It's a huge problem for today's Zoomers. Most of them don't know how to tie their shoelaces, yet they think they have all the answers for the world's more complex economic, political, and social problems. It's dangerously dumb.

@Harikrishnan Yes, he's nondual and there are many nondual sufi writings.
Rumi is one.
Ibn Arabi is another.
Hafiz is another.

@Caitwin The most useful thing would be to distinguish between dualistic philosophies vs nondual ones. If it's dualistic it can still have some nuts of wisdom, but it will also contain a lot of misguided things.
If you're using impure sources you will waste a lot of time sorting the the truth from the delusion.
Sometimes I start reading a book, see too much dualistic delusion, and just stop reading. Such an impure source is not worth the effort to untangle when crystal clear sources exist.

@Caitwin Not a fan. There are much better philosophies to read.
Try Nagarjuna or Plotinus instead.
Remember, there is A LOT of dualistic delusion within Western philosophy, so be careful not to waste your time wading through bullshit. Go straight for the highest nondual teachings.
You can easily spend 20 years reading Western philosophy and still not get any closer to Truth. With that said, there is the occasional gem and I still encourage everyone to think through philosophical questions for themselves. Philosophy is not meant to be read or believed, it must be DONE! -- as in: contemplate everything for yourself.
The power of philosophy lies more in the questions than in the answers. If you are not contemplating for yourself, you are not actually doing any philosophy.
 

This is junk to lure in normies, not real Kriya yoga.
Do not fall for watered-down stuff.

@SamueLSD Cultivate healthy self-love. You can still care about someone and still choose to walk away, because you have respect for yourself. I've done it before, and like Leo and others have said, identify early on and cut off before getting attached. Observe, don't absorb.

@SamueLSD
A) You should have broken up with her years ago.
B) Make sure you never get back together with her.
C) You need to screen girls harder in the future and cut them off immediately if they are this toxic. You can't cure people like this. Cut them off ASAP before you get too attached. You need to be more ruthless here rather than practicing idiot compassion.
D) Raise your personal standards. Why are you dating someone this broken? Have some respect for yourself. Set stronger and clearer boundaries, and if she crosses them more than twice, dump her.

I have a buddy who moved to Colombia to hunt for hot latinas. He seemed to love it.
The thing to be aware of is that girls from those kind of countries will be deeply entrenched in stage Blue.
It could be viable strategy though if you find the right girl.

Well, the classic way is alcohol.
But if you want to do it sober, you gotta pump up your state by approaching a lot immediately and push yourself to be hyper social. After 30 minutes of doing this, and getting a few rejections, you loosen up, your state builds up and you become very social and uninhibited.
You can basically hit the same state as alcohol without drinking, But it requires some balls of steel to do it. Alcohol makes it effortless, which is why people drink.
You could also try micro-dosing psychedelics instead of drinking since it is healthier, and use the mild psychedelic buzz to teach yourself how to loosen up and be sociable. Then try to do it without microdosing.
You can actually learn valuable lessons from being mildly intoxicated, which you can than translate over into sober game.
Socializing is very easy on a mild psychedelic. It's effortless. Your best game will come out on a mild psychedelic.

You can always get matches. It's always a function of quality.
I absolutely will make that assumption. Don't bullshit us. Sex is all about maximizing survival value. You will only have sex with those people who match your minimum desired level of quality.
That means you will have to work even harder to get laid.
What are you not understanding is that sexual value is a finite resource. If you want it, you will have to compete for it. Competition requires standing out from everyone else. Tinder does not allow you to do that unless you are exceptionally physically attractive.
When you expect lots of sexual value for a few button clicks, just like every other fool, you end up getting nothing.
Tinder's entire business model is to monetize lazy fools who want to leech sexual value. Tinder is basically a get-rich-quick-scheme trap with sex as the bait. It is like those rigged ring-toss games at the carnival. It's made for suckers. Tinder has fooled you into thinking that is the proper way to find a quality mate. Which of course is the opposite of what's true.

