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Well there you go folks, seems like money can buy everything including instant enligthenment, so it seems rich people are the privileged. Another way to look at is that "shaktipat" is basically a guru's blessing, I read some anecdotal, some of the people who had a direct experience saying its a not magic pill, and one should not expect it as such. Just keep in mind this attitude of "pay once you have nothing to lose" is not the case at all, a scammer is not banking on repeated sales or loyalty, they are only look for that one time scam. The guy's who try to sell you a laptop for $50 but swap it for bottles of water only want to do the business with you the one time. Remember if you con every single person in the world by $1 you'd have over $7 billion dollars. @Alex90 What's with the terrible and flawed analogies to make your arguements. Firstly enlightenment is not really a thing, thats why every teachers struggles to explain it or put it into words so "the psychiatrist" wouldn't be completely wrong when they say "there is no such thing". But more importantly the better analogy would be saying there is no enlightenment which is an inner state of being is like the psychiatrist saying "theres no such things as love" to you, or "there no such things as emotional feelings/energies". And so you would know from direct experience the psychiatrist is chatting BS. Now if the psychiatrist said I can implant you a loving feeling, or instantly make you love everything by the mere touch of my finger, you'd call that BS too. If it works it's only because you decided to play along with the blessing.

I can't speak for him but i can give a different perspective. When you watch Leo's videos or any other spiritual teacher, these are kind of 1 sided conversations, and yet they can give you insights and awakenings in you that unlock in your conscious and subconscious mind. Rupert Spira said he had an awakening experience in a consciousness conversation, sometimes things can click and fall into place. And seeing as everything is one you're only gaining insights from yourself (technically speaking) but there is seperation between bodies (illusory mind created). When you you co-operate with reality, understand how things work great things will happen. When you deny reality and you do whatever you think bad things will happen, you can't start a camp fire using water no matter what idiotic belief systems you play. Expecting to gain enlightenement through skype "channeling" is like trying to squeeze water from a stone. Now if you were paying for a conversation with him, then i'd say that has more value, you can totally have a spiritual coach if you want, as long as he's leading you down the right path. Gimme lotsa money and I'll dance and hum for you and you'll get what you want is just a bad spiritual coach lol.

Sorry still finding it absolutely amusing and hilarious that source needs me to spend thousands of $$$ to enlightened it self. I'm gobsmacked. Reminds me of this: God is all powerful, all knowing, but he needs MONEY!

I know, you were describing the same inner journey, I'm just clarifying it more.

That's all an inner journey. Don't let the idea of Phil, the green moderator convince otherwise, whenever it comes to $$$ in exchange for enlightenement its an outright scam, the only enligthenment is in the form of delusion. @Leo Gura Are you affiliated with this sort of scam Leo? I see in your book reviews you're quite dismissive abou Ramaji's book, although you like the information on it, and your videos are completely the opposite of quick fixes made by others. Would be interested to know your opinions on it, you did once talk about it I think called "shantypot" or something. I for one will definately stop following the work of actualized.org if goes down this path of pay thousands of $$$ to raise your consciousness levels.

I know it will not do anything. You don't need to scammed before you know its a scam, it's quite pathetic for a bridge seller to say "hey man you won't know its a scam until you actually buy the bridge from me first!" You would never ever, ever pay someone money to turn you into a musician, artist, scientist, chef or any other profession by waving their hands and doing some "mystical" shit to you. You just know this as a common fact that's just not how this reality/dream works, you don't suddenly become an awakened to these abilities, insights and knowledge without your own journey. And yet the desperate person for enlightenment would open up to the false hope of it, by sheer desperation, someone desperate might just pay someone to wave their hands and chant at them so they can suddenly become whatever their hearts desire. There's so many flaws here, it's a miracle pill, quick solution, no work needed just lots of money $$$ (lol), why's he so hellbent on money he should be making the world enlightened for free. You're still looking at other humans as having more higher powers than you, that they can someone enlighten you with their sheer source/force, lol. But hey folks its your money, if you want to wipe your ass with paper money and flush it down the toilet that's your choice. Your not going to get awakened from this, you might become more delusional that you've awakened. I'm quite suprised how many fake accounts there are on here that is affiliated with this scam. It's a shame the forum is being manipulated by scammers.

