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@Leo Gura Would you say he is hurting America and his Audience? It should be a crime to be so biased as a reporter.

@BadHippie I mean, we need to be somewhat sheep because there is way too much information for us too know everything and be completely sovereign. We need news and experts. We need cohesion though. Noise makes sense to me too, people are being fed different stuff.

The problem with Fox is how they strangle so many events and speeches together in their own concocted biased interpretation of what is happening it creates rage and fear in people when there really shouldn't be. These people at fox don't know how to run of government, deal with a pandemic or deal with difficult foreign affairs yet they speak as if they do and it is creating a riff in the collective epistemology of the country. There has to be a way to clean this up. How will 50 more years of this shape the world? Like when reporters say "so and so failed to do this" I mean, sometimes the problem is still on going. I notice a similar thing happening in Canadian election debates. The formatting is so fucking bad and people are so low brow its a waste of Canadians time. IF you are just consuming news media you have no fucking idea what is really going on. You are sheep in a herd. Where are the Good Shepperds? I read some of George Orwells diary entries. He said the same thing was happening in France way back in his time. Different biased newspapers being distributed around the country all with their own selfish interests and biases. This type of biased information distortion is nothing new. But, the media has changed...

Wow beautiful Also a huge housing crisis in Canada

The anti-cult

Lol stupid question. Your life is in your own hands.

@itachi uchiha He does't directly promote it, but it's part of the future for mental health and spiritual awakening he speaks about it and includes it in one of his documentaries. In a few classes he mentioned positive reports in studies done with LSD. The documentary touches on 5meo, lsd, mushrooms etc in one of the interviews. https://superhumanexperience.io/ No, that is in no way true that ALL spiritual teachers hate them. Many speak well of them actually. There is a lot of spiritual perspectives out there. They don't all align in every area. Like nutrition. That being said... compared to Qigong or meditaion what psychedelics do need it MATURITY. Like, more than 99% of people likely have. The deeper you want to go the more God asks of you. Always do research, take proper protocol and learn and improve each trip to make things safer. Psychedelics are a field of mastery and the spiritual insights and states the provide are worth more than gold. They require a shit tonne of respect. These substances are not like a beer or smoking a join. Some of them are very powerful and take years of practice to use properly imo. Spirituality has degrees and layers to it. The deeper you want to go, the more risk and challenge you will face. You don't need to do any psychedelic. But, know that they are indeed powerful spiritual tools if used properly and with respect. Don't beat yourself up for misusing or abusing them as you are going through your experimental/ maturing phase as a young person. Avoid abuse and poor protocol like the plague if you can. Do mature grow and become an advocate for safe practice.

Research positive vs negative motivation. Sounds like you are using negative motivation. When things are going 'well' what are you avoiding? Once you are avoiding that thing, you likely quit because your motivation is built on avoiding a bad outcome or something. When you use positive motivation, you are moving toward what you want which should feed your drive. Consider the LP course for a deeper dive. There may also be deeper issues that needs to be addressed and it might be a food idea to read books about cognitive behavioural therapy. Also, Leo has videos about how we as humans want to remain in homeostasis. When things are changing even if it is positive we tend to fall back. Also, I heard from Owen Cook it's normal for people to develop themselves, get success and then tell themselves " I don't deserve it" and they fall back down... start the cycle over again. The early phases of mastery emotional labour is the hardest. The more we just do the work and gain a degree of mastery on the areas of our lives we begin to see a positive feedback loop where the work we do becomes more enjoyable the more skilled we become at it. So, just keep going. That is not a solution, but a reality. You are more than your thoughts at the highest level. However, we need to be intelligent in how we use these lenses and frameworks for our inner work.

@Tim R Nothing about being a mature balanced person in this age is easy. It doesn't matter if it's substances, ideas, practices etc a fool will fuck up anything. But, if you don't try and explore, make mistakes and fail and face yourself and your own stupidity (Which is my daily practice hehe) You won't grow. I know people who claim to be self actualizers, but all they really do is smoke weed and hangout with their friends. So, they abuse substances and teachings yet claim to be spiritually aware. So... It's foolish. We need to be honest with ourselves about how we use substances or any practice for that matter and how it is actually affecting our lives. Be patient, be persistant, increase awareness daily and use self love ahha Really, you spirituality is not an idealology or set of beliefs or opinons you have. It's, how are you actually? Are you joyful? Loving? OR paranoid and full of fear? etc

@Tim R Just gotta use the right ones properly. It's a field of mastery. Don't anti substance dogma me. People can and do use certain substances without abusing them. That being said, I agree and am wary about using substances because of their ability for abuse. However, science shows most psychedelics are hard to abuse compared to alcohol, tabacco, weed, or opiates. You can have good and bad reactions to any drug. Even one you know well I have learned this. But, I am not anti-psychedelic. I am pro learning to master them like any other area of personal growth.

