Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights
Miscellaneous bits of wisdom and resources on personal development, life purpose, philosophy, epistemology, nonduality, psychedelics, etc. Published randomly throughout the week.
- penetrating mental vision or discernment.
- the sudden act of grasping the inner nature or truth of a situation.
- a deep understanding of a person or thing.
Insights here are meant to be quick and half-baked. Consider these food for thought.
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This snake does not have enough consciousness to recognize itself in the mirror:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbbA9XmOXVL
Reminds me of a scientist.
As I've said, RECOGNITION is a function of higher consciousness and is assumed for any of science to work. You could not do science without sufficient recognition, which means sufficient Consciousness.
Now imagine that there exists a higher degree of recognition than a human's, which, if the human acquired it, would allow the human to recognize himself in the mirror as God. That is precisely what Awakening is. Awakening is not belief, not knowledge, not science, not theory, not a worldview, not a philosophy, not an idea, not even an insight, but recognition. Well... insight and recognition can overlap.
This is why God cannot be proven to anyone. Because recognition is more fundamental than proof. Proof assumes recognition is present. But if recognition is absent, all proof will fail. Until science understands this, science will not understand God.
It took me a long time to understand what prevents Awakening/God-Realization from happening. All the answers I got from gurus and teachers were lacking or wrong. The answer is: insufficient recognition.
This also explains why animals (most) cannot be Awakened. Awakening is not about loss of self/ego. Awakening is about recognition of God. Animals lack self/ego, but that does not make them Awake because they lack recognition of themselves as God. A dog may have no ego, but a dog does not recognize that it is God.
But now contemplate: What is recognition? Why is any degree of recognition possible at all? And what creates recognition?
Nothing that humans create is ever unbiased. You can just skip ahead by immediately asking: "What is the bias of this human creation?", whatever it is. Notice that every human creation is ultimately undone by its biases:
Empires, slavery, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, Nazism, Zionism, Communism, religion, science, philosophy, business, aristocracy, oligarchy, monarchy, tyranny, military dictatorship, corruption, theft, violence, genocide, abusive relationships, abusive marriages, exploitation, scams, grifts, con-artists, narcissists, sociopaths, pre-modernism, modernism, post-modernism, race IQ science, the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, Freud, folk spirituality, superstition, art, conspiracy theories, political ideologies, economic ideologies, languages, cultures, technology, war profiteering, Wall Street, crypto, books, videos, punditry, commentary, rationality, healthcare, medicine, political activism, laws, legal rulings, caste systems, propaganda, fake news, etc.
Bias poisons everything humans create. Because bias itself is the evil.
The moral question of how to be Good is really just the more basic question of how to develop an unbiased mind. Tell me how biased your mind is and I will tell you how evil you are.
Just observe that the most evil people are biased as hell. I dare you to find even one highly biased person who is truly good.
Here's a perfect example of a post-modernist:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbX9eEsNG5x
That's true, but she's still missing the crucial point that truth is not a social construct, and truth is not just knowledge. Truth is precisely not what people in power say it is.
What most people overlook is that science is a form of power. The notion that science operates neutrally, objectively, without serving power, is false. The sooner scientists admit this, the better off science will be. But as long as they deny it or downplay it, science will remain corrupt. Science has been weaponized by the powerful to maintain their power. That's what all these tech oligarchs did. That's what the whole AI arms-race is about. These people are addicted to power.
The key insight here is that power has never cared about truth. Ever. Everyone in power is godless. That's the ultimate reason why society is so unfair and ugly. If power was held by truly Godly people, society would be beautiful, compassionate, and fair. What even leftist political activists don't understand is that Justice requires cosnciousness of God. That's why even Marxists are not just. Marxism is the self-deception that Justice can be created merely through materialism, while denying God. That cannot work.
Goodness cannot be had without Consciousness. And Consciousness is God. That's because Goodness IS Consciousness. Goodness IS God! What everyone ultimately seeks is simply Good, but they care too little about truth to find it. Actualized.org is the philosophical foundation every human needs to become truly Good. That's why I'm so passionate about it.
Conservatives need to admit that capitalism is evil. And Leftists need to admit that God is Good. Until they do, we can't have nice things.
Some people accuse me of being chauvinist towards under-developed countries and cultures when I say stuff like that 3rd world cultures do not have ecological awareness.
But here is an example that proves my point. This is how they deal with trash on trains in India.
(Note: the language is not English, but it doesn't matter. Just look at the video)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZkc76NxBSB
Ecological awareness is a feature of higher consciousness and development. Primitive cultures at scale do not have it.
Caring about your trash is a mark of high development. Minds of low development do not think about where their trash ends up. When a bear shits in the woods, it doesn't think to itself, "I wonder if this shit is bad for anyone else?"
"Does my trash hurt anyone else?", is only a thought that arises in a selfless mind.
Conservatives are less ecological because they are more selfish. This is not an attack on conservatives. That's just how development works. Conservatives deny and demonize climate change for deep, not superficial reasons. The reason is selfishness. Conservatives are not merely uneducated about climate change. They are too selfish to care about ecology. That's why you can't change their mind with facts and logic. No amount of facts and logic can change a person's level of selfishness. Level of selfishness governs all human behavior, from politics to science to spirituality.
Once I know how selfish you are, I know everything I really need to know about you. Your level of selfishness allows me to predict your thoughts, reasoning, and behavior.
