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? -If I walked up to 100 people and called them chubby, fat, short or ugly I’d be lucky if I only got yelled at! If you go around insulting people don’t be surprised if they clap back. Human Decency 101. -The point is the Church Karen was out of line because she was making it about the 19 year old’s weight. It is possible to tell someone they’re violating a dress code without insulting their weight, height, looks, race, or anything else about them. It’s like, if I wrote some inappropriate posts and a moderator messaged me saying: "Please delete your posts; they violate the spirit of compassion and civility we are committed to at Actualized.org. Also, your momma’s so fat she was reincarnated as two people. Namaste, you bitchy fatso.” The first sentence would be absolutely, 100% fine and appropriate. The second and third would not. -There's a big difference between insulting someone's destructive behavior and insulting someone for personal traits that aren't hurting people, especially if it's something they can't change and they get persecuted for, like race, religion, gender, height, weight, sexual orientation, etc. It'd be wise for the 19 year old to do therapy on why weight matters so much, but the Karen is waaaay more in the wrong in this situation.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/how-to-plug-psychedelics Almost all psychedelics stuff from Actualized.org can be found here:

Leo talks about it here...among other things ?. He's going for shock value in pointing out bias. It works. Enlightenment Koans I’ve Learned at Actualized.org: What’s the sound of one hand clapping? If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound? Why haven’t you screwed a goat yet while thinking about your mom’s vagina? If a rock gets rubbed on a squad of beautiful tits, will it be happy? I know it’s just a rock, but I kinda think it still would. No honestly, have you ever talked to rock? How would you know unless you talk to a rock and it talks back…maybe take some psychedelics????

I saved all my mindless activities (prepping food, vaccuming) for the week to do while listening!

Awesome, thanks! TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:15 Disclaimers + physicalism vs nondualism 00:10:12 Truth is merciless + developing one's own Weltanschauung 00:14:05 Embodying a philosophy 00:22:35 Chris Langan, the CTMU, and Distributed Solipsism 00:27:08 Physics and consciousness depend on one another 00:32:36 Reality is a dream and truth 00:45:12 Epi-consciousness and Gödel's incompleteness theorem 01:11:02 Epistemology, nescience vs ignorance, and hierarchies 01:27:25 Using language is delusive and deficient 01:30:49 The two kinds of "love" 01:43:19 Being precise with one's words 01:59:25 Free will 02:15:23 The reason the universe was created 02:23:55 Creation and destruction (the same? different?) 02:30:03 Paradoxes and contradictions 02:41:34 Meditative exercise for God realization 02:55:56 On Donald Hoffman 03:08:15 Steelmanning the materialist (how do you insights from psychedelics are true?) 03:19:34 Ego, and free will 03:26:43 Leo's own self-deception 03:29:37 The "woo" of paranormal healers and psychics (Leo's personal stories) 03:49:50 On Sam Harris' morality and the Moral Landscape 04:01:35 Experimentations with psychedelics 04:09:42 How to not have a bad trip / become suicidal from nihilism 04:19:05 On attachment (beneficial or not?) 04:22:51 Thomas Campbell 04:30:31 Bernardo Kastrup 04:33:47 Frank Yang 04:51:28 Raymond Smullyan (excerpt reading by Curt) 05:03:49 Curt is too selfish to have a TOE 05:05:52 When you realize you're God, the universe ends 05:09:11 Why use the term "God"? 05:12:58 Principle of impermanence not impermanent? 05:14:39 Proof that you have free will 05:19:49 "Everyone has good intentions" 05:23:08 Hate comes from love 05:31:45 Interview with Matthew Phillips of Transcend

This is a good point. Bias isn’t a light switch, it’s more like a knob you dial up and down. It’s a good first step to notice what triggers you and, even as a thought experiment, contemplate not having that bias, or a lot less of it. Clearing that smog of attachment and bias from your perception is a process. It’s probably easier to start with someone you love who you clash with than with dog ? or your mother’s reproductive parts. I’m still surprised Leo made a 3 hr episode about his personal fetishes , like rubbing big, hot, oiled down tits and making his viewers throw up ?.

It's true, everyone has to start somewhere. She got a lot of flack for all the taboo topics she covered on her show, but continued to air them, so I have huge respect for her. Okay, this literally made me laugh out loud! Haha!! So funny because it's true. That's exactly what it would feel like. You should watch this comedy bit about Ronny Chieng trying to fix his mom’s computer.

