Leo Gura

Ahem... Less wrinkles

Firstly, the universe does not exist inside a brain. The notion of "the brain" is itself part of the notion "the universe"! So the universe cannot exist inside a brain because that would be like saying the universe exists inside the universe, which is just silly. The universe exists as a hallucination, nowhere! Not in any brain. Reality occurs nowhere, nowhen. Reality is an impossible object. Secondly, the past is a concept. There is no such thing as the past. There is only the eternal present which the ego-mind misinterprets as past and future because it is deluded. Everything in reality has already occurred, simultaneously. Thirdly, with your talk about McDonalds, you are speaking about the relative domain, which is the domain of Maya, the domain inside the dream. Inside the dream you must play by the dream's rules. In this dream, the rules are: if you eat McDonalds (which is an illusion), your body (which is an illusion) will deteriorate (which is an illusion) and you will die (which is an illusion). When the only reality is illusion, illusions feel very "real" because you have no other point of reference. Your death feels like a very serious event precisely because your life is an illusion! Ta-da!

@Psyche_92 Yes, this is a huge problem. What plan could you make to restructure your life so that you have significantly more time for self-actualization work? This will probably involve making some radical structural changes, like re-thinking your entire career. This will involve some tough choices. And that is precisely how growth happens: tough choices, strategy, and emotional labor. You must be strategic and position yourself long-term so that you have more free time. If that means you spend 2 years re-training yourself for a new job, for example, then that's what you must do. When I was in your shoes, I decided to quit my career and start my own business just so that I had the free time and money to do what I needed to do. It took me a 3-4 year detour to get my first business stabilized before I could really dig into my life purpose. Working 10 hours per day simply will not work. It's a terrible strategy that you must now figure a way out of. Not only does it preclude self-actualization work, it will destroy your health and well-being in the long-term. Work smarter, not harder. After years of strategically laying my groundwork I now have the freedom to not work for 10 years without any financial problems. That's what good strategy will yield. I could retire and go meditate for 1 year straight without any worries, come back, and still be richer than when I left. This situation did not happen by accident! I deliberately designed it this way because I realized a long time ago that freedom was the #1 variable to living the kind of life I envision. It's very hard to self-actualize when you are a wage slave. See video: How To Be A Strategic Motherfucker. I'm real serious about it.

@TreeJeff You basically got it right. The realities of real-world politics and government are extremely complex, messy, and difficult. When you go to apply Spiral Dynamics in the US political system, for example, all hell will break loose. All your lofty Yellow ideals will the tarred and feathered. You will be called a pedophile, a charlatan, and worse. And even if you succeed in getting elected President or Senator, or whatever, since you are not an absolute monarch, your power to change policy will be extremely limited because you have to work with all the other parties in power, who will not be at Yellow, and will look at you like a leper. It doesn't matter what color stage you are at, or even if you are totally enlightened like the Buddha himself, if you were President of the US you would have to make incredibly painful choices that would involve the deaths of hundreds or even thousands of people REGARDLESS of your choice! This would be true even for a fully enlightened Turquoise leader! This is the part about governance that laypeople do not understand: simply because of the scale of a country like the US -- 330 million people -- most decisions will result in deaths of tens, hundreds, or thousands. Just by deciding to remove regulations on car pollution, you will kill people. Just by deciding to fund an infrastructure program, you will kill people. And so on. A Yellow leader understands all this. So does a Turquoise leader. Yellow and Turquoise leaders are mature enough to understand that their actions will result in many deaths, which is why they would take their job very seriously and work very hard to make the best decisions possible. They would also know that their decisions could save tens of thousands of lives relative to a Tier 1 leader. Being Yellow, Turquoise, or enlightened does not mean you will be a flawless leader whose policies please everyone and hurt no one. People will get killed and hurt under the watch. They will even get killed and hurt by your highest ideals and most noble policy changes. Those are the harsh reality of governance. Which is precisely why we need highly conscious leaders in power, not people like Trump, who's actions will result in harm to millions as he approaches policy in an ignorant, simple-minded, and narcissistic manner. And BTW, the people will also hate you because they are at Blue, Orange, and Green, and you as Yellow will not satisfy their bloodthirsty tribal desires to attack the enemy color. So as Yellow, even if you succeed, at least 1/3rd of the country will think of you as a traitorous devil. Still want to be leader?

