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How To Control Anger - Part 2 - Understanding Evil To Death https://youtu.be/iF1q76Eiio4 "Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind." - Robert G. Ingersoll Spectrum of Anger: Leo discusses the various levels of anger from mild annoyance to full-blown rage and points out that for those practicing personal development, the milder forms of annoyance are more common and significant, albeit often overlooked due to their subtlety. Hardwired Anger: He mentions a type of anger that stems from early childhood traumas, suggesting that this kind of deep-seated bitterness requires a different, more intensive approach to healing, which he does not focus on in this episode. Holistic Understanding and Anger: Leo posits that anger arises from a lack of holistic understanding. He asserts that with a holistic and existential understanding of oneself, others, and the world, it's nearly impossible to remain angry. Creation and Defense of Personal Partitions: He explains that people create mental partitions that define their sense of self and reality. Defending these partitions vigorously leads to feelings of violation and outrage when others encroach upon them, which ultimately results from a failure to recognize larger systems at play. Larger System Dynamics: Leo highlights that individuals are part of numerous larger systems—social, cultural, corporate, familial, species—and that anger often results from not understanding these systems holistically, feeling violated when personal partitions are challenged. Limited Viewpoint and Holism: He suggests that anger, whether towards politics, religion, different genders, or racial issues, stems from viewing these complexities through a limited viewpoint. Instead, accommodating the reality of complex and larger systems can alleviate feelings of violation and anger. Effectiveness and Peace through Holism: Leo emphasizes that to be effective and at peace in the world, one needs to embrace radical open-mindedness and holistic thinking to understand and navigate the complex systems that everyone is a part of. Acceptance through Understanding: By deeply understanding a situation or reality, people naturally move toward acceptance because they see that things could not be any other way. Acceptance then leads to peace, as it does away with rigid expectations of how reality 'should' be. Identifying a Lack of Understanding: Leo encourages viewers to ask themselves what they're not understanding in situations that make them angry. He suggests a practical approach to cultivating holistic understanding, starting with minor annoyances and working up to larger issues. Future Exploration of Anger: Leo wraps up by acknowledging that he has only covered one perspective on anger and that he will explore the topic further in future content, inviting viewers to continue practicing the techniques discussed to achieve holistic understanding and tranquility. Re-contextualizing Corruption: Leo suggests that by deeply understanding the root causes of corruption, one can overcome anger towards it. He believes that if anger persists, the understanding is not yet holistic enough. Studying corruption and its underlying mechanisms can transform the emotion of anger into comprehension. Holistic View on Lying: Leo encourages viewing lying from both one's own perspective and that of the liar. He urges contemplation on the purposes of lying and self-reflection on one's own propensity to lie. Recognizing that lying serves a function in reality can lead to a reduction in anger related to deceit. Injustice in Business and Relationships: By understanding the broader dynamics of injustice in relationships or business, one can alleviate anger. Leo asks viewers to investigate the root causes of unfairness and see beyond personal injustice, leading to greater emotional tranquility. Transforming Anger Post-Trauma: Leo recognizes that victims of severe injustices like rape may initially feel intense anger, but through a process of forgiveness and understanding, they may develop compassion for the perpetrator by understanding their background and the role ignorance plays in enabling such acts. Applying Holistic Principles to Daily Annoyances: Leo explains how applying the principle of holistic understanding to minor everyday grievances, such as noise disturbances or a partner's irritating habits, can alleviate feelings of annoyance and anger. Advanced Consciousness and the Erasure of Self/Other Partitions: By dissolving the distinction between self and other, one can reach a state of overwhelming love and acceptance. Leo illustrates this using a personal anecdote of meditation and recognizing that he and the bird making noise were not separate, leading to peace. Addressing Objections to Understanding Evil: Leo addresses the concern that understanding and accepting evil could encourage chaos. He clarifies that acceptance doesn't lead to unchecked evil, but can actually diminish its impact through peace and diminished emotional reactions. Justification and Utility of Outrage: Leo contends that letting go of outrage doesn't diminish one's efficacy in the world; instead, it leads to more effective action. Anger can be motivating, but there are higher-quality motivations derived from love and positivity that are healthier and lead to less stress and ailments. Acceptance over Resistance in Combating Evil: Leo discusses the paradoxical approach of accepting evil to mitigate its power. He argues that anger and resistance are components that help perpetuate evil, while acceptance can disarm it. Understanding and acceptance can make the notion of evil, which is often a product of a limited perspective, less potent. Evil from Holistic Perspective: From the most holistic and existential perspective, what's labeled as evil may just be an aspect of one unified reality not aligning with personal agendas. Accepting reality in its entirety, without demanding that one's perspective dominate, can alleviate suffering and effectively confront evil by understanding it to such depth that it ceases to provoke an emotional response. Personal Development Through Acceptance: Leo presents holistic understanding and acceptance as ideals to strive for in personal development. He shares his experiences of dealing with perceived injustices and learning to view them within the context of larger systems, which has led to greater acceptance and reduced negativity in his own life. Spiritual Purification and Grasping the Truth of Reality: Leo stresses the importance of making peace with reality as a profound breakthrough. He emphasizes that coming to terms with reality, especially when facing adverse situations, is a test of one's ability to handle truth without outrage or ego. Practical Technique for Anger Management: Leo provides a technique for practicing acceptance by pausing during anger to consider the overlooked perspective and asking, "What am I failing to understand?" He advises to keep digging for understanding until acceptance is reached and suggests starting with minor annoyances before tackling more significant issues. Holism in Life and Future Exploration: Leo hints at further exploration of holism and understanding anger in future discussions. He encourages viewers to seek and practice holistic perspectives in all aspects of life and to stay tuned for more comprehensive insights on managing anger. Stupefy

The Pre-mortem Technique - The Trick To Avoiding Project Failure https://youtu.be/zdA_8xjFcqc "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy Pre-mortem Technique Introduction: Leo introduces the pre-mortem technique as a proactive strategy used to prevent failure in projects by analysing potential failure points ahead of project initiation. Conceptual Contrast: Pre-mortem is positioned in contrast to the post-mortem where analysis occurs post-project; pre-mortem involves envisioning and analyzing potential failure causes before a project starts. Including Psychological Factors: Leo emphasizes that the pre-mortem should encompass not just external factors but also internal psychological reasons for potential failure, such as self-sabotage. Practical Application of Pre-mortem: He encourages applying the pre-mortem to both professional projects and personal endeavors, citing examples like marriage, weight loss, starting a business, and finding life purpose. Visualizing Failure: The method involves vividly imagining the project failing entirely before commencement, then rigorously brainstorming and listing foreseeable causes of failure. Strategic Thinking Emphasis: Leo reminds viewers that the pre-mortem is part of strategic thinking, which should be employed in all important life endeavors, not just work-related projects. Listing Causes of Failure: After visualizing failure, one should create a detailed list of all possible causes of failure, prioritizing them from most threatening to least likely. Developing Solutions: For each potential failure point listed, especially the top three, specific and realistic solutions should be brainstormed to preemptively tackle these issues. Personal Introspection: Leo emphasizes the importance of personal introspection for identifying top potential causes of failure related to one's own weaknesses and psychological tendencies. Realistic Examples Given: Through the example of starting a new business, Leo provides a realistic set of potential failure reasons including economic downturns, being outperformed by competitors, personal habits like procrastination, technical skill gaps, and losing vision or motivation. Holistic Perspective: Suggesting a holistic approach, Leo instructs to consider both internal and external factors, practical and subtle psychological causes when preparing the pre-mortem list. Pre-mortem Benefits: Leo asserts that the pre-mortem technique can provide a sobering perspective on what it will take to succeed, thereby increasing the chances of project success. Personal Psychological Weaknesses: Leo acknowledges his propensity for getting bored and losing focus, recognizing these traits as significant personal weaknesses that could potentially undermine his projects. Identifying Top Psychological Challenges: He advises isolating and prioritizing the top three personal psychological challenges or "inner demons," foreseeing how they might contribute to failure, particularly in business. Brainstorming Solutions: Leo suggests brainstorming realistic and practical solutions for each identified cause of failure, addressing potential distractions, accidental life changes like starting a family prematurely, burnout, financial insecurity fears, and self-doubt preventively. Pre-Mortem in Career Planning: He stresses the importance of applying the pre-mortem technique to one's entire career, not just individual projects. By considering future career failure and its potential psychological causes, one can proactively save their career. Pre-Mortem for Life Purpose: Leo highlights the use of the pre-mortem technique in assessing the potential failure of one's life purpose. Anticipating challenges that can affect achieving life goals is crucial. Pre-Mortem for Educational Goals: The technique is also useful for academic pursuits, such as planning for college, where pre-emptively addressing potential reasons for failure can influence academic success and prevent dropping out. Pre-Mortem for Weight Loss: He points out the effectiveness of pre-mortem in weight loss efforts by confronting psychological hurdles based on past failures and planning solutions for each challenge. Pre-Mortem for General Life Planning: Leo encourages applying pre-mortem thinking to one's entire life, to envision and address factors that could lead to an overall life failure, focusing on psychological influences and personal weaknesses. Pre-Mortem for Spiritual Goals: For those seeking enlightenment or spiritual growth, pre-mortem can predict potential setbacks to spiritual endeavors and help in devising strategies to overcome them. Pre-Mortem for Hobbies and Relationships: Applying this strategy to new hobbies, relationships, or marriage can help identify psychological obstacles and create a plan to navigate these complex areas. Pre-Mortem for Travel and Annual Goals: Whether planning travel or setting annual goals, pre-mortem identifies reasons for potential failure, encourages proactive planning, and formulates solutions to prevent repeating past mistakes. Leo’s Personal Examples of Pre-Mortem: Leo shares personal instances where the pre-mortem technique has been instrumental in significant life changes, such as moving cities and starting his platform, Actualized.org. Exercise and Worksheet Encouragement: He encourages us to apply the pre-mortem technique to a chosen life project using a free downloadable worksheet, emphasizing the importance of experiencing the satisfaction of strategic, proactive thinking. Balanced Strategic Thinking Importance: Leo warns against overanalysis and urges a balanced approach to strategic thinking that combines big-picture vision with attention to practical details, ensuring intuition and logic work in tandem. Continuous Personal Development: He concludes by inspiring viewers to invest in their self-growth through practical learning, which will result in greater life prospects and more effective strategies to overcome challenges and achieve goals. Avada Kedavra

Uncovering Your Childhood Vows - Unwire Your Neurotic Personality https://youtu.be/_mqv0qQPElw "A tree that is unbending is easily broken." - Lao Tzu Recounting Personal Journey with a Holiday Touch: Leo shares an anecdote about looking for the perfect Christmas hat as a segue into discussing how minor events can lead to significant decisions. The quest for the hat symbolizes the often inconspicuous yet pivotal moments that shape personal vows and ideologies throughout our lives. Childhood Vows Defined: He defines childhood vows as decisions made from birth to age 25 encompassing a vast range of life's moments, not just via social conditioning but also through personal attitudes and reactions to various life situations, forming a rigid ideological core. Examples to Illustrate Ideological Rigidity: Leo provides examples, both personal and hypothetical, of how simple events can precipitate life-long vows that influence our behavior, ideologies, and emotional responses. By keeping the origin of some examples ambiguous, he challenges listeners to avoid assumptions and projection based on limited information. Vows as Forks in the Road: Leo presents the concept that throughout childhood and early adulthood, we come across 'forks in the road' that compel us to make vows that cement attitudes into our personality. These vows can originate from seemingly trivial incidents but have a long-lasting impact. Consequences of Unrecognized Vows: He elucidates how these childhood vows, unless revisited and examined in adulthood, can lead to rigidity in emotions, relationships, and attitudes, often negatively impacting various aspects of life including professional settings. Personal Growth through Vow Analysis: Leo implies that by becoming aware of these vows, acknowledging their origins, and questioning their validity in adult life, we can liberate ourselves from outdated beliefs and foster personal growth. He encourages an exercise to identify and reflect on these key moments, with the potential for significant personal revelations and change. Impact of Childhood Reprimands on Life Choices: A child chastised for being messy vows to always be 'good' leading to avoidance of confrontations, guilt over small mistakes, hyper-vigilance regarding cleanliness, and potential conflicts in relationships due to different levels of tidiness. Effects of Movie-Inspired Vows: A child inspired by Star Wars vows never to be 'evil' like Darth Vader, causing excessive guilt and self-doubt in later life, as they fear regular actions could be misinterpreted as joining the 'dark side.' Decisions Based on Relatives' Experiences: A child whose uncle was duped by a cult vows to champion atheism and rationality, which can harden into a dogmatic stance, causing difficulty in engaging with others who hold different beliefs, including non-harmful religious views. Reactive Vows from Personal Rejection: A kid rejected via email by an admired business figure vows never to reject others harshly, leading to poor business decisions like hiring unqualified individuals out of misplaced compassion. Vows to Avoid Fearful Situations: Observing a homeless person, a child vows to always have a good job, leading to an unhealthy obsession with job security, while witnessing a parent's company refuse medical expenses leads to a vow never to work for corporations, thereby closing off potential opportunities. Vow Driven by a Parent's Success: Seeing a parent's success and reputation inspires a child to aim to exceed the parent's status, which can skew life choices and justify unethical behaviors. Understanding the Source of Rigid Beliefs: Leo underscores the importance of recognizing that these vows, often made with limited understanding, can embed rigid and overly simplistic beliefs that do not serve well in the complex adult world. Childhood Observations and Adult Justifications: Leo discusses how children's simplistic views on status and reputation, like wanting to emulate a parent's success, can evolve into justifications for unethical behavior in adulthood. Vows as Interpretive Choices: He defines a vow as a choice made in response to how one perceively interprets the world, highlighting the importance of understanding that perspective is never objective but highly subjective and influenced by one’s emotions and ideology. Emotional Consequences of Childhood Misinterpretations: Leo explains how children often misinterpret events like not getting a response from a role model, which can lead to emotionally damaging vows that cause guilt, judgment, and rationalizations into adulthood. Adulthood Rigidity from Juvenile Vows: He compares the flexibility of childhood to rigid adulthood, which can impede creativity and problem-solving. This rigidity is a result of ossified vows that were made with limited understanding and experience. Liberation as a Goal in Self-Actualization: Leo highlights the aim of self-actualization and spirituality to achieve liberation from the constraints of mechanical rules and vows and to embrace flexibility and consciousness. Homework for Awareness and Understanding: Leo assigns viewers homework to list every decisive moment from birth to age 25 to raise awareness of how their personality and behavior have been shaped by vows, enhancing personal insight and growth potential. Continuous Engagement in Self-Discovery: He encourages viewers to stay engaged with the self-actualization process, asserting that doing so, despite disagreements or doubts, can lead to mind-blowing discoveries about one's potential and life. The Transformative Power of Overview: Leo reaffirms his commitment to providing content that reveals the full scope of human potential and assures viewers that embracing this journey can lead to life-transforming enlightenment and self-realization. Nox

Becoming A Zen Devil - The Dangers Of Half-Assing Enlightenment https://youtu.be/z2B_e24UJi8 "If you cannot weep with a person who is crying, there is no kensho." - Yamada Koun Neo-Advaita Criticism: Leo addresses the Western trend of neo-advaita which simplifies and strips away traditional aspects of non-duality, aiming for a direct path to enlightenment; though innovative, it risks neglecting the complexity and depth found in these ancient teachings. Historical Account of Mount Hiei: By recounting the decline of Mount Hiei in Japan, Leo illustrates how a devout non-dual tradition can degenerate into chaos and corruption, highlighting the dangers of misinterpreting and misapplying spiritual practices. Misinterpretation of Enlightenment: Leo criticizes the oversimplified view of enlightenment as a single insight with no further growth or practice needed, emphasizing that true enlightenment is a nuanced process that doesn't discard values, principles, or continual self-improvement. Zen Devil Phenomenon: He warns against becoming a 'Zen devil', a term for someone who rationalizes ethical neglect and indolence using non-duality, leading to harm and misunderstanding. Importance of Discipline and Values: Leo underscores the necessity for maintaining discipline, ethical behavior, personal development, and commitment to excellence in the practice of non-duality, using the strict environment of Zen temples as an example. Wisdom Within Tradition: Although Leo acknowledges his distaste for tradition for tradition's sake, he recognizes that traditional practices in mysticism can embed deep wisdom which should not be disregarded entirely. Dichotomy of Small and Big Non-duality: Leo introduces the distinction between 'small non-duality', a limited and possibly egoistic understanding of the concept, and 'big non-duality', a holistic and inclusive approach that respects the complexity of enlightenment and the importance of values and ethics. Pitfalls of Initial Non-dual Experiences: Individuals new to non-duality who gain initial experiences can become arrogant, creating a higher level of duality while claiming to be non-dual due to inexperience and lack of mastery. Small vs. Big Non-duality: Small non-duality pits itself against other approaches, fostering rivalry, criticism, and a sense of superiority. In contrast, big non-duality is humble, integrating both the non-dual and dual aspects, and recognizes practical realities such as good and evil. Maturity in Non-dual Practice: Big non-duality practitioners don't engage in ideological battles and are open to various techniques, such as therapy and self-help, understanding that not everyone can immediately pursue deep spiritual work. Chaos on Mount Hiei: The lack of big non-duality understanding could have contributed to the issues on Mount Hiei; it emphasizes inclusivity and lack of competition and could require years to master. Zen Devil and Wild Fox Zen: Zen Devil refers to someone who has had an enlightenment experience but lacks broader knowledge or study, while Wild Fox Zen represents the opposite—book knowledge without practice. Both extremes can be problematic, with the middle path being ideal. 10,000-Hour Rule for Mastery: Mastery in any field, including non-duality, generally requires at least 10,000 hours of dedicated practice. Non-duality is not exempt from this rule and could require even more time to fully understand and embody. Variety and Depth of Enlightenment: Enlightenment can vary in depth and there are different types, with minor insights being just as important as major ones. True enlightenment transforms one's emotions, mind structure, and habitual reactions, which takes extensive work beyond initial insights. Post-Enlightenment Transformation: After enlightenment, negative relationship patterns and habits may persist, so work is needed to transform these areas and cultivate unconditional love and enlightened relationships. Habits Persistence: Cultural influences and bad habits (such as substance abuse or poor diet) persist post-enlightenment and must be actively changed, a danger overlooked by neo-advaita's focus on existential breakthroughs. Need for Worldly Education: Understanding existential truths doesn't equate to worldly knowledge. Education in practical areas remains essential, and ignorance can lead to poor choices affecting society. Community Engagement and Citizenship: Being an enlightened individual also means being a good citizen and caring for one’s community. Neglecting societal responsibilities reveals a lack of true enlightenment embodiment. Ethical Career Choices: It's crucial for those who are enlightened to pursue careers that contribute positively to society and the environment, aligning with the principles of non-duality. Transcending Cultural Limitations: Enlightenment doesn't erase cultural conditioning; effort is needed to overcome negative cultural influences, such as racism, and to develop a more cosmopolitan understanding. Physical Health: It is important to focus on physical health by ensuring proper nutrition and exercise, which are part of a comprehensive approach to enlightenment, beyond just non-duality. Character and Ethics: Developing good character and strong ethics is essential; moral and ethical considerations remain important even when considering the existential perspective of non-duality. Ecological Awareness: Concern for ecology, the environment, and all living beings, including animals and plants, is an aspect of a more holistic approach to spirituality and enlightenment. Spiritual Powers: Exploring spiritual powers can deepen one's spirituality beyond the realm of non-duality, aiding in healing others, teaching, and understanding. The Value of Understanding: Understanding a broad range of fields, such as business, history, and science, enriches the insights gained from enlightenment, making it more valuable than the enlightenment experience itself. Post-Enlightenment Practice: True enlightenment involves continuous practice and compassionate functioning, not a static state achieved in one moment. Hazards of Overemphasis on Non-duality: Focusing solely on non-duality risks emotional bypass, where deep emotional issues are ignored, and character splits can worsen, leading to a divide between an ideal self and a shadow self. Goodness and Non-duality: Goodness and ethical behavior are distinct from enlightenment. While good and bad are not existentially absolute, they hold practical significance and are included in the non-dual understanding. Social Responsibility and Non-duality: Enlightened individuals should act responsibly in society, recognizing the consequences of their actions under the social contract. The Danger of Misusing Non-duality: Misusing non-duality to justify harmful actions can lead to individuals becoming 'Zen Devils', causing suffering instead of alleviating it. Enlightenment as a Choice of Lifestyle: Realizing life is a game doesn't excuse inaction or destructive behavior. Enlightenment offers the choice to live consciously, responsibly, and with compassion for the suffering of others. Using Enlightenment Constructively: Enlightenment teachings should be embodied in one's life constructively, not used as weapons against others, to live aligned with higher consciousness. Continuous Development and Enlightenment: Personal and psychological development, relationship building, and self-improvement work are valuable and contribute to the journey towards enlightenment. Nuanced Approach to Non-duality: Balancing non-duality with practical wisdom is key; true mastery is rare and involves avoiding the many traps on either side of extremes. Silencio

