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If your non-dual paradigm doesn't contain duality, then it's a dual teaching all along. Infinity, by definition, must express all multiplicites to be infinite. If you label something as "more" or "less" real, you are creating a subtle duality. Nothing can ever be an illusion - for what is there otuside of "one thing" to judge this illusion? All this self - no-self paradigm is an echo chamber to begin with. It's both and neither. There is a divine will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite, inconscient or half-conscient things. The human being partakes of this free will because it is in fact not separate from the eternal. You are "it". You are "god". It's always both and neither.

The truth is that you experience free will/choice every day and all the time. It feels like you can actually choose between pizza and salad - gym or couch - or which career path is the best for you. It feels like there are degrees of conciousness in your decisions, meaning that you can understand your motivations and psychological patterns behind them. It feels like a choice to overcome your fears and do the things you actually long for in life. It feels like a sandbox game. It doesn't matter if free will truly exists or not. You live as if. And no, you haven't figured this one out. I used to think that as well, but that's nonsense. Boiling everything down to these neo-advaitan no-self platitudes is just so boring - but people will repeat them like they are caught in some epistemic echo chamber. Nobody in this forum really knows the full answer to those questions. The funny thing is that the free will vs determinism debate is highly dualistic in nature - which why a simple yes or no answer simply cant be the case. As you study the teachings of enlightened masters from different traditions, you will gradually realise that there is not one final answer to this question. They disagree with each other a lot when it comes to free will, so I think it's smart to remain agnostic and just live as if.

You definitely can! And you can do it through a crypto based asset. A multilayer, decentralized operating system (like EWT) will bring unique advantages you wont get anywhere else. The crypto-market exists and it's here to stay - so why not use it's influence to leverage positive change in the world? I do hold a pretty decent share of their tokens since I truly believe in what they stand for. EWT is already working with different energy market operators (for example in australia https://medium.com/energy-web-insights/australian-energy-market-operator-partners-with-energy-web-on-project-symphony-a-future-proofed-c3e48390d338) - so things are happening. And if they are doing great, the environment will benefit and so will my bank account! Win-Win situation right there.

Before I started my career in medicine, I used to follow many of the renowned youtube-"doctors" and health personalities for years. Yet once you really become sort of an expert yourself, you gradually realize how terrible and short sighted most of the advice you get actually is. Berg is, in my opinon, no exception - in fact, he is one of the worst in the industry. He makes ridicolous claims based on shitty evidence and bro-science. When the mainstream system is lacking the holistic view, then pseudo doc's like Berg lack the integrity and scientific know-how to support their medical paradigm. It's audience capture & financial interest at the bottom of it. Nobody who actually has a clue takes him seriously. This doesnt mean that is always wrong - of course not. Some of his videos are actually pretty interesting.

I think you threw the baby out with the bathwater. There are definitely smart & reliable ways to invest into crypto-currencies. I know this is the case because my best friend is a professional crypto trader who has been consistently making money off the crypto market for years now. He knows the technology from the inside to the outside, spent hundreds of hours theorycrafting his own investment plans and even programmed his own crypto-bot, which passively makes him around 20k a month. He has done the work and now he reaps the rewards. Most people lose money because they want the quick cash grab and dont really know what they are doing. I guess you could make the argument that investing in a digital currency provides no net positive for our society at large, but even there I would partially disagree. It depends a lot in the projects you are supporting. If you look at it from a spiral dynamics perspective, most crypto-currencies are based at a deep orange level of conciousness and are therefore highly problematique for many well known reasons (for example proof of work conseus mechanism and it's enviromental impact). Yet if you look a bit further, there are also many projects which try to leverage the power of the crypto market to do good in the world. One example would be EWT (Energy Web Token), which is highly involved in the accelerated decarbonization of the global economy (https://www.energyweb.org/). It's not some black or white question and it depends highly on the given context.

So according to your own logic Razard, if you accuse someone of projection (which I have seen you doing multiple times now) - then maybe its actually you who is doing that? It's a judgement after all, isn't it? Then you go further and say "A humble man does not see arrogance"... just to perfectly explain what arrogance is from an objectifiable point of view one paragraph later...