I have warned you guys against idealized notions of enlightenment many times. You are setting yourselves up for disappointment and some rude awakenings with all this "true enlightenment is perfect" stuff. Don't be surprised when you see your "truely enlightened" guru pissing in your soup.

@Hamilcar You can realize the chair doesn't exist. I've done that You smoke enough DMT there won't be any chairs left and you will fall through the floor

@pluto You have an idealized version of enlightenment. This notion of "unconditionally loving" is a pipe dream. In practice, people are still people and they still have many petty issues, including shadow issues, bad habits, and cultural conditioning of which they are unconscious despite their enlightenment. And on top of all that, there is still development, which is a separate thing. You might be loving but undeveloped. Enlightenment does NOT make you a moral person. We have discussed this issue to death. Being a good person is a lot harder than enlightenment.

@pluto You are confusing enlightenment with stages of development. A person can be truly enlightened, but undeveloped. And vice versa. Technically, enlightenment is accessible at any stage of the Spiral.

In this video he sounds more Orange/Green to me than Yellow. The whole problem is that you precisely CANNOT agree on facts. There is no such thing as facts. All facts are dependent on your interpretation and stage of development. Every color lives in its own reality and has its own facts. Blue facts are not Orange facts are not Green facts are not Yellow facts are not Turquoise facts. Without understanding this crucial point, the complexity of this problem will be underestimated, as Obama underestimates it. Stage Blue will not accept Orange & Green "facts". So what do you do then? How do you deal with a Blue person who believes black people have inferior IQ and Muslim people are terrorists? Designing with the entire Spiral in mind is no easy thing.

My audience isn't only young. I've had people email me with testimonials who are in their 60's and even 70's who are finding their life purpose and self-actualizing. It's just the nature of YT that it skews towards a younger demo. Some of the Mods here are in their 40s and 50s. What difference does it make? A good insight is a good insight. And if you feel I am not addressing issues specific enough to 60 year olds, there are plenty of older gurus on YT you could follow. The bottom line is, whatever age you are, you cannot change it. So might as well accept it and just get to work self-actualizing. What else is there to do in life?

@PsiloPutty It is very important to distinguish enlightenment itself from the mind's embodiment and understanding of it. You can have nondual states at low levels of mental development. You can be a devout Blue Christian who has nondual experiences and interprets them as Christ consciousness but it still ethocentric and highly partial to Christianity, denoucing Buddhism and Islam as devil worship. To be able to integrate lots of various worldviews and to be globalist vs enthocentric does NOT come automatically with nondual states. It takes great mental development to be able to stand outside your cultural biases and programming. Even if you become fully enlightened, your mind will still be filled with cultural programming and biases. And it will not automatically understand all the other traditions in the world without study. You can be enlightened and yet still totally ignorant of Islam or Hinduism or science, and how they all interconnect. If Jesus was alive today, he might not look too kindly upon Buddhism or Islam. If you were raised Christian, you will probably have a strong preference to interpret enlightenment in a way that's favorable to that tradition. There will still be subtle bias. Just like if you were raised in a scientific household, you will be biased towards scientific explanations of enlightenment. You will talk about neuroscience and evolution and so on. Watch out. These are all traps! Enlightenment alone will NOT make you Turquoise.

Good work. Of course with psychedelics it's a lot more pleasant and fun.

Don't be lazy and actually read his books if you want to know those things. I spoil you guys too much with videos. If you expect to master life through videos, you're doomed.

