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What terrible recession guys? No serious shit has hit the fan yet. The situation is more or less the same right now as it was a few years ago, with recent problems caused by global energy issues and also shaken trade chains. This is what happens when you overfit economy to certain conditions. It's a global issue. There will be more and more energy related issues as climate change and resource depletion progresses. Amercian car-based way of life is just unsustainable. I am saying that because I am guessing you might be talking about rising gas prices in the USA when you talk about recession.

@Tyler Robinson no, techlead is 100% not a left-winger. You can notice this by his lack of humor. To lack humor this much you have to skew to the right. Now, when I read your post, neither Lex or Destiny are on the right. What was the thought behind this post?

You act like you are purposefully fooling me you don't know what does the part "ABSOLUTE" of the phrase "Absolute Truth" mean. It's absolute, it can't be fully out of consciousness. It has to be embeded in your consciousness. Denying that is you doing some Daniel Denett's style judo yourself.

I feel like it's because people are clicking at "submit reply" twice. I have had a situation today where I have thought that I didn't post the message, my message still being typed in the textfield and all, but it actually has been submitted already.

@Strannik Mr. Zen Fanboy, explain to me, please, how can Absolute Truth be proven as just a faulty concept, because of there possibly existing some "meta-reality beyond-consciousness" when Absolute Truth already includes any such known and unknown, possible and impossible to know meta-layers of reality. Because you know, as you have said all language is conepts, and we use them to point at THIS, but I feel like the concepts you propose do worse job at pointing at and describing the indescribable than what Leo uses. Reading your words is Land of Confusion for me, how the heck Buddhism Zen is not a religion? It's as much religion as everything else.

You know, I am an aspiring sociologist and I can tell you that it's 100% not because of pointers. Common religions don't get people out of their beliefs because it's not their job. They might advertise like it's their job, but not really. Churches are ideology dispensaries, power structure legitimzers and part of social control mechanism. They don't know that. That's a belief, too.

Because God is a wisely created, accurately pointing label. Just as you wouldn't get Enlightened by browsing Pornhub instead of learning about and applying spirituality, you wouldn't grasp what THIS is by contemplating about flying spaghetti monster instead of God. I don't think that God is an overloaded label in serious spiritual circles. It might be in the common person's mind, I agree.

I assume you mean being a state in which there is nothing and just THIS, where there was a computer a second ago, but now is nothing. Using my mind right now not being in that state I can say that there were still sights and sensations, but I know they were't really there and it didn't feel like anything being in that state, other then bliss, but that's also a description added now, not coming from that state. But that would be a pretty passive type of state. There are more active states like this spiritually dull one where I am also creative and talkative and eager to read your posts. I think that Leo's argument is that THIS can reconfigure into such state where it's both very clearly THIS, but also active and from this superior "position" make an absolute judgement about itself being God. And other insights. They are not stated by dull Leo character, they are made by THIS itself, while THIS is absolutely itself. I stay open to this not having experienced it ever, the same as I stay open to your ideas.

Nope. Non-duality is non-duality. It's not a value. It's an area of study, philosophy, approach to spirituality, however you want to use the term, but not a value. Green is a label for a postmodern value system. Since non-duality is not a value even some Red mafia thug can adopt it as a form of spiritual belief and for example use it to justify his socially harmful actions, for example by arguing that there is no-one being robbed, so he is not doing anything evil.

All this stripping of labels is uneccessary. Obviously in an Enlightened state there is no self, no Self, etc., but there still is THIS. Something that is nothing. And I am not in that state right now. No-one is, communication in that state is impossible. So we are not in the state, right? So we can use the powers of the mind to create appropiate labels. And I don't know about you, but in my opinion Absolute F####g Truth is a pretty good label for THIS. Ain't it?

I have had one Awakening into no-self. It's so profound. There is no higher joy that I have ever experienced. You are drowning in Bliss. It's like all of you has been just clothes and you finally strip them. Nothing in your experience changes but everything changes. This not at all like what I have experienced from meditation and I have done retreats. It's way way more radical, I have never seen Sam Harris describing something that awe-inspiring but I haven't consumed much of his content.

Sex is all in your head. The best girl is the one you can take acid with with and contemplate the beauty and harshness of life. All this physical attractivness, shallow, we are all beautiful and normal, just built different.

