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Furthermore, here are some key questions to distinguish Real vs Fake forms of spirituality to go along with this framework: Fundamental questions of spiritual discernment The following are fundamental questions meant to evaluate the validity of spiritual groups/mouvements/traditions 1-What is its ultimate aim — and is that aim truly Transcendent/Vertical Does the movement direct consciousness beyond the human and the contingent toward the Absolute, or does it merely circle within the horizontal domain of psychological, social, or material betterment? Criterion: The higher the aim, the more vertical the orientation. 2-What conception of Reality(or the Absolute) does it affirm — and is this conception metaphysically coherent and living? Is Reality understood as a hierarchical, ordered whole with a transcendent Source, or as a flattened field of relativistic experience? Criterion: Authentic paths acknowledge an ontological axis of ascent and return. 3-What is its anthropology — what does it believe Man is, and what Man can become? Does it recognize a spiritual principle (Self, Spirit, Nous, Atman, Ruach, etc.) latent in man that can be realized, or does it reduce the human being to psyche, emotion, or biology? Criterion: The higher the view of man’s nature, the more initiatic the path. 4-By what means does it propose transformation — and are those means ascetic, disciplined, and integrated? Is there a real praxis that reshapes being (meditation, ritual, prayer, contemplation, virtue), or only emotional stimulation, intellectual speculation, or spontaneous enthusiasm? Criterion: Real transformation demands sustained, structured practice. 5-Does it transmit a living knowledge — a Gnosis — or merely information, belief, and ideology? Does it initiate into direct participation in the Real, or does it merely offer doctrines to believe and techniques and paraphernalia to consume? Criterion: Authentic knowledge transforms the knower; it is participatory, not merely conceptual. 6-What are its fruits — ethical, existential, and noetic? Does prolonged engagement produce humility, clarity, virtue, detachment, and wisdom, or inflation, fanaticism, and self-importance? Does it make a distinction between mere psychic transmutation/well-being and Noetic realization? Criterion: The fruits of the spirit reveal the authenticity of the root. 7-How does it understand hierarchy and authority? Does it affirm the reality of gradations in realization, or does it dissolve all distinction under a false egalitarianism? Criterion: Recognition of authentic hierarchy reflects metaphysical realism. 8-What is its relationship to Truth — is it absolute yet inclusive, or relative and sentimental? Does it hold that Truth exists and can be known (however ineffably), or does it treat all beliefs as equal, subjective, or symbolic only? Criterion: True paths bow before Truth, not convenience. 9-Does it reconcile transcendence and immanence — or collapse one into the other? Does it perceive the Absolute as both beyond and within, maintaining polarity and mystery, or does it deny transcendence (humanism) or deny immanence (escapism)? Criterion: Wholeness without flattening is the mark of metaphysical maturity. To conclude, brief description of Metamodern Traditionalism: The term Metamodern Traditionalism emerges out of a perceived necessity to reconcile the metaphysical depth of the Traditionalist school (as articulated by figures such as René Guénon and Julius Evola) with the epistemological and cultural insights of modernity, postmodernity, and their integral successors. While the Traditionalists correctly identified the metaphysical impoverishment and desacralization inherent in modern life, their critique was frequently bound to a regressive nostalgia for premodern social forms and a cyclical conception of history that obscured the evolutionary and dialectical unfolding of Spirit. In this sense, they fell prey to what Ken Wilber has identified as the pre/trans fallacy: the confusion of pre-rational modes of consciousness with trans-rational modes, resulting in a romanticization of archaic forms rather than a genuine integration of higher ones. Metamodern Traditionalism seeks to redeem and refine the Traditionalist project by situating it within a broader, integrative framework of cultural development. It affirms the ontological primacy of metaphysical first principles and the hierarchical structure of Being, but it rejects the exclusionary stance toward modern and postmodern sensibilities characteristic of earlier Traditionalists. Instead, it endeavors to operate at what integral theory terms a “second-tier” level of cognitive complexity, one that can hold and integrate multiple paradigms without collapsing into relativism or dogmatism. This involves embracing the scientific rigor and instrumental rationality of modernity, the deconstructive and pluralistic insights of postmodernity, and the emerging metamodern ethos of oscillation between sincerity and irony, hope and critique—while simultaneously recovering the participatory, “enchanted” sensibility of the premodern world. At its core, Metamodern Traditionalism is a project of redemptive synthesis. It affirms that modernity, despite its evident alienations, constitutes a necessary phase in the dialectical and evolutionary self-unfolding of Spirit. History is not to be understood as a simple degeneration from an original Golden Age, but rather as a fractal movement of division and higher reunification, in which Spirit comes to know itself through increasingly complex and self-reflexive forms. From this perspective, the metaphysical insights of the Traditionalists can be preserved and deepened without collapsing into regressive archaism. The task is not to retreat from modernity or postmodernity, but to integrate their partial truths into a more comprehensive cosmology—one that re-enchants the world while preserving the gains of scientific rationality, reflexive subjectivity, and cultural pluralism. Thus, Metamodern Traditionalism positions itself as both heir and corrective to the Traditionalist school. It retains the metaphysical absolutism of Tradition while rejecting its historical fatalism, affirming instead a Hegelian dialectical progression of Spirit. It seeks to offer a framework capable of reconciling perennial metaphysics with contemporary complexity, not by reducing one to the other, but by weaving them into a higher synthesis. Its aim is not merely critique, but the construction of a worldview adequate to the full spectrum of human cultural sensibilities—from premodern to metamodern—thereby opening the possibility of a renewed spiritual order commensurate with the challenges of our time.

