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He said that there are five things that if you understood you would have omniscience. I don't remember what they were (I'm not interested in Leo's pure philosophy), but they were in the same last video. Obviously, that doesn't really qualify as omniscience, but hey, I'll let Leo dream away.

God reveals the deepest of Its secrets to the weakest of Its creatures From Hunter x Hunter.

Solipsism is not Leo's idea. It existed in philosophy way before Leo was born. As per OP, I don't know. I think it's hard to come up with something completely brand new in this modern age. Basically almost everything has been already said before. It'd be such a rare occurrence to catch some outworldly insight or breakthrough.

So, after my post about Joseph Maynor yesterday. Today, as my usual internet browsing routine goes, I opened actualized, discord, and tiktok in order to check on my favorites, like I do everyday. These are literally all I routinely browse of the internet nowadays. I visit actualized everyday more than a few times, and I visit tiktok to see if there are any new twerking videos (oops!). But as for discord, I have only one friend there (Joseph) and one channel that I'm subscribed to (his channel), and I usually visit the site once or twice a day max. So today, I opened discord and saw that the channel was gone from my list. I thought maybe he removed it, as he's been making some changes. But then I checked his site, and the channel was still there. I opened the link and it redirected me to the discord channel. So I understood that he removed me from the channel, aka banned. You know, Joseph. I don't have hard feelings. You do what you feel you gotta do, and I'll do the same. I guess this is where our paths diverge. It was definitely nice knowing you, very insightful content, for sure. Nothing like I've seen elsewhere, honestly. I contemplate and then apply your wisdom in my life, and it works like magic. I hope you will find what you're looking for. However, I don't take back what I said yesterday. You can make whatever you want of it. I'll just remove my discord and move on. It's so simple. Good luck.

Don't think of truth in terms of probability or likelihood. Absolute truth is 100% true. And you can consider anything that is 99% true or not presently true as false. With the absolute truth, it's all or nothing. What is 100% true in your experience? What does it mean for something to be true? What is the truth? Try to look at the meaning of the words "true" and "truth" without the cultural/spiritual baggage that is attached to them. Really focus on this inquiry. Make a commitment to figure it out as soon as possible, and you will. There are various models for morality. In my view, it's all relative to culture/society. You can think of morality as a social construct, which is just a convention at the end of the day. Some things are okay for some people, while the same things are perceived as a major sin and a threat for others. Contemplate how morality began in the first place. Why was it invented? Think of tribal humanity and their needs, and what roles morality could have played in their survival, both within the tribe and against other tribes.

@PepperBlossoms Alright, so you are searching for absolute truth. Did you try Jed McKenna's method?

@PepperBlossoms You seem to be struggling with two things that might be related, or not. You seem to be searching for something called "the absolute truth", and you seem to assume that it's somewhere to find within thought, when it's not. You seem to be searching for an authority figure or something like that to ground your life and give you directions. You don't know what to do, you don't believe in yourself, and you have a tendency for overthinking. Is this right so far?

Go to the nearest chipmunk and ask it how you should live your life. You will only find the absolute truth in the chipmunk paradigm.

@Zeroguy I'm trying to come up with a new/creative way to answer to this question, but no luck. I guess you'd just have to wait until you get there and try to enjoy this life as much as you can until then.

I find it ironic and funny that Jed McKenna's book was Leo's intro to spirituality, while for me it was almost like the outro We are very different, yet very similar.

So this morning I was talking with Joseph Maynor, and at some point he asked me to make a video recording of myself. I didn't like the way he told me to do it, as if he's ordering me or something. He asked me to make a video in a very direct and assertive way after he ignored a question that I asked and he left unanswered, I thought that was inappropriate. I like Joseph and will not take offence for this, even though in a normal situation I would. I admire and respect him, so I will just assume that he slipped unintentionally and that this will not happen again. I told him that it's not a bad idea and that it will likely benefit me, but this isn't the right time for me to do such things. He kept pushing but now a bit more covertly, then eventually he pulled back and stopped pushing, but nevertheless it seems that he still wanted me to do it. I'm not sure why it seems important to him for me to do so. I have priorities, and making videos or audios is not my top one at the moment. I am open-minded but I don't just do things for the sake of it. I might make an audio recording soon mainly to practice my English, because soon I will interviewing at English speaking tech companies, and I don't want to seem awkward in the way I speak, but also partially I will do it to accept the call and do the challenge. My English writing is very good, and my listening is good, but my speaking kind of sucks. I will start playing around with audio records, which I might or might not post for the public. But a video is certainly out of the equation for me now for various reasons, mostly logistic and stylistic, I don't have the right instruments or time, and I haven't been taking much care of my appearance lately, plus the semi-bald head that I'm still not sure whether to go all bald, grow it longer, or to just keep it as it is.

Sound frequency can affect perception. Search in YouTube for high frequency music, and you might experience something similar.

Burnout is a real phenomenon. It's not only related to the body, but also the mind. So much screen time is starting to hurt my eyes and my back, and so much thinking time is starting to hurt my brain. I've done very well in the past couple of months, but I seriously need to take a break. I have pushed myself beyond my limits before, and it didn't pan out well for me. I will never risk doing that again. I just can't. Whatever the motivation and end result, it's never worth destroying my health for it. Though, it's become hard to stop after having built this much momentum. After you have installed certain habits, they become almost automatic you don't even need to think about doing them anymore, they get wired and ingrained deeply into your mind that you don't need to exercise your will in order to take action anymore. Action starts initially as 80% will power to create 20% habitual change. In the end, the percentages get inverted. Your habits take action for you. I need to be careful and know when and how to rest. It's funny how it takes work to rest, and how it takes rest to work. And also how it takes work to work, and how it takes rest to rest.

