Mike Book

I've been watching the whole situation with Connor pretty closely. I think people are exaggerating how much chasing girls and money contributed to his unhappiness. For someone like Connor, and I'm generalizing here, he doesn't really know about the potential that a high-consciousness lifestyle could bring. I'm sure he would have been perfectly content growing his Youtube channel and banging hot girls for the foreseeable future. What I think is really going on is he just wasn't ready for the absolute mindfuck that psychedelics shock you with. And he mentions that he has some substantial family problems, e.g. disapproval from his parents and being blamed for his sister's suicide attempt. Which of course, a deep trip will push all of that baggage straight to the forefront of your consciousness. And he doesn't have the infrastructure to deal with those complex issues. Really quite a shockingly sad story.

Holy crap I love that idea of using blockchain money. Although I worry that it's too abstract for the average person to really understand and get on board with. I also worry about the digitalization of everything nowadays because it's a really fragile medium to be holding our most valuable assets.

HAHAHAHA i downloaded tik tok yesterday and the best way I can describe it is a zoo full of teenagers

I think this will be ridiculously entertaining to watch happen in real time. I think the 2020s decade will be our first real leap into green because man, are the young people sick of consumerism. (for the most part)

His self awareness is kindergarten-level at best. I think somewhere deep down he knows he's in denial of how corrupt he is but he only operates on surface-level impulses.

I found this TED talk to be spot-on about the current consensus of how humans are supposed to live and what we're doing here. He brings up great points about cultural relativity and our general self-bias as to how ancient civilizations operated and governed themselves. Now I'm gonna go study Athens and ancient Greece should be fun!

My advice, coming from someone who has been a pathological liar most of his life, is to expect the unexpected when telling the truth. Don't expect people to lavish praise on you. And like you said, make sure you are being honest first and foremost with YOURself. I would suggest thinking for yourself as to what value telling the truth will bring you, instead of forcing yourself to now be Honest Abe in every single situation. Honestly you're not going to be able to tell the whole, unfiltered truth all the time without some serious consequences. Practically speaking. Use your mind to decide what's right for you. All that being said, the truth is usually not as scary as your mind plays it out to be. Test it out in small doses and all the more power to you!

Couldn't agree more, kurzgesagt and modern science in general is very stage Orangey. It's weird to think that the ego is really just a brain thinking it's a human. If you look at it from a materialistic POV.

Well shit I guess he has me fooled

If nothing else this is a very eye-opening lesson on how NOT to get people on board with spirituality. Especially parents. You can't go around telling people they aren't real simple as that.

I'm going through the same thing. It's hard to be around friends gossiping about people who are obviously mentally ill and struggling. But some of the most important principles in this work are thinking for yourself and learning to use your MIND to judge how you should behave and what you want your life to become. There's absolutely nothing wrong with indulging in life while young, I'm 23 and just beginning to discover this stuff. Apply heavy doses of thinking for yourself and go slow, take your time. There's no rush!

This is such a great post I especially loved his rant about "your awakening is incomplete your awakening is incomplete your awakening is incomplete your awakening is incomplete" that was kinda funny. But seriously this highlights the state of consciousness our society is in and how closed minded people are. It took me a good 2 years to actually get over the notion that this is just some mindless cult I'm subscribing to. I couldn't be further from the truth I am 100% certain I've stumbled across something revolutionary with this channel. No cult will ever ask you to open your mind to the possibility that this is a cult.

My top 3 are: Facing all the lies i've told others and myself most importantly Unwilling to grow up and face the brutal reality of life Realizing my potential is 100 times more than I thought (this is actually the scariest one because now I feel like I'm just wasting my time if I'm not actualizing it)

Death isn't you, in a coffin underground, agonizing over your own non-existence. Death is the same "place" or "realm" that you were at before you were born. It didn't last very long, did it? Because you were always here, in the present moment. Always

I think it happened for me. I'm 22 and this is a LOT to take in... to be fair, I think I kind of jumped the gun with doing psychedelics and watching your more advanced videos to help put it into context. But the curiosity got the best of me. It's incredible - I'm discovering every little piece of my psyche had been deluding me from actually being. I'm pretty sure I'm an INTP like you (I think you mentioned that once) and I don't want to brag - but you have really been the catalyst that helped unlock my mind. All of these locked up emotions are bubbling up like crazy and I find myself almost unconsciously being more genuine and fixing problems in my life. And I'm not kidding - I see why people build religions off this shit. You were right the whole time

Literally just went through this too... how old are you? I had a boom moment although it was more like a couple months of self awareness. It's amazing when you find all your little neuroses and how you thought they were helping you. Fascinating stuff