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The word free will doesn't exist in objective reality. The word free will only get it's meaning if you buy into the illusion of an observer and there are 2 things that's not the observer, now you get to choose. Depending on the level you illusion you subscribe to, you will have free will. However, if you identify with everything, then that word ceases to have meaning. So, as long as you haven't seen through the illusion there is free will. Also, unconditional Love is free will that has evolved to its max. Like pichu to raichu. haha

Every emotion that one experiences and if you feel stuck is because there is pleasure in experienced in your sub consciousness. Once you became conscious of it, you can choose to let it go. It's like this, you know how they catch monkey in india? They put peanuts in a bottle and when the monkey puts it's hand inside and grabs the peanuts, it makes a fist and is stuck. The monkey is not willing to let go of the peanuts and also wants to gets its hand out of the bottle. Our goal is to be honest and transparent with ourselves and become conscious of the peanuts we are holding on to. Once you become aware that you are one that's holding to the peanuts, you can choose let it go. Fear is a habit. As you recognize it, you will be able to loosen the viselike grip— not that fear has upon you— but that you have upon fear. Fear will go away once you give it permission to leave. ~Emmanuel

The series like self-deception, Love, and duality was really good, but in my opinion, I think going Meta was the best video thus far! If I could recommend one video, it would be this. Because so much that is unsaid in most of the self-help/spirituality circle is so beautifully articulated in this one! If Leo, you are reading this, could you please share your writing process? Like how do you structure and script your videos? If the idea of sharing excites you, please do share! I would love to know!

@seeking_brilliance Thanks! Will check it out!

@Bando Going Meta on emotions and becoming a witness! I think I got a more conscious understanding of the letting go technique!

the alabaster girl by zan perrion This is amazing in the sense it very nicely dovetails with that book! Do read it. The guy is amazing and is loved by women. Very intersting!

Authentic YOU! I love this topic because this seems to be the essence of your soul expressed in the external reality in it's truest vibration. I researched this for years and I realized this, the person you are now if you don't feel authentic, you probably are not. It's like you are listening to piano play and something doesn't sound right. A key that's out of key. You find it, fix it and play again. Hmm, something still doesn't sound right. Is it the C4? Let's find out! My journey is something similar. My soul wants to express itself in a certain way, however, I have limiting beliefs that stop it from being the way it wants to. "You are not supposed to do this in public!" "Yuck! did you just puke?" "You did this to him? Disgusting!"... Once I find these beliefs and realize it doesn't serve me anymore, I let go. Once I let go, the soul now can express itself evermore, and thus now I'm more authentic. I am not in any way achieved the pinnacle of this process, it's an ongoing journey of becoming more aware of what I believe and asking myself "how does this serve me?" Helps?

Hey guys, I would love your input on this. There is this girl I really liked and tried my best to get over the feeling of lust and be friends but couldn't. Decided in the end to go our own ways. However, she's kinda is in the same friend group as me so it's hard to get over it. I now took a 3 month break from the friends group as well. I was wondering if you could given me some tips to over come this from a spiritual perspective of love and acceptance.

@Eternity @SamC Thanks guys. It keeps life on hold, I definitely agree. I think what happened to me was I think i equated that to Oh, I am not good enough or what could I have done to change that? and regrets of had I did this in the past then this wouldn't have happened. I have to process and resolve that. Thanks for the input!

I LOVE HER AS WELLL

Hey guys! I'm going to canada and definitely want to do shrooms. I am thinking of ordering the Goldern Teacher. My goal is to self actualize and become more loving and deal with my lust for women, my studies and money In my research, the best thing they suggest is tea? Could you guys please give me your input as to what's the best way to go about it? couple of questions: - What shroom to buy? - Can I have it in my room? - Should I be listening to some lecture from leo, alan watts or ram dass? - what to do about the puking thing? anything else I should be aware of? Please let me know! Thanks guys! much love!