I am sure many of you are already following his youtube-channel, but for those who dont - it's a masterclass in having an adventurous & exciting life. In todays society, where most people just exist through the hamsterwheel they call their life, its so refreshing to see this kind of passion burning bright at least in some of us. The funny thing is that this guy used to be a super insecure & depressed dude who turned his life around in his late 30's - now he is traveling to the most absurd locations, deeply bonding with people and having a good time with his beautiful, young girlfriend. Imagine having this kind of life in your late 40's and not the basic, boring, blunt experience most individuals get at that age. It reminds of alot of Osho's concept of Zorba the Buddha. Zorba the Greek is the protagonist from celebrated novelist Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel of the same title. He is personification of the spirit of life. He indulges in sensual pleasures, he dances and plays the santuri, and he does not hesitate in his exhilarated enjoyment of life. Zorba exemplifies the Dionysian passion for living as seen in his enthusiasm for women, wine,and hard work. Buddha does not need any introduction. The whole concept breathes "being in the world, but not of the world". I think his latest video (the one I posted below) is absolutely insane. I mean, who would have the balls to do that? It feels like a small heroes journey - like a archetypal pirate searching for a treasure, overcoming obstacles and finally getting to the promised land. Everyone has his own version of adventure in his life. You dont have to do what he does - but what does really excite YOU and are you willing to follow through with that? I think that's a question we should all ask ourselves more often. It's good the get reminded what crazy, fucking adventure life can be - even outside any spiritual context.

Not all nutrition science is poor and littered with biases - this is simply not the case. You are speaking nonsense. Yes, cherrypicking data and narrative warfare exists - some approaches, especially in nutritional epistemology suffer from systemic problems but this does not mean that there isnt good scientific practice that gives us valuable information about the world. And yes, I am definitely appealing to my authority. Why wouldn't I? I have studied these issues for almost a decade.... I respect people with different views when I feel that they did the necessary work to come to those conclusions - I cant respect yours, because you obviosuly defend nonsense. Also, I dont know how can say this with a straight face and then the evidence YOU bring forward is "just read the food lable bro" or "we have always eaten that - so it has to be healthy" - cant you see your own ignorance right there? It's a Dunnung-Kruger masterclass... I dont care about ethics - I still eat red meat.

I think your analysis of the problem is spot on and well written. I would love to give you a lengthy and thoughtful reply but I am super busy at the moment/for the next days. Basically, the emergence of something like an Institution 2.0, which is heuristically rooted in an integral framework, based on good faith & honest dialogues between thoughtleaders of different hypotheses and a quality transmission of the sensemaking process for the greater public. This is already happening in small circles but is nowhere near where it should be. Our current institutions lack in all these components and since we cant go any step further without them, we gotta upgrade! Also, I think we should make epistemology a mandatory subject in every school. We do not equip our future generations for the obstacles they will face in their future. In the 21th centurary, its much more important how to think than what - we all have the whole knowledgebase of mankind literally below your fingertip on your smartphone. What to do with it is the crucial question... The exponential growth of our information ecology is another issues, but I think AI will come handy one day to analyze datasets inconceivable for the human brain. I dont see any way around this and it comes again with a whole set of new problems - but yeah, thats what we are in for The thing with laymen is that even though they are not equipped to make sense of the data - most of them are NOT stupid. If you take the time and explain it to them in a rational way and on equal terms, it's actually crazy what you can achieve when no one gets captured by bullshit tribal narratives. I managed to do this couple of times when it came to vaccine hesitancy in elderly people. There is a certain percentage who are beyond any help, but thats okay too - all we have to aim for is the the majority.

It's not about trust - it's about actually doing the god damn work. I have spent the last 9 years studying and practicing medicine, analyzing thousands of papers, doing the statistical analysis myself, writing for journals, going into integral/holistic medicine, critiquing our mainstream biomedical models, working out my own epistemiology with people like Daniel Schmachtenberger - so when I tell you something, it's not this ruminated pile of garbage information I found on youtube or some unfounded trust in a particular institution. I am so sick of people falling into this anti-science trench. Nothing personal against you Stovo, but when you mention things like funding or bias, do you even have the slightest clue what you are talking about? Be really honest with yourself: Do you know how funding works? Because let me tell you that this alone is a incredibly complex topic and since you have propably never conducted a study, you dont know jackshit about it. Its always these strawmen arguments and this inflated sense of "knowing whats really going on" thats ubiquitous in todays information ecology. Everyone is biased and thats why we NEED the scientific method. To not fall for personal biases is the basis of any scientific investigation. This is why we have well desgined placebo-controlled randomized trials and objective statistical standards to evaluate the data. This is what science is all about and you use it as an argument against scientists? This is literally what half of philosophy of science/epistemiology is actually about. In fact, the most biased information you will find is from random videos, blogposts or books on the internet. But it seems like people think that those inidividuals somehow know more and think clearer than the scientist who works everyday on a given topic for decades. Yes, there is also appropriate critique since sciece itself is inherently reductive but please, stop with that nonsense. Also, food lables? What does a food lable tell me? Absolutely nothing which is relevant to this discussion. Where on the food lable can I get the information about saturated fat being casucally connected with heart disease? What about the effect of heme-iron or acrylamides? What about the connection between red meat & colon cancer? Its such a stupid argument, almost to the point of being insulting. Show some humility my friend.

