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@Viking How'd you know my parents were dogmatic? Nice guess I have to admit. It sure is right.

@SFRL I used to game a lot. Now I am mostly on this forum, read self-help books and watch Leo's vids. I go to fitness 3 times a week. I listen to DnB, HipHop if it's catchy and typical music which gives you goosebumps (I don't know in which genre to put them).

@Viking I am glad you at least understand my perspective. It won't be hard for me to believe that psychedelics will traumatize me. It makes sense. In the end, I am still growing. @AlwaysBeNice I take my words back. I don't have a clue what is going on right now. Oh what was is with Stage Yellow? Research everything right? I may need to read some books to decide my opinion about this. @Arman First person who got my age right, so I will pretend you weren't harsh on me. Thanks for the advice on the audiobook. Of course you may understand ''context'', it is harder for someone who's first language isn't English. Some words I understand after reading 5 times the same sentence, others look just stupid. I still don't understand ''integrity'' for example. @martins name 14 my guy.

@Hellspeed You mind explaining Haritaki and Melatonin? I am still new to all of this. @Leo Gura I don't think I am mature at all. I was just curious people would recommend it. Don't know what shamanic breathing, self-inquiry and non-duality are. I may need to watch your video's for those. Thanks btw, for the content. @Good-boy I am not trying to do any drugs. I just want to keep my body healthy and wondered if people would advice things lik 5MEO for kids. No weed for me. A guy in my class smokes and the smell alone makes me wanna puke. No thanks, ''body is priority'' is what Leo said in his body-awareness video... I think. @VictorB02 Probably true, still won't go for weed. I don't want to end up like the guys who smoke in every break. @MM1988 Sounds good. Thanks for the advice. @Azrael You mind if I pass? As far as I have been told, weed can screw up the teen's brain.

Wait till your twenties. Got it. Thanks for the advice @DrMobius

@AlwaysBeNice Wauw thanks for the advice. Do you mean with dream awareness, things like lucid dreaming? I already have experience with that, just not in a very deep way. I heard there are people who have practiced lucid dreaming so much, that if they want, they can just go with the flow during the day and lucid dream in noon.

@cxsxlx Ironic how a newbie calls me a troll. No I am not kidding.

@Serotoninluv that is exactly what I thought. When I first started thinking about if masturbating was oke, I thought about how everyone has done it. Humans in the past have obviously done it right. At some point their dick got erected and they discovered a thing called orgasm right? It's these thought that made me accept masturbation.

Hello everyone. Today I wanted to ask somethings not about me, but my brother. He has classic autism and mental retardation which makes him unable to talk with us. He is always happy for no reason, which makes me happy. He of course behaves differently than people without is autism and mental retardation. Since I got in touch with self-actualization, reading self-help books and so on. I wondered somethings and maybe someone can give me answers. As I said my brother has autism and mental retardation. Is there any chance he can reach enlightenment? When I look at him, I don't even think he cares sometimes. I mean I can hate him or love him, it won't matter to him. All he wants to do is go on with his daily routine. How can he reach enlightenment at all? He isn't filled with dogma, at least that's what I think. Can Truth with the capital T solve maybe some problems for him? When Leo talked about it in his video, he said that sometimes it can cure what was once incurable. I want to try it myself first, for private reasons. And maybe let him try later. But if I have to do so much research first, how is he gonna do it?

@Serotoninluv Mind sharing this mysterious source

@Serotoninluv Sometimes he gets randomly angry, sad or whatever. The amount of suffer me and my parents go through when we don't understand him at all and we see him beating his self up. Yes that is one of the problems. When he gets angry he hits his own head, or hits others. He almost got kicked out of his school because he slapped the teacher twice. This is very true and I think this is his case. I got raised up as shia/sunni muslim, since watching Leo I have started dropping these beliefs. Looking at him, he doesn't even know what prayers are. Let alone reading the Quran. He does, in fact, simply experience and express joy in the present moment. The amount of times my mother wondered how his mindset would look like may finally get some answers. There are somethings I know, but trying to get into his perspective never accured to me before. I have only tried this with people without autism to get out of, stage Blue I think? Or is living in your own paradigm an Orange thing? I don't know, but I will try it. The teacher part sounds exciting.

@Your place at Heart I mostly go ''full flag horny'' when I am learning for a test. I don't know why, but it's almost always during homework. I have almost eliminated any kind of NSFW on my phone. How am I supposed to be present in the moment while learning for physics?

I think you would understand the love I feel for my brother. After joining this forum and starting changing my habits, I wondered if he could maybe one have a day less autistic than now. Maybe I can talk with my brother one day. You know how much my parents have wanted that when he was born? I may not need to change him, but if there is a way I will try. Of course I will start with myself first.

I think it would be interesting if Leo covered this topic. Lucid dreaming has various forms and I firstly didn't know that it's also part of meditation. Or something in that direction at least. It would be helpful for me, and probably many others, if Leo could go deeper into this topic.

@Leo Gura but what about the consequences of each questioning? They will make a big public display out of it.

