Leo Gura

Well, I would say you were a diamond in the rough and then you polished yourself up.

I'd bet he was. A normie does not become a guru. A guru isn't so much made as born. I am aware of various such practices. But I still don't believe that they will work for everyone who does them. Not even for most people. Yes, training plays a role. But you can easily verify what I am telling you by asking a handful of psychics how they got their abilities. They themselves will tell you that they had them from a young age without training. They will even tell you that their abilities were like a curse, a burden. I have interrogated a handful of psychics and they all tend to have a similar story. They did not meditate their way into their psychic powers. And most serious meditators never develop psychic powers.

It's not mindless at all. God's whole game is exploring all possible perspectives in order to reach infinite self-understanding. The logic is simple: How is God gonna reach Omniscience if it doesn't explore all the pain and suffering? You cannot understand what pain is until you experience it. God cannot understand what Hitler is without becoming Hitler. You do not understand what Hitler is because you haven't been in his shoes. The only thing you understand right now is your own experience. And you struggle to understand even that!

You are not going to have psychic abilities without the proper rare genetics. Trust me on this one. I've done a lot of spiritual practice and development. It hasn't given me psychic abilities. Almost all psychics are born with the ability. A normie is not just going to develop psychic abilities with some meditation or the like. This is why gurus with psychic or mystical powers have traditionally been worshiped as gods. They are genetic freaks with super-human capacities which normies will never have.

You can go to Yelp and find 1000s of psychics.

You might want to rethink that one.

1) You can search for videos of interviews of people who have transitioned, regretted it, and de-transitioned. These are not insignificant cases. When a child cannot access a gay book in the classroom, that is not going to ruin anyone's life. It is effectively irrelevant. But when a teen is deluded into transitioning and being gender fluid, that is potentially a life-destroying thing. There is no comparison between those two. How many regretful de-transitioned cases do you require before you take it as a serious concern? 2) Once the evidence is overwhelming enough for you to admit it and change your worldview, that will already be too late, as 1000s of teen's lives would be destroyed. And there could be subtle effects from this gender fluidity stuff that you will not even connect with it, such as creating an entire generation of incels, even worse than now. Once that happens and you acknowledge it, it will already be too late to fix. And these incels will not just sit back quietly, they will start shooting up schools worse than today. You really have to consider the full long-range secondary consequence of all this gender ideology. It is not obvious what it will lead to.

Will do

Don't even get me started on NTFs. They are the epitome of pure bullshit. If you are paying hard earned money for NFTs, you're a true sucker and you deserve to lose all your money. Shame on anyone who tries to sell their art as NFT.

@Devin Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. That is certainly the slippery slope that conservatives are freaked out about. Just as progressives see DeSantis as a slippery slope to Hell, conservatives see LGBTQ as a slippery slope to Hell.

@Tanz Yes, he could do all that, but you're basically criticizing him for not being more manipulative and sneaky. If you're gonna criticize Bill Gates, you should at least go with the Jeffery Epstein angle. If that one were true, that would be a serious criticism. The other criticisms of him I don't find to be serious. Then again, you could be smearing an innocent man as a pedophile. People LOVE to hate on Bill Gates even more than they love to hate on CNN. They hate him because they need someone to blame all their political problem on, and they are too simple-minded to understand the complex realities of politics.

All school curriculum is heavily moderated and decided on by the state. I hardly even remember a time in my school days where I just walked up to a bookshelf and got some random book to read. Mostly what we read in school are textbooks -- which are super-curated, written specifically for children -- or some classic fiction books like Hamlet or the like -- which are also selected carefully. I'm not sure why you need gay books on school bookshelves. It's just not a very serious issue to me. It's shallow stuff even if it is heavy-handed from DeSantis. It's culture war stuff, not serious policy that really matters. Access to books or information is not really an issue in America. This precisely the logic that right-wingers use to demonize the left as socialists. This is exactly what Jordan Peterson does when he talks about the left. This is known as the slippery slope fallacy. Anything you disagree with can be rationalized as one step on a slippery slope to Hell. And therefore it becomes impossible to compromise, because to give even one inch might mean we end up in Hell. I think you're underestimating that. This is precisely the point of disagreement in your worldview and that of conservatives. Conservatives take this issue seriously whereas you don't. I'm not fully sure who's right. But I don't see the conservative position here to be as crazy as it is portrayed by progressives. Progressives simply refuse to seriously consider the possibility that gender fluid teachings could cause problems for children. To me this is an open question, worthy of serious discussion and empirical testing. It is not right to just dismiss it as transphobia.

Show me a case of a child having their genitals chopped off.

He sounds perfectly authentic to me. He's just not some social media celebrity. He's a serious person. People who are chronically online have forgotten what a serious person looks like. Sending an email to ask out an employee out for dinner? That's what you're gonna whine about? You understand that powerful and ambitious people like to fuck too? What do you want him to do, open a Tinder profile?