Substance abuse* Everything has risks. Learn to be wise in your systems for living. @Endangered-EGO Don't give up

"There's this fear I keep so deep... knew its name just before I could speaaaaak yea... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

Do you massage your face, throat and nostrils? Do you gargle water regularly to clear your throat? Have you tried using nasal spray to clean out the nasal cavity? Have you been to a doctor or specialist?

State is part of it. There isn't one sober state but many. This is a good start, begin to contemplate deeper into the quality of your state. It also goes beyond simply your state but your thought database and experience database, nutrition, sleep, posture, breathing etc For example, my realization of infinite love isn't a state I am always in or would want to be always in. Yet, I can take that state experience and use it to develop a better baseline state and epistemology that serves me and my community in the long run.

It's strange. The government is trying to keep people safe, meanwhile they fight them tooth and nail ahah

Hello Self Actualizers. Hoping your journey is going well, new discoveries are being made and you are one track with find/ actualizing on your life purpose. I have been practicing Qigong for few months now and I am finding it an incredibly powerful practice. Chi, is a real thing and the practice is shattering my paradigms on energy work and the potential for energy healing. The practice is holistic and practical. I practice under Lee Holden https://www.holdenqigong.com/ I am going to become a licensed teacher in the next year or two. There is so much too it, and so far its been an amazing addition to my yoga practice. I recently discovered Falun Gong, which is apparently a branching of Qigong with a moral philosophy. I am wondering if anyone has practiced it and has any story to share. All I know about Falun Gong is that it was created rather recently, part of an evolution of Qigong I believe. 40 years old. I also know that the Chinese government has been harvesting their organs since 1999, and arresting these practitioners and putting them in jails and re-education camps. Supposedly this was outlawed in 2015, but not clear if it is being enforced. Here is a book on Falun Gong if you are interested in learning more. https://www.amazon.ca/Falun-Gong-Li-Hongzhi/dp/1586131001/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=falun+gong&qid=1611008658&sr=8-3 Claims it is a cult. Not convinced will keep researching. I think there are Gems here from this practice. I don't think is guy talking about it is giving it a fair view, he isn't spiritual inclined or developed and has no understanding of the practicality of Chinese medicine. Staying open minded. This video sells it really well. Looks a lot like Qigong. Video Claims they are alt-right supporters. This could be a cultural disconnect. I am hoping there is gold here. I am trying to create an integral practice of Qigong, Kriya, Kundalini, Soma and various tantric techniques. Honestly, I think Qigong is really important for enlightenment. Far more than just sitting meditation.

I don't understand what you are saying or asking or what you want to do with it or why?

Yeah it is that way. It's low conscious behaviour... Calling it a 'Karen' is unfortunate. But, they exist as a social archetype I think. There are social archetypes that I think exist throughout society and we recognize these things. I don't think people are as unique as they think there are and in a given culture patterns arise. I don't really like laballing Karen, Laqueesha, or generic asian women and teasing and making fun of people the way people do on social media... filming these people to join in on the hating, laughing teasing. Yet, seeing a Karen harass a skateboarder or something is interesting. Part of my thinks the Karen thing is funny and I get it. Though, it's unfortunate. I am interesting in language that helps us understand and get to know people instead of judging them.

See, I am still getting used to the model but.. You can be at stage orange and still have stage red attitude operating at orange. I think.

Consciousness is it's own pre-requisite. The idea of a pre-requisite is dualistic. The word consciousness is loaded. Consciousness isn't something that the brain does, but what does the brain and all of reality. It's all there is. Consciousness is infinity.

I think having neutral in the middle of strange

no escaping self bias. My whole point

@Roy It's interesting, she has an interesting network of symbols and biases and reactions. She doesn't understand that you can be spiritual and still see aspects of human behaviour, that are 'negative' like being 'dishonest' on a quiz. You can see it with love. There are studies that show that humans do in fact not see themselves clearly, and it's a pretty widespread happening in society. She doesn't understand that this is human nature imo. Notice, India when you feel combative with people. That may be your own negativity reflecting back to you. You see things how you are you know. I read in Robert Greenes - Laws of human nature that all people want three things: 1. To feel that they are autonomous 2. To feel that they are good people, basically 3. and that people want to feel that they are intelligent. People want these things, these in some way are the spiritual ideal. But, we are humans as spiritual as we are, or loving or inherently good... We aren't always aware of ourselves as we may one day be, and we often want to think well of ourselves and unconsciously we forget or stop seeing aspects of our negative behaviour. So, when it comes to these online personality tests they are always biased. This is why managers in companies usually get a 360 feed back done on their leader ship quality. This means that they fill our a questionnaire about their own opinion on their management and leader qualities. Also, the staff in the workplace will do questionnaires as well to get a deeper view of the managers abilities. This is because when we do self quizes we can't see ourselves through an unbiased lens. It's part of being an ego, which is fine. Not a judgement. These managers then receive feedback from their own questionnaire and the questionnaire of their staff get a more in depth view of how the managers actually are, and how they can actually improve.