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People are always pro choice and freedom when they have to do something they don’t want to do. It is internally consistent. But internal consistency doesn’t mean you aren’t making errors. At the end of the day, did Brand get the vaccine or not? My assumption is he did not. And that’s because he is subscribed to and proliferating a bunch of anti-vaxx memes. Fundamentally he does not believe in the covid vaccine efficacy. Again, consistency doesn’t mean you aren’t making errors. It just means you are consistently making errors. That he has been suspicious of power for so long shows where his bias lies. As much as he talks about “the system”, he actually deeply lacks Tier 2 systems thinking. People in power can be corrupt. But in systems thinking, you cannot just be suspicious of people in power. You must view situations as a whole with complex feedback loops.

Brand is entertaining and has some decent takes. But he is badly stuck in stage Green populism. Which has dragged him down the route of anti-government / anti-vaxx / anti-elite nonsense. He is essentially a conspiracy theorist at this point.

This will never work. She is olympic level stupid.

Key vMEMEs: Consensus, community, cooperation vs competition, collaboration, unlearning conditioning.

No. I feel more at peace and connected to others than ever. It certainly doesn’t have to be. You are taking an Absolute insight and putting a relative interpretation on it. Not that I’m blaming you. It’s a very common thing to do. It’ll take some time and more work. Take a break and go do some normal human stuff if that feels good to you. Spiritual work can be extremely taxing.

@D2sage Woah amazing find! I perform live music but also do my own EQing, which can be a struggle at times. This may help a lot. I’m going to try it and see. Thank you!

Because that’s part of her survival strategy. If it seems stupid to you, that’s probably just because doing so wouldn’t serve your survival. The better question we should all be asking ourselves is: what is my version of spending two hours in front of the mirror?

That aligns with my experience though. Granted I haven’t done psychedelics a lot, but the times I have, they’ve been almost entirely visual free. Surprised me as well. My guess is intention and the lessons you are seeking to learn have quite a bit to do with it. Also, dosage. If you do a high enough dosage it seems almost inevitable you’ll get visuals. 10-12mg for DMT is on the lighter side.

@Vincent S Super cool! Great job. So interesting how psychedelics affect people differently.

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Yup. It’s a big commitment. I wouldn’t say it necessarily has to be either or. But I would say it’s a bit naive to think that having kids won’t come with real tradeoffs. Even small choices have tradeoffs. The key is to correctly identity those tradeoffs as best you can and decide if it’s still worth it. One of those tradeoffs is that you may not have as much alone time to simply sit around and contemplate. Most new parents I talk to struggle to find any time for themselves.

@Tudo you cannot live with a perspective. If you believe otherwise, that is your perspective. But as you grow and evolve, you can become less ideological in your perspective. Therefore I would make a distinction between having a perspective and being ideological. If you want to know the difference, just look at the stages of ego development. That basically is a masterclass on how one evolves from being dogmatic and ideological to simply owning their perspective and embracing other perspectives.

Interesting quiz, very SD stage Green. I got 0% hostile sexism, 3% benevolent. My main critique of these academic perspectives on men/women is that they do not understand fundamentally what masculinity / femininity are. Yes, masculinity and femininity are essentially social constructs. But they are based on something beyond society and beyond even biology. It’s more like masculinity and femininity are forces in the universe, like yin and yang. Or unity and division. Our social constructs and also our biology reflect these forces. And traditional gender roles were not random, despite their limitations. Why don’t academics understand this? I suspect it’s because you cannot do a scientific study to prove what I just said. Nothing I said is measurable. Therefore, according to science, it’s not science (and therefore probably not true). Needless to say, this does not justify harmful regressive attitudes towards women or stereotyping. One of the fundamental problems with stereotypes is that they are way too simplistic to account for the complexity of living in modern society. Inevitably this leads to harm. Our thinking must become more nuanced than that as we evolve.

@r0ckyreed You may want to watch Leo’s video on reproduction being an illusion, perhaps even with your girlfriend if she’s open to it. Then ya’ll can make a more conscious decision. Be warned though, if your girlfriend really wants kids, she is unlikely to like that video. It’s going to be very threatening to her. So keep that in mind. My personal thoughts are that having kids is not my highest priority. If I feel like having them will get in the way of those priorities, I will probably not have them. But if I’m in a relationship with the right women it could happen. I think I could enjoy being a dad. Technically it’s possible. Some people’s spiritual awakening gets kickstarted by a traumatic event like the death of their child. So you never know. Life is twisted. At the same time though, I’d say it’s not a safe strategy to bank on. Notice how many people are parents but are not doing serious philosophy or awakening work. Your life mostly just becomes about taking care of your kids.

Yes, a lot of times you just get in your own head about things. Even the idea that “I must overcome all my resistance to approaching” can be a sneaky form of avoidance. You are spending all your time attempting to overcome your resistance instead of actually doing the uncomfortable thing. Really you want to work both angles. Yes, do inner work and introspection to work on your resistance. But don’t let that become an excuse either. At some point, good enough is good enough. You don’t need perfect inner game. Another thing to consider though is that you are at college. I really don’t consider that a great environment for strong approaching. College is a social circle environment. You can use approaching as a tool in your toolbox if you want, but even then I would use it to focus more on building a large network of friends and relationships.

