Leo Gura

User @outlandish suggested we start a 5-meo mega-thread, as people seem to have lots of general questions about it. You can still create your own individual threads about 5-meo, and trip reports shouldn't be posted in this thread, but otherwise, consider this the place for general 5-meo discussion. Here's a link to Erowid's 5-MeO-DMT Vault, which has a lot of basic information. Note: Do not ask questions here about how to source psychedelics. That is against our Forum Guidelines, so it will be deleted.

They are academics. Academics have podcasts and channels. I am not really trying to change dogmatic people, but talking to the openminded. A few people will appreciate what I am teaching. My Curt Jaimungal interview got 200k+ views.

I haven't done ascention yet. I like the first 2 characters most.

Okay. Thanks.

You probably will have to do devil's work first. It takes years to rise up out of corruption. I don't understand your question.

I am never going to belong. My personality will never be happy in a group. This is nothing new. I have been this way since a kid. I get not satisfaction from being in a group. I have the personality of an ascetic. I am highly rebellious, non-conformist, and disagreeable. I am not a team player. This is not something I can just change about myself. This is core to my personality.

I think about these issues in terms of what it takes to convince a skeptic or someone who disagrees with me. This way I can create the strongest points and logic over time. Most spiritual teachers only speak to people who already agree with them. I don't do that. I like convincing skeptics because I am a skeptic.

Cheers! Hard for me to tell you what to prioritize. Too much depends on you.

@Unlimited Cheers!

I do regret not learning piano and music theory. I wasn't given the opportunity.

Violent crime certainly males. Probably other crime too because males are the breadwinners. Women have less need to do crime.

True dat. That's why I had to post it.

But this is a total cop-out. Having drive for Awakening is 90% of the problem. You have constructed exactly the "aunt has balls" scenario. Yes, if women had balls they would Awaken at the same rate to men. Not having balls is the thing in question.

Change it to Absolute Blue!

Hey, ya'll, I need your help! I want to create a comprehensive list of video examples of prototypical stage Green thinking. This is not meant to humiliate or demonize stage Green. It's meant to be an educational tool for people learning about Spiral Dynamics. So towards that end, scour Youtube and find all the videos you can which exhibit stage Green thinking. Try to find videos which are short and sweet. The more diversity we can display here, the better. Try to find examples from various cultures: Europe, Middle East, Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Africa, South America, etc. We will create a mega-thread like this for every stage in the Spiral, from Red to Turquoise. But here, let's just focus on Green. Each week I will start a new mega-thread topic for the next stage. Do not start a political debate in this thread! It is not our goal here to defend our personal political positions or to judge any stage, but simply to compile examples. Thanks for your help! I'm excited to see what kind of juicy stuff you dig up. Try to be selective with your choices. This can turn into a really cool list. Stage Green Values: Love, heart, soul, empathy, intimacy, kindness Compassion, mercy, leniency Humanism, liberalism, social progress Equality: gender, race, economic Everyone is equal Egalitarianism/Democracy Anti-materialist, anti-consumerist, anti-greed Social conscience Supporting humanitarian causes Activism & protests Live-and-let-live attitude Diversity, multiculturalism Cosmopolitanism Flattening hierarchies Cultural relativism Relationships, bonding Pacifism, peace Finding common ground Harmony Human well-being Interpersonal skills Warm interaction, hugs Pleasing everyone Sensitivity Femininity Teamwork Dialoguing Sharing ideas and feelings Mind-altering drugs Exploring altered states of consciousness Spirituality Spiritual but not religious Communal spirituality Environment, ecology Back to nature Sustainability Recycling Human-centered, heart-centered communities Protect the vulnerable, help the downtrodden Redistribution of resources, level playing field Inclusiveness, everyone gets an opportunity Don’t exclude anyone Tolerance Openmindedness Free love, intimate sex Sex education Cooperation vs competition Animals, children, the disabled, minorities Creativity, beauty, art Gurus Bringing people of the world together Socialism Crying, expressing vulnerable emotions Intuition over logic Right brained Health food & exercise Stage Green Examples: Burning Man, hippies, New Age, Green party, Greenpeace, vegans, vegetarians, liberals, progressives, Democrats, Bernie Sanders, Obama, TYT, Bill Maher, The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Sam Seder’s Majority Report, John Oliver, Democracy Now, “liberal news media”, Vox, VICE, New York Times, MSNBC hosts, CNN hosts, Keith Olbermann, Michael Moore, Al Gore, Donny Deutsch, Noam Chomsky, Sean Penn, Al Franken, social workers, community organizers, spiritual meet up groups, university culture, SJWs, political correctness, LGBTQ rights, gender pronouns, protecting minorities, post-modernism, feminism, “Neo-Marxists”, abortion rights, planned parenthood, pacifism, ACLU, #MeToo, Antifa, support groups, tree huggers, bleeding hearts, Care Bears, animal rights, anti-war protests, Occupy Wall Street, charities, non-profits, NGOs, organic farming, organic food, recycling, global warming, music festivals, flower child, 60’s counter-culture, Haight Ashbury, Woodstock, the Beatniks, The Beatles, John Lennon, Bob Marley, Willie Nelson, marijuana legalization, psychedelics, Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna, Ram Dass, psychotherapy, progressive school teachers, liberal supreme court judges, 9th circuit court of appeals, socialists, redistribution of wealth, drum circles, neo-shamans, communes, Doctors Without Borders, universal healthcare, sensitivity training, non-denominational churches, health food stores, Wholefoods, Wholefoods rabbit meat, Western yoga, Reiki, Western Buddhism, massage therapy, chiropractors, naturopaths, meditation as a fad, TM, crystals, yoni eggs, juice cleanses, detox, green smoothies, colonics, spas, scented candles, burning incense, aromatherapy, tie-dye shirts, Kombucha, probiotics, soy, gluten-free, farmer’s markets, non-GMO, Fair Trade, Che Guevara, Oprah, Nelson Mandela, Pope Francis, anti-vaxers, Hollywood politics, save the whales, Esalen institute, humanistic psychology, transpersonal psychology, co-ops, Montessori schools, Scandinavia, the Scandinavian prison system, California, San Francisco, Oregon, Austin, Mass, Sedona AZ, NY, Seattle, Hawaii, Canada, Northern Europe, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Iceland, denuclearization, equal pay, free college for all, basic universal income, amnesty, affirmative action, gun control, assault weapons ban, pro-Union, pro-EPA, cutting defense spending, open borders, higher taxes, lenient penalties, abolish death penalty, drug rehab centers, homeopathy, astrology, hypnosis, the Bill Gates Foundation, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, MLK, JFK, RFK, life coaching, children’s rights advocates, protecting endangered species, mentoring programs, helping the elderly, cleaning up the environment, back to Earth movement, cotton clothing, minimalism, Peace Corps, plot of Avatar, civil rights, human rights, watchdog groups, Prius, Tesla, Smart car, electric scooters, commuting on bicycles, solar power, wind power, renewable energy, corporate culture at Google & Apple, warning stickers, safety codes, talk therapy, grown men crying, Utopian communes, Mind Valley, Into The Wild: Chris McCandless, the UN, cultural appropriation, activists, local co-ops, mental health professionals, teachers, the Ultra Spiritual guy, Tantric sex, ayahausca retreats, conscientious objectors, yin-yang & peace tattoos, Osho’s ashram, Russell Brand

