Leo Gura

How you gonna do that at gun point? And of course stage Blue must pass through stage Orange. So it was inevitable. That's what the terrorists fail to understand. The Middle East has to pass through stage Orange before it can return to true spirituality. Fundamentalist militant Islam is not sustainable in the long run because people need to go from Blue to Orange.

@jse No can do, due to it's legal status and short supply. The closest thing to that you'll find is Yopo snuffing in South America or Dr. Octavio Rettig in Mexico.

@Barna Is that a real concern for you, or merely a theoretical one?

@Annetta Good, but please elaborate a bit more on each point.

@Russell Parr No

@Revolutionary Think I doubt you even need an offiline portfolio these days. I'd put all my energy into a short but polished and powerful online portfolio. Go quality over quantity. And have a target audience in mind.

@LifeLife Take ownership of the problem and commit to solving it without even knowing how you'll do it yet. That's step #1. I guess step #0 is convincing yourself that you can change. And step #2 would be doing lots of deep research on your specific issue to brainstorm possible lines of solution. You don't need a fancy expensive shrink. All psychological problems you can fix yourself. In fact, it's the best and fastest way. With contemplation, journaling, reading, meditation, self-inquiry, and a plan for increased exposure to social situations, you should be able to cure yourself of that completely with time. Start with contemplating: Why do I feel a need to create society anxiety? No bullshit... what's the bottom line? Why are you doing it?

Where is it written that aspiring actors must work minimum wage jobs, for ten years? What nonsense! Arnold Schwarzenegger was a millionaire before he got his first acting job. So yeah... find better role-models. Stop thinking inside the box. Be much more creative.

Great! Sounds just like how it's supposed to. Keep staying true to that muse and working your butt off.

@carlos flores They kept bad neighbors America's principle export is materialism. The USA is like a drunk uncle who keeps coming around to lure you into drinking with him. If you don't find a way to block him out, eventually he will convince you to have just one drink. Then just one more. Just one more. Just one more. Just one more... What's really interesting is that Japan and China were forced to open their boarders for international trade at gun point, by military occupation. The biggest thing the USA wanted from Japan upon invading was to infect them with materialism. Same thing with the Middle East, which is why many terrorists are pissed off at us. We've committed cultural genocide. Debauchery at gunpoint. Materialism must Trump all! Damn the consequences.

@JustinS Lol, that's badass. But don't do that at home. Yopo snuff is very weak compared to pure 5-meo so they need to blast grams of that stuff up there. Thank God for modern chemistry.

@LifeLife Consider this: the true sign of mastery here would be if you had a computer with full internet access, tons of porn, TV, the best new sites all lined up, right there on your desktop, within hands reach, and you simply weren't tempted at all. Of course that's like an ideal. Will take you years to work up to that probably. So do it however you like. There are many ways to skin a cat here.

That's the thing... what it is, is nothing. So it doesn't really exist. The substance of everything existing is non-existence. Every duality, every polar opposite circles back around into itself. And existence/non-existence is no exception. How else could it be? You can't have a whole coin without two sides, both touching each other. Except now extend this metaphor to infinite dimensions and qualities. And then make it actual.

@Jonson Factory manufacturing, factory farming, factory schooling. As a culture we want to maximize efficiency and quantity, not understanding or quality. That's how stage Orange Spiral Dynamics thinks.

There are huge bureaucratic and political barriers which will limit that. But still, it will have to move in that direction. It will just take a long time. We definitely need more reformers in the school system fighting the good fight. It's a dirty job, but a very important one. If you care about it that much, you could make it your life purpose.

That's right, which is why true spirituality isn't flashy, grand, or opulent. It's so humble you don't even notice that it's present. The cost of spirituality is surrendering your materialism. Which means surrendering money, power, sex, mainstream culture, and mindless entertainment. Who wants to make that sacrifice? Only those who really value truth. Which is very rare. On the other hand, you can successfully temper all this if you want by learning to walk the walk and talk the talk of ordinary people. You will be like an invisible man who puts on a set of clothing to avoid freaking people out. Balancing theory vs practice is a very tricky issue. I'll have an important video about that in the future. You have to learn to operate at both ends of the spectrum. So you can be deeply philosophical one minute, then totally practical the next, and allow the two to interpenetrate each other as is most optimal for the given situation. It's like juggling, a physical skill set that must be learned by doing it a lot. There can be no rigid formula for juggling. It's an artful dance.

Potential/actual is a duality. Reality is nondual. Meaning reality is simultaneously both, and at the same time, neither. Actual is potential, and potential is actual. How can you be sure there is creation? Maybe creation is not. Maybe is and is not are constructs of your mind. Maybe that's all just duality. - - - - - - - - - - - - - You guys are trying real hard to wrap your mind around God. And I get that. I have spent years trying to do that. On the other hand, it is God! You have no idea yet just how massive Absolute Infinity is. It's TOTAL. Whatever you think of it, it's not it, and it's not even remotely close, and the closer you think you're moving to it, you're only moving further away. If you really want to know, you have to drop all your ideas. Seriously! Just drop them. Every idea is not it, and every idea stands directly between you and it. No thing is it, because things are finite. Like seriously! There's a very good reason why Zen masters are silent about it. Because it is way too big for words, minds, humans, or even this universe. The entire universe with it's trillions of stars is not enough to contain it. Your brain is not going to be able to do it. An infinite number of human brains working for an infinite number of years would not even get 0.0000000000001% close to getting it. Although, ironically, 30mg of 5-meo can do the trick

@username Your thinking about this whole thing is still way too small. Think BIGGER! The mind can think whatever it wants. The Absolute is Absolute. That's all. It's impossible to communicate about the Absolute to someone who's only aware of the relative. You have nothing to contrast the relative with. All your thinking is confined to the relative. Snort a large dose of 5-meo and find out. Or don't.

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@Russell Parr You speak of things you have not deeply experienced.

Cause and effect is just a story of your monkey mind. There's nothing absolute about it. Absolute reality has no cause and effect. Logic is language. All language is a construction. The Absolute is utterly illogical because it contradicts itself, as it must to be infinite.

A) You don't know if Truth can be known or not. You have to be open to the possibility that it might be out there waiting for you to discover it. B) When you become directly conscious of it for yourself, you'll instantly know Truth, and why it's called that. That is enlightenment. If you choose not to believe in its possibility, well... that's your delusion right there.

Keep your discussions on this forum. No creating outside chat groups. It breaks apart the community and is against the forum guidelines.

@LifeLife You might want to start with a less ambitious goal. Have you even done 30 days without internet? The problem with absolutistic goals is that they tend not to get at the root of the problem. You're probably gonna be using the internet at some point in your life. So you might as well learn how to use it responsibly now. If you just quit it for a year, that will be interesting, but you'll just come back and gorge on it 1 year from now. Sometimes learning to cope with a thing results in more real growth than just abstaining from it.

@The Universe I have described both those subjects already.