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Fair enough. Although does not manipulating mean not taking action and just letting life "happen to you"? I'm really concerned with what that actually means... Say I wanted to get a good job to afford a nice place would that already be an agenda and the way to manipulate the situation to fit into that agenda is to get some job skills at a local University to put that on a resume and give it to an employer to serve that agenda? Or would it be a better idea to do some inner work first to know why I want that nice place first? Let's say though while I was doing that inner work I was avoiding the more practical things like making money from a job because I wasn't concentrating on that and the quality of my life went down because I couldn't afford a good place and healthy food. This stuff isn't so black and white for me but, I'm hoping with the help of you and this community I can figure out much more and achieve true happiness in life instead of fake happiness (if that's even a thing).

So if we stripped all of those things that you mentioned... Will it eventually lead to an enlightened society or a jungle? I'm learning here but, it seems like it'll all come full circle eventually. Reminds me of the Tea Peter episode in Family Guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Peter. The episode where they get rid of the government and then everything goes haywire and then they make a government again.

Leo in one of your videos you say that just because a person doesn't believe in good and evil it doesn't mean he'll automatically go out and do a bunch of terrible things because his or her mind isn't wired that way and that makes sense. Although I do worry that with this new paradigm even if a mind isn't wired to do "certain things" what if an incentive is there to do "certain things". Let's just say hypothetically speaking there is a poor person who is struggling to pay for food and someone comes along with a gun and a picture of a person and tells that poor person that if he or she shoots this other person they will get a million dollars and all their financial problems will be solved. With out a good and evil paradigm what kind of fail safe would there be against that type of behavior? I know you can say that with the good and evil paradigm it doesn't even work anyway and that's a valid point to make. Though I think with the good and evil paradigm it would be less likely for that poor person to do such a thing. If good and evil is really just an invention made in the human mind then what good is the justice system? @Leo Gura I'm glad that you are also an advocate of education reform as well but, just imagine if you went to a school assembly and in front of a bunch of impressionable hormone raddled teenagers you talked about no such thing as good and evil. Then wouldn't all the bullies on the playground want to pick on all the kids that they perceive as weak and then the councilor wouldn't do anything or even join in the bullying because good and evil don't exist? I also think of the economic collapse as well. What's there to stop the super rich from scamming and cheating everyone else if good and evil are an illusion? Good and evil may just be illusions in the human mind that bring suffering to those that believe in it. I'm just worried that if this information gets in the hands of extremely narcissistic people they can use it as an excuse to ruin the world and other people's lives for their own benefit. Last time I checked the majority of the world is low consciousness not high consciousness. If you somehow introduced this new paradigm to the hordes of low consciousness people and they believed you them I'm afraid there would be nothing to stop low consciousness people in positions of high power to use all that power for their personal benefit ruin the planet and other people's lives just to satisfy their own greed and narcissism. What would stop the powerful from picking on the weak and taking everything they have from them? What would stop someone from making their lives easier at the expense of putting other people in abject misery, suffering, and depression? What would stop society from pure survival of the fittest mentality?