Haha, no doubt. It'd be like constantly teaching your parents how to use a computer.

@RickyFitts It’s all good! Most people on this forum probably aren’t super informed about Oprah because they’re mostly guys in their 20s, lol. I watched her show everyday as a kid and as a teenager. Watched it occasionally in college, but haven’t seen much of her recent stuff. There’s really no other tv show that did a better job of evolving the culture, largely in part because she’s so good at talking to stage blue and orange. She covered so many topics that were too taboo to discuss, but really needed to be discussed, like sexual assault, child molestation and assault, every mental health topic you can imagine, drug addiction, food addiction, people pleasing, racism, sexism, metaphysics, law of attraction, why does the world hate America, there’s way more, but that’s all I can think of right now. A lot of her best stuff isn’t even on youtube. Also, the way she covered those topics was very stage yellow and turquoise, but always framed in a way that blue and orange could digest by appealing to their value system. That’s an incredibly tough balancing act and quite brilliant, especially with an audience as big as hers. Random Oprah Goodness: She got a bunch of child rapists arrested by offering rewards out of her own pocket and using her show as a platform. Had an episode totally devoted to sexual assault of men, a topic that still doesn’t get discussed enough today. Gave free cars to an audience of teachers who were specifically needing cars. Gave out over 64000 academic scholarships during the show. Opened a school for impoverished girls in South Africa. Tried to introduce classic literature to the US by putting it on her book club, even though the audience did not like it and turned on her, lol. Got people to read through her book club! Promoted a lot of black artists who were being ignored by mainstream media at the time. Made spirituality a lot more mainstream by featuring new age authors, like Gary Zukav (her fav), Marianne Williamson, among others. There's so much more stuff, but I can't find clips. She basically put a human face on topics that called forth and elevated the humanity in others. Embodied the power of empathy and bearing witness to other people’s stories, like this: "But she must be evil. She's so rich!!!" Notice that this talk about God works if you're stage blue, orange or green: Last clip, I promise...but it's a good one...

Oprah’s exceptional at the the unique way she’s chosen to contribute to the world. In Spiral Dynamics terms, her mission has been to raise people from stage blue to stage green and beyond. If you’re used to Leo’s work, Leo focuses on going from orange/green to yellow and turquoise. Maybe it’s annoying watching your mom be late to the party? Also, if you don’t know much about Oprah, her best stuff was on her show which ended in 2011. You can find clips of it on youtube. Oprah was talking about spiral dynamics stage yellow and turquoise stuff back in the 90s and 00s. People are just starting to understand stuff like that now in the 2020s. She’s not perfect, but is exceptional at what she’s specifically chosen to do. I can definitely think of ways to criticise her, but compared to how much she's contributed to the world it's pretty small. Watch this interview between Oprah and Traci Lords a pornstar who was raped at 10 years old. Look at the stage yellow structural understanding she has of how society demonizes certain “types” of women. The empathy and compassion she has towards Lords that’s also imparts lessons to the audience on how they can apply that empathy and use Lords' experiences to reflect on their own life. How many interviewers, or even people, will admit on international television that they can relate to someone as "dirty" as a pornstar. Most people would judge Lords, or condescend and pity Lords in a "glad that ain't me" way. Oprah has the meta, structural understanding of Lords' situation. The Oprah show was filled with interviews and content as compassionately intelligent as this. Oprah’s unique in a lot of ways because she’s a paragon of feminine leadership and the importance of love and empathy in understanding the world. It’s not just all data and numbers. I can write more on Oprah, but I’m in the middle of something, so will have to come back to this thread. Anyway, Oprah’s awesome. Your momma sounds like a smart lady ?

I googled “Johnny Sinns” expecting to find a musician. Didn’t find any music, but I found an impressive instrument ?. The things you learn on the spiritual path...??‍♀️

@hyruga Thanks! You should see what I looked like before I discovered Actualized.org...

No, I'm not a fella and I'm not pretending to be an Asian lady ? (this ain't Tinder after all.)

I thought it’d be a good idea to collect all of Actualized.org’s information about psychedelics in one place. This includes youtube episodes, blog posts, blog videos and the forum’s mega threads. Enjoy @ZenSwift You're very welcome! Bon Voyage!!

