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Exactly. You can socialize at a low perspective level, or higher perspective levels. And social structures highly influences the level of socialization (country, religion, institutions, communism or capitalism). Also, you couldn't survive without the whole social structure that is currently suporting you. Or maybe you could but you'd need a lot of luck.

Integral made a good point. It shows the power of assumptions at play. Also consider the fact when you move to a new environment ut puts you in a state of mental plasticity. Moving, and those kind of drastic changes, like going to a different country, expands your mind. I like to think we are wired to change environments from time to time. At least makes a lot of sense given our hunter-gather/nomad lifestyles that we went through for millenia. Collective ego is a real thing too. Ask the question: How does my state of mind change when I am with X vs Y group of people? When you're in church you're going to act and think in certain ways which has been programmed into you. Different from when you're in an art class for example.

Low perspectives have a strong emotional appeal to them, they suck you in and suddenly you get all involved without even realizing it. No space for reflexion whatsoever and nevermind any caring for truth. Probably we agree that low perspectives are really easy to adopt whereas higher ones take a lot of work. A quick answer to the question "Why demonizing other perspectives puts you at a low perspective?" could be: because in doing so you prevent yourself from the possibility of actual understanding, or the possibility of doing any crucial discernment about the perspective in question, given that you get attached to a belief or an emotion -which sometimes are very correlated-. This doesn't mean you need to accept all the lower perspectives when you don't agree, especially when they're a hazard. But demonizing is just anti-truth and a really bad habit overall. Its a fun exercise to seek higher perspectives.

That was a good video, looking foward for the next part. I could not come to any satisfying answer myself for the questions yet, but its a really important topic.

I've listened and read Matthew Walker, a sleep scientist, and I've come to the conclusion that sleep is, by far, the best tool for personal development, going meta, having healthy relationships, consciousness work and living happily. It is just mind-blowing. The education system is criminal for forcing teenagers to go against their biology (read the book for understanding this statement better). I've always hated when my mother used to wake me up at 6:30 in the morning to go to school, after going to bed at 00:00 as any other teen governed by their biological transformations, which includes a shift in your circadian rythm at that age, would. Now I understand why I struggled the way I did back then, and this still is to this day something that I cannot come to terms with. I don't blame my mother I blame the system, in fact my mom usually allowed me to stay in bed which was the best thing that could happend to me in that moment, and everyone around me of course used to call me "lazy". Such a shame. If you research the matter enough you will view sleep in a more mature way, taking advantage of it and not neglecting it anymore. I make this post because I intent to share this knowledge with as many people as soon as possible, since we as a collective neglect sleep on a daily basis, and even sometimes we feel proud about it. I am changing forever the way I relate to sleep after reading this book. All the credits to Matthew Walker. This book covers, among other things: How sleep regulates the inmune system. How sleep is essential for memory formation, and how a sleep deprived brain will boicot any learning attempt. What is sleep? Why sleep exists among all living creatures? Does a cell sleeps? And most important, why should you sleep? sleep stages, body systems of sleep such as melatonin production, light exposure, circadian rythm, etc. Other things that you should learn ASAP. "Why We Sleep" on Amazon. Why We Sleep Free Audiobook on YouTube. Note: just a few first chapters, not the full audiobook. Extracts from the book to convince you even further: I am thinking of making a video exposing in great detail everything about sleep and why we should care. That would be a great service to mankind.

I like to view it this way: they (psychedelic entities) are as real beings as a cat or any human, and I like the mindfuck of it.

I was aware of it and experimented a bit. It definitely boost my energy. Withdrawal from caffeine is a hasrh reality though.

Probably that happiness, inner curiosity and motivation is my natural state but very easily corrupted by unhealthy habits and environment.

Chris Williamson just released a talk with Matthew Walker. Matt explains sleep much better than I do.

