SeaMonster

I don't think it's that complicated and you should be wary of falling into a "what do I (uniquely) bring to the table?" mentality and you shouldn't look at it as a competition against other men. Most men are simply clueless about women, so there isn't much "competition." This is sort of a self-limiting mentality of the Fresh-and-Fit variety. You should just focus on being your best self and living your best life AND being aware of your environment and whether the women in your environment are interested and/or open to something. Most guys really suck at this. They see the women THEY want; they don't necessarily always or ever see women who want THEM.

"Enlightenment" is basically a state where one is free from compulsive reification (which is concretizing the abstract.) Since "enlightenment" is itself a reification, of course you run into a paradox trying to describe that state. There isn't "enlightenment" in a sense that you get a picture in your mind of some fixed state which is different from another state which is not it. You can choose to reify if you want to in that state, so you'd be doing the same thing as a person who is not "enlightened". You're just not going to do it blindly or with some mistaken perception that the reification is real and true, as opposed to just mind play.

Thank you. It's an invalid analogy. Leo broadcasts one-to-many, coaching is one-to-one. That's closer to just adopting a religion than it is being coached or trained. The coach will get to know you and have a good idea what you really need. Leo doesn't know you from Adam.

I actually agree with him on some political issues (e.g. he's not an insane commie -- maybe it's the Cuban background, idk.) But man, is he one self-destructive SOB with the marriage thing, plus his online cult is something else (kinda puts this place to shame, haha.)

Oh, funny story. I'm on this other forum, and some years ago this woman (who used to be a stripper) asked if the guys would date a former stripper. I was like, fuck no, you're trained in extracting money from men, why would it be different now? And she was all "blah blah blah people can change, that doesn't mean I'm like that in a real relationship and whatever." I just rolled my eyes. Now it's several years later, she left her bf and is like "if you don't make 6 figures we're not meant." I just laughed my ass off, because you will rarely go broke expecting people not to change. Strippers/escorts are all about the benjamins and it behooves men not to think with their penises when it comes to them, as hard (pun intended) as it can be sometimes.

I don't have problems now, but for a long time it was definitely the wrong mindset. I would guess mindset/self-worth is the real problem for a vast majority of guys. Guys who say it's looks, money, etc. are just stupid. They take stupid shit tests women throw at them at face value. I'm literally average height and about a high 6 in looks, e.g. (lots of guys are hung up on height these days.) I get interest from fairly attractive women much younger and 3 inches taller. It's just stupid how fucked the Internet is with all that bullshit.

Thank you for a sensible post I don't need to roll my eyes at. The more awakened you become, the less interested you become in the trappings of spirituality. You simply realize it was all just bullshit mental constructs, mental masturbation. You don't need answers to the BIG! METAPHYSICAL! QUESTIONS! because enlightenment is the freedom from such bullshit.

Basketball is a great sport, possibly the best sport there is (and I played soccer in HS.) Also, the selectivity involved with basketball is simply insane. To make it to the NBA you need to be one of roughly 500 best players on a planet with 8 billion people. Most people don't understand how good these people actually are. They're not only skilled but genetic freaks as far as size, speed, leaping ability, mental processing speed, etc. Like, there are so many levels to it it's unfathomable. I go to the gym and make shots and kids ask me if I played professional basketball (when I never even played in HS.) Most people just don't get it. The worst guy on a major conference Division I college team will look like a god at any gym. They will score effortlessly and there's nothing you can do to stop them. And he won't even get off the bench. Now imagine NBA players. It's a great sport and if more people played it there'd be less mental illness. It's great for mental health. Pumping endorphins into your brain relieves a lot of anxiety and depression symptoms. The elements of team play are great for stimulating the kind of neuroplasticity that psychedelics are used for. People just don't get it.

The truth is that most serious spiritual seekers are pretty fucked up, dysfunctional, mentally ill/severely neurotic and their professional and romantic lives are for shit. So they seek for a solution to their mental suffering and fucked up lives. And awakening CAN HELP (e.g. Eckhart Tolle among countless examples.) If you can fix your romantic and professional life, of course you do it first. Spirituality can come later as an icing on the cake, the next step, "pimping your life" or whatever.

Thank you. "Gods" (in a polytheistic sense) are archetypes that are found in each human psyche. Humans didn't "invent" Gods per se, they simply observed human behavior and anthropomorphized various aspects of it into a mythology. "God" (in a monotheistic sense) is the Jungian representation of wholeness as characterized by The Self (which is different from The Ego, a superset of it.)

