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People are attracted to Jerks. Because it looks as if someone is strong and in control and succesfull. Those people play a role. The traditional masculine is honoured to much.

@outlandish Its interesting, especially if you haven't had 5meo. But in a movie you cant put in to much discussion or knowledge, it has to be easy to watch. Its 3 people having first a shroom trip and the next session 5meo and talking a bit what it did to them in a format that is nice to watch. I don't think an experienced psychonaut will find anything new in it. The podcast of Martin Ball with them actually gave me more information. But it's easy/entertaining to watch for a newbie.

This applies much broader: Buddhism: https://europeanacademyofreligionandsociety.com/news/power-and-abuse-in-buddhism-sogyal-lakar-and-rigpa/ Christianity: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1895587/ Islam. Dont dare to post.. And the list goes on and on.

Because traditional feminine values are underrated in the western society.

Read this thread its not about hiding the truth.

Agree.

@ilja I dont consider myself as knowing that well enough to hold a longer discussion about it. But hey the web. This one for example:

@Shin Everthing nowadays is used to divide the people. Were there were just two groups they now create perpetrators and victims. The Dao speaks about the problems of a moral system and explains the value of amorality. Great atrocities come from some sort of moral validation. Every normal person will prevent a child falling in a well if he sees one. This natural morality of nature is normally enough.

He is just a man from Las Vegas. Very masculine area. He likes to have an allure of being strong. Its just a gender belief thing. Other people can bring the same but in a more life affirming format.

He could just communicate that. He has a masculine way of saying it. Probably originates from the conditioning you get as a man. Leo is from Las Vegas that culture. Of course it is possible to lure people with honey with tact. And still say the maybe more difficult message. That works much better. Every mother probably knows.

Some more stuff: https://erowid.org/references/texts/show/9293docid7979 https://www.amazon.com/Being-Human-Entheological-Evolution-Energetic-ebook/dp/B0045Y1NS0/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=martin+ball+5+meo&qid=1620069530&sr=8-7 And Leo has stuff too. How to plug for example, youtube videos and a mega thread on this forum.

@Heart of Space How do you know?

I hope he will find peace with his situation. Best wishes. His writings help me dealing with death of others and my sickness. Sooner or later everybody has to deal with big loss. Thank you Jeff for being authentic and articulating this in your nice style of writing.

@Seraphim Not sure about this one. I am also looking into Vedanta but see myself as a beginner in that area. It probably helps as a preliminary practice, not sure. A good energy flow and refinement of energy does give me a profound feeling of stillness. A place I can go to that is silent and where I can regenerate. Embodiment in the now is an important thing too and Helaing tao has a whole body approach so that's one reason I like it.

@Leo Gura I would love to see you with Jason Gregory who writes about Tao and also knowledgeable about different traditions including Vedanta

@Heart of Space Shallow sex is like a hunger urge and going to the macdonalds. A western orgasm is like a sneeze. Taoist or tantric sex and lovemaking is a whole other subject.

@Lyubov I find all those cultural malable aspects very deep and determining as well. It even leads for some people so locked in a certain gender to change to the other gender.

Apart from clear physical differences between men and women, gender identity is one of our biggest religions of our time. (dis)Agree?

@GreenWoods Kundalini more powerfull. No I dont think so. Tao has all kind of add ons. With Healing Tao you just as well pull the energy upward towards the head. But because you have different techniques generating energy you will get too much too the head. Therefor you also need to take the energy down. Kundalini focusses on temporary energy with breath, Tao more on an energy you keep all day long. There are all sort of refining energy techniques. Also we believe the whole body is a rocketship for spiritual advancement. So every bone part and body part gets energy and healing and not only a energy up approach. When the whole body is happy and overflowing of energy the jewel palace(head) with overflow with energy too. And you are probably missing earth energy. If you buildup more earth energy heaven (energy) will chase you. Yes the main qigong are not the most powerfull ones. Only in later levels you focus more on recieving earth and heaven energy and also very powerfull combining heart and sexual energy. Which seems to have likewise effects as the buddhist heat generating tumo yoga. You body has to have had a certain level of cleansing or you will overload the system and get sick. This way Healing Tao will have less people stopping because of overstressing the body and there is even a more watery path at energyarts.com There probably will be a lot of parallels, the system also has dark retreat, opening of third eye and sealing of senses. In the short run with an energy up approach you be quicker, in the long run a whole body approach possible is quicker.

@Lucas-fgmEnvironment/culture is way more powerful than is given credit for. Testosterone, so we’re told, is the very essence of masculinity, and biological sex is a fundamental force in our development. Not so, says psychologist Cordelia Fine, who shows, with wit and panache, that sex doesn’t create male and female natures. Instead, sex, hormones, culture and evolution work together in ways that make past and present gender dynamics only a serving suggestion for the future – not a recipe. Testosterone Rex brings together evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience and social history to move beyond old ‘nature versus nurture’ debates, and to explain why it’s time to unmake the tyrannical myth of Testosterone Rex

@Lucas-fgm Your evidence is flimsy. Cohen is an old fashioned researcher, desperate to find everything which fixes his worldview, his old fashioned ideas about men and women. These people we go on there whole lifes looking for the tiniest things to hold on to their paradigm, by very selectivly doing there research (or is it more activism). Its time for them to go on retirement. This is way more balanced: Testorone Rex: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23331151-200-unmaking-the-myths-of-our-gendered-minds/

Death is not real?

@Preety_India When we stop cramming people into gender roles. A man can cry and has deep feelings too. A women also wants a certain amount of power. When we stop pushing women into more caring roles and men to have power. When we stop the stereotypes of men and women, that subtly but still powerfully push people into those roles. Etc etc.

@Emerald Thanks but lets agree to disagree. We two are running in circles.

@Yarco I don't get that yet. I can't feel a stone but I can feel my body. So I tend to seperate on the basis of what I can feel. People want to be themselves and might feel locked into certain behavior and seen as a certain way when identifying as a man or women. But identifying as an animal then you're not doing something productive or good for society.