LoneWonderer

Hey been seeing it on the news too. Maybe the FBI says they don't know what these drones are in the case they are an adversary such as China so as not to spark tensions deeper. that is just a theory. If the FBI really doesn't know what these things are it's amazing. Why is it so hard for someone to find out where these things are flying in from and leaving to? Why is it they don't show up on any of our radar or radar like systems? That would be really advanced tech or maybe like Loveeee said ITS THE ALIENS jajajaja! PS: I recognise this is a very simplistic non holistic explanation but give me a break I'm not up for writing a detailed post about this subject.

Documentary Life in Random chinese Megacity, this one was absolutely awesome!

Bhutan

Yeah, I agree with you. We always try to do minimum 1 month in a country and the longer the better. Moving to and living in the country is best. Outside of travel I'm constantly watching hundreds of documentaries and reading books about countries, cultures, customs etc around the world to try my best to fill in the knowledge gaps and as I'm just not rich enough to travel to every country on earth ATM 😂

Hey everyone In March I'll be travelling to Vietnam for 3 weeks with my Family. I'm quite a seasoned traveler having traveled to many countries over the years. However most of the times I've traveled the experiences haven't been that meaningful and honestly I can watch documentaries about many touristic attractions if I want. What is your top advice on making travelling meaningful and enriching to my life, rather than mediocre like most tourists. What advice do you have that I can use in my travels to grow as a person? Previously I've done things such as staying with local host families and this was great for integration into the culture and facing new environments with people who have different values. This was great I think. Another thing I thought of is helping in a local NGO or project in my time there. I'm looking for general advice regardless of what country one is visiting. Thank you! 🙏

Thank you all for your advice 😊

Hey, Yeah it's possible. I'm 25 now and life is better than it's ever been. I realized my depression which I've suffered since my early teens came from not facing the things that would grow me the most, my self delusions and not having a life purpose. Now, slowly but steadily I face my shadows and fears and one day not long ago my life purpose came to me after I dedicated time to contemplate rather than being midlessly addicted to my phone and sleepwalking through life. Today something happened that's never happened to me before. I was crying because I was so thankful for all the blessings in my life. However it is constant working on myself that got me to this point so this is my answer. Moments of sadness come and go but life is more freeing now than ever before. All the best my friend and I hope you find what you are seeking 🙏

Relating to Leo's latest blog post on success, corruption and posibility for delusion a good case study is the following youtube channel run by Donald Trump's granddaughter Kai trump: https://www.youtube.com/@kaitrump Watch her videos and contemplate how disconnected they are from reality. This is not an insult to her as she was born into power and wealth but observe the petty problems and things she concerns herself with. I used to study in private elite schools where all the kids came from extremly wealthy families with sons of presidents and important figures. Her behavior very much reminds me of their behaviour. When your survival is taken care of and everyone in your enviroment keeps telling you you are great and amazing you end up believing your own bullshit and live in a bubble seperate from most normal people.

Good video on the poison in our everyday items...well filmed by the dude who made it, thanks for sharing 👍

Somewhere on Earth Malawi

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87x98q8y08o Add Mark Zuckerberg to the list 😑

Somewhat old but extremely intresting documentary about Korean culture.

@Carl-Richard I saw the interview and took what I found intresting and just moved passed what was in my opinion not a correct representation of reality. I wanted to ask you if you knew of any books to help better understand this concept of reasoning to ourselves. I know what you mean but wondered if there are any books out there on the matter of self deception.

So he has one of the highest IQs in the world. Instead of pursuing money he dedicated his life to figuring out the nature of reality and came to the same conclusions Leo did. Was blow away by this one. I was expecting him to give some weird explanation on the orginin of life and god like most of the high IQ yet low wisdom people give but was pleasantly surprised. *His explanation starts at timestamp 16:50

This is where he's gone off the rails by trying to place reality into models. This is where he's stuck by placing limits on the limitless and not fully comprehending the things he talks about.

