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@purerogue I'm sure, but I'm pretty sure if you did this exercise thoroughly you'd find UFOs in the US and Brazil more than other countries. I did a research project supporting that inference in high school, and it was pretty thorough.

Yeah i wasn't really implying that. More along the lines of, if it wasn't for the 6 million Jews that died in world war 2, us humans wouldn't be traumatized enough to start looking into the UN and humanitarianism.

yeah but that's because you were hallucinating due to your schizophrenic spiritual talentedness.

ooo that's a great answer. But they need to be careful about being too forceful. It might be the case that the greater good of the entire universe requires us to nuke ourselves.

There is a correlation between UFOs and military equipment. But a more developed life form would have reduced interest in violence as a general rule of thumb (as the more developed a lifeform gets, the more important cooperation is over violence) so have no idea why that would be the case. Fun to speculate though. Like university researchers don't have as much interest in spears as they do the culture and religions and beliefs of indigenous tribes.

and there's 1000x more in the US. Point is, there's a deep correlation between geography and UFO sightings. And if you look further into the paranormal, like alien abductions, you see there's geographical correlations there too. I'm not saying anything about what that means, just that, that's a relative fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings 80+% from the US. Either UFOs like the US particularly, or the US population dream up bullshit moreso than the rest of the world.

why are UFOs only appearing in the US?

The bigger question is, why are you getting your news from sky news?

Why don't you just practice it every day then m8? After vipassana just masturbate and practice squeezing the genital muscles (pelvic?) and holding it in and getting close to the point of no return.

Growth = encountering/getting in contact with your fears + that are preventing you from reaching your highest self + willingly and deliberately/consciously loving/enjoying the moment of encountering those fears. You need all 3 elements for growth. If you don't love the moments of going through your fears, then you are encountering and facing your fears, but not growing and expanding from them. If you don't go through the specific fears that are required to reach your highest self, then you aren't growing in the direction that You want to, and aren't manifesting the life you want. If you don't go through your fears... then that goes without saying.

If you're asking for advice then you aren't awakened

Not entirely sure where the logic for this is coming from. Its definitely something I currently feel uncomfortable doing... going to a club by myself, but I guess if it feels uncomfortable, that's a sign you need to do it When I went to clubs in the past with friends, the bounties always use to not let me in because I always looked too drunk (even though I had half a cup) and so there's some shadow work there for me to overcome. Plus in the clubs I remember the guys in the club being super uncomfortable to be around. Being rude and the likes. On the other side of the coin, if you go to the club with a wingman who you don't know, but has the same goals as you to pick up women, a lot more action and movement can be taken because you've both got the same goals, and will both be supporting each other to improve your game. If you go to the club with muggles or people who are average or below at getting women, and aren't motivated as much as a specific pickup wingman, then things can go really slowly as its highly unfocused. That's what happened to me 4 or so years ago. And yes all of this stuff is awkward. But following your life purpose, doing spirituality, doing pickup is all uncomfortable and awkward. Going against the herd is awkward in itself, and I would go so far as to say you can't self actualise without going through extremely awkward moments.

haha nah I think I'm naturally a lone wolf, suits me way better. When I had friends my life was 1000x worse. I do have people I hang out with who are probably 'friends' but they are psychedelic, hippy people who wouldn't receive the idea of increasing game well.

nah i dont have any friends, best bet is facebook pickup groups.

Well it better work out otherwise you're gonna be single

that's a good example of mental masturbation

How successful you are in your career, relationships and spirituality is how joyful you feel doing them.

