Consilience

This. But also I'd say rigorous meditation practice of some kind using whatever technique resonates most. Rigorous meaning start with 1 hour per day, and work your way up from there. You'll want your whole life to turn into formal practice at some point.

Are you doing the majority of the texting/pursuing, are you facilitating sex (it's hang out, have fun, hook up. A lot of dudes think the first two are enough, nope.), are you seeing other women or treating these girls like you're in a relationship, are you doing the majority of the talking when you're on dates, are you good at building sexual tension with kino, eye contact, body language? It's an art form for sure, and incredibly tough if you're not naturally talented. I would say the biggest, BIGGEST, change you can make it truly not giving a Fuck if a girl stays or leaves. Eradicate your neediness by learning to meet your own needs. You, as you are, are fully able and responsible for meeting your own happiness. Neediness propels women faster than anything. And as Corey Wayne talks about, women naturally pursue a guy they're attracted to. And if they don't, then they aren't attracted enough to you for a successful long term relationship. It's not that you never pursue a girl, but realistically, she should be reaching out the majority of the time and your job is to set dates. You should be reaching out max once a week. Your purpose, fitness, spiritual work, etc., should be taking the majority of your time. 3% man is a great book, horrendous writing imo, but a really solid framework with how to navigate the post seduction phase of attraction. I.e. what to do after you've met the woman, seduced her into that initial phase of attraction, and are starting to build chemistry over the days, weeks, years.

Yes that is the solution. However I agree... it seems responsible is very rare on this forum. Early on I fell into this trap of thinking I had to be blasting off at least once every month or two otherwise I was wasting my time with meditation. Couldn’t have been more wrong. And I wish Leo, with as much influence as he has, would speak on this topic. But he doesn't seem to see an issue with this blastoff approach. Psychedelics without a doubt facilitate powerful shifts in consciousness, but I don’t think frequency of trips is the primary variable... if we’re wanting to embody/integrate this stuff we have to have major grounding work. Again my bias from my own direct experience.

With rigorous practice, 24/7 contemplation/mindfulness, and deep study of non-duality, it can start become that way. Not on the level of a psychedelic, but on a level that’s radically different than the average person’s baseline, or our own baseline when we began this journey. By rigorous I mean 2+ hours a day of formal sitting, but each person has to determine what they can sustain. Of course this is my opinion and bias so feel free to disagree.

In my experience, a big issue Ive run into with yielding permanent shifts from psychedelics is that they really de-harmonize the energy body with over use. Yes they’re powerful, but from what I can observe, it takes a long time for the energy body’s “vibration” to smooth back out... which sounds new age af but it’s how my experience has seemed to unfold. Psychedelics seem to give the energy body a pump, almost like how lifting in the gym gives muscles the “pump.” When the EB is expanded out like this, we suddenly are conscious of WAY more, but doing this repeatedly seems to create rips in the EB as well from over expansion and the baseline has to recover. Similar to how if a muscle expanded too much it would tear. Same kind of concept seems to be playing out with the EB. Ime, and with this observed framework in mind, Ive found that tripping less frequently has yielded better baseline shifts. Because Im letting my overall system fully rest and recover between sessions, Im able to let the trip sink deeper in addition to letting the subtle shifts in energy dissipate. That and A LOT more meditating than when I first started tripping. The more sensitive we become to this stuff through sober practice, the more we can start to feel how just a single journey affects us not just a couple weeks after, but even months. Takes a very razor sharp focus, awareness and sensitivity to feel the shifts at this subtly though.

@Craigxt22 These symptoms will pass. The only way forward is to continue to walk the path. These symptoms are the ego mind essentially freaking out because of how deeply you’re pressing. Follow your gut and heart with how much or little you should be practicing. For example this past weekend I had a day where I meditated for 3 hours, had a beautiful release of trauma and was very conscious of what I am. The next day, very depressing ego backlash and could barely sit for an hour. These things ebb and flow, finding the peace independent of our particular state is very important. Eventually even the lows become just as perfect as the highs.

