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@docs20 +1 for Fight club @Spiral Wizard Just watch it I guess, but I didn't remember the trailer even though I watched it so I don't know really

@Pacific Sage Thank you for this

I don't have the course, but I can imagine that the exercises there are worth doing. No no no, it's okay. Now you can forget the armchair philosophy, I feel like the armchair philosophy term has more to do with an unpleasant feeling of excess comfort in your body, whereas self-reflection is just being stuck in the world of small self, that is limited by thoughts. This is connected more to seeking than living a life. I just wanted to say that you need to stay vigilant about this self-reflection, because it will create imaginary excuses for you to stay alive as the small self, rather than Love. The doubts are only reasonable in the relative, but their meaning can be thrown away and you can stop resisting. Leo has many videos about the Higher Self I was Leo this question so I can perhaps better understand your situation.

You just think you understand. You can be any kind of thinker, serious, philosophical, scientific, and you can spend days, weeks, months, even years meditating, but self-reflection can always get you. As long as you are self-reflecting, you are trapped. It's not like you understand that much when you're there. By saying that you understand, but it's become so real, you're just giving the problem extra illusory validity, that makes it easier for you to stay in self-reflection. Do you see how you create whether the doubts are real or not? Good to hear Make sure to do the exercises, if you go through them just in your mind, they won't help you @Leo Gura When we are at it, I heard this opinion that it is dangerous to introduce someone, who hasn't yet figured out what even their small self is, to spiritual work. (they probably meant a person in their identity x role-confusion stage of development) I personally think this can be overcome, but I think that Abraham Maslow wrote something in one of his books that when you have a strong ego, (I don't think he meant strong identification, maybe he meant more like maturity, shadow-integration etc...) and you know who you are as a small self, it is easier for you to target your ego and to dissolve it. (or perhaps that you might have less problems with your other values when on the path) I am not a big fan of this approach but I'm interested on your perspective on this as I feel like @Dean Walker, and other people in my social circle might be struggling with this issue.

@Stakres Thank you, I will look for that!

Hey guys, I recently found out about my friend that she's been experiencing psychic powers for about 2-3 years. She isn't struggling with it or anything, but she is looking for high quality sources, preferably books, about prophetic dreams, seeing auras, travelling out of your body, astrology etc... If there are any people like this or who know something that could give her a good pointer, that would really help us.

Oh really? Source?

For reality bending movies: Shutter island - DiCaprio movie about a detective who is investigating in a psychiatric hospital, this movie will play with your mind

@Svartsaft I'm sorry about your feelings. Sometimes this path is twisted, different approaches work differently on different people. What relationships are you talking about, what's on your mind when you cannot sleep?

@Svartsaft Relationships can be beautiful, if you the person is there for you and you love them unconditionally, just because they exist. You can touch a deeper place beyond physicality in them. Of course many people here don't meditate, otherwise they wouldn't waste their time in the threads about consciousness

Sending some juicy videos that I watched: This whole series is great but this video resonated with me the best This is about ayurvedic psychology, blows my mind how some of it is so accurate.

You have to train before you overtrain. The motivator for you to enter the spiritual path is most likely suffering, so you need to do something different. This doubting is, in my opinion, another load of armchair philosophy. Also I think you are your own person and whatever Leo says doesn't have to be 100% true for you, you need to get out of that armchair and actually experiment with yourself, what works for you. I actually think that connecting deeper with Love can help you build deeper relationships beyond the physical and emotional. Leo's videos nowadays aren't comprehensible if you don't meditate, they are there to drive you towards that path. Leo doesn't want you to just think, you need to do the work and then maybe you won't even need Leo which would be the best case scenario. Remember there is no you in the future that works on their relationships/meditation or is happy, there is only the present. You need to do what you want now, otherwise it will never ever happen, and you will end up being miserable.

