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Damage caused by spiritual content consumed by adolescents
Damage caused by spiritual content consumed by adolescentsDeveloping yourself to high levels is inherently isolating because you're going beyond the center of gravity of society. You will be misunderstood by the majority of people. There is little social support for the most advanced stuff. It's like going off-roading and then complaining that the road is bumpy and rough with no super-highways and gas stations.
It's similar to running your own business. You will feel isolated. It's lonely at the top. But also you can find communities of like-minded people, but you must do this proactively. It won't just happen if you don't make an effort towards it.
Also, I have said many times to seek out perspectives other than my own. I should not be your only source.
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What is personal development
What is personal developmentVery little personal development happens in school. School is mostly you just memorizing stuff.
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Balancing career and pickup
Balancing career and pickupMany of the guys I know who game also have day jobs.
One of my wings is a doctor. But he still goes hard Fri & Sat.
Really depends on how much energy you have.
You should be able to manage an LP and still go out twice a week, or do some day game on the weekend.
Most important thing is that you move to a good city.
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n,n-DMT is not reliable
n,n-DMT is not reliableThey take me to full God-realization, which is weirder than any realm.
Surroundings don't change, they just get wavey and fluid.
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Insights or self-deception?
Insights or self-deception?No-self is way more than just an insight. No-self actually requires loss of a sense of self.
Imagine that you simply forgot the self is even a thing. That's would be true realization of no-self. Right now you are just holding no-self as an idea.
Notice, a coffee table cannot even conjure up the idea of a self. That's true no-self. What is a self anyway?
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How to relate to Male emotions and understand my man better?
How to relate to Male emotions and understand my man better?Rather than trying to respond or comfort someone, just get good at listening to them and asking clarifying questions that deepen understanding.
Set your intention to simply see his POV, rather than trying to get something out of him. If you do this genuinely he should start to feel validated. This requires openmindedness, curiosity, coming from a place of not-knowing, and dropping your assumptions and expectations.
The issue for you will be that you are very emotionally reactive, and if he is too, you two will trigger each other and that won't be sustainable. An emotionally reactive man is a rather weak man and that's gonna create problems in the masculine/feminine dynamic.
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I'm Not Sure We're Compatible
I'm Not Sure We're Compatible1) You should get good at talking about mundane stuff with girls. Rarely will a girl give you much intellectual challenge. That's not really her function.
2) If you value deep intelligent conversations then you should emphasize that when screening girls. Some girls are deeper while most are shallow as a puddle.
3) Most girls will be more interested in people than in things and ideas. This is how girls gotta be to be good mothers. So to some extent you just learn to accept it.
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Texting girls
Texting girls1) The way you're asking for the date is not optimal.
First of all, never call it a "date".
Next, you should build a bit of connection before you ask her out. Not too much connection, but something a bit clever and funny is nice. Get her used to responding to you and interested in you.
Next, you should make the request as low-compliance as possible. "Let's grab a coffee sometime this week." Don't mention a specific date/time. Wait til she responds before specifying that.
Next, it is crucial that you discuss and seed the coffee date when you are getting her phone number in-person. You must tell her that you two will get a coffee together later that week and ask her what her schedule is like, when she's busy and when she's free. Get her to agree in-person. This increase your date rate a lot. All the work is done in-person, not via text.
2) Even if you ask for the date optimally, many girls will just ignore (which means decline). Don't take is personally. Most girls will decline.
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What is a belief?
What is a belief?Raw perception is of course interpreted and assembled into a kind of augemented reality by the ego mind. But it would be best to distinguish that from belief.
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Trying to uderstand Absolute Truth
Trying to uderstand Absolute TruthYes, but it needs to get recontextualized for you. See video on Recontextualization.
False.
Absolute Truth includes motion and change.
That's not how you find Absolute Truth. Both states and A amd B are Abaolute Truth, the problem is just you are not recognizing it.
Watch my videos:
What Is Truth?
And, Relative vs Absolute Truth.
Truth is simply all raw experience of any kind.
