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Hi all, For the past few days I've encountered the concept of reptilians repeatedly. My goal is to understand what these synchronicities are trying to teach me. I am not a conspiracy theory person whatsoever. I focus on quality self-development techniques and my path is unfolding as it should. Now regarding the reptilians thing, I'd like to understand what they are without falling for conspiracy theories, which is just what I'm gonna get if if I start searching online. I want to know if they are a real thing on earth and if I should be aware their existence that in some way. I understand that fear is not going to help, yet I want to make sure I maintain my survival on earth. What I'm most "afraid" of for now is the possibility of creating a dangerous reality for myself in the process of doing research and in acknowledging their existence, and / or by being emotionally invested in the topic out of fear. I hope that makes sense. Leo if you read this I would be most grateful for an answer I can trust. Cheers! Berry

I've been stuck for a while in a loop of petty problems that I created for myself. Vernon Howard's teachings (namely on the topic of evil/devilry) are enlightening me out of them today. It's so liberating to be called out on my own bullshit I feel like I am finally breathing. Basically I've been loving creating these problems because I've been loving the idea that I'm trying to solve them because that gave me a sense of existence. What's more, I've been searching the root cause of the problems for so long but I've been even better at hiding them. While feeling good about myself about the search. It's so ridiculous that it's actually hilarious. However, regarding Howard's teachings, there are a few things I am not quite making sense out of. Why would I avoid evil if I am evil myself? How can I call out people's devilry or even my own if I am evil myself? Will I really get rid of evil, is that the purpose of life? But then if I have unconditional love towards it why would I want to do that. And if I have unconditional love and acceptance towards evil then why do I even make its existence a thing. I'll probably get answers on my own just by posting this but any input is welcome. Thanks!

@Leo Gura Your "Life is a Maze" video was a game changer for me. As if all finally clicked

I'm almost fully recovered from a two-year long Major Depressive Episode. All thanks to putting in the work. The Sedona Method has done wonders from me. Do yourself a favor a buy of few Hale Dwoskin audio tracks on his website. There are also some free ones on Youtube. Do some every day and don't stop. Take your most painful emotion and dive deep into it until it dissipates. I suggest keeping up the CBT practice. Also didn't work for me at first, but mixing it with Sedona has Some more tips: - Get a pet for your daily oxytocin + to have something to care about - Don't quit the escitalopram until you're no longer depressed. If you're taking anti-anxiety meds, think about getting off meds so you can actually feel your anxiety (with sedona) and eventually get it out of your system entirely. Has worked for me - Don't force meditation if it feels like shit For surviving the really bad days: just stay in your bed and make peace with your current state. Radical acceptance. Allow yourself to indulge if a day is too hard and practice not beating yourself up for it. Also, ask yourself what this depression is here to teach you (cause it's here to teach you something). Your soul is putting you through this challenge so you can evolve to the next level. Tell yourself you'll rise up to it - and you're not in a rush, you will manage. I recommend reading Rumi and also reading Dark Night of the Soul by Master del Pe. Learn why you are in this state and how you can overcome it eventually. Also do some of his exercises for clearing up your blocks and for increasing willpower. Best of luck and cheers

@aklacor727 You can actually learn how to measure the size of your chakras yourself. I have done it multiple times (direct experience). Check out Master del Pe's work

@Leo Gura Can you elaborate on that? Is it because the people I consider to be "my loved ones" are based on illusionary and arbirary criteria, such as "we share the same DNA" ? And that this criterion comes from me thinking I must survive?

I showed Leo's teachings to the two persons who were the most likely to integrate them in their life: my best friend and my boyfriend. (Plus, I talk about his teachings all the time and how I use them in my life). They both found him genius. They both see how much I have developed thanks to his work. They both say "I know I should ..." None of them do it.

