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Maybe you prefer Nithyananda instead? Want to spend some time to talk about akashik readings maybe?

Maybe it's that gurubhakti tradition has always worked. Idk.

I will show you the Guru and you can go to his Ahshram, you just need a plane ticket. Will you drop everything and go? He is very effective.

And it will be a video about nothing. Just like me speaking about Kardashev's type civilization 3. It's pure speculation.

All of this is my honest opinion, as honest as I can be. I am sorry, it will be hurtful, but I will say it. I will tell you why it bothers me. And it really does, it pains me to see. It shows to me that personal development mostly is bullshit and talk, obsession about nothing tangible, based on what I see you expressing on this forum. It's micromanaging a mental diarrhea. Maybe I should stop posting instead. I have been a fool. My reply to your topic will have no impact whatsoever. Nothing will be refined, improved or developed. Spiritual practice is the most practical self-development I have known and Leo has built a brand on it to help people with it. What I found in google: "Personal development or self-improvement consists of activities that develop a person's capabilities and potential, build human capital, facilitate employability, enhance quality of life, and facilitate the realization of dreams and aspirations." Now, you probably would argue why I am incorrect and so on, so forth. And here we are, ten thousand posts later. Was a single technique implemented, diet adopted, unusual challenge accepted, life purpose looked or was there any seeking? I don't know, only you truly and honestly know. I just sincerely hope you realize to stop, and I hope that your quality of life improves from what you are facing. The worst thing is that people will also think what you are discussing (and I mean the content of 10000 posts) is self-development. But after thousands of posts, what has really worked? If you want to hang out, hang out, chat, discuss, but don't tell me this is personal development.

I will get warning points if I say this, but I will. I think you are @Tyler Robinson and @Preety_India. Spiritual practice (any form) is what you can always do, even if you are poor.

Relax. It's not that black and white. Reality does not function just like that. Nobody is going to come and brainwash you except from some isolated incidents usually from people that are already in your life. Besides, do you think that Trump is religious, just curious? Nobody has time to come and offer Jesus to you and me. They rather go to KFC and watch some tiktoks because they got to work tomorrow.

AwakenwithJP? This guy feels stuck. Leo could help him.

It's funny when normies, even PhD's, discover this kind of content. Let's be real who wants to question the axioms and the goods it produces of the scientific method and fear losing the concept of reality as you tought it is. The what if question is scary. But Dave can't handle it. He can’t handle that there might be an infrastructure of raw empirical experience which produces this forum, produces religions, produces cults, gatherings, rituals, traditions which attempt to talk about experiences more valid than sense perception. There is no objective evidence of this. By seeking you get some pieces of empirical evidence on the way. And the depth and deepening of the experience is the evidence. But Dave just can't face it. Sam Harris handled it being a skeptic, I am sure Professor Dave can too. I would even challenge Professor Dave to do Isha Kriya for 48 days as per the video and tell me that you did not feel bliss in your "third eye" region or literally do any other Isha yoga practice with a qualified Isha teacher and tell me that there isn't something more to it. Go and sit at Dhyanalingam and tell me that you didn't felt weird. Go into a vipassana retreat where you do nothing for long periods of time and tell me that nothing happens to your quality of consciousness. But I know, it's all "bogus and brainwashing and there is no depth, merit and sincerety" basically I don't want to do it because I am scared to change in a critical and non-rational way and I will lose my precious worldview and rational prestige or whatever. So it's so ironic that it's just one cult leader fighting another. Bottom line is that there is tremendous depth of these meditation and yoga practices and if you really want to find, you will find and Professor Dave will not.