You've written 4 paragraphs without coming close to addressing the real issues in your life. I see evasion, denial, vagueness couched in metaphysical abstractions. Not to single you out, because this is common on this forum, but you need to come down to earth and to stop this "self-deception via emotional dramatization and metaphysical abstraction." The problems in your life are specific and concrete, stop blowing them up and distorting them into this spiritual drama. Focus on the specific issues even if it's painful to do so. If you're lonely, and relationships are an issue, you need to start treating yourself right first and then you will be able to have healthy relationships. Get real, get specific and implement specific changes in your life.

Psychedelics will give you insight about how to change your behavior/habits so social anxiety disappears. Psychedelics don't directly, effortlessly "cure" social anxiety. In that sense, you don't really need them, you just need the insight (which can be obtained other ways.) Social anxiety is caused by fear that you're not good enough, that you will be rejected, etc. This is coming from the unconscious mind, which registers your behaviors and judges that you have been in essence neglecting or abusing yourself via bad habits. If you replace bad habits with good habits, your social anxiety will greatly improve and even disappear. I don't know what your "bad habits" are, but you probably do (and if not, ask your family.)

You're not asking for feedback on the awakening process. You're asking theological/metaphysical questions. What's happening is that your ego is generating these questions to distract you from awakening further -- essentially sending you on a wild goose chase. If you answer these questions to your satisfaction, it will generate more questions. It never ends. So, you're experiencing an EGO TRAP. This happens quite often when you have a breakthrough - there is an ego backlash. Simply be aware of the tricks the ego is playing and stay present and focus on what's has gotten you this far. You didn't get this far by asking metaphysical questions - right?

OK. I'll give you a prediction on spiritual awakening. Remember the hippies in the 1960s? Back to basics kind of thing? There will be an anti-technology/anti-AI similar kind of movement in roughly 20 years (give or take a few years.) That's when I expect serious awakening to take place. The current generations are too wrapped up with financial problems to truly focus on it wholesale. It's the kids born in a few years that will participate in that, which will create a new wave of mass awakening.

"You will experience everything" is a bit of -- what Mystery used to call -- "bullshit baffles brains" kind of statement. That kind of teaching does nothing for you here and now in this life, it's just something said to trigger the darkest of your imagination. Something a sadist might do. There is zero good reason for a normal teacher to tell you such a thing.

Guys focus so much on "getting the girl" they don't realize that some girls are already interested even before they say a word to them. In other words they have tunnel vision.

Some pickup gurus are basically narcissists who seek attention and validation. A lot of Mystery's game was predicated on this. It's not necessarily for everyman. It's stupid to follow a guru unless your psychology is very much like that of the guru, so what works for him will work for you.

Dude...most of your post was "these things will happen" -- these things have been happening for years if you haven't noticed. Give me something novel that's not happening in 2023.

People can be ACTIVELY taught to suffer trauma from virtually nothing, a perceived slight. This is called a microaggression. Of course it's about perception, not reality.

I fucking hate this type of argument. Experiencing something on a psychedelic doesn't give you any superior authority over someone, because a psychedelic isn't a shortcut for spiritual understanding. Leo just assumes that it does because it is self-serving. It's what you do with a psychedelic experience, how you integrate it into your personality that matters. It's not an instant encyclopedia of spirituality. Ultimately a psychedelic experience has to be about you and how much in denial you are about what a shitty lifestyle you lead. People tend to overcomplicate it and make it all more pretentious than it really is. Leo is just a silly guy, who was not too long ago spouting pseudo-philosophy while rationalizing his porn habit.

The girl that's easiest to get is the girl that's into you from the get-go. A lot of guys are fucking idiots, they're not paying attention to which girl is into them.

If you need to even entertain the argument that game gets you laid, you are either severely autistic or so socially backward/inexperienced that you've never actually experienced anything to draw your own conclusions. (In other words, a COVID kid perhaps.) There is no "argument." It's 100% observable reality if you care to observe a large enough sample. Try not to overthink things. People get REALLY stupid about this subject. Cold approach is for morons who can't read body language, frankly. If you're reading women, it's not "cold approach" -- it's warm approach.

I will repeat this till I'm blue in the face. This race to higher levels of SD is basically psychopathological denial of one's primitive nature shadow. There is nothing evolved about it, it's an escape from the ugly and necessary realities of life. It's like all the stupid Greens worrying about Trump when their cities are in ruins. It's just peak madness.

This one. On this thread he is, and Bazooka Jesus is surprisingly the voice of stupid. It's like a reversal of traditional forum roles.

"Solipsism" only means anything related to spiritual awakening to members of Leo's cult. Watts and McKenna were partly awakened, but not anatta awakened.