Leo Gura

@ardacigin Here's a really interesting point which a lot of meditators are in denial about: When you compare psychedelics vs meditation, you're making a biased comparison. You are comparing 5,000-10,000 hours of mediation with 50-100 hours of psychedelics. A true comparison would be to compare 5,000 hours of meditation with 5,000 hours tripping, or 50 hours of mediation with 50 hours of tripping. It's very misleading to criticize the limited transformative power of psychedelics when you are comparing a few psychedelic trips with a master mediator who's done 10,000 hours of practice. The true test is to compare apples to apples. Which of course no meditation teacher does. Because of how bad it would look for them. Meditation is terribly inefficient. The only way to overcome its inefficiency is with a full-time professional commitment. And even then, you will not ever be as conscious as with 5-MeO-DMT. The problem is that doing 5,000 hours of psychedelics is unheard of in our society. So no one really knows what it would result in. People are too scared or too closedminded to run the test. Because a visionary leader is needed to pioneer a new spiritual path as the Buddha did with Buddhism. There is a huge difference between following an existing spiritual path like a sheep vs pioneering a brand new one for others to follow.

@Burstyourbubble You are getting aggressive and defensive with your lack of understanding. Notice this. You are being guided here towards radical truths which you do not yet fathom, which you are in denial about because they are very threatening to your way of life.

Yes, that's what they would say, but their position is incoherent and circular. What is your behind-the-scenes reality grounded in? You're not questioning that deeply enough. You cannot ground reality in the brain because the brain is already part of what you call reality. This is classic question begging. It's like saying God is true because the Bible says so. And why is the Bible true? Because God wrote it.

You don't need to go to some alien planet. Animals on Earth already sleep different amouts at different times of the day. Some animals only wake up at night. Some animals even sleep through the winter. This has nothing to do with what time is per se. Regardless of what time is you can sleep whenever you want.

Reality is groundless. If you try to ground it in anything, like a brain or atoms, you still aren't getting it. Oneness cannot be grounded in anything but itself because oneness can have no other. Brains have no absolute reality. They are imaginary. Just like all form is. It's very simple, you cannot ground form in another form. That is delusion. Discover this for yourself. Brains are a relative duality which we use to speak about relative reality. This concept works, but only up to a point. If you examine it deeply enough you will hit upon a self-reference paradox which results in a strange loop. That's your clue that you've reached the limits of that concept of "a brain". The strange loop is this: if the universe in happening in brain, then where is the brain happening? In the universe? You can't have it both ways. On the one hand you say that the universe comes before a brain, on the other hand you say the whole universe happens in a brain. Which is it? Is the brain itself happening inside a brain?

Trees and campuses are hallucinations. All form is. You're just changing the way you hallucinate. Which is fine. But a great hallucination is still a hallucination.

You must let go of Christianity. If you care to discover God, burn all your Christian beliefs.

Learning, of course, is imaginary. I am ranting against nothing.

@ardacigin Those are some good points. There can certainly be a trap in only hitting peaks but not enough sober embodiment. The peak of a psychedelic like 5-MeO is so extreme it's very hard to embody it even if you meditate all day. You are never going to hit that same level of consciousness sober. You proabably couldn't live regular life while in so much consciousness.

Of course he's maximizing love in his twisted way. Devil = God You guys keep forgetting that final twist. If you do not understand that Devil = God, you are not properly understanding my teachings. I've been very explicit about that when speaking of devils. That's what makes my teaching different than classical Christian teachings which separate the devil from God, resulting in a duality. My teaching is nondual. I don't hate Trump. I merely use him as an example because he's the epitome of ego. I understand exactly why Trump must be Trump and that it cannot be otherwise for him. Trump is just a part of my Infinite Self. I would be foolish to hate myself.

You're thinking about this from behind a computer screen, logically. Attraction, when it happens, is not logical, and it is not a conscious choice you make. If enough random guys approached you, you'd fall in love with one of them. It's merely a question of numbers, luck, and how open you are. Obviously if you're married you ain't open. But if you were single and lonely and horny, you'd be less logical about all this. Don't forget, everyone you've ever had sex with started out as a stranger to you. Unless you're doing incest, in which case, enjoy Confucius say: A stranger is just a friend you haven't made

That's an interesting case.

