ZenSwift

@knowyourroots <3

Does the ground (that part of consciousness) experience itself? Or does consciousness create living beings to experience itself through the creation of eyes? Does that make sense? I was thinking about the idea of how my "self" is the infinite consciousness field, not some point inbetween my ears. Much like how Leo explains it in this blog post: https://www.actualized.org/insights/absolute-infinity-demo

@The0Self very interesting thankyou

@Thought Art

Hey everyone, I have been researching neurofeedback for a while now and I haven't had too much luck with leads, it seems to be a tough nut to crack for me. So I hope I can ask here directly to get some specific pointers in where I can go learn more about neurofeedback. I've done A LOT of digging already. Any significant leads for information is greatly appreciated. (And yes I am willing to drop $2k-3k for a proper setup as Leo recommends.) (I live in Canada BTW if that changes anything for sourcing equipment, I'm pretty sure I can get shipments from the US easily.) My goals with neurofeedback are as follows: Healing my ADHD Learning how to meditate 100x more effectively. I want to know things like: A structure or model to help me get a grasp on the nitty gritty of neurofeedback. What theory I need to learn to put my practice into context. Where can I learn more about neurofeedback so I know exactly what the heck I am doing, what I'm looking for, etc. What equipment should I buy? Where? Personal Stories with using Neurofeedback to 100x their meditation or cure their ADHD Etc. Thanks in advance. I also plan to utilize the following to further progress my healing my ADHD: Kriya Yoga (Currently In the process of reading Kriya Yoga books) Psychedelics (Ongoing) Nootropics (I have acquired Armodafinil, Modafinil, 5-HTP, NALT, L-theanine, Lions Mane, Korean Red Ginseng, a couple others.) Heavy metal detox protocols. (Still Have to research it.

You do it because you are INSPIRED. You build a vision for yourself to who you ought to be. Something insane, something like "best in the world at ..." level. Juicy vision, Juicy life. You focus on bringing that satisfaction in the moment, and teach yourself to enjoy the messy process that is the journey. (See Leos Vid on Satisfaction.) Tuning into your higher consciousness values because you are conscious of the fact that these are superior values to hold. This only works if you truly believe what you're doing is what you're meant to be doing. Always maintain a positive attitude at all times, protect it with your life! Read Arnold Schwarzenegger's Autobiography: The Education of a Bodybuilder. Lots of gems in there about how his mindset was to train with vigor every single day. Also you should rename the thread before it's too late.

Lol My LEGS go numb when I meditate for a long period of time...

Leo's work inspires me to create content of that caliber and beyond. One day...

@Bazooka Jesus First Video Link broken, do you have another link to the video? I don't even know the video title!

Biggest Challenge: Visioning something AWESOME to be super excited for.

I wonder if Leo will do a face reveal

This is an amazing collection and organization of information! Thank you!

Noted.

Yeah this video was the most inspiring video I've ever seen in my entire life. I downloaded it right away. Going to use it later when I do 5MEO. Made me cry a lot.

@Danioover9000 You need to create a Jackie Chan Tulpa to deal with Crysty.

@Ora They have slightly different personalities. A B+ will have a more positive trip, a Penis Envy will have a more violent trip, a golden teacher will have more of a serious trip, etc. @Bazooka Jesus Yeah it's not too much about the bodyweight but more with the brain you have. I'm 5ft3in and 150lb and 1g can fuck me up. I've got a highly interconnected ADHD brain already, so I'm sensitive af. Or at least that's how I make sense of it. @Spooney Spoonerson Start with 1g and go up in intervals of 0.5g. You have no idea how it would affect you. Also another thing I should say is that I have done trips where I would do shadow work first with one intention, and then I would have another intention to gain insights on my life purpose later. It just depends on how much time you need to spend on each intention.

Honestly, just have this as a sticker. would love to tag stuff with it.

Go with the intention that is most pressing on you. Because you will be the most motivated to accept what comes, and to focus on the task.

You have free will to believe there is no free Will. You have no free will to think that you have free will to believe that there is no free Will. Ahhhhh Hahaha I always think about how little free will I have when I think about how much I'm influenced by my environment and my upbringing, etc. and that my thoughts and actions are literally all the result of what I experienced, that's it. And how I have no control over what I experience. Because even when I get self-referential with asking about my Free will, that was itself incited by my experience. Free will and no free will is a duality. It doesn't exist, yet appears to exist. (Like every duality) It's like trying to draw the line between something. A very fun deconstruction exercise to contemplate. Probably. Just my thoughts