It wasn't even really a decision. My #1 goal as a living being has always simply been to understand what reality is. It is not even a deliberate goal I set. It is more like a deep natural curiosity about life. And from there, when I heard about enlightenment, it was just naturally the most important thing to pursue. There is not even a choice for me whether to pursue it or not. There's only the question of: How fast, how seriously? And via which method? You pursue it despite fears and inhibitions. Don't wait for them to disappear. It has never even crossed my mind that I will not pursue enlightenment. To me that would be like throwing away the greatest gift in the universe. Just start doing Kriya yoga everyday and psychedelics. The rest should take care of itself.

May God bless you all with great suffering. And if God should fail, I believe they have spots open in North Korea. You could just like buy a ticket and stroll across the border.

You are as imaginary as the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Has it sunk in yet that science has never proven the existence of a self, or of an external reality, or of boundaries between objects? Why do you believe your life is worth saving? Why not kill yourself? After all, scientifically, there's nothing important about your life at all and no reason why you should work to preserve it. It's rather unreasonable of you to value your life over any other life. Scientifically, there's no more value in life than in death. So why do you behave so unscientifically every day? Give that some thought.

Sounds like you're on the right track. Keep following that breadcrumb trail like a hungry bloodhound (or lion)

@ChadT Sorry, I don't play those rationalist games. I will prove the paranormal to you after you first prove to me that you exist. You want paranormal? Snort 30mg of 5-MeO-DMT. Put your nose where your mouth is. Then you don't even need to listen to me any more.

Character becomes more and more purified and authentic. Because most people have been so brainwashed by culture, their true character has become so corrupted and obscured that just through lots of purification it can appear as though the character changed a lot, when really all that happened was a polishing of this diamond in the rough. Imagine an ancient archeological object which is covered in 5 layers of grime and rust. Once you strip all that crap away, the original object will finally be revealed. And it could look very different than you first imagined. But also, the shape is still basically the same.

@ChadT The distinction of ordinary vs extraordinary, normal vs paranormal is purely relative. Xrays, airplanes, electromagnetism, computers, radiation, wireless communication -- all of this would have been considered paranormal 500 years ago. You materialists are blind to how your mind is shifting the goal posts and taking reality for granted. The distinction between natural and supernatural phenomena is a fiction your own mind constructed. Everything is supernatural. The statistical evidence of ESP is extraordinary in its volume. If you're quoting Carl Sagan or Sam Harris, you really haven't seriously investigated the epistemic and metaphysical foundations of the science and rationalism which you believe in so blindly. You're doing religion 2.0. Rationality in the hands of a fool is a dangerous thing.

Lol It's hard to resist giving them a taste of their own medicine. Sort of like bullying a bully

Experience does not actually exist. What you presently call "my experience" is actually Absolute Infinity. But the ego cannot see this because it believes that you were actually born. The ego is misinterpreting being as experience because of its selfishness. The ego is a giant ball of concepts which includes the concept "me", "my life", "my experience", etc. All of that falls away with the collapse of the ego such that only raw being remains. Life ceases to belong to you. You realize that your birth is just an idea. It never actually happened. You were not born physically, you are born conceptually. "I was born physically" << that's your conceptual birth! Wakey wakey

@Revolutionary Think Like a circle jerk

The hard scientific statistical data for paranormal phenomena is beyond doubt. The problem is, no materialist wants to take it seriously, so the data falls on deaf ears. The bottleneck isn't lack of evidence, it's lack of openmindedness. The truth is too uncomfortable for materialist to stomach, as it would spell doom for materialism. So they just stick their head in the sand. Just like religious folks do about evolution. Same old game replayed in new ways. Nothing original or surprising about it. This is paradigm lock.

Being is prior to knowledge. Turns out that knowledge is actually impossible. You cannot know anything because the thing you are using to accomplish the knowing is itself unknowable. It's like you're trying to use a knife to cut itself.