Joseph Maynor

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.

I think the most important thing for you right now would be to start an hour a day daily meditation habit. Do that for a year and see how that changes you. You will be amazed. How do I know? Because I did it myself.

Start doing Life Purpose Work. That's where Personal Development and Enlightenment have a baby. Get Leo's Life Purpose Course.

"I mean the kind of liberals who lost the value for family, respect for the elderly people, are agitating and promoting homosexuality ( while pretending that they are just defending their rights ) and etc. I think you understand what I mean." @egolessI don't see how or why these three traits need to be unified in one persona, namely the "liberal". Can't the "conservative" possess all three of these traits too? What does it mean to "agitate and promote homosexuality"? This sounds like some heavy stuff! So -- Liberals hate family, are nasty to old people, and pretend that they support homosexuals when in fact they do not. Where the hell did you pick this up! You got some issues that you need to clean out of your psyche regarding this. I know a lot of other people are choosing not to be as honest as I am choosing to be here. They aren't helping you by stroking your ego. Liberals are people too! Haha. Is there a liberal family member that you're gonna be seeing over Christmas that you're dreading? Did the crazy liberal aunt cross-swords with you last year?

I am unbelievably well! And you?

What does the Law of Attraction mean to you? Gimme a paragraph.

You gotta stop looking for something to cling to. The answer you're looking for is that happiness is not to be found in clinging. Just like truth is not to be found in meaning.

This is a good answer. It made me think over the course of a few days now. Chemistry is one of the most empirical of the sciences, so I applaud you for picking the hardest example in your favor for me to try and refute. I will not refute it, but I will attempt to deconstruct it a bit. What is Chemistry? What is a law of Chemistry? What is being associated with these "laws"? Sure, in a specific circumstance we can formulate certain rules of thumb that pertain to certain chemical changes that can be observed with the eye. But do those changes constitute laws directly, or is it only after the Mind gets involved that we see an extrapolation into laws. Laws are thoughts. Thoughts are not chemical changes. Chemical changes are not even analyzable into constituent parts, as Nature is not discrete in that way -- it's actually a mental metaphor being placed on top of reality that says this. I would be alive if I were not thinking, and thus I would be alive if laws didn't exist. I don't need thoughts to exist.

You gotta be able to transcend the Rationalist Paradigm. I'm not operating from the Rationalist Paradigm. Watch this video.

What does being a sage mean to you? Gimme a paragraph.

I've had some interesting dreams myself lately. When I wake up sometimes I'll take a few minutes and try to recollect a particularly strong dream. And sometimes I can recall bits of it. But a lot of it is usually lost too. I've also noticed that dreams usually relate to whatever I'm dealing with in reality. So, thematically, the dream might track something that you've been dealing with -- or maybe certain characters will be there because you've been thinking about them, perhaps subconsciously.

Theism means belief in a personal god or gods. I believed in a God that was working with me like a team member. More accurately, I was a worker-bee of God. God was actually my intuition that the Mind was making seem like a separate entity. So, my intuition is still there, but the stories are not. So, in a sense, I'm still religious, I just believe that God is not separate from myself now. So, my religion evolved to mysticism. God was never separate from me -- that was a false belief.

I distinctly recall moving from the Green Stage to the Yellow Stage. I was at the Green Stage almost all my life. When I hit the Yellow Stage, I became more about Personal Responsibility, and I became much more Libertarian in my political views. Today, I am pretty a-political. I don't identify with anything. When you no longer cling to beliefs, political ideologies become much less of an interesting thing. There's so much Ego in politics it's insane. So, when I became Yellow, in many ways I became more conservative in my views -- but I was still liberal, if that makes sense. I had totally dropped the victim mentality by Stage Yellow. My view is that Stage Yellow is the first of the Enlightened Stages. Turquoise is like the sustainable liberal. And Coral is . . . . I can't even speculate about what Coral is like.

1. How you earn your living is not properly tied to your authentic strengths and values. 2. You are stuck in the comfort-mentality. 3. You don’t yet know about all the Self-Help theory that you could be using. 4. You don’t really know much about the Authentic-Self and what it is strong in and what it values. 5. You don’t really have a long-term juicy vision for your life that is calculated to make you happier and happier as time goes on. If you haven’t started working on it — start working on Leo’s Life Purpose Course without delay. You’ll hit all of these bullet-points in that course.

I’m sure psychologists dislike it because they view it as pseudoscience and a threat to their counseling dollars. Same reason lawyers would throw a fit if there were really good legal resources that the public could buy on the shelves. A lot of self-help books are either too dense or contain too much fluff — there are few really well-written and edited self-help books around. I’ve literally read a self-help book that contained only one useful idea to me — but that idea is amazing. It was like digging into a pile of straw and finding a large diamond nestled at the bottom of it. It seems like the self-help publishers just want to move books, and a lot of self-help books contain a lot of inspiring anecdotal accounts and promises — but they fall-short on delivering many useful tools to the student reading the book. It’s like they get you all excited about a better life, but then leave the How-To up to you. Or the books are way too technical to ever be taken seriously by the reader. When you write (especially a book), you gotta always keep the reader squarely in mind. What does the reader need to know, how to communicate that to them, and then what tools can you give the reader to begin to apply the theory to obtain actual results from the work. As a writer, you should be able to apply your own theory and tools in your own life and get the promised results yourself. That’s a great test to keep self-help materials on-point and useful. But there’s a conflict of interest in that book publishers just want to sell as many books as possible.

Thanks, I’ll watch it now. Leo, I’m on board for the 10 year commitment. Let’s take the entire trip together. I started watching your videos in the summer of 2014, so that’s 3.5 years of investment for me so far. So, If we do another 10 years, that will be a total of 13.5 years of investment for me. Imagine where I’ll be then! I’ll be one very happy 50 year old!

This is beautiful and so true. Compassion will be increased for you as you raise your consciousness. Even people who are tough-minded and logical like me can become compassionate, which is shocking to me. The reason is that I spent a lot of my life basically hating people, and now I do so much to try to help people. I realize now that it was by breaking down the Ego that released that compassion in me. And now compassion, or love is coming out of me much more than ever before. And since I’ve been doing Life Purpose work lately, I see that compassion is what you want to ground your Life Purpose in — aka creative contribution. The language of love is a real language and we all can learn to communicate with it. We all want to be happy and we want to do it on our own. Compassion is a great way to increase happiness. You can think of it as building Positive Karma.

I went through months of that stage. Your emotions, passions, interests will come back to you. What you need to realize is the the Ego has been blasted into a thousand pieces. The pieces will come back together for you, and when they do, you’ll be more aligned with your Authentic-Self which is the Higher-Self. What you need to do now is Life Purpose work to make sure that when the Ego settles back in, the Mind is not trying to force it back into old bad habits, which is what it will try to do. So, you should start doing Leo’s Life Purpose Course right away to get on track with making sure your Authentic-Self seats right when the Ego starts to coalesce again for you.

I’ve done LSD three times now, all with four tabs. Here’s some advice. Do it alone. Don’t worry about freaking-out. You need to learn to detach from thoughts, don’t let the thoughts suck you in too much. Start to see how reality becomes very neutral. Start to realize how impulsive the Mind is and how it rarely wants to just surrender to the Now. Notice when impatience arises, that’s you living in the Mind. Just try to be in the present moment and be aware. Take everything in in the Now. Be like a spectator. Do some journaling in writing during the trip if you feel like recording insights. Pay attention to changes in how you are feeling from what normal consciousness is like. You might become more caring and more loving.

All of this resonates with me. Thanks!