Good parenting is not about sheltering your children from bad experiences. That's not the function of a loving parent. A loving parent allows their children to go through hardships, because they know and understand that struggling is part of the journey/exploration process and that there's no growth without adversity. At the same time, they understand that the children have a certain capacity, and that they should be there for them whenever they need, for support, nurturing, guidance, or even for taking over completely sometimes. An ideal parent does not abandon their children or dismiss them, cuz that grows them into a bitter and resentful person. An ideal parent also does not fight the battles instead of their children either, cuz that grows them into a weak and dependent person. Too little love and too much love are two sides of the same coin, they both lead to dysfunction. One is depriving to the point of scarcity and the other is overwhelming to the point of suffocation. Rather, an ideal parent is like a safety net that is both aware and informative. When you have something like that, you know that nothing could ever go wrong, so you don't have anything to fear or worry about. An ideal parent provides you with a sense of groundedness. They help you build your self-esteem and confidence through this process of facing problems and overcoming them time after time again whilst knowing that you are loved and accepted, and ultimately safe, regardless of outcome. Unconditional love, without any filters or judgements. Every time you fall off and stand back up again, you grow stronger. An ideal parent understands that, and so they give you the freedom to explore, but they also provide you with the swords and shields that you might need in order to fight the dragons. They prepare you and watch over. And every time you kill a dragon, you absorb its soul and grow stronger. Your capacity increases and you become capable of fighting larger, scarier, and overall more dangerous dragons. It's a baby-stepping process, but no dragon is too large, scary, or dangerous for you baby, cuz I'm here with you, and for you. That's the message that every child needs to be breastfed until they're adults. Whatever happens out there, this right here will never change. But unfortunately, we don't live in an ideal world with ideal parents, siblings, friends, or people in general. We're all broken in one way or another. And we keep transmitting and mirroring, and therefore perpetuating and deepening those breaks for each other all the time. The answer is of course, self-love. When you love yourself, you can learn to love others. And if you don't love yourself, your love for others will be shallow, or even fake. When you love yourself and others completely, you will have achieved a very rare thing. You will become that ideal parent that you wished you had but didn't, but at the same time you are not necessarily confined to that role. When you love yourself and others, you can play the role of an ideal parent in a friendship or an intimate relationship if you want to. The roles aren't fixed, you can even play the role of an ideal parent to your own parents. You're literally overflowing with love that anyone who touches you will at least get a taste. Furthermore, you can allow that role to be mirrored back to you too when you need it, which is hard to do if you hate yourself. Sometimes, all you need is a safety net that you can depend on. Other times, you just want to be that safety net for the ones that you care about. The best relations are the ones where everyone involved has the best interests of others/the group at heart right next to theirs. Others' agendas are considered and seen as one's own. A guaranteed win-win scenario, cuz it's paramount that no one has to lose.

I don't think I quite get your point. Personally, I haven't experienced any psychedelics, at all. And I have better clarity and deeper (though not necessarily broader) understanding than Leo, regardless of what Leo might say about this. I just don't flaunt my understanding and clarity all the time like he does. I have it but I simply don't cling to it, cuz I don't have any stakes in this game, I don't make any money or get any good feelings out of being spiritually superior.

They're ideas, but not just.

I'm not a saint. Some of my comments are motivated by ego, at least partially. I'll try to be more mindful of this fact, and I'll try to be more considerate and inclusive of other people's feelings when I post, especially when it might touch on something dear and/or intimate to the ones I care about. Usually when I care about someone, that often means they're good people that deserve the gentlest treatment and are worth the best things in the world. I'll keep this in mind and hope for peace and forgiveness

It's really not that hard to know. You are God: You: The ego, the person, the center of experience, etc. Are: Verb of being, reference to existence, state of being, etc. God: The magical uncaused superpower that underlies all of reality. No need for speculation. Just connect the dots and this will become obvious in all of his communications.

Enlightenment is not Leo's property. He doesn't own it, neither did he invent it in the first place. And it's definitely not something that he can verify for others or not. The guy in the video is correct, he is talking about what the word enlightenment means in the traditional Buddhist and broadly spiritual sense, which is the original and correct meaning that Leo is distorting. Be careful of Leo, he is co-opting the idea of enlightenment and trying to bend the concept to fit his philosophical narrative (subjective idealism), which he didn't invent either. He doesn't distinguish between his thoughts and reality, and yet he wants to make this work into a one-upmanship game where he places God-realization as the real thing above everything else. The truth is that God-realization is not enlightenment, and enlightenment is not God-realization. And neither one is better than the other. They're simply two different things. You can seek and have both or neither, it's your choice. In simple terms, God-realization is the feeling of spiritual awe that you get when you experience something profound. That's the rawest and cleanest definition without any baggage. Leo's version of God-realization is that + solipsism.

Looks like a desperate move to gather a bit more attention/audience. Don't have time for his nonsense.