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@Yimpa Do you know the names of moderators in here so I can tag them to report his guy? He is just harming newbies here normalizing this kind of unhealthy behavior

@puporing You CAN'T KNOW THAT. You are literally deluding yourself and you're denying it. It is such a shame

Why is this guy not banned? @Leo Gura. Clearly he is delusional and needing mental health help as he is claiming to be Jesus Christ, claiming to talk to heaven? I mean c'mon... This is just going to hurt others who think this kind of behavior is normal or acceptable around here.

@Paradoxed Actually? LOL! funny if true

@puporing First of all this is LITERALLY impossible to prove, second of all how could you know that you have reached the highest levels-of- consciousness at all? If you say you have, you could be totally deluding yourself and I would argue YOU ARE. This post just comes off as morally grandstanding that you awakened without psychedelics and that somehow is superior to someone who awakened by psychedelics. Someone who is unbiased, unlike you, wouldn't care, and, in fact, would explore all options instead of blatantly demonizing this method.

@Sandhu The problem is that you are broke because you don't provide enough value to the world. If you did, you would be rich, famous, etc. You have a very limited skills set, and very limited knowledge to do anything valuable/scarce. You will have to work a mediocre job until you have invested enough into yourself to develop high-paying skills/knowledge.

@ZenSwift The problem ultimately is that you are not conscious enough to know what is best for you. You've convinced yourself through habits and fears that binge-watching Netflix, jerking off, and feeling sorry for yourself is the best thing to do. My advice is to get out in the world and try as many new experiences as possible. Especially thing you're the most scared of. You break bad habits by experiencing great fears in life. They force you to adapt, gain new insights about yourself, and grow as a person. You also don't have a definiteness of purpose. You need something to work on every day. Something that will challenge you. A long-term, life goal. If you say " I Don't know what I want to do long term" That's a lie. I'm sure you have many interests. The problem is you don't choose something definite out of fear and addiction to certain habits in your life. Choose something definite, and don't try to fool yourself into believing it's not worth it. Even if it doesn't ultimately satisfy you, at least you learned many hard lessons and insights about yourself that will help you to awaken to a deeper understanding of what is best for you in this life. You also need to choose something grandiose and shoot for the moon kinda thing. No " i want to work a normal job" BS, because you're living unconsciously like everyone else, and clearly, that's not working, or making you happy.

Almost 20. Been in one relationship. Have worked on myself for 1 1/2 years seriously now but almost 4 when it comes to the philosophy/spirituality side. Have good money, made mostly in stocks. I know. "Stocks". But seriously I've made more money than anyone I know at my age so working isn't an issue. In college. Freshman. Plan on law school. I have some idea what I want out of life, but honestly, I'm too young to know for certain. I do know I need to work on my game. Used to be pretty below average/average in high school. Now I'm definitely above average. Not tooting my own horn, but I've had many girls tell me, and get looks nearly every time I go out in public. Even if I'm not, I said this cause why? Confidence, I don't lack in it and most guys do. I embrace failure. Not scared of rejection. So why haven't I tried game yet? More important things I had to self-actualize first. Now? I feel ready. I love myself enough to not get overly attached to anyone. Have above average conversational skills compared to my generation. I work part-time at a mini-mart so I can practice small talk all day. Now. My goals: Short Term: Heading to a party this weekend. Pick up one girl. I mean not just get her number. Hang out throughout the night and whatever I can escalate it to. Head on at least 5 dates by the start of spring. Just to get experience. I don't care about what follows. Get 100% comfortable with cold approaching at parties/events and improve flirting skills to the point where it feels effortless Long Term: Go out with women of different races besides my own. Different cultures = harder barrier to entry Secure the bag with at least 3 different girls by summer Plan: Build tension. Confidence. Sell yourself, but don't be leading with your wallet kind of guy. Be fun. I am responsible for what happens Tips: ? Edit: This is how good I want to get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkOJkv81-I

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@Scholar If you are a chronic user who does not use it for medicinal purposes such as physical pain, Parkinsons, etc... and you use it just to get high then I agree it's not the best. However occasionally smoking once every few months isn't going to be bad for you, although most people aren't this responsible and don't respect drugs enough to do that. You should be happy enough in your life that you don't feel like you need to get high or want to get high frequently, it just isn't a high-conscious thing to do. I also think that stigmatizing it and saying it is always bad is not good either. I think you can have a healthy relationship with it and do it during the good times in your life.

