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Sex is generally born out of a desire, a desire is an impulse and an impulse is an automatic reaction. Everything else you mentioned just seems like conditioning (i.e. social to cultural conditioning). Conditioning is generally mirrored as an unconscious action born out of a belief, the belief appears as an emotion which is sometimes paired with thoughts at least as an emotional reaction, and the person may or may not know where the belief comes from. Forms of conditioning are like algorithms learned by the mind, its the algorithms, aka religious scriptures which act as the structure to the underlying mechanical function of the algorithm. These algorithms are only learned to the effects that we see based on these described unconscious algorithms pairing with the requirements for the conditioning to be instilled. Most of these beliefs are indoctrinary, of course, given this is generally the basis for most conditioning especially when collectively applied whether it be Nazi propaganda or the beliefs of any one cult being unconsciously to consciously (i.e. through force) adopted by its members. Whether those members are internal or external to the known structure of perceived group affiliation, for example, many people from the US were indoctrinated into the KKK without the KKK ever even knowing that these people adopted their beliefs.

Personally this has zero relationship with my reality. Recommendation: Ask heaps of deep questions about any hypothesis.

Learning from others. Its much harder to observe oneself but when one can establish concentrated internal honesty that is good here too. Its much easier to just be like, "this person sucks, why do they suck? Oh they do this, better not do that". I get a lot of motivation by realising I suck at things as well (relative to my standards). I'm developing levels of consciousness that relate to the overall idea here. Otherwise honesty and seeking accuracy is really huge for me. And never making excuses for complacency, there should be no finish line until death, gotta keep going. Pumping. Driving forward.

That's generally speaking. For me on a personal level though what I find is that my own hyper internal competitiveness is what drives me to appreciate external actualisations a hell of a lot more. The more I put expectations on myself as opposed to the external the more, for lack of a better word, humility I have in as much as that its a catalyst for appreciation which fuels passion. The passion for me is the fight. And I am relentless, and I fear not being relentless, its that fear as well that is a part of the balance that encourages that positive dynamic between appreciation and passion there.

@Elham have to realise the scarcity of opportunity in order to truly appreciate anything. At least this is one aspect of appreciation, we can also talk about the capacity for wonder, of which originates beauties that allow the mind to become captivated. Captivation from mere simplicity tied with appreciation of scarcity as well as the acknowledgement, where beneficial, for what one has achieved then passion, at least for me, remains resilient. Right now I take each breath for granted even though, let's say I existed in some alternate timeline in the future where due to pollution I had to pay for clean air, I'd wish for and be grateful for this moment I have right now where I'm not confronted with those limitations. This is the utility of good thought experiments, they provide experimental contrast that allow the juxtaposition of present experience to illuminate the catastrophe with which we view experience, given the mundanity by which someone can perceive is generally taken to its extremities by regular folk. This achieved contrast (via thought experiments) is analogous to the necessity behind any kind of realised appreciation, it always entails suitable comparison which brings fond emotional attachments in those moments.

Yes and no, however from my perspective what's more important to address is the relationship between creative visualisation and the neuroplasticity of the brain. Those brains that are more adept towards creative visualisation are more likely to have more plastic brains compared to those that are not. "I am a cloud in your tea, darling do not drink but if you do let me sit on your moustache, but that's why we're not getting married. Because you drink tea and not coffee, as for your moustache... I would have shaved it for you weekly. And then I woke up from my slumber in your misery, now I'm married to someone special who's cheating on me but I'm blind to it because I think life should be special like that, write a letter to the imagination. Get me out of this pain. Maybe if I liked tea instead of coffee I'd have found someone more loyal, like you, miss moustache, the cloud I chase at the other end of my emotional rainbow. Rainy days sometimes yes, but then we have our hot summers underneath the bed covers as well." Thus the pertinent question here to me is, "does creative visualisation make the brain more plastic?", given the relationship between taking psychedelic substances, of which I've had none of and probably wouldn't benefit from (though will try in future), and increases in openness to experience (research this) I'd have to say yes. Creative visualisation, done regularly and in depth is likely to positively influence similar regions of the brain as some psychedelics. Thought is a drug, a highly underestimated and poorly explored one. Most people simply need to grapple with their fear of realising their full potential to really discover themselves here. In so saying as much, in as much as the adult brain is plastic made possible say through continuous creative visualisation, given the content rich landscapes of the mind due to past experience, they're more likely to benefit much more than children, as well as being more open to experience and creative. This implicitly answers the question as to why some people believe children to be more open minded and creative, it is simply because the average adult mind has not and or does not openly explore their experience, if they did, I have no doubt they'd benefit much more from creative visualisation, and be well, much more creative. My prediction is that Leonardo Da Vinci would have been much more creative in his twenties than say before the age of 10 as he had much more knowledge to work with. This is the elephant in the room in modern psychological literature concerning creativity, that is, the average adult is dang lazy! So how on Earth can they be a reliable model of comparing the creative potential of a child with an adult mind? Its utterly myopic.

