Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 9

Stop meditating cross-legged. Buy yourself a comfortable chair for meditation. Cross-legged meditation is stupid, unhealthy, and done out of mindless conformity.

Go to a furniture store and find a good chair for meditation. Not too big. Not too soft. Not too fancy. Not too short. Not too expensive. Not too angled. Not a couch. Not a recliner. It needs to have a comfortable, cushioned seat but not too puffy. And it needs to allow you to sit upright without back support. It's also nice if it is relatively light and portable, so you can move it around to any room in your house. Make sure it can fit through your door-frames without disassembly. Visit multiple furniture stores until you find the perfect one. This chair will last you a lifetime.

This is my meditation chair. I also use it for Kriya yoga. It is simple but very comfortable.

Do you understand why Hindus sat cross-legged? Because they were too poor to afford chairs! That's it. They also wiped their ass with their bare hands.

Notice how this works: If corporations hire activist LGBTQ writers who prioritize gender politics over great writing, then they will write mediocre stories and stupid characters while making the characters minorities and queers, then the fans of those stories will start to hate those characters and hate minorities, then the LGBTQ activists will interpret that as bigotry and hatred of minorities, convincing themselves that their original aim of pushing diversity is even more correct and more needed than they originally thought — thus creating a self-fulfilling cycle. That’s how tricky the epistemics of the mind are. This is the sorcery of self-deception.

The mind does not see how its view of reality creates and validates itself. If you want to push minorities in media, your top priority must be to write solid stories and intelligent characters for them, otherwise your plan will backfire, making minorities look bad. If you want to put a queer into Star Wars or Star Trek, you better write it better than George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry. But that is not happening in today's corporate environment. If you ruin a Star Wars story in favor of diversity, Star Wars fans will start to hate diversity. Not because they are bigots but because you ruined the thing they love to push your political agenda. The stage Green minority activist will object by saying, “But Leo, it is unfair to demand that minorities require better stories than non-minorities in order for them to be accepted!” Yes! Life is unfair. But that’s the way perception works. You can't just stick a lesbian black woman into a shitty story and expect people to love it. You have to write a great story, a great character, so that people love it regardless. And blackness and gayness doesn't automatically make a thing great. That is the harsh reality of the situation. That's why it's difficult.

If your worldview is that everyone is a bigot, then your reality will become that everyone is a bigot. You will actually create that reality. So be careful. This is something stage Green political activists don’t understand. Stage Green creates its own reality. This isn't about race or politics — that is too shallow — this is about Mind constructing reality. Political activists are so blinded by the passion of activism that they completely overlook the constructive nature of Mind, which ends in their activism backfiring and failing.

"But Leo, I don't care about all this Mind stuff, I just want fairness and equality in society!" Okay. I hope you enjoy failure.

What you really want is Love. And there cannot be Love without proper use of Mind. So don't be so myopic and take the Mind stuff more seriously. Notice that Green gets in its own way. Insufficient intelligence results in self-interference. Is there a higher intelligence than Green? Absolutely!

Concrete example of what I'm talking about:

Note: I am well aware that black Star Wars actors gets lots of hate mail, death threats, and genuine racist trolling. All of that is true. However, racism and bigotry is not the reason why Star Wars Acolyte got canceled. It was cancelled because the writing was bad, the characters were poorly written, and the show was insanely over-budgeted to the point of being a money-laundering scheme. $180 million dollars for eight 30-minute-long episodes of Star Wars Acolyte?? Are you out of your fucking mind? What kind of scam are you running, Disney? Racism is a convenient excuse in this case. Which does not deny that racism is real. Yes, there are plenty of racist Star Wars fans. Which is why quality writing is all the more important! Star Wars needs to be written so well that it even wins over racists. Imagine if Disney set that as their mission statement: "We will write Star Wars so well that even racists will love it." That's powerful! That is the way.

Note: Disney shills sent a letter to YouTube to get Star Wars Man's channel demonetized for racism and bigotry, when he's just pointing out how bad the writing is. This is a perfect example of toxic stage Green. See, when you do that, Star Wars fans are gonna hate Green even more. Star Wars Man is the biggest Star Wars fan on YouTube, and you gonna call him a bigot? That's terrible optics for Green. This kinda thing gets millions of young men voting for Trump. That's what I mean by backfiring. Green is so horny for hunting bigots that they end up shooting bystanders between the eyes. When you're hunting the Devil you need to double-check that it's really him in your crosshairs before you pull the trigger, otherwise the Devil wins.

Obama said this a few weeks ago in an interview with a progressive YouTuber.

