Wow! This could mean a lot for a Nationwide discussion on the topic! I'm proud to live here, and feel very lucky. 
What are your thoughts on it guys?

That's the problem. You should be approaching twice that number per day.

@John Iverson Push-pull is a very delicate game. You shouldn't do it much over text or message. You must do it in-person. Text does not give you enough cues to know how the girl is reacting.
In a face-to-face conversation you can quickly apologize like: "I was just joking. I actually love you. I want you to have my babies." But you cannot do that via text. It looks too weird and creepy.
DO NOT try to attract women via text! It never works. Texts are purely for setting up a date and keeping in touch. Don't get overly cute via texts or you will lose many girls that way. Attraction must be built in-person. No amount of text game will compensate for shitting face-to-face game.
Sarcasm and self-deprecating humor also does not work well via texts. Because texts do not convey enough information.

@theking00 How many new girls have you spoken with in the last 3 months?
There's your real problem. Fix THAT.

Presentation :
Name : Tancrède Pouyat Age : 20                     Gender : Male Location : Geneva, Switzerland                                              Occupation : College Student Marital Status : Single Kids : No Hobbies : psychological cybernetics, being an artist, healthy eating, self-improvement, self-regulation (as in, not too much of bad stuff, and more good stuff instead), visioning for the future, realising my life purpose. So, it's June 2014, I'm sitting down in front of my new gaming computer, I've been skipping school for 8 months and been playing WoW for18 hours a day, I haven't had a shower in 10 days, I haven't been eating anything but pasta, pizza, fast food and other unhealthy stuff I gained 20 pounds in 6 months, I'm always tired, my bedroom is a mess, it smells horrible, and I drink 2 litres of wine every day. I decide to type in "How to Kiss a Girl" on Google, because I've never done that before. I get really in touch with this idea that I can actually develop myself to get better with girls. One thing leads to an other, I come across Leo's relationship videos, but I don't really take action on anything at all. Months go by, I get kicked out of school for not going, and I get thrown back into depression to a really deep level, almost killed myself. At this point, in January 2015, I start to take personal development seriously. Now, after a year, I have gotten Leo's Life Purpose course, and his book list, even though I'm only 20 I feel really passionate about my field of mastery, which is psychological cybernetics. I feel confident about the future, I know that I'm going to live an extraordinary life, even though I still haven't kissed anyone
Personal Challenges I've overcome :
Massive Depression (even though that actually wasn't hard at all) Addiction-Driven Lifestyle Bad Physical Shape (always wanted to gain weight, then simply got fat, now getting lean muscle) Victimhood (actually still a little bit of a victim, but much better now) Always felt like I couldn't make friends, now knowing that it's a lot - a LOT - easier than what I though it was. What I'm working on now :
Deliberately practising psychological cybernetics Being an Artist, creating an audience to build a business around Working on my Life Purpose/Looking for it, even though I'm pretty certain of what it is Really starting to share my greatest gifts with the world

That's right, you lack a reference experience for what the label "Absolute Love" is pointing to.
That is okay. I only discovered this reference experience a few years ago at around age 31.
It cannot be gotten in your current state of consciousness. You need a radical change in state. Psychedelics are your best bet.
Next time you trip, set your intention to realize what Absolute Love is. At the beginning of your trip tell yourself, "Okay, now show me Absolute Love! What is Love? I am ready to know." If you set a firm intention and you really want to know, it will be shown to you. Mushrooms, LSD, DMT, 5-MeO, 2C-B, MDMA, etc can all show you this love. But you may have to purify yourself first before it is shown to you. You must be ready to surrender the ego to see it, since it is totally selfless.
If you really want to know, it will be shown to you. No doubt about it. It's not a matter of random luck. So keep your intention strong. Put your heart into it.
It sounds to me that you're close to realizing it. A few more deep trips might do the trick.

Reddit is usually best. It has the most up to date info.
Google:
"site:reddit.com xxxxxxx"
Replace xxxxxx with whatever specific question you have.
Like:
"site:reddit.com best LSD first dose"

Try not to make a big spectacle of it. Then it won't be so dramatic and scary. With spiritual death you discover that you've jumped off a cliff only to land on the fluffiest feather mattress, so you're not really losing anything. Don't let the ego create a big story about how it's losing so much. You're mostly losing bullshit delusions and gaining peace and authenticity. So it's a good trade.
I've made the mistake in the past of over-dramatizing the ego-death part. Yes it happens but facing death is also not as hard or bad as it sounds. After a couple dozen ego-deaths it becomes natural and not a big deal.