NYC freetour notes Marzcell Klein: #1 reason people will trust you is if you’re confident, how you dress, how you carry yourself. the reason you will be confident is if people have liked you. Vulnerability is confident. honest and trustworthy, openness, vulnerability are the #1 signals you can trust someone. we are in rapport with people who are like us or who we want to be like confidence comes from teaching yourself not to hide things from others shortcut to sales calls and relationships is pure authenticity. if you play games you will be fighting a massive battle and always chasing. whatever triggers you or hurts you tells you you have an insecurity. if i feel hurt when a girl doesn’t like me its because i am insecure about my likeability 3 things to create rapport -body language, mirrors neurons, having similar body language builds rapport. with confidence and presence this comes naturally -tone -words, saying words or things youre not supposed to say builds trust pacing and leading physical things builds rapport abundant paradigm prevents you from needing something from someone insecurity is essentially belief. every insecurity creates its own reality. RAS allows you to maintain a belief, generalizes, deletes, distorts. if you want to find out your limiting beliefs, ask why you aren’t where you want to be write out a massive goal, right after you visualize something like that you will feel big excitement, then your limiting beliefs will come up. if you’re afraid to ask for money, you have a limiting beliefs and will charge small prices -social calibration to someones emotional state law of state transference happens with mirror neurons. a dog barks and does a bunch of stuff, could become violent so it is scary when someone isnt calm. confidence allowed you to learn things faster Owen notes guard your time preciously when selling something, being very engaged but not attached to outcome signals the right energy, giving not taking -pitch -1st understand is that most sales bullshit is a waste of time -people in a high paradigm are shuffling the ball down the field, things are moving. unlike flurry of activity going nowhere -people dont pitch because they have a scarcity poverty mentality, which can also lead to not being willing to charge a good amount. people go to do the cta and they tense up ive got to have a great product, work on developing it so i really believe in it stack sale because i love it. Add a bunch of bonuses that will help the client get the result, that's how you know what to stack. PEOPLE WILL get the value that they invest, once you realize that you will feel good at a higher price. i need to think about for myself, the value that they will get out of it. the beggining of sales is inner game. they cant value you or the service if they dont have an investment like once a girl has sex with you, she can see your value, and will invest and be in love if you dont do good sales all this action goes to nothing making a thorough youtube series on my pitch, this will get multiple rois, i will also learn how to do my pitch his idea of a speech that doesnt go anywhere is the same as game that doesnt go anywhere sales is like instead of just talking in the club, passionate sex and going into nature together a sales pitch is a fine tuned surgery, it is very sensitive to interference the skills of game, sales skills, will pay off no matter what. high levels of syngery, the inner game of sales is understanding that people will get the value that they pay. you got the persons brain to attribute the dollar amount to the transformation john carleton kickass copyrighting secrets of a marketing rebel dan kennedy no bs 1st thing john carleton explains is people think they know marketing just like girls think they know what theyre attracted to. example of big corporations doing billboards doesnt work you learn to talk in a way that makes impact and moves people. sales done properly is so beautiful. every word is a pitch. everything must be sales copy. if its not generaring movement its just blabber if youre not going to sell someone, have a great energetic exchange. the equivalent with girls is not needing sex, but also wanting it all (travel to nature) life creation communication thats leading somewhere this was all a sales repitch getting you excited about these things is controlling RAS. its all on autopilot for him, he was talking about how he is doing this, and it all goes on autopilot. push and pull, fractionation at a certain point you get tired of game and pitches that go nowhere part of sales is showing genuine emotion its all a vortex of sales he is just selling sales again and again and again. keeps talking about how awesome the thing is, example after example get people to realize the dumb shit they blow money on, how little it is this has all been the inner game of learning sales. different scenarios of everything you can do with it. example after example Format of sales Hook features story that represents a problem widget pain pleasure, “do you want your communication to move people, do you want to do a wayne nutton(talking that goes nowhere)” this structure combined with speaking skills example: who is going to make money, sales, or a harvard degree pressure on pressure off is doing the sales thing then just relaxing feature and benefits, higher and lower self benefits in group out group frame how they get value in excess of the price to get repeats i wanna be laughing, learning, auditing failure, or moving people if they have resistance, keep stacking features benefits, say youre looking for the right person, in group out group when youre doing sales you teach the why not the how. just features and benefits takeaway in a high point in sales, similar to in game. headliner hook social proof credentials personal story features and benefits risk reversal when you click on a typical youtube video, you click right off. avoid sunk cost bias, view it objectively. these components should grab them by the overalls, and drag them into the video. think very carefully about the title, you have to test it there is a spectrum from in person to video to text sales. with a video they could click off any time high traffic, low competition score for title hire someone for thumbnails immediate sharp breaking rapport tonality. the moment you break tension they click off. its all objective language in the start. the hook can poke them, do a pattern interrupt, massive certainty, break past autopilot, congruent. i must record a video every single week, so that by the time i actually launch, you pick the one with the best sub communication or else there is way too much pressure positition yourself as an expert, actual credibility, social proof, speak with authority credibility is not credentials. its what youve done for people a coach has potential credibility because they are outside the box, but there are also snake oil salesmen. social proof, congruence, you can do real credentials later on always trying to balance value with comfort and trust. just tell the facts of what youve done figure out your niche first xyz problem for xyz person in xyz novel way social proof is the most powerful speak with objective language, ‘i do great coaching’ is subjective if you do one wrong thing it shuts the door buying temp goes up then cta zyz ppl over xyz years, or examplr of client numbers locations(comtinents) results they wont shut down, hes just sharing information. this is all leading to a cta cta is abt goving, the ask must b a give the whole thing must be a give. when you can feel in your body belief in your product is a good time to record tell your story is next, builds trust, relatable, how you were in heaven v hell david goggins story bc he was fat tear of how your life was before n after service descriptive language, deep into feeling it has to be real, the self is always shining through evoke feeling show dont tell the transformation what is time delay on that then features and benefits -can come before or after^ celebrity or brands youre associated with, or just that you are aligned with. when it comes to these things, it must be smooth effortless nonqualifying, also subcommunication if youre too nervous or excited. because its a normal thing in your reality, they want to jump into your reality bubble then do risk reversal gets more sales landing page llc payment processor merchant account, license, pump all money into right staff book financial intelligence this is a to b paradigm b to c is energy sign up now, bonus, tied to fast action, not give it away all the time, creates scarcity and urgency what is the industry, what is the offer, what is my avatar, frame a deal perception is reality, fuck with price to make it look better, 99, 3 payments, financing sooner buy discount. countdown clock address that there is a group, community, its like becoming a bf gf versus fucking a hooker, with the community consult marketers, do deep work on smooth n welcoming as possible the presentation must be beautiful if outsourcing sales you need good people Sid the missing thing to making money is always energy and clarity and presence. its a different fuel source. what is your brain constantly looping on youre not evolutionarily wired to see the opportunities that are all around you you should be channeling more energy than you can handle when you visualize. visualize what you actually want your life to look like upward spiral where it feels good because you are growing put pressure on yourself by being around people on a high level, fire under your ass plus carrot and if you actually just love the craft act on imperfect information paradigm of time for working flow state from work delegation structuring says no to everything else made lifestyle a priority part of enduring a job is acceptance and presence in a situation that sucks. after work bad habits instagra good habits, meditate, eat, work, learn maintain these archetypes of passion logic competition leadership creativity, impact try different passions what have i been building on for years realistic world class lane where do i have unfair connections talk to masters of the field, do you like them pick at some point n commit theres an uncanny vally when there is just a bit of incongruence when you do a cta you must feel like you are genuinely giving something the risk reversal helps with this is there a misalignment of words and actions you will see peoples red flags show up under pressure -quietly build your leverage back if needed -have more alliances and not npd friends -do not engage in these games become the gray rock, do not engage in useless conversations vision, creating artistic challenging large food forest projects, traveling all the time, nature exploration. not having to worry about money for any basic things. changing the agricultural system. relentless tim grover, star sports players had this dark pain that drove them what is the cost of not doing these things, years of shitty dating life, having to get a shit job again youre always moving too slow, post the videos, run cold traffic. move and iterate train the body to handle adrenaline, adrenaline is a priveledge, ussually evolutionarily we would feel it all the time. marzcel your mindset and beliefs are a strategy to get things -beliefs -emotions -patterns if you believe you can get what you want, you will. that is confidence what is my map currently doing if you are not getting the result, your map doesn’t actually know how to get it my money map -it is scarce, i can only make 2x what i’m making now. my women map -i don’t want to talk to them, i assume they wont like me. ibrahem -frame is something youre in 24/7 -in any interactions owens sales process he has this whole frame, this general understanding of how all of this works, that everything relates back to, e.g casually mentions that he has to scale the company so wont be teaching pickup for much longer. features and benefits all the time. how these skills can affect your life. i need to write out and perfect a general sales frame, it can go deep on features and benefits, not ‘how to’. this meta frame is what i will use for vsl, sales call, youtube videos. sids mergers and acquisitions sales speech, he is explaining the how of to do mNa, he is explaining the how and why he is painting a story of his life part of sids sales process is the manic episode, explaining how seeing whats possible helps is part of the frame. the mindset and energy is what opens people up subtle art of not giving a fuck Owen likes to read the sermon on the mount, the gospels

I hear the logic, but it doesn't apply to enlightenment. I suspect it's impossible for us to hear that it is not an experience, because we have no contrast for us to understand that. All we have is our experience - this is where we'll look. We tend to think it requires a method, or that it is a process - that it will change something or improve our experience - that being in a Zen monastery is more likely to "cause" it than being in a library or on a beach - or that it couldn't occur while we're depressed, miserable, distracted, or even taking a shower. Bring up what you think enlightenment is, and then consider that it isn't any of that. This is the point that is very easily overlooked. Experiencing this impossibility for oneself is more powerful than just believing it. It’s an analogy: obviously, waking up is what we're calling enlightenment. The idea is that action occurs within the dream, and so it is different from the realization itself. Hence the impossibility argument. It's impossible to get "from here to there." It isn't an experience. It is sudden and direct. And yet, it is possible for you to "get" it now - go figure. That's the gist of it. One enlightenment doesn't make you all-knowing overnight; ignorance remains. It usually takes several breakthroughs before one would be considered awakened. Yet this "over time" process doesn't change what you are, nor does it change the fact that each breakthrough is sudden. You may know your nature, but not what an emotion is, for example. At some point the attempt to fabricate a worldview out of this will crumble because it isn't mappable or able to be fit into an mentally graspable form. Something like that. You are already you. (!) The best one can do within the dream seems to be to remain open and genuinely want to know what's true - yet even this is just the action you take while "waiting" for enlightenment. What I said doesn't invalidate that certain experiences can help focus the mind, for example - which may put you in a better state to question, among other things. The Zen master is simply telling the monks to pay attention - or helping them stay awake. From the perspective of the dream, direct consciousness generally has to be "worked on," as it's unlikely to just "fall on your ass," as it seemingly did with Maharshi. But in actuality there's no real requirement other than to get it now. And you can do since it isn't something different from you, nor a grandiose state, spiritual fantasy, or achievement - it's what you are. I don't know why or how, but it turns out we are ignorant of our nature. Maybe because we're so distracted by or involved with our perceptive-experience. It's a bit ironic that the truth of ourselves seems so elusive while untruth is so easy to come by. And I'm not against conceptualization - conceptualize all you want; we already do it anyway. The suggestion is simply that you won't arrive at enlightenemnt by a process of figuring things out. It transcends the mind and perception. Nor am I against psychedelics as a stance, by the way. I'm just saying they don't increase consciousness. They may assist in transformation, healing, opening your mind, learning, or generating insights - but they don't lead to enlightenment. There. Now throw this out and get enlightened.