Leo recommends polygamy, especially for his followers. That’s why he created a cult for people with +5hr attention spans. Unfortunately Leo’s hetero and 99.9% of his cult are dudes. Poor Leo…

Good points! @Emerald has an excellent video on Spiritual Bypassing:

@Alysssa Here's a good video about spiritual ego. It's also another way to say Zen Devil:

I’d say go for 3.82 couches, or 2 couches, a gaming chair and an ottoman. Just don’t get wicker, unless you want your life to get worse . Now when I see this thread all I can think of is shopping for a life couch ?️. @eliasvelez Did you decide on a coach yet, or a couch?

Perhaps the call of the psychedelic monster couch exists to be embraced! Tis merely the final boss, the threshold guardian, that the Zen master must defeat before entry into the Godhead!!! Get your tetanus shot ready!

Passion and life purpose can occur at every stage of the spiral. It's more about values and psychological development than any particular job or salary. Toddlers (Beige) are pretty passionate about not napping. A medicine man (Purple) can have a life purpose of serving the tribe and communicating to the gods through psychedelic visions. Genghis Khan (Red) believed he was destined to rule the world using the three dragons he hatched in a fire. A Blue priest could have a life purpose to reform criminals through Jesus. Orange is the ambitious, materialistic, "science is God" stage. Green could be passionate to save the whales and have world peace. Yellow and Turquoise have a global, structural understanding of their life purpose. This clip is a good primer on Spiral Dynamics. It's only 11mins.

Only the most holy and conscious of Zen masters can meditate on this couch without being distracted by roaches and termites.

Speak of the devil! The latest blog video answers that very issue. Extra Insights About Good Intentions. Summary is here.

Haha, depends on the couch...

There's a new blog video with a new Leo shirt ?: Extra Insights About Good Intentions Summary is here. @Tim R You're very welcome. There's so much good stuff in the blog to explore!

