Vlad Reacts To Hunter Biden's God

By Leo Gura - September 13, 2026

This is a fascinating example. Vlad reacts to Hunter Biden description of God. Watch, and then read my commentary below:

Commentary:

Hunter Biden says, “We are all literally connected.” Not only is that true, that’s more true than Vlad or even Hunter can fathom. Not only are we all connected, we are identical.
Overall, Hunter Biden’s description of God is very good. Of course it’s still rather shallow, but for him it’s good enough.
Hunter Biden says, “I know that there is not a sentient being that is not literally me.” Correct! Everyone is the same being. Everyone is God under the sock-puppet.
Vlad responds by saying that he’s open to Christian and Islamic mystical experiences, but not the New Age. Quoting Vlad: “It’s very difficult to give an account of that which is not a kind of fantasy wish fulfillment.” This is backwards. Hunter’s description is more accurate than most Christian and Islamic ones. So Vlad is mistaken here. It is popular to poo-poo the New Age, but the New Age is often more right than anything else, so be careful. You will get a better understanding of God via the New Age than Christianity or Islam, because the New Age is less dogmatic. Dogma cripples the mind’s ability to comprehend God.
Vlad dismisses Hunter’s description as stemming from Hunter’s emotional weakness as a drug addict. This is wrong. Hunter’s description comes from direct experience from all the drugs he’s done. Which shows you that a drug addict will have a deeper understanding of God than a trained philosopher. This is a great lesson. Drugs beat academia every time
Vlad says he has meditated twice a day since 2004. Then he says that he understands the experience of the dissolution of the self and that there is a certain sense of “everything being connected”, “but that’s not the same as sitting at the dinner table and claiming that metaphysically everything is connected.” Wrong. That’s exactly what it means!
Vlad says, “It does not follow that you can say, without sentimentality and kitch, that everything is everything.” Of course Everything is Everything! Lol. That’s exactly what God is! That is the highest truth.
Vlad says there’s no such thing as meditating well. This sounds true but is false. There are definitely right and wrong ways to meditate. In fact, most of the stuff people call meditation is not meditation at all, it is daydreaming. Good meditation requires extreme rigor and focus, which is why its so hard and rare. Which is why Vlad has not realized God after 20 years of it.
Overall, this example beautifully reveals how easy it is to mislead yourself with meditation and academic philosophy. Vlad has studied so much academic philosophy that it has made him metaphysically and spiritual dense. And his 20+ years of twice daily meditation have not brought him any closer to realizing God. This is why I am critical of meditation and insist on psychedelics. With the right psychedelic, Vlad could realize God in 10 minutes.
The reason I endorse psychedelics is precisely to avoid Vlad’s situation. Without psychedelics, most spiritual people and meditators will end up like Vlad, which is heartbreaking. 20+ years and still no Awakening. Actualized.org is designed to preempt that trap.

Note: I enjoy and respect Vlad’s work. Lots of love to him. He is just speaking about a topic outside his wheelhouse (which is another lesson in self-deception). The point of this post is not to criticize Vlad but to teach you a lesson.

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