Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 7

Consciousness can imagine that it’s anything. Consciousness can imagine that it’s a squirrel, a tree, a cloud, the moon, Hitler, Jesus, Santa Claus, a dragon, a glass of Coca Cola, a child sex slave, an Incel. Anything. When Consciousness imagines an identity for itself, it completely forgets that its true identity is God. The imagination is Total. That means when God imagines it’s a squirrel, it’s 100% a physical squirrel. It has no idea about anything else. It imagines that it’s a squirrel down to the atomic level and up to the psychological level. When God imagines a human identity, it imagines it so deeply that it imagines all of science, all of human history, the planet Earth, the psychology of being human, logic and rationality, mathematics, language, place of birth, family, religion, social life, money, clothing, food, politics, cinema, video games, high school, trauma, death — Every element of human life. God has to imagine all of these things  constantly in order for you to be a human self. If God changed its imagination right now, you would turn into a squirrel and scamper up a tree. The only reason you live in the 21st century is because God imagines it is the 21st century. If God changed its mind you would be a pharaoh in ancient Egypt.

That is the power of Infinite Consciousness.

This is how understanding Consciousness differs from nonduality or enlightenment. Nondual people do not understand such things. Understanding Consciousness is different from ego-death. Ego-death is simple. Understanding Consciousness is hella complicated. I teach how to understand Consciousness. I want you to understand Consciousness so well that you can turn into a squirrel.

People ask me what I mean by truth. Truth is a rich, multi-faceted notion. Here's one facet of it:

Imagine that everything you ever did in life was recorded on camera and visible to the whole world 24/7. Imagine further that all your thoughts and emotions were recorded and published for everyone to see. Now, imagine how differently you would behave. This is an example of truth and its opposite. Imagine living this transparently by default. A life with zero privacy. Your self/ego would have nowhere to hide your devilry.

Think about all the shady, hidden shit you do — the stuff no one knows but you. Imagine all the hidden stuff everyone around the planet does. Imagine everyone's darkest secrets were all made 100% public and transparent tomorrow. Imagine how much human depravity, lies, bullshit, and corruption that would be. It would be a mountain of evil larger than Mt Everest. Just looking at it would disgust you so much it would kill you. That mountain of evil is what humanity is constantly hiding. All visible human behavior and thinking revolves around that hidden mountain of evil, like stars in a spiral galaxy orbiting around a super-massive black hole. Imagine holding all of that evil in your consciousness and loving it. That's the depth of God's Love. That's how Truth and Love intersect. To be infinitely conscious is to see everything that exists — Truth — and also to accept all of it as You. The acceptance of all that is Love.

Imagine an advanced alien species that lived with zero privacy. Imagine how truthful they would be. This is a level beyond communism. It's unimaginable to humans because humans are so evil. It is easier for mankind to die than to live truthfully. All of human civilization is structured around falsehood, bound together by falsehood. It's like the Mafia. It's like Epstein's pedophile ring. Everyone in it is dirty and guilty to protect each other. When the falsehood is small, it's a cult. When the falsehood is cyclopean, it's a civilization.

Note: I am not pure enough to live that way. So I'm in this boat with you. We are all evil together. I'm just truthful enough to identify and articulate the issue.

The solution to corruption is transparency, light, consciousness, truth, God, love.

Guys and girls both misunderstand how pickup lines work.

The point of a pickup line is not to get you laid. No woman will ever sleep with you from any verbal thing you say. The verbals are irrelevant. There is no line you can say to get a girl to like you, so stop even trying that.

That's not what pickup lines are about. The point of a pickup line is to amuse yourself with clever and witty things to say. To put yourself into a creative, flirtatious mood. For this to work, you don't want to be memorizing someone else's lines, you want to be in a state of mind where you are constantly inventing funny, clever lines of your own. As you drive to the club or the date, invent some new funny lines and write them down in your phone. Keep doing that for years and you will become insanely charming, witty, funny, and sharp.

