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When you are seeking it is because you do not like the way you are presently feeling and believe attaining something can alleviate the feeling. Some more experienced seekers have discovered that attainment cannot permanently alleviate the unwanted feelings so they seek temporary attainment as a sort of buttress against the onslaught of the overwhelming negative emotions they keep generating. Now the first issue is they are unaware that they are generating it so they are going the wrong way about it in trying to fix the problem. Like I mentioned earlier the more experienced seekers think differently. By this time they realize after enough experiences they are the ones generating these emotions but they cannot understand how they are doing it or if they do why they are powerless to stop it. I've said it before but your perception is filtered through your beliefs. Try this exercise if you are a guy. Stand in the mirror, look at yourself and say "Look at that handsome devil!" After you say that I want you to believe it. Put your attention on that belief, and then look at yourself in the mirror and look for PROOF that it is true. If you do it successfully you will find PROOF that you are handsome. Now do the opposite and you will find PROOF that you are not handsome. If you are a girl do the same but replace the word handsome with beautiful if you prefer. If you realize this power you have in perception you can train your beliefs to serve you. Here is a secret....the more sure of yourself you are....the more you can convince others to agree with you. A lot of people you meet are unsure of themselves and struggle to form their own opinion. If you are so sure your beliefs are true, you can convince other people of your own worldview. This is because people give away their power of belief to the beliefs of others who are more sure of their beliefs. This is exactly how someone can convince you that you are ugly, dumb, a loser, etc. Its no different than how a motivational speaker can convince you of the opposite. Instead of seeking the opinions of others, create your own opinion. Seekers are consumers, creators are enjoyers. Creators enjoy their creation, seekers consume the creation of others. If you can create your view of yourself to serve you, then you can enjoy the life of that character. You have allowed random sources in your life to develop your persona, and now you suffer the parts of that persona you don't like. If you don't like it change it. Well you might say what I don't like being short!! I can't change that!! You could, you can reframe being short as an advantage. For example, because I'm short I'm more down to earth, more grounded. You can always choose the beliefs that will serve your world view. The truth of life, is your entire life is just how you feel in the present moment. Everything else is just decoration. You can be rich and be miserable, you can have sex and be miserable, you can live in a mud hut and be happy. You see when you aren't seeking something, then you are enjoying. You can only truly be enjoying something when seeking stops. Now you confuse that with attaining what you were seeking with enjoyment. It is enjoyment but it is only temporary. Enjoyment can be permanent, once seeking stops. If you want to know true happiness, discover the cessation of seeking. Because as long as you are seeking, then you are not happy. Happiness is enjoyment. Also if you ever think the odds are stacked up against you: Check this video out. You will see how fortunate you are, its all in your mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P2nPI6CTlc Of course you could say...of course he was able to become a motivational speaker!! Who wouldn't listen to a guy who looks like him when it comes to overcoming obstacles!! Your mind can craft any story on why things are different for you. It can also do the opposite. Cheers!!

This is the best part of Leo's quote and what many men miss. Raw attraction is not very deep. The men who discover this can get a girl even if he isn't the tallest, richest, most popular etc. The key is to form a DEEP connection. There are tons of guys who can pull women off Raw Attraction, what the majority won't tell you is....they can't keep them. Those same guys also struggle pulling the women they REALLY want because those women are too mature to fall for a guy just because he can attract her. This type of woman has already had her lessons from an early age and wants more than just raw attraction, she wants depth and sadly those men aren't deep. They spent too much time learning how to attract her, they never figured out how to keep her. To gain a woman's heart you have to do what most men will never do. Most men cannot gain a woman's heart, they can gain her curiosity but eventually that runs cold. To gain a woman's heart, you have to give her yours, something most men aren't capable of doing. I don't mean letting her run over you by the way, I mean picking a woman that you desire and accepting her as she is. If you can do that, then she will return the favor. How long it will take...depends on the type of woman you picked. But the secret to life is if you can truly accept someone the way they are, they will do the same for you. I've tested this with friends, and my ex and it is true. Humans are just desperate gorillas trying to find a connection where they can just be themselves. Most people are too stiff and insecure judging themselves every single day and then assume others are doing the same. When someone realizes they can be themselves around you a shift changes. Through your actions they can eventually learn to be the same way. This is a long process and it won't be easy and I like it that way because you can't fake being this way. This is why reality is a mirror, escape your judgments about yourself and connect with someone and create a relationship without judgments. Pick wisely.

