Nilsi

You might as well shove your thumb up your butthole and call it a tool for self-actualization. I'm not here to be snobbish, and if that's what tickles Leo's fancy that's totally cool, but I don't see any value in this at all. You are just cheerleading whatever the fuck your guru does. I doubt that this is in service of your self-actualization.

It's a hustle and it tasted a bit funky. The benefits sound compelling but I'm not willing to go to such lengths for it. But if you have the time and enjoy this type of stuff, try it out.

Its a bit disappointing that you refuse to address this properly. How hard can it be to write a few paragraphs and calm those people down? EDIT: I guess that rebirth thing makes sense. Probably shouldn't have been so harsh to you, sorry mate. Can't wait to have you back

I bet i eat around 200g of nuts a day, Doesnt seem to cause any problems for me.

Just allow that as well. If it happens in a social situation you probably weren't really engaged with your people in the first place, so just let it groove itself out. Of course you always have your rational mind, so sometimes it may be appropriate to interfere with and control an emotion that would be a liability in a given context, which also can be done consciously and lovingly as opposed to unconsciously repressing it.

If you insist. To me a rich life would include having a passionate and meaningful career (I won't bother to specify this further), having great relationships (friends, family, intimate relationships), living on my edge, proactively seeking new experiences, travelling to foreign places, making space to just be with the raw experience of being alive, constantly learning new stuff. Ya, probably not an exhaustive list, but you should get a sense of it. Being financially well off is not one of my main priorities and it wouldn't make or break anything but I still don't want to react against it and it's definitely nice to be able to afford some luxuries now and again and spoil your girl a bit.

Fully feeling and allowing your emotions to be whatever they are without needing to change them IS loving yourself. Throughout life we tend to accumulate a lot of trauma around certain emotions and thus tend to repress them whenever they come up. I hadn't cried for years before I was roughly 20 because I had been told not to be a little bitch whenever I cried as a child. You slowly have to work yourself into allowing these emotions to be part of you again. Be mindful when you feel strong emotions and notice if you have any resistances coming up. If you're really focused and take this serious you can usually release some trauma and shame around an emotion just by feeling into it and seeing what kind of memories and thoughts are connected to the resistance. It's very rewarding to practice this and will improve your own well-being aswell as your relationships tremendously.

Working on trauma you have accumulated is an extremely effective way to gain the necessary clarity and freedom to change yourself. I found working with trauma in the body especially helpful, so you could try stuff like feeling awareness, somatic experiencing, reichian therapy, Ralston's body being work, various forms of yoga; do a little research into these if that sounds at all interesting to you. The advantage of these methods is that you don't really need a practicioner or therapist, you can do them very effectively by yourself. This is of course only one facette, and there are many more mentioned in this threat, but it's something I personally found to have a lot of leverage.

It's kind of a virtuous cycle between identity and action, so you shouldn't wait until you have some definition of yourself to work on yourself, do both and they will both feed back into each other.

Well this is obviously meant in a very narrow context, as in "having a shitton of money." As for Richness with a capital R, that's a whole other story and I think you probably have a sense by now what I consider a Rich life. But even there, his claim still holds. I know one of my biggest issues is arrogance and it's definitely taking away from the Richness i could experience if I got over it.

AI is just an interesting field I would love to get into but don't have the time to do unfortunately. I guess I would also work on networking and marketing/sales, since that's really not my kind of work but important nonetheless. As for emotional and spiritual work, I'm quite satisfied with where I'm at. I wouldn't really know where there would have to be more resources deployed.

You are right of course. It's interesting to me that I have such a knee jerk reaction against the guy. I just listened to some talks of his, and I definitely notice myself wanting to dismiss him and getting triggered. He exposes some uncomfortable truths and I actually appreciate that. I'm still a bit unsure what to make of this; take it as evidence that our system is fucked or bite the bullet and cultivate some raw power. I guess it's really both anyways. What definitely resonated with me was him saying "If you're not rich, you're either lazy, arrogant or stupid." Can't really argue with that. Interesting guy, I definitely have some shadow work to do here.

Name 5 self help gurus that are human traffickers. Name 5 self help gurus that marginalize rape. Name 5 self help gurus that punch women in the face. This guy is clearly ahead of the curve. I fail to see how this is even relevant at all. Name me a self help guru that has won wimbledon. Name me a self help guru that has been to the ISS. Name me a self help guru that has won a grammy. You are just stating random facts as if they were somehow benchmarks for what a good teacher must be.

Trying to catch up to the cutting edge of AI research. It's such a fascinating and creative field but I lack too many fundamentals to really wrap my head around this topic.

Find a balance that works for you. There really is no definitve answer to that; that's what you're here for to figure out. Sometimes you will lean a bit too far in one or the other direction and then you just correct your course. You will have to explore this, it cannot really be designed a priori. Also, above all, Buddha taught the "middle way," which I suspect is what I'm pointing to.

The only silver lining I see is that the mind usually tends to seek equilibrium and homeostasis to prevent it from spiralling out of control, but if you binge on psychedelics for long enough, it seems plausible to me that you could break this mechanism.

They are extremely obsessive people but at least they have some kind of "real life" reference points that they are grounded in. When the mind grapples with itself it loses touch with anything "real." That's why schizophrenics here voices and see things that aren't there. They have completely lost touch with the outside world and consensus reality. I'm not saying that is bad in any absolute sense, but you won't be able to live a functional life anymore if you lose all grounding.

I don't buy it. In his last video he talked about how he wants to clean up his act and use his platform for good and how blessed he is to have this platform etc. And now he's posting helicopter videos and bizarre amateur pop music, while writing like he's downed a bottle of wine. It's just way out of character and gives me strong Connor Murphy vibes. I'm not here to judge, but the guy makes a living off being intellectual and good communication and has always been clinical about his public image. Make of it what you will.

I'd say they are the most prone to end up in a psych ward. Turning your mind in on itself doesn't always end pretty. Look at Nietzsche or maybe you've had a cessation at one point. You can quickly lose the ground under your feet as someone who always lives in fantasy land.

I'm still concerned. His blog posts read like the Facebook page of an adolescent. I don't know what he's trying to accomplish, but he seems to be very out of it.

I definitely resonate with that. Im 22 so maybe i still need to let that shit boil for a few more years But you seem to resonate more with the hot-tempered, go-getter type Red/Orange, while Im more cold-blooded and resonate more with the Putin-/Godfatheresque Red/Orange. Might be the Judging/Prospecting difference in MBTI terms idk lol. But yeah, suppressing this stuff is definitely a bad idea.

Ya, I think especially red and orange tends to be neglected by people fancying themselves Tier 2 It's just difficult to talk about this stuff in a place like this, where people might not be able to differentiate between the healthy and unhealthy aspects of these stages and just take the whole thing as desirable.

I honestly don't see the appeal in being rich at all. Knowledge and consciousness gives you was more power than some lousy money. As long as I can buy some fresh clothes and the best food I'm good.

Arguably Joe Rogan fits this category, but he's definitely not the prototypical Tier 2 person (if you even consider him as such, which I personally probably still would).

I think Ken Wilber is actually a good example of a well integrated Tier 2 person. He is jacked, wears fancy clothes, surely made a good amount of money and probably had no problem getting pussy, but he didn't get hung up on any of this shit. That's how it should be done if you ask me.