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What I do is I let go of my need to impress anyone or appear a certain way. I drop all my usual behaviors and become as satisfied in the moment as possible. This way not a lot bothers me and often I become well liked in that group. This is because that extra headspace allows you to think of talking points and also helps you know others better, instead of talking about yourself. Moreover, you drop a lot of seriousness regarding your own values so other values don't trigger you as much. Most importantly, since you get to know others better, you become less likely to be triggered by their values as you start understanding them. It's very enjoyable for me in the moment, but later on it's very tiring as normally I am quite the introvert.

That advice works from the moment a person hits puberty

Accept it man, that's how you overcome the fear. Fear is born from attachment. I think it's best to switch to a more pragmatic view as early in life as possible, with the goal of such pragmatism being a meaningful purpose of your choice, like upliftment of society or spiritual development. If hair is not essential to your purpose, let it go if it leaves you. Otherwise, look for solutions or a work around. Same with your vision. The sooner you switch to a purpose-exclusive life, the more you detach. It sounds kind of bleek, but trust me, nothing feels more fulfilling. I suggest you read Yoga Vashihstha, it's primarily about detachment, and the first few chapters cover why one should not be emotionally attached to one's physical features.

I don't proclaim people's innocence. What you say is correct about others. How you react to that though, is what leads to no empathy. I am saying that there is no corruption at play here, it's just how you've been. The key markers for a highly developed ego usually contains a high degree of acceptance and forgiveness. Taking responsibility isn't about helping others but tuning your own reaction towards them. What it means to have empathy is not 'wanting to help others' but rather just deeply understanding their situation. Once you understand a situation deeply, it's hard to blame anyone, even yourself. It's just how things are and you must move forward. You might find this approach to pathetic or passive, but we aren't worried about practicality here more than what's true. Such others do not possess this understanding. Others are simply not that developed. So they complain and moan about their problems but are too ignorant to do anything about it. But if you hate that and can't accept those people, if you can't emphathise with that ignorance, that's Tier 1. It's not corruption. Since you experienced that ignorance you empathised. Now that you don't anymore, you don't. As I said, empathising doesn't automatically mean wanting to help. It's not your responsibility to help anyone. Through empathy you help yourself. I consider myself still integrating Stage Blue and Orange. I don't view myself as high and mighty, nor do I claim everyone can become Stage Yellow. My reply is for you.

This wouldn't happen to Stage Yellow and above. Problem lies in the fact that you hold others in the same light as you do yourself. Of course you're empathetic when you literally live their reality. Once you rise above that life and live a better one, you start holding others in the same regard. You start believing that if you could do it they could do. If they can't they just got unlucky, not your problem. Or maybe they deserve it? You're too lazy to even think about their life and problems because it doesn't concern you anymore. All of that stems from you not intuiting that people are at different levels of development. You might know it, but haven't internalized it yet. TLDR; Nothing corrupted you, your ego is just underdeveloped.

This post will not make a person with low IQ feel good about it. Given the chance, they'll always want a higher IQ. Putting this here for those who need it. The ultimate solution is to let go and accept it. Let go of your attachment to being better than others and accept all the negative consequences of a lower IQ. You(generalized) fear a low IQ and now that you know about it, you try to cope with that fact by reading how bad the measurement is and then look to other Quotients to feel good about yourself. This is not the way. The only way to deal with your fear is to not fight what you fear. It's counter intuitive. The only way to not fear bears is to have no problem with being mauled. The only way to not fear being stupid, is to have no problem with being stupid. The ultimate battle is here not that you have a low IQ, the ultimate battle here is that you fear you have no redeeming qualities, nothing that compensates for what you lack. You fear that you may lack in all fields and excel in none. That's your battle.

Thanks will look up the book.

There's a problem. Neither your post nor the article do a good job at explaining the stages or defining the words used such as systems or concepts. As a result it seems like everybody here is going largely by their own of perspective, and by looking at the replies those perspectives aren't very close. It's not possible to ascertain one's level like this or to correlate it with others. There's problems with relating it to human development as well. Certainly, it seems logical to correlate it with SD but it's nonsensical. Compounding the limitations of SD on top of the limitations of this model doesn't leave much room for accuracy. The concept of Symbolic Code is a great one and explains a phenomena. Your overall suspicion is correct in that there must be a pattern among the various complexities in thinking and the ability of forming systems, ideas, paradigms etc. But this model does an average job at best. I wouldn't recommend using it.