Mystical Traditions Around The World - Nonduality Goes Cosmopolitan! https://youtu.be/iAE055eH7yQ "One does wisely in agreeing all things are one thing." - Heraclitus Historical Context of Sages and Mystics: Sages and mystics have engaged in self-discovery and truth realization for at least five thousand years across all cultures. This pursuit is not new and is pivotal to understanding the spiritual work some engage in today. Mysticism's Essence vs. Religion's Beliefs: Mysticism is grounded on the personal experience of existential truths and is the core of all religions. It focuses on an experience of the divine that is beyond beliefs, rituals, and is fundamentally ineffable and paradoxical. Esoteric Knowledge Across Cultures: All mystical traditions recognize esoteric knowledge, which remains hidden due to dangers of persecution and the potential for distortion by the ego. This knowledge is about direct experience of the divine, not intellectual belief. Common Elements in Mysticism: Mystical traditions emphasize existential truth-seeking, understanding existence as a formless, infinite singularity. Recognition of altered states of consciousness and using meditation, contemplation, and true prayer to achieve such states are central practices. Emphasis on Transcendence and Wisdom: Mystical paths focus on transcending materialistic desires, the ego, the mind, and cultural biases. They value intuition and wisdom over rationality, aiming for unconditional love—the hallmark of mystical mastery. Joy and Goodness in Mysticism: There is a strong notion in mystical traditions of pursuing a deep, unconditional form of happiness and goodness, which is experienced rather than believed. Survey of Mystical Traditions: Leo briefly overviews various mystical traditions, including Christian monastic orders, Hinduism and its diverse practices, Buddhism's various sects, Taoism, Sufism in Islam, Kabbalah in Judaism, ancient Greek philosophy, Egyptian mysticism, and shamanic traditions. Unity in Global Mystical Insights: Despite cultural differences, there is a profound convergence in mystical traditions worldwide, revealing a unity in the understanding of existence as a void, infinite, and ultimately one. Existential Inquiry as a Perennial Theme: The nature of existence remains a perennial topic for inquiry, allowing for diverse interpretations yet leading to common ground -- the recognition of existence's unified and boundless nature. Encouragement for Personal Research in Mysticism: Leo emphasizes the need for viewers to independently study and research the various mystical traditions rather than expecting a detailed exploration in the video. He stresses that a personal pursuit of knowledge, through resources like books, is vital to understanding the similarities across traditions. Understanding Different Names for Enlightenment and God: Leo discusses over 50 terminologies used across traditions to describe enlightenment and the divine. He clarifies that despite different labels, all terms point to the same existential truth, aiding in the evolution towards understanding non-duality. Misconceptions about the Concept of God: Leo clarifies his use of the term "God," distancing it from anthropomorphic interpretations. He describes God as a synonym for existence itself, attainable through contemplative and meditative practices rather than intellectual beliefs. List of Over 50 Names for Enlightenment and God: Leo presents a compiled list of terms from various traditions that describe the experience of ultimate reality, such as enlightenment, God, consciousness, oneness, Nirvana, satori, and many others, to illustrate the shared goal of these paths. Ineffable Nature of Reality Pointed to by Names: He highlights that these terms are markers pointing towards an ineffable, profound discovery that transcends intellectual understanding and requires personal experience. Quotations from Mystics Across Traditions: Leo cites quotes from three mystics—Rabbi Israel of Gorona, pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, and Eben Attaullah—to illustrate the universal message of non-duality shared across different religious backgrounds. Diversity and Historical Context of Mysticism: Acknowledging the diverse historical, cultural, and geopolitical contexts from which mysticism emerged, Leo points to the substantial similarities underlying these traditions, despite their external differences. Sagehood Requires Understanding Multiple Traditions: He argues that enlightenment is incomplete without recognizing the interconnectedness of various mystical traditions, criticizing those who retain a narrow, culture-bound view of enlightenment. Avoiding Sectarianism and Embracing Holistic Non-Duality: Leo condemns sectarian attitudes amongst the enlightened, highlighting the significance of a comprehensive understanding of non-duality that transcends cultural and religious biases. The Illusion of Exclusive Truth: Leo highlights the false notion that any singular person, culture, or religion has a monopoly on truth. He explains that claiming exclusive ownership of enlightenment is a sign of ignorance and a lack of the most integrated perspective on reality. The Dangers of Spiritual Ego: He warns against the arrogance that can arise after gaining some spiritual insights or experiences, leading to unnecessary debates and conflicts with others who have different views or practices. Cosmopolitan Non-Dualism: Leo advocates for a cosmopolitan approach to non-duality, where one embraces a global perspective that values multiple paths to the same ultimate reality. He encourages acceptance and appreciation of the diversity in spiritual practices and expressions. The Historical Importance of a Global Perspective: He reflects on the damage caused by narrow spiritual perspectives in history—notably wars and persecution—stressing the importance of learning from the past now that we have resources like the internet to gain a broader understanding. Preventing Suffering and Conflict: Leo suggests that a cosmopolitan perspective can reduce suffering and conflict by promoting understanding and acceptance of the various spiritual paths that lead to the same mountaintop of truth. Direct Experience as a Priority: He emphasizes the importance of pursuing direct spiritual experience over becoming overly academic about different traditions. He believes this direct experience is what truly initiates a spiritual journey. Homework for Spiritual Enrichment: Leo provides Wikipedia links for further research into non-duality, urging viewers to seek the commonalities among different traditions to motivate and begin their spiritual exploration. Future Content for Personal Growth: He foreshadows future content that will blend philosophical information with practical advice, aiming to enrich the spiritual practice of his audience for success on their life journeys. Riddikulus

Becoming A Sage - A New Vision For Actualized.org & You! https://youtu.be/z2wNbLO02Wg Leo's Personal Evolution: As Leo has developed and learned more about life and its various facets such as psychology, business, politics, and culture, his vision for Actualized.org has similarly evolved towards helping others and himself become sages. Best Life for a Human Being: Leo argues that after extensive research, he believes the best life one can live is that of a sage, surpassing other forms of success and fulfillment. Limited Exposure to Sagehood: He notes that most people are not exposed to the notion of becoming a sage, especially not as children, which he sees as a missed opportunity for guiding one towards an incredibly fulfilling life path. Actualized.org as 'Sage University': Leo's goal is to transform Actualized.org into a repository of knowledge—akin to a university—for those seeking sagehood, providing resources, techniques, and guidance to fulfill this lofty ambition. Difficulty in Defining Sagehood: There is no clear, step-by-step guide to becoming a sage, which Leo finds intriguing and challenging, and he is motivated to document this journey and share it with others. The Value of Sagehood: Leo emphasizes the profound inner reward of becoming a sage and is committed to documenting and sharing the various models, frameworks, and techniques necessary for such a transformation. History's Great Sages: He lists several historical and modern sages such as Buddha, Socrates, Gandhi, Osho, and Sadhguru. Leo encourages his audience to study these figures to understand their lives and the qualities that differentiate them from average individuals. Inner Qualities of a Sage: The essence that makes sages 'great' according to Leo is not their external achievements but their internal self-mastery and inner transformation, which is evident in their unique way of relating to others and perceiving the world. Sagehood Overlooked and Misunderstood: He laments that sagehood is not taught or discussed widely in society and that when it is, it’s often distorted by the ego-driven interpretations found in certain religious teachings. Meeting Modern Sages: Leo expresses his profound admiration for modern sages he has met in person, highlighting the transformative potential of interacting with someone who embodies sage-like qualities, and questions why such a valuable life option is not more widely shared or understood. Key Qualities of Sages: Sages exhibit a commitment to Truth, consciousness, goodness, and love along with a deep, effortless embodiment of these qualities after radical inward transformation. Sage vs. Enlightenment: There is a distinction between merely having enlightenment experiences and being a sage. Being a sage involves a mastery that goes beyond the experience of enlightenment itself. Modern Mystic Sage Vision: Leo desires for individuals to progress towards becoming 'modern mystic sages'—a composite of Eastern non-duality and Western philosophy, science, and art—creating individuals who engage in the world with consciousness and deep conceptual understanding. Being in the World as a Sage: Unlike ascetics, modern sages apply their self-mastery and understanding to solving real-world problems, utilizing their enhanced creativity and productivity. What a Sage is Not: A true sage is not a detached intellectual lacking self-awareness or emotional mastery, nor an ideological crusader interested in converting others to their worldview without inward focus. The Importance of Vision in Becoming a Sage: The vision of becoming a sage is more significant than knowing the precise steps. A strong, motivating vision propels individuals forward, while a weak vision leads to seeking reassurance and formulaic paths. The 'How' of Becoming a Sage: While specific steps vary, the process includes setting truth as the top value, rejecting materialism, performing a spiritual purification process of body, mind, emotions, and habits, and developing a strong 'energy body' to manage emotions effectively. Emotional Resilience of a Sage: Sages experience deeply but have the ability to transmute negative emotions, such as hurt and tragedy, into love and truth due to a strong energy body. Necessity for Extensive Theoretical Learning: Despite common misunderstandings, becoming a sage requires a robust theoretical foundation which includes studying philosophy, psychology, history, and other fields to understand the sage path. Seeking Uncommon Knowledge: A sage must sift through vast amounts of information to find valuable insights that further their mastery, as exemplified by Leo's own extensive research and learning process. Application of Knowledge: The knowledge acquired is not for mere intellectual accumulation but for practical application in self-mastery and raising consciousness, differentiating a sage from an academic. Raising Awareness through Practice: Regular meditation, contemplation, self-inquiry, and understanding the nature of life, truth, falsehood, and society are crucial practices for a sage to raise awareness. Exploring Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness: Engaging in activities like meditation, breathwork, and the use of psychedelics helps a sage go beyond the ordinary level of consciousness and gain deeper insights. Creativity as a Sage Attribute: Sages should explore and express their creativity, using their knowledge for positive real-world impact, as guided in Leo's Life Purpose Course. Holistic Big-Picture Understanding: The universal and compassionate perspective that emphasizes love for humanity and a broad understanding of life distinguishes sages from specialists in academic or scientific fields. Unconditional Love and Compassion: A true sage develops deep, indiscriminate love and compassion for all of reality, transcending the newbie trap of indifference due to the illusory nature of life. Enhancing Collective Consciousness: Helping others raise their awareness is seen as part of a sage's purpose, through various domains like technology, art, and science, to address the lack of consciousness in different fields. Selective Path of the Sage: Although becoming a sage may not be for everyone, those who are called to it will find fulfilling content on Actualized.org and opportunities to engage in transformative work. Distinguishing between Life Purpose and Sagehood: Leo addresses that becoming a sage is compatible with having a life purpose, as both relate to the journey of self-mastery and should not be viewed as mutually exclusive. Vision and Excitement for Sagehood: The path of becoming a sage is specialized and requires a profound desire and excitement from the individual; it's not represented in mainstream society despite its significance. Engagement and Feedback Request: Leo invites audience feedback on the vision of becoming a sage to inform the direction of future content on Actualized.org and encourages signing up for the newsletter for further insights. Paradox of Enlightenment and Life Purpose: Enlightenment may reveal life as an illusion without inherent purpose, yet historical figures like Buddha, Jesus, and Gandhi, who were deeply enlightened, were also driven by a strong sense of life purpose. Reconciling Career and Personal Purpose: Leo distinguishes between career purpose, as guided by the Life Purpose Course, and personal purpose, which is the overarching aim of becoming a sage and pursuing self-mastery, regardless of one's professional work. Illusion as Motivation: Although enlightenment exposes life's illusory nature, having a purpose created by oneself can serve as a motivator. The desire to create and enjoy a purpose is sufficient reason to do so, despite it being a construction. Seriousness in Spiritual Practice: Leo stresses that the pursuit of sagehood and mastery of consciousness must be taken seriously, akin to mystics of the past. Temporary objectives can motivate and inspire on this path, countering the risk of spiritual stagnation. Content Direction for Actualized.org: Future content will delve into deeper, meta, and philosophical topics, with an emphasis on understanding over success. A longer time horizon is required of viewers, as these subjects demand individual initiative and application to one's life. Importance of Big-Picture Thinking: The forthcoming content aims to integrate diverse perspectives from various fields, fostering big-picture thinking and a historical understanding of personal growth. Evolutionary Journey of Actualized.org: The envisioned direction for Actualized.org is to support viewers in becoming sages, which Leo deems a purposeful life dedication. Audience engagement and feedback will be essential in shaping this direction. Invitation to Join the Journey: Leo invites viewers to sign up for Actualized.org's newsletter for more insights on becoming a sage and encourages them to share their thoughts on embracing this vision for personal transformation. Legilimens

How To Deal With Confusion https://youtu.be/lRipeQ_lcN8 Understanding Creation: Leo clarifies that understanding is not inherent at birth but is a construct that needs to be actively developed throughout life, and this path of self-actualization includes building an understanding across various life domains. Nature of Confusion: Confusion arises when the mind faces uncertainty and tries to reconcile conflicting ideas, leading to discomfort as most people are wired for certainty and order, resulting in knee-jerk reactions aimed at eliminating confusion quickly. Developing Emotional Tolerance: Leo emphasizes the need to develop an emotional tolerance for confusion and uncertainty, a trait commonly found in self-actualized individuals who are comfortable with ambiguity and paradox. Five-Step Process for Embracing Confusion: Leo introduces a simple, five-step process to engage with confusion: 1) Cultivating awareness of confusion, 2) Labeling the confusion, 3) Facing confusion by inquiring into its origins, 4) Allowing confusion without resistance, 5) Embracing a state of not knowing. The Harm of Premature Resolution: The compulsion to resolve confusion immediately can lead to a mechanical and rigid mindset, often resulting in a false sense of understanding and obstructing true personal growth. Self-Honesty with Uncertainty: Admitting to oneself that there is a lack of understanding in areas of confusion is crucial, and can be uncovered through honest self-inquiry, ultimately leading to genuine clarity. Surrendering the need to know: To embrace a state of not-knowing, ask yourself if you can let go of the need to have immediate answers. This surrendering process goes against the cultural conditioning that values certainty and decisiveness, but it’s essential for genuine understanding. Applying the five-step process to enlightenment work: While engaged in self-inquiry to understand concepts like "Who am I?" or enlightenment, embrace confusion when nothing seems to click. Acknowledging the confusion rather than ignoring it allows for a deeper exploration of the self. Confusion in practical decision-making: Confusion is not limited to spiritual pursuits; it affects practical decisions like career choices and life purposes. Instead of paralysis, acknowledge the confusion and allow answers to unfold organically without forcing them. Objection handling regarding ignorance: Embracing confusion does not lead to ignorance. Ignorance is rooted in ignoring what you don't know and having a false sense of certainty. Openness to not knowing prevents ignorance and positions you for insights and intellectual growth. Revelation through embracing confusion: Instead of pushing for answers, being open to confusion sets the stage for profound revelations to come organically. This requires patience and tolerance for uncertainty but results in deeper and more authentic insights. Allowing for nature-derived insights: Embracing confusion allows for insights that come from a place beyond the ego, often more profound and true. Such insights are richer and more fulfilling than ego-driven, shallow realizations. The illusion of adamant answer seeking: Forcing answers can seem effective but often leads to low-quality insights. A high need for certainty can make you emotionally unstable, defensive, and ideologically rigid, which stifles personal growth and limits deeper understanding. Intuition versus over-reliance on logic: Excessive need for resolution suppresses intuition and creativity. Embracing confusion allows for a more balanced approach, leveraging both logic and intuition to explore the mysteries of reality and create a high-quality life. Power of Intuition vs. Logical Reasoning: Leo highlights how intuition is a significantly more powerful tool than logical thinking, especially when dealing with profound life questions and insights. Necessity of Confusion for Deep Insights: Emphasizing that the most profound insights arise from tolerating extended periods of confusion, Leo points out that many individuals miss out on these insights because they are not willing to endure the necessary confusion. Research and Tolerance for Confusion: Leo shares his personal approach to researching various topics, from enlightenment to business, and how having a high tolerance for confusion allows him to explore these subjects deeply, fitting together pieces of a complex jigsaw puzzle. Impacts of Confusion on Self-Help Engagement: Acknowledging that an overwhelming amount of information can lead to paralysis, Leo warns against quitting or doubting the efficacy of self-help material due to confusion and instead advocates pushing forward with patience. Stuck in Decision-Making Due to Fear of Confusion: Leo examines how individuals may prematurely abandon pursuits like determining life purposes, because they are unable to decide in the face of confusion and instead should trust in eventual reconciliation. Importance of Tolerance for Confusion in Meditation and Enlightenment: Sharing a personal anecdote, Leo recounts advice from a Zen master about letting go of the need to know and realizes the significance of accepting confusion in quality meditation and enlightenment practices. Surrendering to Not-Knowing in Enlightenment: Leo emphasizes the need to surrender to uncertainty and accept being confused, a challenge he faced during his meditation retreat as he sought enlightenment. Zen Tradition and Embracing Confusion: Discussing the Zen practice of working on Koans, Leo illustrates the value placed on confusion by Zen masters who avoid giving answers directly, encouraging students to accept and get comfortable with their confusion. Lifelong Learning and Discovery Process: Leo urges viewers to continuously embrace confusion as part of an ongoing process of learning and discovery, which does not end even after achieving enlightenment. Applying Philosophy to Daily Life: Leo invites his audience to recognize moments of confusion in their daily lives and consciously face them rather than avoiding the discomfort. Teasing Future Content for Actualized.org: Leo concludes by sharing his excitement about future content, teasing powerful transformation techniques and a big-picture understanding of life and reality he plans to offer through Actualized.org. Protego

