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@Sahil Pandit Quitted playing video games. In December last year. Did not play a single video game. Going to the gym reguarly for 4 months using social media as accountabillity structure.

@kindayellow what are soul speakers, ouijas boards etc.?

@Elia It's a tip from a website. It was about working 80h a week. It is/can be a distraction from one's task or goal. Although I appreciate it if some small talk occurs or some normal conversation. It was about meeting up randomly with some friends all the time.

I enjoy mind-maps from time to time or rehearsing what I wrote down. I don't read much, yet I take notes. I do not use a digital format, often only from time to time. With material I read online I use a digital format.

@CreamCat Doing that most of the time it is difficult for me to schedule although after a year or so I am getting way better at the working structure. I am quite chaotic. @Leo Gura I received that feedback now twice that I have my priorities backward. Yet, this is quite critical I messed up one semester now and have to do one more, I mostly choose harder courses, since all of this marketing crap was not interesting anymore to me. It is more about accepting degrees of excellence in my own work and developing that, also to be driven, and fueling my passion for the love of learning and curiosity, by having a career, for now, I have to say (besides reading in my spare time or watching infotainment). Which provides me with the chance of taking months to go do other stuff, which I want to include as a service/deed to humanity. The career is software engineering. Also, to prepare for a master to dive deeper into the fields I find enjoyable and fascinating. I visited the Hannovermesser which is the new Cebit last week. I meet and talked to the person how gave me the internship at the research institute there and saw the "new" innovations, and ideas there. The institute was so nice they "offered" us the opportunity to do the practical phase for our studies there, they could give us topics or vice versa. Now, I also have a volunteer project with a professor to dive deeper into android programming, with sensors. I truly want to embody more stage orange aspects, since this is necessary I assume especially in the tech field. I truly want to have a skillset that tackles global issues, yet I am still clueless. The research I saw was mostly about production, helping workers to prevent injuries, robots, automation of processes, and learning/image processing hyper mind the project was called. I visited 3+ out of 27 halls, the area was vast. At the same time, I can understand that things are endless, during one LSD trip I closed my eyes and had internal visions of endless battles of colors, forms, structures, shallow images, vague impressions and feelings which always ended in a draw. On every level, there was somehow a draw. Yes, I want joy, peace, health and especially love, yet I would also love to give back or work on a project, start-up etc. Which aims to do something for some progress in humanity. I would love to join a political party, for instance, just to see what it is like or work on a research project etc. But no chance in this city. For health, I would need to do more research and move, since the products here are not that advanced. Also, I am partially scheduling retreats, there are no meditation centers here, I basically have to rely upon as being as autonomous as possible. This is mainly about developing a hardcore work ethic, also to be more effective and efficient in all areas of my life, like relationships, learning, workouts, health, personal growth, emotional growth, spirituality and creating the freedom to pursue all of this financially, etc. The point is I stress myself out a lot and retrograde to being more accepting and content, which is like... society wants to keep you trapped in green. At least here imo. @RawJudah How do you work smarter? What do you for a living? Feel free to pm! Yes, I agree with the matter of survival, often I do question how survival can be transcended, also how it can be made more pleasant and would love to avoid working in shitty working conditions. @denydritz Any technique or idea you use that is unusual from the norm in reaching your goals or exactly is the norm but works? I am not by nature an ambitious person, I can be highly energetic and enthusiastic from time to time. Especially with other compassionate people. Any ideas for that besides working with others? I am a bit tired of taking I would love to give something back!

@Jakethehoff In the Audiobook from Don Beck about Spiral Dynamics from 1997. He mentions Berlin and Paris, as growing centers for yellow.

@Wyatt What is his policy or how does his election program look like? Or which issues does he want to adress? I read his wiki and saw a video sometime ago not sure if he became a mayor?

@kieranperez As far as techniques go that one could try. I did a cognitive behavioural therapy for a while, where one disputes one's beliefs. From a book from Leo's list, it is similar to the one from the LP course. For me it worked over a longer period of time doing that. Also, tong-leng for only 5min for a year or so, after each meditation session worked wonders. I also did not like myself a lot, I was quite self-destructive and resentful. Envy stoped and in genereal a more positive cognition emerged after tong-len/g. Same as positive body emotions. With loving kindness meditation, I do the version from shinzen young. I notice my behaviour and subtle feelings inside my body can change, yet especially cognition/internal chatter. I am not a person who idolizes since this technique includes it, so I have some struggles with that. Potentially, the "flaw" you perceive is your biggest asset in praticing a form of loving kindness that revolves around the concept of positive idealization. Anyway people react more positive and I am feeling a lot more neutral instead of frustrated and resentful. Also, vulnerabillity is more accesible, yet I do not express it as easily as others. I also ask myself a lot what can I do to improve the situation, be helpful towards the other person or be of service. Mainly because of Eckhart Tolles power of now audiobook. As you say that you struggle with evoking positive feelings. I'd say this is normal at the beginning, there are times where I can call positive feelings forward and other times, it is just some feeling of pleasentness floating inside. I find smiling aritifically difficult which helps with this technique. Also, my go to mantra is I love and accept myself, because I find it difficult to be loving or warm towards others, when the emotion is absent and I dislike my self. So, loving kindness, travel, fitness and mindfulness has made me a lot more self-accepting and confident. Also, music which makes me feel confident a lot, especially when young I feel it is extremely inpiring and confidence boosting.. Other things I did is warm to cold showers and nofap. + journaling about past pains to the degree where I am not writing words anymore + shadow work is just to univseral imo, it should not totally ignored. Also, volunteering. Hope this helps!

