SeaMonster

Small mind, little comprehension. Maybe you like concrete examples. https://abc7.com/dana-point-bicyclist-crash-car/12762803/ "When they ran outside, she said, they heard the suspect uttering racial slurs about "white privilege."" That's pretty much where modern progressivism leads. A fucking accountant in a Lexus, not some nutjob on the way to jail.

There's nothing inherently "progressive" about modern leftist dogma (such as intersectionality) which is a regression to tribalism and group identity. It's authoritarian, collectivist, triumphalist and really, based in romantic irrationalism. There is nothing resembling "progress" in such dogma by any metric a reasonable person would recognize.

Let me share my highly un-PC and insensitive model of anxiety. I used to have anxiety disorder before I made changes in my life, so this is from personal self-discovery (including psychedelics.) Anxiety is what babies have when mommy isn't responding or daddy is absent. It's a response of "shit, I've been abandoned." It's basically "the world is a threatening place AND I'm helpless to deal with it." The problem is that second part: I'm HELPLESS to deal with it. I depend on others to an unhealthy extent. This is a normal response if you're an infant. If you're an adult, it means you have to rectify the feelings of helplessness in dealing with the world. Maybe it's by acquiring more skills, more self-reliance, by shoring up your weaknesses or intentionally facing your fears. Maybe it's as simple as cooking for yourself or doing regular physical exercise. The point is, if you think meditation is a panacea, you're going to be disappointed. It's just a tool to get you to the place where you're ready to make positive changes in your life. So you may as well think about what that needs to look like now.

It's not enough by itself. It may be useful to become calmer, to get insight, etc., but ultimately you have to make changes in your life and I don't know what those would have to be because I don't know what your life is like and what's causing you to experience anxiety.

Honestly, take some of that money and travel and gain more of that experience.

Being enlightened doesn't mean being emotionally dead or detached, neither does it mean being a doormat. People have all the confusing examples from history, like Jesus or Gandhi. It's none of that shit. In fact, you may become more self-assertive in a healthy way after being enlightened. If someone's attacking you, you stand up for yourself. You can do this before or after enlightenment.

Why? Are Asian or African or female spiritual leaders somehow communicating a different message about the nature of reality? Cause I haven't noticed a difference.

Unless this has happened to you, don't worry about it. They're probably doing it so badly and reading social cues so poorly that they are generating an overreaction from the girls.

And there is a lot to be said for that, but let's distinguish between the philosophy of hedonism (and how it translates in modern terms) and integrating your base instincts, because the two aren't necessarily one and the same. I mean, do you have a "base instinct" to watch porn or to have sex? Arguably the first falls into the modern hedonism territory. The first is easy, on-demand, short term pleasure, long term psychological harm. The second may require considerable struggle or overcoming for people with certain psychological issues or hang-ups. Getting off to porn isn't really an adventure for an ubermensch.

Occasionally you have SOME people who will do a psychedelic and will permanently break through to some first stage of enlightenment, but this is relatively rare, and full enlightenment is virtually impossible. Here are the problems with psychedelics and enlightenment: - If you suffer from narcissistic personality disorder, you are almost certain to experience full blown (Jungian) inflation, i.e. your ego is absorbed by the archetype of the divine (i.e. Cosmic Ego.) This is most of your cult leaders, certain rock stars (like Jim Morrison e.g.), even some philosophers. - If you suffer from antisocial personality disorder, you may read the Bhagavad Gita literally and conclude since there is "no doer" you may kill people -- like Charles Manson. - Confusing having an experience of nonduality or some mystical insight with actually living in a nondual state 24/7/365. Since the surrender required for any genuine enlightenment cannot be forced by psychedelics (there is always an element of voluntary surrender, or braving the fear of ego death even with psychedelic trips) most people return to an egoic state most of the time. - Again, the very psychology of psychedelic enlightenment is highly misguided. It removes agency, like psychedelics are ACTING UPON YOU to cause enlightenment. This isn't how it works, and e.g. why some people who do psychedelics discount the experience in materialistic terms and return to be e.g. atheist materialists. In other words, you have to VOLUNTARiLY surrender the ego and all its precious attachments, including cherished beliefs and enter an entirely uncharted territory where you are unmoored from everything that defined the old "you". This isn't something that can be FORCED upon you via a chemical rearrangement of the brain. Once you come-down you may decide to interpret the experience in whatever way you choose, and some choose the blue pill a la The Matrix.

