Leo Gura

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    Generally speaking, ANY fear you've got, you cannot keep sweeping under the rug in this whole self-actualization process. You're gonna have to tackle it head on at some point. The sooner the better.

    So if you have fears about socialization or relationships, it's a good idea to work through those, rather going into isolation. Isolation can be misused by the ego just like any other tool. Isolation can be used as an escape from all sorts of issues like relationship problems, business problems, etc.

    In isolation, it's easy to get lazy and start to devolve into a goblin-like creature talking to himself.

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    On 7/13/2017 at 4:16 AM, Henrik_Sahlen said:

    @Leo Gura 

    1) Do you still think coaching is important, now that you have surpassed most of the basic personal development work?

    2)  Do you still get coached?

    3) If no, at what stage did you decide that it was no longer more conducive than what you could do on your own? Did that feeling come naturally?

    1) Important for me to get coached? Or for me to coach others?

    I could def benefit from being coached. You're never gonna run out of stuff to get coached on.

    2) No. It's something I've done on and off. I have enough stuff to integrate from my weekly studies and practices.

    3) Coaching is helpful in a way that's different from just reading or meditating. It gets you a new perspective on your problems. Coaching is pricey, so you generally won't do it for long periods of time. You usually do it to overcome a specific roadblock in your life. Plus it takes up time. So your schedule needs to accommodate it.

    I will probably get more coaching in the future. It's a good thing no matter what level you're at. You don't really outgrow it. In the same way that Tiger Woods still gets golf coaching. And Floyd Mayweather still gets boxing coaching.

    On 7/13/2017 at 5:10 AM, Anirban657 said:

    @Leo Gura In this self actualization journey I often hear people say stuff like-

    "Is it safe to do this meditation and books alone? You need a group of people or special guidance or only a one-to-one spiritual teacher to help you do this weird spiritual stuff."

    Or something like

    "reading too many books or meditating too much is bad. Excess of anything is bad".

    I mean my motivations are not neurotic. I am a happy dude who is intrinsically motivated to meditate and read self help. And I am not addicted to meditation. I am intrinsically inspired by these things. 

    What do I say to those folks?

    Just look at those folks' lives. They probably suck. Which tells you everything you need to know.

    It's very hard to read too much or meditate too much. Unless you're caught in mental masturbation, in which case, dial back on the reading and do more practicing. Meditation you can do for 12 hours a day, and it would still not be too much.

    A group of people is not necessary. Special guidance is not necessary either. Books ARE special guidance. Of course it's helpful to do workshop and retreats, and interact with advanced teachers. Try to do at least 1 or 2 different workshops per year.

    On 7/13/2017 at 10:12 AM, Dan Arnautu said:

    @Leo Gura You said that you previously had a marketing business, although I see that your overall marketing for actualized.org is pretty light weight.

    • the internal linking on the articles seems to be light
    • no social media marketing that I can see
    • few to no collaborations
    • not that much marketing for your courses aside from recommending them in a few of your videos
    • barely any graphic design
    • no sponsorships and cross promoting products with other content creators etc.

    I could find a dozen more things that are pretty standard in the current digital marketing landscape that you don't seem to waste time on or don't seem to delegate.

    Why are you not marketing yourself more, when you have such high quality content?

    I know that high consciousness stuff is very hard to market, but still, there are a lot of things you could easily add in your marketing plan with a pretty high ROI.

    You could easily hire someone to do all of these things for you, based on the level you are at with your business right now.

    I won't lie, I am also asking this question for myself as I am kind of turning into a jack of all trades when I see that I have very little money to start a business and need to learn to do all the things myself at least at a decent level (sales, marketing, seo, programming, creating content, learning more about my craft etc).

    Success is not my priority. I've already got plenty of success. More becomes a trap.

    See video: Successful People Are Not Happy.

    Marketing is like a neverending sand pit. You can keep doing it until you're dead. But it never fulfills. So it's ultimately a waste of time unless you specifically need to do it to get by, or you care about influencing tons of people.

