Leo Gura

@Shan Shut off your logical mind for a second, close your eyes, and ask your HEART: What am I trying to ultimately accomplish with my life's work? Bypass any fears or monkey-mind. At least for a minute. Don't overthink that part. You gotta let your heart steer the ship, not your programmer's logical brain. You might also be holding some dogmatic assumptions: Do you really need a significant understanding of the brain? Do you really need 10 years of study/research? Do you really need a PhD in neuroscience? Maybe you do, I dunno. But my point is, if you're like most people, you may be putting the cart before the horse. First determine what exactly you want to accomplish, THEN research the most direct ways to get there. Getting a PhD might be something your culture has just programmed you with. After all, where else would you get an idea like that? Who's programming whom here? If this is your LP: "Understand the Subconscious and and help people overcome deep implanted traumas" Then cut the shit and listen to what it's telling you! Go straight for the goal. I know many ways of helping people overcome deep subconscious traumas which don't require any of the things you assume. If you wanted to, you could learn to do that in a couple years and you'd have 1,000% better results than PhD's at Harvard. It's a little odd that your LP is about understanding and healing, whereas your domain of mastery is business. Nothing wrong with business, but again, don't put the cart before the horse. It sounds like your domain of mastery should be: understanding the mind and healing. What do you honestly enjoy studying more: business or the mind/healing? P.S. Good work-ethic on doing the course!

I personally find LSD micro-dosing too stimulating for doing work. Maybe brainstorming, but even that is iffy. It'll depend on your baseline level of awareness and whether you like working while buzzing. Provigil works amazing for creativity. Although LSD is probably more healthy. I notice Provigil speeds up heart-rate, which isn't good in my book.

@Mulky Life is pointless. So enjoy the shit out of it while you can. That's the key.

In the reality you create. REALITY. IS. ABSOLUTELY. RELATIVE.

@Lord God I agree!

Lol You guys come up with some funny-ass questions.

@Ilya Most meditators are softcore. They don't meditate for radical existential insights. They meditate at the psychological level, for relaxation, stress reduction, good mood, etc. Meditation is not as direct as self-inquiry. Enlightenment through meditation usually requires long retreat-like settings. Meditating for 1 hour a day is nothing. You'd need to do 10-20 hours a day. Day after day after day.

I think it has a lot of potential.

With that attitude, of course relationships can't fit into the picture. You'll have to change your entire paradigm of what relationships are for.

@I Am That The counter-argument would be: Why not just use LSD or mushrooms, which are just as effective and have very little harm potential? Mushrooms and LSD are so effective and benign that it's almost too good to be true. I'm continually amazing at how awesome our tools for consciousness work really are. It's easy to imagine a universe in which they wouldn't exist. Then people would be really screwed, resorting to shooting up horse tranquilizers and sniffing Crazy Glue I like your avatar. The perfect metaphor for infinity.

You're gonna be dead soon. The pain of unconscious is massive. If you don't have inner wisdom to pursue consciousness, then I guess it's not meant for you in this life. Maybe you'll learn your lesson on the next incarnation. See ya in 2100. Or maybe you're devolve back into an orangutan and live happily and unconsciously in the forest. Oh, wait... all the orangutans will probably be dead by 2100. Maybe an earthworm A lot has changed. I have become conscious of death and God. Actualized.org is no longer my top priority. But I'm still passionate about it. I'm just starting to outgrow it. I'm starting to outgrow talking and thinking. I should really be living in a cave at this point. Psychedelics. They show me what's really important about life. Or I just recall a memory of experiencing the Absolute. Just one good memory of it can set me straight for a bit. I think they are both legit and can be very valuable. Depends of course on how you do it. If Reiki totally didn't work, it wouldn't exist as a field. And I'm quite confident that paranormal healing abilities are real. I've paid good money to get healing from folks with paranormal abilities. Not to say they did any miracles on me. But just minor unblocking of mental, emotional, and physical knots. I would need to experiment more to understand its full potential. But the evidence looks promising. Don't think of it as a magic cure though. That's not how it works. It's sorta like going to a therapist or chiropractor.

Be careful with ketamine. Addiction potential and bladder damage are real concerns. I would urge most people to avoid it. Thanks for sharing your discoveries though.

