How did ya’ll discover spirituality?

[Natasha Tori Maru]

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@Leo Gura

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Edited Tuesday at 04:55 AM by Natasha Tori Maru

[PenguinPablo]

Owen Cook recommending The Power of Now

[Lyubov]

I was creating very painful emotions and judging myself, someone told me about those 10 day vipassena retreats so I did a few, and then from there I started searching for stuff on meditation and spirituality and Leo’s videos came up. From there I did a lot of work on myself, got into psychedelics then quit. Then I started studying Taoism after really having a consistent and strong awareness of spirit during each waking moment. Here I am now ever learning and growing! 

Edited Tuesday at 05:03 AM by Lyubov

[Wilhelm44]

Returning home from overseas travels in my 20's with no money after a lot of partying, my parents sent me to a week long transformation workshop. One of the processes caused a proper kundalini awakening. During the break i went to sit outside on the grass in the sun. My whole body was vibrating, like i had taken ecstacy or something. And every time i blinked my eyes i literally experienced myself creating the universe anew. Sold. I was in.

[samijiben]

Some youtuber named SoLluminati

Didn't take me long to realize he was just a conspiracy theorist with a dooRag

Leo came along and helped me understand that God transcends government-implanted consciousness-reducing fluoride, the classic elite kabal of Jewish Pedophiles, and whatever other crackpot theory I wanted to buy into to release the illusory burden of INFINITE LOVE

[LifeEnjoyer]

I was wrong, actually, Oprah was my intro to spirituality. Didn't take it seriously till Actualized.org, though.

[AION]

Suffering

[StyxNStone]

  On 4/1/2025 at 6:30 AM, AION said:

Suffering

Fyodor Dostoevsky – “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”

[Loving Radiance]

Leo. It took a lot of videos where he said that one must do the work themselves or else it's just fantasy and armchair philosophy.

Edited Wednesday at 06:33 AM by Loving Radiance

[Miguel1]

Osho for me. Bumped into his name first in a pickup blog. I was like 16-17 and there was no going back from there.

[LastThursday]

The Glitch In The Matrix subreddit. There's wild stories on there and one time someone mentioned Leo's early videos. The hilarity is that there are two very similar subreddits called Glitch In The Matrix, and you never quite know which one you're in.

[Carl-Richard]

It must have started with my first LSD trip where I learned about the truth of dukkha (suffering). I had spent so much time and attention planning everything I wanted to do during my LSD trip; fun things to experience, playing with visual effects and tactile experiences, etc.; but when I was actually tripping and I did these things, after I did them, I was left with an extreme feeling of emptiness, like a black hole in my stomach. And I remember quite clearly now an intention forming in my mind: "I need to find a solution to this".

And the day after the trip, I spent a whole day sitting in the woods and smoking weed, and I felt the most expanded and mystical effects I've ever experienced: expanded vision, expanded sense of the environment, of being one with the environment and a movement upwards. Then I started "living in the now", dropping responsibilites, school, people, until that came back to bite me in the ass. I became very stressed and almost psychotic, and then I discovered Leo's video "40 signs you are being neurotic", and then is when things truly started. I believe the following week, I watched Leo's "how to meditate" video, and then I was hooked.

I believe I also learned about the concept of "mindfulness" around the same time (from I believe Sam Harris), and I spent a week straight actively practicing mindfulness in everything I did (because I couldn't smoke weed at that time). And after that week, I decided to try seated meditation properly for the first time (I had tried it once before from I believe before my first LSD trip because I had heard a friend talk about it, but it was very short, on a whim and without any strong intention or really knowledge about what was possible; but I actually felt some interesting effects then, like I was slightly distancing myself from my body and my field of vision expanded a bit behind my closed eyelids, but I was also on weed at the time). On my third meditation, I awoke.

Edited Tuesday at 12:50 PM by Carl-Richard

[Ropuch7]

I've had metaphysical intuitions since I can remember. 
As a child, I would get struck with thoughts like: 
"All my life and memories could have sprung into existence a second ago, and I couldn't know. New realities can be appearing every moment - reality after reality"
"No one can really know me, because my perception is absolutely isolated and internal."
I didn't know how to frame it then and didn't even take it seriously, but there was always an urge to fantasize about such stuff.

I was raised as a catholic and became obsessed with God and understanding the Bible. With each year I was more and more devout, to the point of going to church every morning at 15-16 of age. Finally, the need to fully understand God, lead to a cognitive crisis. I could no longer adhere to dogma, with my mind constantly set on ultimate questions and deconstruction. At 17, I fell into a 1.5-year-long nihilistic depression, which I tried to break out of with materialism and pragmatism. I've tried to find meaning in modern-day preachers like Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris.

At last, completely defeated and confused, I typed "how to deal with nihilism" into YouTube, and I found a clip from Leo's video.
Then I spent months listening to hundreds of hours of Leo's content and trying to connect dots.
With this conceptual framework, I've tried different psychedelics regularly from age 19 to 20.

With Leo's guidance and chemicals, I've freed up my intuition and now explore different perspectives on spirituality, with Infinity as my base.

[Never_give_up]

I had thoughts of determinism since I was 13, but a decade later I decided to search it on youtube.

I found Leo talking about it and understood that I am not crazy and I am not the only person that is deeply curious about reality (cause most people don't care at all about reality).

That made me watch other videos of his. I definitely didn't know that my life will change forever after that, mostly in very good ways. 

[Eskilon]

Sadhguru

[Santiago Ram]

Obsessing about "The Key to Success" and Achievement

Then I found Leo's Videos and I started going down the Rabbit Hole.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Actualized.org at 24 y.o. with the first videos on enlightenment from 9 years ago (discovered in late 2022).

Didn't know enlightenment was a thing. Pure scientism. I thought monks were counting breaths to be happy and that anything "spiritual" was religion BS.

[Flowerfaeiry]

  On 4/1/2025 at 6:30 AM, AION said:

Suffering

Too real 

[Hojo]

When I was 2 I had a dream. Barney and Fred Flinstone were walking down a road talking I could understand them I knew they were having a conversation. Suddenly I dont know they are having a conversation they are just making sounds. As they walk less and less things appear in the background. They stop making sounds and are just moving their bodies and mouths. There is no sound and they are just walking and I get an intense fear that nothing is happening.

[blackchair]

Being gay in 99% catholic country and highschool was a big no no. And here we are.