I think this the case yes. It is amazing how indirectly this path can affect those not "walking it" merely by being in the presence of someone who is. I also have this gut feeling that these planted seeds may not necessarily sprout from one lifetime. In other words, even if the people you're surrounded by go their whole lives without awakening, this doesn't mean there isn't a "karmic aftershock" in their successive lives from the momentum of what you've shared. Of course this gut feeling cannot be verified... It's just something I've felt the deeper I've gone down the rabbit hole and with some of my own past life experiences. Perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps it is both true and false haha. I'd also like to say - I think both of your perspectives in the original post are correct. We are the whole, and therefore when we awaken so too does every corner of the whole. But yet, we see that even ignorance, delusion is enlightenment. Simultaneously, we may find a deep yearning to help alleviate the suffering of others, to help others awaken, even though we've seen into the perfection, the nirvana of samsara.

Your insight is technically correct, but I doubt that if you were to stop doing formal practice life would experientially feel like meditation. Many of these masters talking about how there isn't "meditation," that life itself is meditation, have spent thousands of hours formally meditating. Additionally, there is something uniquely powerful about sitting and being that "moving/life meditation" does not replicate. The ego HATES it. There is a purify quality to the non-activity that just cannot be replicated. Don't count of dropping your meditation practice because of this insight. If anything, you should be doing more than 35 minutes plus an extra 25 a couple days a week. Try bumping up to 1 hour minimum 7 days per week and observe how the thoughts, emotions, and ego complex responds. It may love it at first, who knows. But I'd suspect you'll start digging into deeper levels of purification and attachment/addiction to activity. Good luck man! Your insight is definitely on point.

Trying to rely on our *contemporary* criminal justice system to know what is "right" and "wrong' is idiotic, a complete recipe for disaster. You think my message was a critique of the Meta structure of law. No. Not at all. Notice how you not only misinterpreted what my reply was pointing to, but straight up weren't able to comprehend it. Yikes. My critique was your view that our criminal justice system is a reliable system that can tell us right from wrong, or what actually happened in every circumstance, I was not asserting Law is a bad thing. My reply was challenging your direct claim that a court of law is required to validate reality, otherwise it didn't happen. Go re-read YOUR original post carefully, and see the horrendous epistemological error you're making. Yikes pt. 2. Many, MANY criminals have gotten away with crimes because of its corruption. Many, MANY people have been unfairly imprisoned due to this same justice system you're backing.

@lmfao Have you heard of, or looked into "The Mind Illuminated"? I reference it a lot on like I'm trying to sell some sort of pyramid scheme lmao. But that book's system took my meditation to a whole new level, better than Kriya. I would say look into it if you've never heard of it. Reading the Introduction and Overview of the 10 Stages will tell you whether you want to explore it further.

Is the full interview is not available? Edit: It is not. I see that it's subscription only.

You'll be spinning your wheels without consistency. Stick to something so easy you can't fail, even if that means 5 minutes. Always dedicate at least some ridiculously small amount of time to being with yourself, aka meditating formally. I would recommend building a foundation of concentration first. This will help you learn how to not only settle the mind, but also how to *enjoy* sitting. Jumping into techniques like self inquiry, vipassana, or even do nothing without a solid foundation of concentration is a recipe for ego backlash. This is assuming you're wanting to use meditation as a vehicle for awakening, not just for surface level benefits. If you just want surface level benefits, working up to 10 minutes per day should be fine. If you're wanting to awaken, always have a daily minimum you fall back on like 5 minutes. Once the backlash has subsided, go back to your hardcore amount like 60 minutes. To be honest though, at some point you're just going to have to face the void, the lack of stimulation withdrawal symptoms, the boredom, the dis-ease of mind that comes from being with yourself. The good news is as you face this fear over and over and over, it eventually transmutes into some of the highest joy and happiness available to the human mind and heart.

What in the actual Fuck are you talking about? You think a court of law is the deciding factor of whether something actually went down or not? So if someone was murdered, but there's no clear evidence of who was the murderer, therefore the murder didn't actually kill anyone. That's the equivalent of your logic, using a court system to qualify facts that exist independently of a court. Unless you're playing word games with "oH wElL tEcHnIcAlLy sExUaL AsSuAlt oNlY CoUnTs iF tHeRe'S PrOoF" as if a court of law is some divine deciding factor on the truth of reality. Whether sexual assault is labeled as such in a court of law is irrelevant. The fact that someone's boundaries were broken is what matters, not whether some external force (a court) validates their story. Since you like throwing around the word "proof," history has many, MANY examples of criminals getting away with their crimes, across all forms of crime. Our justice system is still in the literal dark ages dude...

Yet aren’t nearly as effective at permanent shifts unless you rigorously ground them in the aforementioned techniques practices.