Love how Leo in his lastest episode talks about meditation and how theres no amount of money you can give him for him to pass the observations and insights to you without you doing the work. And yet "Swoosh!", it's a scam folks you're literally paying someone to do nothing because you have some delusional belief about the said outcome. Anyone recommending it is in on the scam. If you just believe enough you can make a mirror by rubbing two stones together, lol. But then again maybe when you've spent a lot of money and got 0 out of it you might get the insight you were looking for, so who knows, maybe you need to lose everything before like the Buddha you realize that all this going and round and seeking outside of yourself is the wrong question.

What do you want us to say? pat you on the back and confirm that gaming is good for you? It is not like a painting at all, people need to stop comparing it to art, it's some bullshit some gamer made up to make "gaming" sound arty and sophisticated lol, a painting doesn't take more than 5 mins of your time, if that, and is decorational. Might as well compare video games to souvenirs and statues too. Movies are BS too, it's very rare after watching a movie to say wow that movie was mind blowing, 90% of movies are riff-raff, unless of course you luckily only watch the best movies every year. Books are actually not very addictive and somewhat hard to read, but I'd skip all fictional waste of time books as well, there's so much non-fiction books that will actually help me grow I don't think I'll read another game of thrones book ever again. Dont care for psychedelics, they are actually very difficult, I get so sick on them, they're not the best for "fun" or "recreational" stuff. Leo's mentioned it before, everything that is difficult and emotionally hard to do = growth, if you're having fun and it's "easy life" you're probably not growing. Just look at the content Leo creates, why would he recommend video games, he's obviously going to call out the BS stuff in society that keeps people from growing his content is about growth, ACTUALIZING. So again why are you asking this question on a Self-Help website, it makes so sense. Go to reddit/gaming and you can high five with everyone there they will think you're legit and know your stuff.

But addiction forms from repeated behavior, neurons that fire together wire together, the more you do something the more ingrained it becomes. It is known that neurons take paths that they once took before. It's a subconcious thing. On a side note I'm not directing everything at you, I'm directing it at the general gamers community. The directed at you parts i've obviously specified and is obvious.

Oh you're creating games are you, or your future career lies upon it. Totally makes sense now, defending your self interests. selfish nuff said. Not being bad but all these battle royales, and league of legends and twitch etc would come out defending their games and websites even if people died through sheer addiction, self interest again, nuff said. Self disicipline, agreed, if you haveself discipline then people wouldn't waste any time giving their money and time to these energy/time leeches, nuff said. Honestly you admitted something fundemental here, it would be like arguing with a murderer who keeps sprouting nonsense about how the victim deserved it, my point is your too much self interested to admit anything. YO all you drug addicts who are having a hard time quitting, and smokers, you all ain't got enough self-disciple, not at all compulsive behavior triggered by the said products, wow we're really denying all addictions here ain't we. One day when science does more work gaming will be known as bad as smoking is now. Smoking wasn't known for being bad initially it was a good thing, a relaxer, a destresser, and the smoking companies paid a lot of money to keep that up, the same way coco cola paid doctors to show coke in a good light lol.

