Leo Gura

Don't worry, there will be cupcakes for all.

@Majed It's generally not a problem except for the children part.

A nice cold grave. Ask not what the Earth will offer you, but what you will offer the Earth.

Yes. You're in a comfy dream now. No one is forcing you to leave it. You can dream as long as you want. No different than saying I ate a cheeseburger but you did not. No way. There is so much more to understand. However I could I say that I understood the biggest picture: Reality is INFINITY. Many details though I still don't understand. Understanding the nuances and trickeries of Infinity is very challenging. You just need to take time to integrate that experience and overcome your fears. It took me many terrifying encounters with infinity to reach a point where I can play with it now. And still my trips can be scary, especailly if I dose too high. All of spirituality boils down to overcoming your fear of Infinite Love.

That's the best description of socializing that I've ever heard. Exactly! Now go enjoy some ping-pong Stop being so serious. Be deep on your own time, and be goofy when out in public. Be a wise goofball.

Step #1: move to a cool city with nice nightlife or social scene. Step #2: Force yourself to go out and socialize at least every Fri & Sat. Do this every week for several years like clockwork, don't quit or make excuses, and your problem will be solved.

@rnd You should educate yourself about how drone strikes, deaths, and civilian casualties went up significantly after Trump took office from Obama. This right-wing notion that Trump is some kind of peacekeeper is perposterous. Trump does not give a damn about human life in 3rd world countries and he would start a war as soon as it served his egomaniacal ends. Trump wanted to nuke a huricaine in Florida. That's what a lethally dangerous idiot he is. And he sold $110 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia to fuel their genocide in Yemen. $350 billion over 10 years. It's not Biden who is sending Ukraine weapons, it's the whole US Congress and all of NATO to prevent the total annexation of the country by Russia. You got a really bad sense of what is what.

When I die, anyone on this forum with over 1000 posts must be buried alive with me. In my tomb. This is my final wish

The topic is understanding everything about Consciousness, Mind, and God. Eventually both, but the book is far away so don't wait around.

You should also take into account that the things I say on this forum are not my formal teachings. I say a lot of things here flippantly and casually, as I develop them in my own mind. This forum is a testing ground for my ideas, which then get formalized and released as videos, courses, and books. When I release my course or book, that's where everything will be laid out perfectly. I use feedback and reactions from this forum to refine how I formulate and articulate my teachings. Especially with new and radical topics such as this alien stuff. My work has an unusually iterative and sloppy style. I do a lot of rapid refinement of things I post until eventually it turns rock solid. It doesn't start out rock solid because these topics are so tricky and nuanced and I prefer to hash it out in public rather than work on it for years alone in the dark. So expect a lot of evolution in how I frame things and in my positions. I have no attachment to my own positions. This not an ideology we are building.

Because the whole country is deeply corrupt. This is the whole challenge of leading Russia. You are captain of a ship rotten to its core. And yet you must still pilot it somehow, or they kill you. Russian systems are notoriously incompetent. This has always been a problem in Russia. The Russian military has never worked through professional management and excellence. It has worked through sheer brute force. Throw a million troops on as cannon fodder and you'll win the war. That's how Russia has traditionally survived.

It looks exactly like me. It had a giddy, frenetic, excited energy to it. When I say only my POV is real, what you need to read that as is: only your POV is real. I'm open to that idea. I'll believe it when I see it. I stand by my outlandish statements. But they have to understood carefully, not too simplistically.

You can stop listening to me, but not too soon. I still have much to teach you before you must move on. Depends how far along you are. You have to judge for yourself if listening to me is helping you advance or not. I am talking about a very advanced stage of development that most humans will never reach so it's a nonissue for them. I have not lost the ability to consider other views. I just understand where all authority lies. I don't have a good answer.

Not normal

He's also human, so his ego is tied in with all this. It's a mixed bag.

I don't know. I haven't really looked into it. I'm sure you could find some if you looked far enough. I honestly don't care. I've met people who have claimed to be conscious of oceans, rocks, plants, colors, and all sorts of strange shit. In my mind, I'm literally the only conscious thing that exists. Spiritual masters do not exist for me. I have completely internalized all authority in the universe unto myself. There is no authority outside of God. If you want to fully awake, you will be forced to do this. And if you don't do this, you will never fully awaken. I have simply stopped looking to people to tell me what is true anymore. You might say this is dangerous, but actually the opposite is more dangerous. So be careful what masters you look up. God has no master. And you are God. Of course you will have to eliminate me as a master within your own mind, along with all the others. No other! Only Self.

I of course acknowledge that spiritual teachings have their relative use. But in order to reach the levels of consciousness that I now reach, I had to throw it all away. Perhaps I go a bit overboard with this as I have to over-correct. In my own mind had to reject the notion that anyone at all is Awake but me. This may sound arrogant from your POV, but it was absolutely necessary for me to do this to break free of the illusion of other. You have no idea what ancient civilizations were conscious of. It's all speculation. And also simply irrelevant to your consciousness now. And the levels of consciousness I reached are unaffected by any ancient civilization. I am literally talking about how to become the most conscious thing in existence. Nothing can be more conscious than you. Because there will only be you. There won't exist any civilization when you are this conscious. All of mankind will just be a figment of your mind. Open. I didn't come into contact with it. I recognized that I was an alien. I came pretty close.

