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@Leo Gura Definitely, they bolster one's identity of being strong or fit or buff or whatever. Thank you for this insight.

@BipolarGrowth Yeah, I can only speak from personal experience. How do you think weed can be used in a healthy way so as to avoid the negative side effects such as decrease in motivation and mental sharpness while still getting its positive effects like creativity and a more contemplative mindset?

@Matt23 Thank you. This makes sense. I say thank you because I now see the blindspot in my philosophy. I suppose I meant at the very least the incorporation of physical strength/endurance training into spirituality, but I'm definitely wrong about the extreme part. But when I see the picture of the aligned spiritual meditative dude (I'll attach a pic so you know what I'm talking about), what I think about is holism; and holism includes physical strength/endurance. Thinking about it now, that's kinda stupid, so... Thanks for changing my mind! (kind of)

I would advise you against THC. Just my personal opinion. It will make you lazy, cripple you intellectually, and destroy your wit. If you know what I mean when I say mental acuity, then trust me when I tell you marijuana will take it out of you.

@BipolarGrowth Again, I am not talking about fruit bowls. I am talking about physical endurance and strength.

@Ilan Goggins has been a huge influence for me. Whoever says pushing your body is unhealthy is unhealthy.

Whatsup Anon! I just began Shambhavi Mudra. A member of this forum introduced it to me. I only experience a nauseating headache and pain in my forehead while doing the technique but I was told I just need to keep at it. Everything is fine until I tilt my eyes upwards, that's when the excruciating pain kicks in. But I need to keep at it, increasing little by little each day. I would appreciate any advice or tips you have or any other means to help facilitate this practice.

I've heard a member of this forum talking about Shambhavi Mudra and was wondering if anyone can share their experiences using this technique. I have personally begun this practice but experience severe nauseating and excruciating headachey pain in my forehead but at the same time experience a profound ineffable feeling, quite similar to what Leo describes in his most recent video

@Goldzilla I will keeo updating you on this thread of my experiences with SM.

I cut it out (thank God) a couple of years ago. I advise you to do the same. The cravings vanish completely after three months. Go cold turkey. You got this. Remember that the key to achieving anything in life is the power of your desire.

@Goldzilla Thanks man. Your support and advice mean a lot. Can you elaborate upon sun gazing? It seems idiotic to me, but I thought that about this possessed-looking meditation technique and I thought wrong.

@Gesundheit2 To be honest with you, I think that is a fucking great metric for enlightenment. It's easy to sit under a tree and talk about love, it's quite another to embody such a philosophy in times of war or political turmoil or even something as simple as getting bullied or aggressively insulted by someone It's like the stereotype of the wise old enlightened man who is unfazed by all the idiots who throw rocks at him and what not. Again, man, I love that metric. How would you embody that in your work? It seems to me like the perseverance aspect of one's being, like physical strength, for instance, running, lifting weights, pushing oneself in the face of adversity and resistance...

@The0Self Lol yeah she's like "BE yOuR SElF!!"

@The0Self I suppose I mean her delivery. You know? Like the way she communicates her message is just overly pretentious and honestly fucking creepy as shit.

She's just too woo-woo and touchy-feely for me. Leo sometimes says "But Leo, this is just hippie nonsense!" But Leo's teachings are not that. This is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvaPmKQVIuQ&t=1761s&ab_channel=Actualized.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdrmdMhf_sY&ab_channel=Actualized.org

@aurum Lol. Pure cringe

Tom MacDonald (some rapper dude, if you didn't know) just released a new song. I personally find it quite ridiculous on a magnitude of great girth. He spews common conspiracy theories and talks about how he is awake and all of this while he is really no different from the imaginary robots his "message" attacks. I think this epitomizes new-age crap; the muckiest of shit; the worst information that could possibly be fed to helpless young suggestible minds. On the other hand, maybe he is conveying a profound "wake-up" message and I am just an unwitting robot. Check it out guys, and tell me what you think. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCBNwGHPZ2M&t=0s&ab_channel=TomMacDonald

Just offer your support, it's the only thing you can do. It is, after all, her process, her journey, her path, not yours.

@Alfonsoo You raise a good point. I say heed the advice of Gili Trawangan. Simple but profoundly powerful.

Leo says learn through direct experience, and yet direct experience can (and often does) mislead people. Take the heliocentric model of the universe, in which a flat earth, along with every other object floating in space, orbits around the sun; extensively proven wrong millennia ago. My point is, it appears as though the Earth is flat: we directly experience it as such. Yet it remains not the case. So, why trust direct experience?

Hello fellow member of the actualized forum, I am new here and for some reason there isn't a science/geek topic that seems appropriate for this question so I have decided to put it under self actualization. For any of you that know a thing or two about Kurt Godel and his work on systems that are capable of self-reference (as I am sure there are some, because Leo has done videos on this topic), what do you think about the prospect of a computer? Obviously, such complex systems did not exist back in Godel's time, so I suppose my question is, does the incompleteness theorem extend to a artificially intelligent computer? Will it truly be inconsistent and partial when self-referencing itself, or can it be accurate? (and if so, to what extent?)