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You can do that if you want. I’ve had extreme periods like that where I just focused on spirituality, and it was fruitful. So if that’s where you’re at, go for it. But dude, it also sounds to me like you’re in a great spot. Okay, so the business you’re running doesn’t fulfill you. That does suck. But notice that the sucking is pointing you towards what you more deeply want, which is work that is fulfilling. This is good. And since you have money coming from your business and savings, you can afford to start a new venture. Most people would not have the financial luxury to start a dream project. But you do. The key thing for you is to figure out what this new dream project that feels more fulfilling for you might be. Do you want to do art? Do you like science? What do you care about? Get excited about it. This is a chance for something completely new that could take your life to a new level.

I suspect it will be neither of those extremes. But if we’re playing this game, the ability to endure harsh temperatures (i.e wim hof style) would certainly seem to help a bit. But honestly, if it’s a full apocalypse then even that will not be enough. Your ability to make a fire from wood means shit if there are no trees. In fact, without plant life you won’t even be able to breathe. Ego fantasies of surviving the apocalypse are fun, but likely we would all die. The interconnections run too deep. The ego likes to think it can survive on its own, but of course it can’t. In a tech-utopia, you probably would just be trained from birth with whatever assets you would need. Everyone would probably be meditating from a young age and doing psychedelics as a rite of passage into adulthood.

@Halcyon Iconoclast You wrote this? Gives me big ACIM vibes.

@Value Don’t pester Leo. Let him work.

@Hardkill I’m no immunologist, but it does seem possible. The virus mutates quickly and it may mutate faster than we can make a vaccine. I honestly don’t know. Regardless, it’s a good time to make sure you’re doing what you can to take care of your health just in case. Don’t wait until the next variant comes, be proactive in your health the best you can without becoming paranoid.

@Ima Freeman I don’t get involved with a lot of protests personally, even though I care a lot about collective issues. I just find that protests are filled with a lot of resistant energy, us vs them thinking and general tier 1 behavior. Do it if you really want. But it’s not my bag.

Your goal shouldn’t be to ascend spiral dynamic stages. This isn’t a video game. Keep in mind what is most important. These stages are just there for you to gauge your progress and maybe provide a bit of a map. If you truly want to be an activist, do it. And forget about how it affects your spiral dynamics score card.

Yeah I’m not convinced that was her sneaky way of her asking you to buy her a coat. Ya’ll are so paranoid about women trying to use you for money. Most women are interested in men far beyond what they can provide financially. And most of you don’t even have money for them to leech off of. So quit ya paranoia.

@ZZZZ yeah those ankles are a bitch. I’ve got weightlifting shoes as well. They are a good intermediary between going from poor squat form -> good form, which can take several weeks or months. The problem I see is a lot of people then don’t ever work on their mobility. The shoes provide them the ROM they need, so why bother? To me that misses the point. Every moderately healthy human should be able to squat properly. Sure, your might have a bit of a wider or closer stance depending on your anatomy. But really the squat is just a test of healthy mobility for your body. So if you care about health, you should care about squat form.

But no one is saying that. Dude you can sleep with whoever you want. If you want to sleep with fat girls because you can see their inner beauty, no one is stopping you. The reason there’s pressure to go for 9s and 10s from pickup coaches is because that’s what most guys want! If every guy in the universe suddenly decided they wanted a 3, pickup coaches would start talking about how to get a 3. And a 3 would become a 10. It’s just a way to say “I’m really want this person” or “I don’t really want this person”. And you could argue that pickup coaches influence their students to want 9s and 10s in a sort of bilateral casualty, but they still can’t make you do it. Nor do they care more than you do about your dating life. Regarding this idea you have that traditional 9s and 10s are more cocky, that’s because they know they have what guys want. If you had women throwing themselves at you constantly, you’d be the same. Also, many of them are not that way. How many 9s and 10s have you actually dated in your life? Or had a long conversation with? Or seen them at Christmas with their family? If you don’t want a traditional 9 or 10, that’s fine. But it’s not that confusing as to why many guys would.

@Preety_India Drinking helped when I was younger. But I haven’t had a drink in years at this point. Like Leo said, once you’re able to regularly relax when you go out, drinking makes you sloppy. I’ve dropped the ball tons of times because I was drunk. And the sex isn’t even good. Of course if you’re trying to accumulate a bunch of crazy party stories and fit in with that crowd, drinking helps then. But I have to assume that’s not the goal of most people reading this.

@Pavement the last girlfriend I had not only knew I did pickup, she met many of the guys I did it with and saw it in action. In reality, the lines between “pickup” and “guys going out to get laid” are getting very blurry. Pickup used to be this weird thing where only the most socially awkward dudes with leather boots and very gimmicky game did it. Now with the emphasis on “natural game”, its morphed into being more normal. Guys with regular level social skills have gotten into it. And I think that’s how she saw it. Just a bunch of dudes trying to get laid.

There’s definitely some stage Orange mixing here with spirituality. These luxury retreats are big business and undoubtably bring in a lot of rich western tourists. Honestly though, if that’s what it takes for a stage Orange to people to experience the medicine, then who cares. Let them spend their money. Maybe it will actually help support the local economy in some of these poorer countries.