I don't know how but I just stumbled upon this and I only found out now!!! I have to watch the entire thing but why didn't I find it sooonerrrr

The 9 Stages Of Ego Development - Part 1, 2 and 3 6 stages of Ego Development by Cook-Greuter: - Based on the sentence completion test. - It models how self-identity/ego evolves over time - Find out what kind of ego do you have? - This is focused on cognitive and mental development - Modelling how the mind is relating to reality - "The whole previous meaning system is transformed and restructured into a new, more expansive and inclusive self-theory and theory of the world" - The function of the ego is meaning-making - The ego is constantly engaged in the battle of sense-making - Here we look at the structure of the mind (watch content vs structure) - "A person's understanding of power, feedback, time, love, integrity, and truth, for instance, changes with increasing development." - 9 stages 1) Symbiotic 2) Impulsive 2/3) Opportunist - 4.3% 3) Conformist 3/4) Expert 4) Achiever 4/5) Pluralist 5) Autonomous/Strategist 5/6) Construct-Aware/ Magician 6) Unitive PRECONVENTIONAL STAGE - Symbiotic - a baby - dependant on parents - struggling to make sense to the world - Impulsive - toddler - stage in which you have your earliest memories - thinks in crude dichotomy - easy for the mind to feel overwhelmed and feel abandoned - People are seen as objects to gratify one's needs - Opportunist - the mind is very impulsive, animal-like, self-centred - Doesn't consider the needs and suffering of others - mind is not capable of insight into itself or others in any psychological sense. - life is seen as a zero-sum game. If I win, you lose. If you lose I win - There is a sense of self having two sides, inner self and an outer self to shield it from others - A problem would arise due to the mask one wears and how one really feels - Social rules are recognized but are only followed for the immediate benefit or to avoid punishment - One is socially invested in the concrete visible world of things that they can own - Self-respect = my ability to control others - Other's are always to blame not one's self - One is prone to anger when frustrated and the anger tends to be loud and projected outwards - Actions are only bad if one is caught or punished. - Show little remorse when they are caught - If it is caught, they tend to blame others - Success can be archived in business if its about opportunism and unilateral power. - business as exploitation - showing weakness in this stage is considered dangerous - The more others know about me, the more one is gonna take advantage of me. So I have to hide my true self from others so that it doesn't get taken advantage of. - Morality doesn't compute in the mind - not much empathy - Defence mechanism: + Blame + Distortions to minimize one's own anxiety, fantasy, acting out. Twisting the truth around to suit one's own self + Self-protective, bull-headed, tunnel vision and are constantly blowing up + Don't find common grounds + Exploit other's weakness + Negative emotions are expressed loudly unabashedly CONVENTIONAL STAGES Conformist/ Diplomate - Ego evolved beyond the opportunist stage and is discovering a new "We space" - I am part of a community - The groups here are only of 2 types: the in-group and the out-group (us and them) - There is a confused boundary between self and the in-group - This stage is very sheep-like - People are perceived as your allies or your enemies - These people feel honoured to be in a part of a group with high status - At this stage of cognitive development, the mind is unable to take perspectives of other groups - At this stage, the mind cannot comprehend that other groups hold absolute beliefs as well. - The mind at this stage cannot distinguish between belief and reality - Belief is taken as reality - No distinction between belief and experience either - No sense of recognition that beliefs can be wrong - Mind tries to uphold tradition and avoid rocking the boat - Feedback is experienced as an attack and critique as wrongdoing - doesn't evaluate things independently - they need roles to be rigid and absolute - Black and white, either good or bad - The action here carried out with absolute conviction - Strong sense of guilt and shame - confused and threatened by different perspectives, diversity, complexity, paradox, and multi-culturalism (Note: with every stage, you are taking more and more responsibility) - Sexuality is treated like an animalistic instinct that needs to be controlled - People tend to be very judgemental - Anger is suppressed - Sense of self is denied by others - Great value is put on material 3rd-dimensional stuff - main anxiety is not to belong and be rejected by the group - Asking the superior what to do is the natural way to deal with difficulties - Avoid conflict within the group - Suppressing their emotions, needs and wants Expert Stage - Able to step back and look at oneself as an object from a distance - Rudimentary self-reflection - Want to be unique - get away from family and want to express newly found personhood - Feels good to be noticed as unique - Want to be respected for one's want and abilities - focus on finding one's own voice - capable of dealing with abstract objects and concepts and want to assert itself - vision to be more successful - the compulsive perfectionistic tendency here to outdo one's self - want to be the best - negative feedback as a personal rebuke - enjoys criticizing others as a way to establish one's own superiority and power - one's own way of doing things is considered the right way or the superior way - focused on doing the task right rather than doing the right task - Science becomes the religion - superiority complex - feels disappointed in oneself for not doing better - strong sense of shoulds and wants - Doesn't easily collaborate with others - argumentative and opinionated. The intellect becomes weaponized and becomes aggressive - The ego lives in a world where things are sure and clear - Doesn't realize that one's perspectives is one of many valid perspectives - person is overworked - hard time delegating tasks - loves to have the last word - hostile sense of humour - defence mechanism: Hyper rational logic - highly educated specialist - superego is strong at this stage but not available for introspection - If I can do it, you can do it too attitude - 1% openness - Early interest in causality Achiever - 5 to 10 years forwards and backwards vision - you can continue to grow from mind and heart as an adult - excited for self-knowledge and self-improvement - beginning to appreciate conceptual complexity - Recognizes that the way that the problem is framed is the problem itself - planful and capable of reorienting towards new goals - still convinced in the scientific method doesn't question it very much - looking for rational laws and ways in which the universe works - much of science is done from this achiever stage - better at working in a collaborative environment - recognizing that making new distinctions is important for growing one's mind - create complex theories and models - actively asks to find out what makes other's tick - trusts in the potential to improve oneself using effort, learning and feedback - could take misguided criticism and see it as useful - the concern with reasons, causes, and effective use of one's time - interested in knowing the reasons and causes for unwanted behaviour - starts to realize self-deception is a thing - importance of distinguishing appearance from reality - starting to connect with your feelings - becoming familiar with their own biases and projections - One can consciously use negative energy in productive ways - sense of responsibility actualizing one's potential - there is guilt for not being more successful and more developed - questions the shoulds of the society and one's profession - guilt for having made wrong choices and regret for missed opportunities - more appreciative of diversities of people and perspectives - interpersonal relationships now become more intense and more important for the achiever - other's are valued for who they are rather than how they serve oneself - chooses to proceed based on one's own critical examination of what works and what is important - driven to improve the world - feeling of urgency - preoccupied with getting things done - issue of legacy and self-image becomes important - may create complex theory psychology and philosophy but they are still in the level of theories - drive to achieve that might lead to over exhaustion and burnout - not trying to figure things out is no longer an option - have a sense of responsibility for others even when pursuing their own agenda - fear of loss and control in autonomy - fear that they get sucked back into conformity - fear of loss of progress - material stuff and world is real - believes that most problems can be solved with technology GENERAL REMARKS - people's responses don't all fit into one category, there is a blend in categories - this model is about vertical development (changing your sense of reality and structure of your mind) - the levels alternate in a snakey sort of motion between differentiation and integration of the ego-self - see the significance of each stage and each stage is its own reality - Shows you what healthy human development and maturity looks like - HELPS YOU TO UNDERSTAND OTHERS WITHOUT DEMONIZING AND JUDGING THEM Note: this is meant to complement the video. Please watch the video, I love it. I have been following Leo for 5.5 years and it literally changed my life in soo many ways <3 so this stuff is real. Also, the book list is FIRE. ------------------------------------------------------------------- The 9 Stages Of Ego Development - Part 2 --PART 1/2--- General Remark - This is a scientific model and thus has it's own limits - Each stage has the capabilities of the earlier stages underneath it. - NONE of these stages are good or bad - each stage is its own reality but the higher stages are its own reality incorporating the lower reality. Therefore, the higher stages can understand the lower stages as it went through them. - You have to be humble enough to admit that there is something above your level of understanding - Just because you are in a higher stage, it doesn't mean that you are a saint. There are still dysfunctions in the higher stages. (but it tends to improve as it goes higher) - Humans do tend to regress stages when they are threatened or stressed - awakening or mystical experiences can happen in any stage but the interpretation is different based on their level POST-CONVENTIONAL - Previous stages, the ego was busy constructing itself, but in this stage, the ego starts deconstructing itself - deconstruction means turning your focus inwards, starting to really question yourself, starting to reflect on your beliefs & ideas. - Starting to realize the socially constructed nature of reality - Aspects of reality that could be deconstructed (Asking "is this really true for all people everywhere or is it just a local phenomenon" ) + Objective + Material + Real + Scientific + Absolute word + Rationality + Logic + Science + Government + Politics + Capitalist economic system - Relativity is a huge theme of the post-conventional stage. This is a huge leap. - There are many degrees of relativistic thinking - Awareness of one's own unexamined beliefs becomes... almost painfully brought into one's