I don't think there's any problem in being angry @SerpaeTetra, its what you do with it that matters. The problem is in how you address and learn from your anger, for example I sometimes get angry because of all the stupid ignorant whiny weak posts (not at all meant passive aggressively, I mean it sincerely and emphatically. I'm a very direct person) on this forum but then I realise that I need to turn the situation into a learning opportunity for the benefit of growing my capacity to bring the best aspects of myself forward while things on the forum are qualitatively turbulent. There's a lesson in every situation and there's always more to learn from every lesson, by allowing the observation of patterns to take priority over the thing that wants to come forward which only wishes to hold me back, tomorrow I will be a better person and all things being equal, so will the related situation.

I was just talking to a moderator about this very subject. This forum needs to thrive on radical honesty. Even if the person is wrong, they're given the opportunity to learn from honest feedback as opposed to a forum that leads to an inevitable echo chamber in the context of censoring truth.

@kieranperez I had the same problem with “Inliytened1”, it can come across as real condescending and honestly I don’t know what his keyboard warrior nonsense is about, spiritual gesturing, he isn’t doing anyone like myself any favors. If I took a bat to his head it would make him stop but then I’d feel guilty. For me I’d stick with the questioning, I personally realize that I’m just consciousness, everything else is questionable. Consciousness doesn’t seem its at all a question though, rather more a byproduct of intelligence. Truth to me is consciousness (meaning the thing that I’m most confident about) everything else is a byproduct of intelligence trying to realise truth in the midst of our propensities towards emotional addictions and neurotic behaviours, of which I’ve had plenty of in the pasts can relate. The latter is what can make the work filled with landmines to try and avoid and a battle we’re not even aware we’re a part of, the former is what allows us to spot those land mines, inspect them and even if we happen to step on a few, learn from them. I mean, mixing emotions with intelligence is such a funny thing that’s happened in our evolution because their potential differences can generate so much dissonance, but that’s just the way things are, at the base level without emotions intelligence wouldn’t have any prerogative, incentive, motivation. The third layer here is the mind fuckery that goes on with sense perception. This then gets into the territory of our emotions convincing our intellect that something in the thing we perceive we need to emotionally attach ourselves to, and that’s when we get into potential positive spirals and negative spirals within the consciousness with a whole bunch different phenomena, in fact there’s a seemingly endless supply of things in reality that we could get mind fucked by in terms of inspiring neurotic addictions in us, we can just flip on the news or check it out in any newspaper. All in all, I think Leo did a reasonably good job with his latest video on authority. At the core level if there’s any advice I’d give it’s to in general ignore fuckers like me, "Inliytened1" and Leo and just use us as stepping stones to your own realisations. I mean, perhaps there’s many other things other than enlightenment that are much more worthwhile. “Inliytened1” and the like are just like television commercials, sometimes some television programs in reality are going to have to have them but just either ignore and or learn from them even if they are just spinning gibberish. Or attack them, otherwise one of the lessons is of course not to emulate that level of indoctrination. To me he’s just a bot programmed to type cliche spiritual stuff, a fortune cookie to throw up in the air and smash a baseball bat against as a symbolic gesture to destroy illusions painted by “enlightened” illusionists. Some of the admins may warn me, ban me or whatever for this post but I honestly couldn't give a shit, they're probably in a stereotypical sense stage green (I don't follow Spiral Dynamics but I understand it theoretically, that's another thing people are brainwashed by) so they feel the need to be instead of keyboard warriors bandaid warriors where anything that looks like it could hurt someones feelings or whatever they have to censor. They can't accept the is. This guy just does spiritual masturbation, so right now he's trying to give you a spiritual hand job. Could be a hot chick who knows but I doubt it...

Notes make my mind weak, I learned to over rely on my mind to avoid the cost of the distracted modern society. I used to be terrible here.

I don’t make notes, I visualise it’s synthesis through mathematical formula in my head. Took/takes practice.

