Leo Gura

The lights completely turn on.

This is 100% wrong. You couldn't be more wrong. Experience is Absolute Truth. Reality is an illusion, but not in the way Hoffman says. The illusion is the notion of any kind of physical objective substrate beyond your experience, and the notion of others or science. You cannot unravel the illusion of reality with science. Because science is the illusion!

He says plenty of insightful and wise things. You just have to filter his right-wing biases out.

Ah, yes... the left famously created the Iraq War, the Vietnam War, the Ukraine War, WW2, and WW1.

Very good!

It's not just that Ralston has autism or whatever, he's a freak of nature. Woe onto whoever assumes some commonality with Ralston on a genetic level. As far as you're concerned, you may as well consider him a reptilian. He's not your average human. So his experience of reality could be drastically different than yours. There is plenty of stuff which he says which does not align with my experience of reality, God, and Consciousness. And it's not just that he's right and I'm wrong. I've exhaustively re-verified these points.

1) There is no guarantee those dogmatic practices will get you any ultimate understanding. 2) Manual practices are still useful and important. I don't agree with such a distinction/framing. I consider what I do and teach to be the highest form of spirituality, the very heart of it. Any spiritual practice which doesn't result in a deep understanding of what Consciousness is, is criminally negligent. And people need to be made aware of this. It does no one any good if you get tricked into doing 40 years of Buddhist practice, only to finally be told: "Ah, well, but it was not designed to produce and understanding of Consciousness." If your spiritual practice doesn't produce consciousness into the nature of God, then it's a bad practice, regardless of how much is frees you of suffering or any other perks. The yoga rabbit hole is deep. However, all I said is that doing dogmatic practice offers you no guarantees of understanding. If you want to gamble on it, that's up to you. My fundamental problem with such spirituality is that it's based on blind adherence to a set of practices for decades without any idea what the result will be and what gaps you will end up with in your understanding. It's equivalent to stumbling upon a map and deciding to devote your whole life to following it, because you believe it will bring you to the promise land. But in fact you have no way of knowing where that map will take you. It might take you to stupid land. I have never taken his martial arts workshops. His consciousness workshops are a combo of theory and a bunch of class exercises with partners. Each workshop lasts about 1 week. They are very good. I don't know. I'd have to think about that. I like Vernon Howard. I like David Hawkins. And others. Although that doesn't mean I agree with everything they teach. My claim is that the entire purpose of Consciousness is self-understanding. There is no other game in town. Everything else is just entertainment until you die. Yes, eventually Consciousness's understanding of itself becomes so high that it reaches Omniscience and physical existence itself becomes unnecessary. The downside of the understanding path is that there is no guarantee that you will become free of suffering and full of bliss. In fact, without training for those things I pretty much guarantee you won't get them.

Death doesn't have a special status. Death is not a state of light-off as you imagine. That's something you're currently dreaming. Death is actually the freeing of Consciousness from having to be bound to any particular form. Consciousness under anesthesia is not highly intelligent at all.

They don't really focus on understanding anything, just dogmatic practice. Who knows where that will take you? It's a huge gamble.

Very good!

You can become conscious of what death is, what consciousness was pre-birth, and what consciousness will be post-death. This is the very heart of Awakening. Physical incarnation is a limitation on Consciousness. When I die, I will be more conscious and intelligent than I ever was here with you. The fact that people do not understand this, is absurd.

Ralston's teachings are some of the best on the planet. He's one of the few teachers I seriously respect. However I feel like he withholds way too much. And there's many topics he doesn't cover. I found a lot of gaps in his teachings. No. I don't consider what I am talking about to be "stories". And understanding is not a relative matter. You can have absolute understanding into the nature of Consciousness and God. That's the whole point. It's not merely relative, subjective human stuff like science or religion. I would emphasize psychedelics, profoundly questioning all metaphysical matters for yourself from scratch, and a focus on the What is Consciousness? One of my gripes with Buddhism is that it makes people focus on the wrong thing: calming the monkey mind, escaping suffering, and realizing no-self. To me these are all the wrong goals. The proper goal should be pure understanding of metaphysics and Consciousness.

