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I would never plug something that works well orally.

I have't watched Tyler's stuff, yet... RSD Max's Hot Seat is for sure worth it. 20 hours or something of footage of him approaching girls. You have everything there, nightgame, daygame, boring stuff, flashy stuff, short videos, uncut material, everything really. Motivated by his course I have kissed a girl for the first time in my life, and also was a beast at a music festival a few weeks later. Approaching was so easy, I just knew what to do, because I have already seen it.

You have done daygame pick up for a few months, your anxiety can't be that bad. Inner-game is outer-game. The only way to improve it is by getting practice. But psychedelics seem to be an option. I have a theory that they they kind of work like a substitute of social interaction. What I mean is, I feel warm after doing psychedelics similar to how I feel after hugging someone, or confident like after approaching a hot girl, or safe and amused like when playing board games with friends. Psychedelics seem to be pushing these buttons. And 100's of others, too, of course, haha. These substances also require from you some courage to take them and then to endure the experience, so that can be helpful. Also, planning logistics for a trip has similarities to planning a date. I know it's a bit werid angle to look at it, but it really does.

@Acche You are a one ambitious mf haha. You will need Arnold Schwarzenegger's willpower times ten to achieve all your goals in a single lifetime. Nevertheless, I wish you success on your journey.

@BornToBoil You might get interested in the Effective Altruism movement. https://80000hours.org/ does a good job of explaining the concept. It was they who pushed me in the direction of getting interested in how NGOs work, etc. Yeah, I am too independent-minded to do well in political structures, it seems you are like that as well. I dream of there being more organizations with alternative, progressive workplaces, like the ones described in "Reinventing Organizations", which is a book applying Spiral Dynamics to organizational science.

@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.