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@RoerAmit I've done coaching in the past, although I've moved more into energy healing than pure coaching. Life coaching can work IF you've done a lot of work on yourself and overcome a lot of your biases. The main skill set of life coaches is to ask powerful questions, but for this you need to be conscious of what questions even need to be asked. Ultimately, people will change because they desire to change and they are ready to change. Not because of coaching superpowers. But if someone is both willing and ready, then a coach can help be a facilitator for that change. Same thing with healing work. The best healer in the world cannot make someone heal. But they can facilitate healing for people looking to really heal. My personal opinion, I would stay away from branding yourself as a life coach. It's not immediately obvious to people what the value of a life coach is. And there's so many life coaches out there that it can be challenging to really stand out. I would be more specific in how you help people. Provide something unique, something that only you can bring to the table. If that means being a life coach for a couple of years before you figure that out, fine. But IMO just becoming a life coach is not a great strategy.

@Scholar I'm going to disagree with everyone in this thread and say that veganism is not even part of the solution. Yes, factory farming is horrific. I've watched Earthlings and Cowspiracy, those documentaries will give you nightmares. And I understand that people think that veganism is going to save the ecology. But veganism is just not the answer. It's at best a step in the right direction, but no more. What people really want is to be deeply connected to their food, and to feel like we are treating animals as sacred. But that does not preclude eating an animal. In fact, it can include it. Ancient cultures understood this.

My point was that question is reductionistic. It's not as simple as "choose wealthy or middle-class". There are far more variables to consider. And these variables are not often discussed because of our stage Orange culture.

@Hardkill Yes and no. We can think of modern capitalism as a competitive game for "scarce" resources. In this competitive, scarcity based game, the 1% could be considered the winners. They have accumulated the scarce resources and all the benefits that entails. And make no mistake, those benefits to your survival are real. As Grant Cardone loves to point out, money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you education, food, health-care, etc. That is what incentivizes us to keep competing. If the scarce resources weren't worth anything to your survival, why play the game? If money didn't pay the bills, why work for money? The conclusion people draw from all of this is that while money maybe can't directly buy happiness, it certainly is better in our system to be rich than poor. And in some ways they are right. It's the Wolf of Wall Street scene: But this kind of thinking is mostly just rationalizations to increase your survival advantage in the system. Here is what is missing: a) That we do not have to live under an economic system based primarily on competition and artificial scarcity. b) That under such a system which inevitably generates "winners" and "losers", the winners will always still be insecure in their position ("yeah I'm winning now, but what if I become a loser???") c) That exploitation and extraction, of both people and planet, is inevitable under such a system d) That highly polarized winners and losers erodes people's self-esteem e) That personal accumulation erodes public abundance, e.g everyone owning land versus collective ownership of the commons f) That personal accumulation fails to meet real needs past a certain point anyway g) That such a system is unsustainable because of the inequality and social ills it generates ^this kind of thinking is the wisdom that seems to start to come online at SD Green. Notice that stage Orange self-help books tend not to talk about this. Their goal is not to have you question the system itself, it's to help you become successful within the system that we have. Those are two very different goals. Of course, there can be some overlap. I'm not suggesting anyone reading this to stop accumulating money. But there is less incentive to talk about these issues, because talking about this does not serve your survival. It's to your survival advantage, at least in the short term, to ignore everything I've just said and assume the system we have is great. By assuming that pro-system position, you'll be rewarded with more resources by the system.

@freejoy I can't say I've done any of those things, nor do I know personally know anyone who has. But yes, it appears to be possible from the accounts of yogis and other evolved beings. About the Laws of Nature, I think everyone would benefit from Rupert Sheldrake's perspective on this. Essentially, Sheldrake argues there are no laws of nature. Only deep "habits" of nature. When a habit becomes significantly ingrained, we call it a "law" because we are so used to it. But in truth, no laws are immutable. Which to me is what we should have to expect from Absolute Infinity.

@jjer94 That's definitely one of those "doesn't even seem real" kind of moments. Glad to hear you're okay. I'll echo what everyone said about taking some time for self-care, whatever that means to you. Although I'm sure you already know that. My thoughts are that we have to do two things at once. On the one hand, we have a deep, systemic crisis that is coming to a head on simultaneous fronts. Which is of course even more fundamentally a spiritual crisis. Those kinds of changes are long and take time. Society doesn't shift overnight, although I will say it feels subjectively to me like the rate of change is speeding up. So we have to solve for that crisis at the root level. But in the mean time, people are getting shot. And it seems wise to me that we should manage those symptoms as well as possible, even if it doesn't fix the root. Public policy is our big tool in this area. Government is what we have and we should use it. Stricter gun control seems like an obvious choice. These are all good points.

I've hired sales people before. It's very simple. They want to know that you can sell. The very first thing I'm looking for on any candidates resume is if they have a proven track record of sales. Now, it's possible that someone could have great potential in sales but be unproven. But don't expect the hiring manager to see that. They are looking to take as little risk as possible, especially since if they make a bad hire it could reflect poorly on them. Convince them that you can sell whatever they want you to sell and you'll be fine. If they actually ask that question, I would just facepalm. There's absolutely no context to that question, so your answer would have to be as general as possible.

