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[ExploringReality]

@Leo Gura @Leo Gura 

Your right, was a joke.

Edited Saturday at 06:50 AM by ExploringReality

[ExploringReality]

I've heard your talks when tripping. LSD or psilocybin, when everyone is sleeping and my eyes are dilating and expanding, suddenly my consciousness is fluid and not dependent on eyes. My perceptions and sense's are turned up and listening to you Leo it's as though we aren't really watching you compared to on a psychedelic. It clicks differently.

While tripping, my mind immediately goes towards self inquiry, it's not my mind contemplating, it's the universe contemplating itself. 

Edited Saturday at 06:56 AM by ExploringReality

[Yimpa]

16 hours ago, ExploringReality said:

@Leo Gura @Leo Gura 

Your right, was a joke.

You’re next  

[aurum]

Re: griftocracy

Love seeing Scott Carney getting some attention. He is a serious journalist with good ethics, an appreciation for truth-seeking and solid progressive politics. 

[Thought Art]

@Leo Gura Does it bother you academics won’t take you seriously?

[Leo Gura]

28 minutes ago, Thought Art said:

@Leo Gura Does it bother you academics won’t take you seriously?

Nope.

Consciousness of my own beauty is my reward. Humans are irrelavant when you have consciousness of God.

It does bother me to see so many intellectuals so lost. It's like watching someone sitting on a mountain of diamonds but not recognizing it. But, such people cannot be helped.

Edited Saturday at 11:30 PM by Leo Gura

[John Iverson]

Questions for Leo About Mind Mastery

Leo,

I recently read your blog post about mastery of the mind, and it resonated deeply with me. I'm currently on a journey that involves integrating various  insights from tea that I hope to share more about in the future once I've fully processed these experiences.

Seeing your post made me curious to explore more openly: what is it truly like to achieve mastery of the mind? I'm drawn to developing this mastery myself, and I sense that my current experiences might be guiding me in that direction.

When I picture what it might be like for someone like you who has advanced in mind mastery, I wonder about the possibilities and the weight of such an achievement. I'm curious about the most advanced states possible - how deep does this rabbit hole go? What are the highest levels one can reach?

Could you share more about:

1. How do you recognize when you're making progress toward mind mastery versus just experiencing temporary mental states?

 

2. What practical exercises or approaches have you found most effective for developing sustainable control over one's thoughts and reactions?

 

3. In your experience, what are the most unexpected or profound benefits that come with greater mastery of the mind?

 

4. What challenges or obstacles should someone be prepared for on this journey?

 

5. What does the most advanced state of mind mastery look like? How would you describe the experience of someone who has truly mastered their mind?

 

I believe this path is worth pursuing despite its difficulties, and I'd value your insights given your experience and perspective.

 

Thank you for your time and wisdom.

 

[CARDOZZO]

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, John Iverson said:

Seeing your post made me curious to explore more openly: what is it truly like to achieve mastery of the mind? I'm drawn to developing this mastery myself, and I sense that my current experiences might be guiding me in that direction.

When I picture what it might be like for someone like you who has advanced in mind mastery, I wonder about the possibilities and the weight of such an achievement. I'm curious about the most advanced states possible - how deep does this rabbit hole go? What are the highest levels one can reach?

Frankly I don't know. I don't consider myself to have mastered the mind. I'm just a student.

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Could you share more about:

1. How do you recognize when you're making progress toward mind mastery versus just experiencing temporary mental states?

By studying your own mind and noticing all its tricks.

Then by starting to prevent those tricks from controlling you.

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2. What practical exercises or approaches have you found most effective for developing sustainable control over one's thoughts and reactions?

It's tricky because you cannot directly manipulate your thoughts. There is a lot if letting go, and mindfulness, and just understanding what is happening.

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3. In your experience, what are the most unexpected or profound benefits that come with greater mastery of the mind?

Mind become beautiful and poetic in it operation and comprehension of things.

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4. What challenges or obstacles should someone be prepared for on this journey?

A lot of tricks. One of the biggest might be that you could get too stuck in the conceptual mind, too analytical, too disconnected from body or world.

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5. What does the most advanced state of mind mastery look like? How would you describe the experience of someone who has truly mastered their mind?

An intelligence that sees and understands God's Love, Beauty, and Good in all things and partakes in those for itself.

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This is a deep topic. All of Actualized.org addresses it and points to things necessary for mind mastery.

If you watch The 9 Stages Of Ego Development videos, you will see what the path looks like. That's not all there is, but a rough map of it.

