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My intention with this question is to pinpoint some clear areas in spirituality as a journey where it is easy to get lost in. I know this question is also a bit weird too because everybody pursues spirituality also for different reasons. But can we all agree that there is some quality of what we all are pursuing that is called “spiritual development”? If we can agree, what follows is that there are obstacles or ways of being lost that can prevent spiritual development from reaching it’s fruition with respect to our desires. I really am motivated by personal reasons for asking this question. Is it only natural to have a feeling of being lost on what to trust and what to avoid with respect to spirituality, or is that more of a sign of just where I am at in my personal journey? I feel like I am bouncing on all fields and perspectives I encounter with no direction. I literally feel like I am deep in an ocean of uncharted territory. Also, I haven’t finished Leo’s Life Purpose course either. Would pinpointing my life purpose help me out of this confusion?

Keep in mind, my bias is I currently am undergoing a process of healing and recontextualization. So I am viewing everything and everybody from that perspective of being needed to be healed. I was speaking with a friend today about history, and we started speaking about learning from the narratives of cruelty from the past. My friend specifically started circling around a topic of how most people and events from the past we can acknowledge and accept. Then he said, some people are just douschebags. It was pretty obvious he was talking about people like Hitler, Stalin, etc. This specific reaction of not even being willing to name certain traumatic global events and instigators, and issuing denial by being quick to denounce their existence, thereby leaving that topic as case closed, I find to be very peculiar. I feel like is a sign that not only are we humans as a species not fully recovered or healed from the past, and we aren’t even acknowledging the magnitude and quality of our hurt yet. I find this very interesting. What do you think can be labeled from this collective consciousness reaction I just described? Could this denial be the grounds for the same hurt being experienced again?

Hey, I heard Leo say in one video that he went into detail about how this is possible. How can I send my questions to the universe? How can I receive answers from the universe? Edit: Where can I find the video where Leo brings it up?

Hi Leo, I notice you often emphasize capital letters to distinguish objects pointing to actuality from mental constructs. I’ve actually been thinking about this distinction a lot and have been trying to come up with my own way to distinguish capital letter objects from lower case objects. How do you as a person come across or realize capital case objects in your first person experience? How do you come to your own realization that what you are coming across is indeed a capital case object? For me, what I call the Mind, or the Person, likes to come up with tricks that what I’m experiencing is Truth or Goodness, when in fact it actually is me deceiving myself with my own construct of truth, or goodness. Thanks, and hope you are safe this coronavirus session

She made some references to Astrology and not all the events she stated would happen are based on some chain of specific events that we can easily observe from a factual perspective. Also, I’m not sure how many people here actually studied or believe in Astrology here

Hi guys, I’m not sure if posting these forecast videos from thought leaders is acceptable on this sub forum. Teal Swan is one thought leader, among other things, who makes content dedicated towards guiding watchers in the direction of higher consciousness. Caution, she makes some big intuitive leaps in this video that may be difficult to open oneself up to from a very materialistic frame of reference. This video combines elements of deep American themes, acknowledgement of global and political systemic issues, acknowledgment of current societal and legal paradigms, and even references some astrological events, in order to make some intuitive projections of what 2021 will feel like with respect to 2020. This video also provides some personal suggestions on what to focus one’s energy, attention towards given such themes. It’s a pretty huge bite. I’m curious to hear what you guys think with respect to the video, your own personal experiences and observations of 2020, or your own projections of what 2021 will be like.

Hi guys, I’d like to ask these questions from the perspective of someone who is confused about which media to trust. I want to train myself to seek news out with the intention of learning and deciphering what is going on in the world. I also want to avoid the traps of being fed information, even if it is quality information, and being self-misguided that I know everything that is going on around me. For those of you that have developed your own ways of consuming news, what are the characteristics of “quality” news for you? How do you seek out news? When does news become too much for you? How do you discuss current event with others (assuming you do)? How do you recognize and deal with the tendency to judge what’s going on around you, and to make quick conclusions with the information you are fed?

Especially Uzi man, I really feel the substance and energy in his expressions.

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Hi Value, I actually have a very skeptical inclination towards news in general. It’s probably not healthy tbh, and a bias I haven’t completely overcome and addressed yet. Hence this personal notion I have being of being “trapped” by news. But at the same I do want to become more conscious of what is going on around me. I don’t know where to begin with this. What is your attitude towards news? Have you ever switched sources based on discovering better ones or have you stuck with certain sources?

