Leo Gura

If you are serious about being a successful musician it cannot be done for the sake of money and sex. Your motivation must be creative and artistic. The point of making art is never the sex, success, money, or fame, but the joy of creating the art and sharing it with the world. Your band needs to gets its priorities straight or you need to find a new band. If they don't fix their priorities ASAP they will never reach success or fame, so don't worry about missing out. You're actually missing out by following them blindly to the dark side. You're literally choosing to sell your soul to the devil for fame. And the devil won't even fulfill his end of that bargain. So you'll end up with nothing. By leaving the band and restarting under proper values and priorities -- that's your best chance at success. There cannot be good art without integrity and creative vision. You are putting the cart before the horse here. The rewards for your art should matter a lot less to you than the process of making the art itself. Be careful about chasing get rich quick schemes. Those usually never pan out. If you want success, you must ground it in something solid that offers massive value to the world. You need an attitude of giving rather than taking. Solid success in music requires years of serious dedication to your craft. You should be so obsessed with making great music that you don't even have time to think about sex. Making great art is more rewarding than sex. But for this you need to be genuine artist, not some hack.

@Aquarius Go slower next time. Obviously lots of guys online will only want to use you for sex and never see you again. You gotta test the waters more before you dive in. Get to know his intentions and his character. Careful. Lots of creepy fucks online. Don't just randomly sleep with them. A depressed/anxious dude on a first date is clearly a red flag. He should be happy and excited.

You imagine all of reality, including psychedelics and the Earth. So you placed it there using your mind. Psychedelics don't grow out of the Earth. They grow out of your mind.

1) Fundamentalist Christians indoctrinate children into their ideology under the belief that they are saving the children from evil. Yet they are doing just the opposite, training their children to be dogmatic, making it almost impossible for them to ever discover Truth, God, or Love. 2) The invasion of Iraq under the premise of removing an evil dictator, saving lives, and ending terrorism ended up killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, creating ISIS, and turning Iraq into a breeding ground for terrorism when actually Saddam Hussein would have never allowed for terrorists to flourish in Iraq. This list could be endless. Basically all evil is done in the name of goodness, love, and truth. You're holding that devilry is some material fact of the world which needs to be abolished. That is not the case. Devilry is a relative matter of perspective. You cannot eliminate devilry in the world any more than you can remove a smudge off the surface of the moon when the smudge is on your telescope lens. You've mistaken a smudge on your lens for a feature of the moon. So you'll always fail until you realize that smudge in on your lens, not the moon. Devilry isn't real. It does not actually exist. It's just a figure of speech and an illusion as the result of the game of survival. I promote him from a relative survival perspective. In the absolute sense it is irrelevant who is president or if humans die or don't since all of life is imaginary. By seeing evil you end up creating evil.

This does not explain your situation. It's not the chemicals, it's how your psyche interprets and handles what was revealed. This is not a hardware problem, this is a software problem.

The human you is God's sense of self. God has infinite selves.

To get good with girls at any cost. When you're trying to solve a serious life challenging, it's a good idea to approach it with the attitude of "at any cost". Do not think about the cost of things you really want. Just work five times harder to pay it. Some things in life have absurdly high costs which almost no one is willing to pay. This allows you to set yourself apart from your competition simply by being willing to pay that cost. You won't really appreciate a thing unless you work your ass off for it.

You will never discover truth by arguing on a forum. If you care about truth, drop all this nonsense and go contemplate.

@Shaun It doesn't make sense because if you stopped imagining you are a point, you'd be dead. Your life hinges on you imagining you're a point and not being able to unimagine it. So what you're unwittingly asking for is for death. What you're really asking is, "Why can't I get myself to die?" And the answer is, because you're too scared and too attached to living. For your own safety you don't know how to undo imagining your birth. Do you really want to unimagine your own birth? Do you understand how serious that is?

You imagine it.

Of course it's possible. Look at Steve Erwin as your role model. He was basically the Jesus of animal conservation, giving his life for the cause.

Of course you get a lot better from all that failure.

That's right. Evolution progresses to maximize consciousness and love. But good luck explaining that to a materialist, hehe. But what do you think life has been doing for the last 2 billion years?

One way I found that works is live apart and see each other fairly rarely. If you're having sex every week it's gonna get stale eventually.

Great! Keep a positive attitude. The first girl my brother approached at a book store coffee shop ended up going on a date with him. Took me 400+ Beginner's luck

That was Absolute Consciousness. That was as real as it gets. Everything you realized was the highest truth. But it's too much for you to handle in one trip. You will needdozens of trips to make sense of it all. There are still facets you're missing and things go even deeper. Keep tripping and asking questions and one day you will understand why you created all this: LOVE! The mindfuck gets deeper from here

It's good idea. Gotta dig it up from one of my many loose hard drives. Not sure which one it's on.

@Bodigger Dude, give it up. You're wasting your time here defending an ideology. Notice that you are just acting like a robot, parroting ideas where programmed into your mind.

Bernie is so old he's hip. Another example of things going full-circle

I'm not sure there is any advice for this. Do you. Let them do them. Keep a healthy distance from trolls.

It's very hard to quantify something like this. I wouldn't worry about trying to quantify it. Rather focus on your unique discovery process. However long it takes will be worth it. And it's going to depend on how much effort you put into it.

It all depends on how good you are at business. Many life coaches make zero because they cannot find clients. Other life coaches who develop a system for finding clients can make low 6 figures. Someone like Tony Robbins makes tens of millions because he established an massive brand. It's best not to even think of him as a life coach. He a major business guy. Life coaching is not different than any other small business. You have to be good at sales and marketing to be successful. If you think clients will just come to you, think again. The hardest part of life coaching is not the coaching, it's creating a steady stream of clients. Most life coaches fail for this reason. But then again, most businesses fail for this reason.

That's your confusion right there. You have spent your whole life trying to gain advantage for yourself, but you are not even real. This work is not about helping yourself out. This work is about realizing you are not real. What you're looking for is Love, but Love is not found in meaning, it's found in being and selflessness. Your problem is that you are fundamentally addicted to selfishness, which disconnects you from Love. Meaning is part of your selfishness which you must learn to let go. You are desperately avoiding emptiness. Yet emptiness is the only thing that can ever satisfy you. So you're stuck in a catch-22.

Cut such people out of your life. Simple. Unless you're making it up as an excuse. In which case that's your shadow at work.

Being is prior to meaning. Just let it go. What you really want is being, not meaning.