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This is hands down one of the hardest things you can do, to create a powerful purpose. Time really goes fast, at a blink of an eye 20 years will pass and the worst nightmare wold be to have nothing you're passionate about.

One great way to boostrap and learn this skill is by reading practial self-help books about relationships and friendship. There must be pretty good autors out there which I am missing since I don't read that topic. You should create a selection of books to read after some research and share it here. Having a realistic look into what it takes to hold a relationship sets a good foundation, to learn how to be an interesting person and what other people would expect out of you in a friendship. Then you need to put you in a life situation where you're around people, like-minded people, which is very doable and only takes some planning. I don't have more solid advice since it is something I am learning myself and it is definitely a life journey.

@LookingForTruth Thas was a shameful comment of mine. I do like to contemplate parenting a lot and to see what kinds of things would traumatize or not to your childs even though I am not a parent myself. I should have displayed it in a much better way. Is a topic I could conversate for hours. Do not take it personally, I definetely don't know you so don't need to explain nothing.

The Maslow Hierarchy of Needs can shine some insight: This image is from the Wikipedia page. Is a big picture of what you're gonna need if you're gonna pursue intimate relationships or beyond. Often overlooked or misinterpreted. You may think is bs, but then you proceed to build a house of cards and when it falls you realize what is actually important. As a simple example, if you don't eat properly and don't exercise regularly, then you won't have the drive to be present when socializing. If you're not present when socializing then how are you gonna attract women? It would be pointless to focus on how you dress and memorize some lines in that case. But, there are no rules written, so you do you.

Lol. Actually enjoyed reading. Looks like you play a lot of videogames I have some weird hallucinations of my cats sometimes. I don't see them since january 2024, and it happened to me that I could physically feel them, but then realized I was fading in and out a dream state. I had a dream of my granmother too last year. She passed 5 years ago. In the dream she assured me she was always present, and I could hug her for a last time. Kind of amazing stuff.

Great report. Similar to what I experience with yamanic breathwork. Kudos.

My advice: do it but to hang in person afterwards. You need to know them in person to consider a close friendship.

Actualization: I know my position here is quite anti woo-woo here, but I just don't buy the psychic stuff. Either way is not my intention to shit on those kind of powers because I know that reality is quite twisted. Most people will think of psychic powers as a fantasy, or like they would show in movies. That's until you experience it yourself and it is not in your control, and you have no idea how it happens.

Amzing Aphex Twin music, this links to a playlist:

I want to share some simple thoughts on skill development, career election and how to avoid being stagnant. Some thoughts for those undecisive and unable to find good sources. Read this to get inspired, and please share your top passions. I would like to discover what you people love and would be a nice brainstorming excercise. First of all, I am not even at the 10% of my career path, but I am picking up speed and finally feeling an increase in hope. I am not too worry anymore about how will I acquire the abilities I need, I used to stress out unnecesarily. I like a lot of things, and like many people I felt undesicive about what path to take. My top passions are: molecular biology, electronics (domotics, analog and digital), music and visual art. And world politics and world problematics in the back of my mind too. What really helped me to clarify what action to take is a lot of visualization and dreaming. This is key and the motor that will impact the actions years in advance. Literally and directly. If you sit today for a couple of hours creating a pausible plan, you will see that it generates a seemingly automatic response in the future. This is considering you do it following your dreams and without worrying nor stressing about anything (money, how to’s, current situation). No wonder why it is enphasized in this community a lot, and I am really thankful for that. Second step after developing your visions is the learning process, this is where most quit and get really frustrated. I am not a candidate of just picking one thing and going all in, although I see why it’s prioritized by people. Even then, it is almost impossible to be developing two separate careers at the same time, so it depends on the scope of your objectives. What I have chosen to do is to tackle all of my passions to some degree. Its hard for me to completely forget any of my favourite hobbies while working on the others. That’s why I invest in all of them. What I like to do is to advance in my projects in monthly stages, mostly. I tend to naturally follow what I am attracted to in those periods and I do the grind. This helps me to stay refreshed. You might choose to go all in in another unrelated skill and that is completely fine. In fact it is 100% necesary, as it is aligned with the requisite variety principle, especially when you’re not sure about your exact purpose. Your mind will be stretched in different ways as you move into different domains and will naturally learn to interconnect them in ways that cannot be anticipated. This is the magic of not limiting yourself with just one task. I'll wrap up here to keep it readable for most.