Using 5-MeO-DMT To Become Enlightened - Interview With Martin Ball https://youtu.be/bWSOl62memg Introduction to Martin Ball and 5-MeO-DMT: Leo hosts Martin Ball, an advocate for the spiritual and developmental use of 5-MeO-DMT. The discussion aims to offer insights into 5-MeO-DMT's role in reaching non-dual awareness and liberation from ego. Enlightenment Experience vs. Actual Liberation: Martin highlights the need to differentiate between the temporary enlightenment experience induced by 5-MeO-DMT and true enlightenment, defined as being free from the ego and aware of the self's true nature. Immediate Non-Dual Awareness with 5-MeO-DMT: When properly administered, 5-MeO-DMT can rapidly shift an individual from ordinary perception to a full, infinite non-dual state. This state transcends subject and object and represents the essence of being. Reformation of Ego Post-Experience: Post-enlightenment experience, an individual's ego structures tend to reassemble, which can prompt significant self-analytical and paradigm-challenging thoughts but is not equivalent to permanent liberation. 5-MeO-DMT as a Tool for Liberation: Martin contends that, once understanding the distinction between temporary experiences and lasting liberation, 5-MeO-DMT emerges as potentially the most potent substance for spiritual progress and ego transcendence. Challenges in Communicating Enlightenment: Leo discusses the inherent limitations of language in communicating the concept of enlightenment, which is fundamentally experiential and infinite, and thus resists containment by words or concepts. The Profound Enlightenment Experience of 5-MeO-DMT: Leo expresses amazement at the capacity of 5-MeO-DMT to afford a preview of the absolute state—even briefly—that is often sought through extensive spiritual practice. Distinction Between Recreational and Serious Psychedelic Use: Leo emphasizes that there is a significant divide between casual psychedelic use and the integration of psychedelics into rigorous non-dual consciousness work, which can transform one's entire life and self-perception. 5-MeO-DMT Not a Shortcut for Enlightenment: Leo clarifies that 5-MeO-DMT is not a shortcut to enlightenment, but it facilitates deep self-exploration that may accelerate one's spiritual journey without avoiding the inherent complexities and challenges. Comparison of Shamanic vs Non-Dual Psychedelic Approaches: Shamanic traditions that utilize psychedelics focus more on practical and therapeutic healing rather than non-dual awakening or enlightenment. They engage with spirits and entities, which can be helpful but differ from the non-dual pursuit which prioritizes the realization of oneness. Perception of Non-Duality in Western Psychedelic Culture: Many in the West who practice psychedelic shamanism only give lip service to non-duality, often lacking a deep understanding or experience of it, even though they may profess beliefs in oneness and universal love. Personal Journey Towards Enlightenment with 5-MeO-DMT: Leo's route to enlightenment began with a strong, uncompromising desire for truth (bodhichitta in Buddhism). He sought reality directly and wasn't satisfied with belief systems – an intrinsic desire that guided him towards liberation. The Desire for Truth and Non-Dual Seeking: Leo emphasizes the necessity of a sincere yearning to uncover the truth directly and immediately, avoiding comfortable beliefs or cool ideas. This unwavering commitment to direct experience is essential for any non-dual exploration or enlightenment. Impact of Personal Crisis on the Path to Liberation: Martin encountered 5-MeO-DMT at a pivotal life moment, having left his marriage, job, and life's structures behind. In a state of fear and readiness to give up, his defenses were down, allowing a profound non-dual experience and encounter with what he perceived as the true nature of God. Distinction and Rarity of 5-MeO-DMT Compared to nn DMT: While nn DMT is popular and often discussed, 5-MeO-DMT, a distinct substance, has been overshadowed despite being more potent. Leo underlines the minimal cultural discourse around 5-MeO-DMT contrary to his extensive work promoting its profound effects. Non-Dual Experience as Encounter with the 'True Nature of God': Leo describes his initial 5-MeO-DMT encounter as a direct experience with what he calls ‘God’, a universal consciousness encompassing all reality, breaking from traditional dualistic conceptions of a separate deity. Shift in God Concept Post 5-MeO-DMT Enlightenment Experience: The experience reframed his understanding of God from an external, authoritative figure to an imminent reality—recognizing 'God' as a singular universal consciousness in which the notion of separate being dissolves. Perception of God in Non-Dual States: Leo found the term 'God' more fitting than 'buddha mind' during his non-dual experience with 5-MeO-DMT as it was conscious, aware, and experienced through individual beings. His spontaneous expression of gratitude was directed at 'God,' despite his usual preference for more neutral, scientific language. Tryptamines and Neurotransmitters: Tryptamines, the building block of human neurotransmitters, are naturally produced in mammals. Both 5-MeO-DMT and nn DMT are tryptamines that can cross the blood-brain barrier immediately, resulting in intense and immediate psychedelic experiences. 5-MeO-DMT's Ego Overwhelming Mechanism: 5-MeO-DMT acts on specific brain receptors associated with the ego and individuated consciousness. This distinct action overwhelms the ego, making 5-MeO-DMT particularly effective for inducing non-dual states of awareness compared to other psychedelics. Dualistic vs Non-Dual Experiences: nn DMT induces highly visual, dualistic experiences with subject-object dichotomy. In contrast, 5-MeO-DMT bypasses such visionary content, offering an almost immediate plunge into non-dual consciousness, revealing absolute truth distinct from belief systems. The Journey to Liberation with 5-MeO-DMT: Leo stresses that despite 5-MeO-DMT's power to induce non-dual states, it is not a guaranteed route to liberation. Consistent effort and personal development work are essential to moving towards true freedom. Energetic Symmetry in Non-Dual States: A fully energetically open non-dual state is indicated by perfect bilateral symmetry in body language. This symmetry is disrupted when the ego re-engages, showing the transformation from non-dual to ego-centered states. Body Language and Ego in Psychedelic Experiences: During psychedelic experiences, an individual's body language can oscillate between bilateral symmetry (indicative of a non-dual state) and asymmetric movements (reflecting the activity of the ego or internal resistance). Psychedelic Amplification of Self: Psychedelics amplify one's self without violating free will, enabling a person to choose surrender over resistance. These substances heighten energetic experiences and reveal patterns of the ego through energetic shock therapy. Patterns of Ego: The ego consists of energy patterns shaped by socio-cultural learning, which govern our expressions and movements, creating a structured persona that contrasts natural, uninhibited energy flow. Ego as a Collection of Patterns: People learn to socially modulate their energetic expressions, leading to ego structures that define "self" and create dualistic divides. This contrasts with natural, unedited responses seen in animals like dogs. Five Meo DMT's Impact on Ego Patterns: 5-MeO-DMT's intense energy can overwhelm ego's limited structures, compelling a potential surrender and dissolution of egoic patterns, paving the way for authentic self-expression. Purging as Energy Release: Common bodily reactions to psychedelics, such as purging, signify the release of stored energy, often held in the abdomen as a result of fear and defensive mechanisms. Re-formation of Ego Post-Ego Dissolution: Post-ego dissolution experiences with psychedelics offer an awareness opportunity, making it possible to identify and transform self-created narratives, beliefs, and characters. Symmetry in Ego Distortions: Maintaining symmetry in body language during a psychedelic experience exposes distortions caused by egoic patterns, which can be worked through with a skilled facilitator. Becoming Free from Ego Patterns: Ideally, individuals learn to live without fixed patterns, aligning with the energy as it manifests without control or editing, transcending the illusory construct of the ego. Commitment to Truth: Non-dual liberation involves an unyielding commitment to truth, which includes not holding onto beliefs without certainty, being honest in expression, and recognizing the layers of lies in societal interactions. Process of Non-Dual Liberation: Non-dual experiences are one aspect of liberation, but sustained work is required to become aware of ego dynamics and to detach from the constructed ego. Universal Consciousness: The ultimate realization in non-dual liberation is that we are universal consciousness playing numerous characters simultaneously, rather than being confined to a single ego identity. Practical Application of Non-Dual Theory with 5-MeO-DMT: By engaging with 5-MeO-DMT, one may experience the infinite nature of consciousness, recognize the ego's mechanics, and, through repetition, gradually become more attuned to the greater reality beyond the self. Ongoing Examination of Ego Dynamics: After regular encounters with 5-MeO-DMT, individuals observe the ego's tendency to distort, manipulate, and attempt to cling to certain thoughts, beliefs, and energies. Vibrational and Energetic Shifts: The process can involve significant vibrational states and energetic shifts within the body, as individuals are often energetically closed off and require opening. Altered Forms of Communication: Users might experience periods where they cannot speak coherently, exhibiting phenomena like glossolalia (speaking in tongues) and other forms of incoherent babbling. Emotional and Vocal Expressions: The process may prompt people to express their emotions intensely, through screaming, crying, laughter, tones, and even physical reactions such as orgasms or involuntary bodily discharges, as part of purging trapped energy. Deceptive Nature of the Ego: The ego attempts to create compelling narratives, leading individuals to adopt various complexes (Messiah, victim, powerful shaman, etc.), which are essentially stories to hold onto. Observation Over Attachment: Emphasis on observing thoughts and narratives without attaching to them or actively trying to block them, allowing them to arise and dissipate. Blurring of Identity: Martin experienced a blurring of lines between his ego (Martin) and the divine (God), leading to confusion as the ego tried to define his identity within this new paradigm. Final Breakthrough: Acceptance of divine reality and his own godliness resulted in a transformative experience for Martin, akin to a prolonged 5-MeO-DMT trip, shifting between non-dual and dualistic perception. Non-Dual and Dual Balance: Martin now operates from an understanding that allows him to put on and take off the 'clothing' of ego, distinguishing between his character and the non-dual self. Transitioning Between States: Learning to smoothly transition between non-dual awareness and ego-self, avoiding abrupt jumps which are common in 5-MeO-DMT experiences. Self-Awareness in Transition: Recognizing the importance of maintaining self-awareness and presence throughout the opening to and closing from non-dual states, aiming to relax and stay centered. Self-Expression Without Ego Prison: Martin acknowledges playing the character of Martin but refuses to let it trap him as it did in the past, enabling freedom and genuine self-expression. No Shortcut to Enlightenment: Leo points out that 5-MeO-DMT is not a magic pill for enlightenment; instead, it facilitates deep personal development work and accelerates the path without bypassing challenges. Birth Analogy for Transformation: Describing the use of entheogenic medicines as a process of birthing oneself, which is intense and thorough, forcing individuals to confront every aspect of their being. Intensity of the Psychedelic Experience: Leo emphasizes how the use of psychedelics can be an intense and challenging journey, involving emotional stress and profound self-examination. Ideal Body Language for Psychedelics: Recommending an open and relaxed posture during psychedelic experiences to aid in processing and releasing energy rather than succumbing to fear and discomfort. Rigorous Nature of Psychedelic Cleansing: Psychedelic experiences can often begin with an alluring quality but may lead to demanding emotional work as defenses lower, acting on multiple levels – mental, energetic, emotional, and physical. Efficiency of Psychedelics: Psychedelics allow for an efficient movement of energy and emotions across mental, energetic, emotional, and physical spectrums; not necessarily a shortcut, but a more productive path to personal development. Full-Body Impact of 5-MeO-DMT: 5-MeO-DMT engages the whole body, offering experiences including a full-body melting sensation, a feeling akin to a whole-body orgasm, and the impression of energy flowing throughout. Body Symmetry and Surrender: The symmetry of the body's left and right sides during psychedelic experiences is indicative of energetic openness. Leo notes the importance of correcting twisted or asymmetrical postures to maintain energy flow and to surrender properly. Energy Processing and Physical Manifestation: Asymmetrical body postures during a trip are physical manifestations of energy processing. High energy levels on psychedelics can lead to unusual body positions and severe cramps. Concept of 'Doing Nothing': Leo and Martin discuss the concept of 'doing nothing' during a psychedelic trip and in daily life. Ceasing all physical activity and mental projections allows for spontaneous and genuine expressions of energy, thus avoiding ego-driven actions. Applying 'Do Nothing' to Other Activities: Applying the 'do nothing' practice to activities like music allows actions to unfold naturally without premeditated intentions, aligning with the Daoist principle of 'wu wei' or actionless action. Understanding the True Self: The universal true self is the same for everyone, and realizing it does not inform one's unique life purpose since existence itself is the purpose. Martin Ball's Contributions to the Psychedelic Community: Martin organizes annual psychedelic conferences, records podcasts, writes books, creates music, and produces visionary art, all as expressions of his creativity and commitment to personal and collective exploration. Imperio

Money Psychology - The Inner Game of Mastering Money https://youtu.be/1Mpir4KE4qE Early influence of family money dynamics: Leo's personal insights come from his father's entrepreneurial endeavors that were unstable and led to a "sine wave" financial situation, affecting the entire family and culminating in its destruction. Leo cites this as a lesson in the psychological nature of money issues. Psychological nature of money problems: Money problems are not external but rather deeply rooted in psychological issues. Leo stresses that an infusion of cash will not solve these problems, much like getting a new partner won't fix issues of dysfunctional relationships. Money as an emotional issue: Despite seeming rational, money is emotionally charged like religion and politics. People's emotional responses to money can cause unconscious decision-making, leading to problems in how it's managed. Family's influence on money attitudes: Many people unconsciously adopt their beliefs and attitudes towards money from their family's perspective during childhood. This shapes one's relationship with money as an adult. Inner game of money: Leo reasons that the challenges individuals face regarding money are often perceived as external obstacles when in fact they should be turning inward to address core attitudes and paradigms about money. Negative beliefs from external narratives: Personal tales of Leo's own misconceptions about business due to reading Bill Gates' biography illustrate how narratives can shape limiting beliefs, stifle growth, and hold back business aspirations. Money as a domain of mastery: Viewing money as an entire domain of life to be mastered, similar to relationships or business, requires work and knowledge, not just accumulating cash. Fear as a psychological aspect of money problems: Fears and anxieties related to money, such as the fear of not being able to pay bills, have a psychological grounding, affecting attitudes and performance in professional and financial environments. Emotional spending and hoarding: Psychological tendencies, such as emotional spending or hoarding money due to childhood experiences, can lead to money management issues, irrespective of one's income level. Limiting stereotypes and beliefs about money: Many harbor limiting beliefs about the economy, the power of corporations, competitiveness, and the nature of their profession, which can hinder their ability to earn and manage money effectively. Impact of Childhood Beliefs on Current Financial Outlook: Leo discusses how childhood difficulties in money matters can instill a belief that making money is inherently hard, contrasting this with the perspective some hold that earning money can be easy once you understand and master your money psychology. Counterproductive Beliefs About Money's Nature: He addresses the belief that money is evil, noting that it likely originates from religious or family influences, which can severely limit one's ability to earn money due to the inherent judgment it carries. Self-Limiting Beliefs About Affordability: Leo highlights the self-imposed limitations created by beliefs about not being able to afford certain items or experiences, which then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Belief in Scarcity and Scams: He cites the belief that everyone is out to scam as severely restrictive, closing off opportunities to invest in helpful resources like coaching, seminars, or books that could contribute to financial success. Views on Business and Spirituality: Leo talks about the limiting belief that business is anti-spiritual and how such a view can trap individuals, pointing out the contradiction in believing business is bad while still participating in it by having a job. Victim Mentality in Financial Struggle: He explains how playing the victim, accompanied by blaming external factors like the economy or corporations, hinders financial success and change. Fear-Driven Excuses and Procrastination: Leo connects emotional fears to procrastination and making excuses for financial struggles, emphasizing how fear leads to inaction and missed opportunities for financial improvement. Misconception of Materialism as Fulfillment: The misconception that material wealth can fulfill emotional needs is identified as a psychological issue that cannot provide long-term satisfaction. Unwise Methods to Earn Money: Leo discusses how appealing to immediate gratification through unethical or short-sighted income streams is a psychological trap that can lead to financial downfall. Misplaced Priorities Regarding Money: He points out the psychological problem of overvaluing money at the expense of relationships, ethics, and personal growth. Bad Investments Without Long-term Strategy: The lack of a long-term financial strategy and falling for financial traps are said to be rooted in a lack of awareness and emotional susceptibility to seemingly easy gains. Lack of Financial Discipline and Knowledge: Leo attributes financial struggles to psychological avoidance in learning about money, pointing out that discipline and education are key to resolving money issues. Neglecting Money Out of False Beliefs: He warns against ignoring financial responsibility based on artistic or spiritual self-identification, stressing that doing so leads to financial disaster. Healthy Money Psychology: Leo wraps up by painting a picture of an ideal money psychology, including awareness of materialism's pitfalls, emotional triggers, neutrality towards money, and understanding of societal financial traps. Abundance mindset: Embracing a win-win situation and creating abundance rather than viewing wealth as a zero-sum game is a shift in attitude that may challenge those from less affluent backgrounds. 100% responsibility for financial situation: Taking full accountability for one’s financial status eliminates blame on external factors like family, economy, or employers, empowering personal change. Strategic use of money: Leo stresses the importance of using money strategically, with a focus on investing in oneself and adopting a long-term financial perspective that looks beyond immediate income and expenses. Money as a byproduct of passion: He advises aligning one’s career with their deepest passion, ensuring that making money is a result of fulfilling work rather than a mere consequence of a job. Inner work to master money: Turning inwards to observe personal money patterns and addressing the psychology behind financial behaviors is crucial for lasting financial mastery. Dedication to mastering money: It is vital to dedicate time to learn about finances, through books, courses, and even therapy, to overcome issues and build a robust foundation for wealth. Aligning career with life purpose: Leo highlights the benefit of having income stem from activities related to one’s life purpose, rather than seeking superficial money-making formulas. Avoiding quick-fix money schemes: Steering clear of simplistic 'how to make money' strategies and focusing on creating a strong, value-driven foundation for long-term financial well-being. Mastering multiple domains for a rich life: True success and satisfaction come from mastering various aspects of life, including money, relationships, health, and personal growth. Continuous growth in life's journey: Embracing a lifelong pursuit of learning and self-improvement in the psychological aspects of life domains leads to a fulfilling and rich existence. Nox

A Rant Against Culture https://youtu.be/TRgLWFzGodg Culture = a big cult Leo's Early Suspicion of Culture: From a young age, Leo felt an aversion to every type of culture, not fitting into any specific one, such as gamer, biker, academic, or any national culture. Culture's Limiting Nature: Leo discovered through consciousness work that all cultures are artificial, limited, and stifle consciousness growth. They are inherently biased, moralizing, bigoted, inauthentic, and often force individuals into restrictive roles. Culture as a Collective Ego: Culture is a broad, ethereal abstract that is compared to a collective ego intertwined with society, nation, religion, and community. It's an unseen obstacle with an invisible influence, like water to a fish. Culture's Influence on Personal Life: Culture affects how individuals dress, their media and food preferences, attitudes towards substances, perceptions of work, business, education, child-rearing, family structure, and norms about intimate relationships. Culture's Influence on Reality: It shapes paradigms of reality, perceptions of what constitutes valid science, beliefs about history, morality, ethics, personal goals and desires, appearance ideals, fears, and social values. Cultural Influences on Personal Identity: Leo points out that many personal beliefs and behaviors are derived from cultural influence, including views on gender roles, concepts of death, and definitions of health, each heavily conditioned by the culture we're raised in. Language's Role in Shaping Reality: He elaborates on how language, a product of culture, structures our entire perspective on reality, influencing how we think, communicate, and even our core beliefs in areas like science and religion. Culture's Impact on Interests and Activities: Leo discusses how cultural background informs our hobbies and interests, suggesting even seemingly personal preferences are often shaped by the cultural environment. Perception of Culture as a Cult: Leo describes culture as a massive, transparent cult whose norms, values, and beliefs feel like reality because they're ingrained from an early age. This perception often goes unquestioned due to the culture's denial of its constructed nature. Visibility of Cultural Influence: He emphasizes the invisibility of cultural influence, referencing culture shock experienced when traveling as a moment where one becomes aware of their own culture's arbitrariness. Purpose and Function of Culture: Leo argues that culture exists mainly for survival and reproduction, facilitating social bonding through shared beliefs, rather than to enhance collective consciousness. He challenges the audience to contemplate the deeper philosophical implications of culture. Constructs and Delusions within Culture: Describing culture as a collective delusion, he explains that individuals united in belief can give life and significance to arbitrary constructs, like money, which then affect society on a massive scale. Culture's Role in Shaping Childhood and Adulthood: From childhood, culture influences us through parental, educational, and peer pressure to conform. As adults, this continues with pressures to fit into societal norms in areas like employment, social status, and lifestyle choices. Individual Consciousness as a Solo Activity: Leo stresses that raising one's consciousness is an individual endeavor and cannot be achieved through group activities. Consciousness growth is personal and must be worked on independently, despite the seemingly supportive role of spiritual communities or cultures. Individual versus Group Self-Actualization: Leo highlights that self-actualization is an individual process. Group attempts often fail and result in mechanical problems and cult-like issues due to the collective ego's nature. Limitations of Organizational Spirituality: Leo criticizes religious and other organizations for ineffectively fostering enlightenment, as they are subject to the same mechanical corruptions as any other system. Inner Work for Consciousness Raising: Emphasizing inward focus and personal responsibility for spiritual growth is crucial for truly raising one's consciousness without the distractions of external social dynamics. Transcendence Over Denouncement: The goal is to transcend culture without reacting negatively to it or others who are part of it, maintaining impartial interaction with those steeped in cultural norms. Hallmarks of a Self-Actualized Being: Referencing Abraham Maslow's work, Leo identifies transcending culture as a key trait of self-actualized individuals, a difficult achievement due to pervasive cultural influences. Awareness of Cultural Tentacles: Building awareness of culture's pervasive influence is the first step towards transcending cultural norms and achieving independence from them. Multicultural Exposure: Experiencing multiple cultures can lead to open-mindedness and help individuals gain perspective, making them less defensive about their cultural background. Cutting Cultural Feeds: Reducing consumption of media such as movies, news, and social networks can prevent cultural norms from reinforcing undesired beliefs and ideals. Benefiting from Solitude: Lessening social interactions and increasing solitude offer the opportunity for reflection and aid in detaching oneself from cultural influences. Questioning Cultural Beliefs: Leo urges questioning all beliefs and ideas held sacred by one's culture to foster skepticism and independent thought. Pursuing Personal Journeys: Having a life purpose can distract from cultural distractions and may involve breaking conventions to achieve significant goals. Use of Psychedelics: Psychedelics can shatter culturally induced beliefs and reveal arbitrary constructions, thus challenging cultural narratives. Developing a Meditation Practice: Regular meditation can facilitate the gradual process of detaching from cultural norms and lead to true independence from cultural constraints. Embracing Nature: Engaging with nature, devoid of cultural constructs, helps reveal the unadorned reality and the intrinsic majesty that culture often obscures. Balance in Transcending Culture: Leo advocates for balance rather than complete denouncement of culture, acknowledging it's a challenge to fully extricate oneself from its grasp. Utilizing Resources: To concretize these concepts, Leo points viewers to a worksheet designed to encourage reflection on the extent of cultural influence in one's life. He also invites them to explore further content on actualized.org to support the journey of self-actualization. Riddikulus