There is a paradox that's causing lots of suffering which I'd like to resolve. I'm not sure how to live the best life possible. And I know there's the few here who will say that life is already perfect and the best life possibe, I just don't realize it yet. That may be true, but I don't realize it yet so here we are. This is a paradox that I've run into for years now, and I oscillate back and forth between the 2. The one side is accepting who I am, the way things are, the way others are and the way the path is unfolding. The other is having the self discipline, courage, motivation, willpower, sincere desire to seek, to take action to improve my life. And in my experience, these 2 aren't harmonious between each other. They lock horns a lot. Usually what happens is, I'll go extremely to the acceptance end, but then be dissatisfied with the way things are, and so I'll swing all the way over to the other end and put effort (both kriya and karma) into changing my life. Then I'll realise that I'm doing lots of effort, but the final piece to the puzzle can only be unlocked through letting go and acceptance, so then I'll swing back to the acceptance end, etc. In meditation for example, I'll go hard core at practices, but then get super frustrated because I just get to where I want. So then I'll give up. And then as I give up (and let go) I get exactly what I want. And then I let go for a long time, and I become dissatisfied as nothing is changing, so then I'll go hard core at the practices again till I burn out again. And this happens not just in meditation, but in my career and relationships too. I'll go hard core at striving for what I want, burn myself out. Then finally peacefully relax for a while, then get dissatisfied with my career, burn myself out again. And in my career specifically, is the paradox of learning new content, planning the future, questioning what I want out of my career, etc. Vs just being in the present moment and just fucken enjoying my job instead of planning about it so much. Am I being lazy and irresponsible for just choosing to enjoy my job and be in the present moment and not plan my future? Or am I just going deep into a thought rabbit hole by planning and contemplating what I want out of my career? With my relationships, I'll go hard core at the technical aspects of game, like rehearsing the pickup approach word by word of my teachers, it works for a little while, then I go too far, it becomes inauthentic and robot like, so women stop liking it, it feels very wrong inside me, I suffer a lot, I burn myself out. Then I just approach the way I feel like and drop all the teachings, then women start getting extremely receptive as soon as I do the exact opposite thing of what I thought I should be doing. And then I get dissatisfied with my technical knowledge because I think there must be more, so then I do the cycle all over again. And in relationships specifically, a huge paradox that's causing me lots of suffering is the paradox of being yourself vs growing yourself. What I have noticed is, there's the true me, the me I want to be, the me I enjoy and want to grow into. Then there's the inauthentic me that is more in line with what girls want. OR what girls have told me they want. For example, animalistic sex vs deep intimate sex, being anxious vs not being that anxious, being possessive with a girl, and making sure all the guys know she's mine, vs being detached and only protecting her if she needs it, etc. I don't know whether I'm suppose to strive to be more animalistic, possessive with a girl (whether by not doing that I'm being lazy) or whether I'm meant to just focus on being the real me (whether trying to be more animalistic, possessive is just going down a waste of time rabbit hole). There's valid points for both sides of the story. --- And I think a big reason why I feel suffering, is because I can't tell the difference between genuinely accepting reality the way it is, and being lazy. I am super worried about being lazy and wasting my life away. And so I always just assume that I'm being lazy if I am not 100% sure, and I'm only 100% sure when I've burnt myself out. But if I go hard core at the practices too much, I'm also wasting time, because I could have gotten to the result quicker if I had accepted and let go earlier. And I would have been through less suffering. And there's so much anxiety, tension, stress, fear, about the ambiguity of not knowing which side of the pendulum I'm suppose to be on. TL;DR Can't balance the macro vs micro. The letting go vs discipline and practice. And its freaking me out and causing lots of suffering.

What's interesting is how you've described this place as a lounge to have a break for contemplation work. I find that to be a valuable description, because you really can't get good advice on here for the most part due to this place being an online text based forum. To give proper, good advice, you need to understand the context and background of the OP. And that's really only possible through face to face or skype sessions. Most people here just project their own lives onto the questions of the OP, and that isn't really that effective. People who post good content here (like in the high consciousness section), or who reveal cool resources on the internet that you didn't know existed, is generally valuable though.

