Questions About the Self Actualized Perspective

[bilouge]

Hey Leo, I hope you are having a great day. I have to say that I’ve being devouring your content this past
year. It helps me a lot in developing different perspectives as well as having multiple epiphanies in my
life. However, there’s one perspective that particularly piques my interest: the perspective of a self-
actualized individual. The reason it is so appealing to me is because so little people have actually
reached self-actualization. There’s a limited range of resources available to us so we can only stipulate
when we are asking ourselves—people who haven’t reached self-actualization—what is like being one.
While watching your episode “How Fear Works,” I’ve asked myself: “If Leo was to be kidnapped one day,
would he feel anxiety and fear while waiting for his next torture session?” Unsurprisingly, I am very
much afraid of being kidnapped and tortured which explains why I would have such a question in mind.
One thing led to another, and I started asking myself how different the public’s view of self-actualized
people is from yours. Which leads me to have a set of questions:
1) Would you actually feel fear while waiting for your next torture session? Or in other words, is
fear and anxiety things that self-actualized people permanently transcended, no matter the
hardships?
2) Are awakenings permanent states? More precisely, what aspects of life are permanently
changed? What aspects aren’t permanently changed?
3) Is there a disconnection between the biological creature that is Leo and the self-actualized
being? If so, why bother even live an external life? Why bother make money? Why bother have
sex?
4) Is it a detachment or a destruction of the biological creature? Is the biological creature still there
as it can feel aversive emotions but the actualized being can “cage” that biological creature
(detachment)? Or is the creature not there anymore, leaving the actualized being at the
unshared seat of experience?
5) How can we be sure that self-actualization is not just another stage of delusion? If the only
premise that I can hold as true is that I experience something (cogito ergo sum), what to say that
my awakening is not one of the many illusions of life just accompanied by Conviction Bias? I
don’t believe you are Leo as I love to trust my intuition, but, knowing that you are aware of the
many biases that plague us, how can you trust your experience of self-actualization?

I hope you'll find time to read this and thank you in advance.