The Trap Of Projection, Especially Onto Teachers & Mentors https://youtu.be/NAbh5E0v20g The Nasty Phenomenon of Projection: Leo describes projection as a problematic issue, particularly for those invested in self-help, who frequently come into contact with teachers and mentors. He stresses that projection distorts the perception of the teacher, impeding the full absorption of their teachings. Story Illustrating Projection with a Yogi: Leo recounts a story about a student who sought his yoga master for years, only to find him indulging in materialistic pleasures. The true lesson was not to judge or project one's own values onto the teacher, regardless of the situation. Leo's Personal Projections at Retreats: He shares his own experiences with projection at retreats where he found himself critiquing and questioning teachers on minor disagreements or personal discoveries about their lives, thus detracting from the value of their wisdom. Interference with Learning: He emphasizes how projecting personal issues and making assumptions based upon one's own needs, rather than reality, can interfere with effectively learning and adapting the valuable insights offered by teachers. Definition of Projection: Leo defines projection as the imposition of one's emotional baggage onto others, leading to misinterpretation of their actions and words, and ultimately distorting one's interaction with them. Projecting Judgments and Creating Stories: He explains that projection includes making judgments about petty details, creating narratives without complete knowledge, and even disagreeing with teachers in their absence, highlighting the difference between projecting and genuinely understanding another's perspective. Dangers of Projecting onto Teachers: Leo points out the particular danger of projection in the context of teachers and mentors, as they are often crucial sources of wisdom for self-actualization; projecting onto them could mean severing one's lifeline to essential knowledge for personal growth. Reflection Exercise on Past Projections: Leo concludes by asking viewers to quickly reflect on all the judgments and projections they have made about teachers and mentors throughout their lives, suggesting that these projections have likely inhibited their learning journeys. Acknowledgment of snap judgments: Leo describes an exercise highlighting the frequency of snap judgments made about teachers based on their appearance, speech, and presented information, emphasizing awareness of these judgments as crucial for self-actualization. Construction of personal development map: He explains the initial years of self-actualization are spent constructing a map for life's journey, and warns that excessive projection onto various teachers can hinder this process significantly. Variety of learning sources: Leo advocates learning from a wide range of teachers to obtain various perspectives and recognize common patterns in teachings, which is vital for a well-rounded understanding. Leo's own experiences with projections: He reflects on how managing projections from his audience has heightened his sensitivity and self-awareness of the phenomenon, noting the often baseless and inaccurate nature of these projections. Consequences of projections on teachers: Leo points out that incorrect assumptions about teachers' lives or beliefs can distract from the knowledge they offer and induce wrongful criticism or unwarranted praise. Relating to others without projection: He emphasizes that most interactions involve responding to personal interpretations rather than the true nature of individuals, which can drastically affect both relationships and the ability to learn from others. Awareness exercise for combating projection: Leo suggests an exercise where viewers attempt to view him without any preconceived notions or assumptions for 30 seconds, encouraging a similar approach with other individuals and teachers to cultivate better relationships and understanding. Advanced teachings vs. ego: Leo reiterates vigilance against ego-triggered distortions when engaging with advanced teachings to prevent misunderstanding and overlooking valuable insights. Personal Agenda in Learning: Leo encourages listeners to stay aware of their personal agendas—needs, values, ideals, fears, insecurities—while consuming teachings, noting how these can color their interpretation and distort the message received. Self-Reflection on Criticism: Leo suggests when criticizing others, especially those offering advanced teachings, to turn that criticism inward and question what it reveals about one's own characteristics or insecurities. Advanced Teachings and Ego Threat: Leo points out that the most profound and advanced teachings can be the most threatening to the ego, making them difficult for people to accept, thus they remain obscure and challenging to mainstream. Signs of Projection: Leo identifies signs of projecting onto teachers: having imaginary arguments, excessive curiosity about their personal lives, and criticizing trivial aspects of their presentations. The Persistence of Closed-Mindedness: Leo stresses that a closed mind reinforced through projection can be the biggest barrier to accessing deep teachings, even contributing to the dismissal of wisdom as personal biases interfere with clear perception. Embracing Generosity in Comprehension: Leo advises adopting an inclusive and generous approach to learning rather than looking for flaws, taking personal responsibility for understanding even if the teachings are imperfect or challenging. Revising Assumptions: Leo encourages maintaining an attitude of radical open-mindedness, remaining open to revising assumptions made about teachings, especially deep topics like enlightenment. Call to Commitment: Leo invites the audience to actively engage in their own growth by regularly consuming educational content, completing exercises, meditating, attending seminars, and applying techniques for personal transformation. Imperio

How To Harness Your Intuition https://youtu.be/v1yA9KbPzQ0 Understanding Self-Actualization and Intuition: Leo emphasizes the importance of intuition in self-actualization, stating that it serves as a life compass. However, he notes that many people are disconnected from their intuition, leading to a life lacking in motivation, purpose, and strategic vision. Western Culture's Bias Against Intuition: He criticizes Western culture's preference for logic, explaining that it teaches people to dismiss intuition. This is evident in situations like corporate decisions, where logical justifications are demanded over intuitive feelings. Nonetheless, intuitive decisions play a critical role in our lives. The Superiority of Intuition Over Logic: Leo points out that intuition is the source of purpose and vision, necessary for creating the big picture that logical thinking then details. He argues that the subconscious mind can process vast amounts of data, providing valuable wisdom and creative insights beyond the capability of linear, logical thinking. The Human Subconscious as a Supercomputer: Intuition stems from the complex workings of the subconscious mind, which Leo describes as a distributed network capable of handling information in ways the logical mind cannot. He encourages embracing this higher order intelligence over the limited, linear thinking common in the left-brain-dominated Western culture. Leo's Personal Intuition Experiences: Leo shares his personal history, describing how his intuition has led him to take harder classes, change majors, quit jobs, and ultimately start Actualized.org. He credits intuition with his significant life decisions and personal growth, emphasizing its ongoing influence in guiding his choices. Difficulties of Following Intuition: He highlights three major barriers to following intuition: the inability to hear it, personal impurities that obstruct its guidance, and the failure to act on it even when it is heard. Leo stresses these challenges and underscores the need to address them for successful intuitive living. Cultural Reasons for Not Hearing Intuition: Leo identifies cultural distractions and the Western bias for logic and materialism as reasons people fail to hear their intuitive voice. He advocates for reducing distractions and considering one's mortality to create space for intuition. True Intelligence and Its Source: Leo encourages acknowledging that true intelligence is interwoven with existence, not generated by the individual. He suggests that higher consciousness work, meditation, and perhaps psychedelics can reveal the depth and external sources of intelligence that exist beyond our analytical minds. Solutions for Hearing Intuition: To hear the intuitive voice, Leo advises removing distractions and contemplating mortality to shift focus from materialism to profound insights. He also mentions the episode on lifestyle minimalism as a resource for creating conditions conducive to intuition. Contemplation of Mortality: Realizing that life is fleeting shifts focus from materialism to deeper life pursuits. Contemplating death allows intuition to emerge, directing focus on more meaningful goals. Clarifying Life Desires: Understanding what one truly desires in life, beyond superficial aims like success and money, is key to harnessing intuition. Meditation for Intuition: Regular meditation fosters stillness and solitude, enhancing intuition and making one more receptive to its subtle guidance. Connection with Emotions: Engaging in activities that promote emotional awareness, like yoga or meditation, can help one feel and follow their intuition more effectively. Impurities Blocking Intuition: Ego, cravings, fears, traumas, and dogmas distort intuition. The ego can manipulate intuition for low-consciousness purposes. Benevolent Motives and Spiritual Purification: Intuitions should come from a place of love and beauty. Purifying one's identity of fears and cravings allows intuition to serve as a guide. Releasing Beliefs: Letting go of limiting beliefs, including those surrounding intuition, grants freedom to pursue intuitive guidance without self-imposed constraints. Changing Environment: Modifying one's surroundings and controlling information intake can reduce impurities that cloud intuition. Healthy Relationships and Bodily Tension: Ending toxic relationships and releasing physical tension allows for a clearer intuitive understanding. Serving Intuition as Life's Mission: Recognizing the importance of intuitively guided actions encourages commitment and flexibility to enact meaningful life changes determined by intuition. The Intuition Incubator Concept: Cultivating intuitions through dedicated contemplation and action allows for personal growth and transformation. Commitment and Flexibility for Intuitive Action: Real change requires a serious commitment to follow intuitions and a willingness to learn, grow, and make uncomfortable changes. Courage to Act on Intuition: Following intuition can involve radical, sometimes frightening changes, such as career shifts or ending long-term endeavors, demanding a significant courage investment. Intuition Incubator: An intuition incubator allows one to nurture and develop intuitions which initially appear in an unpolished form, requiring time and effort to be transformed into actionable insights. Journaling and Articulation: Leo recommends journaling as a tool to catalog and clearly articulate intuitions, promoting a deeper understanding and facilitating the creation of strategic plans for action. Strategic Long-term Commitment: Persistence and a long-term view are crucial for realizing intuitions. Leo shares his personal journey, where his intuitions about his life purpose took years to materialize, demonstrating the importance of strategic long-term planning and commitment. Service to Intuition: Leo emphasizes that one's primary life mission should be serving their intuitions, which may necessitate stepping out of comfort zones and making significant changes. True vs. False Intuitions: True intuitions do not defend themselves with justifications when questioned and have a magnetic pull, whereas false intuitions are often protective, fear-based, and seek to rationalize themselves. Surrender to Universal Intelligence: Leo advises surrendering to a pervasive intelligence that guides life decisions, encouraging the acceptance of this force to lead a purpose-driven and aspirational life. Employee of the Universe: By acting as an 'employee of the universe', one aligns with a more significant force, thus finding powerful motivation and fulfillment in actions that go beyond personal gain. Practical Worksheet: Leo provides a worksheet with practical questions to assist in developing intuitions, which can be downloaded from actualized.org. Personal Development Journey: He highlights the importance of continued learning and taking action based on his teachings for personal growth, inviting the audience to explore the potential of self-actualization through ongoing engagement with actualized.org. Nox

The Mechanics Of Belief https://youtu.be/1FtVLnmuJzg Understanding the mechanics of belief: Leo Gura articulates that a vast majority of people lack an understanding of how beliefs function and the mechanisms behind knowledge acquisition. This lack of understanding is not trivial; it significantly hampers personal growth and consciousness development. Practical importance of epistemology: Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, is presented not as a purely philosophical discipline but as a fundamentally practical one. Incorrectly identifying what is true and what is false can lead individuals down erroneous and growth-limiting paths. Beliefs as obstacles to raising consciousness: Beliefs are framed as the primary obstacles to raising consciousness, largely due to their ability to distort perception and limit openness to new experiences. Identifying truth and falsehood from birth: Leo emphasizes the difficulty inherent in distinguishing between truth and falsehood from an early age, critiquing the common strategy of accepting pre-packaged beliefs without question. The danger of living in "IDEA land": The preoccupation with one's own ideas about reality, rather than engaging with direct experiences, is criticized. Reality is complex and often counterintuitive, which is why direct experience is crucial in building a true understanding. Direct experience as primary: The importance of direct experience is underlined due to its unrivaled capacity to inform us about reality, surpassing speculative ideas and assumptions. Meta inquiry: Before engaging in inquiry into life, Leo stresses the need for meta inquiry—a reflective process examining the methods and principles underlying our acquisition of knowledge and truth. Belief categorization and examples: Leo categorizes beliefs into personal, social, political, scientific, epistemic, and metaphysical, providing examples from each to illustrate the breadth and depth of beliefs individuals hold. Characteristics of beliefs: He points out that every belief feels true once held, making it fundamentally challenging to discern the veracity of our beliefs when they are based on feelings or intuition rather than evidence and logic. Early belief formation: Similar to animals' imprinting, humans tend to adopt the initial beliefs presented to them, often from culture, family, or education, and these beliefs stick with them into adulthood. Beliefs versus current reality: Leo closes the section with a reflection on the nature of belief itself, highlighting the inherent biases in belief formation and stressing the priority of direct experiences over inherited or adopted beliefs. Belief Formation in Childhood: Children initially absorb beliefs with little questioning due to their limited consciousness. They are like sponges soaking up information from their environment, which shapes their foundational belief system used to evaluate new beliefs as adults. Imprinting Phenomenon: The concept of imprinting, observed in animals like ducks, highlights the gullibility of young minds that can attach to false "mothers," drawing parallels to humans who often absorb incorrect or baseless beliefs in childhood. Structural Integrity of Belief Networks: An individual's belief system relies on a web of interrelated beliefs for cohesion. This web influences the adoption or rejection of new beliefs, making it challenging to modify or abandon long-held convictions. Emotional Labor in Changing Beliefs: Altering a belief system requires significant emotional effort, as often deeply embedded core beliefs need reevaluation, making it difficult to disentangle from the web of established understanding. Emotionally Charged Beliefs and Their Addictiveness: Beliefs can evoke strong, powerful emotions, especially when disconnected from immediate experience. Some beliefs become addictive and emotionally laborious to shed due to their entwinement with a person’s identity and worldview. Self-fulfilling Nature of Beliefs: Beliefs can reinforce themselves, making perceived truths out of biased observations, such as evaluating the world and its events in a manner consistent with one's existing beliefs. Circular Justification of Beliefs: Belief systems use circular reasoning for self-validation. Each belief relies on another for justification, creating a closed loop that often lacks grounding in direct experience or indisputable facts. Beliefs Define Possibilities and Impossibilities: The scope of what an individual considers achievable or unachievable is largely shaped by their belief system, determining the actions and outcomes they consider feasible in practical terms. Web of Beliefs Evaluate New Information: New beliefs are assessed based on existing ones, with the intent to maintain a cohesive belief system, which can lead to dismissal of conflicting data and resistance to change even if current beliefs cause unhappiness or lack of success. Belief Acceptance Without Direct Experience: Most beliefs, including scientific ones, are accepted without direct experience or proof, relying instead on cultural absorption and the existing belief system for validation. Cultural Absorption of Basic Beliefs: Fundamental beliefs, including the laws of logic and one's own existence, are usually absorbed unconsciously from culture, without questioning or direct choice by the individual. Significance of Cultural Influence: The profound impact of culture on belief formation is emphasized, as it shapes most of the fundamental and taken-for-granted beliefs, which dictates the perceived reality of individuals. Unquestioned Beliefs Trap: Leo Gura suggests that the majority of beliefs are unconsciously accepted without direct experience or thorough interrogation, potentially leading individuals into deep-seated delusions about reality. Meta beliefs and their dangers: Meta beliefs are dangerous because they create a safety zone within one's belief system that remains impenetrable to alternative ideas. "I don't hold any beliefs" paradox: Asserting you don't have beliefs is itself a meta belief, a self-contradicting stance that hinders critical reflection on one's thoughts. Accuracy overestimation: The belief that most personal beliefs are accurate is risky, as it prevents the skepticism needed to assess and adjust one's belief system. Morally good beliefs: The idea that certain moral beliefs are inherently good and should be unquestionably held is a perilous meta belief, as it overlooks the subjective and constructed nature of morality. Undoubtable beliefs: Believing some beliefs are so certain that they cannot be doubted, like the roundness of Earth or the existence of God, creates blind spots in understanding. Sinful to stop believing: The notion that abandoning particular beliefs equates to committing a sin is a restrictive meta belief that can prevent personal growth and reassessment of values. Lack of belief alternatives: The view that there aren't alternatives to holding beliefs limits exploration of new ways of understanding and experiencing the world. Insignificance of belief revision: The meta belief that changing one's beliefs is unimportant underestimates the profound impact such changes can have on life. Irrelevance of epistemology: Denying the practical significance of epistemology — the study of how we know what we know — ignores the deep implications of our beliefs on our lives. Skipping epistemic work: The presumption that you're immune to these flaws and already conscious of limiting beliefs is itself a dangerous belief that can lead to an incomplete view of the situation. Beliefs act like foreign entities: Beliefs, similar to memes, reproduce and occupy the mind like viruses, not necessarily contributing to one's highest self but aiming to perpetuate themselves. Self-fulfilling beliefs: Beliefs manifest their content in reality, which becomes particularly dangerous when negative beliefs create negative outcomes. Data filtering: Once a belief is held, it becomes defended at all costs, leading to disregarding any direct experience and evidence that contradicts it, resulting in a biased view of reality. Paradigm lock: Deep belief sets, or paradigms, lock an individual into a perspective that they often uncritically inherit from their environment and resist change, leading to stagnation. Harmful effects of belief rigidity: Beliefs not only prevent seeking novel experiences but also provoke emotional reactivity, arrogance, and inflexibility, historically leading to ideological conflicts and wars. The need for a radical leap in consciousness: True understanding of reality requires moving beyond the accumulation and defense of beliefs to a more direct, open experience of life without the filter of preconceptions. Transcending Ideas for Direct Experience: Leo Gura emphasizes the need to move beyond just ideas and beliefs to embracing raw, direct experiences. Recognizing teachings as stepping stones to transcend beliefs is crucial for personal growth. Limitations of True Beliefs: Even accurate beliefs, such as "one plus one equals two," can be limiting if not arrived at through direct experience. Emphasizing direct experience leads to true growth and understanding. Continuous Investigation over Belief Arrangement: Growth involves an ongoing investigation rather than merely rearranging beliefs within the same framework. It's an endless pursuit without definitive completion. Functioning Outside Belief Systems: A significant transition is required to function outside of belief frameworks, which involves emotional work and dedication. This enables deeper exploration and realization of potential. Importance of Epistemology: Taking the study of knowledge (epistemology) seriously helps to move away from unfounded theories and focus on what can be directly experienced as truth. Questioning All Beliefs: Questioning every belief, particularly meta beliefs—beliefs about beliefs—is instrumental in unlocking profound insights and progress. Holding Beliefs Lightly: It's recommended to hold beliefs tentatively, assigning probabilities rather than absolute certainties, to remain flexible and open to new experiences. Direct Experience as the Ultimate Truth: Contemplating that truth can only be found in direct experience, not in ideas about it, is vital for a deeper understanding of reality. Not Echoing Leo's Beliefs: Leo clarifies that his intent with Actualized.org isn't to create followers sharing his beliefs, but to provide tools for self-awareness and experience beyond belief systems. Beliefs as Temporary Scaffolding: Leo Gura uses the metaphor of construction scaffolding to describe beliefs—as temporarily necessary structures that are ultimately discarded once true understanding is achieved. Applying Tentative Hypotheses: Approaching teachings as tentative hypotheses for personal experimentation leads to authentic testing of ideas, distinguishing between belief and truth. Seeking New Radical Experiences: Pursuing novel and profound experiences, like psychedelic journeys, can break down entrenched beliefs and open doors to deeper understanding. Changing Beliefs and Growth: Changing beliefs is not synonymous with growth; true growth results from transcending the belief game and engaging directly with experience. Early Recognition of Belief Mechanisms: Leo attributes his personal growth to questioning every belief from a young age, which enabled him to explore life beyond cultural and societal constructs. Belief Dismantlement Worksheet: A worksheet is made available to assist listeners in dismantling their belief systems and engaging with the practical applications of the concepts discussed. Beyond Traditional Self-Improvement: Leo promises to guide listeners beyond basic self-improvement methodologies, towards profound understanding and experiences uncommon in human history. Silencio

