Leo Gura

Hardcore yoga and meditation can take you pretty far without much cognitive dev. But most people will not do it. You don't need crazy technical cogntive dev, just basic notions I teach are enough. You don't need to get into all the fine detail that I get into for myself. I get into extra detail because I teach this stuff and because for me it is a passion. If you have basic construct-awareness that is good enough for normal folk.

There is a distinction between Awakening and cognitive development. Awakening is much simpler than cognitive dev. Cognitive dev is the rational, post-rational stuff. You can get Awakening by just sitting for a long and literally not thinking. Cognitive dev requires lots of careful thinking. Basic kinds of Awakening do not require cogntive dev. But the deepest kinds of Awakening do.

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After a certain point, once you've studied the field of politics and you've understood all of it, paying attention to it becomes counter-productive. Yes, it is good to take a break from politics. Not forever, but for periods.

You don't need to feel the chakras. Just feel the energy flowing up your spine into your brain. I don't see how psychedelics would help here. You can do psychedelics but without the expectation of it helping your Kriya practice.

Not at all. Scientific knowledge does not help with Awakening AT ALL. It actually hurts. Of course. You think Jesus was a math nerd? Haha Most Awakened people are not scientific. The reason I talk about science is not because knowing science is needed for knowing God, it is to highlight the epistemic mistakes of science, to help scientists think better, and to free your mind from the shackles of science.

I literally said the opposite. I don't deny that a machine could become conscious or intelligent. I merely say that LLMs are not that and Tech Bros are doing it wrong. Tech Bros think they can solve this issue with brute scaling up of calculations and data. That is wrong. No amount of scaling up ChatGPT will make it intelligent. If you trained it on all the data in the galaxy it would still not have AGI.

As said, the hardest thing is to exit your self.

I'm making this thread to collect every important video or source of information I find about understanding Israel's deceptive behavior. I've found dozens upon dozens of important videos, too many to fit on the blog. So I'm going to keep adding them here. Feel free to add your own. This is not a thread about debating the Israel-Gaza war. I want to build up a playlist of quality videos for people who want a deep understanding of Israel's deceptive behavior -- the underbelly, if you will. This playlist does not focus on understanding Hamas or Arab terrorism or the latest news about the Gaza conflict (since we already have a thread for that). Warning, this list will be pretty negative as it focuses on uncovering deception, propaganda, bias, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and deconstructing illusions. I see a lot of deception and bias about Israel in mainstream western media which I want to dispel. That's what this playlist is about. This is part of my study of self-deception and self-bias. Sorry if this doesn't seem fair, but this is what I needed to study to unravel the deceptions. This is part of my own sense-making journey. Feel free to discuss any of the videos or share your own. Be mindful not to share low quality, hateful, or misleading/untruthful material. The point here is not be deliberately negative but to gain a deeper understanding of the Israel situation. I will delete any low quality material posted here.

The YouTube recommendations algorithm keeps getting worse and worse, suggesting shallow crap. We need to crowd-source this problem. Let's begin keeping a list of the best, unknown YouTube channels. I'm always looking for high-quality channels related to philosophy, psychology, political science, sociology, history, documentaries, geography, travel, etc. I'm looking for serious channels with mature people who talk about mature subjects. Not drama, not culture wars, not clickbait, not entertainment. Channels with interesting, high-quality content. Channels that are educational and add to our understanding of the world. These channels usually have fewer subscribers, less popular. If you know of such channels, if you find new channels of this kind, please share them here. When you share the link, please write a few words about what the channel is about and why it's worth watching. I will share the best of these suggestions on my blog as well. Thank you. Examples of the kind of channels I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDissenterRL/videos https://www.youtube.com/@WHATISPOLITICS69/videos https://www.youtube.com/@SoftWhiteUnderbelly/videos https://www.youtube.com/@thestoa/videos https://www.youtube.com/@IntegralNaked/videos https://www.youtube.com/@LetsTalkReligion/videos

Discuss: This guy says there's a UFO housed in Las Vegas!!

They pay money to look like this: https://molempire.com/2012/01/19/yaeba-new-trend-in-cosmetic-dentistry/

In Japan they have the opposite: a snaggletooth fad. Ugh... Snaggletooth, snaggletooth

Some kinds of content is very easy to sloppify. Pop music is such content. So are many kinds of YT videos.

Lol This is such a fantasy. Most Europeans wake up and rush to get to work a grinding job they hate. Just like the rest of the world.

Right now AI is the corruption. It isn't grounded in truth or goodness, it is grounded in hype and grabbing power. Corruption is not a lack of technology, it is an improper relationship to truth and reality. How is AI going to stop billionaire sex perverts? AI will give billionaires even more power.

This will solve nothing.

The content of the speech was so good though. It is a shame to take it down.

This interview was a disaster. My God, PBD has such MAGA brain-rot. Can you imagine the irony? Defending Trump -- friend of Epstein and convicted rapist -- to a pedo rape victim? This is a new low.

I don't know how it was made.

@Thought Art It takes years.

@Thought Art Maya is a clever bitch.

Not really

You'd have to get them to realize that all they have are beliefs and projections, and that they in fact do not know what God is. Not-knowing needs to be created. Obviously not. Christians never cared about truth. So they cannot appreciate the value of pure truth over all the human social games.