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Both have beautiful nature, can't go wrong either way. I've only been to Croatia in passing, so my experience is limited, but I've lived in Spain for over 10 years. For the kind of social activities you're looking for, as well as lodging, Spain is probably more suitable, particularly in large cities such as Barcelona/Madrid (which your trail skips; too bad, would've been nice to hang out)/Malaga. While no specific events come to mind, there's always something going on. June weather might make you sweat though. It may also come as a surprise that more people in CR speak English, though that's mostly an issue in truly rural areas, and even then Spanish is quite a simple language to get the basics of in comparison. In general Spain is very accommodating for tourists in many aspects. Meeting other foreigners from all over the world is much more frequent here for sure. I've never interacted with women in a pickup context as that doesn't interest me, but simply on a personal level they're casual and easygoing, making for pleasant conversation. From what I hear and see, pretty sexually open too.

Pursuing accessibility can become its own trap. 'Tis a delicate balance to strike between depth and simplicity. No matter how plain and explicit some of the points are made, they can still be misused in various ways by unconscious people. In this sense, a certain degree of complexity serves as a filter of sorts. There has to be a mutually trusting relationship between the author and the reader; part of it is the author trusting the readers' intelligence and not doing them a disservice by dumbing down the content. Since it's supposed to be a timeless book (Leo's words), it matters little how few people will truly get its full significance in the present day, in a hundred years there'll be plenty more that do.

Even if God wanted to get rid of them, there'd be nowhere to throw them away to since God is Everything. So the only thing to do is accept. Not accepting them would diminish its infinity and therefore integrity, which must be maintained for the good of all creation. Maybe if God did throw them away they'd eventually mutate into some sort of monstrosity that would absorb and corrupt God, creating an actual Hell, which would be possible in this scenario as God made itself finite and thus susceptible to corruption. But God is too intelligent for that, so it prevented corruption at the root by already including all the possible corruption within itself along with an infinity of other 'good' stuff. This allows it to endlessly subdivide its Mind into an infinite diversity of biased minds that can judge things as evil, experience pleasure and suffering, feel guilt and joy, and so on. These are privileges God had to surrender, in this regard you're more powerful than God itself, so enjoy them while it lasts.

Right, it's a nice mindfuck. Nothing is finite, but some infinities are more infinite than others, yet we still get Equality in the end. 'Cause there is no others, now we're back at rudimentary nonduality

Perhaps it's actually you that doesn't respect love. Love respects you enough to not force itself upon you and lets you form whatever ideas you want about it; that itself is love. If it consumes your mind, that could be because you desperately want to understand it but just can't, I know the feeling. Love is really nothing other than complete acceptance. God is Love because it fully accepts itself as God, which is Truth, that's all there is to it. Other qualities are the same. To create itself out of nothing, God must possess infinite consciousness, intelligence, and imagination. Unconscious and unimaginative beings are consciously imagined in God's Mind. And so it is for lack of love. It's all quite simple and logical, though twisted at the same time. Regardless, Love is compulsory, but understanding of it for a finite form is not.

But of course. Intelligence can take on any form. Even the form of a rock. Just look at Oppenheimer & crew blindly building the atomic bomb, only realizing the consequences when it was too late; or the tech billionaires of today. It would be a trivial feat for a naturally more logically gifted and less emotionally sensitive species. Don't forget that successfully manipulating reality at scale and long-term requires enormous intelligence. Self-deception is Devil's infinite intelligence. It'll still lose out to Truth/Death/Nothing in the end, but it can persist almost indefinitely. Relatively speaking of course, as God and Devil are indistinct. It's not a question of 'might' exist, it absolutely does exist (within Infinity). Only a matter of whether we'll ever encounter such a thing ourselves.

