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From my involvement with Isha, most all the money goes back into the foundation to pay its expenses, Sadhguru from I know has used vehicles, he makes his own cloths, the travel he does is not leisure time, its work.. I for one think he should take time off every year to recoup but he doesn't he's go go go full on all the time, I've never seen anyone like this in the world, totally selfless to really his own needs and personal wants... To criticize it is nuts, we should emulate it, be a small part of it, he wants undercover Yogi's for the most part, yes he needs ppl at the ashrams because of the volume of ppl visiting, but he wants Us outside in the world being the transformation so ppl can see it is real and they can have it too, that is worthy cause in my books... He's been accused of most everything nasty under the sun, stealing kidneys, stealing ppl, stealing land, etc,,,this happen when You try to do big thing, enemies, the elite show up and try to stop You, they don't want change the want us to be their puppets, and to not be Self Realized and Aware, as once we are we bring back our own power and screw it too them!

--- 1. Does the Book of Mormon say religion is created by the devil? Not exactly. The Book of Mormon does criticize corrupt or prideful churches that serve wealth or power instead of God — these are sometimes called “the church of the devil” or “great and abominable church.” But that term doesn’t mean all religion is of the devil. Rather: It draws a contrast between the “church of the Lamb of God” (those who follow Christ sincerely) and the “church of the devil” (any organization or movement that opposes truth and goodness). The text treats this more as a spiritual polarity (truth vs deception) than as literal denominations. So, no — it doesn’t teach that religion itself is demonic, but that religion can be corrupted by ego, greed, and distortion. --- 2. Is Mormonism the most mystical form of Christianity? In many ways, yes — especially compared to mainstream Protestant or Catholic theology. Mormonism teaches a radically participatory view of divinity: > “As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may become.” This is known as the Doctrine of Exaltation — the idea that humans can progress eternally and eventually attain godlike nature through spiritual evolution and union with divine truth. That is remarkably close to mystical nonduality or divinization traditions found in: Eastern Orthodoxy (theosis — becoming one with God’s energies) Sufism (annihilation of self in the divine) Taoism (return to the Tao through alignment with natural truth) Advaita Vedānta (realization of self as Brahman) However, Mormonism keeps a dualist framework (God and humans are distinct beings who can become one in purpose, not literally one essence). So while it echoes mystical ascent, it doesn’t teach absolute nonduality like Taoism or Advaita. --- Summary ❌ The Book of Mormon doesn’t say all religion is of the devil; it condemns corrupt or prideful religion. ✅ Mormonism is arguably the most mystically inclined Christian denomination, affirming direct human-divine transformation and infinite spiritual progression — though it still keeps a distinction between God and creation.

"Sadhguru's retreats, particularly his flagship Inner Engineering program and the advanced Samyama retreat, claim to be technologies for inner well-being that can bring about a range of physical, mental, and spiritual benefits. The programs emphasize that participants can "engineer" their internal system—their body, mind, emotions, and energies—to function as they desire, rather than being at the mercy of external situations." "Profound inner transformation: Helping participants transcend the limitations of the body and mind. Heightened states of consciousness: Achieving deeper meditative experiences and higher states of awareness." "Experiencing the beyond: Serving as a gateway to subtler realms of experience and becoming more aware of what exists beyond the physical and psychological dimensions." "Scientific scrutiny: Some scientific studies have been conducted and promoted by the foundation to support the health benefits of its practices. However, other studies examining Inner Engineering have had mixed results, with some finding no significant difference between participants and a control group. " If a used car salesman sells you a car as a "mint luxury sports car", and it turns out to be a bit crappy, the car still 'helped' you, it kept you from walking, but he still conned you. Why do you think Leo took his course? To meditate? Sahdguru claims to be enlightened, leading others to this. If you can enlighten people, everyone on the planet will be an environmentalist. There would be no need for him to charge Leo just so he can plant trees.

Furthermore, here are some key questions to distinguish Real vs Fake forms of spirituality to go along with this framework: Fundamental questions of spiritual discernment The following are fundamental questions meant to evaluate the validity of spiritual groups/mouvements/traditions 1-What is its ultimate aim — and is that aim truly Transcendent/Vertical Does the movement direct consciousness beyond the human and the contingent toward the Absolute, or does it merely circle within the horizontal domain of psychological, social, or material betterment? Criterion: The higher the aim, the more vertical the orientation. 2-What conception of Reality(or the Absolute) does it affirm — and is this conception metaphysically coherent and living? Is Reality understood as a hierarchical, ordered whole with a transcendent Source, or as a flattened field of relativistic experience? Criterion: Authentic paths acknowledge an ontological axis of ascent and return. 3-What is its anthropology — what does it believe Man is, and what Man can become? Does it recognize a spiritual principle (Self, Spirit, Nous, Atman, Ruach, etc.) latent in man that can be realized, or does it reduce the human being to psyche, emotion, or biology? Criterion: The higher the view of man’s nature, the more initiatic the path. 4-By what means does it propose transformation — and are those means ascetic, disciplined, and integrated? Is there a real praxis that reshapes being (meditation, ritual, prayer, contemplation, virtue), or only emotional stimulation, intellectual speculation, or spontaneous enthusiasm? Criterion: Real transformation demands sustained, structured practice. 5-Does it transmit a living knowledge — a Gnosis — or merely information, belief, and ideology? Does it initiate into direct participation in the Real, or does it merely offer doctrines to believe and techniques and paraphernalia to consume? Criterion: Authentic knowledge transforms the knower; it is participatory, not merely conceptual. 6-What are its fruits — ethical, existential, and noetic? Does prolonged engagement produce humility, clarity, virtue, detachment, and wisdom, or inflation, fanaticism, and self-importance? Does it make a distinction between mere psychic transmutation/well-being and Noetic realization? Criterion: The fruits of the spirit reveal the authenticity of the root. 7-How does it understand hierarchy and authority? Does it affirm the reality of gradations in realization, or does it dissolve all distinction under a false egalitarianism? Criterion: Recognition of authentic hierarchy reflects metaphysical realism. 8-What is its relationship to Truth — is it absolute yet inclusive, or relative and sentimental? Does it hold that Truth exists and can be known (however ineffably), or does it treat all beliefs as equal, subjective, or symbolic only? Criterion: True paths bow before Truth, not convenience. 9-Does it reconcile transcendence and immanence — or collapse one into the other? Does it perceive the Absolute as both beyond and within, maintaining polarity and mystery, or does it deny transcendence (humanism) or deny immanence (escapism)? Criterion: Wholeness without flattening is the mark of metaphysical maturity. To conclude, brief description of Metamodern Traditionalism: The term Metamodern Traditionalism emerges out of a perceived necessity to reconcile the metaphysical depth of the Traditionalist school (as articulated by figures such as René Guénon and Julius Evola) with the epistemological and cultural insights of modernity, postmodernity, and their integral successors. While the Traditionalists correctly identified the metaphysical impoverishment and desacralization inherent in modern life, their critique was frequently bound to a regressive nostalgia for premodern social forms and a cyclical conception of history that obscured the evolutionary and dialectical unfolding of Spirit. In this sense, they fell prey to what Ken Wilber has identified as the pre/trans fallacy: the confusion of pre-rational modes of consciousness with trans-rational modes, resulting in a romanticization of archaic forms rather than a genuine integration of higher ones. Metamodern Traditionalism seeks to redeem and refine the Traditionalist project by situating it within a broader, integrative framework of cultural development. It affirms the ontological primacy of metaphysical first principles and the hierarchical structure of Being, but it rejects the exclusionary stance toward modern and postmodern sensibilities characteristic of earlier Traditionalists. Instead, it endeavors to operate at what integral theory terms a “second-tier” level of cognitive complexity, one that can hold and integrate multiple paradigms without collapsing into relativism or dogmatism. This involves embracing the scientific rigor and instrumental rationality of modernity, the deconstructive and pluralistic insights of postmodernity, and the emerging metamodern ethos of oscillation between sincerity and irony, hope and critique—while simultaneously recovering the participatory, “enchanted” sensibility of the premodern world. At its core, Metamodern Traditionalism is a project of redemptive synthesis. It affirms that modernity, despite its evident alienations, constitutes a necessary phase in the dialectical and evolutionary self-unfolding of Spirit. History is not to be understood as a simple degeneration from an original Golden Age, but rather as a fractal movement of division and higher reunification, in which Spirit comes to know itself through increasingly complex and self-reflexive forms. From this perspective, the metaphysical insights of the Traditionalists can be preserved and deepened without collapsing into regressive archaism. The task is not to retreat from modernity or postmodernity, but to integrate their partial truths into a more comprehensive cosmology—one that re-enchants the world while preserving the gains of scientific rationality, reflexive subjectivity, and cultural pluralism. Thus, Metamodern Traditionalism positions itself as both heir and corrective to the Traditionalist school. It retains the metaphysical absolutism of Tradition while rejecting its historical fatalism, affirming instead a Hegelian dialectical progression of Spirit. It seeks to offer a framework capable of reconciling perennial metaphysics with contemporary complexity, not by reducing one to the other, but by weaving them into a higher synthesis. Its aim is not merely critique, but the construction of a worldview adequate to the full spectrum of human cultural sensibilities—from premodern to metamodern—thereby opening the possibility of a renewed spiritual order commensurate with the challenges of our time.

