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A great summary with lots of practical advice for a better life:

Organic Low/medium caloric (watch out for carbohydrates) Colorful Includes many types of sources Money alone won't do it. You'll need to invest some time on it to make it work.

@Don Wei High quality food, I'd say. Note: high quality does not mean fancy.

@SQAAD What is God?

@Jay Ray Who says "my" in "my ego"?

There's a game: the game of misidentification and experience. And it's not a game in the sense that it's unimportant. It's the dance of God itself. Oneness apparently becoming not-Oneness. One perceiving itself as not-One. It requires ultimate power. Awakening does not entail detrimental thoughts about the illusion of duality. It's very much the opposite.

@Javfly33 Who's there to accept anything? Awakening won't make sense to the mind.

Human beings can change so radically that you won't notice a single trace of a screwed past. It's possible and I have done it. I was sexually abused when I was a small child but I have gone through such a deep transformation that I don't even remember it in the daily basis anymore. The reason you can resonate with Teal Swan is because she is still broken inside, as she says it herself. But she is deeply aware of her brokenness and that's how she plays the role of a teacher so well. So we have two points here: You can totally overlook someone's f**ked up past, depending on the level of healing that the person went through You don't need to be completely healed to help others. All it takes is awareness of your own wounds. Or simply awareness in general. And of course good wording and enough empathy

@Billy Shears I used to drink to get in touch with a way of being that I wanted to achieve. But I always had this in mind: "I want to become this loose and relaxed even when sober". I did it. It wasn't easy and required a lot of inner work. And now drinking would have no purpose other than ruining my liver.

Lots of red flags for new seekers. Notice his easiness to manipulate ideas and use spiritual concepts to justify poor choices and low consciousness behaviors.

Saying that "life is sloppy" to justify deliberate (or even unintentional) lack of depth of analysis where significantly less sloppiness is achievable is a shame. Math, as in algebra or arithmetic, is much less prone to drastic errors. It's very different from statistics, in the sense that statistics is full of counter-intuitive concepts. I'd say that people get to know enough math so that it works in their lives, but they get to know enough statistics so that it's convenient for them, and it opens room for many sorts of devilry, so watch out. I don't have strong reasons to doubt those numbers. What they mean to me is that the society in the US is marked with severe inequality of opportunities.

People in general do not know statistics, regardless of being from the left or the right. Let them who do not know be. Be not like them. And drop this ridiculous comparison, wandering around levels of solid sloppiness. This just harms the credibility in your words.

Definitely, you got it. I am not surprised though, since you're a professor . And just to give a glimpse of how the complexity of new variables stacks up: In a very simplistic approach, we may divide the population in two social strata. If, then, we want to divide the same population in two groups of education levels, that would make up for 4 groups! Two times two. If, instead, on the pursuit of a better granularity, we divide each dimension in 3 groups, we would end up with 9 groups! Three times three. And this is just for two variables!

@Epikur My point is: study more. Those number are dangerous, yes, not because of the truth behind them, but because even the smartest ones among lay people do not know how to make proper sense of them. Let me come up with an example to clarify what I mean by the need of profound understanding of selection biases and causal inference. Let's suppose we're trying to check whether race is a predictor of violence or not. The first assumption I'd come up with: "social strata affects how people behave and place themselves on the spectrum of violence". This is very likely to be true, but if we want to show it numerically, we can run a hypothesis test and compute the p-value. Lots of reading required just for this. Okay, now we have a problem. Black people, for instance, have a long history of oppression so the poorest strata of society might be skewed towards them. Again, we can check this hypothesis. If it comes out to be true, then we will need to control our experiment by social stratum. What does it mean? It means that we can't just sample random people carelessly, but rather in a way that our populations of black vs non-black people are equally represented across social strata. Here lies another challenge: how do we sample those groups properly? What are the pros and cons of each sampling method? The study of sampling techniques, alone, requires a few months of intense study to master. Alright, we have your samples controlled by social stratum and we (hopefully) haven't messed up anything until now. Then what about age? Maybe the population of non-black people is relatively skewed towards more advanced ages, where people are usually less violent in general? Then what about degrees of education? You see? Every way to dissect our population that potentially affects how violent people are adds a whole new level of complexity. The pursuit of the perfect samples, in which our phenomenon does not manifest in a biased way, is extremely complex. Now, finally, if we haven't messed up until now, which is highly unlikely unless we're very skilled statisticians or maybe just a brilliant mathematicians, which I am not, it's time to run our regression. And this last step also requires serious studies. In the end, our results will depend on the choices we made. Which predictors did we use? Which sampling techniques? Which regression model? Which source of data? What is the time frame of our data? There will be many more questions to answer, like: how do we make sure that we didn't select data from a bad time frame? How trustworthy is our data? Etc etc.

@Epikur Hi. Data Scientist / Statistician here. Statistics is much deeper than averages and percentages. If you really want to get into the real thing, go learn about causal inference and selection biases. Finding unbiased predictors for phenomena is no easy task. You might as well need at least a BSc in Statistics or Econometrics before you start to understand the depths of this subject. What you're showing is not even statistics per se... it's just a chunk of aggregated data.

Well, let's try not to be hypocrites first. It's always good start. Can you fully accept yourself? Here one funny thing: this might be enough.

@Zak How does one come to the point of being interested and willing to listen to the feelings of a man? Are you approaching this from a fair point of view or do you just want others to serve you in your pursuit of healing?

@Zak What are you lacking exactly? And how can affection provide it? Notice that I am going one level further. Affection is not the end goal. You want to get something out of affection. What is it?

Yellow is tier 2 because it's the first meta stage. There is a huge leap of dis-identification and deconstruction from Green to Yellow, much bigger than any leap previously done. This leap, differently from the previous ones, is not about finding the "new correct ideology". It's about realizing the realms of ideologies altogether.

Do you? This whole story seem messy enough already. I'd recommend you to just move on.

All options in the poll are pretty bad. We need to wear masks to decrease the chances of transmitting the virus to other people, since the nose and the mouth are the main doors through which the virus goes from our bodies to the world and potentially other people. If the virus is already around, the mask cannot help you that much. It can get into your system through your eyes, for instance. But it's still better than nothing, for sure. I am locking this thread because the options in this poll are biased and misleading.

@Diana88 Just call the police. I have the feeling that you're hiding or lying about important points, but if you have someone breaking into your house, just call the police.

@Red-White-Light Solipsists still suffer from thinking "I am alone" when in fact there's nothing to be alone. Everything is One.

"Body" is made out of consciousness. Consciousness is the substance of everything. Your question sounds like "can water partly separate from the river?"

@ivankiss You can get in touch with some online marketing agency. They know better how to use social media efficiently and with proper personal distancing and detachment.