100s of times. And I know I am God regardless if I just put a bit of attention on it.
Welcome to life, buddy! Where health easily deteriorates for many factors outside your control.
Every buddha loses his health and dies at some point. It's only a question of time.
Ramana Maharshi died of cancer.
By your logic he was some sort of fool for getting cancer.
They have for now. But I am working on healing myself. Health can wax and wane. Be careful with jumping to simplistic conclusions. Correlation does not equal causation. Self-development is not what caused my health problems.
Unawakened people die of diseases all the time. By your logic, why would anyone want unawakening?
It is the truth. If it is misleading that is because people simply don't bother to understand it and do the necessary work.
I'm not going to dumb down the truth simply because people find it misleading. The mislead is a problem in your mind which needs fixing. The truth doesn't need fixing.
This is the ultimate truth: You are God.
Now, your job is to realize it and handle it. I like to state the truth as plainly and directly as possible.
Of course healing is also something we want. You can have both. And sometimes you can't. There is never a guarantee of health. Health is an extremely complex issue involving thousands of subtle factors, most of which are out of your awareness and control.
I can work on increasing my consciousness and improving my health at the same time. And the two synergize.

I fall mostly into Strategist & Construct-Aware, with peaks into Unitive.

There is no one there behind all experiences. The only problem is that you think there is someone there.
So enlightenment simply entails getting ride of this feels of someone having ever been.
No. All experiences are enlightenment once you simply realize there was no one ever behind them.
Experience isn't the problem, the only problem is that self-image which keeps feeding itself, telling itself that there is someone to whom the experiences are happening to.
Experience does not happen to anyone.
You can become conscious of Absolute Truth. This is quite an achievement. But Absolute Truth is not anywhere elsewhere but here and now. Just remove the ego sense and all will be revealed as Absolute Truth.
Enlightenment is not merely another experience, it's a meta thing in which you realize the true nature of all experiences.

Actually, Vegas is a super affordable place to live. If you are a local here, every club has free entry for locals on Sundays-Thursdays. Parking used to be free, now it's like $10. Drinks are $18 here, but I have never bought a girl a drink in my life and have no intention of starting. Dates can be super cheap. A date for me is a $5 coffee or ice cream.
If you want to hit up the hottest clubs in the world on Fri/Sat, that will cost you $40/night. But the clubs in Vegas are off the hook amazing. You've never seen so many hot girls in your life. $40/night is worth it if you're serious about developing your skills and you have a decent salary.
If you are clever, you can do pickup very cheap or even free. Depends a lot on location. Drinks in Austin, TX are like $3 and none of the bars have cover. Over my entire time in pickup I spent little money. Most of my money was spent simply on traveling to the best cities. And once I paid $2000 for a bootcamp.
You don't need total financial freedom to do pickup. Most of the guys who I met in pickup were not financially free. They had normal 9-5 jobs and gamed at night or on the weekends.
The biggest challenge is not money, it's time and energy. Pickup eats up a ton of time and energy. But still guys are able to do it while holding down regular jobs. I have met accountants, pilots, engineers, doctors, dentists, salesmen, etc. who did serious pickup.
Personally, I took a lot of time off work/biz to invest into pickup, and it was worth it. Of course I could only do that because I already was financially independent. But don't let this be a limiting belief. You don't have to be. But also, why not do both?!

God is the realization that there is no self, or that the Self is infinite, rather than some limited form.
It's very much like realizing you aren't human but the entire universe.

Nope. Winners know exactly what they want.
Sure, they may be fooling themselves in the absolute spiritual sense, but it is possible to have a clear vision and desire in the relative domain and achieve it. Of course this has nothing to do with happiness, but that's another matter.
How do you think Actualized.org was created?
I knew 8 years ago exactly what I wanted it to be (in the big picture). Without that vision it would have never happened.
Be a visionary!

God designed the universe with such a narrow balance of good and evil that you can never fall asleep
And yet, progress is always made.
We ended slavery
We got anti-trust regulation.
We got the 8 hour work day.
We got social security.
We got legal women equality.
We got legal racial equality.
We got legal gay equality.
We got coverage for pre-existing conditions.
Luckily the status quo is self-defeating.

There is value in the alpha/beta distinction in the sense that you can turn yourself into a much stronger man. Not physically stronger per se, but spiritually stronger.
You can become a lion among men. Which is a good thing. But it must be genuine strength rooted in consciousness and Love, not some frat-boy machismo which is compensating for insecurity, fear, and lack of consciousness.
Teaching men how to be strong is a great and important teaching. You just have to be careful not to turn it into toxic masculinity, which is all too easy.

Again, it's not about the actual sex, but about learning the skills to be a strong, attractive man. Those skills actually do create lasting fulfillment.
And the sex doesn't have to be low quality. You will find cool girls and they can become your girlfriend which can grow into deep amazing sex.

If others aren't real, then there is no me doing anything. There is only you imagining me.
What's happening here is that you are imagining duality because you are trying to keep yourself asleep. You don't want to wake up.
It does matter, if you care about awaking up.
All perspectives are the illusion. There are none. Only you, sitting there, imagining stuff.
You see... you don't really want to fully wake up. You want a comfy partial awakening. Not a full one. A full one would annihilate the universe and everyone in it.

