For all you artists and creators who want to escape the wage slavery. The biggest opportunity in the world is happening now.
I'm sure most of you are aware of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology by now. If you really took the time to research, and understand the technology, you would see how incredible this opportunity is.
I've known about Bitcoin for over 8 years now. Since then, I have watched the space grow and flourish rapidly. Blockchain technology is where the big revolution is happening.
As a result of the growth and development in the crypto community, there has been an emergence of something called NFT (Non-fungible Tokens). This is basically a way to create unique digital goods that people can exclusively own.
The art space is especially thriving with NFT.
It really takes some big picture thinking and a deep understanding of technology and human behavior to really see how valuable this is. Let me put it this way, the kids that are growing up today mostly live in a digital world called the Metaverse. Imagine how they would spend most of their time 10 years from now. This is an upgrade and paradigm shift to the Internet as we know it.

Here is some introductory information about NFT: https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/what-is-nft-non-fungible-token-guide/
NFT News:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/nft-sales-volume-surges-25-bln-2021-first-half-2021-07-05/
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/09/millennial-artist-made-over-130000-selling-nfts-in-about-5-months.html
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/11/22325054/beeple-christies-nft-sale-cost-everydays-69-million

 

I read a rather profound book by osho: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/priests-and-politicians-osho/1123191887?ean=9781938755880

This book was rather profound. Essentially, no spiritual man can ever enter politics as spirituality diminishes the desire for greed, ambition, vanity, ego. Politics requires fraud and deception, something no spiritual person can ever partake in. The most profound and radical insight I got from this book, is that only those with inferiority complexes ever enter Politics. It is a way of getting rid of inferiority complexes, only a mind wounded by inferiority is a political mind. 
The society is ill, and no Buddha can conform to the society, because the society is neurotic and a Buddha is not. 

Notice how mediocrity is affecting you. Our ancestors would consider modern life paradise, yet so many are unhappy. 

Hello friends, 
Please share the most motivational books on how to play the money game in capitalist stage Orange. 
Success and work ethic oriented books or other resources such as podcasts, blogs. 
Btw, I'm not looking for some tricky deceitful ways to make money and step on anyone's head. I want to work hard and smart and tap into the drive and ambition of the healthy stage orange.
Thanks!  

Here you go @Intraplanetary
Allan Dib - The 1-Page Marketing Plan
Cal Newport - Deep Work
Cal Newport - So Good They Can't Ignore You
Frederic Laloux - Reinventing Organizations (Stage Yellow book about doing business and management. Opens your eyes to what is possible in that game.)
George Leonard - Mastery (Do not mistake with Robert Greene's scheisse)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Good Business (It's a Yellow book actually, but so what)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow
MJ DeMarco - The Millionaire Fastlane (The amateur sociology part of the book sucks, conflating stage Green with stage Red and calling it all "Sidewalk", while Blue is "Slowlane" and Orange is "Fastlane", otherwise AAA book, the best one on becoming entrepreneur.)
Peter Senge - The Fifth Discipline (It's an early Yellow book from the 90., worthwhile read for any business owner, is an intro to systems thinking.)
Ryan Honeyman - The B Corp Handbook (Stage Green book on having a conscious business, not sacrificing your values for money. It includes and improves on stage Orange ideas.)
Seth Godin - Purple Cow
Seth Godin - This is Marketing
Simon Sinek - Start With Why
Harvard Business Review - 10 Must Reads on Managing People
Harvard Business Review - 10 Must Reads on Managing People, Vol. 2
Harvard Business Review - 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (Unabridged)
Jack Canfield - The Success Principles
Michael Gerber - The E-Myth Revisited
Michael Porter - Competitive Strategy (Business 101, it's a classic academic book.)
 