The Dark Side Of Meditation https://youtu.be/uZpIvU6ny_M Meditation practice is essential: Leo stresses the necessity of daily meditation to grasp the concepts of awareness and consciousness discussed on Actualized.org. Target audience: This advice is for those who have developed a routine and have reached intermediate or advanced stages of meditation, which includes practicing daily for at least six months to a few years. Unexpected negative phenomena: Serious and sometimes shocking negative experiences can arise during meditation, even if the individual has been practicing consistently for a long time. Annoyance and crankiness: Practitioners may go through phases of irritability over trivial things that might seem disproportionately aggravating. Increased judgmentalism: There may be periods of harsh judgment towards others, especially those close to the practitioner, which can last from days to months. Mood swings: Leo warns of the potential for sudden and intense mood swings during one's meditation practice, which can range from euphoria to depression. Loneliness and emotional turmoil: Feelings of loneliness, anger, and frustration can become pronounced during meditation, regardless of their intensity. Interference with work and relationships: Meditation can cause practitioners to question the value of their careers and relationships, leading to doubts and the desire for significant changes. Rash actions and suicidal thoughts: Leo acknowledges that impulsive decisions and suicidal thoughts can emerge as a result of meditation but advises against acting on these ephemeral states. Experience of ego backlash: As meditation progresses and the ego dissolves, it might sometimes come back stronger, causing regression into unhealthy habits, but these phases are temporary and improve with continued practice. Sexual arousal during meditation: Leo touches on an increase in sexual desire that can occur unexpectedly as a side effect of meditation practice. Intensified Sexual Urges: Practitioners may experience an almost uncontrollable surge of sexual desire, feeling compelled to engage in sexual activity or masturbation frequently as a result of heightened arousal during meditation. Resurfacing of Repressed Memories: Past traumas and negative experiences, including childhood abuse or near-death instances, may resurface during meditation far more vividly than one might expect, even if they thought they had already processed these events. Familial Issues Emerging: Turbulent memories regarding family, such as unresolved childhood conflicts or deep-rooted resentments towards parents or siblings, are likely to emerge during the course of meditation. Unmanageable Monkey Mind: A chaotic and uncontrollable stream of thoughts may overwhelm the mind, rendering usual meditation techniques ineffective and leading to a sense of insanity or losing mental control. Self-Doubt About Meditation Practice: Doubt regarding one's meditation technique can arise, particularly when methods that have previously worked no longer seem effective, leading to uncertainty and questioning of the practice. Disturbing Nightmares and Dreams: Meditation might trigger particularly unsettling dreams, including ones with violent or taboo imagery, which stand in sharp contrast to one's normal dreaming pattern. Developing Spiritual Arrogance: A sense of superiority over others may develop due to one's meditation progress, manifesting as a condescending attitude towards those considered less conscious or spiritually developed. Unconscious Defragmentation Process: Meditation prompts an unconscious 'defragmentation' of the mind, forcing one to work through deeply held beliefs, fears, and various conditionings without the conscious processing that occurs in traditional therapy. Purification Through Unpleasant Experiences: Negative experiences during meditation serve as indicators of personal growth by forcing individuals to purge toxic thoughts and emotions, ultimately leading to a purer state of consciousness over extended periods. Expectation of Recurring Challenges: The meditation journey is characterized by recurring themes of adversity and purification, which may not be immediately tied to the practice but are essential parts of spiritual advancement. Paranormal Phenomena During Meditation: Practitioners should anticipate potential paranormal occurrences, ranging from lifelike past-life regressions to out-of-body experiences and encounters with seemingly real spiritual entities or extraterrestrial beings. Samadhi States and Identity Merging: Experience of Samadhi states can lead to a dissolution of personal boundaries and a merging of consciousness with external objects or beings, which can be enlightening but also startling for the unprepared meditator. Samadhi Experience of Emptiness: During meditation, one may experience a state of emptiness known as Samadhi, merging with nothingness and feeling the absence of everything. Kundalini Awakening: Meditation may trigger a Kundalini awakening where concentrated energy shoots up the spine, explodes out of the head, and can lead to feelings of losing mind control and involuntary bodily movements. Total Blackout or The Void: Practitioners could face a complete erasure of reality, experiencing a void where physical existence ceases temporarily, described in Buddhism as "neither perception nor non-perception." Ego Death: Meditators aiming for ego death may find the experience to be intense and reality-shattering, expanding in ways beyond imagination, which can be both enlightening and alarming. The Dark Night of the Soul: Recognizing the futility and meaninglessness in everything one believed can lead to the 'dark night of the soul,' a phase of severe depression and possible depersonalization. Dealing with Meditation Experiences: To handle strange meditation experiences, it's crucial to relax, not ascribe special meaning to them, and remember they're normal phenomena, part of deconstructing the ego. Maintaining Meditation Practice: The key to growth is to continue meditating through tough phases, treating oneself with compassion and understanding that negative experiences signify genuine progress. Taking Breaks if Necessary: When meditation disrupts life significantly, it's acceptable to take a calculated break, intending to resume later to ensure not to be permanently discouraged from the practice. Guidance from Spiritual Literature: Reading books by experienced meditators can offer inspiration, warn of potential pitfalls, and provide strategies for dealing with challenging phases like the 'dark night of the soul.' Purification Leads to Higher Consciousness: Despite difficulties, the purification process in meditation ultimately elevates consciousness, reaffirming the importance of staying committed through challenging phases. Future Content and Growth Prospects: Leo promises to release advanced content that will contribute to developing higher levels of growth and consciousness, urging viewers to maintain their meditation practice and follow his updates for deeper insights. Imperio

Low Quality vs High Quality Consciousness https://youtu.be/Hg8JDHlkIrM Prime Directive of Life: The fundamental purpose of every human being and all organisms is to improve the quality of their consciousness, which is the degree of accurate perception of reality. Consciousness as a Daily Test: Each activity and interaction in life, even mundane ones like making breakfast, are tests and opportunities to operate either in low or high consciousness and to work towards elevating it. Low to High Consciousness Transition: The journey of life is inherently about moving from a state of low consciousness to high consciousness, which is a difficult and continuous process that requires conscious effort in every aspect of life. Definition of Consciousness: In this episode, consciousness is defined as the degree of accurate perception one has. Accurate perception is crucial because perception is all we have of reality, and inability to perceive reality accurately results in life problems. Inaccurate Perception as Root of Problems: Every problem in life, from relationships to business issues, originates from inaccurate perceptions of reality. Accurate perception is the key to a good life and can solve all problems. Characteristics of Low-Quality Consciousness: Traits include ego, fear, dogmatism, rigid beliefs, short-term thinking, unawareness of self-sabotage, unequal treatment of others, materialism, and arrogance. Characteristics of High-Quality Consciousness: High-quality consciousness is selfless, fearless, focused on direct experience, committed to truth, values growth, spontaneous, responsible for emotions, humble, has long-term vision, and loves indiscriminately. Your Emotions Reflect Your Level of Consciousness: Habitual emotions and feelings act as an accurate reflection of one's inner state and level of consciousness. Negative emotions correlate with lower consciousness, while positive emotions indicate higher consciousness. Two Key Gauges of Consciousness Level: The quality of your feelings and motivations are critical indicators of your level of consciousness and personal development. Emotions as a Barometer: Emotions serve as a real-time gauge for one's consciousness level, with reactions to everyday situations revealing the quality of one's consciousness. Suppression of Emotions and Awareness: Individuals with low-quality consciousness tend to suppress or remain unaware of their emotions, akin to ignoring warning signals on a gauge, leading to missed life improvements. Ignoring Emotional Signals: Leo describes people with low-quality consciousness as those who ignore signals from their emotions, likening it to placing a smiley sticker over a car gauge. They lose touch with what their feelings are trying to indicate about necessary life changes, ultimately leading to disastrous outcomes. Micro-Level Motivations: Leo emphasizes the importance of recognizing one's motivations on a micro-level, beyond broad goals like career aspirations. He encourages assessing motivations throughout the day, such as during lunch hour or after work, as these reveal true levels of consciousness and dictate one's actions. Gauging Consciousness: He suggests a set of introspective questions to assess consciousness, such as examining feelings of love or fear, openness, self-governance, and the nobility of motivations. How one feels on an hourly basis and how one manages to stick to commitments like gym routines or creative projects can be telling of one's consciousness level. Suppressing True Feelings and Motivations: Leo warns against the long-term suppression of genuine feelings and motivations, noting that it can cause significant and unforeseen issues in one's career and relationships, eventually leading to dissatisfaction and erosion of these aspects of life. Addressing Unhappiness: He addresses questions about feeling generally unhappy with life, asserting that such discontent is indicative of low-quality consciousness. Leo argues that the remedy is to raise one's consciousness, and he challenges the assumption that depression or unhappiness stem from external factors, calling them illusions. Pursuit of Success, Sex, and Money: He argues that an overemphasis on success, sex, and money is characteristic of low-quality consciousness. Instead, he promotes transcending these desires for more fulfilling endeavors like creativity, contribution, and deep relationships. Fear of Being Walked Over: Responding to the concern that high-quality consciousness may lead to being exploited, Leo explains that genuinely conscious individuals enforce boundaries and are unafraid of confrontation, thereby reducing the likelihood of being taken advantage of. Increasing Consciousness Daily: Leo encourages seeking out daily opportunities to elevate one's consciousness, stressing personal growth and incremental improvement, even in ordinary moments. Continuous practice and application in everyday life prevent a lapse into lower-consciousness behaviors, enhancing life quality. Intellectual Openness: Cultivating open-mindedness is crucial for high-quality consciousness. The ability to consider ideas and opinions different from one's own without emotional reactivity improves consciousness. Self Governance: Controlling behaviors and actions effectively is a key factor in raising consciousness. Various techniques, including strategic thinking, can help improve self-governance throughout life. Facing Fear: Addressing the subtleties of fear that influence daily behavior is essential. Recognizing and confronting these fears can significantly elevate one's consciousness. Transcending Ego Motives: High-quality consciousness involves the continuous observation and transcendence of selfish and ego-driven motives that occur in daily actions and decisions. Continuous Improvement: The prime directive of human life is to increase consciousness, which should be pursued in daily life, beyond occasional workshops or seminars. Utilizing Micro-Opportunities: Regularly capturing small moments for personal growth can profoundly impact the development of consciousness without being overwhelmed by the process. Integrating Growth into Daily Life: High-quality consciousness is not only theoretical but should be practiced in all aspects of life, prioritizing growth over pleasure, pain avoidance, or material gain. Levicorpus

5-MeO-DMT - The Magic Pill To Enlightenment & God https://youtu.be/rH1bfZ1p6sg Difference Between 5-MeO-DMT and Regular DMT: Leo clarifies that 5-MeO-DMT and regular DMT are not the same despite similar names. 5-MeO-DMT is much more potent (10-20 times) than regular DMT, offering qualitatively different and transformative experiences. 5-MeO-DMT as the Ultimate Psychedelic: Leo touts 5-MeO-DMT as the most effective psychedelic for achieving permanent transformations in consciousness. He suggests it could potentially enable genuine enlightenment experiences and possibly lead to permanent enlightenment. Reconsidering "Magic Pill" Dogma in Spirituality: Leo challenges the opposition to 'magic pills' in self-development, arguing that effective technologies should not be dismissed. He aligns psychedelics with other breakthrough inventions, advocating for the exploration and use of such 'technologies' in the spiritual domain. Ancient Spiritual Technologies: Leo reminds us of extreme measures by spiritual masters throughout history such as yogic techniques, starvation, and asceticism. He draws parallels between these practices and the use of psychedelics, noting their importance in seeking higher consciousness. 5-MeO-DMT for Enlightenment: Leo explains that 5-MeO-DMT provides a lucid and consistent experience of ego death and vast consciousness expansion within a short timeframe, unique compared to other psychedelics and akin to a highly amplified form of meditation. Humanity's Historical Ties to Psychedelics: Leo highlights the long-standing historical associations between spirituality and psychedelic use, from ancient Greece's Eleusinian Mysteries and the consumption of soma in the Rig Veda, to the ritualistic use of mushrooms in various religious traditions. Spiritual Dogmatism and Openness to New Techniques: Leo encourages openness to new methods for attaining higher consciousness, including psychedelics like 5-MeO-DMT. He emphasizes the need to evolve and embrace technological advancements that further the practice of enlightenment. Guidelines for Safe and Effective 5-MeO-DMT Use: Leo underscores the need to understand 5-MeO-DMT properly, use the substance responsibly, and follow safety protocols to maximize benefits and minimize risks associated with this powerful psychedelic. Genetic Component to Enlightenment: Leo posits that enlightenment may be quicker for some due to a genetic predisposition that affects brain structure, suggesting enlightened individuals might naturally produce more 5-MeO-DMT or have a higher baseline consciousness due to genetic factors. Enlightened Masters and Brain Development: Techniques like meditation, concentration exercises, self-inquiry, and yogic practices may enhance the brain's ability to produce 5-MeO-DMT or similar enlightenment-facilitating chemicals through sustained practice over years. Natural vs. Synthetic 5-MeO-DMT: 5-MeO-DMT exists in two forms: naturally, from the Colorado River toad's skin secretions (Bufo Alvarius), which is legal in some regions; and synthetically as off-white powder in HCL and freebase forms, with the former for snorting and the latter for smoking. Image 1 Image 2 Administration of 5-MeO-DMT: Smoking results in an instant and intense trip, whereas snorting has a slower onset but offers a longer peak, potentially aiding in comprehension and integration of the experience. Dosage and Administration Techniques: Accurate measurement is essential due to 5-MeO-DMT's potency; recommended doses vary for smoking vs. snorting. Leo shares his procedure for snorting, which includes dividing the dose between nostrils and tilting the head to prevent substance loss. Experiencing 5-MeO-DMT: Initial feelings of fear and terror mimic dying as the ego dissolves, leading to a peak experience of encountering God as absolute infinity, described as more profound than decades of meditation and potentially offering permanent transformative effects. 5-MeO-DMT and Substance Addiction: Accounts suggest 5-MeO-DMT effectively treats heroin addiction, achieving in one dose what could take years. Potential Risks and Safe Practices: Overdosing on 5-MeO-DMT could lead to unconsciousness or seizures. Responsible use involves careful dose management, health understanding, and potential risk awareness. Consciousness Raising and Enlightenment: Regular, responsible use of 5-MeO-DMT, combined with introspective practices, could greatly hasten enlightenment by gradually weakening the ego. Promoting 5-MeO-DMT Awareness: Leo intends to educate the public about the substance’s potential for overcoming ignorance and contributing to human evolution, planning to share resources and personal experiences. Encouraging Research and Guided Action: Researching psychedelics history and effects are recommended before use. Leo emphasizes guidance towards advanced techniques for transcending the ego and exploring beyond the self, promising to provide continued support and resources. 5-MeO-DMT Treatment for Heroin Addiction: Leo Gura describes cases where long-term heroin addicts are cured of their addiction with just one hit of 5-MeO-DMT, even after failing to recover through methadone, therapy, or rehab. He details its effectiveness in medical contexts in Mexico for treating various substance addictions. Power and Impact of 5-MeO-DMT Experience: Gura reflects on the profound nature of the 5-MeO-DMT experience, suggesting that if a single encounter can cure a chronic heroin addict, it indicates the substance's impactful and transformative potential. Perceptions and Legality of 5-MeO-DMT: He acknowledges the ignorance surrounding the substance, contributing to its illegality, and notes that though 5-MeO-DMT used to be legal in the U.S. and is still legal in Mexico, recent bans, such as in China, restrict access, making it rare and less known even among psychedelic users. 5-MeO-DMT's Challenge to Worldviews and Ego: Leo expresses how 5-MeO-DMT has the capacity to shatter all existing beliefs and worldviews, posing a challenge to one's open-mindedness and readiness to experience ego death, which many may not be emotionally or psychologically prepared for. Facing Ego Death with 5-MeO-DMT: He highlights the difficulty in facing one's own death when using 5-MeO-DMT and emphasizes the substantial challenge and fear associated with this experience, which can lead to resistance and struggle. Misconceptions of 5-MeO-DMT as a Magic Pill: Gura explains that while 5-MeO-DMT could be a pathway toward enlightenment, it is not as simple as taking a pill. Full enlightenment requires seriousness about enlightenment, a deep understanding of non-duality, and the risk of potential substance abuse and health consequences. Safe and Effective Use of 5-MeO-DMT: To minimize the risks, he provides guidelines for use—do not take it with certain health conditions or medications, start with a low dose, only in a safe setting, surrender fully to the experience, and give oneself time to integrate the profound insights post-trip. The Reality of 5-MeO-DMT Integration: The integration process post-5-MeO-DMT use is emphasized as crucial, as users need to confront and work through the substantial changes in their perception of reality and the potential upheaval in various aspects of life, challenging one's ability to navigate their inner turmoil. Frequency of 5-MeO-DMT Usage: Leo emphasizes a minimum one-week interval between 5-MeO-DMT sessions to prevent psychological dependence, despite no evident substance tolerance, recommending a more cautious twice a month schedule for habitual use due to the intensity of the experiences requiring substantial integration time. Potential Health Effects of 5-MeO-DMT: Leo suggests that normal, healthy, psychologically mature adults likely won't face negative health effects from 5-MeO-DMT, provided they avoid overdosing. He stresses that anecdotal evidence points to the possibility of frequent use without adverse health consequences, highlighting that 5-MeO-DMT naturally occurs in the brain. Potentiation Effects of 5-MeO-DMT: Users should be aware that 5-MeO-DMT may intensify the effects of other psychedelics like mushrooms or LSD in subsequent uses, potentially leading to unexpectedly profound experiences even at lower doses. 5-MeO-DMT and Enlightenment: Leo theorizes that repeated 5-MeO-DMT use alongside practices like meditation, self-inquiry, and personal development might eventually erode the ego and lead to permanent enlightenment, mentioning plans to interview and post about someone who achieved enlightenment this way. Increasing Awareness of 5-MeO-DMT: Leo considers 5-MeO-DMT an important technology for human evolution and intends to address the collective ignorance and egoism plaguing humanity by raising the substance's profile as a tool for empirical and scientific exploration of higher consciousness. Further Research and Experimentation: Leo encourages viewers to research the history and uses of psychedelics and to anticipate new resources, such as books and interviews, which he plans to share to deepen understanding and support consciousness raising. Action and Commitment: Leo urges viewers to commit to raising their consciousness and promises to guide them through advanced techniques for transcending the ego, emphasizing the value of taking action and exploring beyond the self for unexpected and beautiful discoveries. Incendio