A reason, absolutely; but not the reason. There's likely many advanced alien species that maintain non-intervention. Some in pity, as though looking over a child in the process of FAFO; others in derision, tuning into Earth like a trash-tier reality TV show. But there are far more considerations in maintaining the universal balance than collective human sanity or our whole existence. An intelligent civilization could easily deem that such a mass hysteria event is good to shake us up, or that cleansing the planet with a heliobeam (like the one Nazis wanted to build) is in order, or due to their own twisted evolutionary trajectory they somehow became interplanetary while remaining imperialistic and selfish, and they'll be balanced out in due time, but not before enslaving and exterminating us. Awakening doesn't really grant much additional predictive power when it comes to specific events, instead it cements the certainty of not-knowing. Not the boring, static kind, but one stemming from an overabundance of seeing infinite perspectives. Think Yhwach's 'The Almighty' in read-only mode.

Sounds about right, albeit with a caveat. Loosely speaking, if one were to reach the very apex/bedrock of consciousness, they'd realize that there's nothing you should, would, or even could change about reality, as it is already perfect. Hence everything remains largely the same regardless of how deeply anyone awakens. However, the proper way this realization takes place is through logically parsing the entire structure of reality and evaluating every possibility, which requires infinite intelligence (or imagination, they're the same thing). Otherwise you sort of take perfection and other qualities on faith, which subtly implies treating God as something other than and/or above yourself. Being able to effortlessly do whatever you want strips you of all desire to do anything (a form of ego death, in a way). Seems like a cop-out, but that's how it goes. Such claims are usually mistaken, or more precisely, come from misinterpreting the experience. If someone could just take some LSD and easily solve the Collatz conjecture, that'd break the consistency of the dream too radically, and we can't have that. Or maybe they could find the solution, or get to know for sure that no solution exists, but then be unable to prove it due to various constraints that take precedence over their egoic needs and mankind itself. If there really were a select few humans across history that could perform actual miracles, like Jesus, it's because God sprinkled them in as hints/examples, and they already were selfless enough to be trusted with such a power; even then, it's still a highly localized phenomenon that doesn't change much in the grand scheme of things. What is functionally possible is using LSD or some other method to access infinite intelligence, harvest insights, and enact practical change in the world, within the bounds of the ultimate structure. PCR was invented that way.

That holds for all experience across the board, the only difference is some experiences are more accessible than others. What does it mean to win the lottery? In the unlikely event I manage to replicate the victory itself, emotionally and practically it could still mean something entirely different to me than it did to you. Maybe people say this because they're arrogant and confused, but cannot admit it to others, much less themselves, so they play a rhetorical trick. But maybe it actually is impossible to communicate, and/or they genuinely want you to experience it for yourself, not adopt their beliefs or deny them to validate your own. We're right back at interpretation.

Any and all conditions are rendered by consciousness using intelligence, so it's only natural that it should survive them. Humongous degree of intelligence goes into creating the appearance of lack of intelligence. Being totally wrong on every single issue all the time especially requires infinite intelligence, just in the opposite direction. Absolute self-deception, as it were. Complete absence of intelligence is achieved through being totally wrong about presence of intelligence. Being is intelligence. You already implicitly recognize this. If consciousness is existence/being, and can't be separated from intelligence, what does this say about intelligence? Even the most delusional beliefs are undeniable, precisely because they exist. "- It would be an accursed monster — a being that should have never been born in the first place. - But if he is already in this world, no one has the right to deny him his instincts." The entire spiritual endeavor is a merger of epistemology with ontology so thorough that knowing and being become fully identical, which includes the realization that they always have been.

Not necessarily. Oftentimes people that are not particularly intelligent in a traditional sense are better at intuitively knowing that you "shouldn't", for instance, harm others, despite having no logical ground nor a capacity to clearly articulate why. They can simply act selflessly on autopilot. Of course it's equally as common if not more so for them to be selfish as shit. Can be framed in the exact opposite way, deep sleep is basically being unconscious. Existence existing by definition is a logical tautology, but equating consciousness to existence is a leap in reasoning that may or may not be true. Understanding logic and its validity requires intelligence, however its limitations are grasped through consciousness. Yes, although someone conscious of that may not be conscious that they're employing intelligence. Further, they can use intelligence to dismiss the role of intelligence/logic and construct a paradigm where consciousness is more fundamental; a commonplace fallacy within spirituality. What's the difference between being and doing? 'Just being empty' is the only way it has or ever will be, and it takes infinite intelligence (and love/selflessness) to structure reality that way, which is a doing of a sort. You might say Consciousness governs Sameness, Unity, Love; it is implicit. Intelligence governs Difference, Multiplicity, Truth, and is explicit. But that's merely a quick sloppy metaphor. The identity of Consciousness with Intelligence is the same as the identity of Love with Truth. Infinite Love is Unity through Multiplicity; in other words, Equality/Solipsism, which is True, Logical, and Perfect. In the end, all this can be explicated ad infinitum, but requires direct experience to actually grasp, as words are in the business of definition, and reality is Undefined. Nonetheless, definition is fundamental.