Comes from Latin/French Comes from Latin/French This also comes from Latin/French It's like saying "Oh, we have such beautiful words in English, like Wanderlust!" while in fact it's a German word xDD Edit: Oh, helloo brother, I see we both like this word heh

I always give creative presents to my SO. Like hand-made stuff, hand created images, poster of a show we both like, that is like an inside thing for us, or "blank" ones. Blank ones are the best, like some empty journal, special paper, coloring book or art supplies. Or something practical if it's something useful, like an ebook reader, it's really not that pricey for a gift if you factor in how much you would have otherwise spent on making a DIY thing Maybe some gift that makes a promise. Like hiking gear and a promise that you will go on a great mountain adventure in the summer together. Or tickets for some hippie summer festival or concert. Oh, oh I know, I know! Prinitng photos makes a great present. But not the standard lame-ass postcard size, but bigger, like twice as big at least. They are great. Big, high-qulity, selected photos of YOU, together. And since we are on self-actualization forum, then Yoga accessories make a great gift. Maybe a cool hand-made psychedelics stash, or vape stash, or maybe fance vape accessories. Muse headband for meditation.

Politicians are politicians. They mostly don't care about things they say. He isn't saying that because he has been a free speech advocate all his life and became a politician to defend it. No, he is saying that because he is a politician. He is playing a different game, he is trying to score political points by using rhetoric and reffering common memes. He might even think personally that free speech is terrible and absolutist implementation of it would be a disaster and still nevertheless advocate it fervorously, because it's going to benefit him politically. If it comes to him having to implement any free speech policy and it not being radical enough or failing terribly, he can always blame that on someone or something else. Win-win for a politician, if his skills are top-notch he can say whatever he wants and never suffer consequences, someone else is going to take a beating.

Said every drug addict ever.

VAPE! VAPE! VAPE! Best with e-mesh.

You still have all that neurofeedback EEG hardware? Considered to record what happens during such spontaneous experience? For science. It would be very interesting in my opinion.

@KH2 he is not that stupid, that's true, just the reason he has bought the platform is not to earn coconuts by selling blue pngs. He now has a control over a major media channel.

@Tahuti how many grams of DMT have you extracted in your life time? ACRB or MHRB? It's yellow because of many things, plant fats I think being cause number one but I am not a pharmacist neither a chemist. But I know enough to be sure that recrystallization doesn't de-oxidize DMT.

@Siedah 5-meo is more often brown like coffee amd dmt is yellow like dandelion drawn with pastels.

@thepixelmonk Seeing this I uphold my intuition that the church guys are deluding themselves. I don't see how mushrooms being fresh can change anything in that equation. Even if there is some novel compund in them but it can be so easily damaged that it is undetectable after drying and crushing then there must be miniscule amounts of it.

@Danioover9000 And I am simply telling him why it's a wrong path to take, so he won't waste too much time here. It's out of compassion, not lack of chills OP is talking about behaviors in just a second sentence. It's clearly a mark of confusion, as SD doesn't deal with norms and behaviours at all. Different cultures at the same stage Blue with very similar values can have radically different norms and behaviors, for example Jews and Muslims.

I think I will stick to Peter Ralston for now. It all sounds like a repack of spirituality with more and more psychedelic flavor. First you have God, because Leo explored 5-MeO-DMT and now we get some alien stuff, because Leo started to dose higher on more visual psychedelics I assume. Not judging only because of years of Leo's great track record of delivering fascinating content. Otherwise I would completly stop listening about this stuff, but now I am waiting for more information before making judgement. I think Leo is a type of guy to trip on low-medium doses and think it is the greatest, then exploring ridiculous doses and thinking he is the first there, while 1/4 of the psychedelic community has already been there. I have always been and still am sceptical of Leo's claims that psychedelics work different for him than most people.

What you are proposing is not an improvement, but a degradation. More =/= better. I think it comes from a misunderstanding of what Spiral Dynamics is. It's not even a map of human development. It's a map of how HUMAN values HAVE evolved. Values, not general development. Also, it only describes what is, not what will be, it only has some vague idea of what could be. And we can already can fit Jesus and Buddha on it, because the values presummably esposused by those historical figures are avaialable to us from ancient written texts. Adding animal stages make no sense in that context, because how the heck are you going to measure values that animals adhere to. Are you gonna interview a hamster? Or go under the sea to make a visit to a family of humpback whales and ask them a few questions? Okay, I might have been harsh with my language and tone, but it's only because the idea is so outragous, that's the only way to underline it that seems fitting in my opinion. You can propse your own model that describes general development. Spiral Dynamics is not it. SD is a tool for managers to solve conflicts in organizations. Model of Hierarchical Complexity is a model that could fit anything from atoms to aliens, but it's also not a model of general development. Ken Wilber tried to create something like general model, but didn't really achieve it and settled for something more managable. Also there's a reason why his books are 1000+ pages long. It's fucking hard. And we won't achieve it by typing random thoughts on some random internet forums, I can assure you of that.