Leo Gura

@Baotrader Yeah dude... just stop with the psyches. You ain't ready.

Yeah, it really depends a lot on the culture. It won't fly so well in under-developed countries with traditional cultures like the Middle East. If your friends are stage Orange/Green or Green, it should be okay. But low Orange and below will be a problem. Blue will be a big problem. Homosexuals basically don't exist in Blue cultures. Because they are demonized and even killed if they come forward. Blue forces a repression of homosexuality. It's a total denial.

I'm no expert on it, but the whole theme of interpreting human actions as a desire for sex, sexual organs, hidden perverted sexual desires, and all the mother/father stuff is just way too overblown. A being's actions are not primarily about sex, they are about self-survival. Sex is a tiny part of that. Psychoanalysis doesn't understand this and of course it doesn't understand spirituality, self-transcendence, nonduality, epistemology, or metaphysics. Freud projected his own sexual perversions onto the world and saw in the world a reflection of his own neurotic shadow self. But just because Freud was that way doesn't mean we all are that way. In fact most of us are not. I don't find Freud's theories useful for personal development or self-transcendence. There are much better frameworks. Most self-help frameworks are better. Go grab any random book in the self-help isle of the bookstore and you will get better and more useful advice for improving your life than by reading Freud. Any book on my book list will be far better.

Sure, he's great. Although still not as nondual as I'd like.

Your death WILL be the discovery of it. Don't worry, you can't die without it. What you call "death" is none other than Infinite Love!

Love I know it doesn't make sense to you now. But maybe one day it will. Terrible things are not a refutation of Love, they are a confirmation of Love's infinitude. You just have to really widen your scope on the world.

I agree we need to distinguish between progressives and neoliberals/centrists. But how it's done is also important. It's important to recognize that lots of people are neoliberals and centrist liberals because that is their level of development. You can't brow-beat them into becoming progressives. Almost by definition progressives are the rarest ones on the political spectrum. So while it's important to not confuse a neoliberal for a progressive, attacking neoliberals and centrist Dems is problematic because you just can't convert all Dems into progressives. There needs to be coalition and some mutual acceptance. My problem with Jimmy Dore is that I feel he's too aggressive. It's like red meat for progressives but it won't work to build a coalition. Being a rabid dog is not a good way to go. Bernie is very progressive but he's not so rabid and obnoxious about it, which allows him to attract people who normally wouldn't call themselves progressives or socialists or whatever. A very important principle for you to learn is that of meeting people where they're at. This will come up for you over and over again in life if you're going to be an advanced human. A lot of people will not be as advanced as you, and your solution to that cannot be to obnoxiously attack or "otherize" them. Remember that these are all your brothers and sisters. That is the real challenge. It would be so much easier if we could otherize half the population and lock them up in Montana. But we can't.

Why doesn't it make sense? Unconsciousness leads to suffering.

Unconditional Love definitely has a feeling to it, too. You're simply missing a mystical experience of Love. Try contemplating what love is on a psychedelic. You're disconnected from Being, and thinking about love in the abstract is not going to be enough to reconnect you. You need a direct experience to jolt you awake. You might also want to optimize your brain health, mental health, nutrition, energy, etc. to make sure that some chemical imbalance or energetic block is not obstructing you. Get blood work done. Check for vitamin deficiencies, heavy metal toxicity, etc. Dial in your health because it is the foundation for everything else. For example, if you have too much lead or mercury in your brain, you may not be able to feel love the way you otherwise could. If you can't feel anything, that shows me some deeper underlying chemical or health issue. Or possibly some energetic blockage. That is not normal. Start researching your symptoms.

That even taps into a Turquoise way of thinking.

Time too is a mindfuck Mindfuckery all around.

Your problem is self-judgment, self-hatred, and self-fear. The solution is, of course, Self-Love.

Learn to enjoy mindfuckry.

The brain is a product produced by the dream.

The world is evolving every day. In 100 years you won't recognize it. But luckily you'll be dead by then, otherwise you'd probably have a fit Progress only seems slow relative to one human life.

That was your comfortable ego-world of self-constructed meanings being revealed to be relative, biased, and imaginary. Ta-da! You constructed "reality" to suit your survival. It's like you've were born a rich kid and lived in a gated community your whole life and then one day you accidentally venture outside the gate and see poor people living in misery, toiling to put food on your banquet table.

@Socrates So are brick walls. Yet that doesn't make you an expert bricklayer. Calling something an illusion doesn't give you mastery over it or even an understanding of how it works. You have no idea how your computer works. And your computer is an illusion. That doesn't make you qualified to talk about computer engineering.

If you're practicing Sedona Method, you gotta let go 100s and 1000s of times. You don't just let go once and you're done. It's more like meditation, where you get go of one thought, but then it comes back and you keep letting it go 1000 times.

That's not the issue. The point is: feel love for yourself either way. Don't THINK about love but actually FEEL love for yourself and your addictive situation. The way a loving mother might if you told her you're addicted to weed. That doesn't mean she wants you doing more weed. But she would lovingly empathize for the challenging situation you find yourself in. Do that, but to yourself. Separate the love from your plans to fix the problem. Love first, fix later. As guys we tend to skip immediately to the fixing phase, skipping the love and acceptance phase. And if you slip and do more weed even though you intended to stop. Love yourself for that failure too.

Red Pill is a toxic, garbage ideology. No more Red Pill on this forum. I expect you guys to be above such things. Watch my videos about the problems with ideology, survival, and self-bias. To free your mind you must avoid all self-biased ideologies.

This is silly. There is still a big excess of masculine energy in government and positions of power. We are nowhere near a healthy balanced point. Again, this is a conflation of stage Green with stage Red. The worry that stage Green will become fascistic is totally overblown. The bigger worry is actual stage Red & Blue fascism -- which is still a real force around the world. You have to be wise enough to pick the right things to worry about. Worrying about excess Green is like worrying about the women's bathroom on the Titanic while it is sinking. Your worry is misdirected.

No, no, no No, no, no Stay humble, grasshopper. You have much to learn.

1) It's an excellent teaching 2) If you still have no clue how to let go, you haven't really been listening. The teaching is super, super simple. There is no method for letting go. You just let go. That is the method. Simple. But it requires practice. Stop looking for intellectual explanations. Just do it.

You can cycle practices throughout the year, to keep things fresh and yet not overwhelming. The point of trying lots of practices is to find those small handful which you will commit to. And also to have ones in the back pocket for when your life takes a turn in the future and you are in need of some specific one. These practices will be useful throughout the rest of your time at different points.

I think what everyone overlooks is the simple fact that people have different nutritional needs. There is no one best diet in the abstract. The question is always: What is the best diet FOR ME? And that you can only discover through trial and error. There are many factors at play: your genetics, geography, climate, your budget, your health conditions, your level of development, etc. I have found that vegetarian does not work well for me. It doesn't give me the energy that I need to function well. But it would be a mistake to apply my conclusion to all other people. My conclusion is for me.