@kras do you plan on growing your subscribers and making your work public? If so, that shame of the people closest to you seeing your content is something you’ll have to work through. If you just want to keep it private, that’s fine as well. But I wouldn’t try to grow your channel and hide it as well. That’s sending mixed signals to the universe. It shows your whole being is not in alignment with this decision, hence the shame coming to the surface.

@Austin Actualizing I find the Wim Hof method is ridiculously effective for combating stress and resetting me. Works every time. Long term, restoring functional breathing patterns is a big piece that people miss. You want to be around 6-10 breaths a minute. Most people are 15-20.

It’s reasonable in the sense that people generally date people who are around their same stage of the spiral. Hard to really say. My guess is that if two people are truly yellow / turquoise, the universe will likely bring them to together in a rather unique and / or organic way. It probably won’t fit nicely into an obvious script, although nothing can be ruled out. It be interesting to interview yellow / turquoise and see what the early stages were like for them. More about intimacy and using sex as a tool for merging with the divine than merely getting off. More mystical things like energy orgasms also enter the arena, which would be dismissed by pure materialists. More honest communication and a willingness to work through your shadows together. More solution oriented, less accusational. More intimacy and Win/Win dynamics, less exploitation.

A revolution works well if you have a singular corrupt person that needs to be removed. In the case of the US and basically all modern-nation states, things are way more complex than that. So a revolution becomes a way, way too simple of a solution. Some do. But many do not. The US has a culture of strong national pride. This nationalism has allowed us to unify as a country and enhance our survival, but at the long-term cost of low introspection. Many Americans are not very open to critiques of America, regardless of their legitimacy. This is the whole battle between the left and the right. The left, being more conscious, wants to move beyond nationalism and is more open to genuine self-reflection. They see critiquing America as actually helping to make it better. But the right is less conscious and more interested in preserving nationalism and the narratives that enhanced our survival. Thus, they see the left as “hating” America, but that’s just the ego’s reaction to its survival being threatened.

I eat liver pretty regularly. It’s nutrient dense and tastes pretty good if you know how to cook it right. If it’s giving me heavy metal poisoning, I’m currently unaware of it. To @Michael569’s point about the shit show that is animal agriculture, it’s highly important if you’re eating liver to source it from the highest quality farms you can find. Pay extra if you have to. And really, we should all be sourcing our food from the highest quality sources available no matter what we are eating. That holds true for vegetables, fruits, muscle meat, organs, fish, water, nuts, grains, whatever. The reality is our food system is deeply intertwined in issues of social justice and environmentalism. So if we are not including these issues in our individual choices, we are not taking responsibility for our collective well-being. Our choice power as individuals is limited by system constraints but it still matters.

The muse is interesting to me. I like the idea of getting instant feedback as it seems that would train your mind better. A lot of times you can just get lost in monkey mind for almost an entire meditation session. But at least with the feedback you would be aware of that, versus thinking you did a successful sit. At the same time, it seems like there’s value to being able to recognize when you’re in monkey mind or not. And that’s a skill you need to develop 24/7, not just the hour you’re sitting. So perhaps there’s a disservice there of you not tuning into your own signals as much and relying on external feedback. @Endangered-EGO what would you say your experience has been related to this?

These “where’s the video???” posts need to stop. Mods, can we start locking or issuing warnings for these? Don’t pester Leo. He needs to put out videos on his schedule, not rush them out just for us. That will increase the quality of the videos, which will be good for all of us. In the meantime, the man has put out hundreds of videos already and given you several hundred books to read on his booklist. You have enough to already keep you busy for decades. I’m personally still getting caught up on videos he released over a year ago.

@GroovyGuru A lot of people are isolated right now. No real magic formula I know, you’re just going to have to be proactive about it. What’s stopping you from doing some cold approach? Or reaching out to old friends? Or attending local events?

Yeah it’s complicated. How “conscious” you do pickup will depend on your level of consciousness. I know a lot of guys that did pickup from a very low consciousness place. The personal growth was marginal. They basically just drank and partied like any other guy, but also read some theory. But you could also use pickup as leverage to really grow yourself. And I did see that as well, although it was more rare. So pickup will be as low or high consciousness as you make it. If you want it to be high consciousness, you need to be clear about that and not compromise. For instance, I would never drink when I did cold approach because I saw that as affecting my goal of becoming more socially confident and building my skillset. I would do my best to be as honest and upfront with the girl as possible. And I made sure that I continued doing spiritual work so as to not lose my head. I would set similar rules for yourself based on what you feel is important.

Yeah I suspect there’s something to that. I ate almost entirely garbage during the early years of my life. It did affect me but I still had no major health problems. Just minor things. As I did more consciousness work though, it felt like certain foods and substances become unbearable to me. It’s like low consciousness can only run on low consciousness fuel, and higher consciousness can only run on higher consciousness fuel.

@charlie cho Assuming his diet really is that garbage, it could be a variety of things he has going for him. Perhaps good genetics or placebo. Certainly low chronic stress helps. The mistake would be to assume that Buffet is healthy because of the way he eats. When in reality he is likely healthy in spite of the way he eats. We also don’t really know exactly how healthy he is. Health is holistic and can be tough to measure. He could have premature bone loss, periodontal disease, bad circulation, bad gut health etc which are not always so obvious when just looking at someone. At the very least we know he wears prescription eyeglasses, so that’s one indicator of poor health.

@Husseinisdoingfine They’re both right to a degree. Society creates and influences man. Man creates and influences society. Both at the same time. Man = society.