I don't even think you want a girlfriend, you like the idea of a girlfriend. Many guys I know who have lived their life in solitude when they actually get into a relationship they find out it isn't what they want. Most guys who haven't had a girlfriend and want one, chase that because they think it will fill the hole they have inside. I'm sure Leo is only telling you what he told you because he knows you need to find out for yourself that it won't. Relationships are a mirror, and nobody hits your insecurities more than your girlfriend lol. If you do get one, she will trigger the hell out of you if you haven't done any shadow work, and if she hasn't done any you will trigger her. Both of you will get so stuck in your perspective, and feeling victimized you won't be able to communicate well and the relationship will end. But hey its a learning experience so go for it!!! Or you could...I don't know...realize that every belief you have about yourself is a lie, and that you have created a character a persona to live your life and have become so comfortable in that persona that you think it is you. Like an actor who plays a role in a movie and cannot get out of character, that is what has happened to you. I can offer a couple of books that can give you the right perspective as far as how to look at the dating game, but like Leo said...experience will be king. But I got three books that I read out of thousands of hours of research that pretty much laid bare how women think and it gave me so much success I have no doubts anymore. If you are interested let me know.

I am trolling? Explain. Notice...nobody else has that interpretation. But I'm open to this perspective. In what way am I trolling? Also what assumptions am I making? How do you know you aren't making assumptions? How do you know right now this isn't projection? But again I'm open to this so please explain. Don't forget to use examples.

The Ego is your identification with being human and all your other beliefs surrounding that. When you experience you are not human but simply just awareness, then your ego has died. Also it will feel like annihilation because you are essentially ripped off said attachment and discover it was never you. Even if someone tells you, you are not your body you still experience yourself as a body. When ego death happens...you experience no body and are like...ohhh now I seeeeee. So yeah its a death of sort. Like death and then rebirth. For me my thoughts are not as loud anymore. I can barely HEAR my thoughts so it is easier to quiet my mind.

This man knows his stuff. Absolutely the American diet is chock full of things that overseas countries do not include. One such example is iodine which we pretty much put in like all of our food. So you will have different reactions to eating similar food overseas.

Right back at ya! ummmm how were you able to send little black hearts? - this is the best I can do lol.

There you go. Our beliefs, perspectives are what hold us back. Took me a couple years back to figure this out. Its why we can engage in self-sabotage. Whenever you try to act differently to what you believe there is going to be resistance. Your comfort zone is conformity to your beliefs. The ego is not just a survival mechanism, it also makes you a character that acts out a role. Its hard to break character, its truly a genius design when you think about it.

I've never met a lazy person in my life.... defeated? Sure. Depressed? Sure Hopeless? Sure Confused and Lost? Sure But Lazy? Nah I've never met them I've seen a guy not give a damn and barely move a muscle and as soon as something he desires appears a fire rises within, he stands at attention, eyes straight forward, a new life wells up and he nearly is bouncing up and down raring to go. When someone is lazy they are akin to a solider who has lost morale, the will is low, the desire evaporated, yet we mask this and call them lazy. Some of the hardest workers can fall out of their element and let themselves go if this state befalls them. They aren't lazy....they just don't care. Without care.....what is the point, and if there is no point....might as well lay down at least that is what resonates with the soul that has lost its way. So if you are raising a young one, they are not lazy, they simply do not care. The question shouldn't be why are they so lazy it should be why don't they care?

Wow....you shifted back and forth.....what did it feel like having your mind drop and becoming everything?