The postmodern spiritual marketplace is vast and fragmented, and it can be dizzying for seekers trying to orient themselves within it. Amid this abundance of teachings, movements, and practices, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between authentic forms of spirituality and their counterfeit or corrupted counterparts—between those paths that lead to genuine inner transformation and those that merely lead astray. In today’s globalized and pluralistic context, we face an unprecedented level of multiplicity. Without a coherent evaluative framework, it becomes nearly impossible to discern which traditions, movements, or groups are worthy of serious engagement and which are not. This is why we have developed a systematic framework for evaluating spiritual systems—a way to assess their validity and authenticity that strives to be universal and objective, yet nuanced and flexible. This evaluative framework forms part of a broader esoteric-philosophical system known as Metamodern Traditionalism, grounded in cultural theory, Integral Theory (Ken Wilber), and the Traditionalist School (Guénon, Schuon, Coomaraswamy, etc.). The first two were synthesized with the latter to correct what we perceive as the Traditionalist school’s core epistemic and historical limitations. A basic understanding of Traditionalist doctrine—especially the Guénonian formulation—will help contextualize what follows, though the ideas presented here are intended to be accessible even to those unfamiliar with that background. Here are some preliminary remarks and a brief introduction: To understand the purpose of this framework, it helps to grasp a few key ideas. Traditionalism, as articulated by thinkers such as René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon, holds that all authentic religions express a single metaphysical Truth—the Primordial Tradition—which transcends historical and cultural forms. However, Traditionalism often views modernity as a process of degeneration and rejects the possibility of spiritual evolution within history. We can think of it as a more rigorous and systematic Perennialism. Integral Theory, pioneered by Ken Wilber, approaches reality through developmental and multidimensional models of consciousness, emphasizing evolution, integration, and the coexistence of multiple valid perspectives. Cultural Theory—and specifically Metamodernism—explores the dialectical movement beyond modern and postmodern paradigms, toward a worldview capable of synthesizing sincerity and irony, faith and reason, transcendence and immanence. Metamodern Traditionalism unites these threads. It preserves the metaphysical depth and discernment of Traditionalism while integrating the developmental, pluralistic, and self-reflexive insights of Integral and Metamodern thought. The result is a framework that seeks not only to recover the sacred but to articulate it coherently within the conditions of contemporary consciousness. In order to understand the evaluative framework that follows, it is necessary to clarify a few fundamental principles which underlie this approach. These principles are drawn from the perennial metaphysical worldview, reformulated here in a contemporary language that integrates the insights of developmental and metamodern thought. 1. The Nature of Tradition “Tradition,” in the metaphysical sense, does not mean the mere repetition of ancestral customs or religious dogmas. It refers to a transcendent source of wisdom—a body of revealed and realized knowledge concerning the structure of Reality itself, its Divine Origin, and the path of return to that Origin. Every authentic civilization has, at its core, a transmission of this Primordial Tradition, expressed through symbolic, ritual, and doctrinal forms suited to its epoch and culture. Traditional spirituality thus recognizes the immutable principles behind all mutable forms. 2. The Vertical and the Horizontal Dimensions of Being Reality unfolds along two axes: the Vertical and the Horizontal. The Horizontal represents the plane of time, history, and becoming—psychological development, culture, and social evolution. The Vertical refers to the axis of transcendence—the eternal dimension of Being, consciousness, and the Absolute. Modern and postmodern paradigms have largely collapsed the Vertical into the Horizontal, reducing spirit to psyche or culture. Authentic spirituality restores this Vertical orientation, directing man upward toward the Real rather than outward into endless relativism or inward into mere subjectivity. 3. Initiation and Transmission Because the higher states of consciousness cannot be reached through theoretical knowledge or scattered and inconsistent practice alone, initiation is required. Initiation, in its true sense, is not a social ceremony but a metaphysical process of opening the higher centers of being, often mediated through a living lineage, realized teacher, or a rigorous process of self-initiation through both intense and disciplined theory and praxis(practice as opposed to theory). 4. Esotericism and Exotericism Another foundational principle of this framework is the distinction between Exotericism and Esotericism. Exotericism refers to the outward, institutional, and dogmatic aspect of religion — its moral codes, rituals, myths, and collective belief structures intended for the general faithful. It provides social cohesion and ethical guidance but remains within the domain of belief and form. Esotericism, by contrast, concerns the inner and transformative dimension of the spiritual path — the direct realization of metaphysical truths through inner illumination rather than external authority. It replaces dogmatic belief with participatory knowledge (gnosis): a direct, experiential apprehension of divine realities that transcends conceptual mediation. We are now moving on to the framework and presenting to you what we refer to as “The five axioms and the tripartite Typology: An evaluative framework of spiritual movements” First, the 5 Axioms Traditional standards of genuine spirituality/Five Pillars of Esoteric Orthodoxy: 1: Vertical Transcendence Authentic spirituality orients man toward what surpasses him — the Absolute, the Transcendent, the Unconditioned. It cannot be reduced to psychology, therapy, lifestyle enhancement, material gains, or even mere “peace of mind”, and recognizes that a true spiritual path must point beyond mere therapeutic self-improvement. It also recognizes a transcendent, absolute, infinite Principle that is the source of all existence, and towards which all of creation is teleologically oriented. There is a clear distinction between the Vertical line of Being and the Horizontal line of Becoming. This includes the distinction between the Psychic and the Spiritual/Noetic ; Genuine spirituality discerns between psychic phenomena and noetic illumination. Experiences of energy, emotion, vision, or temporary altered states are subordinate to the realization of the Self beyond form. 2: Hierarchical Ontology Authentic spirituality recognizes itself as a path along a hierarchical Chain of Being and aims at conscious developmental unfoldment along this chain. It recognizes gradations of spiritual attainment and an initiatory hierarchy that needs to be ascended. 3: Praxis/Ascesis Authentic spirituality requires sustained Praxis— disciplined practice aimed at the vertical unfoldment of consciousness — as opposed to merely theory. 4: Lineage and transmission Not absolutely necessary but optimal(by a large margin). Authentic spirituality ideally operates within a lineage of transmission, ensuring continuity of realization and method. Yet when such formal chains are inaccessible, the seeker may still attune inwardly to the living archetype of Tradition, provided this is approached with seriousness, discernment, and unwavering rigor and discipline. 5: Gnosis(Participatory Epistemology) Authentic spirituality is always centered around Gnosis — a mode of knowing that is participatory, transformative, and ontological rather than merely conceptual and ideological; a direct apprehension of Transcendent realities. It transcends the dualism between subject and object by uniting knower and known in direct realization. Gnosis is not belief in metaphysical truths, but the realization of them through conscious participation in the living fabric of Being. Secondly, the Tripartite Typology A Typology of Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern Spiritual Movements: From Counter-Initiation to Authentic Tradition Classification system: •Initiatic Orthodoxy/Canonical Esotericism -Denotes movements that are sufficiently aligned with the Five Pillars of Esoteric Orthodoxy to make them fully legitimate spiritual currents -“Orthodoxy” here means right alignment with flexible Principle and analytic criteria(on a spectrum scale), not dogma. •Esoteric Heterodoxy/Semi-Initiatic Currents(Redeemable movements) -Legitimate initiatic content present, but with distortions or partial errors (pre/trans confusions, excessive psychologism, confusion of Psychic/Noetic etc) •Counter-Initiatic Currents/Pseudo-Esotericism/Inverted Spirituality -Movements that simulate initiation but actually invert or sever the Vertical axis, replacing transcendence with psychic inflation or materialization, effectively collapsing the Vertical into the Horizontal. Simulacra of Tradition. “LARPers”. -“Inverted” points to ontological reversal, not just moral error. The question now arises: In light of this typology, how do we classify the various spiritual groups/movements/traditions into the three tiers? What standards do we use and how do we use those standards to rank spiritual lineages into those categories? Well, since this framework was only recently developed, it doesn’t have some rigorous, empirical, scientific method of evaluation here(part of the reason we use the word “Typology” and not “Taxonomy”). We merely use a soft(more grounded in common intuition) and basic measuring system: First, we base our analysis on the five axioms/pillars we outlined above. Then, we take a certain spiritual group/movement/tradition, and score it against each pillar on a scale of 5 points, for a maximum possible score of 25. Then, we multiply the final result by four and it gives us a percentage. The percentages associated with each tier are as follows: •Below 50% = Counter-Initiatic Currents/Pseudo-Esotericism/Inverted Spirituality •50-80% = Esoteric Heterodoxy/Semi-Initiatic Currents(Redeemable movements) •80%+ = Initiatic Orthodoxy/Canonical Esotericism Here is an exemple with a concrete movement to illustrate this evaluative method: We take the Pragmatic Dharma movement 1st Axiom — Vertical Transcendence: Consciousness work oriented toward supra-personal experience, Nibbana, cessation - explicitly vertical. Caveat being a focus on “emptiness”, and a lack of consideration for the “Infinite”, “Absolute” side of the coin. Score: 3/5 2nd Axiom — Hierarchical Ontology: Theravada maps: Mind & Body, Cause & Effect, Three Characteristics, A&P, Dark Night, Equanimity, Four Path Model - RIGOROUS hierarchy. Score: 5/5 3rd Axiom — Praxis/Ascesis: Serious, ometimes absurdly rigorous. However, solitary practice is in most cases prone to procrastination and a falling back in unconscious tendencies, off the path. Score: 3/5 4th Axiom — Lineage and Transmission: Traditional Dharmic Doctrine provided in a Western context. Mahasi Sayadaw tradition, legitimate Theravada transmission, etc, just informal presentation. Score: 3/5 5th Axiom — Gnosis(Participatory Epistemology): Direct phenomenological investigation as fundamental to Dharmic doctrine. Score: 5/5 Final score on 5 levels of analysis: 3+5+3+3+5 = 19/25 x 4 = 76%. This places the Pragmatic Dharma in the upper levels of the second tier of classification: Esoteric Heterodoxy/Semi-Initiatic Currents(Redeemable movements). As can be seen, the framework is still far from rigorous, but we believe is still strong enough to effectively pressure-test spiritual doctrines and separate wheat from chaff in our current 21st century, Postmodern, globalized spiritual landscape.