@Carlos At your age all of that is totally normal. The good news is you're actually way ahead of the curve because you've already found the most important thing: the field of personal development and spirituality. Most people won't find these fields until they are 30, 40, or 50 years old.
Since you're only 17 you've got many many years to resolve all those issues.
I have made multiple videos where I give a blueprint of how to begin doing personal development and I give long lists of techniques.
Just pick a thing and start working on it. Focus on whatever your heart wants most. If it's girls, then go chat up girls. A very simple exercise is to go to the local mall on the weekends and start trying to have conversations with shop clerks. Try to chat them up. Don't even hit on them, just chat with them. Try to make the conversation last for 5, 10, 15 minutes. Try to make them laugh.
After practicing that for a few months, then start applying those exact same skills at school by approaching random girls at lunch. Girls you don't know. Just teach yourself how to socialize. You don't even need pickup skills at this point. Learn to have conversations with strangers. Learn small talk. Learn eye contact. Learn how to talk about yourself. Learn how to tell interesting stories. Learn how to smile. Learn how to project your voice. Learn how to be friendly.
All of this stuff has been written about in books and talked about in videos ad nauseam. Just go apply it. Break it down into small actionable steps.

@Marinus That's great action-taking. 31 daytime approaches is a lot.
There are many stages to a successful pickup that must be mastered: the open, body language, the smile, eye contact, keeping conversations going, flirtation, kino/touching, authenticity, sexual tension, hitting a hook point, screening for boyfriend, getting the close, leading and pulling for instant date, number closing, etc.
It's quite hard to learn all those on your own. It helps to go with a wing-man who already has experience with this and can help you evaluate your interactions. Try to find some wings in your city.
A successful daytime approach requires a lot more than just opening the girl and saying Hi. You must learn to make the conversation fun, flirty, and interesting. And you must learn how to close in order to get any results. All daytime approaches must end with you asking the girl for an insta-date coffee.
Yes, you will be very awkward and mechanical at first. But you can quickly improve. Your goal should be to approach a girl in the same way you might approach and talk to your own girlfriend. It has to be very natural, like it's no big deal, like you've known her your own life. You must just assume this vibe and sense of friendship and familiarity right off the bat. It has to be super casual so the girl is not put on guard.
A great way to practice conversation skills and body language is by chatting with store clerks at the mall. Go find some girl clerks. They are bored most the day and will be happy to talk with you. Try to flirt with them a bit without outright hitting on them. Try to get them to open up about themselves. Try to charm them a bit. Tease them. Wink and smile at them. Tell them some stories about yourself, etc.
At this point your goal is not even to have sex but simply to become a more social, extroverted, talkative, charismatic person. You can even practice on guys and old ladies. Get good at small-talk and self-expression to strangers. Get good at building rapid social comfort, so people are comfortable around you. So they feel you as a fun friendly guy.
I love day game. The biggest problem with it is that it's not easy to find a lot of hot girls during the day unless you live near certain great locations. Cities like LA, London, and NYC are amazing for daygame, but most cities aren't.
The advantage of night is that you get a lot more girls to talk to. And there's possibilities for same night pulls.
Oh, it's also VERY IMPORTANT that when you approach a girl during the day you stop her and face up to her squarely, face to face. Do not be approaching girls from the back or the side. If she is walking, you must stop her cold by getting her attention. You must face her directly. You must have her full attention before you deliver your opener. Do not be whispering your opener to her side or back as she is walking. Run around her and stop her without scaring her. And you must always open with a smile. If there is a look of fear on your face, she will freak out. Practice that smile like your life depends on it.

