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This looks like a philosopher from the mid 20th century, someone like Alan Watts

I think that when the US legalizes weed and psychedelics at the federal level, the rest of the world will follow suit, aside from places like the Middle East and Asia. The US was and still is one of the world's superpowers. When they started the war on drugs, most other countries also jumped on board with it as well.

@Leo Guradid he reply?

@Michael569 This is why you have some of the most respect here on this forum my friend

Literally replace that with "Sri Ramakrishna after laying down once" and it would still make sense

Metal Gear Solid V, the Phantom Pain

We're currently living in the next phase shift of humanity. Such an interesting time to be alive. Wonder what our descendants will make of all this?

It would be a mix of: - Evidence-based naturopathy / holistic medicine, like with nutrition, with a teaching style similar to Gil Carvalho - Non-dual entheogenic experience with inspiration from Martin W. Ball, Ph.D. - Philosophy (with an emphasis epistemology & ontology) - Spiral Dynamics - Daniel Schmatctenberger's style of systems thinking

My personal favorite from big tobacco

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Are you okay?

@undeather personally, doing Wim Hof Method breathing exercises induces a DMT-like state during the breath-hold cycle - especially when I'm outside in nature. Is there any explanation we know of as to why this happens?

Martin W. Ball says that our ego is a set of energetic constructs, and seeking out an energetic solution is an effective way to address the problems posed by the ego. He prefers to use the word entheogen over psychedelic. An entheogen is a substance that generates the experience of god within. Fundamentally, they alter our ability to perceive and experience energy. Powerful entheogenic experiences aren't "enlightened" or "awakened" states in of themselves, rather, they're best understood as energetic expansions. Different religions, customs, rituals, and techniques have been used throughout human history to reach these heightened states of consciousness. While they may be useful in some respects, they can also be rendered obsolete when the proper understanding of the bio-energetics of the human body are taken into account. Entheogens cut past the middle-man and are vastly more effective for moving energy because they go cut directly to the source: the energetic constructs of your body. "Enlightenment," as he puts it, is the relaxing of your ego and the opening up of your energy, along with taking full responsibility for yourself and your ego. Entheogens are a very effective way of going about this, but this practice also extends into your day to day life. Integration of the experience with everyday life becomes possible when you are liberated from the prison of the ego and you've awoken to the energetic truth of reality. Just my two cents.

@Michael569 would you agree with this?

Your apology meant a lot to me Leo. This forum has such meaningful nuggets of truth and insight if you know where to look ... it's truly one of the most unique corners of the internet. I think it shows a lot of maturity of you to admit that your approach isn't necessarily the best for you or other members of this forum. That’s a concept pretty much absent from most the vast majority of Internet forum mods / administrators of forums (from what I’ve seen at least). The contents of your work have regained their once-held respect my friend. I know we’re supposed to call into question the claims you make about reality, god, politics, and consciousness - but when the messenger on the horse develops tendencies to dismiss other’s suffering and act cocky about their superiority of enlightenment? A lot of my faith in your word slowly started to dwindle away - but now you’ve regained status as one of my most esteemed teachers.

The title pretty much sums it up. How could a predominantly stage green / yellow country enforce a draft in its citizens?

@Michael569 thank you for being a lifebuoy of reason in the sea of irrationality

You won't find based people on online forums because well adjusted people are living real life.

Atomic Habits by James Clear

I discovered this channel from listening to a Martin W. Ball interview (how I discovered actualized.org in the first place ) and the interviewer seems like he’d be open to discussing the true nature of GOD. He mentioned your name a few times, so he’s aware of actualized.org https://youtube.com/@Institute4AdvancedAstonishment @Leo Gura

This thread makes me think back to the purpose of actualized.org ”Actualized.org is a catalog of the most powerful concepts that Leo Gura has pursued, studied, and discovered in his own life in order to make sense of what life and reailty is and how to live the best life possible. It’s focused specifically on the biggest picture perspective. It deals with important principles and concepts on how to live the good life and how to understand how to live the good life. It has a broad range of subtopics and picks nuggets from all fields that are useful: - Basic self improvement advice - Relationship advice - Health advice - Psychological work - Developmental psychology - Positive psychology - Psychoanalysis - Philosophy - Epistemology - Metaphysics - Science - History - Sociology - Systems theory / thinking An instruction manual for life and reality that you were never given A catalogue of concepts and principles that you can use to guide your life, insights that you can yourself have and validated by you You’re not gonna find this level of depth and quality of wisdom and life advice anywhere in mainstream media nor in most books. Most books don’t give the big picture, they silo knowledge within science, medicine, philosophy, spirituality, etc. Everybody is becoming a narrow specialist that is good at one thing, and they’re not getting a holistic understanding of reailty. It is the closest thing that you’ll find in society that is trying to spoon feed you the information to live the good life.” ^^^notes from my commonplace book on “What is Actualized.org?”

Sounds like hedonism to me

How do you do this?