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@FreeThoughtFlow - Your own ego projects onto Leo. You assume that if Leo's words were to come out of your own mouth, that you would be entertaining the ego. Maybe Leo doesn't want to filter his message or hold anything back from what his experience was and he figures it best to cater to the more evolved egos than cater to the ones not aware of projection. Maybe. The way I see it is that he wants to show people what's possible and he uses his story to do that. Is there some form of ego there? IDK. To think about how much he's studied ego, self-deception, etc and practiced awareness and consciousness for thousands of hours, I would think he's transcended his ego a lot more than what you believe. If I'm you, I would have to say to myself. This doesn't make sense. What am I missing? Is this guy an egomaniac or what am I missing? And to me, it would seem as though I'm missing something.

@Nahm Awesome answers. I especially like "God isn't intelligent but God is intelligence." Although I know there's no big man in the sky, the way I was framing it seemed as if a being possessed intelligence and if that was the case me and the being are two separate things, which is a duality, so that perspective would have to be undone to realize non-duality. Ok, Ok, yes, I'm a seeker. lol. I should have said I'm not a hardcore seeker. But maybe that's a lie too. Thank you very much!

@Aaron p - Interesting! Thanks for your reply!

@Nahm - Do you have experience with things like this? Do you think these things are all hogwash, pure coincidence, or fictions created by the mind? I definitely see religious/spiritual seekers creating fictions which they want to be signs, but I'm not a seeker and I'm very skeptical and aware of self-deception. I question pretty much everything and am willing to let anything that's not truth go. So, I just wanted to say that I have no hope for these things to be "signs", but knowing that God is intelligent and that these coincidences are so fuckin crazy, it seems possible. To me, these insane coincidences almost feel like a nudge to get to work on spirituality.

@VioletFlame you're welcome!

@EvilAngel - you're welcome!

@VioletFlame - Yeah it's really interesting! If you're interested in the movie, it's free to watch if you have an Amazon Prime subscription.

@Nahm ahhahaah - That was the exact book I was reading when the I came across the word "coincidence" at the same time it was spoken on TV

@EvilAngel Yes it is. It definitely helps to solidify the magic going on here Thanks for the reply! Gonna look into those terms.

The website is a cheap or free Wordpress theme and looks like it's been put together by a novice. Could have this done for about $100 on Upwork. If he can't invest a few thousand in his web presence, he's probably not successful or either don't know shit about business and marketing. I'd stay away from this one.

I think negative emotions are severely diminished by Enlightenment and I think Emotional Mastery gets you closer to Enlightenment. Would there be a need to master the positive emotions or just the negative ones? For me, it'd just be the negative ones as I'm perfectly content with positive emotions. So we're basically talking about rewiring ourselves to not have thought patterns that bring us to suffer. To do that, we'd need to become aware of those patterns, find their root causes and use awareness and observation to change them. Off the top, I'd venture to say that judgment and attachment/desire are the primary culprits of negative emotion, which are also what Enlightenment teachers preach to undo. For me and my situation, the need for Emotional Mastery or the elimination of negative emotions that I impose on myself is currently more important than Enlightenment, and I think that's probably the case for most people. To become calm and centered and not so worried or agitated that you can't even practice spirituality. Strategically, this could potentially fast-track you to Enlightenment. Emotional Mastery is a good target but I think that if you could reduce the negative emotions causing you the most suffering, you'd be happy just cutting those down by 50% and then Mastery might be a waste of time. Either way, I agree that this is an important subject and definitely something to consider.