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I have had one of the most mind-blowing mystical experiences with basic hatha yoga asanas + basic pranayamas (with a low dose of weed). I don't know how to call it (maybe a minor satori), but my visual field became full of colorful mandalas (pretty much what i get from smoking DMT), everything and everyone were in perfect "sync" (i was in a public place, at a carnival), i realized that all is absolutely perfect; all my fears and doubts disappeared, and i felt one with the moment, i was super present ("in state" like the pickup guys call it). I remember i started to walk through the crowd and had this feeling that everyone was getting out of my way and everything was working out great. This feeling lasted for 20 minutes until i saw a robbery and my survival kicked it lol

ex-Yoga Teacher here. Most people do it because it's trendy (when it was). What they want more is to get pretty pictures and videos to post on social media. I live in a huge capital in Brazil but Yoga here is weak; we have almost zero big studios, i know basically zero people that practices it. Lately, something interesting happened: an expensive studio suddenly became VIRAL on Instagram; I've seen many influencers posting photos from classes because the room was fucking aesthetic! I've seen many women I've personally known who NEVER practiced before, never even talked about yoga, but were posting stories from the studio because it was fucking aesthetic and trendy to post. PEOPLE WERE GOING THERE ONLY TO TAKE A FUCKING AESTHETIC PICTURE TO POST ON INSTAGRAM. That's how much people "like" it, only in proportion that they gain something on social media by posting it.

Yes, you are. Living an entire human life without once taken psychedelics is a waste, imo. The first time i took them, i was like that GOT meme: "you know NOTHING, bro". I've realized how much i didn't know about Reality and how wrong I was about my assumptions of it. At 22 years old, I thought I had a grasp of the basics of Reality, i was an atheist and, BOY, I WAS WRONG. Now, every day I have to fight the urge to feel like that judgmental 80-year-old man looking at young people and thinking, "you don't know how much you don't know".

Plus from the other candidates, plus some from Flavio itself. Lula gained 10.38 million votes and Flávio gained 3.72 million, so the two finalists gained 14.10 million combined. The candidates eliminated in the first round had received 9.32 million votes, and the total number of valid votes increased by 4.78 million. 9.32 million + 4.78 million = 14.10 million.

Millions of people who didn't vote in the first turn voted in the second turn. The left had a wake-up call after the first defeat and started an unprecedented, massive campaign online and on the streets. A politician called Janones created a channel on WhatsApp with 11 million people, all united in one strategy to boost leftist posts on social media with massive engagement. Also, many old people who don't normally vote were brought in to vote in the second round for Lula. I am talking about people 70+ years old who aren't obligated to vote anymore but went anyway to vote for Lula because he is that popular. Old people, especially poor old people love Lula because they know and remember what he had done for them, which isn't the case for younger people who was born into a better Brazil because of Lula and they don't know how bad it was before him.

I am glad you have grown!

We fcking WON!! It was an ecstatic moment! 4 rough years ahead, and no one like Lula in 2030, but today is for celebration.

