This is only one lense to look the world through. Yes, there are geniuses here on this world and we can not deny & push them away. We want them to bring their gifts to this world.

But there're billions of people who are not geniuses, nor want to be rebels. They just want to live a happy life. We can't deny their existence too.

@Lyn Alden are you familiar with Spiral Dynamics? It's a psychological development of individuals/communities.

There are 8 levels to it (and new ones constantly emerging).

We're transitioning from the 5th stage (the best description of it is capitalism, individualism, technology, materialism) to the 6th stage called Green Stage (equality, yoga, psychedelics, going back to nature, etc. ).

It's a very natural process, as people burn out in the 5th stage and understand that's not where the happiness is, hence they look for something deeper and they find equality as the answer.

The problem with it is - they DENY the 5th stage - individual greatness, awesome things that we got from it (amazing companies that were built) and that becomes a problem.

What we should try to thrive to do is to go into the 7th stage - (integrated stage)

The 7th stage value system includes all of the previous stages & tries to incorporate them into the society. In my belief Bitcoin and Bitcoiners will be getting us there. Bitcoin as a technology is very integrative (when you think of what a Bitcoin-maxi has to learn to become a Bitcoin maxi, like mining, game-theory, economics and much more).

What we can not fall back to is to deny the 6th stage (all the trans movement, equality, etc.) because these people came to live in this way for some reason.

For my part, I recently was triggered by one person who identified herself as queer. I was immediately looking at her as my enemy and that was a trigger to ask her to go for a coffee. When I talked to her for 2 hours and attentively listened to her - I came to appreciate her and her community of queer people.

We're all people in the end of the day & we're trying to live happily on here.

He gave me a "template" - 4 basic sensations & then I could add as much to it as possible.

1. Inhale
2. Exhale
3. Sitting (I was going through my spine)
4. Touching (feeling my ass)

And then the rest would be whatever I feel/hear/sense/think in my being.

So it would be - inhale, exhale, sitting, touching, hearing, thought, tension (in my knee), thought - this is one round and these are 8 things I noticed. 8 is already super super advanced though.

5-6 is what I can do on a daily basis (I meditate 60-120mins per day). To go past 6, I need to meditate 4-8 hours that day to train my focus.

"Mastering the Core Teachings of Buddha" is a practical guide to experience it 😉

6 months ago I met a monk. I did a 10 day meditation retreat with him.

We were exploring around 5 meditation techniques in total. They were all showing different kinds of things and designed for different kind of purposes.

One of them was "noting". The goal of it - to note more than 6 things/sensations per second. As soon as your brain starts doing that - it starts breaking, as if getting short-circuit.

After around 4 days I started noting 6 - 10 things, depending on a session.

I've had out-of-body experience, DMT-like experiences, kundalini awakening and many others.

Can't imagine what would happen if I went above 10+.

Where dis?

Thanks guys! Was looking for something like this as it's not that intuitive yet

What's the retreat?