Leo Gura

Sorry to hear that. Alcohol can be wicked. Except you conveniently ignore all the disclaimers and advice given against mixing psychedelics with mental illness. No one who teaches about psychedelics thinks it is okay for a bipolar person to take psychedelics daily, for weeks and months. Everyone tells you that's very dangerous. That is called abuse of psychedelics. Yes, abusing psychedelics can be lethal. No person with mental health issues should be taking psychedelics daily. That is crazy. Perhaps Connor was normal, but lots of psychedelics can unlock latent mental illness. Psychedelics don't cause bipolar, but they can unlock it if one was already prone. Psychedelics are just like guns. Reckless people will certainly injure themselves with it. That is not the gun's fault. The gun is doing its job. What ever happened to responsibility? Whose responsibility is it to use psychedelics carefully? Why is that responsibility crucial?

That is interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Psychedelics heighten the manic delusions. That's why they are dangerous for bipolar. Especially daily chronic use. That will send the manic episodes out of control. If I was manic while doing 5-MeO for a month, I could easily have killed myself.

Hey, ya'll, I need your help! I want to create a comprehensive list of video examples of prototypical stage Yellow thinking. This is not meant to humiliate or demonize stage Yellow. It's meant to be an educational tool for people learning about Spiral Dynamics. So towards that end, scour Youtube and find all the videos you can which exhibit stage Yellow thinking. Try to find videos which are short and sweet. The more diversity we can display here, the better. Try to find examples from various cultures: Europe, Middle East, Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Africa, South America, etc. We will create a mega-thread like this for every stage in the Spiral, from Red to Turquoise. But here, let's just focus on Yellow. Each week I will start a new mega-thread topic for the next stage. Do not start a political debate in this thread! It is not our goal here to defend our personal political positions or to judge any stage, but simply to compile examples. Thanks for your help! I'm excited to see what kind of juicy stuff you dig up. Try to be selective with your choices. This can turn into a really cool list. Stage Yellow Values: Nuance & complexity Openmindedness Perspective Novel concepts & POVs Generating fresh insights Understanding Systems thinking Nonlinear dynamics Sustainability, long time frames Going meta Big picture vs technical analysis Holistic analysis Synthesis Connecting the dots Penetrating to the core of an issue Identifying & solving root problems A multi-disciplinary approach Mixing hard & soft sciences Creativity, outside-the-box solutions Ecology Responsible ways of being Studying models Spiral Dynamics Natural hierarchies Education, knowledge, research, reading Reading lots of diverse books Clean content, concentrated information Life-long learning Expertise, competence, experience Context, learning from history Developing skills to become an instrument for the greater whole Independent thinking Neutrality: Being objective/impartial Designing solutions for the entire Spiral Meeting people where they are at Building bridges Social engineering Ecological designs Reducing the suffering of living systems Pulling ideas from many sources Combining different ideas, models, theories Left-brained Vision & purpose, being a visionary Requisite variety, mental flexibility Self-actualization Paradox Uncertainty Responsibility, independence, autonomy Being a lone-wolf Stage Yellow Examples: Abraham Maslow, Eben Pagan, Fritjof Capra, Carl Sagan, quantum mechanics, fathers of quantum mechanics, David Bohm, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, Arthur Eddington, Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, John Archibald Wheeler, Joseph Campbell, Erich Fromm, Clare Graves, Don Beck, Spiral Dynamics, Ilya Prigogine, chaos theory, cybernetics, biomimetics, NLP, Alfred Korzybski, the leading edge of academia, futurists, StarTrek humans & Vulcans, Prime Directive, sustainable living, ecology, eco cities, conflict resolution, Wikipedia, Buckminster Fuller

Don't be too available.

What you see in video is not the full picture but only what he wanted you to see. He was not truly happy. Manic states never last.

I don't think Connor wanted to die. He was just reckless and thought he could get away with it forever. His luck ran out.

You are my mind.

No woman's body is as beautiful as my mind.

Splitting hairs over wrong/self-deception is silly. Can you distinguish them? Of course. But there is no need to do so in this discussion. You really think I don't know the difference between these two concepts?

Cute deflection, padawan.

Same thing.

Of course no one is excluded from being wrong. But the ego will use this truth against you.

Why would anyone have a high risk appetite for their hard earned money? Unless it isn't hard earned.

Self-deception is that deep. Of course not always. Sometimes I am just wrong. But how do you know when its which? How do you know that "Leo is wrong" is not your self-deception? That's what makes self-deception so devious. Self-deception corrupts your ability to judge self-deception.

It is more sneaky than that. People love the "not even Leo" part because it allows them an escape valve to maintain their self-deceptions. Any time the ego hears something from me that it dislikes, the ego can just say, "Well, even Leo says he could be self-deceived, so this is that." But is it really? Is Leo self-decieved, or are you? That's the billion dollar question.

You guys really love the "not even Leo" part.

You can go on Yelp.com right now and search for spiritual therapists and counselors. There are thousands of them. Finding a spiritual therapist is not hard if you specifically search for it. You can even find psychic therapists. I did. I went to a therapist who would read my life as we did therapy.

Yes, but mostly to combat inflation. Inflation will probably spike in the future because Trump will crash the economy and then the US gov will need to print money like crazy to bail itself out. Cash has become too inflation-risky. Inflation is killing us. Gold is the solution to that. Another option is high dividend stocks. But even those will crash along with tech. 10 years from now, gold will probably double due to inflation alone. Gold is the safest long-term investment aside from real-estate. But gold is much more liquid.

@Joseph Maynor

Sunglasses fashion trends. Every decade is a new sunglass style everyone copies like an ape.

Smoking cigars to look macho.

Connor's downfall is tragic, but a silver lining is that he demonstrates the importance of being much more careful in spiritual work. I hope everyone here learns that lesson from him. Be more careful. Don't rationalize reckless spiritual behavior. And if you have mental health issues, seek out professional help. Don't just try to wing it.

Selling and buying supplements. Such a mindless thing.