It's hard to love another when you don't even love yourself.

That's not ideal but you can def pull to a girl's place or a car or motel. Don't let this stop your from approaching and gaming. The game experience is more important than the sex.

We now have robust systems in place to catch duplicate accounts. Anyone caught trying to open a duplicate account will automatically have ALL their accounts banned. No exceptions, no second chances. This forum only allows one account per user. This forum is cracking down hard on all serial exploiters, manipulators, immature people, and mentally and emotionally unhinged people. From now on you only have ONE chance at being on this forum, so watch what you do and watch what you post. If I see you posting immature nonsense or misbehaving, I will not hesitate to ban you and you will NEVER get a second chance. All second chances are over! I am cracking down on anyone who wants to be in proximity or communication with me. If you want to have the privilege and luxury to be near me, to associated with me, to receive advice from me, or to communicate with me, you better be on your best behavior around me. That's the new policy. This forum will no longer be a safe haven for immature or emotionally unhinged people. Anyone not mature enough to communicate or socialize in a mentally-stable and integrous manner will simply not get to participate around me. If you cannot control your emotions, you're out. If you behave in an egotistical and dogmatic manner, you're out. If you attack other members of this community, you're out. If you try to manipulate this forum, you're out. This forum is going to be much more exclusive and elitist going forward. The elitism will be based on maturity and wisdom. I've come to the realization that I need to be much more protective of drains on my time and my mental resources. I will not be dealing with any clown behavior any more from my audience. For too long I have been far too lax and democratic, letting people exploit my time and mental energy without limit. That is now over. I will no longer be helping or associating with anyone who is not mature enough to rise to the level of my teachings and philosophy. My work is very advanced and I want to build a community of people who rise to its level. Immature people have not only been wasting my time and mental energy, the have also been wasting the time and energy of mature and serious self-actualizers. This community must become a place of where serious people want to be, people who are actually doing work on themselves. I realize now that my mistake from the beginning was trying to appeal to everyone with this community when really it should always have been a place only for serious and mature people because they are the ones for whom I do my work. Those are the kind of people I want to associate with. That's what would make this community valuable. If you want to associate around me, you better be a mature, honest, decent human being who can control him/her self. That's the new standard. Many of you here clear that bar. It's just an immature minority who keeps taking advantage. The infrastructure of this forum is being upgraded to block anyone who doesn't rise to this new standard. All the loopholes are being closed. Thank you to those who have stuck around and behaved in a mature manner from the outset. From now on I will be making this space for you -- for us. This will be a rare online space where the wise, mature, and serious hang out. If you notice any member of this community behaving in a chronically immature way, please report them to me (via PM) for review. I will periodically be reviewing the performance of every member here and making decisions about who to keep around and who to ban. Evaluations will be made holistically, not based on any one post. I will be looking at your overall level of maturity, mental stability, emotional stability, character, and ability to think in an unbiased Tier 2 fashion. A handful of worst offenders have already been perma-banned. You should treat this forum as a place where you have an opportunity to make friends with me. And you only get one chance at that. If you screw it up you will not get another. In fact, I will ban all your IPs from ever being able to access Actualized.org and any future courses or teachings that I release. Do not treat this forum as just some disposable, anonymous thing. In fact, in the future we may transition to photo ID verification for all members and remove anonymity. So post as though your first and last legal name is attached to your words. If you wouldn't want your real name attached to your post, then it isn't worthy to be posted here. If my name is attached to this forum, so should yours. You don't get to come here and do anonymous verbal diarrhea with zero repercussions. Thanks again to those who have been on good behavior from the beginning and never needed such warnings and reminders. I will also be making an effort to improve my communication with you to rise to the level of maturity, wisdom, and respect that you deserve. I want to make myself a resource for serious and mature students. I will be working towards that over the next year and beyond. I want to help fewer people, but more serious people. So ultimately that's all this is about. I have been thinking long and hard about the role I want to play as a teacher. And the more I think about it, the more serious I want to be. The days of clowning around are coming to an end. It was fun while it lasted but I am outgrowing that soon. I definitely have not been as mature as I need to be, but that will be changing in the future.

