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I have. I've seen its more effective than paper and less wasteful. I am looking for alternatives. I saw a video showing how water was more effective.

@Btraining You might be interested in 'Synchronicity' consulting to help you. They seem to have a good well oiled system.

Lol, try reading the book of revelations. It makes no sense.

I am working on the inner smile. I think it will pay off over time. Basically you smile and feel into the body and just love the crap out of everything. You slowly reprogram your pain body into a honey like, love body. https://www.amazon.ca/Inner-Smile-Increasing-through-Cultivation/dp/1594771553/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mantak+chia+inner+smile&qid=1627819015&sr=8-1

I guess, don't let the late stage orange scare you as it bring in new stage green lol

Typing some fresh ones that come to mind 1. Where am I along my self actualization journey? 2. What is self acceptance? 3. What does it mean to be wise? 4. What systems do I have in place to ensure I remain grounded? 5. How am I overly dependant on teachers like Leo? 6. How can I take more personal responsibility? 7. How can I bring more consciousness into my life? 8. What is intentional living? 9. What types of contemplation are there? 10. What types of meditation are there? 11. How do I become open minded without losing my footing on survival? 12. How can I use math, logic, reason and strategy more often in my life? 13. How can I balance spiritual pursuits with the very real external environment so I live a balanced enjoyable life 14. Why am I doing this? 15. Why do I enjoy this? 16. What are my addictions? What is the nature of addiction? What tools do I have to overcome this addiction? 17. Why do I know better than I perform or act on a daily basis? 18. Why am I so scared of what people may or may not think of me? 19. Why is the particular thing taboo? Am I brave enough to deeply question this cultural standard? 20. Why do I hate or think this person or group of people is evil? 21. How are my current strategies and life paradigms helping or making my life worse 22. Do I know what this substance, technique or peice of information is? Or has it been distorted through my own faulty database and interpretation mechanisms 23. How do I let go off past errors and mistakes which still haunt me? 24. How do I embrace unconditional love? 25. Why is there this difference between my ideals, my self image, my spiritual values and my ability to embody them. Do I have a practice of measuring this? 26. What are the areas of my life that I am most unconcious? 27. What is the nature of the ego? My ego and those around me? 28. Why do I give such importance to the opinions of other people? 29. What is the difference between a rational thought and irrational neurotic thought? 30. Why do I avoid getting help? 31. How does my need to see myself as strong, independent, a leader or awakened get in the way of my asking for the help I need 32. What false identities am I clinging to? 33. What does the truth matter to me? 34. Why do I fail to change even when I know I should? 35. Why does this thought loop through my head? 36. What is transference and its role in mental distortions? 37. How does my body feel? 38. What would maximal health look and feel like? 39. How would it feel if my muscular and skeletal system were in perfect condition? 40. How many stretches are there? Why are there so many? Have I taken time to feel into my body? 41. What is body awareness? 42. What are chairs? 43. What is the relationship between difference forms of Qigong, Yoga, Meditation, chanting, healing sounds, energy healing, psychedelics, talk therapy, dance, tantric and taoist sex practice, ectsatic dance, community, art, etc 44. What would the best human operating system look like? 45. How am I changing for the better? 46. How has this new tool helped, or hindered my progress 47. Why did I begin this in the first place? 48. Why am I scared of taking action, talking to that person etc 49. What is the difference between the stories I tell myself and my direct experience? 50. What are books? Memes? Threads? Articles how do I treat different pieces of information? 51. How do I research? 52. What is the relationship of time to the human lifespan, hours of work, survival, life purpose, rest, relationships, body bare, mental healthy, personal finances etc and keeping it all balance and harmonious 53. What are skills and what is the nature of skill building? 54. What do I really want? 55. Is this the right technique for this moment in my life? 56. What does it mean to become successful? 57. What is systems thinking? 58. What does it feel like, look like to myself and others when I am totally sober, clean minded, present, without fear of past or future. 59. How can I be my own best friend? 60. What is the difference between using a psychedelic, and meditation? Are they use for all the same goals? How and how not? 61. How have I become complacent with my personal work? 62. How can I improve this health issue? 63. What does it mean that you are God? Does that mean the rules of the game changes for me? Or, am I changing in relation to the game 64. How many hours does each skills, technique, are of mastery involve to develop? Have I created a mock study plan and see how long it actually takes to learn anything? 65. How am I bullshitting myself? 66. What being sane, grounded, wise, truthful and sober mean? 67. What does contribution mean to me? 68. What will my life look like when I am calm, collected, focused, organized, taking the small hard steps everyday, 69. What does the ideal path forward look like to being making positive changes in my life? 70. What does it mean to be a kind, loving person? 71. What does it mean to develop healthy strong boundaries? 72. Who is Osho, Sadhguru, Leo, Mosho, etc what are their simulatirities and differences? Do I see how each one has someothing unique to offer? Am I able to blend the golden nuggets of each teacher? 73. What is consent? 74. What is a healthy relationship? 75. How do I accurately or can I even accurately gauge my own maturity or level of knowledge in the areas of mastery in my life? 76. How can I use my suffering as guide to greater happiness and self awareness? 77. How can I use mistakes as powerful tool of self correction? 78. What does it mean that every day is a new opportunity of adventure in self discovery towards cosmic truth and riches 79. What is spirituality? Why am I pursuing it? Am I doing so in a healthy way (swop in any pursuit) 80. Why am I avoiding doing the things I love? 81. How do the mental movies I play in my mind free me or keep me in a mental prison? 82. What would I do if I was fearless? 83. Why do I NEED to be liked by others to still perform at a high level 84. Why do I hide from myself with social media, youtube, Actualized.org forum and videos 85. What is sleep? 86. What is Art? 87. What is God? 88. What is hard work? 89. What is the value of high quality, consistent habits? 90. What is the difference between models of reality and systems for living? What is my refresh rate? 91. What does it mean that different humans around me are operating with subltly, or profoundly different operating systems, datases, experiences, word meanings contexts, schema etc? 92. How do I navigate complex social environment skillfully and with grace? 93. What is de-armouring and how could it benefit my life? 94. How do I let my gremlins go? 95. How often should I refer back to books? 96. Why do I waste time in fear and distraction and not joy, growth and creativity? 97. Why don't I deserve love? 98. Who am I? 99. What is death? 100. How do I enjoy playing victim? 101. How do I go about watching Leos Videos 102. How do I act impatiently or impulsively? 103. How do I gather and use statistics to form my world view? 104. How do I stop being mechanical and live my own life free of constant mechanicalness and fear? 105. Am I doing this for pleasure or for growth? 106. How does this fit into the larger picture of my goals?

