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I remember getting this insight on one of my trips: Reality is trying to kill you at all times.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/god-imagines-psyches I love posts like this. Really spell it out. Brilliant. Plus your recent quotes I loved. Like how you are imagining a shower experience. Yes!

This dedicated thread serves as a suggestion box for Leo’s Premium Clips Vault. Please take time to deeply contemplate your questions and requests so they are clear, direct, powerful, and valuable for others.

I was thinking at least building a thread for discussion of the clips.

Clip Requests for @Leo Gura: Most urgent for me: Recommendations on how to prepare for your first Vipassana, or the attitude to have in it, etc. Most personal for me: A genuine pep talk from Leo on taking your life seriously with sensemaking. Having a proper sleep schedule, taking care of your body, throwing away media addiction and other addictions. Taking study seriously, disciplining yourself properly. Setting goals, Taking time to contemplate, doing the kriya practices, handling survival, etc. Genuine advice on how to read more, contemplate more. I want you to explain the most industrious you've ever been, and what really got you there. If it makes sense to share: Genuine advice for those that are suffering from ADHD brain, especially in regards to focus. A complete checklist of what to wipe away from direct experience while you are staring at your hand while on a trip. Searching for all forms of knowing that contextualizes this experience such that it can be dissolved. At 1h 9 minutes in your Lecture "The Power Of Not-Knowing," you mention that you can go even deeper on this not-knowing exercise. I would love you to guide me to go as deep as you can. https://youtu.be/RMXNQ-nGBSA?t=4140 I know there are additional instances on when you did not elaborate further for the sake of the scope of the lecture. I will have to dig them up. What I remember right now: Conscious Communication, How to say No, How to assess character, more insights on Relativism. How to use Google to change your life, etc. Key exercises to handhold the newbie through contemplation. Like, "contemplate x until y dissolves." Like a contemplation grocery list. Contemplate x until you get 10 insights that you have never become conscious of before. etc. Key distinctions outlining the importance of contemplation. How to figure out the ratio of contemplation versus study. How much should one contemplate versus watching Another Leo lecture, or reading a book on the book list. Because I know reading books and studying lectures provides loads of grist for the mill. So, yeah, more thoughts on this stuff. Latest insights on how to study the most effectively. What studying even is. What is Attitude? What is Clarity? What is illusion? What is imagination? What is Healing? What is Fantasy? How to think. Key insights to help you master being a teacher. Key insights in developing master of being a therapist. Key insights on developing mastery in public speaking. What did your daily routine look like at different periods of your life? What did it look like when you were bootstrapping yourself into creating actualized.org?: Shooting a video every week. etc. What does your days look like today? How seriously do you take things like following a sleep schedule? What are some of the most fascinating things that you are contemplating/ have contemplated? There was a period of time where you were having an like Awakening 3 times a day, and you were just being pummeled, and this was a rough chapter to grow through. I want to hear about this experience. A tour of all the products you have, your home layout, why you have your layout the way you do. I know there is a bible is reasons for every object, and every placement of object in your home. I studied product design for exactly this fascination, so I'd love you to completely nerd out about products for a couple hours. I will happily sit there and listen to why you chose this type of faucet versus any other kind of faucet. What is Ego? Day in the life Vlog

Hey @Leo Gura I have loads of thoughts coming your way about these clips. I am wondering how would you like me to address the clip? Do you have a preference? Like: "Clip#323" or "Clip#323 - Fear is Attachment" Also, I just want to comment this now about that clip: I realize that my attachment is what grounds my sense of reality. Fear IS the mechanism the mind uses to create a sense of ground. It makes so much sense now. I fear loosing my attachment to the earth, to matter, to other people, to time, to death, to being biological, to being a living creature, etc. Yet, facing all of these fears is supportive to the awakening process, if not it is directly THE threshold guardian to awakening itself. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this. Thankyou.

Clip #193 - The Power Of Asking Questions Brings up Error Message: Sorry this video doesn't exist.

Typo present in Actualized Quotes #598

Clip #048 has this bug when you click on the dedicated page. it just says "Clip #048 - The"

@Leo Gura Found a Typo Also, Clip #095 - A Shortcut For Understanding Reality - Part 1 is displaying the video clip of #002 - Why Women Love Assholes

Understood. I remember this one dude named Stephen G Pope outputted a lot of content around making your workflow with video creation far more efficient. He has a Skool group and such. Using AI tools and utilizing workflow setups. Thought it wouldn't hurt to mention it. https://m.youtube.com/c/stephengpope Where would you like these suggestions? Would you like it to be here or in a dedicated thread?

The current organization of numbering clips with a related title is adequate for me. I would like to encourage you to find some sort of more efficient alternatives to reduce the grind of that. Like for example, finding a middle way where the rendering isn't even needed because the camera setup has done all the work for you. To be frank, for me personally, I just care about the insights & the audio quality, not the video quality.