Lol, this isn't exactly a big secret. Basically all guys suck at talking with women unless they trained that skill.
You should approach even if you are not relaxed or "in state". Sure, you will blow up sets, but it doesn't matter because blowing up sets is what gets you to relax.
Never expect your first approach of the day to go smooth. The first few approaches are just warm ups. They almost always blow up. If you're approaching, you should be doing at least 10-20 approaches within a few hours. Once you blow the first 10, then you'll hit state and you will start acing the rest.
The key to learning game is to find a location where you can do 10-20 approaches within a few hours. Find an area with tons of girls so that you aren't worried about blowing sets up. Become an approach machine for a while and your skills will skyrocket.
I remember when I approached 750 girls in one month. That was a productive month! You'll be amazed at what opportunities materialize from 750 approaches. The most unlikeliest of things pan out with those numbers. If you approach 750 girls, one of them will just want to suck your dick for no reason at all, LOL. Most guys don't meet that many girls in their entire lifetime. You can do it in one month.

@Jed Vassallo You've clearly never gamed. Stopping a woman randomly in the daytime with a genuine direct approach makes her day. It makes her feel great.
Imagine how you'd feel if a hot girl approached you at the supermarket and told you that she's attracted to you. You'd feel awesome even if you never took her up on the offer. You'd feel like king for the day.
Go to a mall, stop any random woman and tell her that you just thought she was beautiful, and she will be so happy. Obviously don't lie about it, it must be genuine.
You've also clearly never gamed.
I didn't say that was the end of the conversation, I said that's the opener. From there you use cheeky conversation to build attraction.
Stopping a woman cold on the street and being genuine with her about your feelings about her is extremely rare. It builds instant attraction and it makes you stand out from everyone else. I am not talking about a pickup line, I am talking about genuinely expressing yourself. This also makes her day. She will feel great the rest of the day even if she declines your offer for a date/coffee/phone number.
The words you say to a woman almost never matter. What matters is how you carry yourself and the tone you take. Most attractive women will have boyfriends, but you'll never know until you try.
Every street approach ends with an invitation to an instant coffee date, and failing that, a phone number.
The biggest issue here is that you don't have the balls or skill to pull off such a direct and genuine approach, nor the skills to carry the conversation, nor the skill to close it.
If you find a woman attractive, hiding your feelings about it to try to weasel your way into her pants is weak. She will smell your manipulations.
Hot women like men who are clear and decisive about what they want. When a woman makes you feel something, you don't hide, you be direct about it, the way a strong man would. That in itself builds massive attraction.
Women only hate being approached when you are being creepy, insecure, or obnoxiously cat-calling her.

@EternalForest It's actually not that hard to get a good job.
But it requires that you offer value to the employer rather than being a leech.
What job do you want? What skills do you have? Are you showcasing your skills well with a portfolio?
These days training yourself and building skills is easier than ever. You must train yourself and then show evidence to your employer of your skills and your willingness to learn further on the job.
Building a great portfolio is a MUST as far as I'm concerned. With a great portfolio you will eliminate all your competition.
People being more experienced than you is not a significant factor because those people also demand a higher salary. Employers are always looking for people with low experience because they need people to do grunt work and those who will work for lower salaries.
You are not competing with people with 5-10 years of experience. You are competing with people who have 1-2 years of experience, which you can provide for yourself. "Experience" does not have to mean that you were a salaried employee during that time. Experience could mean: you working on a project in your mother's basement.

The research is not called "spiral dynamics" per se. What we're talking about here is the entire field of Development Psychology which includes hundreds of researchers.
Ken Wilber does a good job of integrating and mentioning many of the researchers.
Here are but a few names:
Jane Lovinger Piaget Kurt Fischer Robert Kegan Susanne Cook-Greuter Kohlberg Gilligan Jean Gebser Maslow Clare Graves, Don Beck It takes work on your part to integrate all this stuff and see the bigger picture. Do not expect the current state of science or academia to give you the big picture. It gives you tiny fragments which you must piece together.

15mg is a small dose
20mg is a decent dose
25mg is a heavy dose
30mg is a monster dose
At least for me. Tolerance varies person to person.
Be very cautious with anything above 25mg. The mindfuck can become almost unbearable.

