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Yeah this video was the most inspiring video I've ever seen in my entire life. I downloaded it right away. Going to use it later when I do 5MEO. Made me cry a lot.

@Danioover9000 You need to create a Jackie Chan Tulpa to deal with Crysty.

@Ora They have slightly different personalities. A B+ will have a more positive trip, a Penis Envy will have a more violent trip, a golden teacher will have more of a serious trip, etc. @Bazooka Jesus Yeah it's not too much about the bodyweight but more with the brain you have. I'm 5ft3in and 150lb and 1g can fuck me up. I've got a highly interconnected ADHD brain already, so I'm sensitive af. Or at least that's how I make sense of it. @Spooney Spoonerson Start with 1g and go up in intervals of 0.5g. You have no idea how it would affect you. Also another thing I should say is that I have done trips where I would do shadow work first with one intention, and then I would have another intention to gain insights on my life purpose later. It just depends on how much time you need to spend on each intention.

Honestly, just have this as a sticker. would love to tag stuff with it.

Go with the intention that is most pressing on you. Because you will be the most motivated to accept what comes, and to focus on the task.

You have free will to believe there is no free Will. You have no free will to think that you have free will to believe that there is no free Will. Ahhhhh Hahaha I always think about how little free will I have when I think about how much I'm influenced by my environment and my upbringing, etc. and that my thoughts and actions are literally all the result of what I experienced, that's it. And how I have no control over what I experience. Because even when I get self-referential with asking about my Free will, that was itself incited by my experience. Free will and no free will is a duality. It doesn't exist, yet appears to exist. (Like every duality) It's like trying to draw the line between something. A very fun deconstruction exercise to contemplate. Probably. Just my thoughts

Personal Breakthrough contemplations of mine (I haven't contemplated too much though, but definetly yearn to do more because of the valuable life changing insights I get! ) - What is Pragmatism? DM me If you want to know what insight I got - How am I ideological? See Leo's worksheet for more great questions on his ideology video. ### The rest are ones that I want to contemplate, as I've been making a big to-do list for myself What is Productivity? What is Clarity? What is happiness? What is rest? What is proactive? What is trust? What does it mean to be human? What is hard work? Can another person give me something that's truly valuable? What is art? What are thoughts? What is Wisdom? What is importance? What/who decides what is /isn't important? What makes something important? What is passion? What is shame? What is value? How can I cultivate self-acceptance? What is self-acceptance? What are the facets of self-acceptance? What is the ego? What is Inspiration? What's the point of watching YouTube if I just forget what I watched? How do I enjoy the moment? What is enjoying the moment? What is a moment? What is distraction? What is self Deception? What is addiction? How is my attachment to comfort holding me back? What is confidence? What is fun? What is failure? What is Evil? What is Fear? What is Death? What is survival? What are the best seeds I can plant into someone's mind to help them to grow? Why should I care about what people think when I create my art? What is authenticity? What does it mean to be authentic? What is success? What is the ego? What makes it tick? What motivates it? What gets it on board? What does Mastery in your psychology mean? What would it mean for my personal growth? Concretely. Question the materialist Paradigm to death. What is Meaning? What is the exact relationship between Theory and reality? What is conversation? The types of conversation I value? What is criticism? What makes a great teacher? What is relationship? What does being civilized mean? What is awareness? How does Authority work? 3 most life-changing questions that Leo pursued and answered. 1. What is consciousness? 2. What is reality? 3. What do I really want? ### What metaphysical questions can I set out to answer? (See Leo's video on the 64 list of fascinating questions someone can ask) * What governs what's possible and impossible in the universe? What sets limits on the universe? * How can emergent properties arise out of nowhere? * Does external reality exists at all? * What is God? What would the concept of God entail? * What are thoughts ### Then there are contemplating Duality collapses. Self vs other - - collapse this duality Collapse the dualities between the 5 senses desire and pain Conscious vs. Unconscious Especially given the example of sleep What's the difference? How are they the same? What's the difference between teaching and being an ideologue? How are they the same? Duality of seeing vs believing The duality of Journey vs Destination. Contradiction versus continuity. The Duality between psychology and life coaching. Journey versus destination. Confidence versus stability Duality of consistency vs inconsistency

