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Nice video. That definitely makes sense from an evolutionary perspective.

I don't think it's a perspective so much as it is data points or instances of deception. I think she, like me, uses the amount of deception one engages in as a heuristic to measure the integrity of character. For example, if Musk wasn't as deceptive as he is, I wouldn't call him a con. For people who think Musk isn't deceptive as hell.... one of us is wrong. Maybe I've fallen victim to anti-Elon propaganda or maybe you all just haven't seen the same videos me and Emerald have. 😂

I am not blind to this. I recognize this fully. I have consciously loved evil people. But my point is the driver. What drives them. If they woke up and had the thought "I better get going, the world needs me", they would be better than what they are. People like them are not driven by anything like duty or service. They only use those ideas to serve their actual drivers. I'm open to being wrong a little about Musk but there's no doubt he intentionally lies, cheats, and deceives on a mass fucking scale. The fruits of Musk's deceptions are more subtle than Trump's. Trump fleeces money. Musk fleeces opinion. I don't see a case for Musk not being a con artist.

I know what you said. If you think Donald Trump thinks he is saving the world, you've read him wrong. Of course an egotist in his position would court that idea from time to time, and I'm sure he does, but he isn't driven by it and it's not common in his consciousness. Regarding Elon, yes, he's more conscious, which is precisely why his ego needs more sophisticated deceptions. OF COURSE the great Elon cares about humanity. I'm sure the thinks he's saving the world when he needs to think that, but you make it sound like he's a crusader, and I just disagree. Maybe I shouldn't have used the word "con artist" for Elon. But IDK, he sure seems like a con artist to me.

Very interesting! When I wake up from anesthesia and become aware of or imagine lost time, I suppose I then imagine lost consciousness, which is what I'm calling void. Thanks for bringing this up. I never considered the idea of lost consciousness itself being a construct. I was using the concept of time to construct the concept of lost consciousness. 😂 WTF.

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

If the devil came up from hell and went to Trump and said, I'll make you the next president but I'll have to wipe out 75% of the U.S population for that to happen. Do you think Trump would take that deal? 😂 Would Elon? 😂

Totally disagree! Trump doesn't care anything about saving the world. LOL. Neither does Elon. There's no way I'm wrong about this. Both men are driven by their own self-aggrandizement. Neither of them are ideological. Musk acts like he is but that's just a game he plays to give himself the illusion he's great at being an apex predator, because he needs a good reason for his self-aggrandizement. What better proof that you're an apex than actually conning all the plebs that you care about them and the planet they live on? If Elon and Trump actually cared about the world, they wouldn't be so bad. Jordan Peterson actually does have a heart and cares about the world. So does Squeaky Benjamin. But Trump and Elon, hell no!

Of course Elon knows Trump is a self-serving con artist. Elon knows he himself is a con artist and he knows Trump is. He just doesn't care because he fancies himself an apex predator. They are two of the largest falsehood disseminators on the planet coming together, not to collaborate, but to benefit from each other. They both know this.

I thought she handled this beautifully too. I don't know if she was self-comforting or but when the heckler was heckling she repeated something like "it's all good", seemingly to herself, which made me sympathize with her. I might have read that wrong but not sure. I think any intelligent person should know better at this point the focus should be on Trump, not Palestine. I'm glad she made that clear.

Very well-said! I totally agree. I hope they can keep it up.

I agree. Walz has a quality about him that is positively reassuring, which I thought would serve as a beacon of confidence/strength for Kamala, or anyone really. His energy is infectious. I didn't watch the rally but I think you have good instincts. I suppose they have to try certain tactics to see what performs well, like A/B split tests. From what I've seen so far, the campaign is more strategic than I thought it'd be. They seem able to test and adapt quickly. I strongly agree it's important for them to avoid coming off like tryhards by telling the same jokes or greatest hits. Not only does it come off as tryhard, it makes people feel like they're being manipulated. It's not natural and organic. They need a steady supply of powerful content. Fresh shows every time.

From what I understand, there is no singular spiritual goal of the event, so if there are pagan rituals, you can simply tell them to fuck off and take another hit of your preferred chemical. As far as I can tell, that's what it's all about. You might wind up getting a blowjob by 2 girls, one of them a midget, and you might find 3 guys watching it all go down. If you're afraid of things like that manifesting in reality, you probably shouldn't go 😂

That's the joy! These are pretty good for psychology: 50 Psychological Classics Everybody Lies Elephant in the brain Laws of Human Nature

😂 AI has brought up ToM twice in the past week, so I searched here and found your post. This topic is gold! It's really interesting that children can have highly developed ToM. I think this explains a lot about my childhood and I suspect it could answer lingering questions a lot of us have about who and why we are what we are. For some reason, I believe we became very open as children, and that openness was one of the key factors that contributed to our expanded consciousness. Just an early idea but what if ToM is just tracking the consequences of openness?

"Pretty good" my ass. He should easily make it into your top 10. Rupert Spira ain't got shit on Hawkins. Like he's "somewhat useful", as if he's among the ranks of Eckhart Tolle or fuckin' Deepak Chopra. I get the sense most people either haven't explored his work or they were first introduced to him in Power Vs. Force and/or Truth Vs. Falsehood. These two books are shit and should be avoided, or, if you do consume them, you have keep an open mind until you explore the rest of his works, but you ain't missing anything if you skip his 2 most popular books. Don't go on the internet and look up what everyone else thinks about him if you easily succumb to groupthink. I've shared Leo's work with several people in the past and not a single one of them saw the value in it. The same reason those people didn't see the value in Leo's work is the same reason people don't see the value in Hawkins.