I am not rich (yet), I don't look cool, nor have I had sex, yet I feel like I am peaking. I am 18. Been watching actualized.org since I was 15, lots of shit happened but right now: I have read about 50+ books, a lot of which are from the book list, took so much notes and learned so much I was an introverted guy who had only one friend and can't talk. I forced myself to go out of my bubble and have went on hundreds of random adventures, encounters and made so much friends, even though I am still an introvert and I hate socializing. Now I have connections everywhere in my country and other countries and I know someone for every thing I ever need Going deep into spirituality and feeling reality shattering sober Published a research paper, have around 20 certificates in various things like marketing and programming, finished an internship, won a hackathon, did a graduation project as a freshman, getting a patent soon, and excelling academically while being a second year student at university in my field (AI and robotics engineering) Changed the trajectory of the lives of a lot of people I know to the better, having a direct influence on them Having the opportunity to learn from people who are much better than me Did a lot of public speaking in local events Started making content recently (in Arabic) Been heart broken twice, really strengthened me Staring a company soon that probably will fail but will try my best for the learning experience All of this while being from a third world country, fatherless, and a war survivor. I was born brain washed with Islam and I had to get out, this is where actualized.org got in and I am confident to say it had the biggest impact on me. Yet here is the problem: I have self-hatred issues and I noticed I have a fear of being ordinary, I act differently socially just because I don't want to feel "ordinary", this was not a conscious thing, it took a lot of jouranling to figure this out. I feel like all this I am doing is just the interface, I don't feel like I am growing enough on the inside, my character is not... developing? I feel like I am not changing in a fundamental way, but maybe its just supposed to be gradual. I feel like I am never good enough, despite doing all this, I feel like a fraud I want the key for real inner change and transformation I want to be able to change grow in a serious way that I feel like I outgrew my previous self I want to be able to build real strength and identity that is not dependent on any outside achievement I will contemplate the answer for myself and I want to compare what I get with your answers, so give me your thoughts.

You mean densities of consciousness. It's ok. I forgive you. Here's a cookie: First Density – Being Ancient Element: Earth (stability, form) Science: Matter (atoms, minerals, physical laws) Consciousness: Awareness of existence, solidity. “I exist.” Second Density – Life Ancient Element: Water (flow, growth, feeling) Science: Biological evolution, instinct, DNA self-organization Consciousness: Awareness of life, movement, desire. “I live.” Third Density – Self Ancient Element: Air (thought, communication, freedom) Science: Symbolic thought, language, self-reflection, time-consciousness Consciousness: Awareness of self as separate. Choice and polarity. “I am.” Fourth Density – Love Ancient Element: Fire (transformation, energy, passion) Science: Collective coherence, heart-brain resonance, emergent unity fields Consciousness: Awareness of unity through compassion. “We are one.” Fifth Density – Wisdom Ancient Element: Ether (aether/space — the subtle “fifth element”) Science: Higher-dimensional information fields, light-as-consciousness Consciousness: Awareness of truth, light, clarity. “I am light.” Sixth Density – Unity of Love & Wisdom Ancient Element: Harmony of all four + ether (balanced wholeness) Science: Unified field theory — matter, energy, space, and time integrated Consciousness: Awareness of oneness. Love + wisdom fully integrated. “I am all.” Seventh Density – Gateway to Infinity Ancient Element: The Void (pure potential, beyond elements) Science: Quantum vacuum / singularity — source of all fields Consciousness: Awareness dissolving into Source. “I am the One.” Eighth Density – The Octave Ancient Element: The Cosmic Cycle restarting Science: A new universe, a new octave of vibration Consciousness: Infinite renewal, like the 8th note beginning a new song. Not to brag or anything, but yes, this is an 8th density or octave consciousness speaking to your 3rd density face. Light years away from where you currently believe you are. mWa.

