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Hi All / Leo What is your greatest achievement so far in the past 12 Months? What are you most proud of yourself for doing / accomplishing? For me it was breaking out my depression and setting out the road map for my personal project / blog. I feel like in the process of self-actualising we hardly take some time out to reflect on the accomplishments we have achieved thus far, I feel like some accreditation should be given to our self at times. I just want to extend my gratitude to Leo and everyone else that contributes to this blog, I have received many insightful insights that wouldn't have been achieved if it wasn't for this blog <3 One Love SS10

If I could ask God this question what would he say?

Good question. We sleep to forgot our ego and remember who we truly are. It provides a moment of peace.

I mean what purpose does it serve from the Gods perspective? If psychedelics produce nondual states, and that is already the state that God is in, then why would he need to create it?

What can help with an overwhelming amount of suffering?

From the perspective of stage blue/low orange shadow in which they "pray for egoic aims" such as more money, better house etc. is it in Gods possibility to grant our egoic wishes simply by praying to him? Does God think in that manner? Lets say I wanted a better job and i prayed for it, would God respond? Would the "nothingness" respond? Is there a differnece between the two?

Hi All, What are the biggest lessons that you have learnt so far from the COVID-19 Pandemic? Could be anything from personal finance, how society should/shouldn't be run, corruption, how the media played on fear, societal obedience to lockdowns, conspiracy about vaccines? Literally could be anything, what are your biggest takes so far about the past year?? I'm eager to hear all your responses.

Is activism a distraction from turning inwards and locking at yourself? Or does it facilitate much needed change in our society? Hoes does stage green shadow come into this? I think this is something we should address because this is currently resisting stage orange people growing through green

@Arcangelo You clearly are just ignorant and have done no independent research into the history of Islam. Please fuck off and go educate yourself.

@Abdelghafar Yeah i guess so. Impermanence. Life moves on with or without you.

lol humans dont even treat over races equally. Let alone animals.

@Leo Gura I thought we are God, not humans?

Trump recently pardoned Steve Bannon, Kodak Black and lil Wayne amongst others. Why is presidential pardoning even a thing? seems so corrupt to me...

Time is an illusion. The only thing that exists is the present.

What games do you play out of interest?

lol I dont think you lot understand the work that goes on behind Leos videos. He cant just decide to randomly wake up one day and make a video like he is some random gaming youtuber. The quality of actualized.org content is something you'd find in a world class university paying 100k a year.

@BlackMaze No 4 is the biggest realisation for me. Always knew it. COVID solidified it.

No need, just watch videos video on addictions. I think its called the root cause of addiction. And you dont have a 'video game' problem. you have a procrastination problem and your using video games as a distraction to avoid getting your life together. Your ego is scared of getting your life together because its to painful and hard to change.

Woke up this morning to see that my thread has been locked by Leo, I was enjoying the discussion but it was locked and Leo didn't give an explanation on why? You dont just get to lock discussions you dont agree with Leo... Really disappointed.

Well I didn't think it was answered. It us not your place to tell me when my question has/has not been answered. Quite dissapointed.

QQ Guys; I often here in Leos videos that one of the main traps is being ideological and that we should avoid ideology at all costs... Is claiming or insisting that you should have no ideology what so ever an ideology in of itself? Kind of like the sceptic not being sceptical of their on sceptism. Maybe im reaching..idk. Let me know your thoughts....

Hi all I’ve just had a look on Leo’s book list but can’t find any books deep on political theory / economics / society. I wanna up my knowledge on these areas, does anyone have any recommendations? so for I have Karl Marx - Capital adam smith - wealth of nations Some books on Keynes and yuval noah Harri any suggestions?

Hi All / Leo I had recently been re-watching your video on free will vs determinism and had a few queries regarding this. Firstly, you seem to make an argument for determinism here - something which I cannot get my head around. You said a proof that we do not have free will is that we do not control mechanisms in our body & psychology, i.e we do not control our lungs breathing, blinking, our thoughts. However, part of Gods intelligent design is that we do not need to be aware, nor control these mechanism. Our subconscious delegates these task to micro-systems in our body. If we had to will every single decision, every biological survival process (ie breathing, etc) we would literally go insane. Take Amazon, for instance, if Jeff Bezos had to do every single task and will everything in Amazon, Amazon will not exist, so Jeff Bezos delegates process to other parts of Amazon because it inst positively counter-productive for Jeff Bezos to do this. Could it be that when I blink, i do indeed will such blink, but I do not need to be aware that I am willing it, my consciousness has bigger survival matters to deal with, it wouldn't make sense to will every single micro decision such as blinking, when I can simply delegate this to my eyelids. It will be like Jeff Bezos packing a box at an Amazon warehouse, as well as dealing with customer service. Furthermore, if your deterministic, how can you simultaneously be a self-help guru? The notion that there is a self, that controls things is the very mechanism in which you've built your brand/company. Im not saying we have 100% control, im not even saying we have 5% control, but to insist we have no say in our decision process what so ever is ludicrous. One can initiate self-discipline, self-awareness and self-control. Note that to achieve this, there has to be a self in the first place. Which is something determinism denies. The determinism / free will debate is fundamentally the same as the duality of master vs slave. Are we the master or slave to/of our self? However I maintain that We are both. We are also neither. Master nor Slave isnt an absolute, so to maintain one side of this duality fundamentally goes against your teachings. To maintain that reality / our behavior is fundamentally deterministic is to also disregard personal responsibility. If you are telling people to wake up, this implies that there is a "ghost", a "CEO", or a "controller" inside ones body to indeed wake up. By telling people that you can awaken is inadvertently making an argument for free will, because your are insisting that once can actually have the will to awaken. If one was doomed to never awaken through determinism - then you telling them to wake up would be pointless, as there lives are already pre-determined. Sorry for the long sort of question, please can someone tell me were i could have gone wrong in my thinking, or indeed add on to my arguments if you agree.

Hi All Any good tips on how to stop procrastinating and start doing work? lol help please

Should you have the right to kill other people, from a philosophical perspective? If the answer is no, then you should apply the same logic to yourself. Of course suicidal people often have mental disorders/issues that they are dealing with so criminal punishment should be avoided in most cases however from a non-dual perspective, there is no difference between killing yourself and other people.