Nothing needs to change, and whatever happens in the brain is a secondary side effect and shouldn't be the focus. It's absolute and prior to the brain. It was the case before you had a body - as if. Don't turn this into a cosmology. What you're talking about may better be called healing, but no healing, transformation, or process needs to take place for that. Again, it's useful to really revisit the reality that we actually do not know what this "direct" business is about.

Exactly haha. Even the creation of USA/Australia are the perfect examples of how Europeans have to meddle into everything. I mean for a group of people to steal/genocide not one but two entire literal continents is something so unique to them. Nobody else has stolen/genocide even one continent. We aren't talking countries here but continents. The natives of both of those continents are still treated like subhuman trash to this day Then everything that came after is what you just wrote about. All while pretending to care about gays and women. Gays who they treated like trash just 20 years ago. Women who are made fun of for being "prudes" which means they aren't allowed to retain their dignity or respect. Look at women's clothing they only have clothing available for hooker streetwear. No modest clothing as that is "not the right thing to do as a woman". So they treat everyone like trash but pretend to be the moral authority of the entire planet. Just a war like animal people with no signs of transformation or evolution Even with definitive proof they just retreat to their propaganda, lies, deflections, and projection just to double down on their sickness. They are only ever defending their own misery, slavery, and aggression and withholding from themselves true progress and humanity