NYC freetour notes Marzcell Klein: #1 reason people will trust you is if you’re confident, how you dress, how you carry yourself. the reason you will be confident is if people have liked you. Vulnerability is confident. honest and trustworthy, openness, vulnerability are the #1 signals you can trust someone. we are in rapport with people who are like us or who we want to be like confidence comes from teaching yourself not to hide things from others shortcut to sales calls and relationships is pure authenticity. if you play games you will be fighting a massive battle and always chasing. whatever triggers you or hurts you tells you you have an insecurity. if i feel hurt when a girl doesn’t like me its because i am insecure about my likeability 3 things to create rapport -body language, mirrors neurons, having similar body language builds rapport. with confidence and presence this comes naturally -tone -words, saying words or things youre not supposed to say builds trust pacing and leading physical things builds rapport abundant paradigm prevents you from needing something from someone insecurity is essentially belief. every insecurity creates its own reality. RAS allows you to maintain a belief, generalizes, deletes, distorts. if you want to find out your limiting beliefs, ask why you aren’t where you want to be write out a massive goal, right after you visualize something like that you will feel big excitement, then your limiting beliefs will come up. if you’re afraid to ask for money, you have a limiting beliefs and will charge small prices -social calibration to someones emotional state law of state transference happens with mirror neurons. a dog barks and does a bunch of stuff, could become violent so it is scary when someone isnt calm. confidence allowed you to learn things faster Owen notes guard your time preciously when selling something, being very engaged but not attached to outcome signals the right energy, giving not taking -pitch -1st understand is that most sales bullshit is a waste of time -people in a high paradigm are shuffling the ball down the field, things are moving. unlike flurry of activity going nowhere -people dont pitch because they have a scarcity poverty mentality, which can also lead to not being willing to charge a good amount. people go to do the cta and they tense up ive got to have a great product, work on developing it so i really believe in it stack sale because i love it. Add a bunch of bonuses that will help the client get the result, that's how you know what to stack. PEOPLE WILL get the value that they invest, once you realize that you will feel good at a higher price. i need to think about for myself, the value that they will get out of it. the beggining of sales is inner game. they cant value you or the service if they dont have an investment like once a girl has sex with you, she can see your value, and will invest and be in love if you dont do good sales all this action goes to nothing making a thorough youtube series on my pitch, this will get multiple rois, i will also learn how to do my pitch his idea of a speech that doesnt go anywhere is the same as game that doesnt go anywhere sales is like instead of just talking in the club, passionate sex and going into nature together a sales pitch is a fine tuned surgery, it is very sensitive to interference the skills of game, sales skills, will pay off no matter what. high levels of syngery, the inner game of sales is understanding that people will get the value that they pay. you got the persons brain to attribute the dollar amount to the transformation john carleton kickass copyrighting secrets of a marketing rebel dan kennedy no bs 1st thing john carleton explains is people think they know marketing just like girls think they know what theyre attracted to. example of big corporations doing billboards doesnt work you learn to talk in a way that makes impact and moves people. sales done properly is so beautiful. every word is a pitch. everything must be sales copy. if its not generaring movement its just blabber if youre not going to sell someone, have a great energetic exchange. the equivalent with girls is not needing sex, but also wanting it all (travel to nature) life creation communication thats leading somewhere this was all a sales repitch getting you excited about these things is controlling RAS. its all on autopilot for him, he was talking about how he is doing this, and it all goes on autopilot. push and pull, fractionation at a certain point you get tired of game and pitches that go nowhere part of sales is showing genuine emotion its all a vortex of sales he is just selling sales again and again and again. keeps talking about how awesome the thing is, example after example get people to realize the dumb shit they blow money on, how little it is this has all been the inner game of learning sales. different scenarios of everything you can do with it. example after example Format of sales Hook features story that represents a problem widget pain pleasure, “do you want your communication to move people, do you want to do a wayne nutton(talking that goes nowhere)” this structure combined with speaking skills example: who is going to make money, sales, or a harvard degree pressure on pressure off is doing the sales thing then just relaxing feature and benefits, higher and lower self benefits in group out group frame how they get value in excess of the price to get repeats i wanna be laughing, learning, auditing failure, or moving people if they have resistance, keep stacking features benefits, say youre looking for the right person, in group out group when youre doing sales you teach the why not the how. just features and benefits takeaway in a high point in sales, similar to in game. headliner hook social proof credentials personal story features and benefits risk reversal when you click on a typical youtube video, you click right off. avoid sunk cost bias, view it objectively. these components should grab them by the overalls, and drag them into the video. think very carefully about the title, you have to test it there is a spectrum from in person to video to text sales. with a video they could click off any time high traffic, low competition score for title hire someone for thumbnails immediate sharp breaking rapport tonality. the moment you break tension they click off. its all objective language in the start. the hook can poke them, do a pattern interrupt, massive certainty, break past autopilot, congruent. i must record a video every single week, so that by the time i actually launch, you pick the one with the best sub communication or else there is way too much pressure positition yourself as an expert, actual credibility, social proof, speak with authority credibility is not credentials. its what youve done for people a coach has potential credibility because they are outside the box, but there are also snake oil salesmen. social proof, congruence, you can do real credentials later on always trying to balance value with comfort and trust. just tell the facts of what youve done figure out your niche first xyz problem for xyz person in xyz novel way social proof is the most powerful speak with objective language, ‘i do great coaching’ is subjective if you do one wrong thing it shuts the door buying temp goes up then cta zyz ppl over xyz years, or examplr of client numbers locations(comtinents) results they wont shut down, hes just sharing information. this is all leading to a cta cta is abt goving, the ask must b a give the whole thing must be a give. when you can feel in your body belief in your product is a good time to record tell your story is next, builds trust, relatable, how you were in heaven v hell david goggins story bc he was fat tear of how your life was before n after service descriptive language, deep into feeling it has to be real, the self is always shining through evoke feeling show dont tell the transformation what is time delay on that then features and benefits -can come before or after^ celebrity or brands youre associated with, or just that you are aligned with. when it comes to these things, it must be smooth effortless nonqualifying, also subcommunication if youre too nervous or excited. because its a normal thing in your reality, they want to jump into your reality bubble then do risk reversal gets more sales landing page llc payment processor merchant account, license, pump all money into right staff book financial intelligence this is a to b paradigm b to c is energy sign up now, bonus, tied to fast action, not give it away all the time, creates scarcity and urgency what is the industry, what is the offer, what is my avatar, frame a deal perception is reality, fuck with price to make it look better, 99, 3 payments, financing sooner buy discount. countdown clock address that there is a group, community, its like becoming a bf gf versus fucking a hooker, with the community consult marketers, do deep work on smooth n welcoming as possible the presentation must be beautiful if outsourcing sales you need good people Sid the missing thing to making money is always energy and clarity and presence. its a different fuel source. what is your brain constantly looping on youre not evolutionarily wired to see the opportunities that are all around you you should be channeling more energy than you can handle when you visualize. visualize what you actually want your life to look like upward spiral where it feels good because you are growing put pressure on yourself by being around people on a high level, fire under your ass plus carrot and if you actually just love the craft act on imperfect information paradigm of time for working flow state from work delegation structuring says no to everything else made lifestyle a priority part of enduring a job is acceptance and presence in a situation that sucks. after work bad habits instagra good habits, meditate, eat, work, learn maintain these archetypes of passion logic competition leadership creativity, impact try different passions what have i been building on for years realistic world class lane where do i have unfair connections talk to masters of the field, do you like them pick at some point n commit theres an uncanny vally when there is just a bit of incongruence when you do a cta you must feel like you are genuinely giving something the risk reversal helps with this is there a misalignment of words and actions you will see peoples red flags show up under pressure -quietly build your leverage back if needed -have more alliances and not npd friends -do not engage in these games become the gray rock, do not engage in useless conversations vision, creating artistic challenging large food forest projects, traveling all the time, nature exploration. not having to worry about money for any basic things. changing the agricultural system. relentless tim grover, star sports players had this dark pain that drove them what is the cost of not doing these things, years of shitty dating life, having to get a shit job again youre always moving too slow, post the videos, run cold traffic. move and iterate train the body to handle adrenaline, adrenaline is a priveledge, ussually evolutionarily we would feel it all the time. marzcel your mindset and beliefs are a strategy to get things -beliefs -emotions -patterns if you believe you can get what you want, you will. that is confidence what is my map currently doing if you are not getting the result, your map doesn’t actually know how to get it my money map -it is scarce, i can only make 2x what i’m making now. my women map -i don’t want to talk to them, i assume they wont like me. ibrahem -frame is something youre in 24/7 -in any interactions owens sales process he has this whole frame, this general understanding of how all of this works, that everything relates back to, e.g casually mentions that he has to scale the company so wont be teaching pickup for much longer. features and benefits all the time. how these skills can affect your life. i need to write out and perfect a general sales frame, it can go deep on features and benefits, not ‘how to’. this meta frame is what i will use for vsl, sales call, youtube videos. sids mergers and acquisitions sales speech, he is explaining the how of to do mNa, he is explaining the how and why he is painting a story of his life part of sids sales process is the manic episode, explaining how seeing whats possible helps is part of the frame. the mindset and energy is what opens people up subtle art of not giving a fuck Owen likes to read the sermon on the mount, the gospels

I hear the logic, but it doesn't apply to enlightenment. I suspect it's impossible for us to hear that it is not an experience, because we have no contrast for us to understand that. All we have is our experience - this is where we'll look. We tend to think it requires a method, or that it is a process - that it will change something or improve our experience - that being in a Zen monastery is more likely to "cause" it than being in a library or on a beach - or that it couldn't occur while we're depressed, miserable, distracted, or even taking a shower. Bring up what you think enlightenment is, and then consider that it isn't any of that. This is the point that is very easily overlooked. Experiencing this impossibility for oneself is more powerful than just believing it. It’s an analogy: obviously, waking up is what we're calling enlightenment. The idea is that action occurs within the dream, and so it is different from the realization itself. Hence the impossibility argument. It's impossible to get "from here to there." It isn't an experience. It is sudden and direct. And yet, it is possible for you to "get" it now - go figure. That's the gist of it. One enlightenment doesn't make you all-knowing overnight; ignorance remains. It usually takes several breakthroughs before one would be considered awakened. Yet this "over time" process doesn't change what you are, nor does it change the fact that each breakthrough is sudden. You may know your nature, but not what an emotion is, for example. At some point the attempt to fabricate a worldview out of this will crumble because it isn't mappable or able to be fit into an mentally graspable form. Something like that. You are already you. (!) The best one can do within the dream seems to be to remain open and genuinely want to know what's true - yet even this is just the action you take while "waiting" for enlightenment. What I said doesn't invalidate that certain experiences can help focus the mind, for example - which may put you in a better state to question, among other things. The Zen master is simply telling the monks to pay attention - or helping them stay awake. From the perspective of the dream, direct consciousness generally has to be "worked on," as it's unlikely to just "fall on your ass," as it seemingly did with Maharshi. But in actuality there's no real requirement other than to get it now. And you can do since it isn't something different from you, nor a grandiose state, spiritual fantasy, or achievement - it's what you are. I don't know why or how, but it turns out we are ignorant of our nature. Maybe because we're so distracted by or involved with our perceptive-experience. It's a bit ironic that the truth of ourselves seems so elusive while untruth is so easy to come by. And I'm not against conceptualization - conceptualize all you want; we already do it anyway. The suggestion is simply that you won't arrive at enlightenemnt by a process of figuring things out. It transcends the mind and perception. Nor am I against psychedelics as a stance, by the way. I'm just saying they don't increase consciousness. They may assist in transformation, healing, opening your mind, learning, or generating insights - but they don't lead to enlightenment. There. Now throw this out and get enlightened.

Nothing needs to change, and whatever happens in the brain is a secondary side effect and shouldn't be the focus. It's absolute and prior to the brain. It was the case before you had a body - as if. Don't turn this into a cosmology. What you're talking about may better be called healing, but no healing, transformation, or process needs to take place for that. Again, it's useful to really revisit the reality that we actually do not know what this "direct" business is about.

