Joshe

The fact this this prick made it to my eyeballs is pathetic. Humans have to do better. lol

I can't speak to frequency or vibration - lol - since I've never tried them. As far as I can tell, the key to getting rich is intelligence, determination, and persistence. Intelligence is the maneuvering - it solves path and navigation. Determination is the forward thrust - the energy source. Persistence is the course correction - it keeps you on track and with the signal. These operate in a feedback loop. It's one thing to see a course, it's another to traverse it. Intelligence maps the path but doesn't traverse it. For traversal, you need a stable energetic disposition that sustains movement and corrects drift over time. Drift is the hardest problem. Tons of people have great ideas and the skills necessary to bring them to fruition, but most cannot course correct. They can't hold on to the signal. Once the map is visible, it's just one foot in front of the other until you arrive. But the energy required is usually too high of a cost, and this is where we get lost. It's hard to regulate energy long enough to sustain repeated correction. Basically, after intelligence, the main blocker is a regulation problem. We can map out the exact steps to get rich, we just usually can't walk the path.

It’s very common to crown your ego with a halo when moral development emerges from inner work. There’s a fine line between recognition of it and ego/identity inflation. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, as it’s only natural. But some readers might be ready to see it, which was the impact I was aiming for.

and identity.

Sounds like an identity rule to me. "I'm the type of person who is well-behaved because that's what being aligned with truth entails". Is that what you tell yourself when you're fighting back those urges? 😂 Whatever works I suppose. Just fuckin' widya.

Fa sho. That's the biggest factor with self-development. We have bad habits for a reason - they stabilize us.

Interesting post! There's something about the downtrodden that I'm drawn to and fascinated by. When I'm talking to them, I do feel as if they are giving me lessons and they often seem to indirectly or accidentally address something relevant to me. It feels as if: everything is for me. I'm hesitant to build any metaphysics around it though. Happens all the time when I acknowledge the magic and am coming from that place, but if I'm not coming from that place, the only thing that pulls me into it is when the magic forces me to see it, which is often. I used to be enamored by it, but now, I just smile and keep going. The point of the magic seems to only be about the recognition of it itself. The recognition that this is magic. I no longer try to keep the magical state. It shows up when it does - often in spurts - with no rhyme or reason. It feels inevitable, so I don't feel like I have to grasp for it. Somehow, I can give myself goosebumps on command. This might actually be worth looking into because it suggests a strong link between the prefrontal cortex and the autonomic circuits. Maybe spiritual perception is enhanced when this link is strong. Or maybe that's just another story trying to understand the magic. Or maybe it's both.

Simple. Replace it with something else and don’t think about it. The addiction persists because it’s doing something for your nervous system. You cannot simply use awareness to convince your nervous system that it should no longer need it. The point of replacing the addiction with something else is to retrain the nervous system over time, and it will eventually forget all about it. This is 100x more effective than willpower or mindset.

No. Put all effort into financial stability and worry about self development later. Spirituality and self improvement in general is something that I wish I would have ignored early on. I can’t tell you how much time and energy I squandered trying to “improve” myself.

I torrent shit from time to time. I don't think it would be fair to call me a thief. If I didn't torrent it, they wouldn't get my money anyway because I wouldn't buy it. I don't torrent shit I need. Maybe that's even worse? lol I wouldn't torrent programs though... too risky. Don't become a cog in a Russian botnet.

I'm an INTJ. But I also once wanted to spread spirituality for social harmony, so maybe that has to do with an empathetic trait that MBTI doesn't track. I care about social harmony, I just don't want to be the one to implement it. I would love to architect it though, lol. I am aligned with your ideal and believe that the highest good is peace for all. Yes, I can definitely see how this would be a challenge for an Fe dom, but I'm sure you're better positioned to deal with that challenge than most of us here, lol.

Deep truth can emerge without having a passion for it it directly. And I wonder, if "love of truth" is sometimes a story we tell about a more basic drive, such as just being highly analytical. I was diving into why I seek coherence and I and just realized coherence isn't actually what I seek. I'm after "convergence". Coherence is the mechanism, convergence is the success condition. Truth emerges from convergence. Convergence requires coherence. Coherence requires vigilance. But Convergence is the goal. At least for me, I think. Truth is what you infer when your models stop needing revision. Convergence is when everything keeps pointing the same direction and reinforcing an underlying structure. Truth is what convergence looks like from the inside. Maybe truth isn't even the target. Now, why do I want convergence? 😂

But I was talking about a mechanism, not a value. Also, it's interesting that people are driven to truth by having a passion/love for it. I don't have feelings about truth. I'm driven toward functional coherence and I update my models/beliefs immediately as new evidence crosses my credibility thresholds - regardless of the costs. But I never felt a "passion" or "love" for truth. Truth only matters because non-truth breaks functionality.