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Holy shit, this looks interesting.

@Leo Gura took me 1 trip but to be fair I was playing skyrim .

Other forms of sustenance are much less convenient. I never feel full when only eating plant products and I already struggle to gain weight. Many others I've spoken to have had this problem as well. Its not needless, it makes life easier. But you could. And you would technically be right. The idea that anything is good or bad is a mental construct. You would suffer negative consequences for that. You would probably get arrested or beaten up after a while. yes. Culture and conditioning is a huge factor. As for intelligence, it is a rough estimate of how conscious an animal is. A three year old has 50 times more neurons than a pig. They just haven't been wired for problem solving yet. A pig has roughly the same number of neurons as a dog. Interestingly, my parents are from an asian country and I briefly lived in an area where some people ate dogs. As I child, I was completely ok with people eating dogs but after spending time near people who kept dogs as pets, my mind slowly changed to include dogs and cats in my circle of compassion. me Not enough to change my habits. Because it's a red flag. To actually enjoy the suffering of another being requires a pretty fucked mind. People like that are generally not enlightened and will probably end up as serial killers. Enlightened people have better things to do. Although if it were a fly or a cockroach, I wouldn't give a shit. A mercy loving heart isn't always the best option. If you were fully aware of the brutal reality of nature, your mercy loving heart would hurt like hell all the time. This is why vegan communities tend to overlap with antinatalism. That is not to say that I'm ruthless with no heart, but most people can't afford unlimited compassion for all beings. It seems you are much more compassionate than I am. Perhaps one day I will come close to your level. But its probably not happening anytime soon. This is debateable. Human technology and consciousness is evolving at an exponential rate. In my mind there's not much difference. The girl gets to feel good about herself but there are almost just as many starfish dying. As for reducing suffering, there are more efficient ways of reducing suffering, like creating technology that improves peoples material conditions, raising their level of consciousness etc. An efficient way of reducing animal suffering would be to work on lab grown meat. Such methods may actually address the root cause of the problem. They were long dead before I paid for it. I'm paying for the end product. Consider your smartphone, laptop, or electric car. The batteries on those things contains cobalt which was mined from the congo using child labour and the toxic fumes from the mines poison the child workers and the surrounding environment. Are you paying for those children to be poisoned by buying a smartphone? Btw as much as I am disagreeing with you, I love your content.

I guess its a way to explain why I don't care that much. It's also not needless because we receive sustenance from it. And also because I am selfish and want to justify my selfishness. But in my ego death states I also didn't care because in those states all suffering Is an illusion. The idea that anything is right and wrong is also an ego perspective. No (conveniently). I would include monkeys, elephants and dolphins. Dogs and cats as well because of human bias. The circle of concern is more of a gradient. It likely is wrong to inflict pain on animals. And the higher the consciousness, the more wrong it is. Eating meat is probably wrong but not enough for me to care. Perhaps one day, when my life is sorted, I will care. I have karma to burn through first. I would have concern, but more because of the person rather than the blue jay, if someone tortures an animal, they're probably a psycho. Do you have concern when watching animals eat each other on nature documentaries? I just see it as a part of nature. Animal pain is part of nature and will always exist. Whereas human suffering is something that can be overcome. Another big part of why I don't really care is because I'm not doing the killing. I'm just buying something that's already dead.

Isn't suffering an illusion created by the ego? And since most animals aren't capable of conceptual thought how can they suffer? I acknowledge that they feel physical pain but that is different from suffering. Yeah this is true for me. Animals are outside my circle of concern (apart from the really intelligent ones).

I unburdened a few parts near my root chakra related to childhood trauma. When they unburdened, it created a buildup of energy in my lower body. I moved the energy up through my chakras into my crown and once it was there I pushed energy from my root chakra, through my spinal cord into the crown. This created an intense kundalini awakening experience. The only analogy I can make is a lightning bolt in slow motion. My entire energetic body lit up and I felt insane amounts of energy course through my body. I have no yoga experience at all and yet I was able to reach kundalini awakening in a few months. I'm convinced IFS is actually a secret form of yoga.

I agree. virgin shaming is pretty problematic

chakras and kundalini are very useful for meditation.

Try opening your heart chakra

Most relationships are 2 needy people... And most relationships crash and burn

yeah it's really not a good look for him.

I woke up with feelings of despair and hopelessness. Instead of fighting it, I allowed it to express itself and it transmuted into inner space.

I managed to unburden a part that was blocking sexual energy in my sacral chakra. When it happened, sexual energy flowed through my body and I had a full body orgasm. It was like every part of my body was as sensitive as my penis and the slightest touch would make my entire body contract and create waves of pleasure. It was way more intense than any orgasm I've had. 10/10 would recommend.

oof 39% hostile and 21% benevolent. To be fair I answered as brutally as I see myself agreeing with.

Music plays a key role in my IFS practice and I don't see it talked about in conventional circles. Music is an easy way to connect with parts, especially exiles. For example, listening to heavy metal music allowed me to connect to exiled parts that held my anger and rage. The music allowed me to understand where the parts were coming from and allowed my to form a better relationship with my exile. Interestingly, once I had unburdened my angry parts, I no longer had any desire to listen to heavy metal music. This has led me to believe that people subconsciously are drawn to music that resonates with their exiled parts as a subconscious way of understanding them. People that listen to angry music do so because their repressed anger wants to be understood and expressed. And its the same for every emotion. Here's some music that helped me connect to my exiles:

I'm working on parts that hold other peoples disapproval. The root of social anxiety and people pleasing. This part equates peoples disapproval of me to physical pain. This is the part that physically hurts every time I think of an embarrassing moment. By making peace with it, the embarrassing moments and social anxiety by extension no longer have any charge to them. I haven't exactly become ultra confident but I'm much less a prisoner of other peoples opinions.

A part of me definitely is but it's not my primary motivation. Then again, my entire self improvement and inner work journey started because I wanted to be more confident around girls...

I really should be doing ifs but I keep procrastinating. ffs

yeah Daniel Schmachtenberger is built different

He's able to communicate such high level concepts in a simple and playful manner. He has an intuitive understanding of eastern philosophy better than most eastern philosophers. You can tell just by the way he speaks that what he is trying to get across is more than just concepts.

Bernardo Kastrup For his ability to challenge materialism with rational arguments. Anyone can say materialism is bullshit but very few can debate professional philosophers and successfully defend their arguments against critics like Kastrup. Dude defended idealism in front of a panel of materialist philosophers to get his PHD.

I was going to say Alan Watts as well!

As someone who is quite good at math, its not as difficult as you might think. In most subjects, memorisation and practice is sufficient to learn but that isn't the case for maths. Focus on understanding the underlying abstract concepts rather than trying to memorise things.

unless you work in any STEM field... Then they probably do care

Yet another ego backlash. oof.