Leo Gura

If you live in the US, you can check the number of covid deaths in your county using this interactive map: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map

Second thoughts in terms of what? I will usually peg them at some stage in the Spiral then I'll know how much they can be trusted and how they can be expected to behave. Of course I basically don't trust any human to not be self-deceived and selfish or subscribed to some limited and partial ideology.

I can't tell what JP's deal is. Is he actually into self-help or is it all just a comedy routine?

People doing name-calling or personal attacks will get warnings.

Take it easy guys.

Too late, they killed it for ya Actually, Understanding IS Love. How can you Love when you don't understand what Love is? Matt's style will resonate a lot more with feminine females than mine will. My style will evolve. But my bias is towards understanding stuff. Every teacher has his biases. Find what works for you.

Politics is dirty business. But the alternative is worse. You can't have a society without politics. The solution is Conscious Politics and raising our collective level of development.

No only that, but the vaccine will take months and even a year to fully roll out, so you will hear about any side-effects from real-world victims. There's no way the side-effects will remain secret. It will all happen out in the open. If people die, we'll see it. You won't even have access to the vaccine until millions of other people get it before you. But the idea that people will be dying from this vaccine is absurd. It's not gonna happen in any significant degree. But people die from Covid something like 1-3%. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality And Covid has many other harmful effects beyond 1-3% death rate. You could easily lose $10,000 in hospital bills alone! There's just no comparison. The vaccine is 10000% better. And the sooner people understand this, the sooner our economy can recover.

Of course there could. But you must weight that against the very well-documented serious side-effects of Covid. The mistake here is considering risk in isolation from other risks. The question is always one of the difference between two risks, not any one risk by itself. Perhaps the greatest risk of all is the damage to the economy if we do not stop this virus dead-cold within a year. This will harm billions of people. The economy cannot return to normal without stopping this virus. Pretending like the virus does not exist will not work. We can't just will our way back to normal.

There are serious side-effects to owning a stove. So what? You're using ridiculous logic. A million people will die without a vaccine. This is not speculation. It's already half-way there. No technology is perfect. But given the mess we are in right now, we don't need anything close to perfect. We just need something better than 1 million deaths and a 10 year depression. So far the most common side-effect of the Pfizzer vaccine is like 7% of people get fatigue. Governance is never about perfection, it's about minimizing harm and risk in reasonable ways. AKA, strategy. Even if the vaccine killed 0.01% of people, it would still be worth taking. But the vaccine will be much much safer than that.

Classic nationalism, classic Blue. Absolutist worldview where my culture and my civilization is the greatest, all others suck and must be dominated into submission. Men run the show, women exist to satisfy man's needs and raise his babies and heirs.

Title of the video should be: How People Like JP Sears Could Start A Civil War Over Nothing By Pandering To Naive & Brainwashed Populists

Except the problem there is that it's the parents' whose survival needs are being met there while the survival needs of the partners is often being ignored. You're dealing with 4 competing survival needs there: husband, husband's parents, wife, wife's parents. Which makes for a very loaded political game. It will be difficult for Truth and Love to compete with all those interests.

Haha! Classic noob mistake: diving in too deep too fast. That's like selecting a 30 day meditation retreat as a noob and then not liking it. Exploring psychedelics requires years of patience.

@Husseinisdoingfine Yes, of course, classic Blue.

@Mikael89 You have to distinguish between Absolute and relative domains of knowledge. Nonduality is about the Absolute. In the relative you can still be very deluded or mistaken.

@Carl-Richard Classic

This kind of stuff requires higher forms of world government which even America and Europe is not yet ready for. The notion that you can just treat the whole world as one giant collection of humans and just distribute resources to whoever needs it << we don't live in such a world, not politically. The world is deeply divided and tribal still. Which creates all sorts of inequalities that cannot be easily equalized from one part to another. Help from outside can work. It just has is limits. The country has to develop to a higher point on the Spiral, which takes hundreds of years. Any country Orange and below will have crippling poverty. We at least need stage Green. And people love to hate Green these days even in developed countries. Which shows you the depth of our problem. Poverty is not really a farming or shipping problem, it's a mental development problem. It's a catch-22. You need better access to food to increase mental development. But you need high mental development to create better access to food. So there is a lot of struggle and slippage as the process tries to bootstrap itself.

You're not horrible, you're just engaging in creating illusions and playing sneaky games. That's life as a human. It's sneaky.

I'm not sitting in a cave. I was trying to create a deep romantic relationship. I will create a video about Conscious Relationships in the future. Once you see it, you'll see me in a different light. I just haven't had the time to shoot it yet. Nothing I said is Redpill. I got no animosity towards women and I disagree with most of the Redpill philosophy. It's absurdly self-biased.

I don't even remember. Doesn't matter.

No One of the things pickup teaches you is to stop caring what women say about you. It simply does not matter. But you can only learn this lesson the hard way, by going out and getting rejected 1000s of times.

That's questionable in a relationship context. The problem is the ego loves to co-opt spirituality and consciousness for survival. It's a very deceptive and murky process. Is there something like a genuine connection with another human? Yes. But it is wrapped in layers of survival stuff which will always linger. But hey, I'm sick of preaching this stuff. Go contemplate how your dating and relationships truly work for yourselves. If you dare. Consider this: the only reason you guys follow me is because it gives you survival value. As soon as my ability to give you value disappears, you will leave me or hate me. Yet in your minds you don't think of it that way. In your minds you think you really appreciate me for who I am. Of course this is pure fantasy. You don't really care who I am. If I was Hitler, you would want me killed. Such is life. Accept it and move on.

All you have to do to see that your romance is completely self-biased and survival based is to contemplate why you don't get romantic with a gorilla. There is absolutely no reason why you should relate with humans more than gorillas other than survival. Absolutely everything involving sex is pure self-bias. Why do you not hump a light-post? Sex is COMPLETELY arbitrary and relative. And the only reason you do it is because it has survival value for the species. But don't get me wrong. This doesn't mean you can't have deep intimate relationships. You can! Just stop fooling yourself about what it is you're doing. You are using those relationships to enhance your survival. You are doing that without admitting you are doing it. Self-deception 101. Except that's your projection, not anything I said. Relationships are survival. But saying so does not devalue the relationship in any way. It's just being honest about what you're doing. People get the very wrong idea here that I am anti deep relationships. Not at all. You can do deep intimate relationships with consciousness and spiritual aspects. But it's still a survival game. People love the illusion of it not being a game. It makes the ego feel justified in its raw survival. The ego needs to paint a pretty story about how all of its purely arbitrary survival needs and manipulations are in fact legit, pure, good, honest, truthful, and selfless. Women especially fall into this illusion and they really upset when it is pointed out them. Both men and women are selfish as devils when it comes to sex. The selfishness is asymmetrical, with each side denying their own particular brand of selfishness while being outraged by the selfishness of the opposite side. And all of this is, of course, just more selfishness! And all of this is, of course, denied with great passion and fury. It would be much simpler if you just came out and said: "I am a selfish devil and I want sex under conditions X, Y, Z because that's what serves me best." But of course you cannot do that because it harms your survival. Your community will judge you for it and you can't stomach admitting to yourself just how selfish you are. So you must keep all your true motivations and conditions secret, even from yourself.