As long as you believe that, that will be your experience. You have a response-ability. That is your control, the response-ability. Outside of that, yeah you gave up the rest of your control to live as a human. But you can always control your response. That is the whole point of meditation, to learn to not resist what arises. When fear arises, you can choose how to respond to it. Or you can resist it and fight it. Not saying its easy, everyone has a different level of resistance. But control is possible that is what psychedelics teach, you gain control by releasing your desire for control. Counter-intuitive but that is how it works...and that is how life works...ALL of life.

My post speaks to all of that. Penetrate a woman's emotional cortex and you get her heart. (Women are more emotional than men because evolutionary it gives them the ability to connect with children who are every emotional. Women are able to connect with infants in a way that a man cannot naturally do usually. So there is evolution at play here. A man can use that to his advantage and connect to a woman emotionally in the same manner. In fact part of what a woman does in a man's life is teach him to relate to his feelings. He learns to communicate to the inner child inside. Penetrate her sexually and you get her body. I heard a guy say this and it resonated with me. He said "How a man fucks is how he fights." Evolutionary speaking women are attracted to physically imposing men who also exude raw aggression. This ensured the survival of her and her offspring on multiple levels not just from his protection but for her offspring also genetically gaining his genetics as well which increased their survival. Lead her in direction with the way you lead your life and you will have her trust and respect. If you picked a mature one you will have her for life. Evolutionarily speaking women evolved to be attracted to men who hold positions of influence or status. They are drawn to what women would call "the man with a plan." Everything from the village champion, to the rock star celebrity the man who has the approval of his peers stands out. This is also called preselection. Whatever you want to name it, it has roots in evolution. Everything else is just the daily drama of life. - Lastly the drama among us humans speaks for itself I do not believe I need to spell this one out lol.

Its a long story, but an interesting story. It all started at that university involving compelled speech on gendered speech. If you connect the dots with his personal beliefs and what transpired at the time and the current socio political climate of the west, it makes perfect sense actually.

Women aren't that complicated. Penetrate a woman's emotional cortex and you get her heart. Penetrate her sexually and you get her body. Lead her in direction with the way you lead your life and you will have her trust and respect. If you picked a mature one you will have her for life. Everything else is just the daily drama of life.

Seems to me you are a judge, you've had me on trial for a minute. May I be released?

Nice I'm glad you were able to contribute your perspective at such a crucial time. More people should follow your example and share their perspective with others. Some people are afraid but everybody's perspective has value and your story highlights just that.

Very likely, a lot of women struggle to maintain healthy iron levels, there is a thing called a period. https://www.healthline.com/health/headache/anemia-and-headaches#bottom-line

This the experiences of life is what propels individuals up the stage. When the dog gets tired of chasing its tail, it will stop and ponder what's really going on, so too will an individual.

We all have disagreements from time to time but I believe it is important to give our flowers to those we appreciate. So I decided to do a Leo Appreciation Thread. My Next Thread Later on will be a User Appreciation Thread where you can give your appreciations for other Users on here who have helped you in some way. Why I appreciate Leo: His vision, his perspective, his openness in his videos, his raw honesty both intellectually and emotionally in his videos. His foray into the pit of consciousness basically experimenting on himself for the pursuit of ever deeper knowledge and the desire to share it with the world. Literally doing the work that the entire Universe desires which is to awaken and to expand onward forever. I appreciate you for building this community of like-minded people so that we have an outlet in which we can share. Be willing to take time out of your schedule to engage with the members which is an invaluable opportunity that people of your status usually place behind a pay wall. I already have What's Your Favorite Leo Video you can check that out and post. But for me this is just an appreciation for all that Leo does. So what do you appreciate Leo for?