@asha176 Learn from other people. Study, read books, watch YT videos, etc. There's endless advice out there. But ultimately, the real trick is that you have to learn to connect to your own intuition. What feels best to you? This is not an easy question because we have all sorts of conditioning that can confuse us. So learn to listen to your own Voice.

The trap is that true morality looks like what happens after awakening. But since most people aren't awakened, the best a spiritual teacher can do is give a sort of list of things you'd do after awakening. Golden Rule and all that. But Jesus didn't come to the Golden Rule through some other spiritual teacher, he derived it for himself by awakening. In that sense, preaching morality is like giving the answers in the back of a math book to students. The transformation and wisdom comes from having going through a process where you discover true morality for yourself. Not because someone just told you to. That would lead to devilry, because you wouldn't actually understand it and would abuse all the teachings. Which is of course if often what happens, thus religion becomes corrupted.

@Ellenier Materialists gonna materialist. There's a million of these guys. There's critiques of Leo that can be made, but there's nothing unique or insightful about his debunking that I saw.

Maybe you do. Don't take other people's word for what God is. That is anti-antithetical to this whole process. Discover what God is for yourself. Do the spiritual work.

@freejoy The anecdotal (and now scientific) evidence would seem to suggest yes. But wouldn't it be better to try it for yourself? Assuming you've taken all the necessary precautions and done the foundational work.

I doubt it's because of the multivitamins. I've had the same thing happen to me when I've done extensive fasting. Supposedly, your blood pressure is low on a fast and so your heart has to work a lot harder. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/fasting-how-does-it-affect-your-heart-and-blood-pressure/ Do some googling and you'll find other people who have had the same thing.

I think you're on the right track. This was basically the combo that I did for a few years. As far as a concrete plan, I can't give you that. Part of this work is that you have to develop your own plan that suits your needs. But here are some general tips: Learn all the theory around dating and attraction. Read books (Way of The Superior Man, Men are From Mars, etc) and watch PUA content on YT (Austen Summers, Natural Lifestyles, Sasha Daygame, Playing With Fire, etc) Find friends who you can go out with to help you approach Get in physical shape and get your fashion down if you don't already Do spiritual work (meditation, yoga, breathwork, psychedelics, retreats etc) Consider a good therapist, ideally one with some spiritual knowledge I know it's a lot, but if you do all this you'll be on a solid path. The PUA stuff can be kind of manipulative and creepy but it's a good first step for a lot of guys.

Similar, but my sense is that it can go much deeper. Sexuality could be a whole domain of mastery that someone spends 20-30 years fully exploring. Most people have not even gotten close to that, I know I haven't. These sexual experiences where you totally feel in flow and connected are likely only the tip of the iceberg. But I'm speculating, not talking from my own experience.

Yes No Exactly right. All concepts of God are false. When Leo says "you are God", he is not asking you to construct a new belief per say. He is asking you to deconstruct your entire reality so that only Absolute Truth remains. After you do that, then you can use these conceptualization like "you are God" to point the way for others.

@EddieEddie1995 Awesome. What do you feel made the difference? Why is it that you were able to drop into the experience this time? Besides weed and the room you were in.

@Sempiternity I think it’s a really cool idea. Some questions I would ask yourself: How are you going to afford a down payment on land and developing it? You need a significant initial lump sum of cash. Unless you have savings, it sounds like your inheritance is coming in too slow for something like this. Have you considered other housing structures? Yurts, Geo domes, Cob, Super adobe etc What is the legality for doing something like psychedelic retreats in Washington? Will you also be living there? Overall I think it can be done. You’re basically talking about building a retreat center or some sort of transient ecovillage. Maybe research those and get some inspiration.

I don't personally like dinner dates. My diet is pretty strict and so it's hard to even find a restaurant with healthy food. But many girls still enjoy that kind of thing so you'll be fine. To me, this advice is dicey. Some guys think they're going on a date, when in actuality they're just a free meal ticket for the girl. In that case I would suggest he'd keep his wallet closed. But paying can sometimes also be really good, even if it's early. Sets a good masculine provider frame. But don't attach it to some sort of expectation that now she owes you sex.

@knakoo Her points generally overlap with my own experience. But I feel this is the key: Any piece of advice must be understood as to whom the advice is being given. If you're a meek guy who isn't in his masculine and doesn't know how to lead, then yes I'd say this is really good advice. And there are a lot of guys out there who are like that. So this kind of advice is necessary. But there's also far more to having great sex than what she is saying. It's not just about being super dominant all the time. And to her credit, she mentions that at the end.