Video games directly benefit from getting you to play hence all progression systems, character building etc, game designers jobs is to make it as fun and addictive as possible to make sure the game succeeds, nuff said, negative/zero-sum reward activity, clearly not getting through into your head, not everything has a game designer making something on purposely "fun" or "addictive". You need to do some research between video games and rat tendencies, for example pulling a lever for reward causes addiction, research it. Vital to experiencing life, not just going through the motions, vital to being, vital to appreciation of existence. Leo talks about life purpose in his life purpose course, he basically says there is no purpose in life and you need to create it for yourself. Correct you are right there. But, Leo also says Life Purpose is second to Enlightenment (which is consciousness). Notice in his course Leo is trying to make someone as highly conscious as a course can do (obviously it can't make you go through years of meditation or practice) but it does try to get you in touch with your higher self, go through processes and theories and methods to try get a good life purpose outcome. We can boil down this argument to the simplest form: In otherwords you're basically saying, "theres nothing wrong with drinking soda once in a while, in moderation." I'm saying "don't drink the fucking soda. Drink spring water. You won't spike your blood sugar levels with artificial shit and you'll be more optimal." Also you'd be suprised how people play the moderation card, a lot of people would think drinking 1 soda can a day IS moderation lol. Again, this is not something someone can force with sheer willpower, the higher conscious you are the less you will do these thing. Being conscious starts a process of autocorrection. If you want to see the opposite of consciousness just go outside nightclubs, etc, where people are kicking each other's heads in for the most smallest things.

Your outmost effort to make ridiculous arguements just to keep your foot on the door to "not be in the wrong" is dragging out too much, give it up bud. I mean it was pretty bad when you complained I gave one (1) person as example to game addiction which was for the sake of simplicity you knew very well I wasn't going to write an essay on countless people, and you know damn right there are many people who suffer from similar problems if you consider milions of people playing video games, yet it did not stop your stupid counter arguement "ITS ONLY 1 PERSON ONLY 1 PERSON!". Of course conciousness is absolutely necessary, it's VITAL, its your foundational core upon everything, if you have low conscious then you're basically watching a shitty cam recording of a movie that's blurring as hell, and you can barely make the visuals and yet you're saying the food in the movie is more important than the blurry screen lol. Bud, clean up your lenses, please.

You're looking for neutral ground. Being neutral is fine, but when it comes to the body and mind, being optimal is better. What are you on about? The more conscious you are the more you can appreciate things, you can drink water like you havent drank water in 24 hours, you can eat like you haven't eaten in 3 days, you can go outsides and get your mind blown like as if you spent 1 year in dark solitary confinement. I don't think you're on the same page here.

If you can't tell the difference between eating food casuallly vs eating highly conscious then of course one must be blind. Try eating food slowly with appreciation after 3 days of fasting and tell me how mind blowing it was. Such go with everything else in life, life purpose and perspective is secondary to consciousness, the problem is people get lost in the petty things when they need to step back into consciousness. You're being a mediator with yourself, past consciousness. Being highly conscious is as necessary as breathing air is to the body.

Considering how quickly you replied with a dismissal of everything I said, it's quite clear advice will be fallen on a deaf ears. If you thinking enjoying and being in the present moment and basking in consciousness is not the foundational thing to life then I'd suggest you go do more spiritual work until you become highly conscious or enlightened, then you will get what I tried to convey. Until then masturbate on your video games.