    On 7/13/2017 at 11:24 AM, BjarkeT said:

    if you know what deep work is what is your opinion on it? and is it something you plan to do if you haven't already?

    kind regards :)

    Focusing on your work single-mindedly and getting in the flow of work is of course the best way to do it. But hard these days, with so many distractions available. It takes a lot of discipline and building good habits.

    On 7/13/2017 at 8:53 PM, K VIL said:

    What knocked you over the cliff, to actually publish on youtube?

    Lots of people struggle with making the first move.

    I basically exited my old business and was moving into professional coaching. So there wasn't really much of an option. Sharing deep ideas was something I've always wanted to do.

    On 7/15/2017 at 1:55 AM, General 2 said:

    are you Lev or Leonid?

    I am that! ;) 

    On 7/15/2017 at 5:07 AM, WaterfallMachine said:

    @Leo Gura

    I remember you said not to try to convince people. To leave that to you.

    And that makes me wonder.

    How the hell do you manage to convince people to radically change their beliefs? To not give a damn about any of the disbelief and still manage to continue? Be able to be this well known with it and also manage to keep growing with this? Any books or links to recommend? 

    I'm not particularly set out for certain for it but when pondering my life purpose, I feel a certain magnetic pull to speaking or pursuing about controversial issues like this. And tend to notice that when seeing in my life and social issues that have to do with truth, the ability to look for it well and speak for it well, tend to produce stronger emotions in me — positive and negative. I keep daydreaming and thinking about doing something like you as I go through the day. But in another field yet with similar values.

    Where can I start?

    I don't really convince people. People gravitate towards what they're ready to hear.

    But I do spend a lot of time thinking about how best to explain and articulate my ideas in a persuasive way. Most human minds are persuaded with good, clear explanations. That was the original purpose of reason and rhetoric. That's how the ancient Greeks and Romans used philosophy and rhetoric. When the truth is laid out very simply and clearly, people tend to grasp it. Socrates is a good example to study.

    On 7/15/2017 at 6:49 AM, The White Belt said:

    How often do you call or message your immediate family and have often do you go to see them in person? 

    Does the thought of meditating in a cave shut off from the outside world make you afraid that your family will be worried sick about you, not knowing if you're dead or alive? 

    I call and message pretty much every week. I visit them for Xmas once a year usually.

    No, I don't really worry about my family worrying about me.

    On 7/15/2017 at 7:31 AM, Loreena said:

    How and when do/did  you connect to your Russian roots ? Any example ?

    I basically don't. I'm not really a fan of Russian culture. Nor any culture for that matter. Even though I can appreciate cultures around the world, Russian culture -- to me -- is one of the lamest cultures around. Their cuisine, media, philosophy, religion, and literature sucks for the most part. At least it's not my cup of tea.

    On 7/15/2017 at 2:21 PM, Afonso said:

    1) Are you going to release the course on powering the subconscious mind?

    2) When are you going to write a book called...

    Mastering Life - A Western Guide to Self-Actualization

    1) Not certain

    2) The videos ARE that book

    20 hours ago, Loreena said:

    What are the release dates for the new course on subconscious mind. ?

    Unknown

    10 hours ago, Himanshu said:

    Leo, do you think it was important for you to chase women and completely annihilate all that came up to you as 'your limitations'(That is, now you know that given the time and space, you can do anything you'd want to; be it picking up women or writing a movie script) - to find your life purpose and allow yourself to be completely absorbed within it?

    I've never completely squashed my limitations. Many limitations still exist. I deal with them every day.

    You don't wait to remove your limitation to find your LP. You find your LP in the midst of all your crippling limitations.

    Doing pickup was an important part of my growth curve, but I never did it just to "chase women". It was a way to build socialization skills, understand how the opposite sex works, and I was interested in the self-actualization aspects of it most of all. No one path is ever all-important. It's like water running down a mountain, if one avenue is blocked, it will always find another way. So if I'd never done pickup, I think I still would have stumbled into self-actualization and enlightenment, but just in a different way. There were much deeper forces at play than pickup.

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    @Lorcan You could invent your own techniques, but also watch out because you don't really know how effective they will be. You might end up wasting a lot of your time reinventing the wheel.