Hey, did anyone try a biphasic sleep cycle of either 6h and 20 min nap or 5h sleep with 1h and 30min. I tried it for 3 weeks now with some general tips around sleep. Waking up with natural light, relaxing before going to bed etc. Yet, I want more out of my day. Does anyone have experience with this. For a longer time period?

@Leo Gura lol I see, it is somewhat insane how psychedelics experiences overlap. Yes, I do not underestimate yogis, there are some very good classes here. But, unfortunately, I can't attend those. Sadghuru makes me cry each freaking morning.

@Leo Gura Have you ever meet a teacher from a Tibetian lineage? Are their paths of yoga which transcends the "psychic stage"?

They also increase testosterone apparently, and they have the highest rate of vitamin a in vegetables. Not sure if the last "fact" is correct. But should be.

@Michael569 Thank you for the comprehensive answer! I did not expect that. I will write the book on my list I ordered a couple and I am currently finishing the speed reading book from Leo's book list. I read and just fact-checked again, about carrots, they are some assertions that when they are cooked with oil, that they supply more beta-carotin or provitamin a which is a precursor to vitamin a which is good for the eyes, eyesight .. and growth of skin etc. Yet, this is only partially true, when cooked and chopped into small bites and when oil is added, the reabsorption rate is only increased from 4 to 5%. When purred and cooked first and oil is added afterward they gain a higher reabsorption rate from 27% to 45%. Same for smoothies the reabsorption rate is significantly, to whatever degree higher. From 21 to 28-34%. @Shiva Same for dogmatic stuff, yet even no dogma is dogma bla bla. I'll keep this in mind while shopping, especially with noodles. Thanks for the answer. Politeness is big dogma. Often.

@Shiva What sort of carbs are healthy I just heard that there are simple and complex carbs, yet I do not know which are healthy or which ones to avoid.

@lmfao ok! Thank you for your answer.

@ivankiss The last retreat I went to was at a Zen temple. I did not read the whole post. There was one guy whom I meet during August while I did a 14-day retreat there, he stayed there and was a traveler went to a Swedish yoga ashram before he came to the Zen monastery, also for one year. While traveling, I also meet one person who stayed in an ashram for one year which was about transcendental meditation. The guy at the zen retreat whom I meet the last week seemed to have grown quite a lot. He was from America, so it was beautiful to see the differences in green mindsets and hang-ups. As usual. Especially, since I represent the American culture from my outer appearance. It is amazing how fanatic new green is in comparison to people who grew up from the sixties, seventies and this guy was very green and relative, but when someone is better or seems better he used basically, what I assume Americans have done to cause segregation. Using psychological and social instruments to undermine the new apparent equality in rights or a chance to quote the word chance for the same opportunity. Everyone can take part in the Olympics for e.g... Not sure, but this is what "business" seems to be about. This guy had a lot of hang-ups and seemed to have taken quite a few psychedelics without training meditation or using awareness or practicing or what not. Unearned consciousness is valueless. The monks told me more and were more welcoming towards me for instance and others and kept an eye on him since he felt superior or righteous to cause havoc and be crazy since he was an American. Anyway, I meet him 6 months after that he changed a lot, it was amazing he seemed to grow out of green. What I am saying with this is most likely you have done more change and can't see it because there is no contrast with the outer world. Yet, I won't deny that the ashram is somehow cult-like and that people have hang-ups and are a bit crazy. The guy who stayed in the ashram for one year left because they were kissing the gurus butt. No one had their own opinion was his critique.

@CreamCat Are there videos of this somewhere? I am curious how this looks like. This is insane. Great info! thanks a lot!

@CreamCat The nun or/either female monk was noticing something, I fell out of line during the zen practices and I sort of felt guilty, they really do not impose anything onto you really nothing. There are some rules etc. Yet, the people there are very nice and it is heartwarming. I am not denying that they have some hangups some members etc, yet they do not do shadow work that would be a solution. This is what Ken Wilber criticized about monasteries no idea what the psyche exactly is physically. Yet, there are some legit "cults". Would you not need to cut someone's skull open in order to transfer cells from the brain to a brain-machine? How is it possible to transfer cells? Or even information from cells? I can imagine having a robot which has the necessary hardware to deal with the complexity of data streaming into its a system, like.. vagus nerve transporting neurotransmitters to the brain. Yet, not sure how human tissue could be transmigrated to a machine. Not sure if even necessary. I can imagine copying functions from like how neurons fire and wire, or creating intelligence if I assume correctly this is what deep learning is about, just ways of functioning, patterns of recognition and output w/e. We just talked about something similar about quantum smth. in today's lecture, ideally, I even can start something a.i related. This is also similar to Rupert Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields I assume.

