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You missed an opportunity to call it The Eggsperiment

It's a decent channel imo. It may not be advanced, spiritually in the way others are but then not every channel needs to be. He breaks social interactions down in a good way and it kinda reminds me of 'how to win friends' in terms of its usefulness. Worth it on the outward social aspect if that's what you need advice. He also comes across as quite genuine and seems like he's trying to help people

Interesting couple of posts, just to expand on your point a bit. I think that the either/or thinking has benefits for the person because it completely absolves themselves of any responsibility, so if its everyone else's fault obviously its not theirs, but then if its their fault, theyre just a bad person and theres nothing that can be done about that. It views the world in a way where things just happen to them, what makes it worse is that it directly affects their life. This is a completely fearful reaction to life, but what makes it tricky is the mental gymnastics needed to have this position, so talking someone out of it is very difficult. Sometimes the best way i for the person to see how bad it can get, its just a question of how bad does it need to be before you take responsibility, some people can drop quite far down but ,although it sounds morbid, they may need to get to the stage where they choice is killing yourself or taking responsibility and doing something to improve your situation. But humans sometimes will not change unless they 100% have to

Dont worry about it, i genuinely mean that

Are they really necessary? I'm looking to do some salvia, where I'm getting it from they recommend having a trip sitter but I dont know anyone who's into this type of thing therefore they wouldn't really understand. Also I think it would be a bit weird anyway just having someone there and it might be harder to let go. I have done mushrooms before, it was with other people but even if they weren't there I would've been alright

Yeah that's a bit much for me, would be interesting to hear about how it was for someone who tried it. I may look into 5 meo though, just need to find out where I can get my hands on some in the UK ?

@PsiloPutty @Leo Gura @John Iverson Thanks for the advice, after watching that video I don't think I'm gonna do it, not trying to jump out any windows, I'm on the ground floor but still looks crazy ?? It's funny I was in Amsterdam and I bought some salvia, low dose but still. I was gonna do it but I did weed brownies with a girl I'm seeing. They were strong cos the effects lasted hours, I was enjoying it but she started freaking out. But basically didn't have time to do it, now I'm kinda glad cos she prob would've called the police if I went that crazy. @Leo Gura do you have a trip sitter when you do 5 meo?

Heres the thing, to say 'actualized.org' is a scam by definition is just not true. I havent bought the life purpose course and i cant see myself doing it, even though im sure its great, but my point is ive watched lots of Leos vids and havent paid a penny for them. You could say i used my time on them but either way Leo isnt really gaining from me watching them. However I would say i have personally found a lot of value in his youtube videos. So if we say its not a scam for arguments sake, then you would say I just dont agree with him or i think hes talking rubbish or whatever and thats 100% cool but to take him down for that seems a bit much. Theres millions of youtubers or teachers that i dont listen to because they dont resonate with me for whatever reason but to actively take them down, whats the point of that? Its up to each of us to seek out knowledge in various forms, rather than rely on one teacher to hand feed us. If someones teachings are 'dangerous' then yeah they should be taken down but i just dont see it in Leo. I think the poster was maybe looking for a solution to his problems, and felt that Leo couldnt really help or whatever. A good point he did make though, is the enlightenment thing, i think that is a genuine problem of the forum, where enlightenment is seen as the answer to everything, it would almost be better to take the carrot of enlightenment off the table and just focus on being present and improving our consciousness

@emind Heres the problem with caring what other people think, it means youll be a slave to whatever the dominant mindset is in your society and this more than likely, will contradict what your true self wants. For example you might grow up in a society where meditation is seen as wrong or a waste of time, to the point where youre ridiculed if you do it. If you care about what people think youll miss out on something that can change your life for the better. It would also mean humans would stagnant as everyone would be afraid of pushing boundaries. So on a micro and macro level there has to be people not caring about what others think. In terms of how to do it, thats something you need to work out yourself. Is it a fear of being kicked out of the 'tribe' ? If thats the case like any fear you need to challenge that. But you cant just accept, 'oh im a people pleaser so thats how it is', Thats like someone afraid to drive saying 'oh im just not someone who drives', well obviously until you face that fear you wont be that person.

But there is your issue, how can you understand something logically that can not be understood using logic? What you're talking about has to be experienced and can only be seen on that level. Language by its nature is limiting, if I write a book about how an apple tastes and you haven't eaten an apple you will still not know after reading my book, you may think you know but you won't really. Without direct experience all of your ideas are ego made distortions

Get married or dont

If you have a logical view of enlightenment will that help you get enlightened?