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Transcending Logic
Transcending LogicMeh... fuck logic.
Transcending logic does not mean you lose the ability to use it for practical things.
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"Everything you've always wanted is in the Present Moment"
"Everything you've always wanted is in the Present Moment"It's not enough to contemplate, you need a significant state change.
You can get so present and conscious that all your problems and even sense of other will melt away as the mental fictions that they are.
This requires very high consciousness. It doesn't makes sense from within material consciousness because you are imagining the future too powerfully to see it as imaginary.
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Whats the point of it all?
Whats the point of it all?The point is to enjoy the process. You will never reach some destination where everything will be happily ever after. Drop that notion. And stop making excuses not to talk to girls.
Love life. Do things you love, not because you are aping some YTber.
Also, don't discount your huge progress so easily. You're 22. You're basically a child.
And stop envying those dumb girls. Their lives are awful. Appreciate what you have built in your life and never throw it away for some dumb girl.
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"Talk with everybody" nightgame
"Talk with everybody" nightgameYeah, that's a big struggle for us introverts. Extroverts have a much easier time just talking random bullshit.
Here are a few tips:
Talk about yourself. Talk about your ideas and feelings. Ask less questions, make more statements. Tell little stories from your life. Talk about topical stuff from the news. Read a bit of news before you go out. Or pop-culture news. Make up some assumptions about them like, "You look like you're from California". It doesn't have to make any sense or be accurate. Make observational comments: "Your dress reminds me of Pocahontas."
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Annoyed by car noise - ear plugs?
Annoyed by car noise - ear plugs?I am very sensitive to noise. I use cheap foam earplugs much of the day in my house to get total silence. Eliminate airplane noise, car noise, biker noise, distractions, lawnmowers, leaf-blowers, etc. Perfect for meditation, contemplation, and work. I've worn them for years.
Foam earplugs work best. Buy a giant box of them.
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Do guys hate it when you play with your clit?
Do guys hate it when you play with your clit?You're really limiting yourself and missing out. You can have crazy orgasms from just penetration. Clit orgasms are far more limited.
Not only is it possible, it's the norm.
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Leo's video on how to love does not correlate well with getting girls
Leo's video on how to love does not correlate well with getting girlsThe reason you're not getting laid is that you're not leading. Leading is critical for the end-result.
If you want serious results with women you have to learn to lead like a fucking boss.
Learning to lead and handle logistics is one of the hardest parts of game to learn. It requires so much failure and practice. It cannot be learned as theory. It's pure practice.
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Leading
LeadingThis is why you build state by approaching a lot.
First 10 approaches of the night are just a warm up to build your state. You must discipline yourself to approach 20-30 sets a night. No excuses. Your state and mood will build until you're on fire. The key is to approach even when you don't feel like it. Just approach and let sets blow up in your face. And then approach some more. And don't be picky about who you approach.
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Is an atom a holon? Is there scientific proof?
Is an atom a holon? Is there scientific proof?Atoms are filled with 100s of various subatomic particles.
Standard model has over 200 particles in it.
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How There is No Difference Between Real and Imaginary?
How There is No Difference Between Real and Imaginary?Formed reality is the imagination of differences. You create "reality" by holding one thing as distinct from another. These are divisions in consciousness your mind is making, even though you are not yet conscious of how your mind is doing this. This is otherwise known as dreaming.
It's not complicated.
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A warning: Shamanic/Holotropic Breathing and Kundalini
A warning: Shamanic/Holotropic Breathing and KundaliniHi All,
First up, I'm not trying to tell you what you shouldn't do, all I want to do is post a warning based on my experience with Holotropic/Shamanic Breathing. I hope that you take heed of this advice and don't go through the intense involuntary healing that I have been through in the last 3 years.
I had a strong desire for the spiritual path and had been meditating for 4 years, sometimes up to 4 hours per day but normally at least 1.5 hours. I felt pretty good and had no existing psychiatric issues (that I was aware of.....)
In early 2019, I felt I was ready to speed up the process as I wanted to progress spiritually and felt like I wasn't getting anywhere.
