Tim R

@Farnaby If you know that it's just a belief, you're already on the right track. Because then you know that it's not true and so it can't be reinforced unconsciously anymore. All beliefs lose (a lot) of their power once they're recognized to be just beliefs. Keep working on your confidence. But don't say "I am not confident and I need to become confident", say "I am confident and I will become more confident". Because confidence is not a black and white thing, it's not "either you are confident or not". Like so many things, confidence comes in degrees. You are already confident, and now you're simply working on becoming more confident. By becoming better at something you will inevitably highlight that before, you were not as good as you are now. That's simply how this works. But let me illustrate how silly this whole situation actually is: If I'm sitting in a plane on the runway and look out the window at the ground and say "well, we want to go up very high with this plane because it's not very nice down here on the ground. But how do we get to high up without reinforcing the fact that we're down on the ground?" The answer is of course: you can't. The higher you ascend with the plane, the more evident it will become how low you were before. Is this a bad thing? Of course not! Or if I'm studying for mathematics, I might say to myself "how do I become better at maths without reinforcing the belief that I'm bad at maths?" You see what a nonsensical situation this is? Just do the work and you will become better at whatever it is that you want to improve at. Because action triumphs over belief. You can believe all you want. At the end of the day, you will see actual results.

@Farnaby That's one of the paradoxes of developing/improving yourself. Realizing that you are good enough is very important. But realizing that there's a lot more better to be had yet is also very important. The key to overcoming this paradox is by uniting the two: perfection + imperfection = Perfection Perfection with a capital P includes, but also transcends both perfection and imperfection. All your flaws are imperfections and you should work on overcoming them. However, you must also realize that all your imperfections are, seen from the absolute point of view, just a part of Perfection. You understand? Leo made a video on that problem (only with dealing with a different topic).

@IAmReallyImportant No??? Germany was ruled by the CDU (a moderate/right conservative christian party) for almost 2 decades, the only party that you could truly consider to be left wing is "Die Linke" and they barely even made it into the Bundestag... Our economy is pretty damn strong... Inflation is mostly due to the pandemic btw. Has nothing to do with Germany.

@Ilan You can link your IG in your signature? (Account Settings >> Signature)

@WokeBloke Most of your posts are much better suited for journaling instead of posting them in the main discussions, you should give it a try The main discussion areas are, as their name suggests, intended for discussions. https://www.actualized.org/forum/forum/16-self-actualization-journals/

@WokeBloke Yeah, because you already answered it yourself: Yes, "thinker" is a thought and all conceptions that try to answer your question are just more thoughts. There is no thinker of thoughts. "thinking thoughts" is redundant speech, so is "thinker of thoughts". As I said, you're confused by language, that's all.

@WokeBloke You're just confused by language, that's all it is. No need to make this so complicated.

Which of both should one focus on? Or both? How to know which one to focus on?

"Body" is a thought. But "thought" is also just thought. Hence, the body isn't thought you understand?

Because there is neither preference nor aversion, everything that can be, will and must be. Infinity = Love

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingDerps/comments/qgg72w/we_rescued_a_tm_a_little_while_back_and_those/ This is exactly what it's like trying to get you to see who you are? (don't forget to turn on the volume in the video!) "That's you! You're barking at you!"

@Leo Gura Lol. There are many scientists who are into metaphysics and spirituality who know that science, like anything else that is of the world, abstract and conceptual, isn't real. Count me one of them. I think there are even a few scientists on this forum who know just exactly that.

Be careful not to turn anti-science. There's a difference between meta-scientific and non-scientific and many (I'm almost inclined to say most) people fall into the trap of confusing the latter with the former. They watch Leo's videos on science and then turn anti-science because they don't even know what most of science is actually all about to begin with. Most scientists are not in the business of metaphysics or philosophy and that's perfectly okay. The vast majority of people have a completely naive and utterly inaccurate idea of what the average scientist does or what the scientific community is up to in most faculties and fields. And unless you have experience with scientific work or doing science yourself, you can be pretty damn sure that you're one of them.

That study is from April 2020 and not at all accurate anymore. Don't let this thread derail.

Stage Red Examples Mega Thread? ?

