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Good topic. I'm thankful of my current situation. In my mind, I'm saying to myself, take advantage of it. Live it to the fullest.

It may be that your sole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

I really like what you said here. Well put. Let me add, a relationship is between the two people. Only they know what's best for them. It's not about two people and a third party giving them advice. A third party could end up shedding the wrong light.

@Leo Gura What is your main aim / mission in life? What is important for you to achieve so that it'll be profound?

Three men, a philosopher, a mathematician and an idiot, were out riding in the car when it crashed into a tree. Before anyone knows it, the three men found themselves standing before the pearly gates of Heaven, where St. Peter and the Devil were standing nearby. "Gentlemen," the Devil started, "Due to the fact that Heaven is now overcrowded, St. Peter has agreed to limit the number of people entering Heaven. If anyone of you can ask me a question which I don't know or cannot answer, then you're worthy enough to go to Heaven; if not, then you'll come with me to Hell." The philosopher then stepped up, "OK, give me the most comprehensive report on Socrates' Socrates' teachings." With a snap of his finger, a stack of paper appeared next to the Devil. The philosopher read it and concluded it was correct. "Then, go to Hell!" With another snap of his finger, the philsopher disappeared. The mathematician then asked,"Give me the most complicated formula ever theorized!" With a snap of his finger, another stack of paper appeared next to the Devil. The mathematician read it and reluctantly agreed it was correct. "Then, go to Hell!" With another snap of his finger, the mathematician disappeared too. The idiot then stepped forward and said, "Bring me a chair!" The Devil brought forward a chair. "Drill 7 holes on the seat." The Devil did just that. The idiot then sat on the chair and let out a very loud fart. Standing up, he asked, "Which hole did my fart come out from?" The Devil inspected the seat and said,"The third hole from the right." "Wrong," said the idiot, "it's from my asshole." And the idiot went to heaven.

Why? Well, Ralph, from Infinite Waters, explains it. I posted this in another thread. What he said here makes sense to me. Leo also explains... When you experience Infinity, you might have noticed that you're left with a huge residue of bliss or "divine love" that came along with it. Well, what Ralph and Leo are trying to explain matches the meaning of love via infinity. "There is no you." "We are one." "We are everything / nothingness." "We are infinite awareness / peace. Our ego is fictional." Ok. We get it. So? The question is, what are you going to do now with this wisdom?

Here is a clip on reaching Satori through psychedelics or through meditation or etc., and comparing them in some ways. Now, notice that Leo said that he reached Satori (infinity, whatever name you want to call it) through mushrooms first (for practice). Then, he tried 5meo.

This sounds iffy to me. I wonder what she means by this. How long has she stayed in the east and which country? How did she study this?

Eve's Online Dating Profile Age: About 15 minutes since I was invented, but I don’t look a minute over ten minutes old Location: Over by some ferns Height: A tall vine Weight: A bunch of sticks Body Type: Only female type there is Favorite music: Birds Favorite movies: Birds Favorite food: Birds Hobbies: Being tempted, birds Profession: Woman Personality: VERY easily tempted Turn-ons: Adam, birds Income level: A handful of beautiful sticks Looking for: The only other person in existence

Did anyone invest from the inside?

Everyone has something they love to do. Turing that into "work" and actually get paid for that will not seem like work anymore. You could call this whatever you want. People call this by different names - entrepreneurship, living with mindfulness, living with abundance, "work" is the biggest prayer in life, etc. How do you turn something you love to do into living this with passion and abundance? There are books written about it. If you want my recommendation, here it is: Guide to Investing by Robert Kiyosaki. (I also recommend taking Kiyosaki's B-I triangle and starting at stage orange of Spiral Dynamics, go up in consciousness to stage turquoise. Pair those two diagrams together and see what happens. )

It's true that truth can't be communicated through words. It's better to have experiences. However, if truth was never written down throughout history, we may never get a clue about our experiences of truths if we had them and just pass them off as just nice "dreams."

This 85 year old couple, having been married almost 60 years, had died in a car crash. They had been in good health the last ten years mainly due to her interest in health food, and exercise. When they reached the pearly gates, St. Peter took them to their mansion which was decked out with a beautiful kitchen and master bath suite and Jacuzzi. As they "oohed and aahed" the old man asked Peter how much all this was going to cost. "It's free," Peter replied, "this is Heaven." Next they went out back to survey the championship golf course that the home backed up to. They would have golfing privileges everyday and each week the course changed to a new one representing the great golf courses on earth. The old man asked, "what are the green fees?". Peter's reply, "This is heaven, you play for free." Next they went to the club house and saw the lavish buffet lunch with the cuisine's of the world laid out. "How much to eat?" asked the old man. "Don't you understand yet? This is heaven, it is free!" Peter replied with some exasperation. "Well, where are the low fat and low cholesterol tables?" the old man asked timidly. Peter lectured, "That's the best part...you can eat as much as you like of whatever you like and you never get fat and you never get sick. This is Heaven." With that the old man went into a fit of anger, throwing down his hat and stomping on it, and shrieking wildly. Peter and his wife both tried to calm him down, asking him what was wrong. The old man looked at his wife and said, "This is all your fault. If it weren't for your blasted bran muffins, I could have been here ten years ago!"