Consciousness is conscious that there is no difference, Intelligence is so intelligent it creates the difference out of nothing.

That is exactly what they are. You conveniently skipped over this section of the reply from a previous page: "Bottomless delusion is the point, that's the whole structure of reality. Truth is the mechanism of delusion (short ver.: Truth is delusion). Truth being too sacred to deconstruct is a projection, if it's true it will withstand all deconstruction. And it will, because there's nothing there to deconstruct. See if you can deconstruct that." It's not a hierarchy of significance or superiority, if there is any hierarchy it's that of awareness. The grandma is also God experiencing itself, she just doesn't know it and that's okay. She is our ontological equal, therefore I take this comparison as flattering. And I'm telling you this won't work. Many are blind to it, no doubt. But some may not be blind at all, they're simply too deep into their delusion and narcissism, by conscious choice. Truth is exactly what you want. Leo's statement "Truth doesn't care about what you want" only directly contradicts this to those who are dissociated from Truth. If you could persuade someone in possession of truth of the falsity of their view, that would automatically make it false. Think about that. Truth is entirely self-evident, this whole discussion is just a game of projection of Q.E.D.'s between two mirrors, exactly as per spec. I'm sure I sound incoherent in places. Well, that's because I can effortlessly switch between speaking as a human and as God. Or maybe I actually am incoherent and psychotic. That's up for interpretation. To be discovered, something first needs to be generated, that is plainly obvious. Same here, cheers.

Nobody treats their projects as a mere preference, whether it's Hitler, Leo, or a kid at a science fair. Bias is so profound it's a matter of life and death & beyond, some biases you couldn't drop even with a gun to your head. But what do you care how he treats it? Take what's of value, filter the rest. It's not like I can't or don't openly criticize Leo. For example: https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-381 — pure smug, blindly self-indulgent post, while having a conversation on a science podcast pending to release any day. #382 is also repetitive waste, that time would be better spent on completing the Deconstructing Rationality series. As you said, we're all just humans with faults. Or this whole reply I gave in another thread: https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/112839-leo-cant-fix-you-because-you-are-neurodivergent/?do=findComment&comment=1731704 I see him clear enough, and I also see that the criticism and really any activity on this forum is distraction/entertainment. But I like it, so here I am. Maybe another day something will change and I won't be. Call it cope if you like. There is such a thing as Cope as an absolute, so you're not even wrong about that. By the way, you're sneaking in subtle language such as 'mere' or 'benevolent'. I didn't say that.

Not really. Only when his job requires it. Just like a math teacher insists on the importance of learning math, or your parents on getting a good career or whatever. If they instead said that it's all a meaningless hobby and being an uneducated homeless drug addict is no better or worse, you can see how most people would choose to behave. But he explicitly stated that's it all a bias on several occasions.

