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@mandyjw This is why most people will not get enlightened. It's too radical and it requires serious focus. You will not wake up without scheduling some week-long retreats every year. Waking up requires intense and prolonged focus. 60 minutes of focus will not do it. Or try psychedelics. That's the most realistic way for ordinary people to get a taste of awakening. It's fast amd effective, unlike meditation. With all that said, you can still maintain a daily meditation habit.

It requires a change in state of consciousness. The sense of I is more than just a feeling, thought, or belief. It's an entire state of being such that you know no other possibility. Changing that state requires a lot of concentration practice, or kriya yoga, or psychedelics.

Both The first time I went to a club I went solo. Then I quickly got some wings. They were helpful for something me the ropes and venues.

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I was only talking about pre-sex communications. Once you have sex with her, then you can text her more seriously. You must distinguish between pre-sex and post-sex behaviors. They are very different. Pre-sex, while you're dating, there must be some gaming going on. After she falls in love with you, you can cut the gaming. You don't need to manipulate her too much via text. The key is not to display neediness and desperation. The biggest mistake made with pre-sex texting is that the guy fucks it up by trying to say too much, trying to be too edgy/cocky/funny. Trying to attract her via text doesn't work. So actually my advice is to not game girls via text. Use texting mostly to handle dating logistics laced with bits of humor. Make your texts totally non-needy and unimportant. Don't be sending her long letters via text. Never try to logically convince her of meeting you. All that crap will blow you out very fast. Here are good kinds of texts pre-sex: Hey gurl, let's grab a coffee. Coffee! Lets go Saw this shirt at Walmart and thought it would be perfect for you [insert pic of ugly shirt] Meow... Moo Hey dork Let's hang out When you free this week? Let's do something this week How's the recovery going? (from last night's club/bar) You're the weirdest gurl I met last night. I want to build you a mansion out of Legos and stock it with exotic baby animals. Reading a book Chillin by the pool Making juice Clipping my toe nails, thought you should know Trimming my nose hair, thought you should know Going to club XXXXX tonight. You? You remind me of a dog I just saw You seem great and all but I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with you. I bet you snore like a pig. I want to stick a scorpion in your pants Hope this isn't too forward but I mailed you this basket of puppies [insert pic of basket of puppies] A few of them might arrive dead, I was too cheap to swing for overnight shipping That kind of stuff. Keep it lite and chill. Zero investment is key. This is the extent of pre-sex texting. NEVER, EVER get sexual via text unless you've already had sex with her a few times. It comes off way too creepy and needy. Act like you don't care about sex.

@Paul92 Paul as a biographical, biological, physical entity is constructed fiction. A narrative. But there is a True You -- the True Self/No-Self/Nothingness/Void/God. Your true nature is not human but God. You are God thinking it is Paul. So when you realize that you are actually God, you will also realize that God has Will. God has infinite Will, in fact. Paul's will is a tiny splinter off God's infinite Will. So in a sense you will discover Paul was never really in control. But then you will also discover that since you are God, you control and create everything. As God, you have Will which you can use to create. So literally God allocates a tiny percentage of its infinite Will to this body of Paul's so that it could create a life. As a human your creative capacities are not infinite, they are limited so long as you are in a human form. If you exit the human form your creative power will be infinite, you can literally materialize physical objects out of thin air. But at this point you're not a human any more, you are the Godhead. You are that which you were before you were born. In the end, everything is God's choice. But the kicker is, you're God! But simultaneously you're human None of this is to be believed. You must discover if it is true through consciousness practices. The more conscious you become the more of God's Will will be at your disposal. Eventually you and God will merge into one such there will be zero distance between your lifting a finger and God willing it so. The definition of a devil is someone who thinks he is separate from God. The devil seeks to separate itself from God and rule using his own will. But the devil is always just a partition within God. So the devil is tricking itself into thinking that it is in control. Eventually the devil must surrender control and accept that it was God all along. This merges the devil back into God as if the separation never even happened. That's nonduality in a nutshell. Nonduality polarizes into duality and then depolarizes back into nonduality. God is the doing non-doer

@Jj13 A spiritual university is called an ashram or a monastery.

Sounds like there's a catch

Enough bullshit.

Lol Blind leading the blind on stilts off a cliff.

@Tom T See my book list, Paranormal section.

@now is forever A bank robbery is a life-threatening situation. Police use overwhelming force in order to make sure people don't fuck with them. Which maintains the peace you enjoy. If you pull out a gun in a public area, you should expect to get shot by police. This is not inhumane. But obviously the police need to be well-trained not to use excessive force, especially against minorities. But if someone is waving a gun around in public, shooting him is not inhuman. If he has no gun, then he shouldn't be shot but tazered. It's not so complicated. It just requires good police training and accountability.

@ThomasT Awesome! Glad you found God. Not sure why you needed to fly all the way to Mexico though. Bufo ceremonies are done in Europe all the time. Here's one: https://www.psilohuasca.com I know Octavio Rettig travels to Europe as well.

