TheAlchemist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale Check out the Kinsey scale. There is no reason to categorize sexuality in such black and white ways that we are used to in the Western world. In the field of sexology and also psychology there is a quite large consensus nowadays that sexuality is more of a spectrum than the strict categorization we have been indoctrinated with. I think this idea of the spectrum of sexuality is much more intuitive and makes much more sense. Btw I don't think having performance anxiety has necessarily anything to do with your sexuality, it's interesting how people are jumping to that conclusion here.

If you look beyond the hype and look at what the World Economic Forum (which is not some secret convention of evil elites, but a largely Green value based coming together of politicians, intellectuals, business leaders and reporters) is actually suggesting, you might find that it's not as crazy as it's made out to be in that video. What they are mostly focusing on in their proposal is something called stakeholder capitalism as opposed to shareholder capitalism (which is prominent in the US). That is not some radical communist China idea, it is already common practice in many European countries. It's actually quite a soft policy; at worst it will do nothing to address the existential threat of climate change or increasing wealth inequality. There's seems to be no reason to believe that it is a step towards some communist credit score dystopia. The statement "you will own nothing, and you will be happy" is the perfect provocation for anyone with an gram of libertarian inside them. It's not well thought out since that reaction wasn't expected. It refers to working towards a circular economy, which is one great way to reduce carbon footprint and the damages of overconsumption. Collaborative consuption and the sharing economy is already on the rise, this is just about creating incentives to encourage that. There's no reason to believe a democratic goverment is gonna force you to give up your personal diesel car for example, but it might become significantly more expensive (due to the externalities being priced in) to own than to use collaberatively, which is much more efficient and smart in many ways. https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/1909715/the-difference-between-stakeholder-and-shareholder-capitalism/amp/

Yeah that's what I said. Somebody who can levitate, would probably (hopefully) be conscious enough to not want to show it to the general public, knowing the possible consequences.

Also if somebody could levitate, they might be conscious enough to not want to show it to less conscious people. Seeing someone levitate with our own eyes and if we managed to accept it as real beyond any doubt could shatter our paradigm so radically that most humans would go psychotic and society would totally collapse. I can already feel my reality getting unstable when I do illusory form practice, and taking dmt puts me at the limit of what I can handle for now. I would be 100% convinced I'm in a dream if I saw some dude levitating in the sky and I would probably become insane or something for a while before I could fully accept it.

Yeah that's how it's supposed to work. It helps in filtering out the lowest quality posts, spammers, scammers, trolls, edge-lords etc. If everyone is downvoting you, it is more likely to be because the post was low quality, not necessarily because people disagree. It might not be because of that in your case, but you are getting lumped in with the low quality posters by the algorithm. I really don't recommend using a public forum such as reddit as a training ground for developing your pressure handling skills or something. At least not if you want to engage there in any meaningful way. Try to reflect on if you are bringing any value to others with what you post there, that will help you in other areas of life too. Are you sharing a unique perspective that is somewhat well structured? Are you asking a unique question that hasn't been answered already? These are the type of questions you can think about if you want to have meaningful conversations online. Even with this post, I am not totally sure what exactly you are asking and what it has to do with self-actualization, which leads to a situation where you are less likely to get a meaningful reply from someone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocentrism

Check this out. This place is the real Burning Man

I want to bring to this forums awareness a recently discovered dmt vaping method. It seems to be the most reliable, efficient, accurate and smooth way of vaping dmt. Highly accurate temperature control to avoid any burning or loss of spice and very efficient and quick vaporization; you just click a button and you can inhale everything (up to 30+mg) in one hit in less then 10 seconds. No burning hot pipes, lighters or lung burning hot vapor/smoke. I only tried a threshold dose so far, but I can already tell this is a game changer. I have tried the crack pipes and the gordotek dreammaker tool, they never really worked for me, but this one seems to be it. I will be experimenting more with this in the coming months, and will be reporting how it goes. I just wanted to make this post if someone wants to try this with me and has found the other methods inefficient, too difficult or too harsh on the lungs All credits to the fellows from DmtNexus, especially user "aum_shanti" who seems to be the pioneer of this method: https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=92213

@The_Alchemist Are you my shadow from 3 years ago? I was also somewhat of a Tai Lopez fanboy a long time ago but he doesn't have much to give beyond the orange value system.