Dear Leo, This disorder is the brain's defense mechanism that I find the most fascinating. I even find it to be pure genius. For an average person who truly understands nothing about real spirituality (I'm one of them), this condition is a great point to start reflecting on: - What personality is - Identifying with the body - Altered states of consciousness - Having an inner world that is as "real" as the external world (this reminds me of your "Life is a Dream" video) - Reality being deceptive and to use the condition as example or counterexample. I love your "spiritual explanation" videos because they help me bridge the gap between common concepts I think I know about, and the information in books I read from spiritual teachers. The information in these books is just too far outside of the models of reality I currently hold, so it's hard for me to make the connection. You are the only teacher I have found who help me bridge that gap. PS: This message was hard for me to articulate, I hope you won't take take my words to the letter and receive what I intended to communicate when using them. All the very best and thank you for the incredible work.

I don't know what to call this experience I had. It seems like an OBE because it did happen when I felt asleep, there was the high pitch sound / vibration that everyone talks about, it did feel like I was out of body because I could not feel it (but there I was - very present). But there was nothing to see and nothing to do. It was just blackness. I did not see my surroundings like many people say they do. I wanted to speak (ask a question) but I didn't because I was a bit freaked out. Any idea?

@purerogue I went to sleep and it happened spontaneously, I did not try to make it happen. I knew my body was sleeping on the bed, but I was elsewhere. In a place where it was all dark. With the high pitch sound + vibration I stayed a bit and then I decided to "come back", so I woke up. @Rilles How long can you stay on the verge of leaving? I stayed in that "place" a few minutes before deciding to come back (it felt like forever)

@Leo Gura Is the Lefkoe Institute a stage yellow business?

Anna Akana is an entertaining and vulnerable Stage Green youtuber. She talks about compassion, empathy, vulnerability and other feminine values, mental health, depression, anxiety, suicide, LGBT, feminist stuff like rape culture, etc. Her videos are well made and easy to digest for Orange people. I consider most of her videos to be "healthy Green".

Stage Orange beauty blogger entering Stage Green territory here in this video. She realizes the limits of consumerism and gains awareness on her emotions / using shopping as coping mechanism. A public figure that comes to mind in regards to the topic of anti-consumerism is French author Pierre Rabhi, especially his book "The Power of Restraint". As he's a farmer and pioneer in agroecology, he has strong Green-oriented political ideas, so not everyone likes him. He has been getting media attention in the past few years in France so he's one of the figures in the country raising awareness. He may be unknown to you since not all of his books have been translated to English. Here's his Ted Talk named 'Is there Life before Death?' (there are English subtitles):

@captainamerica From my understanding: By having more detachment. You would take things less seriously if you knew they are hallucinations. This links to Leo's counterintuitiveness video: By being detached to your results they become easier to reach because the resistance dissolves.

Hi there, In this post I will share my first mystical experience as a Newbie in this journey. As you read this, please don't take my words too litterally as I have obviously no clue what I'm talking about (apart from the experience itself). I attempt to get my experience across to you given my current vocabulary. Pre-dispositions: How does a mystical experience happens to a Newbie? In this post I explain that I went to a chakra yoga workshop (a week ago) and that unusual things have happened to me ever since. Including but not limited to: uplifted mood, spontaneous head and body movements in particular during meditation. Some more things I noticed during the week: - spontaneous very relaxed state where mind shuts up and body stay still - constant feeling of something pulling up in my skull - random moments of increased awareness and increased sensitivity - sensations of hot and cold in the hands - weird moments where I see very clearly the stories my mind (and other people mind's) create and how much I (and they) completely believe them, and I start laughing. The moment my experience happened: on Friday evening I went to sleep. I had done a bunch of Sedona releasing so I was very calm and relaxed when going to sleep. I close my eyes and started going into this transition state (between sleeping and non-sleeping), as I usually would. Eventually I did fall asleep. This time however, instead of getting to 'the sleep state', I arrived somewhere else. To a place I had never been before. It was completely dark. There was a constant noise. The noise was very high-pitched. Do you remember the noise a computer would make in the 90s when turning it on? That was a similar noise. It was a bit "vibrating" (going up and down) and very unconfortable to hear. It was very vivid. A dream is usually all fuzzy, but in this place I was very present and aware and I could think consciously. I thought: "What is happening? this is really freaky! OMG it's one of the freaky experiences @Leo Gura said could happen to me too if I wanted!". I was a little scared. I stayed a little and looked around, but there was nothing to see, only darkness. I thought about asking a question, but I was scared so I did not. Other than the darkness and the noise, I knew I was lying there sleeping, and I knew that I would wake up at some point. More importantly, I had the feeling that I was floating in the air. I thought :"Holy shit! Right now, if someone could take a picture of me sleeping, my body would be floating 20 cm above my bed". At some point, I decided I would wake up because I was a little freaked out. I wanted to leave this place. So I "pushed" and I woke up. Obviously my body was still on the bed, the floating was just a sensation. I immediately googled this. Results directed me to out-of-body experiences. But if I understand well, during an out-of-body experience you see your surroundings? I saw nothing but darkness. There was nowhere to go and nothing to see. Just a noise (/vibration) and a floating sensation. If any of you is familiar with this, can you tell me how you would name this experience? What this noise could potentially be about? Many thanks!