I have a couple of good accesories that really improve my quality of life. 1.A generic but sturdy push-up bar + rings in my apartment (around 35 USD total) it's quite convenient having it right in my studio to hang whenever I want: In the same lines, weights. They are not the best brand imo but better than nothing, they do just fine and are durable. (around 200 USD) And these are the kind of disks I like but don't have: 3. And finally, a multimeter and a solder iron. It is handy and allows you to repair some simple electronic stuff quickly. The solder iron in particular is not the best, still looking for the best. But the multimeter is pretty good, made sure has every option. (No more than 25 USD for both, but around 100 USD for better quality).

@manuel bon Good for ya... I've been struggling with it for quite a time now. Just yesterday I broke a 25 day fast from caffeine (except cacao a couple of times). It has been a great challenge for exercising my willpower. Are you getting benefits from it?

Can't say for sure. The time when I was doing the WHM I didn't get sick. But with lack of sleep is pretty obvious for me, I will just caught anything. That's why I mostly rely on sleep to keep my inmune system ok. Cold exposure could help, but I don't think if you're already sick. I completely discarded that practice.

You can just take a nap, usually the best option when your body screams for rest. Just don't do more than 1 hour or you will find it difficult to sleep at night.

I would stick to mushrooms, they make you crack up by just looking at grass and they wont create an adiction.

Too much lobbying from Big Food is repulsing. But everything happens for a reason.

Hmm, if you can't use psychedelics then I don't see how you can verify it. Something that I am noticing is that it takes a lot of time to start grasping this. Month by month my perception changes and I am able to understand the same teachings in a more solid way. If you already assume that you're constructing all of reality then is much easier to grasp the truth. Still a belief, but it sets you in the correct direction. Different than the conventional narrative of our society. Is a growth process, you can't rush it but you can start investing in it.

He's just another example of mastery. He travels to lots of countries and explained how got really good at the game. They even do competitions on this. If you stare at thousands of pictures of the same country then you get a feel of the color of the sky. I could only guess UK, I guess. He explained how he studied country by country watching and analyzing hundreds of the Google car photos. Those are fragments of the 360° camera. For example they can see glitches on those photos that only ocurred in just a single place on earth, hence guessing.

You pick your favourite and keep the rest as hobbies and see them grow through time.

To be honest, is super weird

That would be so freaking lame, lol. Maybe that happens to you, no way to know beforehand. The good is too good and the bad, really bad. You can certanly enter into an experience which is pure hell and there is no way to go back. You can also experience beings -probably in most trips- which are simply inteligent entities that appear in your experience. You can comunicate with a deeper inteligent, you can realize you're dreaming. Best thing you can do is to prepare yourself in your day to day life in such a way that you become super healthy and resilent. Then you hope for the best. You want to be as healthy as possible when having those trips.

Exactly. You can socialize at a low perspective level, or higher perspective levels. And social structures highly influences the level of socialization (country, religion, institutions, communism or capitalism). Also, you couldn't survive without the whole social structure that is currently suporting you. Or maybe you could but you'd need a lot of luck.

Integral made a good point. It shows the power of assumptions at play. Also consider the fact when you move to a new environment ut puts you in a state of mental plasticity. Moving, and those kind of drastic changes, like going to a different country, expands your mind. I like to think we are wired to change environments from time to time. At least makes a lot of sense given our hunter-gather/nomad lifestyles that we went through for millenia. Collective ego is a real thing too. Ask the question: How does my state of mind change when I am with X vs Y group of people? When you're in church you're going to act and think in certain ways which has been programmed into you. Different from when you're in an art class for example.

Low perspectives have a strong emotional appeal to them, they suck you in and suddenly you get all involved without even realizing it. No space for reflexion whatsoever and nevermind any caring for truth. Probably we agree that low perspectives are really easy to adopt whereas higher ones take a lot of work. A quick answer to the question "Why demonizing other perspectives puts you at a low perspective?" could be: because in doing so you prevent yourself from the possibility of actual understanding, or the possibility of doing any crucial discernment about the perspective in question, given that you get attached to a belief or an emotion -which sometimes are very correlated-. This doesn't mean you need to accept all the lower perspectives when you don't agree, especially when they're a hazard. But demonizing is just anti-truth and a really bad habit overall. Its a fun exercise to seek higher perspectives.