A similiar interesting case was this guy Brian Rose from London Real. At one point he was really peeking into Green, taking Ayahuasca and becoming vulnerable with his audience. He was becoming a real hippie and you could really see it. But then he had a huge backlash. I think partly catalyzed by the pandemic, he went full conspiracy theorist and free speech warrior mode, also basically scammed massive amounts of money from his followers. I notice in many of these cases and in myself as well how some underlying trauma can really just stop your development. There is a very real and powerful pain that comes with change, and it's not always just something you can push through. It requires a raging and burning hellfire of desire that is stronger than anything else. It seems that usually real development happens unconsciously only as a life/death survival reaction. So if we want to consciously develop, the level of desire for that must be at least as strong as the will to survive. It's real tough work. In the image below you can see a painting of what I see as his megalomaniac stage red shadow. That persona is fed by his mentor Dan Pena. In his Ayahuasca documentary, you can see his internal battle where he is torn apart by his new revelations from his psychedelic experiences, which makes him want to spread good in the world and the other part of him, which is all about being a ruthless billionaire kingpin.

@Valwyndir Connor, if you realized right now you only had a few moments left to live, what would be the irreducible expression of your teaching?

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/229kyfLAXV2SWTj4XCvPcW?si=bZx96I77RteeCZKFVtecWg For the past 6 months I have been collecting music that reflects the Green worldview in this playlist. Your suggestions for additions are appreciated, I am constantly looking for new music to add to this collection. ?

Consider if it's useful to view it in such a black/white way. You seem to only see dickheads/fuckboys and nice guys. If you want to figure it out, you can look into the nuances more. Why do you think women are attracted to the dickhead? Maybe they are not attracted to being treated like shit and abused, maybe they are attracted to some small element of the dickheads personality, such as their confidence and assertiveness. And the spineless nice guy has none of that so of course there is no attraction. You can be confident and assertive while being a nice and kind person, that's just an incredibly rare combination to have because almost nobody is doing the work to become that. So it is not so black and white. A common progression: Spineless niceguy --> manipulative pickup master --> authentic integrated man The authentic integrated man integrates the assertiveness and confidence of the asshole with the tenderness of the nice guy and drops the mask, because that's what he is when he is authentic. And that authenticity is what attracts.

We can make the observation that there are people with "penises" and people with "vaginas" and people with something in between. We can make the observation that we have people who produce a large amount of small reproductive cells (sperm) and people who produce small amounts of larger reproductive cells (egg cells). We can observe that we have people with a more submissive and some people with a more dominant sexual nature. In the west we have given these observations the meaning that there are 2 distinct genders, and these two genders have certain tendencies and should behave in a certain way. We have many cultures where the model is not the same, some cultures have 3 genders or a mixed genders for example. Nowhere inherent in biology is it somehow coded that there is only a woman and a man. That is something we literally imagined up. Those are social contructs, those are models and generalizations that we have built out of the observations we have made. But the map is not the territory. We can simply just imagine up a new model if we want to, we can give a totally new meaning to these observations if we want to. We can even totally abolish the term gender if we find that it is not relevant or useful anymore. That is the power of culture, the issues arise when we take the model and our generalizations to be some natural law, something that cannot be reinterpreted or reimagined. When somebody says they are transgender or non-binary or something and you feel uncomfortable with that, it's simply because it goes against your model of reality that you have been programmed into. At the absolute, all these distinctions are probably just a joke. But even at the "relative" level I think the relevance of gender can be questioned.

@Elevated If we want to view game from the lens of spiral dynamics, I think looking at the values behind doing game is most important. Are you creating me win/you lose, me win/ you win or me win/you win/society win situations? Natural game can happen at any level, many guys who are living from stage red values are very natural, they don't even think about game. Natural game is just getting so good at the process of attraction that it becomes a part of you and it's no longer a conscious process. Attraction is a process so would there really be a stage green/yellow/orange/blue version of attraction? The same basic principles and progression applies (in general), what changes is the values behind the action.

Some skillful nerd should draw a system diagram for this. Maybe getting laid/attraction could be modelled at different stages of the process in a helpful way. Stuff like: Is she in logic mode? Yes --> use this skill, do this or learn how to do this to create fun. No --> next step Is eye contact being made? Yes/No Are slight touches being shared? Yes/No Is she smiling/laughing? Yes/No Is she leaning away or towards you or is she neutral? a) Leaning away? --> give her space. b) Leaning towards? --> escalate Neutral? --> spike emotions and ping her responsiveness with touch or flirting until a or b. Pre-approach checklist: Do you smell nice? Yes/No Are you dressed appropriately? Yes/No Do you have a unique perspective to share? Yes/No Do you believe you can make this woman's life better? Yes/No Identify sticking points, create suitable fun processes for training them and for testing your progress then re-evaluate.

