Revolutionary Think

@K VIL I have a YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiz-7guC2P0Ggp1_0dvgemw?view_as=subscriber and a blog http://bakshandehariel.wixsite.com/website

Just thought I'd share something positive with all of you. When I was younger and my life was quite painful I used to get jealous of people who had parents that were married, were enjoying their lives, had more money, did extremely well in school, knew advanced topics, and who could go on awesome vacations. Now though I see it's all a state of mind jealousy and envy aren't useful emotions and they don't do anything to improve our lives. After I went on my trips to Australia, Japan, Israel, and New Zealand by myself I thought to myself that I shouldn't have been jealous of the people who have more abundance and are happy instead I should be making friends with them and learning from them. So when I went to the ISDC and met Jeff Bezos maybe I was a little envious that he never had to worry about money a day in is life but, when I got up to him and talked to him face to face it was like he was like at the end of the day we were just people having a conversation and all that other stuff is an illusion. I have a body he has a body and we're both living on this planet. He didn't think that I was just some peasant not worthy of having a conversation with him and in fact he started the conversation because I went up to him but, didn't know what to say at first. Then when I started mingling with all the rocket scientists and space enthusiasts despite not having a background in the hard sciences it just seemed like I belonged there anyway just because I had a passion for it. I felt like I was just as much a part of it with my Communications Degree from CSUN than someone who went to Harvard and had a degree in astrophysics. So I made my way to those awesome countries I always wanted to see and now I'm part of Mars Academy USA and I'm going to be a part of something with more doctors and scientists as a 3D printing officer and who knows what awesome things are in store for me in my future. It feels so liberating not to have to have any homework assignments from school in the back of my head and not be somewhere watching someone happy and coming from a place of abundance and me shaking my fists at that person saying I deserve all of this and that person doesn't because I know now there is plenty to go around. So if you are that jealous person I was in their teens or mid-twenties know that things always evolve and change and where you are now isn't where you are going to end up. Just send your signal out into the Universe and instead of being jealous and envious from the people who have success and are in a better place than you try to emulate them and befriend them it's a much better idea. Just imagine if in Germany instead of the people being stupid and hating the Jews they knew nothing about they made friends with them and learned from them instead. More people have that mindset of abundance and love the better place this planet (and even the universe) will be.

Who here loves what they do and what are the step by step action plans they took to get there. As in who here is doing a job they enjoy and getting paid a wage that either they can afford there expenses or they have exceeded what they need to pay their expenses.

@CreamCat I made #1 part of my life purpose to combat it.

@Leo Gura you and Bezos both have the same haircut. The funny thing is that I met Bezos at the ISDC and still haven't met you but, I have more correspondence with you. I have hope maybe I can introduce both of you to each other... you are each other lol

