Leo Gura

There might not be enough leverage in only doing Medicare For All in one state. The point is to get economic leverage over the healthcare and insurance industries. It doesn't do much good to create a single payer system unless there are also price caps on healthcare providers. The bottom line is that healthcare providers are way overpriced because they run a cartel and have bought up the politicians. I'm not sure if Newsom is progressive enough to push that through. And even if he did it would not be nearly as effective as a national system. They are not left-wing enough to do something so drastic. They are corrupted by healthcare lobbying and conflicts of interest. If you and your family have excellent, overpriced health insurance that gives you access to the best doctors, what incentive do you have to get rid of that by placing yourself and your family on the same playing field as a poor black woman? Rich people have much to lose with Medicare For All. It would be a huge downgrade to their elite healthcare access. Hence the rich and powerful block Medicare For All from happening. It's like trying to convince a guy with a Rolls Royce to sell it off, give the money to the government, and use the bus instead. He hates this idea.

Because you might say that is "pure" consciousness. And because humans are so attached to forms that they can't see the pure empty consciousness at the heart of things. You could use that as a technique. But you could also do the opposite and meditate on forms. It goes full-circle in the end. You can traverse the circles from either direction.

Transcend and include. That's what you must do with science. You don't abandon it. Of course material developments help with spiritual development. If done properly.

Read the opening post. You expect all women to be as conscious and developed as you, when most of them are not at all.

In that case he used her for sex and was rather an asshole. It's very different doing a ONS based from some loud nightclub vs luring in a girl with all this spiritual talk. All the spiritual talk makes it seem like this is gonna be something deeper than a ONS. Spiritual talk is so easily weaponized to lure girls in and then break their hearts.

Nothing wrong of course. But the longer you drag it out the more energy you potentially lose since a girl will not be truly invested in a guy until sex. So the longer it takes the more likely you are to lose her. That is generally the how it works. Attracting the hottest girls requires much higher skill. Attracting average girls is way easier because there is less competition. Fair point. But it is sorta the case that plenty of women don't reward decent behavior in men very well. The whole, nice guys finish last. There is truth in that. The reward is not just sex, but the relationship itself. There can't be a relationship without the sex first. I have lost plenty of girls who I wanted relationships with but the sex never happened therefore the relationship never happened either. Except it doesn't necessarily come. Women are fickle and change their moods and minds easily. So dragging it out means you will lose some girls. That may be acceptable, but it can also be very frustrating because you get invested in it.

Obviously attraction is relative. Whatever your perfect 10 happens to be, it is that FOR YOU, not for everyone. Not everyone is looking for the same things. This actually makes attraction a bit easier. If you talk to enough people chances are really high that one of them will love you.

Of course it can be afforded. The issue is one of misplaced priorities.

Only if you got zero ego Imperfection = ego

You can certainly experience empty or formless consciousness/awareness/being. But also, form = formlessness, so don't fall into the trap of thinking that formlessness is above form. Consciousness/awareness is Nothing. But you can "experience" this Nothing, for lack of a better word. If you've ever had a dream in which you die, perhaps you can recall the formless consciousness that remains after all the images have stopped.

It's possible the same way anything is possible: you dream it up. Of course there is no gaurantee your dreams will correspond with your other dreams. But also they might. Dreams are strange things.

Just finished recording another interview with Curt. 7hrs+ Juicy stuff.

And I never will. I'll outsource the clowning around to the clowns. The reality is that my awakenings are too profound and subtle to capture on camera. I wish I could capture them but it's not remotely possible so I don't want to try. It also doesn't really help people do the work. It's more like a dog and pony show for noobs to giggle at.

Of course the boyfriend frame is the best if you actually want to be her boyfriend and do crazy intimate stuff together. I love the boyfriend frame. It's just a shame that girls punish it's implementation by withholding sex or even mistaking it for neediness. You are sometimes forced to play the player frame to get the hotter girls because the boyfriend frame can come off too needy or clingy -- not edgy enough. It can be effective to do the player frame up until the 1st sex and then switch to boyfriend frame after. It sorta depends on the kind of girl and what she expects and the situation you meet her in. Loud club game will be quite different from day game. Player frame is more suited for night and boyfriend frame for day.

This is the logic of a fucking devil. To me it matters very much. Not because it matters to others, but because that is not how I want my work to be. This is not about clickbait or gaining subscribers for me. If I wanted to do that I would be playing video games. You can be as crazy as you want and maybe people will even toss you a few nickels. But will you be able to live with yourself? Integrity in this work is crucial. Spirituality cannot be anything-goes.

