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Maybe God will have to fill it out for us. We need an unbiased oversight. I bet, in different moments, in different contexts I may act more selfish and manipulative than I realize. This part of the work for me. These types of quiz are fundamentally flawed to begin with. Filling in a questionnaire like this, if you know anything about humans ignorance and self bias tells you very little. All it really likely tells you is what people what you to think of them. It would be interesting to pair this with a quiz on peoples willingness to self reflect and face emotional labour and hard truths about themselves.

@Husseinisdoingfine Okay, but what was the score my man

@Rilles Yeah, me understanding people isn't like black or white. Like, I understand my current roommate is a bit lazy, selfish and forgetful. Yet, I am still laying down boundaries with compassion. I can understand you, love you and understand why you do what you do. But, if you are in my space or interacting with me I will assert myself. I am not nice. I am loving.

Primary: 1.5 - Higher than 19.6 % of people who took test Secondary 1.9 - Higher than 20.5% of people who took test I sense this tells me very little but was fun, I am pretty sure I am 100% not a psychopath. If anything, I am too empathetic or sympathetic. Also, selfish in certain contexts.

22g? jeez ahha Truffles are great though

1. Developing a clear mind. 2. Deliberate practice in the areas of your life done strategically to build foundation after foundation as you build up your basic life skillset. ie, Personal finance, self soothing, Qigong, meditation, yoga, good posture, sleep habits, nutrition, inner dialoque work, dating, sex, etc 2.5 Frequently updating your mental models to be more powerful and accurate. ie, lectures, online courses, books etc 3. Frequently updating your systems for living (your habits) to better match you vision for your healthy and ideal life. systems for living are our habits and routines and tools we use. 4. Developing a mature look on reality, developing our adveristy quotient, and capacity to deal with difficulties of life and to be able to forgive ourselves and others 5. Learning to use math, procedures, administrative tasks, software, personal finance, accounting equations, etc

I really don't buy the Bashar thing, I can feel his ego oozing out I have channeled spirits before. So, even though I don't buy him in particular I don't doubt channeling is a possibility.

@Rilles Yeah, the old lady thought she was doing what was right. She didn't mean to attack, hurt or offend I don't think. I think she was protecting how she saw herself, ladies and the sacredness of church. Imo, she thought that because she was chubby, and the lady was chubby they were on common ground to have the conversation. She grew up in a time when women were told how to dress right for church. Yes, it is body shaming. But, I wouldn't hate and attack the old woman. She has her perspective of what is right and it's different from the young lady or most people here on the forum I think. Everybody is acting from the best of intentions considering their own perspective. It was an unfortunate mix up. I grew up with a grandmother who shamed me for many things like piercing my ears as a young man. People just see reality differently. I love my grandparents but, I tend to keep to myself these days. I can't take too much old people stage blue etc. Like me doing Qigong and my artistic pursuits I think confuse them. To my grandmother psychology is Dr. Phil. There's not much I can do. It's funny when I see her transference her Dr. Phil attitude.

Lol, reminds me of my grandmother. IMO, the old lady treated the women given her standards and morals that she imposes on herself. She was saying, dress like me to be polite and respectful. I don't agree with her, but I understand this old women's views. I understand as well and would like be just as offended as the young women was.

I think the purpose of this thread is to talk about and share links with regards to men and raising our awareness around consent and being better partners, and lover makers. I sense that a of men did not learn about consent as young people and I think it is a very important conversation. I personally think that it's important we take a hard look at ourselves and our abilities to control sexual energy and to make sex safe and enjoyable for everyone.

