Both. You should feel subtle weekly gradual effects and eventually some bigger breakthroughs. The gradual effects can really add up. Which is the whole point. I am more interested in Kriya for the gradual effects than the breakthroughs. I can easily create breakthroughs via psychedelics, but they don't stick so well. Which is why Kriya is important.
To me those are optional. Talabya is probably quite good, but takes a lot of training to achieve. I recommend you don't bother with it until your core routine is solid.
Gamana
I combine everything into one routine. Ideally you'd do this routine twice per day but right now I'm only managing once per day.
Not now. Build your core routine and do it for a few years. Then you can revisit that question. You're not supposed to do those routines until you have 3-5 years of solid practice.

@Waves There is no way to formulate that balance. It will be unique for each person, and it will even change for the same person over time.
You must experiment and see what works best for you.
You can certainly maintain a 1hr daily meditation practice or Kriya yoga practice while you do pickup or dating. That's the minimum I'd recommend.
Generally speaking you should set an overarching goal/plan for your year. What is the biggest thing you'll be focusing on this year? Attraction? Enlightenment? Business? Improving self esteem? Better nutrition? etc.
Don't try to do it all at once. Space things out. You'll be amazed how much stuff you can do in 5-10 years if you focus.

@Svartsaft To get serious benefits from meditation it's very important to start doing it strictly. It's too easy to turn meditation into just daydreaming. That is not proper meditation and so it doesn't produce benefits.
So you need to find a formal technique and stick to it rigorously.
Or try something like Kriya Yoga. It's more powerful than regular meditation and you can feel the benefits pretty fast, within weeks/months.
Either way though, you gotta make your technique more strict. This work requires serious self-discipline. That's why it's difficult and most people don't do it.

There are many ways to reach Absolute Love. Psychedelics are not required. But they sure make it easy.
I reject the notion that consciousness has to be "earned". You are God! You don't have to "earn" anything to know yourself as God.
Of course it's not a magic pill. You still need to do lots of other work on yourself.
I have not gotten deep enough into Kriya yoga to see what kind of awakening it produces.
I trust they can be powerful awakenings. I think Kriya is very powerful.
Of course, that is omniscience. God is all-knowing but in a far more radical way than human knowledge.
Knowing and Being are one. God knows everything by being everything.

Your mistake is sitting there thinking about all this with your mind.
Instead, you must do the practices.
All your rationalizing is just a waste of time. You will never figure it out that way.
If you want to get somewhere, go do psychedelics, or Kriya yoga, or mindfulness meditation. Do it seriously and rigorously, like it's the most important pursuit in your life, more important than money, sex, entertainment, or comfort.
You cannot understand the things I teach without doing serious practices. It's just that simple.
Do, or do not. Speculation and theorizing will get you nowhere.
Common sense should tell you that there must be a heavy, heavy cost to awakening, otherwise everyone would be awake.

Don't overdo Kriya. That can be dangerous and counter-productive. 2hrs is plenty.
3hrs per day would be for someone who's already done it for years and is very advanced.

Naturals are better than PUAs. I know this first hand. I have professional PUA coach friends and one natural friend. The natural friend is way better.
One time I was talking about getting in state and he asked me, "What's state?" I explained it to him and he said, "Oh. I'm in state as soon as I get in my car." I said, You fucker!
You cannot beat a natural. That's because he is genetically wired for extreme extroversion. No introvert can be that good. These kind of extroverts are also usually quite good-looking. So they got all the cards stacked in their favor. It is a perfect storm of pussy magnetism.
Gaming with my natural friend is so fun. It's incredible. It's just like a party around him. And he knows nothing about pickup theory. It's all just intuitive. He could sell satanism to a nun.
But then he struggles in other areas of life. So it's all trade-offs. Extroverts got plenty of other problems.

@kieranperez Sometimes you can't immediately get what you want, but must hatch a longer term plan.
For example, why can't you teach yourself some valuable skills, like web programming, move out on your own to a cheap state like Nevada or Texas and work for a few years to build up a nest egg?
Then you can go monk.
If you recall, Om Swami worked his ass off for 10 years in business before he went full monk.
You sound very young, so you got plenty of time to do both.
You also don't need to go full monk to pursue enlightenment. With Kriya yoga and psychedelics you can make enormous progress quickly while still working a regular job.
By the time you are done building up your nest egg you could already be half-enlightened.

This product is fairly priced. It is about 300-400 dollar. But if you really want to get to the core just buy the book the charisma myth and human magnet syndrome. You will be off a lot cheaper. 
Julien is usually all over the place. I don’t like his teaching style.  That is my personal opinion.
He also has some book reviews on his channel. If you are smart just read the books he is reading and you won’t have to buy is programs. 

HVC is amazing, I have it, it’s probably the best most advanced, concise, holistic and integrated product on Social Skills, and Communication coming from authenticity and a higher paradigm perspective.
I’ll say it’s foundational to Social Skills, Charisma, and developing/expressing your authenticity personality as a whole.

Learn all other Game stuff, after you’ve watched and put this course into action. It’s the solid foundation you need to learn the rest and not get lost or trapped in toxicity and sociopathy.
HVC won’t go into specific with dealing with women and being sexual.
 
If you aren’t actively going out, taking action, making observations, writing down and analyzing your reference experience, as well as some inner work. The course is useless just an any other information you don’t implement.

Good! You guys should be doubting more and reasoning for yourselves.

