JosephKnecht

What method?

You can also read the long version. (14,000 pages) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization

Everyone should be able to validate any teachings in their own experience.

I think he just needs to focus. @Focus

I think Leo is mining Bitcoin on the same server where the forum is hosted. Just kidding

When one day money loses its value, and thus its power, people would start seeking the True Power.

This story I found in the book "Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously" by OSHO. Enjoy! The story is that one man became a chakravartin — and it happens only once in thousands of years that a man becomes a chakravartin. Even Alexander the Great was not a world conqueror; there was yet much left unconquered. And he died very young, he was only thirty-three: there was not even time enough to conquer the world. What to say of conquering, the whole world was not even known. Half of the world was unknown, and the half that was known, even that was not conquered. This man, of whom I am going to tell you the story, became the chakravartin. It is said that when a chakravartin dies — because a chakravartin happens only in thousands of years, he is a rare being — when he dies he is received in heaven with great rejoicings and he is taken to a special place. In Jaina mythology, in heaven there is a parallel mountain to the Himalayas. The Himalayas are just made of rocks and earth and ice. The parallel Himalayas in heaven is called Sumeru. Sumeru means the ultimate mountain: nothing can be higher than that, nothing can be better than that. It is solid gold; instead of rocks there are diamonds and rubies and emeralds. When a chakravartin dies he is led to Sumeru mountain to engrave his name on it. That is a rare opportunity; that happens only once in thousands of years. Of course this man was immensely excited that he was going to write his name on Sumeru. That is the ultimate catalogue of all the great ones that have been, and will also be the catalogue of all the great ones who are going to be. This emperor was becoming party to a lineage of supermen. The gatekeeper gave him the instruments to engrave his name. He wanted a few of his men who had committed suicide just because their emperor was dying — they could not think of living without him. His wife, his prime minister, his commander-in-chief — all the great people who were around him, they all had committed suicide, so they had come with him. The emperor wanted the gatekeeper to let them all come to see him engrave his name, because what is the joy if you go alone and engrave your name and nobody is there even to see? — because the real joy is that the whole world should see. The gatekeeper said, “You listen to my advice, because this is my inherited profession. My father was a gatekeeper, his father was a gatekeeper; for centuries we have been gatekeepers to Sumeru mountain. Listen to my advice: Don’t take them with you; otherwise you will repent.” The emperor could not understand, but he could not even go against his advice — because what interest could that man have in preventing him? The gatekeeper said, “If you still want them to see, first go engrave your name; then come back and take them with you if you want. I have no objection even now if you want to take them, but just in case you decide not to, then there will be no place, no chance … they will be with you. You go alone.” This was perfectly sane advice. The emperor said, “That’s good. I will go alone, engrave my name, come back, and call you all.” The gatekeeper said, “I am perfectly agreeable to that.” The emperor went and he saw the Sumeru shining under thousands of suns — because in heaven you cannot be so poor as to have just one sun — thousands of suns, and a golden mountain far bigger than the Himalayas — and the Himalayas are almost two thousands miles long! He could not open his eyes for a moment, it was so glaring there. And then he started looking for a space, the right space, but he was very much puzzled: there was no space; the whole mountain was engraved with names. He could not believe his eyes. For the first time he became aware what he was. Up to now he was thinking he was a superman who happens once in thousands of years. But time has been from eternity; even thousands of years didn’t make any difference, so many chakravartins had happened already. There was no space on that biggest mountain in the whole universe where he could write his small name. He came back, and now he understood that the gatekeeper was right not to take his wife and his commander-in-chief and his prime minister and other intimate friends. It was good that they had not seen the situation. They would still believe that their emperor was a rare being. He took the gatekeeper inside and he said, “But there is no space!” The gatekeeper said, “That’s what I was telling you. What you have to do is to erase a few names and write down your name. That’s what has been done; my whole life I have been seeing this done, my father used to say this has been done. My father’s father — none of my family have seen Sumeru empty, or any space ever. “Whenever a chakravartin has come he had to erase a few names and write his own name. So this is not the whole history of the chakravartins. Many times it has been erased, many times it has been engraved. You just do your work, and then if you want to show your friends you can bring them in.” The emperor said, “No, I don’t want to show them and I don’t want to even write my name. What is the point? — someday somebody will come and erase it. “My whole life has become utterly meaningless. This was my only hope, that Sumeru, the golden mountain in heaven was going to have my name. For this I have lived, for this I have staked my life; for this I was ready to kill the whole world. And anybody else can erase my name and write his. What is the point of writing it? I will not write it.” The gatekeeper laughed. The emperor said, “Why are you laughing?” The gatekeeper said, “This is strange, because this too I have been hearing from my grandfathers — that chakravartins come, and seeing the whole story, just turn back; they don’t write their names. You are not new: anybody having a little intelligence would do the same.” In this whole world what can you gain? What can you take away with you? Your name, your prestige, your respectability? Your money, your power — what? Your scholarship? You cannot take anything. Everything will have to be dropped here.

One must not reject the fact that they are rejecting things.

