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@ShakazuluI don't find Steven's kriya very powerful. It's all about bliss. If it's blissful then it's powerful. I prefer SantataGamana's method. If you want to accelerate then SantataGamana's Kriya Supreme Fire is the best.

@Shakazulu Yes but I think the standard is to do it all through the nose. The point is to slow down the breath effortlessly and make the breath consistent and smooth.

Trump will surge in the polls. So much so that Biden will be losing by too much, at which point he will finally drop out. Then a strong Trump will face a decent Democrat. It will probably be a close run.

Humans aren't crocodiles or hunters or gatherers, we are fundamentally malleable and adaptable. Humans don't have rigid set identities that we should follow. The freedom to choose our lifestyle and identity is what makes us human. It's human to hunt and it's human to farm and it's human to use higher reasoning to choose what desires to act on. I think you make the mistake of believing that we used to be primitive savages in ancient times. Some were but most weren't.

Sleeping with low oxygen with your face towards a wall in a corner can disturb your sleep. Also breathing through mouth while sleeping. Fix your sleep schedule for a couple of days and see what happens.

From what I've heard him say about it it's supposed to be the entry point to integral theory. It's long been a problem that these isn't anywhere great to start for someone who is trying to get into his work. Doesn't seem like there will be any new concepts in the book sadly. This one isn't for the hard core fans.

Not enough emphasis on good attitude. So much of quality of life and character is having a positive and grateful attitude.

@Evan Gill Thank you for sharing that channel. His bliss technique's emphasis on having a big smile is something I'm going to carry over to my energy work.

When OM is chanted verbally a vibration is created in the head. The right way to chant OM mentally is by simultaneously recalling and creating the vibrating feeling of the verbal chant. Mentally recalled vibration becomes bliss which is the entire point of chanting OM. The more pleasant and blissful feeling you can generate, the better you are at chanting.

@Danioover9000 interesting, how so?

@Leo Gura I've been meaning to write you this for some time and was promoted to when you said in the latest video that you've been overestimating the left. America is one of the worst Western countries to learn general lessons of politics from. The USA is so out of balance that just needs a strong turn to the left. So anyone who wants to go in that direction practically has the correct opinion. How far left is not very important as long as you vote for the progressive candidate in the Democratic primary and vote for whatever the Democratic candidate is in the general. Just vote the spiral. Vote green. Americans don't have to be confronted by nuances. Socialist, Marxist extremists like Hasan Piker generally make equally good choices electorally as moderates like David Pakman. Take my country Sweden for example, all the 8 parties with over 4% votes are social democratic, the blue, the oranges and the greens. They don't view themselves as social democrats, but non of them wants to fundamentally undo the system to an extent where it would no longer be a social democracy. I don't know who to vote for. It's too complicated. All I know is there is no easy answer. What is tax rate in an optimal government? Right now 43% of the total GDP in Sweden is taxed and the orange/blue coalition is in power. What is too much? Another example of things being complicated is that last decade the oranges with the greens cheering on had a retarded amount of asylum immigration from red/BLUE cultures that they now largely regret and blame on each other. This policy has been so disproportionally consequential in relation to all other policies combined, that it would have been better if the Sweden Democrats(blue nationalists) ruled for that period. If you engage with hard politics you would learn some lessons that are harder to learn from easy mode America. If you really want to understand the limits of leftism look at the countries where the rubber meets the road. One lesson that I've gotten from Swedish politics is that yellow seems to emerge from people with strong orange, light green rather than strong green, light orange. In Swedish politics, there seem to be more yellow memes in the orange camp than the green camp. So vote the spiral becomes a flawed rule of thumb. Which is something you might have seen if you weren't playing on easy mode. Famous Swedish philosopher Alexander Bard has given the advice to deeply study 3 very different countries to add depth to more than one dimension of political understanding. If you are interested I'd recommend studying a Nordic country. Particularly either Sweden for its successful businesses and probably being the stage greenest country in the world or Finland for consistently being #1 in the world on the happiness index.

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@universe In a sense you are right, if I'm understanding you correctly, that it's the most conducive to your own spiritual development. But I think it's bad for the collective level of consciousness on a 100-200 year time scale. We are talking about Ukraine rn which needs more than its standing army.

Depends on the war and the country. Benefiting from the advantages of a good country but not taking responsibility for defending it from bad countries is parasitic. Receiving without giving. Duty is a social construct. It makes more sense to root yourself in responsibility. Do you feel responsibility if you take all the facts into account? @universe Is it high consciousness to be conquered and subjugated by illiberal despots? Should countries full of conscious people then let themselves be conquered? Doesn't seem like conscious countries would survive long if you had your way.

It's an Abrahamic religion that is explicitly political, resists reform by rejecting reinterpretations of the Qoran and which worships a warlord. You couldn't construct a better tool for resisting cultural progress. Sadly Europe will only learn that it's its antithesis through hindsight.

