Leo Gura

Sounds like he has been neglecting his life and development for over a decade and is now in a deep hole from which it will be difficult to climb out. The bottom line is that he has to want to develop himself. Maybe try to introduce him to the idea of personal development and its potential. Help him envision a better future for himself. A future where here is fit, healthy, has girlfriend, has fun job, etc. You can share with him how and why you do personal development and what results are possible.

So... most humans then.

For $5000 you get to eat lobster with JP after the show while he rants in your ear about how the sky can't be blue because sky means everything.

None of your ideas of awakening are awakening. So yeah, you'll have to let them go. Don't worry, you're not losing much in doing so. Awakening is way beyond any idea. How to realize all your ideas of awakening ain't it? 5-MeO-DMT will quickly bitchslap them out of your mind.

You guys are insane. I should be charging you more. It's $300:

Developmental psychology models have been tested a lot more than just in the West.

Cheers! Namaste

Of course there is a close relationship. Of course understanding has to understand itself. The self-referencing is not a bug, its the feature.

Given this, I'd suggest you stay away from psychedelics. Seems like they will destabilize you and interfere with your career work. This is such a broad question and hinges on many variables. It all depends on what kind of business specifically you are trying to run. Obviously marketing & sales are good skills to learn for any kind of business. Beyond that, you can combine all sorts of skills. There are so many potential biz combinations where you use psychology plus something else. Psychedelics can of course make you more creative and supercharge your contemplations. But this assumes your mind is able to handle them without destabilizing and spiraling out of control. Given your past experience with psychedelics this is a significant risk for you, so I would caution you against it. In general, psychedelics and starting a biz does not combine well. Starting a biz requires a lot of disciplined work while psychedelics tend to undermine that kind of work. The same way you contemplate without psychedelics. I have several videos explaining how to do contemplation and how to ask powerful questions. You can contemplate on any dose, or no dose at all. As your doses become higher the contemplation will tend to lose focus and just devolve into a mindfuck which you cannot guide or control. That's not necessarily bad, but it won't be productive per se. The problem is that psychedelics are too profound to be used to contemplate something as petty as business. Perhaps that might work at very low doses. But at high doses you will forget you even have a business. It just won't matter because the issues that will arise will be way more significant than business concerns or even life purpose concerns. You will be busy struggling with matters of life and death.

There are dozens of things to try. Start with doing lots of research: https://www.reddit.com/r/SIBO/

Understanding is not the same as insight. Although they are related. Understanding is a very subtle thing to observe. Perhaps even more tricky to understand than understanding is misunderstanding -- which is also a thing. What is misunderstanding?

That reduction is like saying that a frog is just atoms.

Well, you should have considered this when joining the BC.

That's the most common problem with freelancing of any kind. It's not a consistent paycheck.

That's the red flag right there. There are many scams and ways to exploit people within the "get a job" industry. You are much better off just paying for a course or bootcamp upfront where the pricing is clear, rather than signing some twisted contract. Be ware of these kind of grifts, you will run into them in the future. Then again, if this bootcamp put you in touch with the company who hired you who you wouldn't have otherwise applied to, then it isn't so bad. The value they provided to you was not in the bootcamp skills but in the company connection. Which could be worth $5k.

You can tap her on the shoulder, pull her aside a bit, and go direct. Or you can enagage the whole group in an indirect social way and sprinkle in firtation with your girl. A good line you can use to do that is, "I can already tell... this one's gonna give me trouble" while pointing at your girl. And make strong eye contact with her. This approach requires more skill. Or just wait till you catch her alone.

Help them learn epistemology, self-deception, and meta issues. The solution to bad epistemology is good epistemology. Which requires education. This is an education problem.

No

I was using Evoke's silly logic against itself. My videos give a precise scientific method for accessing Infinite Love. I got no beef with her. She can make whatever videos she wants. I was just explaining why it might annoy some people. In general, waxing on about how love solves everything will annoy people because they aren't conscious of the love and it grossly oversimplifies what is necessary to embody that. It's like telling a hungry child who's asking you for a meal to just love himself because there is so much abundance and beauty in the world. It can feel like gaslighting. I said exactly that recently about his addiction problems.

Cause he's a fucking addict. And you have no idea how much worse he used to be. Let's see how Anna Brown's video transforms PsychedSubstance into a woke loving Buddha.

Your conception of perception is quite heavily metaphysically-loaded, which leads to a misunderstanding of what it is. See video: What Is Perception? In the end, everything is gonna boil down to one thing and you will realize that perception and I AMness are one. But it can be useful to distinguish them in the meantime because most humans mean something very loaded when they talk about perception.

Try to observe what understanding is while you are understanding something in your direct experience. Don't try to articulate it. Just try to observe it happening in you. It has an slippery, ineffable, mysterious quality to it. Understand? - - - - It would be more accurate to call it overstanding.

The Universe doesn't care about your excuses.

Understanding is the upward.

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