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I was wondering and it seems like a timely topic because I made a post about a vacation with my family and someone else is making a post about an upcoming vacation with their family. I want to know if most people who changed the world worked on self-actualization etc. had rifts with in their families. All I know about @Leo Gura's family are the things he's shared with us in previous episodes. His dad was looking for get rich quick schemes so from time to time they had money problems and that's where his hoarding money psychology problem came from. Then what I know about his mom is that he once tried to convince her to take psychedelics and she wouldn't because she thought it was nonsense and that she had a knack and talent for making art but, she didn't follow through with it as a life purpose. Then what I know about his brother is that he chose to get the video game at Toys R Us and that's when Leo saw it and was inspired to become a game developer. When I was younger (since I grew up with Disneyland and Hollywood I lived in Los Angeles so those things were very prominent) the movies brainwashed me into thinking that everything works out in the end. So somehow I always thought that one day people especially my family would get me and understand me in the end and I'd be accepted and honored for who I am and magically have this not obnoxious happy relationship with my family and I'd enjoy being around them in a genuine way. THAT DIDN'T COME TRUE. In fact as time went by in some cases it just got worse and worse and the rift between me and them just kept growing wider and wider. When I was past the age of 21 I saw less and less of them and things were not as obnoxious because they had less power over me and treated me more of an adult so they couldn't scold me for not being the first person to say hi to them anymore and yell at me when I was just daydreaming instead of starting a conversation with them. Not to mention there was already a war going on between my mother and father and the two sides of the family were constantly bad mouthing each other. Other than that I noticed I'm just different with my interests in general. They like gossiping about others, stick to their culture, are very stage orange in a materialistic sort of way, they like rowdiness and arguing with each other, and they seemed to have no interest in finding the Truth with a capital T. That makes me wonder that for Leo or for any of you other people on this forum if you feel the same way too? Like when you stumbled upon actualized.org and you found these videos about enlightenment and self-actualization were you excited to share it with your sister, brother, mom, dad, aunt, uncle etc. Did you show them and they didn't care, did you just forget about showing them any of it because you know that it would go way over their head, or did you show them and they actually did care and join you on a journey of self actualization (in that case I think you hit the jackpot)? That leaves me with Leo I'm wondering what kind of relationship he had with his family and extended family before self actualization like if he was always the quiet one and the rest of the family wanted to talk about petty things while he was just always curios as to why they would talk about those things (like I was). Also now that he has actualized.org and so many followers if his family is also following him and interested in what he is doing or is it that no matter what your career or business you are in or how much money you have you will always keep that position in your family no matter what. Like if you were always the scapegoat for your family and next thing you know you become a multi-millionare you will still be the scapegoat in your family. In another scenario if you were always the shy one in your family but, you somehow became a guru and influenced thousands of people when you come back to your family you are still that shy one. It's funny because I noticed in my family that I was always this non-threatening push over character in my family that would always accept my uncles abuse no matter what but, then when I pushed back against it my uncle didn't know what the hell to do and everyone in the family became uncomfortable and told me to calm down because it kind of pushed away from the dysfunctional dynamic of the family that they were used to. So anyway really curious to know all of this. This would be the best research for why skin color and race really doesn't matter and Eugenics is a load of bullshit because people in the same families can be so different and genes would have nothing to do with interests, personalities, IQs and Emotional Intelligence because people in the same family can be so different.

@ajasatya I understand for me the biggest injustice is trying to shove something down someone's throat and call it justice. If I have some I idea I think is amazing I must remember that it is I who thinks it's amazing. This purpose is for the people out there who felt like I did in the past I felt like I was suffocating when I was younger because I hardly had anywhere to turn to (except for maybe video games) and hardly anyone I could confide in (except my one best friend). Then as I grew older I tried to little by little force my philosophy on other people and hold anger and resentment against those who didn't get it so that was me building the Temple with those bricks that represented my failure I've already been through that and want nothing of it. I just offer people who feel like there is no where to turn to and who want something better what I think is a better way where they can take it or leave it. Although I think unless they tried it they can't really know I wont be the one to force them to try it either. That's where my beef with the current society comes from because when I was growing up it felt like a lifestyle I didn't like or have passion for was being shoved down my throat by people who thought that "they were doing the right thing) my family and my teachers/education system etc. and I felt so miserable. My philosophy for this justice is that people deserve to be happy because in the grand cosmic scale of things (or at least from what we know) people didn't exactly choose to be born. So this justice is about people finding their true path and not having anything shoved down their throats by family, school, society etc. I will speak power to that philosophy and see how it works out.