I am soon release my album. I made many improvements. Multiple. I notated my songs out, I deliberately re-wrote bass. I mapped out modes and tonality for my songs. I learned each song at least once to play from start to finish. I wrote modal chords and melodies. I added new presets. I got a different guitar tone. I re-recorded every song at least once. I changed the producer. I posted riff playtrough vids. I got massive drum tracks from a drummer. That's so much more and better than last time. And yet... there is so much room to improve. But I have the resources I have and it's OK. I am not in a hurry. What I want to say is different. I want to start expressing myself and express my ideas about music. I want to tell people why it might and can be important to do music if they so choose to. It's an amazing journey. It's not just a hobby. It's like my own child. It's a vehicle to change my worldview. It's my form of prayer. It's what I want to share with the world. Doing music can be very reflective. Commiting to a bigger project it exciting, fun and very wholesome. I want to show the beauty of music itself. It does not need any additional meaning. Just interacting with it, living trough it and immersing into it is an intense experience. Sometimes good and sometimes bad. But I feel it's worth it. Nothing bad has come out of it. It showed me what creativity really means. It showed me how to create something out of nothing and how to do it better and better. I am constantly giving meaning to nothing until it becomes something. It has also tought me creative systems that I am using now. There is a way to create methods to manage how nothing gets created into something. I want to radiate my passion by speaking here now and I want to radiate that passion trough music I create. I don't care that you don't care. It's OK. You don't need to care. I already care about it hence I will share. Thank you life. I will try to do music until I die, since I have nothing better to do. I have to think about what to say, since I want to really mean what I say and keep attracting that kind of people.

The guy lost all of his weight!!! And he seems way smarter.

By taking some periods off and literally doing nothing or meditating and contemplating about some aspect of my life. That helps the most.

Going 6 +months with no jerking off. Horny, but have big meditation gains. I absolutely HAVE to meditate regularly or I will be very horny. Still not gonna touch it. I have less craving for women, attention and social status. It's still there, but the coping is many times more effective.

Since social skills have a lot to do with past trauma, I would acctually suggest talking with @Emerald

Don't judge your situation. Accept where you are in life. There is no standard to compare. Your life is unique, yet you can make yourself more competent. Just do some general spiritual practice daily and go meet some women, if you really want to, just recognize it. You can't prevent suffering from happening in your life, but you still can get better at releasing it and not even accumulating it at times. I think what makes you thinking of that so persistent is all the guilts of you accumulate of feeling guilty for who you are and you can certainly feel guilty for the rest of your life when it comes to relationships with the opposite sex. Let's say you either got in relationship it or didn't get into relationship. You will feel guilty about the opposite you didn't choose at times. You can have desire for a woman and yet desire for the truth. If you practice some form of meditation or something you are on that path anyway. What is there to feel guilty of? Reflect and see that it's nonsense. Go and enjoy your life. If some shit will happen, just use it as a fuel to transform yourself. Maybe you will have a beautiful family. Who knows. People are so afraid to take new births and enjoy their unfulfilled desires because we don't know how to live properly.

Watching Hasan Piker

white as snow

yeah, no problem! I am figuring shit as I go. Thought it's finally time to learn some mix workflow while I got a sick low end possibilities. I have a long way to go but I feel like I can FINALLY FUCKING DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HB Baritone Mix 2024-09-01.mp3

I will be a hindu radical and say that yoga comes from Hinduism and is an integral part of Hinduism and works best (by orders of magnitude) if done according to the ancient rishi's and sages texts. I am sorry. But I think it's really true. They already explored so much of what a human being can do and what a human being is. Yoga being diluted is dangerous and unproductive.

I wouldn't quit if I were you.

@Leo Gura while I do not want to praise you too much, you really have changed quite a lot of people's trajectory for the better. It's up to you to figure what it means, but it's a fact. There is just lack of role models like that dude. I wouldn’t be as stable as I am without integral part of Actualized.org. Huge probability I would be in some ashram in India, but I also didn't forget my values and stayed. It was very worth it. This is also due to You. The infrastructure you built is there for people to internalize. If it weren't, it would be much darker in here.

I have a few tracks which I could dismantle for the purpose of co-composing one track as a collab, if you would be into that. I even have a baritone now that goes into B1 territory, so might aswell re-record with that. But entirely up to us what we choose as I know your style is different than mine. I can also write a track on musescore based on what I have recorded and then re-record.

I can see that. Whatever floats your boat. I will definitely do it for the rest of my life.

Well, it's a bummer to hear. It's always there for you to explore it, if you find yourself curious. Never felt worse from doing it you know.