Rich hold most of the power because they are smarter.
Poor and middleclass folks tend to be ignorant, ideological, conservative, out of touch with politics, and not ambitious enough to do anything about it.

Materialism is not an enemy of consciousness. Turquoise transcends and INCLUDES Orange.
Amazon means you can get nonduality books in 2 days, which is awesome!
Leo cannot lose because Leo is Jeff Bezos and everything else.

So what this tells me is you got A LOT of work to do before anything like enlightenment will dawn. Probably years of work.
That's okay, but what I mean is, you don't have to worry too much about enlightenment right now. Focus building up your meditation skills, psychoanalysis, yoga, etc. All of that will build up your foundation. At some point you should begin to slowly ween yourself off the medication and pursue the Truth full-bore.
Enlightenment is about facing your own death. So you need to build yourself up to the point where you're not having panic attacks and you a ready to face ego dissolution. You are not going to be able to avoid facing death. That is the whole aim of enlightenment work. Enlightenment is all about facing your deepest fears and seeing through them with extraordinary levels of consciousness and concentration.
Weening yourself off SSRI's will also allow you to play around with psychedelics -- which are one of the most effective tools for facing death and fear.

Shoot for 40-50 hours per week.
And take a 10 minutes break every 90 minutes at least.

You're not gonna be able to sustain more than 40 hours per week for long. Programmers burn out and destroy their health all the time.
You should research why we have a 40 hour work-week.
Where did it come from historically?
Do you know that Henry Ford and other industrialists of the early 20th century actually commissioned studies to find out the optimal amount of the time their factory workers should be working to produce the highest output and thus earn them the most money?
And you know what number they came back with?
40

Yeah, but your system recharges every week, so it's like pouring water into a leaky bucket.

How is hiring a prostitute a few times going to change anything for you?
You gonna keep paying every week? For how many years? And then what?

@no_name Hey, I appreciate your post and your straight forwardness, I also like how you expressed your opinion. 
@no_name I disagree with you; escort girls are just like any other person, so I do not see them as the lowest bottom. Perhaps (and really perhaps) the lowest bottom would be a husband cheating on his pregnant wife (3rd pregnancy) with his male colleague from work while both of them are doing crake-cocaine under a bridge in town at 4am, and even so I really think it is okay. For example, I personally would comfortably date an ex-crake cocaine addict prostitute if she is changed and is self-actualizing. In fact, I think on this case we could both grow so much that would be ridiculously amazing. I am saying that not because I am an ex-addict or something like, in fact quite the opposite; I am "luck" enough to have an extremely good education and now a solid professional/business career (soon to get out of Matrix), but I do not judge people and I have a very open mind and I am looking for an authentic connection when it comes to relationships, regardless of the background. 
When it comes to STDs and HIV, needless to say I ensure to protect myself, I also ensure to get the best and highest possible sex services, in addition to that I regularly take HIV tests (at LEAST once a year) since some of my "friends with benefits" ask me for it. The last one was from Sept. 2020.
Finally, it is important for me to tell you and for you to understand that girls like you or your friends (as you mentioned it) are PRECISELY  the type of girls that I am NOT interested at all. I do respect your opinion A LOT and your way of thinking, and I see where you come from, but I have a different perspective on things.
  
 

@UniverseWithin Thanks for your post, I appreciate your honesty and opinion.
@UniverseWithin Escort girls are very interesting and they come from a large variety of backgrounds, so definitely every  encounter I have is a new and exciting one and I always take away something, either positive or negative, but there is always something to learn. 
Clearly when it comes to sexual liberation escort girls get 10 out of 10, but I am also looking for that type of self-developing kind of awareness if you understand me correctly. Particularly, I would love to find a self-actualizing escort whom is subscribed to Actualized.org
@UniverseWithin Why did you stop escorting? I mean, what was the main driver for you to stop it? Do you mind sharing? 

@Jeff21 From my experience, scorts are one of the best discoveries I had at 18. They are open minded, cool and very sexual. Theres nothing bad in it. Maybe you can make a gf out of a good one. 

Hookers are cheaper.  
I think OP just wants to satisfy his urges, I don't think a "connection" is priority for this.  If you just think of hookers as sex toys then, suddenly, the question of "is it wrong" becomes completely retarded.
 
Dude.. you have any idea how unlikely it is you'll just stumble upon a woman with the right personality type for you?  AND be attracted to her AND she won't have any dealbreaking issues?  I mean, if you're some stereotypical ISTJ, have no hobbies besides watching "whatever's on TV" and your only criteria is "don't be too fat" then sure, I would be more inclined to  agree.
AHHHHH NOW I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT THE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN PARTNER PREFERENCES AND SD STAGES!!  How foolish of me to think Socionics, MBTI, Enneagram, temperament, instincts, etc. would be enough to have the basics down..
 

Consider from which culture are the scorts you are picking. I find most euro and american scorts cold and with lack of empathy. 
If you can, try brazilian, colombian and venezuelan scort models. They are very friendly, open minded and sweet, which I love. 
I dont have problem attracting girls, yet I love scorts. I dont know why people see it as bad, I see it as something very positive. Maybe thats just me because im very sexual and really dont care being looked at as a fckboy or whatever. Fckng love good whores.
You know how good it is to have a couple of scort friends and when you get tired of fckng with one, just switch to the other for some time? I know it sounds a bit rude, but hey im honest with my self and girls. What I want  from women most is simply fun and fucking. And I even care for scort girls, is just that you save so much time, energy and drama, while getting exactly what you ask for . 
You who have to make it fun. I have not met an ordinary girl with the sexuality (experience) of a scort yet. Take out this idea of making sex something sacred. Is just animalistic desire. You give too much meaning to it, lol. You better say, what you want is making holy love not sex... 
Find one who suits you and become her friend. Dont generalize so quick. Telling you fckng a scort is bad is just as close as telling you money is Evil. You dont know what you are missing out . 