We have many problems, but Rio is a particularly bad place in Brazil. Rio is dominated by organized crime and militias (basically ex-cops and ex-military guys who started criminal organizations; they compete with drug traffickers; both are pretty bad, i am talking). They are everywhere, including in politics. But, as bad as it seems, Brazil's government under Lula brought many safety nets to the poorest people. Hunger used to be a huge problem in Brazil until Lula got elected; now we are at a record low. I wouldn't say the government is weak, especially considering the size of our territory. We have universal health care (SUS) that can reach far places DEEP into the Amazon forest. But, it's a problem because Lula is an exception here. Our politics is dominated by right-wing elites that want only to extract as much as possible from the State and give NOTHING to the population, so they are always sabotaging any attempt to make people's lives easier because it means more budget and more taxes for the rich. Whenever Lula or his party is gone, these right-wing politicians take over the Government and promote huge budget cuts in programs that benefit the poor, so hunger statistics rise, people get desperate, and unemployment and prices rise, etc. His son won the first round of the elections; we are going to vote in the second round between only Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro on October 25. But, my prediction is that Bolsonaro will win this time. The US is meddling in our elections to elect Flavio Bolsonaro, who promised to make Brazil completely submissive to the US/Trump. https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-10-02/trump-says-he-is-following-brazils-elections-very-closely.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/07/24/us-sending-envoys-question-brazilian-electoral-system-officials-say/ https://www.investing.com/news/world-news/lula-says-brazil-denied-visas-to-us-officials-over-election-meddling-concerns-4823672 He did what he could, but he didn't have good numbers in Congress and the Senate. His main job was to stop a coup that was attempted by Bolsonaro in 2022 (he is in jail because of it). He restarted many social programs that were shut down by Bolsonaro, Our economy is doing good, unemployment and hunger is at a record low. He managed to free people who make less than 5 thousand reais from taxes (benefited 16 million people). But his party is made of old-school politicians; they don't have good skills with social media and our social media is flooded by fake news about our economy. Many people believe we are "bankrupt", they say, "Lula and his party bankrupted Brazil; everything is horrible; we HAVE to take them out". It is impossible to convince them otherwise, even using statistics. They have no epistemology, so they believe in anything they see on social media, even if it contradicts "real life" and serious statistics. I believe there is no going back for Brazil now, EVEN IF Lula wins this election, it is only delaying Bolsonarismo's rise for 4 years. He is old, it's his last election and no one else can beat them for the foreseeable future. They will control Congress, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and the presidency.

Makes sense to me that advancing stages is linear and regressing may not be. It depends heavily on the situation. Maybe you are a green hippie but you are enlisted to a war and you become a stage red psycho in order to survive. Also, it is my understanding that no one is "pure green" or "pure blue", we stretch across a few stages, specially when you reach second tier, you may go "back" to previous stages to polish some aspects in order to become balanced. Imagine a stage yellow thinker who lacks stage blue discipline or stage orange ambition or stage red aggressive grit. I myself am going through this process. I a somewhat yellow but I have many aspects to work on that I didn't from the previous stages. Right now, my country is in the middle of an important election and I am getting triggered as a classic stage green. It's an amazing model to make sense of the world.

In my opinion, the rise of neo-fascism in Brazil is inevitable. That's the result of two decades of corporate media building this "anti-PT" and "anti-Lula" sentiment, blaming them for all problems. Bolsonaro (Jair) discovered a formula to surf this wave, like Trump in the US, the right person, with the right personality and the right discourse at the right time. The right-wing learned that formula pretty quickly and took over. The Left we have is old-school and slow to learn in a fast-pace enviroment, no wonder we are getting demolished. The worst thing that happened, in my opinion, is social media and Whatsapp. Fake news and extreme discourse spread like wildfire in those apps, and also the Big Techs obviously favors neo-fascists. Slowly brainwashing millions of minds, day by day. Now we have an unstoppable force with Lula at the end of his life. My predictions: Flavio Bolsonaro will win this election; he will have the majority in Congress, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, plus corporate media, billionaires, Big Tech, agrobusiness, the evangelical churches, etc. They will take everything they can for decades. We are in for, at least, 20 years of neo-fascism in power. Horrible times are coming. So, what to do about it? I have been contemplating a lot about it, and this is what i came up with: 1. Develop a strong spiritual connection and meaning. Enlightenment, mystical experiences, God-Realization and all of that. Complete recontextualization of Reality 24/7. 2. Self-Mastery. Strong meditation skills, strong concentration, strong ability to be in the present without wavering. 3. Life Purpose. Find something to devote your life to, bonus points if this also makes you rich. 4. Master survival. Make a lot of money, buy some property, diversify your investiments as much as possible, buy some land, build some self-sustaining farm or something. Buy some guns (Flavio will make it easy), learn how to shoot, protect yourself and your family. 5. Earn dollars somehow. You must have a couple of international bank accounts with dollars and maybe euros in it. If the Real goes to shit, this will save you. 6. Think of a plan B to leave the country. Personally, this would be my last option, but i would prepare for it beforehand. Maybe you can have some European citizenship, maybe go live in Asia or something.

