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At the end of the day, the consumer dictates what gets produced. If the only thing that goes through ones mind (as with most people) is the end price being as low as possible, the quality has to decline over time. In order for prices to keep dropping, costs have to be lowered. This is not the result of a broken system, greedy capitalists or anything else. It's the consumer pushing the quality down because of their priorities. That's not to say all products are of low quality. I bought a pair of thick leather shoes meant to last a lifetime 4.5 years ago. They look just like when I first got them, and they'll probably last the rest of my life. Were they expensive? $500 divided by, lets say 55 years, me being 25 when I bought them, assuming I will remain active until I'm 80, which might be a bit optimistic. That's a little over $9 per year. Now compare that to what most people do. Buying low quality items that break or is significantly reduced in usability within a year or two. Products that not only end up costing a lot more in total, but are vastly inferior in quality. Following this, they end up with wardrobes full of garbage quality items that never gets used, collecting dust until they are inevitably thrown away. Not that that's a problem in and of itself. Consumerism is the glue that keeps the economy going

It is entirely possible to have and actively use a smartphone, while simultaneously shielding yourself from most distractions. You just have to put in some effort in setting up a system that works for you. Learning more about how companies trick our brains to release dopamine on certain triggers to maximize screen time will also make you better able to counteract this for yourself. I'd recommend the book Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. Great read.

It's funny to me when people complain about technology making them addicted, taking no accountability for their own choices. Everything is someone else's fault. To anyone thinking like this, I invite a very quick and effective practice of gratitude. Do some research into how people were living 100, or 1000 years ago and compare their everyday lives to your own. Hopefully that'll make you stop feeling so sorry for yourself, and not take all the luxuries you have for granted. This rapid technological growth also seems to demand an equally rapid developmental growth among the peoples of the world. It seems virtually everyone has some kind of mental health issue nowadays. Mental stability is no longer the norm, it's an extreme outlier in modern society. It doesn't have to be this way, of course, but most people are either lazy or cowardice, too complacent or too afraid to challenge themselves and enact growth. It might not be entirely by chance that it is this way. A mentally deficient and dependent populous is far easier to control, and far less likely to rebel against the powers that be.

2025-01-03 20:00 GMT I have gone in and out of clear light more times than I can count following my last post in November. This has simultaneously been the most freeing and developmentally enhancing period of my life, and also the most emotionally taxing. This due to a very close and personal relationship, the one that prompted this growth to begin with. I came to realize that I accidentally overwhelmed this extroverted feeling (Fe) dominant person with the level of Fe energy I was radiating onto them through my constant care and nurturing of them and their needs. This eventually became too much for this person to handle, resulting in a mental breakdown. In hindsight, likely due to feelings of being unable to keep up themselves, even if that was never my intent.

2025-01-03 19:45 GMT Clear Light consciousness radiates an intense and uncompromising extroverted feeling (Fe) energy to its external surroundings, though in a vastly different way. Following this shift, this has become one of my strongest cognitive functions, and is a function I can now wield effortlessly, and even elevate to a dominant position in my cognitive stack when necessary, despite normally being a blind spot for my type. The same goes for my introverted thinking (Ti) function which I've carefully worked on developing for the last 8 or so years. These two functions are now more or less on par with my extroverted thinking (Te) secondary function, and all 3 of them can and has been elevated to a dominant (1st slot) position under very specific circumstances. Most of the time however, these 3 functions play a supporting role in elevating my introverted intuition (Ni) to new heights. Following my very sudden and rapid growth in Fe, my introverted feeling (Fi) has now taken a backseat role, becoming a blind-spot in my cognition. A function I no longer see as valuable. One that actively limits and slows down my Fe, Ti and Te.