Let's be very careful with our assumptions here. The WHO, as a public health agency, doesnt really conduct high quality nutritional research on their own. They analyze data - yes, they base their recommendations on said data - yes, but the heavy lifting is done by various teams of scientists and other experts who are largely indepedent of certain outcome pressures. In fact, the worst thing that can happen to you as a scientist is to get exposed for manipulating the data - this will immediatly end your academic career and thats of course, not in the interest of many. If we talk about bias & agenda in nutritional reserach - then the first name you have to call out is the one with the monetary interest: industry. And yes, industry sponsored trials are more than 4 times as likely to report a positive outcome than unsponsered ones. At the very front, the usual suspect: meat & dairy. The are some really crazy examples of what they are doing to screw with the data and its a growing problem in our information landscape. Plant based reserach with absurd health claims are on the rise as well, especially since it has became trendy in the west. To say that something is "good for you" because we have eaten it for hundreds of thousands of years is problematic. This is not how evolutionary health works, since once you procreate, survivability only becomes an issue for the individual. The only thing that nature cares about is that you put a descendant on the earth, so everything that gives you this advantage over others, will select itself through the evolutonary mechanism. Now red meat is associated with all sorts of parametres that, in a tribal - pre agricultural setting, will benefit you for exactly those reasons. It wont tell you anything about how to live a long and healthy life, especially in our modern context. Our digestive system is perfectly ready to deal with seed oils since its mostly concentrated fatty acids and our body knows exactly what those are. There is an argument to be made about oils, but it has nothing to do with this evolutionary crap. The supposed negative health affects of cooking oils usually come from byproducts during the manufacturing process. That's why its smart to stick to cold pressed, high quality ones with high antioxidant content. I know this increase of mortality during the 20th century gets thrown around a lot in the youtube broscience-sphere, but there are at least 10 better hypothesis for this finding than the evil oil. Saturated fat does, without a doubt, influence ApoB-containing lipoproteins and its just overwhelmingly clear that those are casually to blame for arterioscletoric disease progression. I know its an unpopular opinion for many youtubers and pseudo-doctors, but the evidence is just mounting over them at this point. You can not deny this and they still trying to sell the audience for silly. Risk of heart disease is reduced when dietary saturated fats are replaced appropriately. This is also the case when replacing meat and dairy foods. polyunsaturated fats (−25%), monounsaturated fats (−15%), and to a lesser extent carbohydrates from whole grains (−9%), were all associated with reduced CHD risk when isocalorically substituted for dietary saturated fat. Reducing saturated fatty acid intake to less than 10% of energy may have additional benefits.405 However, the LDL-C-lowering effect of substituting polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) for saturated fatty acids may be less in obese (5.3%) than in normal-weight persons (9.7%). There is a huge amount of evidence that supports this evidence and citing one meta-analysis which has heavily criticized wont change that.

And if Leo runs down the highway with just his underwear on, is this also a pattern of self expression? Look, I get what you mean and its a decent point - but can you see the other side as well? I had 3 people messaging me on instagram that day, who thought Leo lost his mind. I guess you can always subjectify your version of an actualized person towards an unachievable standard of eccentricity, but thats not the point. How do you know its self expression and not just delusion after all? You (propably) dont know him either. Those posts are odd and dont fit with his usual pattern of representation.As a public spiritual teacher with a huge audience, there is a smart and grown up way to deal with such issues. Of course you can go full "expression mode" and do whatever - However, I can already tell that he lost some people right there. If this is what he really wants to do, then fine .... There is a difference between individuated expression of someones own identity and repulsive craziness.

No, I completely disagree. When it comes to self-help, you can NEVER seperate the person and the content. After all, it's the person who profits from the work - its the good old waking up, growing up and showing up process Ken Wilber has been talking about for ages. The life you live, the character you reap and the insights you gain will at the end influence the person you become - its a direct function of it. If a guy teaches you how to overcome procrastination, then he better not be a procrastinator - but rather someone who overcame this obstacle. Now as I said - I am not accusing him of anything - I just critiqued his representation.