You know I never really thought seriously about this being a serious topic for me until I realized that I could get a lot of valuable advice and perspective here. And possibly because at one time I was too embarrassed to speak about it, especially here. So my life purpose is to teach people how to create Passion and Clarity in their lives. Life Purpose statement being “I teach people how to understand themselves to create a peaceful mind and a passionate life.” I'm basically a cheerleader to get people to do the self-actualization work that they need to be doing. Teaching them what they ought to be doing, and motivating them to do it. I really enjoy teaching. The art of being able to formulate a message in a way that will motivate a person to want to hear it fills me up. Being able to give someone a message and for them to take it in. It may not even matter what the topic is, as long as I am personally interested in it. Now of course the topic that I am most interested in is self-actualization. This life purpose I would consider a rather unique situation to come across. Because at first I doubted myself quite a bit because I feared that I was just trying to copy Leo. Like I was literally just trying to be “Leo2.0”. It's taken me quite a bit of time to “niche down” to the point where I'm more confident in myself that I'm creating content that is authentic to me. That this is value that I can personally provide and am not just parroting all the stuff that I learn from Leo; a serious worry considering that I’ve been a serious student of Leo for a few years now. And right now I have probably tunnel visioned myself to a large degree into mostly exclusively studying Leo’s content. Over time it'll be way better balanced by reading Leo’s book list and of course things completely outside of Leo’s recommendation and scope. And also of course generating insights of my own. Honestly, this entire post might just be all what you would call “resistance” from the book: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Here’s what I got going for me right now, I've got a book that I've been working on. I really hope to finish it this year. I realize that in the direction that I want to take my path, I would also want to have a presence on social media, preferably YouTube, but I realize that with Tik-Tok being super trendy, would be an avenue to go down also, instagram too possibly. These would be great platforms for marketing exposure and I can create a lot of content sharing insights that can be valuable for people. The area where I think I would really shine is in creating courses and seminars. Like this is where I intuit my greatest work can shine. To be honest, I just haven't done enough "small bets" to really test where my passion is, and I kind of lost sight of that initial excitement of connecting with a vision that really excites me. Now, here's where I'm feeling stuck. Basically, I have fear of my messages being criticized and picked apart, where I can be humiliated. Putting myself on a public pedestal like that, makes me feel like I have to have my teachings be unattainably Rock Solid, like a seriously high standard. I want my teachings to be at the same standard that Leo is at. Which is ridiculous. Leo didn’t even start there. When you look at his first videos he put on YouTube, that's where I should be shooting for as first starting out. From the beginning (of Leo’s channel) he was already such a good speaker. Now of course he didn't start there, and here's probably where I am confusing my incompetence with my laziness. If I just legitimately practice making speeches and making videos, I will naturally get better. I KNOW this! I guess I have this impostor syndrome where I want my first videos to be super good, and with little effort. I know I'm kidding myself because I HAVE made self-improvement type videos before as a “small bet”, but they were really a topic I kind of knew and just wrote a few notes on the spot and then just recorded it several times until I got a shot I liked. But THEN, months later I kind of cringe at myself for it. Because I know I could be doing SO MUCH better, and rather than that inspiring me to push myself to a higher standard, I felt discouraged, and stopped trying to make another video altogether. If I was completely honest, I haven't applied a massive amount of effort to make a video that I'm extremely satisfied with, and that's where I feel like I'm going to solve this. I could put like a week of contemplation, insights, research and planning on 1 topic, ensuring I understand it at a great depth, and put tons of effort into practicing the speech for the video. Ensuring that I personally own the insight before I have the confidence to teach it. I feel like I need to build confidence by making something so valuable that I alone love it so much that I'm inspired to make more content. I also thought about creating enough content where someone actually sees it and tells me how valuable it was for them for my personal validation, but I figured that's a bad strategy, when rather I should just fall in love with the process of creating something that I personally enjoy myself. And then, over time, I will gain enough skill and expertise to create something that I am satisfied with personally and other people are satisfied with as well. Thus avoiding that trap of needing external validation all together. Yet, I hesitate. I want to be extremely motivated, yet my actions tell a different story. And I'm all talk and no action. (Writing about this just now has already increased some clarity for me.)

@Nobody_Here @7thLetter @KennedyCarter Thankyou for the replies guys. ❤️

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Will check it out

Will look into it

Dang I never even THOUGHT of using earplugs for my meditation. Definetly going to try this! ?

