Leo Gura

Have you considered that you might be a devil

@pluto Have you actually done a dark room retreat and what was the net result?

Adam and Eve partook of the devil's Forbidden Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and here we are. Contemplate

Keep telling yourself that, devil. You ain't fooling me.

If you guys refuse to do empirical research, that's not my problem. I told you from day 1 that Actualized.org is an empirical enterprise and that none of your beliefs or opinions mean squat unless you put them to the test.

Modafinil is a standard prescription drug. It's not an illegal drug. No one cares that you're taking it.

@Ampresus Relative to what? Pizza and fries? Questions of healthiness are always relative to what you're comparing to. And canned tuna ain't the same thing as fresh wild Alaskan salmon. The biggest concern with fish is heavy metal toxicity. You shouldn't eat too much of it. Stay away from predatory fish like swordfish, tuna, mackerel, shark, bass, etc. as they contain the most heavy metals. Smaller fish are generally safer than bigger fish.

I would rather have one enlightenment experience than all of Jeff Bezo's wife's money. Careful who you role-model. You just might end up with their miserable life.

@andyjohnsonman Not worth your time. Kriya yoga or mindfulness meditation with labeling will blow all that junk out of the water. What you need is not games but an industrial-grade practice like the two above. At the very least you could just sit and stare at your hand for 30 minutes straight, and that will do way more for you than those so-called brain training games. Life is short and full of suffering, so stop dicking around and get serious.

Yes, it can. And by the logic you could be chanting Om all day long. I have nothing against it. I have just customized my practice to suit my style and needs, as should you. I am not making claims here about what is best for all, but merely what I currently practice. Kriya yoga is one of a variety of tools I use.

@Worldclassbullshit Do not bend over backwards for her. Only do this if she is equally invested in it. Otherwise she's likely to flake. You should be talking dirty with her by this point and she should be really into it. If she's being cold about it, big red flag.

No, I don't chant Om. Meh, I spend time meditating anyways, so it's not such a big deal to me. The most important part is the pranayamas for rewiring the brain. That's my opinion. Don't get caught up debating minutia. Get your basic practice down and the rest will be window-dressing.

@LordFall Some girls have hormonal issues and just low sex drive. Perhaps find yourself a girl with a higher sex drive. They do exist. Although in the end whether you do or don't, it won't solve any of your issues and you will still be unhappy. Sex solves nothing.

There is nothing to say. Either do it or don't. But it is the Holy Grail.

Science and mysticism will converge and co-evolve. But science as a conceptual activity will never really grasp the Absolute. Science must become the hand-maiden of mysticism.

That's called mysticism. Lol. And it's been around for at least 10,000 years.

@TheAvatarState No, that is not correct. That definition of science is woefully inadequate to really understand what science is. Science is a conceptual, symbolic activity. It is impossible to do science without concepts or language. Yet no concepts are ever reality. So how do you resolve that? Yes, superficially science relies on observation, but then it turns those observations into a conceptual construct. Spirituality also relies on observation, but it turns observation into Being (if done properly) -- which science can never do. Science must always miss being for concept, not-knowing for knowing. If you think you're gonna know enlightenment, you're wrong. You can only not-know it. It is critical that you transcend the entire domain of knowledge. What we're talking about with spirituality is NOT knowledge! Notice how big of a problem this presents for you, since all you know, is knowledge!

That's still too much at the level of intellect. You say that, but you're still playing the games because your ego thinks it's getting something valuable out of them. You haven't fully realized the significance of that statement. Relativity still runs your whole life, and you still treat the relative as though it has absolute value. Which is why you still cling to things, why you still have fear, anger, frustration, worry, negativity, etc. And why you struggle so hard to manipulate life every day, yet you keep failing and failing and disappointing yourself. The quantity of suffering you experience every day is a measure of how little you are conscious of the above statement. Suffering comes from not being conscious of relativity, treating the relative as absolute.

@Serotoninluv Yes, you can do that. But also understand that you have not fully realized the Absolute yet. When your ego-mind is completely deconstructed, you will realize, much to your ego's shock, that all knowledge is conceptual, and not Being or Truth. It's gonna be quite problematic for you to do science once you're fully conscious that past & future, and cause & effect are not real. But if you ever reach that far, you also won't care, because by this point you'll be dead. And then you'll be a happy mystic without a care in the world. Could you still do science after that? Probably. But would you still want to? You gotta really wonder? Why do you do science at all? Why invest the time into it? What do you lack that it gives you?

Sure, but the map is never the territory. Science is always conceptual, partial, and relative, never Absolute. Which is why most mystics don't care too much about science. It's an endless game of relativity. The problem with science is that it refuses to recognize its limits. Science is arrogant and foolish in this regard.

What needs to be grokked is that consciousness cannot be explained. The problem here is way deeper than science can understand. No knowledge or explanation is ever Truth or Being. The only way to understand consciousness is to not-know it. But science is not in the business of not-knowing, it's in the business of knowing. So that cannot work. Consciousness cannot be formalized because all formalization is finite while consciousness is infinite. Consciousness has already been perfectly explained, so to speak, by mysticism. As soon as you understand consciousness you stop being a scientist and become a mystic by definition.

It is everything, and everything includes this right now.

@mark eldridge You cannot do that. The Absolute cannot be known. Anything you know is not it. Being is not knowing, and knowing is not being. If you want to access Absolute Infinity sit down and stare at your hand. Your hand is it. Stare at it until it stops being your hand. Stop knowing your hand. The Absolute is identical to the actual present moment.

All my pranayamas are the same. I visualize the prana flowing up the spine from chakra 1 to very tip top of the head, and then back down. I forget is that's KP1, KP2, or KP3. Ideally you'd sit and concentrate. I'm often short on time so I just get on with life. To me, the value is in the physical rewiring effects of the pranayama. If I had more time I would concentrate more. Do nothing is also viable in my opinion.

@Matt23 Well, you might also want to work on developing some practical skills like public speaking, coaching, teachings, mentoring, etc. Think about what kind of practical skills would enable your LP. You could train to become a therapist for example, etc. There are many such opportunities. Since you live in the real world you're gonna have to build a set of stepping stones which move you up to your ultimate vision. Try to find a way to make a living that aligns with your LP at least somewhat. For example, becoming a therapist might be a great way to learn about helping people with their spiritual problems while also earning good money. Then you could transcend traditional therapy and do more spiritual type of retreats or workshops or coaching. Actualizing a big LP usually requires several such practical career moves. You can't just become exactly what you want in one step in most cases. Although if you were really serious, you could beocme a full-time monk and become enlightened within a few years.