People need to externalize their power in order to live in consensus reality. When they externalize their power, they must create abstractions to which they will delegate their power. Money is such an abstraction of delegate power. In other words, money has value because people mutually agree that money has value. Money has no intrinsic value in itself. Many people can't see beyond this abstraction and spend their whole lives chasing money as if it's the Source of true Power.

When the feminine role moves into the territory of the masculine role, the masculine role has two options: 1) Move into the feminine role. This is simply a reversal of roles. 2) Become a stronger man and change the definition of masculinty. @Karmadhi It seems that you have chosen the first option. Instead of whining on forums like a woman, try to become a stronger man and choose option 2.

Easy. Make it private. Then the problem becomes how to improve private education, but that is an easier problem to solve.

When you are born, everything is new. When everything is new, your mind needs more time to perceive your surrounding. Thus, your time perception is slowed down because you need longer time to perceive your surrounding. As you age, everything around you becomes familiar. When everything is already known, your mind doesn't need to assign as much attention and time to perceive your surrounding. Thus, time appears to go faster when you get old. You can solve this with an experiment... If you are going home via the same route for a long time, change your route if you want your perception of time to slow down.

@Dumuzzi Beautiful.

Good interview... However, @Leo Gura I didn't agree with your definition of spiritual bypassing. Here is a more correct definition: Spiritual bypass or spiritual bypassing is a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks". The term was introduced in the early 1980s by John Welwood, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist. In other words, people tend to use spirituality to bypass their emotional and psychological development. As a spiritual teacher, you should be aware that you might introduce spiritual bypassing into your students. For example, some of your students believe that taking 5-MEO-DMT will solve all their life problems, while they haven't actually actualized their most basic needs from the Maslow pyramid.

There is no such list. You can try watching in time chronological order and focus on the videos that interest you. More important than watching the videos is doing the WORK. Only watching videos is counterproductive.

Maybe because he hasn't found the hot witch girlfriend yet...

@Leo Gura Proposal for an experiment. 1) Take 10 people off the street (random sample). 2) Give them the 5-MEO-MALT substance and some information on what they could expect from the experience. 3) Make them fill out a questionnaire regarding their experience immediately after the experience. 4) Make them fill out a questionnaire regarding their experience 1 year after the experience. How has their life changed since then? Question for the experient: Are we trying to maximize shortterm or longterm insights/happiness/love?

Your score from primary psychopathy has been calculated as 1.4. Primary psychopathy is the affective aspects of psychopathy; a lack of empathy for other people and tolerance for antisocial orientations. Your score from secondary psychopathy has been calculated as 1.9. Secondary psychopathy is the antisocial aspects of psychopathy; rule breaking and a lack of effort towards socially rewarded behavior. You score for primary psychopathy was higher than 16.15% of people who have taken this test. You score for secondary psychopathy was higher than 20.5% of people who have taken this test.

This is not about vaccines. Governments have been lying to their people for too long. People who refuse the vaccines can intuit that the government is not an honest player.

The governments can only regulate the on and off-ramps into crypto. Meaning, they can only regulate exchanges where fiat currency is being exchanged for cryptocurrency and vice-versa. Once you are in the cryptocurrency world, you are part of a closed system where the government has no access. The governments are already regulating the big exchanges through KYC and other types of regulation. The problem is not regulation. Teal Swan has enough foresight into the future. The power with the current fiat-based economic system is that most of the world's labor is priced in fiat currency. When the whole world works for fiat money, the centralized institution that issues fiat money becomes very powerful. This power eventually leads to corruption. For example, the US government is currently passing $1,000,000,000,000 (that is a Trillion, or a million million) stimulus packages, most of which is being issued by the Federal Reserve. This money first goes to the pockets of people who are close to the people in power and then it trickles down into the rest of the economy. This is counterproductive because usually the most corrupt people are in power and they get to decide how labor is allocated in society. The economic system has to move away from centralized issuance of money, to a decentralized one. This in principle, should decrease corruption and provide a more stable balance in the issuance of money. Thus, instead of a centralized fiat-based system, the system has to transition to a cryptographic decentralized system. This transition will take years, perhaps decades.

Check out - Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

Can you intuit that you are not the subject that has experiences, but rather you are the object of experience? What I mean is the following... when you look at this text, can you shift your identity from being the reader to actually being the text? Can you feel that you don't have experiences, but rather you are the experiences? Values are primary motivators for action. "Accessing" the "formless" dissolves all hierarchies of values. Since the "formless" has no values it has no prescriptions for future actions. This gives you the freedom to do absolutely anything you want, but you lose external validation as a motivation factor. In other words, you are free to do whatever you want, just for yourself and not for somebody else.

Nietzsche looked into the abyss and went mad. Socrates looked into the abyss and was sentenced to death for "questioning" the norms of society. It appears that philosophy comprises of looking into the abyss and attempting to bring it back to society. The problem with the great philosophers is that they are always ahead of their time. Thus they are never recognized in the time in which they live. So if you want your philosophy to survive, you have to look into the future and bring it into the present.

It is easy to uncover your cognitive biases. However, when your biases are deeply intertwined with your emotions (a place where rationality doesn't reach), then your biases are impossibly harder to uncover. The point of this contemplation is to "feel" the bias, not rationally think about it. How does it make you feel? why?