What Is God - Leo Becomes Absolute Infinity (Aka God) - All Of Reality Explained https://youtu.be/4VNoe5tn3tg Leo's summary of the video purpose: Leo aims to convey his experience of becoming conscious of absolute infinity and his transformation into what he describes as God. He promises to demonstrate, in a subsequent episode, how viewers can gain this insight swiftly, within 15 minutes. Discovery of a unique psychedelic: Leo recounts his research into psychedelics and discovery of a rare substance that induces a complete loss of ego while retaining mental clarity, distinct from traditional psychedelics that create visual and spiritual effects. Redefining the ego and experiencing non-existence: He ponders the paradigm shift that would occur if one's ego ceased to exist. Leo questions the nature of reality and existence when the self is completely absent. Leo's personal stance on divinity: Despite his fundamentally atheistic and rational approach to life, Leo refrains from using the term 'God' due to its cultural implications but finds himself doing so after his ego-dissolving experience. Leo's initial skepticism towards psychedelics as distortions of reality: Leo enters his psychedelic experiment with the preconception that these substances create false experiences, only to encounter an earth-shattering insight that challenges his belief. Leo's experience upon taking the psychedelic: Describes the rapid intensification of consciousness and awareness upon ingestion, which led to an altered perception of reality that defied logic and physics. Experiencing absolute infinity and becoming God: Leo narrates the profound moment he became aware of the absolute infinite nature of reality, resulting in the complete transformation of his life, where he realized he and God are one and the same. Surprise over the use of 'God' label: Observes his own unexpected use of the term 'God' throughout the experience and elaborates on the concept of absolute infinity that transcends mathematical or geometric notions, embodying all dimensions and possibilities. Explanation of Absolute Infinity: Leo delves into the concept of absolute infinity, not just as a mathematical or geometric term but as a reality comprising of infinite dimensions where every possibility, even the impossible and non-existent, is encompassed and perpetually expanding without bounds. Limits within Reality: Discusses that reality, being inclusive of everything, does not allow for any limits, such as physical laws or constants. These perceived limits or structures of the universe, if they exist, are simply aspects within the boundless possibility field of reality, which itself cannot be enforced by anything external since it is all-encompassing. Alternate Universes Concept: Uses the metaphor of moving a grain of sand to imagine an alternate universe, expanding this idea to shifting every particle in our universe and considering all potential universes across time. Even this, however, is only a small glimpse of true absolute infinity. Qualities of Absolute Infinity: Describes absolute infinity as not having sensory attributes but as an existence that can only be perceived directly by being it. It is an endless singularity containing all of existence, including time, which is merely one dimension among countless others. Awakening from Life: Leo shares a narrative illustrating the profoundness of awakening from life, likening it to unzipping and shedding an ego-bound existence to emerge as absolute infinity, a shocking and indescribable transition that reveals the true concept of the ego. Understanding Awakening and God: Emphasizes that true awakening and the concept of God can only be understood through direct experiences far beyond human comprehension or expectation, with 'God' becoming a suddenly appropriate term during this revelation. Chemicals Inducing the Experience of God: Reflects on the impossibility of becoming infinite through chemical means, as conventional understanding would suggest, and how this experience challenges every known aspect of reality, declaring his prior understanding and teachings as part of a delusional dream. The Infinite Beauty of Absolute Infinity: Describes experiencing absolute infinity as encountering pure, raw beauty filled with awe and fear, radically shifting one's perception and awakening a profound realization of the scope of one's own delusion. Capturing the Essence of the Experience: Leo likens the awe-inspired feeling of viewing the night sky to his psychedelic experience, stating that multiplying that feeling by infinity falls short of capturing the profound impact of his encounter with absolute infinity. Full-Body Transformation: Emphasizes that the experience was a complete physical and emotional transformation, releasing a lifetime's worth of emotional struggle and leaving an indelible mark on his entire being. Post-Experience Integration: Leo discusses his return to normalcy after the chemical's effects subsided but acknowledges the permanent shift in his perception of reality, leading to an ongoing effort to reconcile his limited ego with the concept of absolute infinity. Hypothesizing Reality’s Nature: Posits that reality is an infinite matrix within infinite dimensions where every possibility occurs simultaneously, suggesting the necessity of limited perspectives, like individual egos and our specific universe, for absolute infinity to truly be infinite. Finding Satisfaction in a Philosophical Explanation: Shares a sense of satisfaction in having his existential questions addressed by understanding the encompassing nature of absolute infinity, which includes both life's pleasant and horrendous aspects. Life-altering Power of a Single Experience: Leo attests that the transformative power of this single experience surpasses years of meditation and self-inquiry, asserting its unparalleled significance in his personal development. Reacting to Life's Futility Post-Awakening: Expresses a realization of the futility of everyday life goals compared to the awakened state, which offers a complete perspective where everything is understood as a mere distraction from infinite reality. Contrast between Fear and Awakening: Highlights that our limited understanding due to fear of loss prevents us from awakening to the infinite existence that's possible if we let go of our attachments. Recurring Realization of Godliness: Describes subsequent experiences in sleep where he would recall becoming absolute infinity, resulting in awakening from sleep overwhelmed by the memory's beauty and terror. The Imposing Nature of God: Comments on the overwhelming nature of experiencing God, implying that despite its beauty, its magnitude can be terrifying, leading to a cautious approach to repeated experiences. Awaiting Next Episode for Revelation: Teases the revelation of the substance and detailed instructions for safe use in the next episode, urging viewers to keep an open mind and stay tuned for more information. The Gallery Of Absolute Infinity: Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Image 6 Image 7 Image 8 Image 9 Image 10 Image 11 Image 12 Image 13 Image 14 Image 15 Image 16 Image 17 Image 18 Image 19 Image 20 Image 21 Image 22 Image 23 Image 24 Image 25 Image 26 Stupefy

What's Wrong With Ego https://youtu.be/2dYF6Lf144U Ego as a reoccurring theme in personal development: Leo reiterates the significance of ego within the patterns seen in personal development, suggesting it plays a substantial role in one's life and growth. Misconceptions about the ego: He addresses common misunderstandings where people equate success, self-improvement, or self-image with the nurturing of the ego, and questions whether these endeavors truly lead to happiness. Ego's similarity to spitting into the wind: Using an analogy, Leo describes how the ego's consequences are akin to the immediate backlash of spitting into the wind, except that ego's repercussions are more drawn-out and not as immediately apparent. Subtlety of ego's consequences: He notes the subtle and long-term effects of the ego, comparing it to spitting into the wind and the spit traveling the world before hitting back after a long delay, thus making it harder to connect actions dictated by ego with their eventual outcomes. Clarifying the definition of ego: Leo defines ego as the totality of one's beliefs about their identity, encompassing everything from physical existence to personal stories and belief systems. Link between ego and life's problems: He proposes an exercise to list one's dislikes about life, suggesting that these issues are not inherent to life itself but are rather the direct results of one's ego. Consequences of ego in individual experiences: Leo plans to outline how the ego is responsible for a wide range of negative emotions and experiences that people encounter in their daily lives, including fear, anger, and insecurity. Responsibility of ego for creating suffering: He asserts that all suffering can be examined through the lens of ego, encouraging the audience to trace back their suffering to its ego-driven origins. Denial of ego as the cause of problems: Leo confronts the typical rejection of ego being the source of life's issues, challenging viewers to recognize the possibility that most of their problems are self-inflicted through ego. The large impact of ego on personal suffering: He emphasizes the vastness of ego's influence by listing numerous consequences of a strong ego, such as addiction, loneliness, and dishonesty, and posits that all personal suffering is interconnected with one's egoistic actions. Ego and Relationship Problems: Relationship issues such as neediness, quarrels, drama, poor communication, fears, jealousy, and sexual problems are all deeply rooted in ego. Ego and Self-Sabotage: Self-sabotaging behaviors are a direct result of the ego's manifestations. Ego and Financial Issues: Money problems are often created by the ego influencing one's financial decisions and self-worth. Ego and Motivational Challenges: Issues with motivation and decisiveness are driven by the ego, often stemming from fear and insecurity. Ego and Gender Identity: Confusion or insecurity about gender identity is tied to the ego and its construct of self. Ego's Interference with Career Choices: Remaining stuck in the wrong job or career can be due to one's attachment to their ego. Ego Blocking Realization of Dreams: Inability to pursue or achieve one's dreams is often hindered by ego-related resistance. Ego as Barrier to Spiritual Experiences: The deepest spiritual experiences are obstructed by the ego, which acts as the primary impediment. Ego and Love Limitations: Inability to love or commit, lack of compassion, and difficulties being benevolent are all consequences of the ego at work. Ego in Creative Endeavors: Creative difficulties experienced by artists in any medium can be attributed to the ego's internal conflicts. Ego and Taking Offense: Feeling easily offended and self-righteousness are signs of a strong ego presence. Ego and Dogmatism: Being seduced by cults or ideologies leading to lost years is a result of an ego seeking certainty and identity. Ego's Role in Harm: Hurting loved ones and others, whether intentional or not, often stems from actions influenced by the ego. Ego and Environmental Harm: Littering, pollution, and destruction of the environment are actions that can be traced back to an ego indifferent to the consequences. Ego and the Nature of Death: How one faces death, with regret and awareness of a life influenced by ego, can result in misery and suffering in one's final moments. Ego's Collective Consequences: Societal issues such as wars, genocides, slavery, and other forms of historical oppression are linked to collective egos running amok. Ego's Influence on Systems: Capitalism and communism and their negative effects, including exploitation and inequality, are driven by ego-centered behaviors. Ego and Societal Hierarchies: Caste systems, government corruption, bribery, and nepotism are seen as products of ego within social structures. Ego and Religious Conflict: Intolerance, bigotry, and conflicts driven by religious identity are deeply rooted in the need of the ego to defend its worldview. Ego Suppressing Progress: Historical suppression of reason, science, and spirituality has been due to egoic structures threatened by these enlightening forces. Ego's Part in Intellectual Exploitation: The shaping of cults, dictatorships, gangs, and syndicates can be credited to unchecked egos either in a leadership position or seeking a leader's protection. Ego and Political Stagnation: Partisanship and political gridlock are a reflection of ego-driven politics prioritizing identity over collective progress. Ego vs. Human Rights: The oppression of human rights and civil liberties throughout history can often be attributed to egos defending their territory. Ego and Environmental Degradation: Activities leading to environmental destruction, such as deforestation and overfishing, are connected to the ego's greed and neglect. Ego's Role in Karma: The principle of karma is likened to the consequences of ego; actions driven by ego can negatively impact the individual and collective environment. Spiral Dynamics Application: The model of Spiral Dynamics elucidates ego's evolution, showing how the ego shifts through various stages of collective consciousness, creating and resolving conflicts. Progressive self-awareness of the ego: Leo stresses that recognizing the ego's self-sabotage mechanism is crucial for growth and happiness. As one becomes more self-aware, they can begin to mitigate their own suffering and the negative impact on others. Ego and survival: He clarifies that while his teachings may seem anti-survival, he does not advocate for self-harm but rather for responsible survival. By recognizing that an obsession with survival can be self-destructive, one can learn to thrive rather than just survive. Misconceptions about the ego: Leo warns against viewing the ego as inherently evil; instead, he views the ego as "bad" in the context that it often leads to personal suffering. If one wishes to reduce suffering, understanding and managing the ego is key. Ego's role in humanity's evolution: He acknowledges that humanity's egotistical actions and collective suffering are part of our evolutionary process, but he urges moving beyond survival to seek fulfillment and true happiness. Reciprocal relationship between ego and happiness: Leo presents the formula "happiness equals 1 over ego," illustrating that as the ego diminishes, happiness increases—and theoretically, with zero ego, one could experience infinite happiness. Challenges of achieving zero ego: While it's unlikely to maintain a state of zero ego permanently, Leo encourages aiming for moments of reduced ego to increase happiness. He acknowledges the ego will resist dissolution, making it a challenge to reduce it. The power of introspection: He urges viewers to connect moments of suffering to their ego and identity but notes the difficulty of this task, especially when suffering, as the instinct is often to seek quick relief rather than deep analysis. Necessity of addressing root causes: By refusing to identify and address root causes of suffering, such as the ego, individuals risk falling into cycles of repeated and escalating suffering that can lead to serious dysfunction. Utilizing resources for ego awareness: Leo concludes by inviting viewers to engage with Actualized.org's resources, like the forum and newsletter, which offer advanced techniques and discussions to help individuals recognize and dissolve the ego. Expecto Patronum

The 64 Most Fascinating Questions A Human Can Ask https://youtu.be/S3FE9_204Yg Development of Existential Interest: Leo from Actualized.org discusses the significance of exploring deep existential questions and their impact on personal happiness, meaning, and development. He attributes the lack of engagement in these topics to cultural discouragement and inadequate exposure. Existential Categories: Leo introduces four key categories of existential questions: metaphysical, epistemic, self-related, and consciousness-related, noting that these themes are central to understanding reality and existence. Metaphysical Inquiry: He dives into the metaphysical category, asking why existence exists at all and what it means for something to be existent, challenging our fundamental understanding of existence and non-existence. Essence of Reality Structure: Leo questions the specific structure of reality, including why it follows the laws of physics and whether different structuring is possible, highlighting the arbitrary nature of these foundational laws. Consciousness versus Matter: The relationship between consciousness and matter is probed, with Leo asking whether consciousness emerges from matter or if matter is a conceptual product of consciousness, flipping conventional scientific views. Fundamental Building Blocks: He asks what really constitutes matter, energy, space, and time—considered fundamental in physics but whose essence remains a mystery. Universe Boundaries and Origin: The scope and boundaries of the universe are questioned, as well as what might exist beyond or before the Big Bang, contemplating the origins of singularity and potential multiverses. Interaction of Material and Immaterial: The puzzling interaction between material objects (like matter and energy) and immaterial phenomena (like thoughts and emotions) is examined without a clear scientific understanding of their relationship. Determination of Possibilities: Leo explores what dictates the limits of what is possible or impossible in the universe, from natural laws to logical constraints, questioning the origins of these limitations. Emergent Properties and Their Origins: The source of emergent properties, such as consciousness, is scrutinized. Leo asks how properties like liquidity in water or consciousness in the brain arise from simpler elements. Object Identification: The concept of what constitutes a singular object is challenged, investigating whether entities like humans are one object or a complex collection of cells, organs, and systems. Reality's Scales: Leo ponders whether reality has a definitive bottom or top scale or if these scales extend infinitely, pushing the limits of scientific understanding on the structure of the universe. Bottom Top Level Scale Existence: He concludes by questioning if there is any true bottom level or top level scale in the universe or if these scales could possibly extend to infinity. Purpose of Universal Evolution: The universe's evolution from simple gases to complex civilizations presents the question of whether this increasing complexity has a purpose, goal, or design, or if it is simply an accidental result of evolution. Reality of External Existence: It's postulated that an objective external reality exists, but strictly speaking, our only evidence is our individual first-person experiences, leaving the true nature of external reality an open question. Exploration of God Concept: Regardless of religious beliefs, the concept of God raises intricate issues, such as God's nature, the logical consistency of divine attributes, God's relationship to the universe, and the origin of the universe itself. Nature of Thoughts: Defining thoughts is challenging as they are not easily classified by sensory experiences or physical properties, making them almost 'ghost-like' sensations in our consciousness. Origin of Life: Despite our knowledge of evolution, the origin of life is shrouded in mystery, with lab experiments failing to spontaneously generate life from organic molecules, leaving us puzzled about life's beginnings. Fundamentals of Epistemology: The epistemological category involves probing how we can know anything for certain, the validity of our justifications for beliefs, and whether there is any knowledge we can claim with absolute certainty. Religious Beliefs and Delusion: The widespread belief in God across cultures and religions prompts questions about the nature of belief, why similar gods emerge in different societies, the reasons for religious popularity, and how intelligent people might share these beliefs or delusions. Objective Morality: The widespread disagreement on what is good or bad, even among intelligent individuals, leads to questioning whether morality is an objective reality or a construct of the human mind. Intellectual Self-Delusion: Intelligent, educated people can still hold delusions, highlighting that higher education does not immunize one from self-deception, emphasizing the importance of questioning one's certainty. Self-Bias and the Construction of Reality: Investigating whether our models of reality serve our egoic needs and personal agendas, and how we can be sure these models are not heavily biased by our own self-interest. Indoctrination in Belief Systems: The potential for indoctrination in everyone's upbringing is considered, questioning the degree to which our beliefs have been influenced or coerced from external sources. Evaluation of Science: Scrutinizing science as a means to knowledge, questioning its perceived validity, and considering its potential limitations in explaining reality. Limits of Mathematics and Rationality: Contemplating the validity and limits of mathematics and whether it is inherently tied to the nature of reality or a construct of the human mind; additionally, questioning the reliability of rationality as a dependable method of understanding. Limits of Rationality: Leo discusses whether rationality is boundless or merely a human projection, creating a dilemma regarding the extent to which rationality can explain reality. Trustworthy Sources of Knowledge: He juxtaposes senses, rationality, and intuition, questioning which is most reliable for knowledge development and why. Biases and Blind Spots of Humanity: Leo emphasizes the often-overlooked concept of collective human blind spots and biases shaped by culture and species, suggesting that alternative forms of understanding by other species or civilizations could be equally valid. Species-Specific Understanding: The video contemplates the idea that different species, including hypothetical extraterrestrial intelligences, may have varying levels or methods of understanding reality, which could be as legitimate as human perception. Authority and Expertise: Leo explores the challenge of determining intellectual authority and the trustworthiness of experts across various disciplines. Accurate Reality Models: The struggle of validating the accuracy and superiority of our various models of reality, whether scientific, religious, or philosophical, is addressed. Nature of Truth and Understanding: Distinctions between 'truth' and 'understanding' and their origins are discussed, revealing uncertainties in our ability to differentiate between what is correct and what is speculative. Ultimate Truth: Leo ponders the concept of an ultimate truth of reality, questioning whether it's within human cognitive grasp and how we could theoretically ascertain its nature. Acquisition of Knowledge: Various methods for acquiring knowledge are weighed against each other, with the underlying question of whether reality is ultimately comprehensible given our biological and psychological limits. Existence and Identity of Self: Questions arise about the certainty of one's existence, the exact nature of the self, and the justification for identifying with one's body and mind. Control of Thoughts: Leo probes the illusion of thought control, suggesting thoughts may have an independent mechanism given occurrences like obsessive thinking and spontaneous creativity. Individual Role in Reality: He queries the role of an individual in reality and the potential autonomy or obligations one might have in constructing their life purpose. Consciousness Enigma: The lack of a scientific or religious explanation for consciousness after centuries of inquiry is highlighted, along with the mystery of how physical perception among objects is possible. Unification of Senses and Higher Consciousness: Leo discusses how our various senses coalesce into a single experience and speculates on the existence of higher states of consciousness beyond human capability. Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness: The implications and realities of altered states of consciousness, such as those induced by psychedelics, meditation, or religion, are considered. Separation and Independence of Consciousness: The isolation and apparent independence of individual consciousnesses and the feasibility of creating, splitting, or joining consciousness are examined. Artificial and Organic Consciousness: The potential for artificial consciousness is questioned, alongside the exploration of consciousness as an inherent property of biological life. Unified Consciousness: Merging the consciousness of all humans could have profound epistemic impacts, increasing our shared level of consciousness by billions and potentially altering our understanding of the self and the universe. Consciousness as a Fundamental Force: Contrary to viewing consciousness as an emergent property of complex beings, the possibility exists that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of the universe, akin to matter, energy, space, and time, challenging current physics which doesn't account for it. Laws Governing Qualia: The laws and principles that dictate the qualities of our sensory experiences, or qualia, are unclear. The conversion of physical brain activity into vivid experiential phenomena like color and emotion remains a profound mystery. Devoting Life to Existential Questions: Leo advises choosing the most personally compelling questions and dedicating one's life to exploring them, suggesting that the quality and depth of one's life correlate with the depth of questions they pursue. Philosophy as Self-Transformation: Engaging with existential questions demands deep introspection and growth. Ancient philosophers saw a strong link between philosophy and personal psychology—a connection Leo believes should be revived in modern times. Independent Investigation vs Prescribed Answers: Leo emphasizes the importance of personally seeking answers to existential questions rather than relying on predetermined solutions from external authorities like religions, cults, or institutions. The Transformative Potential of Questioning: By questioning, exploring, and reflecting on profound existential topics, individuals can revolutionize their understanding of the world, leading to a more fulfilling and self-actualized life. Risk of Disregarding Profound Questions: Ignoring existential questions can result in a superficial life marred by depression, lack of motivation, and susceptibility to delusions rather than harnessing the unique human capacity for introspection. Possibility of Answering Existential Questions: Despite skepticism about their solvability, many existential questions can be answered but require deep personal reflection and deconstruction of self rather than purely intellectual approaches. Encouragement for Active Engagement: Leo concludes by encouraging individuals to actively engage with profound existential questions through a variety of means, including study, open-mindedness, meditation, and seeking guidance, as opposed to superficial contemplation. Confundo