@ajasatya Consciousness itself? Void etc. yet I don't know what that is. I can see that self-inquiry or inquiry is important, yet I am doing currently doing a loving-kindness practice + vipassana. (*bark*). I triggered a monk on a retreat. Not sure if I should feel proud. I waited for bark bark appeared. @Serotoninluv I recommended the show to a friend who studies a.i I did not watch it fully, he was hyped and mad that I did not watch it. "Our" region is quite progressive in this part of tech. Zedd brought out a new music video he is from my hometown, the video has an A.I Robotics theme. I'll just leave this.

@ajasatya Would you think it is possible to be consciously reborn inside an artificial machine/human in comparison to an animal? Considering the "philosophy" of death and rebirth or samsara? Or Bardo realm in case you are familiar with it? ( I am not only heard this from an audiobook).

@lmfao Is it only good to cut these out for auto-immune diseases or for general health? What about micro-bacteria or things similar, I heard an audiobook from Deepak Chopra which talked about how a Mediterranean diet is supposed to be very good.

@CreamCat That is true partially, still when the need for eating food is stilled at higher levels can re-emerge again. It is possible to be self-sufficient and be at stage green/yellow even without much friends depending on how much social interaction you need. I get easily drained by them and enjoy rather short interactions with a small group of people or at best one on one since they are not that draining. I won't deny that I lack people to talk to, yet this is so common currently. The best choice is to join some sort of organization to have social interactions or a group, maintain a group of friends etc. I am also not sure if you have ever seen stage beige or how it can impact other humans. It's not fun depending on the situation.

@CreamCat I can see what you are saying, I know my deficiencies to a great degree, some things do take time. I can see from your post that your understanding of integral theory seems to me half-baked and to much focused on spiral dynamics. People differ greatly ........... on what works for you might not work for me. Because of psychological, biochemical and other reasons. Basically, what I can extract from your comment is to have priorities and focus on them with intensity. I like theory a lot and I am from a pragmatic region, so I am inclined to rebel to this sort of pragmatic stuff. Pragmatism can be dogma too. Also, I can deal with criticism quite well in hindsight extremely well I even enjoy it, I don't enjoy personal attacks and attempts at manipulation. Or people who are not empathic. It is good for that you value all of these things, yet my values do not reside in execution, performance, commitment, and "stage orange" aspects. I know I want to include them in order to function better/sharper. For me of utmost importance is meditation currently and my studies and integrating knowledge, learning more about the world, traditions, culture. I enjoy all of the beauties of life more than execution etc. Even though performance itself is an act of beauty etc. I want to embrace and love myself to let go of it. Effortless execution etc involved in what even I am trying to master, meaning no ego involved. Yet, all of this is just words. In case the comment above helped that is good.

@CreamCat You can have pathologies at each stage. That is why shadow work is important. Although you have a center of gravity at a stage and are centered at 50% of that stage 25% below and 25% above. This is also how you will respond to other humans. The whole spiral is always accessed. Even if you transcend into a higher realm of the psychic, subtle, casual or non-dual stages (Third tier). One has to move down in order to function as long as a body exists. You can have state stages! Which are different from structure stages. For instance, the Vietnamese monks who burned themselves achieve a state stage where they feel absolute bliss. These are called absorptions as far as I know Jhanas. And therefore "transcend" the human body, they still die. This whole thing is still a mystery to me. So, they can both be a living concrete... experience as well as a glimpse into the nature of a state, the so-called state stages. Structures according to Wilber can't be observed since they are like grammar, inherently visceral in one's flesh and bones. Yet, I am going to create a concept one lays out these language patterns or aspects... and then has the ability to observe them. Like using had involved past perfect and now we know that past perfect which is the "completed" past involves these words, rules, structure, grammar, "syntax". States are experiences one can dive into, yet structures are .. like a state of mind that is unconscious, till the second tier is accessed and the periphery of what one usually experiences is being expanded since the whole spiral is first visible at second tier which is yellow. There needs to be a drawn out map or structure in order to relate that there is a structure or to better understand it, that is my point. Looking at the quadrants could help you to understand the theory better. For instance, I could say that the tourquise level of the upper right quadrant which focuses on exterior development of the I, body parts, brain, stomach, guts etc. Is the hypothalamus. Wilber differentiated all of this to draw conclusions and to present a holarchy. A mixture of heterarchy and hierarchy. Spiral dynamics is still focused on values. Shadow work also never ends as long as biology exists according to Wilber. Some drives are inherently biological and sometimes people are unaware of that.

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