So I started Shamanic/Holotropic/Breath of Fire (It has many names). I started on 2 minutes and gradually worked up to 30 to 40 minutes per day over the course of many months. I was still meditating but not for as long as I had been. Everything was fine for many weeks without issues. I felt good and felt normal both physical and mentally.
Then, one week I started to feel off, it is hard to describe but I just didn't feel right. Felt really tired and unhappy (I am normally a care free happy person). I immediately stopped the breathwork but continued to meditate.
About 1 week after I stopped the breathing practices completely I was still feeling tired and just not right mentally. Then one day I was sitting is lotus posture and I suddenly felt really anxious for no reason and this incredibly uncomfortable energy started surging through me. I did not know at the time it was energy as I had never really felt it before but it was really uncomfortable. I couldn't sit still and I felt really anxious from the excess energy. I had no idea what was going on and ended up in hospital, I started screaming in hospital for no reason and almost had to be sedated (I am normally never like this, normally one of the most chilled out people around me). Anyway I was released a few hours later when the energy calmed down a bit.
For the next 6 months this energy was with me all day everyday (even though I ceased all spiritual practices). I had trouble sleeping (I normally sleep like a baby). I felt extremely fatigued (I thought I had chronic fatigue) and could hardly get out of bed for weeks. I was close to panic attacks all the time. I was so scared and had no idea what was going on. I had to quit my job as I couldn't really function. Luckily I was financially prepared for this. It was only after I reached out to three meditation teachers who could "read my energy" were they able to advise I had awakened Kundalini. Kundalini was moving through my physical and subtle body cleaning out past traumas. Boy was it hard. You don't realize what lies in your subconscious until you open it haha.
I then had a relatively stable period of 12 months with no symptoms and felt pretty good. I thought Kundalini had become dormant but now I know she was still active in the background. I then started doing something similar to straw breathing just to try and calm my system. I felt great for a few months. But then boom without any warning again I went from feeling great to these massive surges of energy running through me that still haven't really integrated fully with my system even after 7 months of no spiritual exercises.
The negative impacts of my healing have been the following:
- Intense suicidal depression (Never really been depressed at all in my life until I awoke Kundalini). Almost ended up in a psych ward a couple of times. The only things. Mostly when the energy surges were moving through my chest and heart area.
- Intense ADHD, couldn't sit still almost all day for many months. (Never had ADHD before, I am normally more sloth like haha)
- Intense sensitivity to people, unable to be around some people.
- Intense weird mental states, hard to describe but they aren't very comfortable.
- Insomnia. This was really bad in the first healing period but not so much the second, still not sleeping as much as I need to but it has improved.
- Intense sensitivity to fasting and certain supplements. Fasting and magnesium amplifies the energy and it feels very uncomfortable.
Positive impacts (a lot less than the negative ones so far.....)
- When I close my eyes my body mostly disappears. I don't feel it at all the only thing I feel is the energy moving against blockages.
- Body gradually feeling less and less like "me". A little bit scary.
- Can feel expansion of aura around me.
- Small periods of intense bliss. This can almost be a negative impact if too intense.
- Small periods of seeing intense beauty in even the most simple things.
- Heightened intuition.
- Synchronicities at times. Not all the time but occasionally.
- One 5 minute period where all my thoughts just stopped. My head was clear, this was very cool. Only had it once though.
- Greater understanding of subtle energy in general. The two laws that you must always apply for safe use of it.
I sought help from a few teachers, tried a few practices to help calm the energy and ground me but in the end the main thing is time as the energy integrates with your body and mind, this can only happen so fast and takes time. Acupressure helped a bit and also something called White Light Protection Visualization which you can find on the Kundalini subreddit. One respected Kundalini teacher had me try all sorts of herbs and exercises that seemed to do nothing or make it worse. So I have come to the conclusion that very few people actually are able to teach this sort of stuff if you have a spontaneous K awakening.
I share this in the hopes that others healing journeys won't be so intense and involuntary as mine.