Watch your language, boy, or I will call the forum police on you!

Not for the sake of it, social shaming is an ancient educational method. Society goes to shit when people with unhinged, semi-psychopathic ideas can normalize these ideas to the unthinking masses; that's when genocides happen. If they can't be argued with, just shame the f out of them.

As if good arguments could change the minds of most people. Good luck trying to reason with zionists/nazis. As Leo says, people are survival machines; they have to feel where it hurts, not in their logical brains, but in their pockets and egos.

Good, i approve shaming genocide deniers. Maybe through emotional suffering, they will wake up.

Just a few thousand innocent people are jailed in overcrowded cells, without any rights, but who cares!

Timestamp 1:00:00: He literally said he is pro genocide. “I’m pro genocide… Palestinians can go live in another place.” I mean, indefensable take if you are not a psychopath or completely brainwashed/uninformed. I would even be charitable and believe he said this for shock value and must have a more nuanced opinion but this is probably where his more "nuanced" opinions go in the end. So... pretty bad take for a liberal. He also laughed when it was reported that children were being targeted by Israelis soldiers. "Where should they aim if not head and chest?" (something like that). There are many more takes like this. Basically, he denies any bad intent from Israel when this is vastly well documented.

I mean, pretty hard for a liberal to have a worse position than that...

In my case, it increases consciousness but can be murky. Doesn't give me much clarity, but makes me more intuitive and i have spontaneus insights. I guess it also depends on the method of ingestion. Smoking flower is one of the "dirtiest" ones, since yous smoke a lot of substances, not only THC. Consuming orally is cleaner but takes too much time, the high is a bit different. I would love to find the "THC crystals" that Leo spoke about that are pure THC. Very hard to find it here in where i live.

1 and 8. They seem serious but easy to read. I love serif fonts.

To call us a cult, he has to watch at least 150h of Leo's content and have done 10+ trips.

Lol me too I am too autistic to be spiritual without psychedelics for too long

That's me. I was once addicted to it, not like smoking many joints a day, but smoking a bit every day, for any reason (happy, sad, bored, hungry, horny, gym, study etc). I've noticed that i wasn't managing to stop, i kept thinking about it, like a reflex. And then, i had enough: on January 1th i quit it cold turkey. One year gone by, i got back to smoking on New Year's Eve (not planned, i was flirting with a hottie that rolled a joint and offered to me and i said "fuck it"). This joint was amazing and, since then, i never got addicted again, i smoke when i want and often i just don't. I don't think about it and even forget about itm even though i always have weed available and could smoke any time. I don't feel the need anymore because it isn't as pleasurable anymore, i feel a bit silly and a bit of a loser when i smoke without a good reason.

It is legit to a point. Strategically, in life, it makes sense to aim to maximize your looks with reasonable limits. A good haircut, style, cool tattoos maybe, good shape, built by workingout at the gym, low body-fat percentage, nice white teeth, maybe a few tweaks in your face with some aesthetic procedures to improve facial structure etc. It's great for survival; it makes your life easier for sure, but it shouldn't be turned into a neurotic worry. I myself was fat until i was 17 and then i started to go to the gym, did a "looksmaxing" version for broke teenagers and got into great shape, my face also improved, and from then on, my life improved exponentially. People treated me a lot differently.

In my experience, they do raise baseline consciousness, but it's not permanent if the person stops there, doesn't continue the work, doesn't do spiritual practices, or uses psychedelics ever again. I guess it also depends on previous work and if the person has insights or not (i had powerful insights, but i guess many people don't). I had my spiritual awakening due to psychedelics, i already meditated, but they opened me up in a way that meditation didn't, i guess you can say i had a kundalini awakening, and i became way more intuitive, sensitive, and conscious in general afterwards. Of course i had many experiences with psychedelics afterward that kept raising my consciousness and i did spiritual practices (although not really seriously).