Let me introduce myself by saying that I am young, muslim and raised up with the typical things we all heard of. Praying 5 times a day, participating in Ramadan, believing in the one and true last prophet Muhammed (s.a.w) etc. Since I have seen the Spiral Dynamics series, I really admire Yellow and Turquoise. I want to go there, but am facing a few problems. I started meditating I think a month ago. Since I've seen the series, I don't see a reason to do prayers. Meditating is so much more, relaxing. The typical teen problems don't seem to have value when I meditate. I can let go. Does anyone advice me to stop prayers? I wanted to do it, but thought that maybe I should quit whenever I can meditate for 1 hour at least. Until then just prayers, but prayers seem so unnecessary. Leo said that the reason Islam actually wants muslims to pray 5 times a day, is because why not enlighten 5 times a day? But I haven't even experienced enlightenment at all. I tried mindfulness while praying, but moving constantly gets frustrating. When I read some statements from Quran/hadith, I saw something about calling your fellow muslims brothers/sisters. I still have the problem that I want to call everyone my brother and sister. Not just muslims. I don't see why I should call only a muslim my brother when every male in this world can be my brother. This problem made me think again about completely leaving Islam and focussing more on self-help books and meditation. Should I just do it? Do I need to, if I want to succeed with self-help, psychedelics etc? Just in case I need to, or people advice it. How am I supposed to tell my parents? My mom is sunni and my dad is shia. I wouldn't mind keeping it down until I am old enough to be independent.

@Hellspeed All I could find about Tantra is that people compare it with sex and that it is 5000 years old. I am sorry but I won't do sexual stuff with my brother. @Matt8800 I can understand this. He is almost always happy, doesn't care much about anything besides whatever he finds fun. @Hellspeed Do you mean with going deep in the unknown, going deep within him or within me? And how am I supposed to influence his inner self to do the same? As I said, he doesn't understand everything very well. If I have a hard time understanding it, how am I supposed to influence his inner self?

@Your place at Heart Thanks for the explanation. Do you know any good books which talk about sexual transmutation?

@Gabriel Antonio I was addicted for a while, but after quitting for a few weeks I just made it a regular thing.

@martin_malin I haven't read Mastery yet. I wanted to read Six-Pillars of Self-Esteem first, but thanks for the compliment. How I found actualized.org is a nice story I think. I started having interests in meditation. Looking up documentaries about it on Netflix I discovered ''The Secret''. Turned out to be just the Law of Attraction but yeah sure call it The Secret. When I searched for ''Law of Attraction'' on YouTube, I discovered Leo's video. After watching it, I saw that he made a video about going full Buddha. I noticed that his channel isn't your typical BS self-improvement channel. I am muslim and so watched his ''What Is Misunderstood About Islam'' video. I loved how everyone all of the sudden hated him, because he made a video about a religion. The fact that he wasn't effected by it at all inspired me. Now I am starting to read books, self-help books and want to go beyond + go deeper in psychedelics. Since I heard him talk about the Truth, I can't stop wondering how enlightenment must feel like. Daily typical teen things don't bother me anymore. I want enlightenment. I always knew that these teen things would never satisfy me. I knew pornography and that kind of stuff was temporarily. The real deal is Truth. I heard stories about kids in my age who had already fucked, but somehow didn't seem happy at all. This explains it correctly. Anyways, I always looked up to spirituality and always felt that connection. Never though it would occur in my life again.

Hello everyone. Today I wanted to talk about books. I just started reading books, self-help books. Do you guys recommend any specific books I should really read? Are there any books you wished you would've read if you were my age (under 16)? I already ordered the following books: ''Mastery'' by George Leonard ''The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem'' by Nathaniel Branden ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens'' by Sean Covey (currently reading) I won't put my entire booklist here, because it would just be too much. Any self-help books, biographies, religion and spirituality books are welcome.

@YaNanNallari @YaNanNallari Believe me it's not.

Hello everyone. Today I wanted to talk about my problem. Maybe one of you can help me out. I want to talk about 3 girls, we'll call them Mia, Charlotte and Emily. My first crush was Mia, which I still kind of have a crush now. Since I got out of Blue I started aiming more for Charlotte, but came more in touch with Emily. Mia is in a different class, so I don't have many reasons to talk with her in the first place. What am supposed to talk about with her, the different teachers we have? Charlotte and Emily however are both in my class. Many people in my class have noticed the tention between me and Emily. Although she wasn't part of the plan, I really like how she is. I also noticed the differences I have with Mia and the fact that Charlotte is being more distant. Mainly because I accidentally became more in touch with Emily. I think Charlotte was open for me, but now she falls back because she doesn't want to destroy her friend's (Emily's) chance with me. I don't know if I should just go for Emily, or break it and wait for an oppurtinity with Mia. That's it for now. Take care everyone.

@SFRL Probably Emily. For all I have noticed, Mia is probably dating someone else currently. Charlotte is a mystery.

@Xin I don't like fiction, but thanks for the recommendations