Exactly haha. Even the creation of USA/Australia are the perfect examples of how Europeans have to meddle into everything. I mean for a group of people to steal/genocide not one but two entire literal continents is something so unique to them. Nobody else has stolen/genocide even one continent. We aren't talking countries here but continents. The natives of both of those continents are still treated like subhuman trash to this day Then everything that came after is what you just wrote about. All while pretending to care about gays and women. Gays who they treated like trash just 20 years ago. Women who are made fun of for being "prudes" which means they aren't allowed to retain their dignity or respect. Look at women's clothing they only have clothing available for hooker streetwear. No modest clothing as that is "not the right thing to do as a woman". So they treat everyone like trash but pretend to be the moral authority of the entire planet. Just a war like animal people with no signs of transformation or evolution Even with definitive proof they just retreat to their propaganda, lies, deflections, and projection just to double down on their sickness. They are only ever defending their own misery, slavery, and aggression and withholding from themselves true progress and humanity

These are all the exercises from the book Zen-body Being: Chapter 2: Origins and Influences Mental Training Practice (implied exercise) Ralston describes his process: Sit in a chair and mentally rehearse techniques. Don't just visualize what it looks like - recreate the exact feeling of doing it. Feel your body position, your partner's weight on each foot, the texture of the gi fabric, the pressure on your legs, the arc of motion as you turn, even the sweat. Make the mental experience identical to the physical one. Practice until you're just as bad mentally as physically, then work to correct actions mentally. Check results physically at the dojo. Go back and forth between mental and physical training until you achieve perfect execution mentally, then test it physically. Chapter 3: Feeling-Awareness Lifting Your Hand Exercise Lift your hand several times while investigating: How do you "will" your hand to go up? What actually gets the hand up? Notice that you generate a feeling-impulse - it's the feeling of "lifting your hand." Now close your eyes and raise your hand. Notice how you know your hand is moving and where it is once lifted. Excluding sight, you perceive the arm's position by feeling it's raised. Study the subtle sensation, the feeling-impulse responsible for lifting. Isolate the sensations that let you perceive where your arm is in space. Notice that without this sensory feedback, you'd have no idea where your arm is. Practice until you can consciously experience both the feeling-impulse that lifts and the feeling-perception that tracks position. Whole Body Feeling Exercise Put your attention on your whole body at once. What's there? What do you feel? Do you feel every part? Now, starting with your toes, consciously feel every cubic inch of your body up to the top of your head. Unless you've practiced extensively, you'll miss a great deal - and some of what you miss, you won't even notice you're missing. Repeat this practice. Each time, you should feel your body a little more. Continue developing whole-body awareness as an ongoing adventure rather than something to finally accomplish. Freshly and repeatedly seek what's present, remaining open and excited about discovering something new. Feeling Your Feet Exercise Can you feel your feet? Put your feeling-attention on the heels, arches, each toe. If you can't "find" them through feeling alone, wiggle your toes or rub your feet together. This is a tiny but crucial shift - feeling as opposed to thinking about feeling. When you suspend your habit of knowing and authentically question something "simple" like feeling your feet, you immediately increase awareness possibilities. Continue feeling your feet for a while. Over time, notice real increase in awareness, perhaps warming sensation. Try to relax the whole foot - only possible by feeling the whole foot. See if you can feel the foot more and more until you're very aware of and sensitive to its presence. If you honestly let go of assumptions about feeling your feet and opened to deeper awareness, you've enhanced your experience. The next step is feeling the whole body this way. Pure Feeling Exercise Put attention on your body. Feel the most basic sensation of you and your body simply existing in this moment. Forget about space around your body - let it go. Don't concentrate on the inside of your body either (that makes the outside show up). Put all attention on whole-body feeling. Even though body sensations may be primary, concentrate on the feeling itself. Let go of considerations of "cause" and the specific form feeling takes. Don't search for the feeling of all of it - just feel all that's there. Don't think. Feel. Relax (concentration may elicit tightness). Simply feel without knowing where feeling comes from or what it means. Feel as if the feeling-sensation of "body-being" is detached from everything. Simply feel the presence of feeling. See if you can get to pure feeling without association to it being a sensation attached to body, or emotion, or cause. Just feeling. Now concentrate on this feeling. Amplify it, go further into it. Keep it free of attachment or meaning. Dwell on the feeling. Fall into it. Keep feeling. What is that? Try to experience the essential nature of feeling. What is feeling itself? Wonder about that for a moment. Try this exercise multiple times at different times to experience it from varying states of mind. Spatial Awareness in the Shower Exercise In the shower with eyes closed while shampooing, notice: Do you know exactly where the soap dish is in space? Can you reach and grab the water handle as if eyes were open? Try it. Make a game of sensing where everything is: each wall in all directions, soap, shower head, shampoo bottle, ledge, each corner, hanging items, whatever features you have. Don't forget behind you. Choose several items representing three-dimensional awareness. Try reaching out to lightly touch each exactly where it's located. With practice, spatial sense improves and you learn to pay more attention. Do this exercise in any dark place with irregular terrain (safely navigable), observing where it's most comfortable to shine a flashlight and why. Chapter 4: Learning, Being, and Creating Internal Dialogue Exercise Sit quietly and attempt to have no thoughts. Since you'll likely have thoughts anyway, watch them arise. Notice how you talk to yourself in your head. This impulse is ongoing, so practice anytime. Observe how internal dialogue persists even as you attempt to stop it. Now concentrate on what you're going to say to yourself next. See if you can grasp it before you say it. Work on this until you can grasp the thought you're going to think before it becomes a sentence in your head. You actually conceive the thought before speaking the sentence to yourself. Notice this - if not completely prior to hearing words, at least notice what the whole sentence will be before you finish saying it. Once you've reached this sensitivity level, try having a thought without representing it with a sentence. It can be done. Notice you can "know" a thought in a moment without any sentence filling it out. With this degree of sensitivity, notice how hard it is NOT to talk to yourself about thoughts. The intellect is irresistibly drawn to map what's already there so we can examine or "think" it. This practice helps you work at the source where thoughts originate, enabling better "control" of mental processes. Generating Feeling Exercise Think of a sensation you could have in your body - warmth in belly, buzzing in hands, lightness in space around body - and concentrate on this feeling in or around your body until you can "physically" feel at least something close to it. This gives experience of the possibilities of creating feeling. The sensation must seem real to your nervous system for it to influence body and mind. Practice making generated feelings vivid enough that your brain perceives them as physical reality. Examples: standing on high poles, molecular vibration throughout body, warm sensation in lower belly or feet, tingling in fingers, feeling like sinking under floor or floating above head, flowing feeling throughout limbs. Chapter 5: The Principles of an Effective Body-Being Relaxing Practice Send a feeling-impulse through your nervous system telling muscles to let go. Whatever tension you're immediately aware of will let go - like flopping on couch after hard day, dropping raised shoulders while typing, loosening grip when handing over telephone. For deeper relaxation: Keep sending the "letting go" signal. The longer it's sent, the more deeply tissues relax. Once initial relaxation occurs, more signals can be sent to same tissues and they'll respond with further relaxation. Flood whole body with this impulse, relaxing generally rather than responding to specific functional demands. For third-stage relaxation: Maintain feeling-impulse for long periods, perhaps continually. After muscles relax deeply, they still respond to the letting-go impulse by slowly changing condition over time, obtaining greater suppleness. This requires long, steady exposure to deep letting go - potentially hours daily over extended periods. As you relax body, mind also relaxes. Attitudes, moods, emotions, thought processes are necessarily affected. Mind is where tension originates - relaxation cannot be accomplished without letting go in mind. "Relax your mind" and discover this is the same as feeling and relaxing your whole body. Feeling the Whole Body Practice Begin by attempting to feel your body. Notice areas you don't feel or don't feel clearly. Repeatedly concentrate on these areas to yield sensation. The more you train, the more you feel. At various points, set out to feel whole body at once, not just sum of parts. Practice feeling any one area, each detail, or groups of body parts, but also practice feeling the whole. When walking, sitting, lying down, feel your whole body doing these things. At first, this is eye-opening as you comprehend the missing unity. Continue even as interest lessens. It's your body and life. Feel how every part is involved (or not) in each activity. This turns mundane events - taking out garbage, sitting in chair, picking up pencil - into practice opportunities and often exhilarating experiences of being alive. Spatial Awareness Training Imagine walking with large billowy cape flowing behind you. This helps lift posture, brings consciousness to your "back" and space behind you, increases sense of presence. Put attention on space around you. Try to stay centered within awareness so you don't exclude back in favor of front, one side over the other, or focus on what demands attention to exclusion of space elsewhere. Work to keep comprehensive sense of spatial awareness - inclusive rather than exclusive. Make up exercises to assist training spatial awareness. Simply remembering to feel whole body or relax will go far as an exercise. You're best person to guide yourself to greater awareness. Centering Exercises Physically sense the lower abdomen area. This should locate the center of body mass. Practice putting attention there, making this central location the hub from which you direct body actions. Generate a feeling of your center being the control point for all movement. Rag Doll Exercise Stand where you won't bump into anything. Relax whole body, put awareness on center. Start moving center slightly, rotating one way then another. Drop shoulders, relax arms, then relax more until able to totally let go of arms so they flop freely as center rotates slightly. Now, using only the center, increase pelvic movement and use it to toss your completely limp arms out and away from body. As you turn hips rotating left and right, arms will arc out and may slap against body, but don't control arms - let them move wherever they go. Work up to tossing every part of body solely from center, letting it freely flop around, being completely relaxed. This loosens joints and muscles, gives good sense of center, and practices moving whole body literally from center. Your body must feel as limp as rag doll or wet noodle for practice to change tissue and nervous system habits. Stay with it even if initially difficult. Aligning with Gravity Exercise Stand very still and relax. Slowly move awareness throughout whole body, relaxing every muscle. As you relax, feel how gravity's pull and your need for balance work together to "stack" body from ground upwards. Keep relaxing and allow body to adjust itself. Feel your feet resting on ground. Create sensation of allowing feet to fall right into floor. Begin working up, letting each body part relax and fall onto the one below it. As you let go of holding body, some parts (like pelvis) may shift to more natural position, causing upper body to adjust to maintain balance without effort. Allow these changes and keep feeling like you're dropping downward - simply arrange whole body so you're dropping into your feet. Seek and find the most effortless way to do this. Don't fight gravity's pull - align to it. Force of Gravity Exercise Lie on back with arms and legs flat on floor. Relax whole body. Using no strength (or as little as possible), lift one body part after another just a fraction off ground. Lift head, arm, leg, finger. Feel the force pulling it down. By using no strength and remaining totally relaxed, feel how heavy everything is to lift, revealing the force pulling everything down. When presence of this force is fully felt, begin process of standing. Slowly go through each stage of standing, being fully conscious of gravity's pull throughout. Notice movements and muscles used for standing, usually ignored or taken for granted. If at any time you find yourself skipping over feeling present force of gravity during some motion, go back to beginning and start again. Do this until standing. Once standing, continue feeling gravity's pull through whole body into feet. At another time, starting upright, try reproducing the feeling from above exercise (feeling gravity's force), and adjust body accordingly. Practice until you can move into this feeling-alignment at will. Standing on Pilings Exercise To increase sense of grounding, balance, and alignment to gravity, imagine standing high atop thick poles sticking up from ground. Really use imagination until you create sense of standing up high on these pilings. Shift or step from pole to pole, concentrating on feeling pressure on foot moving straight down on top of pole all the way into ground where pole is buried. Chapter 6: Structural Alignment Find Your Footing Exercise Practice standing on both feet and feel pressure in every part of each foot. Is it mostly on outside edge, inside edge, ball, or heel? Feel bottoms of feet and relax whole foot and ankle as much as possible. Move body weight ever so slightly until you can feel ankle is loose and floating, and foot is not disturbed by body movement. Stand still and try feeling pressure evenly distributed over whole foot and centered in middle of foot. Imagine foot is like soft clay being squished evenly onto ground. Test yourself by bouncing up and down ever so slightly without letting feet leave ground at all. Feel where pressure is in feet. If it isn't even and balanced, make adjustments in body's movement or structure until pressure is even and centered. Make sure feet remain relaxed and aren't themselves trying to compensate for this slight body movement. Relax legs and pelvis and feel them connected directly to feet. When clear that weight of lower body is resting on ground, focus awareness on entire upper body and allow it to rest on pelvis, which rests on legs, which rest on feet, which rest on ground. Once established, align structure with gravity's pull until you develop sense of whole relaxed body balanced directly on feet. When you've done this enough and feel confident in feeling weight balanced and settled in feet, take a few steps trying to maintain this feeling in motion. If you lose this relaxed and balanced sensation, stop and re-establish before stepping again. If having difficulty: Try standing with feet on ground and lifting weight from tree limb or pole just overhead. Slowly lower weight onto feet as you focus on allowing pressure to spread evenly on ground. Walking Line Exercise While walking, note whether feet naturally fall straight ahead or turn out or in. Find some line on ground - groove in sidewalk or painted line in parking lot - and use it to closely observe any deviation as you walk. One foot may fall straight while other turns in or out. If feet turn inward or outward, try making them point straight ahead with each footfall and walk that way for a while. Pay close attention to sensations in legs, hips, back. You should be able to isolate feelings of tension or mild pain somewhere that are origins of misalignment. Once sources are identified, set out on program to relax, stretch, or otherwise rehabilitate the area(s), and feet should turn straight again. In some cases, problem may be substantial - genetic or result of trauma early in development. Correction may require serious attention (bodywork, great commitment) and may be more work than it's worth. Such cases are rare. Don't confuse having to take on work with impossibility. If having challenges, go slowly at first and wait a day or two to see how you feel before proceeding. Moving an Object Exercise Find movable object (chair on smooth floor, sliding glass door) and choose simple task: pushing chair or sliding door open/shut. At first, line up to task and go through motions so gently that it doesn't even move object. Feel where in body you may be moving in direction that isn't aligned with task. For example, you may push with just upper body, "pinching off" at waist. Feel the whole until you find unity, but continue looking into details. Are you pressing out elbows or shoulders? Are wrists misaligned? Perhaps you find you're moving knees in direction that doesn't serve this task. As you discover these subtle "leaks," make corrections until every part functions together as whole. Now, keeping body relaxed, use as little effort as possible to move object. As you do, feel where in body there's slightly more strain or pressure. Try again until you can smooth out these areas and perform task with even distribution of pressure throughout whole body. Now concentrate on hand(s) touching object and practice moving slightly until you can feel connection from hand to foot. Beginning with this connection and maintaining it throughout, move object without allowing any strain to build anywhere in body. Remember to stay very relaxed so you can sense slightest misalignment. Same approach applies to virtually every task. For example, practice lifting lightweight kitchen chair. Position yourself so you can bend knees. Keep back straight (even if slightly bent forward) and grasp either side of seat. Keeping arms relaxed, simply feel weight of chair in hands. Before lifting, feel chair's weight stretch up through arms to shoulders. Keeping arms outstretched, feel this pressure connect down shoulders to pelvis, then to legs and feet. Once you feel unity and connection from chair to floor, drop pelvis down and forward slightly and into legs to lift. Practice until you can find alignments quickly and do it without any strain. Nose with Navel Exercise Practice turning head and pelvis together as one unit. Wherever nose points, keep navel pointed in same direction. This helps familiarize you with sense of whole-body integrity. Combine this with Rag Doll Exercise. In this way, get sense of using center to move whole body as one unified piece, with torso, arms, and legs all moving together. Chapter 8: Mind and Perception Walking with a Cape Exercise Imagine walking around with large billowy cape flowing out behind you as you move. This helps lift posture, brings to consciousness sense of your "back" and space behind you, and increases sense of presence. Practice this visualization until it affects your actual body carriage and spatial awareness. Chapter 10: Life Practice Lifting a Melting Candle Exercise Imagine whole body feels like soft, melted candle wax, and on top of head is wick of candle. Lift body from squatting position as if wick on head is pulling body up. As you lift up, feel whole body drain downward like melting wax - only thing moving up is wick. This image-sensation helps align with gravity and embody "reach up while sinking down" rule. Also assists relaxation and helps establish stronger grounding. These are all the major exercises explicitly detailed in the book. Each requires regular practice to develop the consciousness and sensitivity necessary for transformation. The book emphasizes that exercises must be practiced, not just read about, and that you should also invent your own exercises based on your particular needs and discoveries.