I'll go first. I was prompted to start this thread when I had insights this morning on why I resist scheduling, which tends to lead me to have low self-control and drift into procrastination. The problem is that I tend to schedule too rigidly and there is wisdom in resisting that rigidity. This calls for better principles in schedule-making. There are times when we are capable of strategic thinking and there are times when we only have the mental capacity to follow a premade plan. The fundamental reason why scheduling is important is so that the times when we are not in a state of strategizing we still live in the structure that we made ourselves in the state of good strategizing. Those moments of weakness are in every time our attention drifts and we start scrolling social media aimlessly. Some rules for scheduling to honor previous insight: We only get to remake our plans when we are in a strategic mind state. Allow some flexibility when not in strategic mind state but not too much. Find balance. Pet all cute puppies! If a strong impulse comes up to do something else and it seems like a good impulse, honor the wisdom of that impulse by considering it from the strategic mindset. Only change plans if you successfully go into the strategic mindset. Don't spend time that isn't strategized. You have to allow yourself to strategize for pleasure. Work hard play hard. Rejecting scheduling pleasure only leads to seeking pleasure in unintegrated ways where we lie to ourselves about the limits of our self-control. Don't rule yourself as a tyrant but as a loving friend. Use outlines(schedule holarcically) to avoid rigidity. Don't plan the whole day in detail. Start with the big-picture outline as a guideline and fill in smaller outlines and tasks as the day goes. Again only fill in the smaller details when you are in the strategic mindset. Big outlines are allowed to be changed when you are in the strategic mindset.

This is such a foundational topic for personal development, philosophy and the experience of being human. I think a mega thread for the topic is appropriate. Here are some categories to discuss: Psychological tips and tricks and tactics for self-control Scheduling. It's the main strategy for self-control. What are good principles for scheduling? Why do we resist self-control and how do we listen to the wisdom in that resistance? We all have ways we relate to these topics. What works well for you?

I listen to it to get through rough times. I don't think there are long term benefits but it keeps me sane when I'm too lonely and I need it.

@StarStruck You are god. Consciousness right now is god. Consciousness is fundamental to all ideas and constructions. All ideas originated from consciousness and the love, desire, and survival instinct that moves you. There is nothing outside of consciousness. Don't ground yourself in an idea of consciousness but your consciousness right now and what moves you to act right now. For this to make complete sense a paradigm shift needs to happen in all of philosophy even in Leo's philosophy. It will come in some months. Trust that answers will come.

Rights are an invention. It all comes down to what you want to do with your life. I value life not because there is some God-ordained order to do so but just because I find life profound. It moves me.

Our suffering is so insignificant compated to the endless ripples of our actions and the suffering or happiness they cause for future beings. A happy mind is a healthy mind tho so our happiness contributes to what we leave behind and the happiness of other beings. The stakes of being human in today's society in the middle of the advent of high tech is emence.

Yes you just need to write the rules they follow.

Ukraine is not getting nukes. That's the big difference. America is even a big reason why Ukraine doesn't have nukes today. Budapest Memorandum. Again, Ukraine is not getting nukes. The Iraq war was mostly about punishing the Middle East for 9/11. NATO countries don't get gifted nukes. Nothing is stopping NATO countries now from covertly shipping Ukraine nukes today. They don't, because they don't want to. NATO expansion doesn't change their ability or will to ship nukes. I don't think Putin has said that preventing NATO expansion is the whole reason for the war. There are other reasons which concern me. Mainly Putin's belief that the Maidan was orchestrated by the US and Putin has told Obama that he thought Obama wanted to overthrow him with another color revolution. This is what the first video I linked is about 'The American Origins of Putins Madness'. Putin's idiotic, wrongful paranoia about this would be enough to trigger him to invade Ukraine without the threat of NATO expansion. Big picture I think G.W Bush's saber-rattling about NATO expansion into Georgia and Ukraine was idiotic. Not immoral, just idiotic. Putin's invasion of Georgia proved that. I'm a Swede and am perfectly able to empathize with Putin. I believed Miershimer's POV at first. But then I've come to reason. I believe the main reason for Putin's invasion is the Maidan revolution as I've mentioned. It's possible that the fifth wave of NATO expansions triggered Putin to believe this conspiracy but it's no guarantee and I'm leaning towards not. Again you haven't pained a picture of how NATO expansion could threaten Russia militarily. No one on the Miershimer side has to my knowledge. Because it doesn't exist. I'm arguing that NATO expansion into Ukraine wouldn't have been immoral. But again I wouldn't have done it because it's idiotic. If Garbachev wanted this to be binding forever he would have had to get it written. He knew this and he didn't. I don't buy that this would then be binding after the Soviet Union collapsed. The verbal agreement was in my view an agreement about the political and security landscape of that time.

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@Bobby_2021 Can you paint a single scenario of how NATO expansion could plausibly pose a military threat to Russia? Keep in mind that Russia has nukes. Different American presidents have different policies toward NATO expansion. Here is a video explaining the reasoning of different presidents. The explanations seem to make sense without pressure from the military-industrial complex.