Perception isn't direct because it is dualistic. "Perception" is a very loaded word here. You have to understand that when he says that perception isn't direct, he does NOT mean that you will discover some new thing behind perception, like some sort of "truer" version of reality. What he means is, everything will stay the same, but you will realize that perception is actually Being by collapsing the subject of perception into the raw data of perception. Perception will get radically recontextualized, but all the raw data, so to speak, will stay exactly the same. If you saw red before, you will keep seeing red during awakening. But now red will be recognized as RED! -- an absolute, rather than a function of some biological human brain process.
I explain all this very well in my videos: What Is Perception? and What Is Actuality?
Being = perception minus ego
RED = red minus a perceiver

No.
Not in the way you think.
The hallucination itself is an Absolute.
Yes, red exists Absolutely. All the raw data you see around you exists as an absolute. The problem is that when ego looks at anything absolute, it contextualizes it as "my subjective experiences". But without an ego, your experiences would stop being "yours" and they would even stop being "human experience happening in a brain".
"These are my subjective human experiences" << is a conceptual context which the ego-mind projects/imagines in order to create a sense of self.
Go re-watch my videos on What Is Perception? and What Is Actuality? and What Is Truth?
It's all explained there.
Or just take a psychedelic and see it for yourself.

Of course.
ONENESS!
When you see a chair across the room, you ARE that chair.

This "space" isn't space. It's nowhere and nothing.
YES! But it's not a space. It is nowhere. Nowhere is the perciever/subject. But notice, this now creates a new duality: nowhere (space) vs the stuff in it. So this is not yet full nonduality. For full nonduality you must realize that all the form is itself identical to the "space" in which it occurs. If you are distinguishing space from its contents, that is still duality.
In the final awakening you must realizing that absolute indifference between form and formlessness.
If you distinguish the "space" from the ego, that is a duality.
No-self = True Self
When everything collapses into ONE, there are no more parts. Your mind is trying to grasp at parts but Unity cannot have any. That's why this is so confusing for you. You are trying to grasp Infinity using the mind but that cannot ever work because the mind itself is entangled with the question. There cannot even be 1) a mind, and 2) a thing which the mind grasps. Since that is still duality.
Things ARE mind!
The chair is not happening in the mind. The chair IS mind. The end.

All colors, sounds, sensations, feelings, tastes, smells = raw data
It's the most fundamental stuff of which reality is made of. These are the true "atoms". You can't boil down the color red any further than itself. You can't boil down the taste of salt any further than itself.

Those sound like shitty friends. Fuck 'em. Find better ones.
A true friend is supposed to be able to feel happy for you when you are succeeding.

Yes, of course! Money is super important if you are building out your life purpose / biz / career. Money is what allows you to avoid becoming some devil boss's bitch slave.
I take money very seriously, even though it's not important in the absolute sense. You should be very prudent and strategic about money. Not to buy toys, but as a resource to enable your creativity. I am very pragmatic about money. You need it and it's not some evil thing. When you set up your LP correctly, money becomes a reflection of your creative output and service to the world.
Here's how you should think about money:
For more pragmatic biz advice, see my videos: The Psychology Of Small Business Advice and Money Psychology

Although to be clear, I don't support investing in Wall Street. They are scumbags and devils. Earn your money through creative effort.

It's hard to do a lot of day time approaches. Day time approaches have to be much more solid given their rarity. Majority of my approaches were night time. Simply given that, more results will come from night because it is a numbers game.
But my first success was from day.
Day is best, if only you could find enough hot girls during the day. They tend to be very rare and it's not so good for practice. Day is when you have to execute already solid game so it looks smooth and chill and effortless. Night is best for rapid training and fun, and if you want same-night results.

That $8000 would have been better spent traveling to Vegas and living here for 3 months of non-stop club action.
You gotta be smart with how you invest your money.

@Johnny5 While the universe is appearing, it is still Absolute Truth, however it appears.

You are looking at this in terms of sex.
The proper way to look at it is in terms of growth.
He's not doing those 1000 approaches to get 1 hot girl. He's doing it to overcome his fears and to develop strength as a man. That development will pay dividends for a lifetime. So it's worth doing even if you only get 1 or 2 lays out of it.
And like I said, result grow exponentally. So the next 1000 appraoches after that could produce 2-4 lays. And the next 1000, 4-8 lays, and the next 1000, 8-16 lays. And by that point you are getting more pussy than most guys can dream of.
Business works the same way. The first few years of starting a biz, you work non-stop but earn nothing.

If you want to have sex, you need to socialize a lot more frequently and it will happen. Even without pickup skillz. That is how normies get laid. Normies tend to be fairly social.
The Incel phenomenon is gaining steam so much these days because of the rise of the internet and gaming. Real-world socialization has taken a serious hit. You must consciously over-compensate for it nowadays by pushing yourself to socialize in the flesh even though there's little need to do so (other than for getting laid).
And who knows... you might learn to joy it more than playing Fortnite.

It's counter-intuitive: the chasing of bliss is the very thing which prevents it.
Bliss is a consequence of fully facing one's fear and not needing to manipulate your experience.
It's problematic to be doing psychedelics with the expectation of bliss. I would drop that expectation and instead aim for Truth and understanding. Bliss is the fruit off the tree of understanding. Focus on watering the roots of your tree rather than jumping like a thirsty monkey at the unripened green fruits.

There actually is no such thing as POVs. There is only your direct experience. All POVs are inside your POV.
The concept of Points of View is inherently dualistic. It too much collapse.