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@Orcoda The most important thing is that you must find a location where there are lots of attractive women. The top locations are: nightclub, bar, daytime cafe, busy sidewalk, mall, crowded restaurant area, college campus, etc. The bigger the city you live in, the better the locations will be. Small city locations suck. Then it's just a matter of seeing ones you like and doing a direct genuine approach with a light-hearted, positive vibe. My favorite opener is: "Hey, I just saw you walking by and I found you attractive so I decided to come meet you. So here I am."

You're still not getting it: duality IS unity! The distinction between duality and nonduality is a duality you imagined! The nature of duality is nonduality. The nature of nonduality is duality. When you make a distinction between duality and nonduality, you live a dualistic life. When you make no distinction between duality and nonduality, you live a nondual life. And if you make a distinction between these two lives, you live the dualistic life.

@Kazman I don't think you're understanding what the concept of Small Bets is. It does not mean being a cowardly uninspired hack.

That fear is a good sign and totally expected. But also, be open to outside-the-box career configurations. In today's world there's no reason why you'd have to do live performance unless you wanted to. For example, you could set things up such that all of your music is digital and no one even has to know your real name or face. You could even wear a mouse costume. Hell, you could even wear a moose costume Be creative, be clever, be unique, innovate within your field, be the vanguard. Show us something new.

It's fairly natural that if you follow me, like my work, and shell out $250 for my course that you will be similar to me in many ways. At the same time, you will be different from me and your LP will not at all be expressed in the way I express my LP. Just look within and make sure you are staying true to yourself, not just aping me. If you are being true to yourself and it happens to look like what I'm doing, that's not a problem. Also make sure that you are partaking of other sources beside myself. The problem with relying too much on one source is that your mind isn't given enough variety of input to produce a truly original output. Copycatting is a problem of lack of diversity of input. For example, an aspiring film director who's in love with George Lucas films so much that he only watches George Lucas films is doing himself a great disservice and will end up a copycat. Creative people need to vastly diversity their inputs, otherwise their output will be unoriginal. That's one of the reasons that I literally study 100s of obscure sources. I have no interest in being a cookie-cutter Tony Robbins clone. Teach yourself how to be creative outside the box. There are so many different ways to express a common set of values or even the same career choice: like being a life coach. You can be a totally unique life coach if you do it right.

@andyjohnsonman There is no Kirya yoga without pranayama. Why are you guys making this so complicated?

@PetarKa If you haven't tried, then you don't know and will never know until afterward. Stop trying to know things beforehand. You are putting the cart before the horse. Either do, or do not. You might as well be asking, "I've heard of roller-coasters, is going on a roller-coaster a good thing? What if it goes off the rails?" "I've heard of microscopes, is looking into a microscope a good thing? What if a bacterium pokes my eye out?" "I've heard of music. Should I listen to it? What if it gives me ear cancer?"

If you're serious about spirituality, read the top rated spirituality books from my book list. That's all you need. And then PRACTICE! Be careful with this idea of "studying" spirituality. Spirituality is not meant to be studied, it's meant to be lived. The ego-mind loves to study stuff without actually changing itself.

@Ross Labby Sounds like you're on the right track. Don't stop now! You don't necessarily have to settle this question immediately. You might want to give yourself some space to explore your top 2 or 3 possibilities with some small bets (see video about Small Bets) and see which one you like more. You could also potentially find a way to integrate several things together, like becoming a consultant or artistic director, which would allow you to have your hand in multiple cookie jars. Honestly, though, it sounds like you're overlooking the obvious: music. Your heart is telling you MUSIC! but your mind is scared to actually do it. By definition making a decision means cuts off certain possibilities. By choosing music you are saying No to other things. And that's how it should be. That's what creates a clear sense of purpose. Otherwise you're unfocused. Re-watch the videos in the course about FEAR. Fear is one of the biggest obstacles here.

That is correct, but it will probably take A LOT of looking to get it. It's too obvious to get.