@RendHeaven I wouldn't say women have it across the board worse. There's just pros and cons when it comes to dating for both genders. That said, I think your post highlights a real insight, which is just how physical male attraction can be. Women are attracted far beyond the physical when it comes to men. Your personality / life situation does probably 90% of the leg work, which is nice because it can be developed and actually improve over time. But as a guy, I don't need a woman to have a specific kind of personality or life situation to be physically attracted to her. I just need to know what she looks like and I can tell you. Now, that does not mean she's a girl you'd want to date. It doesn't even mean you would necessarily try and have sex with her. There are plenty of other factors that come into to play, especially if you're considering a relationship with a girl. But I would agree that the initial filter for guys is looks. If she doesn't pass that, don't expect things to go much further. And I do believe this is part of the reason women are much more concerned with how they look than men. It's far more important to their sexual strategy. Looks also can create a halo effect for men. If she's good looking, you're much more likely to rationalize "good" personal qualities about her. Whereas for a girl who was less good looking, you wouldn't notice or maybe even care about those qualities at all. Is this all really shallow and depressing? Maybe. I'm not looking to make a moral argument here, I'm pointing out observations I've made. Maybe there is a reality where we are all so higher consciousness that we transcend all of this. Men don't care about looks any more and women don't care about men who can provide and protect her. But regardless, it starts with becoming aware of what patterns we are in.

I like Gary V, he brings a lot of of value to people and definitely is not your typical Orange CEO. At the same time be aware of your bias. Gary is bringing value to you and you resonate with his perspective, so it's easy to peg someone's development as higher than it is when they are helping you. Gary is not enlightened. Nor is he living at the peak of humanity. Just because someone talks about authenticity and doing what you love does not make them on par with the yogis. This doesn't mean Gary is bad. Actually, his SD Orange / Green perspective is really crucial as we shift in society from Orange to Green. But Gary is Green at best. Maybe some yellow at times if you're being generous.

These are excellent questions, and they honestly feel way bigger to me than any one human can answer. Something like this requires massive collective intelligence. You need people who deeply understand the current monetary / financial system, programmers, AI researchers, activists for pushing it to the public, etc. I'll attempt to just pitifully nibble at the ankles of your questions. "How would you create an onboarding system of people onto this type of system?" Potentially you could test something like this at the local level first before the nation-state level. You issue a local currency for X area, perhaps a city, and then put the AI to work. See what happens. Refine and get positive results before attempting to move higher. As you'd move from each level (city -> state -> nation -> global???) , the AI and the system as a whole would like have to get increasing complex and refined. "What technologies and synthetic intellects exist today in the current platforms we use?" The market is a sort of collective intelligence. Also you have various forms of government intervention, e.g monetary & fiscal policy. These distort the "pure" free market. Also the Facebook AI, although it would have to be massively changed for this purpose. "What social factors are at play that stop this type of system happening?" Neoliberalism / libertarian philosophy, as they would like see this as a distortion of the market. Stage Orange individualism and stage Blue ideology. Basically, people at different stages of the spiral are not going to agree on how your purchasing power should be weighted. Also, you have to factor in business interests. If prices are being constantly changed by the AI, essentially business owners are no longer in control of their prices. I doubt they will like this. It may make it difficult for them to accurately predict earnings. "What the are the potential risks and rewards of in-acting this type of system?' The biggest risk I see is that the AI would fail deliver on its promise. Instead of incentivizing conscious behavior, it ends up incentivizing the opposite. It becomes manipulated by devilry. Another potential failure could be incentivizing consumerism itself as a method for achieving good social outcomes. In reality, we want less consumerism. Sometimes the best purchase is the one you didn't make. The biggest potential reward is the opposite. You incentivize pro-social purchasing behavior on all major social outcomes, e.g environmentalism, health care, consciousness, education, etc. "Would all factories need to be highly automated and communicate to each other?" I don't know. I'm not seeing the connection between factory automation / communication in all of this. "Would humanity live more free, interesting, healthy and highly creative lives?" It's very possible. And of course that is the goal, which should influence every decision that is made about something like this. I think enacting this with a UBI could potentially be really powerful. Especially if that UBI is how the money supply is created. Versus just attempting to run UBI through the current monetary creation process.

Have you read Slow Sex by Diana Richardson? It talks about all this. I found it way more paradigm shifting than Mantak Chia and a lot of other tantric teachings.

@Thought Art I like the idea. Essentially, you're trying to reverse perverse incentives in the system so that money flows towards things that contribute to a higher consciousness society. As apposed to now, where often times it's the other way around (money flowing towards creating a lower consciousness society). I think there's many potential ways we can accomplish that goal of reversing perverse incentives. Demurrage currency is maybe at the top of that list for me. I will play with your idea some more and see what comes up. The first challenge I see with what you're proposing is that people are not conscious enough to know what purchases will lead to a higher consciousness society. Even if you pick things with scientific approval, unless your scientists are fairly conscious, they will not know what is worthy of approval. They will just approval things that fit their stage Orange, rationalist worldview. And so you'd likely have a lot of fighting over how high your purchasing power should be weighted. How would you get around this problem?