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  1. I can’t unsee the survival mode in everything
    I can’t unsee the survival mode in everything
    Survival takes place within Being. So if you stop long enough to look underneath all the survival what you see is the underlying Being, which is Consciousness for its own sake.
    Spirituality is about seeing the Being underneath all the unconscious survival.
    Emptiness just means free of survival.

  2. Absolute Truth question
    Absolute Truth question
    It is Absolute Truth but in that moment you aren't aware of it as such.
    Your money chest analogy applies well here.
    Yes, Being = Perception - Ego
    But notice, what is ego? Ego isn't really anything substantial. So perception is very close to Being. The only difference is a bit of extra awareness.
    With a bit of awareness perception becomes Being.

  3. Absolute Truth question
    Absolute Truth question
    Awakening IS the moment you realize what Absolute Truth is.
    Then you can drop in state but you still know what Truth is.
    Yes, without Awakening you don't have a reference experience for what the word Absolute means. You are like a guy who hasn't experienced an orgasm. Awakening is the orgasm. You don't need to be in constant orgasm to know what orgasm is. But you do need to have at least one.

  4. Humanity Has Failed
    Humanity Has Failed
    It was an atrocity of ethnic cleansing.
    There is no doubt the Palestinians have legitimate moral outrage over the injustice of being ethnically cleansed from their land. However, that doesn't matter because POWER is what matters in politics, not morality. They do not have the power to get the justice they deserve.

  5. Leo, your view on hierarchical systems?
    Leo, your view on hierarchical systems?
    Wealth inequality is a huge problem. The issue is how to fix that issue systemically in an intelligent way rather than some stupid way like communism.
    I don't have a solution. I don't see anyone who has the solution. So until then we are stuck with the current system.

  6. I want to show people the limitations of science, but there is a problem
    I want to show people the limitations of science, but there is a problem
    That's a classic example from philosophy of mind / phenomenology. Unfortunately even when you give that example, people still ignore it. Materialism simply discounts all phenomena as "subjective" and therefore insignificant.
    A materialist scientist will simply not understand how seeing the color red has any importance to science. "Okay, so even if I miss the color red, so what? Doesn't change a thing."

  7. New Video: 8 Unique & Original Proofs Of God
    New Video: 8 Unique & Original Proofs Of God
    @Synchronicity Here is a dead simple logical proof of Oneness:
    Take the notion of Everything. Everything must be One. Why? Because any thing whatsoever must be included in Everything. If you can think of or imagine a thing which isn't part of Everything, that means you didn't have Everything, so just include that thing into Everything.
    So by absolute logic Everything must be One. There can only be one Everything. Everything must also be infinite since Everything can hold an infinite number of things. Since numbers are things, we can see that Everything must at least contain all the numbers, which means Everything is infinite. It is impossible to imagine anything that is not a "thing" since I define "thing" as anything whatsoever, including "non-things".
    So Everything is God.
    Classical logic.
    Doubt it all you like, but it is true.

  8. Leo, How Many God-Realized Women Have You Met?
    Leo, How Many God-Realized Women Have You Met?
    I have not met any, but I don't meet many people in general.
    Women generally do not care about truth. So it will be rare to find a woman who does.
    Women have a different way of doing spirituality. A feminine way. It is not centered on truth-seeking. But of course these are just generalizations and there will be exceptions. Most men don't take truth seriously either.
    Women can have lots of spiritual wisdom, but it will be of a softer feminine sort. Don't expect women to blast you in the face with hard truth. That is antithetical to femininity.
    The best advice I can give you on this topic is this: Stop needing women to be sources of truth. That is not a woman's function. You as the man should be the source of truth for women. And even then, you should not dump truth on women but rather bask in truth yourself without trying to impose it on them. Imposing truth on a woman will only make her hate you. Give women love, not truth. Keep the truth to yourself. This is the proper function of a man. Do not try to make women into men. This is a rookie mistake. And appreciate the different angle that women offer.

  9. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    The answer varies depending on the time period.
    In our lifetime it will be capitalism. In 500 years maybe socialism will work.
    Getting the timing right is critical. It does no good to implement a system 200 years too early.

  10. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    It's a bad theory. It failed to predict history.
    Marx said that capitalism would not make the middle class prosperous and would not generate abundance. He was wrong. Capitalism succeeded beyond Marx's wildest dreams and society advanced from industrial factory economy to a services economy. Meanwhile every attempt at socialism failed to be sustainable and to generate as much prosperity as capitalism.

  11. Leo, do you think that Democrats should support right-wing economic policies?
    Leo, do you think that Democrats should support right-wing economic policies?
    The definition of corruption is bending the truth to survive.

  12. Leo, do you think that Democrats should support right-wing economic policies?
    Leo, do you think that Democrats should support right-wing economic policies?
    No. Freedom and equality are a trade-off. To get one you sacrifice the other.
    Leftism is not freedom. You just want to call it freedom because you like that label. Leftism requires restriction of many freedoms for the sake of equality. This is why libertarians are mostly right-wingers.
    You cannot have equality in a free market libertarian state.

  13. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Corruption isn't something you will or don't. Corruption is just the logical consequence of less than infinite consciousness.
    Any being with less than infinite consciousness must be corrupt because you just don't have enough intelligence to do otherwise.
    It's not a judgement of you. God doesn't need to judge you. But God sees all your corruption.
    The only thing that can be pure is formless Infinity. Which is God. Which is death. So by being alive you are evil.
    What did you think? That you were a good guy? Haha!
    That's the biggest load of shit you sold yourself.

