Ayham

I would like to hear your input, do you have any personal boundaries in regard to choosing friends and your social circle? who do you tend to cut out? who do you keep? I am gathering inputs.

Not sure, as far as I know, it was more liberal pre Islamic revolution

GTD - getting things done It is considered the productivity bible as well as deep work by cal newport

Fair, you can see how society also developed over time from blue, to orange, to green. One could also argue that certain societies were orange and became blue, or Iran for example which was very liberal and became...this after the Islamic revolution. Or some materialist scientist, turned into a religious blue priest. Or some hippie green person, became into a dogmatic blue religious person. All of those happen in our complex society. How would you argue that the levels in spiral dynamics are in that order? You could say that someone is 40% orange, 60% green, and he goes back to orange unconsciously to fully integrate it, but that's not really falsifiable. I could make a model as follows: red, blue, green, orange and it would be unfalsifiable the same way. I am just curious to hear various inputs, from everyone.

@Leo Gura I have used spiral dynamics as a lens for long, it has been life changing, and reading Ken Wilber as well, but I would be curious to hear your answer if someone were to ask: how do you know spiral dynamics is not bullshit?

good point

I see, good work!

Yes, each person can be different, have you looked into Kriya yoga and pranayama type stuff? that can suit you more for calming rather than samatha And yes I do look forward to experiencing 5 meo, and I like your description, I am stealing it

Yes you can be aware of awareness, or do self abiding without building up to good concentration or a calm mind, but it would be hard to maintain, something you only do during your session, and probably not as deep. Calm the mind, then, do non dual practice such as self inquiry or being aware of awareness, then try to expand that to your day to day life. I can't speak about psychedelics because I have no direct experience yet.

Good perspective!

Check out bernando kastrup analytic idealism

One needs to build up to that

We should do a challenge on who's more terrible in this

Interesting answers, keep going people

@Ramanujan how would you define "good" and "bad" people?

Hey! Good that you acknowledge this, yes face your fears and it will get easier. I have been here for like 3 years or 4, and I only have like 500 posts lol, I don't know how some people here have thousands, I see much newer accounts with thousands of posts.

Nope, still cans are the best! You are the best

You could have contemplated and practiced the topic during this time and came to an even better understanding, you still can.

There are various levels to good intentions, while I agree everyone acts from good intentions, there are levels: Acting with good intentions to yourself: because you are still selfish, you can't see beyond yourself, so in your worldview, good intentions take only you into account Acting with good intentions towards people you care about: you are less selfish, you act with good intentions towards maybe your friends, family, maybe your nation, your religion, etc. Acting with good intentions towards everyone: which also has levels, depending on how selfless you are. So someone causing a genocide or whatever, would be acting with good intentions towards themselves, or their group, because that's all they can see, and they believe they are the ultimate right. We are redefining good in this context, it is a way to understand others without demonizing them. Again, try to independently contemplate Leo's stuff before believing in them, I understand that sometimes we do believe in stuff without thinking them through, we all have this tendency, we must notice it and not act on it. In conversation, engage with Hegelian Dialectic, try to come to a synthesis that integrates both opposing views, leading to a better understanding. You got this!

1. I started with "start here" section in https://www.actualized.org/start, I watched all the intro videos, and the foundational videos, and afterwards I watched a lot of the new videos, but I think even though Leo changed my life, he has nothing more to offer, his content is repetitive to me at this point. 2. I do take notes on books and videos, but not Leo's, I used the actualized textbook and summaries thread to review stuff. 3. I have a goal of reading all the 5 starts in the booklist, I have read a fair amount so far (I also have the goal of completing Daniel berger list, which I find more serious and intellectual). 4. yes 5. it is rare to find someone or content that doesn't hold a specific worldview as sacred, questions all world views and uses all lenses, he even questions spirituality, that's what I like. 6. yes, and yes 7. I am struggling with doing stuff I don't feel like doing, but I am disciplining myself and trying to enjoy it.

This book is just gold, I made this post to encourage anyone who hasn't read it to read it.

@UpperMaster Okay here is how I understand it, your purpose reveals itself to you in solitude and silence. When you are distracted by the "feminine" or chaos, or thoughts, or whatever, you are constantly lost in the day to day activities, he describes life purpose as layers, like an onion, you have a superficial layer, which might be... build a sexy body and get bitches, then maybe a bit deeper layer which might be... get a car and a house... then something like contribute to society or family or whatever, the deepest layer would be spiritual realization. So, your current purpose changes constantly, you must sit in silence, in solitude, undistracted by the "feminine" and it will reveal itself to you, this can be done by just going on a retreat, taking a day off and just sitting with yourself with no distractions, etc. Until you exhaust this purpose, which you will know when you feel so easy and capable and used to it, you just don't see the point anymore, it lost meaning to you, then you retreat into solitude and a new purpose emerges, a new layer of the onion peeled. To be honest that's how I understood it, Leo's approach is cool, these are all maps, none of them is an objective truth, mix and combine. Sitting as awareness undistracted would mean, basically just sitting, not trying a specific meditation technique or doing something or reading or whatever, just being and sitting, doing nothing.

Got it. In my opinion, that applies to all self-help books, which is why I only listen to them as audiobooks, and keep the actual reading to heavier things, like science or philosophy or whatever.

No problem! Actually i think you in particular would like it, assuming from my limited knowledge about you from some forum posts

It was pretty insightful to me as someone who doesn't really have experience with relationships yet, I'm still 17