Nope, not bingo. You are clueless. You talk about moderation as the average person, "life is for fun", "moderation for all things". Moderation doesn't work when it comes to many things, you can't for example do activities that break big laws in moderation. You can't do cocaine and heroin in moderation. So moderation is not a "key lesson" in life. The phrase "in moderation" is used when people defend bad habits. I knew a guy who would played League of Legends, 1 hour a day, because he had workdays and a wife, but what happen on weekends when his wife was out? That's right he binged League 8 hours straight until his wife came back. That's what 1 hour video games do when you finally have free time to binge, they implant into your subconscious that craving to play. The purpose of life is not whatever you want it to be, again you are completely clueless and going to give people wrong conclusions about life. Life is a like a movie, the purpose of a movie is not about reaching the ending, it is not the goal, it is not the final message or teaching lesson or the credits. The point of the movie is the entire movie itself, the process of enjoying it as a whole, the same way when you play a video game. (If you ever played "the sims" and entered money cheat you realise how pointless this game is and quit, because all you do is waste time earning money to waste time buying products and the money cheat gets straight to the point, it would be ironic if you could do that with life too hehe). So yes appreciating the moment is bigger > than your "whatever you want your life to be about", and it should come prior to your life purpose, because if you're not appreciating life whilst you chase some distant goals, then fuck you ain't got no life. Your making your happiness something dependent on goals. "I'm only happy when i get to play video games! or do X, Y, Z." The last part about your Video Games vs TV is nonsense, you just picked a side and trying to justify why games is better than TV when its not, it depends what perspective you want to take on it. Games hit dopamine receptors more and create more addiction than TV. Games give you long winded objectives, goals, and grinds that compel you to complete. Games can be good or bad for your brain, gamers always go crazy smashing their monitors and keyboards and raging. There are much better proven things to improve your brain such as Sudoku or Crosswords puzzles that won't give you all the negative sides of gaming, so again no real excuse. When it comes really down to it you're saying games are good because they "hitting my dopamine receptors and that makes me feel great" so maybe dig deeper into that, dig into how these pixels dancing on a screen is affecting your brain where people can spend hours chasing pixels, an illusion of screen that is sedating you. Like a i said its a fact that video games are a negative-sum or a zero-sum reward at best, zero sum means you win now because you entertain yourself for the moment but you lose directly after because you wasted your time on an unproductive hobby. It can also be a lose-lose situation for example multplayer gaming, where to spent the last hour dying in frustrating ways and you smash your table and walk away from the gaming session, see you didnt have fun and you wasted your time lose-lose (movies usually don't make you rage quit, and if you do sports at least you got a workout from it!). People need to fill their lives with positive-sum rewards, win-win situations. If you want to talk about moderation let's talk about moderation of positive things, like how shouldn't drink too much water to the point of intoxication or eat too much fruit to the point of having high sugar levels on a daily basis. Let's NOT tell the smokers "hey bud, you know if you smoke once a day it's cool, its all in moderation", because frankly someone who's gone cold turkey on smoking doesn't need such bad advice.

Not bingo. I used to think that's what life was about before I got into spirituality. Masturbating with anything under the pretence of "enjoying life" Yay go party, have fun, dick around. @OP The purpose of life is to be highly conscious, to appreciate every single moment in the present moment. Video games does exactly the opposite of that. It makes you unconscious and it's a distraction of the ego to keep you busy so you don't seek out truth. Leo talks about this so many times I don't know why you need to even ask "why does Leo make a bad stigma about it" he's already addressed the issue many times. If you want to go play video games, do it, but stop seeking justification for your bad habit so you can pat yourself that it's ok, you shouldn’t play video games at all, in the same way you shouldn't drink sodas and eat junk food, or smoke at all, and yet people still do, it’s called being unable to handle compulsive behaviour. Do you play games because you "chose it" in the same way someone "choses to study" or did you run to video games as an escape from boredom at the first chance? One is a conscious deliberate action the other is a compulsion for dopamine hits. This is not something you force, if you're unconscious video games will be an appealing escape for you, if you are highly conscious you really won't get excited about it. Video games is a "negative-sum reward" activity or at best a "zero-sum reward" definately not a positive one. You can see how big its growing, and how many people are hooked, it should be the new term for "coach potato". No one is quick or proud to say "hey, i sit at home all day and watch TV", yet somehow being a "gamer" is "cool trend" haaaaa! it's exactly the same crap.

JK is great. He's very direct. No nonsense. I remember he completely blew off kundalini saying you will never awaken such energy. He also said you will never get enlightenment from trying to meditate. He compared both to someone rubbing two stones together to make a mirror. It's just never going to happenm no matter how you spin the story in your mind. The whole approach is wrong. Which should illuminate a lot spiritual myths for such people. Guru's only say exaggerate to stop people from being pessimistic but most also burst the bubbles of those who are non-realistic. You gotta balance people out

