Leo Gura

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.

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.

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.

Very, very bad starting points. So biased and ahistoric that I don't even know where to begin correcting it. For one thing, you should notice that conservatives are more corrupt and immoral than liberals, in most cases. And conservatives wise? Please don't make me laugh.

The manner in which people were spreading that particular theory, in the middle of a pandemic where millions were dying, was irresponsible, and social media companies had a responsibility to keep such ideas from poisoning the collective epistemic ecosystem. My question to you is very simple: If you were personally responsible for ensuring the health of our epistemic ecosystem, how would you prevent bad faith actors and devils from hijacking social media platforms to spread poisonous ideas which might result in the deaths of tens of thousands of people? See? It's easy to criticize from the sidelines when you are not actually in a position of responsibility for the well-being of millions. It's very different when you own a social platform the size of YT or are President of the US. Now actual lives are in your hands, and you cannot ignore that.

This reminds me of when Joe Rogan says that Alex Jones is right about a lot of things. Lol

This!

You don't know what I know. Consider the possibility that I have been more conscious than any Buddhist you know. Of course I'm not gonna prove it to you. No. It's hard to even access on psychedelics. Requires some very serious tripping. Accessing alien consciousness is something wild. People have no idea it is even possible.

There is at least an order of magnitude difference between human Awakening and alien Awakening. It's like the difference between a mouse and human in order of understanding and intelligence. What does a mouse understand about reality? Well, likewise the human. An advanced alien intelligence is much closer to God than a human. A human hardly understands anything about God or Consciousness. I don't even take human intelligence seriously at this point. The best human intelligence is trash. It's mouse-level understanding. At this point I am only interested in trans-human intelligence and consciousness. I don't care what humans think, want, or do. It's all nonsense, whether it is material or spiritual in nature. I have recently been able to access trans-human levels of Consciousness which I was in before I was born as a human. That's the kind of Consciousness I'm interested in. It's 10x to 100x more conscious than the most conscious humans. It's conscious in dimensions which humans can't even imagine.

Yes, that is already concerning. It will give rise to dangerous and toxic political movements and violence. We have already been seeing this, and it will get even worse. But it's hard to come up with a good scalable solution to this problem. Especially if the solution needs to be fast and easy. Such lack of development cannot be solved in any easy way. The true solution is proper education from early on. But reforming the education system is next to impossible. Yes. Like I said, excellence is a minority position. Yes, education is the ultimate solution to most of our problems. Unfortunately reforming education is a very politically loaded and cumbersome task. A lot of these problems are baked into our culture. This online culture that has arisen over the last 20 years is very unhealthy and will slowly errode many people's capacity to live decent happy lives. Ultimately schools need to teach youngsters about how to embody masculine and feminine polarity, and how to socialize in romantic ways. I could design such a school program. But it would never be politically acceptable. So I don't even bother. In the end, most people in society will get bad results in every area of life unless they undertake a serious personal development journey on their own time, not forced on them by government or anyone else. And work their ass off. One other thing that government can try to do is create more social spaces where people can mingle. We have really lost that in the last 30 years. This is a social engineering problem to a degree. There is not enough opportunity to socialize and to earn socialization experience outside of school and university.

That's because you're not yet conscious of what God is. When you finally start to realize what God is, the only words out of your mouth will be, OH MY GOD. When you finally realize what God is, you will take a shit in the middle of the carpet in your living room. You won't have time to the bathroom to shit. It will be too astounding for such human concerns.

I'm not really interested in emptiness. Of course it's a facet, but it's so obvious and rudimentary it's uninteresting to me. I'm more interested in, for example, realizing that your entire life is just a dream within God's Mind. And then understanding what this God's Mind is up to. Have you even considered what the movement of Consciousness is for? Why are you dreaming? Why are you human? For what purpose? For example, I've become conscious that our entire universe is just a molecule within an alien God-Mind that exists on a higher dimension, which is using all the conscious experience of the universe to fuel it's own intelligence process, in order to understand itself deeper and accessing ever higher categories of metaphysical Love. No Buddhist has a clue about such things. What no Buddhist understands is that Consciousness is engaged in a process of ever-deeper self-understanding and Intelligence. The movement of the whole universe is there to raise the universe's intelligence of itself, in order to achieve Omniscience. There are dimensions of Consciousness so advanced and so alien that no human can even begin to imagine it. None of these things are understood by Buddhists or nondualists. Does your Buddhist understand what alien consciousness is? No! He has no clue. Does your Buddhist understand what Love is? No! Not even a little. At best he has some crap human idea of Love. That's not any kind of proper understanding of what LOVE is metaphysically.

It goes way deeper than which terms you use. What I look at is not the terms per se, but one's fundamental grasp of what Consciousness is. Does the person understand how it works, why it exists, what its highest levels are, how the mind constructs reality, etc? Buddhism and nonduality tends to flatten all this rich terrain down into a 1-D plane. And it is a distinctly human sort of plane.

Yes, sure, but what I'm saying goes entire orders deeper than that. People who speak in these platitudes: Form, formlessness, emptiness, etc. It's clear to me they have not truly confronted what Consciousness is. No, my problem is that these guys fundamentally do not understand what Consciousness/God is. They understand less than they let on. If they understood more I would be happy with them. The stuff these teach is anti-understanding. That's what pisses me off about it. They have actually invented a clever system to get people to stop trying to understand Consciousness. It's extremely sneaky. You probably don't even know its happening to you as you learn from these teachers. You just assume they are guiding you towards the highest and that all roads lead to same place.

Yes. And it took me a long time to realize how foolish I was for blindly trusting these Buddhists, as if they are some authorities on the subject of Consciousness. Of course. I am pointing out the traps and limits of the tool.