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Hey @Leo Gura and anyone else whose done solo retreats, what do you guys think I would need to bring and have if I did a Solo Meditation retreat outdoors? I feel like the main factor I would want control of is the food and water but if I did bring pre-prepared food I wouldn't want to risk the whole having a bear come or have to resort to buying this shitty powdered food or whatever the fuck that is that's sold in plastic bags or something like that (I live in San Francisco/Marin County by the way). I want to go outdoors because: It's cheaper I can afford the stuff especially since I have a part-time job at REI where I can get tents and supplies for 30-75% off I meditate, contemplate, and self-inquire WAAAAAAAY better outdoors it's like a steroid for me. It really isn't even funny haha

Hahaha I actually wondered that myself but I haven't found her on social media so I guess she kept her word. Btw @Leo Gura random question, was this shot in Flagstaff or around there?

"Paradox and Confusion are the guardians of the truth." - Peter Ralston

*I don’t know Epystemology reveals how little you know. NOT that you can’t know.

Find out for yourself how deep it goes.

Shunyamurti and his community look awesome https://www.satyoga.org/

There are no cookie cutter solutions. One of the biggest takeaways I've gotten from the wage slavery video and even the life purpose course (since I have no idea what could possibly be my medium or even want to be my medium) is how fucking critical creativity is and how uncreative I am and how quickly I give up before I even start because I have no inventiveness right now.

I’m crying with laughter holy fuck ?

The person whose ignorant doesn’t get to pick and choose truth. The fact is that you don’t know. Contemplate and stop picking and choosing answers.

Contemplate.

@PsiloPutty no man that’s awesome advice actually! Totally get what you’re saying!

@Serotoninluv @PsiloPutty @SgtPepper Yeah my whole intent right now for using pyschedelics in this sort of way is to “access” greater intuition and just a better sense of where I can take my life purpose and through which medium. I feel so damn stuck with my vision for my life, my life purpose, career, my intent, and I’m just drowning in the same old routine that these ideas I have just don’t seem that palpable. This regular routine is really sapping any sort of possibility to vision bigger and connect with I really want. Cause my vision is just so faint, murky, and still very unclear and I have no idea how I want to express my life purpose and in what medium. I feel like psychedelics like LSD and mushrooms can really help with this. However, I do think a more powerful wake up call is something I definitely need to because right now I’m really sensing that I’m at an end of a certain chapter in my life and I have no vision of where I want or need it to go and I think a strong trip can really help with that too. Disclaimer: I have yet to actually do any psychedelic.

I feel like this is pretty much Orange for the most part.

Stage Blue reacting to Turquoise

Our education system does a terrible teaching healthy anything for that matter. Mental health, “intellectual health”, spiritual health, physical health. To the degree that it doesn’t is honestly pathetic.

@Your place at Heart think about it. It actually makes total and complete sense why people in our culture don’t for 2 basic reasons: They believe death is real It threatens their survival It threatens their survival actual in multiple ways actually. People don’t want to focus on something that which threatens their existence If people realized/became conscious of how fast their life is passing, they would be demoralized, demotivated, and have an existential crisis. Why do they see this as bad and to be avoided? To preserve themselves as the fundamental lie that they are. Not saying they consciously go about this process thinking/being aware of this. It’s just unconscious to them. Anything that threatens the self-image and the actions it indentifies with in any sort of way is threat to their survival. In a very legitimate way, you could say debating a preserving ones beliefs in a heated argument is no different to trying survive when a bear is about to bitch slap you with it’s claws and kill you.

That’s having deep maturity and understanding and seeing the bigger picture. Also keep in mind that that man is an exception to most black people even being able to get that far with KKK people which is precisely why that story is being aired, because of exceptional it is (in the sense of how rare it is someone can even do that). Don’t want to get off track with the point of this thread though.

Happy for you. But that’s also you. People have a unique matrix of issues that require different routes involving different types of solutions. The mistake is to make blanket statements as though contemplation of ones death will do for all or even most others what it did for you.

I don’t think most advanced saints, sages, mystics, yogis, etc. are going to be able to touch the heart of gang members, thugs, and in the hood in East LA or East Oakland or Neo Nazis and KKk members in Texas. Those people attract a certain people at certain levels of development. Hell, look at Christ. How did that enlightenment thing and massive universal unconditional love end up working out? Got him killed and didn’t fundamentally change the people who did that to him. Couldn’t even touch them.

“Never argue with a stupid person. If you do they will pull you down to their level. Then they will beat you with their experience.” - Om Swami

He didn’t even inhale dude. Chill

He had me at “a company is essentially a cybernetic collective of people and machines. That’s a what a company is.”

That’s terrifying good god

I’m not going to speak for anyone on here but I can say for myself how much I really fucking got from this video on ending wage slavery. Right now I feel really cornered in my life by my own doing from years of neglect, victimhood, half assing shit, talking shit about what I’m going to do, etc. Right now I really feel both excited and scared because I do have my life purpose and it feels aligned on a level far deeper than where my character is given my current level of development. However I don’t have a lot going for me for reasons that would take too long to get into. Im sharing this because I really hope we can really appreciate (not in some sort “oh thank you Leo my guru” nonsense) when someone says “YOU’RE ABOUT TO CORNER YOURSELF FOREVER! GET OUT NOW THIS WAY! ITS LONGER AND HARDER THAN THE SHORTCUT EVERYONE ELSE IS TAKING BUT THAT SHORTCUT LEADA TO A PIT OF SNAKES!” I dont know about you but I appreciate when someone shatters my expectations and they give me those chills down my spine from how naive, lazy, mayopic, and sloth like I’ve been and grab me by the hair and show me the work ahead. I appreciate it because it’s real honesty. It’s not what I want to hear, granted but at the same time, it is because if it wasn’t for a lot of this amount of straightforwardness I get through Actualized.org literally has me so much more aware of when I notice my mind wanting to start a business, take an easier and more financially secure path, etc. I see that and I literally feel like this inner emergency break being pulled before I go down that path or even when I start. I can literally see ahead for myself when certain shortcut ideas I get pop up or even when I see it for other people. I can see the dead end trap with their happiness, their career, relationship, initially successful YouTube channel, whatever it is. One of the key points I think I really took to heart that I think was unique from all the other awesome and important points was figuring it out. I can’t keep going here to the forum always asking questions and for help figuring out my problem. That’s being a pussy and not having any ownership to get out of the mess I’m in. Struggle through the creative process of giving so much in a way that’s deeply meaningful because that will be a struggle in trying to serve people who conscious value to their lives when they’d rather just be fed delusions that put them more asleep because delusion tastes and feels good and it takes persistence and a drive to want to help the world that much. Thank you Leo. I’m not going to execute on this perfectly at all as I have a lot of obstacles ahead (cognitive ones, emotional ones, spiritual ones, mental ones, financial ones, creative ones, hell even physical ones) and I honestly don’t know yet how I’m going to do this but I have my vision to be an original sage (which I actually think is an under appreciated characteristic of great sages) and not just wannabe Buddha, Ralston, Christ, or Leo or whoever you wanna throw out there.