Geromekevin

@Samuel Garcia Google and Youtube search RSD. They are the best company teaching pickup and ultimately how to love yourself. It will be a long journey, but it will be worth it. And in the long run you can find great friends. Really try it out, it will be one of the best decisions of your life. You can also meet great people here on this forum. A close friend of mine became friends with someone he met here on the forum and now they hang out regularly.

@Leo Gura Where is this community and what is it's name?

@hinawashi Yup. Otherwords for that commonly used is happiness vs pleasure. To be honest I don't think being eternally happy is something that you should strive after. Because negative emotions can also be wonderful in a way

@phoenix666 I meant people who are not (that much) into spirituality. People who don't care about concepts like consciousness and just do what makes them happy.

@phoenix666 Awesome to hear that you read it. I like to take the other side of the contain a lot in this forum lately, because I'm living the "normal" side at the moment again and I'm fucking happy. I'll see where this leads me.

@phoenix666 Also be open minded that your thoughts also might be right and Leo (or the point of view he describes here) might be wrong. It could be that material and normal success is also pretty rewarding. I can recommend you to read Siddartha by Herman Hesse It's a fast read and tackles this (from the spiritual side).

@AlldayLoop That is very true. Everything you learn in life can be used as a tool. In many fields people describe the aim of the field as the only thing worth pursuing. You yourself have to decide how serious you take this path. You can be as extreme as Leo, or don't do it like the regular folk or somewhere in between. Make you own measure. From my experience I can recommend you reading about spirituality and self development and work on yourself everyday. But don't take it too seriously. Life has many great aspects and your life can be super awesome and fulfilling without "enlightenment". This world has so much to offer it's crazy. Just make sure to stay open minded and always calibrate, learn and stay healthy

Here's a list of people I admire. Look at them as brain food. Everyone resonates with different people. Leo Gura Scott Adams Owen Cook Julien Blanc Naval Ravikant Preston Smiles Robert Cialdini Alan Watts Eckhart Tolle Guy Manuel De Homem Christo Thomas Bangalter Toby Robbins I hope this helps

Just a simple thought, continuing Leo's Blog Post: If God = 1/Devil and God = Devil, then God = 1/God which means that God*God = 1 which means with real numbers God = 1 or God = -1.

@Geromekevin PS: I just noticed that if the above equations are correct, then God != infinity, which is contrary to what Leo said in other videos. On the other hand maybe the one means non-duality?

@Leo Gura Let me tell you my problem: If you burn your hand in the hallucination it is going to be burned across all hallucinations. You can trip balls on a substance, your hand will stay fucked up. It would also be nice to know how you mean that reality is a hallucination. Do you mean its subjective to everyone? Do you mean it's a user interface (a la Donald Hoffmann ?)

@Light Lover I think you need to understand persuasion and psychology in order to understand politics. I would recommend reading the following books: Robert Cialdini - Influence Daniel Kahnemann - Thinking Fast and Slow Robert Cialdini - PreSuasion Scott Adams - Win Bigly (Comes out in November) After reading these books you will have a completly new sense of politics and the human mind. The last one will be especially helpful to understand Trump. It will be the best book to understand him. (The best currently released book is probably his own: The Art of the Deal).

@NickG Hey I have also had a serious videogame addiction about 10 years ago. I played World of Warcraft 14-16 hours per day. Here are my tips how to have a healthy relationship with gaming. And by healthy I mean if you like gaming, you will be able to play every now and then but will still manage to be productive as fuck. First you want to consciously choose which game you want to play in your free time. I would recommend not picking any games that have to be played for a long period of time, otherwise they suck you in. E.g. WoW (you have to play a lot to achieve anything) or Leauge of Legends (each match lasts 30 minutes on average). I would recommend something like Overwatch (10 minutes per match) or COD (10 minutes per match) or something similar. Don't have too much games installed. Ideally only 1 or 2 that you consciously chose to keep. Delete all other games. Second you want to make a choice. Consciously choose to not play more than 1 hour a day, no matter which day of the week it is. Also consciously make a choice to only allow you to play when you achieved something that day. If you like gaming, give it to your brain as a treat for good work. Similar like you would do it with candy, a new toy or something similar. Remember: You make this choice for you. Do not follow this guide for any other reason. If you want to change, you are responsible. Make sure to be extra productive every day from now on. Do all the work during the day so you can game in the evening for a little bit without feeling bad. Third become conscious of the fact that gaming has little upsides. If you deserved it, if you have been productive, a game gives you fun and relaxes you. A game will not get you further in your life. Make this mental link between stagnation and gaming, now! Fourth reduce your consumption of gaming related media. If you don't watch YT (or other) videos about gaming it will become less appealing to you. Our brain is dumb. What's focal, seems causal. In other words, if you consume a lot of gaming related media, gaming will seem more important. You can diminish this effect (and even use it to your advantage) by watching productive stuff (if at all). Fifth make a public commitment to not play more than 1 hour of games per day. As soon as you make the decision to reduce your gaming habit, call your mum and tell her you decision, now. Also tell your friends about it. Make it clear how important this is to you. This social pressure will help you to stick to your commitment with ease. Sixth realize how your mind works. If you switch concentration from one thing to another, it takes you about 15 minutes to become absorbed in the task again. From now on, if you work on something make and set an alarm for 60 minutes and work those 60 minutes through without distracting. Ignore E-mails, facebook or anything. If the bell rings you may distract yourself for a little bit. Split your work in high concentration 60 minute sessions. Your work output will sky rocket. If you follow these steps you will soon realize how you will become very picky with gaming. It's almost like you will not want to spent your time gaming. In a bit you will value your time much more. You will still enjoy gaming, but in a conscious way. You will decide how much you game.

"You can do what you want, but you can not want what you want." - Scott Adams

Very true!

I'm studying physics and read some of his papers. I honestly can't judge yet whether his stuff is awesome or not. He sometimes uses stupidly easy Maths to get his results, it's weird. If you've read some serious papers in physics, you know what I mean. When I think I understand him I will say, if I think he is a hoax or not But it's definetly cool to see someone try to get the scientific side of spirituality handled. We live in a physical and logical world after all

Since Leo recently posted in his blog (https://www.actualized.org/insights/psychedelic-visions) what the world looks like on psychedelic substances I wanted to leave this here: This is a visualisation of a 3D fractal