Of course. Truth cannot be a choice. Truth can only be a tautology. 1 = 1, A = A. Everything is precisely whatever it is. And to fully accept that is Love. It's only the ego-mind that needs things to be otherwise than whatever they are. Peace can only come with tautology, when there is no choice. Choice is stress, not peace.

Firstly, good work on your thoroughness. That's some serious effort. Sorry, so long, couldn't read it all. However, to answer: 1) Yes it is possible to take psychedelics in your dreams and have even deeper trips than taking them in "real life". I have done that. But I did have lots of prior psychedelic experience. However, it's not like the insights in the dream trip are exact same as the insights in the normal trip. They can be significantly different. It's hard to say if they correspond because 5-MeO is experienced quite differently by different people. But generally what you're describing in within the ballpark. I have had some mystical realizations within my dreams which just don't correspond to any kind of psychedelic, but they are still legit realizations and some are very powerful and exotic. Of course you should expect such a thing to be possible when everything is a dream. Physical DMT is dream stuff. 2) No, I would reserve Heaven/Nivrana/Paradise for even higher states. Imagine drowning in Infinite Love so deep it has no form and it never ends. That might be a better description of Heaven/Nirvana/Paradise. Or imagine just raw infinite pleasure forever. That might be closer to Heaven.

It got wonky because he is mentally ill and uses his channel to make money from his putting his mental illness on show.

Connor ruined it for everyone.

I've never worried about crying in front of a girlfriend. In fact I think it's a technique more guys should use. It builds crazy intimacy. Of course you wanna do it very infrequently when the situation really calls for it. Not over petty things. If your woman can't appreciate you crying, you probably should upgrade your woman. I find that the higher quality ones, the more conscious ones, will appreciate it and actually want to be there for you when you're suffering through heavy shit. Then again, if I cry in front of a woman it's not gonna be tears of sadness or misery, it's gonna be tears of love and joy. That is a pretty big difference.

The mind will definitely plays tricks and develop blindspots for a person's physical deficiencies if their personality is really great or they have some other values to compensate with. For example, I notice that I automatically become more attracted to a girl if she is really attracted to me. I can literally notice my mind starting to rationalize away some of her physical deficiencies. Not entirely but it's amazing to observe it in action. It's like self-deception happening in real time. The mind spins this illusion of love for the other person by overlooking all their flaws, at least in the short-term. The mind can relax its standards, especially if the mind gets many of its needs met by doing so and there is no other easy way to meet them. If you are desperate and horny enough, your standards shoot way down. Same if the person has an amazing personality that really clicks with you. That's why dating only 10s and 9s is not so important because its more than compensated with personality and other convenient qualities. For example, as a guy, dating a 10 or 9 would probably make you insecure about losing her. Which by itself might not be worth the stress and worry. But an 8 or 7 you can feel confident you can keep because she is more loyal and her attraction to you is stronger. And that attraction ego-boost itself can be more rewarding than sleeping with a lukewarm 10 who doesn't see you as her God. So counter-intuitively you can gain more by lowering your standards a bit, but this requires a more holistic view of the person, with less focus on pure aesthetics.

1) Did you have any intentions of seeing her again? If yes, why didn't you communicate that to her? 2) Why didn't you fall asleep cuddling with her? If you want to keep a girl around and treat her well, cuddling and sleeping together after sex is crucial. Last time I checked introverts enjoy cuddling and falling asleep together with girls. 3) If you had intentions to see her again, why did it take you "a few days later" to see how she was doing? In this situation, if you intend to keep her around AND you asked her to leave after sex, you gotta immediately follow up with some reassuring texts like, "Can't wait to see you again." If your whole intention was just to bang her one time, then yeah, you kinda were an asshole and you did kinda use her with all that spiritual sweet-talk. You sneakily used spirituality to lure her in for a rather unspiritual deed (a one night stand). Even as I was reading your post/story of the events, when you wrote that you had sex with her, that struck me as overly stealthy and unexpected. Like you set up this perfectly executed plan to let down her guard and open her legs. But otherwise, you were just inept in your communication and relationship skills.

Awakening is the most appropriate word I know for it. I've had deeper awakening through psychedelics than some people who have meditated for 30 years. I don't label by the hours invested, I label based on degree of consciousness and insight reached. It's not just about me, it's about how easily people misinterpret and misunderstand the teachings. It does not serve my function as a teacher to release stuff that gets badly misunderstood. Nor does it serve this community. You guys don't want to be known for following a careless lunatic.

Yeah, well, as they say, There's a new sucker born every minute. Youngsters make the easiest marks. YouTube not only has casino scammers, it has pedophiles hunting for kids. It's still the Wild West out there in internet land.

Lol To get that you'd have to become so woke you drop dead and enter the afterlife.