consciousness - the mind opens up to something beyond rationality, new ways of knowing the world than just logic. - noticing evolution and self-deception. All problems become a matter of perspective and mind (not a problem with the world but how you think and relate to the world) - There is a decrease in defensiveness and less blaming of others as you move up these stages - language starts to be questioned and it becomes complex - materialist assumptions are starting to be questioned (not completely but they are starting to be) - although objects are seen are permanent, the meaning is seen to be context-dependent - The boundaries of concepts seem to be much more flexible/movable/impersonal - The mind can compare the whole system of thought and organization with increasing distance - They can now look back to previous belief systems as systems - There is an appreciation of existential, metaphysical, psychological and epistemic issues and questions Pluralist (11% of the adult US population) - Relativity (check out Leo's episode of relativity part 1) - realizes there are multiple perspectives and exploring the perspective becomes fascinating. - Objective judgments become impossible - Life still pressures you into survival. While you want to explore all the perspectives, you still want to manage life. This can be difficult as it becomes hard to make decisions in life. Not all views are equally practical So you sort these views based on practicality - We cannot help filter our observations through our personal and subjective lenses. This humbles the mind - becomes aware of the culturalistic conditioning and you are not in control or values - Exercise: Travel to unconventional exotic places - They start to see all world views as equally valid and worthy of consideration - Truth becomes really difficult to find in this stage because everything starts to become relative and they might even deny there is such a thing as truth - The mind can stand outside itself it grew up in and observe itself/culture from above - Good at questioning hidden assumptions values and beliefs - there is a realization of self-deception as a defence mechanism [just beginning] (check out leo's video on self-deception. I personally highly recommend it) - If other people are so easily fooled, what are the chances that you are fooling yourself thinking that you are an exception to self-deception? - The greatest danger is your own mind and the beliefs and software that was programmed into your mind that was taken for granted with all the assumptions that you never questioned - They start questioning how do we know what we know? - Realizes that I am not immune to all the brainwashing - There is an awareness of how much society or awareness has shaped one's point of view, worldview, beliefs and values - The mind is seen as completely contingent on +historical context +geographic place +economic circumstance +education +the structure of society +culture +media +advertising +language - The inner world becomes more interesting than materialistic pleasure - trying to make sense of oneself - They realize the limitation of rationality - One of the chief ways the mind can deceive you is logic - exploration is more important than reaching a goal - Tends to be a distrust at the pluralist stage of conventional wisdom and hyper-rational wisdom - The scientific frame and the judgemental frame breaks down - They like to scrutinize their own assumptions and relish novel mental freedom - All values are now relative but survival still demands making choices and judgements that the pluralist struggles with - Rather than solving a problem, one must figure out what to define a problem - problems is an interplay between polarities neither one of which can simply be eliminated - enjoys paradox and contradiction without the need to eliminate them - linear logic gives way to a more holistic understanding - Not everything needs to be proven in order to be embraced - Value is placed upon insight and breakthrough - playful exploration and the imagination is set free - looks for connections and subtle clues rather than analyzing independent parts - useful information can now come from beyond science - sources that were viewed with ridicule such as intuition, feeling, dream, meditation, self-reflection, insight, these now become highly valued - there is a shift from doing to being and feeling - they like to live more unconventionally - good at finding novel ways at looking at the problem - they like to inspire others to pursue their own interest Traps: - they can appear amoral because they appear so relativistic - there is a dread that one's work-life won't allow self-expression and creativity - can feel isolated from others who don't understand the post-conventional mindset - there can be relationship problems if your partner is post-conventional and the other person is conventional - Diversity and equalities itself become an oppressive position. - They might judge others who do not hold their values - They still don't fully appreciate the others are not as developed as they are - They generally very tolerant of other's diverse ideas, behaviours, and cultures but they can come off as dreamers and non-doers - Tend to have an attitude of "It all depends" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 9 Stages Of Ego Development - Part 3 [Note: yes, I have written notes for the past 2 videos] *General* - It can be counter-productive to skip stages - Don't rush trying to get towards enlightenment or awakening. If you do, you won't be able to sustain it - Use this model to analyze what kind of people you are dealing with in your life - Use this model to determine what kind of teachings you need! - Focus on all