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  2. Thought Art 📓

    Thought Art replied to Thought Art's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    2 very good, yet distinct guided meditations 1. This one Tara Brach presents is more heart fullness, self compassion, acceptance, returning to non-judgmental awareness 2. Jon’s is more being aware of being. Sitting in a present ways non-judgmental observation and body/ breath an awareness. Both useful, both different styles, teaching different attitudes that are essential to mindfulness. One is more poetic while one is more matter of fact.
  3. Anti aging is looking really good. I would follow Bryan Johnson and his experiments, it's not quite there yet but in 20 years I'm sure a 50 year old will look 25. How is your fitness level? As we age our metabolism slows down and it's easy to get overweight and that's where a lot of unnacttractiveness comes from. Yeah I'm starting to get way more injuries from working out consistently but not even that hard. My new addiction is asking Gemini about every pain I experience, it's fun to get actual answers. Just be careful to not let it turn you into a hypochondriac
  4. Awesome this is a cool field report. Yeah fun is a phenomenal word; girls just wanna have fun. If you give them a safe and judgement free zone to do so they get pretty freaky. I've had a few gangbangs this way lol Are you gonna date her long distance and really make her your girlfriend? Sounds like you're used to monogamy where you only you fuck a girl in a monogamous framework and she was just DTF lol
  5. Hashimoto's. I am lucky to, otherwise share @Elliott's experience. But two of my close family members have motor neurone disease. It's hard.
  6. I think you're spot on. The core of male sexuality is based on female fertility and the core of female sexuality is based on male provisioning and security which are relative to the environment that they're in. Which is why in today's environment which is quite safe but heavily status based, 80% of men are deemed unattractive if a woman is swiping on Tinder and going to the club. Knowing this as a man your best strategy is to use your unique strengths to overcome your weaknesses and be basically more competitive than the men in your local environment.
  7. Thats a non-propositional utterance right there. (Unless you tell me otherwise ) Btw, the reason why I didnt respond is because i dont know how to respond and what to respond. I need to contemplate the topic more.
  8. But you said 'I' was in a cult 🤪 That's what we were talking about. I gave a "one-line definition" after a multi-page thread of going into detail (I started off with long posts), and I also elaborated when you asked about it. The issue wasn't that you gave one line in itself, it was that you didn't go into detail on it, at as far as I can remember any point. I asked you to elaborate on it and you said "I'm not an expert on cults. You asked Leo for his definition of mind control. This is what google says about mind control in cults :" and then it was back to talking about us purportedly accusing Actualized of being a cult.

  9. I broke up (part 2)

    LordFall replied to Asia P's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    We don't attract what we want, we attract what we are. So if you have flaws with codependency you'll attract someone who is similarly flawed. Some people call it karmic entanglements. I would read this book on attachment theory. Sounds like you're an anxious type and your ex was an avoidant type.
  10. I feel physically better and better as I age.
  11. @Basman Yup which includes me 😅.
  12. Have you had some health issues so far?
  13. Just a recommendation.

  14. From Weed To Religion - blog post

    Yimpa replied to Jon_Bundesen's topic in Psychedelics

    Update 2 weeks later: This vape is so powerful for me, one hit of 3.5-5mg vape sends me to Infinite consciousness for about an hour. I no longer take the gummies daily and am giving myself time to process and integrate what the fudge I am awakening to. Edit: I used to go to Catholic church for an hour every week as a kid. This is taking it to radically new levels 💀
  15. Obviously, most self-help is success oriented. But the average person needs more success before they can start thinking about god, arguably.
  16. This is salient. There are tons of negatives to aging. Even if we drum up a list (which would be easy, imo) I sort of wonder what sort of weight each point would carry against your statement above (personal for everyone). Because it moves toward a sort of equanimous peace and gratitude based state of being. Which isn't guaranteed either, but powerful. Man, the pain of getting old. Like, literally pain - that gets me. I think it is short sighted putting too much weight on the aesthetics of aging as a negative. It's mostly done by those who are too young to yet feel their health erode and pain arise. Idgaf about saggy tits if my basic existence is punctuated by pain and suffering. Poor health / chronic medical issues. Quality of life is priority for me, over longevity.
  17. Like I said, I don't care much about the subject. I do however care about understanding your views, that is something that's interesting to me. My questions about debate are irrelevant to the cult debate, absolutely, I find debates in general to be uninteresting. Perhaps it's rude for me to ask the questions I have.
  18. @UnbornTao Listen to yourself, most important But maybe you have already exhausted all of that and penetrated through the very end layers of the psyche so now there’s no other way but to go outward (listening to others)
  19. Probably just a heightened awareness of how short life is and how fast time is flying by, resulting in an increased appreciation for the time you have left. Also it is a natural order of things - we are born, and we cease to exist, that applies to everything not just living beings. Also, expecting and anticipating a certain time windows within which you get to live, gives you a certain strange sense of comfort and sanity - you roughly know very confidently how your life is going to unwind, the same way as for your ancestors. But other than that, there are only negatives
  20. @Basman No I am not talking about belief in God but rather using philosophy for reaching God by deconstructing beleifs ,assumptions ,thoughts. Since, God is experience as well tranquility is a closer state to God compared to emotional suffering. Even though not a person of spirituality by rather basic high quality self-help which includes things that maybe or may not be found in mainstream self-help.
  21. @Carl-Richard Just to be clear, I still don't think it's a cult. I said I thought zurew made 3 strong points, and I hope Leo will respond. Just as a sidenote, when I asked you on p14 to give your definition of a cult, you also just gave a one liner: "Social group with wacko beliefs compared to the surrounding society, often religious in nature." Do you perhaps have a more complete definition yourself ?
  22. How did we get here from this: You can't even hold the notion that it's a debate consistent. Man, we're out here at Zul-Andra poison waste fishing for toxic red herrings.
  23. The genra is obvious, actualized video games.
  24. HAHAHA exactly
  25. It's less about the specific belief in god than it's about how religion mirrors self-help but in a "stick" way, as opposed to the "Carrot" way that characterizes modern self-help, IE. what not to do in life as opposed to getting what you want out of life. It essentially boils down to ethics and having an adequate sense of one's mortality in my opinion. Buddhism I would characterize as religious self-help that doesn't center a belief in god. Modern self-help has the advantage in that it's generally very clear and easy to follow, whereas antique material can be quiet obtuse. It's a mistake to compare apples to oranges though, as long as you are getting something out of the material.
  26. If you're already puting it in Claude, it's already stolen
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