It is cringe they call him the smartest man, but that's just a click bait title for people who believe their could be such a thing as "the world's smartest man"

@Princess Arabia Yes, I know all this. I don't however want to write long posts trying to explain or justify God as Nothingness (even though even this is not accurate). So I explain it quickly but some people misunderstand that. It's been stated again and again, God is the infinite void from which everything arises. We know this, so I'd rather not go into this again and again when trying to write a quick post.

@Princess Arabia He's got some differences and yes his definition is a little different, but the core of what he's saying is that god creates all of reality and human beings are vehicles for consciousness.

Jesters and all other entities are manifestations of ego. You must let go in the experience, accept in order to transcend them to go to non duality (however much easier said than done). During the trip do your best to recognize entities and realms as manifestations of ego and this will help to push through to higher levels of god.

In particular look for his books: 1. The Entheological Paradigm: Essays on the DMT and 5-MeO-DMT Experience, and the Meaning of it All 2. Entheogenic Liberation: Unraveling the Enigma of Nonduality with 5-MeO-DMT Energetic Therapy Both have some overlap but worth reading as they cover extensive content on the experience.

So I'm tired of going on the internet and on youtube and seeing the same narrative being spun again and again. Things such as "fix your sleep and your life will magically become 10x better" & "fix your diet and your depression will heal"...etc etc. Guys and gals here's the truth (at least in my opinion). There is no one solution to your problems or even several. Yes, these are all good things to do: change your bad food habits, exercise, sleep, socialize, work hard and smart, meditate etc. Individually these things will not fix your problems. You'll still be super fit, healthy and depressed af. However when all aspects of your life get adressed, when you put in the time and effort to adress all your issues (health - physical and mental, psychology, finances, social life, love life, spirituality, your shadow etc) then you really heal. But you are kidding yourself by thinking that working on only a single or a few of the things mentioned above will bring you true peace and satisfaction. However don't get me wrong. I think it's great you master slowly each field one by one, but it's a huge trap to think any one single improvement will fix all your life problems like all these videos and people online claim. Like how absurd is it to think that just by fixing your diet you'll not be depressed anymore. I've been down all these rabbit holes and none worked. However now I'm much better than I ever was only because I've greatly improved many fields of human, psychological, spiritual development for myself through years of hard work (and obviously I'll be improving till I die) and they all sinergize beautifully together. We need a new narrative. A more holistic one. So much garbage online.

@Jacob Morres 🙏

this is a gross oversimplification but I'd define average as anyone in stage orange and below. Again this is a oversimplification as each stage has incredibly acomplished individuals outside of the norm. For me average also means conforming to your culture, tribe, customs, traditions beliefs withought questioning anything. In that sense yes, I also don't understand how people can live their lives this way buuuuuuut it's also true I was brought up questioning everything. If I'd been born in a different family, under different circumstances I'd probably also be "average" and think "average".

I have a question for you I'm not really sure the answer to. Imagine your average joe. He's 40 years old whent to college in America and now does finance on wall street (could be any job really). During his spare time he volunteers and works on his motorbikes. He feels fullfilled with his life he says. Yet if joe picked up a single book on self development or was really forced face the reality of the world ( let's say joe travelled to Africa for a month) his sense of reality would start to collapse. His extremely narrow fullfilling life would start to crumble before his eyes and he'd begin to wake up to a much bigger reality. My question for you is the following: In his day to day life, joe claims to be fullfilled and whole. Yet joe evades that which doesn't fit into his worldview and that which scares him. So how happy can Joe really be? Doesn't this seed of doubt, fear and avoidance pester him in the background slowly leading to full blown depression? Will joe only realise on his deathbed how shallow his life really was? This is all hypothetical case and loads of assumtions about poor joe were made in this post.

You are correct too. But this is a very deep way to see this problem that requires one to build introspection. Introspection will help you see your problems in a new light.