Day13: 
veggie mix, mango, beans, red lentils, tomatoes, coconut milk, brown rice, sardines  

Bernie's radicalness is what makes him authentic, which makes him appealing over everyone else who is just a group-thinking corporate stooge.
Focusing on practical working class issues is exactly what makes you radical. Because the radical is the one who is a real threat to power. And power is business as usual and exploitation as usual.

The trick is to suffer and not care.

Bias. Americans are brainwashed with consumer American culture and live in an American bubble. They don't travel. They aren't educated. They have the same level of development as Trump or Bush so they see him as one of their own.
To be fair, other countries and cultures are also stupid in this way. They all fall for nationalist vibes and strongmen. China, India, Hungary, Russia, France, UK, Italy, Brazil, etc.
Remember those C and D students from high school who were ignorant and lazy and sloppy and didn't even try for excellence? Well, there are 100+ million of them and guess who they will be voting for? They couldn't find China on a map if you gave them a million dollars. These people live like animals. They do not think or develop themsleves, they run on group-think. They haven't sat down to contemplate a damn thing in their lives. They do what church or boss or friends tell them. Friends drink, they drink. Like monkeys. This is your average voter. So what can you expect? They have zero understanding of how government works. All they understand is vibes. Own those gay pedo Libs! That is the level of thinking that we're dealing with.
The #1 predictor of whether you will vote for Trump is simply your education level. The more ignorant you are the more appealing Trump appears.
And if you were highly intelligent you would see that Trump is a dangerous degenerate within 5 minutes of hearing him. But of course, no one wants to admit that they are that ignorant. It's too painful, so instead excuses are made for why Trump seems appealing or reasonable.
But the simple truth is that Trump's entire political movement is pure idiocy and depravity. No better than Hitler's relative to his time.

I won't go so far as to call him a con-artist. I think he genuinely believes in what he's doing. It's just that he lives in one of those tech-bro bubbles with too much money and no deeper values or purpose.

All that means is that he has good genetics.
He didn't create it for himself. In fact, all of his success is built atop that foundation of solid health, which he assumes everyone who follows him also has, but they don't.
You cannot bluster and bullshit your way into good health. You use good health to bluster and bullshit. This is what the entire health industry is built upon: people with great genetics singing about how healthy they are and how you can be like them when in fact you can't unless you got good genetics too.
Taking mushroom supplements and New Age herbs is not going to give you Owen's level of health. He's just fooled himself on that point because he takes his own health for granted.
Just to be able to do pickup consistently requires good health. Because it demands so much energy. All this is taken for granted within the community.
This doesn't mean Owen lying, his worldview just takes certain things for granted because he is not focus on truth, he is focused on selling you a dream of success.

Gym rats gonna gym rat.
Going to the gym to get girls is stupid.

Most adults are just children.

@VictorB02 You gotta learn the lesson that phone numbers don't mean shit. They give them out 30 times a week. You're one of 30 dudes she gave it to.
Girls give you a phone number just to get rid of you.

Everyone knows what a dream is. You have them every night.
Now just expand that notion into a more crystalized dream, which you call your life.
If your night dream was coherent and lasted 80 years you would just call it life.
That's because there is no other, more realer reality.

@OBEler I won't lose it.
And what really matters in that domain is not whether I have it but whether you find it for yourself.

That's for later.
People need help with more human things first. Teaching overly advanced stuff leads people astray.
Alien Consciousnes is not going to do anything for your human life. You will still have all the human shit to deal with.

You don't use text to build rapport. You use it to invite her to a fun social event.
"My friends and I are going out to the club on Friday. Will be much fun. Come with us."

That's the rub.
Hard to get laid when you aren't around humans.
The real solution here is to change your lifestyle to be more social. Rather than trying to drag a girl back to your crypt.

I told you that there are no gaurantees.
You keep wanting them. Then don't take any risk. You will achieve nothing but you will be safe from any failure.
If you are asking such questions then you have already failed at success.

Depends on what you consider to be the function of philosophy. Many people consider it to be the study of ideas of old dead men. So in that case yes.
You can spend the next 2 years reading Hegel and still not understand what his actual view was. Or you can just go to Wikipedia and read about monism and idealism and make more progress in 20 minutes than you did in 2 years.
Again, what is it you actually want out of being a philosopher?