It works great for the rich folk

This is simply false. Imagination isn't limited to sense perception. In fact, sense perception is something you're imagining. Your critique is based on a lot of daulities of which you are unaware. Dualities such as self/other, self/God, self/world, real/unreal, reality/dream, dream/hallucination, reality/hallucination, human/God, and so on. All of those dualities are imaginary. There is no difference between your childhood happening and it being imaginary. What it means to say that "my childhood really happened" is that you imagine it did. If, right now, you stopped imagining that you were born, you would cease to have a childhood. But you are so attache to the idea of your childhood and having been born that you refuse to acknowledge it is all pure imagination. I don't just mean that your childhood memories might be faulty or exaggerated. I am your childhood even happened other than in your imagination right now! In fact, there is no difference between the two unless you imagine there to be. There is no difference whatsoever between a dream, a hallucination, and your present experience. You just imagine there is. What you're not understanding is: What you imagine becomes real. Not in some stupid simplistic sense of imagining a unicorn and it landing in your lap, but in the sense that you are constructing all of reality with your mind, the end result of which is precisely what you see before you. Whatever you see is precisely what you are imagining and you are not conscious of how you do this. This process is extremely sophisticated and infinitely complex. If you imagine that you aren't imagining your childhood but that it was real << that's what you're currently imagining, and that's what becomes real for you! You are creating reality by assuming it! You can't see it because this process of imagination is responsible for imagining you. You have a massive conflict of interest problem here. For you to understand what I am saying you would first have to face your own death. Which of course you have zero interest in doing. Sorry to burst your imaginary bubble

The larger goal of Actualized.org is a build up a catalog of powerful videos which people can browse from around the world and find every important topic under the sun. To achieve this goal I need to release lots of videos. The priority is not the weekly flow but the overall catalog which is built up over time. These videos are not designed to be watched in a linear sequence. This isn't Game Of Thrones. You are meant to look at a giant catalog of 500 topics and click on those which are relevant to you right now. It should feel like ordering food at the Cheesecake Factory. If you've never been to the Cheesecake Factory, it's a restaurant with a menu the size of a book. There's so much to choose from you don't know where to start and it all looks so good. That's the effect I'm shooting for. It's hard to create this effect if I only release 25 videos per year.

Of course not.

That is pretty awesome.

Locked for low quality. Think twice before you start a new thread.

I'm not revealing yet what the new course will be about. But it will be a course that is useful to 100% of people and my viewers, regardless of where you are on your path. It doesn't matter whether you're into spirituality or not at all, this course will be hella useful to you. It doesn't matter whether you've watched a single Actualized video before, or if you've watched them all. But if you've watched them all, this course will help you to implement it. It will not be about enlightenment or metaphysical topics. It will not be redundant to the LP course. Both courses will be useful on their own, and also synergize together. The new course is not "more up-to-date" because it simply covers different/new material. And the material covered in the LP course is timeless. It will still be useful 50 years from now. If you're following my free videos, you should also supplement them with more practical, less metaphysical teachings from other sources. Actualized's focus is big picture understanding of life, not so much about making you successful. There are tons of sources available for nitty-gritty success techniques and tips. I offer a bit of that, but it's not our main focus here because that ground has already been well-covered by others and because we seek a deeper level of development than success tips can offer.

Well, I can't speak to that because I have no direct experience of such things and those are some bold claims.

Just the exposure of Trumpism is already raising consciousness as Trumpism looks so ugly to most people that we as a culture will agree that it's not the right path forward. Of course there will always be some fanatics who refuse to change their mind, but mostly people see that Trumpism is not a workable way forward. Even his own supporters are starting to admit it. You can't deny the obvious forever. All that's necessary is to shine sunlight on devilry and it will start to dissolve. Trump's whole presidency is that process unfolding.

All experience is a hallucination. It's just a matter of what kind of stuff you're hallucinating. The mind can be highly stable or highly unstable and everything in between. Highly stability does not make a hallucination any less a hallucination. It just creates a hallucination of stability and solidity. A brick wall is you hallucinating something solid and stable. Take a psychedelic and the brick wall will melt and morph. Then it will return back to solidity. Get shot in the head and the brick wall will cease to exist. Classical psychological hallucinations like psychosis are the result of a less stable mind which tends to play by a different set of rules than ordinary minds. It's more dream-like. More like being on a psychedelic 24/7 but often mixed with ego, fear, and confusion. It's not clear like awakening or meditation. Hence people can hallucinate demons and other things like that.

We will still be covering practical topics in the future. A lot of topics remain related to emotional mastery and those will all be practical. Stuff on business and success too. Relationships too. Etc. I just have a big backlog of metaphysical and spiritual topics which I've been executing. It won't always be like that. I'm not going to keep rehashing old topics. There's always new stuff to talk about with at least 200 new topics planned. There will also be a new paid course, which will be the most practical of all. ETA for that is sometime within the next 5 months. So much work, so little time.

AKA mindfulness That's what meditation and waking up is for.

Of course it depends on what my goals are. If what I wanted was a serious relationship and he was actively doing pickup, then probably not. If he is at the point where he's already done a lot of pickup and got it out of his system and was willing to let it go, then that might be ideal. It's every girl's dream to lock down a stud. Girls hate the guy doing pickup but they love the end-results of pickup if they can lock the guy down at the end of it. Pickup refines the guy and makes him a stronger, more attractive man. Girls love that, but they don't want to know how the sausage was made. They want to assume he's a natural. It's like, "OMG! You're so good in bed! How did you get this way?" "Um... you don't wanna know." Like anything else in life, being attractive requires practice. Highly attractive people tend to have lots of practice. Don't be overly pessimistic. It depends on how you go about it. It's just that conscious relationships are rare and take work. But they can be done.