"The concert of existence places me in resonance with our biosphere, meaning that at this moment there is no "body" no separation; I am part of the swirl of bio-morphic unfolding. I am not bound by culture or language. The deepening of sensation allows me to be without category. I transfer the moisture of my cells, join the wet of the grass, the pour of the ocean, the stars that watch over the night. The plants breathe, my skin is wet, we are here. This fundamental umbilical to life without category is for me the first stage of sanity." -Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum Movement

Continuum Movement: I believe the founder of Continuum, Emilie Conrad, may have a significant amount of Tier 2 cognition. However, Continuum as a community and as a whole feels quite Green to me.

JuiceMedia, strong progressive politics. Very Green.

@Romazho Doesn’t sound like narcissism to me. I think you’re fine. Just keep doing the work. Remember, all “other” characters are you. That’s one of the main insights we are shooting for. If you still think others are separate bots, you didn’t get it.

Mainstream media is overall less corrupt than Hersh. Yes, he did some good work like 50 years ago with Vietnam. But he has gone into some weird territory since then. That's the problem with an anti-mainstream, anti-authoritarian, anti-government bias that Hersh seems to have developed. You start to see conspiracies everywhere, and then you can give theories a pass because you think you are doing critical thinking. But in reality you are just unconscious of your own conspiratorial, anti-mainstream bias. Of course the government can do shady or heavily biased things. But don't think just because you are accusing the government of doing something corrupt that you are not actually the corrupt one. It's more convoluted than that. Bias affects ALL parties, and that includes independent media and fringe investigative journalism that claim to be the uncorrupt ones. And in many cases, the bias is actually stronger coming from these fringe sources.

I call bullshit. All this from a single anonymous source? This is not serious journalism. This is conspiracy level thinking.

That may be true, but you are not that God-realized. In practice your entire life is still mostly driven by relative human concerns. To think you have transcended all of that is the delusion. There are relative realities so horrific that your sense of inner peace and transcendance would shatter in a million pieces if you experienced them. It comes from a place of self-awareness of my development and spiritual progress. I am not yet able to see Absolute Perfection in all things. I still have many fears. It implies that all the worst possible things you can imagine happening to you are also Absolute Perfection. All your darkest fears. Absolute perfection means Absolute! There can be NO exceptions. That means if someone is torturing you and your family, that is Absolute Perfection. If you go to prison for the rest of your life for a crime you didn't commit, that is Absolute Perfection. Genocide and war is Absolute Perfection. On and on it goes. It should be obvious that you are not actually okay with these things and will fight like hell to not let them happen. And when you are fighting against them, that is ALSO Absolute Perfection!

Fundamentally what I think most people are pointing to when they say “X person doesn’t respect women” is that X person doesn’t see the importance of women. Or more broadly, they don’t see the importance of femininity and the role it plays. They find women and femininity useless outside of some narrow selfish survival metric. Look at a guy like Andrew Tate as an example. Does he see women as important or valuable? Not at all. Basically, the only value women have for Andrew Tate is that he can have sex with them or exploit them for his business. Perhaps he also believes they could clean his house. Otherwise he basically sees women as useless. Is it not obvious how this disrespects the gifts of women? Is it not obvious how much a misogynist like Tate is missing out on? How distorted his view of women and femininity as a whole is? If you cannot make a long list of all the ways that femininity and women are important, you are as delusional as someone who thinks masculinity or men have no value. Notice that it’s often SD stage Green people who will say “X person doesn’t respect women” and label them as a misogynist. Most of the backlash to Tate was from Green. That is because Green is promoting not just gender equality but feminine energy. Here is a good example of what I am talking about: Notice the reverence Green has for femininity. Notice the respect. It is important, even sacred. This does not mean that masculinity or femininity are always equally valuable in all situations. Harsher survival conditions do tend to favor masculinity out of necessity. But it’s precisely because masculinity can get so out of hand and unbalanced that we need femininity.

I find they can complement each other. The reality is that your contemplation will not be that effective if you are lost in a bunch of survival monkey-mind. Meditation and calming the nervous system can help with this. It gets you into a better state from which to process and receive insight. Of course there are other ways too. I find just taking a nice, long walk gets me in the right state. Leo has mentioned how he likes driving. I agree in general that the real benefits seem to be more from the contemplation itself than just purely shutting off the mind.

@Kimka I was vegan for all the typical reasons. Lasted about two years. Eventually got back on meat because it seemed healthier for me. Since getting eating meat again, I feel like my consciousness and spiritual understanding has done nothing but skyrocket. Granted, I don’t think eating CAUSED these improvements per say. I was also making big improvements as a vegan. Rather it just honestly seems to not matter. It seems the bottleneck is not specifically what you eat, but whether you are healthy. Health is the key. And there’s nothing I’ve seen nutritionally that has convinced me that meat is inherently unhealthy as long as you don’t overdo it and eat high quality meat. Ethics is a different question. We could say that if someone is so selfish that they are unable to put aside their human biases and extend their circle of concern to animals, that would indicate a lack of development. And so I see veganism as a response to stage Orange industrial food practices that were heavily biased towards human survival and lacked empathy. These practices required humans to objectify animals in order to succeed.