Leo Gura

@The Caretaker There is a problem at both extremes. Extreme poverty is a serious limiting factor. But so is extreme comfort, luxury, and complacency in 1st world democracies. Many people in the West are just too addicted to social media and porn to build a proper life. Building a proper life is hard work. Why do it when you can just sit around playing video games while your parents pay for everything?

I am informed of those things. But they are waging a war at this point. Yes, in a war stuff like gets blown up. And after Oct 7th Israel is doing revenge and ethnic cleansing. Yes, Israel does revenge attacks on civilian targets sometimes. They can't help themselves. Those are war crimes. War crimes are common in war.

That's the wrong question. The question you wanted to ask is how morally superior is North Korea to Hamas? That's an interesting question. They are both quite awful in different ways, but at least North Korea is sane enough to not nuke their neighbors because North Korea is not suicidal. Hamas is suicidal. Suicidality is quite the mark of low development. Especially for a political group. North Korea is awful, but actually their diplomatic dealings are rational. North Korea can be reasoned with. A suicidal actor is just impossible to deal with because you can't even count on them caring about their own lives. This is ultimately why groups like Hamas must be destroyed. You can't make deals with a suicidal actor. Israel is being asked to make such deals, which is a lot to expect of Israel. Any deal Israel makes, some Islamic lunatic will just blow it up. This creates an impossible situation.

@The Caretaker Most people have no idea what they want in life. They just bumble along like animals and follow the path of least resistance, doing only things that reality or society forces them into. Most people have a poor understanding of themselves. They don't reflect enough to know what they value, what makes them happy, or what suits them and what doesn't. It takes a lot of experience to know yourself that well. Lots of experimentation is required. I dabbled in a lot of stuff before I found my core niches. Also, most people are so constrained by the need for basic survival that they don't have the luxury to even think about their values or passions. They just work on whatever work is available today. Cultivating values and passions requires years of investment and development in yourself. Most people don't have that kind of freedom. They need food and money right now.

Consciousness does not imply that. That implication is a bad assumption from the materialist worldview. Consciousness is just an infinite field that exists by itself for itself. It does not exist for anyone. Consciousness is not happening to anyone. There is no creature or entity that "has" consciousness or "is" conscious. There is just Consciousness, period. Consciousness is not happening to you. Consciousness has no observer or witness. Consciousness is just Consciousness, like space is just space. Stop thinking of Consciousness is something a creature has and start thinking of it as a fluid that just exists, like an ocean. An ocean just exists. An ocean is not happening to some creature. A fish does not "have" an ocean. The ocean is not a biological process. The ocean is prior to the fish. Fish don't have consciousness. Consciousness has fish.

5-MeO-DMT or DMT should do the trick. These are the most direct and most powerful state-changers. No. That vibrational talk is mostly not deep enough. Those are relatively mild state changes relative to what I'm talking about. I'm saying that's not good enough. You need a more serious state change. Dropping a painful life story doesn't really change your state. It frees up your mind and removes emotional obstacles, which is great, but I don't call that a state change. No. That's not serious enough. You need a serious state change. My advice to you is to research Bufo or Ayahausca retreats. Invest in a retreat and you will likely have a breakthrough. It's actually quite simple, it just costs some money and effort to travel. In a sense you are over-complicating this with emotional work. Emotional work is great but it is not directly related to Awakening/God, which is why you aren't seeing progress on the God front. You need to upgrade to a more direct method.

@Schizophonia I don't think they would want me. They are doing these videos for clicks and I am not that popular. Remember that such videos are for entertainment, not understanding anything serious. It's like a lion fighting off a horde of 20 baboons. God cannot be understood in such a setting.

@Vynce The issue is so broad that I don't think there's a single approach. It depends on many factors like the topic being learned and your personal learning style and strengths. If you are learning practical stuff like coding, software, etc. it's all about practice, not reading or watching. In this case the best way to learn is to design for yourself a small project and then just try to actualize it. And along the way as you encounter obstacles and lack of knowledge, you search specifically for resources on how to overcome that obstacle. You do this until your little project is complete. Then start a larger, more complex project and repeat the whole process. This is how to learn something like game development or editing. The key is to keep your projects very small and doable. Of course if you can find a good video course on a topic, that's a great way to get started. I don't spend money on teachers these days because I'm not learning much practical stuff now. I'm mostly just developing my own ideas and reading books to feed my mind. But if you can find a good teacher, yeah, that is a good investment if you are serious about the topic. A key here is to get very clear with yourself about which topics are you truly serious about because you can waste a lot of resources and effort dabbling in stuff. Dabbling is okay when you are young, but eventually you want to get very clear about what you're trying to master and why it's important to you. For example, game development is such a serious and difficult field that you need to be very clear with yourself that you want to master it. You can't just dabble in it because it's too hard. You need to have a clear sense of purpose.