The speakers included Owen Cook, Marczell Klein, Sid Samtaney, Zac and Damon Day 1 Limiting beliefs come down to you not believing you can Everything you do should come from what you want Biggest limiting belief is that it takes a long time If you change your mindset you change your life quickly Anyone who has success in anything isn’t doing from a difficult paradigm Beliefs and Desires conflict and create inner conflict Stop thinking it’s hard When you look a tour life that’s what you optimized for If you wanna improve your life optimize for want you want Guy with delusional confidence wins Invisible mental barrier, limiting beliefs create an internal war inside Best skill is to liberate yourself from limiting beliefs Charisma, Internal self-belief and going after it Best skill - skill to control my own thoughts and feelings Confidence We living in a confidence hierarchy. Whoever has the most confidence is the alpha Marczell went out and approached lots of girls and got addicted to feeling confident His intention wasn’t to get with a girl it was to become more confident At 15 he could approach and girl in any situation If your goal is sex and you don’t get it. Confidence goes down (When going out its best to not make the goal sex make it something else) When you’re confident your brain just picks up the skill with no limitation His goal was to get over his fear of rejection Simplify things to understand them and so you can actually use the information You can be hypnotized to be confident (Mentalism) You want to program your mind so that there’s no conflict within. You are fully aligned with your goal Change doesn’t mean time ti just means change Owen, Marczell & Sud Owen is extremely intense. The most intense person I’ve ever met in my life. He has fire and aggression in him Being proactive not reactive Be at the cause not the effect Owen looks rich. The jewelry glistens. The glasses the shirt look high quality If you want permanent change you must change at the identity level and you can’t remember what it was like Flow state connect conscious and subconscious A man with strength of mind is very attractive Few celebrities have confidence. They’re also scared to approach women You gotta be swinging you gotta be taking risks Very few people aware in the mindset of taking action past their comfort zone The passive meek attitude accumulates Being a good hunter means you’re willing to take risks Be willing to fail See lanes, see opportunity Abundance is required internally to be successful Jealously comes from you believing you ant get what someone else has Everything you do when you have money is for you to have you money There’s a promotion oriented brain and a prevention oriented brain Rain the stakes Run into the burning building (metaphorically) Once I commit to doing it I will figure out the solution You have to win you have no choice Everything intentional the way he moves his hands, dresses etc Easiest way to change your life is through hypnosis Create a second personality Sid Samtaney - Extreme intensity even more so than Owen sometimes like woah Breaking tension hurts your perceived status The ability to hold tension is an indicator light Breaking tension shows sometimes is messed up with you and a lack of self-belief Boldness Need to know you can take up space and nothing happens and you get proof not promises Confidence is a reflection of you self-belief The self belief has to be pure. Your foot can’t be on the gas and the break at the same time You’re in a freakish amount of momentum Everything and the kitchen sink must be throw at it Flow state makes work more fun and effective Jobs are bullshit and they exhaust you When you are at the job you are at the mercy of a boss Getting rich Absolute value for time Time + focus + momentum It’s a war for time, focus and momentum Everything is out there to deplete you. You gotta fight and guard your time When people gossip tune out Once you’re rich its easy to get richer since you’re in the right circles Spiritual ascension You’re at the cause not the affect Everything is easier Vibrations are contagious Need to find something you can start getting money in and do it after your job Permanent work is idiotic Build the principle Live off what it pays you Get 100% of your time back If you have a job you will rot away in a nursing home You know you have a good relationship because its not hard A vibe of valuing your time A vibe of being at the cause not the effect The key is confidence and you need nothing from anybody else People pleasing is taking If you’re giving there and inconcious belief you will receive Crack in the Dam Time efficient Potent Energy Virility Get back time, focus and momentum Being an emotionally regulated source of grounding energy Problems Gatekeepers, to much money to start Miasma Container events Build a big network Charisma Social Skills Personal Branding The skills you get from going out meeting girls helps you get millions Day 2 Higher Purpose Day to Day Motivations Lower Purpose (Pain) What is the cost of not doing this stuff? You don’t need motivation, motivation is fleeting This is all psychological Motivation is an entry level paradigm You need to have clarity on your vision Compile your notes into action steps Buy into your own vision We value what we invest into Fear is an entry level paradigm 0 - 1 is the hardest step. The first step is the hardest step Need to be ruthlessly consistent “I’d rather die than have a job” I am going to be this and the alternatives death Speaking loud is an exertion of your nervous system similar to a boxer knocking someone out a sprinter sprinting Your nervous system should fire Acceptance of pressure Handle adrenaline You’re going into the abyss If you’re not continually going into the unknown. You’re going too slow Train the mind and the body to handle adrenaline Are you gonna die doing this? Act first then course correct later Mind can loop on downsides when afraid Fear is really excitement If you want freedom you will have to take it It’s the bold people who make the real/impact The ultimate high comes from not dying after going outside the comfort zone Your mindset is just a strategy to get things in life Mindset Beliefs Emotions Patterns Your beliefs are just a strategy to either not die or get what you want What minute gets me to be rich and have an amazing dating life Change happens now Confidence is a belief that you will get what you want You know that you’re changed because you’re all in You actions say where you are Weight loss Eat carbs 30 -60 mins after 3x a week lifting 4 days not working out no carbs What do I want? What are you doing wrong that’s not getting you the result? You’re always in a trance. Find out what trance you’re in When you try it implies you can’t do it Have a goal and figure it out You have to have the obsession acquire servant syndrome What do they want? What are they scared of? Focusing on rejection is low caliber thinking People who take extreme ownership of their situation get ahead Subversive Elites - Psychopaths Masses - On autopilot, numb Regular people - connected to God Flywheel - when it speeds up it lives off the power of its own momentum If you don’t have access to a flow state you’re a puppet EVERYTHING FROM A YOUNG AGE IS DESIGNED TO GET YOU TO LISTEN TO AUTHORITY Conscious non-resistance Find something so profound to you it’d make you cry Learn the ancillary skills The skills that bring your vision to life Public speaking Leadership Marketing Social Skills Study click-bait and thumbnails You gotta learn how to have kids so you gotta learn dating The worst thing that can happen to you is staying the same and getting what you want Pick Up A process of personal alchemy and dedication The best gift that women give to men is rejection As a man you have to have a penetrative energy MASTER HIERARCHY Allows ugly, short meant to have the sex life of a god To the girls be more Hilarious Comfortable with yourself In states Leader Having it down to where its like getting a sandwich out the fridge Be out of your head. Alpha makes are out of their head When you have the transformation life gets so fun. His life is just so fun everywhere he goes Marczell’s vibe is an I don’t give a fuck vibe You want be very spiritual and also be like a psychopathic narcissist Day 3 It’s always better to be in the moment when approaching a girl The moment you want to retreat like a turtle in its shell go and do the action Anytime you’re under pressure relax Anytime you’re in your control muscle over release something will be off Be in your release muscle Foot on the gas not the brakes THE GIRLS WANT A GUY WHO’S NOT IN THE BOX OF SOCIETAL CONDITIONING Over time of getting in a flow state often your baseline state increases Push yourself but hot to the point where you’re incongruent Ramp up your state Don’t use crutches Slow is smooth and smooth is fast Practice moving and speaking like molasses People move towards value, strength and status ALWAYS CONTROL THE FRAME In ever mammalian species the top 1% of males mate with 80% of the women Get it in your head that for the rest of your lie you will be aware of how you’re coming across Avoid being meek Speak life a juicy buffalo wing Be positive dominant You need to have a core of strength Fully own yours even if you are stifled The leader is strong. Weak person cannot be trusted by particularly women You’re gonna have people try to shame you and put you back in your box when you are transforming Everyone has to face their demons it may not be comfortable What is your version of hiding? Me- Being quiet, smiling sometimes Don’t put on a character. No mask The mask comes on when we are uncomfortable being ourself There’s has to be something in you that want to conquer that wants to win A part of you that is not tame , not giving a fuck Trying for rapport tonality brings out aggression in others Speak in breaking rapport Voice should inflate downward Stop looking at good looking men as your role model Look at short unattractive men who get a lot of girls as role models Vitality Fearless Hilarious Owen’s last girlfriend at 45 was 20 years old Be honest that a good looking 6’5” guy and a short guy are gonna have to go about dating very differently Go on a rampage Clarity- You need to explain business model very clearly and explain cash flow Explain the psychology behind the whole ting You need to be able to communicate with full self-belief What’s your motivation? Why are you in this? Time cost. Energy cost. Everything in life has a price Need a sense of urgency that it has to happen now Unless you light a fire under your ass it aint gonna happen We have extreme normalcy bias Owen and Sid constantly feel like they’re moving too slow You have to get unstuck. Unfuck yourself You are always in your own way self-sabotaging All change happens when you step out of your current identity If you’re not caught in you will stay stuck You must have self-belief Create a very unique lifestyle. You can do so an an entrepreneur Your presence should say I am a guy that fucks. I’m a guy that gets p*ssy You need to get horny for the girl. Extremely important Look at her and figure out something that will get you horny about her Gotta believe you’re game is good All stress is self-induced Status is in your mind Believe you are higher status than others Need to have a healthy level of narcissism and believe you are better than others to get what you want If you focus on the future what you wanna become you can become that Protect your focus like your life depends on it RAS should focus on the good Learn from your failures but only replay the wins in your head Let go of the story you tell yourself about your life (Owen eating rice crispy treats) Approach anxiety comes from you being one person in your life and another when you approach the girls Owen going out 4 -5 hours a day everyday Don’t be a coward Who you are in between sets and when you aren’t approaching is really important. Can’t be putting on a character when you approach Make no mistake tis is a course that teaches ugly short men who to get beautiful women Bathe in the tension Owen and Sid use aggressive body language that physically riles them up and adds to their intensit Be able to generate different facial expressions and emotions at will Make love to every word you say

