Hello from Russia

The thing is, Russian people as a culture and as an etnic are very conformist but up to a point. If people are treated badly enough for long enough time or the bullshit that is going on is too big, historically, Russians just make a revolution So I wouldn't lose hope that much on that matter. I'm sure if things get out of hand, Russian ordinary people will actually start doing something

New agers were then right all time long?

But how do you know?

Do you find buddhism and buddhist stuff useful nonetheless? I am amidst creating a life purpose theme for myself that is tailored directly into helping higher consciousness teachers become more visible & empowered. Every time you criticize buddhism or other people/tradition it makes me bit questioning myself/these people more, which is good, but a bit derailing, haha, cause I value your takes a lot I feel like despite some epistemic dangers, of course, of making these people more popular and them spreading their teacings, there is still an enormous value to be had for people, if not for truth directly, but for all other aspects of life and their overall development. Right now I feel rather inadequete to judge the ability of different teachers to lead to truth, that's why I'm not making my core focus on it and focus more on very deep holistic health & wellness and highly in-depth personal development guys. Guys that are at least 2-3 stages above people like Andrew Tate if I recall his name correctly (Watched only like 1 vid of him) and other mainstream teachers and actors There are backlash\backfire reactions & negative effects to everything. But I feel like with these guys, their negative effects are much more healthy/not really that damaging. Even if a person catches some damaging new age belief or two, I find it's still much more better than what he may catch listening to conservative self-development content on youtube or wherever Just curious about your opinion on this, @Leo Gura, there are for sure gradations of stuff. I think if you made a balanced critique on New Age culture like you did with Jordan Peterson episode, it'd be very useful for everyone to hear your points, especially since you like to sort of dismiss these guys a lot, yet you share way too many simillarities and teach a lot of what these guys are teaching/aspiring towards. With some parts maybe where you are superior to them (epistemology, truth-seeking, etc), but with some where I feel they have a bit more comprehension of practical health and wellness methods, and might have some more practical insight/experience with conscious living when it comes to optimizing your surroundings for example, building physical community, various forms of activism, etc etc, as well as some some more in depth stuff on relationships and emotional\psychological health, unique takes on finding a life purpose, etc etc. Your relationship stuff is great, for example, but it's more focused on very initial stages of relating. Which is amazing and great too and of course it's an artform. But in a sense it's fairly easy compared to the depth of relating when you're relating with your long term partner/spauce, your friends, within community you live in, with other people even, if you're a politician for example, or some kind of a boss that has people under him. The way these people relate is often truly remarkable and inspiring and it's a bias of theirs of course which they happenned to flourish in. The way mainstream PUA's relate to different people around them makes me puke in comparisson, despite them being very charming when it comes to girls of course

@Leo GuraSince you've awaken, what do you think about things like Indian comosology since you've awoken that describe the structure of reality in crazy detail?

If we ll be saying tao, everyone will be thinking we are some crazy daoists or whatever Here is a branding problem

Why do you prefer to call it God? Rather than some more abstract things such as potentiality or infinity

I 100% agree with Leo here

Hehe, you don't even imagine how much worse it is in the countries like Russia where most of the people can only speak Russian and basically have 0 alternative

Lol, I misread Jordan Peterson as "Peter Ralston", meh

Sounds like huge values mismatch I'd look for other job/way of making an income It's not easily solvable with social gimmicks though if you exude enough charisma you could probably get along with those people, but is it worth it in the end of the day anyways?

@FlyingLotus what country are you from?

But isn't it just your bias? Cause your avatar is all about understanding stuff? My personal feel about this topic is that fundamentally consciousness is all about issness - being all kinds of stuff and experiencing it fully, with or without self understanding Why the bias towards understanding is not just part of this particular dream either? I can easily picture myself in a consciousness of a rabbit just living his rabbit existence with his the typical survival agenda of a rabbit Though I'm open minded enough to consider that consciousness of a rabbit can still have the potential of self-awareness in which case your self-understanding argument can still hold But what about consciousness of a rabbit who isn't self aware and only cares about finding food and not getting eaten by wolves for the most part? I totally acknowledge that conceptualizing about rabbit is still happening inside a dream, I don't know what will/can happen outside of this dream And I acknowledge that in my current dream state for some reason I care a lot about understanding of the reality/existence and there is a bias and pull towards it But how can you claim that all of consciousness about this dualistic thing - understanding? Within and outside this particular dream. How can you say that it is? I mean, it's about this thing and many others for sure, but how can you claim it's the #1 thing?

I mean more like we need to work on increasing the appeal of this work Within ethical way as much as possible and not in some cheap entertainment way either It's a challenge for sure, some need to dedicate their lives to it

Communicate this to them

Ridiculous strawman If you think sex is only for entertainment, you have no idea what sex is

Nahh, this is fun, we need more of that Who cares about Ekchart Tolle or someone like him say be in the present moment bro Both spirituality and philosophy need way more punch than that We need to make it sexy Otherwise it gets associated way too easily with incel culture and so forth by common people We are already too stupid as a society

Why would you be so stupid to work as a professor for minimum wage when you Re that smart. Even if you're working at Harvard

That's basically just a different journaling technique Can relate, I often do something similar

Yes, put a good infrastructure for yourself I have a dedicated laptop for reading, good PDF reading app, I read mainly in PDF. Good note taking app. Don't over read useless information inside books (a lot of books have fairly big amount of empty texts in it) - tho some books are golden almost cover to cover you gotta judge the book well

Slutty girls are the best They have to be both spiritual and sluts - ideal combo

I've read 300 books within 2-3 years time frame, lol Now taking a break from reading cause it's interfereing with my own contemplation. It becomes way too much other people's thoughts in the brain

Lol, it's not that much

Being a wage slave is just a state of consciousness (lol)

A bit surreal to watch something like this in some movie about 10-15 Century and then seeing an identical thing happening with a figure from our modern time