Of course normal individuals are that corrupt. That's the whole point.
Strictly speaking corruption is not good or bad, it just is.
But you yourself will perceive it as bad if a corrupt cop rapes your daughter during a traffic stop and then lies about it.
Yes, but if you are corrupt then your notion of good and bad will also be corrupt, so it will be hard to create that net positive footprint.
See Elon Musk for a perfect example. He honestly believes that he's not corrupt and that he's creating a net positive for the world, even though he is the epitome of corruption.
The point of doing this work we do -- of understanding corruption -- is that it's necessary to truly do good. Otherwise you become a mini Elon Musk.
Being good is harder than it seems. Which is why we do this work. To be good you must escape self-deception.

That is solved by a commitment to genuine truth-seeking.
If your focus is to get your epistemology right then you will see that:
1) Negative emotions come from the ego's needs, as a form of survival, and do not lead to truthful perception of reality. Just because you are in pain doesn't make your view any more true.
2) Overgeneraliziation from a few anecdotes to entire classes of people is untruthful. The truth is that there is a huge diversity of different people in the world and no simplistic pattern of which of them are good or bad.
It is true however that long-distance relationships will almost always fail. Because if you really cared about the relationship deeply enough you would change the situation to make it short-distance.

- IQ is mainly genetic, and while environmental factors are important, they only allow one to reach their genetic IQ potential.
    - We currently live in a world where intelligence is not being selected for, as we do not have harsh Darwinian conditions where the less intelligent are unable to spread their genes. Instead, we live in a post-industrial, wealthy world, specifically in developed countries, where more intelligent people tend to have fewer children, while less intelligent people have more children. They are not punished by the environment for doing so because of welfare and the general ease of survival in post-industrial developed countries.
    - Genetic IQ is decreasing in developed countries, and the Flynn effect only accounts for the environmental maximization of genetic IQ potential.
    - A possible solution to this would be a state where comprehensive intelligence tests are administered to all people. Those who have a low G factor, or whatever metric is used, would be sterilized. This state would provide abundant welfare for sterilized individuals if they need it, ensuring they have fulfilling lives. The only thing that would be prevented is the passing on of less intelligent genes into the gene pool of the country.
    - Embryo selection technology and other such technologies might also be utilized.
    - These policies could lead to an increase in the intelligence of the country over time, resulting in better lives for everyone due to more innovation, improved infrastructure, and a stronger economy, all driven by more intelligent individuals working for and running it.
    - Some possible flaws of this model that I have considered include the accuracy of the intelligence testing, trust in the state to wield such power, civil and human rights concerns, and the challenge of ensuring that intelligent people continue to have children to maintain a stable population.
    - I believe that this model could work and could lead to an amazing society if implemented correctly and if my assumptions are accurate. I understand that people have differing views, but I think this would be a great plan for a country to try out, exploring new territory and moving away from the mainstream in pursuit of the global maxima.


    - improvements and random thoughts: 
        - evidence for IQ being mainly genetic in developed countries
        - ethical concerns
            - i think it would be a net good considering the alternative is a decrease in IQ overtime leading to a worse society and possibly the collapse of civilisatoin 
        - accuracy of intelligence testing
        - state power
            - In constitution 
            - agreed upon by everyone? 
            - comprehensive system with checks and balances to make sure that the sterilisation is done to the right people in a humane and proper way.
            - people with lower intelligences should not be judged and should be treated in the best possible way just like everyone else. its just that we dont want them to influence the gene pool. similar like we would treat someone with a communicable disease.
        - would selecting for intelligence lead to possible negative effects and unforeseen consequences? 
            - what about empathy, creativity and emotional intelligence.  
                - darwinian selection wasnt really selcting for those things.... 
        - assumption regarding intelligence leading to a better society
            - I think this is a valid assumption but i guess i could back it up more

