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I'm watching Rali... and he says that it's preposterous that people can heal each other, fly through walls, etc. And then I listen to Leo, and he tells us that you need to be open to the possibility of everything. I don't know who to believe..... anyone else in the same boat? Are you guys just accepting the confusion?

As the title states, how do you deal with extreme undecisiveness? Ever since I was in high school, I lost my ability to trust myself, and I became extremely undecisive. To put the issue I have into context, I wasted 8 hours a day, for 6 weeks, deciding which university to go to. I also put my teachers and family in a spin, when I was told to choose what elective I should pick for high school. And now I am at another point in time, where I have a pretty important decision to make, and if I continue to do no shadow work, I'm going to waste weeks on this decision. I just can't handle the idea of missing out on a big opportunity, and the uncertainty of it all is too much for me to handle. What should I do? I can't really hear intutition(or the muse) and when I do, I'm just too scared to trust it. What shadow work should I even do? Is it advisable that I should go see a psychologist about this? Thankyou actualized people!

Its obvious to me, and also to you, that after working hard for a long period of time, the mind starts to fatigue, and become unproductive on a long term basis. This is what happens to me every semester of university. You start to feel unmotivated, you start to feel tired, the pain of continuing through work becomes unbearable, the stress becomes super intense, kind of like the feeling you get after running a very long marathon, and so a holiday is needed. Though even when i have a holiday, I still don't feel re-energised. I still feel unfulfilled, and my mind still feels stressed and fatigued. How do you have a holiday so that you can rejuvenate, feel relaxed, feel unstressed, feel motivated again and feel unfatigued again as quickly as possible. I have found meditation to be the most effective method, but are there any other activities you can do on a holiday to get you pumped and ready for work again?

AI is fun; and i currently work in that, but it doesn't have as much consciousness raising stuff as it might seem. How computer brains work, is very different to how the mind works, and applications of artificial intelligence do not directly relate to raising of one's consciousness. Though I'm currently working on a project which uses artificial intelligence to help individuals understand the relationship bwtween introspection and reality, through back propagating neural networks. Like what Pramit said, computational neuroscience has a well balanced fit of mathematics, and applications to consciousness, though honestly, every field would have some sort of consciousness work that you could leverage off, and also use maths to do it.

@Mitch what @MIA.RIVEL and @Leo Gura say about how well formal education translates into the real world is certainly correct, but don't underestimate the networking opportunities a formal institution would grant you, just for being a student at their university. The people in your classes, and the events that happen at university can dramatically give you an edge in the market, and the insights from individual conversations with people around university most of the time, provide you with greater insights and knowledge than 4 years of your bachelor's degree. Go to university, not for the coursework, but for the shiny piece of paper, and for the reputation from networking.

as Richard Dawkins said, I think the meaning of life is a stupid question. Why does there have to be a meaning? Imagine your shock if you realized that life was just experiencing itself for no reason, and by no meaning.

so recently(procrastinating) I was reading through shitmandood's comment on a particular video, and he talked about how 5-meo-dmt gives you HPPD. I was curious on what that was, so I looked it up, and when I saw the symptoms I got very worried. I could identify with 80% of the symptoms on there. For example, one of the symptoms are seeing halos around objects, I definitely see that all the time, and seeing trails from moving objects, which I also see all of the time. Though the most prevalent symptom, and the one that shocked me the most, was the grainy texture symptom. Whenever I look at objects, I always see them as if I'm looking through a grainy television screen, heck I'm looking at my computer screen now, and now that I have become aware of it, it looks grainy as hell. I've always had problems reading, and I just assumed it was from dyslexia or something, but now its so clear to me that its actually the grainy shit that I see on a daily basis. Though I'm very confused, because I have always had these symptoms(since I was born) and just assumed that everyone had saw these weird visuals in their minds. It didn't come from my very recent use of psychedelics(first time I tried a psychedelic properly was only a few weeks ago, and only once). So does that mean I can still get HPPD, or is it some other sort of disease, or is it normal? Does anyone else identify with these symptoms? Surely I'm not the only one?

Hey guys, i was listening to my daily motivational speeches while I study, and I found myself listening to a Leo/Spiritual dude talking about personal Development. His name is Wayne Dyer, and he has a really awesome video about a cool intuition/positive thinking technique to do every night. Really cool. Check it out and see what you think!