These are all the exercises from the book Zen-body Being: Chapter 2: Origins and Influences Mental Training Practice (implied exercise) Ralston describes his process: Sit in a chair and mentally rehearse techniques. Don't just visualize what it looks like - recreate the exact feeling of doing it. Feel your body position, your partner's weight on each foot, the texture of the gi fabric, the pressure on your legs, the arc of motion as you turn, even the sweat. Make the mental experience identical to the physical one. Practice until you're just as bad mentally as physically, then work to correct actions mentally. Check results physically at the dojo. Go back and forth between mental and physical training until you achieve perfect execution mentally, then test it physically. Chapter 3: Feeling-Awareness Lifting Your Hand Exercise Lift your hand several times while investigating: How do you "will" your hand to go up? What actually gets the hand up? Notice that you generate a feeling-impulse - it's the feeling of "lifting your hand." Now close your eyes and raise your hand. Notice how you know your hand is moving and where it is once lifted. Excluding sight, you perceive the arm's position by feeling it's raised. Study the subtle sensation, the feeling-impulse responsible for lifting. Isolate the sensations that let you perceive where your arm is in space. Notice that without this sensory feedback, you'd have no idea where your arm is. Practice until you can consciously experience both the feeling-impulse that lifts and the feeling-perception that tracks position. Whole Body Feeling Exercise Put your attention on your whole body at once. What's there? What do you feel? Do you feel every part? Now, starting with your toes, consciously feel every cubic inch of your body up to the top of your head. Unless you've practiced extensively, you'll miss a great deal - and some of what you miss, you won't even notice you're missing. Repeat this practice. Each time, you should feel your body a little more. Continue developing whole-body awareness as an ongoing adventure rather than something to finally accomplish. Freshly and repeatedly seek what's present, remaining open and excited about discovering something new. Feeling Your Feet Exercise Can you feel your feet? Put your feeling-attention on the heels, arches, each toe. If you can't "find" them through feeling alone, wiggle your toes or rub your feet together. This is a tiny but crucial shift - feeling as opposed to thinking about feeling. When you suspend your habit of knowing and authentically question something "simple" like feeling your feet, you immediately increase awareness possibilities. Continue feeling your feet for a while. Over time, notice real increase in awareness, perhaps warming sensation. Try to relax the whole foot - only possible by feeling the whole foot. See if you can feel the foot more and more until you're very aware of and sensitive to its presence. If you honestly let go of assumptions about feeling your feet and opened to deeper awareness, you've enhanced your experience. The next step is feeling the whole body this way. Pure Feeling Exercise Put attention on your body. Feel the most basic sensation of you and your body simply existing in this moment. Forget about space around your body - let it go. Don't concentrate on the inside of your body either (that makes the outside show up). Put all attention on whole-body feeling. Even though body sensations may be primary, concentrate on the feeling itself. Let go of considerations of "cause" and the specific form feeling takes. Don't search for the feeling of all of it - just feel all that's there. Don't think. Feel. Relax (concentration may elicit tightness). Simply feel without knowing where feeling comes from or what it means. Feel as if the feeling-sensation of "body-being" is detached from everything. Simply feel the presence of feeling. See if you can get to pure feeling without association to it being a sensation attached to body, or emotion, or cause. Just feeling. Now concentrate on this feeling. Amplify it, go further into it. Keep it free of attachment or meaning. Dwell on the feeling. Fall into it. Keep feeling. What is that? Try to experience the essential nature of feeling. What is feeling itself? Wonder about that for a moment. Try this exercise multiple times at different times to experience it from varying states of mind. Spatial Awareness in the Shower Exercise In the shower with eyes closed while shampooing, notice: Do you know exactly where the soap dish is in space? Can you reach and grab the water handle as if eyes were open? Try it. Make a game of sensing where everything is: each wall in all directions, soap, shower head, shampoo bottle, ledge, each corner, hanging items, whatever features you have. Don't forget behind you. Choose several items representing three-dimensional awareness. Try reaching out to lightly touch each exactly where it's located. With practice, spatial sense improves and you learn to pay more attention. Do this exercise in any dark place with irregular terrain (safely navigable), observing where it's most comfortable to shine a flashlight and why. Chapter 4: Learning, Being, and Creating Internal Dialogue Exercise Sit quietly and attempt to have no thoughts. Since you'll likely have thoughts anyway, watch them arise. Notice how you talk to yourself in your head. This impulse is ongoing, so practice anytime. Observe how internal dialogue persists even as you attempt to stop it. Now concentrate on what you're going to say to yourself next. See if you can grasp it before you say it. Work on this until you can grasp the thought you're going to think before it becomes a sentence in your head. You actually conceive the thought before speaking the sentence to yourself. Notice this - if not completely prior to hearing words, at least notice what the whole sentence will be before you finish saying it. Once you've reached this sensitivity level, try having a thought without representing it with a sentence. It can be done. Notice you can "know" a thought in a moment without any sentence filling it out. With this degree of sensitivity, notice how hard it is NOT to talk to yourself about thoughts. The intellect is irresistibly drawn to map what's already there so we can examine or "think" it. This practice helps you work at the source where thoughts originate, enabling better "control" of mental processes. Generating Feeling Exercise Think of a sensation you could have in your body - warmth in belly, buzzing in hands, lightness in space around body - and concentrate on this feeling in or around your body until you can "physically" feel at least something close to it. This gives experience of the possibilities of creating feeling. The sensation must seem real to your nervous system for it to influence body and mind. Practice making generated feelings vivid enough that your brain perceives them as physical reality. Examples: standing on high poles, molecular vibration throughout body, warm sensation in lower belly or feet, tingling in fingers, feeling like sinking under floor or floating above head, flowing feeling throughout limbs. Chapter 5: The Principles of an Effective Body-Being Relaxing Practice Send a feeling-impulse through your nervous system telling muscles to let go. Whatever tension you're immediately aware of will let go - like flopping on couch after hard day, dropping raised shoulders while typing, loosening grip when handing over telephone. For deeper relaxation: Keep sending the "letting go" signal. The longer it's sent, the more deeply tissues relax. Once initial relaxation occurs, more signals can be sent to same tissues and they'll respond with further relaxation. Flood whole body with this impulse, relaxing generally rather than responding to specific functional demands. For third-stage relaxation: Maintain feeling-impulse for long periods, perhaps continually. After muscles relax deeply, they still respond to the letting-go impulse by slowly changing condition over time, obtaining greater suppleness. This requires long, steady exposure to deep letting go - potentially hours daily over extended periods. As you relax body, mind also relaxes. Attitudes, moods, emotions, thought processes are necessarily affected. Mind is where tension originates - relaxation cannot be accomplished without letting go in mind. "Relax your mind" and discover this is the same as feeling and relaxing your whole body. Feeling the Whole Body Practice Begin by attempting to feel your body. Notice areas you don't feel or don't feel clearly. Repeatedly concentrate on these areas to yield sensation. The more you train, the more you feel. At various points, set out to feel whole body at once, not just sum of parts. Practice feeling any one area, each detail, or groups of body parts, but also practice feeling the whole. When walking, sitting, lying down, feel your whole body doing these things. At first, this is eye-opening as you comprehend the missing unity. Continue even as interest lessens. It's your body and life. Feel how every part is involved (or not) in each activity. This turns mundane events - taking out garbage, sitting in chair, picking up pencil - into practice opportunities and often exhilarating experiences of being alive. Spatial Awareness Training Imagine walking with large billowy cape flowing behind you. This helps lift posture, brings consciousness to your "back" and space behind you, increases sense of presence. Put attention on space around you. Try to stay centered within awareness so you don't exclude back in favor of front, one side over the other, or focus on what demands attention to exclusion of space elsewhere. Work to keep comprehensive sense of spatial awareness - inclusive rather than exclusive. Make up exercises to assist training spatial awareness. Simply remembering to feel whole body or relax will go far as an exercise. You're best person to guide yourself to greater awareness. Centering Exercises Physically sense the lower abdomen area. This should locate the center of body mass. Practice putting attention there, making this central location the hub from which you direct body actions. Generate a feeling of your center being the control point for all movement. Rag Doll Exercise Stand where you won't bump into anything. Relax whole body, put awareness on center. Start moving center slightly, rotating one way then another. Drop shoulders, relax arms, then relax more until able to totally let go of arms so they flop freely as center rotates slightly. Now, using only the center, increase pelvic movement and use it to toss your completely limp arms out and away from body. As you turn hips rotating left and right, arms will arc out and may slap against body, but don't control arms - let them move wherever they go. Work up to tossing every part of body solely from center, letting it freely flop around, being completely relaxed. This loosens joints and muscles, gives good sense of center, and practices moving whole body literally from center. Your body must feel as limp as rag doll or wet noodle for practice to change tissue and nervous system habits. Stay with it even if initially difficult. Aligning with Gravity Exercise Stand very still and relax. Slowly move awareness throughout whole body, relaxing every muscle. As you relax, feel how gravity's pull and your need for balance work together to "stack" body from ground upwards. Keep relaxing and allow body to adjust itself. Feel your feet resting on ground. Create sensation of allowing feet to fall right into floor. Begin working up, letting each body part relax and fall onto the one below it. As you let go of holding body, some parts (like pelvis) may shift to more natural position, causing upper body to adjust to maintain balance without effort. Allow these changes and keep feeling like you're dropping downward - simply arrange whole body so you're dropping into your feet. Seek and find the most effortless way to do this. Don't fight gravity's pull - align to it. Force of Gravity Exercise Lie on back with arms and legs flat on floor. Relax whole body. Using no strength (or as little as possible), lift one body part after another just a fraction off ground. Lift head, arm, leg, finger. Feel the force pulling it down. By using no strength and remaining totally relaxed, feel how heavy everything is to lift, revealing the force pulling everything down. When presence of this force is fully felt, begin process of standing. Slowly go through each stage of standing, being fully conscious of gravity's pull throughout. Notice movements and muscles used for standing, usually ignored or taken for granted. If at any time you find yourself skipping over feeling present force of gravity during some motion, go back to beginning and start again. Do this until standing. Once standing, continue feeling gravity's pull through whole body into feet. At another time, starting upright, try reproducing the feeling from above exercise (feeling gravity's force), and adjust body accordingly. Practice until you can move into this feeling-alignment at will. Standing on Pilings Exercise To increase sense of grounding, balance, and alignment to gravity, imagine standing high atop thick poles sticking up from ground. Really use imagination until you create sense of standing up high on these pilings. Shift or step from pole to pole, concentrating on feeling pressure on foot moving straight down on top of pole all the way into ground where pole is buried. Chapter 6: Structural Alignment Find Your Footing Exercise Practice standing on both feet and feel pressure in every part of each foot. Is it mostly on outside edge, inside edge, ball, or heel? Feel bottoms of feet and relax whole foot and ankle as much as possible. Move body weight ever so slightly until you can feel ankle is loose and floating, and foot is not disturbed by body movement. Stand still and try feeling pressure evenly distributed over whole foot and centered in middle of foot. Imagine foot is like soft clay being squished evenly onto ground. Test yourself by bouncing up and down ever so slightly without letting feet leave ground at all. Feel where pressure is in feet. If it isn't even and balanced, make adjustments in body's movement or structure until pressure is even and centered. Make sure feet remain relaxed and aren't themselves trying to compensate for this slight body movement. Relax legs and pelvis and feel them connected directly to feet. When clear that weight of lower body is resting on ground, focus awareness on entire upper body and allow it to rest on pelvis, which rests on legs, which rest on feet, which rest on ground. Once established, align structure with gravity's pull until you develop sense of whole relaxed body balanced directly on feet. When you've done this enough and feel confident in feeling weight balanced and settled in feet, take a few steps trying to maintain this feeling in motion. If you lose this relaxed and balanced sensation, stop and re-establish before stepping again. If having difficulty: Try standing with feet on ground and lifting weight from tree limb or pole just overhead. Slowly lower weight onto feet as you focus on allowing pressure to spread evenly on ground. Walking Line Exercise While walking, note whether feet naturally fall straight ahead or turn out or in. Find some line on ground - groove in sidewalk or painted line in parking lot - and use it to closely observe any deviation as you walk. One foot may fall straight while other turns in or out. If feet turn inward or outward, try making them point straight ahead with each footfall and walk that way for a while. Pay close attention to sensations in legs, hips, back. You should be able to isolate feelings of tension or mild pain somewhere that are origins of misalignment. Once sources are identified, set out on program to relax, stretch, or otherwise rehabilitate the area(s), and feet should turn straight again. In some cases, problem may be substantial - genetic or result of trauma early in development. Correction may require serious attention (bodywork, great commitment) and may be more work than it's worth. Such cases are rare. Don't confuse having to take on work with impossibility. If having challenges, go slowly at first and wait a day or two to see how you feel before proceeding. Moving an Object Exercise Find movable object (chair on smooth floor, sliding glass door) and choose simple task: pushing chair or sliding door open/shut. At first, line up to task and go through motions so gently that it doesn't even move object. Feel where in body you may be moving in direction that isn't aligned with task. For example, you may push with just upper body, "pinching off" at waist. Feel the whole until you find unity, but continue looking into details. Are you pressing out elbows or shoulders? Are wrists misaligned? Perhaps you find you're moving knees in direction that doesn't serve this task. As you discover these subtle "leaks," make corrections until every part functions together as whole. Now, keeping body relaxed, use as little effort as possible to move object. As you do, feel where in body there's slightly more strain or pressure. Try again until you can smooth out these areas and perform task with even distribution of pressure throughout whole body. Now concentrate on hand(s) touching object and practice moving slightly until you can feel connection from hand to foot. Beginning with this connection and maintaining it throughout, move object without allowing any strain to build anywhere in body. Remember to stay very relaxed so you can sense slightest misalignment. Same approach applies to virtually every task. For example, practice lifting lightweight kitchen chair. Position yourself so you can bend knees. Keep back straight (even if slightly bent forward) and grasp either side of seat. Keeping arms relaxed, simply feel weight of chair in hands. Before lifting, feel chair's weight stretch up through arms to shoulders. Keeping arms outstretched, feel this pressure connect down shoulders to pelvis, then to legs and feet. Once you feel unity and connection from chair to floor, drop pelvis down and forward slightly and into legs to lift. Practice until you can find alignments quickly and do it without any strain. Nose with Navel Exercise Practice turning head and pelvis together as one unit. Wherever nose points, keep navel pointed in same direction. This helps familiarize you with sense of whole-body integrity. Combine this with Rag Doll Exercise. In this way, get sense of using center to move whole body as one unified piece, with torso, arms, and legs all moving together. Chapter 8: Mind and Perception Walking with a Cape Exercise Imagine walking around with large billowy cape flowing out behind you as you move. This helps lift posture, brings to consciousness sense of your "back" and space behind you, and increases sense of presence. Practice this visualization until it affects your actual body carriage and spatial awareness. Chapter 10: Life Practice Lifting a Melting Candle Exercise Imagine whole body feels like soft, melted candle wax, and on top of head is wick of candle. Lift body from squatting position as if wick on head is pulling body up. As you lift up, feel whole body drain downward like melting wax - only thing moving up is wick. This image-sensation helps align with gravity and embody "reach up while sinking down" rule. Also assists relaxation and helps establish stronger grounding. These are all the major exercises explicitly detailed in the book. Each requires regular practice to develop the consciousness and sensitivity necessary for transformation. The book emphasizes that exercises must be practiced, not just read about, and that you should also invent your own exercises based on your particular needs and discoveries.

