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I had a dream a few days ago where Leo said in a video "I did 5-Meo for 30 days and I couldnt sleep for 3 days, I thought I was gonna die" and then he started crying. I was worried about him. But now I realized the dream was silly since Leo has already died thousands of times so why would he be scared lol.

If you leave behind the religion but keep the structure of your beliefs youve failed and youll become a dogmatic atheist/rationalist/materialist. The religion is not the problem, the beliefs are. Tear down the entire scaffolding. I believe God exists. I believe God doesnt exist. They are both beliefs. Notice that you actually DONT KNOW, no matter what side youre on.

Haha, so you trust it?

Is he pointing to the moon?

Blue puts the fear of God into violent Red. Its great. ??

Non-sense ideas can lead you on the path towards the realization that your ideas are non-sense. Strange-loop. Golden milestones on your path to nowhere.

Believing in Spiritual "stuff" may have lead you to meditation, epistemology and throwing away bullshit beliefs which in turn can lead to more well-being and peace of mind. So there is no good or bad here.

These axioms are not necessarily bad. They might lead you somewhere good in life, they can be pragmatic. But its good to go back in your past and see what assumptions you hold and what your ladder is built on.

1. Assumption: God is inside you. 2. Therefore Buddhism is my best bet. 3. Oh. Look heres a bald guy on Youtube who makes videos about Buddhism and other stuff. This is just a thought experiment...

Somewhere in your ladder there is certainly an axiom, something you take as a given, if you removed it your ladder might crumble. Example: "God can be found inside of you." Do you know that? Are you sure? Or did you naturally pick it up from your hippie-friend back in high-school and didnt question it and now you watch Leo to confirm your beliefs?

Why it can be so hard to explain/debate controversial topics or get people to understand something that seems obvious to you. Lets say you have 3 people. Two of them (Blue boxes 1 and 3) have built a foundation of knowledge that builds towards a conclusion/full picture (green box). For example: The people on this forum know what spirituality is, we have come from different backgrounds but we have built a ladder of connected ideas that make sense to us towards a full picture. Now lets say you have a person that has never learned about spirituality or some other topic (blue box 2), for him to make a quantum leap of understanding up to where you are is very difficult. He has to build a ladder too, but there is no time for that in a heated discussion, its even more difficult if he has demonized the ladder that takes him there. If you think some of Leos teaching should be obvious to someone else, consider your ladder and their ladder, do they even have a foundation to consider these ideas? Example from my own life: -I grew up in a Christian home, I know what spiritual practices are like praying. -I had a weird semi-psychedelic experience in 2010. -I learned about meditating in 2013. -I learned about esoteric Christianity in 2014. -I started following Leo in 2016. And so on. Thats my ladder. Whats yours? And to play devils advocate. Of course it can be the same with conservatives and Trump voters. What ladders have they climbed? What sense-making steps did they ascend over the years? Can you see that its almost impossible for you to take a quantum leap up to their world-view because then you have to build a ladder by watching 5 years worth of Stefan Molyneux videos and read 2 entire Ayn Rand books? But you dont wanna do that. You LOVE your precious world-view. Its sacred to you. Youre the good guy! Right?!

Sober or psychedelic? And dont bullshit me with "sober and psychedelic is just a duality" cop-out.

That would be devilry!

Sh!t Stage Orange might say "Isnt it weird that were all just atoms observing other atoms" "Youre sad because you evolved to be, it helped your ancestors to survive"

Dont underestimate the power of dreams. I dreamed up the question "Does an atom have a temperature?" Very interesting to ponder... Contemplation is easier while dreaming... The mind just flows...

@Thought Art Your profile pic is so tasty.

Could be interesting for sure

Every child goes through a narcissistic phase around 2-3 years old, then they are socialized out of it, but that narcissist streak is necessary for survival so everyone has a little bit of narcissism in them, but only maybe 10% while someone with NPD would have 90%.

You cant. You just have to let it die. Intution doesnt lie. Struggling against your own feelings when you really want something else is hell. Its like being in a relationship when youre not in love.

Leo: Were NOT demonizing the lower stages here! Also Leo: OmG Boomer cringe dont ban me

Hm. Guess you can see it two ways. Turquoise would be way more radical imo.

Language goes way deeper than Derrida.

foundational episode!