Leo Gura

Dude, we even call MAGA voters crazy. Calling people crazy is such a low bar. Bigots will call anything crazy when it contradicts their dogmas. When normies call something crazy, all that means is its outside their intellectual comfort zone.

Yes, but that goes very deep. That can be done functionally or dysfunctionally. Transcending sanity can easily become delusional if you aren't very epistemically careful. The key is to avoid delusion. Access whatever states you like, but don't become deluded.

Yogis seem to have siddhis because India is a heavily Stage Purple culture. Hindus believe in magic.

Sure, you can do it that way. This is like throwing out all your food when you decide to go on a diet. Haha.

There are many dysfunctional and unhealthy mental states. So be careful. But of course Infinite Consciousness is not bounded by sanity or functionality. But don't get the simplistic notion that being mentally unhinged will make you intelligent. It will more likely get you killed or arrested. You all get a glimpse of insanity when you have a bad dream. Infinite Consciousness is like an unconstrained dream. Crazy things can happen in dreams.

The flaw in this logic is the conflation of what "you" means. You are God but your ego is not Omnipotent. Your logic tries to make the ego Omnipotent, which is a mistake. You can just observe that your thoughts do not directly manifest themselves. You can sit for 12 hours straight visualizing a lightning bolt will kill you, and no bolt will hit you. This proves the ego's thoughts do not directly materialize. But they can indirectly, like if you think about chasing tornados, lightning is more likely to hit you. Magic is real for God, not for the ego. Magic is Infinity, but ego is finite. To have magic you have to surrender the ego's attachment to outcome, even attachment to staying alive. Then magic will happen. As long as ego is trying to manipulate Reality, that's not magic, that's survival, that's business as usual. The ego is sneaky, it wants to use God to manipulate Reality for survival. But that isn't Good, that's evil. That's what every dicatator does. Kings and tyrants believe their will is God's Will, which delusional.

Even though Awakening is self-evident, you still must dare to imagine it. You must dare to imagine even higher Awakenings. The deeper the Awakening, the more daring and imagination it takes. The shallow Awakenings are easy and mostly automatic. The very deep ones are not automatic.

Of course. Mind = Truth. Yes. But not just that. You need to realize that the nature of Truth/Mind is that nothing outside itself exists to validate it. As long as Mind is asking others to validate it, then Mind has not yet realized that Mind is God/One. Being God means knowing there is no one who can tell you what is right. Notice that all of math is self-evident. Math does not require asking anyone what is true. That's why math is so powerful.

Mind has to acknowledge whatever the Truth is. The problem is Mind is refusing to take responsibility for this in most people. Most people, if they experienced solipsism for example, would not have enough autonomy to say, "Okay, this is the truth." They would run to find some expert to ask if solipsism is really true. That is the mistake. You need to reach a point where when you see the Truth, you accept it, and not ask anyone else for their opinion. Truth needs to be self-evident, or Truth wasn't realized. If you need someone else to validate Truth for you, then you haven't yet grokked Truth. Do you need a professor or preist to tell you that 1+1=2 is really true? No!

That's the key: short lived. You could not function from that state. You can have glimpses of insanity but then return to sanity. That is a great queation!

Fox News has been that for 30 years now.

The problem is you frame it as "my version of Awakening". But I didn't invent Awakening. Awakening is way too wild for me to have invented it. I wish I invented it. I would love to put my name on it. A baby can experience anything an adult can experience, in theory. But a baby has no clue what God is. Even if a baby has an Awakeming it would just be confused and scared. Most adults would be confused and scared. I think the issue here is that you haven't become seriously conscious of God yet, so you are assuming it is something a baby can grok. I am not talking about concepts. God is not a concept. Degrees of consciousness and comprehension of God is not a concept. Frankly, I do not think you have a reference experience for what I mean when I say "God-Realization". You might think you know what I am pointing to, but I might be pointing to something else. Your version of Buddha-nature, a baby could have. But that it not God-Realization in my view. Awakening requires no confusion about what God is. If there is a bunch of confusion, God has not been grokked. Yes, Awakening requires Intellect. That is not a problem. Awakening is the highest state of Intellect. If a baby became conscious of what I became conscious of, it would be traumatized. I think you are stuck on the idea that Awakening has to be formless, so you dismiss any forms if they get involved. This is a limited notion of Awakening. Can a baby have an experience of no-self? Yes. But that should not count as God-Realization.

If you were in insanity you could not function. You would be hospitalized. They would feel that way at times, but just cause it feels insane doesn't mean it is insane. The ego is scared of insanity even more than death. So the ego loves to fear-monger to itself about insanity. It is like when you have a flu and you think you are dying. You are not really dying, but the ego fears it so much that it believes it. Of course a few people could literally go insane, but this is very rare. There is a way to do this without becoming dysfunctional and delusional.

Hard to say. It depends on whether I want to release smaller volumes or one big book. If one big book then far. If smaller volumes, then closer. Audiobook for sure, but I don't know if it's a good idea for me to voice it since my voice won't sound as professional and polished. Voice acting is its own profession.

I am planning to change the font that's currently used for all my future black and white Actualized Quotes on the blog. I am planning to switch to a more classical serif font. The old font is sans. I'd like to hear your feedback. Which of the following fonts do you think looks and reads best? Select one. https://www.actualized.org/downloads/font-test-01.png

By thinking. You have to actually think, not just consume.

A venue has to give a platform to a Nazi? I think not.

Only if the other person is crazy and refuses to leave you alone.

No one has the obligation to do business with you if they dislike your political opinions. That is not a violation of the Constitution. The violation happens when government officials punish you for speech. In fact, businesses make celebrities sign morality clauses, which punish the celebrity for being immoral in public.

Most places on the internet become echochambers unless proactive measures are in place.

Reddit has some very useful and great content, but it all depends on the topic and subReddit. Some subReddits are toxic echochambers, other subReddits are great. SubReddits on health problems and psychedelics are really good and useful.

China invading other countries would be as disastrous for China as Ukraine is for Putin. You cannot invade countries successfully in our current era. That time is over. Invading a country is like rape. Today, the social cost of everyone knowing you're a rapist is too high to be worth the rape.

There are already strict laws on how much fish is allowed to be fished. Those laws just need to be enforced. America has been regulating fisheries for over 100 years, with good success. Many fish populations have recovered thanks to regulations.

You cannot take understanding out of Awakening/God-Realization. God IS self-understanding. That's all it ultimately is. When you understand yourself totally enough, you will know you are God. That's all there is to it.

If you think human progress is a myth, go live in the Congo. This guy pontificates about progress being a myth while sitting atop the mountain of progress. Progress is indeed normal and will continue to happen regardless of what anyone says or does. If you wanted to, you could not stop human progress.