I have done this many times, thinking this time's it, only to bounce back. The problem isn't the social media. Even though it actively tries to push us into low consciousness, it's also a great tool to maintain or push you higher. For a social person, it is also essential for contact as virtually everyone is on one of these and many times they don't like giving out there actual number. The responsibility is on the user's shoulder to be strong enough to resist the bad use of social media. When you open Instagram Reels because you're bored, it is more a function of your own internal conflicts than of Instagram. It's like giving a mentally insane person a gun. If he murders someone with it, was it the fault of the gun? Would we blame the gun to have not restricted itself to be used only in self-defense? We're practically insane and full of fear and these social media apps exploit that heavily. However, if you are able to be intelligent about it, you can use social media for growth in a very efficient manner. However, when it comes to short form content, I think it's more trouble than it's worth. If any part of social media deserves to be completely cut off it's that aspect.

I used to feel a lot of brain fog and my memory/learning ability was down in the dumps. However it has increased significantly recently, infact my baseline has risen and I feel satisfied most of the time now. Earlier I'd feel uneasy and mildly depressed sitting by myself doing nothing. These are the changes I have made: I started taking Magnesmium L-Threonate and Choline Bitartrate, these are good for brain health and target brain fog. You can look up what exactly they do. Chamomile Tea before bed, helps in getting sleepy. Hibiscus Tea once a day, lots of antioxidants. I have been doing Dual-N-Back exercises. You can easily find an app for it. It focuses heavily on training your working memory. Which is basically your brain's 'RAM'. Multivitamins that contains Omega 3 Fatty Acids and Zinc. I got a sleeping mask to block all light to my eyes. These simple changes have made a big difference to my life. I feel a lot more stable and sturdy now mentally. This may sound weird but for months I used to feel "I don't feel sane enough". These things basically increased my sanity. I feel that I am finally back to how a human being should be. It's to be noted that I will slowly reduce my carb intake soon as well. As it stands now, there is a lot of sugar and carbs in my diet. But even after these little changes I feel heavenly. Life just feels much more exciting now.

Hey, nice insights, I would like to ask you a few questions. How do you view emotions? May you compare them with thoughts, what would be your insights? Just like how thoughts can be turned off and used productively instead of compulsively, can this insight translate into emotions? Just like how thoughts can be geared towards better thinking by consuming better both biologically and mentally, how would you compared that to emotions? How interconnected at thoughts and emotions? Which would you consider more dominant, if any? Sorry for asking a lot, I am just interested in your perspective.

This simple piece of text would be revered most greatly if it was written in the 1600s and you were a tragic writer who died of madness.

You're blurring the lines between 'Familiarity' and the 'unknown'. At a point you realise that 'Familiarity' is a mental lens we have created for practical reasons. In reality, you don't actually know anything. It's the same as something unknown. With this, you take off that lense, and all of reality looks unknown and mysterious. You don't know shit after all. It makes you wonder if you could know anything at all. You take off that lense and now ask yourself "Why" for the first time, instead of asking "What". If we refrain from explaining this particular holon, which may have many reasons for being, and focus on the very substrate of it all, existence, you'll find it utterly groundless. Existence is floating on top of nothing. It makes you wonder if it all could poof out of existence any moment now. Looking at it all, "why" doesn't make any sense. It wouldn't need a "Why", it's the only thing there is. This substance, it's indistinguishable from non-existence, or anything else for that matter. Of course it's here, of course. It couldn't be any other way. Now, you can drop down a level and ask about the content itself. Why is this particular hand here, why this particular body, why this particular direct experience? That either has one reason, which is because reality is so perfect it couldn't be any other way, or there are a quadrillian and more factors that lead to your particular experience.