Understanding Survival - Part 1 - The Metaphysics Of Being Human Just listened to it. I thought Leo did a good job. Thus self actualisation is merely a euphemism for optimising ones survival. Pretty tired at the moment, listened to it while dozing off but I I understand it of course, every action, choice and preference within ourselves can be traced back to the desire of some aspect of ourselves wishing to survive, even if its to the destruction of our physical body based on sacrificing our life for somebody else. In that moment, we wanted to keep the idea alive that, for example, we should sacrifice ourselves for the highest good. Anyone else have any thoughts on it? Just starting to wake up my mind now.

I hope the following helps others, please feel free to discuss as reflectively as you can. All the best: In the context of at least some aspects of us possessing the desire (see previous comments) to survive, we’re all victims, however in the context of our survivability victimhood is optional relative to our awareness of circumstances that contradict our capacity to survive. In so saying as much we’re a victim in as much as we’re unaware of what’s happening in any moment, aspect, interaction or experience. Thus victimhood here literally just means lack of awareness. Awareness begets knowledge, knowledge begets reformation, reformation begets the means of discovering purposeful action. The origin of purposeful action is awareness, in particular, informational awareness. This term is used to replace the idea of self awareness in an effort to remove this false single object and tend to the multiple competing objects that contribute to this sense of sentience. Informational awareness is strongly positively correlated with the layers of instructed meaning placed on individual action, and in doing so, it’s re-configurement to more defined and competitive (with respect to competing influences) ends. Thus self aware definitions (self pertains to the abstractions not self aware consciousness, the latter connotation I’ve as noted excluded from observation here) are proportional to the amount of purposeful action and in doing so, strategic action. In this light, strategic action is evidence of and proportional to informational awareness. The balance between predefinition and foresight is therefore the name of the game here. You’ve read the manual to life and now you’re with pin point precision (or just to your limits) manoeuvring yourself between those limits that you’ve so carefully defined. This is the only position by which freedom exists, the exacting definition and operation within the limits of the rules of reality. Rules beget strategy to operate best within, hence why the lack of recognising limits is proportional to either poor strategy or no strategy at all, and the incapacity to formulate strategies that mitigate harm are proportional to the level of trauma that someone will experience and in doing so, the likelihood they will become a victim to the forces of life. Physically and syntactically it’s inevitable, psychologically however it depends on someone’s unconscious strategies (i.e. various kinds of brainwashing they may have) in terms of how they respond to loss, harm and or suffering. What are some of our limits? The following is a brief attempt at describing such and as a result, something that can instruct freedom within those limits. Otherwise Leo made mention how there is no such thing as freedom but I disagree, in the literal sense absolutely, however with respect to the consequences of understanding and strategy therein our freedom is proportional. Thus freedom is proportional to informational awareness because based on the above it’s proportional to freedom of action, the origins of which, as noted, are based on the ability to accurately determine constraints and the means of maximising operation within them. Here is that brief list: 1. We need to learn about cognitive biases 2. We need to seek an understanding of our past and build a narrative of the future for ourselves otherwise it’s direction will be impure 3. We need to ask ourselves who we are, define our values and desires that are truly our own and not someone else’s 4. We need to seek to investigate and understand our environment from both a past and future context 5. We need to define our social environment and move closer to those that better relate to our values otherwise others we’ll be unintentionally misdirected by others 6. Etc 7. Etc Feel free to add to this list at your discretion.

It's very easy from a mechanical sense to get past various drives. It's virtually impossible if you don't understand the ways in which the strings are being pulled. So just seek to diagram, relate between things and understand yourself while improving your capacity to concentrate and organise the elements within and outside of ones mind and you'll gradually get better and better at defining and following the context of your survival. You can't escape parts of yourself wanting to survive, from a very abstract sense, without this necessity zero % of you would exist. Thus existence is predicated on the desire to survive (again from a very abstract sense), consciously used intelligence is the means by which we can facilitate the reorganisation of those pieces of existence (and therefore ourselves) to higher ends. Peace out

Keep asking why. Keep asking how. "How you see is what you see and what you see is you" - something I came up with a while ago. Most people don't profusely pose these questions to themselves and so in doing so, they shrink the potential thinking reference frame of individuals who have the capacity to contemplate existence. Thus said individuals never come close to reach their full potential because they haven't experienced the necessary social and individual contrast to reveal to themselves that it's possible. Encouragement to reflect at increasingly deeper levels aids the world around us in ways that we could never imagine, in our increased contemplation we expand the thinking reference frame of the rest of society. Its a loop just like your why questions. Good stuff.