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@thisintegrated I'm pretty sure you drop the model of Spiral Dynamics at Stage Turquoise.

I've seen YouTube Comments stating that the main reason why they learned English was to be able to listen to Leo.

I desire to work hard and I fear losing myself to hard work.

SO many people operate like this. People are so ideological towards justifications of their vices. To the point where they'll exclude people that don't partake in their lifestyle.

@aurum honestly I'm still trying to fully understand what "frame" even means.

For me I just and say "I only drink alcohol when I feel like I want to and I just don't want to drink alcohol right now." If I need alcohol - to start having fun - to gain courage I've already made a mistake. Alcohol cannot give me those things. That has to come from a sober state first. I really value the state of consciousness that I'm in and I can have a lot of fun while sober. I am always the person having the most fun, the silliest and the most sober. It's actually pretty fun getting people to think I'm plastered and then telling them I'm completely sober, I get like massive respect for the amount of confidence that I would exude. "This guy knows how to have fun." I would have my water that I'm drinking and I'll be like slamming it down and be like "damn that's some spicy water!". This thread inspires me to make a similar one...

Anthony Metivier's master class called the Magnetic Memory Method. Check out his YouTube and check out his website. He also writes books on how to learn languages really fast using memory palaces. Learn his technique and you'll be able to get fluency way faster than anybody else.

The thing people REALLY mean when they use the word Enlightement.

Yo bro save the awakenings for the rest of us, I'm still working on getting my first Awakening.

It really does depend what job you're working. Experiences that I have heard about is that you're working for the government and have to jump through so many hoops all the time. Dealing with people that don't want to deal with you, dealing with people in crisis. You have to have a real heart for it. The ones that do really love what they're doing definitely help change lives, but you need the patience of Jobe for many of them. Thick skin too. Some people love the shit out of it. Like I said, it also really depends on what you're looking into. I'm assuming you're looking into being a social worker? But what do you want to do specifically? At the end of the day if you're looking to be a social worker you always have to look at exactly what you're doing in the day-to-day actions and ask yourself if you enjoy experiencing THAT.

Creating something is a very good hobby. Way better than doing something like putting together puzzles. Now THAT'S a waste of time ?. My life purpose is teaching and speaking, yet I paint all the time as a hobby. I want to learn how to create music too! Remember to enjoy life while you're here! One of the greatest joys in life is creating something beautiful.

In my experience, whenever I criticize something for not being something else it's because I do not yet understand it completely and therefore I'm not able to fully love and appreciate it for what it is. One must first learn how to understand something, to get to the truth of the matter, which also allows you to love and appreciate it for what it is, as itself. It is only then that your mind will be at peace and then you can move forward with the best decision for your next step.

There's a lot of unintegrated healthy stage red a lot of people need. Creating inspirational examples of healthy stage red could be a fantastic pursuit of Art. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm getting the impression that you see stage red like something that's to be avoided. Whereas actually every stage needs to be integrated with a full healthy Pursuit. Maybe calling it "stage red cartoons" is the best way you can describe it right now, but maybe it's not stage red cartoons. It's actually cartoons that inspire and entertain. Think about this: How do you know what's actually useful for the world from the most holistic perspective??? What does the world actually need, that you can provide? The way I see it is doing something that will raise the consciousness of people. Raise the love in people's hearts. But then that just kicks the tin can down the road because then I ask, how do you know what's the best thing you can do to raise the consciousness of mankind on a holistic level? I personally intuit it has something to do with following love. Finding what that is for you is the challenge. Think about how that shaped who you are. Then there's me starting to watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic starting at age 16 lol. Have you looked around at what people are doing all day? Every day? We are CONSTANTLY consuming art and entertainment. This is not going away anytime soon. If you want to play a part in that process, that's perfectly fine. Just find where your heart is telling you to go and make sure you can contribute your zone of Genius wherever you go. Humans love stories. It's no accident why these animes are popular. Stories are what actually grounds our sense of reality. There's a reason why we create things like archetypes. Stories with archetype encourage us to pull meaning out of reality, and humans love to create meaning. Amazing stories help to evolve the Zeitgeist of our current culture and time. There's so many people that are inspired to take action their lives because of the stories they've seen in the anime/TV shows they've watched. https://youtube.com/c/ICEcoldJT this guy is a self-improvement channel and he's like obsessed with Eren Yeager from Attack on Titan. Think about the one punch man challenge. Don't even get me started on how much positive impact MLP:FiM has had on people's lives. It's a doozy. Ahem... Ultimately you have to do something that is a balance between what you really love and something you actually love the process of doing. For example: I really love amazing art but I actually hate the process of learning how to draw. Or the process of drawing itself. I freaking love music, but I'm not sure if I actually like the process of tinkering around with musical notes all day. I learned that I really love writing. I actually enjoy the process of writing a very detailed guide on something that answers all the potential questions someone may have. It seems that creating and running courses and seminars is where my zone genius lies. Have you done the life purpose course? It's basically a blueprint of how to live a high Consciousness life of positive contribution to the world. Feel free to reach out if you want to have a little voice chat conversation by the way.