the stages, if you don't do so, you will stagnate and will feel frustrated *Construct-Aware/ Magician* - mind and the material reality is tangled together is constructed - Realize that life is not an objective but rather a subjective and deeply personal thing - at this stage, you are concerned about what it means to be alive and the significance of your existence - everything that is held true is called into question once again - When you realize how much of reality is constructed by the mind, reality starts to feel intangible and groundless - Keen awareness of how the ego-mind distorts reality and comes up with models and understandings of reality to suit itself for the purpose of survival (Check out the 2 part series of understanding survival. Very Imp) - The realization that all objects are human-made constructions - keep appreciation between the idea of map and the territory - Realize how much language shapes your reality and understanding of the world - Cognizant of the pitfalls of language and it's a tremendous gift to mankind - Getting skillful at playing with the language and not getting stuck - Realize that concepts only make sense with what it surrounds and polar opposite - Awareness of how abstractions and concepts get made by the mind and responsible - hitting up with the limits of the human mind - conventional belief in the permanent, objective, external world starts to be questioned - The distinction between mind and body, self and others starts to break down - Objective and clear self-identification starts to be questioned at this stage - this stage has a flexible, continuously, deconstructing, non-reified notion of self - an acute awareness of the endless interplay of polar opposites - good at cross paradigmatic thinking - They have a global historical perspective - stepping back and awareness of meaning-making 41:27 - 42:16 (Very profound) - realization of the human need for map making and trying to organize experience and knowledge in ever more complex matrixes and meta-theory - Deconstructing personal stories and letting it go - Deception stages: Level 1: We have no idea that we are deceiving ourself Level 2: Start to get a little bit of idea that we are deceiving ourself Level 3: HOLY SHIT, I am deceiving myself and I am aware that I am deceiving myself, I CAN"T STOP deceiving myself because I am attached to it. Can't figure out how to let go yet. Level 4: You will be aware of self-deception that you will stop it before it starts. - Constantly questioning your own questioning process - there is lastish effort by the ego to create comprehensive maps and reality possible - theories incorporate other theories and become ever more complex - sense of isolation that comes in this stage as nobody is able to understand you and your complexity - start seeing the absurdity of map-making and stuff like this - glimpses of consciousness beyond language - a different relationship to knowing is necessary - An acute awareness of ego tricks and mechanisms - Ego functions as the CPU for all the stimuli and central reference point for all identity formation - realize how deeply you get stuck in the ego and how helpless and powerless it is to break out of it - The ego desires ego transcendence but it feels stuck even in it's own desires - The more one tries to break free, the more one gets stuck - Awareness of thoughts and how limited it is - all cognition is realized as constructed and split off from underlying non-dual territory - The concept of ego now becomes questionable - the mind wants to get free of linguistic filters but is stuck in its illusion - Duality is recognized which mutually necessitate each other - deep awareness of how one's unhappiness and judgements create unhappiness and so there is a lot of shedding and letting go of judging - seeks deeper compassion of self and others - has a dynamic and multidimensional understanding of human nature and human interaction - living in the edge of meaning and meaninglessness - awareness of one's own emotions and rational processing patterns but you have to use both - awareness of pseudo-reality created by words - rational explanations seem to be futile and impossible - the language itself is a tool of ego constructing and defending itself - capacity to draw from and appreciate insight from non-rational sources - momentary experiences where the knower and known merge and the personal self disappears - temporary freedom of the ego's constants effort to control - Ego can use this information to tute its own horn - As leaders, people tend to build their own novel organizations and work alone to make the best contribution to humanity that they can - take the role of catalyst and transformers inside organizations - tend to be consultant, mentors, therapist and coaches - open to not knowing - need to look good goes away - need for defensiveness starts to melt away - less need to impress others - depression at this stage is the man's existential aloneness and inability to create lasting meaning through a rational process - capable of perceiving the structure of its own thinking and feeling habits - language is much more authentic, vivid, complex and playful. It's more direct and raw - there is an attempt to let go of conscious structuring of what one says or does - catches himself in self-deception and catches himself and auto-corrects - Recognizing self-deception is an opportunity to grow and change your belief system - Ken Wilber uses two terms when referring to this stage: Vision logical and centaur(half animal half human and both learn to coexist) - questions the need of making order out of chaos - think of reality as an undifferentiated whole and realization of the interconnectedness of all things