Morals are an attempt at reducing conflict within oneself. It's not hard to see how lieing, stealing, being violent, lustful, greedy, prideful, etc. can lead to internal conflicts, not just by effect of their own nature but also through the effects of their outcomes. It's not a coincidence that when you are successfully moral, you feel comparitively more relieved and relaxed. Morals, for the most part, do not promote unity/integrity within oneself, but rather preserve it from fragmentation. Integrity is increased through self-discovery and authenticity. There's not much more to it than this here. Based on the above information, it becomes quite easy to see that virtue signalling comes from a place of conflict and is not moral, even if the acts done outwardly appear to be. Sincerity is a by-product of integrity. This also explains why enlightened beings, like Krishna, acted in immoral ways such as deception, despite them being the epitome of righteousness. It's because they do not require morals to preserve their unity any more, they are already at one with everything. By nature, any act such beings perform, is therefore right.

@Princess Arabia oh I didn't read your post. Just did. I responded after only reading the OP, since he was talking about manifestation and subconscious reprogramming. I see your point though 👍

From what I know it definitely isn't all mental belief. Speaking in a more practical and finite sense. In my logic, just like how you can't squat twice your body weight without training and physical training. There has got to be some other dimension of your existence that you must train, understand and endure tapa towards to perform these feats. We often tend to mix up occult/unknown fields of life with non-duality, truth seeking and what not. These are very different. These awakening only tell you the truth that it's possible, but unless it's something exceptional, I doubt you'll get there without certain practices.

It's a great place if you have the money, the connections and the knowledge. I am Indian, living here my whole life and I love this place. However, I have to tell you the negative sides so you may balance your perspective and improve your descison making. It is often really dirty and it's not all that spiritual as it is made out to be. Especially places like Varanasi and other areas. The image you have of it's spiritual side is probably outdated by almost 70-100 years. Don't get me wrong, it's most likely still the most spiritual out of everywhere else in the world. It's immensely beautiful if you visit ganga somewhere where most don't go. For example, certain banks of Ganges in Rishikesh that are walled in by mountains. It's like a high fantasy scene come real. Most westerners visit with ideas such as presented in Autobiography of a Yogi. It's barely like that anymore. One of my father's friends was devasted when he found out his teenager son had left the family on a spiritual pursuit for enlightenment, instead of taking on the family business. Much like Yogananda Paramahansa, he was found and brought back after several months. He travelled from ujjain to Mathura to Vrindavan to even Kashi(Varanasi) and many other places. When brought back home, he described his travels and he told them that every single one of those "sadhus" and "saints" he met were engaged in malpractices. Tricking people into drugging and raping them, selling illegal drugs(not psychedelics 50/60 percent of the time) and many other corrupt behaviour. Not really what you'd expect of a saint. The current India is a lot worse spiritually. This is why I want to warn those who intend to travel here for some otherwordly experience. To recount my own experience. I recently visited Neelkanth Mahdev Temple. It's a extremely sacred temple of Shiva, sitting at about 1675m above sea level in the mountain ranges of Nar-Narayan about 20km from Rishikesh. You'd expect the people to be spiritual there right? It's not even the most visited compared to many other temples. I saw a guy kicking a cow from in front of his shop right around the entrance. This is peak Kaliyuga. Cow is supposed to be the most revered when it comes to temples, most specially around Shiva temples. But, that doesn't mean there are not hidden gems of extremely spiritually advanced people over here. They are here, a fuck ton, but over years they have become even more reclusive and hidden. In a way, it truly has to be in your destiny to find someone like that over here. So please, be extremely witty and save your money, visit places where most don't go, and always practice a healthy level of scepticism when visiting India. It's a beautiful place which most certainly has the potential to change one's life in a spiritual level. You just need to know what you are doing.