This was one of the big problems I had when I at 16 finished the life purpose course 4 years ago. And if you look at my profile picture and username that I created back then, it roughly reflects my state at 16.
When I was 13 I started programming and I was able to see that the traditional education system was not the most effective way to become a programmer. I'm pretty sure I also knew back then that I was not going to be programming for the rest of my life but that I would be able to get a job as a programmer if I ever needed one. You might say I was a bit too optimistic, but I had my first client I worked for and earned $ 1500 at 14.
So at 16 I choose to leave the education system to learn on my own. I was faced with the harsh reality of no longer being part of a system. No external structure, no teachers saying what you should or should not do. I did well back then, but it was much more like that  I found this interesting, let me complete a course about it and then that would lead to the next thing. The life purpose course was one of the first courses I went through and I still have the notes from back then.
I have to say that the course was valuable but as Leo also says, he would not coach young people since they would not have enough life experience to be able to know what their life purpose was. At the end of the course I ended up with this life purpose:
"I want to build a team that makes software that completely changes peoples lives"
It is in the right direction as you will find out soon.
At 17 I discovered systems thinking from actualized.org and later Getting Things Done by David Allen. I found it so exciting to develop a system that could take all the things in your head and organize it into projects and tasks. I then found even more advanced ways of organizing your information. How you could develop a
Learnings system that would make you extremely effective at learning (A mini version of the educational system develop for self study)
Planning system that would make you continuously be aligned with your life purpose
Organizational system that would manage all information about the different areas of your life
Right before I turned 18 I got a job as a part-time developer and this way I got the money to be able to pay thousands of dollars for coaching from different people who know a lot about personally managed systems.
Now at 20, I have a very effective system that keeps me aligned with my life purpose. I call it a Personal Information Management System (PIMS).
Right now I’m going through my notes from the Life Purpose Course again. This is my first draft "Unify Humanity In A Cohesive System" and my sub purpose is to "align individuals with their purpose". I know I want to help individuals with a bigger purpose align themself with it by implementing a system that supports them to insure progress. Creating crystal clarity about what they need to do today, that is aligned with what you want to do this week, month, quarter, year, 4 years, 10 years, 20 years and your lifetime.
The 4 year and above is possible, but most people would get so much out of getting a system that would just manage from days to a year.
Then later I want to help teams in companies, then entire companies and then maybe get into government.
If you can see the value in having a self imposed system rather than an external imposed system (the education system, the work system at a job) that you can change so it most effectively supports you doing the things that will make your life purpose a reality then please send me a message so we can talk. Right now I really just want to talk with more people and find out what you actually want. Maybe we will also set up a system for you.
PS. If you want then I could also explain how the ideas from leos video about systems thinking apply to a personally managed system.

What a beautiful implementation and representation of 2nd tier spirituality and systems thinking. Notice that he's not trying to push awakening down to people's throats like some dogmatic preacher. You don't earn people's trust that you have their best interest when sharing your spirituality by just undermining them like some arrogant asshole . Rather, give them certain practices that will have some great benefits that may seem rather small but it sets the stage in establishing a positive relationship to the practice. 
If you aren't familiar with Rebel Wisdom I highly recommend checking them out. They have a really great platform and community and it's a delight to see. 

124.  Summary: The Secret - The Truth They Didn't Tell You  
-This episode goes hand in hand with the episode The Law Of Attraction - How It Really Works & How To Use It.  Summary can be found here.
-The Law of Attraction is an amazing, powerful tool to advance your life, career, relationships and personal development.  (Leo does LOA visualizations like a religious zealot for 30 mins every single morning.)
-The Secret is a personal development movie that’s really about the Law of Attraction.  The movie is popular but somewhat controversial.  Leo rewatched it expecting to react negatively.  However, the movie was so powerful and resonant he had to admit that the overall gist of the movie was completely true.  (He even teared up watching it!)
-The Law of Attraction says whatever you focus on you will get more of, whether negative or positive.  So, instead of focusing on things you don’t want, shift your focus to what you do want. Visualize and focus on what could go right instead of agonizing over what could go wrong.
              Your attitude is a self fulfilling prophecy.  When you expect catastrophe you get anxious, insecure and fearful.  When you act from a disempowered state your actions are feeble.  When you constantly worry about your problems, they get bigger.
              Consistent positive focus improves the quality of your thoughts, which elevates your attitude, which energizes your actions and creates awesome results in your life.
 