@Leo Gura LOL

Right now in my life, I really feel drawn to exploring any and everything life has to offer. I am not talking about just traveling, I mean any diverse experiences that would get me out of my comfort zone. I am very inspired by Leo's video on gaining massive experience in life and I think this was his single most transforming practical life advice for me. I want to begin traveling a lot this spring and summer, but I need a good list of ideas of experiences that are unique, transforming, or just generally would help me gain new perspectives/get out of my comfort zone. I would also like to meet new people and make new connections along this journey Any Ideas?

@Karmadhi This is not true. The most uneducated people in society vote for Trump and Republicans. This is a fact. Just because people want trump back doesn't mean he did a good job. Most of his supporters couldn't even explain one thing Trump did that was beneficial for the country. "BuT tHe GaS pRiCeS" Actually, the president has very little control over the economy and price of gas, AND it has been proven that mega-conglomerates like U.S. Oil and Gas artificially inflate the prices of gas during a democrat presidency because republican presidents are more lenient on tax policies against gas companies. AKA gas prices are up due to PRICE GAUGING.

Why would I ever get married in the modern age? I mean seriously. The reason marriage even has been a thing for thousands of years is because it is a survival strategy. A man wants kids, so he marries a woman so that he knows that his genes are being passed on and the woman isn't being knocked up by another guy. In the modern day, if I don't care about having kids, I don't see a point in getting married unless you're a broke woman or an ugly guy. If you're a broke woman, especially a single mother, there's an advantage to marrying a man who has money and provides for you. If you're an ugly guy, finding a mate is much harder and therefore you want to justify marriage because of a scarcity problem so that she won't leave you. If you're not ugly and have money you will never run out of options in the dating market, and thus by marrying you would just be limiting yourself to potential better partners. Now some will argue to marry for the sake of "love" but this is a human BS concept that I'm becoming more aware of by the day. Let me start by saying that what people think is "love" really is just an excited emotional attachment to something new and fun aka a partner. I see it all the time when in the honeymoon phase. For the first year or so every relationship seems amazing for the two people in it. Then, once the novelty wears off and people realize that each other has faults and issues, they start detaching from that person. Especially in today's hypercompetitive landscape, once that novelty wears off both partners will usually start looking subconsciously or consciously for someone else, almost always the person who has more options. My third point is that all too often have I seen guys who have gotten into relationships who have just turned into purposeless blobs. These people had goals and things they were working on in life before, but as soon as they found "the one" they sort of slowly gave up all of that and just turned to the average 9-5 NPC. I think this comes down to these people not having any emotional grounding or self-awareness of what they want out of life so they just get pushed around by whatever way the wind blows. Now this gets me to my fourth point which is a highly conscious person would never even want to attach themselves to a single person anyway. If you only love yourself then you're a narcissist. If you get married then you're only loving one less person away from being a narcissist. (Besides your family or friends but you get my point) It is selfish to only love one person in this life when in fact you should love everyone and everything. If you truly believed in infinite love then you would never attach yourself to a single person. It would be inherently selfish to do so.

I will be 20 this summer, and I am attending a community college. One of the things that I feel like I am lacking in my life which I would benefit from is a more diverse group of friends who can help build me up as a person. I am a very social person and I do have a good number of close friends, however, since I have been out of high school for almost 3 years many of my friends are away at other universities or no longer in the area. I have a hard time finding high-conscious people who I can relate to on a spiritual/intellectual level when it comes to goals and desires. I am not trying to sound pretentious, but I feel as though most people I meet regularly just do not align with my highest purpose in life. Most of the time they have so many dysfunctional problems, emotional issues, or just generally have no long-term vision for their life. I am not saying I am perfect by any means but I feel like all I am doing with most people is having to baby them along by providing advice to get their basic shit together. I don't need some "enlightened" guru friend I just want to meet new people and make new deep connections with others that are at a minimum stage green or higher. I want to meet people who want to explore a diverse range of experiences in life and are adventurous. The people I have talked to and become "friends" with at my college are just really normal boring people who don't have any ambitious goals or want to explore life to its fullest extent. I know it seems like I am asking for a lot, but I know there are people out there who share the same ideas as me, however, I can't seem to find any. Any advice on places I can go or things to do to make new friends like this?