Dosage:
One 130ug tab of pure LSD25 
(Be careful lads, there are many fakes. Also most tabs are laid with low-quality LSD. Please do not ask me where I got mine)
Preparation:
As for my first run, I decided to simply test the waters and leave any hefty goals aside.
The trip took place in my room (alone) during the entire night and then outside.
Trip:
A lot of stuff happened, so here are the highlights:
- Extremely beautiful visuals (like carpet turning into a pool of worms). The patterns were popping out like mad (the few pink tiles in the bathroom bathed the bathroom with a pink haze). The colors were SO gorgeous.  
- For about 10 minutes my consciousness got "mirrored". Any thoughts/perceptions would echo inside my mind. This caused the "present" moment to extend to a few seconds instead of the normal 1 second.
- Time slowed down SO HARD. I simply couldn't believe my brain was capable at working at such a high frequency. Every minute felt like 10min+. The music was playing at a very slow pace (like the 0.75/0.5 playback speed in YouTube). I remember looking at the watch and laughing at how 5 minutes felt like an hour.
- Now something huge. My consciousness was "morphing" into stuff multiple times. I could look at a shirt and become it. There was no one perceiving the shirt, or the context in which it existed, just the shirt. I used this magnificent morphing ability extensively.
- Short-range non-duality. When I was sitting on the chair and hugging a huge pillow,  it took a mental effort to distinguish myself from the pillow or chair. There was literally no difference between the pillow and my arms.
- Music was SO GOOD. I listened to this amazing album 3 times during the trip: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXhhpxt_OoI ). It's (kinda) true what they say, you never heard music if you weren't under LSD.
- I had the crazy idea of watching a Mandelbrot Zoom ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR4JCVAh74c ). It felt like I was physically travelling thru that world.
- Euphoria and body-high. 
 
Welcome to the world of shadows
There was a lot of other stuff, but they pale in comparison to where I got at the the 6hr-12hr mark. While before I theoretically knew what materialists call "world" is nothing but projection onto being & happening within being, now I got aware of this phenomena. 
What i perceived as "reality" before now felt like a LIFELESS world of lights. I strongly emphasize HOW DEAD everything felt. When I talked to my mom, it felt like talking to an object (and I was an object too). The "world" including myself felt sooooooooo distant. When I was riding the bus heading to the park, I was making huge effort to not loose sense of "reality". The bus was disappearing under my feet like sand thru fingers. I saw so much beauty in a vagabond's eyes. BEING was prior to the game of lights most folk hold as "reality".
That was by far the most magnificent morning of my life)))
After-Results
- All of the negative stuff build-up from years of stress and suffering got released. My mind got "refreshed"
- I feel so much better inside this body.
- I see so much more beauty in this game of lights.
- While the perception of BEING isn't near as strong as it was during the 6hr-12hr period, it still improved my day-to-day perception of it. Also now I understand from experience (not just someone's words) what I'm aiming for with meditation.
- Feeling happier.
 
 

So I currently work at REI (which if you live in the USA you probably know what that is) in the San Francisco Bay Area in Marin. Yesterday I was helping a customer with shoes and as I was just casually answering this man’s questions (he was 72 by the way) we were talking about the benefits of saying barefoot running and all this stuff and, I don’t even know how it got here, we started talking about meditation and I said ‘if people were told what real meditation is they’d never do it.’ We then brought up how he used to live in a Zen monastery that’s part of San Francisco Zen Center in Tassajara California for close to 2 decades and left the monastery 32 years ago. This caught me off guard and of course raised my excitement because I just took this guy as some any other old customer that comes into the store. There was no beaming radiance or simplicity that we often fantasize as still some mark of a divine person. I then asked him “did you find what you were looking for?” And he just responded with a casual giggle “yeah and then some.” I then immediately asked “was it worth it?” He just casually smirked (not meaning anything by it) and said in the tone of voice of any ordinary person his age “of course. It’s the only thing there’s is worth anything. But it’s not a big deal or anything.” Wishing I wasn’t at work and I could just ask him more questions about how I can do the same thing he switched the conversation and asked a couple more questions on the shoes and then thanked me and headed back downstairs and left. 
I think the part about this whole thing that took some time to really sink in was how ordinary he was and blended in with everyone. He was just an old 70 year old man who knows who he is. Nothing special. No wise words. No mission. And that’s what I loved. He didn’t need to talk about it. He didn’t need to live as anything or be anything. It’s been on my mind this whole time. 
Its funny because my biggest drive is to both do these certain things in life and also at the same time I want to be a total nobody. I want to be absolutely nothing. 

