Leo Gura

The same way you always have. You could die at any second. Yet you still made plans in your life. Yes Survival demands it. Of course belief is useful. Belief is commonly used because that's what is required for survival. Survival requires some bullshittery to get things rolling smoothly. Welcome to life, where bullshit is the fuel. Don't try to be so pure and holy that you refuse to wrestle in the mud. Survival is wrestling with pigs in the mud. If you don't like that, you're always free to stop surviving.

@asifarahim You probably need to first address your loneliness by actually socializing and building relationships before you are ready to tackle loneliness at the existential level. Handle the basics before you embark on some Buddha quest.

Depends... What is normal for you? It doesn't not make sense that mushrooms would make you fall asleep or not comprehend speech. Anxiety, sure a bit of anxiety might arise from psychedelic use. I wouldn't panic over this just yet. Give it another week to stabilize. Do you have a history of mental illness or disorders? Psychedelics don't damage consciousness. Especially not at such low doses from a single trip. It sounds like you are just psyching yourself out with negative thinking.

Yup, that's usually how it works. Success is defined by you. Whatever it means to you is what it is. It's not so hard to imagine a stage Turquoise CEO. There's no contradiction. Achievement, mastery, success are all valid and important factors in constructing a good life for yourself. Achievement is not about achieving what society wants of you, it's about achieving your own dreams and values, whatever those are. Achievement does not have to mean money or materialistic things. It could be that, or it could be spiritual or artistic achievement.

There are certainly many cases where tumors were healed and disappeared simply through changing diet and other such natural remedies. But that does not mean you should bet on it working. It's not some 100% guaranteed solution. People can have very different immune systems. You gotta do lots of research into holistic medicine/healing and carefully test stuff out with a skeptical attitude. And if all that fails, you go for the surgery or traditional approach. Buy lots of books, do lots of research. This is step #1. As you do that, you will discover many things you can try. You will also learn about traps and dangers.

@Vision Reality and illusion are identical. You are dreaming. Enjoy the dream. Dream whatever dream you want. There is nothing outside the dream so don't wait for anything better or realer. This is it.

You are conflating absolute and relative notions. I would not like to get kicked in the nuts, but that does not change the fact that a kick in the nuts is imaginary. If it is a guy, then obviously the notion of it being a girl has not been dispelled.

For the same reason that lunch makes you feel satisfied and fulfilled. Don't overlook the point that there's nothing but illusions. When illusions are all you have, the fact that it's an illusion makes little difference to your mind. An imaginary blowjob is just as good as a real one when real ones don't exist

Purifying samsakras is what spiritual work is all about. For deep samsakras like those of Owen, he's have to spent a lot of time basking in nondual consciousness. The kind of personal dev he's doing will not be enough. He would have to surrender his whole chasing for success and glory.

What happens is whatever you imagine, since you're God Notice how you keep trying to offload responsibility for reality onto some imaginary "other". As if you're not doing it. It's just a manner of speaking. Of course it's all imaginary at the absolute level. "Intercepting an email" is a relative level notion. Whether you imagine your can or can't, you're right The boundary is always more consciousness. Realizing that it's possible requires lots of consciousness. Actually doing it requires a ton more. Think of it this way: A good scientist understands that fusion power is possible. But it does not mean he can build a fusion reactor in his garage. Likewise, a good mathematician understands that Pi has an infinite number of digits. But he cannot tell you the 1 millionth digit of Pi off the top of his head. There's a lot of shit you can know but not do. This should not surprise anyone. The surprising thing would be the ability to do everything you know. You know airplanes can be piloted but this doesn't mean you can pilot one.

Telepathy is possible simply because the entire Universe is your own mind. Consciousness has access to all parts of itself. You could, in theory, intercept an email message using your mind. If you were conscious enough. Since the email server exists nowhere else but in your mind. But you aren't conscious enough to do it in practice.

PUAs cause a lot of collateral damage. As selfish people always do.

Of course Whatever culture you grew up in created a massive collective self-bias in you. This is nothing specific to Americans. Although Americans seem to make real asses of themselves in this regard because American culture is so dominant around the world that it makes Americans especially blind to it. Like fish in water. American culture is so dominant, so the norm, so the default position, that it does not even get recognized as a culture -- it just gets taken as reality. Especially something like capitalism or stage Orange business practices. These things are not seen as culture.

Society does not give much of a damn about helping Incels become strong men. The work necessary is too ugly. People want healthy men but they don't want to know how the sausage is made.

Just by being American a self-bias is created. Nearly all American media and journalism is self-biased in that way.

No amount of meta-cognition can substitute for mystical experience and change in one's state of consciousness. State is king.

Every society and culture regulates sex. Because it's highly central to survival. There are conventions for how sex ought to occur and who should be having it when and with whom. Pickup breaks many of those conventions and will therefore not be looked up kindly. And in truth plenty of pickup tactics are downright sociopathic and antisocial, so it's not like the stigma is entirely unjustified. The situation is messy. There is misunderstanding on both sides.

Good work A small taste of Infinity.

Unfortunately that won't work on dense and materialistic people. If only it were so easy to open the mind to God. When Jeff Bezos looks out that space window, his mind will be scheming how to corner the market on it.

Don't attribute to disinformation campaigns what you can attribute to self-bias and ignorance.

It's not just very emotional difficult, it's socially unacceptable. Society does not want you to radically change your sexual value. Society wants to define your value for you. Also because it generates quite a lot of collateral damage and social instability. Game doesn't scale well.

Logistics is every practical mundane detail which is necessary to get her in a room where sex can occur. If she is hungry and you don't feed her, she won't be in the mood to sleep with you. Yet if you feed her too much, she also won't sleep with you. If feeding her takes too long, she will be too sleepy and also won't sleep with you. And a thousand other things like that. If you want results you have to handle every single niggly detail, and do it quickly and smoothly.

Not so simple. There is serious mental illness which is highly problematic and dysfunctional. It's not all New Agey mysticism.

It's just development and evolution. Not different from how Spiral Dynamics works. Orange is higher than Red, but Orange still isn't that high. Absolutely! In fact, many guys grow out of pickup rather quickly, within 5 years (which is roughly how long it takes to move up one Spiral stage with active work). Most pickup guys end up settling down with a girlfriend. The limits of pickup become very aparent after several years of doing it.

The ego's desperate attempt to grasp God.