Hello everyone, today I will share with you the last psychedelic trip:
Date: 02/12/2024
Location: Netherlands
Set: I was feeling okay, kinda scared and excited for the trip
Setting: My housemate's room
Who: My housemate and I
Time of intake: 3.20 pm 
Type & Dosage: Orange Mystery Mix, 10 grams of fresh sclerotia
Intention: No specific intention, I wanted to let go, and let the truffle guide me
Trip Report:
When my housemate and I ate the truffles, we decided to clean up a bit the kitchen and then lay down in his bed. After 10 minutes I went to the toilet (when I take psychedelics I always have to poop on the come-up), and there is where everything started. It started hitting me pretty hard (the days before I also did strict intermittent fasting, where I would only eat for dinner - so also that probably made me more sensitive to the drug), so I went to bed and lay down. My roommate also started feeling it but not like me.
Before the trip, I mixed a couple of audio, that could guide us in the trip. I combined several tapes from the Gateway Experience so that it would last about 1 hour, and after that, there was music (Colors, the live concert by Eberhard Weber-really great music). 
Overall, the Gateway experience was pretty creepy and when the music started I felt better.
The trip was EXTREMELY intense, I have never experienced something like that. When I lay in bed, the truffle completely grabbed me and my whole essence and did everything it wanted with me. With my eyes open I could see everything as it was (with distortions of course), but I felt as if I wasn't really there. My body was not really mine, and I was in it only partially. With eyes closed, I was 100% somewhere else, in a field of sensations that I have never experienced, and go beyond language, and my level of comprehension. It felt like the psychedelic and I were one, but still, it was kinda separate from it. I felt like it wanted to hurt me, but with time I understood that the more tense I was, the more it would want to scare me. So I had to let myself be vulnerable, and then I would be safe. It was a cycle of vulnerability transforming into fear, changing back to vulnerability. With it, I felt another kind of cycle: it was a kind of "physical" tension that came every time I would let myself be relaxed. What I mean is that the peak of relaxation was also the peak of tension; when I allowed myself to relax I arrived at a point where the relaxation became tension again. The two things were the same.
I learned and understood some things about my personal life and other concepts. It reminded me that I shouldn't judge what people think and feel, everything is valid. I used to know that, and never judge people, but since last summer I started judging again.
I understood that my mind is here with me, and it's fine, it's not my enemy, it's a feature.
I understood that I often take care too much of other people, more than myself, so I have to think of myself first, of my health, both physical and mental.
I also cried when realizing that in different life situations I put on a mask and I kind of pretend of being someone else. I can let myself be myself everywhere, at any place and time.
One of the most important things that I realized, is the following: in the last year or so, I got so involved and attached to spiritual and nondual teachings, that made me really detached from this human reality. Something that at the beginning was a great realization, became something like a burden, or a curse. In that moment of the trip, I realized that my personal life is actually important, and I should live it. 
 
This was a great trip. As I said, it was extremely intense, and despite the good insights, I was on the edge of going crazy.
From that day of the trip, my life has changed a lot. I know that not much time has passed, but living a life where I know about the existence of deeper truths and not looking for them, makes me happier. I am aware and conscious, but my focus is on my life. I understood that this is not for me right now, at this stage of my life. 
I will still keep my spiritual practices and other things, with the goal of great personal development. Other metaphysical truths can wait for later in my life.
Thank you everyone for reading, I send you lots of love!❤️