Hey Guys, Firstly, this is not a post about an enlightenment experience I have had, or how to get to enlightenment. This is a post about a deep, experiential realization I had recently and how I got it. By reading this post, and maybe by following the message I speak of, it may help you develop very deep realization that could only be possible by weeks of meditation. If this post is too long, skip to the The Message Part ****Leading up to the experience**** I, by nature, am a very skeptical person. And so, being very skeptical, I started a spirituality experiment that lasted about 1 whole year. Coming from a very scientific background, I was very skeptical of the ways in which people just took for granted that someone was enlightened, like Mooji or Eckhart Tolle without and empirical validation. So I decided, which ended up lasting for about an entire year, I would pretend to be an enlightened being, and see how easily it would be to decept people into thinking that I had an enlightenment experience, and had practiced spirituality for a long time, without actually doing/having any of those things. I started off on youtube(June 2015), replying to people's comments about enlightenment as if I myself were enlightened, telling them the common dogma of 'enlightenment isn't a thing' 'its nothing' and that you are what you already are, without actually understanding what I was saying. I was quite shocked at the responses, people praised me for being on the enlightenment path, and for helping them get an epiphany that they had never achieved before. I thought wow, if its this easy to decept people on youtube, I wonder how easy it is to decept actual new age and buddhist movements face to face. I approached my first victims, a buddhist group at my university. I went there a few times, acted really calm, told them the same dogma that you hear from spiritual teachers 'accept everything the way that it is' 'its beautiful the way that it is' and the people stared at me, with light struck eyes, as if they were staring directly into the face of the Buddha himself. They asked me for advice on how to solve their problems, I, like an actor, pretended to know, and faked it as part of the experiment. My head slightly concerned, continued to echo the phrase for the next 6 weeks "Come on, I'm just pretending, surely they can sense that its all an experiement.". But for the next 6 months or so, they failed to even get the slightest hint that this was all a joke developed for my own skepticism. In fact, they believed me so much, that even I was starting to believe my own BS, without actually realizing it. I kind of knew and remembered that it was all game I was playing, but due to the sheer belief these people had in me, I dug a huge hole that was so big and consuming, I began to internalize my own BS. I began to almost forget that I wasn't enlightened, even though if one of my non spiritual friends had asked me, I would have still said it was an experiment. I continued to watch Leos videos with skepticism, and totally followed his advice about how to not be dogmatic, and treat everything as just a belief, which I did. I had a friend at university who was into Buddhism heaps, and believed that the Buddha had spiritual powers, and that Sadghuru had powers as well. And given how deep of a hole I created for myself, I began to believe that! While still telling myself how open minded I was. I began to believe everything Eckart Tolle said, and Leo said, and Shinzen Young said, while also believing that I didn't actually believe any of it. I started treating spirituality like a game, where I had to level up to a higher level. I started meditating with my Buddhist group every morning for 3 hours, just so we could get a deeper meditative experience, and so that we could develop psychic powers. It became an extremely painful experience, because while in the end I knew it was all from an experiment, I started to fully become immersed into pure spiritual dogma. And just the fact that it wasn't real, made it ultimately a painful experience. ****The break of the spiritual ego**** This hole was so huge, that it finally began to start crumbling. My lack of fulfillment and desire started to pierce through my spiritual ego's deceptions. I ended up telling my entire group at university, and also a friend online, that who I truely was, wasn't an enlightened dude, but that it was all an experiment. Some people were really shocked, some people started hating on me because of how much I egged them on, some people just couldnt believe it, and just thought i was pretending for some spiritual reason. just the act of telling them brought me back down to earth. I instantly fully realized again how all of it was just a trick I played on myself and others, and how in actuality, the belief in spiritual powers, Buddhism, and everything Leo said was all something that wasn't ultimately real. But the difference between now, and earlier this year, is that because of the radical open mindedness I practiced, I didnt have a strong grip on science anymore either. I dropped every single belief about spirituality, as if spirituality was just like a fundamental christian church cult, and Leo and Eckart Tolle was deluded, like every other person on this planet. ****The Experience**** Just as I dropped every single belief I had about spirituality, for a few seconds, I saw something that I will never forget. It became very apparent to me, that everything I ultimately believed in, was completely false. Nothing that you believe in actually exists. After realizing that spirituality was false, I felt like I had just become extremely sober. Its like I had been drunk all of my life, and then finally the alcohol had worn off, and I could see everything for what it really was. It was like, everything before this experience, was me living in a dream, a dream constructed from my web of beliefs. It was like that feeling you get when you wake up from sleeping, but x1000000. I was staring outside at the time, and it became very obvious that the separation between the different trees didnt actually exist, everything merged into 1 big collage. Every single event in life, every single object in reality, is shaped by your psyche. Everything, from going to university, to going to the movies, to picking up a cup, are all apart of your web of beliefs. I heard my parents in the kitchen, arguing about the American presidency, and honestly it felt like they were both living in a dream, and didn't realize it. It was an extremely isolating feeling, in a good way. Only when I stopped believing in spirituality, did I truely at least half heartedly understand what Leo was talking about in his videos. I thought I was dropping my beliefs, when I started tolerating every belief thrown at me, but now to my shock, I realize that was all a delusion. I was deluding myself into thinking that I was dropping beliefs, when in fact that belief that I was dropping beliefs was a belief in itself! The worst mistake I made on this path, was that I thought I knew what higher consciousness felt like. I thought I knew what enlightenment was, and I was trying to match that belief with the real world, oh how deluded I was. Everything I thought I knew about spirituality, was completely wrong. Everything I knew in general was wrong. Everything was just a product of the matrix. It only lasted a few seconds, but in those few seconds, I felt a deep sense of relief and calmness, it was beautiful. ****The Message**** What I realized from this experiment, was a realization of how complex and how difficult this enlightenment stuff really is. You can't set a goal for yourself for this stuff. Because ultimately the goal is a belief, and it will mislead you. The ego is extremely sneaky. Never ever ever ever trust it!! IF you think you are open minded, or that you are enlightened, or anything else, you have already become lost on this path. Some beliefs go 100 levels deep! But the most important realization I had was the trap I fell into when I started believing stuff spiritual teachers said, while telling myself that I didn't believe it. If you want to have a deeper realization that what you currently have. Don't believe anything! This ultimately means, everything Leo has told you in your videos, are all apart of the matrix. Believe in Leo's content as much as you would believe in Santa Clause. Being open minded doesn't mean you believe in everything, in fact its the opposite, it means you DONT believe in anything!! Hope this helps someone