What is Projection? Psychology Today defines it as "Unconscious discomfort can lead people to attribute unacceptable feelings or impulses to someone else to avoid confronting them. Projection allows the difficult trait to be addressed without the individual fully recognizing it in themselves." Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/projection I have come to a realization today that this concept goes even deeper. It is very close to the concept of awakening as well. I re-watched Leo's Video on Guided Exercise For Realizing You Are God and instantly recognized in that moment that everything was me. Now I of course I already knew this, but I would ignore it and treated it as insignificant. When you in the moment truly recognize everything as you....you truly become compassionate. This what awakening really is, to truly see yourself, or find yourself if you will. "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdWxdhEB19s In that moment I realize all of life is a projection, but not just a little projection it is an ABSOLUTE PROJECTION. You literally cannot have a self as long as you see YOU in everything. Again I knew all the concepts, but I just kept pushing them down, I was denying that everything was me and was "falling asleep again." Its crazy just because you awaken doesn't mean you cannot fall asleep. I also realize what they mean that when you awaken there are no problems, and that anger, frustration is just denial of love. Its so true....its funny. Everything is you....like its really you. So anytime you say things like my life sucks you are just saying you suck. When you say I hate olives, you are saying I hate what I created. Its funny, all of life is really learning to embrace all that you are. Infinity is ridiculous. Learning to embrace Infinity is a tall task. Rape, murder, Genocide, Slavery, Lies, Manipulation, Infinity can express itself in a myriad of ways. Self-sacrifice, honesty, integrity, compassion, forgiveness. You need to accept it all, because it is all you. Your life is literally a projection of Universal Infinite Mind, every object, every feeling, every sense you experience is just a projection of your mind, and the denial that it is you, is just a projection over a projection. Basically you imagine, and then when you don't like the experience, you imagine that someone else created it. Its so funny....God can delude itself....this is the funniest thing!! Whenever you get mad at life, or complain....you are just God being delusional!!!! You can't make this stuff up!!! All of life is Absolute Projection until you accept it as you.

Beautiful post. Yes Reality got your back because its you!! We can submit to reality because it is us. Thank you for sharing this.

Leo is also saying....this very conversation....on this thread....applies

Wait 13 months? I only had bliss for 2 weeks!!! Lol I couldn't handle it after awhile it started to hurt so I started doing grounding exercises...now I miss it lol. But I wouldn't be able to function since my job involves dealing with people and it made me too energy sensitive. I literally could merge with the energy people put out when they speak. So if you were energetically unstable....I could match it and become one with your energy and feel your emotions. I call it energy empathy.

Ahh a kindred spirit!!! Its nice to meet someone who understands!! You too went to the void and returned!!! Yes isn't it amazing that you find out we been lying to ourselves our entire life? Its so freaking funny!! We literally have to lie to stay as a human!! Its the funniest thing!! But yes I'm glad you understand. All those experiences also to me is the greatest accomplishment to me in my life because I finally got to experience the truth, and I STILL haven't gone as deep as I would like. But yes thank you for this post, I feel so loved when another can relate to what I went through. And yes meditation is key, you can remain calm by breathwork and surrendering to the moment. What helps me is I truly believe that I can remain calm. As long as I focus on that I am good. We are all capable of this, some just need more training than others and I know I am no where near the best at centering myself.

Conceptual understanding is not real understanding. You can imagine what it is like to be raped, but understanding rape conceptually is not the same thing as actually being raped. I had the same issue as you, thinking I could awaken conceptually. I understood the teachings conceptually and was like I don't need any mystical experiences. Eventually I decided to have one....YEAH its not even the same. So its funny when I see you here saying what I used to say. But don't worry if you actually choose to have deep mystical experiences...you will realize. The truth is the most powerful, scary, loving thing there is. YOU CANNOT CONCEPTUALIZE INFINITY. That is why I am saying that. The truth cannot even be spoken, mere words cannot even express or explain the infinite because all words are finite, and you think your thoughts which are finite can do what words cannot? But don't worry if you go through it.....you will find out. Now I'm referring to Ego Death. I would advise first that you micro dose for your first experience, take low doses and work your way up over time. But yeah I'll give you a tip. You are not your body, if you experience Ego Death you will leave your body, and if you explode into Infinity...you are not just going to experience it visually you will experience the SENSATION of exploding. You experience full sensations on trips, so trips are REAL and they feel MORE REAL than what we think reality is. Real life is like analog, psychedelic trips are High-Definition. It will completely change the way you LOOK at reality. Good Luck.