Joseph Maynor

Nice work. What you work on is what you improve in life.

Wow, this is an interesting question. Judgments are more statements about the truth of the matter than analysis is. A judgment is me saying -- this statement is conceptually true, it's reasonable to accept. Analysis is usually in the reasoning that supports a judgment. Analysis is the dance that's done to try to support the conclusory statement or judgment. Analysis goes into the support for your judgments. A judgment is saying this is the way things are, or this is good or bad, etc. A judgment is some kind of conclusion, whether that's stated as just a personal preference or the truth of the matter. I like Rolling Rock beer is a judgment but I'm not making a statement about the truth of the matter, I'm just stating my preference. But most judgments are stated like they're matters of fact about reality. You can see that. People always do this. People are always saying, "This is how things are . . . ." But they don't realize that they're just trapping themselves in their own limiting-beliefs.

The thoughts that come up are crazy. I always get this one after almost every thought. "What do I think about that?" So, I'll have some thought, and then I'll get that neurotic nagging second thought -- "what do I think about that?" It just pops up. And it can lure me into losing myself in thought. Now I notice it and I don't comply with it. I realize it's the Devil. The Devil is the lure into Maya, the lure into the illusion of Thought in this instance. The Devil is constantly trying to lure me into Thought. But see, I notice it now, and I can put the fire out when it's small just by not complying. But see, to not comply you have to notice it and notice that it's a lure into birds in the bush a.k.a. forgetting about the present bird in hand and getting lost in all kinds of basically daydreams.

You have to get to the point where you can see and catch your own bullshit. Now, be careful with this statement because it sounds pithy and you might agree with it. But this is not a belief or a statement, this is a practice. You have to get to the point where you can actually see and actually catch your own bullshit. And you can do this more and more the higher consciousness you become.

I found Physics to be incredibly fascinating when I was studying it. I was into Mathematical Physics. I was also heavily into Mathematics too. I also find Astronomy to be incredibly fascinating. Not so much now, but when I was in my 20's it was. My real passion was Mathematics though. I flirted with double-majoring in Mathematics and Philosophy -- but I ended up just doing the Philosophy. But I think if I could have done a three-way major in college it would have been Physics, Mathematics, and Philosophy. I'm 40 now. If I were going to college today I would probably do a three-way major of Music, Computer Science, and Law School. So, your question is how to make science interesting. I don't know how to answer this because I was always interested in science. I was much more interested in science in school than I was all the other subjects. So, I never had to force myself too hard to be interested in science. Now, there are some sciences I was more interested in than others. I went through a phase where I was very interested in psychology for example. Once I discovered philosophy though, science started to take a back-seat for me.

There's some truth to this, although I don't want to agree or disagree with too much of what you said. Personal Development has three major elements to it and the best teachers are keen at all three: Life Purpose Work: Small Picture and Big Picture Conceptual Understanding Work Enlightenment Work

All the blueprint videos are on YouTube.

Does reality have facets? Is that actual or a thought-story? What would it mean and require for reality to actually have facets? How would that be confirmed by seeing? This concept that reality has facets makes no sense to me. Reality just is what it is, there's nothing hidden there. You're not watching three movies at once, you're watching one movie at a time. Or one movie after another in succession. Think about your actual experience -- are there facets to that? How does that even make sense? What would we have to do to make that make sense?

I'm pretty sure it's one of the 2014 - 2015 videos

Give me a few more details that you can remember. I've watched all Leo's videos several times.

Good question. Because what's actual is not a paradigm. That's the kicker. What is actually there in Experience and Thought is not a paradigm. Paradigms are thought-stories. There's an actual aspect to paradigms to the extent that bits of Thought are actual in Experience. But what Thoughts say is a paradigm. The voice of thoughts, the mouth of thoughts is a paradigm. That's where you start getting meaning and language involved. But being aware of what's actual in Experience in the moment has nothing to do with thought-stories. In fact there may not even be a Thought in your Awareness. For example, when you look at "your hand" there may not even be a single thought-story in your Awareness. Green and Turquoise cling too hard to this idea that everything is a paradigm -- which is simply a thought-story being laid on top of what's actual. Plus it's a limiting belief too. You're never gonna find what's actual if you're clinging to the Thought that "everything is a paradigm". You're not going to even consider as a possibility the fact that what's actual is not a paradigm. I see so many people on the Path being trapped by this limiting belief that Thought is somehow at the essence of everything and more or less touches everything. No it doesn't. And you can experience this for yourself if you become very literal minded and pay attention to what's actual versus what's augmented by Thought in the moment.

You very much can know if you're deceiving yourself or if you're locked in a paradigm. I've been preaching about this for months now. In fact you saying you can never know — that is you clinging to a Thought. Seeing through the illusion of Maya just is you seeing exactly how you're deceiving yourself. Be careful with clinging to "you can never know this or that" statements. Those statements are Thoughts.

