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Thanks guys, was helpful advice! I like how she went to a school solely purposed on education education only. Thats the issue with schools - most people care to much about their status and popularity but not really much of the content which is being taught (at least from my school). Yeah this was inspiring. She went against the grain of formal teaching.

Do you reckon extroversion a natural state of human experience and then some people become introverted to due social conditioning?

How are your experiments going with Meo? Have you had any awakening breakthroughs randomly when you are not on the substance?

@Leo Gura How about shooting a video on the potential traps and delusions one can be susceptible too whilst using Meo.

Zen Masters of Japan by Richard Bryan McDaniel is a good book on this topic.

Is passion something to be obtained from the start of the endeavour that you are being creative in? Or does it go like this... That you have an inkling that this is something you want to do, and the more time you invest in that endeavor the passion begins to build as you get better and more creative. Like a snowball effect. From that paradigm, you can start to do anything that remotely interests you in a general spectrum of fields but as you take the emotional bullet and choose one thing then that will develop into a deep passion.

Well!! you certainly are in a incredible position to artistically mold the life you want. You have available to you a blank canvas with no burdens by your family or any substantial debts attached to it. This is a good sight. Now regarding further education. It really depends on how you approach it. If you unconsciously (I dont think you will) choose a subject, which you do on a whim just to get by then it is a FUCKING MASSIVE waste of time. Furthermore, you will not really care about the education and work you do. This will start to develop into a shit work ethic and get you involved with the wrong people. Your "social ego" will take forth and fuck everything up. It will massively stunt your growth. If you consciously choose your subject and are emotionally charged to see it though to the end, I would say it is a good idea. Obviously, the course and place to study at will be very important as well. Yes you will come out with some student loans to pay at the end but it will be worth it. If you strategically work your way through the course. You will get taught by pioneers in the field. Personally this is invaluable. One of my lectures won the Nobel Prize. And can pick their brains and get really insightful stuff on the subject. You would have also people who are focusing on the same goals as you as well. A good place to share ideas (hang around with the aspirants not the people who don't care). It can be a good resource or a shit one.

Haha, I like this analogy. But technically speaking the gun will stop the headache.

Same that's mine as well. I was thinking as a means to overcome would be to live homeless for a while.

Is it a psychedelic?

Thats like saying, wouldn't it be better to walk from London to Scotland without and mode of transport (ie on foot). Sure it probably would be safer but the process would be gruelling and intricate.

How much did you take to get really introspective. Would 5-7g be enough?

What truffles are these. On average I am getting that around 7-10g of truffles is like 1g of mushrooms

Hey man, I felt the same way as you do (still do sometimes). I do maths and physics at ucl at the moment. For the past year i have reclused to reflect deeply on my life and to also escape from it. Doing a lot of meditation and introspection. Now I am starting to understand suffering and very interested in consiousness and science so I want to do that. You can get out of this rut it just takes some emotional labour to overcome. If you dont choose to overcome this emotional labour it will cause depression (in my experience). Here are some tips; 1) Start a meditation practice every day 2) Get into an exercise routine and eat well 3) Fully accept how you are at the moment. Be kind to yourself. You are the product of the environment you have grown up in, love that mechanism. It is beautiful the way your mind has assimilated the world into a world view to protect you when your grow up. However, it does backfire because of the complex ways we live and the stuff we believe on a grander level now. But see magnifance in the way you work. How you feel is how it is meant to be. I know it is hard not to accept yourself but once you fully do change will begin to happen. And I mean radically except yourself ie everything that you hate, start to love that. There is nothing wrong with the life you live. The only thing that is causing you these feelings are the superposition of how you believe your life should go and your self agendas on to raw reality. What's the hard thing to bite is that they are complete fictions constructed by arbitrary symbols which you get meaning from. There isn't a person who doesn't have a life. There is life and then thoughts being experienced within experience which say "I dont have a life". Why do you choose do believe these thoughts? The content is not real and the meaning is arbitary, it has no root. You can choose to believe or not but if you do you will suffer 4) Take responsibility: this means identify the areas you are not happy with and get to work on them and to accept that you, and only you, is the reason for why your life is the way it is. Or you can just fully accept it and be happy with that aspect of life, your happiness isnt dependant on weather you fix the issue or not. But if you want to fix it, notice when you beat yourself up in an area on your life, write it down, accept it first be ok with this area of your life being like it is, then start to work on it. Put you image of yourself aside. So like if you want to get better with girls join a pick up community, if you want to inspire people say start public speaking, if you want to be funnier do improv classes and just TAKE action. Dont think about this and that, just DO IT. Leos book list has got some amazing books that will help you. Improv if good because it brings your authenticities out and you get to know yourself on a deeper level. 5) Do consiousness work and self injury - this will help a lot with accepting yourself and removing the belief system and lies you have built up. Question the feelings and see if there is any root to them. The thing is you have identified yourself with them but these feelings are not permanent, they come and go so how can they be you. Start to ask this. Don't expect a quick fix, this shit will take along time to overcome. The answers to those questions from your post are within you you just have to claw your way through the pile of shit you have on top of it to get the answers. If you wanna meet up man then hit me up or call me if you want