@theoneandnone I keep hearing the same line from spiritual teachers, gurus, channelers, even NDE reports: “Human life is the toughest school in the universe.” Out of infinite possible realities the Godhead could dream up — this one, this Earth, this short, shitty human lifespan — is supposedly the hardest one? And we’re supposed to be grateful for that? To see it as some divine gift? Really? Because I’ll be straight with you — this “school” hasn’t taught me love. Not really. It hasn’t exactly made me more compassionate, more open, or more whole. Instead, it’s taught me how to suffer. How to endure endless pain. How to live with rejection, abandonment, and isolation. How to hate myself. How to become cruel. People say, “Oh, but that’s the curriculum! You learn through suffering.” No. If the point of school is to teach love, then this is a failed curriculum. What I’ve learned isn’t love — it’s bitterness, brokenness, and how fragile life can feel when you’re treated like you don’t matter. And don’t come at me with “be grateful, life is a blessing.” This life doesn’t feel like a blessing. Most days it feels like dragging myself through dogshit, smearing it on the wall, pretending it’s art. A cosmic joke where you’re supposed to smile while your guts are burning. So my question is: if this really is the toughest school in all existence, where the fuck is the payoff? Where’s the transformation into love, wholeness, anything beyond endless trial by fire? Because from where I stand, this “toughest school” is just turning people into harder shells, not radiant beings.

The Ascension subgroup of the New age community. Example: People who believe they are starseeds i.e. souls from other planets, they are on a mission on this planet and are waiting for a cosmic shift/ascension/the event/harvest/solar flash that will bring transformation to the humanity and society ( mass arrests, alien introduction, polar shift, secret space program reveal, rainbow body enlightment with superpowers etc.) There are many variations of descriptions to this community.

That's the difficult work, embodying Truth, not just as a philosophy but as our entire way of living. There's a powerful book by Peter Ralston on Leo's Booklist that really explains the difference between enlightenment and transformation, you can't miss it. Basically, even when you have an enlightenment or an awakening, that doesn't change your situations or egoic survival habits, changing ourselves is a different matter but when you can understand the confusion between the two, you can use both to to increase consciousness and to embody those insights rather than splitting them both and not aligning our lives with the Truth. Yo your a cool dude, I seen your videos over the years🔥 stay blessed man

Each core pillar is huge, but I think shame-avoidance might be the biggest. Just to demonstrate how shame-avoidance works, using conspiracy theories as an example: "The Shame-to-Conspiracy Pipeline Conspiracy theories medicate shame through several mechanisms: 1. Transformation into special knowledge - The shame of being "ignorant," "left behind," or "unsuccessful" transforms into being one of the few who "sees the truth." You're not a failure; you're awakened. The shame of exclusion becomes the pride of insight. 2. Externalizing the cause - If you lost your job, your status, your sense of cultural relevance - that's shameful. But if a cabal of elites deliberately destroyed your industry to control you? Now you're a victim of evil forces, not a personal failure. The shame dissolves into righteous anger. 3. Retroactive meaning-making - Past humiliations and failures get recontextualized. That bankruptcy wasn't poor decisions; it was "them" keeping you down. That divorce wasn't personal inadequacy; it was "their" attack on traditional values. Shame transforms into evidence of persecution. 4. Community of the knowing - Shame isolates, but conspiracy theories create instant belonging with fellow "truth-seekers." You go from shamefully alone to proudly connected. Example: Someone whose small business failed during economic changes could face crushing shame - "I'm a failure, I couldn't adapt, I'm worthless." But if they believe globalist elites deliberately destroyed small businesses? The shame evaporates. They're not a failed businessperson; they're a warrior against the New World Order. Admitting error would re-activate shame, which is why counter-evidence is blocked. The conspiracy theory doesn't just distract from shame - it performs psychological alchemy, converting shame's poison into the medicine of purpose, belonging, and specialness." You can almost view conspiratorial thinking, Tucker Carlson, and many other right-wing figureheads as "shame-regulation technology".

Then, discover what everything is - at any level. It's not an ideal; it's simply whatever is already the case, about anything. We can start with our experience as it is, right now. For example, since you mentioned it: What is bias? Also, begin to notice anything within you that is inauthentic - any form of pretense, phoniness, affectation, and so on - and drop it. That act of letting go alone already calls for a transformation of oneself. At the same time, pursue absolute consciousness: What am I? What is another? What is life? Just a few suggestions off the top of my head.

I've been working on the educational project Spiralize a bit, exploring how Spiral Dynamics stages influence our approach to money and investing. It resulted in this new page that maps out investment philosophies from Beige through Coral: spiralize.org/insights/investing The Core Framework: Red: Unconstrained power maximization (pump & dump, predatory behavior) Blue: Constrained maximization within sacred rules (faith-based investing, rigid discipline) Orange: Single-objective optimization (pure profit maximization) Green: Value-driven constraints on profit (ESG screening, ethical filters) Yellow: Multi-objective system optimization (balancing profit, planetary health, social equity) Turquoise: Holistic system transformation (actively changing financial infrastructure) Coral: Paradigm-breaking through market interventions What struck me during development was how quick Claude was to warn against Red's predatory tactics while treating Orange's systemic destruction (climate change, inequality) as "business as usual." I had to tell him explicitly to add the Orange disclaimer. The water we swim in makes Orange's harm less visible despite arguably greater aggregate damage. Educational Focus: This isn't investment advice but a developmental lens on how our values shape capital allocation. The most actionable insight according to Claude seems to be the Green→Yellow transition: moving from black-and-white ethical screening to nuanced systems thinking about leverage points and emergent solutions, while I'm personally mostly interested in integrating stage Turquoise and evolving our systems for planetary well-being. The page includes mathematical optimization frameworks for each stage, showing the evolution from simple constraints to complex multi-objective functions. Also covers the "stage inflation" risk - people identifying with higher stages without having genuinely developed the cognitive complexity. Creating this was nice throwback to my optimization background (I have worked with development of applied mathematical optimization software). Has anyone else noticed how their investment approach shifted as they developed? Or found themselves caught between stages, like wanting Yellow systems thinking but defaulting to Green either/or thinking under pressure? Creating the page reminded me of attempting 'conscious investing' ten years ago. While looking back, it was mainly adopting a stage Green framework, and I quickly however fell into the temptation of just investing in single stocks to maximize profit short term. I welcome feedback on how to improve the page and website in general.

Worth watching. Nuggets of wisdom.

Insightful article by Sister Jayanti of the Brahmakumaris on transforming negative patterns to positive ones using meditation as a tool. https://www.khaleejtimes.com/lifestyle/mental-health/gen-z-and-eco-anxiety-how-introducing-meditation-in-school-curriculums-can-help-combat-the-mental-h

For me, awakening is a radical transformation. Emotional awareness and processing is one of the things that can lead to it. But as I realized, the genuine will to surrender to the transformation of the self is the way I can best describe as the major thing that triggers the awakening, at least from my experience. It is not easy to surrender to radical transformation, to shed the old skin, old identity, behavior, patterns, beliefs, perceptions, like a snake shedding its skin. It requires courage, overcoming the fear of the unknown and allow everything from the old self that needs to die, to die. Even if we are very attached to it. There is backlash from the ego. The skin becomes sticky, tight, it resists the sedding. The transformation. Like an old person who wants to live a little more at the expense of the newborn. This may be a very difficult and painful process, and at the same time very liberating, because the old skin can be very suffocating. Limiting, like spiritual prison. And once done, we reborn. With new skin. Fresh like a newborn. Looking at the world with new and fresh eyes. Alienated from our old identity, unidentified with the past, strangers to it. Until the next transformation.