@legendary Very good! The only thing is that you haven't really gone all the way yet. You got a small glimpse, but not the Full Monty.
When plugging, it's very important to make sure that your bowels are empty, otherwise the substance will not absorb fully.
Measuring 5-MeO using a micro-scoop is far superior than using a scale. Scales are just not sensitive enough. Get a micro-scoop on Amazon (like this: https://amzn.to/2oguKiE ) and use the same micro-scoop each time so your doses are consistent.
Sounds like you might need to smoke it to get the Full Monty. Or just increase your plugged dose.
Yes, at high doses, it gets freaky.
But having that Fully Monty breakthrough is paramount. Until then, you still don't understand how deep this goes.
Doing it with Octavio should definitely get you a breakthrough. Smoking is MUCH more intense than plugging. Plugging is like a walk in the park compared to smoking it. With smoking, the ego should not be able to hold on or resist in any way.

@axwell lay on your side, not stomach. Bend one leg. It's way easier that way.

Imagine life just as it is but you were hit in the head with a baseball bat such that you can no longer form the thought "me". You are gone, but life goes on.
You are an idea. This idea will stop arising.
But that is only the realization of no-self. There is still more to realize. Like what God is. So it's not as bleak as the ego makes it seem.
Don't buy into the ego's negative opinions about enlightenment. They are all delusion.
This work requires a leap of faith in the end. You cannot know what will be discovered after ego-death. It is not imaginable.

Spirituality is the art of dying.

Technically the only thing that exists is God Awareness.  Relative existence is an illusion.  You have God Awareness that exists and then the Maya of Experience and Thought which are both totally empty and illusory.  The Metaphysics is very simple.  But you have to get to the place where the Metaphysics becomes simple.  When the Metaphysics is complex, that's you clinging to Thought.  But see, Thought is all occurring within Consciousness.  Thought is basically a sensation that we get mesmerized with kind of like a bird seeing another bird in one of those tiny mirrors placed in bird cages not realizing that it's looking at itself.  Every Thought and Experience is basically just a sensation inside your Consciousness that your Awareness is potentially distracted by.  And the downside of that is you lose sense of who you are.  You still have Awareness, but you forget that everything is inside your own Consciousness without anything behind it -- which is why you don't have God Awareness.  The Mind fills in the gaps and takes the Maya to be what's real 'out there' and the Awareness to be something trivial that exists 'in here'.  It's entirely like getting lost in a movie.  There's nothing behind the movie, yet it feels so real when we lose ourselves in one.  Once your Mindfulness goes to a 10, you'll stop filling in all those gap and reality will look very different to you from that point forward.  You'll realize that the only thing that exists is Consciousness a.k.a. God Awareness which is being constantly distracted by a bunch of lifeless zombie sensations (i.e. Thought and Experience).  When you can look at those sensations and see exactly what's there, Metaphysics becomes very simple.  The problem is that everything you care about in your life will die too.  It will be revealed to be an illusion.  Just like this -- imagine you're lost in a movie and the power suddenly goes out.  That's what it feels like.  What's left is you sitting there all alone just realizing that you're the Awareness sitting there staring at a blank two-dimensional screen.  All your cherished Thoughts and all your cherished Experiences just died on the vine.  Actually they were never there to begin with.  That will cause your second great Dark Night of the Soul if you're anything like me.  My first Dark Night of the Soul was when I first discovered that I wasn't the Egoic self early on in my Enlightenment Work.

@11modal11 Re-read your opening post and count how many times you said "I", "me", "my".
All of that is ego.
That whole post is ego playing drama queen.
You have not reached meaninglessness, because clearly you are creating a lot of negative meaning here.
What is required is more consciousness. It's sort of like you've wounded the ego, not anywhere close to killing it, and now it's pissed off like an angry hornets nest.
A little bit of consciousness is a dangerous thing, as they say.
The solution is go back to the basic practices and ground yourself in high quality nondual theory and mindfulness work.
You are trying to do this too fast. It does not work that way. There are many facets to consciousness work. When you try to jump ahead to the end before you are truly developed enough to handle it, you just create a massive ego backlash and nothing sticks.
Ground yourself in core daily practices like meditation. Train yourself to do it consistently and with joy.

