Leo Gura

When someone calls himself "unspiritual", what more do you need to know? Railing against spirituality is the new religion, LOL. It's sort of like those non-conformist kids in school who all non-conform so conformly. Someone should start a YT channel called UnUnSpirituality

@CreamCat Don't look for people to hold your hand. Just do it.

We already have a Joe Rogan thread.

@Equanimitize That is the crack spot

@d0ornokey Do you want "arbitrage" written on your tombstone? Then why are you doing it? Do stuff that you would feel proud to have written on your tombstone.

@optimize First of all, these are quality problems. Acknowledge how far you've come. You've build something rare and you ain't done yet. Secondly, yeah! Welcome to survival! Survival is a cut-throat activity. It is not easy to balance between business & art. It is not easy to run a conscious business. Which is why virtually no body does it. Yes, your business can get fucked at any time, and if you neglect it for too long, it will probably die. Such is life. There is no life without death. The solution is to accept it and face your fear of failure/business-death. I used to get these fears a lot. I still get them to some extent but a lot less so after my many mystical experiences, which teach me that death is inevitable and nothing to be afraid of. After you experience a few physical deaths, business death doesn't seem so serious any more. That said, if you are going to be running a business you should run it well, strategically. Think about ways to make your business more future-proof and self-sustaining. You can do that without being paranoid about it. Make the distinction between being strategic and proactive vs being paranoid. You can do one without doing the other and vice versa. Of course your survival is tied to your business performance. Business IS survival. The solution here it is not get too wrapped up in survival. Yes, survival is necessary but don't make your entire life about survival. Don't make your entire business about survival. You must skillfully evolve your business beyond survival to incorporate play, artistry, beauty, and consciousness. This must be done while still keeping one eye on your finances. Just like how an artist cannot paint all day long without eating food. But it would be a mistake for him to get so paranoid about food that all he does all day is eat food and never paints. A balance must be struck between eating food and making art. Likewise between business and art. Most successful entrepreneurs end up workaholics. You should probably make time for other stuff like relationships, travel, spirituality, etc. Do that without neglecting your business. If you're earning $100,000 you should have enough money to hire a bit of extra help. Consider hiring an online contractor to help you out. Consider how to align your art with your biz. Yes, I always feel a desire to grow and expand my biz. But I have to be disciplined and say NO! to lots of opportunities because biz is not as important as spirituality, for example. I pass up on a lot of opportunities because biz cannot be your #1 priority in the end. That way lies disaster. How do I handle fears of my business getting fucked? At this point I've basically stopped caring. I've almost stopped caring if I die. This was made possible through spiritual work and profound mystical experiences which show me that biz and life are just a hallucination. None of my life or work really matter. This is all just a game. It's being done for fun and artistry. You could get run over by a bus tomorrow. So why worry about it? Getting over the fear of loss of my business took many years of work. It also helped that I saved up a comfortable nest egg. My YT channel could die tomorrow and I would still be able to live for 15 years without working. I strategically designed it this way. You can too. Not in a week, but in a few years time you could. Sometimes I still think of the business aspects of things, but at this point in my life, career, and development I spend more time thinking about living in a cave than running a business. You are not at this point yet. Maybe you'll get there in 5-10 years of work. It all depends on what your goals are for your life. For me, the point of business is to enable my passion and artistry. Design your business such that it allows you to do your art. Artsy fartsy stuff is not waste of time if it part of your life purpose and your life purpose is fueling your biz. The whole point is to align all these things in a balanced way. If you set up your business properly, you should be able to take time off to pursue spirituality, travel, leisure, art, relationships, etc. That will take some years to actualize, but it's worth it. The first few years of building a business usually requires LOTS of hours of non-stop work. But the whole point of all that work is so that in the future your business is more or less on auto-pilot. Tie the artsy-fartsy stuff to the success of your biz. Remember the importance of dynamic balance. See my balance video. Have a long-term strategic plan. Automate, outsource, and streamline stuff as much as you can. Fear is always a psychological self-deception game. Your fear is something you want to contemplate and face head on. Just building your biz more is never going to solve the fear of losing your biz. Your biz could be making $1 billion per year and you'd still fear losing it. Even more so! Because fear is never based in reality, it is purely mental. So explore that. To really overcome fear you must do deep spiritual work. Fear is inevitable without enlightenment. Overall, you're on the right track. Just fine-tune things and take it to the next level. Next level does not necessarily mean: more money & bigger biz. Next level means: a new balance, or action at a higher level of consciousness.

@captainamerica There is a deeper problem here. If daytrading offers no value, setting yourself up as a trainer of daytraders is just doubling down on the problem, you see? You are effectively creating a pyramid scheme. The whole point of a pyramid scheme is that it takes a product or service of no genuine value and makes it appear to have short-term value by convincing other people that it has value. If you realize that daytrading has little to no value, why are you positioning yourself to teach it to other people? You just geometrically multiplied your bad karma. It's as if I told you that robbing people's houses created bad karma so you come back to me and say, "What if I don't do any robbing myself but instead I train hundreds of people how to rob houses?" Lol Go create something which you know offers massive genuine value for mankind. Teach that! Do you really want to spend your precious time on this Earth teaching daytrading? Is that what you want your life to be remembered as: the daytrading guy? Is that really the best thing you can think of?