Criticisms of The Secret
1) It focuses too much on materialism.
              The Secret shows people using LOA to manifest money, cars, diamonds, a wicked faberge egg collection and so forth.  That's actually the least useful way to apply Law of Attraction.
              LOA is best used for developing inner qualities, not manifesting material goods. Visualize being more confident, having a strong work ethic, a healthy body, a charismatic personality and more energy to fulfill your life purpose.  That raises your overall experience of life much more than having a bunch of stuff.            
              Building up skills and inner qualities is more powerful because it affects all other areas of your life.  High energy will affect your career, your hobbies, your exercise regime, your love life and relationships.
             Don’t pray for things.  Pray for yourself to become better to acquire those things.  Don’t pray for a million dollars.  Pray to become someone who thinks like a millionaire, then the money will flow naturally.  Don’t pray for a hot witch gf or a Chris Evans lookalike.  Pray to become someone who’s happy, confident and irresistible to a coven of hot witches (who preferably aren't psycho).
 
2) It says LOA should feel easy and effortless.  That’s VERY misleading.
               The Secret says “the universe will rearrange itself for you” and things will "magically show up."  That's not going to happen.  You need to take action.  (Besides, if the universe responds so strongly to thought, wouldn’t it respond even more to action?)
               They say the process should always feel super good, or else you're "out of alignment and not doing it right."   That’s totally untrue.  To setup that kind of expectation is to create failure.
               Even if you're a very grounded, very solid executor in life and totally on your life's purpose, you're still going to face a lot of challenge and hardship.
               If you want to become a millionaire, you're going to have to start a business, or climb the corporate ladder, or invest in something, or create multiple projects.   So visualize the goal, desire the goal, but realize it's gonna be a long process.  Sometimes it'll feel effortless and nice, but a lot of times it's going to be mundane brute force work.   So LOA and visualizing energizes you towards taking all those actions.
               Wishful thinking is not a sound life strategy.
 
3) It says LOA is caused by “paranormal forces.”
               The Secret uses metaphysics as a marketing gimmick.  It says there are thought waves blasting through the universe and out of your head and it pulls money to you magnetically.
               Ordinary mechanical laws are enough to create and attract what you want.  You interact with the world mechanically through your mind and body.  That's the only way you’ve ever interacted with the world and that's enough.
 
4) It gets quantum mechanics wrong.
               The Secret says LOA has been proven scientifically, which is nonsense.  There's a tendency to quote quantum mechanics because it sounds very official.  The leading consensus from scientists is that there are no quantum effects going on in the mind.  You don't need a quantum connection.  Mechanical laws and Newtonian physics are enough.
               Personal development happens on the level of psychology, not quantum mechanics.  You’re better off talking to a psychologist about personal development than a quantum physicist.
 
5) It says The Secret has been held back from the masses.
              The Secret isn’t really a secret. The Secret blames the elites for holding back LOA from the little guy.  In fact, it's been publicly available through books and various religions for thousands of years. 
               The only person withholding The Secret from you, is you. It’s you not believing the power of visualization or positive thinking.  It’s you not taking responsibility for your own life.  It’s you who’s constantly worrying about problems and attracting more of them into your life.
 
-After studying hundreds of books and hundreds of thousands of dollars of personal development material, Leo says the real secret to personal development is discipline.  Ultimately you need incredible discipline and control of your mind to totally transform your life and fully align with the Law of Attraction.  It’s not effortless, but it is one of the most powerful tools to get everything you want.
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So I know nothing about psychedelics, but I would be curious to try in order to potentially reduce my anxieties/attachment to past/worries. I am interested in the safest/softest psychedelics there are with no long term side effects and also where to get them (I live in Canada)? I am only curious to try once for the experience.

