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Wow y'all. Usual lurker here, and not a product of GATE or anything, but I was identified gifted and grown up the last 15 years invested heavily in the internet. When I was 14 or 15 I was reading all the rational-skeptic debunking stuff, gradually doing autodidact study, and quickly outgrew conversations with everyone around me. So I can relate.
I'm close to 30 now, and I've been able to keep it together because for over a decade I've challenged myself to work customer service jobs. I was a salesperson, and I was the worst, always stoned on the floor, never getting addons. I dragged the team down and rather than fire me they threw me on the night-shift then stopped giving me hours flat-out. I've been a crappy customer-service employee, giving awkward, strange advice and service for a long time. I've run unstructured, impromptu psychological experiments on people like rats in a cage. It was like grinding in a video game, learning about people and myself. How to explain shit. It's a dual personality for me, a split world, between my NEET shut-in self that deals in complex thoughts, and my shitty social life where I've slowly learned to be cool.
But it's worked. It's like my real high-school experience, which didn't pay out, was played out properly at work. In my 20s I was acting like a stupid teenager, got it out of my system, hurt people, learned to take on responsibilities and fail, etc. i.e. go through the experiences of attaching to others and awkwardly disappointing them and learning people the hard way.
I think that's the surest, straightest, but hardest path to building intuition. We all really know that practise makes perfect when it comes to sports or music or any trade, but the same is true with communicating and empathizing, maybe unless you are autistic or something.
Reading all your GATE stuff so far in the past day has been interesting, but you keep all using occult terms like the third eye. I get the sense that you haven't gotten the same take-away from occult wisdom/cabbalism that I have so I'll try and formulate it.
Everyone is a universe. That is, the ego is a weak structure premesid upon the strong stucture of the exterior, objective world constructed by the senses. By my reading, if Adam was is the universe which reached down and was trapped and gendered into male and female humans, then we are each a reflection of the universe. So the philosophers stone, or logos, or 3rd eye, or whatever, would give it's owner/vessel/whatever the ability to perfectly empathize, and see the unverse from all other's perspectives. So to intuitively do that, you must practise being a charismatic son-of-a-bitch, and develop real confidence on the success you have. Knowing math, and seeing the dissipation of force in archways or hidden signs in culture or whatever is just part-way to having a transendental eye. Seeing through the signs, to the real, the simple, the obvious, is what you get with real wisdom. It grants serenity, living in the now without meditation. Perpetual calm awareness.
This would be due to the nugget, or substance of the stone consisting of some sort of hermetic wisdom, or simple, perfectly intuitive axiomatic rules which much of human life could be reduced to, taking in them for granted the connections between individual psychology and group psychology etc. Obviously since the printing-press shit has slowly gotten crazy, but nowadays new wisdom must be formed by the first digitial natives. I.e. us. So you are all important, I think.
Anyway, somehow if you are all gonna try that route to sanity then that's my perspective so far. Really, the only way you will connect with the normies is to overcome your ego and realize you must internalize all that is in the world, good and bad, to see it intuitively. You must learn to see more than what you already see, into the hearts and souls of those you look in the eye. And it took me years of hurting people to do it. Watching normy-shit with a critical, media-analysis eye is useful. I think film-making is the century-long reverse engineering of how the human imagination works, so studying film-directing methodologies and learning to critically analyze films from, say, psychoanalytic framework or whatever is a great conversation starter for some people.
The point is, the dumb normies won't grow until someone hands them what they need on a silver platter made special just for them. So if y'all gonna change the world, you need to pull a Steve Jobs and plunge yourself into what you hate and learn the hard slow way. For him, suit-and-tie business, for you… well, that's for you to figure out.