I like this blog post seems sincere with the auther putting pictures of himself up unlike the forum and reddit anecdotals the ones claiming the biggest miracles are usually the ones who are trying to bring attention to the supplement because usually they selling it or affiliated, it's just how internet marketing works. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/qvvg8q/i-tested-the-internets-five-favourite-nootropics Notice how he keeps saying things like how "he feels sharper, smarter. etc etc." but theres actually no traction, the wheels are spinning on mud, hence why he gave everything a low rating. Theres a big difference between thinking something is working and actuality. I would advise everyone to test it out for themselves if they want. Try modafinil for example or all the nootropics and see how much you get done within a 1 year. If you notice not much has changed in the year whilst on them, not much got done. Then you really need to ask why you're spending so much money putting synthesized substances into your body, giving all this "competitive edge". Also take into consideration how the year might have been without them, is it all that different, is it all thanks to supplements? But hey if it does change anyone's life, more power to you! that would be fantastic, but really we need to be deadly sincere with "thinking" vs "actual". Modafinil did do something to me in terms of buzz feeling, high blood pressure, slight changes in preception, but no way it was near anything special or life changing, at least for me. Double shot caffiene at best maybe without the jittery but more dry mouth and thrist for water.

Heres a good way to think of nootropics. It's situational. "A single study that used 200 mg of Suntheanine® observed a notable improvement in attentional task performance in subjects with high anxiety, whereas subjects with low anxiety didn't see a notable improvement." So here you see if you're an anxious person it would help a lot with attention if not, you probably won't notice a difference.

Just a caution to everyone because I'm sure people are going to think nootropics are a miracle now after Leo's video: Do not expect to get strong results beyond what could be placebo effects. If you do feel like something is super powering you then great, you're one of the lucky few. Majority of young healthy individuals will not be able to feel a difference and at which point you need to ask yourself if it's worth paying $100+ on pills if you can hardly tell beyond placebo if something is really, actually working, because you may be pissing down vitamins down the toilet. Do not bother with nootropics if you're not doing these things already: Healthy Diet Drinking plenty of water Exercise. Good sleeping. Meditation. If you're not doing those things don't plan on taking nootropics because you're basically putting the cart before the horse. You're lube a machine that isn't even stable in its foundation and it's not going to quick fix anything. I got heavily into nootropics in 2011 after a certain movie, but I've found it all a waste of money in my personal experience. I tried and gave up half the stuff Leo mentioned in the video. I was buying Modafinil over the counter from a pharmacy and it didn’t do much for me, I even ordered Modalert and Waklert just to confirm whether the brand that everyone was talking about would be any different. I kind of chuckled when Leo said Armodafinil is like a lower dose of 5-meo. I've never done 5-Meo but I can tell you Armodafinil did nothing for me, even at 2-3 pills of Waklert, at best a strong coffee with high blood pressure. Its strongest point was to keep you awake and I was drowsy and sleepy as usual, even with 6-8 hours of sleep in classes. The reason why I discontinued using them after several months is because I really couldn't tell if I was getting anything from it or whether it was placebo, and when I discontinued using them I still couldn't tell so I said better to not put these substances in my body and keep the cash instead. Verdict: I think if you benefit from these supplements you probably had some sort of underlining problem which is out of the ordinary. However if money is an issue, and you're young and healthy then best to avoid.

I don't see anything special or note worthy in the video that you linked so I can't see the significants that you created within your own mind. This isn't your direct experience, it's a video, it can be easily manipulated to convince people into religion, now if the kid was your own kid and you knew it wasn't happening by some foul play then fair enough, that would be your direct experience. People have always done things like this for centuries to convince people, demonic possessions, exorcisms in the churches, fear is a way to control people. If a religious person was being utterly and truthfully sincere within his heart his reason for being religious would be: "Because I choose to believe in it." At which point everything becomes very obvious and clear and sounds true and sincere. By the way the thread title is rather trolling, reminds me of egoless and his christian antics.

There was nothing new about the video, look at your hand is just object/focus meditation. Focus on something until it disappears into oblivion. Leo has talked about all this before. If leo's video are MIND BLOWING to you every week that you have a sudden breakthrough that you need to talk about the new video with "new insights" about the latest sudden subject, you're probably: a) not remembering his past videos, b) not ACTUALLY doing the work, c) not reading enough books on the subject.