Yes and no. Im always in meditation, whether Im conscious of it or not is another matter. The paradox is to formally practice so intensely that the distinction between practice and life dissolves, then all of life becomes meditation. When all of life is meditation, this is the fertile ground needed for awakening. Non-stop mindfulness of the actuality of direct being. The only way Ive been able to “make progress” (and by this I mean reduce suffering, live more passionately, feel genuine contentment, connect with intuition, live in flow, find peace in Being, etc) is by meditating my ass off. Then and only then, has this illusion of effortful practice started to fall away. @actualized.org Don’t underestimate the effects of hardcore practice!

Started meditating 2+ hours a day (sitting) and turning my entire life into one moving meditation.

Really like this visual. It's almost like the book is 3 dimensional, instead of being a start to finish. Depending on the frequency or vibrational attunement, we may or may not being moving towards different futures. Yeah @Vibroverse this whole the future already exists thing is something I DID NOT understand for the longest time, and still don't exactly. It's a purely energetic, intuitive awareness of how reality is moving experientially, moment by moment... It doesn't really make sense to my rationale mind, but deep experiences with meditation and psychedelics seem to point to the fact that there are multiple timelines and possibilities for our current incarnations. These timelines seem to be moved towards both on a conscious level, but also on a deeply ineffable, soul level as well. Perhaps we live them all out eventually.... I'm really not sure.

Really resonate with this. Trip balls no doubt, but don't think you’ll escape needing to spend *thousands* of hours of meditation, contemplation, reflection to embody these wildly altered states. Or maybe just become completely enlightened right now ?‍♂️

Beautiful... Thank you for being a light for this world, using your platform to spread this message of Love.

I would definitely recommend longer sessions yes. I've found there to be a unique benefit from the longer sits. So for example, 1 hour of meditation per day in 3 sessions is not equivalent to 1 hour of meditation per day in 1 session. That increased length of sitting will pay off.

A long time, but time is relative. It's taken me about 3 years of meditating 1 hour every day to start to feel an inner peace independent of external circumstance. This was also coupled with tons of contemplation, exploring psychedelics, and trying to build the foundation of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Moreover, I've recently bumped it to 2+ hours of day of practice and tbh, it wasn't until I launched into this even more extreme amount of meditating that the peace and elevated consciousness start to truly permeate into waking life. But my god has it been worth it. I can't even begin to articulate the wonders, beauty, healing, and peace that I've started to find completely from within... And the great news is you can too! Keep going. You have an entire lifetime of refinement and mastery. Think of this work as having no end, but don't let that depress you. Let it inspire you. Self mastery is the ultimate hero's journey after all, it would be lame if it really did have an end. Imagine where you'll be in 10 years after committing to this work seriously. Your progress would be unreal. The other thing I'd like to point out that I've learned on the path is that eventually you start to hit a watershed moment where serious momentum starts building. There's an exponential take off in baseline consciousness. You can slowly work towards this watershed event, or you can press yourself to the limit and go through more aggressive waves of purification by pressing the limits of manual practice. Yet interestingly, as you continue to press like this, the waves of purification start to lose their stickiness. You stop taking them so seriously, you see how you're actively participating in the negativity and can literally just "stop" producing suffering. Just keep in mind the peace, happiness, and truth you're after must be discovered to be independent of external conditions, meaning it must transcend all states of consciousness from the most mundane to the most psychedelic. The only way I've found to approach this is to face both the insanity of tripping balls and the extremities of boredom while sober. Find that which transcends all of it. Serious practice, hours upon hours upon hours of meditation and contemplation is where I'd turn. You got this

I've attended two of his online retreats over this pandemic. Both have been incredible... He is truly a master and his mindfulness system is rock solid if you're feeling a call to explore the vipassana path.

Super interesting!

All relative experience is illusory in some way shape or form. All perceptive experience, including all forms of intellect, cognition, emotion, and intuition, are perceptive experience on some level. When you see a disk, from a certain POV you're actually correct, in that moment it's a disk. Yet from another POV, yes you are right, it's just an illusion. But the context which you're giving the designation "illusion" or "real" is also itself a form of cognition, and therefore illusory on some level. It's strange loops and fractals all the way down until you hit the bedrock of reality - The Absolute.

Baseline has changed massively. I'm currently meditating 2 hours a day, started doing 1 hour a day around 3 years ago and increased to the 2 around 5 months ago. Going from 1 to 2 hours of daily practice made a significant difference in baseline. Also yes I feel much more compassionate.