Thanks everyone for the kind words and the feedback @Avidya it was a workshop provided by a local yoga teacher here in my hometown. Very low-key, we were about 10. Very intensive, we did 4 hours the first day and 8 hours the second day - of all the activities I described. She barely explained theory about chakras because she said she didn't want to fill our head with concepts.

Hi all! Been a follower of Leo for soooo long and it's my first time posting here. I will share my first experience (and results!!) when it comes to working with chakras. I can't really assess if this will sound like newbie results to most of you (in which case, so be it!) but I hope to provide input to some. Advices are very welcome! If there are already discussions about this, please let me know (haven't found them myself). I signed up for a 2-day workshop called on "Voice and Chakra Yoga" (I spotted that we were talking about "real" yoga here and not gym-yoga). The lady leading the workshop had studied shamanism and plant medicine, so I decided to trust the whole thing and give it a go. We did maaany different activities, including: chanting mantras, singing, diaphragm breathing, moving our body on music (not really dancing but rather body expression, one music for each chakra) and with sound (!), theatrical improvisation (where we were encouraged to express strong emotions), talking about what we accept/don't accept in ourselves/others (the point was to show us that perception=mirror), games for children, colouring, a cacao ceremony (the spicy & thick cacao beverage), two drumming sessions, and making us smell/infuse ourself with the smoke of some incense stick (didn't really get it). Before this workshop: I was living with mild (but somewhat persistent) depression, hard to relate/connect with others, and just general lack of joy. Also, a lot of tensions in my neck, shoulders, back (I guess repressed stress or anxiety). After the workshop, I had the following immediate symptoms for two days straight: 1- Strong migraine (never happened to me) 2- Waking up randomly at night (never happens to me, I sleep like a baby no matter what) 3- Super tired and sleepy, had to take several naps a day Now we are at 3-4 days after the workshop, and I see the following: 1- My mood has radically change. I am no longer anxious or depressed. I feel really light and happy as if a burden has been removed. 2- The tensions in my back and neck are completely gone. No amount of stretching has been able to do that for me. 3- I have the sensation of being elevated, and I am able to relax super duper easily 4- And now something a little weird to me: I have physical sensation that my head is being pulled upward. Especially when I'm relaxed or when I sit and meditate, my head and my body make spontaneous movements (if I surrender to it), like swaying in all directions. Since I relax super fast now, I also medidate much deeper than usual for the same amount of time. This is super new to be as I've only be meditating for a few months and currently doing 30 min a day, so I don't yet go into mega deep states. Apart for point 4), what blows my mind is how radically and quickly the change has happened. I am used to doing more traditional self help stuff and they do work but they haven't provided overnight changes for me so far. Not like this one. I have searched a little bit, and what I have experienced sound a little like what they describe when talking about crown chakra opening and rising kundalini. My body movements are definitely "snake-like", but I don't want to jump on conclusions. My guess is that a rising kundalini would be much more dramatic than that? I do need to research more, I will start by reading two specific books on Leo's list. But if you are familiar with this, please share! Anyways, this is really exciting to me. Seeing results, as small as they may be, is encouraging for staying on track. I'd like to thank Leo (without which this would have never happened) and all of you in advance! Cheers