Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights

The scale of our universe is insane:

Actually, the scale is infinite. God is Infinite Scale. Up, down, in, out, in every direction, in every dimension.

This is nuts:

Can your enlightened guru do that?

The intelligence of survival strikes again ;)

Lord of Cactii.

Interesting science:

Really good insights into the rapidly approaching future of AI and its impacts on humanity:

This is how an advanced alien mind might experience reality:

When I say alien, I mean REALLY alien. Ways of cognizing reality which the human mind cannot imagine. An advanced alien mind would represent things to itself in very unusually, multi-dimensional, highly abstract and visionary ways. What the above represents is not just a different mode of perception, it's a different mode of cognition — a cognition so powerful it thinks in a multi-dimensional visual abstractions. Human thinking is mostly linear, sequential, and verbal, with very vague visuals. But if your cognition was seriously advanced it would start to look like the video above. It's a quantum leap in consciousness, like the difference between the mind of an ant and the mind of a human.

This is the kind of mind that's necessary to really understand reality. The human mind is not capable it. I call this hyper-mind.

When I say humans are stupid, this is what I mean. Humans are stupid relative to a hyper-mind. And no amount of education or meditation will give you hyper-mind, in the same way that you cannot educate an ant to have the cognition of a human.

Discovering hyper-mind was the greatest discovery of my life. All of the hardcore epistemic and metaphysical work I did in my life lead me to the discovery of hyper-mind.

I have been asked before, "What does Leo mean when he says jailbreaking the mind?"

Well... what I mean is far beyond "enlightenment" or anything the human mind can fathom. What I mean is, the discovery of hyper-mind. I jailbroke my mind so deeply that I turned into an alien intelligence. At least for a short while, not permanently. That's where all this work ultimately leads.

I collect and bid on rare ancient masks.

Check out this Egyptian mask on auction right now:

It's from 1,500BC! 3,500 years old!

I've never seen one like this for sale. What a find! Selling for $16,000.

You can learn a lot from Scott Galloway about managing your finances.

But also notice, even though Galloway has a lot of wisdom and experience to share in the financial domain, fundamentally his relationship to money is dysfunctional and corrupt. He has 4 mansions and over a $100 million dollar net worth, yet he still feels financially insecure. Are you kidding me?! How the fuck is everybody else in the world supposed to survive and thrive? The way Galloway acquires that money is through all sorts of excessive capitalistic manipulations, backroom deals, and special tax breaks. This is the reality of the corrupt nature of capitalism and investing. It's like an addiction and it causes great harm to society even though the people doing it — like Scott Galloway — are otherwise kind, decent, empathetic people. But they just get sucked into this culture of capitalism and they cannot stop themselves because they would lose their sense of purpose and meaning. They wouldn't know what to do with themselves. So this is nothing to aspire to.

How many homes, how many hundreds of millions do you need to hoard? How much wealth do you need to extract from workers, customers, and creatives? Galloway's wealth is coming from somewhere, and it ain't from the hours he worked or the amazing things he's created. He didn't create $100 million worth of new things. This kind of relationship with money is distorting and corrupting society. And it's considered completely normal, acceptable, and even aspiration in the circles that Galloway runs in, and the people who follow his YT channel.

What's most disturbing about listening to Galloway is that he's otherwise so intelligent, wise, and caring, but even that is not enough to get him to stop these exploitative, manipulative capitalistic games. It's not like Galloway is a ruthless, careless Wall Street wolf. But he still effectively makes his money as those Wall Street wolves do. That's how sick and addictive this game is.

What I want you to understand is that people who corrupt the system are so steeped in the corruption that they consider themselves the good guys, the average Joe just trying to make it. A guy with a $100 million dollars is sitting there thinking that he's the little guy just trying to make in the world against "the man". No! You are the corruption, with all your polite manners and caring personality! That's how difficult this issue is. There's so much of this kind of bullshit within the financial world. It's an utterly corrupt culture these people swim in. And I say this as someone who likes Scott Galloway as a person. He's not a bad guy. He's just immersed in a culture of systemic corruption and exploitation.

People who turn the pursuit of money into a career have a lot in common with people who turn sex into a career. Your career should not be about making money, it should be about creating great things. That is a big difference. People who purely pursue maximization of money corrupt and distort society in many gross and subtle ways, from the way they lobby the government, bribe politicians, pervert the tax code, hoard up real estate and drive up prices, bribe universities on behalf of their children, etc.

As I've said elsewhere, The way humans acquire and distribute wealth in our society is monstrously unconscious.

If you have $5+ million dollars and 2+ mansions and you still feel financially insecure, you need to close down your brokerage account and go to therapy.

New report from Consumer Reports finds that Lunchables are full of lead and other heavy metals.

Be careful what junk you feed your kids. Baby food, baby formula, packaged kids food — has all been found to be full of toxic chemicals. Because it's designed to be as cheap as possible.

Basically, any kind of packaged food designed specifically for babies or kids is going to be toxic. Because the kids are too ignorant to care, and so are most parents.

And don't forget about pets. How toxic do you think your pet food is?

Ideally you should teach and help your kids to make and eat whole, unpackaged, unprocessed foods — not food marketed to kids. In practice, of course, this will be difficult because kids are so brainwashed with advertising and they don't care about their own health. Really, corporations and brands who target kids with advertising — like Disney — are doing the work of the devil. If we had a decent political system there would be a nationwide ban on advertising to children. Advertising to young children is mind rape.

Good presentation:

I recommend you read through and contemplate all the following Wikipedia pages on the major emotions, since these emotions will run your whole life and the life of everyone you ever meet:

• Emotions (general)
• Fear
• Anger / Rage
• Guilt
• Shame
• Embarrassment
• Hatred
• Anxiety
• Sadness/ Depression
• Regret
• Grief
• Happiness
• Loneliness
• Disgust
• Boredom
• Hubris/ Arrogance / Pride
• Pleasure
• Suffering
• Awe/ Wonder
• Envy / Jealousy
• Gratitude
• Inspiration
• Ecstasy / Bliss
• Amusement
• Love
• Desire / Craving / Lust
• Nostalgia
• Shyness
• Apathy
• Empathy
• Emotional Exhaustion
• Insecurity
• Fatigue
• Stress
• Trauma
• Frustration
• Passive-Aggressive Behavior
• Denialism
• Defense Mechanisms

That's a lot of reading! — which they should have made you do in middle school.

Get good at recognizing and identify all these emotions within yourself and others.