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@fopylo you've always been alive. It's just the YOU that is being talking about is not the body that you're experiencing. You are the Whole of your consciousness / Direct experience. That's the conceptual understanding I have of it.

@Leo Gura What do you mean by this Leo? Do you think you have a complete understanding of what happens? Or are you just speculating, hence the "My position is". The way I understand it is that you'll just keep on dreaming new stuff and I'll be like starting over. Giving yourself basically amnesia in the process of imagining a new dream. Imagining yourself forgetting the "previous" one. (Even though something like "previous" is imagined) Which is pretty terrifying. Like actual insanity. But what else would I have to do here? I literally have nothing better to do but to Imagine this right here because I'm bored. Existence is pretty insane.

When it came to stuff I had to study that I had a lot of resistance to, I would use the Pomodoro technique. (25 minutes studying with absolutely NO distractions and 5 minutes break) AND I would track my progress my moving physical objects like magnets, or objects in glass jars, that way my subconscious could see me making progress. I would also give myself big checkmarks on a Calander every day I put time in. Scheduling very specific times to get on it is very important too. This will mitigate procrastination. FORCE YOURSELF to set a goal, to set a time. Most of the resistance in just in starting the practice.

I found that reading every single day is very important because you'll always be finding new opportunities to apply that knowledge and that way the knowledge would be a lot more integrated. (I have to take this advice myself lol)

@Knowledge Hoarder Make sure you also pray to Leo five times a day on a DMT designed prayer mat, facing Las Vegas.

It's a cookie that's always in your pocket. Literally you'd be less addicted if you just screwed it into the wall.

@thisintegrated To add onto that, basically creating reference experiences. Psychedelics,shamanic Breathing, skydiving, cold showers/ice baths, running, lifting, dancing. Getting your body and mind into a different state of consciousness.

Wes Watson has been a really good resource for me.

Vision Logic Abstraction / Concrete vs Abstract - - (Part 2 of Implicit vs Explicit Understanding)