I cried watching this! No no.. are you joking? I don't know if you can appreciate what's happening here. Yeh I really liked Brad Blanton's book called Radical honesty, he was talking a lot about Gestalt therapy there, and even from what I've read about it, it seems very good if done correctly. Yes yes, you are on point Salvijus, and beautiful also ❤

Hey everyone, Recently, I've been thinking about what career path to choose, what university to go to etc... To give you some idea about where I'm at: I am 16 years old, living in Czechia (Central Europe), 2nd year of high school. For the last couple of months, I've been studying psychology quite a lot with some neuroscience here and there and it's been really interesting, so I began thinking about choosing a career path as a psychotherapist. But today, I went to visit my friends from which one of them is a psychologist and a psychiatrist and his husband and daughter are somewhere in the field of medicine, and the psychologist told me, that studying psychology at the university is very much about theory (mental masturbation) and that he feels like I would be wasting my potential, if I only studied that. It kind of sounds like a typical response from someone who studied medicine, but then he started telling me what it really is like with studying psychology here and there are some psycho/hypno/gestalt/integral therapy courses, that are of greater value in his eyes, as they are more practical. And that I could even be more independent as a psychiatrist (or perhaps something related like neurologist/sexuologist), because I would understand both the psychological and physiological side. And I mean, I see what he means and I am impressed when someone who understands these things like biology, chemistry, talks about them, but it feels like a very reckless idea to reorient myself like that. I have a couple of questions: Do you think studying psychology in other countries (preferably in Europe) is more advanced than in Czechia (theory, mental masturbation), how? Do you guys think it's possible to develop an interest that seems crazy at first and become good at it, use it well, do you have a similar experience? Do you think there is a better way beyond all this, that would make me the most useful as a person? What is your experience?

@kag101 Wow thank you for this, this has really helped me. I am contemplating a career in that field. I have a couple of questions for you: What would you say are the biggest criteria for being a good psychologist/psychiatrist? How do you find/recognize one?

Sometimes if you tell someone directly, they're gonna freak out

@supremeyingyang Ok, I am learning statistics, I am about to do my own psychological experiment at my school with a friend of mine. I am also talking to people a lot and I have a lot of good feedback so I think I am doing great at the moment, thank you for asuring me hahahaha. I still don't know whether I should read about therapy and gain experience, probably get better at maths by myself and study something like psychiatry or neurology or something else... There is so much to master hahahaahaha. Maybe if I studied multiple things, I could go interdisciplinary or change career if I realize I made the wrong choice...

@supremeyingyang Wow, thank you so much! I'll make sure to read some of those, I resonated with Authentic happiness from Martin Seligman and Radical honesty by Brad Blanton, both are from the field of positive psychology. Did your girlfriend and friends give you any feedback on their past decisions, as to what major they would choose differently or whether they did everything well? PS: Merry Christmas! <3

@Identity Thank you for responding Yeh I am kind of trying to do that now... Developing myseld in this field, doing the work on myself very seriously. I don't want to be a hypocritical therapist, too many of these already. But yeh... Have you tried anything like that? What would you recommend? Other than that, education in Czech Republic is free/cheap so I am not limited in terms of money Gonna hit you up hahahahaha, sounds super cool!

I went through it quite quickly, haven't read all of it, but it was funny how they tried to find mathematical patterns in koans

You can question an illusion with more illusion. Any question is illusory and any answer is illusory. Even the distinction between the answer and the question is illusory and the concept of an answer being an answer (to a question) is also illusory. You aren't digging deep enough.

You can have periods in life when you are reasonably happy and aren't suffering too much, but the existential suffering is inevitable, you cannot run away.

@Fede83 Good, you already know it's a realization! It's on you to see how the law of attraction is already working for you Maybe if one thing went differently for you, you wouldn't be here, trying to work on yourself, you know. Even the worst things that have happened to you were the best in the long run, life works in mysterious ways. Thoughts are just stories, don't tell yourself stories that hurt you. Any pain is unnecessary. It might sound cold, but there really isn't any reason why you should suffer. There also isn't any amount of suffering you should go through in order to be worthy of Love. Having enough suffering = realizing Love. Listen to your body sensations in the moment and follow goodness.

@Fede83 It might take a lot of work, but also don't let this false belief that „you don't deserve Love“ blind you. Big Love to you.

@Parththakkar12 Why do you then have to care so much about this social stuff when you have so much power in you?