"We are done with Connor's antics on this forum. Do not post his stuff here any more.
It is an immature and harmful disgrace to genuine spiritual work. This is all the stuff I warn about with Zen devilry. It is not a good example to follow and it gives spirituality a bad image.
I have tried to reason with Connor about this but he refuses to listen and doubles down on his antics. No more of that shit here.
Awakening is not a license to act like madman."
 
Could you please elaborate why is he a madman? Why is this Zen devilry? You talked with him so you know him better. 
Connor is resonating with me and I don't want to make the same mistake. 

All you have to do to know what is true is to look at what is literally true in your direct experience.
It's that simple.
Things are exactly what they are, not what you think they are. Stop thinking that things are somehow other than what you see.
The chief delusion of man is thinking things are somehow more than they appear. Appearance is exact. Meanwhile your mind is full of shit.
If you see half a bottle, that's what exists: half a fucking bottle. If you don't see a bottle, that's what exists: no bottle. Stop thinking there's anything more.

I'm not rude per se, I just have low interest in human bullshit.
I'm not your mommy. I'm not gonna play social games with you. I'm here to deliver ideas, nothing more.
Life's a bitch, and that is Love.
If you want someone to coddle you, you can find plenty of those kind of teachers around. My teachings are meant to be edgy and brutal. That's my style. At least for now. Maybe in the future it will soften up.

@trenton Nice! Good to see someone taking action.
If you want a good way to handicap yourself in chess games, make sure you play Fischer Random Chess:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess
Basically any chess game that is not Fischer Random Chess is bullshit and not true chess -- since mostly it tests your memorization of opening moves. Which a monkey could do if trained enough hours.
Fischer Random Chess is where a real man proves himself.
P.S. The best way to win at Meta Chess is to stab your opponent in the heart with a knife. If he's a true meta thinker he will appreciate the irony. Gotta think outside the box

I find Jed's humor and style annoying and cringey.
Book list may get a small update at some point. I don't read much these days.

@Wisebaxter You should distinguish God in its pure form vs God as the devil. In it's disguise as the devil God does all sorts of evils. In its pure undisguised from God is pure love and goodness. For God to hate it must incarnate itself as an ego and delude itself into believing it is not God. So when God forgets who it is, it does evil. When God is forced to play the game of survival, it does evil in order to survive.

Groupies and gurus, like flies on shit.

Attraction advice for men: good channels that aren't low conscious red pill junk
- David Deida, The Way of the Superior Man (must reed, all his stuff)
- The Naturals Lifestyle (youtube, these guys are the most conscious in male dating advice space on youtube)
- The Fearless Man (youtube)
- Coach Corey Wayne (youtube)
- Travel Bum Productions (youtube)
- Todd V Dating (youtube, ex RSD coach so it's 25/75 between low conscious crap and gold but he is more conscious and holistic now than before, often times some good free advice on youtube)

Deep awakening will make you more authentic, secure, charismatic, masculine, feminine, and playful. It will dissolve much fear too. Which is very effective for pickup.
But it will not give you technical skills nor experience with women -- which is also very important for results. For example, you will still not know how to escalate, handle logistics, or close.
If you think pickup is difficult and scary, awakening is way more difficult and scary. If you can't muster the balls to approach a girl, you won't be awakening any time soon.

Again, the police are not white supremacist, but many of them have ethnocentric dispositions and egos.
Calling the police white supremacist or racists misses the deeper point for a shallow understanding of the issue. Demonizing the police is not a good strategy because the police are what stand in the way between you and serious devils who would beat you to death with an American flag pole.

A) It will surprise you, but most Nazis are not blood-thristy people. They are good, ordinary, hard-working people who just happen to follow the herd and identify with their ethnicity, riled up by a fascist demagogue. They are slowly radicalized in the same way Islamic extremists are radicalized.
B) Nazism is just an extreme form of stage Blue ethnocentrism.
C) Every Spiral stage is very broad and can have healthy and toxic manifestations. There are many positive manifestations of stage Blue, and even ethnocentrism, but there are also extremely toxic ones. The problem is not stage Blue per se, it's toxic stage Blue riled up by demagogues, grifters, and devils like the Trump family and FoxNews.
Don't forget that approx 50% of the global population is at stage Blue ethnocentric level of ego development. Therefore half the global population is susceptible to Nazi-like ideologies if they are allowed to flourish. The key is that those of us who are more developed and more conscious must steer them away from such extremes and show them a path toward healthy manifestations of Blue and beyond. Republican leadership has failed at this job by playing into conspiracy theories and not standing up against Trump's depraved behavior from day one.
Few MAGA supporters are actually Nazis. So characterizing them as such will just make you look partisan. It's important now, more than ever, to be as precise as possible with our terminology and casting of other people -- to avoid demonization, scapegoating, and misunderstanding the nature of the beast. The more accurately we understand the problem, the better we can deal with it.

