Leo Gura

Sure, one could do that. But it doesn't interest me.

I regard all that as nonsense.

No. That doesn't work on me.

It doesn't matter how developed or how much IQ you have, self-deception will get you. Christianity is a mind virus. If you have been infected with that virus from birth, it is almost impossible to extract. Christianity is HIV for the mind. You can have whatever IQ, it won't cure your HIV. This is why people keep returning to Christianity. It is lodged so deep in their minds that even mystical experience will not dislodge it. In the end people cannot handle total descontruction so they just return to some comfortable construct or fantasy. They were never in it for truth, they were in it for good feelings.

I have no experience of the paranormal stuff he describes. None. It's like he lives in another reality from me.

I don't like that you have to do so much counting just to see who is winning at Go. It's not elegant.

1) Makes it much easier to keep fat off. 2) Ends pigging out and feeling gross. 3) Most of the benefits will be unfelt and untestable, like living longer with less disease. But you will never even know for sure you received this benefit or if it was a fantasy.

There is a small pro-Western minority in Russia but the vast majority is on board for Putin's nationalist agenda. It suits their level of development and culture. It's always like that in every state. But people are fools and need to be whipped into order and peace with a stick. You give people freedom and they destroy themselves. This is the whole basis for government. That is correct, but he doesn't need to be some Spiral Wizard, he just does what is traditional and maximizes power and survival. That's how all conservatives and authortrians operate. They do what survival demands of them. They do this by linking the state's survival with their personal survival. Of course that is a factor too. But that also happens in the West. Trump and Musk do that too, conflating their personal power with what's best for society. There is a deep intelligence to authoritarianism. This needs to be understood before you mindlessly criticize it. You have to understand why it exists.

Ironically Tom also doesn't really get it. So yeah, there's many levels of getting it. So don't assume it's all the same understanding just because some similar langauge or concepts are used.

Very hard. Because how are you going to find these people and get them all in one space? Your target audience would be like finding needles in a haystack. Building such a community requires that you publish work that draws such people in. People will not come to an empty space, but they could come for you if you have something valuable to offer them. That's how this forum can exist. It could not exist if I just created an empty forum and asked people to come talk about personal development. You have to publish serious work to get people to come to you. Like by writing a brilliant book or creating a unique course or seminar. You need content. Content draws people in. An empty space does not work on its own. You can open an empty nightclub but no one will come without popluar music and lots of promption and marketing work.

It's hard for me to say what I am since I am too close to the matter to see it objectively. In some very specific respects I am very unique. But I'm also quite normal in other respects. I have a unique capacity for understanding things. A unique kind of intelligence. And psychedelics. Other than that, not much else. Genetics? Yeah, my intelligence is grounded in genetics. Is it a worldclass intelligence? Hard to say. Not by conventional measures of raw performance. But there is something unique in my ability to understand things. It's hard to say why that is. As far as mastery of skills goes, I am not a master of anything other than understanding the mind. Because I don't care about anything enough to bother mastering it. But even in the domain of understanding, my ability is very specialized. I am not good at understanding complex technical stuff like math, research papers, or computer code.

But it's a question of timing. Should the freedom come now or 50 years from now? It's not obvious what is best for Russia -- what Russian's can stomach. It's like saying, Saudi Arabia should have gay parades and drunk cocaine club sluts walking around outside. Eventually people will want it. Okay. But when will that society be ready for that? It takes time to develop into that.

So what? He was pro US until he got a good taste of US hegemony and self-absorption. The US was not willing to make any compromises with him. So he went his own way to safegaurd Russia sovereignty.

There are many ways to explain it. When in doubt, remind yourself that people are ignorant and have no understanding of how goverance works or what is best. I don't know enough Canadian politics to comment more specifically, but one thing I know is that these waves of populism are based in stupidity.

That is not giving him enough credit. Pushing back against American hegemony is not the same as killing the wife you love out of jealousy. It's higher than that. This is a matter of worldview and this fails to take into account the survival needs of Russia, which are different than the West. If you assume that Russia should be like the West then Putin seems crazy and selfish for stopping it from happening. But there is another view, which is that Russia has its own way and needs. That's the basis for this whole conflict.

It's a matter of perspective. Maybe it could be done, but you wouldn't want to live in such a society. Because you're talking about a civil war. You wanna live in civil war? Not that that's seriously gonna happen. But even in the wildest fantasies of it happening, how does this benefit anyone? Gun-fantasy conservatives are too ignorant to understand the costs of war. Afghanistan is not something we should model in the West.

I am making more new videos on that. Stay tuned. You are not going to find deeper explanations of it than mine. There are no such books because nobody understands it. This is a flimsy understanding. Worldview is far more relative than that. If your worldview led you to believe that your nation was in danger, you would have no problem sending a million of your boys to die at war. That is all consistent with love. That Americans or Western liberals cannot understand this show just how biased and clueless people are about the workings of the mind. Westerners love their countries but Putin don't? Po0ootin bad! This is a comically self-absorbed understanding of the situation.

Deconstruct it. It's fantasy. None of these shamans or "healers" are epistemically serious people. They have low cognitive development, and no amount of ayahausca will fix it. Self-deception is a bitch. Be ware of all the spiritual group-think happening in these communities.

I'm not.

As long as you aren't selling the music files, there is no problem. Other then finding people to buy it.

Dialogue is not going to solve this issue. The issue isn't occuring on that plane. It is convenient for a podcaster to believe that lots of talking will fix the world. I found the interview shallow. Nothing of substance was said.

Funny enough, everyone is shitting on Lex for saying that Putin loves Russia -- how that's impossible -- but Lex is right, even though he is very naive about how war works and power works. Lex's comment section is a great example at how clueless people are about the relativity of love and worldview in general. All sides are so ignorant of the self-deception their minds are playing.

Yeah, Canada is such an awful place.

Interesting idea. I have not tried. Seems too solipsistic. I have more fun against a bot.

Kastrup is not that advanced. More serious spiritual people should understand. Although I have stopped trying to account for what others are conscious of as that is a fool's game.