As an exercise, I challenge you to invent ten original, clever, funny lines to say to a girl. These lines don't have to be the first thing you say, some lines are best dropped deeper into a conversation. As a bonus, these lines should reflect your values, hobbies, and personality. For example, if you are into spirituality and psychedelics, invent some funny lines related to this topic. For example, something as simple as, "Fuck it. Lets go smoke DMT." And you drop this line a lot into every conversation until it becomes a joke. For example, she might be talking about some problem she has with her best friend, and you drop in, "Fuck it. Let's go smoke DMT". You do this even when you have no intention of smoking DMT. It's just a joke. But it also aligns with your true values and interests (assuming you like DMT).

The value is not in the line, the value is in the attitude and mindset that generates the line. This is the difference between investing in a diamond vs a diamond mine. To have good game, you need to re-train your mind to be frequently thinking about funny and witty things. And then you write those down for future use. If you do this for a few years, eventually your mind will become so sharp that you'll be able to generate pickup lines in real-time, live, in the middle of a conversation. Now you own a diamond mine.

Examples of funny lines I like to drop on girls in conversation:

• I am too beautiful for you.
• One day you will love me as much as I love myself.
• That's what she said.
• This is all just a dream.
• What gifts are you gonna get me?
• I have to always keep one eye on you.
• I buried my last girlfriend in the desert.
• [knock on her skull with finger] Who's in there?
• It's okay, I forgive you.
• It's okay, I'm a professional.
• God is watching you.
• I want to bite you.

It took me years to figure that out. No one explains it properly.

As civilization evolves, survival becomes more and more abstracted — or as I call it, sublimated. What does this mean? It means that what used to be obviously survival doesn't appear that way any more. Crude, material survival like building a campfire, hunting, or farming takes on a highly abstracted form. For example, instead of farming, a hot girl in Miami parties at nightclubs. But she has no idea now that her partying is survival. This is happening all across civilization, with everyone. As civilization advances, technology enables more and more abstracted, complex, and subtle ways of survival. It becomes harder and harder for the mind/self to keep track of this survival. So the mind/self gets lost in survival more and more easily. And many of these abstracted ways of survival are highly artificial, unhealthy, and dysfunctional. But because they are so abstracted, the unhealthiness is harder to see. So this becomes a huge problem across modern society.

Examples of abstracted survival:

• Teenage girl spending 3 hours scrolling through Instgram, obsessing over how other girls look
• Wall Street bankers inventing new kinds of derivatives
• A YouTuber who make a channel criticizing and trolling other channels
• Girls doing OnlyFans
• Andrew Tate or Calvicular grifting young men with Red Pill and Black Pill ideology
• Podcast shows like Joe Rogan
• Alex Jones peddling conspiracy theories
• Right wing talk radio
• Pickup coaches doing bootcamps
• Twitch streamers getting paid millions just to play video games all day
• People making money off of culture wars, like Jordan Peterson
• A chef working in a 5-star gourmet restaurant
• Crypto
• Tech bros hyping up AI
• Going to Burning Man

Here's a deep example of what I mean:

Piers Morgan on YouTube hosts a news show where he deliberately invites the most controversial and bombastic guests to shout and arguing over each other. What is really happening here? To most viewers and even to Piers Morgan and his guests, this is just an entertaining show about important political and cultural topics. Of course Piers knows this is also his career and business. But none of these people comprehend that this entire spectacle is just a mechanical abstraction of survival. It's nothing more than that. The crucial insight is that they are not conscious of this. Once you become conscious of it, it's like spoiling the magic trick. The whole thing starts to look gross, stupid, and silly. It's like, "Oh... unconscious survival? That's all this is? Wow! I never saw it that way. That's so lame." You see that everyone involved in the activity is just a mechanical zombie. This is eye-opening!

Obviously I am not saying you can't or shouldn't survive. But once you start to see how the things you're doing are nothing more than unconscious survival, the activity loses its charm, allowing you to find healthier and deeper ways of surviving. This is about becoming conscious of the true reasons of why things are happening. There is always the surface appearance and the deeper reality. For example, the surface reason for going to party is to have fun. The deep reason is reproduction. Notice that most people only see and understand the surface level of their activities. Most people going to a party have no idea why they're actually there! That's amazing. But I'm saying something much deeper than just that when you go to a party you should know you're there for reproduction. For example, you might think that pickup artists understand the deeper reason of what they're doing, since they know they are only at the party for sex. But here's the mind-fuck: pickup artists do not understand what I'm saying here. They don't understand that pickup is just mechanical survival. If they understood what I'm saying they would quit pickup. So this goes much deeper than it seems. Consciousness of survival goes deeper than anyone appreciates.