@theoneandnone I keep hearing the same line from spiritual teachers, gurus, channelers, even NDE reports: “Human life is the toughest school in the universe.” Out of infinite possible realities the Godhead could dream up — this one, this Earth, this short, shitty human lifespan — is supposedly the hardest one? And we’re supposed to be grateful for that? To see it as some divine gift? Really? Because I’ll be straight with you — this “school” hasn’t taught me love. Not really. It hasn’t exactly made me more compassionate, more open, or more whole. Instead, it’s taught me how to suffer. How to endure endless pain. How to live with rejection, abandonment, and isolation. How to hate myself. How to become cruel. People say, “Oh, but that’s the curriculum! You learn through suffering.” No. If the point of school is to teach love, then this is a failed curriculum. What I’ve learned isn’t love — it’s bitterness, brokenness, and how fragile life can feel when you’re treated like you don’t matter. And don’t come at me with “be grateful, life is a blessing.” This life doesn’t feel like a blessing. Most days it feels like dragging myself through dogshit, smearing it on the wall, pretending it’s art. A cosmic joke where you’re supposed to smile while your guts are burning. So my question is: if this really is the toughest school in all existence, where the fuck is the payoff? Where’s the transformation into love, wholeness, anything beyond endless trial by fire? Because from where I stand, this “toughest school” is just turning people into harder shells, not radiant beings.

The Ascension subgroup of the New age community. Example: People who believe they are starseeds i.e. souls from other planets, they are on a mission on this planet and are waiting for a cosmic shift/ascension/the event/harvest/solar flash that will bring transformation to the humanity and society ( mass arrests, alien introduction, polar shift, secret space program reveal, rainbow body enlightment with superpowers etc.) There are many variations of descriptions to this community.