I know prank channels are pretty stupid, but I thought this video was funny because of how attached people are to their identity of a gender, and how angry they get when it gets attacked.

@Parallax Mind that’s a really good question I’ve never thought of that

Not only is the video poorly researched, but of course, we see the classic mistake of nearly everyone in the comments overestimating their abilities to judge what level of personal development they have achieved:

I have a theory that ascending past a certain level of consciousness would require one to not be a biological creature because, at these higher levels, even just your survival needs are holding you back.

I like to read and listen to a lot of trip reports I find online. I have been noticing a weird pattern popping up with bad trips mostly with salvia, although I have heard it with other drugs too. The weird thing I am finding is that when people have bad trips, specifically when they feel intense emotional pain and fear, people will report that this pain comes with a sensation/awareness that they have done something terrible and they feel this pain because they deserve it. Many times it will feel like they have done every bad thing in the universe and now they are being punished for it, or they are being punished for just doing heinous things in general. The weird thing is that I also have experienced this, but on a bad mushroom trip of 2.25 grams. I felt that I had done something really bad and that I felt extremely guilty about doing the evil thing. But I had no idea what that thing was, and everyone else who reports this also says they don't know what it is either. Do y'all have any idea what this could be caused by? My theory when I sobered up was that I had some trauma coming out during the trip, but after I started hearing about the same experience from others I started to think something else was going on here...

Let's do a thought experiment. Say I am God. I have infinite wisdom and understanding. I have also unlimited creative potential. I would and could instantly know anything that I wished to. With this infinitely wise understanding would I not create the best thing for me? Now what is the best thing for god? As having limited intelligence and understanding I don't know. But living my life I can tell you that there are definitely experiences that are better than other experiences. If I had the ability to create whatever I wanted, I certainly wouldn't create this life or in general a life where I got sick or could have debilitating injuries. Would I create a hedonistic life full of pleasure? Maybe, maybe not. But I definitely would allow myself the freedom to explore all opportunities that I would deem as fun, interesting, or new, and wouldn't create a life where I am forced to work most of my life away. Now let's consider the average human life. It's full of misery, hardships, long working hours, physical suffering, as well as mental. Yes, there are some beautiful things and great experiences but considering how much better things could be... this life isn't really that great. Why on earth as God would I create a reality and incarnate in it living this life when I could literally create infinite pleasure, love, and happiness for myself forever? And don't say it's because "you would get bored" because as God I could just transcend that limitation, because after all I am all-powerful. I'm sure love, pleasure, and happiness isn't even the best thing an infinitely wise being could create, but it's certainly a step in the right direction compared to physical suffering. Also don't say that physical suffering can make life more interesting because I'll tell you getting sick even with a minor cold for a week sucks and I find absolutely no value in it for any reason imaginable, considering how much better things could be. Now I've seen Leo's videos about god-realization and have also read into many spiritual ideas about enlightenment about all this, but I am starting to seriously doubt the idea that I am God. I can't reconcile the fact that this life can be very painful at times and sometimes can be generally crappy for many years, when if I am God why would I ever force myself to experience this? I mean I could think of hundreds of simple ways that this life could be so much better not even mentioning creating infinite pleasure forever. But no, we are all stuck in this generally shitty life, and I am not even from a third-world country, so it probably is so much worse for billions of others.

@Leo Gura Thankyou. Im not trying to offend anyone here. I’m just pointing out something that I’ve been thinking about recently. I don’t know why that seems such a problem. I just providing another perspective

@Yimpa I’m not being petty. I’m pointing out a legitimate possibility. How would you know that this isn’t true? You don’t and you would be lying if you said you did. This is just a thought experiment pointing out the fact that I don’t see any real practical value in understanding the truth about God.

@Princess Arabia That’s literally pointless because if I knew the lesson I wanted to teach myself then that means I already knew the the lesson and I wouldn’t need to teach myself it? That would mean I would have to forget the lesson to learn it, but why do that in the first place when I already knew it??

@Princess Arabia That sounds great and all but as soon as you start suffering or have physical pain spirituality goes out the window. Spirituality is so easy when you don’t have to worry about where your next meal is coming from. When you get sick next time with a severe case of strep throat I’m sure you’re going to be begging your doctor for medicine to relieve your symptoms. “The dream seems real but it’s not” Tell that to the any person with chronic pain. This is tone-deaf