The more you study my work, the more you will see how everyone in society is a survival machine, including yourself. This will explain all their/your behaviors and problems.

Here's another key insight: the intelligence running all this abstracted mechanical survival is way higher than the intelligence of any individual involved in it. It's as if the individual humans are just robots running on an intelligence located in the cloud and governing all their movements. The system itself is more intelligent than the humans actors within it. The point of self-actualization is make yourself more intelligent than the intelligence running these mechanical systems of abstracted survival.

Example of what I mean: When a hot girl goes to a nightclub, she is just a robot run by a higher cloud-intelligence that is the clubbing system. She has zero awareness of this. Which is why her life is so miserable and broken. You are just a robot within survival systems of higher intelligence beyond your comprehension. To start to see this is the beginning of your mental liberation.

Another example: ALL of Wall Street is a vast abstracted survival cloud-intelligence of which none of the actors in the system are aware. That's WHY Wall Street causes so much damage and corruption. It's just a survival machine! A survival machine cannot have Goodness, Truth, or Love. Civilization is a collection of godless survival machines. That's why humanity is so godless and broken.

You are an ant in a godless mechanical labyrinth.

Ta-daaaa!

Being an online content creator is very self-deceptive. Doing this work for 13 years, I have become aware of devious self-deceptive forces acting upon me. These forces aren't perceptible until years into the process. This has been my greatest source of personal self-deception. And I study self-deception professionally. Which leaves me terrified for content creators who have zero understanding of self-deception in general. They are so screwed.

Here are the major traps I've seen:

• The pressure to publish content on a weekly basis slowly corrupts your work. This pressure to publish pressures you to make shit up. Your mind will concoct things regardless of truth or health just to fulfill your content quota. This can spiral out of control into delusional worldviews and fantasy. Because you aren't paid for veracity, you are paid only for views, disconnecting your work from reality, from truth, from Goodness.
• Your audience's commentary creates an echo-chamber of praise and validation which goes to your head, leads to big ego, and paints a fantasy in your mind of what people think of you and your work. The praise is too positive and criticism is too negative and gaslighty. You end up with a very fictitious and biased picture of who your audience is. The feedback you get is extremely noisy, biased, and low quality. Sorting through it all takes a bad toll on your mind and ignoring it all isn't viable because you need feedback on your work.
• Audience capture: there is crazy pressure not to lose your fans, so you start telling them what they want to hear rather than the truth. What you create becomes dictated by your fans.
• Evolving yourself becomes difficult because your fans don't want you to evolve, they want you to keep feeding them more of the same content, not more mature content. The more mature and healthy your content becomes, the more fans you lose, the less views you get, the less money you earn. The higher quality your work becomes the less money and fame you get, which doesn't feel good.
• Algorithm capture: there is crazy pressure to create content that is popular, which only happens when you chase hot topics which the algorithm prioritizes. The algorithm slowly corrupts your entire body of work. You don't have a body of work anymore, you just have algorithm-chasing hot topics.
• Huge pressure to create drama content, clickbait content, low consciousness, and critical content because that's what gets clicks.
• You start creating content that is harmful to people and society. You start pumping poison, toxicity, negativity, misinformation, and ideology into the information ecosystem. Your content is not beneficial, it's just popular and you don't even care anymore because you've lost your sense of direction. Who cares as long as it's getting views?
• Your work becomes highly derivative and 2nd-order. Rather than creating original content you fall into the trap of easy reaction content, criticizing other creators, ridiculing and attacking others. You're no longer a creator, you're a reactionary troll.
• The more you speak, the more your speaking persona becomes your new persona. Just speaking every week for years shifts and re-solidifies your persona into someone else. Gradually, imperceptibly, you drift into another person, often a worse version of yourself. You become the character you play. You can develop a delusional self-image as fans shower you with praise. You start to overlook all your evil and only see yourself as good.
• It's very difficult to be truly honest and authentic in front of millions of people who constantly judge you, so you end up inventing a fake, sanitized character. You become a fake online persona and you start to feel a hypocrite in private.
• You can literally talk yourself into twisted and delusional ideologies and worldviews. If you talk about communism enough you will become a dogmatic communist. If you are cynical all the time in your videos you will eventually blackpill yourself and your audience without even noticing.
• Sponsorship corruption: You slowly start taking more and more money for sponsorships, for ads, for ever more lucrative deals, until your channel becomes a platform for grifters and corporate scams. Gradually you rationalize to yourself that selling out is fine. You slowly sell your soul to the Devil for sponsorship money. Until eventually you are promoting online gambling, crypto scams, and dick pills, and telling yourself this is normal, "Everyone's doing it".
• You find yourself creating content that you don't even want to create anymore just because you have to to keep the cart rolling. You're creating content and you don't even know why anymore.
• You become addicted to the internet and social media because you're online all the time for work. But then you can't stop because it goes beyond work. You're always online and this rots your mind, work ethic, social life, sex life, etc.
• The tempting trap of having sex with your fans and followers, using them as a funnel for quick easy sex, but ruining your reputation and hurting your fans. Your fans will make this extra hard on you by tempting you with offers of free sex and sending you nudes — even if you never asked for it.
• Getting stuck in a cycle of talking about the same things over and over and over again because you don't have legitimate new content to share. Gradually your content turns into repetitive slop.
• Burnout: driving yourself to the point of exhaustion producing weekly content for years until you are sick of it all but you still feel the need to keep producing to feed the algorithm.
• Creating a cult-like following of conformist fans who support you mindlessly to their own detriment. The more popular you become the more mindless fans and yes-men you will get. Even if you tell them to stop, they can't help themselves.
• Banning/blocking anyone who challenges you, anyone who criticizes you, until all that remains are sycophantic yes-men, deepening your echo-chamber.
• Making so much money so fast and so easy that the money itself corrupts you, making you spoiled and entitled, disconnected from the real labor market.
• Becoming so famous that fame itself corrupts you, gives you a huge ego.
• Getting into a rut just by working from home, working by yourself for years and years. You become socially isolated and reclusive in unhealthy ways. You have no colleagues to give you feedback, to share new ideas with you, to push back on you, to push back on you, to demand more from you. Working alone is great for the first 10 years, but then it gets quite old.
• Revealing too much private information about yourself online, and never being able to take it back because anything on the internet is forever.
• Talking too much and saying stupid shit. If you speak on camera long enough, if you post on social media long enough, you are guaranteed to say stupid shit which you will regret but can never remove. And people will hold it against you FOREVER. You have to be constantly worrying about saying something stupid, which is exhausting. You will say stupid, cringe shit which you will then have to apologize for and then white-wash yourself, which becomes even worse than the disease. The trap of the cover-up becoming worse than the crime.
