WaveInTheOcean

have you ever had a girlfriend? "One of my biggest fears is wasting time" " personal development is more important to me than having a girlfriend," If you've never had an actual girlfriend, then I feel I should tell you that having one will develop you in ways you can't imagine. "“When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you come to know your pitfalls, your limitations, your anger, your lust, your possessiveness, your jealousy, your sadness, your happiness all moods come and go, you are constantly in a turmoil. But this is the only way to know who you are" - Osho.

If you believe you exist as a separate self (inside your skull and/or as a body), you have no free will. If you realize you don't exist as a separate self but as God/The Self, you are free to the degree of how deep this realization is. I think this sums it up. Remember that God/The Self (the real you) seemingly often find it more amusing to be dreaming for a lifetime than to wake up. I have the uttermost respect for people who believe they actually really exist. The Self/God inside such a person is playing a so far out game that I can't help but to take my hat off, just like I can't help taking my hat off when I watch a sublime actor in a theatre play.

I think Leo invents relativism when he feels like it. Just like when you take a shit, it's because you felt like it. When you are enlightened, you realize that it is of no value to 'stick'/attach yourself to any belief-system/model of reality, because every model/belief-system is ultimately false and incomplete.

Everything. Narrated by Alan Watts.

is this app better than headspace?:D

i'll save that music for my next trip. wow that's calming as fuck. have a nice trip.

Hardkill. Maybe girls have an easier time getting laid. But why do you fucking care? You only care because you enjoy going down the victim road. Stop being a fucking victim and deal with reality as it is instead of running away from it.

"I'm currently going through my first ever breakup and the worst part of it is that I'm still roommates with her and we sleep in the same bed. She quickly started dating other guys and sometimes tells me about a particular guy she likes. " You must be joking, right? If not, then as others have said: GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM THAT GIRL. You are better off sleeping on the street than living together with her.

We are egoistic and self-centered only because we are so humble to falsely believe that we are not God but instead an isolated, lonely organism/agent running around on a planet of dirt in a big cold universe. Because we feel and see ourselves as an isolated and separate self, we naturally 'do stuff' to negate this feeling. And this 'stuff-doing' is most of the time harmful to our environment (society, other people, the Earth and so forth). The paradox in this is that everyone will tell you that you are self-centered and narcissistic if you tell them that you know that you're God. But knowing that you are God is just knowing that the organism (the mind-body, the apparent you) depends on the environment and vice versa; the environment depends on the organism. You evoke the environment. The environment evokes you. The Sun evoked organisms on Earth. The organisms evoked the Sun. Thus you and the rest of the universe (what you normally would define as 'not-you'/the external world) goes together just like the north pole and south pole of a magnet goes together; they are inseparable. Without an eye there is no sun. Without a sun there is no eye. * Existence is relationship. Existence is an endless, infinite series of transactions which God is making with himself. There can't be any selling without buying. No buying without selling. God sells the dream of life to himself (there is nothing else but himself to sell it to). In hardcore reality there is only this non-dual God which is YOU. But in this apparant dualistic reality you currently see yourself in (the dream of life) -- because you're purposely half asleep -- you can maybe instead view yourself as a unique transaction out of infinite transactions happening in God's infinite mind. In that way, you are a son of God, as Jesus said. The point is not that light should triumph over darkness. The point is that light needs darkness. Darkness needs light. Together the polar -- but inseparable -- opposites create the dance of life: the drama, the peace, the tension, the calmness, the beauty, the ugliness, the happiness, the sadness. You wouldn't sit down and play a game of chess if you already knew who would win. You play, because you don't know. And when either black or white finally wins, you promptly restart the game and start all over with a fresh start. It's an endless dance of immense complexity. Yet from God's point of view it's all so simple. It's just infinte being. And it's pretty cool. --------------------------------------------- * The nervous system in the back of the brain creates the phenomenon, light, out of the electromagnetic vibrations which the Sun emits to the eyes. The nervous system creates the phenomenon, hardness, when the electrons of a hand gets repelled by a stone's electrons. etc. And a sun is only a sun to you because it seems to emit light. And a stone is only a stone to you because it seems to be hard. But this is only half of the story. The brain evokes the light. And the brain evokes the hardness. Thus the organism evokes both the sun and the stone. And of course the Sun also evokes the organism! Because without a sun close to the Earth there would be no energy to create life on Earth. And naturally, without stone ("Earth") there would be no place for an organism to grow and 'walk'. The Earth is not 'infested' with life (nor infested with human people). The Earth (together with the Sun and the rest of the the universe) evokes life. The Earth 'peoples'. The whole universe 'peoples'. Human people are intelligent (per definition at least). Thus - naturally - the universe is also intelligent and not a 'stupid automatic random machine', which most atheistic scientists seems to believe it is.