Yes, and I 'realized' that they don't come into existence at all, they already exist, as does everything else. Anything 'new' (insight, life, action...) is an imagined distinction. There's no need for me to deny the chains — some I see, others I don't. #2: You make it sound as though the second option is somehow inferior because it implicitly strips you of agency or is illusory. A meaningless distinction. I (Consciousness) was always there, imagined forgetting what I am, plus the entire chain of events leading to an eventual rediscovery of the source. The two options seamlessly blend into a strange loop. Naive solipsistic idealism that doesn't incorporate Will and other important factors would indeed fail at eluding your mechanism, but this very mechanism is an indispensable part of the engine of reality; it works regardless of whether you're aware of or accept it or not, and it works with perfect precision and beauty. Try escaping it if you like, to a certain degree that's healthy skepticism, but ideally that would culminate in realizing that escaping it is impossible nor is there a need to, as you are the mechanism that has designed itself and all escape attempts. Thus, #3 becomes a moot point, since the difference between 'discovered' and 'generated' was itself generated (imagined), which doesn't bother me in the slightest. At any given moment I know and don't know as much as I need to, neither more nor less. All that's ever happening is light bouncing around at different angles within the fractal mirror of Mind ('happening', 'light', 'bouncing', 'different', 'angles', etc. are of course imaginary both as terms/concepts and the 'actual' things those words are pointing at). Under the definition I previously gave and considering what's said above in this post, yes. You see, all of my wrongness, hypocrisy, and egotism are totally consistent with the trajectory Consciousness has set for me, and they'll be corrected (or not) when the time comes. Don't take this as avoidance of responsibility, I'm doing the best I can, as is everyone. Unlike you, I rewatched the video in full. Maybe what's actually arrogant is going through 8% of the runtime and assuming the rest will just be the same since the introduction is already familiar to you. Imagine dropping a university class or some online course you bought because the instructor dedicated the first few lectures to reviewing and solidifying the priors/fundamentals. Without even going through 1/10th of the material, you presume to know it all. No wonder there are blind spots even in this simple framework you presented in this thread, let alone understanding of reality as a whole. Doesn't matter how potent your observation ability is, it's not enough; you still need talking heads, books, other perspectives, and much more, which can then be filtered and synthesized. Perhaps if you bothered to watch the full 3 hours you'd find many of your objections addressed. Consider that you should. But also consider the nuances of that as to not dig yourself into a deeper hole.

Simply because it's universally accommodating, without exclusions/exceptions. Essentially SD stage Green values of inclusivity and diversity raised to absolutes. Perhaps the notion of consistency under the following definition can be of help: "agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole specifically: ability to be asserted together without contradiction" That's a fundamental property of Infinity, from there it's not too difficult to also make the logical connection to Beauty, Integrity, and so on, but past a certain point explicitly communicating such things doesn't work properly and even does harm. I could go on a whole spiel here using a parent-child analogy that incorporates love, bias, sovereignty, and this and that, but in the end you'd (not unwarrantably) call that a frame and frame it as a Q.E.D. for your original point. That is fine, everyone has some aspect/facet of reality they struggle with. For me Love and 40+ others are crystal clear by now, but Miracle is still elusive; though it's obviously there, experientially I only see Certainty save for rare occasions. Can only speak for myself, but I didn't start this journey looking for love, not consciously anyway. The word wasn't even in my vocabulary really. When Leo presented the idea it didn't exactly resonate emotionally or logically, all I did was remain open to it. Long story short, after enough inquiry it became undeniable, if nothing else then simply from a consistency standpoint. I had a love for understanding, but didn't understand what love or understanding is; then it turned out that Truth and Love are identical. So it's not like I wanted love to be true, I wanted the truth, whatever it may be, and got love as a bonus. Pretty sure that's how it goes for a lot of autistic guys, love is not a matter of wishful thinking for us, and can even cause some repulsion initially. Notice that you frame the definition of spirituality in your OP from a traditionally feminine perspective ("Ask this community what spirituality is for and they'll say equanimity, peace, love, presence"). Your deconstruction as presented here is a frame too, you know. 'Outside' implies duality and therefore wrong, you need to realize that you are the frame and always have been, always will be. But it's tricky since 'you' is too vague, language as a whole is. Nothing anyone says or does can induce this realization; at best it can serve as some food for thought, and more often than not lead to further deception and distraction. When a deconstruction is not thorough enough, it will result in more construction. Making the relative into an absolute while sitting in the relative domain is a big oversight. Nobody's disputing that at the end of the day all the truth-seeking and awakening is a preference/bias/hobby, this fits perfectly well into the larger point. Bottomless delusion is the point, that's the whole structure of reality. Truth is the mechanism of delusion (short ver.: Truth is delusion). Truth being too sacred to deconstruct is a projection, if it's true it will withstand all deconstruction. And it will, because there's nothing there to deconstruct. See if you can deconstruct that. But tread lightly. Maybe give How Your Mind Interprets Reality another watch, it is often overlooked. P.S.: your posts read much better without AI.