I also want to thank all those have helped me in this journey so far, those seen and those unseen. Especially for helping me to keep my second job and family.
Good links:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kundalini/ - IMO the White Light Protection visualization should be done by everyone everyday.
https://www.taraspringett.com/kundalini/healing-kundalini-symptoms-book/ - Some good info in this book.
TLDR:
Shamanic/Holotropic Breathing awakened my Kundalini without warning and gave me what is called Kundalini syndrome. I went through hell on earth as I was healing for the next 6 months then I went through A relatively stable period of 12 months and then the last 7 months have been by far the most difficult. Still healing from my past at a rate that is far from comfortable.
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A warning: Shamanic/Holotropic Breathing and Kundalini
A warning: Shamanic/Holotropic Breathing and KundaliniThanks for sharing. Sorry that happened to you, but it is a pretty common thing for those doing hardcore spiritual work. I have a book on my book reviews list about Kundalini syndrome, how to deal with it, and how to avoid it.
Yes, lot of intense breathing can trigger it. Which is why Kriya yoga was invented, to slow down the breathing and to active the kundalini in a more stable, gradual, and healthy manner. If you decide to return to spiritual practice, Kriya yoga is what you're missing.
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What is a belief?
What is a belief?It's not so complicated. A belief is something you hold as true of reality which isn't strictly part of your direct experience.
For example, you believe the Earth is round. We can test that you believe this because if I started saying the Earth is flat, you would disagree and start to argue on the grounds that that is false.
So a belief is a sort of truth claim about something which isn't part of your direct experience.
Beliefs don't have to come from other, they can come from yourself. You generate many beliefs on your own based on assumptions, speculation, guess-work, and sense-making.
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If you are suffering, then 'no-self' & Truth is NOT understood!
If you are suffering, then 'no-self' & Truth is NOT understood!The problem with this view is that all your so-called enlightened teachers will suffer if you hit them over the head with a hammer.
So you are setting a virtually impossible standard for anyone to meet. By this standard no one knows Truth, no one knows God, no one is awake. And this is false. Awakening and Truth-realization is independent of suffering. You can realize no-self and still suffer.
If you doubt this, think of Christ on the Cross. You think he didn't suffer? Don't kid yourself.
So are you going to deny Christ awakening and truth because he suffered?
You see how silly this gets?
Of course if you suffer easily that shows that there is much more work you could do on yourself. But it doesn't invalidate any awakenings or realizations you've had.
Suffering is part of Absolute Truth. And just because you're not suffering also doesn't mean you're consciousness of the highest truths. This conflation of suffering and moral purity with awakening or truth is very problematic for students in this work. It creates a lot of wrong expectations which will never get met. Stop thinking that awakening or God-realization will make you macho, stoic, infallible, and morally perfect. It won't. Consciousness of Truth is just that, nothing more. You could still be addicted to whatever. If you don't think awakened people have addictions and cravings, you're kidding yourself.
What's not wise is setting up simplistic litmus tests for consciousness of Truth. Like, for example, you are not conscious of Truth unless you can sit still cross-legged for 4 hours without flinching. This is a human-made litmus test which says nothing about one's consciousness of Truth. Truth is not testable by any such litmus test. All it takes to be conscious of Truth is to be conscious of Truth. Nothing more. If you are conscious of Truth but cannot sit still for more than 1 minute, you are still conscious of Truth. You just haven't trained your mind and body to meet some spiritual ideal you have set for yourself.
I suffer plenty. But it doesn't make my awakenings any less real or valid.
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Leo Doesn't Make Sense Anymore
Leo Doesn't Make Sense AnymoreYou should be aware that my teachings are always evolving. This is the nature of empirical investigation.
How come you don't get depressed and cry contradiction when a new scientific discovery is made? Think about it. Understanding reality is a lot more difficult than anyone imagines. If you think you can do it flawlessly, you're in for a rude awakening.
I have also warned you guys that I am not immune from self-deception and that I am always having higher awakenings.
My videos document my process of figuring out the ultimate nature of reality. This is what the process looks like.