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After watching Leo's latest video I was inspired to make the song that is linked below. No End No Death - Song So, as a musician and a spiritual person, I have always wanted to blend the two. Now really what I mean in the long run is it would be awesome if I could make music that induces trance-like states in people. I am thinking about it making my own personal study to do this. I also wanted to touch on this idea of "Spiritual Music". I know in the title of the song on YouTube I call it a Spiritual Rock Song. But really what I am saying that it is pointing to a spiritual experience/experience of the infinite freefall. When you become immortal and everything you know falls away. I tend to find most music labeled as spiritual rather boring and cliche. But this is just me. Hopefully, I can add my own spin on the genre and come up with something new. I would like to hear your thoughts on spiritual music. Thank you so much! May you be blessed!

Hello everyone, I just wanted to make a post about something that I have noticed. In some circles, enlightenment is seen like becoming the Christ in and is treated with as much suspicion. I see a lot of well-meaning spiritual people judge and criticize "normal" people and other spiritual people they as less than. Ego is treated as evil and the cause of all problems and people shield themselves with negativity with visualizations. Now, this is just from my experience. I am not saying this is wrong or bad but I see it comes from a place of fear. I feel somewhere along the way we have missed something. I do not feel spirituality is a means to self-importance, nor is spirituality really the answer to all problems, nor a way to escape reality and avoid the "darkness". If you do this that is fine I understand the innocence of it. Through my experience love has squashed all dogma out of me, and has fully integrated me. Now, I realize that I may be speaking from an odd place. I've been very spiritually aware since I was young and I do consider myself to be enlightened. I literally see an energy field of light all of the time. But after that experince, it was only love that satisfied me. It was only opening up to a love that allowed my deepest and fullest awakenings to occur, and now a regular basis I become infinite just sitting and meditating. But from this place may I offer some insights or ideas for thinking about all of this: The divine is taking care of you. It wants to be you. It set all of this up for you. Nothing in you is wrong or less than To integrate is to love something and bring back into your being Love has no reason, so love freely All of your spiritual insights will not save you and will have to cast away to open up to the full beautiful radiance of the divine. All things are here for your highest evolution. This is a fun game the divine is having with itself Being human is a gift, having a mind and thoughts are also gifts Feelings and sensations are also gifts Desires are perfect as well All insights are temporary and fleeting the universe is always changing You have no control and you are innocent You are your own authority So, from that point, what are you still trying to kill inside yourself? What are you trying to purge yourself of? The divine? Are you making yourself less than the perfection you are in hopes that eventually God will let you have your awakening and free you of everything? What if you teamed up with the divine and admired and loved you like the divine always will? This is just a different way of looking at things. Take this as you will. I just hope that it will inspire you to love yourself more.

@VeganAwake It is more like feeling safe enough to do things without knowing the reason why. We are told we need to know why we do what we do. But honestly, you spend all of time and space thinking of reasons why you do what you do, why you are attracted to what you are attracted to, and so on. If we look at a child they have for the sake of having fun, they enjoy the reasonless joy. Love in its purest form does not need to come up with reasons why it loves something it just does and it is okay with that.

@Gili Trawangan Good question. So, let me say it this way. I don't think you can get to the higher states of awakening by hating and demonizing the ego. Now, doing meditation is not going against the ego or against yourself. Now, if your intent is to sit there and rid yourself of ego then that can be a problem. I have found self-love to be a very potent spiritual practice. It is not like I have forgown spiritual practice, in fact, they have become extremely pleasurable for me to do. The impulse to watch TV or anything else like that you might think that it comes from the ego, but really it is a conditioned response to deal with emotions we don't want to deal with. If you can catch yourself and love the desire to watch TV love yourself while watching TV and love everything that is going on and fully committed to it you won't want to do it all the time. The more you declare everything to be the divine (I call it the light) the more you love every experience the closer you will be to awakening. The struggle is to love the things you have rejected and are afraid of. But we do the struggle because we know we are worth it and are willing to love ourselves rather than try to purify ourselves. Love will purify you but once you reach purity it is not what you thought it was (purity is having no reasons). This is how I quit smoking. I didn't force myself to quit I made it so totally okay and I loved every part of it that my being had nothing else to learn from it and dropped the habit really quickly. Everything in your experience can be used to further your spiritual evolution.

@Nahm Exactly. It is a subtle judgment of thoughts and feelings. It's like they just want our loving attention, respect, and to be recognized as divinity. Though I do find it all to be fun. It's like God made all of this so tricky and hard so it could just experience the pleasure of love melting away all the pain. What else is God going to do for all of eternity? Though I can understand people wanting an escape. But to me, that means that don't have a good relationship with themselves, which arises from the way we are raised. They try to parent themselves as their parents did. Treating God as though it is their parent, not being open to the idea that no matter what they are loved, understood, and accepted. But still this all part of the innocent fun God is having with itself.