Hello Guys,
First of all, I can say that I have experience with Pscychedelics. I have tripped about 20 times with magic truffels (a sort of mushrooms), read a lot about the subject, I have talked about it with people and (of course) I watched Leo’s video’s. But right now, I have decided to never do it again. Here is why I think it’s best to stop or not start with it.
First of all, it’s not good for your physical health. Your body is fighting against the psychedelics while you have a trip. If you do it a couple of times your health will deteriorate.  Since I quit using psychedelics (and weed!) my body is recovering. I used to be underweight, but right now I am gaining some weight. Other problems have gone as well. You can also see that Leo’s health is not good, big chance the psychedelics aren’t helping. And real growth is connected to physical well being. 
Besides the physical health, psychedelics have also a negative influence on your mental health. Looking back now I realise that I was depressed a lot of times, but since I quit I haven’t been depressed in over a year. (Of course, quiting with weed had a lot to do with this as well!)
The third reason is that you start making progress when you just focus on this life, not the 'tripping' life. The things you have to do and experience are right in front of you, not somewhere else. Once you know this you will start to have more focus and use proper, sustainable techniques for expanding your consciousness.
Psychedelics can only be used for insights, nothing else. There is nothing else you can use in your daily life. So in order to use psychedelics you need to bring these insights back to your normal state and do something with them. There are three problems with this:
First of all, using the insights after you return is difficult. Sometimes you don’t do the things you need to do, but still go to the next trip. In that case the next trip is useless, it only contributes to suffering. Besides that, most insights are too advanced for your current state of consciousness. You cannot understand them after you return, nor can you apply them. After a couple of trips you have received all the insights you  can use. Then you should quit. It’s like Allan Watts said: If you get the message, hang up the phone. Tripping 50 times will get you nowhere!   Growth is slow, every day a step. Don’t look for shortcuts like psychedelics…
I am curious to know your thoughts about this subject! 
 
Cheers, 
Clint. 
 

Wonderful Conversation, very insightful coming from the O.G. himself. Note: This does serve as an alternative to reading the Spiral Dynamics original book. 
 

Such an interesting documentary dating 2011. The channel has some of the most amazing political documentaries.
You can see, where the US lost the war to Afghan people, not to the Taliban.
A great explanation of how Afghan Spiral Dynamics work right now. The best thing for Afghanistan right now is peace/no war. However it comes. 

Have you ever taken any psychedelic before?
In my experience, they shed away everything that is not true such that only truth remains. Then the truth gets amplified and gets shoved into your face with very increased intensity (5x-10x-100x more intensity)
If you truly have an amazing wife that you're genuinely happy with and genuinely want to be with her you have nothing to worry about
If you're actually deceiving yourself about it all, psychedelics will help you recognize that
Personality-wise, I found psychedelics work (At least for me) also as an amplifier. They basically took the most authentic parts of me that I knew and showed me how to 10x them. 

Brilliant observation on an fundamental level. Very Zen.
Maybe Nike can learn from this: Just Be.
 

The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243436.The_Embodied_Mind
 
@Leo Gura Just curious if you've ever gotten around to reading this, and if you've  considered adding it to the Book List. 
Ken Wilber heavily references this non-reductionist approach to cognitive science in Sex, Ecology, and Spirituality, and it's definitely worth a read on its own.
It's a great example of how science can stand to gain by incorporating contemplative practices as a legitimate method of scientific investigation.
It's also valuable as a guide for an enactive approach to cognitive science that pushes back against reductionist notions that cognition is simply a representation of a pre-given world.
To everyone else, I'd certainly recommend the book as a great starting point for scientifically minded folks to start questioning some of thier Materialist and Reductionist paradigms. The book is written in palatable language for people still in that paradigm (it in no way comes across as woo-woo or New Age). 
And even if you've already outgrown that paradigm, the book is still a great example of how questioning science can lead to better science.

