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Higher consciousness has been known since at least the Greeks, but numbers possessing it were always small.

Why?

The physical world demanded different behavior.

Technology, for all its faults, offers us the chance to move beyond this collectively.

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This is the paradox of tech.

Physical needs are met easily, so a basic sense of meaning (through survival against odds) is lost.

But with physical needs met, the opportunity exists for us to find meaning beyond it.

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One thing the RP gets absolutely correct is that in attraction biological needs *must* be met, especially in youth (when the impulse is strongest).

Transcendance without experiencing physical satiation, at least at some point, is near impossible - the behavior of saints.

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Yet women who have had their animal (biological) needs met by a man become open to higher levels of growth.

Preselection and Persona through looks, status, game, masculinity check these boxes; later on Personality comes to the fore.

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Like Maslow's hierarchy, the base needs must be met before moving onto the higher ones.

Where the RP fails is seeing *only* the base needs. Be good-looking, masculine, but be one-dimensional and the relationship will stagnate regardless.

The soul searches for what's beyond.

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Attraction is but a small part of how the world will change, but it follows the overall pattern: taking the tried and true human behavior, but leveraging it for transcendent goals not survival.

The future does not lie in the 1950s. It lies in bridging the 1950s to today.

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It is easy to mock the idealism of 1960s counterculture now, given its failings, but remember it began for a reason. They saw something was off in our world of abundance - something was empty.

Issue was they tore down foundations rather than build upon them, making it worse.

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Our job now is to fix those foundations... but to construct them to also carry additional weight.

To build a new world, and in this case, new relationships.

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The way to new relationships is not dorky victimhood wrapped it "wokeness." It is not tit-for-tat whining. That is medieval consciousness brought to the sexual realm.

Use what you know about biological attraction to gain influence, and use it to help your woman grow.

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Sex, like sugar, is cheap and ubiquitous in the 21st century. There is nothing forbidden about it, it is freely available in physical and virtual forms... and in every flavor.

Obsession with it is spiritually akin to being a fat kid craving candy.

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If you're a kid whose never had candy before, fine. Binge.

It is low conscious behavior but the path to enlightenment more often than not runs through the mud.

Maybe you need to feel the problems before you internalize them.

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The high runs through the low. Truths in time become a half-truths.

The irony of the "red pill" is that its wisdom is relative; it is blue pill to the next level. Become entranced by red pill dogma and you'll become ignorant.

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My work and others resonates only with those who have gotten to a certain point. It's not a surprise it polarizes; consciousness is a pyramid, like the masses don't understand the elite's thinking few will understand ours.

But many of you are here & others are on their way.

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In many ways #Upstream is less a competitor to the manosphere than a place for men to go once they've squeezed that orange for all of its juice. This is why some understood us immediately and relished our message while others took it personally.

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Learn, integrate, and move on. Different mentors for different times.

If my message is not evolving in a year you should be moving past me.

I know there are levels beyond, even if I can barely see them.

2018 will be a year to test these boundaries.

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Oct 5, 2018
"I've experienced X"

"No you haven't, X doesn't exist"

- Fast track way to never learn anything about the world
The difference between me and other people is I never immediately dismiss someone else's experiences.

I know they may not UNDERSTAND their experience, or they may rationalize it poorly.

But if I haven't experienced something and others have, maybe they know something I don't?
I've spent TEN YEARS thinking incessantly about dating, sex & relationships

It's taken me through PUAs, polyamory / spirituality circles, the red pill, and now something else... a synthesis

Never once did I presume to know it all.

Only recently am I learning how far I've come.
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There are two aspects to this.

(mini-thread below)
The first is recognizing your own response to excess. People get desensitized when they are constantly dating. It's like with food - snack on junk and you lose the ability to taste real food. Or like scrolling a feed vs reading a book.

We don't need that many leads.
The second comes in response to the first: you begin to notice individual girls more and feel a draw to them. This is your intuition; these you approach.

My experience (and those of my clients) has been that these approaches almost always go well and lead meaningful dates.
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Aug 24, 2018
Dating sucks today because dating has become TRANSACTIONAL. No amount of numbers will change this.

Stop playing the same game and expecting different results.

Modern dating calls for a different game.

(THREAD)
I've been in this community for a decade and I've seen how it's changed.

The internet introduced collaboration between men, and PUAs assembled online to share tactics. This led first to bar/club game and then hacking online dating.
TRP came next, broadening the information in the tactics to a broader mating strategy, based on an understanding of culture.

Guys now have a foolproof approach to get laid, since they understand the biology of women and the sexual marketplace.
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Jul 3, 2018
People are so weird about this stuff. Don't go into debt for a ring, but there's nothing wrong with buying something nice if you can afford it - she's going to wear it every day.
Price comes down to 4 variables: carat, color, clarity, cut.

Carat (size) is up to you, but overrated
Color matters but top end unnecessary
Clarity doesn't matter at all (unless very bad)
Cut is the most important thing

You get charged for all these, so decide accordingly
I got my wife half carat or less in size (can't remember), above average with color, average clarity, and ideal cut.

Cut is what makes the diamond sparkle.

The ring is gorgeous and cost like $2500, looks better than 10k rings. It's her favorite possession.
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Jun 26, 2018
Biological Attraction is the man's "Burden of Performance"

I have talked about this over 1000+ times. I have written about it:

patstedman.com/2016/10/12/wom…
patstedman.com/2016/09/29/wom…
patstedman.com/2016/01/28/do-…

I will not write about it for 10+ years like other Red Pill "thought leaders"
Once you get the basics handled (these are BASICS) there are other things you must know to have a good relationship with women

If you cannot understand this, you are NOT ready to follow me

Maybe one day

Or maybe never

I don't care
Stop tweeting at me dumb shit like "durr you don't think men have to be masculine to attract women"

You are under cognitive dissonance

You are OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE

I am speaking to people who have internalized something you haven't
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May 23, 2018
Renaissances are about decentralization.

The printing press led to information, which led to the rejection of the priestly class that had previously controlled it.

There is zero difference with what is happening to the media today and the implications will be just as enormous.
People understand this surface part but miss the big picture.

A lot of people resisted new information. Once old institutions (somewhat) reformed in light of the pressure many remained committed.

So neighbors killed each other.

The 30 years war was an absolute bloodbath.
It was so bad even the eastern front in WW2 pales in comparison.

1/3rd of the Holy Roman Empire (roughly modern Germany) died.

Because people were not just fighting over “differences of opinion,” they were fighting over frame.
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