  14. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Yes.
    It's a manner of speaking.
    What sees corruption is simply Infinite Consciousness. If you became infinitely conscious you would see all the corruption in the world. But you wouldn't judge it, since you are just seeing Yourself, and everything must be absolutely how it is.

  15. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Yes, fear is a major obstacle.
    How did I overcome the fear? By doing so much psychedelics so many times that eventually I gradually acclimated to it.
    If you hold spiders and snakes in your hands enough times eventually you will stop being afraid of them. But the first few times you hold a spider it is scary.
    If feels like your entire visual field is recontextualized as God. Everything you see glows with God's radiance. That's what you're after.
    You don't need to think your way to it, just trust that it will eventually happen to you.
    Well, this is where psychedelics are so useful. If you can get even one short glimpse of God on a psychedelic then you will have a target to aim at and look forward to.
    I use my psychedelics memories to motivate me to work towards higher states. But also I'm now conscious enough of God that I can get motivation from just appreciating its beauty, and then aiming for more of that beauty.
    Really, the motivation is Beauty. Try switching your motivation from Truth to Beauty. It's about the Beauty of Consciousness. That's what you're really after.

  16. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    But even false things are true (have being).
    Depends on what you mean by falsehood and truth. But disregarding truth is not going to turn out well for you in the end.

  17. What Does Enlightenment Really Mean, Leo?
    What Does Enlightenment Really Mean, Leo?
    @shree That's why I've stopped using the enlightenment word.
    It's hard to know what people mean by it exactly. They seem to use it in different ways while acting as if there is only one binary state called enlightenment. I do not subscribe to this view of Consciousness.
    From what I gather, mostly what they mean is loss of the sense of an ego self. The no-self realization.
    But to me that is just a small aspect of Awakening.
    Keep in mind that people can use these terms in different ways. So you always want to drill the user of the word down on what exactly they mean by it. Don't assume. Force them to spell out the phenomenology of that they mean. What does enlightenment feel like for them? That will give you a better idea.

  18. What is state according to Leo Gura?
    What is state according to Leo Gura?
    Frame is a way of looking at something in your mind.
    State is the actual physical being of this present moment. What humans call the physical world is actually a state.
    You entire visual field is a state of consciousness. If you drink a bottle of vodka the state of your visual field will change.

  19. What is state according to Leo Gura?
    What is state according to Leo Gura?
    You are always in some state of consciousness.
    Examples of different states include:
    Default waking Deep dreamless sleep Dreaming Drunk High on weed Dizzy Sleepy Sick with fever Enraged Depressed Anxious Manic Etc

  20. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    How do you know it doesn't work?
    There are many credible stories of the government using remote viewers for espionage. It's not just hippie stuff. The research on remote viewing is compelling and credible, if you bother to study it.

  21. Is now a good time to buy Tesla Stock?
    Is now a good time to buy Tesla Stock?
    By building companies that provide massive value.
    Leftists don't understand how basic business works. Value doesn't fall from the sky, you have to build companies to generate it.
    Just because Musk is a douchebag doesn't mean don't build great companies.
    Most great companies are built by douchebags. 

  22. On Knowing God??
    On Knowing God??
    Yes, but you'll have to sit a very long time.
    And in the end you still need to question what reality/God/you/consciousness is.
    In practice, lack of thinking will end in misunderstanding of God.

  23. Gender Change VS Gender Deconstruction
    Gender Change VS Gender Deconstruction
    I think these two are ultimately incompatible and GC is only a step towards GD. 
    Masculine and femenine are existencial principles which find expression both in body and mind. A particular body generally expresses only one of this principles (there are edge cases), but a particular mind always has a very variable proportion of both.
    In the past, for survival reasons, women were rised by societies to be mentally as femenine as possible and men to be as masculine as possible.
    This of course was done unconciously, such that in the past there wasn't even a conceptual difference beetween "gender" and "sex" like we have today.
    As technology developed and survival conditions changed, it became no longer necessary for men to be hyper-masculine and women to be hyper-femenine and people are now generally much more balanced regarding these energies, which is a lot healthier than repressing one pole of the spectrum of course.
    Stereotypes about each biological sex still remain, but it became clear that these are not biological facts but social constructs. That's what allowed us to develop the notion of "genders" as a distinct concept than "biological sex".
    Society is advancing towards the deconstruction of these stereotypes called "genders", and GC is only an intermediate step which will ultimately be transcended.
    If a biologically born male happens to have a mind that leans more towards the femenine than the masculine, and he says "I'm a woman in a man's body", he's actually reinforcing these stereotypes. He wouldn't consider himself a woman if it wasn't for his cultural programming.
    Consider a parallel with the abolition of slavery. GC is the equivalent of having a black person having to legally change his race to "white" in order to be free, because society won't accept him as being black and free. Would you defend this in the XXI century? It would still be an improvement from the previous situation, but we wouldn't glorify it as an ultimate ahievement.
    Please understand I write this thinking about the next level, not to trash on the achievements we already got

  24. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread
    No.
    Recognition of identity is fundamental. It is not like seeing UV.
    1=1 is much more profound than anyone realizes. It's about identity. And Awakening is about identity.
    All humans take identity for granted, as a given. But what is identity? That question leads to the deepest Awakening.
    Do not take identity for granted. That's the fundamental error of science.

  25. If science is a story we project to reality, why does it work in life?
    If science is a story we project to reality, why does it work in life?
    Science is a story that somewhat tracks patterns within God's dream. Which is why it "works". You can track rules by which a video game works and thereby predict the game to some extent.
    But do not mistake those models for what's really going on at a metaphysical level.