Leo Gura

@Schahin You're never going to understand God through any kind of dualistic logic as you're using. God is way beyond all that. Take a psychedelic and see how all your logic melts.

@Schahin It's far more epic than you imagine. It's all possible paths because time/space are imaginary. This novel is not just one tale. This novel includes every possible story that could ever be told. And again, these stories are not linear. They are co-written by an infinite number of authors. It is TOTALITY!

@Mikael89 You are quoting authorities without direct consciousness of what is being talked about. This will not work. You are misunderstanding the people whom you are quoting.

Reality is the dream of an infinite intellect. Imagine a writer thinking up a novel. Except this novel is infinitely long, infinitely complex, infinitely deep, and every character in it plays a role in writing it. Since the writer is infinite he splits himself apart into an infinite number of sub-writers to accomplish the job. And here you are! Ta-da!

@Extreme Z7 Have you not learned to expect, by this point in this work, that reality is fundamentally paradoxical and at odds with itself?

There's not much connection in my mind between the two.

Fair enough. I could have been a bit more technical in my discussion of suffering. Suffering is a deep topic. There will be a video on suffering in the future, as it's an important topic.

@nowimhere I would suggest plugging it. Smoking too much can overwhelm him in a negative way. Someone with PTSD & depression you gotta be extra careful with.

@Mikael89 That you see hate in it is the hate you project into it. It takes a special kind of ignornace to view life -- the greatest miracle -- as hate. Look at a butterfly. How can you call it anything but Love?

Hehe, yeah. You see the problem? Look how you're beating around the bush rather than going straight for the simplicity of being. Drop what you were thinking about and look at your fucking hand. That's being.

You are not appreciating yet just how relentless survival is. Survival dominates EVERYTHING in life. It's almost impossible to see beyond survival. Almost. I suggest to you that you do not deeply understand survival, and that should invest more time observing it and contemplating it in action.

Look at your hand. That hand is an example of being. You must ground this work directly in what's right in your experience. Not abstractions. Being is the "stuff" that everything is. That "stuff" is consciousness.

He's a very nuanced thinker. Which is a breath of fresh air.

Yes, indeed, populism (aka, democracy) is a good thing. The problem is when right-wingers get a hold of populism. They turn it into ethnocentrism, a la the Nazis in WWII. Trump's populism is a fake populism because of course he doesn't give a shit about fixing systemic income inequality. He's using populism to create a culture war. This is a perversion of populism, which is supposed to be about increase democracy. But the culture war against the SJWs has blinded the right wing so much that they cannot see that democracy is being undermined. While the right wingers satisfy themselves on hating the SJWs, they overlook how the rich are just using this distraction to get richer. The right has misidentified the problem as globalist elite liberals, when in fact the problem is the systemic inequalities of the capitalism status quo. But right wingers cannot see this because they are traditionalists who blindly defend the status quo even if it harms their economic self-interest. The problem is the status quo needs to change. But conservatives, by their very nature, do not like change. They want to keep things as it was in "the good old days". But because society evolves we cannot ever go back to "the good old days", and they were never really good to begin with for many people. Conservatives create a fantasy/myth of the good old days and deny the reality of a rapidly evolving society. It's no accident that many conservatives deny evolution. They really don't like change. They want the safety of the past. But this cannot happen in an ever-globalizing world. We cannot go back to living as individual isolated nations. The world is too interconnected via technology & trade. The solution is to embrace change and take conscious control of it, rather than letting it unconsciously blindside us. What we need is proactive government, but we aren't getting it because conservatives have demonized proactive government as "big government", "communism", "government overreach", "world domination by liberal elites", etc. What we need is FDR style government that makes massive investments in domestic improvements and big picture coordination, similar to what we had for the space race. Government can do amazing things like moon landings if they are properly funded and given a clear vision. This requires good leadership.

You will have to be proactive and take responsibility for making it practical. Academia is not known for their practicality. You need to have a vision for what you want to create, beyond just getting a degree. A degree means shit. What do you want to create for the world? That is the key question. I think psychology is pretty decent. Of course it's scientific. It's a science! People do serious research in that field and that's important. But if your goal is to improve your own psychology, for that you are better off studying self-help on your own. Of course it would be highly valuable to scientifically study & validate various yogic truths. We need a lot more scientific research into spirituality.

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If you are a woman and by cat you mean pussy, then yes.

She clearly needs to watch the Self-Bias episode

You sly dog

@Matt8800 You gotta try some 5-MeO-DMT. It will blow your mind. Total omniscience is possible.

@Serotoninluv Of course it's all relative and there's a spectrum. People are free to define these terms however they want. I would say progressives are usually more left than liberals and progressives really care about making structural reforms to the system without too much concern for maintaining the old norms. One of those old norms is the dogma that capitalism is the only viable system and an absolute good. To me a progressive cares most about making serious changes to society to improve it. A progressive sees not making enough change as more dangerous than making too much change. Which is the polar opposite of a conservative. A progressive has a vision for how great society could be if we get our shit together and act big as a unit. Here's a good analysis of this issue: I consider Kim, Zizek, Bernie, Warren, and TYT progressives. Definitely not Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi. They are centrists. Basically a progressive understands the inherent limitations and injustice of capitalism. Whereas everyone else is in denial about it. I consider myself a progressive, but I don't consider myself a socialist. I think there are some serious problems with socialism which socialists are in denial about as well.

Here's a great interview:

@Serotoninluv Zizek is a supporter of Bernie. His position is that he's very much against Neo-Liberal Third Way corporate Democrats such as Joe Biden, Hillary, etc. He wants serious progressivism / social democracy. Zizek is basically more leftist than even TYT.

Truth is utterly paradoxical. That's not a bug, that's a feature.

Goodness is a facet of God/Truth/Consciousness.