Davino

Good

Meh, keep working

The situation seems to have returned more to normality, the harsh call was made and the police and military took them out.

Yes, but many people in the country didn't like to see everyday immigrants being beaten down in the border and dead corpses found on the shores. It's not good optics for an European country, but that's the mistake of developmental stages because they'll take advantage of that and exploit the system (why? Because of survival and wanting to have a better life, understandable). These are in general typical border tensions, but what happened the other day is something outside of the scope. Just take out the population of your country, multiply it by 0.7 and imagine that many people entering in one day. What do they eat? Where do they shit and shower? Where do they sleep?

The same as the your first line See, everything is a recursive chain back to itself. The meaning of breathing is breathing.

The situation is crazy right now, for a population of 84k aprox, more than 50k rushing into the city is an emergency. Some people in Spain are calling it an invasion, it's not technically that, but it could be viewed in that fashion. Some strong decisions have to be made, but current gov is left party so I'm doubtful they'll make such a call, again something has to be done otherwise there's gonna be a critical escalation regionally, nationally and internationally.

Yes, you're tapping into Infinty Mechanics

Good Then, what is Consciousness?

What is the point of everything at the end of the day? Really, why anything at all Everything is pointless Which makes everything its very own point Since everything is full of meaning, meaning is inherently empty Life is but a game of contrast, we know by virtue of contrasting spectrums So all of God is just by its own sake --- On a more personal level, I think that anyone who has advanced to considerable depths has faced enormous ammounts of meaninglesness, because being human is a construction, everything is a construction, realising your whole self and present experience is a fabrication of consciousness, is like seeing the magick trick, and now you have to keep playing, you construct a new game, but at the core of your psyche it has lost its magical deception, there's a beauty in a dream that only comes from being unaware to its nature. Although recognising its true nature is the ultimate beauty, the particular meanings that come from it are as meaningful as you are willing to make them be.

Lately I've found a joy in finding definitions for words and concepts, even though I might already know them, it gives extra precision and sometimes historical background. There's also something profoundly beautiful about a great definition.

The fact that Reality is imaginary doesn't change the dream but you see it for what it is. Imaginary body, imaginary psychedelics, imaginary universe, all states are imaginary because consciousness is a metamorphing universal field which is sovereign to work as it wills. Change doesn't affect being, but being changes at every breath.

Missing a new episode. The only content that truly shakes my mind and core.

@Psychonaut You're playing russian roulette. You never know how the coin will flip every night. It's very likely you are addicted, prove me wrong and take a month break.

I see your point and you're right but it's not exhaustive, it's the general good picture. So working from your perspective this I would add: Chris Langan has horrible politics, but still provides good insights into other domain fields. Every time I listen to a 1h+ interview of him I get at least one very intelligent point that serves as good food for thought. Stupidity in one department doesn't negate intelligence in others. Not all high IQ club members are boasting about their score, many times they just want to meet intellectually curious people.

I wanna take it one day to jailbreak a high score, just for the sake of it. I find it interesting to enter into Mensa, maybe I meet some intelligent individuals there.

My God, the audacity of such a claim

Yes, I understand. I could work much less and survive nicely if I were less ambitious. It made me see that tendency you're pointing at, to be a low unconscious factor in the equation that I had never truly noticed. I'll still work hard for the next 15 years, because I want to, but it's clear to me I'll exhaust it eventually. I've seen too many people burnt to be in executive positions after 40, I don't wanna be like that.

My intuition is that balance is the secret to the good life and it is actualized by intelligent decision making and awareness.

Idleness is usually worse than working hard, but that communication is really profound for those who work very hard. It made me have a strong reflection this morning about why I work so hard really. I still have that karma to burn through for some good years but I'm already seeing the short end of the stick of such an attitude towards life. We all need holidays I guess hahaha.

We need stage green, we are getting there through B-corp initiatives and sustainability awareness. The point is to widen the concern radio beyond money to positive social impact. Most of Europe is getting there, America is too greedy for the moment. And China is more prone to do so because of more collectivistic concerns, but still far away.

Another note that I had on my mind, in one of your posts about science you touched upon the concept of discrete. I'd touch on that on the book, because in my understanding, discrete objects are a fabrication upon reality. In telecommunications engineering there are two types of signal processing, one which is continuous signals and others which are discrete. Truly all signals must be constant (meaning to always exist as they are transmitted, there cannot be any jump). Coding things into 0 and 1, happens because it's extremely convenient for technology, all equations are easier (not like with continuous waves which you get into integrals and infinity problems, as well as physical limitations of transmission). My point beyond this technical example is that this problem of creating discrete objects is an extremely useful construction of engineering but it has no metaphysical grounds, it's a way to interpret reality due to convenience but you cannot create the limit of anything apart from anything other. Hammering on the deconstruction of discrete things is of profound value for science to understand. It destroys as well the atomistic philosophy and the independence of self as some discrete object in reality. It's a powerful epistemic assumption at the root of all mathematics and science. All numbers are but a discreet illusion and a limit to true understanding. This understanding should be the metaphysical ground in which mathematics and science should rest.

I'd like to give another perspective on the tech industry and billionaires. Leo your posts are spot on, but I'd like to give an insiders perspective. I work daily with CIOs of multimillion dollar businesses and the truth is they are trapped inside a ruthless system that forces all that profit obsession onto them. Executives are extremely stressed and overworked, their head is on the line for constantly delivering results, competence is extremely fierce and not playing the game leads to losing the job, losing your friends, the company closing and all your team and employees being fired out. I understand the fixation to point at names to this selfishness and corruption, but honestly it's more about the system. No individual changes of the tech oligarchs is going to substantially change the system, they are rats inside the system, the best rats with golden chains. A better framework in my mind is understanding why they are forced to behave like that, why the stock market, capitalist system and game theory is engineered to create this situation. The problem is not that X people fill that role, the true problem is that the system creates vacants to be filled as those roles, people are irrelevant if it weren't Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, it would be other people, it's the law of the current system that creates a strong global inertia towards that. In my opinion, this is generally a more wise understanding of the situation, by grasping the whole system you realize how all the companies and C-level executives operate.

https://shop.cosm.org/products/ecstasy-holographic-print This one is outstanding from Alex Grey

I find it such an irony to call Actualized.org teachings a cult. I haven't found more emphasis in other spiritual teachings towards proper sense making, philosophy, skepticism towards ideology, self-deception, sociology, psychology, deconstruction and value of the sovereignty of one's Mind. If Leo really wanted to make a cult you'd lose your pants. Of course he's not perfect and has been polishing the rough edges as he goes, it's obvious with anyone with more than two brain cells the effort he has put to avoid making this work about ideology or about him. And when shit happens as it always does in life, he recalibrates and improves. He has always done his best effort in this regard. Imagine you are a firefighter and they constantly call you pyromaniac. Wouldn't that be the greatest irony?

I have mixed feelings about that one Not in the beginning but surely in the end.