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Key word and a summary of the entire thread right there. "To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail" is a similar proverb. Forget Love and all that fluff for now, that can come later. Just like everyone else, regardless of the level of consciousness or any which arbitrary metric, you have the final say on the beliefs and values you hold, whether you call those truth or opinions or something else, and how you react to and relate to 'frames' presented by others (assuming you believe others exist in the first place). That's simply authority. It can be externalized, such as accepting/rejecting someone's authority on a particular matter, or trying to project yours onto others (the so-called 'spiritual authority game', which can just as well be political, scientific, etc.); but it's really an internal, inalienable faculty. Colloquially, the ultimate authority in reality is known as God. Take it at face value with all the cultural baggage, reject it altogether, or reinterpret it into something in-between based on your personal experiences — any choice requires employing your authority. Authority is used as unconsciously as consciousness, one is not more fundamental than the other. You exist, right? On whose authority? Existence, Consciousness, Authority, Reality, Truth, etc. are identical. Since "Seek, and ye shall find" is so universal, consider that it could also mean that there's nothing that cannot be found (everything exists, a.k.a. Infinity), and that whatever anyone finds could be the same thing appearing as different forms. And after all, isn't a reality where everyone finds exactly what they want the most loving and perfect way a reality could be?

Just the one: Reality is naught but a mindfuck. In other words, God's Mind making Love to itself, for all eternity. All phenomena without exception are mindfucks, originating from God imagining it exists. Chemical reactions, collisions of celestial bodies, propagation of sound waves, and any other physical processes are all mindfucks. Self-deception, assumptions, confusion, conformity, bias, erroneous beliefs... mindfucks all the same. Every emotion, including, necessarily, surprise, is a mindfuck. Understanding or lack thereof is a mindfuck, so is having insights. Grasping how Everything is Nothing or that Unity is Multiplicity is a mindfuck, and grasping how you are grasping this creates a layered mindfuck. Spirituality is just a quest for ever greater mindfucks, whether you realize and/or admit it or not. Why is doing any activity with awareness so exhausting? Precisely because in this limited state you've mindfucked yourself into, the depth & density of the recursion, interconnection, and self-reference is too much to handle, but there's always an apparently simpler mindfuck in the form of distraction to come to the rescue. I'm not saying anything particularly new here, merely wording it explicitly; if this text were a zip bomb, parsing it could lead to a headache, dismissal, agreement, a desire to argue, perhaps even a complete understanding of reality — any number of potential outcomes, all of which would of course be mindfucks. Don't think too hard about it. Enjoy the Process.

Nothing I said implies you have to make perfect use of your mind all the time (that's actually impossible) nor that suffering is bad in any way. On the contrary, it's the best self-correcting mechanism there is. Whether you're sure about this point or not is up to you to contemplate, I could of course just be talking out of my ass.

