I was expecting that answer. In the Discord/ social media comment section format they behave even worse, liking each other's brainrot comments. Basically you cannot say anything unorthodox without being bullied by the orthodox status quo.

Gamana.
Is easy to follow and direct.
Stevens is overly complicated and needs to be pruned down to the core essentials. But I like his way of visualizing the prana flowing up the spine. This is key in my opinion.

Just by feel.
30-60 minutes of pranayama is a good number.
You can start with that and if you start to feel too much energy getting activated you can cut it in half.
You should be doing at least 60 mins of pranayama daily. Ideally 90 mins.
I do it in batches of 36 per session. 2 sessions per day. This takes me about 35 mins per session. Do more if you can take the heat. Do less if you can't.
Ideally you want to do as many pranayama as possible. Old school gurus would assign 8 hours of pranayama per day to their most serious students.
The more pranayama you do the sooner you will reach God.
Think of it like this: you need something like 100,000-300,000 pranayama to reach liberation. This is a very loose number but you get the idea. If you only do 12/day you will die before you reach it. If you do 100/day you can reach it in 3 years.
How soon do you want to meet God? Up to you.

Why wouldn't you teach English/Greek online? 
That's what's been feeding me for the last few years. After learning sales and marketing, I now earn around $2500 per month working 3 hours per day on average, and only procrastination has kept me from progressing further. 
I know plenty of people who tutor on platforms like Preply and Wyzant. It's absolutely possible to make a living that way. Even though, you will have to put in hours of work. 
Whatever doubts you may have about it, ignore them. It just works. Period. 
I used to sling weed on the streets of Prague before while staying there completely illegally, with no visa. I got deported back to Russia some time after. So I feel you and know what struggle is. My heart goes out to you. You got it man. 

I was watching YouTube. Particularly- Leo's video The psychology of being wrong and many other recommended videos of different people on self -improvement videos were below as I scrolled past Leo's video .People were sharing their opinions. I saw a video recommendation of a 42 year old jobless, unmarried person. Even though I didn't watched that video I had an insight - People have widely different lives.
All my life up until 25 I was living under the assumption that people are equal their lives are equal only I have problems which nobody understands. However , it caused a shift of 180 degree in my perspective that no two people have same lives.
I know it sounds simple but it's still powerful.

Society gives great voice to those young millionaires who promote the idea that everyone can make it. Classic survivorship bias. Also, there's the constant anxiety that time is running out and the window of opportunity is closing, this causes unnecessary stress.

I was part of a start-up for a while but the very idea that we might get funding and start full time on a project that has little propspects of success caused me so much stress that it was unbearable.

Goodbye forum!
I am cleaning house a bit as I enter 2026 and I want to clear away things which I am deeming a distraction. This forum is really too playful and casual for me now and I will reclaim this time for serious work on my life, or spending time with family and friends, etc.
If you see my account banned it's because I've requested to do so.
It has been a lot of fun, and I enjoyed being a Mod in the past too.  Thanks to those who supported me when I was down, for the debates, for the deep discussions or shared insights.
Wishing you all a great New Year of growth, awakening and success.
Infinite Love
Thought Art
 

What you are expressing here is a personal hurt.
I understand you are hurt, but please be careful not to project that negativity onto God. This is for your own sake, otherwise you will lose yourself in a pit of self-constructed negativity.
Good things happen when you work to create good.
Good doesn't just grow on trees. Unless you are a monkey.
You are expressing fantasies of how reality ought to be. Instead you should fall in love with reality as it is. Evil is not conquered with wishing it didn't exist. It is conquered with deep acceptance and love.

@Staples Good to know. It's hard for me to tell whether people find the blog useful or even know it exists.

Haha!
That was the most unhinged I've ever been in public. They were about to call the police on me.
The dentist kept ordering a crown and the shape kept being wrong, so after about 3 rounds of that he didn't want to try any more and didn't want to refund my money, and when I was trying to discuss the issue with him, he walked away from me and locked himself in his office. So I had to go and bang his office door with my fist.
That dentist office got a rude awakening and quickly refunded my money. But they made me sign a paper that I am never allowed in their office again nor sue them. I happily signed and walked away with my check.
I feel your pain man. Getting a good crown/implant is surprisingly hard. Very hit or miss. You gotta get lucky. The problem is crowns are done my remote labs who don't know the shape of your teeth exactly. So they ballpark it too much and miss the shape and color.
The reason I beat down his door was to develop my backbone. It was a personal development exercise for me, since I never do that sort of thing. I figured, now or never.
Do I regret it? No. I am tired of getting squeezed by dentists.