@Phil Thank you. I wonder how popular do you have to be in order to scale a product? 200k-500k viewers? Maybe if the startup wrote a book, with that amount of viewers, a publishing house will take the book seriously? Another way of putting it: how much organic growth does a startup have to show in order to be taken seriously by the investor (Eg. Like, if the product is a book, a publishing house will mass produce it)? Does the startup have to pitch in a networking group among investors to increase the chances? (Here, I would say to pay very close attention to the investors - Angels / VCs - get to know them before signing any due diligence with them. Compatibility and trust are important.) Maybe I could answer my own question. I keep trying and networking, and I'll eventually run into a publishing house or someone, if that investor likes what I'm doing. I'm just thinking along these lines while I'm going along. If you want to say something here, please do.

Lifestyle: How to deal with others by setting an example:

Assumptions. I'm not getting what you're saying. Friends are there to help motivate each other - sort of like life coaches - learn from each other - do cool stuff together. Nothing wrong with that. If you don't choose to have friends, it's your choice. I don't get where the 5meo is coming from - not related.

I get your point. What I notice for the most part here in this forum on spirituality, is that if someone says something about spirituality other than "there is no you," they could get labelled as a "dualistic thinker," or something like that. It's difficult to share things other than saying that everything is one. We all pretty much know that already. I said in another thread that it does help to have a couple of good friends who are into spirituality and share things with them. Friends that resignates with you. If you meet them again, you could share stuff on Maslow or Spiral Dynamics, how you use those to improve, how spirituality interconnects with those and self-actualization / self-improvement, and so on.

Well, I'm not assuming that. That's definitely not on my mind. I know anything can happen. It has no limits in what can happen. I'm also a person going through life, going through Maslow's and Spiral Dynamics. Here's something that helped me the most so far. Someone said this, "Life doesn't give you what you ask for. It gives you the people, places, and situations to develop what you ask for." I'm just trying my best to apply there is no you; there is no 'I' in everyday life. I am doing my life purpose for me, which is all. That's the best I could describe it. If I say more than this, I feel like I'm misunderstood. I'm not really getting the answers I'm looking for. Like, how to better my outlook. Well, it's ok. Yes, I practice a bunch of stuff everyday - too much to describe. In spirituality (in this forum), I can't really share stuff other than we are infinite and there is no you. We all pretty much know this already. One can get labelled as a "dualistic thinker." Another thing that helped a lot is, having a couple of very good friends. If I meet them again, I tell them what's new in my life and what has improved (including spirituality). I do this because it helps to bring something to the table. I could freely tell my progress to them, where I'm at, and they could give me an honest feedback. I even tell them about Maslow's, Spiral Dynamics, startups, and spiritually, and how they all apply together (interconnected), and they get inspired. And, as for psychedelics, they found it interesting.

Ok cool and very funny answer. Just be prepared for the Leo dude or anyone who is articulate. He will also say something like, "Once self-transendence / enlightenment experience happens to you, it could change the course of the other aspects of your life - like your life purpose, and it could also happen automatically or through meditation, etc. It will be more meaningful than just a joke. It's a huge wisdom." I'm just preparing you for it in case he comes by.

I wonder if Leo is going to come over and call you "Zen devil" and argue that we still have our life purpose and self-actualization on Maslow to do. Enlightenment and it being a "joke" (whatever your opinion is) is only on top of the pyramid of Maslow's. You need your foundation first, blah blah blah...

@Azrael I said "separate entities" in quotes. There is a difference saying it this way. The meaning changes. I also said "strange" in quotes.

Your answer here is cool. However, I think this is still a regular user. He's just a 'noob' who has to go back and practice on shrooms first or some lighter dose of psychedelics before moving onto 5meo.

Well, when we die, hopefully, we will become infinite. Like Leo said, "why not go for full Buddhahood?" But, I'm still wondering why do we have to experience another realm, like earth? Have you thought of it this way? (General question.) I know that we are infinite already. It's "strange" that we are "separate entities" when we wake up, yet we are also infinite. Epistemology.

Why do you think we even need to experience this "dream" we call earth? Why can't we all be "born" into infinite? And, what other dream? The "heaven" dream, the "hell" dream? Leo brought up the topic of epistemology in his blog and elsewhere, which I find interesting when applied here.

@AlwaysBeNice I really appreciate your answers and I read your answers again, and I am very much interested in finding out more info on this topic, but it looks like I have to research my info elsewhere. I am not talking about regular people taking 5meo or other psychedelics. I already know it doesn't cause mental illnesses for a regular user. I have nothing against psychedelics. What I'm talking about is whoever is at risk. I have worked with a schizophrenic patient. That's why I'm asking my questions in this manner. I have spoken to family members of the mentally ill. And, I've looked into autism and immune shots. I'm relating my questions to medicine / psychiatry. I'm just clarifying what I was referring to. Again, I'm not talking about a regular person. I'm currently thinking if I want to find out more info in this manner, the next step would be to actually go to professionals / doctors and get different opinions / outlooks on it.