kieranperez

Yes ❤️

Let me repeat: whatever works best for you. Do not be rigid when it comes to your health. If it works it works. If it doesn’t it it doesn’t... then change it up. No one can give you a cookie cutter approach to marathon training. If you’re running just to get through the distance because you haven’t run further than that, then that process will be entirely different than someone trying to run the marathon under 2:20. And even for those 2 groups, the amount of variance there is person to person in either endeavor (the run to finish & also run fast) can be huge... the variety is going to be more based in the runner trying to go fast because after a certain point in one’s fitness it’s without a doubt doable. If you’re struggling to even run 13 12.6 miles (20k) then something is up. Again can be diet but I can name a bunch of other potential factors. You’re part of a species that’s literally designed to run 100s of miles at a time. You can get around this. If this is during a race maybe you’re going out way too hard. Maybe you’re not eating enough (leading into the race). Maybe there’s something up with your diet. Maybe it’s a combination of all those + you don’t run enough to handle 13 miles (trust me... you can). As far as liquid intake... yeah it’s kinda annoying early on but you get used to it and your stomach does too. And as far as “what I’m saying”... I’m actually saying the opposite as far as approach to food. I do not condone sticking with certain diet trends for its own sake. Follow what works for you. The best MUT (mountain ultra trail) runner in the world, Kilian Jornet, eats pizza with Nutella before races. Learning to utilize fat inside you as a source of fuel rather than just pure glycogen is different.

Facets: ”I am God” No-Self Infinite Intelligence Goodness Creation Devil Nothingness Emptiness Void God-Head Fractal Absolute Infinity Infinite Power Stuff that you feel has never been talked about it Etc. States: (The many kinds of) Altered States Different types of Samadhi No-Mind Access Concentration Cessation of pain Paranormal States Psychic States Siddhis (I personally would still count this as a state)... and don’t hold back against the materialists... 3rd Eye Openings Turiya Etc. Stages/Cognition: Acclimatizing to new states and making them your default stage, what that process is like and how it relates to personal development and how one can put this into their everyday life. Stages of cognizing God post awakening.

@ValiantSalvatore I just realized I put this in the Product Review sub-forum and not the Video Requests as intended... LOL

@Soul-lover 2020 There are no evil others, entities, spirits, etc. It's all you. Period. End of story. If you think those "evil" entities are other than you then you're succumbing to your own mind's delusion. It's One. And you're plenty "evil" as it is

Only 1 side of the street. It’s also infinitely perfect and beautiful.

You can’t change culture until you charge yourself. Period. Don’t know if that’s a compliment but thanks anyways. Do you think I’m going to indulge projections that easy? Don’t worry about it. I’m not saying don’t work hard for it. Work you’re ass off until you realize the Truth and don’t stop. I’m saying it’s not something you get and that it’s not an achievement nor something you obtain. You can’t really pursue Truth without seeking from a ground sense of honesty and not bullshit yourself that you’re going to get something. Otherwise you’ll be sitting there waiting for an experience or for something to happen or whatever other imagination one has. A wise person who actually awakens pursues with the understanding that they don’t know what the Truth is, what it “means”, what “it will do” for them, etc. in yet they pursue hard anyways because there’s a glimmer of understanding that one can’t live not being conscious of what’s true.

And here come the nondual keyboard warriors... Thanks!

I’ll PM you. Honestly don’t want that answer flaring up this thread lol. Firstly, I wouldn’t really classify myself that much in Orange. Secondly, enlightenment is not a “success”. It’s not an achievement. I get what you’re trying to put down though and it’s appreciated. Keep in mind that this post isn’t really meant to be geared towards spirituality.