Personal Breakthrough contemplations of mine (I haven't contemplated too much though, but definetly yearn to do more because of the valuable life changing insights I get! ) - What is Pragmatism? DM me If you want to know what insight I got - How am I ideological? See Leo's worksheet for more great questions on his ideology video. ### The rest are ones that I want to contemplate, as I've been making a big to-do list for myself What is Productivity? What is Clarity? What is happiness? What is rest? What is proactive? What is trust? What does it mean to be human? What is hard work? Can another person give me something that's truly valuable? What is art? What are thoughts? What is Wisdom? What is importance? What/who decides what is /isn't important? What makes something important? What is passion? What is shame? What is value? How can I cultivate self-acceptance? What is self-acceptance? What are the facets of self-acceptance? What is the ego? What is Inspiration? What's the point of watching YouTube if I just forget what I watched? How do I enjoy the moment? What is enjoying the moment? What is a moment? What is distraction? What is self Deception? What is addiction? How is my attachment to comfort holding me back? What is confidence? What is fun? What is failure? What is Evil? What is Fear? What is Death? What is survival? What are the best seeds I can plant into someone's mind to help them to grow? Why should I care about what people think when I create my art? What is authenticity? What does it mean to be authentic? What is success? What is the ego? What makes it tick? What motivates it? What gets it on board? What does Mastery in your psychology mean? What would it mean for my personal growth? Concretely. Question the materialist Paradigm to death. What is Meaning? What is the exact relationship between Theory and reality? What is conversation? The types of conversation I value? What is criticism? What makes a great teacher? What is relationship? What does being civilized mean? What is awareness? How does Authority work? 3 most life-changing questions that Leo pursued and answered. 1. What is consciousness? 2. What is reality? 3. What do I really want? ### What metaphysical questions can I set out to answer? (See Leo's video on the 64 list of fascinating questions someone can ask) * What governs what's possible and impossible in the universe? What sets limits on the universe? * How can emergent properties arise out of nowhere? * Does external reality exists at all? * What is God? What would the concept of God entail? * What are thoughts ### Then there are contemplating Duality collapses. Self vs other - - collapse this duality Collapse the dualities between the 5 senses desire and pain Conscious vs. Unconscious Especially given the example of sleep What's the difference? How are they the same? What's the difference between teaching and being an ideologue? How are they the same? Duality of seeing vs believing The duality of Journey vs Destination. Contradiction versus continuity. The Duality between psychology and life coaching. Journey versus destination. Confidence versus stability Duality of consistency vs inconsistency

You know I never really thought seriously about this being a serious topic for me until I realized that I could get a lot of valuable advice and perspective here. And possibly because at one time I was too embarrassed to speak about it, especially here. So my life purpose is to teach people how to create Passion and Clarity in their lives. Life Purpose statement being “I teach people how to understand themselves to create a peaceful mind and a passionate life.” I'm basically a cheerleader to get people to do the self-actualization work that they need to be doing. Teaching them what they ought to be doing, and motivating them to do it. I really enjoy teaching. The art of being able to formulate a message in a way that will motivate a person to want to hear it fills me up. Being able to give someone a message and for them to take it in. It may not even matter what the topic is, as long as I am personally interested in it. Now of course the topic that I am most interested in is self-actualization. This life purpose I would consider a rather unique situation to come across. Because at first I doubted myself quite a bit because I feared that I was just trying to copy Leo. Like I was literally just trying to be “Leo2.0”. It's taken me quite a bit of time to “niche down” to the point where I'm more confident in myself that I'm creating content that is authentic to me. That this is value that I can personally provide and am not just parroting all the stuff that I learn from Leo; a serious worry considering that I’ve been a serious student of Leo for a few years now. And right now I have probably tunnel visioned myself to a large degree into mostly exclusively studying Leo’s content. Over time it'll be way better balanced by reading Leo’s book list and of course things completely outside of Leo’s recommendation and scope. And also of course generating insights of my own. Honestly, this entire post might just be all what you would call “resistance” from the book: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Here’s what I got going for me right now, I've got a book that I've been working on. I really hope to finish it this year. I realize that in the direction that I want to take my path, I would also want to have a presence on social media, preferably YouTube, but I realize that with Tik-Tok being super trendy, would be an avenue to go down also, instagram too possibly. These would be great platforms for marketing exposure and I can create a lot of content sharing insights that can be valuable for people. The area where I think I would really shine is in creating courses and seminars. Like this is where I intuit my greatest work can shine. To be honest, I just haven't done enough "small bets" to really test where my passion is, and I kind of lost sight of that initial excitement of connecting with a vision that really excites me. Now, here's where I'm feeling stuck. Basically, I have fear of my messages being criticized and picked apart, where I can be humiliated. Putting myself on a public pedestal like that, makes me feel like I have to have my teachings be unattainably Rock Solid, like a seriously high standard. I want my teachings to be at the same standard that Leo is at. Which is ridiculous. Leo didn’t even start there. When you look at his first videos he put on YouTube, that's where I should be shooting for as first starting out. From the beginning (of Leo’s channel) he was already such a good speaker. Now of course he didn't start there, and here's probably where I am confusing my incompetence with my laziness. If I just legitimately practice making speeches and making videos, I will naturally get better. I KNOW this! I guess I have this impostor syndrome where I want my first videos to be super good, and with little effort. I know I'm kidding myself because I HAVE made self-improvement type videos before as a “small bet”, but they were really a topic I kind of knew and just wrote a few notes on the spot and then just recorded it several times until I got a shot I liked. But THEN, months later I kind of cringe at myself for it. Because I know I could be doing SO MUCH better, and rather than that inspiring me to push myself to a higher standard, I felt discouraged, and stopped trying to make another video altogether. If I was completely honest, I haven't applied a massive amount of effort to make a video that I'm extremely satisfied with, and that's where I feel like I'm going to solve this. I could put like a week of contemplation, insights, research and planning on 1 topic, ensuring I understand it at a great depth, and put tons of effort into practicing the speech for the video. Ensuring that I personally own the insight before I have the confidence to teach it. I feel like I need to build confidence by making something so valuable that I alone love it so much that I'm inspired to make more content. I also thought about creating enough content where someone actually sees it and tells me how valuable it was for them for my personal validation, but I figured that's a bad strategy, when rather I should just fall in love with the process of creating something that I personally enjoy myself. And then, over time, I will gain enough skill and expertise to create something that I am satisfied with personally and other people are satisfied with as well. Thus avoiding that trap of needing external validation all together. Yet, I hesitate. I want to be extremely motivated, yet my actions tell a different story. And I'm all talk and no action. (Writing about this just now has already increased some clarity for me.)

@Nobody_Here @7thLetter @KennedyCarter Thankyou for the replies guys. ❤️

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