Don't get me wrong, you can certainly make enormous money by stealing and leeching. But don't be shocked when you try to leech but you get leeched instead.
By being a leech you enter a battle of leech against leech and who gets outleeched is up for grabs.
See, leeching is a finite process whereas creativity is an infinite process. You'd be a fool to align yourself with the finite instead of the infinite.

Academic performance and social credentials are not equal to true intelligence or consciousness.
Many smart people are ideological and stupid. Like Richard Dawkins. A very smart idiot.

Your answer, @Yali, of systemic racism is in the time-stamped debate video (till 1:34:20) of Vaush debating an African American Proud Boy.
 

Just to fuck with your mind's a bit more: David Hawkins sung the praises of Ben Shapiro and Shapiro's worldview while denouncing post-modernism.
David Hawkins was a very conscious guy, spiritually speaking. But politically he was a fool. Having good politics is a separate matter from spiritual development. Politics requires years of careful study. You will not get good politics just from spiritual practice.
And remember, most spiritual masters got their awakening through giftedness and super-natural talent. But you don't get good politics through talent or giftness. Good politics requires serious study and contemplation.

Sheila (Osho's #2) openly talked about how she would gather up groupies for Osho to bang.

@Lyubov Yeah, but girls do love themselves a proper asshole. Because it is a dominant quality.
An asshole will protect her children from getting raped. But at the cost of him raping others.

I had a girl friend once who was a model, and it made me appreciate some of why women behave the way they do.  Random guys would actually follow her home when she was driving in a car.  Beauty attracts some of the worst characters or can bring out the worst in men.  All kinds of volatile emotions and desires are being triggered.  That’s why women feel vulnerable and the need for a man that can protect them and provide a home.   My advice to men is to just be yourself, relax, and treat a woman like another human being.    That alone will make you look self confident and strong.  

@Skenderberg Yes, looks very odd and awkward, and unprofessional. Men in high power get away with shit like that. Hope he's not one of the pedos.

Don't gaslight us with your BS.
Rural Americans don't want any empathy from "coastal elites" who they themselves have demonized for the last 30 years.
The tragedy of the situation is that Dems and progressives actually want to help rural Americans but the rural Americans are too ignorant to accept help and bite the hand that feeds them.
It's not our job to endlessly bend over backwards for aggressively ignorant people.

Sure it is. My first two wingmen were two black guys in Dallas. Both of them got laid more than me because they were more experienced and had better game.
Will you have a disadvantage with white girls? Sure, probably. But it doesn't really matter when you talk to 30 girls a night. You don't need to bang every girl you meet. You only need 1 per night to be down.
If you're a black guy and you want a hot white girlfriend, this isn't a problem because all you gotta do is filter through 500 hot white girls until you find a few that love you. Is it worth it? Sure it is. You can do that in a few months.
Remember.... you're not out to bang the whole female race. You're just looking for a handful of women. A handful out of thousands. This makes your goal much easier.
When I was practicing game, it's even worth it to approach 300 pound whales. You are just being social and having fun. Lower your standards for socialization and approach. Just because you approach does not mean you need to end up having sex with her. She might have a cute friend.
APPROACH ALL! -- should be your motto. Young, old, hot, fat, man, woman, gay, straight -- doesn't matter. Just approach and socialize. Sort the wheat from the chaff later.

@Yali They "believe" in Jesus.  But Jesus was just a guy who discovered he wasn't just a guy but he was God.  
And then the rest worshiped him when they could also have discovered they were God.  

Yeah, well, that's how all creativity works. You consume sources and then "the universe" gives you some spin on that.
I don't remember it too well. I haven't used it much.
The biggest problem, like with any model, is taking it too literally and using it as your exclusive paradigm for understanding reality.
Be sure to balance it out with other models like SD, Cook-Greuter, Wilber, etc. And in the end, drop all models.

I was 110% committed to fixing this area of my life. So failure and quitting was not even an option.
It only took a few months. Nothing in the grand scheme of things. And it was an exciting journey. Some of my fondest memories today are my early days of game.

@Hardkill Lost my virginity at 18. Have slept with between 30-50 women. I feel comfortable around women when I'm dating them, and I have no problem seducing them. It's keeping them attracted that's the issue for me. Again, within 1-8 weeks I've lost them. 
 
I've had one girlfriend. We dated for 2 years: 18-20. It was highly dysfunctional and co-dependent. We were both painfully insecure.
 
I've come a long way since then, let me tell you!

There is no conspiracy here. The world's top business leaders and politicians will of course collaborate on issues they see facing the future. And of course they will do so from a self-biased perspective to increase the survival of themselves, their friends, their company, and their nation.
This is not anything new. This is how human civilization has been developing for the last 10,000 years.
To be worried or outraged by things like this is silly.

Why do you need someone to get you? As long as you get yourself, bask joyfully in that.
It's not like anybody gets me. Let others be blissfully ignorant. Focus on raising your own consciousness and bliss. Cultivate inner bliss so you feel good without anyone.
Developing a life purpose will also resolve the depression and suicidal thoughts. Besides awakening you need something productive to do with your life. You need to find a creative outlet.
Design the kind of life you would enjoy living. Don't sit around twiddling your thumbs. At your age you've got enormous potential, you can basically become anyone you want.