Afterwards, Obama back-peddled his claim.

Politicians ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The following is a beautiful example of Double-Standards. I've long been looking for a concrete example of this lesson, and finally I found it.

In this clip, Mike Stoklasa, a Star Trek lore nerd apologizes to Star Wars Theory ("Star Wars Man") for making fun of him for being so anal about continuity of lore. Mike had the epiphany that Mike is as anal about Star Trek lore as "Star Wars Man" is about Star Wars lore, but he ridiculed Star Wars Man for it — which is incoherent. This is a micro example of how the mind/self relates to reality in a biased way and oblivious to the fact, leading to misunderstanding and division. Your mind is always operating on double-standards because it is so biased. The key is to apply epistemic responsibility and to care about eliminating these biases and contradictions from your own mind — something most people are too negligent to do.

This seems like a trivial example, but your mind is falling into this same trap in hundreds of areas and ways, and it all adds up to become a huge deal. You should be constantly on the hunt for biases and double-standards in your reasoning process.

(Watch timestamp: 52:21-57:58)

And here is "Star Wars Man's" reaction to Mike's apology:

Notice how Mike's apology, which came as a result of his self-reflection, leads to the healing of a division between these two YouTube channels, creating unity and love. That is the power of Consciousness. When Consciousness sees how all things are united (Mike is united with Star Wars Man in his nerddom), love is created. Because Unity of Mind is Love! When you are seeing and eliminating double-standards and bias from within your own mind you are literally healing your mind and getting closer to God. God is a fully healed Mind!

So this trivial, stupid example from Star Trek and Star Wars nerds is actually a profound, universal spiritual lesson. This is the power and utility of this work.

Also notice the beauty of this example. The beauty of a genuine apology and self-recognition of wrongness. You should not wait for others to point out your bias to you, you should catch it yourself. That is epistemic responsibility. That is how a commitment to truth heals your mind, your life, your self.

Notice that now, thanks to his self-reflection and admission of wrongness, Mike's mind is more coherent. Mike's mind is literally closer to God than it otherwise was. He doesn't know that, but if he studied my teachings he would know it and appreciate it and take it even further to heal his mind even more, until one day he realized God.

Disney Star Wars and Alex Kurtzman Star Trek are both united in being corrupt corporate shit, which should unite Star Wars and Star Trek fans. Really, all fans everywhere should unite in pushing back against the corporate corruption of art and entertainment. If you are a true fan of anything, you should not want a corporation milking that thing to maximize profit, robbing that thing you love of its soul. A true fan wants the thing he loves to stay TRUE. You want TRUE Star Wars, you want TRUE Star Trek, not soulless corporate husks of them.

You want TRUE Actualized.org. Imagine if I sold Actualized.org to a corporation. This would be the deepest betrayal.

The incoherence of corporate hacks is that they too would be upset if some other corporate hack robbed a thing they love of its soul to maximize profit. But what makes them hacks is that they don't care about this incoherence.

Notice a potential double-standard here. You might watch these nerds arguing over Star Wars and Star Trek and tell yourself, "Who cares! Stop being such nerds! Get a life!" But then in your life you have something you are a fan of that you care about the integrity of. Perhaps you don't care about films or video games, but you care about music, or cars, or science, or religion, or Marxism — and you will get all anal about that thing when you see it getting corrupted, which is a double-standard, a bias, an incoherence. Ultimately, everyone is a nerd about something, everyone is a fan of something, so it is untruthful to ridicule caring fans because you care about stuff too. Star Wars and Star Trek may seem trivial to you, but that is just your bias. The thing you love the most is trivial to someone else, and vice versa. Be mindful of that. Ultimately it is hypocritical to belittle the things others love because we all love something and we are all hurt when the thing we love is belittled or trivialized. Love unites us all. But out of selfishness and bias people often belittle and trivialize the love of others. Implicitly, out of selfishness, we behave like this: "The thing you love doesn't matter to me at all."

Contemplate: "How do I belittle and trivialize the love of others? And how does that make me incoherent?"

Do you see how deep this stuff goes?

Do you see how practical spirituality is?

Hamilton Morris is a curious case. He has probably done more psychedelics than I have. However, he is completely materialist and atheist. All those psychedelics and he still never realized God. Which just goes to show that psychedelics alone are not enough. The contemplative and deconstructive work is crucial.

Nevertheless, I am grateful to him for doing some pioneering work in the psychedelic space. His integrity is admirable. He is a strong advocate for psychedelic legalization and research, which is important for evolving mankind.