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Psychoslouch: Someone who takes psychedelics without any prior research, doesn’t way their dose of mushrooms, takes them at parties. Has never heard of DMT Nexis and has only read trip reports by accident. Watched Instagram reels and texts their friends whilst tripping on acid.

@Leo Gura your blog post about marketing. Definitely good to know in my situation as I do B2B sales - you’ve said in the past that Actualized.org could not be successful without the money you made from marketing, and you popularised your recent work with SEO. what approach should you have taken to start and grow Actualized.org instead of the route you took?

imo Marketing is communicating that your product physically exists by posting an advertisement somewhere visible, whilst persuading people to buy your product/service. Marketing is in essence manipulative. Leo built Actualized.org by buying time with money earnt from owning a marketing agency.

Fair, I'll fully consider your perspective. I guess I'm not from the US so I don't really see how high rates of illegal immigration effects your society, in Australia there are definitely issues but there is also a lot of needless racism towards vulnerable people. I'm not denying the crime rates of people from underdeveloped nations and examples like Germany where there are increases in sexual violence and public drug use, but the Trump administration seems to go overboard e.g. revoking VISAs of university researchers.

People who hide behind the strawman of "but it's illegal immigration" have never tried filling out an American immigration document

APIs can be updated with new information constantly, definititely could discourage independent thought as if people had a question about reality they could ask ChatGPLeo and not look indward. On the other hand, Leo mentioned in his Life Stages video that it's much more effective if he was able to coach people 1to1 on these topics; a GPT would fill this gap potentially. It is another way of consuming information, like Youtube, like reading a forum, it's talking to a GPT, I don't think it's anymore deceptive perhaps more effective. These kinds of condensed APIs is a huge LP opportunity imo, imagine condensing all of Stan Grof's work into an API, and a GPT pulled information only from that body of work, it could really help people integrate psychedelic trips if they don't have immediate access to an expensive guide. Not a replacement to effective care or primary source insight but could be a great placeholder. These are just different ways of delivering information.

@Leo Gura Have you ever considered transcribing and organizing all of your work into a structured format, then creating an API from it to upload into a GPT model that people could interact with live—similar to the Integral GPT on Ken Wilber’s website?

It's about a philosophy professor who goes into academia because he wants to discover the secrets of the universe, he is in his 70s, lecturing a room of students and whilst teaching he realises his assumptions about reality are so fundamental to the point that he imagines the duality between himself and the students he has spent his life teaching. And that he doesn't understand reality and that he didn't realise his dream. The lyrics if you can't understand: I’ve collected thoughts for so long my chair’s a moving throne. My mind’s a spiral staircase I’ve barely walked alone. I’m realising lately, my thoughts aren’t all my own lost in my own language Even more without it so I am a liar my thoughts are sounds my words are heavy they land somewhere not on the ground who knew all along I was making me and you painting us like a picture I thought I was looking for truth I want to know what this is was I taught truth as a kid how it works the whole system I don’t know what you hear but it looks like you’re listening Professor Sophistry (Headache Inspired Version)-1.mp3

A quick song I made, my poetry but read by AI - Headache inspired voice (he is an artist if you haven't heard of him). It's about a philosophy professor who goes into academia because he wants to discover the secrets of the universe, he is in his 70s, lecturing a room of students and whilst teaching he realises his assumptions about reality are so fundamental to the point that he imagines the duality between himself and the students he has spent his life teaching. And that he doesn't understand reality and that he didn't realise his dream. Professor Sophistry (Headache Inspired Version)-1.mp3

A page from truth vs falsehood by David Hawkins

Osho’s village was largely Green and arguably got pretty violent

don’t worry everyone Yelp will quality assure roof plumbers

Leo’s advice on this thread is gold Id take it if I were you. I was a 21 year old virgin, had sex for the first time after fumbling multiple pulls to my own and other girls apartments. I went out every single day for months at a time, faced severe sleep deprivation, approached girls on weeknights at 8pm and at times was mistaken for a homeless begger. I have a thread on losing my virginity from a few years ago. I lived with my main wing who was a hard cases and worked almost as hard as me at dating with no success, years on and they’re still a virgin. Fundamentally they needed to ground themselves and be more honest. Honest that they were sloppy with their fashion, had psychotic views of women and fundamentally didn’t respect them, was closed minded to things like therapy and inner work, were addicted to their phone, didn’t go out that much and couldn’t hold a normal conversation with a girl without trying to game or manipulate her in some way. After tireless attempts to coach and at times strong arm my friend into pulling himself together I realised he needed time and a series of hard reality checks to get his act together.