I second that. I arrived to this forum one year ago as an orange stage college science professor with resistance to evolving up to green. I embraced the multi-cultural aspect of green, yet I was strongly attached to rational thinking within a scientific paradigm. (Deepak Chopra was a whoo-whoo pseudo-scientist in my mind). Perhaps it was Leo's more cerebral approach that was able to get through to me that a relative framework is more advanced than a logical framework. I can now see how ideological I was with science and how much it contracted me.
In the last year I dropped the textbook for my neuroscience course. I broadened the course to include psychology, philosophy, awareness and nonduality. We do brief periods of meditation in class, We discuss self-awareness, spiral dynamics and I have students keep contemplation / inquiry journals. I experienced strong fear and resistance to doing this. What would my colleagues think of me? Could I lose my job? Will the students laugh at me and think I'm some kind of joke? Will I lose respect? . . . Yet, I feel so much more grounded and confident - and I'm so much more genuine. It's no longer about me. It's about *us* and the students having awakenings. And the students have embraced it. I no longer need to take attendance. Today, the students asked if I could bring a meditation bell to our class. They come to my office to chat about life and reality. Today I had a long discussion with a student about her paranormal abilities. She told me I was only the third person in her life she felt comfortable sharing it with. 
It feels so good to be free of the scientific walls around me. I'm excited to evolve into Yellow and make my courses even more holistic and integrated. 
So @Leo Gura , please know that your message expands beyond this forum and into the minds of some college students.

Leo, thankyou so much for your amazing life changing content. I have posted loads of thankyou comments on your videos but i'm not sure if you've seen any of them. Anyway (I will try to keep it short)  I stumbled into your content about 2 years ago and at the time I was partying every night with a hard drug addiction, I had depression, I had really bad social anxiety and I was studying something I wasn't passionate about But now iv been doing 2 years of this work and my social anxiety and depression is non existent,  iv been meditating forabout 2 years now, iv taken about 500mg of 5 meo dmt and 1g of 2cb over the past year and increased my consciousness alottt and experienced all the things you talk about in your enlightenment videos.  im on track with my life purpose (not gonna lie as I go deeper into my sage work the more I see my career life purpose as a chore but I think that because im more fascinated by the world more than my narrow life purpose ) but anyway my life is superrr minimalistic and very basic which leaves lots of time for meditation, yoga, contemplation, books and my life purpose. (my parents and friends say im a boring hermit who has no life wasting his time just filling my head up with abstract philosophy in my spare time  but they have no idea aha. .but  iv just came back from my second 7 day solo meditation retreat with plans to do tunsss more of them in the future, I got a gram of 5 meo dmt and 2cb which should be arriving soon, I have a  strategic plan in place to read many books over the next 5 years to develop that holistic understanding to become more conscious about government, turquoise visionary books for how the world could be, why wars happen, books about history and books to help me integrate all the spiritual traditions, books to become more conscious in language, how science works, quantum mechanics, evolution, chaos theory etc and many other thingssss (and by the way I contemplated your "what is intelligence" video and contemplated it for a week and then I took some 2cb and holy shittt that's just incredible !!!! 
But anyway I just wanted to  let you know that I 100% do not take this channel for granted and that I am serious about this work and I want to just say a massssssivee thankyou for all your hard work man for producing all this massive high quality content !!!! you are a one of a kind human being and I just want to thank you for showing me my full potential and whats really possible to do in life !!!! my life would be pretty fucking shit if It wasn't for you !!! if I meet my financial goals within the next 5 to 10 years or so I will definitely be donating a large chunk to selfactualized.org to say a tangible thankyou for all your hard work !!! you'll be the reason I even managed to earn it in the first place !!!!
by the way I have shown your intro videos called "the vision for the selfactualized life" "the big picture of self actualization" and "becoming a sage" to sooooooo many people trying to get people interested in self actualization but no one wants to do it, it completely baffles me how people can just throw such a resource away and never think about it again !!!!!! 
anyway sorry for the massive post !!! just want to show my gratitude and show that I actually do the work and that you have changed my life and that I am so so so grateful for all your hard work!!!  
once again I will say a massive thankyouuuuu and I hope your having a lush day man !!! sending you all the love from the uk man  !!!! xxxxxx