It permanently quiets the monkey mind. But very subtly, very slowly.
It raise baseline consciousness, but very subtly, very slowly.

Good.
A visionary is one who has a creative mind and sees strong visions of how things ought to be done, what things ought to be created.
If a visionary is writing a novel, he has a strong sense of what kind of novel to write, what values it should embody, what themes it have. A visionary knows what is right, knows what he wants, sees a btter way to do things.
A visionary says, "No, we must do things this way, not that way. Follow me, I know how to do this right."

My explanation of it is pretty simple. In order to be human you must reside within a very narrow and low state of consciousness. This is true even if you are a fully enlightenment Buddha. Your consciousnes is still less 1% of what is possible. And that is simply because that's what it means to be human. The highest levels of consciousness are so alien and non-human that a human can barely remember or think about them, nevermind access them at will, nevermind making such changes permenent. What the human can make permament is very very little. Which is why enlightenment teachers poo-poo the whole idea of "chasing states". They tell you not to do it because a human can't sustain them. That's what "human" IS. Human means being pretty much in the state you're currently in. But what a human can sustain is something like deep surrender and emptiness. Which is what they call enlightenment. And this has it's benefits for humans, but as far as consciousness goes it's still weak.
So it's sort of a sad situation because most of consciousness remains inacceesible and unsustainable for humans. Merely by the fact of being human. I guess after death that will change. Which is the point of death. Death finally frees you to explore higher domains because you are no longer attached to the human experience scheme.

This will vary wildly per individual.
Don't look to others for the answer, feel into yourself. Your body/mind will tell you exactly how much rest you need. If you just become attuned to yourself.
You need to listen to your body rather than trying to impose expectations on it.

Most humans need 8 hrs.
That 4-6 hrs stuff is nonsense unless you are a genetic freak.
Your body tells you exactly how much you need. There is no cheating that.
If you do not get enough sleep you are literally giving yourself brain damage.
If you do hardcore meditation or kriya yoga you can reduce the number in a healthy way, but you will be doing hours of yoga per day, so you can't use that for work.

@r0ckyreed The main advice is:
Don't hesitate, just move. Visit the towns you plan to move to and explore them by car before you decide to move there. You need direct experience of the place, not just mental images. This will save you many mistakes. DO NOT rent a place unless you inspect it in person first. Even if this costs you extra it's worth it.

The key is not to think about states or cities, but to find specific neighborhoods. You need to look for awesome neighborhoods. State/city is not precise enough. What matters is the neighborhood where you will live, not the state or city as a whole, because you don't care about that.
For example, the LA metroplex has many shitty and many awesome places, and it's like that with most metroplexes.

Speaking of which, I had a corporate asshole today email me, asking to promote my work.
If I was foolish or thirsty for fame, I would have replied. And thereby sold my soul to the devil.
I get at least 1 such email per week.
Kanye is so rich he can just retire in the mountains, record his music, and sell it on his personal site. Not answer a single email. No one would bother him and he would still make millions. But he is too narcissistic and greedy for that. He wants all the fame and more money.

Women sleep with whoever is convenient. Just being near women is enough to get laid.
90% of game is just being near women consistently. The rest is minutia.
Notice that guys who whine about not getting laid are not around women consistently. They whine but are never around to fuck. She is not going to hunt you down to fuck.
Attractive means all factors factored in.

All my pranayamas are the same. I visualize the prana flowing up the spine from chakra 1 to very tip top of the head, and then back down.
I forget is that's KP1, KP2, or KP3.
Ideally you'd sit and concentrate. I'm often short on time so I just get on with life. To me, the value is in the physical rewiring effects of the pranayama. If I had more time I would concentrate more. Do nothing is also viable in my opinion.

That is literally how meditation must be done. Forced.
It won't happen otherwise. The mind is too lazy and too sneaky for such things to happen "naturally".

My ticket:

Values are where it really counts.
Imagine you value health and spirituality and truth but your girlfriend values socializing, drinking, and material pursuits like luxury vacations. That is not going to work.
No matter how conscious you are, you still have values you wish to live by. In fact, the more conscious you are the less you are willing to compromise on core values like health, consciousness, truth, honesty, peace of mind, etc.
The less corrupt you are the less compatible you are with corrupt people. And most people are corrupt.
There is also incompatibility in terms of life goals, personality types and sex drive. Life goals is stuff like wanting kids vs not. Personality type is like introvert vs extrovert. Sex drive can vary a lot.

Just look at the picture and find those spots on your body with your fingers at first, and then visualize them in your mind's eye and feel them through your body. There will be nothing there to feel per se. You're just going to imagine it for now. Ballpark it. Don't be a perfectionist.
This is weak-sauce. Get to the fucking pranayamas and do at least 24 of them per day.
Steven's routines are far too spaced out. Do them faster. It doesn't takes 4 months to learn how to do pranayama. You can learn it in a few days.
Do not over-complicate this.
My routine is the same as I last posted.
I do 3 sets of Mahamudra, 3 sets of pranayama (36 total pranayama), and 3 breaths of fire. This takes me about 1h 20m
Keep it this simple. Don't over-complicate things. Over time just increase the potency with which you feel and visualize the pranayamas. They are the key to this whole thing. So do them with real intent and feeling. Each breath upwards should feel like it's filling your skull with enlightenment. Suck that prana up your spine and into your skull like it's an actual fluid in your body.