Set a limit like you can only look at your phone for 5 mins max every hour. And keep a log of your time as well every hour. Try to get everything done you need to get done in that 5 minute window every hour. Now, if you take a call that doesn't count. But just you surfing the phone, that's 5 minutes max every hour. But you gotta keep a log or something to make yourself accountable to that.

What's the one way that you can uniquely give back to the world which is a way that you would feel proud to give back to the world? I would recommend Leo's Life Purpose to dig this out because it's not always obvious. Big Picture Life Purpose Work really requires doing Leo's Life Purpose Course as a prerequisite, having done the course myself. But you can start thinking: What am I already doing and passionate about where I feel like I could give something back to the world and make that my career over time?

Your own life is a mindfuck movie. Not you specifically, but all of our lives. Experience is a poorly-edited mindfuck movie. You don’t need to watch any movies, just start to see your life as a movie. You don’t really need anything other than self-observation.

Totally. Taking cold showers basically increases your pain threshold so you're calmer all around and can weather conflict whether physical or emotional much more. Also, you'll become more assertive too because you'll be less fearful of painful repercussions from being honest and truthful. Combine cold showers with daily cardio and daily resistance training. I do pushups and situps and stair-climbing every day. I also ride my exercise bike for 30 minutes every day. And of course I meditate every day. You'll be calm, strong, and assertive if you do that. You'll feel powerful. You won't be as averse to being ripped out of your comfort-zone. It's people that feel weak that will do everything they can to stay in their comfort-zone. And you don't have to do it for very long, just work up to 20 seconds at the end of your shower. At first you won't even be able to do 4 seconds. Oh yeah, count like this: One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Three Mississippi. Also, what I do is before I turn the water to cold, I first turn it up to as hot as I can stand it, then I turn it to cold. Spin around under the shower head too so the water goes over your head back and shoulders evenly. So, you spin your body around while you're counting under the cold water. I do this for 20 seconds which is a long time under a cold tap. But it works. That's what I like about it, there's results. Tony Robbins talks about how he has an ice bath that he full body submerges in every day. Same concept. I even heard him say that when he doesn't have access to his ice bath due to travel, he'll jump into ice cold water like a lake or something and swim around for a while.

I think Leo would catch a bunch of shit if he says he's Enlightened so he probably doesn't want to admit that even if he is -- and I think he is Enlightened to a degree, of course! The trolls on the Internet would have a field day with that though if Leo said he's Enlightened. In fact, I catch a bunch of shit saying I'm Enlightened, but the difference is I don't give a damn what other people think about me -- and also to be fair to Leo, I'm not making my living in this work so I can piss people off without a care. If the truth hurts, so be it. There's no reason for me not to tell the truth as I see it. No skin off my back. And also they're degrees to being Enlightened. Enlightened Stage Turquoise is different from Enlightened Stage Coral. Enlightened Stage Blue, Enlightened Stage Green, and Enlightened Stage Yellow also have their own characteristics and quirks. A lot of it comes down to how the various Spiral Stages think differently about Metaphysics and Epistemology.

Yes. I have a degree in philosophy and it has paid off for me enormously. It will pay off in your life not necessarily financially though.

Exactly. You're still young, but you'll put yourself way ahead of others if you can be honest and assertive such that you know yourself deeply and speak with one voice to everyone. I was full of shit for most of my 20's and I suffered a lot for it. My 20's was not my best decade. And that's too bad because there's so much to experience in your 20's. I had way too much Ego and was may too immature in my 20's. I know some troll on here is gonna retort -- "you're like that now Joseph!" Haha, I can anticipate the trollish comments on here at this point! Don't feed the bears, don't feed the trolls.

Las Vegas Consciousness is even more of an abstraction than thinking there's more than one Consciousness haha. There's only one Awareness. That can be confirmed if you pay attention to what's actually there vs. what the mind (lack of keen Awareness) takes to be there. I wish people wouldn't use the word "Consciousness" so much, it's much more vague, ambiguous, and abstract than the more concrete "Awareness" is. I have a bone to pick with "Truth" too -- use the much more concrete term "Actual". The issue is what's Actual vs. what's augmented by a greater or lesser degree with Thought. Think of how much of what you think is real is augmented by Thought versus what you can see is Actually there. What's the gulf of separation between the two? That's your job to be the kind of person who notices that. Most people don't notice that. Even very advanced people on the Enlightenment Path don't notice the true difference between Actuality and a Thought-augmented reality.

Wow you do 5 mins, I’m impressed. I do about 20 seconds of cold shower at the end of my morning shower. It makes me tough as shit. That along with working out everyday.

Ok, I think most generally purpose is preference. It’s the Ego preferring reality to be one way rather than another. Because complex systems have preference they have purpose. Preference leads to purpose.

Red. Same as Trump. Red masquerading as Blue.

People assume Consciousness is a container that contains stuff. But see that’s clinging to a Thought about reality. To me, instead of thinking of myself as the void, I think of myself as Awareness of what’s actual vs. the illusions of Maya a.k.a. the illusions of Thought and Experience.