How did you guys find actualized.org?

[Travelion]

I know this question might not correspond to the topics of this sub-forum, but I don't know where else to post it.

I became aware of actualized.org 2 years ago. My ethics teacher showed us a part of Leo's video on Jacques Derrida (wtf, how lucky was that, I might have never heard of Leo's channel), and it was boring af. A couple months later I revisited the channel and Leo just released his video about Infinite Intelligence. That was the first video that catched me, so I watched it and a bunch of others, too.
However, I have only recently started taking this seriously.

How did you guys find Leo?

Edited June 22, 2020 by Travelion

[Parththakkar12]

Randomly searching for enlightenment videos on youtube in early 2017. My level of development wasn't that high at the time, so I kinda ignored him. Then, later, in early 2019, I remembered Leo from 2017. That's when I really started getting into his content. I was shocked and amazed at how much deeper his content had gotten!

[TrustTheProcess]

Ate a very potent edible and had an anxiety attack... found this vid... changed my life. 

[mandyjw]

Searched "how to deal with anger" on youtube 6 years ago. Learned a WHOLE lot of life transforming stuff since then, but I still get pissed off sometimes.  Feels kinda like going into Target to buy toothpaste and coming out with no toothpaste and $200 worth of stuff. 

[andyjohnsonman]

after reading the power of now i was interested in meditation so watched a video on how to meditate. Then watched another video called how society fucks you in the ass which really got my attention.

[Preety_India]

 

Leo would pop up every now and then in my recommended feed until I decided "let's see what this guy with these animated expressions is all about. " 

 

Edited June 22, 2020 by Preety_India

[Thewritersunion]

“ No banging on the table “

[Violent flash backs to middle school]

[Opo]

Internet addiction and openmidnednes led me to him and love for models made me stay. 

[Carl-Richard]

This is the first video I remember watching at a hotel room in Rome in autumn of 2016.

I was essentially stuck on vacation while going through severe withdrawals from cannabis (yes, that is possible), and I had decided to graduate from philosophizing about reality à la Terrence McKenna to investigating reality through mindfulness and awareness. That quickly lead to my first glimpse of non-duality later that year, and my life changed drastically.

Edited June 23, 2020 by Carl-Richard

[Rilles]

How To Stop Being Lazy... in 2016

then it was downhill from there  

[JosephKnecht]

After having some non-dual experiences that broke my conceptualizations of reality a few years ago, last year I stumbled onto a bald guy on youtube whose videos helped me re-contextualize my experiences. 

Don't remember the exact first video I saw, but probably it was one describing some psychedelic states.  

[electroBeam]

We were about to approach after 8 years planning, but then suddenly freaked out over the possibility of having a successful mission. We then postponed the mission for another 4 years to give us time to watch Leo's video on how to have sex, and practice it in a simulator. 

[Rilles]

9 minutes ago, electroBeam said:

We were about to approach after 8 years planning, but then suddenly freaked out over the possibility of having a successful mission. We then postponed the mission for another 4 years to give us time to watch Leo's video on how to have sex, and practice it in a simulator. 

hahahahaha

[Hello from Russia]

The video on meditation, after that - on making the girl squirt. I liked the content, so I subscribed. Oh boy, the rabbit hole went deep then

[Raphael]

I entered "Fuck Society" on Youtube and found out this video

 

[ItsNick]

I was 14/15 years old and a big Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and just New Atheist fan to rebel against my Christian upbringing. So I would often watch Christian videos just to laugh at how ridiculous they were, as well are Spirit Science for the same reason. 

Then one day his video "Spiritual Enlightenment - The Most SHOCKING Truth You'll Ever Hear" popped up on my YT page. I went to watch it for the same reason. In the video he gave a warning that it's not for everyone and I was just laughing and curious what he was talking about. But weeks after it I couldn't stop thinking about and I looked up more on Enlightenment. I remember finding Eckhart Tolle and recognizing something was different about him (especially his eyes) and it scared me. But I was really curious so I kept watching Leo's videos on it and after I tried self-inquiry for the first time I couldn't fall asleep. I kept thinking: "There's no way I don't exist. This is bullshit. Of course I exist. I'm real!". And a few months after it I felt mildly depressed because just the idea that there might be no self scared me so much.

Then skipping forward a little bit I tried to get my life on track and got into Personal Development and meditation by myself. Eventually also returning to Actualized.org. But this time I'm more mature of course.

[Espaim]

On Reddit. Probably on r/meditation

[LastThursday]

@Espaim Reddit, snap. Someone on r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix suggested to look at this video from some bald headed dude telling us "You don't exist". At the time I just couldn't get my head round it, but I was hooked.

Edited June 23, 2020 by LastThursday

[Nahm]

Lucid dreaming.

[allislove]

Was watching Rupert Spira video on YT... some question popped up... googled it... found this forum ?