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@diamondpenguin Yay, let's have a free market. Where is the money gonna come from for healthcare, infrastructure, social safety nets, etc? I don't think the % of taxes is the problem, just pure corruption and low consciousness. Quality of life is way higher in Canada than in America for most people and we have way less money.

@Husseinisdoingfine Is that not what they're trying to do with their uighur muslim camps?

That's not really the same thing. I don't lack friends. I have 25 people I could call right now. Still doesn't feel like a community. It doesn't feel like a shared life adventure, more like we each do our own thing and reconvene once in a while to reminisce and not feel lonely. I want shared adventure. Shared journey. Like a guild in an MMO. The closest thing I'm thinking is I have a lot of friends that are close to my age (22-27) that are into business and entrepreneurship. Already both of my roommates are into online business and partying the same way I am. I want to get a few more friends to rent another condo in our same building so we can meetup almost everyday and collab on shooting content, making money online and hanging out. This would be a lot more urban of an ideal than a regular ecovillage. If anyone has other ideas surrounding this, let me know!

After watching Leos recent video on college, I realized that only thing that would make me go(I have never been and I'm 25) is the social life aspect on it. I remember my high school days very fondly and a lot of people that went to college tell me the same. It's not only about having friends too, I actually have a lot of friends that I hangout with each week. It's about the whole structure of seeing the same few hundred people over and over again and working together on similar things and living similar lives. Seeing friends a couple times a week just doesn't give me the same feeling of community. I'm curious how your guys friend groups are and how fulfilling do you feel about it? I came up with this vision of a big social circle (10-50) that are all friends and work together, live together, travel together and it seems like it'd be a much more warm way to live than the isolated cities with a few friends/relationships that we have now.

Scaling my photography business to sustain me and be financially independent across the world.

Ooh, thank you for the suggestion! I remember looking into one in BC(I think it was branded smart villages) and it all revolved around working together to produce art and sustainable technology and live in the BC mountains. Sounded heavenly. I really would want @Leo Gura to talk about this because your point here is a fantastic point. I don't know enough history to understand when the shift happened but big cities are made to promote individualism and you end up living away from your friends/family. How can this be fulfilling? I think owning your own business and being able to hang around your best friends/loved ones all the time is the best path for complete fulfillment. I'd be curious to hear more about it and see what kind of plans people have around it!

I started vaping in 2017 and have been trying to quit for around a year. I've managed to do it for three weeks but keep relapsing when I hang out with other people that vape or drink. I've directly noticed that it lowers my energy, increases my anxiety, and lowers my motivation so that in and of itself is enough of a reason to quit besides any other medium or long term health effects that I'm consciously trying to ignore. My roommate vapes and so trying to quit will be a nightmare. About as easy as quitting junk food while owning a convenience store. But this needs to be done since I feel like it's hindering my growth potential. Do you guys have any advice/relatable stories for me?

Did you find what triggered you to vape? I noticed that everytime I'm trying to run away from an emotion I vape. If I think about how I'm not where I want to be, I vape and it feels better. If I think about how I've done something shitty to someone, I vape and it feels better. When I'm nervous about something, I vape and it feels better. I honestly thought that I vaped because of boredom but the realization that it is to cope with negative emotions makes it hard to keep doing consciously. Doubled by the fact that all my most successful best friends don't vape/smoke and the ones that I see with emotional issues usually do makes it even more troubling.

Conservatives generally lack empathy and value things like conformity and tradition over it.

Be careful with this advice. Check the laws to see if this is even legal, in Canada you can't carry any sort of weapon for self defense and you will be charged for using it. Also statistically, unless you're trained in using it, carrying a weapon will most likely end up in it being used against you rather than the other way around.

I think it's good to do both. Get good insights from good books on Leo's list but don't get disconnected from the mainstream perspective.

I'd say peak orange, a lot of green and some yellow. He's definitely one of the highest consciousness business leader of today. His focus on being nice, authentic, and transparent is unmatched. I've rarely seen someone mainstream talk about such high character things and actually back them up. Watching his discussion with Jessica Alba where he breaks out into general life stuff and philosophy was super cool too. He has a lot of deep thoughts that don't come out in his regular content which is 99% business based.

