SeaMonster

Love the "integral ecological" i.e. yellow/teal stage description: survival before compassion. That's an acknowledgement of the mess that toxic compassion creates and the higher stage needed to remedy that. Believe me, that is coming and coming hard in the next 5 years.

LOL. I'm a 77/100 Introvert. You guys are in for a world of hurt if you don't get out there and socialize. Your minds will devour you. Speaking from experience.

The problem with people on this forum is that they think there is this one world culture that applies to everyone. This is an Israeli article. Israeli men probably have much more testosterone than your typical American or European guy. Maybe their pickup is more aggressive, who knows? But their entire culture is much more aggressive too, for excellent survival reasons. On the other hand, the author has freakin' gender pronouns in her Twitter profile, and is an English Lit major, so she has likely been marinading in Anglo type feminism her whole adult life and gets a girl boner trying to apply US/EU standards to Israeli men.

You could look back on your past (even if you're young) and see which decisions worked for you and which didn't. Then you can extract some kind of general principle regarding which course you're here to follow. E.g. for me being more independent and self-reliant works and depending on others doesn't. And some people are the opposite, they're better off with a partner. For some people being more spiritual works, for others more materialistic. It might help you if you write out a story of your life and what/when things have worked well and when not.

Speaking of curbing monopolies, the Republicans want to break-up Google's ad business. So maybe you'll see some of it in the next several years.

You mean backlash to stage green, I assume. Musk is freaking Stage Yellow, ffs. Of course greenies like Leo are incapable of seeing that. Musk is very much about localism as far as speech. He is ok with following local national laws, he simply doesn't want toxic Green bullshit here in the US. That's Yellow, not Orange. Orange is about universal individual rights. Yellow is about respect for localism.

That's a typical enneagram 5 thing. But your solution is wrong, because you can't solve mental masturbation by mentally masturbating about it. You need to engage the physical side of life, e.g. sports, getting more and better sleep, eating right, meditation to clear the mind, etc. Playing sports that require split-second decisiveness, such as basketball, helps a lot. The goal for a 5 is to quiet the mind so that you're fully immersed in your senses, rather than analysis and conceptualization.

Thinking too much, with too many pointless negative, pessimistic thoughts can be a bigger problem than the current state of the world or your life. You're likely quite smart, it's just that your head is filled with too much shit.

The shadow work is focusing on your own goals and working towards achieving them. The more of that you have in your life, the less you care about what others think of you. You tend to care more about what others think of you when you are kind of adrift and don't have a strong sense of yourself and what you want to happen in your life. (Oh, and try to fix your sleep problem - that's important.)

I know this is old, but...2 cents...ENTPs piss me off something fierce. I don't think that match is that great. I like ENFPs, to a lesser extent INFPs and even ENTJs. So sharing functions plus intuitives seems to be a decent match.

Infants don't have an ego, it hasn't developed yet (they are undifferentiated from the mother), which kinda proves my point.

People rarely put a gun to your head forcing you to say anything at all, so a good alternative to lying is not saying anything. You're not required to answer anyone's questions.

Well, to be precise, perhaps you don't consciously fear dying like some people, but it doesn't mean you are going to throw your life away for nothing, whether through self-neglect or self-abuse. It's not the same as losing the will to survive, because, again, that's wired-in. Your lizard brain e.g. is not altered, it gets the same inputs and processes threats as it did before. The problem is that human beings with egos have a distorted view of life and death and the relationship between them, and spend too much time dreading things that are not as threatening or scary as they perceive, and in the process fail to fully live.

Apparently he needs to interact with "himself" by making videos and having a forum, for one. Otherwise, he could disprove my theory by not doing it anymore.

I mean, you have to ask yourself a more fundamental question. When Leo claims states of consciousness "beyond anything a normal human can access or even imagine", what is he really saying? Well, he's saying "it's unlikely you have accessed these states, and unless you take heroic doses of very powerful psychedelics (which he knows most people won't) you need me to enlighten you.) That's the bottom line. A teacher who helps a student get enlightened knows that the student will no longer need him. So let's ask Leo: does he want everyone on the forum to get enlightened and leave the forum or does he need everyone to stick around? It's a simple question.