I have said nothing against their truthfulness.
My health does not allow me to use psychedelics any more. But my health situation is pretty unique, so you should not draw too many conclusions from that.

Psychedelics affect people too differently to make an universal claims here.
The bottomline is that you don't know how they will affect your health, so you should be careful. You don't know how much your body can take. One day it might fail.

Depends entirely on you.
Of course not. Most people are wage slaves and have no freedom to do anything but pay their bills until they die.

I knew guys who got laid plenty and worked a 9-5 job. They just go out every weekend and collect lots of numbers and set up dates.
One of my pickup buddies in Vegas is a doctor. He has a normal job. Another of my old wings was a dentist.
If you do pickup 3 nights a week x 3hrs per night that's 9hrs, leaving you with time for a fulltime job.

The bottomline is that you will never know what you are capable of until you give it your best shot, and you make use of all the expertise, methods, and tools that worldclass experts offer.
You guys want some kind of guarantees and promises of success, but success doesn't work like that. You know who succeeds? People who take risks. The risk is work for no reward. That's what investment is. And no investor wins on all his bets.
You have to get comfortable with lots of effort and failure.
It's like you guys want to say to me: "Leo, I will only do effort if you promise me success." And my response is, then you have already failed at life and there's no helping you.

Academic philosophy is a very specific kind of game. If you wish to play that game and be accepted by others who play that game, then yes, you need to study the historical work.
What is it you seek? Truth? Understanding? Consciousness? Love? You can get all those much better by not playing academic philosophy.
In the end, no academic philosopher understands reality.
I recommend you get your priorities straight and focus on what truly matters, not some human-invented scheme. You will be dead soon. Life is too short to waste it in mental masturbation.

You can know suffering without holding it as "evil" or "bad" or "wrong", or judging it.
Yes, there is a lot of suffering in the world. But it is not evil. And it necessary. And it is largely self-inflicted due to lack of consciousness. So if you really want to reduce suffering, it would be wise to stop judging it.

You are very much affected by others. "Survival" here means a lot more than just foraging for food and building shelter. You are a deeply social creature. You could not survive without other human beings. You are almost totally dependant on other human beings to keep you alive. Human survival is largely social. Which is why you care about your self-image so much. Which is why you'd be embarrassed to walk outside naked in the middle of New York City. It very much affects your survival. And which is why you might be scared to approach a girl and ask her on a date. Your survival is on the line all the time. Every action you take all day long is basically you grappling with survival. Every thought you have is you manipulating yourself to increase your survive.
Notice the truth of this.
That's a survival question, which has nothing to do with Truth or enlightenment.
The question of "How do we build a good society?" is really the question of "How do I increase my odds at survival?"
There is nothing wrong with building a better society, but it is irrelevant to Truth. In fact, it's a big distraction from pursuing Truth. And if you try to build a better society from a position of survival, you will inadvertently cause a lot of suffering to people, because you're acting out of self-preservation, not genuine greater good.
Notice, that it is also possible to jail a person without calling him bad or evil. You could jail him with compassion and genuinely help him to heal. I am not saying we shouldn't have laws and jails. Laws and jails are necessary in a large, complex society. But what isn't necessary is the judgment, demonization, and self-righteousness that goes along with it.
That's fine. But that's an issue of survival. You can be enlightened and also be engaged in survival. But you're not likely to get enlightened so long as you're preoccupied with survival.

"Family Values" don't make sense to me personally. 
I clash with my brother on this all the time; he is really emotionally attached to my immediate and extended family, whereas I basically see them like I don't give any particular importance to who I'm related to, they're just like everyone else to me.
I do appreciate growing up in a household that was creative (they are both artists) and having a family that doesn't abuse me. But I totally see that valuing family will and does get in the way of embodying your vision. I have never really found a reason to include family in my vision for my life, other than society telling me that family is super important for some reason. I can 100% relate to being around family when travelling and not being able to fully surrender to the experience.
 
I would say that you can be ruthless to who you "cut out" of your life, and at the same time be courteous to their feelings. Unless the entirety of your life's vision is to "please mommy and daddy", then they don't need to be a big part of your life, that doesn't mean you need to stop calling them or visiting them on their birthdays. 
You sound really wise and inspiring, I wish you all the best.