Day 6: I keep thinking that it will happen eventually. Eventually if I try hard enough and do my due diligence that I'll get discovered. That something I write or a video I make is so incredibly profound that people will want to know more about me, who I am, and will want to get their advice from me. It makes me wonder how many other people have lived through out history that we'll never know about because people were too low conscious to even pay attention to them? Maybe there were people out there who poured out their heart and soul to create something bigger than themselves and to propel humanity towards enlightenment that we'll never get to read about in any history book because they just faded away into obscurity because people were too ignorant to pay attention? I dedicate this journal entry to them. This isn't for the Martin Luther Kings, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerbergs and Gandis out there in the world, no. This post is for the forgotten ones. The ones who we'll never know a thing about but, we can be sure that they existed, they may have never gotten their 15 minutes of fame or international attention. Although they may have been working just as hard and just as diligently as the people I just listed. In the end though even the people who do appear in history books and are talked about after they pass away they are not eternal either. I'm here sitting at my desk and writing this on my computer and out there people could be talking about me and writing things about me right now but, if I'm not there to experience it how will I ever know that it's happening? That's the worst thing about being recognized or known after you pass away. You're not there to enjoy the fruits of your labor. It's like getting a deposit of a million or more into your bank account after you are dead... why do you care? I mean life just seems like one big cosmic joke because it inevitably going to end in the life not being there. That's why I think @Leo Gura talks about the importance of enlightenment because you don't exist and even if some how we do exist eventually we will not exist so it's important to come to terms with that sooner rather than later so we can achieve a peaceful state more easily. I find it funny how parents think their children owe them something for bringing them into the world when they never asked to be brought into the world. The world has existed for thousands of years before you were brought into it so does it really make sense that all those years of non-existence you where actually asking to exist? Ironically your existence is non-existence anyway and even if you think that you are existing it'll eventually end in non-existence anyway... These are the questions that keep me up at night sometimes. It always seems like a bothersome joke for me that I get so close and yet I'm always so far. I get in touch with someone who I think can further spread my message and be of a huge help to me but, sometimes it doesn't end up rather well. I came the closest when I almost got that mentor ship from JumpCut and I was ecstatic then I found out it was a glitch and I just didn't win it. I have all of the raw materials to achieve success. I am an amazing performer and people can feel a certain aura when they are around me. All I need is something to harness this energy and to do something with this aura and it's like no matter who I reach out too it's never something that is sustainable. With the mentor ship it would've been sustainable because I would've had access to the people who had done it before and they could've told me specifics to work on. It's like somehow this big fat jerk of a world always puts my hopes up and dashes them at the last minute. I need to think of some kind of strategy to have that not happen in the end. I can say though that I am happier that the past is over but, it seems that I am stuck at this point of equilibrium that I can't seem to break out of. If anything though with all my information out there in cyberspace and I'm adding more and more every day I'm hopefully that something will eventually happen. I'm only 28 and have my whole entire life ahead of me. On the bright side the latter the day is the more sweet it's going to be and the more I can savor it. So for now I'll just hang in there. Even if the day never comes I can be glad that I laid everything out on the table and held nothing back.

Recently I joined a form of meditation called subtraction meditation where you recall all your past memories and throw them into a black hole. The way it works is that I go to a place with separate rooms and it's a guided meditation. First they tell me to close my eyes and imagine a scenario where I am about to die and I do die. Whether it's death by a storm, car accident etc. Then after you die you become a ghost and you float up into space where you can see the earth and sun get smaller and smaller as your ghost goes higher and higher. Then the ghost is basically and illusion and you're in front of a black hole and the idea of the black hole at this point you open your eyes and see a small black circle in front of you. What you do after that is bring up all your memories from the past while you repeat a phrase "please truth eliminate the false" as in the Universe is true but, every picture you created reality with is false. Then you bring up all your past memories repeat the phrase and throw all your emotional baggage/memories/pictures in the black hole. These sessions go from an hour to two hours. They charge money but, I'm thinking I can do the same exact thing at home... Here is the website that describes it http://woomyung.com/meditation-method/the-subtraction-method/

@philosogi I think the meditation has been helping a bit but, nothing that I can't really get doing it at home. If I don't feel those super positive effects that they say happen I'm not giving a penny more.

I think extreme suffering is one of the worst things that exist in the world. That being said do any of you think that the mere act of giving birth is immoral? Here is some food for thought. https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/27p93c/having_children_is_immoral_not_just_a_person/

