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  2. I use power more as a value dynamics thing. Powerful people being those who can seem high relative value compared to others
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  4. Help With Verbal Description Of Awakened Consciousness

    Joseph Maynor replied to Leo Gura's topic in Psychedelics

    I was thinking about this a lot today, and I don't know if I can some up with "one right answer" in response.
  5. Clearly you did not watch the interview. Here it is again. If you actually watched and listened closely to how he talked about his faith — from 16:24 to 16:50 — here's what you'd find. He spoke about it in trans-blue terms. Uplifting message. Nothing fundamentalist about it. It's also amusing and interesting that you cherry-picked the faith part when he didn't talk about it for 99.9% of his campaign. Really interesting. I'm not going to respond to you again after this because these aren't serious critiques. Spiral Dynamics works in a transcend/include fashion. Once you go beyond blue it doesn't mean you can never talk about faith again any more than going beyond the first grade means you will never do 2+2 again.

  6. 100 days

    MaxV replied to MaxV's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    74 I actually wanted to post yesterday, but ended up not doing it. I think it was a combination of laziness, resistance, and the fact that it was getting late. Now it's early in the morning, and I'm usually at my best at these times. So... the past couple of weeks have been both interesting and mundane. I've been sick... that time of year again. And I've also been on a date! Well... a date?? Long story short, I met a woman at work who's quite a bit older than me (she's 52), and we have quite an interesting connection and vibe going on. She's from another country, so communicating clearly with each other can sometimes be a bit difficult. We'd already been on two 'dates' before, and I wasn't quite sure what to make of the whole situation. She's very attractive and fit, especially considering she's 52.. She looks a lot younger than that. There's definitely some chemistry between us, and I'm open-minded about exploring these kinds of experiences. Anyway, at the end of our second date, she kissed me, which caught me quite by surprise. I mean, we'd hugged a bit and had some physical contact, but I hadn't planned on initiating a kiss myself. Afterwards, we stayed in touch a little over text, but this is where I started noticing some differences in how we communicate. It's quite difficult to properly connect with her through messages, and she kept sending voice messages. Eventually, our contact gradually faded. Until about two weeks ago... I went to work and suddenly saw her there again. I felt a bit awkward because I knew our contact had faded, even though our last meeting had ended with a kiss. But we picked things up again and arranged a third meeting. She wanted to visit a museum, but suggested spicing things up a little with some weed. I was quite surprised, but why not? I've got some experience with it myself, and I'm open to interesting new experiences. At one point, I tried to cuddle up to her, but she told me she didn't feel comfortable with that. So I immediately apologized and gave her some space. We smoked, talked for a while, and then went to the museum. By that point, I felt a little weird and closed off because I hadn't meant to make the situation awkward. I knew exactly why I was feeling that way, though. I didn't want to make things any more uncomfortable. At the museum, we got some coffee, and she suddenly pointed out that I seemed distant. She could sense it, and she was right. I was holding back because I didn't want to make the situation any more awkward. Then, almost in passing, she told me that she'd felt hurt when I stopped contacting her after our previous date. And I understood that. Although part of me also thought, Well, why didn't you reach out yourself? We're both adults, right? But perhaps she has a more traditional approach to dating. Who knows. I explained that I also felt bad about trying to cuddle up to her earlier. But she told me it was okay, that I'd apologized and respected her boundaries, and that we should just enjoy our coffee and the museum. The museum itself was quite interesting, but I found it difficult to shake off my thoughts. I just wanted to talk things through with her because the tension was starting to make my stomach churn. After the museum, we finally had a proper conversation, and things became a lot clearer. I told her about my fears and uncertainties regarding the situation. I find her attractive, but I don't see this ever becoming a serious relationship. For me, the age difference is simply too big for that to work. But that doesn't mean I don't enjoy her company. She's a very intelligent, funny, and interesting woman. What had been bothering me was that I had no idea what she expected from me. I didn't want to lead her on or create expectations that might eventually hurt her feelings. I also acknowledged that I should have communicated better instead of pulling away. And I think that's something worth paying attention to in myself. When I'm afraid of making someone uncomfortable or doing something wrong, I sometimes withdraw instead of simply communicating about it. Anyway, in the end, we cleared things up. Neither of us is looking for anything serious. We simply enjoy each other's company and the attraction between us, without needing to turn it into something more. After that conversation, we both relaxed. She wanted to cuddle for a bit, and when we walked to the place where we'd go our separate ways, we kissed again. So, where does that leave me? Honestly, I'm just going with the flow and seeing what happens.