Not sure if I'm more inclined to believe this or Terence McKenna's stoned ape theory lol? @Endangered-EGO Getting away from suffering is the suffering (but I know that you already know this). So yes, it's impossible to get away from suffering. If suffering is the attempt of getting away from suffering, then trying to get away from suffering is like trying to draw a square circle. It's meaningless. It's not a real problem because there's no way of solving it. The only way of "solving it" is by dis-solving it; the alleged problem - which is "I".

Hmm who do you think knows best what your heart tells you?

24. Confusing the relative with the absolute

What do you think about the pharma industry? Is it really always as bad as people say it is? Especially stage green tends to have a (strong) a aversion against the pharma industry, but how justified is this really? Sure, the problem is that they make money with sick people. But if it wasn't for Big Pharma, those people wouldn't be sick but either very sick or dead.

No more or less legit than for example the I Ching. Although, I'd probably rather read the I Ching than Tarot cards. Yup, namely your ass. That's how it works.

What Nikocado does with his life is not a life purpose. It's an addiction/fetish.

@Theperciever You're welcome The microdosing got me into the right state of mind to work on it - which means: approaching other people, talking to them, interacting with them, etc. Everything that a socially anxious person doesn't want to do. I think I like mushrooms more. They make me feel a lot more grounded than LSD. But it's different from person to person, don't forget that.

That you will have to figure out for yourself, you will have to find your own personal sweet spot. The range of microdosing classical LSD-25 is between around 6µg and 15µg. Your sweet spot is somewhere in between that range, you will have to experiment a little bit. Anything above that will probably make you get all loopy and big-eyed? I said classical LSD-25 because many people use LSD derivatives. I personally for example use 1cp-LSD, which is just a little bit more potent. After experimenting for a while, I have discovered 9µg-12µg to be perfect. I once took 15µg and went to work in the lab, which was fun but a bit too much because my thought patterns became distracting and loopy? You will recognize your sweet spot from two things: first, the MD day itself will be a good day. The point of md-ing is to forget that you took a substance. And so what will happen in the best case is this: you will forget that you took something, and a few hours later you will suddenly notice; "wow, today sure is a good day!" And the second thing is the day after. It will feel very "after-glowy", really chill and just nice. That's when you know. Don't worry about that, at such low doses there are no physiological effects like pupil dilation. You'd probably have to take like half a tab for people to notice your pupils - at which point it would be your behavior that would give it away, not your eyes? Yes, there are different protocols. Just google "Microdosing LSD protocols", you'll find plenty. And yes, don't forget to take breaks once in a while. In the end, you'll have to figure out which protocol fits you best. Here you go!? https://sites.google.com/view/microdosingpsychedelics https://www.reddit.com/r/microdosing/ https://microdosinginstitute.com/ LSD is great for microdosing. I've taken a few hundred µg within the last few months and it has changed my life. My social anxiety is pretty much gone, which is just completely insane considering how much I was afraid of approaching or interacting with strangers. I've kicked my coffee addiction. My spiritual practice has been greatly improved. I have become much, much more loving, it's crazy. Crazy, I'm telling you. I'm typing this right now on a MD of mushrooms, they're absolutely great, too? Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions!?

Without a shred of doubt, it is Life itself. Just that there is this wonderful, impossibly absurd, utterly improbable thing going on that we call life. It's IMPOSSIBLE. And yet, here we are when you really get with this feeling that I'm describing... there just are no words. The amazement that there is just anything at all, that there is Existence, and the amazement that this is Love, that it is Intelligence, that it is Self-Creating, that it is Nothing, and that it is a complete necessity because WHAT ELSE COULD THERE BE?? It's an infinite mind-fuck. You just want to die into this Amazement, give yourself to this, forever. If I were to live for only 1 second, it would've been worth it.

More or less. There is something called "Epigenetics", which means that our genes are influenced (either turned on or off) depending on the demands of our lives. For example (and this is a real example and happened like this with many of the parents and children of WWI and WWII) When someone who lived during war time suffered from starvation and famine, there is a high chance that if their children grow up and live during peaceful and opulent times, they (the children) will develop obesity. Because the genes of for example the father who starved in war had to regulate his metabolism to be on low flame and process energy intake as effective as possible, with as little as possible of the food intake going to waste. His child however doesn't suffer from starvation anymore and has more than enough food, but he still has the epigenetic configuration of his father who suffered from famine, and so his body will think "well, we're still in war and there's nothing to eat around here, let's save everything we can" and so he becomes obese. It doesn't have very much to do with how conscious you are. Your body will simply adapt to the demands placed upon it.