A little personal anecdote regarding life purpose and a few related matters: Yesterday I had a call with my lawyers (currently getting sued for alleged property damages during a terrace remodeling, details don't really matter), we were discussing options, the most viable of which is to countersue the company that did the construction work, but for that we must first try to reach a pretrial agreement notified via a certified letter. After the talk, while waiting for amendments agreed upon in the meeting, I re-read the initial draft they sent me, and decided to look up the law they cite. Turns out it's the wrong one, about animal wellbeing and whatnot, so I emailed them that correction + some extra thoughts. What's funny is that towards the end of the call we got into a minor argument regarding which documents to submit to court, and the lawyer started getting visibly offended saying "I'm not going to look like a fool in front of the judge, my professional reputation is also at stake here", so I had to diplomatically de-escalate to not hurt anyone's ego while still holding my ground; and then such a rudimentary mistake happens, talk about professionalism. These are by far and away the best lawyers I've found by the way, after seeing over a dozen, the others are complete buffoons. Later in the day after getting in touch with a prospective employer that happens to match my skillset and work style quite well I'm thinking of various things I can use to demonstrate my competence, and that email to the lawyers comes to mind (shows proficiency in Spanish incl. specialized legalese, attention to detail, polite communication, coming up with more efficient alternatives — all in one package). Satisfied, I go shower, but am still ruminating on that mistake — just what could animal wellbeing and pretrial agreements have in common?! Then it hits me: the acronym for the latter is MASC (Medios Adecuados de Solución de Controversias), and mascotas is 'pets'. They 100% used AI to draft the letter, it stupidly hallucinated the wrong law due to this random coincidence, and they didn't double-check. Moral of the story? First, the kind of wild insights that can happen through holistic thinking, connecting two seemingly entirely unrelated things. Second, they charge me 200€ for that one-page AI-generated letter, meanwhile I'm wasting my time over here generating fake billing addresses in North Carolina or the UAE to save a few euros on VAT in my online subscriptions. A ridiculous imbalance which ought to be corrected not even for egoic reasons (although it is smart to leverage the ego's moral outrage at this perceived injustice as fuel for motivation), but more fundamentally to recalibrate the scales of value. It's not limited to this particular domain or an individual's mind either. Couple of days ago I was doing a deal to sell some of my psychedelics to a friend, one of the items was an MDMA pill for which we agreed on 5€ — that's about the going market rate, so if I overshoot he'll go elsewhere, plus I obviously don't want to rip off a friend. But truly, the way things currently stand, a single effective session with M could save years and thousands in therapy bills, so the pill can easily be valued at 500€. What's 5€? Nothing, not even half of a decent takeout meal. In the future, if I'm financially successful, one of my main charitable endeavors will be making psychedelics cheaply & easily accessible, available, and acceptable for as many people as possible. Everyone's lost their minds when it comes to value of time and money, among other things. So start taking serious action, not only to avoid getting screwed over by the world yourself, but to counterbalance the degradation of collective consciousness, if only a little. The network effect will take care of the rest. There's gold waiting to be mined, and if no more gold remains, use your mind as a Philosopher's Stone to transmute scrap metals into gold. It's well within your abilities as God; trouble is, since you're also the ultimate authority, you may thoroughly convince yourself that you do not possess such an ability. For me, this whole experience eternally cemented the principle that all suffering whatsoever stems from an improper use of the mind. Bold claim, but give it some thought. Who's to say which uses are proper and which aren't? Well, one example of an improper use is relativizing everything while sitting in the relative domain. Only God has the privilege of holding Relativity as an absolute, that's what makes it Nothing/Everything/Undefined/Formless, and all the other properties we know and love. No such luxury for you, as you've dissociated from God, so it's no wonder we live in hell. What about children in Africa born into slavery, or some genetic disorder you have because a corrupt company has been polluting your city? Here comes separation again. Are Africa, DNA, oppressive ideologies, DuPont, air, and history not part of Mind? Therein lies the issue, a multi-thousand year history of misuses of mind, sowing divisions of all sorts. A proper use of an individual's mind will not automatically solve suffering, not even for them, much less the entire world, but what it can do is inspire love, connection, and beauty. Tip: drop the distinction between 'directly' and 'indirectly'; God only works directly. That's enough yapping for today I suppose, peace out.

Right-o. "If you begin to regret, you'll dull your future decisions and let others make your choices for you. All that's left for you then is to die. Nobody can foretell the outcome. Each decision you make holds meaning only by affecting your next decision." – Erwin Smith I recently came to the same conclusion. But man, this very requirement can ironically be the greatest challenge for some. Wrote this to a friend a couple weeks ago: Working out the details is an ongoing process, but I'm definitely on the right track now as I've finally embraced the arduous meta-challenge of generating challenges and enjoying it.