I don’t have clarity about how my life turns out to be career-/purpose-wise. I don’t have a plan/vision set out about where I’m going and what I’m trying to accomplish long-term.
I don’t have a specific craft that I’m working on. Rather I, myself, am my own craft.
I deeply feel that the most important thing in my life has been finding my own truth independently and setting deep values for myself. The only thing that I can actually do is to take the next step, say the next word, and take the next action based on my truth and values.
I know that I’m a part of a bigger whole and I’m exactly where I have to be. Everything is perfect. Every situation is turning out to be exactly as it should be.
I deeply feel that my calling is to become a highly conscious individual, self-aware and loving; to be highly functional and beautiful like an instrument that is being played by the Universe. I’m taken care of; I’m being played the perfect music at all times - there are no wrong decisions in life, there is no failure.
I know that my job is to ground myself as deeply as possible in my truth and act on my values and the rest is taken care of. I’m going exactly where I have to go, deeply trusting Life. 
I know that in this way - honing myself as an instrument, I'm preparing myself for a big gig, and I surrender to the Universe completely, to play me when the time comes.
Trusting Life is my Perfection and Freedom.

This has been plaguing my day to day life.
I have a huge addiction to thinking and theorizing.
I keep thinking that Life Purpose is a distraction and that I should just focus on Enlightenment. 
I keep guilting myself into doing things that are not conducive to Enlightenment work because that is what is most important to me. 
Even though my survival needs aren't met, I don't have motivation to meet them. I want to transcend survival. Or go to a monastery and become a monk.
For example: If I wanted to be a self help teacher, an artist, a book author, or a musician, I'd just think that it's a distraction from Enlightenment work. 
Do I focus on Life Purpose and financial freedom? or Enlightenment? Should I just renounce life and become a monk? I don't know what to do man. 
I just overthink everything I do. 
 

I wonder if your overthinking is really coming from fear.  This I suspect. ...?
Notice it. 
Notice the overthinking.  
Notice any emotions in your body.  Sometimes thoughts come as a way to distract from feelings.  Feelings that could be the key to what you want.  Whether they are painful feelings that, if felt and released, would help you gain clarity.  Or if they are fears covering up what you actually do want, or fears about actually becoming conscious of the things you do want.  
Or...
Notice the overthinking.   Stop it.  Get back to what you were doing.  
"Hey!  I'm overthinking again!  Fuck me !" ... and proceed. 
Trust yourself. 
Trust your feelings.
Notice.  Catch yourself wandering into thought.  Come back.
Just like meditation.  = Focus -> Distract -> Reset -> Focus -> ... 
Do you man.  Sounds like you might be helping yourself if you got some of the basics down first.  This seems to be a common trap in spirituality, one I know I've gotten stuck in.  And still get stuck in when I'm desperate.  The trap = Spiritual bypassing real life issues when we're feeling hopeless.   ... But hey, I dunno, maybe you would do good becoming a monk too.  Renunciate.  You gotta make that call.
...
Honestly though, I think if you really just wanna stop excessive thinking, it's just like any other habitual, unconscious, addictive patter.  The basics being
Notice when it's happening.  This'll take some hefty practice in the start since you're so used to doing it on auto.  When you notice yourself doing it, stop.  Bring awareness.  Often addiction are escapes from emotions you dislike.  So see if you can ask "What thing or emotion am I running from?" and see if you feel that.   Be without the thoughts for a bit and get accustomed to the feelings you were probably avoiding.   Then it's just a matter of training yourself with this.   But do what works and feels right for you.  
 
That's my cup every time you think excessively.  

hahaha and talk about synchronicity, one of my go-to book summary sites I randomly checked out has new summary on all four books (eerie )

https://blas.com/the-nature-of-order-1/
https://blas.com/the-nature-of-order-2/
https://blas.com/the-nature-of-order-3/
https://blas.com/the-nature-of-order-4/

 

There's a flipside to that.
The amount of people who I've seen taking psychedelics in their teenage years without any ontological understanding of what they're doing is too many to count. No wonder people end up in asylums, jumping off bridges, converting to organized religions.
If it was down to me I'd have people studying Plato's Cave, the Cartesian Evil Demon and all of the main scriptures, before they even thought of going near their first psychedelic.
You need to have solid ontological foundations, else you'll never defeat the possibility that you're merely just insane.
 