I use gummies on the weekends to relax, it makes time slow down and a certain sort of disassociation happens, I become lazy, hungry and more focused lol. My research into it tells me the Psychedelics have their time and place in usage, if You rely on them totally for Spiritual Awakening it probably won't work, Leo may be the exception but he has also done lots of Sadhana too to supplement it.. I for sure agree, that one should do the Sadhana first, get to a point of Awareness that already brings about a natural sort of Peace and Knowing, if Your stuck there then maybe use psychedelics to give You a peek over the fence, which basically inspires You in your Sadhana practices, but don't rely on them totally, it will more than likely lead You astray... In the end for real Transformation to happen, You have to make it happen naturally meaning without the use of drugs or anything external other than Spiritual Practices.. Find a Guru or Mentor and practice that works for You, stick with it, know Your intentions and goals then let it work its magic!

I'm clear on the distinction mentioned above. You want to feel validated, but a state is a state; consciousness is prior to the body, as if. The possible side effects awakening may have on you are, well, side effects. They are not the consciousness itself, but rather a function of the depth of realization and how your mind relates to that increased consciousness. This seems to vary on a case-by-case basis. You are already inherently selfless - how about that? Don't confuse healing or transformation with awakening. These are different pursuits.

Can't be otherwise. Knowledge is what speaks. It's expressing itself just like me and you, only in different ways. Theoretical or experiential, it's still knowledge based. The only transformation is transforming from knowledge to knowledge. Tell me something you don't know. Can't be something you're not already. You're not transforming, just being. Transformation is an illusion; knowledge- based illusion at that. How would you know you've been transformed if not for knowledge of some kind.

Psychedelics can open the flood gates of consciousness and mind. My position is this. You must already be doing spiritual work, consciousness work, heavy existential contemplation, already doing advanced nuanced personal development and self actualization. Have a healthy eating habit, already moving towards your life purpose. Know what your values and passions are. Lots of study and theoretical knowledge as a foundation. Deep study of epistemology and a deep thirst for spiritual Transcendence are keys for making the most of your trips. Also understanding beforehand that these trips don't last and to not mistake these for permanent transformation or consciousness. You must know to continue your integration after our journey and to continue doing the daily grind, bringing the transcendental back into the relative. Also you must study self deception and how the ego deludes and conflates these experiences. Basically study Leo Gura, Ramana, Alan Watts really good before you do them and to be aware of mind projecting these people's ideas onto your trip.

An associative telic attractor intentionally relating phenomenological overlaps through functional lenses. A unitive predictive preference evaluator of experiential awareness conditioning creative transformation. A distributive perception animating potential anticipations from growing gestalts forming familiar patterns. Context is powerful, connecting a nebulous Consciousness as Intelligence, Meaning, Intention, Telos... everything Context is like a Conscious Phenomenological Associativity, the Capacity to Intuitively understand Relate Feelings. Context is: Feelings relating intuitive understandings. Intuition understanding relative feelings. Relations feeling understanding relatively. Understanding intuitively feeling relations. Contextuality is the Capacity to Remember and Relate, to Distinguish and Frame in relation to Feeling or Intent.