I love this ❤️ Thsts ambition. That’s vision right there. Keep it up man ❤️

Great one. It’s called Kingdom of Heaven located within. Cost of entry: you

Fear: With the help of armodafinil (by the way this is just ridiculous... no pounding heart and so clear... this isn’t even fair) I’ve been taking my meditation through the roof today. To the point that I’m getting into such a deep state of absorption in my meditation (I found that meditating on the present moment really works well for me - it grounds me and my mindfulness so well that I can completely detach from thoughts, emotions, etc.). To the point where I’m starting to get “ego survival reactions” that I feel clearly is coming from fear. I’ll detach from it and it still abuses. There’s like couple a threads left of identification. I’ll detach from fear and have it arise and not be effected but then a emotion of sadness from feeling like I’m neglecting my self as a manipulation comes up. I’ll feel some anxiety then and so on and so on. It’s a matter of not getting caught in it but I’m noticing that this is survival. I understand that this is what’s trying to survive in yet I’m struggling to get past it towards the Truth. I’ll take any advice... although I think I know what I’m in for. It really does feel like you’re saying goodbye to a good friend. Samadhi: Can I get the closest description for Samadhi? I’ve been dropping more and more into deeper and deeper absorption in yet, I come across some many very different description of Samadhi that I don’t know if this is what I’m dropping into. Terms like jhanas and Samadhi throw me off as to the difference in yet... Yogic school seems to distinguish Samadhi very differently and some of them make Samadhi sound like it’s just abiding in realization/enlightenment/awakening but as a state....?

@lostmedstudent “The Endurance Diet” is not a book that endorses any specific diet. Matt Fitzgerald is a great Stage Yellow/Green coach, nutritionist, and writer. He wrote a great and also popular book called “Diet Cults” which was basically a great well needed rant against nutrition/diet culture and how mayopic they all are. You have to understand that everybody’s metabolism, physiology, etc. are simultaneously incredibly different from one another and also very much the same. That book is about laying out fundamental principles and is very open to whatever works for you while cutting out all the bullshit and dogma and also cutting out stuff to stay away from and also what food groups you generally want to focus on at certain times. If being vegan works for you, awesome! I myself probably can’t pull off a diet during a hard training cycle without meat. Having heavy protein really helps because when I’m putting along consistent weeks of running with high enough volume and intensity and also strength training and also the stresses from saying long consciousness work and just some of the stresses of daily life, I’m hungry ALL THE TIME. I’m already a human garbage disposal. When I’m running I can’t do just vegan meals and stuff or else I’d be eating 6 times a day... and during training I’m usually eating around 4 times per day. I’m 6’0 and 135 pounds and when I start up a training cycle I burn through any sort of body fat I have left and if I’m not eating a lot look like a holocaust survivor and I have no energy at all. At the same time, most athletes (and people in general) are not like me at all with my metabolism. They absolutely have to watch what they eat and limit themselves. Playing devils advocate yet again... you’re also going to limit your athletic capacity if all you do is eat McDonalds, tons of sugar and garbage, OR you’re eating food that doesn’t mix well with what your body unique individual physiology may need. You can be eating vegan and you’re suffering from anemia and I actually had a friend who had that. He was killing workouts in high school but was always falling off in races 1200 meters into a 5k cross country races because he was so low on iron. The moment he threw in meat he finally was running mid 4:20s in the 1600 meters and under 10 minutes for the 3200 meters. Here’s an example of a mindset you’ll see in the book: what you eat post hard workout will need to be different from what you ate going into your workout. What kinds of food groups, vitamins, minerals, etc. should you eat? So it’s very holistic and open to customization and also cutting out the obvious stuff and other diet crazes and makes it very practical.

@thesmileyone After all my homework all these years and through trial and error, I honestly think KBs and Med Balls are the only real strength tools a runner really needs. The amount you can do with them is astounding and are so practical towards running because they emphasize functional strength and movement and not just repetitive limited movements that only train isolated muscle groups rather than train them to cooperate together.