Recently I decided to try doing Kundalini meditation. My friend told me some crazy things about it, like that it gives you powerful euphoric feelings. I've heard also that you can go mentally insane from it, and possibly loose some physical sensory abilities. And I didn't believe any of what he was saying, and just assumed that he was over exaggerating. I'm not an athiest and science patriot anymore, but I am still skeptical about the weird new age 'energies' and 'third eye' shit. So I went and tried Kundalini meditation, 100% confident that nothing will happen, and my ass got wooped seriously for being that dogmatic. After 5 minutes I could feel 'energies' going up and down my spine, and a very powerful zinging feeling everywhere in awareness. My worldview was completely detached from me, I almost forgot where I was during the meditation. I stopped 10 minutes in, because I could feel my eyes tearing up big time, for no god damn reason, and I just freaked out because of how real it was. So it didnt activate, and now I'm worried if I try it again I'm going to go insane How do you prepare for Kundalini to make sure that you wont hurt yourself? Can anything happen drastically? That was a very powerful feeling.

Vivid colours are very common on the path of enlightenment, if you talk to the peeps here, and buddhist monks. Great work keep it up! If you do netti netti every day for 1 hour, man your consciousness will change I kid you not in 1 month max. Its an amazing method.

You made a good point, i dont really want to engage in a discussion thats 4 days old, but I would urge you to try and be consistent with your own advice in not make some massive general projection about a random on the internet. I could be shinzen young for all you know. unless youre using psychic powers to detect it(are you?). Even if you did know, that is the biggest exaggeration ive ever seen, bigger than the exaggerations they make on Fox News. Itch on my nose can send me into agony? LOL I meditate a total of 1.5 hours a day m8, that is the biggest BS in the world. And there are other world views out there than yours, calling people dogmatic for not accepting a world view, then blatantly attacking Maximus for not doing enough research is the most hyppocritical thing ive seen in days. A bad role model wont make this community better.

@Prabhaker I would not be suprised if god created my life just to have fun, because when you know how a magician does his tricks, it all becomes boring ~ and funny, in the end. This enlightenment stuff reminds me of when I was a kid, and I use to pretend that my figurines were real, and that soldiers were actually fighting each other in my living room. It reminds me of my mum calling me to eat dinner, and the illusion all rubbing off in an instant. I know what you mean though