Don't get ahead of your skiis here. For practical purposes, yes, you CAN rely on your intuition and follow your genuine passions and your heart. We might call this the "higher self" or "the soul". This is still not the full True Self, but it's good enough to bootstrap your life. Yes, it is okay to want to make the world a better place, just don't go overboard. Don't turn it into a mad crusade. And don't neglect your inner work, the Greater Jihad. Yes, it can be useful to explore your subconscious mind and to integrate various fragmented parts of your psyche. It's not the ultimate solution, but it's a decent starting point. You have to realize that this work has many parts. Not everything is about awaking up. There are also more practical aspects to life and even to your mind and psychology which need to be worked on. For example, maybe you have some childhood trauma that needs to be ironed out. This not going to enlighten you, nor will it end all your suffering, but it's still important to do because all of that psychological baggage adds up and constricts your ability to awaken. There is no escape from the devil. The forces of devilry are always at work. So you must always stay vigilant and study the devil's ways. But at the same time, don't get paranoid. Generally speaking, follow your heart. Sometimes the devil will trick you even when you try to follow your heart. That's okay, you will get better and better at avoiding his tricks. And with some deep enlightenments, the devil's grip over you will significantly diminish. Not totally, but significantly. See my video: The Paradox Of Developing Self-Trust

Abso-fucking-lutely I have not discovered any limits yet. Every trip goes deeper with no bottom in sight.

@ivankiss Yup Good work. You speak from Truth.

He wasn't talking about awake people. He was talking about inwardly-oriented people. Research shows that about half of heroin addicts and alcoholics are people in search of awakening, but not knowing that what they seek is God, they find a pseudo-God in the heroin or alcohol. So what Tolle is saying is that.

@John West You need more practice. Observation leads to new insights. These insights can be both verbal and non-verbal. It's okay to start with verbal ones. That is valuable still. As you deeply examine and question fear, new distinctions will form. For example, you could notice that fear has a significant mental/conceptual component, as all emotions do. Emotions are NOT just perceptions or sensations. Emotions are conceptual constructions. For example, fear is only possible when your mind is thinking of the future. No future, no fear. No mental imagery, no fear. If you observed fear closely, you'd notice that, and much more. The mistake you're making is that you assume that you already know what fear is. You assume that what you see after 5 mins of observation is in fact what is there. That is NOT the case! Your mind is not allowing you to see what's really there because of all the conceptual filtering and cultural knowledge which is clouding your perceptions. As a rule of thumb: nothing you see with your eyes or feel with your body is to be trusted as a raw given. It's all heavily interpreted and conceptually distorted. For example, look at your hand. It is not a hand, as you assume. When examining fear it is useful to ask additional questions like: What is the purpose of fear? What are the components of fear? What is mecessary for fear to exist? How and why do I create fear? Be careful not to anticipate what the answers to these questions will be. You must actually do the observation and see what happens. The answers will often surprise you. Maybe one day you'll discover that fear is an illusion Notice that you are not even conscious most of the time that you are afraid. And you experience fear MANY times per day.

Yeah, take that pineal gland talk with a grain of salt. We need a lot more research, and ultimately the brain explanations of consciousness are deeply misguided.

@Arhattobe Let's just say I've developed a nose for the distinct smell of devils on this forum

Running 3 businesses is not good. Seek to consolidate all of it into one life purpose. What work would you do if you had $100 million? You should check out my Life Purpose Course, which guides you through the whole process. You are wasting a lot of your potential with your current approach.

That's waking up. Don't confuse waking up with Earthly activities.

@Arhattobe Hate to burst your bubble, but you ain't awake. You ain't fooling no one here. As for not frying your brain, sure, I agree. Psychedelics must be done responsibly. And as for Martin not being as awake as some others masters you're comparing him to, no one said he was. There are many degrees of wokeness and mastery.

That's totally true from the ego's POV.

@Jordan94 Clearing your nose is vital, if you can. I use breathe strips to help widen the nasal passages. You could also experiment with various decongestants like FloNase or Xclear. Or at least blow out your nose before you start. Just practice sucking in air slower. As slow as possible. I just timed myself. One in-breath takes me 22 seconds.

That's not extreme for a person who's awakening. All of the above are typical and to be expected if you're getting serious about spirituality. In fact, that's sort of the point of doing spirituality. That kind of stuff is not unique to psychedelics. You can get that from yoga, meditation retreats, self-inquiry, etc. Do you want results or not? Awakening is a radical process.

Kriya is not for dabblers. It needs to be taught in a proper way, not one video. Yes, it is a lazy thing. You've been way too spoiled by my videos. I might teach a Kriya course in the future, but not for a while, as it needs to be done in the proper way.

No, I wouldn't say that. You're generalizing way too much here. There is enormous diversity between different teens. You can't speak of teens as one object. Generally speaking teens are less developed than adults in all categories. Teens are quite stupid, reckless, and immature. There are some rare exceptions, but even they are still very under-developed. That's just the nature of being human. A human being does not become mature until basically age 25-30. Which is why rental car companies do not rent cars to people under 25. I would not trust anyone under 30 years of age to be mature. It's really that bad. And these days kids are getting stupider. They are being indoctrinated by digital media from age 5. So don't think you're safe.