That's the difficult work, embodying Truth, not just as a philosophy but as our entire way of living. There's a powerful book by Peter Ralston on Leo's Booklist that really explains the difference between enlightenment and transformation, you can't miss it. Basically, even when you have an enlightenment or an awakening, that doesn't change your situations or egoic survival habits, changing ourselves is a different matter but when you can understand the confusion between the two, you can use both to to increase consciousness and to embody those insights rather than splitting them both and not aligning our lives with the Truth. Yo your a cool dude, I seen your videos over the years🔥 stay blessed man

Each core pillar is huge, but I think shame-avoidance might be the biggest. Just to demonstrate how shame-avoidance works, using conspiracy theories as an example: "The Shame-to-Conspiracy Pipeline Conspiracy theories medicate shame through several mechanisms: 1. Transformation into special knowledge - The shame of being "ignorant," "left behind," or "unsuccessful" transforms into being one of the few who "sees the truth." You're not a failure; you're awakened. The shame of exclusion becomes the pride of insight. 2. Externalizing the cause - If you lost your job, your status, your sense of cultural relevance - that's shameful. But if a cabal of elites deliberately destroyed your industry to control you? Now you're a victim of evil forces, not a personal failure. The shame dissolves into righteous anger. 3. Retroactive meaning-making - Past humiliations and failures get recontextualized. That bankruptcy wasn't poor decisions; it was "them" keeping you down. That divorce wasn't personal inadequacy; it was "their" attack on traditional values. Shame transforms into evidence of persecution. 4. Community of the knowing - Shame isolates, but conspiracy theories create instant belonging with fellow "truth-seekers." You go from shamefully alone to proudly connected. Example: Someone whose small business failed during economic changes could face crushing shame - "I'm a failure, I couldn't adapt, I'm worthless." But if they believe globalist elites deliberately destroyed small businesses? The shame evaporates. They're not a failed businessperson; they're a warrior against the New World Order. Admitting error would re-activate shame, which is why counter-evidence is blocked. The conspiracy theory doesn't just distract from shame - it performs psychological alchemy, converting shame's poison into the medicine of purpose, belonging, and specialness." You can almost view conspiratorial thinking, Tucker Carlson, and many other right-wing figureheads as "shame-regulation technology".

Then, discover what everything is - at any level. It's not an ideal; it's simply whatever is already the case, about anything. We can start with our experience as it is, right now. For example, since you mentioned it: What is bias? Also, begin to notice anything within you that is inauthentic - any form of pretense, phoniness, affectation, and so on - and drop it. That act of letting go alone already calls for a transformation of oneself. At the same time, pursue absolute consciousness: What am I? What is another? What is life? Just a few suggestions off the top of my head.

I've been working on the educational project Spiralize a bit, exploring how Spiral Dynamics stages influence our approach to money and investing. It resulted in this new page that maps out investment philosophies from Beige through Coral: spiralize.org/insights/investing The Core Framework: Red: Unconstrained power maximization (pump & dump, predatory behavior) Blue: Constrained maximization within sacred rules (faith-based investing, rigid discipline) Orange: Single-objective optimization (pure profit maximization) Green: Value-driven constraints on profit (ESG screening, ethical filters) Yellow: Multi-objective system optimization (balancing profit, planetary health, social equity) Turquoise: Holistic system transformation (actively changing financial infrastructure) Coral: Paradigm-breaking through market interventions What struck me during development was how quick Claude was to warn against Red's predatory tactics while treating Orange's systemic destruction (climate change, inequality) as "business as usual." I had to tell him explicitly to add the Orange disclaimer. The water we swim in makes Orange's harm less visible despite arguably greater aggregate damage. Educational Focus: This isn't investment advice but a developmental lens on how our values shape capital allocation. The most actionable insight according to Claude seems to be the Green→Yellow transition: moving from black-and-white ethical screening to nuanced systems thinking about leverage points and emergent solutions, while I'm personally mostly interested in integrating stage Turquoise and evolving our systems for planetary well-being. The page includes mathematical optimization frameworks for each stage, showing the evolution from simple constraints to complex multi-objective functions. Also covers the "stage inflation" risk - people identifying with higher stages without having genuinely developed the cognitive complexity. Creating this was nice throwback to my optimization background (I have worked with development of applied mathematical optimization software). Has anyone else noticed how their investment approach shifted as they developed? Or found themselves caught between stages, like wanting Yellow systems thinking but defaulting to Green either/or thinking under pressure? Creating the page reminded me of attempting 'conscious investing' ten years ago. While looking back, it was mainly adopting a stage Green framework, and I quickly however fell into the temptation of just investing in single stocks to maximize profit short term. I welcome feedback on how to improve the page and website in general.

I've only taken LSD and psilocybin. And here are the levels of the experiences that I have had. 1• Body sensation, dreamy but not sleepy. 2•Very deep thoughts, reflect on past, parents and forgiveness of those that hurt me, even forgiving mom and dad for anything I cried about as they raised me. Seeing how I never truly loved them, only manipulated them to get something to serve me. Kind of like how you never truly love or care about someone until they're dead and you're watching them in the casket, except that I was able to have this realization while they were alive. 3• Preparing for departure. Getting ready to surrender all expectations and to be humble and open to what is about to happen. 4• Acceptance of death, suffering and pain. Putting the light of consciousness on the dark side of reality. Embracing all of existence, especially the parts that do not serve my ego or survival. 5• Panic, despair and total break from reality and sense of self. Some people scream at this point, I usually tell someone and hold onto their arm for dear life. 6• Then reality sucks you in like a whirlpool or black hole. I become infinite, God. I'm drowning in an ocean of hallucinations, I become cosmic and universal. My entire sense of existence is cracked and then completely shattered. 7 Complete surrender and utter embrace of reality, you see that your existence was the ultimate trip. You know you are God dreaming up all this and lost in its own infinity and creation. I've even seen God as myself, like a little God and a Big God. The little God is me having these insights and realizations and the big God, completely stoned on the floor, crying, laughing and not in control of the self that I thought I was in control of. Completely outside the survival game. Death is only the flip side of life. There is also a rebirth, a complete transformation. Your egoic patterns still come back but you can never be asleep to them again, even if you do get lost and distracted in the dream. You can never be fully asleep now.

For me, awakening is a radical transformation. Emotional awareness and processing is one of the things that can lead to it. But as I realized, the genuine will to surrender to the transformation of the self is the way I can best describe as the major thing that triggers the awakening, at least from my experience. It is not easy to surrender to radical transformation, to shed the old skin, old identity, behavior, patterns, beliefs, perceptions, like a snake shedding its skin. It requires courage, overcoming the fear of the unknown and allow everything from the old self that needs to die, to die. Even if we are very attached to it. There is backlash from the ego. The skin becomes sticky, tight, it resists the sedding. The transformation. Like an old person who wants to live a little more at the expense of the newborn. This may be a very difficult and painful process, and at the same time very liberating, because the old skin can be very suffocating. Limiting, like spiritual prison. And once done, we reborn. With new skin. Fresh like a newborn. Looking at the world with new and fresh eyes. Alienated from our old identity, unidentified with the past, strangers to it. Until the next transformation.

I use gummies on the weekends to relax, it makes time slow down and a certain sort of disassociation happens, I become lazy, hungry and more focused lol. My research into it tells me the Psychedelics have their time and place in usage, if You rely on them totally for Spiritual Awakening it probably won't work, Leo may be the exception but he has also done lots of Sadhana too to supplement it.. I for sure agree, that one should do the Sadhana first, get to a point of Awareness that already brings about a natural sort of Peace and Knowing, if Your stuck there then maybe use psychedelics to give You a peek over the fence, which basically inspires You in your Sadhana practices, but don't rely on them totally, it will more than likely lead You astray... In the end for real Transformation to happen, You have to make it happen naturally meaning without the use of drugs or anything external other than Spiritual Practices.. Find a Guru or Mentor and practice that works for You, stick with it, know Your intentions and goals then let it work its magic!

I'm clear on the distinction mentioned above. You want to feel validated, but a state is a state; consciousness is prior to the body, as if. The possible side effects awakening may have on you are, well, side effects. They are not the consciousness itself, but rather a function of the depth of realization and how your mind relates to that increased consciousness. This seems to vary on a case-by-case basis. You are already inherently selfless - how about that? Don't confuse healing or transformation with awakening. These are different pursuits.

Can't be otherwise. Knowledge is what speaks. It's expressing itself just like me and you, only in different ways. Theoretical or experiential, it's still knowledge based. The only transformation is transforming from knowledge to knowledge. Tell me something you don't know. Can't be something you're not already. You're not transforming, just being. Transformation is an illusion; knowledge- based illusion at that. How would you know you've been transformed if not for knowledge of some kind.

Psychedelics can open the flood gates of consciousness and mind. My position is this. You must already be doing spiritual work, consciousness work, heavy existential contemplation, already doing advanced nuanced personal development and self actualization. Have a healthy eating habit, already moving towards your life purpose. Know what your values and passions are. Lots of study and theoretical knowledge as a foundation. Deep study of epistemology and a deep thirst for spiritual Transcendence are keys for making the most of your trips. Also understanding beforehand that these trips don't last and to not mistake these for permanent transformation or consciousness. You must know to continue your integration after our journey and to continue doing the daily grind, bringing the transcendental back into the relative. Also you must study self deception and how the ego deludes and conflates these experiences. Basically study Leo Gura, Ramana, Alan Watts really good before you do them and to be aware of mind projecting these people's ideas onto your trip.