The EEG machine itself is fairly cheap: $800. But the software, accessories, and training materials will cost another $1,500 at least.

@mmKay I would rather have heavy metal poisoning than use Facebook.

If you meditate properly using an EEG, you see benefits from meditation almost immediately, same day even.
Of course none of that is God-realization.
But achieving that optimal meditation state is damn near impossible without an EEG. So people meditate in all the wrong ways and see very little benefit even after months.
If you're going to do something it's best to be serious about it or not do it at all. The people who succeed in this work are the very serious ones.

@d0ornokey It's a very complex thing to learn. Stay tuned. I'm working getting the info out there. It took me months and thousands of dollars to learn it.
You can locate professional trainers in your city by googling. That is the easy way.

It's hard to find magic pills in life. Technology usually comes with trade-offs. The trade-off here is time and money.
It shows you what true meditation feels like. Without the machine the mind wanders around far too much and tends to stray from that narrow groove which is true meditation.
The machine experientially guides you into the groove and keeps you there. It is a state of total thoughtlessness. It's very tricky to stay in that state without the machine.
Really, in the future, all meditation will be done with a machine because it's too ineffective otherwise. This is why most meditators don't go far. They are unable to hit that groove even after years of practice. It takes talent to hit that groove. A talent most people lack and don't even know they lack. Most meditators don't even know what this groove is that I'm talking about. But a machine with the right training program and show it to you in 15 minutes.
It will probably take 50-100 years for cheap, powerful, yet user-friendly meditation machines to develop. Right now they don't exist.

It makes meditation about 100x more effective.

@Holygrail If you are serious you should be doing it twice a day.
Again, if you're going to do something, do it seriously or just don't do it. This half-assing of things produces horrible results.
Decide what you want. Be clear. And then do it full-bore.

No one is going to hand you that much money. The best way for you to achieve that is focus all your effort on building marketable skills and start your own business or freelancing work. You will have to work your way out of that hole you are in. You will have to both work hard and smart. Hard work alone will not be enough.

Try splitting up techniques. If you're doing a 30 minute session:
Minutes 0 - 10: Mantra or focus on breath sensations at the nostrils or breath counting
Minutes: 10 - 20: Open Awareness or do nothing or noting 
Minutes: 20 - 30: Metta or Gratitude or Forgiveness Meditation
Find a technique sequence you resonate with, and stick with it. 

If you're wanting to do an hour sit which I'd highly recommend, just repeat this cycle 1 more time to get to 60 minutes. 

This approach has uniquely powerful benefits for beginners. If you're interested to hear more feel free to DM me.

I'd caution you with taking on Leo's perspective of how ineffective meditation is. Long term practice with a powerful contemplation/epistemology practice leads to crazy results, especially if combined with psychedelics and meditation retreats. 

Give the technique a shot, you may surprise yourself. 

I have meditated  for over 20 years without much results.  And that includes doing Vipassana 10 day retreats.  There is a reason why in the East traditionally only monks would meditate.  Because taking it seriously is a full time occupation.  Shinzen Young teaches Vipassana but that is not how he became enlightened.  He was in a Japanese monastery where he had to meditate for 6 months straight during a Japanese winter.  Every morning he would have to pour ice cold water over his body to start the day.  Enlightenment by torture.  Westerners want it easy so don’t get results.

@Leo Gura What is your opinion on combining meditation with psychedelic work? By that I mean having a daily meditation practice (1-2 hours) + deep contemplation/investigation/meditation on psychedelics every now and then. 
Right now I'm thinking that this is the best way. But idk what will come out of it. I'm also adding shamanic breathing to the mix (every 2 weeks, so frickin' powerful)
Btw, did psychedelic "work" boost your meditation "results"?
Asking out of curiosity. I love basking in being every day so I'm staying with meditation for sure.

Meditation is mostly ineffective unless you do it at a hardcore scale. In other words, book a cabin in the woods and force yourself to meditation for 10 days straight. Then you will see some progress and results. Although of course as soon as you return back to the "real world" you will lose most of those results.
This is why people meditate for decades and never awaken. It's highly inefficient. For it be effective you must do it very strictly and for long periods of uninterrupted time. Some people who simply have higher baseline consciousness can benefit from mediation rapidly, but this is the exception not the norm.
You can meditate every day for 40 years and never realize you are God. In fact I would bet on this for most people. This is the reality which explains why most of the world is asleep. And this is what most meditation teachers won't tell you.
God-realization is beyond anything a normal human can meditate her way to. An enormous amount of time can be wasted doing meditation in this weak-sauce way.