1) Mind is also a conceptual creation. There in fact is no mind. You can use whatever analogies you like. But they do not get you closer to the Truth. 2) Absolute Infinity must include all finities. God cannot experience all its vastness without becoming limited. Without a perspective, you cannot feel like a you. Without illusion, nothing can exist. Illusion is the mechanism of creation. You live inside an illusion because without it, you'd just be God (nothing). Do you want to be God, or do you want to be you? You can't have it both ways. One precludes the other.

Those are all relative concepts, distinctions, and labels, and they come with potentially a lot of baggage. Who knows what you mean when you say "simulation" or "martix"? Do you even know what you mean? What I've experienced is that reality is an infinite, groundless, hallucination. A dream. A) I say "your consciousness" in a proverbial manner. It isn't really yours. It's universal. From your POV it feels like it's yours. Nothing "holds" or owns consciousness. Consciousness is what everything is. There is nothing outside of consciousness, and nothing which isn't consciousness. B) Of course. Go self-inquire or meditate. No amount of talking will resolve these issues for you. A new level of consciousness is required here.

@Juan Cruz Giusto A) Firstly, become aware that "my friend is seeing stuff" is a concept in YOUR consciousness. This point is so critical. B) You vs your friend is a conceptual distinction which you created. There is no you or your friend. There never was. You and your friend is actually identical: nothing. In the same way that Superman and Santa Claus are identical: both are fictional pointers which refer to nothing. C) You're resisting recontextualizing the facts of reality under a new paradigm. When you comprehend that weirdness is relative, you'll understand that there's no way reality cannot be. You're trying to make reality fit your expectations. Consistency between you and your friends perceptions doesn't equal proof of an external world at all. Imagine for a moment that reality automagically renders infinite perspectives simultaneously without any support structures like laws, math, physics, matter, energy, or anything else. It can do that because it's INFINITE! It can do EVERYTHING. It has no limits. When you have no limits, you can literally just manifest spontaneously out of thin air. What you're seeing is what reality is. You cannot ask, "But HOW is it doing it?!" The answer to the how question is: INFINITY. Reality isn't "doing" anything. It's BEing. The nature of BEing is Absolute Infinity.

There is no you. There is no observer. There is no witness. There is just the dream. You don't exist even within that dream. It's much more radical than solipsism. EVEN when you're in your house, it still doesn't exist. The entire dream is non-existent. Even when its right before your eyes. Because the substance of the dream is literally nothing. This dream we call "reality" has very consistent rules in certain local places. The counter-question for you is: why do you expect dreams to not be consistent? That's your problem right there. You're placing silly expectations upon metaphysics. Not only isn't there a world outside your perception. There isn't even a you who's perceiving! You're not thinking about this existentially enough. You're stuck in the naive realist paradigm. Do some DMT and you'll immediately see where you're wrong. Escaping the illusion is not easy. Your entire life is an absorption into this dream. So you're not likely to see it as a dream unless you make a massive effort.

How could it not disappear? If it didn't literally disappear, you couldn't go to work, because your consciousness would be populated by "your house". The reason you can't be both at your house and at work is because your consciousness needs to empty itself first. Like an LCD screen, it has a hard time displaying two images at the same time. This is not a matter for speculation or philosophy. You need to look at your direct experience. Blink your eyes right now and notice that your room disappears. That's what's literally true. Everything else is concept. Your mind fudges literal truth so that you can live in a cushy conceptual matrix. This work is all about stripping down the conceptual matrix to what is literally true. Don't conflate this with silly expectations of burglars not being able to enter your house. When you're switching paradigms, you have to recontextualize all your old facts about reality. Instead of thinking of reality as a solid physical thing, think of it as a collections of dreams or hallucinations. In a dream, a tiger can eat you, even though both the tiger and your body are imaginary. Reality is literally no different than a dream. It's just a bit more consistent, clear, and vibrant. There is no "substance" behind the dream. The dream is not taking place anywhere, like in your brain. There is no brain! There is no world. It's just pure dream afloat in nothingness. That's idealism for ya.

@love Consider a non-traditional, "alternative" position in medicine. Traditional medicine is pretty lame and low consciousness anyways. Make your own niche in life. You don't have to go with the herd off the cliff.