My psilocybin playlist is Bob Marley

Love this. I feel like the first part can carry over to many other addictions like porn and masturbation.

Interesting suggestion.

I think De-construction Vs. Construction would be a very fun foundational episode to listen to.

I'm pretty sure Leo communicated that you should live your life Guided by principles, high consciousness values, and a life purpose, not to plan too far ahead and rather follow your intuition and let life unfold naturally. The “ride the wave of life” approach.

I have been inspired to give several examples. ############################# I think one of the most tricky traps that is extremely difficult to navigate is a very charismatic/manipulative person. Especially when they are someone like your boss. and especially when your boss is paying you pretty well so it's in your survival agenda to bend to their whim and to turn a blind eye when they do something that violates Integrity with yourself and your values. So over the summer I had a boss that was extremely good at manipulating people because he was a door-to-door salesman for over 8 years. He was super good at it that he basically had 10,000 hour mastery. He was able to sell a service for a very premium price. and he would use that same type of manipulation with his staff where it would always be my fault or the problem would always be mine instead of him taking responsibility for it. To the point where he would be able to flip a situation where he would treat me unfairly and I would have to pay for it and he would manipulate you that you are doing it out of the good of your heart because you want to be a “good person” and that what you're doing to serve him was just “you growing up”, or “being a man” or whatever. He would have very toxic stage orange views on reality and I would just agree with him because I was really just there for the money, not trying to rock the boat. But you know, that rubs off on you a bit. Making money is a huge place where you can break a lot of your values and integrity, especially when you're making something in a day that you would make in one week at a normal, minimum wage job. The way I looked at it was, I'm only talking to my boss very minimally which was the case with my work, so it didn't rub off too much, and also this money would open up so much more opportunity to fulfill my life purpose. Plus I wasn't harming other humans, but yeah that's where you got to watch it because the corruption happens where it's alloyed with the good. Let's just say it's very difficult for me to trust a very good salesman, ESPECIALLY when you KNOW that they're a really good salesman. That is my most recent example. Charismatic personalities has had my sis fall for scams over seven times. And she's way older than me. Nobody ever suspects someone is completely lying to their face. Many of us do not know when we are experiencing someone who is a really good liar. A good rule of thumb is when money is involved, trickery is happening, probably. Also never make a big Financial decision when you're in an unusually uplifted mood. In Fantasy land. Like what happens when a charismatic person manipulates you. I think I particularly can fall prey to being socially manipulated because of my inexperience with socialization and inability to perceive boundaries that I have to set with people. When I tell some of the things that my boss would do/say to me, one of my friends would have set up a boundary right there and left that job/ situation. A serious inexperience with socialization with people has left me impaired in learning the red flags people put up. Like I was so socially unaware when I was young that I would legitimately talk to someone that was a pedophile. Seeing nothing wrong with it and just seeing them as a friend. Or I would get involved in a friend group that was turning me into a toxic ideologue and I would dress, act and think in ways that would push normal people away and prevent me from making any normal friends. I realized anytime you’re trying to fulfill a need, you got to look at the mine field in front of you. ################## This topic reminds me of old money flip scams in RuneScape that I fell for when I was like 7 years old or whatever. I mean because it was a game, in my mind, it was legitimately possible for someone to go in the code or something and flip your money. But now that I think of it someone could just literally just give free money not needing the initial trade. but when you're 7 you don't know that, however, interestingly enough, getting scammed in a game helped me avoid scams in real life. ####################### I remember I was going to an event to learn about success or networking or something like that, and it ended up being some sort of AutoTrader scam where they gave you like a shitty laptop that would trade money with an AI automatically and it was like $60,000. Now because I was like 16 years old at the time and I wasn't their target audience, it didn't really have me interested, I was there just to network my 3D designing business lol. Their target audience was desperate old people that were looking for a last hope for their financial situation. And they would get you all pumped up and stuff and I'm pretty sure they had people there that were paid that posed as casual people in the group to get you all hyped up I'll never forget this one guy I like looking at me that was sitting beside me like super hyped up and my body was just like telling me how inauthentic it was, but at the time I wasn't really aware, only reflecting back on it now do I realize that. I just remember feeling something off. Like, “This is kind of weird, why is this guy SO enthusiastic?”