@Pouya It depends on how much they do it. 2-3 trips is usually not enough for the average person to get a profound nondual experience (when snorting/plugging). Most people need a rather large dose of it to break through, and the problem is, they are too afraid to do it. They do 1 or 2 small trips and call it quits before the breakthrough happens. Because the ego is hellbent on preventing enlightenment. Psychedelics do not work on people who are not metaphysically curious and serious. This is not a pursuit for lazy people just dicking around. You have to be serious about reaching Truth. You have to be willing to try and fail many times. I have no respect for people who do 2 trips and call it quits.

@Haloman You are also programmed to shit, eat, and kill. The key is to keep your base desires well-regulated via consciousness and wisdom. In other words, you can shit, but don't shit where you eat. You can have sex, but do so responsibly, authentically, and consciously. Or be an animal. It's up to you.

@SQAAD I would be more worried about absorbing viruses or sperm than memories Seriously though, the problem with people who have multiple partners is that they do not know how to relate consciously with 1 partner, nevermind 3 or 5. It's sort of like those parents who don't know how to raise or feed 1 child, yet they have 5. Classic case of biting off more than you can chew. It's a form of greediness. What is so lacking in you that you need any of that at all? << that's what you should contemplate.

@Pouya There is no way to do the work without doing the work. P.S. Well, maybe 5-MeO-DMT

Precisely because it is the end of you. Since you are the problem, the end of you is the solution Can't you see that the only problem in the world is you? What's left is: nothing! No self, no problem. It's a rather ingenious counter-intuitive move, akin to a queen sacrifice in chess. Takes vision and boldness to make such a move.

@Toby Awakening doesn't happen in 1 second. It first starts with arousal. Just like sex I don't see what's unclear about this. Kundalini takes time to fully awaken. Probably years of practice.

Oh, I thought you meant inhaling nasally. Inhaling a mist into the lungs through the mouth is an interesting approach. No idea about that. Would require experimentation. Might irritate the lungs.

@Jcent It's a good vision, but it will require a lot of work from you. Don't expect others to solve the hard problems for you. Your role is to create solutions to all of those sticky problems like financing, etc. You can start by studying & researching education theory. There are many serious scholars, experts, and academics working on the problems of education. But you should also realize that the biggest obstacles will always be bureaucratic, political, marketing, and financing. Education is a very touchy political issue. People are not just going to let you wake up their kids. They want their children properly indoctrinated. It will be very challenging to pitch a stage Yellow school to stage Blue/Orange parents in a stage Blue/Orange community. If you are serious about this vision, you should think of a way to gain 1st-hand experience with the actual issues of education. You can do this by getting a job within the education field and study it from the inside. Otherwise you will lack 1st-hand experience and your solutions will be utopian fantasies, not anything workable in the real world. The trick with lofty visions is that they also must square with how the real world works and the level of development that people are at. Coming up with grand visions is relatively easy. The hard part is figuring out how to actualize them.

@Hardkill The problem isn't that you're being dishonest with women, it's that you're being dishonest with yourself. Relationships are paradoxical. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. But I don't find maintaining a harem to be too developed or conscious. In my experience people who do that are generally not too developed. They are thinking with their genitals which can't lead to anything good.

That's your projection.

@CreamCat Nice video! I knew kids like that guy in elementary school. They would just draw all day long in class and they were fucking GOOD. My Mom is actually like that. From what I can gather, it requires a certain highly specialized brain type. Which then leads to 1000s of hours of practice because their brain type loves doing it. I would guess I'm the same as that guy, but with philosophy instead of art. To me philosophy is like an artform, and it comes as easily as that guy's drawings, but then there is also of course a ton of practice that goes into it. To do that much practice demands that you really love doing it.

@Jcent Depends on the level of consciousness of the person using it. A stage Orange person will use Bitcoin for stage Orange purposes. Which is basically why Bitcoin crashed in the last year. All the stage Orange Wallstreet-types wanted to use it to get rich quick. Some people see Bitcoin and all they think about is how to use it to make money. Other people see Bitcoin and all they think about is how to use it to experience God

@outlandish That's interesting but I imagine it would not be much different that regular old snorting. It will still sting and drip. Plugging should be superior.

@iGhost Nothing is hidden. What you're presently seeing is the storage.

Of course

@joeyi99 Of course. Do your research.

@VioletFlame Examine your own resistance to change and you will have your answer. Change = death

The older generations are not staying still. They too are evolving. Just not as fast as you whippersnappers would like. Like I said, it's due to the rigidity of the mind. The mind is resistant to change. It's a fundamental survival mechanic.