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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Example of fake spirituality.
These are leaked secret training videos for Jehovah's Witness leadership.
Why is this fake spirituality? Because no inquiry/questioning into the nature of reality is happening. It's pure conformity, belief, dogma, social survival, moralizing. A social human illusion is being played out. Rules are blindly followed without questioning them, without asking whether they are true. The illusion is not being questioned nor deconstructed.
A Jehovah's Witness will never realize that God is Absolute Sovereignty of Mind.
There are many more examples of leaked videos which show how Jehovah's Witnesses operate.
I am sharing this raw, intimate example of the behind-the-scenes of fake spirituality, given this week's video topic.
Notice that fake spirituality is about survival masquerading as spirituality. The conflation of survival and spirituality. Notice that fake spirituality is an illusion, it hides truth.
Marc Gafni is Aubrey Marcus' spiritual mentor and has written multiple books about spirituality and enlightenment.
Note: This is not about judging Marc Gafni but about a lesson in how to identify fake spirituality. Notice how spirituality is conflated with survival (sex).
Video Credit: forum user @Natasha Tori Maru
The music industry is insanely corrupt, low consciousness, and fake.
The music industry is a cutthroat capitalist exploitation machine that allows vacuous, ignorant, low-development, narcissistic minds to become giga-famous and successful. And then of course they crash and burn, go broke, or end up depressed and miserable. The music industry encourages degenerate behavior to maximize profit.
The music industry is such a trap for egos. It promises the ego everything it craves: adoration, quick easy money, quick easy sex, partying, love, adventure, drugs, status. And it discourages development work. So we get some real horror stories.
More videos I watched on this topic:
How To Be An Industry Puppet - Sabrina Carpenter
What People Do Not Know About Pop Music
Note: But hey, I still love some of this music. I'm not judging the art. I'm just looking at the corruption behind it.
I was watching this when it struck me: Amish is just pure group-think. The level of brainwashing here is insane. Don't let these Amish fool you. They seem cute, kind, ethical, and hardworking, but these humans are incapable of having an independent thought about reality. The mental gymnastics these people do is cartoonish.
This gives you an idea of how incredibly conformist and unoriginal most human being were for most of human history. The further you go back in time, the more conformist human life was. Imagine living life without a single original thought; you only copy what others around you do. That is my nightmare. It is mental slavery.
You should be terrified of conformity.
Animals are amazing survival zombies:
So are most humans.
Everything a typical human does is just unconscious survival.
A beaver is amazing at survival, but it is not conscious of what it is doing or why it is doing it. It's just doing it.
The whole point of spiritual development is to make your entire survival process into meta-cognitive consciousness.
What is the difference between a Christian and a beaver?
To me there is no difference.
Imagine getting a beaver to stop acting like a beaver. It would be as hard as getting a Christina to stop acting like a Christian. Why? Because it's unconscious survival.
Genuine spirituality is about getting beavers to stop acting like beavers.
Now you can appreciate why it's so challenging.
A woman comes home early to find her husband in bed with her best friend. The startled man says, "What are you doing home so early?" She replies, "What are you doing in bed with my best friend?!" He snaps, "Don't change the subject!"
Source: Steven Pinker, Rationality