Leo Gura

Nothing wrong with studying anteaters if you delight in it. The problem is he didn't. By the way, my university mascot was an anteater. We had an actual anteater on campus.

I'm actually working on a new line of understanding in which Absolute Evil can exist as a domain of Consciousness. But this is not stuff like human beings or evil grizzly bears. This is an insane trans-human domain of Consciousness full of actual monstrosities, demons, and literal Absolute Evil. Basically Consciousness can imagine Hell realms. I don't want to exclude that from Infinity. But I am opposed to the conventional human notion of evil humans doing bad things.

No, they do a lot of good openminded interviews of scientists and academics. They are good folk. Very openminded but not in a stupid way. They are very easy to talk to, which I enjoyed. They sometimes say silly things, but they are very open to being corrected and shown alternative ways of seeing it. I thought they would be more difficult. Which I prepared myself for. But it turned into a breeze.

That was one way of looking at it. Not the only way. There is truth in that asceticism is in a sense too easy because not dealing with people is much easier than dealing with them well. Begging for food when you could just make your own food is a kind of wrongness. But asceticism is also valid if done properly for proper reasons. It's a nuanced issue with various facets to it.

Wait till he discovers anteaters are a hallucination. Haha

Dude, no! War has nothing to do with Awakening. War is the biggest distraction possible from truth-seeking. I have no problem with asceticism. It is not suitable for most, but for some it is perfect. I will cherrypick the hell out of religion because it is so corrupt and confused. I only pick out the truth. I am telling you how to do Islam properly. If you don't want to believe me, okay, have fun finding God your way. Once you are conscious of God, it's very obvious what will move people to God and what is a distraction. I tell you guys the most direct methods to God. Because I want you to reach God as soon as possible.

I did manage to slip in one of my classic "science is slop". And Shilo responded with something like, "I've never heard science called slop before." And I was like:

They are not strict materialists. I don't know exactly what their ontology is. They basically believe in atoms, but also higher level stuff that is outside the domain of science. So they got this compartmentalized worldview where science studies hard stuff, but it cannot study non-hard higher order stuff like love or evil or demons or morality. It's like science has its domain and religion has its domain, and they are both valid and incommensurable. Yes, I was quite surprised having to argue against evil grizzly bears.

She told me about an evil grizzly bear. Lol

She told me that demons exist. They are really open to unscientific stuff. Suppose that's why they had me on. I had to talk them down from demons and evil. Lol

She wanted to punch me in the face to prove to me that evil exists. Lol

@Carl-Richard Bruh, you already know. DemystifySci

They wanted to talk a lot about good and evil. I twisted their brain into a knot when I told them evil does not exist. Imagine having to convince scientists that evil does not exist.

Of course. But that is beside the point. Ambition is existentially an illusion.

It is pure conversational. Pretty casual. Like a private convo between friends. It was not like an interview.

The conversation has been recorded. It was GOOD! Should be released in about a month. It's out of my hands now.

I don't know. Depends on who you are. Certainly if it happened you would run to the doctor for drugs.

Seems

You are being too flippant about how much culture and survival forces shape people's understanding of Reality. If you lived in the Middle East 1500 years ago, you would in for a rude awakening indeed. These people were hardly more developed than cavemen. And you want them to give you some kind of pure spiritual textbook that can compete with today's work? The only reason anyone knows about Ramana is because of internet and such. Nobody would know him 1500 years ago. Mohammad is known because he started a kingdom through conquest. That is how you got known back them. Not for being a hippie.

Yes! Yes! Of course. Ambition is rare. Most people have none and live like conformist zombies. However, there is a next-level mindfuck here for you. It comes when you eventually realize that these mediocre people were right. Ambition is an illusion. All your striving, and in the end you will never achieve more than just sitting and being, which you could have done from day one. Ambition is awesome, but also a giant illusion at the end of road. Look at Elon Musk. He his horny to go to Mars. But eventually he will discover it is a completely hollow goal. There is nothing to do on Mars once you are there. It is no better than scrolling through TikTok. Except TiKTok doesn't have you working yourself to death for an empty goal.

Of course

No more radical than your morning coffee existing.

It is enviable until one understands the costs. Then, no thank you.

Your mind will not remember things it does not need. Be careful trying to memorize a bunch of trival knowledge. Your mind is designed to remember what is practical to it.

He says a lot of stuff is required which isn't. Yoga is full of dogma.