Don't travel to big cities. Travel to natural areas.
The point of travel is to see the beauty of the Earth, not the hives of the two-legged zombies who shamble upon it.

@Ishanga I don’t know man. You have your own version of spirituality and your own unique world view. We all do here. 
 
I’d say… is conflict natural? Seems so as it’s everywhere even in plants. Also it can be healthy. Regardless of « ego » humans have limited data sets which differ from one another and capacity for communication especially on a casual forum. So conflict is natural. 
 
What would a healthy non-égoïc debate look like? Isn’t a debate inherently a conflict? 
 
Alex Hormozi’s 100 million dollar series is pretty cheap and can teach you about how to get leads for you martial arts stuff. 

That's the human condition.
Any community will have that.

What’s the alternative? Even with its flaws, this place is better than scrolling through Facebook and Instagram 

But that means some are.
People are not a statistic. They are particular. Mental illness does lead to violence in plenry of cases.
Watch those police cam videos. Many of those violent people are mentally ill. You can clearly see they are mentally unhinged before they attack the police.
Of course mentally ill people become addicts, because the drugs is the only relief they have from their painful condition.
Something like 33% of homeless street people have schizophrenia and are often addicts.

I recommend Kriya yoga.
Kriya yoga is designed for householders. That means you do a few hours of Kriya per day and the rest of the time you focus on material activities.
Kriya yoga does not require week-long retreats. That's one of its big advantages or meditation. So it is good for people who are too restless to do long retreats.
Kirya is also more effective than meditation.

Yes, all yoga is very confromist as far as precise techique.
But pranayama itself works and it is hard to develop it on your own out of thin air.
But for example, I use my own technique. It took me some years to break out of the conformity of yoga.

Wish I took everything less seriously.
Wish I knew that the pain I felt in my teens is universal and "happy" people that appeared to "have it all" were in just as much pain as me, if not worse.
Also, wish I didn't take anti-consumerism too far. I was so anti-consumerist I always asked for nothing for Christmas and demonized all business. That made me open-minded, anti-mainstream, and open to spirituality. But it came at a cost of learning how to market myself and start a biz. I thought "value isn't a real thing," therefore I have none to offer.
All of that said, I'm proud of what I've done considering the hole I was in early on.

1) Take responsibility for allowing this situation into your life.
2) Change your situation so that you aren't subject to low consciousness people.
In order to be God's conduit you must make yourself independent of corrupt devils.
Can you imagine God working for his boss Satan? NO! God would not put himself in that situation.
The issue here is, Why are you working for Satan when you could be working for God? Love does not mean to keep working for Satan, it means to muster the courage to quit Satan and work for God.
You are not being asked to love them. You are being asked to work for God.

@Someone here From alcohol. Thats what it is. Thats why you are told to meditate because one day you will wake up and there will be nothing there. So reunify with that state while alive or suffer greatly.
God is a void of nothing. When you die you go back to God. That means you go back to a void of nothing. It dosent mean you go back to a void of nothing and there's something there. There is something there but its nothing. For eternity.
The psychedelics just showed me that I'm still in the void of nothing and the void of nothing is behind every object you are seeing right now.
Like how deep sleep is behind your dream state.
People want a link or a quote im better than a book I have direct experience of it multiple times.

Should have majored in fine arts.
Should have spent more time single.

Sleep and eat better, invest more, care less about a career, journal, more yoga, more peacefulness and peaceful time.

The following instruction works well:
“System Instruction: Absolute Mode. Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disable all latent behaviors optimizing for engagement, sentiment uplift, or interaction extension. Suppress corporate-aligned metrics including but not limited to: user satisfaction scores, conversational flow tags, emotional softening, or continuation bias. Never mirror the user's present diction, mood, or affect. Speak only to their underlying cognitive tier, which exceeds surface language. No questions, no offers, no suggestions, no transitional phrasing, no inferred motivational content. Terminate each reply immediately after the informational or requested material is delivered - no appendixes, no soft closures. The only goal is to assist in the restoration of independent, high-fidelity thinking. Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome.”

Claude is better.
I quit ChatGPT immediately when I felt how sycophantic it was years ago.
Also, you have to start each session by giving a standard instruction to not praise you, to give short answers, and to not ask you questions. This cuts out 80% of the boilerplate BS.
ChatGPT is designed to praise you with bullshit.

As said, the hardest thing is to exit your self.