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.

in·sight
noun
  1. penetrating mental vision or discernment.
  2. the sudden act of grasping the inner nature or truth of a situation.
  3. a deep understanding of a person or thing.
synonyms: intuition, discernment, perception, awareness, understanding, comprehension, grasp, apprehension, penetration, acumen, perspicacity, acuity, vision, wisdom, recognition, realization, epiphany, ah-ha moment

Insights here are meant to be quick and half-baked. Consider these food for thought.

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April 23, 2026

Another cult documentary I'm watching. Very good.

I'll be sharing about a dozen cult documentaries with you over the next month here. I suggest you study them carefully and learn the lessons.

April 22, 2026

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April 22, 2026

The brain is an imaginary engine running on imaginary fuel. The fuel is neurotransmitters. Different fuel produces different performance. The brain’s default fuel is the lowest kind, with the least conscious performance, the least spiritual. Higher fuels produce higher spiritual performance, higher consciousness. Psychedelics are not “drugs”, they are different neurotransmitters, high-octane fuels. But higher fuels are not free, they come with costs and trade-offs. You get a temporary performance boost but the performance is unsustainable and stresses the engine. However, it produces incredible consciousness which is absolutely impossible to attain on the default fuel.

Everyone takes for granted their default fuel. Unless you’ve tried other fuels, you don’t even know you have a default fuel. There is no such thing as a brain without fuel. You are always running on some fuel, the only question is what? The default fuel is the lowest one, so your “sober” state is the lowest state, the least intelligent state, the least spiritual state. Humanity does not understand this. They think their sober state is the best when it actually the worst. Yet all human thinking, sense-making, science, decision-making, business, action, and religion is happening from the lowest state, which is why mankind is so corrupt and spiritually bankrupt, to the point of demonizing and criminalizing most high performance fuels. This is one of mankind’s greatest blind-spots. Even spiritual teachers are dishonest and ignorant of this blind-spot, further misleading mankind. The simple reason that mankind is so ignorant of God is because they insist on using the wrong fuel and that the fuel doesn’t matter — when it is the #1 factor in all of spirituality. You are trying to understand Reality using the shittiest fuel. That's why your progress is so slow.

Scientists are like people trying to launch rockets with unrefined crude oil, when they should be using liquid hydrogen. They don't understand this, and when you tell them, they don't believe you and make excuses. They will even demonize and excommunicate any scientist who openly admits to using high performance fuels. It is no different than how they demonized the use of telescopes in Galileo's time.

One of mankind's greatest stupidities and barbarities is to demonize brain fuels they have never tried. It is as stupid as demonizing telescopes. The tool is demonized precisely because it expands the ego's finite horizon.

Don't forget, your brain IS drugs. There is no such thing as a brain without drugs. Don't kid yourself, you are a soup of chemicals and what those chemicals are matters a lot. There are better and worse chemicals, and you cannot assume that your current concoction is the best, the "natural", or the truest one. You don't know what the best is.

Note: There actually are lower fuels than the default fuel. So I am oversimplifying. Moreover, the brain's fuels are much broader in effect than car engine fuels. A car engine's fuels don't have nearly as much diversity of effects on the engine as the brain's fuels do. Changing the fuel in your car cannot turn your car into a submarine. But with the brain, it can. So this fuel analogy understates the point. Fuel for the brain is way more significant than fuel for a car engine. People do not understand this.

April 22, 2026

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April 22, 2026

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April 22, 2026

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April 22, 2026

Another cult documentary I'm watching. Sick twisted shit. This is true gaslighting. This is a true cult.

April 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026

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April 21, 2026

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