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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Reality is ironic because sometimes the thing that seems the most realistic is actually a fantasy, and the thing that seems like a fantasy, is real. Scientists and academics forget that Reality can be fantastical. Fantastical aspects of Reality are not an epistemic mistake, not a lack of rational rigor. True rationality leads to some fantastical places. You cannot judge the truth of a thing by how “realistic” it feels. Realistic vibes are not a reliable way of distinguishing truth from falsehood. Truth can be fantastical and falsehood can be mundane and “scientific”. Scientific vibes != truth, and mystical vibes != falsehood. Many rationalists make this simplistic mistake. Hence the thought-terminating cliche of calling things "woo-woo". As if a ball of hydrogen gas the size of 1000 Earths burning for 20 billion years is not woo-woo. As if a nuclear explosion is not woo! What the fuck isn't woo-woo? Everything going on inside of an atom is woo-woo if you stop taking it for granted. Are you seriously going to say that the Big Bang is not woo-woo? What a bunch of biased baloney.
Truth can be outlandish. That’s why openmindedness is so important. Most closedmindedness just boils to this: “It doesn’t sound realistic so it cant be true". But your mind’s idea of realistic is gotten where? From culture and group-think, not from an independent source of truth. Notice the vicious circularity of this: “I’m not going to take that idea seriously because it sounds too unrealistic.” But how do you know your criteria for what is realistic isn’t wrong? After all, where did you get it? How did you reliably ascertain what real is? Look how deep this goes: How do you even know what "real" is supposed to look like? What if your mind never knew what "real" was? That's the rub!
The key insight is this: your mind never knew what “realistic” meant. The key is realizing that you don't know what real is! If you were raised in a Satanic cult, demons would feel realistic to you, but that doesn’t make it true. Your feeling of realism is easily hijacked and perverted by social conditioning, indoctrination, education, civilization, and your experience. You never consciously decided on your criteria for realism, you unconsciously absorbed it from your culture. This is true of even the best scientists. The scientist’s radar for realism is warped and corrupt. At the end of the day, why is God denied by science? Not because of logic or evidence, but simply because it sounds unrealistic. God sounds too magical to be true. But why can’t Truth be magic? “But magic can’t exist!” Who said? How does science know that magic does not exist? If you are a proper scientist your mind should be open to the possibility that magic exists. Closing your mind to magic is not true science, it’s fake science, because the truth is that you don’t know. Have you explored the whole universe? Then how can you jump to the conclusion that magic can’t exist?
Confidently proclaiming that magic cannot exist, is not science, it is pseudo-science.
After all, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." — Arthur C. Clarke
Hypocritically, science's rejection of God is not evidence-based, it is vibes-based. Science rejects God because God has the wrong vibes. Culture gives God stupid, hippie, smooth-brained vibes; superstitious vibes; anthropomorphic vibes; the kind of vibes a professional scientist cannot take seriously. God gives science the ick. God just doesn't seem scientific. But the reason we do philosophy is because we know that appearances can be deceiving.
Granted, God doesn't seem scientific, but what if it nevertheless is? Why isn't science open to this possibility? The point is, it is wrong to close your mind any possibility just because you don't like its vibes — that's called bias and prejudice. Science is literally racist against God! Trying to prove God to science is like arguing with a racist. The racist makes it seem like his racism is grounded in science, facts, and cold logic, but it never is, he's just rationalizing his prejudice.
Truth-seeking requires a commitment to follow the truth wherever it leads. If Truth leads to unicorns, then you bravely enter the land of unicorns. You do not say, "Ewww... Unicorns? That's so unrealistic it must be wrong." This is where scientific people blunder. Just follow the truth wherever it leads, without prejudice. Stop being racist! — in the broadest sense of that word.
If Satan was the truth then I would be a Satan worshiper. That's not a mistake. If Satan is true, Satan should be revered. Satan isn't evil because he is nasty, Satan is evil because he is false.
What is there to be said of the fine-tuning argument? Is it true?
It isn’t strong enough. Reality isn’t just fine-tuned, it is perfectly tuned. Every molecule in the universe is precisely where God wants it to be. The universe is Perfect at the level of physics. Not only is the universe fine-tuned by God, there is only one way Reality could be, the way it is. Reality is absolutely-tuned. There is zero margin for error at the Being-level. Reality could not work unless it was Perfect at the level of Being. Notice, there is not a single bug in the execution of the universe. Every molecule is precisely where it needs to be. This isn’t an opinion, this is how Truth is.
Not only do you need God to fine-tune the universe for there to be a functional universe, God has to imagine it perfectly every millisecond. God can never allow a single molecule to go astray, and it never does.
“But Leo! What about all the evil?!”
Driving your car off a cliff is not a bug, it’s a feature. Reality is a sandbox game. A sandbox game allows you to do evil because it is there for your exploration. Mind is an Infinite Sandbox. Mind conjuring up horror is not a bug. The Sandbox is filled with horrors and nightmares beyond your wildest imagination, so watch your step. Life is meaningful precisely because you can get so hurt. This gives the game stakes. God wants life to have stakes so it's more juicy. God is a madman who wants to play a video game with life & death stakes, so here you are.
Anyways, Everything God creates is fine-tuned to Perfection, scientists are just too blind to see it. Anything science says isn't Perfection, is Perfection when seen from the highest level of Intelligence. Low intelligence cannot see God's Perfection because it cannot see God.
Aggressive ignorance:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdJ7QzgxEPK
"It is so pleasing to God"
"It is literally an offense to God"
Ahahahahaha!
What can be said to such people?
This is who you must share a country with.
This is so true.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd-CdaKhLhs
But it goes deeper than entertainment or even problem-solving. At the highest levels, thinking becomes its own form of spirituality. You can use thinking to access and appreciate advanced parts of God which nobody else even knows exist. Thinking isn't just thinking, thinking can be communion. Thinking is the Mind's appreciation of Itself, if you do it right. Of course most people's thinking is just bullshit. It has to be done correctly.
You can think so deeply that you can experience God in new ways. Buddhists will definitely not teach you that.
And of course, you can parlay that level of thinking to create amazing new things.
This is true, according to my direct experience.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeeCam5R-Gz
Understanding Will is a very advanced aspect of Awakening. I have not heard it explained properly by almost anyone.
People do not understand that God's Will is the world itself. God's Will manifests as physical objects. Physical objects are Will.
A pitchfork in your butt is God's Will. But who wants to hear that?
I explain Will in my video: Does Free Will Exist?
As I've said, whenever you hear a Christian call anything "demonic", "Satanic", or "luciferian", you can be sure he's bullshitting.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DefK_mXSzLs
I guess Joe Rogan and Peter Ralston are going to Hell.