@Leo Gura Lol serious? after your physical death its all going to mean nothing. You are literally acting like one of those hard core league of legend players, who thinks this game we call life is the be all and end all. No spiritual teacher holds god as sacredly and seriously as your views proclaim. Even the ancient buddhist monks who travelled the eight fold path. Buddhist, for example, have skulls inside their temples to remind them to laugh: because the fear of death is fuelled by an illusion. Its not that serious. The skulls, the fear of death that everyone has, is all a joke by god. There are Zen Koans that make buddhist people laugh every time they read it, because it reminds them that all of the suffering in this universe, is from their seriousness with reality. When you look at biographies of people into spirituality, its only the Tony Robbins sort of 'hungry for success' people who take enlightenment as seriously as your views proclaim, because they all have a deep American personal development 'be hungry' attitude dogmatically instilled in their subconscious.Speaking from someone whose had that real American go getter attitude all my life, I can assure you its the case. I have spoken to a lot of spiritual teachers in the last year, and watched many spiritual videos, and all of them tell me that seriousness is what keeps the ego alive. Enjoy life, because its all going to mean nothing in the end. im talking about actual buddhist monks here in australia, one who lived out in the outback for 8 years to get away from humanity. “People suffer only because they take seriously what the gods made for fun.” ~ Alan Watts. Maybe that's where your suffering is coming from Leo? The fact that you think all of this shit is serious. Don't worry, when you finally realize that your seriousness for human perfection is the cause of all of your suffering, you will laugh too. http://www.thewayofmeditation.com.au/blog/it-turns-out-enlightenment-is-just-having-a-really-good-sense-of-humour/

Im following Leo just so I can learn how to levitate

@Leo Gura Wow buddhism has that? That's mad. I was open minded with Sadghuru, because my intuition seemed to, but didnt know anything about buddhism having it. Its so weird that christians are the least tolerant when it comes to this stuff. I went to church recently (an initiative to be more open minded, because im from a deeply militant athiest background) and i kid you not, the priest or bishop looked like a fucken wizard from the 1500s. same clothing and style. surely they, compared to athiests at least, would be the most tolerant. Lol this stuff is going to be so hard to not cling to during the path. Like what ego wouldn't cling to psychic abilities. People might have been demonized and thought of as kooks in the past, but with your channel, infinite waters, eckhart tolle, people are changing to mystics at a rate of knots. People think transgender toilets and lesbians are weird and out of this world, wait till they get hit by this stuff.

@Leo Gura The more I look at history, and meditate, the more human society seems to be doing a full circle. First fortune tellers and witches and wizards use to be common belief among the people, then science came along and shitted all over them, then came the Sadghurus and the Leos who seem to be re-examining the stuff science shitted all over. The biggest concern with re-examining the mystical side of things is that there is a very fine line between legit mystics and kooks. Both of which there are plenty of abundance of. The main argument i get back from people when i tell them that psychic abilities are real is that they say; well why doesnt the world know about these people? why is it so hidden. And then i get the people who say; well why doesnt buddhism have any of this stuff. Both of which i have no idea of.

@Leo Gura What are the 'benefits' or 'advantages' to considering paranormal phenomenon, to put it orange stage-ish. Is it just for intellectual curiosity, or is there a deep practical basis for understanding and being aware of the paranormal illusions and reality. Reason why I ask is because a lot of spiritual teachers(especially Sadghuru) talk about it, but they don't directly highlight the importance to considering such phenomena.

Hi guys, I would just like to know what 'level' I'm up to on the spiritual path lol. I don't expect to be up very high, maybe only level 2 or 3 purely because I haven't taken enlightenment and spirituality very seriously at all until very very very recently. But I do want to make sure that I am on the right track, and I am not deluding myself, and also possibly what I should expect to see in the future. But right now, I'm going to present some stuff I've noticed, and whether or not the stuff I've noticed are legit sort of phenomena that you would expect on the enlightenment path, or whether they are just deep delusions that I'm falsely taking as effects from meditation. I am fairly certain that this sort of phenomena has come only recently: - I've noticed, in the sensory world, things are looking a lot sharper and maybe 'clearer'. Saturation of visuals seems to be amplified. Same goes with auditory and feelings. - Mind seems to actually be more hyperactive, but not sure if that's because ive noticed more about whats going on inside my head, or if more stuff is occuring. - (Weird and hard to describe) Nature looks more beautiful, and starting to enjoy nature, or the present moment more, it looks nicer - that feeling or phenomena where you seem to exit your skull, seems to be happening on a day to day basis. So I'm slightly out of my skull while at a lecture, or doing homework. A better way to describe it might be that awareness has grown larger. - In meditation, immersion seems to be increasing. What I mean is, the 'screen' between you and reality sometimes breaks, and reality flows like a stream all around awareness. Its like your eyes have become a 3D or 4D or a D > 2D camera. Which hasn't happened before. Are these findings just more delusions, or do they seem legit to you? Please be honest. Thanks.

