Oppositionless

Right now I'm reading the book We Have Never Been Woke, it's interesting . My thinking is that woke is a way for the elites to appease stage green and alienate stages blue / orange. When the working class of all stages want material change, identity politics are emphasized to pit them against each other . We don't need conservatives to accept pronouns, that's fucking pointless, just improve everyone's material conditions and the "woke" stuff will happen on its own, or not, to me it's not very important beyond , as Leo said, 1st and 2nd wave feminism. Here's an interview with the author .

Special and General Relativity I don't rly understand this video tbh , maybe someone who does can respond .

Reminds me of my Vietnamese friend. I don't think he ever introduced his parents to his white girlfriend, or even mentioned her to them. They were together almost 2 years .

@Breakingthewall I respectfully disagree, unless we are going to say EVERYONE is a liar. Whether Jiddu was "enlightened" or not, he's no liar, and he's very wise. Also I think this full vs empty debate is so silly. There's a reason there are so many words- because none of these words do it justice. In other words Jiddu says empty, you say full, and it doesn't make a lick of difference.

Alcohol can be profound, meth psychosis can be profound, delirants can be profound, heroin overdose can be profound. But psychedelics are A) relatively safe and non addictive and B) more profound, consistently profound and actually helpful for long term change.

I want that too .

@Elliott Jesus Christ I had no idea us Americans were that miserable. God bless America.

I feel like a different person from 4 months ago, when I started doing it. I really began to notice the shift when I stopped smoking weed, which I'm pretty sure kriya helped me do btw. I think a lot less, and the thoughts I do have seem a lot more useful , that seems like the biggest shift . I can witness my mind. Less baseline anxiety but more anxiety when subconscious material comes to the surface, but that's just part of the healing process.

United States is like the same size as the entire continent of Europe, it's hard to generalize. @Karmadhi it may have do to with people in Iran feeling more connected to God, family and tradition , but I'm really not sure . Prolly ppl in first world countries with really solid, loving friends and or families and strong connection to God have the best of both worlds . Good friend and God make man happy , the absence of make man sad .

I at first posted something that was too doxxy, sorry! The punchline tho, was that most of us are "good" simply because we aren't in situations where survival necessitates being "bad," (unless we were , like, sociopaths or psychopaths or something).

Getting older and realizing most miracle stories probably aren't true was a big let down Like I thought I was gonna awaken and become a superhero after reading Yogananda's book when I was 16. At least remote viewing is real

making fun of "performative males" I learned about this trend way late , but there are videos taken of dudes without consent, flaming them for reading at coffee shops and drinking matcha. the fuck? @Natasha Tori Maru one of the few good things the state of Florida has done recently is ban greyhound racing

@Leo Gura @Natasha Tori Maru Goggins is an anime character

I would go father than Leo. Disillusionment isn't such a big deal, plenty of young people are listless and disillusioned with this capitalist dystopia, the real kicker is going into the abyss, dying, losing your humanity. Being human is precious, seriously. I wish I understood this before I stayed tripping. Also tripling can and often does awaken kundalini, which is a whole other can of worms . The initial kundalini awakening is associated with the arising and passing, which leads directly into the dark knight of the soul , as per Daniel Ingrams model.

Kundalini yoga is quite violent, it's about awakening kundalini and asking questions later. Kriya yoga is relatively gentle, it's about purifying the chakras which indirectly leads to kundalini rising, on its own.