Kriya yoga might work. You'd have to try and see. Kriya yoga requires years of consistent practice though. If you don't do it every day for years, expect nothing. People who achieve Awakening quickly all have special genetics, which is very rare.

Yeah. Awakening not meant to fix such issues. That is personal development.

@Yeah Yeah I explained this precisely here: https://www.actualized.org/insights/wrong-state Realistically, to crack this nut you would need to sit down and meditate non-stop for weeks, or find a suitable psychedelic.

Their actions are worse only because Palestinians are too uncivilized to have serious technology. Imagine what would happen if Hamas had nukes. Israel has nukes. There is your purest example of moral difference. This difference is real and you are trying to weasel your way around it with every post. And I keep trying to point it out to you. But you keep refusing to see it. Just to have nukes and not use them requires both technological AND moral development. There are some crazy far right Israelis who want to use nukes on Gaza. And they are morally equivalent to Hamas. But Israel as a society is developed enough to have checks against that. But Palestine does not. However bad Netanyahu is, he's is not barbaric enough to nuke Gaza. The same cannot be said of Hamas. Nothing I said here means you can't hold Israel accountable for war crimes or put sanctions on them. You could. But it just won't happen for larger political reasons. I am not saying what should happen, I am predicting what will happen. You can see if my predictions are correct over the years. The aim of my political views is to predict social reality as accurately as possible, as opposed to having my wishes and ideals fulfilled. That's the difference between me and typical leftists. I actually care what is real.

Yes, that's culture. Every culture has a myth about its own origins and greatness.

Because that's how a reality is created. If you didn't imagine others strongly enough, they wouldn't exist and you would be alone. To have others you must keep imagining them with the strength of a brick wall. If you ever stop dreaming, the universe will disappear. So you must keep dreaming like your life depends on it. The dream is so strong it is beyond your conscious control. To you I feel as real as a brick wall.

It's never been about genetics. It's about cultural identity. What does it mean to be American? Obviously it's not genetic. Being a Jew is a culture. That culture wants to be on its mythologized homeland.

No. Your state right now.

Solipsism means there's only your POV. Stop saying there's anyone else but you -- if you're talking about solipsism. Stop imagining them, stop assuming them, stop theorizing about them. Go into your toilet and notice, the only one who exists in your toilet is you. That's it. Nothing else. Everyone else is a fiction. When you are sitting there on your toilet, no other humans being has ever existed but you. You've never even seen another human being. That's how serious solipsism is.

Whether they are or aren't, they certainly believe they are. Don't underestimate how deep their collective trauma & paranoia goes. Every time some Arab terrorist speaks of wiping Israel off the map, they literally perceive that as Hitler 2.0 and react accordingly. That's how their entire military intelligence operates. The reason Israel is killing so many civilians is because they believe they are fighting to stop Hitler 2.0, so from their POV the civilian deaths appear reasonable. They truly believe all this conflict is just anti-semitism and that they did nothing to cause it. The Hitler/Holocaust analogy is very convenient for Zionists because is makes them feel like violence is being done to them for no reason other than their race.

You are speaking junk. Creating the next thing is more temporal than what I said.

@zurew Consciousness is not just about appearance, it's about comprehension. Comprehension of what Reality is.

You can dream whatever dream. But what happens when all your dreams stop?

I'm not talking about a concept. I'm talking about your entire field of experience. Your entire life. That is what I mean by Mind.

The chemical is not important. That's just an example. Dude, there is way more to this work than realizing any one thing. Just because you can take a chemical and realize something doesn't mean you are anywhere at Ralston's level. This is like saying there's nothing special about Shaquille O'Neil because one time you got on a ladder and dunked a basketball.

Consider that reality is just your point of view.