. They were doing stuff like: “Look if you hate money you got to leave this room right now”. Getting audience participation to be like altogether saying, “Yes I'm ready for financial success today”. Reminds me a whole lot about “contrepreneurs”. This guy breaks this stuff down EXCELLENTLY: ########################## The stuff like video games with their microtransactions are seriously good at this stuff. Where the trickery happens where you don't realize that the entire game is made to psychologically manipulate you into opening your wallet, or where the game is clearly designed to farm ads off of you. Leo I know you know all too much about this bullshit that corrupted the industry. You cannot find a single decent mobile game now. “Freemium” games, etc. Jim Sterling rants and raves all about this. ################################################ One way I got “scammed” by the medical industry was this. I was going to a skin doctor for him to look at the acne/cysts on my back, and he just wrote me a prescription for some pills and some cream. So am like “I okay whatever, he probably knows what he's doing, the solution probably works.” I go to the pharmacy, they fill the prescription, they had me wait a bit, and the bill was like over a hundred bucks. I wouldn't have taken the prescription and I would have just found an alternative remedy if I knew it cost that much. And it never really solved my problem completely. A way more conscious way of them practicing medicine would be them telling me off the bat how much it would cost me BEFORE filling the prescription. Because when the prescription is filled, you're pressured out of social courtesy to just pay it. A lot of times services will just assume you're going to pay for it and do the service for you or give you the product, and then when the bill comes in and it's way more than you anticipated, you're kind of fucked. How about when you go to a bar and you order a drink and the prices are not listed right there, or the waiter doesn’t tell you how much you’ll be paying for it, the waiter just gives it to you, and then you get the bill and it's overpriced as hell. ######################################################### I remember I was signing up for a phone plan that I knew I only wanted for 4 months Max, and they were like; “oh let's just throw in this free digital tablet”, and I'm like “okay that's cool, free tablet”, and then I asked them, “okay but what happens when I cancel the membership 4 months from now”, and they answered: “Well because you're not going to be under our plan for 18 months you will have to pay for the tablet”. When a company does something like throwing a free tablet, it's probably not free haha. Or when a company gives you a discounted price, that price was probably the normal price. But they put that perception in your mind that you're getting a deal. This is especially true when they are betting on your lack of knowledge of the market and the value of the service. So gaining knowledge of the market can help deter you of these. A lot of times just inexperience with how people can scam you is how you fall for these traps, an unawareness that traps may exist in this domain. The assumption that there is no need to always be vigilant of traps falling in your lap. Or even just failing to ask yourself once in a while, “How could I be falling for a trap right now?” ####################################################### Whenever something is not widely known about, nobody has a buffer for what is legitimate and what is not. When that is the case, you can almost guarantee that it's going to be riddled with scams. Which is basically everything that is not taught in our very limited education system You see this with money, self-help, Trading, crypto, whatever is hot, new, and exciting, and appeals to solving painpoints in your life. With all this cryptocurrency and day trading stuff being all new and nobody knows anything about it, immediately you can intuit that it's going to be riddled with scams left and right, profiting off of people's lack of knowledge and poor skills with epistemology, metaphysics, understanding of authority, verifying authenticity of sources, etc. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Damn, ain't that the truth. Solid. Solid. > Create the free content that you enjoy creating the most. I wonder what are all the things that google penalizes you for. Awesome. I love this thread so much, wow. So much valuable stuff in here.

Yeah @Olivia24, apparently it turns out that you dream a whole lot more when your head is above your body relative to gravity making the fluid in your body flow to your brain differently as if you're awake, activating parts of your brain to make you dream a heck of a lot more, there was a thread on this forum talking all about it. Totally underrated thread. See below.

Yea if I recall correctly I got it from you.

Yeah I'm not really too worried about that, The amount of girls I've tried to pick up in the last 3 years I can count on one hand, and I didn't even put in much effort. Just have been focusing on other matters. I bet if I actually put some effort in I could easily get a gf within a month with some serious pickup hustle.

This. I love songs that make you FEEL deeply, I'm addicted to that. These are some of my go-to's when feel sad or down.

I sleep like 9-12 hours a day, I'm too addicted to my dreams. I dream like crazy, and with my bed propped up 6 inches at the head, it supercharges that. When I was working physically over the summer i got a solid 7- 8 hours and felt great. I have less energy now, even though I'm sleeping so much, and it's especially because how less active I am. Although I AM sick atm lol.