Awwww... Thanks a lot ya'll

@How to be wise Which is why most of society is not enlightened and never will be. Most enlightened people just sit around and do nothing. You don't see enlightened people in the military or police force or 99% of other basic jobs. If everyone got enlightened tomorrow, society would completely collapse, worse than a nuclear war. In practice, enlightened people depend on the rest of society functioning unconsciously, in the same way that the police depend on criminals committing crimes. Enlightenment does have a certain elitism to it. It cannot really work unless society is advanced enough to support it. Or unless you are totally off on your own living in a cave. But even then you need someone to bring you food. In practice what happens is that an enlightened person is so rare the he can survive off his followers and fans. And also, in practice, if you are conscious enough to not suffer, you will be resourceful enough not to place yourself into a job where you have to shoot people. Then again, you can still probably be an enlightened police officer if you really wanted. I don't see why that necessarily requires suffering. There's no real contradiction shooting a bank robber. You shoot him because he's breaking an important law. Your job in this case is to defend society against devils, which ultimately helps society to awaken.

@Space That is the million dollar question. There is no easy answer. Becoming financially comfortable whilst starting from scratch is very challenging, requiring creative thinking, strategy, focus, discipline, hard work, vision, and a bit of luck. In practice you will have to claw your way to the top using whatever means available. One very helpful piece of advice is to keep your living expenses as low as humanly possible. At least for the first 5 years of your LP, until you get established. Another possibility is to move to a very cheap part of the country, or even a 3rd world country as you develop your skills. Again, this is to keep your expenses as low as possible and buy yourself time to build skills. Another possibility is first build some more marketable skills which can help you pay the rent. For example it's possible to learn some programming skills, which tend to be well-paid. Another possibility is to work a relatively high-wage job for a year or two in order to save up a nest egg. There are some jobs which require zero experience and zero education but still pay well. Another possibility is to get a lower job but within your chosen field/industry. For example if you want to direct movies, rather than trying to get hired as a director (which is virtually impossible), try to get hired as an assistant to the director. Then you can prove yourself to the director and he might be willing to hire you in the future as a producer. Etc. Finally then you will become a director. Another possibility is to get a part-time job which allows you time to work on building your skills at home. Etc. You have to be very creative, opportunistic, and flexible when starting out. I spent 4 years building an entirely unrelated business to earn enough money to finally follow my LP. It was a huge detour and not at all easy or pleasant. But it was worth it.

@Annoynymous If it wasn't you could not be here asking this question.

Suffering IS a survival function. The only reason anything suffers is because it cares to survive. Suffering can be transcended through consciousness at the individual level, but at the collective level that's another story. Why are you framing it as "someone needs to be stopped"? You can act against devilry without being attached to it, and hence avoid suffering. I am not saying you need to fight anything internally. I can vote against Trump without hating him. I can be conscious that he is me, but that he must still not be allowed to hold power. I can support the existence of a police department without suffering simply by understanding that police is needed for a decent society. This just requires some understanding of how government works. You can work to build a decent government without becoming an ideological partisan zealot about it. In fact, anything that can be done with suffering and attachment can also be done without suffering or attachment. You seem to be conflating action and education with suffering.

@purerogue Precisely. When the rubber hits the road, you will run crying to government to save your ass from the devils who want to rape you. The people who take government for granted are the ones who already feel totally safe because government has provided them with that safety without them even being aware of it. That's how good government is. It's amazing! Like magic!

@How to be wise Well, practically, if you don't believe some people need to be stopped you cannot create a police force nor enforce any laws. So you can act too cool for school, but that's only because someone else has worked their ass off to create a police force so that you can sit comfortably it your room without getting your throat slit. Survival demands action of you. If you are okay with dying, fine. Then you will die. See ya in the next life. Do not take government for granted. Without a good government you would be a slave. And good government does not happen by accident. It requires intense battle and effort against devils who would wish to enslave you.

@ChoseyFrozey Psychedelics are the most effective method for facing death without totally dying. Start with a small dose and slowly work your way up. Any psychedelic can produce ego-death. You can't really prepare for it. It will just blindside you, you'll be dead before you realize what just happened. And then you will laugh as you realize death is a joke.

Get rid of the ego and see what remains

@How to be wise As I have told you before, you have bastardized spirituality into an absolutist position which denies relative reality and relative truths. This is pathological Zen devilry. You are shirking your responsibilty as a creator. Nothing needs to happen, but that doesn't mean we cannot decide to execute Hitler for being a vicious devil. We get to decide how we want life and society to unfold. If you want to sit back and do nothing, that's fine, but that is your choice. Do not act like you are not making a choice. By not making a choice you've made your choice. Whatever choice we make becomes God's will. Reality makes things happen through YOU! Not for you. If you choose to not prepare for winter, winter will come and you will starve to death. Reality will not magically feed you. Reality gave you enough smarts to not be so stupid as to ignore winter. You are exhibiting a dangerous level of naivete. Nonduality does NOT mean inaction or indifference. To escape personal suffering into some Nirvanic formless state and then to act like nothing else matters because you are free of suffering is perhaps the highest form of Zen devilry I have seen.

@clouffy Contemplation and observation. If something is true, it is happening in your experience and you can observe it happening. So all you really have to do is look at what is actually happening without adding your own stuff to it. The tricky part is that you add A LOT of your own stuff to it.

There is no formulaic answer. It's a delicate tight rope act. Following one's heart and intuition is a good rule of thumb. But that already assumes you've got a pure heart and good intuition, which not all people have. Mostly I keep myself safe by cross-referencing 100s of diverse sources and by understanding that my mind is self-deceptive.