Getting results
If you do something for a few months and don't see/feel any results, then you gotta adapt.
You cannot turn this into an algorithm. You must feel, listen, and adapt using creative intelligence and consciousness.
Playing around is not sloppy per se. That's an important part of experimentation. Sloppy is more like being lazy, skipping days, not doing it earnestly, etc.
There is a big difference between being lazy about the gym vs experimenting at the gym. Experimentation is actually one of the goals.
In practice getting great results in life requires A LOT of experimentation and trial and error. And failure. Way more than anyone expects.
I have tried a lot of different meditation techniques and most of them have failed for me. I was not happy with the results. So I had to adapt. You can't just do these things robotically and hope that they will work. You must find what specifically works for you. It makes no difference what works for others, only what works specifically for you.
Getting significant growth in this work tends to take many years as you waste a lot of time upfront just getting to know the field, babbling in stuff, and wasting time. The results curve for genuine growth is very long and flat at first, then it skyrockets after you reach a certain critical mass. Which is why few people grow much, but those you devote themselves to it can grow to super-human levels. It is a big investment and most of the rewards come years later.
But this is not say you should continue doing practices which you feel aren't generating results within a few months. It should not take years to start feeling some results. That means your method is too ineffective or inappropriate for you.

@Phyllis Wagner Like I told you guys before, if you don't have above average looks, you should not be wasting your time with online dating at all. It will not work. Not amount of editing your photos will suffice. You will just make yourself depressed.
Change your strategy to real-life game. You know -- the way humans have done for 400,000 years.
And stop using covid as an excuse. Covid will pass, life will go on. The best girls are not found on Tinder.
You want hot girls? Work for it! You will instantly feel much better as soon as you start doing serious work rather than clicking buttons and praying for luck.

Spiritual talent of course cannot be changed, which is why I don't discuss it much other than to warn you that the masters you blindly follow are coasting on it while you are not.
But spiritual talent is not all there is to spirituality. You can go far with spiritual practice even if you aren't very talented. The same cannot be said for your physical looks.
Spirituality is a lot more like building up your game skills. You can develop a lot of skill through hardcore practice that will trump your looks.

Most of this stuff is implicit and subtle, which is why it's difficult to work with. The majority of anyone's understanding of anything is implicit, not explicit.
In practice people navigate life through holistic gut instincts and vague intuitions.

@WhatAWondefulWorld Either do the practices, or stop talking about metaphysical issues.
Metaphysics without rigorous spiritual practice is pure BS.

A) Take psychedelic to have your first glimpse of "direct experience".
Although of course you have direct experience without psychedelics too. If I tell you the sun shines in the morning, you don't need to believe me. You can experience it for yourself.
B) All language is relative. But within the relative terms we generally agree upon, a pretty accurate description of reality is possible. But of course you don't have reference experiences yet for terms like God, Love, Infinity, Truth, Good, Consciousness, etc. So you'll have to acquire those reference experiences before you can know what they really mean. The only reason you know what a "sun" is, is because you have reference experience for that word.
Don't forget, the map is not the territory. The notion of "the sun" is not the same as the actual sun itself.
I give direct, definitive answers, but they are still just a symbol, not the thing itself. For some reason you have no problem accepting when someone tells you clearly and definitively that the sun is shining outside. Yet you have a problem with my answers.
I can be so certain because I became infinite conscious. You can too.

By shutting up your mind and just looking at it.
What you see is Absolute Truth.

That's why spiritual practices are required and enlightenment is required.
Taking a psychedelic does not make you enlightened. It gives you a peak at what you can become with hardcore spiritual practice.
You got the peak, but you don't want to do any hardcore spiritual practice. That's your problem. You are expecting psychedelics to be a magic pill.

Need to learn to get out of your head and be focused enjoying her.
The best advice for having sex with a woman is that once the clothes come off, you throw out all your doubts and hesitations, you grab her, and do whatever you want with her. Don't be meek here. Fuck her how you want to fuck her. She wants you to take her without any reservations. Take her in your unique and authentic way.
Put 100% of your focus on that process, and you will find yourself not in your head any more.

A good rule of thumb for where to start is always: wherever you feel most passionate and inspired.
For example, if you feel inspired to start going to the gym, then start there. Don't let good passion go to waste.
In other words, follow your bliss.
Passion, acted up, builds on itself.