Meh. Leo a year from now will teach something different than Leo today. This is due to the YT content creator model of getting clicks from novel content. There is only so much "novel content" though if you are genuinely enlightened. There really isn't much to say. Solipsism was always bullshit -- there is one consciousness but putting an "I" in front of it and claiming you are it is a special brand of egoistic delusion. Of course there is only one consciousness but it's like the analogy of waves on the ocean: yes, waves are just a localized manifestation of the ocean, so simultaneously the localized and the whole, and this goes for ALL waves.

You are confusing a conscious act of protest -- which does not require being enlightened by any means -- with involuntary deactivation of the survival drive. Plenty of non-enlightened people kill themselves for all kinds of reasons as well. The monks CHOOSE to take these actions, they are not deprived of the will to survive. Their conscience simply overrides the survival drive.

You're getting some really confusing answers here (probably due to the mahasamadhi/mahasomebullshit theory of "true" enlightenment popular on this forum.) Survival drive is not the same as ego in this context. You don't need a limited self-identity in order to survive. Enlightened people have a survival drive -- their lizard brain does not deactivate upon nondual awakening or unity consciousness.) The ego exists because it offers PSYCHOLOGICAL protection. You acquired it as a child in order to cope with the world/external reality, along with the belief that you need the defenses it offers in order to survive. (Obviously, it's a false belief, a remnant of childhood programming.)

Have someone smack you and tell you to snap out of it. And maybe to go do your homework or chores if you're not in school.

Yeah, no-one serious thinks it will decrease inflation. How much it will increase is the issue. Also, inflation affects people who already have jobs (which is most of the voting public) so they aren't gaining much from the bill. In any case, predictions about how any single piece of legislation will play out are speculative and contentious, and "Expert" predictions are often wrong. E.g. see Obama's "I guess those shovel-ready jobs weren't so shovel-ready haha" from a decade ago.

You have to give up on this idea that simple polling tells you anything. Let me explain. Let's says Manchin votes for BBB (a huge spending bill) and it passes. As a result, inflation spikes even more than it is now. Manchin's constituents will get hammered by the high prices. He will absolutely be blamed for it and get voted out. Voters aren't thinking about the negative consequences of any particular piece of legislation, but when it comes back to bite them in the ass, they will most certainly blame not themselves, but their senator.

There is ambiguity about the term "ego" but it most commonly does NOT apply to the unconscious mind. It applies to the conscious mind. Jung refers to the integrated conscious-unconscious as The Self.

You also don't seem to get that your thinking about politics is reductive. All you do is repeat the meaningless buzzwords "caring" and "progress/progressive" over and over again. That's not an argument for any particular policy and how it affects someone's constituents. It's sort of a "progressives good/conservatives bad" mantra. You have to recognize that those particular senators know their state's needs as well as politics better than you do. This also goes for the more socially liberal Republicans in Northeastern states, like Susan Collins in Maine. It's equally crazy to think that she would vote the exact same way as a senator from Kentucky or Texas.

You have to shitcan this idea of "wage slavery." Firstly, you have to actually be useful in some capacity to even qualify as a slave. You're worrying about that prematurely. No offense, but you're depressed not because you can't face being a wage slave in the future, but because you're useless right now. This is the hard truth about human psychology: people need purpose, not just money to be happy. Don't worry about how you measure up to others or your SATs. No, you don't need to go to a top university to have a good life, you need to find something you both like doing and are good at or can get good at with work and practice. If it's languages, you need to look into careers which use that skillset. You may need career counseling of some kind.

You might be at the point of no return. The point of no return is not the same as a stable nondual awakening. It's a state where you go in and out of experiencing no center. Stable nondual awakening is where there is no center permanently and you feel like the brakes are off. You would have to provide a more detailed description of your state. That's how you "get enlightened", it's not by consciously aiming but by noticing -- becoming aware -- that you are clinging and letting go, sort of like a trust fall with existence. The ego is what aims for enlightenment (i.e. it's an ego con as the ego obviously doesn't want to die.) Don't worry about that. Survival needs aren't going away, but at some point it will be easier to remove the obstacles to getting them properly met.