Bob Seeker

Part of it is feeling the urge to play just for the sake of playing and following it. Charlie talks about it here and recommends an exercise by Carl Jung:

I just watched a video. It seems like he offers intelligent descriptions of humans psychology. He did cause a questioner to become visibly upset and then imitated her face like a brat though.

I agree with salty here, just don’t make the mistake of thinking that spirituality is the solution to your survival issues.

@MartinGifford forget rebuddling all of this stuff. It’s not going to make sense to you…yet. You need to start nearer the beginning. You can remain skeptical all you want, but when you begin to validate some more things for yourself, through years of work, then you can decide how far you want to continue with this stuff. I suggest you focus on the personal development side first. Get your psychological needs met for moving toward self-actualization using maslow’s pyramid. Leo made a video on this. you will have a growing interest in doing epistemological work to discover whether this stuff is true for yourself as time goes on.

@Andrey I see what you are saying. But many people who got the Covidvaccine did not wish to be used as trials. They got it out of sense of responsibility or a feeling of having no other option. Thanks for sharing this other option here though. One funny thing: my brother is anti-COVIDvaxxer and since he is in the army he may be forced to get vaxxed. He was mocking it and said “they don’t know the long-term effects of this” what if half the people in the country like dropped dead in the long-term? wait, you mean a lot of us could…DIE in the long-run?? WHAAT!? I was planning on surviving this life!

I’m sorry to hear that. Wishing the best best for you as you move forward. You are brave for doing what you feel is right.

I think philosophy is best done on your own. School is shitty for philosophy in my opinion. They aren’t gonna tell you the deepest truths or anything close. the degree is only good if you want to be an academic philosopher or something. Good luck writing about your psychedelic experiences. you have a fear of working shitty jobs forever but that assumes you never find something you are most passionate about and never commit to something, and to following it, developing a good career in it or a deep life purpose. That would only happen as a result of laziness in my opinion. a random degree can be helpful almost in the sense that people might just see you as more generally qualified, although that might not be worth much. Experience or a good portfolio of work is worth more to employers. you could also start a business. That’s not easy from what it seems but still an option. I have a degree in psychology, and no idea what it’s good for. I don’t want to work as a psychologist. All those jobs are lame in my eyes. Maybe it could help me get a job just to help me save money so I can quit it and try to start my own business. The more concrete and hard sciency the degree is the more it can help you simply earn good money until you can leave it to start your own business. with a philosophy or psychology degree you are not able to capitalize on that as easily. You will need to do further programs or get outside experience to get a good job, like in the tech field or something.

Yeah I don’t think giving people one or a few dollars a day would bankrupt you, assuming that you have an actual innovation that you could patent and it was better quality than the inevitable knock-offs that will come. You would need to think of a lot of things too. People could get harassed for making more money than others in their area, especially if they are women. It still would probably be worth it though, as something needs to change, and change is never easy.

In some situations they can help. They can make wage slavery feel much less tolerable and wake you up that way. See how they work for you through observation. Stay awake, that’s the bottom line.

I mean it is hard to compete with someone like apple, almost impossible, but if you had a really neat new idea and owned the patent rights. your competition could be limited, and it doesn’t sound too crazy to me. Don’t just take Leo’s dismissal for granted. He could be right, but maybe not… On some level, just donating money is the same, but on some level it is not since there is the whole part where people develop work lives to earn this money. It is a different dynamic with different end results.

I'm 23 and I plan to move away from family next month. I am not business minded and I never have been. I am intelligent and a good learner though. I see business as my way out of wage slavery. I see climate change, the problems with marketing and selfish business and I am a bit repulsed. BUT, I know that succeeding at a "conscious business" is even more challenging than succeeding at most business. Succeeding at Life Purpose is even more challenging and likely will take even longer. I feel like I would be lucky to even succeed at a low consciousness, bullshit business. What is worth it for me? Should I take the hard, long-winded, approach of Life Purpose or conscious business, likely causing me to be a wage slave for longer, or ditch my moral compunctions and just try to make money however I can? Would this come back to bite me in the ass? Maybe my reputation? I plan to work on Life Purpose, currently searching for it, but the question is about how much time I should invest in that now, at this stage of my life.