(This is a really good video about using your life purpose to maximize goodness in the world.) Summary of Blog Video: Extra Insights About Good Intentions -Some people have misunderstood the episode: “Everyone Acts From Good Intentions” “But Leo, aren’t 'good' intentions pretty shallow compared to destructive consequences…? Are you saying that destruction is actually ‘good’ as long as you have good intentions? That evil people rationalizing their evil as good is the same as actually being good?” -What Leo says in this episode is pretty radical. He’s not saying that evil people use 'goodness' to justify evil. He’s saying that… Everything is an incarnation of Absolute Goodness. It’s just an extremely biased, unholistic, twisted, finite, selfish form of goodness. God acts through everyone and everything. All people are literally good!! Even when your mind is rationalizing destruction and murder, it’s actually good. Actual Good, not just evil trying to rationalize evil as good. Hate and evil are just twisted forms of love, because... Absolute Good is all encompassing. It embraces everything. Finite good is not like Absolute Good. People define “good” based on their level of consciousness. So, relative bad exists alongside Absolute Good, but relative bad (and relative good) are still finite, selfish points of view. “But Leo, how can something like caring about the planet be selfish?” -Well, what about the trillions of other planets in the galaxy? You don’t seem to care about them? (You’re also probably overestimating how much you really care about the planet.) Notice that the good you do is always a finite good, not the Absolute Good (10:40). eg: Let's say you donated to a charity for tigers. That’s good and selfless, right? Well, how much did you donate? Why didn't you donate more? Why not donate your whole life savings? That’s finite good, not infinite good. You don’t love tigers infinitely. So, your love for tigers is finite, you monster . Survival and Goodness -Basically, you have survival needs that limit your capacity to be infinitely good. Your capacity for goodness is limited by your empathy, your level of consciousness and especially your survival needs. -Notice that you can’t help others in an infinite way, unlike God. Your physical form puts you in a survival bind. After all, you can’t be loving and helpful if you’re dead. -This doesn’t mean you should stop doing good things because they're finite good. You also shouldn't become a doormat. This is just about understanding your limits as a human. -In enlightenment work, we experience peak states of love and still have to survive (16:40). We realize that our day to day level of consciousness isn’t as high as it is in a peak mystical state. That can make you feel less loving and worthy than someone who’s actually less conscious than you! You’re trying to live up to these impossible ideals of love. Thing is you’re always going to fall short because of your survival needs. Your love will always be finite and corrupted, but finite good is still a corrupted form of love and it's not "evil." (18:38) -The finite domain is the material domain. It’s not fair to expect yourself to embody infinite love in the finite, material domain. eg: For Leo to film videos for us 🥳, he can’t be infinitely loving. He has to be loving in a finite, corrupted way and keep certain attachments. Otherwise he’d neglect his survival needs, give all his money away to charity, end up homeless and die 😭. Then there’d be no more Actualized.org. -Notice that when you express love it’s still finite, conditional and corrupted by survival. That’s okay because you’re stuck in a human state of consciousness. -The Godhead is infinite and formless, so it can love infinitely and without fear of “losing” its formless form. -However, none of this is an excuse to be hurtful and unloving, or to not try to love more. -You can increase your capacity to love by raising your consciousness and empathy and recognize the holism and unity of everything. Psychedelics is the most direct way. Raise your baseline level of consciousness through meditation, yoga, mystical experiences. -Also, removing obstacles to love will make you more loving. You can do shadow work, release fear, trauma, anxiety, anger, releasing limiting beliefs and judgments about others (sexism, racism, ableism, etc.) Reading more books can open your mind and heart. Same with educating and exposing yourself to more cultures, people and experiences, so you’re not afraid of “foreigners.” Idiot Compassion (31:50) -Idiot compassion means being compassionate in impractical ways that diminish your ability to contribute to the world. Idiot compassion distracts from your life purpose. It drains your ability to be compassionate in an effective way. -Compassion is a delicate balancing act to find the point where you are serving the highest good, given your finite form and your strengths, weaknesses, problems and finite state of consciousness. (33:00) (Reminds me of the episode where Leo talked about Obama’s drone strikes, and why it’s facile and unproductive to demonize complicated situations as “evil war crimes.”) Realistic Practical Love There’s a realistic, grounded practical version of love. There are also two extreme traps people fall into: The love is some "silly hippie notion" group. The atheistic rationalists fall into this trap. They’re so disconnected from love they don’t understand that love is the metaphysical foundation of reality. The ungrounded new age hippies who think you should always apply Absolute love without considering the implications of living in a relative, material world. They talk about love and peace in an idiot compassion way. The idiot compassion group assumes that you just need to be lovey-dovey towards everyone and that solves everything. They’re confused about the difference between Absolute truth and Relative truth. Having an intention to be lovey-dovey and good isn’t good enough. You’re a finite being with survival needs. You don’t have infinite money, time or resources. No one has that, not even Batman. Be Honest About Your Limits -You need to be honest with yourself about your limits. You have to be selective with how you invest your energy. You’re not unlimited in the material domain. You can’t drink a glass of poison and survive. You can’t jump out of a plane without a parachute and drop kick a coven of warlocks. -To do good in the material, relative domain requires that you allocate a significant portion of your time and energy to taking care of your body. So, love cannot only flow outwards from you. -Women have this problem because they tend to be more compassionate and fill more of a caretaker role in society. They can become too giving and self sacrificing. Leo’s mom is like this! This ends up backfiring and leads to a lack of capacity to do good in the world. -When you’re serving others too much, you don’t take care of your needs and your body deteriorates. You compromise your mental health and get drained. You have to be smart and practical about how you express your love in the world. (37:23) Effective Goodness Requires Exquisite Balance -If you really care about maximizing your output of love into the world, it requires exquisite balance and intelligence, there’s