Developing Introspection - The Solution To The Problem Of Self-Deception Developing Introspection - The #1 skill to develop intelligence, wisdom, and to escape all the mechanisms of self-deception and delusion which is LOOKING INWARDS - how can I tell what's true? your ability to feel inwards and introspect is the key - This is a very robust concept - Introspection is the ability to truthfully observe the dynamics of your own psychology and mind. TRUTHFULLY is a keyword here, it takes practice to develop this skill. - Truthful Observation: It takes practice to observe something in a truthful, impartial, unbiased, accurate and faithful manner. - This skill is a meta ability, to observe all the working from such that you are not getting meshed and entangled in the everyday functions of the mind. - While doing this, you will be noticing your emotional states and causes - You need to be able to distinguish and feel emotions like fear, anger, sadness, frustration, desire, hurt, craving, happiness, afraid BUT ALSO knowing what causes these states are of crucial importance (Most often it's not somebody else but how you are thinking about the situation, belief system, the meaning you are attaching to things you are denying) - You also have to notice the interplay between your thoughts and your emotions in a strange loop kind of fashion where thoughts can create emotions and emotions can create thoughts - Notice your rationalization, justifications and excuses.Your Ego mind can make anything justified and true. So the only countermeasure is to feel into it and through it and to see through the sham of it. - You also need to notice your judgements, your demonization of others, and when you blaming and scapegoating others - Notice your victim mindset - You need to be able to see the sneakiness of your mind which is the introspection skill - 1. When you first feel inwards, it's wage and fuzzy at first. You are not sure how to make sense of it. It's confusing. You don't understand. You might grasp for something but it might be wrong conclusions. But slowly, you will get a sense of balance. You might also discover stuff you don't like. - Notice how you avoid both personal responsibility and collective responsibility. But why? You should explore this! Notice and feeeeel when you are actually avoiding responsibility - Identifying and removing all the negative beliefs is HUGE HUGE HUGE - When you hold limiting beliefs, they feel like truth and reality - Need to notice your self standard and Biases. The standard that you set for yourself is different compare to the standard you set for others - Feel INWARDSSS in your DIRECT EXPERIENCE and NOOOOTICE - Notice when you are dishonest and you are lying to others and yourself. How do you know you are dishonest? You can feel it, it has a dirty quality to it. Also notice, why you lie, what is sourcing and motivating this lie - Notice your grudges, bitterness and trauma - Notice your preferences and your deepest needs - Your attachment feels like a gripping sensation, Any sort of stuckness, constriction, tightness, pulsating uncomfortable sensation, etc. - You can feel inwards and feel that the attachment is wrong. - Notice when you are unwilling to let a thing go - Notice when you are arguing, how you get emotionally triggered - When you feel inwards and it doesn't feel right, that's a clue that the higher self is sending to you "HEYYY, YOU ARE FOOOLING YOURSELF HERE, YOU STUPID BITCH" (my addition, not Leo's) - Notice and introspect when your ego uses logic in selfish ways. - You need to admit when you truly know a thing but you pretend as you do. - You need to notice when you manipulating another person - Notice your motives and intentions - Notice when you are not being authentic in order to please somebody else. - Notice when you are giving the power away - Notice when you are irked or annoyed by constructive feedback - Notice when you have learnt something new - Notice how you react to failure - Notice your habits and addictions and notice further what is sourcing your addictions - Notice the TONE of the self-talk - Notice your hidden assumptions - Notice with your job and a career, your jobs and your interests. - Notice when you are being evasive and avoidant - Notice when you are being arrogant - Notice when you are being flippant and dismissive - Notice when you are unjust or unfair to others - People treat others - Notice your own defence mechanisms - Notice when your project and when you externalize - Notice your shadow (THE SHADOW WORK EPISODE IS COMINGG!!! YAY) - Notice when you aren't feeling good - Notice your gut feeling and intuitions - Notice when you are closed-minded and stubborn (Check out the episode of openmindedness) - Notice and acknowledge when you are wrong - Notice when you cover-up mistakes - Notice when you feel guilty - Notice when you feel shame and embarrassment - Notice when you feel love and spiritual connection - FORMULA FOR GOOD LIFE: If you want to have a good life, notice what makes you feel love, motivation, inspiration, joy and spiritual connection and do more of that and less of the opposite. (this assumes you know how to feel into this stuff) - You need to be able to differentiate dirty sorts of satisfactions and spiritual sorts of satisfactions. - Notice when you are fantasizing. Be able to distinguish between direct experience vs fantasy - Notice your own privileges - Notice your interpretations - Notice you are being peer pressured when you are conforming and when there is social conditioning in you. - Notice when you are being rebellious just for the sake of being rebellious - Notice your mind constructing a self-serving narrative - Notice when you are suffering. Notice different kinds of suffering you have. Notice what causes suffering. Ask yourself, are you truly understanding their perspective - Notice when a new problem arises and it disappears. - Notice when you are being selfish, notice your own corruptions, notice when you are being a devil, notice when you are contributing to global evil - Applications: 1:32:13 WARNING: - Introspection is not speculation, not rationalization, not belief - Sit and patiently observeeeeee your mind at work without judging it, without emotionally reacting to it, without manipulating it, without trying to change it - Memorising and parroting actualized.org concepts is not introspection - Introspection works in tandem with a genuine intention for truth and a commitment to intellectual integrity - Value to adopt: Truthful accurate clear introspection - Introspection comes at a cost. Huge emotional labour. More introspection is more responsibility - It will take years to develop significant introspection skills - It is a subtle skill that nobody in society is going to push you to develop Use your heart as a compass.