Yeah, well. The reason I got where I got is because I am blunt. I don't beat around the bush. I know it turns some people off, but I can't change my whole personality style to suit soft people. This work demands a certain seriousness and ruthlessness in attitude. Otherwise you will be mired in human bias.

That was my plan. I tried that. But it totally does not work because they ask distracting questions and the conversation naturally flows into other areas. Just to get through my 4 min disclaimer as a conversation with them would take 2 hours. 4 mins for the content of that disclaimer is actually insanely efficient and fast. Most people won't understand the content in that disclaimer in 10 years of intellectual work. That's how efficient my disclaimer is. But no one appreciates that. People complain about me being long, but then they waste 2 hrs talking in circles about nonsense. Everything I say is actually the shortest path to Infinity. But people think they know better. There is no more efficient use of time than my videos. Everything else is wasting years of your life thinking in shallow circles and getting nowhere.

They said it was inappropriate for the format of their show. They don't want monologues.

Dude, that idea never even crossed my mind. That's YOUR idea. I have zero interest in her romantically. Pay more attention to what your mind is spinning and why.

It is not necessarily a measure of capacity but just the total picture of the situation. If most women are culturally steered away from truth-seeking then that is part of why fewer women Awaken. That doesn't mean this couldn't change in the future, but it is the current situation. And you can't just take cultural norms for granted. Cultural norms also reflect deep aspects of feminine needs and desires. Culturally women are steered away from technical science because that is not suitable for most women. That is not what they want or need. Truth-seeking is less of a feminine need. You will notice that the women who do truth-seeking are more masculine for it. They are not your typical girly girl. They are exceptions to the rule. It is kind of odd to see a woman doing hardcore truth-seeking. Whereas it doesn't feel as odd to see a man doing it. You can blame that on sexism, but there is more to it than that.

@How to be wise You have a very odd relationship with me. Notice you are always posting some cynical take, and they are often completely off base. This is not helpful for understanding the things I communicate. You got some kind of attitude with me that is skewing how you see me. You take an innocent post and twist it into some perversion.

I will not be discussing evil any more in this thread. That is off topic. Here is a spicy interview they did recently with a dogmatic and arrogant scientist. It shows how openminded they are. They are very good at questioning and challenging mainstream narratives. They were much less challenging of me than this guy. They saw me as reasonable. I didn't say much they disagreed with. But we mostly stayed out of discussing deep science.

For acne? Whey protein causes A LOT of acne. Gotta stop taking whey.

Your mind remembers things easily when they are related to your life purpose. Remembering requires meaning and significance. The information must be significant to your higher goals. Not just random scientific or historical facts. That's why you forgot 99% from school. None of it was meaningful to your life goals.

We don't have the data. I would guess men more than women, and deeper. Because men are more interested in these sorts of matters, and willing to sacrifice more for truth. Most monks are men, as an example. Nuns are rarer. Think of how many women vs men do Zen. There are also powerful cultural forces at play. Women are expected and told to care for children, not pursue truth. Truth-seeking is a masculine-biased activity. It suits the masculine better because the masculine is more ruthless, direct, blunt, ambitious, proactive, goal-oriented, lone-wolf, emotionally detached. If you could compare the number of monks vs nuns in the world, this would give you a rough percentage estimate.