So after years of being angry at the "job market" for not getting what I deserve... I finally managed to get on the crew of Mars Academy USA mission 1115. How this journey started was at the National Space Societies (NSS) convention called the International Space Development Conference (ISDC) that I volunteered at about a month ago. So while I was there I over heard a conversation about 3D printing and I decided to get involved the lady there Susan said she was a part of something called Mars Academy and gave me her card and invited me to come see the 3D printers. So I emailed her a week after and didn't here back after two weeks after. Then even after her email back still nothing for another week or two. Until one day the Space Steering Committee which I am a part of had someone by the name of Bill on the telephone conference and he was in contact with Susan and Susan was supposed to talk to him. I found an alternate email Susan had used to get in touch with Bill I sent an email to that one. She responded and asked for a cover letter and resume. Turns out she was so blown away from the cover letter I had wrote (and mind you this cover letter was just a template for another job I had applied to) that she wanted me on the next analog Mars Mission in Vasquez Canyon Rocks. She told me that normally people have to pay a $1,300 participation fee but, she waived it especially for me and also they didn't exactly start people on these analog missions so fast but, they are fast tracking my internship process. Next thing I know after further correspondence with her and a Skype video interview she invites me to her house in the valley. We kind of get to know each other on a more intimate friendship level. Turns out we have a lot in common she talks about her past and I talk about my past. We both speak about how some elements of our families and societies found us a little weird and eccentric. She shares stories about her father and how her Hong Kong father fought along the side of the English against the Japanese. She brings out the 3D printer and we tinker around with it a little bit. Her son comes home it turns out that her son is an Engineer who loves video games science and technology just like I do. I keep Tinkering with the 3D printing software to get it to finally work and make something. She is impressed while the 3D printer is making something she brings a flightsuit for me to wear and takes my picture with it around the 3D printers and I make the live long and prosper sign from Star Trek. She also takes pictures of the things I've 3D printer and last but, not least I give her a demonstration of my 3D pen and she is impressed. She gives me both the 3D printers to take home and tells me she can email over some files I can work on before the mission starts. I say thank you we had a great time and I go home happy. So if I can get myself embedded with this program and among these people my years of wondering in the job hunting desert are over and I'll be one step closer to achieving my life purpose.

@ajasatya Thanks

@Lorcan Wrong Mars Academy. I think you stumbled upon the Mars Academy elementary school. This mars academy is Mars Academy USA it's Analog Astronaut training.

To inspire people to take action for justice by speaking. So being a public speaker that talks about what we can do to live in a better less miserable world.

Dan Pena Went to CSUN like I did wow that's crazy.

Thanks. Hopefully more to come after I come back from the Analog Mars mission.

Einstien also talks about how much he thought school was actually part of the problem https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/how-einstein-saw-the-world/

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@Emerald there are other ways of gaining that knowledge with out being forced. Like he said in the video before the state had total control of the schools there were schools but, they weren't connected to this out of touch mandatory nation wide curriculum that isn't serving many people.

Libertarians and their love for gun rights.

I was thinking about how from time to time a rant against employers on this forum. Then I remembered when I went to this exhibit called Not an Ostrich at the Annenburg https://www.annenbergphotospace.org/exhibits/not-an-ostrich/ it's about people across America who have a story to tell. I also got a free book as well with the same name of this post. When I was there I was listening to so many rich stories about random people across the country their struggles, triumphs, and everyday life. Well anyway my point is a lot of people can always tell a person what to do and what to think with out actually listening to them. They just hear a person and just take a time to formulate a response you see this a lot on reddit and YouTube comment fights. I think that since this is about self actualization I think it's better if we take the time to actually listen to people take the time to validate them and then and only then should we give the advice. A lot of people can just say stop doing this and stop doing that etc. yet, I think the people who actually make the difference are the ones that can say I feel your pain I've been there before and even if you haven't been there then at least say wow I can't imagine how that can feel must have made you feel ______ and then go into your advice and even then try not to go into judgement mode. We all have our stories and things that happened to us that were less than optimal. I think if we take more time to actually understand rather than to jump to conclusions and judge then we can really communicate better with each other and be more effective. Anyway this is the story I recorded at the Annenburg https://archive.storycorps.org/interviews/beating-the-odds/.

I'm 29 and I feel like I'm 70 in wisdom and I still feel physically like a teenager because I live with my mom. Age to me is just some made up number that really feels to me as if it's just floating out there.

@Psyche_92 You know some people look down on me for living with my mom at my age but, it's the best decision I made. Living with her means I don't have to concentrate on survival money BS. I'm happy that I don't have to worry about rent or bills I use that money to buy self-actualization stuff and invest it in my long term growth. That also means that I don't have to worry about being rejected for jobs or beg an employer to please take me in for some crappy minimum wage BS because I can't make next months payments on what have you. I also have the time to take this awesome unpaid internship in a field of work that I enjoy. So I don't let the low consciousness ways of thinking that other people think get in my way. I must admit my mom can get annoying sometimes but, all and all things have exponentially gotten better since she no longer lives in that dumb house in the middle of no where and we see the more obnoxious elements of my extended family less and less.