Teachers are old and obese in many cases. Many of them could have died. You are not thinking systemically enough about how this virus works. Teachers are not gonna want to teach if you treat them like slaves. Hospitals were overflowing with patients, beyond capacity. That was one of the top reasons for lockdowns -- to limit virus spread to the point of overflowing hospitals and burning out doctors. The education and healthcare system can easily be overwhelmed if you don't manage it properly. And the simple fact is that something like 33% of Americans are obese. So that's just the nature of the beast. It does no good to say, "Well, that teacher or doctor only died because she was obese, so that doesn't count", when nearly half your population is like that. If Americans were healthy then we would have more wiggle room to operate. But that ain't the case.

Yes, individual posts. I think that was a responsible policy by Facebook to prevent the spread of potential poison. I have no problem with Facebook disallowing certain dangerous posts for public safety until more information becomes available. Certain hot viral topics can be moderated in such ways.

Very good. Keep at it and keep us posted on your progress.

Not entirely sure, but I've reached levels of Consciousness so high that all form melts away and I enter into pure formless Omniscience.

Then you really misunderstood those videos.

Realistically no, because as humans unlock unlimited sources of energy from the sun and from fusion, all the other resources can be converted, recycled, and extracted from deeper in the Earth. It depends on your time horizon. In the short and medium term there will be shortages, but in the long term unlimited cheap energy will allow for nearly unlimited resources.

That is technically true. However in practice it's hard to prove everything as misinformation given that the right's strategy is explicitly to "flood the zone with shit". Just calling it the "China virus" lead to an increase in hate crimes against Asians, for example. The problem is that people spreading the lab leak theory are rarely just innocent actors. Such people have an entire worldview/agenda which combines stuff like lab leak, anti-vax, MAGA, nationalism, election denial, promotion of unproven drugs like Ivermectin, climate change denial, trans denial, racist comments, etc. And when such people get banned, it's often not for one theory, but for a string of badly misinformed posts. But then they cry that they got banned for some innocent lab leak theory. Also, there is a big difference between how you post about it. Many of these posts were not innocent like: "I speculate that the Covid virus may have been leaked from a lab." Rather it's more in the style of: "Covid was definitely a lab leak, and this lab was funded by evil Big Pharma who now wants to sell you the vax, which is killing more people than Covid itself. And you should be taking Ivermectin instead because it is safe." The problem is people who spread these conspiracy theories have very low epistemic standards and will engage in all sorts of wild speculation but state it as fact and tie it in with their political agenda and biases. So it becomes a giant pool of shit. Covid was a novel virus which was rapidly killing 1000s of people per day. So concerns about its danger and spread were very reasonable. In such a situation, being over-cautious is the responsible course of action. Imagine if schools were not closed and then it was discovered that Covid kills tens of 1000s of kids. Did you really want to media and gov to take that risk and gamble with your kids lives like that? I think many people still have no idea how many people Covid actually kills per week. Take a guess, how many people are dying of Covid per week right now in the US?

Mind is a twisted thing. That's what makes it fun. If it was straightforward there would be no juice to existence.

That's inspiring. You are showing people around that world that development is possible even in the most challenging and limited of places. So I will have little empathy for those in America or Europe making excuses about why they can't self-actualize. I don't see why not. There are many creative ways to get psychedelics. Realistically you need to develop yourself to the point where you can travel out of country. Then many doors will open for you. Basically, your plan should be turn yourself into such a high-value person that people from around the world want to work with you. Then you will gain your freedom. Until then you're gonna be limited. But I would keep feeding this vision to yourself every day: "That I will offer the world so much value that they will not be able to resist working with me. It's only a matter of time and work." And then just keep chipping away at that vision, diligently. The ability to provide others with massive value is your ticket out of Iraq. That's the bottom line.

Well, I'm not really Leo I spoke of direct consciousness, not speculation. This is not a religion. You are not here to believe my ideas. Become directly conscious of what's true for yourself. I'm just telling you what's possible. If you don't wish to believe it's possible, that's your call. I'm just reporting that I did it. I am not going to bend over backwards to prove anything to you.