@Leo Gura I know I'm kinda jumping in late but I would love to hear your perspective on these things. Please do shoot the video and share it on YouTube. I'm excited to see where your content is going to go from here. I will love and support you always. Thank you!

@Leo Gura I just finished watching the video. I was just wanna tell you I laughed the whole time. I am so happy you have seen it. Thank you for sharing! I too have stopped listening to spiritual teachers. It's alright. Everything is alright. Everything will always be okay. We are all in heaven. Thank you for sharing Leo. And I totally understand the whole "Have I go insane? Why yes! Buckle up we are going off-roading!" hahahaha You can now love and admire yourself like God always will.

Hello, Something has happened. But it has always been here. It's always been. About four days ago I dissolved completely. I merged with God. There is no death. Life is so extremely beautiful now. All are saved. We are all in heaven. This happened to me while I was completely sober (no psychs). I had such an intense awakening I don't think I can come back. I can't even tell you what enlightenment is anymore. It feels so obvious. I've had a smile on my face for days now. My face muscles actually feel pain from it. The awaking happened after I overcame my fear of God (or being infinite). Then I felt like I was catapulted to heaven. I literally orgasmed without touching myself. My jaw stayed open for an hour as I stood there in aww of what I am, what god is. what this all is. I don't have any more questions. It's all goodness. I am posting this here to see if anyone has had a similar experience? I can't really put it into words. It just feels like everything is okay and will always be okay. It feels like I am home and I never left. All I feel is love arising. Thank you for reading! May you be blessed!

@zeroISinfinity Thank you for your input. Though I realize my words can't contain what really happened. I've had many experiences in the past. But this one was the deepest. A total surrender of everything. So, let me try to describe the feeling better. Everything I experience is me. All people are my family. There is only one. Though calling it one does not even come close to how one it is. It's so one calling it doesn't make sense. All the words I'm using are from inside of it. But I can't describe something if I am inside of it. I feel like I'm in the sun. My visual perception has become more bright. I don't feel fear. I feel an innocent joy. Even if a thought or emotion comes up I instally love it no questions asked. May you be blessed

If you come to Detroit or Chicago I could possibly get time off to come to see you. I am going to school in U.P of Michigan so either way, it will be like a 10 hour drive to Detroit or Chicago for me. Anywho thanks man! I hope it goes well for you!

I have recently started to Matt Kahn. He is kinda out there but I resonate with him. Anyway, he suggested something in one of his videos I have been doing for about a month now. I am starting to feel quit amazing for doing it. I have been silently blessing people. Basically saying "May you be blessed with (love,light.abudance,health.....)" It has been very effective of getting me out of my normal patterns of thought and really creating a tremendous positive focus. I feel like I am just gushing love and have a smile when walking around. Now there is time when I feel I need to focus on myself. I've done it so much now that it just feels natural. I feel like I am turning anything negative into a positive. Inviting the darkness into the light. Brining it home. Has anyone tried this? I just feel my heart opening up from this. Just from silent bless yous. I understand on a deep level that all people I see are just parts of me. So, it's like when I am dissolving the boundary. When loving the "other" I love myself more. Thank you for reading this. I would be interested to hear your thoughts on this.

This will be a story about my experience with developing psychic abilities. I am only doing this for educational purposes. I do not recommend anything I did. Also note that everything I say is not provable. I am only recounting my personal experience. I am now 22. I have changed a whole hell of a lot. I follow a very heart centered path now. Keep an open mind here. Reality is weirder than you could ever imagaine. When I was about 13-14 I started getting into Black Metal. Which lead me to Satanism. Like many young man I felt weak and wanted something to feel powerful. I was heavily bullied at school and needed something to feel strong about. I do not associate with Satanism at all anymore. My parents are atheist and never taught me about religion. When I realized I was gay my dislike of Christianity grew very intense. I hated religion (but somehow found myself in a even crazier religion - let’s just say I was at stage blue/orange in this time of my life). I started pouring over the Joy Of Satan website. The website looks like it is something right from the 90s. Please note I was not aware of their anti-semitic nature until later in my life. I was more concerned with their spiritual teachings. I do not endorse them what so ever. I would say only look at the site for entertainment purposes. I will not link it here. On their site they had a list of meditation to open chakras, energy meditations, and meditations to open psychic centers. When I found this I went to town on them. I meditated everyday. I erracted a huge Satanic altar and did rituals. I tried to summon demons and open portals. I got very good at meditating and doing the visualizations. Maybe because I honestly believed in what I was doing. Most kids went home to play video games I went home to worship the devil and try to see demons. I at one point tried to literally sell my soul for better musical ability. I laugh at this now. So, through all of this work I was able to see my aura. After many attempts I was able to see a blue energy emanating from my body. I was also able to meditate myself into a highly euphoric state (like that of cannabis use). My rituals were filled with energy. I developed a keen sense of intuition. At first it was interesting and my rituals became more intense. My sister (who also into this stuff) was able to speak to me from a distant without saying a word. She also told me that should could hear bells after she opened her psychic hearing. One day after I came home from school. Something very scary happened. It felt like there was someone else in my head. I felt like I was being attacked. I thought the evil of the world was coming to kill me. I could hear voices that were not mine. This prompted me to stop what I was doing. I had the biggest ego backlash every. I became a hard nose rationalist. I turned away from spirituality. I went on a binge of self destruction that lasted years. I didn’t want to feel like I was part of an unseen world filled with beings that might want to hurt me. I turned to drugs to basically numb myself of these extrasensory feelings. This does not prove there is a heaven or hell. This does not prove that there is alien force trying to get you. This honestly proves very little. Now I am left with some things. I did have a full Kundalini awakening at age 15. I sometimes have the feelings of a presence (ghost, angels, whatever else). I have been able to channel different things. I can occasionally see my aura. My third eye goes crazy sometimes. This stuff is not for everyone. It can be quite intense. I can’t really tell you how it exist. When I did these things when I was younger I was not very heart centered. I was full of fear and powerlessness. I guess I did it for all the wrong reasons and it bit back at me hard. Now my spiritual path is very deep and intense. I have had several profound awakening experiences. I have even experienced my own death several times. I feel the truth is not really speakable. In the silence I know all I need to. I do not pursue this stuff anymore. I work on my chakras every now and then. I do see it as a sidetrack to a spiritual practice. I would say don’t chase after this stuff. It will reflect back to you all the negativity you harbor. If you do so do it out of love. I thank Leo for bringing me back to a pure spiritual path. I am now 22. I am going to college for Sound Design. I am working on being a musician. I am the happiest I ever been. Sober and very health conscious. I blessed to be where I am now. Thank you for reading this. May you be blessed

