Leo Gura

I disagree with him on multiple fundamental things. It is what it is. I cannot account for his positions. But I don't need to agree with him on everything or even the fundamental things in order to see the value of his work.

Ralston does not have a cult around him. Ralston is one of the most genius humans on this planet. It takes insane intelligence to appreciate everything he offers. Most people will never understand what Ralston has achieved. He's NOT just another enlightened nondualist. He has achieved a level of understanding of reality which hardly any human on this planet has achieved.

One day you will realize how scary true that is. I share a book list with you guys of 200+ books. Obviously stuff like that is worth reading. But at some point you have to go beyond the books, beyond human ideas. Humans can offer you fresh perspectives. But eventually you gotta focus on developing sovereignty of mind. Where you draw that line is up to you. And you don't have to draw it just once. You can go through phases, redrawing the line as needed. There are phases in my life where I study lots of human perspectives, and phases where I rely solely on myself. Can you get value out of reading the entire canon of Western philosophy in meticulous detail? Sure. But also you will fill your head with some many concepts you might regret it at some point. One of the top traps of our work is getting lost in concepts, models, theories, abstractions.

It's a coherent dream. You could dream random noise but it would not be a life. So really, what you're catching onto is the thing of A LIFE. Nobody in the spiritual community even talks about this. A LIFE is a profound phenomenon. You're not merely alive. You are inside A LIFE! Contemplate: What is A LIFE? These spiritual people don't even realize what A LIFE is, as an existential thing.

I wasn't flippant. I was saying that following the work of all those great men will limit your mind's ability to think original thoughts. I am dead serious about that. If you take humans ideas too seriously eventually you will end up believing them. You won't be able to help yourself. And you won't even know what you missed. But hey, do it your way. Maybe it will work for you.

Like what?

There are some limits, I don't even remember what they are at this point.

Then it's no longer distilled. Not mineralizing it is the thing I'm warning about.

The devil must be purged before God can appear But be careful running around your house like a maniac. You could carelessly hurt yourself on something sharp or hard.

One of the best ways is to have a daily visualization practice where you picture only positive things for your life for 20 mins per day. And do it every day, like a meditation practice.

Look up the case of Aubrey Marcus. He drank distilled water for a month and it ruined his health to the point where he could barely function.

I didn't say you have an obligation to reduce suffering for others. I said to reduce the suffering your selfishness causes others. That's an important difference. Otherwise you will feel obligated to hunt down every asshole in the world. Hunting down bad guys is a selfish-motivated activity.

I did know. But I studied philosophy anyway because I needed that foundation for my own work. I also just enjoyed the doing of philosophy, which is ultimately why I did that major.

Wanting to kill someone IS your selfishness at work. Not killing Hitler is not selfish, unless you have some twisted reasons.

You will not find Truth in academia. I have said this many times. Academics are not pursuing serious consciousness nor comprehension of existential issues. They are doing human stuff. It has some legit goals. 1) Scholarship, historical accuracy 2) Many narrow technical issues which are useful and important for advancing certain fields. 3) Exploration of political and ethical issues. But mostly it's about building careers. Academia becomes its own aim. Academic philosophy can be useful in helping people think more carefully and deeply. But that's not good enough for the kind of work I am interested in.

That's correct. There is a backlash against Big Pharma and the mainstream healthcare system because it does gaslight people and get many things wrong, and it is very corrupted by capitalism. But people over-compensate for that and misuse skepticism and cynicism and fall into fantasies. RFK Jr and his ilk are the prime example of this backlash and overreaction, which falls into falsehood and foolishness.

That's exactly what I aim to do. But I actually invent a new wheel in the end. I studied all that in university. I took a formal logic class where I did a lot of annoying proofs. It doesn't help with our work, almost at all. It's a great way to get lost in concepts and maps. You can study academic philosophy forever and get nowhere in your understanding of what's important.

Boldly go where no man has gone before. I am not interested in re-treading where a stampede of men has been.

Drinking distilled water is a no-no. You can hurt yourself pretty badly that way.

Einstein said: "Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest pacts with the Arabs, then we have learned absolutely nothing during our two thousand years of suffering and deserve all that will come to us." He clearly saw the problems of right-wing nationalist Zionism. Because it shares the same problems as right-wing German nationalism. The problems of right-wing stage Blue nationalism are obvious in every nation and part of the world where they are tried, regardless of the content of beliefs or the ethnic or religious group in power. Because it's a structural problem. The fatal flaw of the right-wing Israeli nationalists is that they believe that they are immune to these structural problems just because they are Jews, and Jews are somehow special. But a right-wing Jew is not more special than a right-wing German or American or Hindu.

Of course. But plugging it would be better. 4-AcO-DMT can be crazy powerful and very existential.

The really profound question arises once you realize that morality is relative. But then you'll still be left with the question of how relative morality relates to higher consciousness and truth. Even though morality is relative, higher consciousness and truth still has a pretty big impact on one's personal moral conduct in the world. And then that also has collective political ramifications. So the question for you guys to contemplate is: How does Truth and Consciousness connect to relative morality? And it is all as purely relative as you think? If so, then how come Truth and Consciousness tends to compel people to improve their behavior?

Yeah, that's right. I wasn't happy with that but the personal examples were harder for me to talk about calmly.

Yes, I finally realized this. A much more tactful and diplomatic approach is required to actually get people to change their minds. It's like reserve psychology, the more you corner them like a rat, the less effective it is. Because you're dealing with an ego. This is why non-violent communication is critical. I am making changes to my communication in order for it to be more effective at actually creating change in people, rather than just me proving myself right. This is why diplomats are so care in how they speak. They can't just blurt stuff out or it causes defensiveness and chaos.

I don't think they're the same. Utilitarianism is more about maximizing benefit for a large group of people, which can lead to stuff like killing a few of them for a larger benefit for the whole. My scheme says nothing like that.