Maybe maths is a bunch of ways to represent "One" or the "Whole". All the ways you can partitionate one unit. Be it the number one or any other number. Like: 1 = 12*3 - 35 1 = -47 + 24* 2 - 1 For example 24 + 24 = 48, and 48 is itself whole but is also made of other wholes. And going further, any function represents a point in space, it literally is a bunch of arithmetics combined to represent a coordinate, so if you run every function possible at the same time it would fill all the space with points, making just one point. I don't know.

You can't avoid being impulsive sometimes, but you can think your way out of it.

Having a calm baseline consciousness helps, but that's not all. You need to study your own psychology and become familiar with your own ego, your own triggers, your reactions. Compare it to others and see how the people that avoid being impulsive act.

There are dozens of different psychedelics with completely different chemistry and effects. I would explore others if I was you and leave behind those that don't work with your particular body.

I don't.

Thanks, the body is certainly adaptive and it can adapt to harmful things.

@Buck Edwards That is quite an impressive list.

Yes is a balance act, you should push yourself too. People can talk to you and approach you, and you can do the same. There is not better or worse technique really, the important thing is that you put your soul into it. You'll know what personally is best for you.

To clarify with what I just said and that is not misunderstood: there is a difference between being needy and being relaxed while socializing. When you go to social environments is implicit that you're looking for connections.

She wouldn't have the energy to yell in that case lol. This seems more like an upbringing problem to me.

Agree, and I would add: do this in social environments. Do not look for attention, silence is a powerful tool.

It's time for me to upgrade my diet. Wasn't really focused on it for the las months because I was trying to fix my sleep, but now I can get my hands on diet. A couple of days ago I had the idea to control the calories I take in a day and to take the same amount of calories everyday. Of course with high quality foods like the ones shown in this thread. My body is used to eat a lot of calories which will inevitably cause me problems down the road. In consequence, my main challenge is when I consume less calories I have cravings. On the other hand I am trying to quit caffeine, which will make the cravings for food even more accentuated, since caffeine is a hunger supressor. Eating the right ammount is as important as eating the right quality of food. Good thread anyways.

You should combine probiotics with a good diet. Plus, probiotic manufacturers don't care about your health or to create the best probiotics possible. Look for the best alternative without needing to spend millions of dollars.

Have you become addict to coffee already?

Nice, I started with that video too. But what really got me going with basic modeling and learning the main hot-keys is Polygon Runway's tutorials. You'll also learn how to apply basic materials and modifiers there. And this is a great playlist of his tutorials. Following the tutorial looks something like this: watch the video and copy the model in paralel. Like, watch a couple of seconds, change windows to Blender, copy it, and repeat, until you finish the scene. You will spend twice or a bit more as much as the length of the tutorial, which is very quick. But in contrast you'll miss some important concepts and habits like how to do optimal mesh configuration... He doesn't care much about N-gons for example. Also, there are a lot of advanced VFX artists in this forum to ask. I have a scarce understanding of materials, animations, rigging, nodes, cero compositing skills. Right now I am reading an E-book on Packt about rigging for begginers. I am still a begginer.

Is there anyone that does animation as your life purpose? I am drawn to animation making because I love the creation and connections of different scenes to build one short film, probably since I was 11. The thing is I am currently studying music, very proficient at it and could expand my theory a lot there. Just getting started and I intent to keep at it. Should I go to an animation school beside music? I made some 3d models here and there, but never something serious. I was mostly frustrated by the process so I never created anything valuable or even complete. But I think I can really make progress if I go study in a school for animator artists, so that in 5 to 10 years I will be able to create, with less effort, good visuals. Potentially combining it with music. Also, I think there are more good paying jobs in the animation field than in the music world, since CGI and visuals are very demanded. Making animations is a super complex endeavor, specially if you want to make your own worlds and characters. But I find it super interesting. Have you made this your life purpose? If so, what were your biggest obstacles and your biggest motivations? One thing is for sure, I simply can't rely on YouTube tutorials for this. I've tried it. I want to be able to do this kind of visual art: I am on a 3 month summer break from the music school, so I have more time to contemplate and plan the next steps on how to make a career out of this and if it really is for me. I understand it's not wise to jump from different careers constantly and that's why I ask this.