So anyway it was just supposed to be a 3 day fun trip in California from LA to SF and along the coast it turned out to be an insane disaster. So here's the story I was told by my mom that since my uncle passed away 1 year ago (he was the middle uncle out of three who died from cancer) that the family wanted to be together to go on a trip and we bought a big van that was like a limo so once I get to my aunts place I find out that there are 8 seats in the van and 9 people are supposed to be in it. The good news is that my cousin who I really like her husband and their baby is coming too and their one extra space in their car so my other cousin goes with them (who I also like). That unfortunately leaves me in a car with my aunts my uncle and their husbands and wife's with my other older female cousin. So we start the arduous drive to San Fransisco. I was cramped in the back seat of the van feeling uncomfortable with people who were extremely obnoxious. I'm talking about Orange low consciousness values on full blast. They were drinking, smoking weed, and listening to music and not a moment of silence. They even wanted me to join them from time to time offering me shots and weed I kept having to tell them no. We finally get to the hotel we rest a bit then go out to Chinatown San Fransisco. My uncle isn't just obnoxious but, he's rude and constantly offers unsolicited advice not just to me everyone in the family and he does it in the rudest most ridiculous ways. So when we're walking to Chinatown he walks up next to me and starts giving me shit for wearing cargo pants. He tells me that cargo pants are out of style and when he sees me from time to time I'm just wearing these cargo pants. He tells me that it's not right and to show him one other person who wears cargo pants out on the street. I really want to tell him to shut up and that it's none of his business but, I just agree with him and tell him OK I'll buy another pair of pants. He even said he'll give me the money to buy it. Mind you the reason I wear cargo pants because when I'm out and about I need carry a lot of things and my cell phone I put in my lower pants so the radiation doesn't get to close to the private area. Anyway we go to the restaurant not that enjoyable and eat greasy Chinese food. The next day we have to check out and my uncle wants to go more North to Nappa. I start speed eating my breakfast because I know we hardly have any time and tell my mother I want to go to the Exploratorium because I'm a science and technology guy. She says no because we came with a group and I can't go but, my aunts husband encourages me that I can do it and that I should be on my own. I say thank you and I go. Then I get a text from these obnoxious people that they are leaving soon and they'll keep me posted. I call my young cousin that son of that obnoxious lunatic uncle (mind you he's a great person and nothing like his dad his dad drives him as insane as he drives me) he tells me it's OK to buy the tickets for the place and I buy them and I enjoy myself their. All of a sudden I get a call from my mom that they are leaving the hotel at about 11 PM. Then I say that I'm just 5 blocks away and it's no big deal. They hand the phone over to my untamed uncle and he starts cursing at me and telling me why I didn't tell everyone I was leaving to go there. He's angry as can be. When I actually did tell my aunts wife I could was going there and his son and my mother... OK so I'm picked up by the people I like my cousin and her husband and from there we go to a place to eat (we decide against going to Nappa which is more North) It was my uncles suggestion. At this point everyone under 40 on the trip is sick and tired of all of the shenanigans that everyone over 40 on the trip is pulling. Me my cousin my other cousin and her husband are burnt out. Everyone over 40 is one generation way and were born in Iran and we under 40 were born in the US. So my cousin's husband says that he is going to a friends place he knows in San Jose and either me or Josh could come and I decide to come. All of a sudden I get a call from my mom and she wants to talk to my cousin and I ask why she doesn't tell me. Then all of a sudden my aunts husband calls them and says that I should be with them. So now my cousin and her husband are stumped as to why they are doing this. They stop behind their van and I have questions because I don't want to go with them. My uncle hops out of the van I ask him to explain what's happening and starts losing his shit just shouting at me to get in the van. At this point I don't care I shout back at him and he shouts "they're going to be with their friend do you want to be with their friend" and I shout "yes" then he shouts "OK then go". Then if that's not enough my aunts husband who is much more calm and collected and is driving gets out of the van and makes a last ditch effort to convince my cousin I should go with them. It doesn't work and I end up going with my cousin and I thank my lucky stars. Not to mention I would've been cramped in that car. Also it felt great for that time to stand up to my uncle and not just agree with him. So at the end of the day we all end up in Monterrey and it turns out the reason the rest of my family didn't want me to go with my cousin