I will try not to act smart and explain it to the best of my linguistic skills. It seems many people here are interested only in speaking in parables. I cannot claim to be God Realized but I do have certain awakenings where I did understand it. The exact point where it shifts from no-self to god-self is hard to describe in language. Essentially what happens is that your whole focus is on the entirety of existence. The existence within your direct perception. But it's misleading to say, "within your perception", because in that state, you do not believe that there is anything outside this particular perception, so it is all of existence. Which seems utterly obvious. Now, when one notices something for long enough, a pattern can pop out to you, after which it seems utterly obvious and you are shocked as to how you couldn't see it before. Similarly, after focussing on all of existence for a while, you recognise something that's been in your face the whole time, which is what you'd call 'God'. As for what exactly 'God' is, you can watch Leo's video on that. But that's a broad overview of how it happens to me. As for what's different about this God from how religious people think about God, it mostly depends on the religion. I know most about Hinduism so I'll just speak for it. Essentially religious people believe in a story they have imagined in their heads, which others have told them. It's exactly the same as me telling you about my experience of 'God', and you creating a mental formation for him inside your mind to think about that 'concept'. Religious folk believe God is an entity, different from us, or inside every one of us, but still not us, or, we are a part of such God. Even if a religious person agrees that everything is God, as many claim in Hinduism, they usually don't know what that really means since they have never experienced it. As for how I see God, it has many aspects, many absolute aspects. You can look at it in the form of Shiva, being absolute stillness and zeroness. Or Shakti, absolute dynamism. Or Vishnu, absolute consciousness/one big universal entity. You can experience all of that in your direct experience. So for me to describe to you what I saw would be simply an aspect, no matter how absolute and obvious is seemed to me, that's just how it feels everytime. So, in essence, for the religious, God is an 'other', even if they claim otherwise, but for me, there is no me, and there is only God.

300, possibly more. I do not think even a 100 years is enough to explore this human life. I am going to make full use of, or will fund them myself, anti-aging technologies. I do not mind dying after 70. But I really want to experiment and meditate for like 50 years and see what happens, without actually wasting half of my life.

I am just gonna go all in, I'll let you know.

Note: I only remember this experience, I do not experience it right now. This was a few months ago. An annual event occured called Mahashivratri, a night upsurge of energy. I heard somewhere that if you do japa of "Om Namah Shivaya" on this night, you gain immense fruits. I was already doing Hanuman's japa so I thought I'd give this a try. It gave me a wild experience. Context: I was sitting in front of Shiva's Picture, in padmasana, with diya lit up and all the other karmas that you do in Hinduism as are prescribed. I chanted the mantra for 108 malas. Each mala contains 108 beads. So I chanted it for 11,664 times which took about 4 hours. Here's what I experienced. It was done all sober, although many take marijuanna with this particular pooja. It started slow but I felt my awareness get sharper. It was like I was seeing, hearing and feeling things in 4k. My previous experience felt like a 144p video compared to this. Over time, I started feeling like I was detaching from my body, like a flame is to the wick of the candle, I was to my body. Moving around, almost escaping, but nonetheless attached and dependent. This was when I decided to direct my awareness on my self and the world around. It hit me suddenly I was fake and so was the world. But at the same time, this as real as it could get. I could see, I saw that Shiva was the entire universe, time and space. The world was created out of Shiva, and the forms took shape out of dynamic energy, or Shakti. But they were both the same. Shiva weaving entire realities into this present moment. My body didn't even feel my own and it was as if I existed as air. It dawned on me that there was nothing beyond the present moment and what I experienced, and that there was no witness. The entire thing is just Shiva, and he's meditating. I did not care of my life story, my past, or my future, it was all as if I just imagined those stories. Therefore could be disregarded and forgotten. Only thing mattered was Shiva. Now, suffice to say, it was pretty mind blowing, but this not where it stops. I directed my attention at the idea of others, and sure enough, they were illusions too. In fact, Shiva was the one creating them, just like he was creating me. Others do not exist, just like the self. But I do not experience that anymore. I post here because I remember someone talking about this. I could actually see how Shiva constructs reality and how he is doing it every moment. There's no consistency between the past and the present. We think it does, but the logic we use to define that consistency has no ground. Logic is in fact, completely illogical and indistinguishable from it. I am as stupid as reality can get. Shiva is absolute null but it's not like there's anything other than Shiva in this world. All comparisons fail, you cannot compare something which is every thing. Question is, Others don't exist. Makes everything feels absurd. It makes my heart feel empty and groundless. At the time I remember feeling complete and still. But now, I just feel disoriented by that idea. What should I do?

You are not supposed to just tell yourself you are not something. You need to observe what you think you are enough that you get how you can't be it. You detach from it. It's very logical. I did it for about 6-7 hours straight and that got me to no-self. It definitely works.

I really appreciate your replies but truthfully, I do not understand. If there's a simpler way.

Vikings used to believe earth was made out of the corpse of a giant. The rocks the teeth, the ocean his blood, the mountains his bones and the ground his flesh. Stage Purple doesn't care that much for logic. As long as it works. That's the only thing I can think about.

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