  7. The Law of the Sublime - Robert Greene

    BlessedLion replied to LordFall's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Depends on how we are defining power. I see power more as an internal thing rather than "power over" others

  8. The Law of the Sublime - Robert Greene

    BlessedLion replied to LordFall's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Unless they have a direct realization of something True, like Eckhart Tolle, he had an awakening and wrote a powerful book about it with little to no skillset in that field. He just geniunely understood it because he experienced it.

  9. Random sexual hookups

    aurum replied to blankisomeone's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    People desensitize to it over time, once they've done it a lot.
  10. I think we overlook the possibility for existence beyond mind. An infinite vastness of unknown and impossible to conceptualize for the mind. I'm meaning mind as the discernment tool dividing up experience, not Mind as reality itself. Edit: nvm you included the unknown to the bottom left.

  11. Your Recent Movie Picks

    LoneWonderer replied to Nemra's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    The New Documentary Musk was great. Get lots of popcorn ready though it's 4h long.
  12. Today
  13. Yeah, I'm surprised some pedophiles survive in there at all.
  14. Spinoza would say that it's different modalities of the same substance. So no one substance creating another. Just like Leo he deduced trough logic there can only be one infinite fundamental substance - God.
  16. @Leo Gura So you are 100% confident that awakening gives you the ability to understand the metaphysical ground of reality? How can you be so sure besides the fact that it feels more real than real?
  17. Glad you made it out alive champ !
  18. At this point I'm wondering if they'll even give Russell any special treatment at all. I still wanna watch this interview, sounds like Boris Becker actually had to join a gang to survive, no special privileges.
  19. this weekend, i'm visiting the city that i lived in for the first 5 and a half years of my "adulthood". it feels a little weird, but i am staying with friends and my best friend says that it is as though i had never left. i've missed my friends here, and i feel a lot of love every time i think of them♡ so this is precious and i am glad we could finally arrange a visit.
  20. It seems people uninterested in politics turned out in high numbers to vote D. So, how much of the right stayed home and how many apolitical people turned out for the left? The right may not have moved much at all. I heard R turnout was only a few points above normal for midterms, while it was like 20 points higher for D. I forget the numbers, but it was a massive gain for D while R was on par with previous midterm elections. Just going off my intuition, but I don't think much of the right flipped.
  21. Happy Birthday @freddyteisen you legend! Congrats on all your achievements like building a business, high level tennis, and your blooming career in IT consulting. I'm genuinely so happy and inspired by you. As a fellow young person I really wanna follow in your footsteps of achieving great things! Best of luck in integrating Leo's teachings!
  22. Use the 5 Calls app and call your congressional leadership
  23. @integral Nice. It's hard to picture consciousness as fundamental. I guess it doesn't need a ground, as it is it's own ground.
  24. She's here
  25. Couldn't agree more! In fact, I thought about making a thread like this on here. Everybody has to read and study up on the history of mass movements such as the labor movement, the abilition movement, the civil rights movement, the Jewish Reform Movement, the Indian independence movement, the feminist movements, etc. Also, we became more atomized because the places that once bundled people together such as big workplaces, unions, churches, temples, local civic groups, dense neighborhoods, meetings in libraries, and shared local media, all weakened at the same time, while work, housing, media, and daily life became more dispersed and individualized. We need to rebuild all of those civic institutions in order to most effectively restore that solidarity our country used to have in the 1900s, especially in the mid 1900s.
  26. lol, she gawn!
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