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are you Rali's brother lol? That's interesting that you listen to Rali, because I'm pretty sure he discounts healing all together as nonsense. "all you need is enlightenment"

I don't quite agree, in fact many teachers I have talked to actually believe you should get enlightened THEN do personal development. The reason is, if you have very low awareness about yourself, because you aren't pursuing enlightenment, then you Don't actually know what needs to be fixed in the first place. You don't even realize that your ego looks like glue, with holes in it. Enlightenment is like a lighthouse, it reveals all of the problems your ego has. When you try and do personal development first, its like you are trying to find treasure without a clear map on where the treasure actually is. Your in a way, just guessing what has to be fixed and what doesn't. I see pursing personal development, without any enlightened perspective, like trying to stab in the dark. In my opinion, this is what integrating the enlightenment experience is all about, using an enlightened perspective to help you fix your neurosis.

I've read a few articles that state that meditation can actually train your body to live on very little sleep(3 hours a day) without developing any of the short term; lack of concentration, dizzyness etc, and long term; obesity, effects. For example, Sadghuru apparently lives off 3 hours a sleep a night. If any of you have any experience in using meditation to train yourself to sleep less, can you please share your techniques/ what you did to achieve it? I currently would like to sleep less because my schedule demands it.

sure but then you have to ask the question, who made the aliens/ how were they born? And also a simulation is a man made apparatus, produced in line with this world's set of rules, and laws of physics. The cool thing about my spiritual experiences, especially the deep ones, is that its almost as if you can't ask any more questions. You can't ask god, what is he made of? Where did he come from? Because he is infinite. It stops.

funny video I found about enlightenment. It reminds me of Rali for some reason:

I have never seen a video made by TrippAdvice, Alpha A, or <german dude forgot the name of> EVER make a video that teaches people to be disingenuous and predatory. But even the abusive forms of pickup -> mystery are very useful. I've been to clubs where women will literally shout 'FUCK OFF' without you even talking to her or getting in her group. There are women out there who are snobby or very judgmental, and dealing with those situations can be difficult. Negs, for example, are perfect for dealing with these situations, and when you learn how to use them, you can grow yourself a lot. Negs work for me every time, and its not psychological abuse to use them.

"Up on next week's episode of the real housewives of actualized.org: Leo storms out of his apartment, after his followers gossip about his best friend Ra, and his book."

@Debbie B Thanks Debbie, please post this to every single person on planet earth.

Putting clubs and bars aside, how/where can you approach girls that you could potentially date without coming off as creepy or desperate? I find that, whenever I'm actively looking for a girl to date in say a shopping mall, events, venues, etc. its like I'm wearing female repellent spray, and the amount of times girls have freaked out from me coming off as creepy is crazy. BUT whenever I'm not particularly focused on relationships, and i go to an event for career networking opportunities, all of a sudden there are heaps of girls i can talk to and potentially date. It reminds me of that say that goes something like this: if you've lost something; a toy, object, etc. You will only find it, when you are looking for something else. To make the connection, you will only find a potential partner, when you aren't looking for one. But this is where it gets tricky, at the same time, if you don't look for a potential partner, you're not going to get a date either, because you need to put effort into showing that someone that you are interested. So how do you strike that balance? Overall my questions are: What specific places have heaps of girls you can potentially meet without coming off as creepy; if you go to the shops purely looking for a girl... that's creepy as fuck. Where can you go that's a little less creepy? Sure you can go to pubs and clubs, but you can't go to pubs and clubs every weekend. Firstly, you need to go with friends who are into relationships to go(which there is a scarce number of) and secondly it fucks up your sleeping patterns waay too much. How do you approach girls in lets say 'innapropriate' places like shopping centres, church, etc without coming off as desperate. If you are soley going to these places to find a partner, it can feel kind of pathetic and it can feel like you have 1 goal in mind, and that automatically makes you seem desperate. How do you change that? How do you strike that balance between putting in enough effort to find girls and tell them that you're interested in them, but at the same time not coming off as desperate and creepy? thanks guys

@Motus sure but you cannot ever avoid unwholesome behaviour. if you choose to eat and drink to keep the body alive, its unwholesome. the only way to seclude from EVERYTHING is to kill the body.

so because of Karma?

@STC I might get friend zoned. But honestly my main aim is to improve myself and get experienced with girls so that when I DO find a girl I like, I will know how to attract her. I'm not sure if my model of reality is really off, but I don't see the connection between my social skills(talking to friends) and my network marketing skills, and how passionate I am, and how successful my business is, to attracting girls. I see it more like, if you want a girlfriend, you need to develop experience points in seducing girls, so that you can have one. Like any other skill: if you want to win over a maths competition, you need to practice maths, who the fuck cares about any other skills or how your life is, or even PD. So I don't really care if I get friend zoned, because I highly doubt I will meet someone I want to have a relationship with on the internet (with people from overseas there) anyway, and as long as I can get xp points in seducing girls, and get exposure to what girls are out there, then I've completed my goal. But if friend zoning me means that it stops me from practicing dates, etc. Then yeah that's a problem.

