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Im pretty sure it does, not necessarily strictly the Life Purpose, but being engaged in life and excited nurtures you, it gives you Energy. People who are engaged in life and excited will stay younger. People with a Purpose will get better through a Crisis, have more resilience. These emotions and energys will have an impact on your whole system. I think there are many metrics there you could measure an positive impact by having a purpose vs. living a meaningless life.

I would suggest you to read the book: Tame our Gremlin. To refer to it as a gremlin, rather than an monster would be a good beginning You dont want to defeat it, but rather notice it and laugh about it, dont take it too seriously and also understanding where it comes from and that its not ultimately you.

Ive been meditating regularly since almost 4 years now. Its hard to track all the results down, but my overall feeling of life really transformed over the years. I am much more grounded and aware in my body in every moment. There is much more joy in every experience, just by being in the moment, feeling my body and seeing the beauty in everything. I can almost enjoy every moment. Ive done psychedelic trips and read many good books too that helped me, but I think most of the benefits are coming from my meditation. The book The Mind Illuminated helped me really well in really understanding where im at in my meditation and what I need to do and to track and understand my progress in meditation.

@DManKeeGood that you are able to see this now. I would suggest you to make a pause off reading and then try to build a healthy relationship with reading again. Start with the books that really interest you and dont force you to read it but learn to enjoy it again.

I think they both have certain pros/contras, I think on good podcasts and longer talks (you mentioned some great ones) you can expand your horizon faster cause you will get exposed to a lot of ideas and perspectives. Rebel Wisdom is a great one and in the last time I also watched a lot of Aubrey Marcus Podcast and Theories of Everything. But for me reading is a deeper journey into a topic and you will learn more, cause you stick longer with a topic and think about it in the process. How did you manage to read 140 books if its a struggle for you?

An comprehensive List of Ressources for good sensemaking for free. I highly recommend it. It entails Videos, A workbook and different exercises and meditations with guests like Daniel Schmachtenberger, John Verveake or Gabor Mate. Part 1 is First Person Epistemics, Part 2 and 3 will be released in the next month. You just need to register your mail.

Recently I found Vernon Howard and started reading his book: 1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle. Its a collection of short quotes, but some of them are really deep and insightful. Wanted to share some of my favorites so far: 15. Humanity rejects truth, like a hungry man who refuses bread because his dizzy mind thinks it is wood. 19. When someone lacks the intelligence to try to understand he covers it up by criticizing. 30. Imaginary life has great power to control and wreck people because it insists it is not imaginary life. 36. Society will always deceive you when you ask it, "What is life all about?" 43. Immature man is like a frightened child, alone in a darkening room, not seeing the nearby light switch. 54. A man's failure to question the ideas by which he lives keeps his life as it is.

I think it really depends on the person, I had my most difficult trips on LSD. I would always recommend a small dose of shrooms for a beginner, cause in my experience they feel more natural and have something internally positive in them. A 4 hour trip is also much better to handle, than an 12 hour experience of LSD. But whatever you take, better start with a low dose, no need to rush.

Wow, what an intense trip experience, thanks for sharing! Yeah high doses of shrooms can get really wild. Good that youre back grounded in this reality. I had one LSD trip, where I experienced really similiar things, I wasnt responsive for my friends anymore for maybe half an hour. In this time I felt also that I was warping between different realities. It felt like I was in another parrallel universe every few seconds. In retrospect I think I could see the different potentialities in which reality could advance forward, depending on my intention. I also had the fear, that now I fucked up and I lost my reality. I was unbelievably grateful, when I was back grounded in my normal reality and could be with my friends again. Since then im much more careful with high doses of shrooms or LSD.

Damn, so much value for free! Thank you for sharing!

me too! im really excited for an update, although I dont really need cause I got so many books still on my reading list

I can feel exactly the same, you loose some of the human worries and anxieties but at the same time its deeply terrifiyng to get more and more to the point of realizing that you are god. In some deep trips I can feel like I can see it coming that I am god but I fear fully realizing it. It feels like fear of death gets replaced with a "fear of infinity", a fear of experiencing absolutely everything forever. But maybe the crucial point here is like @Tim R said above to also realize that its all love that will free you.

If you think you are already clear, the Life Purpose Course will still help you how to really lock in and stay on Track with your Purpose. But additionally to that it will also help you to get even clearer and sharper in your definition of your Purpose, even if you think you already found it. I would not suggest you to rush through the course, think about and digest the information.

Thanks for posting and sharing your experience with reading it! Really interesting topics. I also heard its one of the most difficult books to read and understand. Looking forward to read it in the future too, but there is so much to read already.

Tbh for me this sounds like this could be an imbalance of theory and practice.

Leos new Episode: Why Valuable Things Require Development Over Time motivated to start also a Yoga Practice, next to my Meditation Practice which I already do since almost 3 years now. I was considering breathwork or self-inquiry too, but I believe Yoga is the most valuable for me now. But where do I start? Should I start straight with Kriya Yoga? Then I would go for the books on Leos List on Kriya Yoga and start there, or is this already an advanced form of Yoga and I should start with "normal" Yoga exercises? Would appreciate some tips!

I wanted to start a thread with a list of Practical skills you can develop that will help you making your own money. Would really appreciate to hear some suggestions, since I really want to practice a practical skill that can earn me some independent money. Would be best if I can use this skill later for my Life Purpose, but I havent figured it out yet, so it would be a good place to start with something since I have a lot of free time beside my studying.

A good start and overall collection would be The Portable Jung, edited by Joseph Campbell, very comprehensive. I got it from the book recommendations of Ken Wilbers book No Boundary.

If you do it right, there is nothing needy in approaching women. You are an abundant man, who has no fear of talking to women who are interesting to you. You have no fear of rejection but go for what you want. You are a free man who loves women and can be open and vulnerable about that. You are not hurt if women reject you and can accept/understand that. Thats the right frame and if you can project that, you wont come off as needy. Sure sometimes some people will be judging you for what you do, but thats the cost if doing things that are not what the herd does.

I would not suggest you doing that. In my experience and from what ive read, there is an minimum dosage that is really needed to get the real effects going, for an average male somewhere around 80mg. An dosage of 30mg is hardly noticable but still can have the toxic aspects for your body. and . I would suggest having a safe normal dose experience. But doing a 30mg dosage surely wont kill you, test it out if you want to, but I think it will not be worth it, since youre not really going to notice much.

Dont know if this is the right topic, or interesting for some of you, but I was watching this Episode of Street Epistemology: And they discuss the classic theme of Evolution vs Intelligent Design and I had an interesting Insight/Thought. For me there is no problem here in this paradox. Isnt the evolution exactly the way Gods Intelligence unfolds, so the Evolution which we can keep track of is exactly the History of Gods or Intelligences Ongoing Creation. Dont know if my intuition or thoughts are wrong here, or if this is maybe even obvious to some of you. But I thought its interesting that I never heard of this solution to this Problem.

Leo already said it very well. I think RSD is also about showing high value, but in a more subtle way. You showing high value by just having fun, by not needing to prove anything and not needing validation and being self-fullfilled. And that is done by self-actualization work and fullfilling your needs, caring for yourself.

It reminds me on some Mushroom Experience, my thoughts got so big, every interaction tracked back to the beginnings of the universe, I saw the relation between what someone was saying and how Language developed, how culture developed and why he is saying this right now. So many different axioms and aspects got tracked in my Mind at the same time. All the time I was thinking: how is it possible to think these thoughts/ how is my mind able to do this. Maybe it is something like this.

Suffering = the self trying to survive

A "shy guy" can come from so many different backgrounds and contexts, thats a gross generalization, its not so easy.