There are other conditions that share many of the same symptoms, e.g. schizoid personality disorder or even simply having social anxiety. Autism is a highly trendy self-diagnosis these days. Genuinely autistic people have a REALLY hard time socially adjusting; they are very different not just because they are shy or anxious or isolated, but because there are real differences in wiring and deficit in processing social situations. Just off your posts, you don't strike me as necessarily autistic, especially since you're self-aware in how you deploy rudeness, e.g.

If solipsism is true, Britney Spears is a figment of your imagination.

The word for solipsism that's not the Wikipedia definition of solipsism is not solipsism: it's nonduality or its other variations. Solipsism is inherently egocentric.

A lot of people have unrealistic expectations about enlightenment. Enlightenment is just an opportunity. The major obstacle on the road to becoming whole is removed, but you still have to travel down that road. So yes, it is in a sense a new beginning, not an end or destination or arrival.

Because it's a form of self-delusion and it doesn't work. You can't simply enjoy a life premised on perpetuating a lie.

It is not an option to not suffer. Everyone suffers; some people wind up more resilient, compassionate, and wise for it, others become bitter, feel cheated and become envious of those whom they perceive as not suffering or suffering less. The difference is ENTITLEMENT. If you feel entitled not to suffer, you're more likely to wind up in the second group.

Yeah, his take ignores basic human psychology. Humans require contrast; infinite pleasure cannot be maintained anyway because the perception of pleasure and pain depends on experiencing contrast. Even if you're enlightened, you experience the same contrast, it's just its no longer the case that there is unnecessary suffering due to belief in a false self. It's too simplistic to think that if extreme pain is synonymous with evil, that infinite pleasure is synonymous with good. Stable extremes are both a problem. When you have to tell this to everyone who disagrees with you, you might be the one in too much pain to face the truth.

Like he did to the psychotherapist in the video?

The only way to get better is to face and accept the truth of one's own behaviors -- without harsh self-judgment (i.e. by understanding that all behaviors have a cause.) There is nothing wrong with seeing selfishness or manipulative behavior in oneself if you remove moral self-condemnation from the equation and focus on the ROOT CAUSES of the behavior. The problem is reacting defensively to things that need to be contemplated objectively. Also, looking for an ideal therapist is counterproductive because it plays into the BPD idealization/rejection dynamic, so it's not particularly helpful advice. I think you're overreacting to an informational video as if it's the same situation as a one-on-one therapy session.

"Your own field of consciousness" is an idea created by the intellect. That I have to point this out on a supposed spirituality forum is rather pathetic (i.e. you all fail.) That's kind of Spirituality 101 (that the I-thought, i.e. "my", is illusory.)

Literally no-one who believes solipsism is true ACTS as if it were true, including you, Leo. From this one can conclude either that (1) it isn't true or (2) it is true but virtually irrelevant as far as having any impact on human existence, since human beings are incapable of living this truth. So the natural conclusion is that it's just a mindfuck people like you use to mess with people - there is no other discernable purpose to promulgating it.

So by that logic, since Leo recognizes Tate as a sociopath, Leo is a sociopath? Well played, genius. Levels of testosterone, maybe. Tate may be a pimp with higher testosterone than Leo, so naturally he's made a lot more dough off it. I do agree that narcissists can have various levels of testosterone.

The most hilarious part of this forum is posters pretending that Leo is not a narcissist himself. That's how deep the cult programming is here.

There is nothing more valuable than having strong emotions which one diagnoses as dissatisfaction with oneself. I'm serious: that's the first step towards personal growth and even enlightenment. You should be very encouraged. Except the goal is not to be "good" but to be "whole." Self-acceptance comes only after the ENTIRE SELF is revealed. Right now there are parts that are buried or undeveloped.

Complete and utter denial, bro, but whatever, it's your life. Post this kind of crap anywhere else besides this forum where such shit is enabled and people would laugh at you and rightly so. There is kind of dark explanation for Leo's popularity, it seems. He's a Copium dealer for people who don't want to deal with reality.