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Your friend probably has a very strong scientific Dogma. You probably have a mystical dogma to handle as well. Understand that the need of defending a point of view is itself a distraction from reality. Postulations about a hyper-powerful AI that models reality perfectly just to prove that a naturalistic point of view is correct is simply ego trying to defend its worldview. If you want to be more convincing and make people understand you better, try offering knowledge as a parallel perspective, because it is. Invite him to see reality differently from a moment, without any necessity of changing his point of view. You'd be impressed on how you can slowly open the mind of people that way.

This experience is what led me to spirituality.

The US should be honest and say to everyone that its interest is economic and political hegemony. I get sick when people criticize Russia for the Ukraine invasion and ignore that for almost 80 years, the US has been manipulating economics and politics, invading countries, funding coups and dictatorships, and funding the terrorists that they later claim should be combated. To the rest of the global community, the US is not better than Russia and China in terms of violence or influence. The communists have an agenda, but the US has one too. It is biased and foolish to think that Russia is bad, the US is good, and vice versa. Our global politics hasn't gone beyond the stage red of trying to kill the other tribe and the paranoid state of seeing everyone as an enemy. The US interest is not the global interest.

That's important. Many people here just want to spiritual bypass everything.

TikTok is extremely harmful, whilst appearing extremely harmless. I think it should have been banned already.

I understood your thought process better too. It is completely reasonable.

I woke up in a dream and asked for water, looking around me I saw my bedroom completely okay and freaked out as I realized I was having a vivid dream. Then I actually woke up and sat EXACTLY as I did in the dream, which gave me a weird inception feeling. Besides I thought I would die from the gastrointestinal reaction I had to it. I nearly crapped myself to the point of dehydration.

But that's what I understood that happened.

That's possible, but not probable. Gender, sex, and energy are heavily linked. You're not a collection of traits, you're an integrated whole. It is expected that shifts in what you identify as affect further aspects of your identity. Change begets change.

I don't have any horses in this race. I'm just pointing out that polarity is very important in relationships. I don't know OP's GF. They could be feminine, or don't. I'm just pointing out that shifts in that energy might affect the relationship. The whole "it doesn't change anything" argument is biased and lacks nuance. That's it.

This ignores completely how polarity is related to attraction. I don't think your commentary integrates well the different nuances that are implied when someone identify with a different gender and how that affects their personal relationships.

Literally kill. 50k USD is life-changing money in most parts of the world.

What exactly do you mean by yourself?

The next stage helps you survive better. When everyone is Biege, being Purple gives you more coordination and allows for division of labor and efficiency. Being Red in a Purple environment allows you to secure more resources for yourself and your close peers. Leo explains this in the main video of the spiral dynamics model. It's worth a rewatch.

Lula supports many things, few related to consciousness. You can buy mushrooms online cheaply and legally. I would say a 3g trip would cost you around R$ 50.

I watched two videos from Leo yesterday. One was based on the framework for knowledge and the other one was the reasoning behind the deletion of the solipsism video. I had an insight that synthesized a few points from both of them, that to know what spirituality and god are, you have to deeply inquire about your own beliefs and perspectives. To do so effectively is useful to listen to Actualized.org, read philosophy, or study spirituality, but as soon as you got those resources together, you have to shed the bool sheet from them and directly know god and reality through your own experiences. That's why he keeps saying no one is awakened. We are stuck in plenty of cultural, intellectual, logical, and linguistic concepts of awakening and spirituality, name-calling god instead of experiencing it.

Whenever I feel the urge to point out the lack of development in someone, I remind myself that that urge is a sign of my lack of development. Unless someone explicitly asks me for opinions on whether their behavior is good or bad, in my perspective, I tend to keep my opinions to myself. There's nothing to gain by giving unrequested feedback, in most cases. Calling someone low consciousness does good to no one except for one's spiritual ego.

You seem like a low-confidence person.

The US intervened politically and economically in many nations all over the world. Half of Latin America had their governments and economics tampered with directly by the US. Brazil went through more than 20 years of dictatorship, with the direct influence of the US. Same thing with Chile, Bolivia, and Venezuela. I don't even have to talk about the middle east and Israel. Or the southeast Asian countries. Why bother taking land, when you can destabilize the entirety of the country so you get cheap goods and leave an entire nation depending on you?

As long as you have a solid spiritual and philosophical background and a stable psyche, you can handle the most intense experiences fine. Many people develop a psychological addiction to psychedelics, because of the heightened state it provides. I know, because at some point I experienced something close to that. Psychedelics have a very harsh way of leading you out of this path. Don't be afraid, but don't be naive. Respect these substances and be cautious, but also be open to exploring this realm and see experiences you label as "bad" as an opportunity to see the sides of yourself and the reality that you're neglecting or suppressing.

Hippies are developing themselves the same way squares are developing themselves. Very few people on the planet can actually integrate spiritual work into their lives properly. And judging by the way you talk, you have some of that integration of that sort to do.

I had a very strong fever in my first shot. I had hallucinations completely indistinguishable from reality. I freaked out for a second, but my lsd experiences paid off and I just handled it. hahahahahahaha

I know, but the question is in my point of view meaningless. So I go with an aesthetic joke instead of answering it.

Can you give me your read order? I wanted to dive into Jung for a long time.

The shrimps. They taste better.