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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Consider how hard it is to create a society. You need to gather a bunch of strangers and get them to all agree on following your arbitrary rules. Can you see that this is almost impossible? Why should anyone care about following your rules when they could kill you and rape your family instead for fun?
So, because of this, society and culture must resort to a lot of manipulation, construction, and fakery. Without fakery, society would fall apart. Society is an inherently fake project from day one. But we’re 2000 years into it, so we can’t just stop or we would all die. Do you understand that the very precondition of your existence, of your human life, is fakery? Unless all your ancestors were full of shit, you could not be alive today. You are the child of bullshitters, liars, con-artists, fakes, and criminals. Your existential life project is to somehow rise up from 2000 years of fakery and make yourself True.
Now you understand why its so hard. You are not standing on the shoulders of truth-tellers, you are standing on the shoulders of liars. Lying is baked into your DNA. You are a liar not just by culture, but by DNA! You have the DNA of a devil, and our work is to somehow transcend that. The Devil has woven himself into your genes! Quite the challenge. To become spiritual you are literally fighting your own biology, your own psychology, your own culture, your own species. To be loyal to God, you must be disloyal to all of that.
Genuine spirituality is you pulling yourself up out of human devilry by your bootstraps. Not easy, but rewarding.
It is so telling that conservatives belittle and even demonize empathy. That's the biggest red flag ever. If someone says they don't value empathy, run! If someone tries to logically explain why empathy is weak, run! That's pure delusion.
Empathy has existential, metaphysical importance. You cannot understand God, Reality, Self, or other without profound empathy. It is impossible to be a Good person without profound empathy. That's why everyone who demonizes empathy is so bad and stupid. Only stupidity belittles empathy. You cannot coherently marginalize empathy because some day you will suffer bad enough that you will want empathy for yourself. But if you want it, everyone wants it. If you deserve it, everyone deserves it. And if you don't deserve it then you don't love yourself, and you cannot know God, because God is Love.
It is ridiculous that right-wing Christians demonize empathy and simultaneously believe that God is Love. How do you think you're going to understand Love without empathy? How are you going to understand fellow man without empathy? What Jesus taught cannot be realized or embodied without crazy levels of empathy that would terrify a right-wing Christian. Imagine having so much empathy that you have empathy for the worst criminals. Imagine having so much empathy for criminals that normal people call you evil and want to kill you. That's real spirituality.
It's hard to think of what could grow your spirituality faster than proactive empathy.
The Manosphere idea that empathy is for gays and pussies could not be more wrong. Empathy is required to see other perspectives, and God is Infinite Perspective. Without empathy you cannot see anything but your own perspective, which makes you blind and stupid. Making yourself blind and stupid cannot be masculine. Masculinity requires Truth, but Truth requires seeing from infinite points of view, which is empathy. Any man telling you that empathy is feminine, is stupid and blind. Empathy forces you to develop real emotional, spiritual strength and maturity. Real strength is not bench-pressing 300 pounds or doing Jiu Jitsu or smoking a cigar, real strength is being able to empathize with a poor Mexican woman who spends 12 hours a day picking strawberries. But see, that does not sell to men the way Manosphere does. Real empathy is hard to do because it is emotionally disturbing. Once you empathize with that Mexican woman, you can never unsee that.
Without empathy you cannot understand others, you cannot understand society, you cannot understand women, you cannot understand justice, you cannot understand your own children, you cannot understand Reality, you cannot understand God, you cannot understand Yourself, and you cannot understand Love. And a man who does not understand Love is just a horny child.
By demonizing empathy you've shot yourself in the foot. What kind of man proudly shoots himself in the foot?
This channel has great survival videos. Watching survival videos is a hobby of mine.
If you take a microscope and you zoom into Spirit, you will see molecules and atoms. If you take Spirit and put it into a particle collider, you will see quarks and electrons. If you measure Spirit with a ruler, you will discover it obeys mathematical equations. If you take Spirit and you split some of its atoms, Spirit will erupt in a nuclear explosion that kills you. Spirit behaves in all the ways science has measured, and much more which science does not know how to measure.
Just think of it like this: If Spirit existed, you could do science on it, because Spirit has logical structure and is rational up to a point. That’s why science works at all. Science does not contradict Spirit, science is done by Spirit on Spirit. Science is one way in which Spirit understands itself, but it is far from the only or the best way. Spirit can also understand itself directly, without the use of science. Limited aspects of Spirit can be understood with science, but not All of Spirit because science is too partial to grasp All of it at once. But Spirit can grasp All of itself at once, that’s called Awakening.
Science is a limited aspect of Spirit. That's why it works. But science is not self-aware enough to recognize itself as Spirit. So today's science denies Spirit, but future science will recognize Spirit and regard today's science as blind. Spirit is trying to understand itself, through science, but also through any other means. If Spirit convinces itself that it can only be known through science, then Spirit has foolishly cut itself off from the highest dimensions of itself, which cannot be reached through science because the holism of science is too low. If the holism of science increases enough, it stops looking like science and starts to look like mysticism. So today's science defines itself by its lack of holism, in opposition to mysticism, out of bigotry.
Consider this seriously:
If you told a white slavemaster 200 years ago, "You are no different from black people", the response would be, "No way! That's fucking crazy! How dare you! You are a traitor to the white race!"
If you tell a scientist today, "Science is no different than mysticism", the response will be, "No way! You're fucking crazy! How dare you! You are a traitor to science!"
A bigoted Spirit denies its Unity with all the things it has demonized. An open Spirit sees that it is One with all things. The bigotry of science is just a recycling of the bigotry of religion, tribalism, and racism, but at a more subtle level. That bigotry never disappeared, it just evolved into science. Did you really think that bigotry would disappear after you realized religion is stupid? Of course not. Bigotry is a much deeper problem than religion. Of course scientific bigotry exists.
This reminds me of today's conservatives who think that racism has disappeared. Of course something as deep as racism has not disappeared in 60 years. Something as toxic as racism doesn't just disappear overnight, it evolves into more subtle and sneaky forms. Notice the parallels.
A great example of low development in developing countries:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dci1ABJSUYO
India is such a weird place. India reminds me of Morrowind, haha.
This is both amusing and eye-opening. These are some clips from a recent socialism convention.
You can find more clips of this convention on YouTube. The clips I shared here are just the tip of the lunacy iceberg. There is a crazy clip of them saying that dieting is genocide of fat people.
These people are so incompetent at organization and leadership that they can barely run a room of 100 people of their own ideology. These socialist snowflakes will be the first ones killed in a Marxist revolution. They are so naive they don't understand that their own ideology will end in their deaths.
Yes, corporations are run by greedy immoral jackasses, but at least they are competent jackasses. Incompetence with good intentions can be worse than capitalism. Say what you will about Amazon or Exxon Mobile, but they are competent at massive scale. Don't take that for granted. It's not automatic. Cuba is not a competent place.