Again, you have to consider the alternative. Consider the gamble of letting NATO just swallow Ukraine forever while you sit around and do nothing. From Putin's perspective it's NATO that's shaking up the status quo by expanding ever eastward. I don't know. I'm not saying Putin's worldview is correct. I think it would actually be better for Russia to accept Westernization and just ally with the West. But then again, I'm from the West so that's my bias. They obviously don't like the West like we do and I'm not aware of all the costs and compromises this might involve for Russia. This is very complicated stuff and you can't appreciate it until you sit down and start negotiating with the West. What kind of deals are they gonna give you? How fair will the deals be? I have no idea. If Putin is to be trusted he says the West is impossible to negotiate with fairly. Is that true? I don't know. But it well could be. I also don't know much about Turkey's situation and what kind of deals and/or compromises they had to make. I'm sure Russia could play a similar role if Putin's worldview and values were different.

I don't think it's the same at all. There is a giant difference between becoming conscious that the Earth is conscious, vs just treating the Earth like Gaia, as hippies tend to do. Most New Age spirituality, even if it is in the right direction, it's still just beliefs and group-think. It's not based on deep awakening. I think extremely few people have been directly conscious that the Earth is conscious. Isn't that always the case with everything? It was hard for me to enjoy the ride because for a long time I was using the wrong methods and following the wrong teachings. I got a lot of bad spiritual ideas because I assumed these spiritual people knew what they were talking about.

By invitation from me.

No, you just have a very narrow view. He doesn't care about outsider opinion. That's not his aim. His aim is strengthening Russia according to his traditionalist, nationalist values and worldview. There are much bigger things at stake than some silly bridge or territory. You think this war is bad, but consider the alternative. Was Putin just supposed to sit around and let the West slowly creep its way into Russia until Russia was too weak to mount any kind of struggle? That scenario was worse in Putin's worldview. Creating a great power can involve breaking a few eggs and incurring some short-term pain. I'm not saying he's guaranteed to succeed, but he's not the kind of guy who will just sit meekly in the corner out of fear. He's at least gonna try. Maybe it won't work. And maybe it will. It's still not clear what the West will do. Putin might be able to hold Crimea and his land bridge. Or get a neutral Ukraine. And that's good enough for him. Putin has the benefit of patience. He can wage this war for 5 years. Meanwhile NATO will get tired and move on to something else. All Putin has to do is be steady and persistent while Western neoliberalism gets distracted like a squirrel on crack. Putin can also form stronger alliances with China and India, creating an alternative to the Western order. Really look at it from Putin's POV. Just assume that your #1 job is to strengthen Russia, and also assume that Americas will try to fuck you as soon as you let them. Now what do you do? This is Putin's situation. Giving into Western values is not an option. Take that option off the table for yourself. See what options remain.

Dude, he already has infinite power. He does not need more personal power or wealth. That's not what motivates him. He's already the richest man in the world. A few billion more will not do anything for him. He's not in it for the money or fame. He's in it for Russia. He's a true believer in Russia. His life purpose is to make Russia as strong as possible for the good of the Russian people. His #1 priority is to uphold the sovereignty of Russia, so Russia does not get raped over a barrel by American wolves and their NATO allies and fucked like in WW2 where 20 million Russians died. Or fucked like in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed and American wolves moved in to rape the country. He is also defending Russian culture against corruption from the gays and other such Western forces. He is a traditionalist. He does not want Western progressivism to infect Russian culture or politics and weaken it. Putin manipulates people in the service of defending Russian sovereignty. Not because he's an evil greedy guy with nothing better to do. You have to really appreciate the challenge he's taken on: He has to return Russia to its former glory without it all falling apart. This is an epic responsibility.

If you want an understanding of Putin's worldview, study Alexandr Dugin. They have the same worldview. Basically, they fundamentally disgree with liberalism and see it as a kind of oppressive force. What they want instead is a Russian nationalism. This debate is basically the clash of the NATO vs Putin worldview.

From what I have seen, there were multiple factors: 1) The West, NATO, and the US were always hell-bent on maintaining hegemony and power. So they were never going to seriously allow Russia to be an equal partner or regain its former super-power status. 2) Putin couldn't really align himself with the West and maintain his authoritarian control. For Putin to align with the West he would have to buy into the whole notion of democratic norms, elections, term limits, free press, and that kind of stuff. 3) Putin's worldview is simply very different from the West. The West has an internationalist worldview whereas Putin has a nationalist worldview. Putin simply does not want to allow American neoliberalism and globalism, and West culture to infect and corrupt Russian culture. For Putin this is a question of preserving Russian nationalism, culture, and sovereignty. 4) The US broke its promises and kept expanding NATO further and further eastward, forcing Putin to make counter-moves to defend his position. Putin complained for many years that the US was encroaching on Russian defense agendas and not taking Russian concerns seriously. The US became impossible to negotiate with, according to Putin.

No one has been demoted. Old Mods often become inactive so I look for new ones to add to the ranks. First I demoted him for going too heavy on the Neo-Advaita talk to the point of becoming a pain in the ass to communicate coherently with. Then I was forced to ban him for secretly recruiting our members. This is old news. It was all aired in the public eye.