As @Leo Gura pointed out, for just $20 a month, you get access to what's arguably the most powerful general purpose model out there, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Sure, you can pay an outrageous amount to be able to use OpenAI's extremely resource-heavy o1-preview and o1-mini models, but these are not designed for every day use, and you're not going to need them 99% of the time. I've used these new models in work-related settings, and while they're extremely powerful if put to good use, they're also complete overkill most of the time. The reason the subscription to use these models is so expensive is because of the extreme amount of resources they consume. I don't know if this is still the case, but with the $20 premium ChatGPT subscription, you used to get a limited amount of prompts with o1-preview and o1-mini each week. I don't think I ever reached either of those 20 or 30 prompt limits during my time with a premium subscription, because I never faced enough problems that was beyond the reach of their other models. There was maybe 2 or 3 occasions where I had very deep bugs in an enterprise-level project I'm building, and where GPT 4o and Claude had no idea what was going on, or what was causing the error. When I gave the new o1-preview model the necessary information about that specific piece of logic, it managed to pinpoint exactly what was causing the bug and why, after thinking for about 1 minute. To conclude, no, I don't think this is not a sign that AI is getting so expensive that normal everyday people won't be able to compete. These extremely powerful models were never intended for general use, and it would be a waste to use them for that. They were designed to tackle highly complex problems with a lot of moving parts, for the few occasions where that's what you really need to solve a problem. For the very rare occasions you may actually need to use such a model, pay by a per-use basis. Don't buy a subscription for it. It'll be a lot more affordable. You don't need a tier 5 subscription with OpenAI to access these models freely without contraints. You can purchase usage from third-party services to accomodate your exact needs. With the release of the full o1 model and o1 pro mode, I would assume these are designed to tackle tasks of an even higher level of complexity. I would struggle to think of any kind of problem I could ever run into where o1-preview or o1-mini wouldn't be powerful enough to help me come to a conclusion, but maybe that'll happen some day, and I'll buy a single prompt for one of these even more powerful models.

If something is an ideology it's by its very definition not something worth following. Why willingly limit yourself to one idea, one way of viewing the world? An ideology stands in direct opposition to change, and as such is a denial of reality itself. It's a self-inflicted delusion.

2024-11-26 20:25 GMT Clear light differs from all other stages in that it doesn't integrate prior stages. It discards them completely.

Trying to kick multiple bad habits at the same time exponentially increases the difficulty. It might prove more beneficial to work on one until your cravings for it is gone, then focus on the next. Working towards kicking bad habits on a permanent basis is a great move for ones long-term health and stability. Hope you succeed.

2024-11-22 16:10 GMT Introverted intuition, combined with radical open-mindedness, I think has done a lot of the heavy lifting for me throughout this 11 year long journey that's now come to an end. Peter Ralson's The Book of Not Knowing played a great part in enhancing my level of open-mindedness, a book that I've read more times than I can count. For my personality, without the combination of the two, I could never dream of making such advances in such a short time, or ever. What pushed me to clear light was completely out of my control. Like waking up one day and winning the lottery several times in a row. I had to meet someone that could 1. produce the feeling of selfless love within me, and 2. would challenge me mentally to such a degree that I'd nearly break down on a daily basis for a couple weeks. The odds of these two taking place at the same time seems astronomically low, but nevertheless it happened. All ties to past stages of development seemingly permanently severed.