The Sneaky Psychology Behind Conspiracy Theories *The Sneaky Psychology Behind Conspiracy Theories* - Conspiracy Theory: A fool's idea of intelligence. - Problem we are facing now: 1: People have zero understanding of epistemology, so they fall in to usual trap if epistemology 2: Social media: it creates echo chambers of confirmation bias where you are able to lock yourself into an ideological bubble of like-minded peers 3: We are in late-stage capitalism: Most players treat the news like a business. This means that the collective education and intelligence is for sale to the highest bidder. - If a conspiracy theorist buys into one theory, they most likely buy into dozen - We are going to explore the Structure of the conspiracy theory and not the content. Content is distraction - Conspiracy theory is basically a projection of the ignorant ego-mind. The more ignorant an ego-mind is, the more proud and righteous it feels about its theories and speculations of the reality and gets lost in the labyrinth of its own belief system - People have a difficult time distinguishing their belief system and their direct experience. - Conspiracy theory is designed for people with low intelligence and who are intellectually lazy and are not interested in doing serious epistemological investigation, people who are not serious about questioning their worldview - List of conspiracy theories 14:22 - The corruption found outside in the world is a reflection of corruption inside you - The way the devil deceives you is by sprinkling falsehood into kernels of truth - A conspiracy theory is not all a lie, if it was, you would reject it. It's a mix between truth and falsehood - What we call evil doesn't come from truly conscious malicious intent, it comes from unconsciousness, selfishness and ignorance. (Not evil powerful overlords) - The ego mind has a neeeeed to make sense of the reality it doesn't understand. The mind hates not knowing - It's very easy and convenient for the ego-mind to trace all the evil back to one source which is not itself. - Conspiracy theory allows you to feel morally superior to all those other evil brainwashed people out there. A fundamental problem of conspiracy theories: 1.They promote a fundamentally wrong view of reality and consciousness. This view of duality that there is us vs them. There is a separation between my enemies and me. Truth: Reality is one. 2. They lead to a general outlet of suspicion, outlet and blaming of others. Truth: Go solve the problem, or follow your highest passion and set an example for others as to how to live 3. Conspiriotory thinking don't lead to a root solution for any of the problems 4. So what if they are true? What are your gonna do about it? It's a trick from doing the inner work. You have to work on yourself and improve yourself regardless of what is going outside. To solve the root problem of society, we have to come together and work together. 5. Demonization of a group of people 6. Decrease meaningful civil engagement. Conspiracy thinking is a subset of ideological thinking. - Conspiracy theory is the survival mechanism of ego mind. They confirm ego mind's initial confirmation and fears - Conspiracy theory involves a lot of circular reasoning/ closed loop thinking - They conflate interpretation with fact - They can make you feel powerful - There is refusal to take collective responsibility with conspiracy theories - Conspiracy theory is a misuse of skepticism. The true function of skepticism is to look inwards and remove the devilry - Conspiracy theories prey on emotional triggers like shock, fear, anger and other low consciousness emotions - Conspiracy theories lack a lot of intellectual honesty - Conspiracy theories reinforce close-mindedness, dogma and selfishness - They are used to mobilize crowds - The more you distrust systems and other groups of people, the more you feel like your voice isn't being heard, the more susceptible you are to conspiracy theories - The more you are struggling in life, the more susceptible you are to conspiracy theories - You need to realise that virtually anything can be held true and justified with logic - All of reality is imaginary - Solution to conspiracy theory is introspection, contemplation, open-mindedness, good education, looking for multiple diverse perspectives, serious journalism, science and academic rigour, falsification, personal development and self-actualization, stop all judgments, start taking collective responsibility, systems thinking, stop seeing others separate from you, treat other's as though they are your own family members or as though they were your own body, intellectual integrity and commitment to truth, simply admitting I don't know, be comfortable with confusion, have a clear distinction between beliefs and direct experience, have some experiences of non-duality - Ultimate solution to conspiracy theory is consciousness, selflessness, Truth with a capital T, Love with a capital L