What is currently your "lowest consciousness" habit? Do you regret anything in going on this path to self-actualization? If you had one piece of advice towards the general western population, what would it be? What's your favorite movie? Tv-show? Video game? Anime? Thank you for doing this. You've said at some point that you don't think people care about you personally, just your work. How can anyone care about someone personally, that's a deep question. But I've quite enjoyed your personal anecdotes along these years and I really liked it when you talked about working for epic games in the life purpose course. As a fellow nerd, that was a cool trivia fact. Keep on keeping on my dude and I hope that the health issues are going better these days, best of luck.

@GroovyGuru As someone who's not too familiar with the American political system and only knows headlines about Trump and some YouTube documentaries, what exactly are your gripes with him and his followers, if you had to give an in depth explanation?

@Leo Gura What's your opinion on her opinion? I think she makes an interesting point and her thoughts are valid because we do alienate rich people and deny all their problems because we're jealous of them being rich. Obviously there are bigger problems in life and some people are literally starving on the streets but doesn't mean their problems are non existent. Isn't there a lottery winner phenomenon where winning multiple millions with the lottery is statistically more likely to ruin your life rather than help it? I think when we eventually evolve beyond capitalism we will recognize it as an extremely bizarre stage in human development. I live in Toronto and it's definitely a late stage capitalism wonderland. Everytime you go out downtown you see about the same number of Lambos and Ferraris as you see homeless people sleeping outside.

How are things going brother? Your story is inspiring, keep updating us!

@Schnaby Anyone that brags about being high consciousness is not high consciousness. That's as literal of an ego manifestation as you can get. All of the behaviors that you described sounds like someone who watches the videos, doesn't do the work and uses it to feel better about their lack of progress in life. Up to you if you want that energy in your life and if you're willing to work through it. Takes two to tango though.

I feel like I did the classic mistake of going through the self-actualization pyramid upside down. I studied a lot of the principles taught on this site and am fairly confident in my connection to spirit, purpose in this world, finding my fulfillment, making sure my actions aren't extremely selfish, etc but I struggle with being a functional member of society on a basic level. My schedule is a mess and my habits are extremely inconsistent. I will meditate for a few days than not do it for a couple of weeks, same thing with reading, same thing with journaling, etc. I struggle to the point of not being able to be focused and motivated enough to just get a job and pay my own bills. I feel like I'm more conscious than most of the adults I see yet I'm not as productive as a random college student. Anyone else struggles with this?

I moved to a new city a few months ago that I had never been to before and knew no one in. I've had it pretty consistently now where new people I meet tell ask if we've met before and say I look familiar and after thinking about it, I feel the same. Some parts of the city I had never seen also seem weirdly familiar and I've been getting a lot of deja vu feelings recently. What does this mean?

I recommend just go my a different name without changing it legally first. I've used a different first and last name for years now and I'm still conflicted about it and I still can't answer your question to this day. I realized I used a completely new name to forge a new identity and tried to live that. It was still me just improved. In the end, it doesn't really change who you are so who knows if it really matters. I hope that helps you in some way.

I don't think people are realizing the wisdom of your comment. You should be able to question the nature of things and if your worldview is wrong, even as "conscious" as we like to think we are. Life would be a lot easier if stage blue had it right and the key to happiness and truth was just order and respecting of the established norms but it seems like life is just a little more complicated then that

I just watched this and a lot of the theories and information seem sound. I'm not one to fear monger but from what we know from spiral dynamics and low consciousness egos in power, this makes perfect sense right? Please watch and share your thoughts, there are a lot of events that mark history and this could be one of the major ones in the 21st century. From reading about Disaster Capitalism as recommended by Leo, it wouldn't surprise me if this was an accurate conspiracy theory.

Very interesting life purpose friend, that's not one you read about every day. Personally, DMT is the latest psychedelic I've used(the non 5-meo format) and it completely obliterated my reality, it was the most fascinating experience I've ever had. I'd definitely be curious in trying it again and exploring it more. My question to you is have you read the most recent entry on Leo's blog about the Psychedelic researcher that went wrong? What're your thoughts on it?

Any update on the Vimeo reupload? It's just not the same without seeing your face and hand movements

Take this as an opportunity to improve your communication skills and your spiral wizardry