Well I'm just wondering if it's a coincidence that @Leo Gura put the Highest Hero Journey video near the time I opened up the what creates a hero thread. The problem is that with my journey I'm wondering where to start and where to start really means how to start. This is what you don't learn in school or in society. What I wanted to make my life purpose into is being a person somewhat of a leader that people could look up to and get inspiration from. Why I wanted to do this is because I went through a personal hell and basically this hell manifested itself in my childhood with my parents divorce and feeling really bad at school because I had trouble making friends and I really didn't like school because it felt like a prison. Older people around me told me when I grew up I'd understand that life has to be this way and the older you get the harder and more boring things are so get used to it because it's not going to get any better. I honestly thought those people were nuts and out of their minds and by seeing everything I saw at this age it turns out I was right at that age. So basically what I want to do now is help those young people out there who are going through the hell I was going through while I was growing up by doing something about this unhelpful education system and these terrible divorce laws that don't take into account how these younger people are feeling. The problem is though say if I'm successful with that and people love me for it. Would that love and recognition I crave so much right now lead it to just feeding my ego and that ego being fed being a bad thing that will make me ironically into a villain?? Really at this point I look back that I quit my job about the start of the new year to invest into my YouTube channel and blog full time and all I am doing is pounding the pavement and going through trial and error to get people to pay a little bit of attention. I released my newest video which is my best and gained 15 subscribers and I'm hoping that means something in the long run. I like to say that I started a meditation habit and Leo said that's the best thing we can do for ourselves. I've been meditating for a week sometimes I do it with a metronome that Leo said was a good way to stop monkey mind. Sometimes I do a guided meditation that I find a YouTube video and they have positive affirmations. I'm still on the fence about buying the life purpose course. The thing is that I already specified my life's purpose at a young age of being the person who changes the way the system works, who is going to use his influence to open up a conversation about the education system in a way that gets people talking, thinking and listening about ways to change it for the better. My purpose of one day making that fiery impassioned speech and holding nothing back in front of millions of people. That purpose of being a symbol of hope for the next generation that's confused about what they are doing and where they are headed. I want to become a person who speaks with scientists, doctors, and philosophers of what can be done to improve our world and living situation for the better be on the vanguard of science and technology. The problem is I think about this and it feels great at the moment. Then I realize something all I'm doing is sitting in front of the screen talking about the big lofty goals that I have for myself, humanity, and the future. The problem is I have no idea who I should talk to, how I should do any of this, and if anyone is out there who is willing to listen and take me seriously. I wish I lived in a real community where people got together and talked but, in a place like Los Angeles I feel like a fish out of water. I was born in this city but, this city is not a part of my DNA it's not a part of who I am and I share no interest in what is going on here. The last question I have is for those of you who have a life purpose in your head and kind of knew from a young age what it was has Leo's life purpose course helped you to get that purpose out of your head and actually do something with it in reality because right now I'd give anything for something like that.

It did help me in a way. This is my channel and my videos have been improving little by little. This is my channel what do you think @Dead_Mouse if you look at the videos chronologically have they been getting better. https://www.youtube.com/revolutionarythinking

What do you guys think about the points he brings up?

@Dead_Mouse The academy was worth it in some ways and not worth it in other ways. It was good but, fell below expectations.

I posed a question about schools and happiness in a science and philosophy chat. I'm not here to promote their chat in fact I "offended" them so the admin locked the thread but, I invite all of you to look at the conversation and make your own conclusions. http://www.sciencechatforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=32399

Well I don't think scientology has to do with letting go of negative emotions... I also don't think that scientology has anything to do with meditation either. All they said to me was that when you get past level 1 those negative things in your mind go away for good but, I'd be able to experience it myself and they don't tell you that it's gone you notice it. So that's why I paid the fee. I'm wondering though from a person who's been meditating for a long time what this sounds like and if they think that it's not legit then I am more likely to take their advice.

@jse Ya that's what I was afraid of. It was just that when the people who were passing out the fliers were talking about it, it seemed exactly what @Leo Gura was talking about. The subtraction talked about getting rid of the ego and everything like that. It seemed to me after listening to them and after listening to Leo's enlightenment video it really seemed congruent with what they were trying to do. All they told me was when I finish level one I'd actually feel it in my mind that I don't have all the stresses and frustrations and such. Although I must say talking to other people who have done it they said they have seen the results and it's been worth it. The whole thing they try to push on you is that it's guided so that's what makes it super important but, then again the guidance is so basic and you can basically guide yourself the same way. I can very easily make a story up in my mind where I'm dead and become a ghost and go into the Universe then create a black hole in front of myself. If nothing really changes about this "guided meditation" then I see no reason to pay into it. I haven't really invested much though.