Edited Sunday at 02:01 AM by Leo Gura

[Terell Kirby]

Watching some of Nathan Jones vides on realism posted on the blog- great stuff:

@Leo Gura have you ever heard of Berkeleianism (based on subjective idealism philosophy of George Berkley)?

Jones mentions it in this video around the 50min mark as an opposing argument to skepticism. I think it's pretty spot on with some of your teachings as mind being prior to matter; material objects not existing outside one's mind-that mind being God (the Infinite).

[Leo Gura]

35 minutes ago, Terell Kirby said:

have you ever heard of Berkeleianism (based on subjective idealism philosophy of George Berkley)?

Of course. I studied his books in college.

Berkeley knew exactly how God works. One of the most accurate Western philosophers. Up there with Plotinus.

Edited Sunday at 03:12 AM by Leo Gura

[Yimpa]

The plot thickens 

[gengar]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Of course. I studied his books in college.

Berkeley knew exactly how God works. One of the most accurate Western philosophers. Up there with Plotinus.

Like you know exactly how God works and are able to discern which philosophers are accurate about him. lol.

[Nemra]

@Leo Gura, a very on-point post about Christians!

I'm quite shocked when people take Christians lightly as if they are just living a happy traditionalistic life. They really believe that you are demonic as long as you are not behaving like a Christian.

[Leo Gura]

21 minutes ago, gengar said:

Like you know exactly how God works and are able to discern which philosophers are accurate about him. lol.

Of course. Easy.

The only challenge is deciphering their confused, murky language, blabbering, and handwaving.

God can be accurately described in a few words by one who knows.

Edited Sunday at 08:19 AM by Leo Gura

[gengar]

21 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Of course. Easy.

The only challenge is deciphering their confused, murky language, blabbering, and handwaving.

God can be accurately described in a few words by one who knows.

Didn't Berkely believe in an external God, Infinite Consciousness, looking everywhere in the universe at all times?

This is very distinct from your one-jiva/solipsism consciousness that you propose, where what is behind my dissapears the moment i stop looking at it (what you've literally stated)

Edited Sunday at 08:29 AM by gengar

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, gengar said:

Didn't Berkely believe in an external God, Infinite Consciousness, looking everywhere in the universe at all times?

This is very distinct from your one-jiva/solipsism consciousness that you propose, where what is behind my dissapears the moment i stop looking at it (what you've literally stated)

I'm not too nitpicky about it with him. His general idea was correct: that everything is happening in the mind of God.

I forget the full details of his view. I'm going off 20 year old memories of his work.

Edited Sunday at 10:49 AM by Leo Gura

[Daniel Balan]

FUCK CHRISTIANITY!!! I abhor this religion so much. I've had enough of it. All my life it was shoved down my throat at every turn, at every interaction with an ape. Those Christian apes talk about love or god then saying my mother is a whore for not making the sign of the cross in front of a church or before eating lunch. Those apes are so barbaric and stage red like that it made me abhor humanity in it's entirety. You cannot fathom how much hatred I have for those Christian apes. Especially Romanian and Russian eastern orthodox Christianity. Those are literally apes. They are yet to evolve into homo sapiens. The worst of the worst. 

I've read Leo's blog post about Christians while listening to the most evil and wicked black metal song of all time written by a man who became world famous for burning down churches in Norway in the 90's.  This is the death of Jesus. 

This lyrics sums up this piss poor cult which is Orthodox Chritianity. 

The lyrics: 

A figure lay there on the ground
So evil that the flowers around withered
A gloomy soul lay there on the ground
So cold that the water turned to ice

A shadow then fell over the woods
When the figure's soul withered away
Because the figure's soul was a shadow
A shadow of the evil power

 

[Leo Gura]

@Daniel Balan Take it easy man.

[Daniel Balan]

Just now, Leo Gura said:

@Daniel Balan Take it easy man.

No man. I can't. I've had enough of it. This cult has forced and bullied me all my life into following it's customs and BS rituals. Go live 25 years in a community where everyone is a brainwashed eastern Orthodox Christian. Those people beat you with whips and sticks for not making the sign of the cross before a church of before eating lunch. I hate every person in my village. Those people threaten and say that my mother's a whore for criticising their God. I've had more than enough. There is a limit of stupidity that makes me go nuts. Those people wash their teeth with their finger because they believe George Soros put poison in their toothpaste because they are Christian. I HAD ENOUGH.