If you want to understand just how deranged the MAGA crowd is, head on over to Brietbart, click on any random article, and read the comments section.
Warning: not for the feint of heart.
https://www.breitbart.com
That's what happens when you don't moderate hate speech, racism, and terrorism.

Cultural beauty norms are.
But Beauty is also an Absolute.
When you fully awaken you will realize that absolutely everything is infinitely and equally beautiful. You will discover Absolute Beauty and it will make you feel so stupid for not seeing it sooner.

He is too cocky for my taste. I don't like these debate lord streamers. They are a bit like the bottom of the intellectual barrel. It's very juvenile designed for juveniles.

I would talk to JP or Sam Harris or the Weinstein's -- the problem is I very much doubt they would be open to it. And I don't know how far the conversations could go. We would get hung up very quickly.
My conversation with Charlie was smooth and we went deep. But that's only because he's got the right kind of mind for this work, which is rare. People like JP, Sam Harris, Weinstein's, etc tend to have a lot of personal agenda clouding their minds. Which makes going deep rather hard. I'd be curious just to see how far it would go. There would be a lot of defense mechanisms triggered very quickly because they have a certain worldview to defend on behalf of their loyal audiences. Then it becomes more like a debate, which isn't good.
What's needed is hosts who don't have a worldview that they are defending/promoting -- because of course their worldview cannot be ultimately true. Because all worldviews are biased and partial.

It's just a mockery of Vedanta that could only impress someone dumb enough to hang on Sadhguru's every word -- which most of his followers do.
Of course those lashes are Maya. That's the point.
Vedanta is not a belief system. It is a path towards realization of Maya and then liberation from it. If you aren't liberated from it then your embodiment and consciousness is weak and you have not actualized Vedanta. This is not Vedanta's fault.
Sadhguru's characterization of Vedanta is very uncharitable. It would be like if I characterized Sahdguru's teachings as a cult of bending oneself into pretzels.

I criticize Zen and Christianity and JP at times. But I don't hold a strawman of Zen or Christianity. I have always acknowledged the core validity of those teachings. Christianity just happens to be exceptionally corrupt.
Imagine if I said that Zen is all just intellectual ideas that do not lead to truth. That would be akin to what Sadhguru said about Vedanta.
Criticizing stuff is not the same as strawmanning it. I can also present a steelman case for JP and conservativism.

The divine joke of self-help:
The entire self-help section is filled with books by others helping themselves by helping you by teaching you how you can help yourself by helping others help themselves to help others help themselves by helping others.
Maybe that's a clue to how Love works

I have also said I am open to investing in stocks.
What I am against is daytrading and using stocks as a get rich quick scheme.
For me stocks are a good inflation hedge. Since the gov is printing so much cash I feel somewhat justified placing my cash in stocks. I don't like my savings just being eaten away.

Yes, it can be dangerous if you spiral downward into madness by yourself.
But don't forget, being social can be very dangerous as you spiral downward into collective madness.
People. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
It is what you make of it. Welcome to life.

That works up to a point, but CBT can only take you so far. Precisely because it's cognitive. And cognition is the whole problem.
A) Sadhguru is highly educated. Which should be obvious from his manner of speech. He has a degree in English Literature.
B) He's 59 years old.

@sgn Tis hard to solve overthinking with more thinking
Rationalists who try to grasp the nature of reality with their intellect alone, often end up going full-insane. Of course. Because the whole project is fatally flawed from the get-go.
The intellect is such a tiny thing.

IQ is the biggest load of bullshit. Such a red herring. Never take those tests. All they do is compare you to some arbitrary standards some rationalist chimps concocted in their infinite ignorance.
Unless you're clinically retarded, you're good.
The highest IQ people are some of the biggest fools around. Just because you can solve a math puzzle quickly, doesn't say anything about your wisdom or level of consciousness.
Self-actualization means you have to stop thinking of yourself as a statistic. Statics are for policy-makers and people who care about measuring the mob. As a self-actualizer, you are going to grow so high above the statistical mob that you will not even fit on the scale. You will be qualitatively beyond all that.
Your true nature is Absolutely Infinite, and you're trying to measure yourself with an IQ test? Lol. You might as well be measuring your dick to see if it's big enough to self-actualize.

The difference between TYT/Vaush/Kyle Kulinski and Ken Wilber.
It's a huge difference.