Most interactions were under 5 mins. Some were much longer. Sometimes I would plow an interaction for 60 minutes. But of course these are rarer compared to rest.
It definitely becomes a lot easier, although still not effortless. It always takes some effort/work.
You can reach hook point very fast if you are talking to her with sexual intent and flirting. If you're just being social and boring, then it will take longer.
As long as you're being flirty, 5 mins is mostly all you need regardless of club or day. It does not take a girl long to decide whether she would sleep with you. She doesn't need 3 hours to figure that out. She'll know within about 5 mins if you are active about it. You need to make her feel your sexual intent without being explicit about it. Force her to explicitly reject you.
Certainly you gotta learn how to lead and how to close after hook point. But that's pretty easy, especially outside the club.
It doesn't matter how you look if you reach hook point she has already accepted your looks and will sleep with you as long as you don't creep her out with weird behavior.
It's a bit helpful, but not worth the effort in my opinion. If you want to work out for yourself, that's great. But don't do it for the girls.

The mind has very serious limits as to what it is able to understand no matter how hard it works because the bottleneck ends up being one's state of consciousness. So releasing that bottleneck becomes the key after a certain point. And the more you invest in the mind the harder it can be to release that bottleneck. The mind ends up trapped in itself and digs its trap even deeper. That is the biggest trap for intellectual people.
Daniel needs to hit a bunch of DMT, over and over again to break his entire mind open.
He has intellectualized nonduality/awakening, but I sense he has no experience with what it really means to awaken.
A very dangerous aspect of Ken Wilber's work -- which I feel Daniel has imbibed a lot of -- is the idea that 1st person phenomena and 3rd person phenomena are two equally valid domains. But this is not true. 1st person phenomena is the only real thing. All 3rd person phenomena is pure illusion, and I don't see Daniel recognizing that. There is still too much attachment to science in him. He does not understand how deeply wrong the science paradigm is. It's utterly, foundationally wrong to the point of not being fixable. You cannot use science to understand the core of reality.
Something like evolution does not even exist. It's just a figment of his imagination.
Idealism is not a mirror to materialism. Both these guys are profoundly misunderstanding idealism, nonduality, and spirituality. Materialism is hallucinated by Infinite Consciousness. This point is so simple and clear. There is no doubt about it whatsoever. Classic problem here of "So smart he's dumb". This is why I tell people to do psychedelics because you won't get it otherwise. Your consciousness will not allow you to get it no matter how smart you are.
But I still admire his intellect. If you want to learn how to think clearly, he's a great role-model.

@Mythos That reality is Love, is still the case. That was the gist of the video.
When I say "fragments of consciousness" this is a relative description of things.
The problem is that God can be described from different levels of description, using different paradigms, none of which is ever quite right.
I still speak of other humans and beings, but this is bracketed in my mind as relative speech. It is not absolutely true. I speak of them because we operate within that relative paradigm most to the time. But deep down in my deepest understanding I know other people are imaginary. But I don't treat them as such most of the time because it is not practical.
Hold my descriptions more loosely. This will save you some headaches.
Keep in mind, the things I try to communicate and describe are so far out there that I struggle and rack my mind just to figure out how to articulate them. My articulation improves over time as I find better ways. "Fragments of consciousness" is not a very good articulation if we're talking about the highest levels. It's best to think of that phrase in this context: IF you assume/imagine that others exist, THEN the things I said about fragments of consciousness apply and hold true. But IF you become so conscious that you realize others are just imagined by your mind, THEN there are no fragments of consciousness to speak of since they were just figments of your imagination.
Since most of you guys imagine others are "real", that's the level I'm talking to most of the time. I'm sorta meeting you half-way within your paradigm. Otherwise things sound very radical and alien because I would be talking from a totally disconnected paradigm from yours. Bridging these paradigm is basically impossible, but we try.

No one cares about your muscles but your own ego. No girl is gonna fuck you because of your muscles unless you look like a pro bodybuilder. You would get more sex if you invested your time at the gym into talking to girls.
Grooming, dress, and hygiene you should certainly optimize. But that's so basic I don't even consider it "looks".

Drop the dick measuring contest and focus on developing yourself.