Joseph Maynor

A very expensive bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon for my wine collection. Leo’s Life Purpose Course (I got this one a month early), but it was a Christmas gift too.

Not necessarily. See, that seems right to you because you are assuming that meanings can be true — which is a belief, a paradigm. Thoughts can be used in many more ways than that — which is actually how we use them. But the Mind is insistent on assuming that meanings are things that are true and false.

Be careful. Take the concepts Leo is giving you and contemplate and formulate them for yourself. A borrowed Spirituality is not a genuine Spirituality. You need to be influenced by Leo — not a follower of Leo. You need to be coming up with your own authentic meanings for the words that Leo exposes to you.

Use the Socratic Method. This is where you take nothing for granted. E.g. What is the Socratic method? What is a Method? What is Socratic? What does it mean to take nothing for granted? What does it mean to mean? What is a question? What is truth? What is a belief?

You can think of it as accepting a paradox that says that we both do and do not have control. Just like you both are and are not a self. That’s another useful paradox to loosely cling to.

The solution is to do Life Purpose work. Start Leo’s Life Purpose Course asap.

You are uniting too many theories here and then trying to infer facts about reality from that. That is a recipe for an incorrect result. Nice try, but reality has to be observed in a kind of non-theoretical way to get at its properties.

I put in a good solid 4 hours of personal development work per day plus 2 hours of meditation. I’d say out of the 4 hours spent on personal development, a good hour per day is spent on contemplation.

You need to set up strategies for each one: Internet: Get blocksite software that blocks problem internet sites. Put your phone in grayscale mode and get blocksite software for your phone too. Porn: Block all the Internet porn sites. Sugar: Stop eating candy, adding sugar into things, and drinking sugary beverages. Get rid of sugar that is around the house.

You’re on the right track in that you are contemplating very hard. But your understanding of Enlightenment needs more work. One major insight of Enlightenment is that reality differs substantially from what the Mind thinks reality is. So, you need to contemplate that issue fully. That’s one issue that Enlightenment tries to explore.

Curious. Let's discuss. Please read this first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_rehabilitation

Music can be very destructive. Drugs give musicians the space they need to create while being in a tense environment. I know that on the bandstand playing jazz, it’s very hard to focus on all the things that musicians are worried about, and drugs really help to maintain that focus on your own sound and what you are doing musically to make the whole band sound good in the moment. I gave up playing jazz because I really had a hard time playing (and practicing) music sober. It kind of justifies your addictions because you need it to get that great music out of you. Otherwise you can’t work. That’s the dangerous rationalization.

Frank Zappa was anti-drugs, but he smoked cigarettes.

When the Ego and the Shadow merged for me for the first time in March of this year. It was my Dark Night of the Soul experience. But the entire thing was a very wild ride and very memorable. The second would be my first trip on LSD, which was about a month ago. That trip had everything — the right amount of insights, feelings, awareness, takeaways.

If you believe you are, then you are. If you believe you’re not, then you’re not. So, strategically, how do we get you to detach from the belief that you are unlovable and to cling to the belief that you are? Also, you’re as lovable as you believe you are. Don’t look to external reality to weigh in on this issue. If you turn this into an inner-game issue, nothing external can affect how lovable you feel you are.

The infinity idea never really resonated with me much. I just call it nothingness or everything. I also call it the Universe when I want to give it a metaphorical persona. Time is a concept that we use to theorize about change. But all change is an illusion because the Now never changes.

You should start working on Leo’s Life Purpose Course without delay. That will take up your evenings for a while. And you’ll develop a great insight into your deepest passion.

Get her involved in a project that she will enjoy where she has to be responsible and do project management. It’s almost like she needs a job.

This is an interesting insight I had.

Is this some kind of Ego-Backlash? Why would there be one if this is our passion? By the way folks -- I finally constructed my Life Purpose: Zone of Genius: Deep-diving issues; analyzing, assessing, and contextualizing them; and reporting insights in writing and perhaps through other media. Impact Statement: Helping people (including myself) strategically increase levels of self-acceptance and acceptance of reality through optimizing the use of the Mind through work in Personal Development, Philosophy, and Spirituality. My Life Purpose is: To deep-dive issues; to analyze, assess, and contextualize them; and to report insights through writing and perhaps through other media; helping people (including myself) strategically increase levels of self-acceptance and acceptance of reality through optimizing the use of the Mind through work in Personal Development, Philosophy, and Spirituality. Ideal Medium: Writing, Audio. Domain of Mastery: Self-acceptance, acceptance of reality. Ya'll gotta buy and do Leo's Life Purpose Course! It's very well done. That's what I used.

I recognize the same people here that I've preferred to associate with my whole life. People that are willing to be themselves no matter what -- and to pay the price for that authenticity by being hated and facing adversity in life. Videos on Point to Watch:

Nope. All you can do is get you more in tune with reality. There are no easy answers. Here's the thing, I'll say this. If there is an Astrology -- it's gonna come authentically out of you. And then we're just playing a game of semantics because it's a given that intuition is real, and a valuable source of insight. Video to Watch:

Thank you. Can you watch two more videos for me? Then give me your final argument and I will respond to that.

Satie is amazing. When I was coming down from LSD I listened to him and could make out the musical structures he was painting with that piano! That's called musical story-telling. His range and use of chords is amazing. He is like a painter that became a piano player. And he plays with so much heart and he takes his time. You can tell that he basically just played to himself in an empty room and that was his composition medium. They call this furniture music -- or piano music haha. Imagine sitting in and old wooden room on a wooden chair listening to Satie play the piano, maybe with a few other people in attendance. That's performance art at its finest. And then you have the great acoustics of the piano resonating with the room. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie

These all sound like platitudes taken verbatim from Leo's videos. Let's deep-dive these issues to get at what is really understood here. You need to be able to define all of these platitudes yourself -- to give them a rich, solid, pragmatic, useful meaning. Your concepts should be juicy and overflowing with practical and everyday use. The only way you get that is by contemplating this stuff for yourself. Enlightenment is not an ideology that you can memorize in a couple-few platitudes that we can stick on a page and distribute one-size-fits-all to the masses. This theory needs to be CREATED and OWNED by YOU. You need to build your own Enlightenment Theory brick by brick. You need to blow a rich meaning into these concepts for yourself. Stop looking to cling to beliefs generated by a Mind that is not your own. That's just your starting point, never your end-point. Take what Leo has given you -- and look at it like an influence but not the result of the concepts that YOU will create for yourself. That's what authenticity is. You need to be using the shit out of the Socratic Method. Take nothing for granted in this work. I've shown you how to apply the Socratic Method in bold below. I create my own reality. What is reality? What does it mean to create your own reality? Truth is unachiavable. What is truth? Why is truth achievable? What is achieved? Rabbit hole goes infinitely deep. What the hell are you talking about here? This makes no sense. Once I understand that I start to live again. I come back to reality. Ditto. This is the only thing what’s real. What is the only thing that's real? What does it mean to be real? No sense in wondering in the infinite rabbit hole. What does it mean to wonder in the infinite rabbit hole? What is the infinite rabbit hole? What does it mean to wonder? No need to become god as it is already the case. What is god? What are you? Why do you think that you are god? Why are you certain that you know that you already are god? There is a need to become a human again. I create my own reality... Who are you? What is reality? What does it mean that you create your own reality? Is your own reality specific to you? Why do you think you were a human before? If you're not a human, then what are you? What does it mean to be a human? I am always alone. I am never alone. What the hell are you talking about here? This makes no sense.