That's actually weird. I don't think I would be able to live with an escort girl.
First of all, I would be really concerned about my health.
Secondly, this intimate bond between two people should be exactly between two people, no more.
Actually, there are different escort girls, the ones that have really expensive "services" are a lot more beautiful and sometimes even smarter. They usually wear expensive clothes and especially underwear. I've used their service when I was living in Amsterdam. They all were too fancy about their appearance, yet the services they provided were much better than the ones I used to receive ordering cheap escorts.

Because you are too busy willing your dream.
Whatever is occuring is what you wanted.

@hoodrow trillson Value is whatever you feel helps you survive as a finite self.
If you feel that getting your dick sucked by a donkey helps your survival, then that's value for you.

They consciously want to be loyal but they are easily manipulated by pumping their emotional state. So she may have no intention to cheat but if she's out having fun at the club and some guy pumps up her state, she can be seduced pretty easily.
Of course these are just generalizations. You have assess your girl specifically.

Reality is the imagination of distinctions. Imagination is absolute. So if you imagine a distinction you absolutely create it then and there.
You are mistaken in assuming that distinctions are "unreal". That itself is a distinction you created.

I expect her to fall in love with me so deeply that she wouldn't want to cheat. And the reason I expect that is because I have a lot of love to give her. She's not going to find a higher love than mine. And what she wants is love, not dick.
Of course I would also select a high quality and relatively conscious girl. If you are selecting low quality, low consciousness girls then you will have more to worry about.

It would be wise to avoid getting involved with low consciousness people, period.

To me career and LP is more important. Dating is like the dessert for getting your life together. But don't wait too long. You can still socialize a bit on the weekends just so that you're not stuck at zero on that front for years.

It's a silly idea.
Just go have sex. A strong bond is developed over time and sex is a crucial part of that development process.
You need to look at the brainwashing you received which is sourcing your resistance to sex. Because it is brainwashing. You didn't come up with that idea by yourself. Someone lodged it into your mind and now you're running that mind virus. It's going to kill your results with girls and your ability to find a quality partner. No girl worth dating these days is gonna wait until marriage to have sex with you. She will just move on to a guy who knows how to fuck her properly.
Quality sex requires experience and training. It's gonna be very lame for you to dating girls who have way more sexual experience than you. And dating a girl with zero sexual experience is nothing good either.
The bottom line is that you want lots of experience, you have none right now, and your strategy is to keep your experience at zero. This is not a smart strategy.
If you don't fuck a girl within a few weeks of dating her, she's just gonna lose interest and leave you. You will actually deeply disappoint her because she will think, "What's wrong with me? Why doesn't we want me?" Eventually she's figure out that you're not man enough to fuck her and she will lose all attraction for you. A girl gives you a relatively short window of time to close her. If you hesitate to pull the trigger, the window will close and you will lose the girl. She wants a man who's clear about what he wants, and clear that he wants her, and willing to act boldly to take her.
It's actually healthy for you to stop putting sex up on a pedestal. Sex can be special but it doesn't have to be and shouldn't always be. If you treat it as something so special you will actually become way too needy and it will become dysfunctional.
Sex doesn't start off very special. It becomes special as you have it more and more with the same girl.

No.
It must be done with skill. It's not a function of some number. It's a function of developing skill.
Stop expecting some kind of guarantees for mediocrity.
Not so. Do not underestimate the power that slut-shaming has over girls. It's baked into her mind even if no one ever calls her a slut.
Even in Vegas, even party girls, even slutty girls, will not sleep with you if they catch of whiff that she will be perceived as slutty.
The power this holds over girls is insane. This is why girls will sleep with you one night, and then pretend they don't even know you the next. It's like they erase you from their minds.

Awakenings are a subset of mystical experience. Mystical experience is a more broad term which covers all sorts of trans-materialistic experiences like visions, aliens, angels, devils, religious experiences, out of body, astral, etc.
All awakenings are mystical experiences but not all mystical experiences are awakenings.
Many religious people have mystical experiences but they do not awaken from the dream nor realize themselves as God. It's easy to get lost in the content of mystical experiences (like seeing an angel), whereas awakening cuts through all content (the angel is realized to be one's own Mind).
Awakening is the trump card. It answers EVERYTHING.

In practice many people kill themselves each year thanks to low self-esteem and lack of self-love. Or they suffer depression, anger, and other issues.
But also don't kid yourself. You have not approached nearly that many girls. If you did, you would be getting laid. And most girls have no problem getting laid.

I don't sleep with wasted girls.
Most girls have one or two drinks before having sex. This is normal social convention. I would rather girls were totally sober if it was up to me. If I'm pulling a girl I actually discourage her from drinking more because I don't like her drunk.
When you got game, having girls drunk is not an advantage. It often creates needless problems.
But most people are not good at building their own state while sober. They drink to let loose and get playful. This is how most people have sex. They use alcohol because they haven't taken the time to master inner game.