@Leo Gura I really appreciate you making the vault. I think it reduces the friction for content/insights to flow out of you. I think the paywall to throw away the Riff Raff is a good thing because it creates more space for a more serious audience. And creates more freedom for Leo to censor himself less and say it like it is. Also I think just the vault lowers unnecessary standards that Leo can impose on himself. (Yes, the lectures Leo puts out is a beautiful performance and a work of art, but that creates a lot of friction to output content as it has to reach a high enough standard. So having an outlet for the more random haphazard insights is a great thing. The blog also has been great for this.) I think it can open up opportunities to answer questions at a greater depth. Leo, I'm curious if you're open to suggestions or requests to speak on certain things.

Would you attribute this to the quality of your mind having ridiculous amount of insights and Awakenings you get on a daily basis because of the contemplative work you've done over the years? I remember you mentioning that you will have like three Awakenings a day or something like that. And that you'll have more insights than you can write down

In the iPEC model of the 7 levels of energy, level 2 energy with anger and conflict is seen as a necessary energy you must pass through.

This is illuminating to look at. And then to have a conversation with AI about this is interesting as well.

Illuminating on the dynamics of power and idle worship.

There seem to be two differences in opinion around 5-MeO-DMT dosing: 1) Gradual Ramp-Up Approach Start low Slowly increase over multiple sessions Learn the territory step-by-step Allow the nervous system to acclimate gradually The philosophy here is: “Build familiarity and reduce the chance of overwhelm.” 2) Direct Breakthrough Approach Start at a dose more likely to produce full ego dissolution The reasoning is that mid-range doses can sometimes create more fear, resistance, panic, or ego struggle because the sense of self is still trying to maintain control A sufficiently strong dose may allow for a more complete surrender experience instead of “fighting the process” The philosophy here is: “A clean breakthrough may actually be easier than resisting halfway.” Which approach did you chose, and why? (ChatGPT-Assisted Post.)

https://www.actualized.org/insights/exorcist-fantasies 10 minute mark. I giggled at the man doing the cross for the figurine. POV: Me in 45 years after doing consciousness work in a sloppy manner.

Legend.

I’m looking for grounded input on dosing with 5-MeO-DMT. I’ve had about seven prior experiences, all in what I’d call “handshake” territory. Each time was intentionally kept low to build familiarity, but in hindsight they were likely too low to move into anything deeper or fully immersive because the ego was left intact. (It was also kept low because I had no real reliable way to control the dose). (When I think back to the experiences that I did have, I remember the love being overwhelming as fuck, where the love is traumatizing. It's clear that YOU will not survive the love of God. It will kill you.) One thing I’m recognizing is that with 5-MeO specifically, you actually want to dose high enough to let yourself experience a full ego dissolution, rather than dosing too low and staying in that purgatory ego-fear/hellmode threshold state. At the same time, I also want to be very clear about the psychological side of that. On a dose like this, I realize you still have to be willing to accept death. You have to be willing to open yourself up to the experience: fully letting go of control and identity; surrendering. It seems like if that willingness isn’t there, the ego dissolution will not take place, and you'll be in for a world of pain. (There’s also one more thing to note around the route of administration. Ideally, for this kind of work, (consciousness work), the route that’s often pointed to is plugging, to allow for a longer time to linger in that space, supposedly. But with that being said, there still seems to be significant benefits even from being in a temporary state of non-duality from a regular dose of 5-MeO-DMT smoked. It needs to be recognized that smoking a breakthrough dose of 5-MeO-DMT (probably) will make a radical impact on you and your life. So I’m trying to understand how to think about this properly: What dose should one take? 10mg? or 15 to 20mg? because that's what my 5MeO buddies say is "Reliable breakthrough territory." (17mg) In Leo's lecture, 10mg is a starter dose. What if I jumped straight to 17mg? Notes from his lecture: How do people navigate increasing the dose without overcorrecting into unnecessary risk? (Considering that bumping up the dose in mg is in orders of magnitude relative to the experience.) What are the main risks when moving from repeated low doses into a significantly higher range? How do you realistically assess readiness, both psychologically and in terms of environment and support? I’m not approaching this casually. Set, setting, and having a sober sitter are already part of the plan. I’m mainly trying to sanity-check the reasoning around dose selection, route, and mindset going into it. I appreciate thoughtful input from people who’ve worked through a similar progression. (ChatGPT-assisted post) .

Theft Examples from Leo's Blog. Is AI Theft? https://actualized.org/insights/is-ai-theft Modern Meat is Theft https://www.actualized.org/insights/modern-meat-is-theft ReCaptcha Is Theft https://www.actualized.org/insights/recaptcha-is-theft Shrinkflation Theft https://actualized.org/insights/shrinkflation-theft The Hollywood Theft Machine https://www.actualized.org/insights/the-hollywood-theft-machine Repair Theft https://www.actualized.org/insights/repair-theft Social Influencer Theft https://actualized.org/insights/social-influencer-theft

Simple but clever Theft example: Teaching crows to steal money for you.

Thankyou. Looking forward to it.