Doing mushrooms is pointless if one isn't willing to contemplate and question everything. Like a Christian he will just interpret the mushroom experience along his existing paradigmatic biases.
Like I said, he's paradigm locked. It's that simple. Can he eacape it? Yes. Will he? I doubt it. He is not interested in that.

All you gotta do is ask Sam, "What is God?" or "What is Truth?" or "What is love?" and watch him flail like a drowning child.

It's not per se that extroversion is more attractive. Extroverts simply get more logistical opportunities for sex.
The #1 key for sex to happen is logistical opportunity and bumping into new people. Introverts bump into far fewer new people than extroverts. So o course they will have less sexual opportunities. It's just basic logistics. You can't get laid sitting at home reading books. To get laid a lot you need to go to parties and social events. Which introverts don't enjoy going to.
You act as though I said introverts can't get laid. That's not what I said. I simply said they get laid less.
The reality is that you don't need to get laid a lot with many people to have children and reproduce.
Also, introverts can be very good at getting laid through other means. For example, many introverts become successful businessmen who then just buy as much sex as they want.
For example, I could leverage my introversion to buy a lot of sex if I wanted to. Remember, for most of human history sex was traded and acquired through wealth and power, not pickup at nightclubs or Tinder.
The ultimate way to get laid is through power. Consider Genghis Khan.
I am not conflating those two.
Doesn't matter. That kind of polarization only increases your results with girls. A highly polarizing obnoxious ass like Trump will be hated by 33% of girls, but about 33% will love him. Girls who hate him will really hate him. Girls who love him will really love him. At least at first, before they learn how much of toxic devil he is. Eventually 100% of girls will hate him
That's nice in theory but doesn't work in practice. You need to be social to get laid a lot.
Of course you can still get laid being quiet. You'll get just laid less relative to someone who's more active.

Osho taught to embrace materialism.

What crack are you smoking?
Osho was a playboy. He probably banged 3 new groupies every night. He certainly didn't transcend or master sexual desire. He indulged it like a rockstar.
If I did that, you guys would call me a devil cult leader charlatan.
Of course hormones play a role. But that's not really fair either. Yeah, it's easy to "transcend" sexual desire by cutting your balls off. But that's not really a transcendence of desire, that's just tuning your body to stop producing the desire. That's like saying I have transcend my desire for dick -- simply by virtue of the fact that I wasn't born gay. By that logic I am a master of transcending the desire for dick. It never even arises for me. But do I really deserve credit for that?
And furthermore, to say that one has transcended sexual desire simply because one has no sexual opportunities, is also a kind of cheat. The real test is when a hot girl rubs her ass in your lap and you are still able to say no.

Highly extroverted guys with massive natural effortless charisma.
Unfortunately that ain't me.
Extroversion is directly correlated to how much sex you will have.

This is not the case.
Most of my advice pertains to the relative domain. In your case of dealing with these healers, I'm telling you to be careful precisely for relative reasons. They can give you bad/wrong advice and you just trust them and ruin your life.
In dealing with some of these spiritual healer type people I have found many of them to be full of shit and it would be very foolish to entrust important life decisions to them. I'm not saying it's all bad, but you gotta be skeptical of things they say because they say some bullshit that will directly contradict other spiritual healers.
For example, I went to a top rated spiritual healer last year and asked her specifically about my health problems. She told me there is absolutely nothing wrong with my body. At first I believed her. Then I did medical testing and found out otherwise, and conclusively proved to myself that she was full of shit as I started taking medicine and feeling much better.
Now, will she ever admit her mistake? Never. She's too high on her own spiritual bullshit.
So from now on any time someone tells me they are a spiritual healer, I will look at them like they are an idiot. And in questioning these healers deeply I can see they are not awake, they are playing sophisticated games of self-deception and imagination.

It's tricky to say. I don't know exactly. Some people get stuck chasing the same desire endlessly forever.
I think it probably involves experiencing enough of it that you get sick of it and are ready to move on to higher things. It also requires exploration of higher joys.
I feel like I have almost extinguished my desire for junk food. It used to be so hard to say no, now it is almost effortless. And I had a lot of junk food in the past, but it caused me so much suffering I don't want it any more.
Lower desires tend to bring a lot of suffering which you can use against them. But it requires going through that suffering. Play so much video games that you are disgusted with yourself.
It certainly helps a lot when you discover higher spiritual dimensions to life. You can use spiritual joy to replace the seeking of base cravings and raw pleasure.
Sex is still a desire I have not figured out. It's so powerful and intoxicating. I see few spiritual masters have conquered it even in their 60s.

Shares don't need to give executive control.
Then you are a privileged elite. Because this is very exceptional.
Nice try, but things would still have value even if we killed at the daytraders tomorrow.
Markets can exist without daytraders and speculators.
In some ideal case yes, but nature weeds out middlemen for good reason. Middlemen don't last long in this game.
Thanks, but I'll take my chances