Leo Gura

Pure understanding is not the only thing at stake here. There is also Beauty, Goodness, Consciousness, God, Love, Health. All of that is at stake. But if you don't care about any of that, then spirituality is not for you.

How ironic that Destiny said that on video. If you're going to coach soldiers on not recording their war crimes, maybe don't record yourself. *Picard face-palm*

I disagree with your framing that I am paving some special "destructive path". You just can't predict how your path will unfold. The path is simply one of pursuing truth and consciousness, wherever that leads. Shit on your carpet is hardly a problem in the grand scheme of things. What's worth it for me is understanding ultimate reality. What's worth it is higher consciousness. But since most people do not care about understanding, I cannot say if it will be worth it for you. The point of this work is Consciousness itself. To develop a deep connection to the beauty of Consciousness. It takes a special kind of mind to appreciate that. If you prefer to live like an animal then it probably won't be worth it.

Great!

The studies you cite don't seriously challenge what I said. Like I said, find identical twins born with 70 IQ and cancer. Cancer late in life is very different from cancer in childhood. The existence of genetics freaks throws of these ChatGPT ideas in the trash.

Yes, I understand. Money, sex, fame, luxury is very alluring. It's how the Devil ensnares you, gets you to compromise on your higher values like truth, justice, morality, consciousness. The answer is three-fold: 1) Authentic spirituality is just hard. There's a good reason why its so rare and revered. Placing truth above every other value requires super-human courage and discipline. This cannot be made easy. You are choosing the hard life rather than the fun life. 2) With Awakening/God-Realization, your connection to God can become so profound that it gives you more joy than any materialist rewards like sex, money, and luxury vacations. So it's about building a really deep, serious connection/consciousness of God that makes all the Devil's enticements pale in comparison. But this level of connection is really hard to reach, requiring lots of sacrifice and work. 3) You can burn through some of your desires by pursuing them. Go have some sex, go make some money, go take some luxury vacations just to realize that you will still be left unsatisfied. The allure of the Devil's rewards start to lose its appeal once you've had enough of them. Eventually you realize the Devil's rewards are fool's gold and you start to crave real gold, which only God can give. Eventually you start wanting God more than you want luxury vacations to Egypt or threesome sex. How much threesome sex do you need to have before you realize that God is better? Well... if you're Aubrey, probably never. So here we are The more money, fame, and sex you have, the harder it will be to throw it all away for God.

There is a deep connection because wealth is usually acquired and maintained through untruthful, corrupt, selfish, unconscious means. It's really hard to earn $100M through conscious honest hard work. That kind of money usually comes from corruption, and it also corrupts the people who hold that kind of money. That kind of money certainly affects your spirituality. Spirituality is a battle against survival, corruption, and dishonesty. Rich people are in the habit of placing survival over truth. If you didn't place survival over truth, you would never get $100M.

The ego is extremely sneaky in its ways of survival. The ego uses polyamory as a way to broaden its search for the best partners, then once it finds the best one, it tries to ditch polyamory and go exclusive with the best it thinks it can find. But after a few years it gets bored or thinks it can find something even better. This is what's happening with Aubrey. He's jumping between poly and mono as it suits him. But then he rationalizes this egoic materialistic survival behavior as spiritual and divinely inspired. That's what's so offensive about what Aubrey is doing. He's trying to get away with calling selfish, materialistic behavior highly spiritual. But truly spiritual people don't want to buy this BS he's selling. To be truly spiritual is to transcend this materialistic chasing. But that doesn't fit Aubrey's philosophy that spirituality is supposed to be fun, exciting, and hip. He wants to be spiritual but also run around and have sex with whoever he happens to like that month. It's a sick, billionaire's idea of spirituality. It's like, how can I be spiritual but still keep my big luxury yacht full of servants and prostitutes? This is why I can at least respect Zen Buddhism. They are serious about a spartan lifestyle. When rich & famous people get their hands on spirituality they want to marry it with their luxurious lifestyle -- which is bullshit. Real spirituality requires surrendering luxury and materialistic decadence, not rationalizing. Running around having sex with random people is not spiritual. What's spiritual is surrendering that lifestyle to sit alone in a broom closet contemplating God. But you can't share that on Instagram. It's no fun. This is a great example of the sophistication and craftiness of self-deception.

You can think of ego as a survival complex. Collectives have a survival complex as much as individuals do.

Yes. Just stop making all these spiritual rationalizations for it, and stop proposing to people.

Sounds like his whole company is a giant sex network. How much sex with each other can all these people have? It's like if everyone on this forum was having sex with each other and calling it eros energy.

There's no contradiction. You can end this life and then dream you are Hitler, or a kangaroo. As far as solipsism goes, we've discussed this to death. Either you are conscious that you are dreaming everything and everyone, or you are not. You're not going to sit there and logically figure that out.

I only send my AI dick pics.

You are not looking at identical twins with bad genetics. Find a genetic twin with 70 IQ and cancer.

Writing for someone as pigheaded as him is a mistake. But yes, materialism will be deconstructed.

You not being a chimpanzee is just a limiting belief, bro.

I said it's more intelligent than many humans. Not more intelligent than an outstanding human. You should not use AI to create revolutionary work.

It is pure epistemology and metaphysics. It is not about personal development. It's about advancing mankind's understanding of mind and reality.

They get charged double.

Health is asymmetrical. It's very easy to lose and nearly impossible to create. The effort part is not losing whatever health you got from genetics. But if genetics didn't give it to you, you ain't gonna create it with effort. Effort just means not doing dumb shit to destroy your health.

That doesn't contradict what I said. Within that 1% you can do quite a bit. But no effort will make you Tony Robbins.

The correct theory is critical. That's what the book offers. Changing your state is beyond the scope of a book. I want people to swim deep into theory. I'm not a fucking Zen Buddhist.

It's already been 10 years. Understanding reality.

The difference between you and a chimpanzee is 2% difference in DNA. How important do you think genetics are to what you are?

Not at all. It's too much of a distraction from pure philosophy.