Interesting vision. I do feel a pressure, as if it’s coming from the outside and not within me, to always pick up my phone, always search through forums, and social media for replies. Almost as if I’m glued to my device, and it feels to me as if “it’s out of necessity”. Thank you for your reply

Wikipedia’s article on it doesn’t quite satisfy me. I’m asking from the place of self-concern for how I’ve depended on the Internet for my survival for most of my life (I’m 23 now). I honestly can’t take myself out of this way of scavenging, exploring, and navigating “the world”. I can’t see any other way of interacting with life. I know I am also using the Internet to ask about the Internet also. I am not looking for “the answer” right now. But I want to get out of my head for now. I want some clues as to what I can point to at as “the Internet” has been to others. For me, I’ve used the Internet for selfish reasons (self-gratification through porn). I’ve also used it as a feedback loop for solidifying my beliefs. The deeper psychological reason was really because my relationship with my family and friends sucked as a kid, so I searched for my emotional needs through online forums, YouTube communities, Facebook, online friends, etc. I’ve also engaged in bullying using the Internet, not proud to admit this but yeah. I’ve used the Internet for endless intellectual stimulation once I found out that I could absorb more information online than I could at school, and with the friend group that I had. All my important life decisions have always begun, many times unconsciously, through searching through Google. How about your guys? What is “the Internet” for you guys?

Thank you for this.

It did. Thank you. I feel more insight towards the “alarm clock” analogy you through in. I suppose that’s assurance that sooner or later I will learn my lesson to ... stop being the me right now that is lying on my bed Guess I haven’t learned yet Especially becoming more aware of that perfectionist mindset of mine as well, actually is contributing to the resistance. I also liked what you threw in about variety allowing some rest for certain mind activity while allowing some refreshing other mind activity.

Hi guys. I’m 23. I have had chronic planning issues. I’m living with my parents, after graduating college. I’m asking from a place of anxiety and burden, but also from a place of enough is enough. To detail my past attempts, I usually have tried adopting some standard planning templates that used urgency/important categories, deadlines. I’ve also tried more lax, planning styles that simply used dates, and writing out less specific intents. I have used multiple planning and event apps (Google Calendar, Todoist, Reminder, etc.). Normally, I set a bunch of goals and deadlines, but I wind up committing to a single goal at the expense of the other goals. I am poor at anticipating the likely hang ups I will encounter when reaching a goal. I wind up committing to that single goal, and pushing the deadlines on my other goals back and back. Even the goal to which I wind up committing, I finish it later. I find my instincts of being perfect to be so tempting, I choose to finish it at a later time. At the core of this is a sense, this feeling, this huge weight, to perform perfectly. I don’t like that feeling, so I usually avoid planning altogether, and focus only day by day, and ignore the bigger picture. You know the results. Things pile up. I actually consider myself to be a very hard worker, but not necessarily the most conscious one. I really would like some feedback towards how I can begin tailoring a planning style that matches my stage of psychological discipline, and cognitive abilities. If you have been successful at planning, I would very much value your feedback!

I see. I don’t completely understand, but I think that’s okay. I would like to allow myself to see what you mean over time.

My purpose of this post is to understand more about life lessons more abstractly. I do not want to engage in mental masturbation in this topic. But I feel like this hasn't been talked about in this forum, and I have never spoken about anybody else about this topic explicitly. Only implicitly. The theme of this topic is that life is going to present to you the same problems over and over and over again, until you finally learn the lesson. My belief is that you could either accomplish this in multiple lifetimes or do it in this lifetime. I want to go over a personal background of how I reached this to clarify what exactly I mean. -------- To give a background of how I reached this rabbithole, I have been learning how to program. The life lesson that presented itself to me over and over again, was not to cheat or plagiarize from code that already exists in the internet. I refused to see the lesson for what it was, and tried to shortcut my way around actually mentally thinking about the problem. You know how the lesson goes. In the short run, I saved so much time, and finished assignments and tasks quickly. But in the long run, I didn't fundamentally understand what it was I was coding. I learned absolutely nothing. I get confused on coding interviews. Surfing the internet reaches it's limits when your intention is to cheat. Eventually I learn. I open my mind to see the lesson for what it is. I actually have to sit down and understand the coding concepts, and how to code, NOT how to copy code. Now all of a sudden, the structure of coding problems is more easy for me to discern. Referencing one of Leo's videos, I can now easily discern the content of coding problems from the structure of coding problems. I finally learned my lesson so now I can see beyond the lesson and the problem for what it is. -------- So now my background aside, these are my questions. What are some of the most fundamental lessons that one, or a conscious being, learns in life? How does one take into account the uniqueness of their own lessons in life? For example, I know my lesson involving cheating was definitely meant for me, but it does not necessarily apply to all coders. Are lessons just semantic? Is it even possible to have a conversation about lessons when every person has a subjective lesson they need to learn to understand concepts? (I already highly doubt this.) How does learning life lessons relate to self-actualization?

Good for you, man

What is the difference between karma and equivalent exchange? They seem similar to me. My understanding of both of them also mixes them up with the concepts of "payback".

What actually is mental masturbation and how one recognize when they are engaging in it? What is the difference between mental masturbation and genuinely exploring an idea using one’s mind? Does that distinction actually exist? It’s very hard for me to recognize myself as I’m doing it. I feel a sense of fantasy when it comes to mental masturbation. Playing around with ideas, blowing them up and exaggerating them in my head. It feels like pleasure. I only recognize I’ve been in fantasy after the fact. But sometimes I feel a similar kind pleasure when exploring new ideas, and testing them out or tweaking them in the kinds of diagrams I draw.