is because they thought I would be a burden to them and they were just offering it to me when they really didn't want to do it... Which is complete bullshit and they even told my cousin and her husband even told me it was bullshit but, it's like we can't speak logic to these people over 40. At night I have trouble getting a wink of sleep because my aunt, my mom, and my cousin over 40 can't be quiet and are on the phone until 12:30 at night. So the next day arrives and instead of just spending some time in Monterrey to walk my genius uncle wants to drive to somewhere else called the 17 mile drive. So we all have to get up relatively early when we are supposed to be relaxing on a vacation. My cousin who is my uncles son doesn't want to go. So when we finally get to our destination my aunt guilt trips my cousin into coming and he gets an uber to where we are. Then we eat breakfast I walk into the bathroom and my uncle is there and he talks about my cargo pants AGAIN! In the bathroom of all places. After that we go to Carmel where they only want to find a resturaunt to eat at where we could've done that in Monterrey. We find a bar and all my uncle can do is complain about the service and make the waiter and bar tender feel uncomfortable. I am sick and tired of all the idle chatter and I decide to go to the art museum next door. I tell my family maybe they should try exploring once in a while like I do. My uncle tells me it's OK I like exploring but, I lack socialization skills. Then he wants to turn it into an argument and I start defending myself this only makes my family feel uncomfortable. My aunts husband told me you can't teach an old dog new tricks and whatever my uncle says to just let it slide and agree with it. Then the genius (my uncle) gets another bright idea that since he remembered his dad (my grandpa) enjoying Big Sur we should head down to Big Sur which is 26 miles South of where we are just so he can feel nostalgic. Then everyone has to fall in line with what he says because he's the oldest man. We go down the coast line where we find out there is no cell reception and my cousin's husband overshoots the place we turn around and we find the place we talk to the lady there and it turns out that we need reservations to go up there the other car which has my obnoxious family members in it and my poor cousin overshoots the place as well and there is no cell phone reception either. They've overshot the place just like we did lol. Then my cousin gets out of the car with the most defeated disappointed look on his face tells me to leave my cousins car and go sit with the obnoxious people because he's had all about he can take. Then after half an hour they find it and since we don't have the reservations and we're a part of 12 people with a baby we decide to go to the cafe next to it instead. So we eat then for the third damn time when me and my uncle and my mom cross paths after dinner he comments AGAIN on my cargo pants and how I shouldn't be wearing them and how he wants to cut them with scissors. We go back and we sleep. The third day of this insane vacation I thought was going to be a little good turns out to be a nightmare. I decide to not wear my cargo pants and for the first time my uncle compliments me for not wearing it. Then I offer pancakes to other people. I cut them and put them in a separate plate. I think we have time to do more things until check out so I go to the aquarium to enjoy myself. All of a sudden a call from my family that they are leaving. I come back see my uncle he tells me he wants to have a word with me in private. He starts talking about the way I cut the pancakes was really terrible and I didn't make it look good. I defend myself making him angrier and angrier to the point where he hits me in my stomach and I hit him back. I tell him I'm not that 17 year old anymore who he was used to bossing around. Then to my great disgust I find out that the cousin I actually like and her husband are deciding to stay in Monterrey and that our only choice now is to be cramped with 9 people in an 8 seater. I go nuts because it's the last thing I want to do and my mom maybe makes a suggestion I take the greyhound back. Then I just decide that since this place is foreign and I need to find out a lot about the greyhound I'll go with them. Then my poor cousin who has a big body build is cramped with four people in the middle seats and me and two other people in the back seats. On the way back my cousin and my uncle are arguing together and we make a couple of stops get back to LA and the next day I'm here writing all of this for all of you. So anyway in the old days stuff like this was a regular occurrence for me and I had no one to talk to. Now that I'm older an wiser I have friends and forums online and I know I'm not alone so I'm happier. I want to know what you would do if you were in my situation. I'm glad there is a place where I can open up about stuff like this.

@Nahm I'm not saying others are responsible for me I'm just saying they don't have to act like scum. Other than that the good news is that my best opportunity to do something with Mars Academy is presenting itself and it sounds like fun. I'm happy to have spoken to the lady who runs it and looking forward to how I can help them.