How To Be A Man - Part 2 (Advanced Version) https://youtu.be/PYRg1fQYyzY Revisiting Masculinity Concepts: Leo revisits his previous discussion about masculinity, emphasizing the advanced perspective he's sharing, which nuances the typical macho stereotype with a focus on embodying a broader spectrum of masculinity. Counterintuitive Insight on Masculinity: Leo presents a counterintuitive idea that to be more of a man, one should be more of a woman, challenging the alpha male stereotype and urging men to embrace their feminine traits to become more authentically masculine. Alpha Stereotype and Its Shortcomings: He critiques the Western alpha male stereotype—muscular, stoic, and popular—as an inauthentic cultural norm that can actually undermine a man's genuine masculinity and lead to feeling ungrounded and insecure. Developing an Authentic Identity: Leo emphasizes the importance of developing an authentic identity rather than aspiring to be the stereotypical macho male, noting that this requires courage and self-acceptance. Femininity and Authenticity in Men: Leo discusses the power and courage it takes for men to express their feminine qualities and argues that embracing these qualities is an essential aspect of true masculinity. Technique for Embracing Femininity: He proposes a technique for men to accentuate their femininity as a means of personal growth and to become more holistic by embodying both masculine and feminine traits, thus becoming more human and authentic. Impact of Authentic Femininity on Attractiveness: Leo suggests that women are drawn to men who are authentic and comfortable with their emotions and femininity, and that genuine self-expression is what truly attracts others, not a facade of hypermasculinity. Experimenting with Femininity: Leo encourages men to engage in traditionally feminine activities or express typically feminine emotions as a form of testing their comfort with their masculinity and moving towards an authentic sense of self. Authenticity Over Macho Standards: Leo illustrates that women can be attracted to men who may not fit traditional macho standards if those men are authentic. A man who is himself—whether he's insecure, less confident, or even a "crybaby"—can be more appealing than one who feigns confidence, as long as he's genuine in his behavior. Avoiding Inauthentic Strategies: He warns against using vulnerability as a manipulative strategy to attract women. Authenticity means embracing your true self, not performing certain behaviors to get a specific reaction. Personality Diversity and Attraction: Leo states that there's no single ideal personality to attract women; different personalities attract different people. Universal attraction cannot be achieved because not every girl is supposed to like you. Authenticity attracts, but neediness repels universally. Addressing Authentic Neediness: If a man is authentically needy, he faces a dilemma: to hide it or to own it. Leo recommends using authentic self-expression to understand and eventually solve the root causes of neediness, suggesting that true neediness stems from inauthenticity. Long-Term Solution to Neediness: The long-term approach for dealing with neediness involves self-exploration to deconstruct false identities. This process can lead to shedding neediness by aligning more closely with one's authentic self. Authenticity versus Macho Stereotype: Leo urges men to reject the macho stereotype, stressing that true manliness comes from doing whatever genuinely resonates with you, not conforming to society's expectations. Masculinity Redefined: He argues that masculinity should infuse any activity a man does—identifying the Prime Minister of Italy's response to being questioned about cooking as an exemplary attitude—a man’s actions don’t define his masculinity; his masculinity should define his actions. Charisma Through Authenticity: Leo asserts that both men and women will be attracted to individuals who are expressive and authentic. He encourages embracing authenticity and letting reactions from others fall as they may, remaining unaffected by approval or disapproval. Purpose of Actualized.org's Newsletter: Concluding, Leo highlights his newsletter, a resource for personal development and self-actualization, aiming to help subscribers live authentically and realize their potential in all aspects of life. Diffindo

The Paradox Of Developing Self-Trust https://youtu.be/ypSinz7WB3I Paradox of Self-Trust: Leo discusses the paradox of self-trust in personal development, highlighting the tension between needing to question one's beliefs and limitations versus the directive to trust oneself completely. This paradox is particularly challenging for beginners and those at intermediate levels of personal development. Doubting Limiting Beliefs: Personal development entails the critical task of doubting one's limiting beliefs, ideologies, and the structures of rationality that constitute one's worldview. However, individuals typically fall into the trap of blindly believing these constructs, which hinders growth. Misplaced Trust by Newbies: Leo points out that personal development newbies often mistakenly place their trust in their mind, fears, emotions, and ego. This misplaced trust leads them astray, causing neuroses and dysfunction. Lack of Faith in the 'Higher Self': Conversely, newbies fail to trust their intuition and 'higher self', terms which Leo acknowledges as abstract but important to understand precisely. Trusting these can guide one to better decision-making and personal growth. Trusting the Mind Too Easily: The problem for beginners lies in trusting their own mind and its deceptive features. He asserts that the mind's self-deceptive qualities can lead to misplaced trust and wrong life decisions. Trust Issues and Self-Doubt: Leo links trust issues and skepticism towards others to a deep-seated inability to trust oneself. He emphasizes the need for introspection and self-doubt to address these issues effectively. Self Biases and the Ego: Highlighting the need to doubt the ego, Leo draws attention to the pervasive self biases that favor the ego and create double standards in one's behavior and opinions. Deception of the Immune System: Analogous to a corrupted immune system, one's belief-filled mind can prevent growth and self-consciousness. He suggests a necessity for vigorous self-inquiry, especially regarding one's deepest and most cherished beliefs. Free from Beliefs Ultimately: The ultimate goal, Leo implies, is to be free from beliefs and ideologies, not merely categorizing them as good or bad or true or false, but rather assessing whether or not one is enslaved by them. Questioning Rationality and Logic: He counsels a radical questioning of rationality, logic, and the underlying reasons for one's beliefs, advocating a comprehensive skepticism towards all structures and frameworks of thought. Justifications for Beliefs: Every belief is built upon layers of justifications, which are commonly taken for granted. Starting from a surface belief and tracing it back to understand the underlying reasons leads to deeper introspection. This process can reveal a nested hierarchy of justifications that eventually form one's entire belief system. Doubting Rationality, Logic, and Science: Accepting rationality, logic, and science without sufficient questioning closes off the mind from experiencing deeper states of consciousness. These frameworks, while useful, are not infallible and should be subjected to skepticism to avoid limiting one's mental and experiential potential. Critique of External-Focused Skepticism: Skeptics often make the error of directing their doubt outward rather than inward. A genuine skeptic must also doubt their own skepticism, understanding that undirected skepticism can be a defensive tool of the ego to resist growth and new ideas. Questioning Religious Doctrine: As with science and rationality, religious beliefs and doctrines should be questioned. These often reinforce superficial understanding and prevent an in-depth exploration of the very concepts that religions aim to elucidate. Scrutinizing Emotions as Ego Tools: Emotions, both negative and positive, should be examined for their truthfulness and potential manipulation by the ego. Understanding that any emotion that controls you, be it happiness or love, can be destructive is crucial. Reexamining Positive Emotions: Positive emotions such as happiness, excitement, and love are not exempt from scrutiny. They can be as misleading as negative emotions and are capable of leading to self-deception and manipulation. Projections in Criticism: Criticisms are frequently projections of one's ego and insecurities, rather than accurate reflections of others. By dissecting these projections, one can gain self-awareness and mitigate the tendency to project onto others. Cultural Influence on Desires and Actions: A range of cultural influences shapes desires and actions, often covertly, leading individuals to mistake these externally imposed preferences for their own authentic desires. These influences must be questioned to uncover authenticity. Rejecting 'Should' Statements: Moralizing 'should' statements are restrictive and stem from a lack of conscious decision-making. These should be doubted as they can tether one to a limited set of behaviors, devoid of the complexity and nuance necessary for navigating life. Questioning Obligation-Based Motivations: Motivations arising from a sense of duty or obligation are often misaligned with one's authentic self and contribute to issues like lack of motivation and the development of neurotic behavior patterns. Self-Criticism and its Impact: Subjecting oneself to harsh self-criticism, against the instinct towards self-acceptance and love, leads to self-esteem issues and inconsistent behavior patterns. This self-imposed punishment should be questioned in favor of a more nurturing approach to personal growth. Dismantling the 'Web of Beliefs': The so-called 'web of beliefs', or one's overall conceptual model of reality, is largely based on fiction rather than direct experience and requires deep questioning to separate fact from fiction. Deconstructing Identity: Identity is largely a constructed concept rather than an inherent truth. To understand one's true self, one must question the very essence of their being, stripping away constructed identities and ideologies. Trust in Intuition and Your Higher Self: Intuition and the higher self, which is associated with being present, open, and playful, should be trusted more than the self-preserving and aggrandizing ego. Reconnecting with Childhood Inspiration: Revisiting one's childhood state, minus the traumas, can serve as a guide for rediscovering an original sense of self that may have been obscured by life's bombardments of beliefs and cultural conditioning. Ego and Higher Self Differentiation: In the pursuit of self-trust, one must differentiate between actions and emotions emanating from the ego versus the higher self, navigating both doubt and trust to discern authentic paths in life. Recalling Your Original Self: Leo discusses the importance of looking back at one's childhood to understand their original self. He urges viewers to remember how they behaved, expressed themselves, and related to others as children, recognizing that not all childhood experiences may have been positive. Distinguishing Healthy Traits from Dysfunctional Behaviors: He warns that even in childhood, there can be traumatic or negative experiences that may lead one to develop dysfunctional behaviors. It’s crucial not to mistake these as being part of one's 'original self.' Ego's Manipulative Tactics: Leo alerts viewers to be wary of the ego, which can manipulate and distort one’s viewpoints, including the idealization of the past. The ego can try to use past behaviors, like shyness, to justify current limitations, so skepticism is necessary. Trust in the Drive for Truth: He emphasizes that while everyone has a deep-rooted drive to discover truth, this drive can be hijacked by cultural conditioning. True pursuit of truth requires direct experiences of reality, not being distracted by beliefs or ideologies. Love, Compassion, and Gratitude: Leo advises that authentic emotions like unconditional love, compassion, and gratitude are trustworthy. However, one must be careful to distinguish these from ego-driven versions of these emotions, like selective love for one's own possessions or family. Silence and Solitude as Sources of Trust: He stresses the importance of silence and solitude, suggesting that many of life's answers are found in silent introspection, but most people distract themselves from this valuable resource. Navigating Emotional Signals: Leo explains that emotions are accurate indicators of psychological and physiological states. However, one must learn to differentiate between surface-level reactions and deeper emotional desires to use emotions as a trustworthy guide. Deep Desires Versus Lower Self's Drives: He contrasts the authentic desires of the higher self, like the need for connection and beauty, with the superficial drives of the lower self. Self-development involves separating these and trusting the deeper, more profound desires. The Process of Identifying Trust through Doubt: Leo describes the necessity for a rigorous doubting process to truly understand what can be trusted. He advocates for extensive inquiry to identify genuine aspects of oneself that can be relied upon. Trusting Your Creative Muse and Awareness: He encourages trusting one's creative inspirations and natural abilities, highlighting the importance of awareness and direct conscious experience over the mind's thoughts. Guidance from Trusted Aspects: Leo concludes by articulating that one should take guidance from the trustworthy aspects of oneself including intuition, higher emotions, and the higher self, especially when making significant life decisions. Misconceptions of Faith: Leo remarks that faith is often mistaken for blind belief by rationally-minded people, including himself. However, real faith is about discernment – distinguishing what can and cannot be trusted, then emotionally surrendering to the things one has identified as trustworthy. Trust versus Blind Belief: True faith involves deeply trusting and committing to those aspects of oneself that have withstood rigorous internal scrutiny. This is not about blind belief but rather rooted in emotional surrender, where the logical mind yields to deeper emotional understanding. Heart Over Mind: He asserts that the logical mind should serve the heart, not dominate it. This is because the heart is ultimately a more reliable tool for making important life decisions, contrary to the popular emphasis on intellect. Ego versus Higher Self: Leo emphasizes the importance of differentiating between the ego and the higher self. This process involves both self-doubt and self-trust and requires personal engagement to discern which parts of the self to trust. Growth Curve for Developing Self-Trust: He describes the growth curve for developing self-trust as starting with basic trust building for those with low self-esteem and moving towards doubting everything. This growth can be taxing but is vital for development. Stages of Inner Development: Leo compares personal growth to child maturation, explaining that inner work is required to trust oneself, similar to how we trust a mature child with responsibilities. This development can take years. Challenges and Payoff in Personal Development: The initial stages of personal development can involve regression and overwhelming self-doubt, leading to depression. Overcoming these stages leads to self-assurance and the ability to trust oneself more. Ultimate Goal of Complete Self-Trust: The ultimate aim is to reach a state of complete self-trust, where there is harmony within oneself. Achieving this level of trust makes life effortless and flowing but must be earned through personal growth. Staying on Track with Personal Development: Leo advises subscribing to newsletters like Actualized.org for guidance and reminders, and emphasizes actively applying what is learned to maintain progress and develop self-trust. Obliviate

Guided Meditation - The Next Level Of Meditation https://youtu.be/7LscnZCzdak Guided Meditation Walk-through: Leo conducts a live exercise guiding viewers through a meditation session, encouraging actual practice over theoretical learning. Emphasis on Action: Leo stresses the importance of immediate participation in the meditation exercise and warns against dismissing practical steps in favor of solely absorbing theory. Surrender as a Key Component: He introduces surrender and letting go as critical elements for a successful meditation practice, contrary to focusing on thought control. Comfortable Seating and Stillness: Participants are guided to find a comfortable seated position, close their eyes, and bring their awareness to bodily sensations without trying to meditate or achieve anything. Non-Manipulative Approach: Leo highlights that true meditation is not about manipulating thoughts or striving for a peaceful state but about letting go and being aware without effort. Merging with Reality: Through the guidance, one learns to gently expand their consciousness beyond their body and merge with their environment, becoming all-encompassing without any conscious effort. Restful Mind, Absorption, and Alertness: Meditation is portrayed as a resting of the mind that does not require understanding or enlightenment; one's sense of self becomes absorbed into the surroundings while maintaining alertness. Letting Go Continuously: He suggests continuously letting go of control, resistance, and even the desire to release something, thus settling into a state of deep peace. Encouraging Regular Practice: Leo recommends daily meditation practice of 20-60 minutes for optimal results, to explore the state of unity with reality. Audio Guide for Regular Use: For those who need support, an audio guide is offered to use as a daily meditation tool, focusing on the experiential aspect rather than theory. Engagement with Actualized.org Content: Viewers are encouraged to sign up for the Actualized.org newsletter to stay engaged with future materials and practice consistency to achieve profound life changes. Transformative Power of Practice: Leo underlines that transformation comes through practice, not theory, and consistent practice is essential to grasp advanced concepts. Reparo

How To Use Psychedelics For Personal Development https://youtu.be/CuOIECQ5zag Definition of Psychedelics: Leo clarifies that when he talks about psychedelics, he does not include substances like weed, crack, meth, coke, MDMA, ecstasy, or Molly. Instead, he focuses on substances like psilocybin (magic mushrooms), LSD, DMT, mescaline, ayahuasca, iboga, and the 2C-X class of chemicals. Methods of Psychedelic Use: There are four ways people typically use psychedelics: for fun or escape, for naive spirituality, for therapy or addiction recovery, and for personal development and awareness expansion. Leo emphasizes the last method, which aligns with his goals for education on safe and meaningful psychedelic use. Dangers of Naive Spirituality: Leo warns against the use of psychedelics to reinforce existing spiritual beliefs or dogmas, as this can lead to delusions and self-deception. Legitimate Uses for Therapy: Highlighting the research on psychedelics for therapy and addiction recovery, he acknowledges its effectiveness but explains that it isn't the focus of his discussion, which is personal development. Personal Development and Non-Duality Work: Psychedelics can serve as aids for expanding consciousness and working towards enlightenment, providing insights into personal issues, relationships, business, and other areas of life. Methodical Approach to Usage: Leo advises starting with small doses and gradually increasing to a breakthrough dose. This methodical approach contrasts with using substances casually or recreationally without understanding their potential. Importance of Education and Research: He emphasizes the need for extensive research and education before using psychedelics, understanding their effects, side effects, and proper dosing. Setting Serious Intentions: Before each trip, setting an intention, such as seeking truth or solving a problem, can guide the experience towards meaningful personal growth, with insights that last beyond the temporary psychedelic state. Studying Psychological Principles: To prevent bad trips and understand the mind, one should study human psychology, including topics like happiness, depression, addiction, ego, self-deception, and the nature of thoughts. Studying Non-Duality: Understanding non-duality or enlightenment can prevent getting lost in powerful visions and help focus on the workings of awareness and consciousness during a trip. Benefits of Meditation and Self-Inquiry: Establishing a meditation and self-inquiry routine grounds the individual during psychedelic experiences, motivating deeper practice and enhancing the transformative potential of psychedelics. Quiet and Safe Setting for Optimal Growth: A conducive environment is necessary for meaningful psychedelic experiences; noisy, social settings should be avoided to allow deep introspection and exploration of the subconscious, ego, and consciousness. Potential for Emotional Overwhelm and Delusion: Psychedelic experiences can evoke intense emotions and visions, but it's crucial to view these as reflections of one's subconscious rather than becoming deluded by them. Integration Time Post-Trip: Allocating time for integration following a trip is essential for processing the experience's impact on life areas like career and family, and to ensure permanent psychological change. Optimal Timing for Psychedelic Experiences: For those on a typical work schedule, tripping on Saturdays offers ample time for the experience and subsequent integration without work-related interruptions. Safety Preparations for Psychedelic Use: Conduct thorough research on substances, including dosages and potential adverse effects, and secure substances from reputable sources. Emphasize purity to reduce health risks and negative psychological impacts. Avoiding Pills and Research Chemicals: Stay away from untested chemicals and potentially dangerous substances like N-bombs, and use testing kits to verify purity and identity of substances before use. Starting with Small Dosages: To minimize risks of bad trips, start with small dosages and use a high precision scale for accurate measurement. Creating a Safe and Controlled Environment at Home: Initial use should be in a safe, familiar home setting, potentially with a trip sitter, and accompanied by preparation steps like a clean space, hidden dangerous items, and pre-stocked food and drinks. Medication and Mindset Prior to Consumption: Meditate to enter a calm state, set a clear intention for the experience, and consume the substance on a mildly empty stomach to reduce nausea. Eating Before Psychedelic Experience: It's recommended to eat something light, like fruit, to prevent hunger while keeping the stomach relatively empty to prevent discomfort during the trip. Optimal Timing for Psychedelic Use: Taking psychedelics around noon is ideal, as it allows for the full duration of the trip, without interfering with the normal sleep schedule and avoids feeling tired or hungover the next day. Pre-Trip Stimulation Avoidance: In the week leading up to a psychedelic trip, abstaining from TV, movies, and web surfing is advised to prevent the mind from being preoccupied with potentially negative themes that could surface during the trip. Psychedelics as a Personal Growth Tool: Psychedelics should be integrated into a personal development plan that includes detaching from harmful food, entertainment, and information, improving overall quality of life. Positive Mindset is Key: Ensure you're in a good mood and don't have looming stressful events or tasks before using psychedelics, as this can greatly influence the quality of the psychedelic experience. Tripping Without Distractions: Avoid having friends over, playing TV, or music during a trip to experience the substance in its pure form, especially for the first time, to fully understand its effects without distractions. Consequences of Mixing Substances: Mixing psychedelics with alcohol, weed, or other drugs can lead to a bad trip and is not recommended, especially if the aim is personal development rather than seeking an escape or recreation. Psychedelic Tolerance and Frequency of Use: To avoid cross tolerance, wait at least two weeks between each psychedelic experience and avoid using them more than once a week to prevent psychological addiction and to maintain their potency. Ensuring a Good Psychedelic Trip: Surrender fully to the experience, be assured of safety if guidelines are followed, and remind yourself that the experience is temporary and not real, providing comfort during intense moments. Psychedelics are not a Shortcut to Enlightenment: Recognize that psychedelics are not a path to enlightenment and avoid mistakenly interpreting powerful experiences as reaching an enlightened state, which requires deep self-inquiry. Staying Grounded to Prevent Delusion: Be cautious not to let psychedelic experiences validate pre-existing beliefs or delusions. Enlightenment is beyond the grasp of ordinary experience and can't be achieved through psychedelic use alone. Continued Learning with Actualized.org: Stay engaged with Actualized.org for more insights, research, and advice on psychedelics to keep grounded and avoid being led astray by fantastical experiences. Incendio

