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A great book on this is called “Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a modern Taoist Wizard”

@Ulax There are books out there that guide you through powerful journaling to process past events

I created a contemplation list. The purpose of this is to list out each area of your life, each system involved in your life and journaling/ contemplating/ visualizing your highest vision for yourself in each area. Imagine: 1. Perfectly Healthy organs 2. Perfect Mental Health 3. Perfect Self Acceptance 4. Perfect posture free of pain and excess tension 5. Perfect Alignment with life purpose 6. Perfect Education and access to resources 7. Perfect and complete understanding of reality 8. Perfect clothing material 9. Perfect Stillness 10. Perfect state of consciousness 11. Perfect intimate relationships 12. Perfect Diet 13. Perfect Exercise 14. Perfect Habits 15, Perfect Happiness 16. Perfect Financial Mastery 17. Perfect Understanding of God and consciousness 18. Perfect house hold items Imagine being a lighthouse just shining the highest embodiment for the rest of your life. Just food for contemplation. Don’t be neurotic about it. Just an ideal.

@Aiwass Well, don't post while high and remember to be respectful to others on the forum.

@Michael Jackson Please just offer respect to others on the forum. And a little maturity.

You also need a funnel, and a way of using the marketing to convert people into paying clients.

I am still really trying to figure it out. right now I feel a bit helpless I paid all this money for a marketing course… no results… I don’t know if o am working smart enough.

@Aiwass It’s generally wise to not use a substance daily such as Kambo.

@Aiwass You are tripping behind the wheel of a car are you? Also, please don’t call other people stupid.

@Michael Jackson Can you not derail the thread with that?

There is is a lot of traps here to be wary of. Reality is as it is regardless of what you believe. But, your beliefs shape your subjective filter on reality. As a human in your finite form you are limited.

Can you remember a time when your beliefs changed in the past? What was that like?

@Leo Gura Baa for now *flies off into sunset* ?

This is a good idea. This list can be expanded and used in however your want it. You can use it to: 1. Contemplate 2. Seek progressional help and coaching 3. Seek out psychedelic trips 4. Contemplation 5. change diet and eating habits 6. Research 7. Embody things 8. Go on Amazon, type in a key word and collect a bunch of books you wanna buy 9. Affirmations 10. Date 11. Get direct experience in dating, career etc 12. Just, let go and accept reality as it is. But, paradox! Improve the areas you want to improve. Anything By contemplating your ideal, it allows you to begin to work toward it. It’s a multidimensional list and I wrote it with enough awareness that it should account for most critiques. If you are criticizing it it’s likely your own fears and mental filter.

@Someone here But, the perceptions are just dream. Your consciousness is absolutely powerful and creative. Dreaming an external world and life, the myriad of 10,000 things, etc Reality has the capacity to be rational It’s subtle, but what we normally call a perception is rooted in materialism. A biological creature, who has a brain and sense organs etc. But, all that is really just dream stuff in universal mind. Which is the bubble. Anyway, this is a tangent for another thread. Fundamentally… what is Reality?

Great list or is it?

Yeah, that’s unlikely I think. The masses ego isn’t going anywhere any time soon.

@Leo Gura That being said. I can, and others can be more honest in self reflection when we are parroting/ aping Leo or any other source. Will take time with growth. But, with regards to many relative things I will likely rely on some sort of ‘external authority’. At least to some degree. Worth contemplating. We pick up things from teachers, culture, experts, etc. Even if it’s the language used to describe direct experiences. With more time spend tripping, contemplating, journaling and direct life experience that will be avoided. I wonder as well. Like you learn from someone, and Leo does have some of the deepest explanations you don’t hear anywhere else. Lots of traps here. Also, I laughed Haha

@Someone here Psychedelics. You have a lot of assumptions too. 1. That reality is rational 2. That you have perceptions 3. That Reality is something

If Leo didn’t shit, I wouldn’t either ?

@Someone here Have you considered a paradox is possible here?

@Someone here Do you know that? How do you know reality doesn’t have the ability to perfectly understand itself? @Breakingthewall Maybe that’s 10. Perfect State of Consciousness? Realistically you will not eradicate your ego. You might as well accept that and also work on developing a healthy self acceptance. This is something to be wary with spiritual bypassing.

@Breakingthewall Sounds like your talking about number 3. Perfect Self Acceptance

@Javfly33 “Where were you while we were getting high?” - Oasis

You can live a good life. It will take time. Continue to contemplate wisdom, patience, practicality. You only failed in the past because you are young, immature and ungrounded. You created a lot of your own challenges. I know you have bipolar disorder. But, if you notice how many problems were self created… then, you can develop that wisdom, that balance to live a good life. Simply let life be lived I think. I went through a similar thing. But, I am looking at all my dumbass immaturity, traumas, and all my failures as part of my process. I am working toward developing a deep functional wisdom. What knows what life will bring? I don’t think we are winning one over on life. I don’t think life wants us to fail. Life sort of just is and we can learn to live it well. Simply live well. Make it simple. Not sure if this was a good response but I thought I’d be honest with my thoughts.