Maybe I've just had a few bad experiences that tainted my view of it. I just found the alcohol made people rude/not really caring. Either way, OP my take on it is only go 2wice a month if you are like me and don't enjoy it as much. And only go to develop friendships you have and sex. If you want a relationship, you need to think in patterns rather than location. Try and develop your networking skills, and find chicks to date through connections. Its not as cold approached as clubbing, and because they are 'sober' and 'not letting loose' there's a chance that the sexual experience will be more thought out and fun.

@J. M. Wigglesworth At clubs, I find people in particular to be kinda rude and obnoxious. Like the girls in the clubs, half drunk, usually only go for the guys who act cocky and a-holeish or are rich and snobby, and have meaningless status, and also the girls there aren't really looking for a deep passionate relationship, they are just looking for some titilation. And when I'm at a club, if people want to get from 1 place to another, they don't say 'excuse me' they full on push you to the other side of the disco to get to the place they want. Then you have the Alpha male/Ape like fights that go on every night, started because 1 guy decided to pick up a chick that another guy liked.(I've been involved in 1, but I chose not to fight because I couldn't really afford to have a criminal record) Then you have drunk people spilling their beer all over your clothes, making the ground sticky And then finally you have the extremely loud music making you deaf. And a the end of the day, for punishment for having such a great night, you are rewarded with a hang over, ringing ears, and a feeling of hollowness for wasting your time in such an unsatisfactory environment. Honestly, is this the best environment for picking up a chick? I know plenty of people who are in a relationship with a girl they met at a shop or concert, rather than a club.

@Ry4n use osho's dynamic meditation shown by @Prabhaker but the thing that really makes me explode is that you need to almost suffocate yourself. You need to get to the point where you are about to suffocate, and you have to make your body and mind go as insane as possible(don't not think anything -> Do Nothing technique on sterioids)

Leo if you didn't make projections onto your audience, and other people, there's a good chance you wouldn't have a successful personal development business up and running right now. Nearly(if not all) videos you post have some form of blatant projection, and in fact its a core requirement for you to produce videos that are meaningful to your audience. For example, in your beginner's guide to meditation, you made a projection that your audience wouldn't have the ability to meditate for more than 20 minutes at a time, In your video about breaking down 'shoulds and shouldn'ts' you made a massive projection about your audience. You said something along the lines of "you guys make these shoulds hundreds of times per day". In your 'get shit done' video you made a massive projection about how your audience is "lazy" or along the lines of that and the list continues onto infinity..... In fact, you made some many ad hominems in your videos, that I began to subconsciously believe that projections were actually necessary to make effective PD content. How can you as an individual refer to your audience without making projections, sometimes projections are extremely useful especially if you are trying to persuade someone to do something. In fact, the next video you make, will probably be filled with heaps of projections again, whether its about how we are all deep down letting ourselves become spiritual egoists, or falely convincing ourselves that we don't have time for meditation when we actually do, or whatever video your making. Your latest video seems more like a mindless reaction to Rali's attack than a video you would normally release. <- and yes that is a projection, but not one I believe or disbelieve, just a sentence that helps illustrates the point of this post.

@Xpansion totally agree. Thanks for the kind words Xpansion! What's interesting is that nearly every response(not yours) is a projection about me, rather that a discussion about the point I was making. Which is pretty sneaky of 'their egos' considering that the comments made by them actually incorporate quite baseless projections, to try and prove to me that I'm making huge projections; which of course there's no indication of that in my post. I also see this in the non-dogma dogma here. There's a push for being non-dogmatic here, and to stop 'living in the realm of words', because that's closed minded, but what people here have to notice is that, that's just another belief. I guess the responses are just a reason to show that the point I was raising was in fact a valid point to consider. The ego is very sneaky, you need to take into consideration moral licensing which the community here is so drastically unaware of. I make this mistake a lot as well, telling myself that I'm not dogmatic, or I don't make projections, and feeling good about it, when in actuality I'm being the biggest hyppocrit on the planet. I think if we can get past the sort of actions illustrated beautifully by the comments of this post, we are on a pretty good track towards the truth.

Alan Watts is amazing! He provides a very sobering foundation to use when you are confronted with ego traps. While beliefs are beliefs, Alan Watt's videos are a great way to guide yourself when you are feeling lost. Osho is great to follow if you want to use and harness some great deep meditation techniques. His theories of life are pretty cool too, and generally I find Osho to be quite down to earth, compared to some other spiritual teachers who get lost in the 'third eye' and 'chakra' stuff. Eckhart Tolle is great at relating meditation and spirituality to the western culture. He talks a lot about the 'addiction of thought' and other common problems western society throws at us, and also how to overcome it. His talks act like a light house at night: puts light and awareness on the rocky traps of society. and obviously Shizen Young is good too