It depends on what you mean by carbo loading. If you're racing under a marathon, the notion of carbo loading is pretty much irrelevant. If you're a track or cross country 10K guy, it would be a total joke if you're stuffing your face with rice, grains, and pasta. To put this into perspective: an elite miler who has a strong enough lactate threshold to sustain a high near max effort (even though a mile is pretty much 75-80% aerobic) burns about the amount of calories that are in a banana + 1/2 an orange. Also understanding that yes, glycogen is mainly stored in carbohydrates, the doesn't mean you're gut should just take that in. You need to make sure you're eating healthy fat that stores glycogen and also a protein that still well in your stomach and system that allows you to slow down the digestion process so you don't burn those calories so quickly (duration is extremely relative one's digestion and metabolism - I can eat 3 double double and animal fries at in n out, take a shit, and run 3 hours later no problem. Other people need to be more specific). If you're racing or running in races in longer distances (half marathon up I'd say), learn to train your system to burn fat on low glycogen stores. There's nuance to this and is still case by case (in multiple scenarios) so don't go fast 12 hours and try and run 22 mile long run at your same pace if you've never done this before. You have to be smart but training the body to utlize fat as a source of fuel in the longer stuff is huge.

This whole thread is just a clear example of a devil doing anything to self-reflect on its dogmas and bullshit. You’re only hurting yourself man.

@kieranperez stop fucking asking other people to do your work. You gotta become conscious of this stuff. All of what I say, Leo says, The Buddha, whoever you’re listening says is all heresay and falls short of the mark. Any conception and answer you create is not fundamental because you’re still operating in a limited perspective that still operates as an experience of duality. It’s all still heresay. Take a psychedelic or contemplate and meditate for years and then we can talk. People here who are telling you this (hopefully) have done some amount of work to have a direct consciousness of what these matters are. It’s like we’re all eating our spaghetti for the first time for dinner at the table except you and you’re insisting you know what spaghetti tastes like and then when we call you out saying ‘no. You’re plate is still full and hasn’t been touched,’ you retort ‘well tell me how it tastes and I’ll see I think about it or if it makes sense to me.’ Except no matter what description we give you of what the spaghetti tastes like and why it tastes like, you still don’t realize that you still haven’t touched your fucking spaghetti so you won’t know till you eat your fucking spaghetti. Now go eat your damn dinner. It’s getting cold.

@Adam M great dolphin analogy. You actually think you’re invented distinctions are real without noticing that you in fact were the very one who invented them.

Any distinction you come up with is not fundamental. It is a relative distinction you came up with. In other words... you literally made up 2+2=4. You invented that entire world for there to even be that distinction. Anything that you invent and create is not fundamental. If it is not fundamental, it is not Absolute by definition. However, at the same time it is included in the Absolute. It existence is the illusion... and you created it. When you taste the Absolute for the first time, you’ll know. That right there is a truth lol... just an Absolute one. You’re conflating Absolute and relative as the same. All relative truths are illusions (they exist as the illusion). Absolute transcends all of that yet includes that. Because you can become conscious that you invented that. You invented “right” and “wrong”. You were programmed with that distinction. You can become aware that you, this silly character you think you are is an entire fake molding built of indoctrination, programmed beliefs, values, emotional triggers, dogmas, character traits, preferences that you pretty much had no awareness of as it happened. You can become aware that the “other” that programmed you to believe “right” and “wrong” are none other than you and you will have no one else to look to other than of course, yourself. Right and wrong are not fundamental. They are fabrications for a purpose. By reading your questions. Your questions and responses says it all.

I demand your marathon PR sir! Btw I totally agree with this. The development and growth from a bad trip also helps puts the difficulty of the Sunday long run into perspective

This is a great talk and video series given from Ken Wilber on www.integrallife.com In this talk series (each video about 30 min) Wilber covers the following topics: A more in depth explanation of how and why his stages of development is more nuanced in order to include more lines of development and be more comprehensive (why he doesn't stick with the same Spiral Dynamics color theme) Cognitive Development Moral Development Ego/Self-Identity Development (this forum needs better understanding of this) Values Development Needs Development Ethics Development Emotional Development (EQ) Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Kinesthetic, and Spiritual Lines Aesthetic & Volitional Lines Cognitive, Self-Reltated, and Talent Lines Talents, Gifts, and Capacities Values & Cognition and MORE! You do have to be a member to watch the full series and I HIGHLY recommend you join Integral LIfe. It's free for an account but you can also get a premium account which for the price, I think is fucking worth it. It's $1 the first month and $10 p/month... However, this isn't supposed to be some sponsor plug or anything. It's a great talk and thought I'd share