I actually think its an ideal time to start, there are less distractions, you know yourself better than say a 20 year old, youve lived and know what life is about, youve seen the temporary nature of life, you didnt grow up in the very distracting social media age. So go for it Patty and good luck on your journey

The main point of mgtow should be that you you dont need to sacrifice who you are for a woman, what i mean by that is you should discover who you are and be defined by that, not by a relationship or sex or whatever. The problem men have is that we put women too high up on a pedestal which mostly they dont actually like and because of that it leads to rejection, disillusionment, resentment, hatred even. So this needs to be taught, the other problem is there is no where that this is taught in a healthy way, mgtow and manosphere guys are trying to share this information, the only problem is its a bit all over the place. It would be fine if there wasnt such resentment built into it, but in some cases there is. In general i think attaching yourself to a 'movement' just doesnt work, because what it means is after watching a few videos youve resonated with it and youve picked this side so it leads to you having bias and defending it without taking into account other perspectives. Take the info that makes sense but dont be tied to it

Prince EA is a difficult one to call for me, overall his message is positive and he seems quite well versed in non-duality and other spiritual topics. However the problem for me and why he never really resonated with me is the showmanship of him, this is not necessarily a bad thing, im guessing the audience hes gone for are not hardcore spiritual or self-actualising (no z in the uk) people, its mainly a mainstream audience that hes encouraging to think differently which is commendable and needed. But its just appears overly dramatic and emotional (sad music, passionate speeches etc) to me, so if youre used to say Tolle, Mooji, Sadhguru etc, EA really doesnt come across as authentic. I dont know if this is a ploy to get people emotionally invested, he could very well be enlightened himself or at least on the journey, which im sure he is. It would be nice for him to connect authentically but then again would he have got the same amount of eyeballs if he had. Prince EA could be seen as a stepping stone to get from mainstream thinking to a more spiritual way im thinking

Just do it, I have and it didn't ruin my reputation, I did have that feeling you're talking about but it's just ego trying to stop you and give you an excuse. Even if you do it and it's a waste of time it will move you another step forward so you can move toward what you really want to do, if it goes well could change your life and give value to others. "Just do it" - the wise Shia la beouf

?? Awakenwithjp is pretty funny, but no JP stands for Jordan Peterson, he's a Canadian psychologist/lecturer who has strong opinions on topics like this, a lot of mgtow, incels and other manosphere guys are into him. He's got pretty big all of a sudden in the last couple years

Also keep in mind there's very limited education for males when it comes to interacting with women, there's nothing really in the mainstream geared towards this. In fact it's seen as sleazy etc there's very few real male discussions where you hear real men's perspectives, whereas you get loads of honest female perspectives on TV (the view or loose women if you're in the UK). Not to sound all mgtow but there needs to be some kind of healthy male influencers that can give real knowledge, otherwise they can fall into these hate filled rabbit holes online

I take your point, I always find that with new information and ideologies, you can always react in 2 ways either you use it to rationalise who you think you are, so in your example all women are whores, thats why I can't get them. Or you can use it to challenge what you may have previously thought and use it to see from a different perspective. Which one you do depends on where you're at as a person, if you're in a scarcity mindset it will rationalise that, if you're in a abundance you'll take what you need. But the information should be out there, it's just wading through all the bullshit to get to the real perspective

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Don't think he was necessarily trying to convince, he just approached them trying to understand. I think just talking to each other and putting ideologies aside can help.

Not saying he's enlightened but he is approaching them with presence and trying to understanding, so it can help

Ok so incels, I'm not gonna talk about, not to insult them but they seem a bit delusional and honestly it's quite sad that they think they have no determination in their life. I'm sure I don't need to advise anyone on here but do not buy into what incels say at all. Mgtow on the other hand, I haven't delved incredibly deep, just listened to Ronin man and a couple others. But in general I can relate to some of there points, marriage for example (which obviously they're against), I wouldn't say you shouldn't get married but I think it's fair to question it. We grow up in a culture where it's drummed in us to get married, sometimes mentioned in the media on a daily basis. I think this definitely should be looked at from each personal perspective, why is it the default? If it wasn't the norm and there was a fringe group getting married that would seem weird. But in general I think every ideology has some valid points (not sure about incels), it's just that people use them from a place a fear and then whatever they're agenda is or whatever internal problems they're trying to solve, they use it for that. It would be so nice if people weren't attached to ideologies and we could just talk about these ideas for what they are

From your post I'm guessing you do Amazon and probably private label as you're reliant on product reviews. I know this as I've been selling on eBay and Amazon for about 7 years. What you have is an addiction to checking which you need to work on, actually this is a great situation as it gives you a chance to work on it. It mailny comes about because you're in fear of your business feeling so it gives you some certainty and a high if you get a sale. The problem with it is you become neurotic and your emotional state is completely reliant on your sales. To wean yourself off you need to trust your process and maybe only check once every 2 hours and then once every 4 hours and so on. I find this hard as well still but my emotions are not regulated by it because over the year they'll but good and bad days but you have to look at the business from say a month, 6 month or year timeframes or even longer to get a real picture. Looking at it daily does not help you and could even lead to bad decisions

I guess technically normal is the average or close to the average of everyone. So in western society you might say it's normal for someone to get married because our perception is most people do, but the tricky thing is how much is it people just influenced by previous 'normal' people and how many are doing it because they truly want to?