No, I don't think so. Culture will grow slowly and through a non-linear progression. Society will not collapse it will adapt. The climate crises is so tied to survival in general even stage green can't avoid it entirely. These problems exist and transcend what spiral dynamics can explain I think as well. There has been a lot of progress in most areas around the world through stage green protest, law changes etc. We are evolving everyday, slowly yet surely I think. Some more than others.

@asifarahim Thank you

There is an on going pattern I notice in myself, and suspect it is in others of thinking you are either far less, or far more developed than you are. Reality is so huge and complex I think apart from mastering my survival as I head into my mid/late 20's that the universe is going to beat me down until all my crappy short sighted and selfish or foolish actions, habits, beliefs are gone. I think that I am extremely humbled by reality. I am maturing into what other people are, and how important they are to a good life. I used to think fame, success and artistic excellence was all that mattered. I am putting drugs like psychedelics and marijuana into their right place. They are tool that if use sparingly, and with the right intention are powerful. I think I put to much focus on them thinking they either made me more creative, comfortable or would 'awaken me'. Which, happened in some ways. But, also my immature use of these tools I think was counterproductive. At least in some ways, in the short term. I realize that I need to go through my own unique lessons and failures to figure out reality for mysef. I am moving through a painful process of evermore facing myself and my own self deceptions, limiting beliefs and foolish behaviours. My desire is to be a well rounded, well oiled machine that can partake in the social matrix in a way that is well grounded, and helps to benefit the lives of others. I am working on letting go of how I think life 'Should be' and am more embracing how it is. I can't strong arm and force the universe to make me Arcadefire, my favourite band or to turn myself into a rock star. I have proven that through hard work and applying concepts well I can get on stages, get good jobs, meet interesting people etc. However, at the close of my last chapter my blind spots lead to a lot of suffering failure, and destruction of important relationships. Which, have guilted me. Basically, my last chapter in all my efforts resulted in more success than I initially thought possible, more lesson than I could have dreamed of and a very painful, humbling and confusing collapse and failure. I suppose our initial projects in our early 20's usually fail. And my work is still being shared by people and my showcases are still being run in my city even though I don't run them anymore, my ex has taken the idea and kept it going after I caught her cheating on me. I am glad to see my idea out there in the world actually thriving. Even though it hurts I am not a part of it. I am ready for a new chapter, I have a lot of fear, self doubt, deceptions and mental distortion, beliefs etc to work through. In order to do that I have notice that I require more and more mastery, maturity, skills and experience. There is 10s of 1000's of hours of mastery ahead of me as I head along my life journey. I need to keep this boat heading straight and narrow.

I liked a lot of what Jacque Fredrick says about the human condition, but a lot of his solutions seem overly idealistic. I guess my question is, do they really think it will work?