I've received emails and comments from people who are finding their life purpose at 60 and 70.

I do make outlines of points I want to cover I don't practice much I don't get any feedback from anyone other than you guys after you watch the videos. I don't have any general format for the videos other than the intro and outro. I would probably just not obey it or leave the country. Especially not for some stupid kind of war like Iraq or Veitnam. Those were political wars of pointless aggression. I act low-key. I'm not too chatty. I like to check YT comments or listen to music while I'm waiting in line. I am more comfortable and authentic with strangers than before. But I'm just not a naturally chatty guy unless I'm talking about something of substance. I don't like small-talk. Family hasn't really changed. I'm just more conscious of my own emotional reactions and trigger points. I'm not a fan of Russian authors. Overrated in my opinion. All the themes the cover are neurotic and pointless when one understands the possibilities of consciousness. Who wants to read about misery and depression? It's like punching yourself in the nuts. Ballerinas and classical music? Yeah, perhaps. But I'm not into that sort of thing. There ain't nothing special about Russian architecture. Most of it is clunky. I am a fan of art. Which doesn't mean all types of art, but the types I like, and I tend to be very picky. The purpose of art is to self-express, to entertain, and to impact people emotionally. Seen from the highest perspective, all art is just a glorification of the infinite beauty of creation (God). Ideally art helps raise peoples consciousness. At a workshop Both of course. I study 100s of sources, and then use that base of data to generate fresh insights. Most of the insights come spontaneously simply from filling my head with so much amazing and diverse raw data. The whole process is deeply intuitive. The best insights are not logical connections, but intuitive ones. They just pop out. The mind is an insight-generating machine if you just use it right. I don't plan much. I used to plan more, now I plan less so that I can enjoy work more, go on tangents, and let things be more organic and intuitive. I'm capable of planning. I used to do it a lot. But it's just so tedious and not fun for me. I doubt anyone would want me. And the audience there would generally be way too mainstream to receive that kind of message. I can't talk about absolute infinity in a 5 minute sound bite. No. But I never had that many of them to begin with. 1) 26, 29ish 2) It's an interesting substance. But also dangerous. Never do it alone. You must have a trip-sitter. You're free to live however you want. I'm not here to convince you to live my way. My way is my way. Not everyone will resonant with my way. My way is not the only way. If you've never awoken, it's hard to explain to you just how amazing it is. Everything else you've ever experienced in life is like 0.1% as great as awakening. I guess you'll never know what you're missing. But that's true of 99.999% of people on this planet. They lived without ever having lived. And they know even suspect that. I don't usually do interviews because my passion is communicating directly to people. Most interviews are very shallow, basically just PR stunts. That said, some interviews are enticing. Talking to Joe Rogan would be cool because we'd have a lot to talk about and the format would allow for depth. I'm not sure how Joe picks his guests. If you wanna suggest my name to Joe, that would be sweet. I would do it if he offered.

@Ilya The point of do nothing is expose awareness. Awareness is good in this case. If only you were really aware, you'd be aware that awareness is Nothing.

@abgespaced 1) Be ware of turning the art of mental-masturbation into your life purpose. A purpose needs to have an IMPACT statement component. We covered this in the course. What IMPACT are you planning to make on people/world? Generating ideas is not an impact. Eating cake is not an impact. Having sex with a hot girl/guy is not an impact. Taking notes is not an impact. Organizing your closet is not an impact. Reading a book is not an impact. 2) The domain of mastery is like the vehicle you most want to learn and use to make your impact. Like, if my impact is to kill people, my domain of mastery will be explosives, or firearms, or swordfighting, or nuclear physics, etc.

@JustinS Hazzah! Now we know their Achilles heel! Ghosts love frozen grapes! Get some more grapes, set them out on your dining table, hide underneath the table with your vacuum cleaner and try to suck one of them in there. Post video on Youtube. Profit. Retire to the Bahamas to sip Pina Coladas on the beach.

I'm saying you could be a non-physical organism All that needs to happen is your memory is wiped, and you're instantiated into this reality. Right now you see yourself like a snake, but maybe you're an organism which is more like a hydra.

What? Why?