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@BornToBoil Bussiness is a good idea. You can look at the B Corporations movement for some guidance on how to set up a conscious one. I am basically chipping at the same problem, as having an impact is a value I hold dearly. I have started with learning engineering to be able to support the green energy revolution, but then realized I don't want to spend my whole life behind the screen in CAD software and Excel spreadsheets. So I switched to Management with a thought to work in the future in the European Union political structures or end up with a Ph.D., but studying it at the University forced me to realize that following a beaten path and conform is not for me either. I am now left with pursuing conscious business ideas. I will gladly share with you any breakthrough I get. In the meantime, I invite you to read my thread on brainstorming conscious business ideas, some people have already contributed there their insightful thoughts :

@Username I am 100% positive that in your situation physical Hatha yoga will do more good than Kriya yoga. Go for it.

Are you aware that LSD has about 2 weeks of tolerance period during which the next trips are weaker? It's basics, but sometimes people on this forum don't know the basics.

That part, I really feel it. Non-duality has indeed radical implications.

When I now think about it, lack of personal experience of a stage could hurt your understanding of it. But on the other hand would a stage Yellow or Turquoise be better at describing other stages? I think not that much, because nowadays we spend very little time in stages Purple or Red for example, so we all lack deep personal experience of some stages. It seems what matters the most in that kind of work is good technical reasearch and interviewing skills.

That's surprising, didn't know that. It makes the fact that they have developed this theory even more impressive. Like how did they come up with the insights? At the University, I have personally experienced stage Blue/Orange people being knowledgable about systems thinking, etc., but themselves thinking linearly, without depth. But lecturers at college are not the ones who come up with these ideas, they are just repeating them, while Don Beck has actually developed SD. Lately, I have stumbled upon and been reading books with titles like "Sacred Economics" and "Organic Marxism", but those multidisciplinary mixed books are weak sauce, it's better to read works of experts in a single field IMO. Just a side remark.

It was Clare Graves who was a stage Yellow thinker, who came up with the theory. Don Beck took his ideas and built on top of them. Brilliant insight - Clare Graves, marketing and stuff - Don Beck.

It's very possible to delude yourself that you have experienced what Enlightenment is on a mild dose of a psychedelic. But don't worry, after finally hitting a proper breakthrough you will auto-correct your opinions, it will put every experience into perspective.

@Heart of Space Yeah, you are from the States, but OP is from Brazil and I am from Poland, it's quite different here. And most of the world is even less developed than Brazil or Poland. Thus, most gays globally will be leaning to the right, I believe.

When you look at the conscious capitalism it is indeed a stage Yellow idea. Taking care of all the stakeholders, instead of just shareholders. Focusing on culture and evolutionary purpose. But I am bamboozled by Mackey treatment of what Amazon is doing as conscious capitalism. That is not conscious, that is vanilla capitalism. It looks like empty words, if it doesn't promote systemic change. I think what B Corporations are doing is worth more attention than this conscious capitalism thingy.

@Heart of Space yeah, most of openly bi or gay people I know are left-leaning, they also usually have colored hair or watch anime. I think of them as audacious minority. Most bi people I assume are like my friend who lives in a hetero relationship with a fiance and is fairly conservative. You wouldn't know he is bi, because he doesn't tell it often. I also for example know a bi girl who is either clueless on political issues or holds libertarian positions, because that's what everyone around her believes. Do I have data to back it up? Nope, it's just a hunch that those people better represent gay people overall than the typical lefties. To be an openly gay leftist with colorful hair you have to be a non-conformist. Most people are conformists, they will believe a dominant ideology, which happens right now to be a centrist one, slightly skewed towards right.

How is being right-wing or a centrist having an unpopular opinion? You have the same opinions as most of the people all over the world and for sure in your country, too. And most gays have the same beliefs as you, it's just that the left is pro-LGBT, but that doesn't mean that actual LGBT people are dominantly left-leaning. Being gay doesn't give you a free-pass on not having your political orientation challenged. And you should do it yourself, too, challenge yourself to read books outside of your main interest, because only then you can really grow. And since you are there I believe you can do much better than liking Milton Friedman. Libertariansim is either a position of really old people or uneducated ones. For example, take a look at Kate Raworth, her economic ideas are light-years ahead of Milton Friedman. How can you trust in 2020 someone who has been born in the previous century and lived most of their lives without computers and the Internet, what can they really know about the state of the world today?

Actually, it is legal and available in the Netherlands. I bet ir is legal in some other countries, too, but can't name them off the top of my head.

@Striving for more Just google safe filling removal and you will find some dentists with over-the-top gear who specialize in doing it.

@Carl-Richard yup, but doesn't matter how you cut it, Sweden always will be in a better situation, Belgium is a one big urban area of 10 million people.

Sweden's population density is 22 people per square kilometer, Belgium's is 383 people per sqkm. Whatever Sweden does they will be relatively good, they just have so much space and so little people to transmit the virus. Only dense cities might be a problem. Belgium is like a one single big city.

His Inner Engineering course is just a series of lectures. That's stuff for newbies, there's nothing even comparable to the content in the books about Kriya from Leo's list. Only "improvements" I have made to my practice by listening to Sadhguru is sitting to the East when doing yoga and when focusing attention doing oms I sometimes focus it 30 cm in front of the head as Sadhguru says instead of inside. This East, West, North stuff, I am not so sure if it's important, but it requires such little effort to apply, it would be stupid not to try.

They are a stage Blue people on the Spiral Dynamics model. They are nationalistic in structure, look-up to the authority of powerful people, and put classic books on a pedestal. Indulge in labeling themselves comrade, etc, thus creating a strong identity for themselves. So, they are nothing like modern, hippie lefties, who are at the stage Green. Similar content, completely different structure.

We can, but it's a matter of effort. The thing is food production and waste has to get REDUCED in rich countries. Then use the machines and fertilizers used there to support local food production in poorer countries. Yet, you can't copy exsisting forms of agriculture 1:1, but have to adjust them to the soil and climate in those countries. One of the problems is that, for example in Africa, countries are distributed on different latitudes and every latitiude can differ quite a lot in climate.

@Skin-encapsulatedego The longer the covid stays, the more people will turn to online dating. That's your best bet now.

That's like my life purpose. At least a part of it. I have trouble figuring out which career/skills to develop so I can be most successful at that goal.

It's essentially a code editor, but fine-tuned for taking notes

Jason Hickel from the Extinction Rebellion has some cool thoughts on how it will look like to live in post-capitalism. His new book Less is More explores some of the questions about he future of jobs, health and education when we finally stop economy from growing and devouring the planet. I can't wait for the changes in the world to happen in a sense. The way we currently live is completely twisted. Work, work, then work some more, then hire someone to do tasks you could have done if you weren't working non-stop.

Thanks for the info. Any thoughts on 5-MeO-MET or 5-MeO-MALT?

I have a book for you. David Airey - Work for Money, Design for Love