no algorithm for it (37:50). To be good and giving, you need to maintain your poise, groundedness and connection to spirit itself. If you’re showering others with love but you have no love for yourself, you will create problems for yourself. You have to find your unique balancing point. -To do good in the world, you have to be selective with your time, money, energy and resources. You can’t help all the children in the world equally, there’s too many of them. You have to choose which children in the world to help. You can’t give money to every charity. You have to make a choice. You have to be wise about how you give your time, money and resources. “How would the world be best served by the time and money I’m going to give?” -These are difficult questions with no obvious answers. The whole point of you being alive, conscious and intelligent is to make these decisions for yourself. That’s the hell and joy of life! -Material life is a finite experience. That means you have to make difficult decisions. You can’t go to every university, or date every lovely, eligible person, or fulfill every interesting life purpose. Even one is too much for a lot of people. -So which life purpose is the best for you? Which on is going to maximize your output of love? Leo’s Life Purpose course can help you with this, but you have to make those decisions yourself. -It’s important to see the profound tradeoffs and interconnections between the finite and the infinite. It’s a dynamic dance between the two. That’s what reality is. -Intelligence is your capacity to see and maximize goodness, love and how it's expressed (41:50). That’s the true definition of intelligence, not IQ. The ultimate puzzle that intelligence is trying to solve is how to maximize love and goodness. That’s the puzzle of your life. -All the decisions you make in life can be framed with this question: “How do I maximize love and my expression of love?” Find wise ways to maximize love in the finite domain. It’s very different than how a fool expresses love. Wise vs Foolish Love -A fool tries to maximize love in foolish ways, like injecting heroin, or eating greasy cheeseburgers, or robbing someone’s life savings to spend it on a Maserati, or promoting toxic forms of picking up women. A fool may discover, eventually, that none of those ways are very effective. They come with side effects and terrible consequences. They don’t produce love consistently, and they don’t produce the highest levels of love either. There are also costs that you pay, for the rest of your life, that outweigh the little bit of love you get in the short term. -The wise person wises up to the foolish ways he’s been trying to maximize love. The cheeseburger drains your health, so the wise person will sacrifice taste for energy so he can funnel that into his life purpose. He trades the love he would have gotten from the cheeseburger for a higher quality of love from his life purpose and the meaningful impact he’ll have on others. You could trade drugs like heroin for psychedelics. That could lead to Kriya yoga or meditation. You can bootstrap your capacity to love this way, inching your way up bit by bit. You’re solving the puzzle of love. It takes a high degree of intelligence not to eat that cheeseburger, or give into vices and instead work on your life purpose (45:23). Solving the Puzzle of Love -As you solve the puzzle of love, you become more loving and happy. Love is all you want. It’s what really makes you happy. -There are also different gradations of love. If you’re a low consciousness person, you’re satisfied with low forms of love. If you’re a high consciousness person the low forms of love no longer satisfy you. eg: If you’re a low consciousness person with no interest in growing, you might be happy with just going to bars and hooking up everyday for the rest of your life. If you’re mature, you’ll realize that’s not fulfilling anymore and you want a deeper form of love. Maybe you’ll get married, and have children. After a while you might take up psychedelics and yoga. Stuck at a Level of Consciousness -A lot of people are stuck at a certain level of consciousness and they don’t want to raise it. If you give them a high level of love it will freak them out and plunge them into an existential crisis. -To experience the higher forms of love requires maturity, wisdom and intelligence and very little fear. There’s a trade-off between love and fear. You have to be willing to surrender a lot of attachments. To a dogmatic, close-minded religious person, the highest forms of love will feel like hell. They’re super attached to love looking like their religion or to a finite form of God. -Bad psychedelic trips can happen if you’re scared, close-minded and resistant to love. Hell is being disconnected from love. That’s why you need to do prep work to make the best use of psychedelics. The infinite love will still be shocking and scare your pants off, but it won’t be hellish. (ep: Dangers of Psychedelics. Summary is here.) -If you have twisted understandings of the world and of people, you won’t open yourself to love. Dense minds with big egos, traumas, fears and toxic ideologies will need a gradual process of development. However, if you’re really advanced you may not need a long, drawn out process and can get straight to the love. -Actualized.org is all about raising your consciousness, opening your mind, and growing your capacity for love. It’s about experiencing infinite love without recoiling in horror. Even the episodes that seem dry, philosophical or technical are about that. (50:18) -So, good intentions aren’t just rationalizations. They come from Absolute Good and ARE good. They're just finite, partial and biased. -If you want the unadulterated, impartial, unbiased, Absolute kind of Love, you must become formless. If you realize that you are the Godhead, you’ll have the best of both worlds. You can bring the Godhead back into the finite, material world. It’s all about how much love you can handle, and how you want to manifest that love. Finite Doesn’t Mean Inferior -Finite manifestations of love are not inferior (53:50). They’re less total, but “inferior” is a judgement you’re putting on it from your finite human self. One doesn’t have less value than another. The finger isn’t less valuable than the hand. It’s smaller, it’s different, but not inferior. -From the Relative perspective, certain forms of love are “inferior” because they interfere with a larger purpose, which is to create a peaceful society. So terrorism is an inferior form of love compared to charity work. It’s inferior from the Relative perspective, from the goal of constructing a good, happy thriving society. From the Absolute perspective, terrorism isn't inferior to charity work or anything else for that matter. To the Godhead, everything in the universe is of equal value, because all parts are necessary. No one part is more important or above any other part. You need to know the difference between Relative and Absolute Truth. Know how to distinguish them properly, but also know how to collapse them when necessary. (ep: Relative vs Absolute Truth) ___________________________________________________ @asifarahim You're very welcome @somegirl Glad you find this helpful