Interesting ? Brexit was also a rural phenomenon

People often feel shit after fapping because they have internalized shame related to it. It might be completely unconscious, it can even manifest as physical symptoms if it is really powerful. This is especially common if you had a religious upbringing, or anyone told you fapping is somehow disgraceful. You start believing it deep down, then you find the nofap communities online that say you are ruining your brain and depleting your life force etc. which will just feed the shame further. This internalized shame of big groups of people often gets projected onto those teachings. People get very attracted to it because it validates their internal repression and denial of sexuality resulting from the internalized shame. So much of it is about the framing, the narrative you tell yourself about it. If you tell yourself "oh I'm being a cooming loser just expelling my life force and ruining my brain when I cum", of course you will feel depleted and like total crap. You start repressing and denying your sexual urges, thinking they are "evil" or something, which will just hurt you even more. But you might just as well frame it like "I am having an orgasm as the universe itself celebrating the beauty of it all and expanding my consciousness further using this deep state of bliss". How would you feel after that? It might be something totally different for you, but having talked to hundreds of people in the nofap community I realized that for most people, the shame is the real issue, not the fapping itself. Work with the shame, and suddenly the desire to fap compulsively starts disappearing, because it is not needed as a coping mechanism for all the shame. Just shifting the frame around fapping can also make the negative effects disappear quite quickly and you might realize that you were the one creating all that suffering all along.

Only a true conservative would try to make laws and rules out of chaos. Kind of like acknowledging that yes, chaos is necessary, but we must tame the beast and "civilize" it by bringing more rules, concepts and order to it.

This made me appreciate the power of art. These albums can take you on an experiential journey of total deconstruction of the sense of self. Here is the collection in one piece.

Catalogue of businesses/projects I have tried so far from age 18 to 23: Many of these have failed, but some have succeeded, so feel free to ask me about any of these if you are interested: 2015: Affiliate marketing blog 2016 - 2017: Repairing iPhones and reselling them 2019: Porn addiction coaching 2020: TikTok social experiments 2020: Matched betting 2020: Print on Demand t-shirt business 2020: Digital photocopying service for elderly people 2020: Smart tool/product lending service (crossed out = idea scrapped)

"Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem by Dylan Thomas that has helped me a lot over the years. It has given me fuel to keep going in times of deep desperation and it has given me courage to be more bold and take bigger risks in the things that really matter to me. I decided to start this journal after having gone through a few weeks of massive ego backlash/self sabotage. Before I go into that I will do a short recap of some relevant things: 16-year old me: Extremely social anxious, very skinny, completely lost with women, deeply addicted to porn, feeling of no control in my life, feeling isolated, lonely, my best friend turned against me, completely lost in life, no idea of my purpose, raised by evangelical Christian parents, deep feelings of shame Now I am 22 years old, what has happened since? I first got into self-improvement, started doing surface level stuff taking cold showers, lifting weights, eating better, facing my fears, pickup, comfort zone challenges, public speaking, university, studying myself and my tendencies. I also travelled on my own a lot which rapidly grew me as a person, I hitchhiked around Europe on my own and backpacked in Asia. In the past few years I got into more inner work. Emotional release techniques, meditation, psychedelics, inner child work and figuring out my purpose. I realized that I dont want to be a wage slave which led to starting a business and learning how to make money online a few months back. Now I'm gonna write about the past few months and the ego backlash I'm going through atm. June 2019 I intentionally didn't take a job for the summer break from university so I could focus on learning how to make money online for the next 4 months. I got into a course be Sam Ovens which was recommended to me by a friend who is making lots of money online. I didn't want to just make money but do something meaningful so I figure the perfect niche for me was Porn addiction recovery. I had struggled with it myself for years and I felt like I had a lot of knowledge of that market and how to help people. At this point I had been free from porn for about 4 months and with only a few slip ups in the past year. So I believed I had a grip on it. I started the business full of fear, I registered the company, made a website and started reaching out to potential clients. New habits: Started daily meditation with the Waking Up app, daily affirmations and daily gratefulness practice. July 2019 Kept moving forward with the business. Meditation starting to bring some results. A mushroom trip that shook things up. I realized I can only find answers inside me, not outside me. Did social comfort zone challenges in public almost daily. August 2019 Kept going with the client outreach, got a free client to test things on. Pretty much smooth sailing Present - Backlash I decided I will be honest with my journal so here goes: University started again. For the past week I have struggled with complete ego backlash. I skipped some daily meditations that I had been doing for almost three months every day. I have been skipping the gym, skipping meals, procrastinating for days on end and isolating myself from other people. Heres the most difficult part: I also have had a complete relapse to porn. This has effectively destroyed a lot of my dreams of making the online business work. I cannot be authentic in teaching others how to quit porn if I am still struggling with it myself. So I have to put that whole project on hold for now. I feel like a part of me is trying to tear down every single thing I made progress in over the summer. This past summer I experienced more rapid progress than ever before in my life and the self sabotage is also stronger than ever before. Now I am kind of lost and in a rut. I know things go up and down in this world of duality, but it still doesn't make the down part easier. Now it's time for awareness and some intense self-reflection. What part of me is it that doesn't want me to succeed? How can I give it some love and attention without it having to tear down my life to get it? I will be reflecting on these questions and getting back to this journal when I have something. Peace