Mushroom Trip Report 011 Nothing crazy here guys, but I did experience an amazing state of consciousness to where I felt like I could take over the world. I also wrote some stuff that may inspire you... March 5th 2022 Taking ginger to relieve nausea is Overpowered. It works really well. I'm expecting an Ego death could happen so I'm going to surrender to that. May contemplate, what is the self, what is death, what is Ego. To help the process. Main Question What is Consciousness? 3.5g of shrooms (vegan chocolate) Was told that this was super potent for Visuals. >It was not. Whatever strain it was, it was not. It was actually the LEAST significant visuals yet. Not like that is the main focus, but Visuals are nice. Ate this whole shroom chocolate bar at 10:09am Not going to lie, I wish I had just taken tea lol. It was a lot of chocolate for me. 30 minutes in, Noticing visuals. >I need to practice tripping, sitting in silence, doing nothing but meditating. Starting at a lower dose, just meditating for 5 hours straight. This feels like a a very serious trip. I feel fear, anxiety, etc. But I'm pretty sure that's just the comeup. I'm realizing that Consciousness work is incredibly serious. More serious than I imagined. You're fucking with the power of reality itself. Very powerful stuff. 40 minutes in, feeling incredibly tired, very dream like. Chewable Ginger tablets are really good, they completely obliterate nausea. How would God define himself? What I've noticed with fear is that it tricks you that's going to be a really long time but that's part of the deception. Once you face it, it's gone. It's not actually going to be that long. It's NOT FEAR. It's getting you to appreciate EVERYTHING I then go on a walk on this beautiful day with my mother, ahem, I mean my trip sitter. >By then I basically threw away my intention. I feel like it would be a lot more productive if I asked that question while on 5meo. I think also I'm just so wrapped up in survival as well, which is also a factor. Plus just my maturity. I still grow from these trips, just some trips are going to be more serious than others. Play this and continue reading... >So there I was, high as fuck, listening to my favourite song. Walking behind my trip sitter, walking the dogs. We were just in the ZONE vibing. Enjoying the shit out of the moment. The weather was PERFECT. Walking with a strut. Confident as fuck. Reality being beautiful as fuck, future looking bright. "THE WORLD HAS NO IDEA WHAT I'M MADE OF!" >Then when we hit a crossroads and we were like "This is it! THIS IS IT!" referring to the beauty of the environment we were in. And she says to be "It's your time." referring to its my time to take on the world. Then my song ends, she gives me the dogs and just bounces, leaving me alone while high as fuck. YOOO, it was the perfect metaphor of foreshadowing of when I'm moving out next month. I think about everything in my life, how this body is going to die, how my parents are going to die, how everybody around me is going to die, how all my favourite teachers are going to die, how reality is not even real, all of my problems, all my troubles, and I carry it all on my shoulders and I say I WANT IT ALL, I LOVE IT ALL. This is the cost of being conscious in this world. The cost of "being alive". >When I get home I just lay on the deck in the beautiful clear blue sky. Mind high, no Visuals. I've already lost my mind in a very fun chaotic way. You know there's a serious survival advantage to going insane. You stop caring about stuff that's not important and only work on the important shit, putting in the time. Not caring at all how you look towards others. Putting in insane amounts of hours and dedication. You're not afraid for it to get ugly. The joker was doing something right... I want to lose my mind loving the world. If there was no imperfection there would be nothing to love. >This was incredibly profound for me. Life is always there to challenge you. You're challenged to love it all. You know, I always imagined death to be like experiencing an infinite alone Blackness forever. That's kind of funny because there's always the assumption that there would be an experiencer to experience the nothingness forever. Like that awareness. I'm attached to awareness itself. Does my awareness ever actually disappear? I'm going to speak a lot about my mother. I want to like create motivational speeches around how much I love people. I need to be able to face the thickest layers of boredom. It is actually in thick layers of boredom does the greatest inspiration happen. I noticed this when I meditate for long periods of time. Practice saying who are you. Some of the most valuable conversations you need to have is just someone listening to your life story. You defining who you are and where you are headed. But we all don't get this opportunity. But don't let that stop you from doing this exercise. This is why the self authoring program is so useful! But just shy of that, talk to yourself about how you define yourself and how you define who you're becoming. >When I was much more sober, I continued to walk in the neighborhood, appreciating the gorgeous mountains all the way down to sunset. You should be excited to grow up. Be excited to grow up. Say no to the lottery. A lot of people have the mindset that they need the lottery to massively change their lives. But that Lottery is never going to come along. Learning how to give that gift to yourself is way more valuable anyways. Direct the movie, produce the movie, watch the movie. That's how you live live your life It it in the moments of solitude that you grow yourself. It is what you do when no one's watching is where you define yourself. This is where you find your character. It is in those moments where you're broken down from the hard work of the day and you still choose to do more. Where you have your vision connecting you to spirit, giving you the energy that you didn't know you had. Entertain ideas beyond you. Beyond what you think you can do, because if you only entertain ideas that you think you do, you stunt your growth. Stop shutting yourself down with ideas of "being realistic". NOBODY has done something great by being realistic. I rather be delusionally optimistic and MISS than pessimistic and HIT. Life will always be a rollercoaster going well. Stop betraying yourself. You're so beautiful that you need to routinely take pictures of yourself. I honestly cannot believe how beautiful I am. You need to think the same way about yourself. The freedom convoy was here a second time but it was quieter. And I was ready. I just didn't care because I knew what it was. Stand in a field alone and self-reflect about life. It is in the moments of solitude, where you very honestly make a decision. That is where growth happens. Those moments where you choose to do what's right for yourself. Environment change is king for personal growth. You should climb a tall ass mountain and enjoy the view. So tall it makes you go WOWWWW!! 5h45 minutes. I'm much more sober and my life even more enriched.

I feel like an adult is someone who consciously suffers in their efforts to build their highest self. A real man gets shit done no matter what, no excuses, no hesitation. No backing down. They have a VISION, and they get to work on it every single day. Like a father puts his children's needs above his own, a good father will have himself starve before his child does. That kind of thing. The path to Success can be very boring, difficult work, day in and day out, and the adult accepts that. An adult is able to do some really, really hard stuff. There's also adulting emotionally, ego work, etc. 9 Stages of Ego development, Spiral Dynamics, etc. An adult takes responsibility for EVERYTHING in his life. It starts to get really interesting when you start interacting with people that are much older than you and they're developmentally younger than you. Happens to me ALL the time. It's crazy. Lots of people's development is just hindered by their lack of shadow work, never integrating any of the trauma they received in their lives. That's HUGE. Most people MASSIVELY underestimate how much shadow work they need to do.