I am not so much concered about Leo's wellbeing because his replies on instagram and here on the forum are still pretty coherent. What's a bit irritating, to me at least, is his choice of public representation. As one of the big self-help/spiritual content creators you inevitebly take on some form of being a role model for your followers. Of course people will be interested in how Leo's life looks like - he is the one teaching you how to improve yours. After all, why would you want to follow someones advice if the person sharing it isnt at a mature level of embodiment and integrity. Why would I take anything Leo shares seriously, especially if there is a clear asymmetry between the quality of his life and the content he puts out? Now, here is where his recent instagram-posts come in. Its not that those are major red flags - but they do show some level of disconnection. Yes, its propably part of an DMT-aftermath, but thats a pretty empty excuse anyway - for obvious reasons. I also have to admit that this is not the first time I start feeling this way... It just doesnt fit the picture in my head of what an actualized person looks like and how he/she acts in this world. I have met many individuals who I would consider very fulfilled in their developement - who have figured their shit out and also share many great insights on the way. There is a certain grace & virtuosity in their vibe ...its undeniable and this is what I am kind of missing from Leo. That said, I dont know Leo and he could be amazing. Its just the impression I get from him sometimes... And no, this has nothing to do with being uber-conscious or above the madness. Its a simple question about relatability between a teacher and his audience. In fact, Leo demoted Nahm for this exact reason just a few weeks ago. This kind of argumentation is completely ridicolous. Again, I am not writing this to bash him - but as a long time follower (joined at ~5k subscribers) who usually apprechiates his point of view quiet a lot, its a bit strange to say at least.

The evidence regarding ApoB-carrying lipoproteins, cholesterol as a surrogate & cardiovascular disease progression is casually proven, beyond any doubt and by multiple lines of evidence over the last 50 years. It does not matter what youtuber X says or what some maverick doctor writes in his book - the amount of evidence is simply overwhelming. The inflammation hypothesis has, at best, some supportive elements going for it. Thousand calories sounds like wayyy too little, even if you want to lose weight. Whats your current weight/height? Whats your goal with the diet? Weightloss?

Having knee jerk reactions is completely normal - I have them, you have them and so does the rest of the world. The shadow work happens when you recognize the reactionary energy and use it for a deeper inquiry. Thats exactly what you just did. Way to go!

Most of William's claims are based on bro science or not any evdence at all. Which doesnt necessarily mean that they are wrong, but that you always have to take them with a grain of salt. Pork certainly doenst make it difficult for oxygen to travel through the bloodstream....Maybe the argument he is making is that pork affects arterial endothelial function which could end up reducing oxygen inflow into certain tissues. Pork is not a healthy source of fat, calories or protein. Chicken/fish are healthier options. Plants are (for the most part) the healthiest.

100% agree.

Thats a lot of whataboutism and irrelevant objections. Nobody (in the right mind) ever said that Tate is an innocent role model for modern musculinity. I am sure he has done some really evil stuff in his life but thats not the point. Also, what the hell are those comparisons - we are talking about mindset/self-help and achievement ...and achieving a world-title in a martial art gives you a lot of weight in those categories. Yes, winning wimbledon or being an astronaut would indicate a certain pattern of being which undoudebtly puts you in a position of having something to teach. And thats exactly our argument .... I used to partake in a programm about improving rhetoric-skills and the teacher used to analyze Hitlers speeches for learning purposes. Is it wrong to learn from Hitler speaking patterns, even though he was propably the most evil man in the 20th century? I guess not.