@asifarahim Probably my 3rd or 4th year. I am 25, I started I think when I was 22 or 21? My parents are not educated. My father did not graduate highschool, and my mother simply did a secretarial education. So, for me there is a lot of life skill and things that may be obvious to others that are not to me. I grew up around alcohol abuse and a lot of fighting and unharmious people. There is a deep shame system in my family as a whole. It's hard to trust people because of how I was programmed by my untrusting parents. Plus, I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child. I am overcoming it and working on it everyday but, I don't know what it's like to be say, Leo or someone who is sharper than me. It's been interesting. I suspect over the next year things will settle down, and become more relaxed as I know more about myself and put all these tools I've been gathering to more proper use. Relaxed but active. I have a life to live. By October I will have my accounting Diploma and Qigong Certification. I will be starting my own teaching business, getting into yoga studios and ideally corperate. I think a lot of people who work office jobs will be grateful to learn Qigong. I think by mastering my body, mind and finances I will be golden even though I think my initial LP might be out of reach. I sense new horizons are on the way. I dream of running my own business and I think a lot of people can use more relaxation and body awareness that Qigong provides. There is so much stress people are holding in their bodies.

I have a week off coming up and I am setting up to plan the things I want to contemplate about. I am taking the week to read, contemplate meditate and do yoga and Qigong. A strict, no media all inner work week. I need to let go of my past mistakes and the karmic weight I carry around. Resentment towards myself and resentment towards others. I feel a fear about the future, fear of what might be creeping around every corner of my actions or the actions of others. I have a self acceptance and self love gap to travel accross. I also have a self image and actuality gap to gross. Anyway, any tips or books about self acceptance you think I might benefit from? How I can reflect on letting go of my past failures, reframing them as lessons etc I will dive into this work myself next week.

See a specialist

I kind of think psyched substance is immature and not the best role model for psyhedelics

What are the most important things to be grounded in? I think it's easy to develop some kind of spiritual identity or messiah complex than can become a mental prison For me I think these things are important 1. I am average at best unless I work on it 2. Nothing is owed to me, nothing is guaranteed, spirituality does not make you a messiah or chosen one 3. The world works as a social matrix and I am a cell in this larger body 4. Intentional, sober and practical mastery of life is fundamental 5. I am GOD, but I was God before. Now, I am changing my programming to better live my life based on embodiment and application of higher principles, insights and experiences. 6. Your inner work does not change other people and should be focused only on yourself 7. All tools for personal development need research and to be used properly and maturely. 8. Psychedelics do not change external world at all. You change people and things stay the same 9. You are normal and reality is what it is. Acceptance of the mundanity of it is important. 10. You get what you put into life 11. Stop waiting for some great permanent change of some great purpose or cause or realization. There isn't any. Any purpose is a construction you are creating. 12. Be patient with yourself. Mistakes will happen, your ego will want to cling on to things and make it all about you. 13. No matter what anyone says here, or Leo or whatever, having a therapist to talk to is important. I don't think Leo tries to not make you go to one, but he does talk them down I noticed in some recent clips. You'd be surprised they are actually very helpful. 14. Leo's videos are something that I enjoy, and can be applied intelligently to my life but he is not my leader nor my Guru. He is one of many teachers I will have in my life. I don't believe what I haven't experienced and see that he too can be deluded. No one gets a pedestal. 15. Another thing is that everyone and everything is my teacher Slow and steady. What are you using to ground yourself so you don't go insane, develop a cult psychology, become a Zen devil or develop a messiah complex?

Simulation has good content that is enjoyable to watch. He is going deep on consciousness and God these days.

Hmm, start by dipping your toes into the water. It's a little deep.. It's really powerful stuff. Try taking a quarter of what you took. Also, you are facing your death here. Let yourself go. You will be back. But, you are experiencing your death if you are gonna trip with this. Vaping is like a sledge hammer, even at at quarter of what you took. Experiences vary though. Always ensure you take proper protocol. Thanks for brining up the memory lapse. They totally happen. People need to be careful. I think Leo recommends plugging it.

It's painless. I didn't even notice it.

Hmm, good idea. I will try this out on my week coming up. I listen to too much Arcadefire ahah

Remind me to add to this in a couple days, I've got big list I can contribute.

You are already God. Don't make an ass of yourself. It's funny that on the non-dual level he IS the PRIME CREATOR OF EARTH. But, he clearly is on some kind of weird psychotic ego trip. Let's keep our feet on the ground folks.

I agree. Though, It's hard to say from his accounts what really happened. But, he is really one with everything, he is really free. He just needs to be grounded. He seems to think it was psychosis so that is okay. I hope he feels better.

What are you asking?

Maybe, just be a real, normal person. Wishing you the best. I give you permission to not be special, or godlike and just be yourself. What would a foundation look like, over the next 5 years to then start thinking about non-duality and God? I don't really know you, but I think you are unstable. God is stable. Keep working on it.

This is the common place book. I use onenote for some things, and my reMarkable tablet for a lot of distraction free contemplation and innerwork.