it definitely does. But I discovered something recently. I've been working on my social skills for the last 4 years. And I've got pretty much everything down pat. I need to any way because I'm currently running 2 startups, which means i need a lot of connections. But the interesting thing I discovered, was that even stripping away all the Social Anxiety and the self esteem, I STILL enjoy solitude a lot more than hanging out with people. Even at the core, its still painful. And that's why I think the mantra "everyone is an extrovert" as Leo states is misguided. And i think others(maybe you and Shin) might be the same?

makes sense, thanks @Shin. Do you practice by going to clubs and bars, or can you practice anywhere? I know some people on here make the analogy that shopping centres are like playgrounds, while clubs and bars are like gyms. What do you think "Introversion doesn't mean you're shy or more anxious than more people, it just means that you need more time alone because social events drain you." So true, just because you don't like hanging out with people too much, doesn't mean you have low self esteem, or that you have social anxiety. It just means you find it tiring and painful to be having conversations all day.

@username its true, I don't like socializing, I love solidarity 1000000x more than hanging out with friends(as fucked up as it sounds) and I've known for more than 6 years now, that that's a problem. BUT I do push myself to go to probably 4 social events per week, and network(add 10 people to my fb account per day) and maybe clubbing 2wice a month(I really don't like clubbing though ) so I don't think my problem is being too reclusive, and while its not natural, I feel like im 'being' a very social person. but it feels very inauthentic, because I really don't like socializing, so that could be a problem too. My problem is, whenever I go out with friends, its usually mostly guys I hang out with, or girls I already know. And for the social events such as volunteering conventions, etc, or maybe going to the mall, girls tend to not be thinking about going into a relationship or having sex; unlike what they are like at clubs and bars, at clubs and bars they kind of expect men to be wanting that stuff. So shifting the mood from whatever the event is, to say dating is difficult. And dating a friend's friend, or asking them out is kind of awkward, but that's not really a problem.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/42-the-answer-to-life-the-universe-and-everything-2205734.html "When Douglas Adams wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, he added a central joke which has become more famous over the years than the novel itself: "The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42." Geeks have since wasted years and massive effort trying to ascribe some deep, symbolic significance to the number and its occurrences." agree with you

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@Shin sure i get you Shin, but I haven't searched in the past, and I still dont find anyone. Like Faraday and Issac Newton had very deep passions, but they still died as a virgin. You still need to be exposed to women, and I struggle with that. I mean i find a few girls to be friends with, but girls that I want to potentially date, Ive only met 1 or 2 of them in all of my 19 years of life. And for me to gain experience and practice, I dont think finding 1 girl every 9 years is going to cut it lol.

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@Esoteric maybe there isn't hearsay evidence(well there is if you do contextual research), or scientific evidence, or any other evidence for it, but there is certainly visible evidence for it. Faking it is a possibility, but then again, you can say that the holocaust was faked/ was a conspiracy created by the jews as well, or that the twin towers was actually done by Bush, or that the pyramids were actually made by aliens or faked. You can fake virtually anything you want. But if you look at the back story of this video, and research the context, its highly unlikely that it was faked.

Seems almost unimaginable, I wonder why he was upset that the broadcasters showed the footage to the public. Was it because he was casted out and thought to be a witch? EDIT: if you read the comments in the video, its interesting how many people dismiss this video as ludicrous, even though there's visible evidence of it.

Yeah, I've studied epistomology extensively too, and covering a wide range of life experiences really does seem to be the only way of figuring out what roads lead you to the path you are looking for. There is no step by step instructions that work for every case, even science and philosophy. And do you use scientific or philosophical principles to filter out information that is within the wide range you are covering?

So even if your life purpose is personal development and enlightenment, you found it useful to study very different fields like business, because you can guage what is useful or real and what isn't. And then hope that, that makes you capable to avoid the traps of radical skepticism and open mindedness to the point that your brain falls out. I think the question here isn't whether some knowledge is real or not; leave that to contemplation, but whether something is useful advice to take or not. Because if we get all nit picky about the validity and realism of a piece of knowledge, we can forget its usefulness to us.

@Leo Gura What do you personally do to test if something is invalid or valid? If as you say there are traps with being skeptical too. I'm guessing you just trust your intuition, but maybe not.

Not everything can be proven, by looking at things through a scientific perspective. The fundamental beliefs of science(things have to be repeatable, rational and constant) are all just arbitrary beliefs(and we have constructed reality around them, and that's what has created the world we pretty much live in today). What evidence is there to back up the validity of scientific evidence or science itself? What proof do we have in repeatability, being constant and rationality? What evidence is there to back up that thing that proves scientific evidence is valid? and so on. distant healing is one of these areas. Its as provable using science as consciousness is. For example, how would you prove that someone is enlightened using science? How would you prove that god is what the mystics say he is using science? Like what you said, it depends on the answer being asked. Science can prove concepts to be true, because science is a concept itself (collect like terms). but not empirical observations. And healing in that context is not a concept that is based on the 3 commandments of science no is it based on the 10 commandments of christianity.