I think Tate stands out in a way because, compared to many other "thoughtleaders" in the manosphere, he actually walked the talk and achieved insanely difficult milestones in a relateively short amount of time. Let's just forget his regressive/unnuanced views for a second - winning two world titles in a martial art is, on its own, hella impressive. Creating an online membership program that makes at least 7 digits each month is also not to be taken lightly. Now put that into the context of someone who actually grew up poor, went through a lot of shit and still made it - thats even more extraordinary. So yes, he definitely is kinda special and I can respect him for just that, regardless of what he says or does otherwise. Those achievements require a certain mindset/pattern of being that has become insanely rare in our world. Tate also shares a pretty unqiue philosophy of life, which is undeniably consistent throughout his line of arguments. As I said before, I disagree with most of his regressive ideas - but I cant help to admit that some of his positons are carefully thought through and coherent. Just compare him to the other talking heads in the red pill/manosphere-community - most of them are pathologically unaware of their own heuristic. If you hold him to a 2nd tier standard, then of course he wont push the movement to new heights in your eyes. Its inherently a tier 1 subject and moving on means transcending its purpose. If absolute novelty is your benchmark, then yeah - you will just see the guy with fancy cars and hot women. There is nothing new under the sun - 99% of what current teachers in spirituality are sharing has already been said hundreds of times before. However, its the individual aspect that gives the message its weight. To boil down the whole movement to self-service & mistrust is a very postmodern (stage green) way of looking at the world. Its kinda true at the one hand but also very limited in the context of the whole picture. There is a reason why many young men are so attracted to this line of thinking and its not only because they are all egoisitc assholes who want to fuck over the world for their own benefit.

Think of the great yogis, saints and sages from Moses to Christ to Padmasambhava. They were not feeble-mannered milquetoasts, but fierce movers and shakers- from bullwhips in the temple, radical acts of selfless love to subduing entire countries. And they did so not because they avoided the physical, emotional and mental dimensions of humanness and the ego that is their vehicle, but because they engaged them with a drive and intensity that shook the world to its very foundations. Even hardcore neo-adveita teachers do exhibit a strong sense of personality or idendity. There is a certain pattern that wants to emerge through you - it shows in your interests, your likes, your dislikes, your aversions - in everything that isnt a concious thought, but an expression of your heart and intuition. Go out into nature. Start moving into a direction in your life and observe how it feels. Dont try to think this through. Drop the deconstruction work, do stuff in the real world. Meet friends, play an instrument, look at art. Inquire into your psyche - is there an unfulfilled longing for something? What is the thing that wants to express? What is the activity that makes you feel alive? This is great advice as well.

From a conciousness development perspective, I think that a big part of Tade's magnetic appeal is his rather unmitigated embodyment of some of the lower to mid tier1-stages (red, blue, orange). Aggressive, traditionalisitc, monetarily successful - and unapologetically so. He is a like a way smarter and less dogmatically religious version of Elliot Hulse. He has done shit - walked the talk, and this is what gives his arguments a lot of weight. I think that our current western cultural tendencies are deeply lacking those "lower" qualities and this is one reason why he gained so much attention in the last few years. Also, and I dont really know why I feel this way - but he is kinda likeable. I wouldnt bother having a drink or two with him - I guess it would be an interesting conversation nontheless. I cant say the same for most of the spiritual teachers I follow. Now, when it comes to a potential role model - its a difficult question. There is undoubtedly wisdom in his worldview (remember that each stage has its own set of important insights) but there is also a lot of crazy problematic shit as well - so its very limiting at its own. I dont want to live a world where every youngster is following his ideals and values. There are definitely healthier and more grown up ways to look at success & masculinity. You can have most of what he has - cars, women & success - but without the obvious misogynie/regressive paradigm and a more developed conciousness overall. I always liked Zan Perrion as a role model for healthy masculinity:

The cases of liver damage associated with EGCG are from concentrated green tea extract and not matcha. Feel free to drink your matcha every day.

Its difficult to deliberately influence the passing mechanism because thats a very complex process with dozens of factors that come into play. The respective bioavailablity of duloxetin also varies a lot and usually lies between 32% and 80% of your dose. Peak plasma concentrations are reached approximately 6 hours after ingestion of the gastro-resistant capsules. My advice: Just dont change your lifestyle-habits during the cessation-period. Keep up with your usual oral application protocol. Meaning, if you always took the pill in the morning with your breakfest, then keep doing that. Your body has already adapted to this regime, so its smart to keep it going, even if you lower the dose. Eat your usual meals and dont add other drugs or supplements to the mix. Th Smoking is a strong influencer of duloxetin metabolism - thats one to keep in mind. Also, you should be under your physicians observance. He knows best how and when to get lower. Generally, duloxetine tapers last around two weeks - but you might need an individual protocol. Cymbalta is one of the more difficult SSRI's to get off - you might experience withdrawal symtpoms. It depends on multiple factors - can be 30 minutes or 3 hours. Not really. Your gastrointestinal metabolism actually works most efficiently when you are at rest. Negligible. However, it's best tolerated when taken after a meal. Its much more important to keep the time of intake constant. Negligible. Swallow the capsule with a drink of water.

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