What do you think about the meditation? Sound legit or not?

Anyone?

I don't know about any of you but, I absolutely despise job hunting. It all started in Community College where I worked with the career center to find a job and I'd just send in resumes and applications just to be ignored and over looked. So that's a whole year gone by of soul crushing job hunting going on. Then the next year is when the recession happens and I'm not happy. Job hunting becomes that much more torturous and I didn't have any plans to go to University but, I'm told I wouldn't get anywhere in life if I didn't. The third year of Community College I get lucky and get a job at the computer lab at my Community College. Then after that I work a service job. Now though I want to do something to make a name for myself and create a brand. I don't want the average 9 to 5 job but, I'm having a little trouble of how to go about this. Any advice?

Leo talks a lot about Hero Journeys and such. So I was watching this talk by Mr. Zimbardo as to what creates hero's but, the thing is Leo also talks about how good and evil doesn't exist and how things just are. So I don't know how this'll fit in to it but, I'm wondering what the rest of the community thinks of this.

Has anyone here had a lucid dream?

I myself was curios to know about how our mismanaged schools don't teach any skills. So out of this curiosity I googled skills and jobs, then I found out there was a whole report by JP Morgan Chase about so many employers looking to hire although they couldn't find people with the skills they were looking for. The report is right here https://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Corporate-Responsibility/document/54841-jpmc-gap-los-angeles.pdf in the latter pages of the report these corporate leaders where creating pathways to connect LA residents with skill opportunities. So on page 23 on the PDF there is a Digital Learning Academy in my community run by the YWCA and I gave them a call. The lady told me she was having an orientation the day after. I ended up going to the orientation and they had limited spots available so they had to interview people to see if they were right for the opportunity. Today I just got an email that said I was accepted to the program. Not only in this program do they teach you digital skills but, they also teach you interview and job skills so @Leo Gura I think the best idea is that whatever I do from what I learned there I create an online and offline portfolio for it. Wish me luck...

I don't want watching Self-Actualization videos to be just another thing I do on YouTube that uses up time and I see hardly any results from it. I want to ask who ever here when they first heard of actualized.org what videos did you start watching first, and most importantly what did you actually implement in your life for example a habit, a friend you made, a job you applied for, and/or a business you started. What videos did you take the main lessons from and you actually could feel and see the changes happening in your life. I say this because there are so many videos out there and when you go through this journey by yourself you may not know what videos to watch first and how many you should watch before implementing some of the stuff. I know that everyone is different but, I think if I got some actual stories of what people actually did it would help me out.

Well it doesn't really matter what other people have done to each their own but, I'm just looking for a blueprint. Right now where I am is a bit of a disgruntled Communication Studies major. Don't get me wrong though I enjoy the fact that I didn't lay one finger on a loan to pay for University and got enough financial aid to support myself and have the rest as savings so that's amazing. I am frustrated at the fact though that I have all these amazing ideas in my mind but, I can't really seem to find people to listen. What I want to happen for me is for my blog and my YouTube page to get attention from someone influential so I can spread my ideas to like minded people. Maybe one day I want to have my own Television or radio show but, I don't know how to do it and what practical steps I can take to make it a reality. I guess that's why I am here on this forum I'm looking for high consciousness friends that I can reach out to online (I'm hoping that some of them may live near me) other than that though there are things like Skype where I can talk to people see their faces and get to know them. This is my blog http://bakshandehariel.wixsite.com/website and this is my YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/revolutionarythinking. Other than that the good news is I've got accepted into a Digital Learning Academy to hone my skills for the future job market. The end game for me though (I'm only 28 mind you so I got some time) is to hopefully have people thinking about my Revolutionary Thinking brand because I've got some great ideas that I think are paramount Today because so many people seem distracted in their lives in this internet age and the way I see it people's talents and abilities aren't being fully utilized in the education system.

@Visitor Can you elaborate show an example?

@Annetta If you don't mind me asking how did you put the things Leo says in his video into practice. What have you done and where did you see the improvement. BTW watched the video very interesting I think the idea is to just accept you wont have all the answers and it's OK to do things spontaneously.