• Publicly reacting to criticism in ugly and emotional ways. Often your reaction causes more damage than anything you're reacting against, creating a devious trap. You must train yourself to hold poise and not react to all the criticism and trolling you will certainly receive. But this takes years to train and it will be hard to maintain it constantly.
• Not doing greater things with your life/career/business because you are forever stuck in the online content creation loop. Mastering new things is much harder than just churning out online slop. The offline world often doesn't pay as well as slop and clickbait does, which spoils you.
• Dealing with stalkers, doxxing, death threats, mentally ill fans, and suicidal fans. Knowing how to handle that is an acquired skill that nobody teaches you, you only learn through trial and error.
• People will constantly misunderstand you, forcing you to spend way too much time explaining, rationalizing, and justifying yourself both publicly but more importantly privately, inside your own mind. Your mind will have to explain to itself why it says what it says. These self-justifications easily spiral into delusion. Self-justification becomes a devious and subtle psychological trap. It's easy to get gaslighted by your audience but even by yourself. You have to get used to living with many people misunderstanding you beyond your ability to correct. And the more you try to explain yourself publicly, the weaker you will look, the more people will use it against you — creating a devious trap.
• The more popular you get, the more unfair gotcha content other creators will make about you, since that's easy brainless content for them and gets them lots of views. Ignorant and misinformed creators will outright slander and libel you, invent nefarious narratives about you, accuse you of heinous things as if it is fact, and if you aren't careful and you start reacting to it or arguing with them, they will drag you through the mud and you will only make people believe the misinformation. "Why doth he protest so much? He must be guilty!"
• Once you get super-popular, ignorant journalists from mainstream media will start to do journalistic reporting on you, combing through everything you ever said, cherry-picking the most triggering and outrageous things you ever said, stripping it entirely of context, ignoring anything positive you ever said or did, and reporting on you as a dangerous villain — because they are paid for every clickbait journal article they write. The more popular you get the more politicized they will make you, trying to turn you into a political enemy of the right or left, whichever fits best. Finally, they will launch campaigns to get you canceled, deplatformed, and demonitized because obviously you are a dangerous villain.
• If you are take drugs, psychedelics, or alcohol and you have access to social media accounts, God help you. You can easily destroy your whole career with a few careless drunk posts.
• If you are doing deep spiritual work while doing this, you will go through mood swings and state changes which can last days or weeks, which make you seem or act unhinged from your audience's POV, and they will not understand why and hold it against you.
• You will form vague ideas of who your audience is, but that is likely to be highly over-simplified so you will never truly know. You will constantly be surprised by the diversity and chaos of your audience. You will try to cater to one segment of your audience, then another, then back, and you will never be able to please all segments.
• You will try to pretend and act like you don't care what people think of you online. But it's not so easy. Word will reach you eventually and you will care. Criticism will hurt you and praise will thrill you, jerking your emotions up and down like a see-saw. Your online reputation is important for your business, career, and influence.
• The less you chase after popularity and clicks, the harder it will be for you to survive financially. Perhaps to the point where you die. Pushing you to chase and sell out to sponsors and unethical gimmicks.
• There will be a strong pressure to manipulate and scheme behind-the-scenes to advance your career and online business. You will then try to hide this manipulation and scheming from your audience, making you duplicitous and incongruous.
• There will be a strong incentive to form cabals and alliances with other content creators to mutually benefit each other, but at the cost of making you all corrupt together. These cabals will then corrupt your work in favor of collective survival.
• Your inbox will be spammed with all sorts of shady, corrupt, scammy business offers, partnerships, and sponsorships, which if you don't choose wisely, will ruin your reputation.
• You will be tempted to be dramatic, bombastic, and edgy for clicks and views. Then this will become your new persona.
• You will even be tempted to create fake content. Fake photos, fake vacations, fake stories, fake emotional reactions, etc. Anything to feed the insatiable algorithm.
• You will be tempted to create and sell stupid merch and products that no one really needs. T-shirts with your logo on them, useless widgets, useless supplements, overpriced coaching calls, mastermind groups, etc. Anything just to monetize your traffic. And you will convince yourself that this is actually Good. You will invent schemes to exploit your followers while telling yourself that it's good for them when it really isn't.
• You will fall into a deep conformity, where you see every other creator behaving this way, so it must be normal and healthy.
• Even if you manage to mature, evolve, and master all of the above, that will take you years and people will still judge you by your worst, not your best.

Being a popular online influencer creates a powerful reality-bubble which is very difficult to step outside of and see objectively. Every major content creator is living inside his/her self-constructed bubble without realizing it, without understanding the costs. The pressure to create content corrupts the mind. Seeing the success of your content corrupts the mind. Reading all the positive and negative feedback corrupts the mind. Chasing after views, clicks, and subscribers corrupts the mind. Taking money from sponsors corrupts the mind. Pleasing your fans corrupts the mind. Just being online corrupts the mind.

If you are an online content creator, take all these traps seriously.

Nobody teaches you the psychology of how to be an online content creator, so you will spend years stumbling through it, not even understanding the problems. These problems will be opaque to you. You will be like a lost child in the middle of a cornfield with lions running loose.

Good luck.