I was first introduced to psychedelics in Spring of 2020 (I was 22). My friend stumbled upon a book about magic mushrooms and how to grow them. I had been wanting to try mushrooms for some time since I watched a few of Leo’s video on psychedelics and I was considering myself being “spiritual”. I laugh now when I recall that time because my mind was filled with ideas and concepts that I thought I was able to grasp, but nothing was further from the truth. After watching Leo’s video “How Psychedelics Work” I was very curious to try them out. At the same time my friend finished reading the book and decided to grow some mushrooms.
It took us a few months to grow our first mushrooms. I remember how my hands were shacking, holding 15 grams of raw magic mushrooms that I was about to take. I was very curious and fearful at the same time, but I still consumed them. The trip was very mild with some sense of light euphoria, feelings of joy (the same you feel as a child) and just a few insights.
My next few trips reveled the truth of the fact that my values and principles in life were not mine but were programmed by society: friends, teachers and people I looked up to: my parents and grandparents. For the first time in my life, I became aware of that. It was a very painful process, because I also realized that the career that I was pursuing was built upon my need for love, approval that was coming from my childhood traumas. I realized that I had to quit and the next day after tripping (it was my 5th trip) I quit the police forces. Even though it was painful, now, when I look at it – it was one of the best decisions in my entire life.
The following few trips were bringing me more and more insights about society and I was shocked by the fact that most of the people are like zombies doing wrong things believing in foolish ideas and chasing something that isn’t authentic to them. The first scratches appeared on the mirror that was called “Maya”. I also realized how blind I was in my life not seeing love from my parents, but hating them for the mistakes and wrong doings they did to me. 6 months of psychotherapy fell in comparison with one mushroom trip. I think it was trip 9th or something when I realized that Ego isn’t a part of my self, it is actually me. It was a very shocking realization, but that was the only insight that I got from the trip. During the trip I was also trying to grasp what was God and what was Ego, but I couldn’t, I had no idea.
My first God realization happened on 10-15 trip. I remember I was looking at myself in the mirror and I couldn’t believe that I was actually God. I was crying because I had been thinking that someone like me could not possible be God, because deep down I was sure that I can’t be God because I am bad and I am a looser. But the evidence was there. During that trip I was also tripping with my friend who said that he was seeing God looking at me to which I pointed out that he was God as well. When the trip was over, I was 100% sure that I misunderstood a lot of things and the idea that I was God was outrageous and stupid, I couldn’t accept it. Next 30 trips (during 2 years) were mostly about my personal issues because I tried to concentrate my mind on them and didn’t want to think about God or whatnot.
I moved in Canada in Summer 2022 and stumbled upon some website (don’t ask me I won’t tell you which one) where I saw a DMT pen. I was very excited and bought the pen. All of the trips on DMT that I had (around 20 of them) were God realizations, but no more profound than those I had on mushrooms. I never saw any entities or different worlds or some mother ayuasca nonsense. It was always me, God.
In November 2022 the website started selling 5MeO-DMT pens and I was very happy because I had watched so many videos of Leo talking about this psychedelic. When the pen arrived, I made just 1-2 seconds pull and I almost had a panic attack. People who have never tried 5Me0 you have no idea how powerful it is. It is beyond your imagination, so you’d better stop fooling yourself. Anyways, I got scared and put the pen back in the box and then in my closet.
A few weeks after I had a horrible day at work, I felt very angry and irritated. As soon as I came home, I took a shower and took out the pen from the closet. I decided to go slowly and also put some relaxing music. This was going to be the most profound day in my existence. As I was vaping the pen, I was going deeper and deeper. At the same time, I was soothing myself, talking to myself and even kissing parts of my body that were shacking. That night I vaped a half of my 1-gram 5MeO pen. As I was going through different dimensions, I was looking at things around me and I was literally zooming in infinitely into objects, especially my 5MeO cartridge. I was floored by the nature of my being. It’s pure beauty and pure love.  Things that I realized and experienced are beyond words and beyond communication. The only thing I remember that at some point I vaped so much of 5MeO that I awakened completely. Complete awakening terrified me by its profundity, I realized that all this time up to this point I was dreaming. My life and everything in it were just a dream. I also realized that I was fooling myself all this time and I realized why I was doing it.  I awakened to the fact that I created myself, my parents, everyone and everything in my life and that I had been denying it and using all my Gods power on self-deception. With this realization I experienced pure and infinite terror. I thought that I would never be able to fool myself anymore. Every trick that I was trying to play on myself and every rationalization were very easy to see, therefore, I couldn’t fool myself. At that point my panic was beyond any possible description. I was begging myself to go back, crying asking to come back. And while I was doing it, I was aware that I was asking myself. I spent one moment that paradoxically was infinity in my God’s agony. But of course, I was wrong and I constructed myself again.
Next morning when I woke up, I told myself that whatever I experienced was impossible and I must’ve misunderstood something because people pursue enlightenment and awakening but God seemed to be very attached to the dream.  I tried to disprove my awakening but over and over I would find myself at the same result. I even started shooting myself videos on 5MeO saying that I don’t want to wake up. Now I have like 10 of them on my iCloud (lol).
I’m almost 28 now, and the last time I did 5MeO was half a year ago. The result was the same – I told myself not to pursue enlightenment until I’m at least 30. I want to enjoy the movie, the dream. And here I am, enjoying my dream typing these words, fooling myself that there is somebody who could read this 😊.
 

Epistemology is the process by which you come to know anything.
How do you know that Leo is real and not just an AI?
What do you really know? And how?
If you inspect all of your knowledge and worldview you will see that it's built out of all sorts of ungrounded assumptions, beliefs, hearsay, and fantasy. All of that needs to be questioned to death until you reach a profound sense of not-knowing. Because most of the stuff you think you know is just BS. It isn't grounded in anything real. It's ideas that you heard someone else say and you bought it. But that kind of epistemology is prone to lots of error and delusion.
See this video for more:
 

There are no punishments, but your selfish actions may come with natural consequences, suffering, and regret.
God has no need to punish you for murder. But as a murderer you may encounter a lot of suffering as your consciousness tends to get stuck at that level. The more dark stuff you do the more your consciousness will tend towards dark imaginings. Low consciousness people tend to dream of demons, gore, perverted things, and such.
It's about purity of Consciousness/Mind. The more dirty and corrupt your mind the more hellish your dreams will be. Not because God is punishing you but because that's just the direction your mind has chose to dream in. Twisted minds dream of negative and ugly things. Pure minds focus on positive and beautiful things.
Have you noticed how abused and suffering children draw dark and negative things while happy children draw flowers and rainbows? That's basically a microcosm of the macrocosmic workings of Mind/Consciousness.