PhD's meant for people to have a passion in that field extensively and want to progress the knowledge of humanity to better it. It isnt easy, well from what I have researched about it. It shouldn't be treated like doing a bachelors, which you do on the whim because you don't know what path your are going down into in life. If you want to do a PhD then thats amazing. The research and methods/skill your will obtain will grow you as a human being and the field you are in would have a massive impact on humanity. But you need to find weather it is authentic to you. For me, I have this intuitive pull to do a PhD. It aliegns with my values and strengths. What helped me decide was asking questions like "how do I want my life too look like", "what work will i give out that would be the most expressive of my personality" etc whilst in deep meditative states. If you can get creative and think of possibly merging both practices together in some way you might be onto something that is super niche and that is very personal to you. Maybe that is a possibility. Good luck and go with your gut.

What steps does one take to spiritually purify his sexual desires? Is it something broad like meditation. Or something specific like questioning believes and culture etc?

I got the neti-neti mediation book and this just takes my self inquiry to a whole level. I didnt realise how in depth and disturbing the process can get!!

After watching his new video I am a bit confused. If I am going to pursue a mastery in cognitive neuroscience, that means I would have to pursue a PhD then maybe get a career or branch off on my own. But isn't that very means going to immerse me in culture (i mean going to uni/career). I cant think of any means to do with without immuring myself with culture. Maybe I should find a more niche life purpose?

What parts of you life are the best to apply to to be most productive or can it be used to anything

Hi guys, I am just wondering which guys on here live in London so we can meet up and push each/help and strive to maximise are full potential in real life because i don't really hang around with people that want to. Or if no one lives in London you you guys know the best places where i can meet these people?

Come over an immigrate as well . To be fair i want to move back to india. I love it there so much.

I am listening to all your book reviews and deciding which ones to by oh my consiousness they sound soo interesting. I wish i can assimilate all the infomation into my mind at once. Maybe i will design a device in the near future that does that hmmm... How long did it take you to read all these books? Man you have a awesome job Also Leo can you do an amazon.co.uk link as well, because i get the books from there and not sure you get commission. Like maybe set a link based on the location of the user on your website. So i am from the uk so then it sends me to the uk amazon if you can do that.

@Leo Gura when i click the link to the new Jed book it doesnt go to anything. and i cant find it on the book list

Is that why you are experimenting with your theory that if you do Meo over a certain amount of times you can get deeper into this practice?

A palm reader in India said I will suffer with lower back problems in the near future. Then I ended up dislocating my hip a week later. Maybe he planted the seed in my head and I followed through without realising. Or maybe he can actually read people!! Or maybe was a coincidence . I am reading a book at the moment called "The Tell-Tell Brain" by V.S Ramachandran. Who is a very respectable figure in cognitive neuroscience. If you interested it is a very good book with many things about our brain that will blow your mind. If not you will like it anyway