Annoynymous

This topic kinda made me emotional and nostalgic. I was raised as a muslim. My school was kind of madrasa (A place where religious education given in details apart from regular studies). There my teachers used to teach me how to read quran in arabic although i don't know the language, only knew how to read it. They were very strict about it and used to give punishments if i fail. It was like a torture to me. In teenage, i took an interest on reading quran in my mother language, Bangla. I did it because i was interested to know what was written there. But again i fell into a trap of taking the book literally and began to believe those things written. I became rigid, fearful of sins and going to hell, guilty of doing sins and repressing my emotions until i jailbreak the paradigm. That is another story. Even if then, while reading quran somehow i felt that this is not just it, there is more to it and something is wrong about how i was taught to view quran. I think the quran has its metaphorical value. But it will become a trap if one takes it literally. For me, i would like to read quran again from this new perspective that i have but i don't know when. Because those years of emotional torture haunts me till the day and i want to heal myself properly. But whenever i remember about it, i am like 'man it was hell of a journey!'

Well it was a white pill. Whatever, i am not going to take it again!

@Baotrader It tasted like nothing. It was just a pill. Btw which country do you live in? In my country, Armodafinil can be found in 150/250 mg. Not 300

@Leo Gura can this happen for pharmaceutical company? Maybe they have corrupted it. At the beginning i felt a shift of my consciousness. Bt it drained gradually taking pills.

Can sufferings be tool for self actualization? If it is so, then how? Currently i am suffering a lot due to my imbalanced personal life. I feel i am broken and lost the way of life. Can i use this situation to break through from it and lift myself up through self actualization?

Thank you for your advise. What you are today? And what were you before the pain?

@Leo Gura Do you think it is necessary to judge people for survival issue? Or our ego tricks us to think like that?

At this point of my life, going with the flow seems the hardest thing to do. I am confused, depressed, frustrate, fearful and clueless. Feeling like walking in darkness. I don't know what to do, what to desire and where am i going in life. Feeling terrible!

I have heard it before, but not clear how it works. Can you provide me an example?

Now a days I am very depressed and anxious about the current society in which I live. I feel like it is in many ways, obstructing me to do works that needed to be done for self Actualization. My question is, is it necessary to live in a society that is more easygoing in order to do self Actualization work? Or is it just my ego/mind showing excuses and therefore society doesn't matter for doing these work?

@Equanimitize Thank you for sharing your story. What do you think, at the very end, it becomes necessary to quit the environment that is toxic and demoralizing? Or one can be within and make a peace with it?

Can you further tell your experience? It seems interesting.

@Leo Gura I have seen lot of your videos but didn't hear this thing about conscious and subconscious mind as they are mostly told in popular psychology. One common notion is that 90-95% of our activity is controlled by our subconscious mind of mostly which we are not aware of. What do you have to say about this topic?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts

I don't have much detailed idea about it. I have only seen some videos and did some web searches about sub conscious. Well what I have known from that is that subconscious is way more powerful than our conscious mind. I almost controls much of our activities. But we are mostly unaware of it and about how powerful it is. Also heard subconscious mind can be reprogrammed through daily affirmation to ourselves.

V for Vendetta maybe a yellow type movie. Specially the main character 'V' and its activities can be regarded as yellow thinking and systematic action.

-What is desire - How desire works - Upside and downside - how to handle desire in a healthy way

+1

As far as i know, psychedelics are banned in most of the western countries. So how do you do it?

@TripleNipple in my country, its hard to find psychedelics.

Dhaka, Bangladesh

@Leo Gura I posted the thread 'French Revolution and Spiral Dynamics'. Today I see you locked that post. Can you state the reason why? I assumed that maybe lot of people there were just philosophizing and this is not the purpose. But even then, I want to know the reason from you for my own clarification. Thank you.

I am a student of International Relations and quite interested to Study about History of civilization and politics. Suddenly a question popped out in my mind. What do you think of French Revolution according to spiral dynamics? The nature of the event resonates with which stage most?

Well leo said that no stage can be skipped to go further. So we have to be at orange first. Otherwise they won't resonate with green value.

Well yeah. You have got it correctly. Country is now evolving towards orange in terms of economics. Big corporations are coming. For example, UBER came almost 2 years ago and conducting their business. Local companies are also emerging. India is a very big country with large population. We are much smaller country in terms of size but we have almost 180 million population. Its true that country is evolving to orange but it will take more time to fully evolve as a whole. Still blue value runs high with some red features. Politics here is mostly dominated by blue. Much of local politics are conducted by red values. Democracy is weak. Most of the people (almost 90%) are muslim. Not all of them are fundamentalists, many of them are moderate muslims but still, Religious fanatics are visible. Religious values can influence politics here. Civil society is vocal but they are not 100% free from corruption. You can find some green in civil society although. But they are less in numbers.