@Leo Gura What do you think of this: Yes, "weird" isn't effective to change minds. If someone with conservative values winds up in a voting booth in Nov, they'll likely vote Republican. But! A lot of factors go into whether they'll show up to vote. I know conservatives who weren't going to vote this year. They felt defeated and that it was hopeless. Then, their will to participate in the election increased sharply after Biden defeated himself in the debate. Then, after the assassination attempt, they were never more ready to vote in their lives. Why? What happened? Their values didn't change. Energy from narratives and ideas changed. Before those two events, they felt defeated and weren't gonna show up. Now, they feel defeated again. And the weird attack did play a part in that. 😂 The "weird" attack contributed to the energy of the left and diminished the energy of the right. You don't see it this way?

I'm not worried about the vote count anymore, but I would be very surprised if the The Heritage Foundation doesn't have hundreds of Jesus warriors ready to cause chaos before or during the election, which could lead to God knows what.

To anyone who doesn't like Hawkins because their first impression came from Power vs Force or Truth vs Falsehood, you wrote him off too early. Here's a sample audio preview of a random excerpt from Reality, Spirituality, and Modern Man: https://recorder.google.com/e49138f0-90f0-42a7-be46-61c7c309e4c6 To sit upright with an actual paperback book requires too much energy and needless friction. Audible. I'm repulsed by his two most popular books but often cycle through these: Reality, Spirituality, and Modern Man Transcending the Levels of Consciousness Discovery of the Presence of God I - Reality and Subjectivity The Eye of the I

When it comes woo woo stuff I can't corroborate myself, I give Hawkins the same leeway I give Leo. I don't buy Hawkins' calibration technique but I also don't buy Leo's Alien conscious and channeling stuff. Why? Because I can't corroborate those things. But I'm not going to say Hawkins or Leo is full of shit because I can't corroborate that either. When I heard Hawkins say a fox news piece calibrated at level 350, I was like, c'mon David, don't do this! 😂 That said, he was talking about some of Leo's highest teachings way before Leo was. For example, instead of "Structure vs Content", Hawkins called it "Essence vs. appearance/content". Instead of "paradigm lock", Hawkins spoke of "paradigm blindness". Hawkins harped on the "narcissistic core of the human ego" and how its main goal was survival and its nature was wickedly deceptive. Sound familiar? I noticed a lot of overlap in their works—so much so that at one point I wondered if Leo was just lifting shit from Hawkins. Over the years, I found quite a few people Leo seemed to have been inspired by and it seems a common sentiment that they just be poo-pood for not being absolutely perfect. Hawkins' deserves more respect than he's getting here. Not only was he highly spiritually developed beyond what most of us ever will be, but he actually took to the time to share the knowledge and was one of the most accessible and eloquent teachers I've found. I don't think it's a stretch to say Hawkins had a profound impact on Leo, which follows, this entire community. So yeah, he's got some strangeness to him and it might even be bullshit, but he's one of the giants whose shoulders we're standing on. The thing I like most about Hawkins and John Diamond (the guy who taught Hawkins about Kinesiology), is they actually reached a level of spirituality that made them truly love their fellow humans. Something in me thinks that you have to reach that level of being before you can go very high. Hawkins and Diamond very clearly reached those levels, and Hawkins went way beyond... anyway. Show some goddamn respect! 😂

Interesting, thanks @DocWatts! @Leo Gura More than just Trump supporters have fallen for this. I see this defense they've mounted as particularly pernicious to the collective epistemology. It's not your run-of-the mill denial and delusion that only Trump fanatics fall for. Trump apologists, distinct from Trump supporters, have spent years formulating, revising, polishing, and providing new releases of their latest and greatest defenses that allow Trump supporters to handwave away Jan 6, which sat in the back of all their minds as an unresolved, incoherent piece of reality. To date, their collective hard work has produced the defense of "ignore the essence, zoom into and focus on the literal and clearly discernable and say that trying to discern the essence is foolish", or whatever. I think there is huge opportunity for collective epistemic growth if enough thought leaders and influencers figure out how to effectively articulate and disseminate this sneaky tactic of the ego.

@Leo Gura Regarding self-deception, have you touched on something like "the letter of the law vs. the spirit of the law"? Not necessarily pertaining to the law but rather to someone's words or actions? For example, Trump said to "peacefully" protest on the 6th. His apologists use this as a sort of "letter of the law" defense where they say "well, technically speaking...", while completely ignoring the "spirit" or the "essence" and writing off any attempt to ascertain the essence as wishful attempts to read his mind because you don't like him and since they themselves aren't suffering from TDS, they don't have any reason to read his mind. This argument put forth by Trump apologists appeals to many and I don't really see anyone countering it successfully. I think this concept of "letter vs spirit/essence", for lack of a better term, is the key to counter it.

Kamala and Walz need to bring in Steve Schmidt as a spokesperson or strategist. This dude fucking CRUSHES.

I think this is correct. Calling Trump an Orange Devil certainly appeals to me and you but not to the average conformist. It's safer for them to avoid making such polarizing judgments, otherwise they risk becoming "weird". Conformist instinctively desire to put space between themselves and what is seen as weird. It doesn't matter who is calling a thing weird. If large numbers of any group are calling a thing weird, it will trigger their instinct to demonize and distance themselves from the weird. That's why it's so clever! I can tell I'm viewed as "weird" by my community and I've seen them huddle together and talk about other "weirdos". I know they do the same about me when I'm not around. To them, it would be an absolute nightmare if others huddled together and had a conversation about how they were weird. I've called conformists weird before—they take that shit seriously. 😂

Optics wise , Kamala and Walz look great together. Side by side comparison, these two look competent, energetic, and ready to roll up their sleeves while Trump and Vance look like burnt out bullshitters who need a break from their con games.