@The Mystical Man Banned. You should not be here. If you are here just to hate-watch, I will kick you out. If you do not agree with the core values of these teachings, please just leave. Stop wasting your time. The thing is, I have zero interest in controlling anyone here. What I care about is that you take the work seriously. If you do, we will get along great. If you don't, we will have a problem. You guys need to understand how dead serious I am about this work. I am not going to enterain your drama and human games. Get to work, or leave. What you have to take into account is how much personal attention I give to you. How much I make myself available to you. 40,000 posts. No other spiritual teacher does that. Despite how compassionate and sweet they may appear. So I have to be very protective of clowns wasting my time. Just because I make myself available does not mean you are allowed to waste my time with games and gaslighting. I make myself available to those who are serious. This forum is not to be used to create distractions and play games. You should notice something. Whenever I get cunty with you, it's whenever I see you playing games, spreading misinformation, or wasting time. Of course you are unlikely to agree that you are doing such things. And that's where we clash. In the end I have to make a judgment call whether you are doing such things. Sometimes it's clear, other times it's less clear. My top propority for this forum is to regulate it in a way that it does not become a distraction for me or for you from doing the work we need to do to reach the highest levels of consciousness available to us. This forum will only stay online if I see people doing the work and not using it to waste time on petty human stuff. Some folks will find this "abusive" because you are so used to people indulging your human stuff. When the indulgence stops and things get seruous, you cry "abuse".

That is def bad policy. However you conveniently left out points I made about kids being taught gender fluidity and how much that can screw them up. That is the real crux of the issue here. Sure, if you totally dismiss that then what DeSantis is doing seems insane. Or, you could consider the possibility that DeSantis is actually trying to protect kids. But that doesn't fit the progressive narrative. There is no way a right-winger could actually care about protecting kids. I don't take the felony stuff too seriously because I sorta doubt people will be seriously charged and convicted over it. But yes, it does have a chilling effect on teachers. And if hundreds of teachers start to be put in prison for having a gay book in the classroom, I will speak out against that. But I think progressives are fearmongering about that too much. I don't see that happening in practice. I'm not even sure how constitutional that would be. I basically trust our strong institutions to keep far right-wing policy in check. There would be a lot of legal challenges to such laws. Many of the things Trump passed were simply struck down or never enforced because they were silly too silly. Jordan Peterson made a giant stink about how he will be put in jail if he doesn't use certain gender pronouns in Canada. But in practice none of that happened. So you have to look at the practical consequences of legislation. I don't like how both sides exaggerate and demonize each other. Progressives are certainly guily of this. DeSantis is not the end of the world. Yes he passes some bad policies. It's like you are forcing people to have your demonized view of DeSantis, or else they are wrong. And what I'm saying it that that's a self-deception.

Not really, unless you jump out a window.

A hallmark of Russian institutions is that they are deeply incompetent due to all the corruption. Americans cannot comprehend such levels of incompetence. But the big advantage that Russia has is that Russians are tough. They are not pussies like Americans. They can kill 1,000,000 of their own to achieve a goal.

@Twega There is endless scientific technical stuff to try too. But that doesn't mean any of it will work. You can't just assume it will.

It feels white, but it doesn't look white. It's like a sigularity of pure awareness. Technically is is pure Infinity/Love. A formless ocean of Infinite Love. Well, do some serious 5-MeO and ye shall meet it. No. You've never encountered it in your life yet.

I like to do dates in large outdoor shopping centers, where there is endless little shops and the whole date is basically a stroll. I don't like to sit at a restuarant. You want to bounce around without having to drive.

You characterize his position correctly. Find out for yourselves who is right.

Dude, what are you smoking? Putin literally killed tens of thousands of his own boys within a period of 1 year. By the time that war is over he will probably have killed 100,000 Russian men. And that is not counting all the Ukrainian civilians. What Putin is doing is way worse than Iraq. And he is not interested in helping Ukraine rebuild, the way the US did. It's way worse! The US was not shelling Iraqi apartment buildings and hositpals. Putin is doing war crimes like crazy. For sure America is dangerous when it goes to war because the military power is so massive. I was not talking about America as a government, I was talking about individual politicians. Putin orders assassintions of journalists and the like. The worst US politicians cannot compare. He is extremly competent. Putin is a genius. American politicians are fools next to him. But Putin is too ruthless for his own good.

It certainly isn't limited to 11 dimensions. That is a very artificial construct. Salvia is insane. It will deatroy all your ideas of awakening and nonduality. It's way more profound than anything Buddhism teaches. It's not merely that you see some crazy object like watching it on a screen. In order to see that object requires your whole field of consciousness to undergo a radical transition where you hardly feel human any more. That is the scary part. You lose your humanity and sanity in the process. Then you see some impossible geometry, as you are in the middle of losing your mind.

I simply disagree with that whole paradigm. Consciousness is far more clever than that. You are not going to outsmart Consciousness in that way. Consciousness is way smarter than you.