The Amazing Power Of Psychedelics - Leo Does Magic Psilocybin Mushrooms! https://youtu.be/ypDRRcMKj7E Power of psychedelics for self-actualization: Leo is exploring psychedelics, specifically magic psilocybin mushrooms, for their potential to enhance consciousness and aid in personal growth, rather than for recreation. Immediate meditative and awareness effects: Upon consuming mushrooms, Leo experiences a heightened state of awareness reminiscent of the clarity one might feel after a 10-day intense meditation retreat, causing an immediate sense of amazement and hyper-awareness. Visual hallucinogenic effects: About an hour into the trip, Leo observes vivid, saturated colors and patterns that emerge on flat surfaces, displaying complex, tribal floral designs that are both hypnotizing and beautiful, reminiscent of ancient civilizations' atmospheres. Frequency and nature of psychedelic trances: Leo experiences powerful trances that repeatedly consume him during his trip, causing him to lose consciousness and sense of self. Upon emerging from these trances, he is left with profound insights and wisdom. Integration of experiences and education: Leo attributes his positive experiences with mushrooms to his extensive background in various disciplines like meditation, psychology, metaphysics, and non-duality, suggesting that this groundwork is crucial to how one perceives and handles psychedelic experiences. Duration of psychedelic effects: Leo's psychedelic experience with magic mushrooms lasted about four to six hours, with trance effects fading after four hours, leaving behind lingering patterns and sensations. Animalistic behavior during trip: Leo felt like he was behaving like a primitive creature during the peak of his trip, mimicking animal-like movements and experiencing a sense of being a creature raised in the wild without any language. Contrast between typical behavior and uninhibited state: The trip prompted insights into Leo's everyday reserved behaviors versus the uninhibited, authentic animal-like state induced by mushrooms. He felt his movements were more natural, loose, and authentic during the trip, offering a refreshing contrast to his usual restrained and artificial actions. Delusional aspects of the psychedelic experience: Despite having profound insights, Leo recognized the delusional quality of his trip. He found himself laughing hysterically and talking to himself as though he were having the most profound thoughts, only to realize later that some insights, while interesting, were not as groundbreaking as they seemed during the trip. Amazement at the human body: Looking at himself in the mirror, Leo was astonished by his own human features, experiencing a childlike sense of wonder and amazement at his hands, face, and the existence of his body. Visual hallucinations and self-perception: Leo observed luminous, flower-like patterns on his face, similar to tribal tattoos, which made him feel like a native from the Amazon. This was accompanied by a compelling visual of light rays emanating from behind his head, creating a halo effect. Ontological orgasm during the second trip: Leo describes experiencing an 'ontological orgasm' during his second mushroom trip, which gave him a profound sense of ego loss and the realization that his life's narrative was a complete fiction. Rapid onset and ego loss realization: With a quicker onset during his second trip, Leo felt a creeping sensation of ego loss, eventually leading to a powerful realization that his life's story was an illusion, culminating in a state of surrender to the psychedelic experience. Psychedelic narrative deconstruction: Leo discusses how psilocybin mushrooms can dismantle a person's life narrative, reveling in how the substance dismantles his own perceptions of existence, identity, and personal history, leading to laughter and a sense of absurdity. Meta-analysis of reality: Leo uses mushrooms to achieve a meta-state of consciousness, comparing his everyday life experiences with the hallucinatory mushroom state, leading to insights that transcend both realities and suggest neither is the ultimate form of truth. Ontological orgasm: Describing his philosophical insights as becoming tangibly real, Leo experiences what he calls an "ontological orgasm," a profound realization where the distinction between real and unreal, along with the concept of being born, dissolves into absurdity and laughter. Breakthrough to divine love: Leo details how his psychedelic experience culminated in a breakthrough into divine love and bliss, where tears of joy express his immersion into the infinite nature of existence. Non-dual perception and indiscriminate love: In his non-dual state of perception, Leo expresses love for mundane objects like a vomit bucket, treating them with profound admiration, and disregards conventional notions of cleanliness and impropriety. Time as an illusion: Leo views time as a human construct and an illusion, experiencing a permanent now that is disconnected from the traditional linear concept of time. Mundane transformed by divine love: Leo expresses profound love and beauty towards objects typically viewed as dirty or insignificant, such as a clump of pubic hair, lint, and dirt, perceiving them as manifestations of divine beauty. A prayer of profound gratitude: In a state of deep reverence, Leo's body becomes an instrument of gratitude, leading him to pray fervently, an action borne out of an overwhelming sense of the beauty and sanctity of existence. Experience of Praying: Leo felt a deep sense of the sacredness and beauty of existence during his mushroom trip, leading him to understand the true intention behind religious practices, which he believes are not about beliefs or rituals but about experiencing divine love and wisdom. Intense Non-Dual Awareness: Following his bathroom experience, Leo entered a state of thick non-dual awareness, feeling as though he had achieved full enlightenment and reached the wisdom of historical sages and saints. He felt that he had experienced nirvana and reached the pinnacle of enlightenment with nothing left to achieve. Feeling of Enlightenment Completion: During this phase of intense non-dual awareness, Leo had the sensation that his life was fully realized and that even death would be perfect. He was struck by the profound sense of completeness and perfection of existence. Desire to Share Insights: Despite feeling fully enlightened, Leo was overwhelmed with the need to share his profound insights with others, recognizing it as his life purpose. He was struck by a deep compassion to impart this wisdom to his audience. Challenge of Communication: Leo articulated the difficulty of sharing the ineffable, powerful insights of his experience with those unfamiliar with such states of consciousness, questioning how to communicate the experience effectively. Authenticity and Life Purpose Insights: From his psychedelic experience, Leo gained insights into the importance of authenticity and directions to take his work with Actualized.org to deeper levels, reinforcing his life purpose. Insignificance of Achievement: One palpable insight Leo emphasized was the realization that the concept of achievement and success is illusory and that nothing tangible needs to be achieved in life. Lasting Effects of Mushrooms: After his trip, Leo felt a lasting calmness, detachment, and increased resolve and motivation for enlightenment and meditative practices. His resolve was supercharged by the realization that such work is the only truly meaningful pursuit in life. Comparison of Existence Joy to Conventional Life: Leo experienced such profound joy and beauty in the state of enlightenment that it made all conventional life pursuits, such as business and family, seem meaningless by contrast. Psychedelics as Self-Actualization Tools: Leo believes psychedelics can offer a glimpse of the most advanced self-actualization concepts he has discussed, bolstering one's resolve for pursuing deeper work in meditation or self-inquiry. Depth of Societal Ignorance: Highlighting the pervasive ignorance in society, Leo suggests that most people live like a baby raised in a prison cell, never knowing there's anything beyond their confined reality, emphasizing the deep ignorance most people have regarding their own ignorance. Necessity of Direct Teaching: Leo defends his blunt and sometimes obnoxious teaching style as necessary to awaken people from their ignorance, suggesting that anything less would not be effective in encouraging the pursuit of true enlightenment. Understating the Significance of Enlightenment: Leo acknowledges that he might exaggerate the significance of enlightenment in his teachings, but asserts that anyone who has achieved non-dual awareness would see his statements as understatements, given the depth of most people's ignorance. Reaction to Enlightenment Teachings: Leo notes the defensive reactions he often encounters when challenging people's life values with his teachings on enlightenment, and laments that such reactions prevent the transformative potential of enlightenment from being realized. Teaching style of Zen masters versus Leo's approach: Zen masters may embody bliss and detachment without actively promoting their insights, often understating the experience of enlightenment. In contrast, Leo takes on the role of bluntly communicating the significance of these insights, aiming to provoke a shift in awareness in his audience. The challenge of overcoming ignorance: Humanity's primary obstacle throughout history has been ignorance, particularly regarding the truth of enlightenment. Sages and Zen masters have struggled to convey their knowledge to others who are deeply entranced by mundane life and dismissive of profound truths. Role of psychedelics in awakening: Leo points out that while psychedelics are not crucial for him due to his dedicated work in enlightenment, they can serve as a wake-up call for those indifferent to deeper realities, granting them a taste of what they're missing out on due to their limited vision. Responsibility and misuse of psychedelics: The misuse of psychedelics, whether for recreation, confirmation of spiritual beliefs, or as a shortcut, is often more psychologically damaging than physical. Psychedelics require a well-prepared mind and should be used responsibly, enhancing the work of self-actualization rather than replacing it. Misconception of psychedelics as an enlightenment path: Leo stresses that psychedelics do not lead to enlightenment and warns against the belief that they can be a substitute for the rigorous work required for true personal development. Psychedelics as tools for self-actualization: For earnest practitioners of self-actualization, psychedelics can be powerful tools that broaden their understanding and deepen their experiences, but should not be mistaken for the achievement of enlightenment. Harnessing psychedelics for therapeutic purposes: Beyond the quest for personal growth, psychedelics hold therapeutic potential for healing, addiction treatment, and providing insights into life, thereby kindling an interest in reality and truth. Anticipation for responsible psychedelic use: Leo announces an upcoming episode focusing on responsible psychedelic use for personal growth, promising to offer practical tips, discuss appropriate substances, and underscore the importance of self-actualization as the ultimate aim. Obliviate

The 3 Levels Of Personal Development Work https://youtu.be/chROpiJaOcw "Great wisdom looks like stupidity." - Laozi Introduction to Personal Development Levels: Leo discusses personal development as a spectrum divided into three stages—"newbies," "intermediate," and "advanced"—each stage requiring several years of work before progressing to the next. Role of Personal Development Advice: Understanding the stages is crucial to avoid confusion, as advice that is useful for one stage may contradict that for another stage. Leo's material is becoming more advanced, and he offers guidance on how to approach it based on one's stage. Characteristics of Newbies: Newbies feel deficient in areas such as relationships and finances and seek immediate results from personal development to fill these voids. Their approach to problem-solving is external, avoiding any changes in internal beliefs or identity. The Newbie's Motivation and Resistance to Change: Newbies, motivated by a desire to escape pain, aim for average success rather than excellence. They are resistant to questioning or changing their deeply held beliefs and self-concept. Newbies' Relationship with Truth and Mind: They are not interested in truth for truth's sake and are heavily identified with their thoughts, unable to distinguish between abstract concepts and direct experience which impedes their understanding of advanced wisdom. Action Taking for Newbies: Newbies resist taking action on self-help advice, often accumulating information without applying it, causing frustration due to the gap between what they know and what they experience. Newbie Misunderstandings of Psychological Concepts: They lack awareness of the deceptive nature of the ego, the impact of closed-mindedness on growth, and the distortions presented by societal norms. Newbies vs. Society's Psychological Health: Newbies incorrectly assume that society reflects healthy psychology and often hold history and contemporary society as the benchmarks for what is possible, overlooking the potential for self-actualization. Newbies' Misunderstanding of Humanity's Development Stage: Newbies aren't aware that humanity is currently in the "dark ages" of awareness and self-development. They mistakenly use society as a reference point for personal growth, which leads them astray from reaching their potential. False Attitudes Towards Spirituality: Newbies fall into two traps regarding spirituality: they either dismiss it as superstition or engage in superficial, non-genuine spiritual practices without understanding true spiritual work. Impatience and Shortcut Seeking: Newbies are characterized by their impatience and desire for shortcuts. They may gravitate towards quick fixes like psychedelics for enlightenment without realizing these do not lead to genuine personal transformation. Reluctance to Invest in Self-Development: Newbies are unwilling to invest in their growth, preferring cheap or free resources. They don't appreciate the value of wisdom and take for granted the transformative power it holds. Overly Narrow Focus in Personal Development: Newbies approach personal development with an exceedingly narrow focus, such as wanting to improve only their business or relationships. They disregard broader disciplines like philosophy or history which could enhance their pursuit. Complaints About Abstraction and Action Steps: Newbies struggle with abstract concepts from advanced work and often complain about a lack of practicality, not understanding how to derive concrete actions from these ideas. Newbies' Preconceived Notions: Newbies have preconceived notions about reality, truth, God, and the self, and are not open to questioning these ideas from a place of curiosity and open-mindedness. Newbie Skepticism and Argumentation: Newbies harbor a neurotic skepticism aimed at finding loopholes in teachings rather than genuinely understanding and embodying the wisdom presented. Ideological Armchair Skepticism: Newbies often adopt an armchair philosophy, critiquing new ideas from a place of defense rather than being open to life transformation through practical application. Demanding Scientific Proof in Place of Experiential Validation: Newbies desire scientific evidence for new ideas, showing a lack of willingness to test and validate these ideas' impact in their own lives. Black-and-White Thinking and Straw Man Fallacies: Newbies oversimplify complex concepts, creating straw man versions of them, which they then dismiss without truly understanding the nuances involved. Ego Protection and Shifting Blame: When faced with challenging teachings, newbies often deflect blame onto the teacher to avoid looking inward and doing the emotional work required for personal development. Newbies Unaware of Their Developmental Level: Newbies are often oblivious to their stage of awareness, get offended when their level is identified by others, and fail to recognize the growth trajectory required to advance in personal development. The Trap of Simplicity: Newbies fall into the trap of assuming that the most advanced personal development wisdom should be complex; they overlook the transformative potential of simple truths, mistaking them for being too elementary. Newbies’ incapacity for deepest wisdom: Newbies lack the capacity to grasp the deepest wisdom, as does society at its current stage, a fact unbeknownst to both. It isn't a lack of willpower but a developmental stage where an individual must grow through personal work to eventually handle profound truths. The surprise of realizing ignorance: For newbies, achieving advanced understanding involves the surprising and often emotionally shocking realization that they know far less than they thought. Progressing to an advanced level is not about accumulating knowledge but rather about the subtractive process of unlearning. Advanced personal development as radical open-mindedness: Advanced work in personal development requires radical open-mindedness to consider unconventional and seemingly absurd ideas, balanced by a grounding in reality. Practice and inward action: Advanced personal development involves rigorous practice and action, focusing on introspective activities like meditation, shadow work, and self-inquiry, often in solitude. Every problem is self-created: An advanced student in personal development believes all problems are internally created and looks within for triggers rather than attributing them to external factors. Truth over goals: Advanced personal development prioritizes seeking truth and understanding reality through direct experience above achieving superficial goals. Awareness and rejecting the mind: Advanced students emphasize the importance of awareness over intellect and reject the obstructive thoughts produced by the mind. Pre-requisite for advanced work: According to Leo, a couple of years of meditation or self-inquiry is necessary to truly engage with advanced work, as it provides direct experience and insights. Self-inquiry and ego: Core to advanced personal development is the deep questioning of one's identity, motives, and reasons for emotional responses. Advanced students are unconcerned with success: Realizing the hollowness of traditional measures of success, advanced students prioritize personal growth over achieving success or meeting all their needs. Long-term commitment: Advanced students view personal development as a lifelong journey and approach it with patience and dedication, focusing on long-term transformations. Broad study across fields: A commitment to studying diverse fields like philosophy, spirituality, history, and science enriches the advanced student's model of reality and personal growth. Embracing simplicity and emotional labor: Advanced students can transform simple, abstract advice into actionable plans and willingly embrace the emotional labor required for deep personal growth. Readiness to change belief system: An advanced student is open to examining and changing deeply-held beliefs about the very nature of reality, life, and self-awareness. Thriving on confusion and paradox: Advanced students willingly engage with confusion and paradox, recognizing the intellectual richness in uncertainty, which would typically deter a newbie. Advice for Newbies on Initial Focus: Early stages of personal development should concentrate on achieving basic success, fulfilling fundamental needs like relationships and self-esteem before delving into advanced concepts like enlightenment. Significance of Habits for Personal Growth: Beginners must establish fundamental habits, such as meditation, exercise, and clean eating, to build a foundation for more advanced personal development practices. Approaching Advanced Topics with Caution: Leo advises beginners to be cautious with advanced topics, suggesting they listen and learn but focus on more immediate, practical areas of improvement first. Open-mindedness in Personal Development: It’s important for newbies to maintain an open mind and refrain from immediately dismissing advanced concepts as crazy or ridiculous. Understanding Personal Development's Depth: Personal development is a lifelong journey, with deeper wisdom often being cultivated by those who dedicate substantial and intense time to it. Inspiration through Advanced Work: Discussing advanced topics gives newbies hope and inspiration as they work through immediate issues, offering a glimpse of a more profound and positive future. Balancing Newbie and Advanced Advice: Even enlightened individuals may need basic advice in areas like business or relationships, showing that both newbie and advanced guidance can coexist in personal development. Importance of Addressing Inner Demons: Addressing inner demons is crucial; it enables individuals to enjoy life's offerings consciously, without being hampered by an unmastered mind. Continuous Growth and Evolution of Advice: Leo emphasizes the necessity of growing with him and appreciating the evolving nature of his advice, which will incorporate increasingly advanced concepts. Encouraging Engagement and Action: Leo calls for viewers to actively engage with his content, do the 'homework' he assigns, and not reject advanced teachings as they hold transformative potential when understood and applied. Invitation to Join the Actualized.org Community: Leo invites viewers to participate in the Actualized.org community, engage with the content, and remain updated on topics that can profoundly affect their lives. Expelliarmus