    Classic spiritual practices have generally been refined and evolved over hundreds of years to be highly effective. So you'd be safer choosing one from the many orthodox method available.

    I would avoid music. You're overstimulated as it is if you know what Dark Souls is ;)

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    Yeah.... if you're gonna do psychedelics, it's worth doing the really classic ones: shrooms, LSD, DMT, etc. and not the "legal high" ones because they tend to be so inconsistent and produce lots of bad trips.

    I would stay away from call kinds of seeds and other gimmicky psychedelics. What you want is your substance to be as pure as humanly possible. 99% pure is the aim. That's one easy factor you can control which will significantly reduce bad trips and increase profound trips.

    99% pure 5-MeO or 2-CB or LSD is pure magic. It's so pure you can feel it purifying your soul.

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    @Shan Many alpha males are of course very insecure deep down. Which is why they need to act macho, get angered easily, call each other faggots and pussies, take steroids, spend way too much time at the gym, etc.

    The entire spiritual journey for a masculine man is about learning how to integrate feminine qualities so as to transcend both.

    Use of dominance and authority is anti-spiritual. A conscious person doesn't need or want to manipulate reality in that way.

    Jesus' or Gandhi's turn-the-other-cheek attitude shows us the power of love over force.

    If you notice, even the most alpha of alpha males eventually gets taken out. You cannot win through force, because there's always a larger force around to kick your ass. So it's not sustainable. It's like an unlubricated engine which must burn itself out through its own inner friction.

    Yes, consciousness will make you "a pussy" in the conventional sense. But it will also make you realize how silly that cultural standard is. And that real power has nothing to do with how deep your voice is or how large your biceps are.

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    @soh If the impact you're making doesn't make you cry, it's not your life purpose. Helping people should be that important to you if you want to be a life coach.

    Keep looking. Just because you can be good at something, doesn't make it your LP.

    Put aside all consideration of, "But I need to make a living." << that has nothing to do with life purpose. That is an external condition. You can worry about that after you've found your purpose.

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    @Youssef Sounds like you need some grounding exercises. You're too stuck in your head. Try joining a yoga or kickboxing class. Join a sport like soccer, etc. Get your body grounded. Take a break for a while. Go be out in nature, hiking, etc.

    The ego will react violently to dramatic growth. Expect some epic ego backlashes on this path. Especially if you try to do it quick and hard.

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    @5driedgrams The common thread that's revealed in all others is ignorance. Which of course is in you in spades. How this ignorance gets manifest is really irrelevant. For one person it might be anger, for another violence, for another pettiness, for another jealousy, for another greed, for another people-pleasing, for another dogma, for another gluttony, for another drug addiction, for another lying, for another cheating, for another killing, for another preaching, etc.

    Negativity itself doesn't actually exist. You created it, and projected it onto the world. So yes, you're fully responsible for all the evil you see out in the world. Your mind literally created the category "evil". Without first creating it, you couldn't see it.

    It really is that simple.

    Simply to be a self is to create things you hate. This is a core part of self-survival. A self needs to fabricate things to hate in order to survive. That's what a self largely is: a collection of reactions against the environment.

    If you've taken 5g of mushrooms, you should have seen that Being has no value, meaning, or charge. Ponder the significance of that.

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    10 hours ago, Sup said:

    Do you make a tea from fresh or dried mushrooms, or do both methods work?

    What would be a medium dosage of fresh mushrooms (to make tea)? (one person)

    Where did you find the information that eating the flesh is toxic?

    1) I take an alcohol extract. Never tried tea, but hear it works well.

    2) Same dose as eating them: 2g to 4g. 2g will be medium-low, 4g will be medium-strong. 4g will blow your reality to pieces. Start with 1g.

    3) It's just obvious from your body's reaction. If it makes you nauseous, that's your body telling you you ate something toxic.

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    Yeah, those kinda cases have been reported over the years.

    Lots of odd stuff like that can be found in the medical case studies. They are dismissed as strange anomalies.

    If that guy in the picture above drilled a little hole in the top of his head, he could fill his brain hole with Coke, stick a swirly straw in there, and walk around slipping it all day. A handy evolutionary advantage! ;)