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Safety first, It's worth using light doses and pysches first. Do lots of research and try to fool proof it as much as possible. Once you trip as long you took proper protocol and precautions (which will be developed through tripping over time as you learn the realities of the substances which are different than you thought from listening to mixed opinions of others) just relax. 5meo is different for everyone I think. It's really not bad you don't need to take a huge hit. I don't recommend it early on, but also its pretty tame for the most part, thought extremely radical as you dissolve into infinite love.. AL-Lad is a good starter. Though, I have had one or two strange and unfortunate experiences/ reactions over my past two years that I would rather not have experienced and still don't fully understand. I think as I started to go DEEPER AND DEEPER I was unconsciously fighting it during the trips which results in walking around and holding onto others. Psychedelic headspace and trips is a deep area of mastery that I think can take a life time. There is not need to rush as their results are rather intense. I think the stronger you life foundation, metaphysics, epistemology, life maturity, less addiction based you are the better. Study deeply what you are getting yourself into. It's safe if done slowly and deliberately, with the right setting and intentions. It should be done seriously, with a journal log to take notes of your protocol. Safety, safety, safety.

"Look for day of the lanterns and you are the light"

Don't shit where you eat I don't recommend dating colleagues but using it as an opportunity to understand your sexual energy. This will be up to you to decide.

This is a great clip!

Yeah, you wont escape that. I wrote a poem that said "The intellect sits down, on the seat of emotion, begin to question.. everything you know babe..."

Different for everyone

I would exercise even if you are tired for at least 10 minutes when you get home. You have the energy. The more you do this despite emotional labour you will grow you capacity to do more after work. Bit by bit.

Impulsiveness is when you are acting based on emotion, craving, or a trigger. You are not conscious of your actions when you act impulsively. These decisions are not being processed in the pre-frontal cortex. I think impulsiveness has its place like in sports, and it can be okay when paired with a calm state and high quality intuition. However, it poses a lot of risks and I would say as someone with ADHD it's gotten me in a lot of trouble in my life. Impulsiveness can be useful in some survival situations like escaping a burning building or protecting a child. The range from impulsiveness to deep analytical planning, different life contexts and scenerios call for varying degrees of these. Both can be used constructively or neurotically. Impulsiveness is a problem when you are trying to scale a business, take charge of your personal finance, doing psychedelics or making life decisions that will impact you for many years. Impulsiveness is something I am working on. A good solid life is built on a foundation of integrity, long term thinking, balance, wisdom, intentional living and consciousness. The road to a crappy life is build on addiction, fear, blaming others, projection, impulsiveness, etc. When we judge others, don't have difficult conversations, demonize others, etc often time this is impulsive and not coming from a place of consciousness. All the crap or mistakes in my life boil down to impulsiveness, craving, avoiding pain and fear and my own short sightedness. Which, has been pretty big. Yet, I wont give up on myself. In fact, despite whatever challenges I have had, mistakes I have made I know I am on the right path.

I think the interview was good. I really enjoyed seeing Leo speaking to someone about his ideas. I have more questions after having watched it. I am more skeptical than ever. Which is a good thing. Good interview so far anyway. Still haven't finished it. You two seem to get along well. It reminds me of myself speaking to my skeptical friends ahaha It's interesting the limitations of language and you two have different operating systems and reference experiences.

I thought there were some good essays in this https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/646175.Modern_Man_in_Search_of_a_Soul

So, as I have been processing along my spiritual and self actualizing journey a common thread that has come up is: Self deception. I think when we begin this journey we are so thoroughly self deceived, selfish, ignorant, desperate, confused, etc that wrapping our head around ideas like nihilism, freedom, life purpose, God realization/ spiritual awakening is a risky and challenging endeavour. I have been and will continue to put my mental models of reality to the test as I continue to clear up my mind, become wise, integrated, sane and balanced. Sometimes a common occurrence for me is a sense of guilt or shame about a past believe, action, thought, idea etc that was based in self deception. This is often met with a fear of how deceived I am right now in this present moment. If I have been deceived in the past why not be deceived right now? HoweverI realized that self deception is so powerful and deep that there is really nothing to be ashamed of. Self deception is the norm on planet earth. So, be easy on yourself and make small efforts every single day to aligned more and more with truth. We are all foolish, make mistakes and have elements in our past which are less than ideal and we must accept that our pasts are how they had to be to get us to where we are now.

Maybe pick a few that seem relavant. I think we should just be collected courses, teachers etc for our 10-20 year plan of life long learning.

What are you even asking?