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Hey @Leo Gura if you were to do the value list from your Life Purpose course for yourself; What would be your top 5 values at the START of creating Actualized.Org vs now 8 years in? Have any values completely disappeared or has there just been a shift in the order? I would imagine truth/understanding is #1 at this point hehe

The point is whatever you think it is. By seeking you will find what you're looking for.

I think a decent some people, mostly made up of younger and middle aged groups, will have their attitudes shifted into majority Stage green with this event serving as the catalyst for it. However I think this crisis is more of a serious inconvenience for the majority of people rather than a traumatic kick (like a war on your own soil) that makes them question all the systems in place. After this thing reaches it's peek in a short while and then dies down people will be eager to jump back out into the rat race to "catch up" from what a pain in the ass this was. It's a shame but I just think that's where most people are at. I do think there are some useful ideas and discussions that will come out of this though; - Socialized health care and reform in general will gain a lot more supportive traction in the USA as this virus will showcase with NEON fucking lights the flaws and deficiencies in the current system. - The massive absence of greenhouse gas trajectories from China and other countries shutting down providing some more INDISPUTABLE evidence of human impact and contribution to climate change. - The quarantine will get many people to subconsciously realize that there is more to life than just working working working. You need to be able to depend and be depended on by other people. That like you said relationships will be appreciated more. That in reality we are really all the same and are affected by the same things regardless of race/religion/sexual orientation etc.

Maybe you're overthinking it and it's just the child in your wanting to have a bit of rebellious fun?

That was a beautiful post Emerald! I was gripped the entire time. You write things quite clearly and eloquently. Makes me somewhat terrified to some of the things I'll likely confront when I eventually do my big trip. I'll have to work through some other things first the best I can with the tools I have, however long that takes. So I'm hopefully not going to have my life cut short before I do. I'd rather have curiosity kill this cat than anything else lol. As for the guys bothering you including Leo; You come off as rather annoying and immature in your responses. She said she wants to stop and take a long break. Piss off and stop pestering her to snort more drugs. Accept where she is at.

And then one could say you're just psychoanalyzing him in order to defend Leo because you idolize him from your perspective. Creating yet, another distraction. You see people, it literally never fucking ends. Stop getting lost, sit down, and do the work! (I'm just playing devils advocate @StripedGiraffe)

Are you expecting to be able to flirt with them? What kind of banter we talking about? You shouldn't be thinking about this stuff too much if you have a girlfriend. You'll have to explain a bit more.

@Javfly33 Conscious survival is earning a living by doing work that is helpful for other people, animals, and the environment, or at least significantly more helpful than harmful. Quick examples would be: someone who grows their own food and sells it at a farmers market, someone who manages a not for profit disaster relief organization. A typical marker is having a job where you aren't at the complete behest of someone else and your efforts aren't going into furthering THEIR profits or pay. Most jobs that exist at least in capitalist societies are low consciousness survival jobs. You are serving a system that is generally more harmful than helpful to the world. You are working under someone who doesn't truly give a fuck about you, the company, or the world. They just want more money so they can get a bigger house for themselves and get laid more, ect. Quick examples: Wall street trader, McDonalds employee. Even if most work appears more helpful than harmful it could be the other way around. I'm sure there are lots of examples that are up to debate and it's really just subjective opinion. The point is a lot of the available work in the world is low consciousness and you may be forced to participate in it just to make money and survive. That's ok. Just be working on an alternative in your spare time and save resources to be able to make it a reality. The world needs more conscious work if we really want to make the world a sustainable utopia. Right now though most people don't even realize that's a possibility. They are focused completely on their own selfishness, that is why the environment is collapsing, and wealth inequality between humanity is so bad. Like Terence McKenna said, "We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us." Leo also has a video on this subject that is very helpful: Cheers!

What matters is if you enjoy each others presence and make each other happy, and do you feel like this is someone who could support you and that you could support in your lives? If those boxes feel like they are, or could be mostly checked then it's probably worth your time. If you feel like they need to be "spiritually open" enough for you to be able to eventually impose your "type of thinking" on them. Then you aren't really being spiritual nor doing the work properly. Notice the emphasis on the word need. This isn't meant to be a judgement about you based on what you said, just would like to remind you to be weary of the trap. Of course by all means search someone who is most compatible, but understand everyone is unique. Respect it. Embrace it.

@electroBeam It's in a place called Novar, Ontario (Canada).

Of course they do, and there is nothing "wrong" with that. If you don't follow along with something or thoroughly immerse yourself in it of course you're going to judge it by it's surface appearances and project all your own biases and interpretations on it. If I didn't first discover Leo in 2014 and stumbled into him now I would think he's bat shit crazy. You probably would too. Don't give into the urge and feel like you have to go and defend Actualized.Org and that all those people are "just ignorant". If you do that you'll just feed their narrative and you're missing the true point of the work here.

