WonderSeeker

Amen. Somehow raging about Repubs became more popular than generating momentum with good Dems, even in this forum. Drama is clickbait. It's a distraction. The real gold is recognizing we are seeing a generational talent and throwing everything behind him instead of worrying about the orange clown talking about men's asses at his rallies.

This was the one Leo posted though

You literally have a dog in your profile picture... I thought this was your dog! Imo pets are like having children. Growing up my parents always had cats. So, we had cats in the house and it was always a joy. However, being more conscious now I would have spent less time picking them up and playing rough games with them. Animals are sacred and need to be treated with care and respect just as you would your beloved. When you get one, try to understand the world from their paws. The animal will sense you are doing this and open up to you in the most beautiful ways. I experienced this with my parents cats when I'd come home from college for vacation after having done some meditation or psychedelic work. The animals would be so open and natural (versus treating them as property).

Personally, when I look at the most mainstream self-help books, I always say "gee, that might make a good doorstop!" Why read this when I could have read just a quarter of the Book of Not-Knowing? I'd be wasting my time. After reading over 100 books, I will take a higher book every time, not something that's loaded with BS tips and tricks that flood the mid with shit

Letting go is so next-level. If you actually follow the right protocol with the right guidence, you'll think it's almost as good as psychedelics. Not in the crazy, insightful mind-blowing kind of way. But in the self-kniwing, the self-loving, and in the breaking down with tears and forgiveness kid of way, for example. All of which notice, you can get on psychedelics too. Personally I've used Julian Blanc's program which is based on David Hawkin's Letting Go book and consultations with Teal Swan (and possibly others). The program and it's meditations kicked some ass for me and I still use it over a year later. Letting Go helps clean up your shadow so you can develop with less friction and internal demons getting in the way. You let go of your commitment to fighting the demons and become one with them so you can all run together like a speed-trwin to ever-higher consciousness. Without letting go my progress in spirituality would be tainted with shit stains upon shit stains. Ken Wilber said shadow work is mandatory. To float up to the next level you gotta lose dead-weight and letting go does that for you. I digress...

My parents nearly got me tested for autism as a child. Years ago I asked my mom why she never did it. She told me "it just didn't feel right, I didn't believe you needed it." I'm not autistic, but I am introverted as fuck. Which is why I moved to an introverted society after developing my extroversion skills for 3 years straight in America. Now I can be an introvert and still have social results without doing jack. This test made me laugh several times because as I was taking it I knew which answers implied which side (autism vs non-) and I had to make myself still answer truthfully. My ability to read people down to their moment-by-moment emotions probably saved me. 15 years ago I couldn't make eye contact, but that was due to trauma. Autism is supposed to be more a built-in thing. Never assume you have it unless you get tested and put yourself out there if you're an introvert and never have. We all need some baseline loving, physical touch, etc., etc.

I recommend watching this interview of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed running for US Senate. He's young, charismatic, and a great male role-model. He's intelligent, IQ-wise, and displays empathy for those in his community, both through his words and track-record. He is solid green and I'd dare to say has rays of yellow piercing through in the way he thinks about issues and problem-solving. While he still frames things in terms of corporations vs people (which is mostly accurate green framing on the topic of wealth concentration), it's worth noting he also goes into how he's derived his values and how many of them are principle-based. Plus he campaigns like a fuckin bull and when he wins his Senate seat, he will have earned it. The part I think many are missing though is he's not just running to be in Congress. If you pay attention to the way he's campaigning and what he's actually talking about, you can see 1) he's thought deeply about America and her problems, 2) he's painting a new, uniting philosophy that regrounds us in the Constitutional Framers' vision, but from our current vantage point, and 3) he actually knows how to market his vision to make it click into voters' realities (which has been a big downfall for 99% of democrats and progressives, post-Obama). In this very interview he talks about trying not to be ideological itself. Not that he's as good as a mystic at doing it, but it's a breath of fresh air to see a political candidate thinking more in the direction of truth while strongly rejecting corruption and bullshit every chance he gets. He's got a strong brand and an excellent vision behind it. Plus, he's got real swag. Like, REAL, alpha swag. You cant change a whole country with one person, much less do it overnight. But with Abdul I see something different. He goes meta and outside of the box in his thinking.

Last time I checked this is happening in October. Curious to hear from the attendees on what it's like post-retreat.

I would love a mature/conscious girlfriend like you @Miguel1, but it's a lot to ask from people. You'd probably have to approach 1 million women to find 1 that's doing this stuff, because that's how rare this journey is. I'm kind of in between. I mainly just want a girlfriend who is real enough and is willing to put up with some of the compromises the spiritual mission I'm on requires from her. She won't necessarily come with me on the soul journey, but she can come with me physically, and we can enjoy human companionship. I think it makes no sense to throw out dating 100% because that's an important thing to keep as you progress through life (transcend and include the human).

You may be a masochist. Now there's an idea!

@Natasha Tori Maru Oh wow, I just realized our responses are similar and I only read yours after typing out mine. If you had to be a fairy, a princess, or a queen, which one would you be and why?

Their sensitive nature and the trust they bestow men to care-take them. As men we think we game women, but most of us only have mid-level game at best. Usually women just let us game them. At their most feminine, they love making fantasy into reality and cursing men — in a good way — to let go and embrace those fantasies. Women wanna be fairies, princesses, and queens, and men to join them by acting out complementary roles. As men, when we work too hard on truth we become stiff and dumb, and women help us to break that. I love that about them. Women have repaired my spirit, even saved my life, time and again. With their words, actions, and spirit.

The other night I had a dream that I got flushed down a toilet. Visually, I saw myself flowing through these shiny, meandering chrome pipes. Feeling-wise it was extremely intense, like the pressure of the Mariana trench, right in the plumbing of your toilet. I could literally hear the sound of the water and me pushing against the insides of the pipes like the whole system was getting ready to burst. The process all happened in an instant. Yet somehow, it felt like it lasted forever. The second I woke up, millions of atmospheres of pressure evaporated and I felt amazing relief in my body. If you ever wanted to know how the journey of a human shit in modern toilets feels, you have your answer. The message this dream is sending is that life today can feel like a lot of pressure. Therefore it's important to create space and time to deliberately take that pressure off, like a bad outfit.

I used to play attraction like a video game. I still remember doing 130 sets in 5 days in Miami. That was with RSD... haha, good times. But after approaching over 400 sets in a season with only a handful of dates, I switched gears entirely. Dating really is the most twisted of all self-help fields. Because, you can be brave, do all of this approaching, and still end up with nothing. Not saying that's you, you've gotten results. I know a guy in France who has done 1000s of approaches and still hasn't gotten laid.

I asked an expat colleague who's been here a while. She said that's not a China thing.