Towards?... and I don’t just mean God... don’t play coy

@Leo Gura I think people underestimate the degree to which they can shift. I’ll give a simple example of my own backstory: I’ve always had the body of a runner. Though I used to be a lot shorter (relative to my classmates I was usually always one of the smallest), I’m now 6’0”. I’ve always been very skinny yet athletic with a borderline freakish metabolism. However I always was one of the slowest. I always admired fast people as a kid. Looked cool they way they moved. However when i was a on team sport when it was time to run, I lost to all the fat kids. I was already tried in school when it came to PE and in 6th grade we ran the mile and I ran 12ish minutes trying with everything. I remember being dead. I can’t explain what happened but I remember all of a sudden something changed in my running. All of a sudden something in my form/experience changed. It was more doable. I was getting faster. So much so that by the end of 7th grade I was under 6 for the mile and I was then one of the fastest in my county and then a year later I was beating kids who have now gone on to be professional athletes, state champs, and national class runners. The talent I have in running (which if you look at my times I’m really not that special - I’m definitely not up there at all) stayed the same. Though sometimes it takes a fortunate change in experience, you can also do that consciously - which is just what we call personal development. I personally don’t know much about the deep science of the brain and nervous system as far as talent. I have though met and have friends who are Olympic medal winners, met Zen masters, etc. and I’ve also had those moments where I’ve fallen short of my goal but in doing so still give what I had... and man. You don’t need to be an Olympian, Enlightened Jesus that’s at whatever “idea” stage of development that can read minds and walk on water, etc. to get the satisfaction of giving everything you had. You don’t need to be a freak of nature to have that satisfaction. Consciousness work and mastery beyond spirituality (in - your - art, philosophy, your impact - small or big - etc.) to me just seems like the area most worth doing that in. I think people, and I fall into this too, fall into this trap of needing to reach this mythical perfection across all boards because they really struggle with the fact that they can’t accept their limitations and thus try to overcompensate. I did that with my running for years as my buddies got better and started winning and I still was going nowhere and I just lived in my fantasies trying to compensate because I couldn’t cope with the reality that I’m just not as good as those guys despite how hard I worked and how much I loved the sport. When you can disregard all of that and walk your path, that’s how you know you’re on the right path... and that’s just fine.

It’s a habit you pick up. I really realized this when I looked into the background of my own avoidance when it comes to money. I realized money was never part of my self/character as something that was ever really that important. I investigsged this and within a matter of less than a minute realized that I invented avoidance tactics to cope with my dysfunctional household because my mom sabotaged our family’s finances due to her mental illness. Not only that (going into identification and the source of how one accurate their character) my dad pointed out all these tendencies in me because I had mental health stuff so avoidance went beyond an overlooked avoidance/coping tactic but sneakily invented this part in my self that didn’t have much concern for money and that I didn’t want to be involved with such matters... and that’s just one aspect. When you realize just how deep your “social self” runs your life and how false it is.. it’s shocking. That’s the number one thing I’m noticing right now for me. I dont know about anybody else but for me I’ve become completely clueless about how to relate to my own experience, myself, and to other people authentically since the notion of self still is deeply embedded and I still have a lot of neurosis and trauma to work through. Emotions are like the circuitry that keep that running and changing that is beyond mediation. It’s fucking hard and extremely confusing. Especially if you’re not that far along. Ralston is gold when it comes to this stuff. I will say though, as far as talent... I’m noticing the more open I become the more I’ve experienced more paranormal stuff happening in terms of random astral projections as I sleep, chakras firing off before I go to bed, 3rd eye openings, etc. and also just a bigger motivation for Truth.

How do YOU find out about these people? Just balls deep in research? Where do you even tend to find these people geographically at least? My intent for near the end of this year and 2020 is to meet these people but I don’t get how you find out about these people.