@Recursoinominado I heard it one or maybe serval of his videos. I am sure if you go to his YouTube channel you will find a lecture where he talks about it. I am working through his book "Everything is Here to Help You". @WindInTheLeaf i am well aware of that meme. I think I saw the actual Adult Swim bump of it. I can understand how it could lead to that. But I don't think Matt is advocating becoming a total pacifist. Nor do I feel like staying in an abusive or troubling situation because of it. I am only speaking from direct experience of how this makes me feel. I have also noticed it has made it easier to make more inspired choices throughout the day. I feel that it defiantly softens the egos controlling nature to wish well on another. I will admit when I first started my mind would say "this is stupid" and other things along that line. But as I pressed forwarded with my normal state has become more positive. I feel more inclined to take actions that are for my and the collective highest good. @Torkys Yes I do feel that is kind of the essence of what he is doing. I found the repressing the negative does not make it go away. Only inviting it to the warm loving glow of your consciousness does it seem to loosen it's grip on you. I feel almost that the negative is innocent and craving the love and light that you hold. Brining it back to God by accepting it as a unique expression of source. I understand that this can seem radical. Also, please understand that I am not perfect. Sometimes I can get lost in my head but this helps me brining it back. This has not stopped me from negative feelings but it has liberated me from the guilt of feeling such things. I also found that this exercise coupled with the Sedona Method has helped me do a complete 180 in my emotional experience.

@Leo Gura Hey if it's worth doing it worth doing right. I appreciate all the work you put into your videos. All of them are truly gifts. May you be blessed.

I feel that my life purpose is something to do with music. I want to be a musician. I am currently studying sound design at college and making music on the side. So, it is going to be my career when I graduate. I could get stuck writing pieces for commercials (I would like to avoid that). I have had trouble understanding how music could fit in with a spiritual life. I would like to become a Sage (meaning I am bought into the vision of current incarnation of Actualized.org). In Leo's video about becoming a Sage, he really inspired me to use my life purpose as a way to raise people's consciousness. So, my questions are as follows. Are there any known Sages that played music? What is conscious music? Should the music inspire consciousness in people or should it be made consciously? How can music be helpful to humanity in a practical sense? Do you know of any music that you feel raises consciousness? What potential traps await for me in the pursuit? Are there any bios of musicians I should read? I realize that this will set me outside of main music industry. So, I might need to have other things going on just to sustain myself. If you have any ideas please share. If you any books I should read or videos to watch please leave a link. I would like to develop a deeper understanding of where music comes from and how it fits into our humanity. Also, I have been looking at Shamanic music. I find it interesting that it is used for meditative or healing purposes. Maybe there is a way I can create something like that with the instruments I am skilled at. I know there is a lot of "Spiritual Music" on youtube but I don't know if that is exactly what I would want to do. I am currently thinking that a way I could raise consciousness through music is by infusing the lyrics with high consciousness ideas. I think of it as planting seeds in people's minds. The music underneath will be there to enhance the message. My worry would be I would run out of ideas for lyrics. Anyway...... Thank you for your time I look forward to reading your responses.

Thank you for the replies. I think I have a better sense of things now. Maybe I was confused but relooking at Leo's video on art and your comments put things back into alignment. I feel encouraged to proceed. Thank you