Are you trying to change your life in inauthentic ways? do you understand ego backlash and set points in psychology? what is your definition of successful change? what is your definition of self-development? These may be useful questions for you -unless you are happy with just letting reality take you. be honest, though.

There is this stage orange mindset of going for success as directly as you can humanly handle, and basically becoming obsessed with it. This can often propel you forward well. On the other side is “harden not your heart”. A bit of acceptance of life and the lessons it brings. More like trusting intuition to guide you to something worthwhile even if you end up with less control over your life, possibly at the hands of others. I wonder what is truly wise here.

I mean being opportunistic to give me the best chances of making money, and I have been assuming that will likely pan out to be a relatively unconscious or at least meaningless business in my eyes. The sad part is it might not be beneficial to the human ecosystem. The thing is that I need to be decisive and decide on a strategy quickly. If I keep just hoping things will work out and I will find a wonderfully conscious way of getting by then I will just stay stuck. I'm wresting with this because I have been opposed to unconscious businesses but this could be holding me back.

Do you feel this experience is permanent?

Peter ralston actually made a video about how you can become a master fighter by watching a master fight for 30 seconds. You would have to become conscious of all of the distinctions the fighter is making while they are fighting, and then you could get the essence of the fighting skill from that. The thing is, I would consider this extremely unrealistic for you and so don't waste your time with it. Anyway, you'd probably need to be a master of consciousness work to pull this off. Something that would take a very long time and with no guarantee of actually reaching this level.

Sounds reasonable. It’s good to be seriously considering these things at your age, you’re headed in the right direction.

@Shaul What do you envision yourself doing if you could do anything in the world? Consider this question from scratch again, but if you really think it is within the area of engineering, get more specific about what that looks like. What type of work you really want to be actually doing in the day to day. If that work requires this type of studying to get you started then maybe it is worth it. Maybe this type of studying is not actually necessary. You’ve got to keep thinking about it and gaining more clarity. Maybe meet and talk to people who are doing what you actually want to be doing. It’s hard to think clearly without concrete examples or experience.

Hmmm… I wonder?

Life is extraordinarily deep. It is necessary to not be hung up on your images of what your life will be since they are necessarily shallow due to your limited imagination. If you want to plumb the depths of life you must be flexible enough to follow the spirit and let it show you new depths. From the depths branches will sprout that you can follow to take you even deeper. There is so much here, it can’t be plumbed in one life time. at least that’s my thought.

I understand regular chiropractor visits can relative pain, but my issue is posture. Importantly, is the straightened posture permanent?

He can’t tell the difference between his genuine insights and “delusions”. shows the difficulty of making sense of satori for people without theoretical foundation. It can lead to depression and many dangers. hopefully he is alright now.

The book Conversations with God explains it as: your spirit has traveled to your future, and glimpsed it, maybe while you were sleeping and then when you arrived at your future in physical reality, you recognized that you have seen it before. Another explanation is that your brain accidentally stored what you just saw with a memory cue attached instead of a present moment cue attached, so it is just an illusion. I prefer the former explanation.

Personal development is very relevant, and this includes getting money, sex etc. leo emphasizes awakening AND development. Non-duality does not mean choosing only spirit, and forgetting form. both can be partaken of. Most people are too focused on form, mesmerized by it, and when it comes down to it, you should choose the harder, less sensuous path, to develop yourself. Yet, this doesn’t always have to be the case.

Christians (like my dad) have used this idea to argue that the world is really less than 10,000 years old and started with Adam and Eve. But in a strangeloopy way, if you think of “an act of the devil” as God tricking itself into the illusion of separateness then the idea of dinosaur bones being a creation of the devil to build a deceiving and convincing narrative for scientific materialism actually begins to seem quite true.