Yes there are, but the current economic game doesn't really favor them. Conscious survival is rare and difficult. You may have to do unconscious survival. Don't resent it, just try to make the best of it until you can get to a point where you can do it consciously. After all that's what any of this work, making the best of things.

Taken Oct 2018 on top of random cliff I kayaked to and hiked up. You can see the highway at the start of the river in the second pic.

Hopefully it illuminates the flaws in the American healthcare system and gets them to reflect seriously on it and strive for improvement.

You gotta do what you gotta do to pay the bills, survival comes before enlightenment. The key is too have a plan for an alternative and just do what you have to do to be able to execute on that plan at the right time.

If those numbers are true and he isn't just lying (possibility) it's pretty staggering and just pure unlucky that he hasn't landed at least one of those women. He is actually quite attractive for his age and seems like a decent honest guy from the short video. I'm sure if he just kept lowering his standards he would get with some woman but that is a VERY tough pill to swallow and I think people should draw a line somewhere for themselves. Sex and relationships are great and fun but you shouldn't have to sacrifice so much when there are so many better things in life.

I think that's a little bit of a stretch comparison lol. I agree with you. Perhaps it's in the works for the future to make things a little more concise. Leo does seem to be cracking down a bit more on bullshit lately.

This forum is a guide, a way to nudge people in a certain direction. Not a scientific manual. If anyone makes that mistake then they aren't equipped to do the work in the first place, which isn't the forums fault, it's theirs.

Here is probably the most helpful things I've found learning about how to deal with my own addictions; Self-Love Learn to not judge yourself too harshly when you're falling back into or participating in your addictions. Acknowledge, "Hey, this is where I'm at. That's OK. People just struggle all the time, it's normal." It's very difficult, but you must learn not to hate yourself so much for the addiction. You'll ease yourself of a lot of the suffering it causes. There is a common trap and delusional interpretation in this to watch out for; This doesn't mean be content and love your addictions and simply just give up on trying to change them. It means learn to love yourself even when you're addicted just as much as you'd imagine loving yourself if you weren't. Learn this acceptance so when you do make the choice to move away from those addictions, you're doing it from a place of love and not hate. One of those is better than the other. It's OK to use the pain and hate as the spark that starts the fire of healing, but don't use them as the logs to keep it going. Otherwise they will burn out too quickly and you fall back into your addiction. I strongly urge you to consider understanding and practicing this. I struggled with addictions for many years and this was the most helpful thing by far.

Either @BETGR164128 is an S-Tier caliber troll demonstrating the absurd satire of taking Actualized.Org concepts literally, or he is actually literally lost in the concepts and has made a twisted belief system out of them. I'll choose the first option because it's amusing and doesn't make me feel anxious lol.

@RendHeaven I think in our culture awareness is a more understood word than consciousness, at least in the sense of consciousness past the idea just being "awake (literally) and not asleep", which is the definition the layman gives it. Of course it all depends on who you're talking to. Sometimes you'll run into people who spend zero time learning about these things past layman terms so you'll have to go through the labor of explaining everything. It sucks but there is a first time for everyone to learn right! To help you I think the most relevant and stringent way to describe "Awareness/Consciousness" to a Blue or Orange person is; "Awareness/Consciousness is like a scale, where as you move up the scale you become more empathetic, considerate, and strategic about your actions/attitudes towards other people, animals, and the world in general." An easy example to explain is Environment. Someone who isn't very aware or conscious (meaning they don't understand, can't empathize, or can't imagine not being themselves and being that thing instead) will behave in ways that are completely destructive and disregarding of their environment. So another way of thinking about Awareness/Consciousness is that as you get more of it you become more understanding of the consequences of certain ways of behaving. You start realizing that literally everything is connected in some way because it's all apart of the same reality. If you behave in a way that is very low in awareness like a racist for example; you see that it is destructive to make such a firm separation between one group of people and another, because we are apart of the same planet and ecosystem and need each other. To be more conscious/aware is to acknowledge possible consequences and orient yourself in a way that minimizes them. There is a huge trap in this though - You have to be extremely careful when explaining this to people lower on the spiral than though and let them come to their own realization that as one moves up the Spiral you gain more and more consciousness/awareness. If the point is made too explicitly they will get very defensive and won't learn anything.

A word that would better suit the context you're worried about is "awareness". It's similar but doesn't match the bill of consciousness for the work we're involved in.

Nowhere. Conscious "pick-up" is just > connecting with people with honest intentions and authenticity. You know, like humans have been doing for tens of thousands of years, before all this bullshit lol.

Stop with all the pill bullshit and tap more into authentic being. You are sabotaging and delaying your happiness otherwise.