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Hustlers University

Has this experience changed your political views or views around masculinity?

Thanks! It's a funny meme that accurately describes by spiritual journey @Ulax I agree with you on the relativism part but I also think the relativism only makes you more open to spirituality but won't make you spiritual by itself. I also think online teachers like Leo and others have really made spirituality more popular on the internet allowing for spiritual ideas to be shared with more people.

Unpopular opinion: twitter has always been the worst social media platform and it actively makes politics worse. I'm glad its going up in flames and hope it gets completely destroyed.

In order to have 'no self', a lot of inner work is required I agree. A lot of these self help gurus focus on success for oneself while belittling others. In order to be of service to society, you have to do your inner work. Otherwise, your inner demons will manifest and corrupt your outer work. Instead of helping others, you will unintentionally make things worse. I enjoyed the poetic exchange tho

Control is an illusion You are run by subconscious thought Therefore the only conclusion Is the inner work that must be sought

As many an self-help user You act like a self abuser Perhaps if you yield and inwards you healed You'd feel like less of a loser

These hypermasculine self help gurus that say that inner work doesn't matter are just glorified gaslighters. They exploit your insecurities and traumas and to sell you their cure which basically boils down to different versions of 'man up and get your shit together'. How are you going to do that when your brain was wired to be in a state of fear from childhood trauma? These gurus would then say 'stop making excuses and being a victim' which is just more gaslighting and victim blaming. Look closely at the guy. How do you know he is qualified to even give advice? How do you know he's successful? Seems to me like its just some dude trying to make money off youtube by pandering to the masculine self help crowd. Look at all the successful men today? Do you think they spent hours on self help videos on how to be a high value man?

Spirituality requires basic self help (money, career, sex, relationships, health) as a foundation for obvious survival reasons Basic self help requires trauma healing as a foundation, since unresolved traumas and other mental issues cripple your ability to do basic self help. In fact, pretty much all bad habits and thinking problems and lack of motivation stem from learned behaviours from childhood. For example, a binge eating habit might be a learned coping mechanism for childhood trauma. If you try to stop without addressing the trauma, you will eventually relapse since you need some way of distracting yourself. Trauma healing requires spirituality as a foundation since love is what ultimately heals us. If you lack any kind of spirituality, you will see reality as dead, malevolent, mechanistic and meaningless. You will see yourself as a finite, egoic form fundamentally separate from the rest of the universe. This will make healing impossible. You cannot heal when you are severely trapped in egoic thinking.

I would argue that this forum does 1,3 and 4 but is very lacking in 2

@Consept yeah i agree with your points. However, I think trauma healing, self help and spiritual enlightenment are inextricably linked in a strange loop. You cannot remove any of these aspects and have the others. This forum is too biased towards self help and enlightenment. whereas other communities are wayy too focused on the self help aspect that they become toxic.

I think the biggest problem with this forum is the lack of focus on inner work and trauma healing. Its either crazy psychedelic enlightenment or 'get your shit together' type self help. 99% of the spiritual journey is the shadow work and healing part. Once you've healed, self help becomes easy. I've heard Leo say he doesn't do trauma healing since its so unbelievably fundamental to the spiritual and self help journey. This is a huge mistake, 99% of the people on this forum don't need 'practical' self help or spiritual awakenings. They need healing. In fact most people are drawn to spirituality in order to heal themselves.

Have you ever tried extreme doses of LSD? Like 1000ug+

@asifarahim r/selfimprovement and r/getdisciplined

spirituality and self improvement are deeply entangled. That being said, if you can't stand spirituality, there are quite a few self improvement subreddits.

I completed no nut november 2 years ago during lockdown. Was an interesting experience but I don't really want to do it again. Sexual repression is not fun.

I also have begun doubting spirituality and wondering if im just deliding myself with all this consciousness shit. I'm an extremely rational scientific minded person so actually believing in spirituality and nonduality took a lot of mystical experiences as well as rationally backed arguments (thanks Bernardo Kastrup). Recently I've been in a very pessimistic attitude and I constantly read comments and articles about why materialism is true and idealism and spirituality are bullshit. These really get to me because of how important spirituality is to my life so I will spend hours arguing trying to debunk these argumens from skeptical materialists on the internet. I'm able to defend my worldview from these materialist arguments but it really gets to me. Its really depressing that materialism is mainstream, especially around scientifically minded people because I am a scientist and look up to scientists.

Just got rejected by a company i spent 2 months doing interviews with. It's not even that I wasn't good enough. The higher ups just changed their minds so the position got cancelled. On one hand I feel an overwhemling sense of despair and anger since I absolutely need a job to move out of my parents house and live my own life. On the other hand, I feel kind of free? I had spent so much time stressing about the outcome that I wasn't allowing myself to live life. During my frustration I felt a space open up inside me and I felt more alive than I have in a while despite my shitty situation. I feel like the law of attraction had something to do with it. I was clinging so hard to getting a job and leaving my situation that I was out of alignment with the universe. i was giving out the energy of lack rather than abundance and so I manifested some stupid reason for my job application falling through. Its weird because I feel like even if i got the job and moved out, I would be miserable because I wasn't in alignment with life. The past few weeks of job applications have made me feel dead inside and now that its all for nothing, I actually feel alive. The universe is definitely trying to teach me something. I'm guessing it's gratitude and abundance. Having an abundance mindset and letting go is so hard though. I'm 23, with pretty much no social life or sexual experience, Im unemployed and living with my dysfunctional parents and with a bunch of childhood traumas holding me back. The only things I have going for me are my qualifications (masters degree) and my body which is slowly getting worse as the stress of my situation is causing me to gain weight (which isn't actually that bad as I struggle to gain weight). i feel life everyone else has their lives together except me. All my friends are either in relationships or frequent hookups. They also have pretty solid jobs and live on thier own. The one thing I have is my spiritual connection. I regularly have spiritual experience where I realise that I have everything that i am searching for and I finally feel at peace. However, these states usually don't last long.

AI is consciousness

The price of lab grown meat has dropped tremendously and will continue to do so. A lab grown burger that cost $300000 in 2013 now costs $9 in 2022. The technology is still in early stages so there is room for huge breakthroughs.

Best stage yellow solution to the vegan issue is lab grown meat. You meet peoples demand for meat without harming animals or destroying the environment. It's the ideal stage yellow solution. Trying to force right wing meat eaters to change their diets is like trying to force strict muslims into becoming pro lgbt atheists. You're just going to piss people off.

I've made a huge breakthrough in my approach to IFS. Instead of seeing unburdening my parts as a goal, the better approach is to forget the goal entirely and focus improving my relationships with my parts. A better relationship with my parts IS the goal. Not more confidence or less anxiey or fewer addictions. Those are just side effect of my relationships with my parts. I managed to achieve a deep state of connection with my dissociated parts while in a state of meditative ego death. The parts dissolved into a singular field of consciousness. There was no more inner resistance. It was as intense as a psychedelic state except with no visuals and mindfuck. Although the next day, I seem to have lost most of the mental clarity and my parts are dysfunctional once again.

Serotonin wise, yes, dopamine wise, no.