So, I just realized I haven't really spoken at all about my spiritual journey since my post more than 3 years ago, where I talked about my transition from Coral (Indigo) to Teal (Violet), my experiences and the shifts it had on me as a person. There is a good reason why I haven't talked at all about my spiritual journey since then, and that's because around this time is when I ended my spiritual journey. I considered myself done, and I was satisfied with where I was. Then about one year following that, another major shift happened in my subconscious, a silent, hyper-focused efficiency in all pursuits and a deeply rooted grounded-ness and peace with all that is. It's surprisingly a lot more difficult to talk about Ultraviolet from the point of Clear Light as it is about as different as any first tier stage would be from Ultraviolet. There are almost no commonalities between the two, and I'm having a hard time relating to this point in time despite not even having spent two weeks since I began transitioning to fourth tier consciousness. So, to get to the meat of it all. What and how did this come to be? Well, you see, I met this girl in school, and through her presence experienced selfless love for the first time in my life. This however was not the reason this change could take place, it was the intense emotional highs and lows that resulted from our relationship, resulting in both more pain and more happiness than I had ever experienced before in my life. This emotional rollercoaster eventually led me to face and unknowingly discard the last remaining parts of my ego. What followed was that I had unknowingly started to integrate the selfless love I felt for her, shaping my very being, allowing me to produce these feelings within and by myself. I didn't know it until it dawned on me a week later, but I had just started tapping into clear light. Looking back, that much is clear. Barriers related to feeling exhausted, physical and mental tiredness, limitations in focus all simply disappeared. While I can obviously still get physically tired like if I don't get enough sleep, since this point in time I've been immune to physical and mental tiredness in every other sense of the word. Even back in Ultraviolet, I would've never believed something like this to be possible for anyone, period. It feels like a transcendence of introversion and extroversion in many regards, as energy is no longer derived from socializing with groups of people or being by myself, but simply through being, resulting in limitless storages of energy throughout every moment of every day. This has been my reality for the past 12 days, and I've tried to test it by pushing myself to an extent that would have completely broken my past self. One such test was to study an extremely technical subject I'm working on, but for 15 hours straight, where 5 minutes of rest follows after 90 minutes of deep focus work until 15 hours have passed. I expected this to completely break me mentally, however it didn't. My focus didn't waver one bit throughout the day and I got more progress done than in the last week and a half put together. Ongoing list of immediate changes and insights from clear light when compared to any prior stages: Introversion and extroversion transcended. Energy flows freely, infinitely at every moment of every day with no effort needed to maintain it. Any and all past barriers and imagined limitations disappear completely. What's left is to witness the endless possibilities of it all, and to casually sail the waves of time. The capacity for deep uninterrupted work is supercharged to what would previously seem like an impossible degree. Sitting uninterrupted with something for x number of hours, be it 12 hours or 20 hours straight makes no difference. It's as effortless during the first hour as it is during the last. The beingness that happens at this stage makes past limitations, self-imposed or otherwise vanish as if they were never there to begin with. Physical capacity is greatly enhanced and too feels effortless when compared to what could be achieved before and what back then would have pushed the body to the breaking point now becomes an effortless dance between mind and matter. An outlook on what is with a profound sense of childlike wonder. Everything becomes magical and interesting, as if opening ones eyes for the first time. Extremely high levels of compassion, warmth and care for everything and everyone around me. Moodiness transcended. Permanent sense of bliss, wonder and unbound potential. Complete disconnect between past and present. No reference points to look back on, even from prior stages like Ultraviolet. There can't be any "after" as all limitations and dualities break apart at this point. It's very appropriately set as the final stage, as there can't be any after, when there is nothing more left for there to be an "after" of. I will probably keep adding to this post as I experience more, and I will date my updates accordingly. I've only "been" at what I perceive to be clear light for 5 days now (while the transition lasted 7 days), and which most definitely has to be a 4th tier stage due to how radically different it is from any prior stage or tier. It's been difficult for me to post about this sooner, as I've been having great difficulty grounding myself in reality following this realization. My body has very much been lagging behind so to say, but it's getting better by the day. 2024-11-21 16:58 GMT More about me. While I've been "on the path" very actively for the better part of 11 years, I've never taken psychedelics, so I've never gotten to experience glimpses of higher states of consciousness, only to drop down again right afterwards. Every time my consciousness has shifted, that new stage has quickly become the new baseline.

Suffering.

It didn't prevent him from attempting to ceise the country for himself. In many ways the system "rewarded" his behavior, as he's not currently spending the rest of his life in jail. Who knows what he'll do this time around, knowing he can violate everything he's sworn to protect and uphold with no consequences.

I lost any and all respect for Lex a long time ago. He's extremely biased and one-sided, while disguising himself as being a centrist, something he most certainly is not. Morally bankrupt, right-wing shill.

Most likely it'll mean the end of democracy. There are no checks in place for Trump. He can do anything he wants and get away with it. He's already now planning to use Musk and his new department to (likely) stack the government and other high-level officials with loyalists. He's already laying the foundations for his upcoming reign. It won't be pretty, but people will get what they voted for.