That's bad advice to listen to.
Minding is what reality is up to.

I'm a born again Christian who has forsaken the world and all its lies and deceptions. 

@Preety_India Cope with it as best you can for now. Try to minimize drama and then focus on getting a job and moving out.
It's a terrible idea to live with parents once you're an adult and doing personal development and living your life on purpose. Parents must be kept at a safe distance because they will hold you back. You can visit them but never live with them.

Lately, I have been struggling massively with text game. I feel like I don't know 'how to respond' whenever I get a message from a women so I typically just leave it. I will get a lot of matches online, sometimes phone numbers. I will usually take a while to respond or the conversation will stale out. I have this fear of setting the wrong frame when it comes to interacting with women. It can be quite easy to do that over text. I have been thinking about doing mechanical techniques/same text routines but I would rather develop a more natural style of game. 
I do sometimes tend to use some of the same lines to start a convo just because I know they work, but that is just me relying on lines for good game. I don't want to be that person who only relies on having a 'specific' set of lines to text women to set up dates. That feels way to mechanical for me. 
I feel like I know the general concepts of good text game interactions from watching youtube videos, but women's responses vary so differently. It's so tricky because women think one thing & say another thing, they expect you to read between the lines & move things forward. I will sometimes just look at the conversation for 10-20 minutes not knowing what to say, I will even think about it when I am doing my daily chores. How do I respond to this situation? 
I notice my mind tends to want to respond to how she texts me, giving her some kind of logical answer to the response simply based on just having a 'blank mind' Instead of having a game plan in my own mind on how I need to move this interaction forward. 
It hurts my mind having to think about keeping the same level of investment, vibing, flirting, moving the conversation forward. I will always ask myself 'what is the most optimal response' to this situation I am which typically leaves me in analysis paralysis.

How wrong you are. It's a totally different material. Softer than a real pussy. You need to buy the white one.
It's not a goal. But its so good it makes me cum that fast. It's too fast, that's part of its downside.

Fleshlight sucks.
But the Tenga Fliphole is better than a real pussy
30 second orgasms.

The appeal of real sex is the emotional connection and the excitement. You don't get that with porn. The actual stroking can be inferior with real sex, but that is more than made up for my the other factors.

No, that's not a function of porn at all. I find that many girls are just lazy and not interested in practicing excellent sex. They just expect the guy to do all the work.
Great sex doesn't just happen. It has to be created consciously.
I've had sex with girls where I don't even cum. This very much depends on the girl, and I don't just mean her physical appearance. I've had sex with a 10 where I didn't even cum cause she was fucking lazy and selfish.

Look, I understand that Leo doesn't want anymore questions on this topic, and that's fine. But don't make a topic taboo because you fear it. 
I watched the whole thing in one go, for me it was Leo's best video yet. It only got problematic further towards the end when he started giving advice on how to confront specific relative problems, as if they can only be confronted in one way. Leo knows that a relative problem never has one solution, and that different humans literally live in different universes. Therefore prescribing a solution to a relative problem in that fashion is not stylish. 
It took a lot of Bravery to upload that video, maybe also a lot of stupidity. But one thing is for sure, it was fucking awesome. 
Did you see the video? what did you get from it? Was it too much for you to handle?
There is no need for Leo to personally engage with this topic, I just thought it would be good for the community to still have a place to discuss Solopsism, instead of just making it taboo. Think twice before Locking this. 
(I didn't realize before posting this that Leo had already created a topic about taking down the solipsism video, so I guess this isn't needed haha)

Haha, nah.
When you reach God consciousness you will be able to orgasm just from watching two people have sex as if you were both of them, because you actually are.
You guys have no idea how profound porn becomes with God consciousness.
I can run a slide show of porn photos and be conscious that I am everyone in the entire universe who ever fucked, and I can orgasm to my infinite God self as the Mind which imagines all of human sexuality.
Ya'll are not even conscious of what porn is. You totally take it for granted.
If some guy is fucking a girl, that is me fucking her and me getting fucked. But you are not conscious enough to understand that.
I like both soft and hard core. They both got their utility. Mostly I watch hard.
What I told Curt was that I watch the highest quality porn. Which is independent of soft or hard.

Talk about yourself like a narcissist.

Many girls suck at sex. I can please myself better than most girls can please me.
Don't know what you're smoking.

You're never going to get sufficient sex in real life to replace porn unless you got a rotation of 5 girls.
Nor will the quality of most girls you get match that of porn.