness in love and watch it transform.

@8Ball Alternatively besides patreon, there’s the LP course, booklist and tip jar. Plenty of ways to support Leo financially if you choose.

@Mvpjouney If it’s too much it’s okay to slow it down. There is no rush here and ultimately you cannot fail. It certainly is possible without psychedelics, my first awakening experiences were all sober. Just keep up your spiritual practice and watching the theory to strengthen your foundation. Then if you want to do a psychedelic, you can choose to do that.

@DecemberFlower Because that's the game that is being played here. Going from fear / separation to love / oneness. You couldn't have the journey otherwise and know yourself as God.

@ajai I really like Kimilla. Some of her Kriyas are really challenging and she has a lot of great content. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJdnfY8UpmI

@BlackMaze Breathwork like Wim Hof supposedly releases DMT. Do an hour of that and you'll be flying high, may even pass out.

@Elshaddai I would question your basic assumptions about life and suffering. This is a belief. Challenge it.

@Firebird Not in the slightest. No offense. Also no. Yes, although I don't refer to them as ghosts. Yes, lots of people are. I communicate with spiritual beings regularly.

@DefinitelyNotARobot I'd just pick one and focus on that. Or add in a second session later in the day.

Stage Orange medicine is what you get when the ego is in control and is reacting out of fear. Typically it offers band-aide, reductionist solutions that don't address the real cause. Being for-profit (at least here in the States), it has become a huge industry. Millions of people would lose their jobs and source of income without it. Part of the reason it seems so necessary is that we've set people up for failure. When you're incentivized to live a sedentary lifestyle, avoid nature, eat garbage food and cope with your emotions, you get a lot of sick people. So the unconsciousness of the medical industry is perfectly correlated to the unconsciousness in other areas of society. It all arises together and supports these other systems. You cannot undo the damage of the medical industry without, for instance, changing economic systems. At the deepest level, a change in consciousness is what is needed. That's the root. Change that and shifts will begin to ripple out.

If you want to last longer, of course. Not saying you can't ever pick up the speed, but slowing things down makes it easier to stay mindful. If you do pick up the speed, you want to make sure to bring that same level of being present.

@Annoynymous You need to breathe, relax, stay mindful and slow down. If you want to experiment, do some solo fapping and just notice how deepening your breath and being mindful immediately drops the energy. I find it easier to practice this alone because being with a partner we tend to just revert to old habits. Really it is that simple. I know some people talk about visualizing but I've never had much success with that. Just slow it all down.

I wouldn't even stress about trying to find some sort of balance, they go together. Just practice meditation and also practice visualizing. The Buddha would have realized that he imagined the entire universe

Your imagination is powerful and important. But we do meditation for a different reason. You see, your mind is imagining all the time. We silence the mind using meditation because that allows you to become a clear channel for God to speak through you and as you. The vessel, you, needs to be emptied. Otherwise your thoughts are just unconscious programming, trauma and coming from the fear-mind.