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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Humanity is so corrupt that it doesn’t even understand its own corruption. The most corrupt people are all convinced that they are the good guys saving the world from evil. Understanding mankind’s corruption requires decades of intellectual labor and intellectual integrity. Decades! Everyone in society is in denial about how corrupt mankind is. If you were told it, all at once, you would not believe it because it would look too shameful and disgusting. It would give you an existential crisis because you are implicated. When people think of corruption, they think it does not implicate them because they are obviously the good guys. “Corruption is something for our enemies, not for us.”
Understanding human corruption requires the highest levels of maturity and integrity. A mind without decades of integrity cannot even see it. A corrupt mind is blind to corruption. Only a truth-seeker can understand the extent of human corruption. Humans gather together to be corrupt together. Humans reinforce, rationalize, and normalize each other’s corruption. Human corruption spreads like vampirism. The vampires want to bite you to bring you into the fold. Their goal is to bite everyone so that no one of pure mind exists who can even see the corruption. Corruption is a kind of collective sleep.
Appreciate how ingenious and devious corruption is. The first principle in studying corruption is understanding that corruption is more intelligent than you. Corruption is outwitting you. Stupid people cannot understand the genius of corruption, which is why they keep reelecting and worshiping such corrupt leaders.
Some of my deepest and most important work will be my explanations of corruption. I will explain human corruption down to a ontological level. That work is yet to come. I will explain corruption so profoundly that you will be left awed and horrified. But you should not wait for me to explain it, you should start on understanding it yourself.
Understanding corruption is one of the most important yet neglected aspects of spirituality. Real spirituality is the understanding of all corruption. All corruption stems from the misunderstanding of God. The better you understand God, the more clearly you see corruption and its root causes.
Revealing mankind's corruption is the ultimate betrayal. But it comes naturally with loyalty to God. You go deep enough in this work and eventually you will be forced to pick a side: mankind or God. The trick of it is that you have to uncover the corruption whilst being deeply implicated in it. That corruption gives you food and shelter. And you have to do all this without becoming bitter and hateful. The trick is to clearly see all of mankind's evil while remaining grounded in Love. If you become bitter about it, that's corruption. Hating corruption is corruption. Blaming others is corruption. Criticizing corruption is corruption. So this gets very tricky.
Purifying Mind of all its corruptions is the true work.
Love IS pureness of Mind.
Love is looking at the world with a pure Mind. The more corrupt Mind is, the less Love it is able to see, until it cannot see Love at all. The inability to Love is the ontological consequence of turning your back on God/Truth.
The spiritual project is to cleanse yourself of all your corruption, to live in Truth, Good, and Love.
God is a completely pure Mind. Mind free of all human defilements.
The question is: How to achieve a Mind free of all human defilements? This is the aim of Pure Philosophy.
Notice that everyone who enters science, without exception, has no idea what science is when they enter it. Every professional scientist who signed up for a career in science had no idea what he was getting himself into. No scientist validated science before committing his life to it. No scientist understood the epistemology of science before he committed himself to it. So yes, literally every scientist took the validity of science on blind faith, pure conformity and ignorance. You can see how epistemically dangerous that is. Every professional scientist gambled that science was valid. The conflict of interest here is epic. Every professional scientist has a conflict of interest in science turning out true. Which is why scientists are so closedminded to extra-scientific considerations. Scientists cannot be open to anything that undermines the validity of science as a whole. And they don't understand the real reason why they are not open to it.
The astonishing thing is that people become scientists unconsciously, without knowing what it is. But they are all absolutely certain it must be the right way. But none of them actually know that. That's what every scientist lives in denial about. Just like Christians, every scientist lives hoping deep down that science must be true, because if it isn't, he would not even know how to live. So you can see why no scientist seriously questions science.
It amazes me that people enter science without ever wondering how we know it is true. How irresponsible.
Rasputin was a strange mystical character. Was he a real mystic or a creepy charlatan? Or something in between?
Why do I say charlatan? Because a serious mystic would not be so eager to cozy up to power. A true man of God is not interested in playing political games and getting friendly with the rich, famous, and powerful. A true man of God has already found all the Power he needs. Truth is not kind to the rich, famous, and powerful. Do you understand how dangerous these ideas we talk about are to the rich, famous, and powerful? No one with power has a pure enough mind to even understand what I teach, never mind live it. People in power are not philosophers, they are epistemic perverts and devils lost in survival.
There is an interesting category of what I would classify as quasi-mystics. These people have some mystical experiences and they posture as mystics, but they are also very corrupt and full of shit. Their mysticism isn't pure, it's a mixture of genuine mystical experiences and bullshit. They don't have the purity and clarity of proper mystics and non-mystics don't know the difference. It is easy to have a few minor experiences of God and turn it into corrupt nonsense. A few mystical experiences do not a Buddha make.
