Leo Gura

You ask some good questions. This depends on how you do it, of course. You can get lost in fantasies, speculation, and mental masturbation. However, proper contemplation and study can produce serious and valuable insight and understanding into the nature of reality and any systems within it. Do not discount the importance of high quality sensemaking and serious understanding that's grounded in direct experience and genuine insight rather than speculation, belief, and fantasy. The real work is in seeing past the fantasies to see how nature really works. My solution is to do both. In fact, you need something tangible like artistic work or business to keep you from getting lost in pure theory. If all you do is philophy you will get too stuck in your mind and it won't feel good. It could even turn into mental illness. Life is long enough for you to pursue art, business, and philosophy. And they all balance out the excesses and limitions of each by themselves. Only doing philosophy and nothing else is NOT healthy. You also need pursuits to ground you in the realities of life. This can be business, art, sport, family, pickup, running a community, etc. For a healthy, happy life you must engage not just pure mind, but also your body and you heart. And you must not only master the theory but also engage in practice. Do practical stuff like art, craft, business, or raising a family. A healthy life is something like 80% action and practical affairs and only 20% pure philosophy. If you get this ratio backwards you will run into problems.

Sure there are. Most people who take the LP course never post here, they are off working on their unique LPs. Your LP does not need to be about personal dev or spirituality. Look at someone like Elon Musk. His LP is about colonizing Mars and technology. You don't need people here to tell you that your LP can be totally different than mine.

Who you are deep down does not change. What changes is your understanding of yourself. Clearing away the junk.

I agree her therapist is jumping to conclusions with that quote.

Incel vibes

@CoolDreamThanks Don't let spirituality make you a fool.

That's right. And I haven't even discussed insanity yet.

OP asked about strengths.

Tell that to the Palestinians who got executed last month.

I was speaking about your individual strengths. Note the context of this thread.

Don't over-generalize. Most Green people can appreciate the value of masculinity and femininity without making them some rigid, exclusive, traditional roles. If you consume too much online politics then you will get a skewed picture of this situation. Politics and culture wars on social media are not an accurate representation of how people feel about this issue.

How is input a strength?? Something isn't clear there.

You can live in a golden castle, but if your physical or mental health is messed up then you might as well be living in hell.

@Shakazulu Welcome. I don't know what "input" means.

I don't think some of you guys appreciate how hopeless and bad some people's situation is. You can't simply meditate your way out of every situation.

You're way to cavalier about this. All the survival activity humans do matters. The only reason you are alive is because some humans somewhere are slaving away in a mine. All of your spiritual development rests on a material survival foundation.

Therapists fail to help many suicidal people. This is nothing new.

No. To put it simply, young men are baboons.

I don't take anything.

That's not all that matters.

I've been doing that all along.

This topic cannot be simply reduced to science. It's an experiential, psychological, felt thing. It requires subective exploration. We teach poetry and that is not scientific. So this isn't such a radical idea. We have plenty of good role-models. They just aren't popular with the kids. Kids love immature people.

How do we make sure that biology is not taught by a fundamentalist Creationist Baptist preacher or physics by a FlatEarther? Schools have standards for their teachers. An important part of this course would be teaching teens how to distinguish between healthy and toxic forms of masculinity and femininity. This is not something the teacher would invent, it would a standard curicullum based on psychology and social science. Teens would be taught to contemplate and study examples of masculine and feminine figures in history, media, and pop culture, and then discuss their observations, conclusions, and insights. This is very basic stuff which good educators know how to do. You can pay David Deida to write you a textbook on it. Or pool together from a dozen experts and authors in this field to have some diversity of perspective. You could present traditonal and non-traditional gender roles and have teens contemplate and discuss their pros and cons. Frankly, it's outrageous that such a class isn't already the norm.

It's not so hard. David Deida's books explain the masculine/feminine dynamic very well. You can treat the topic as a social science and a kind of applied psychology. Similar to sex-ed. It's not hard to turn masculine and feminine into a course. It's easier to understand than algebra. And it doesn't take 10 years of classes to get it.

That's what the visual I posted was. - - - - - Here's how I like to picture it to myself: Imagine a cosmic octopus who can make sense of reality by using its 8 tentacles to grab objects and arrange them intelligently into various networks, like working on 8 threads at once. And that entire octopus is alien cogniton. It's just a poetic example, don't take it too literally.