 

Way too much of the US federal budget comes from printing bonds - out of thin air - and the banks buy them with money which is also - printed out of thin air.  So right now, my main concern would be to have the government print money instead of the central banks so there's no interest expense on things like 20 year treasury bonds. 
This would hold the government directly responsible for inflation which is in itself a tax.  The public would think twice before supporting wars or often irresponsible spending programs. 
Lincoln and Kennedy were the only two presidents that tried this and both were assasinated.

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, Twelve Steps
 
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain
 
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Anonymous
 
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29
 
“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon
 
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde
 
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor
 
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill
 
“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
 
“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty
 
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner
 
Peace, Love and Truth this morning... All three will make this world a better place for all of us.

I want to share an interesting experience of mine because I think it could be helpful to some of you  

Over the last 2 months, a natural desire to use my voice has bubbled up, inspired by two major points: 
a) I made the simple and obvious observation that a lifestyle of online-university and limited social contact, both due to the pandemic, leaves me silent most of the day. As a result, my voice got even more nasal, weak, and insecure, and my ability to express myself declined as well.
b) I LOVE language, especially English (not my mother tongue), and I recently attended to this love by diving into literature. At one point, I felt the desire to read out loud.

At first, that led me to intuitively hum and 'om' randomly throughout the day, and even speak words and phrases - it just felt good. Then, I started reading out loud daily for 30-60 minutes (Blood Meridian by McCarthy, and The Waves by Wolff), and this IMMEDIATELY had an impact. Although I live in Germany, my workplace is composed of such an international team that we only speak English there. Being at work, I instantly felt so much more capable of expressing myself elegantly, precisely and accurately. I didn't even have to think about it anymore, it just happened. And it also spilled over to my expression skill in German.

This felt extremely freeing and exciting. But here comes the most awesome benefit I didn't even expect: My thinking became more transparent and clear - meaning, I started to "hear" my thoughts very clearly in concrete, linguistic forms. To some of you that might sound odd, because that's just how you experience thinking (I have no idea), but for me this was a breakthrough. Why?:
One of the greatest challenges to developing spiritually, psychologically and emotionally is to correctly identify what one actually thinks. Otherwise, how would one even spot a wrong belief? The thing is that, although I'd say I'm quite a 'clever' and precise thinker, many of my thoughts have always been too abstract/unclear for me to really understand - most of my experiences of thoughts during my spiritual journey had a quality of cloudiness, confusion, and lack of concreteness. I felt my mind moving but could not make out what these thoughts actually expressed in my mind, linguistically, logically. This changed immediately. 

Since then, just a few days ago, I switched from written journaling to spoken journaling, and it's a complete game changer for me. I'm sitting here for 30-90 minutes every day and have a deep, honest and sophisticated talk with myself. Every day I'm having breakthroughs. I cried many times because FINALLY, just through taking the time to look at what is going on inside of me, I understood why I was suffering, why I kept backlashing. And more importantly, I understood clearly what I want in life, and how I'm standing in my own way. The increase in love and compassion I built towards myself is immense. Speaking in this manner is also a great platform for direct contemplation of reality. Written contemplation and journaling doesn't come close for me. What I am working through in 60 minutes of speaking would take ages to write down. The voice feels like this perfect, immediate instrument of expression. It's very beautiful. Of course, sincerity, focus and refined distinction making is needed to not just brabble randomly. 

Maybe many of you have known this for a long time. I feel like this is why Leo once said his episodes help himself integrate on a deep level what he is dissecting in front of the camera. The voice is such a beautiful thing, use it 

where Leo is wrong about Sprituality, consciousness, science, Religion, culture, peoples, etc. 
What is his biggest loophole?