what about wheat? do you think spaghetthi and bread (i.e. wheat) can affect acne?

If you really love him and feel the relationship is worthwhile to develop, then you should buy this book: https://www.amazon.com/She-Comes-First-Thinking-Pleasuring/dp/0060538260 to him. Tell him you love him, that you're sad about your sex life not going so well and that you want it to be great for both of you. Tell him that you really feel that he should read this book. Hell, you should also read it yourself perhaps. If he agrees to read the book, it shows that he has a deep passion for the relationship and wants to fix it because he loves you. If he doesn't want to read it, because he's close-minded and not open to new ways of thinking about how to pleasure a woman, then leave the relationship imo.

If I lost complete eyesight + all my hearing, i.e. no visual input nor audio input from the external world, then I would probably take the rope.

I'll be the first one to say it. 15 psychedelic trips in 13 months is not a good idea. IMO, it's way too frequent use of these extremely potent tools. You absolutely need LOTS of SOBER time to integrate deep psychdelic trips. More than a few weeks. We're talking months. Stop taking psychedelics for at least 6 months. 15 trips in 13 months almost seems like to me that you're sorta using psychdelics as a kind of escape from reality... which is not a helpful way of using them... "Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen..." - Alan Watts. You can always pick up the phone again later, but limit it to max 1-2 times a year. And prepare a lot for the trips, do your best to make them profound experiences instead of just "casually" taking them once in a while.

Alan Watts is speaking in it, I'll count that as lyrics =D

wonderful explanation . thanks for the share may want to rewatch the video on a trip, so the mind is even more open to the wisdom he's trying to communicate so clearly.

"You can dance, you can sing, you can feel the rain, you can have sex." you can do all that without being identified with an illusory self that ultimately is purely conceptual.

8 minutes of pure wisdom from Alan Watts. Simply a must watch for everyone:

It is YOU who are experiencing all these sensations. But the thing is that you are just confused about who you are. If not intellectually, then at least emotionally and/or intuitively. Probably both in your case. In my eyes you become enlightened when you you are emotionally aligned with Truth, i.e. you are no longer confused about who you really are emotionally. It is easy to intellectually grasp that you are not a person, a body nor an indvidual seperated self. Anyway, intellectually speaking, it is *you* who are experiencing all these sensations. But *you* is not who you *think*. It's not a thing or a concept. It's God/Nothingness/The Absolute etc etc etc.

"Many also get several different problem, like psychoses and depression and even personality disorders.” This is factually incorrect. "Many" does not get depression or psychosis after a LSD-experience. "Some" rarely do, but the incidence rate of mental problems in people doing psychedelics are lower than in the general population. Sources (studies): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747247/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25744618 "There were no significant associations between lifetime use of any psychedelics, lifetime use of specific psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, peyote), or past year use of LSD and increased rate of any of the mental health outcomes. Rather, in several cases psychedelic use was associated with lower rate of mental health problems We did not find use of psychedelics to be an independent risk factor for mental health problems." "We failed to find evidence that psychedelic use is an independent risk factor for mental health problems. Psychedelics are not known to harm the brain or other body organs or to cause addiction or compulsive use; serious adverse events involving psychedelics are extremely rare. Overall, it is difficult to see how prohibition of psychedelics can be justified as a public health measure."