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Spiritual bypassing. That there is a higher order intelligence to all things does not mean that anti-vaxx hippies cannot pragmatically be called "misguided". They are misguided in the sense that they have let their bias against the establishment blind them to what happened with Covid. Whether or not it works out in 300 years is irrelevant to this point. And what if my view is that people should be forced to get the vaccine? If you say "no you can't use force, that's not allowed", why can't I? Who are you to tell me I can't use force? Why are you forcing me to give up force? What if I don't see it as force, what if I just see it as being a good citizen? Your laissez faire philosophy will eventually eat itself. No of course not. He just spread a bunch of nonsense conspiracy about the vaccine, fear mongered about it, and in the process likely stopped thousands of his followers from actually taking it. For the record, NO ONE ever forced any one to take the vaccine. Not even the government. What did happen was consequences were put into place. If you didn't want to take the vaccine, fine. But you're not gonna have your government job. You're not gonna travel. You're not gonna get to go to restaurants. People will likely even shame you for it. This is the way society has ALWAYS worked! If you don't want to pay your taxes, fine. But you're going to prison for it. Don't want to get a pair glasses so you can see while driving? Fine. But you're not gonna get a legal license. Don't want to go to war when Russia invades your country? Fine. But then see what happens when Russia is now in charge. "Medical freedom" is not something you've absolutely ever really have had. It only exists to a degree. The reality is that centralized authorities make certain rules for the WELL-BEING of the society as a whole. And even though there can be corruption, the majority of the time, these decisions are actually very reasonable and necessary. This is exactly what happened with the vaccines. Vaccines were determined by public health officials to be one of the best courses of action OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY had to prevent Covid from possibly getting much worse. And they were correct. The risk for the vaccine has proven to be incredibly low, while its efficacy for helping people to be high. The irony of the stage Green response to COVID is that stage Green loves to talk about the importance of community. Yet when it came time for vaccines, many of them were not willing to endure a slight risk to improve the safety of those around them and themselves. Simply because they were blinded by ideology. Just like Brand was, and continues to be.

You're not understanding my perspective. I don't think Brand is a grifter. I believe Brand sincerely believes the things he is saying. I am not suggesting some conspiracy narrative where Brand actually doesn't believe the things he is saying, but is just faking it for the cameras to make money. It's not that simple. Brand is sincere. Sincerely caught up in ignorance and stage Green ideology. This is the whole problem. Ignorance and the limitations of getting stuck in a narrow perspective. Why are you assuming I don't think I would like Brand? This is not a critique of his "like-ability". He is very charismatic, funny and even wise at times. I have a lot of respect for the growth he has made over the years. I'm simply saying that on some issues, like vaccines, he gets stuck in his Green ideology. And then he spreads that same way of thinking to his followers. The situation is more tragic and commands compassion than anything else. Ignorance and unconsciousness are the deepest of traps. I have fallen into them many times and will likely continue to do so. I not sure exactly what point you're trying to make here. Are you saying because lots of hippies and Buddhists aren't taking the vaccine that Brand is justified in doing the same? In that case, I would also argue those hippies are misguided. They've created a bias against "unnatural" and allopathic medicine. And they are also getting stuck in their narrow perspective, just like Brand. Obviously. I'll take my chances.

Mostly because of traditional gender roles where men were the providers / protectors.

What do you make of companies like Biohax (https://biohax.com/) who are selling testosterone replacement therapy? Seems like a waste and possibly just dangerous if you’re anything under middle aged. But perhaps something there for men who are much older, i.e pushing senior citizen age? I imagine there must be much more to testosterone levels than just semen production. It seems to at least also affect your mental health.

There are a lot of men struggling with dating, but I wouldn’t make a career out of pickup. It’s an industry filled with a lot of toxicity and general low consciousness behavior. You’ll likely grow out of it. Set the bar higher for yourself.

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.