I thought I might share a long-form essay I wrote on underdetermination - which deals with the epistemology of facts, the enshittification of news media, an autopsy of bullshit, and how to navigate today's chaotic information environment. Whereas most treatments of underdetermination tend to explore the topic from the domain of science, I do so in the context that's more relatable to most people - the media landscape that molds our attitudes and beliefs about the world. The article itself can be found here: https://7provtruths.substack.com/p/facts-dont-speak-for-themselves ______________________________________________________________________________________ Facts Don’t Speak For Themselves Still from 'Network' (1976), directed by Sidney Lumet, © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Text added by the author. Facts, it turns out, do care about your feelings - not because truth is a matter of preference, but because what counts as a relevant fact is always a matter of context. A context is just a background situation for forming interpretations. Think of how a spoken conversation can carry very different meanings depending on tone, body language, and your relationship to the speaker. Facts work the same way. The relevance of any particular fact isn’t fixed - it varies enormously depending on what you’re trying to accomplish, and where you stand in relation to the world. If this sounds like academic pedantry with no real world stakes, think again. Human communication depends entirely on shared conventions about relevance. Just ask any journalist, whose job description is heavily focused on making judgments about which facts matter. The quality of those judgments help determine whether we get functional information ecosystems or dysfunctional ones. Before we tackle today’s chaotic information environment, and what it reveals about the perspectives we inhabit, let’s start with a best-case scenario - and what we get wrong when looking back at it today. The middle of the 20th century is widely considered a high-watermark of American journalism. These were the decades when reporters took down Joseph McCarthy, cracked the Watergate scandal wide open, and laid bare decades of deception about Vietnam by publishing the Pentagon Papers. There’s a charming but misguided notion that this golden age was defined by newsrooms sticking to a simple principle: ‘just the facts’. If this sounds blissfully uncomplicated compared to today’s algorithmic echo chambers, that’s exactly the point. It never was this straightforward. We only think it so because the interpretive machinery operated so seamlessly that we mistook it for objectivity. Yet the myth persists, and it’s easy to see why. Picture an era before cable news, before social media - where families across the political spectrum gathered around a single television set to receive the day’s news. All of it delivered by a trusted anchor, whose voice carried the weight of national consensus. Hard as it is to imagine amid our current algorithm-driven polarization, there was a brief window of time when mass media served as a unifying force. One where we’d argue about what course to take, but could more or less agree upon what happened. That’s not to say that this was some golden age of civility - just look back to the civil rights struggle to see how vicious those disagreements could be. The key difference is that we were having our culture wars within something resembling the same Reality. In contrast to contemporary infotainment - where fact and opinion are tossed into a blender as a matter of course - it’s easy to grow nostalgic for the journalistic integrity of this bygone era. Of course, quality journalism still exists, if you know where to look for it. But its authoritative role has greatly diminished - collateral damage of changes in how we consume our news. The advent of the 24-hour news cycle was pivotal - when eyeballs equate to revenue, sensationalism wins out over substance. By the 1980s these trends were converging into an early version of our media-driven echo chambers. Today’s social media feeds are in fact just the latest iteration of a decades-long transformation. Cable television and talk radio were the initial catalysts. A ‘greed is good’ ethos provided the rationale. Politically motivated deregulation made it inevitable - specifically: 1) The elimination of the Fairness Doctrine, which necessitated balanced coverage of controversial political topics. 2) Media consolidation, which concentrated ownership in the hands of a handful of major players. 3) The privatization of public airwaves, which drove programming to become advertiser-driven. What you get from this brew is what the author and digital activist Cory Doctorow calls enshittification, where media platforms are hollowed out into a scheme for extracting money from the very people they were built to serve. What began with cable news and talk radio has been supercharged by the digital attention economy. We need look no further than our social media feeds, which are precision engineered, like slot machines, to keep us scrolling and tapping. Against this brave new world of competing realities, a desire to return to ‘just the facts’ is understandable. The trouble is, this romanticized version of journalism’s high watermark gets the story backwards. Through our rose-colored glasses, we remember a time when trusted reporters like Walter Cronkite supposedly delivered just the facts, and let events speak for themselves. News was news and commentary was commentary - or so the story goes. What’s missing from this nostalgic portrait is a recognition that Cronkite and his peers were never delivering just the raw facts. They were instead master curators, whose skill was in deciding which facts were relevant to the public interest - and then arranging those facts into a coherent narrative. The higher journalistic standards of this era weren’t illusory - but they weren’t the result of news reporters serving as neutral arbiters of truth. They instead emerged from skilled professionals who understood themselves to be public servants, tasked with helping citizens make sense of a complex world. It was a role that required rigorous judgment about accuracy, relevance, and fairness, rather than a presumption that these journalistic principles translated into objectivity. The kernel of truth in this idyllic distortion is that a distressing number of people today lack even basic media literacy skills - which is understandable given today’s chaotic information landscape, and decades of educational neglect. What this amounts to is a form of epistemic inequality - where access to reliable information - and the skills (and inclination) to evaluate it critically - become yet another form of privilege. What does this inequality look like in practice? It’s a media environment where quality journalism demands our time, effort, and resources - while misinformation flows freely through social media feeds engineered to exploit our psychological vulnerabilities. The natural outcome of this digital divide is that people gravitate to sources of information that accommodate their reality. And if you’re someone struggling to keep a roof over your head while juggling two jobs with family obligations, you probably don’t have the time or motivation to become a part-time epistemologist. Fair enough - what’s needed isn’t sophisticated theory, but basic bullshit detection. An Autopsy Of Bullshit Bullshit is a term we love to throw around casually, but it’s a concept that’s taken seriously by respected philosophers, who’ve given it a precise definition. So what is bullshit? It’s not the same as lying. A liar at least respects the truth enough to avoid it, but bullshit is speech that’s manufactured without any regard for truth or falsehood. Its main purpose is to deceive and distract in service of an unforthcoming agenda. Whereas a lie might fabricate facts, bullshit separates facts from the contexts that make them meaningful. Its intent is to get you to bow out of the truth game altogether due to apathy and exhaustion. To that end, the bullshit artist will bludgeon you with anything and everything: flattery, half-truths, irrelevant statistics, thought-terminating clichés. Whatever they can get their grubby little mitts on, they’ll use to get you to stop asking questions. While bullshit has been around with us from time immemorial, our fractured media landscape provides today’s bullshit artists with the cover they need to thrive. Inclusivity - the notion that we should accommodate different ideas and perspectives - is a worthy ideal whose very nature makes it self-undermining without proper guardrails. All manner of dangerous bullshit will take advantage of this openness to masquerade as legitimate perspectives - including those that seek to undermine the very tolerance they cynically exploit. This is known within philosophy as an example of a ‘free rider problem’ - where individuals benefit from a collective good without bearing their fair share of the costs. It’s a dynamic that enemies of open societies have gotten very good at exploiting, as evidenced by the fact that modern authoritarians are more likely to gain power through the ballot box than through military coups. There’s a widespread folk-theory of information that makes us especially vulnerable to this kind of exploitation - the so-called ‘marketplace of ideas’ - which holds that truthful viewpoints will ultimately prevail over toxic nonsense. It’s a lovely aspiration that’s unfortunately disconnected from the messy complexity of human psychology, which is wired for survival rather than truth. What Facts Get Wrong The vast majority of our viewpoints aren’t arrived at through careful consideration, but as an organic outgrowth of our lived experience. Precisely because we can step back from these lived orientations but not step outside of them entirely, this necessarily means that our assessments of the world are always localized, limited, and incomplete. Given this reality, the idea that we could somehow critically examine all of our assumptions is absurd. While armchair philosophers may exhort us to ‘question everything’, in reality this isn’t a blueprint for wisdom - it’s a recipe for psychosis. This is what philosophers call the problem of underdetermination - where the available evidence literally under determines which interpretation is correct. It’s not just that we disagree about what facts mean; it’s that we have to go beyond facts themselves to make sense of the world. Which brings us back to our original dilemma. If the relevance of facts is always a matter of what we’re trying to accomplish and where we stand in relation to the world, then what basis do we have to reject harmful or destructive viewpoints? When we remember that facts never speak for themselves but are always curated and arranged, we can be more attentive to the agendas that facts are in service of. While there’s no shortage of bad actors who are at the ready with a firehose of lies, more sophisticated bullshit artists know how to use facts to deceive and manipulate. The so-called 13/50 rule that’s a staple of racist discourse is a telling illustration - where it’s asserted that black Americans make up 13% of the population but make up roughly 50% of the crime statistics. Conveniently missing from this ‘factual’ premise is everything that would prevent someone from drawing the racist conclusions it’s designed to promote: centuries of economic exclusion, forced ghettoization, discriminatory policing practices, engrained prosecutorial bias, and methodological problems with crime statistics. Not to mention the unspoken implication that 40 million people are collectively responsible for the actions of individuals, in a way that white people never are. More prevalent than outright malicious intent are instances where someone is using facts to prop up a flawed premise. Take the argument that systemic racism is overblown or exaggerated, based upon the achievements of a number of high profile black entrepreneurs. Not individuals born with a silver spoon, but those who overcame genuinely harsh circumstances. For someone who lived this reality - working late nights and scraping together every penny to build something meaningful despite real obstacles - these stories vindicate that the system works, and success is simply a matter of talent and effort. What’s often missing from these accounts is an acknowledgment or awareness of the invisible infrastructure that made their success possible: the community program that provided avenues for constructive engagement in a rough neighborhood. The social programs which helped a parent put food on the table. Or simply the luck of avoiding the kind of crisis that destroys someone’s potential before they’ve gotten off the ground. Blind spots that in no way undermine the talent and hard work of these success stories, but do go to show that individual achievement doesn’t automatically translate into special insight about social policy. Where We Go From Here Which brings us back to our earlier question: if facts can be misused by malicious actors and misinterpreted by well-meaning people, how do we separate viewpoints that are worth engaging with from those that we’re better off discarding? A question made all the more complicated by the recognition that no viewpoint captures it all, and we’re always evaluating from within our own vantage point. When we acknowledge that viewpoints exist on a spectrum, we can start to develop some workable heuristics for which perspectives foster constructive engagement in spite of their blind spots, which are seriously hindered by distortive patterns, and which are deliberately manipulative. In general, higher quality perspectives are characterized by their adaptability, contextual awareness, and a realistic appraisal of their own limitations. Lower quality ones can be identified through reliable patterns of Reality-denial, where relevant complexities are ignored or dismissed. And malicious viewpoints weaponize whatever they can get their hands on - facts, emotions, grievances - to feed a selfish, shitty agenda. The key lies not in escaping the limitations of our viewpoints, but in acknowledging their existence - and learning to work within them skillfully.

You’re both right! I’ll stick with my nomination, borrowing from the Cantor and scholastic context of the “infinitum absolutum” versus the “infinitum secundum quid,” and from the great prolegomenon “Apeiron,” and also blast through traditia and sedimentia with this most explosive metaphor, for I am not merely human but, to tie it to Nietzsche, I am dynamite! Be sure to see my videos, where you’ll see how I weave the live currents of contemporary and traditional trends together with Leo Gura’s great contribution. All this is my integration work. It will lead not only to universal ontology (the ontology of absolutely everything, of reality and ultimate reality, etc.), but to a whole new civilizations epoch of “integral science” and an “integral philosophy” that blows past Wilber and even Dible and Gura, for it is INTEGRITY itself! It is a matter of CONFIDENCE both in the sense of the method of hypothesis operative in speculation and theoretical activity AND in the sense of the highest CONFIDENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, hidden in plain “sight,” but in the direct rays, I reflected and unreflectable and unrefractable LIGHT, for it is SIGHT WITHOUT LIGHT, or honestly choose your own metaphor from your infinite imagination and use whatever works to actually effect the great paradigmatic transformation of humanity. Universal humanity is possible in so many ways, but the point is to see it clearly, in lucid God-consciousness, and to see it through. I am happy to share transcendental happiness in any and all ways possible, and personally I have always attached this promise to the very idea of absolute infinity, and precisely to its reciprocal, as a recipe, with the main ingredient being the highest possible magician: me, the supreme personality of the Godhead, the actual fucking God. Leo’s completely right in indicating this, and doing it like nobody else does. It’s a complete miracle that this and all the other possibilities can be here and now, and so much more and and must!

