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I wonder if natural intuition later increases and if it itself can be learned/mastered lol. I love this post btw

@ZenSwift I love this

Im still quite unsure about it. I will be moving about 3.5 hours away for work and I have a good relationship with my family and all of my friends are here which is why im worried. Just to give a bit of a background, I started paying rent when I was 17 to help out my family (23 now), and I make pretty good money so I can afford to be on my own now. That being said I dont have a big motivator to move other than curiosity to see how it is and have my own space to work on my projects without getting distracted. And this brings me to my question - for those of you who moved away from your family and friends how did you handle loneliness, what difficulties came up that you did not foresee, and what benefits if any did you gain, and last but not least was it worth it ?

Wow thank you all for your suggestions. I will have to make an effort to socialize and @Tim R I'll do this as well. I can work remotely certain days too so coming back isn't really an issue. Thanks again yall! I have alot to reflect on

@The Lucid Dreamer Thanks for the reply - I am quite introverted preferring to work and study/learn new things im interested in, which is why I typically dont spend alot of time building new relationships

The man, the myth, the legend Noam Chomsky ladies and gentlemen predicting the future as usual

I think it depends on the context, if youre already successful or have achieved whatever you wanted to - maybe. For me it was the opposite, the realization of impermanence and the lack of fulfillment I felt was more than enough to pursue what I wanted to.

Simply sharing, the intro got me in my feels

Dropped acid today and at the peak of the trip when the mind was quiet something told me "the 1000 petal lotus will reveal itself to you". Whats weird was that it wasnt an ordinary thought it almost felt like someone else said it for me, and after a few seconds of silence I realized wait what the fuck who the hell said that. I did some digging around on the web and found that Sahasrara is regarted to as the crown chakra and thats what the lotus represents - does anyone have any info where I can study up on some of this stuff, im still a bit shook from what just happened but very eager to learn. Its quite hard to articulate what I experienced because it happened on such a holistic level but while tripping I also came to the realization that for the rest of eternity I will always be in the pursuit to understand who I am and I will always come to the realization that I am god.

Whoah

Has anyone been following what is going on with the israel palestine conflict. I'm quite out of the loop, I usually try not to pay too much attention to news. I see people talking about this all the time but I recently got some biased views and also not enough context so it's hard to make sense of what's going on.

@Mr Being Thank you for the recommendation, ill check it out and the channel and the book and hopefully take it from there

I got his marketing course for 90 bucks with charisma on command link, it was really good over all and Id defiantly recommend to others. But I paid 90 bucks not 10 mil

@aurum O thats awesome man small world! Could you give a bit more detail about how it was flash training and how you came to that conclusion

I am reading a book by Teal Swan called The Anatomy of Loneliness and she makes the case that "we all have multiple inner personalities; any number of "Inner Twins" and that "these personalities won't usually present themselves as different personalities. Instead they will be more like "states of being"". This reminded me of when Leo mentioned in his video about Holism and Holistic thinking that the discovery of true spirituality is "a healing of divisions and biases and partiality within your own mind. To such a radical extent that eventually your mind becomes completely unified and one. Such that even the division between subject and object, me and you, us and them, get so healed and unified that you merge into the universe and you realize that the whole thing is god" As I do more of this work ive become more aware of the divisions within my own mind (at least enough to inquire into this subject) and while Teal Swan gives some good advice on integrating and discovering which aspects of yourself you reject and disown within yourself but also those aspects of yourself that help you survive and that give you love. I was wondering if anyone on this forum has went through the process of integrating some aspect of themselves that they previously rejected and integrated it and how that process went for you. I've particularly been interested in this because some days I will be full of purpose and extremely motivated and literally be on a high from life. And at other times I feel a complete lack of meaning and emptiness/loneliness. It kind of just happens and I usually just watch those emotions, but ive never really inquired into this subject until now.

my mistake, thanks for pointing that out

Fellow vegans/vegetarians what is your opinion on this ?

@flume Percisely. Although I'm not sure if ubi would be the ideal way to go about it. I think just being able to have food, basic transportation, roof over your head and a communication device would enable people to pursue what they are genuinely interested in

@Raphael Yes and no, its kind of the "youre doomed if you do and youre doomed if you dont" scenario. At the time I worked at a warehouse and the feeling of going to a place that has the color scheme of a fucking doughnut with bosses that act like children, to appeal to their other bosses who act like children. Being passive agressively told to work OT all the time, doing mind numbing work that literally has no value to society and is damaging society at best. We were able to have a headphone in one ear though which felt good in the beginning because I was able to listen to podcasts, actualized.org, books (100s of them). But after a while I realized that all I was doing was distracting myself from the pain that that job provided (mentally). It was so fucking dry and boring that it felt like I was plugging into the matrix when I put my headphones in to become distracted for the next 8 hours. Not a good feeling, there is more to it and I can still vividly feel the emotions I felt at the time. Id literally go to the bathroom and cry and have mental breakdowns because of the anger and disappointment I felt within myself, I never went to colllege either so I could not see a way out of that mess which made it all worse. So in a sense I did feel like I was going to explode, but not because I was working so much, working alot on my own projects gave me energy and made me have hope for the future, it gave me a sense of power too. The feeling of actually fixing your life is very motivating. I did lose a lot of sleep and stopped eating correctly as well and stopped exercising all together but it was worth it in the end. I think if you want to start a business, fix a piece of your life or what not it will take a lot of work initially and you have to have a good reason for why you even want to do it in the first place. I dont really see a point in working that much otherwise, unless you have a big mission in your life that you want to see come to fruition.

I think its 100% emotionally driven, coding is very demanding for me as well and I dont know anyone that codes more then 40+ hours a week, even thats a lot. That being said I have worked 14-16 hour days before for a few months but I wasnt coding all the time, coding the product is only a part of the equation, you still have to work on marketing and design, as well as making heavy judgement calls. The reason why I say its 100% emotionally driven is because this work load was coming from a deep dissatisfaction of where I was in, in life and gave me no option of wasting time. If I slacked off for a few minutes I would feel guilt and anger that Im not progressing and my current situation would not change (not healthy I know). But ultimately it was all worth it and it got me into a great position to leverage my skills and knowledge to find work that pays very well and allows me to pursue what I am genuinely and creatively excited to do on a day to day basis There are other factors too though like health, if youre not very healthy it will be difficult to work, if your testosterone levels are low you will not be as motivated and more. But I think the most important reason is why you would even want to do that lol. If you have a great reason that truly resonates with you as to why you even want to work that much, then I would set up systems around you to help you do that, get rid of distractions as much as possible and go all in.

@Waken Im going to give this a shot