What are the main causes of feeling tired after 8 hours of sleep? Sleeping around 9-10pm? What experiments can you try to feel 100% vibrant and alive when you wake up? I'm not sure why I have this issue, but one thing I do feel is a breathing issue. I find it hard to catch my breath on every 2nd or 3rd breath, and this makes me yawn all the time. To take a stab in the dark, I'd say maybe its related to breathing or oxygen (although my oxygen levels are fine on the oxymeter). My diet consists of only wild alaskan salmon, berries and fats like butter. And I'll have this chocolate every 2-3 days (max 15 grams of carbs). I did find that salmon goes well with me, my ethnic background is very white (ginger/red hair + pink skin, with lots of hair). Irish roots.

as sort of said by Joseph, your fear of rejection is a SIGNAL, the universe telling you, that you don't fully accept yourself, and its finally time that you sat down, did some trauma work, figure out why you don't accept yourself, clear up those misconceptions of yourself, and get over and let go of that rejected part of yourself. All fear, is a signal/sign from God, that you do not understand the world correctly. You have some sort of misunderstanding going on, a worldview that isn't true. And the desire to get over the fear, is the desire to see the world correctly, rather than incorrectly. And the thing stopping you from having the balls to see the world correctly, rather than incorrectly, is that you've been tricked into thinking that your worldview is the truth, rather than illusion, and you're afraid of loosing the truth. You need to first recognise, that you don't see the world correctly. You then need to do the trauma work to see the world correctly. So for this girl, pin point where the fear is coming from. The fact that you're afraid of this thing, is already a sign/proves that, that thing is not true. Try and see how its not true. Then once you realise how its not true, fully let it go. Then asking her out wont cause fear anymore, because your worldview will be supportive of asking her out, rather than not.

Had the experience of whether free will exists or not, and if it doesn't, well then why do humans do what they do. And the basic answer was, the humans are not in control at all. They all literally are not in control. They are almost literally puppets. But that feeling of each human being being an entity with free will... its such a powerful feeling that feels true. We all feel that way? Look at how much we fight over each other's beliefs. You do that because you all feel like each one has free will and therefore deserves your rebukes. If the human you were arguing with was merely the smoke, rather than the engine, then would the need to disagree or defend your position make sense? If you were arguing with a puppet, would arguing with that puppet make sense? When there's someone else pulling the strings? Because if the human was the smoke, and the human was saying stuff you were disagreeing with, then whose the engine powering or thinking up the belief you disagree with? Well its not the human, so that's enough to already seriously contemplate whether disagreeing with them makes sense. And if you knew who you were truly disagreeing with, then you'd be even more shocked then realising that the human was merely the smoke. Think I'm gonna stop this post here. Seems like a good place to stop.

@Globalcollective yeah for sure dude, "That's fine dude" was genuine in my reply to Darodos, even though I thought sex = an amusement park was hilarious.

Actually, a lot of hippies would aim 'higher' than that so to speak, and find someone they have a connection with, rather than for just being horny. Because a lot of the genuine hippies derive pleasure from the connection they get from the sex, rather than just the horny feeling itself. And if those particular hippies have sex just for horniness, its usually not genuine for them. For the average guy however, just releasing feeling horny is genuine. And don't forget, the advice about bad karma comes from hippies, particularly women, so they project and assume that you're like them, so they are speaking from their POV, and from their POV and level of development, it generally is bad karma(and not genuine) to have sex with someone without a connection. If hot chicks were throwing themselves at me left right and centre, I'd have enough chicks thrown at me to pick the ones I had a genuine connection with. I don't have sex with women I don't have a connection with, because it doesn't add value to my life. I'd rather meditate and have a kundalini awakening then sex with a hot stranger that I don't feel a connection with. When you're having sex, a large part of it (the good part) is when you're closing your eyes, and you're feeling the woman's emotions. And the best part about sex isn't orgasm, its feeling loved by the other women, or feeling how appreciative or how grateful she is that you're healing her. So how you can have sex with someone without an authentic connection with them, is beyond me. I'd hypothesise based on my current knowledge, that its because you haven't felt yet what real sex feels like, and so you're putting up with crap sex.