The Trap Of The Toxic Life Purpose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ti0fl_TUUo The Trap Of The Toxic Life Purpose What is the point of life purpose? We live a life and if we don't take on a life purpose we live a toxic life purpose because of our default wiring Toxic Life Purpose - There is no mechanism in our society that aligns high paying job with maximum benefit to the society - If you don't consciously put effort into thinking about what kind of impact you want your life's work to have, we get swayed and have purpose chosen for us. That leads to following the toxic life purpose and harm human society and the collective - We all have to survive and if we don't have a conscious life purpose, the ego looks for the most convenient in terms of easiest, the highest paying or ideologically convenient (something that reinforces your existing world view) - Your mind has a need to have a sense of community and a sense of purpose and you don't have it, your ego-mind will want to have it. If you don't have it, it is just going to happen unconsciously, selfishly - We are gradually brainwashed by it which is why it is so deceptive - But at this moment, we can become aware of the fact that there is a void in our heart due to the lack of meaning and it's going to get filled one way or another. So you can decide to take conscious control of it and decide how you can fill it. - Think "what kind of impact do I want my life to have on the world?" - It takes years of trial and error. So give yourself time. - There is no quick fix. - The amount of time and effort you put in something, it pays proportional dividends. So choose wisely. - A conscious life purpose will not only remove all the suffering caused by some dead-end job but also, help you spiritually connect with the work and helps you stay in bliss - If you don't do it, not only do you have a gaping hole in your heart but also you are living with deep-seated misery and anger brewing inside of you because you cannot express that outside due to the negative consequences - In life, many of the important choices are chosen unconsciously - The hope is in the next five years, with the help of desire, you can figure it out and escape the wage slave - Check out the life purpose course! (It's actually good) - The key is to build a POWERFUL VISION

This person in my opinion has master self inquiry. In this book, he dissolved the duality between self and others, oberserver vs the observed, thinker and the thought. It's a short book. The audiobook is just 4 hours long. Fascinating read to understand no self through self inquiry.

Leo mentioned that his birthday is in April. Does anyone have any idea?

@Mattie

Hi guys, How good of a book is reality Transurfing? I want to hear from you guys

In Leo's book list, he mentions he's enlightened. However, he literally said, love cannot unite but only hatred can. I saw the documentary, although he seems to be a bit enlightened, how did all this happened. Could someone enlighten me about him?

I like Yang. Hope he wins

Let me know what you guys think