I seek to find the core and source of consciousness that generates reality and figure out a way to let it transform me from the inside out. All meaningful change happens through this process, as the alternative is mechanistic repetition and unconscious continuation of pre-established ideas/patterns (I don't want to dismiss that approach of course, maybe building momentum and slowly integrating is necessary not to overstimulate the body and build a foundation but still). The body forms itself inside out, growing from a single undivided cell into the complex, intelligent, specialized, interdependent system that it is today. It continues to create structures and experiences, with conscious experience corresponding to various parts of the brain expanding and interconnecting. But what I seek is to access the process which makes it happen, and my psychedelic experiences point me towards consciousness retroactively upgrading the brain as its physical counterpart and sensory connector in order to account for and understand a greater portion of reality. You might say that Leo already made a video about this and it's the concept of going Meta and that is definitely a powerful way to do it. But I feel like there has to be even more to it or maybe that within the concept of going Meta, there is more room for expanding the understanding of that concept, of what it means to go Meta and understanding Meta² or Meta-Meta. How can I instead of transcending paradigms through Non-Duality as I currently do, access and utilize that experiential feeling inside of me which leads me to become aware and want to go Meta and integrate it into my awareness and make it a default action and state of operating. There are many limitations within that stop us from living our best lives by being stuck in paradigms, maybe there is a point to it, maybe self-deception is just ignorance, maybe its the natural process of evolution that propels us into greater self-understanding and a healthier way to engage in existence, maybe we specifically chose to be as limited as we are in order to experience and appreciate activities that would make no sense from a higher perspective. But low consciousness leads to a lot of suffering, as we see in the world and ourselves, and I realized how my very own ideas and desires lead me to suffer needlessly, chase never attainable pleasure and hedonism, get me stuck and at odds with people and slow my progress towards my passions and the things that I find meaningful. One might say, I'm supposed to learn through physical experience and learn through suffering, but Sadhguru himself says that this human machine is the most sophisticated thing on the planet and we haven't even bothered reading the user's manual, so that's exactly what I want to do. Of course gaining experience through action is a fundamental part of it, but why should I chase random societal desires and karmic tendencies that I don't even authentically want when I haven't even figured out the fundamentals of my human existence and am simply adopting a local paradigm of blind faith, perpetuating negative tendencies in the process of aping after others because that's all I'm exposed to. I've been so unhealthy in the past, the self-understanding I have now would have saved me a lot of trouble, mindless repetition, ego games and stubbornness. I have wondered what about psychedelics made me tune into the experiences they create, one thing being that I'm overflowing with love, another that my limitations dissolve, another that the need for external validation disappears, another being fearlessness, another being transcending shame through self-compassion and understanding, another being the peace of mind that spawns curiosity, another one being the release of trauma and energetic barriers, another one being authenticity, yet another taking responsibility, and at this point its basically just speedrunning the concepts from the titles of all of Leo's videos. But I don't wanna rely on Leo's videos, I want to find out how to get into the state of mind that generates these insights and figure out what its source is, the healthiest configuration, the source of creation and imagination, the peak of kundalini, the state of mind that lets me shed my skin and be reborn and transformed from new energy updating my body from the inside out. I want to access the link between the immaterial and perceived materiality, the feeling of conscious intent when moving a hand, formulating a thought, taking a cold plunge, presence, awareness, energy, transformation.

It may not seem logical to you because, as humans, our perspective is limited to a narrow slice of cause-and-effect relationships. We see only fragments of the infinite network of relational structures that interlock and build upon one another. But every form, every state, every transformation is logical within the framework that sustains it. What appears “illogical” is simply logic operating from a structure or perspective we cannot fully grasp. Even phenomena like two subatomic particles being in two places at the same time follow the internal logic of quantum reality. Logic is not a human invention; it is the inevitable coherence of relationships, whatever their scale or expression. Relationship are coherent, because if not they collapse, everything is synchronic without deviation. Even the chaos and destruction are synchrony form a wider perspective

A Strategic Blueprint for European and Global Peace Hello everyone, I'd like to share a strategic framework for the question that was asked by PurpleTree. Traditional geopolitics often traps us in a cycle of managing rivalries and balancing threats. This proposal outlines a different path: a phased, "three-stage rocket" strategy that moves from pragmatic stabilization to a deep, systemic transformation of international relations itself. The vision is to build a world where great power competition becomes obsolete. This strategy integrates practical, near-term actions with the visionary toolkit of the Global Governance Frameworks (GGF), a project I have worked on since around March this year. The GGF is a comprehensive, open-source blueprint for civilizational transformation, an ecosystem of interconnected frameworks designed to provide scalable solutions to our world's crises and guide humanity toward a regenerative future. --- Stage I: Building the Launchpad - Forging Principled Autonomy (Years 1-5) Before Europe can effectively mediate peace, it must become a strong, coherent, and autonomous global actor. This first stage is about building internal resilience to address the core challenge you (PurpleTree) identified: an over-reliance on the US, which 'lives far away but has a lot of control.' By forging principled autonomy, Europe creates the foundation for credible power. Pillar 0: Social & Economic Cohesion: The foundation of all strength is internal unity. This involves implementing pilot programs for universal basic income and services (via the `AUBI framework`) to eliminate economic precarity, while deploying community healing programs (based on the `Kintsugi Protocol`) to build high-trust, resilient societies from the ground up. Pillar 1: Strategic Independence: Europe must achieve sovereignty in key domains. This includes a full transition to renewable energy, securing critical supply chains, and developing an integrated European defense pillar within NATO that can act as a credible deterrent on its own. This directly realizes the vision you mentioned of a 'strong European army... just for defence,' ensuring Europe's security is in its own hands. A central part of this is a clear Roadmap for Peace in Ukraine, using the methodologies of the `Peace & Conflict Resolution Framework` to pursue a just and lasting settlement. The goal aligns with your suggestion for a strong, sovereign Ukraine that acts as a bridge, fully integrated into the EU market and with robust security guarantees. Pillar 2: Economic Gravity: With a stable core, Europe can project influence through attraction rather than force. By scaling up its Global Gateway initiative and establishing a fair and transparent trade architecture, it becomes an indispensable economic partner for the US, China, and a post-conflict Russia. Pillar 3: The Innovation Bridge: This involves launching a "Helsinki-2" process to create new, updated security agreements for the 21st century, covering cyber, space, and AI, a formal venue for the 'open honest serious dialogue' needed to address the legitimate security concerns of all parties, including Russia. It also means creating a Peace and Transformation Index to transparently track progress towards a more stable world, measuring metrics of well-being (like the GGF's `LMCI` (Love, Meaning & Connection Index) alongside traditional security indicators. --- The Bridge Phase: Proving the Model through Regional Piloting (Years 6-10) This phase directly addresses what you correctly identified as the main issue: 'trust and diverging interests'. Having established its own autonomy, Europe begins to build that trust by testing the GGF's transformative models with a 'coalition of the willing,' proving their value through successful cooperation. The centerpiece of this phase is the launch of the first Regenerative Trade Zone (RTZ). Governed by the `Gaian Trade Framework`, this zone pioneers an economic model where trade actively heals ecosystems and builds community wealth, using regenerative currencies like `Hearts` and `Leaves`. By demonstrating the superior stability, resilience, and prosperity of this model with partners in Africa, Asia, or the Americas, Europe creates a powerful "pull factor," making the regenerative economy an attractive, evidence-based alternative to the current extractive system. --- Stage II: The GGF Endgame - Pioneering a New Global Paradigm (Years 11-25) With the GGF model proven in the Bridge Phase, the final stage is to launch a new global system that transcends the logic of great power competition. The core strategy is the "Regenerative Pull," creating a system so inspiring and beneficial that joining it becomes the most rational choice for all major powers. A Global Regenerative Economy: The RTZ is scaled globally, with access to the `Global Commons Fund` providing stability and funding for planet-wide public goods. This offers a path to prosperity for all nations based on healing, not extraction, and represents the 21st-century evolution of the idea to one day 'integrate Russia into EU,' creating a superpower rooted in regenerative economics rather than old political structures. Species-Level Security Cooperation: The `Aegis Protocol` is deployed, inviting the US, China, and Russia to transition their military capabilities into a shared Global Security & Exploration Trust. Their new, unifying mission becomes addressing species-level threats: planetary defense from asteroids, preventing pandemics, and managing existential risks from AI. This final stage doesn't solve the old rivalries; it makes them obsolete by reframing global security as a shared, positive-sum mission for the survival and flourishing of humanity. Conclusion This strategy presents a coherent pathway from the complex realities of today's geopolitical landscape to a genuinely transformed and peaceful future. It begins with pragmatic steps to build strength and stability, then uses that foundation to pilot and scale a new system of global cooperation. By doing so, Europe can lead the way in demonstrating that a more regenerative and collaborative world is not only possible, but is the most realistic path to enduring peace. [Link to the full, detailed strategy synthesis document as a blog post on the GGF website]