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Besides death being the great equalizer, look at this recent study https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/17/ageing-process-is-irreversible-finds-unprecedented-study Some people believe we will be able to live hundreds of years. Maybe that is a possibility with A.I. but i am not that optimistic to be honest.

@Danioover9000 I think now we know more some of Leo's biases

Why God is dreaming getting raped, being a succesful enterpreneur, getting shot, winning the lottery, having sex, getting obliterated in another crash accident,,feeling depressed, being awake and etc? What is the point of it all ? How does God think about all this stuff? Is it possible to stop the dream alltogether? Sometimes i can see through this illusion but it feels there is nothing you can do to end this dream lol. Not even God himself can stop the dream.

@Vibroverse Ahahahaha

At 1:40:00 of the video they start discussing about psychedelic treatment. The psychiatrist has a biased position against psychedelics. Basically she doesn't believe that taking a psychedelic 1-3 times can stop someone from being an addict.

@Blackhawk It's because Leo wants to encourage us to become more selfless and less biased which leads to more happiness and more accurate perception. I am all for it But there are certain biases which cannot be transcended. I can't drop my dislike for eating turds or my dislike for getting tortured. There are many other many biases that can be let go off though. A racist for example can stop being a racist.

@Leo Gura There are definitely some parts which i did not understand. I thought you said God is the absence of all biases also. So even God has biases. Okay then we could say that enjoying ice-cream more than brocolli (because God made it a lot more dopaminergic) is a bias of God. In that case i can learn to enjoy brocolli but it will never love it the same as ice-cream (because of inherently different neurochemical levels.)

@Vision To me, pain and pleasure are not merely relative terms and also they have a serious basis in reality.. It is an absolute since the relative is the absolute. 99.9%-100% of people won't enjoy getting tortured. That makes it pretty absolute also.

@Leo Gura I don't really know. I prefer truth from fantasies, that's my bias. But i can enjoy fantasies as well. Also i think we can only relate to things that exist. Even things that do not exist, exist in our heads, thats the paradox.

@Vision Maybe pain and pelasure is not inherent to reality but it is inherent to my every day experience of life. Some things feel good and some things feel bad, there is not changing that. It's hard to love eating a turd. There is no way i can start enjoying beheadings and tortures. Yes its a preference , a bias. But still the not enjoying of the experience is not a mere bias. I can start enjoying raw fish and other stuff but i'll never enjoy getting my finger cut by a knife slowly. Unless maybe i am Ramana Maharshi but even then i highly doubt it is possible.

@Leo Gura They exist though, so they are truthful.

@Leo Gura Pain inherently doesn't feel good and there is not much i can do to change that. This is not a bias i think. Maybe Ramana Maharshi himself would not enjoy getting tortured by some Mexican drug cartel animals. I don't know for sure though. He was one of a kind. Maybe 1 in a 8 billion people. Also having sex with a goat doesn't release the same dopamine as having sex with a striper. Eating brocolli won't release the same dopamine as eating an ice-cream. I think all these things are not just simply biases. They are biases but these biases are somewhat justified we might say.

@Jodistrict This is so unfortunately true. In my country, i know for sure that IF you go to a psychiatrist all they will do is prescribe you some drugs that will mess up your neurochemicals. They will NOT do anything else. This is their only tool. Kinda sad. Also for example, if you ask professionals doctors nowadays about OCD , most of them will tell you that its a chronic disorder when in fact this has never been proven and many people who have overcome OCD (including myself) know that i'ts not chronic if you stop the compulsions. The disease model which is applied to addiction is very helpful for business. There is a neuroscientist who believes that addiction is not a disease, but a learned behavior and i tend to agree with him. We are in the dark ages psychologically. We have built computers and sent men to the moon, yet we cannot help people who are addicted and miserable lol. As i study more psychology and other sciences i realise more and more that these scientists don't know very much about what's going on, especially in psychology. We are still in the dark ages as Leo has stated.

This is a great documentary i've stumbled up which interviews a male who was executed 8 years ago by lethal injection. It details his life and how the murders occured. Basically he shot two truck drivers for no good reason. The 1st truck driver almost hit him while he was on his motorcycle. He got angry bc his life was threatened and decided to execute the truck driver. The next truck driver he shot because he was still angry at the 1st truck driver lol. This is insane. The senselessness of it all is mind-boggling and disturbing,

@Carl-Richard @Carl-Richard Good point.

@Javfly33 Generally i am flowing with not much resistance. What i suffer from mostly is a feeling of overwhelming uncertainty and the difficult part is not reacting to it. But i am doing ok. I am almost always constantly aware of the breath and other sensations without getting lost in my head like i used to few years ago. 4 years of meditation has definitely helped and is paying dividends. I suffer too from lack of self-love and tons of self-hatred for my past mistakes. What do you mean by 'apply Desire first rule'?

@Leo Gura

@Someone here This is God. And this is a dream/maya. That is the actuality right there.

@Javfly33 Yes!! My favourite drug ever. Life-changer. It is the best tool i have . But you always need to use many different tools to get the job done lol. One tool is never enough.

@Someone here Always we assume some stuff. I assume that nothing is apparent and that probably there is a reason behind stuff.

@Javfly33 I am convinced that after 1-3 trips someone can quit their drug of choice. The increased level of awareness will make you sick to your stomach when you realize the damage you're doing to yourself. For me, when i was smoking weed, it was impossible to continue doing it under the influence of magic mushrooms. Because i was fully aware of all the BS my mind constructed to keep me locked in into that addiction. Yes the relapse is possible. But still psychedelics are the faster way i know someone can get shook to their core and end their drug use. It is obviously that this psychiatrist no matter how intelligent appears to be has 0 experience with psychedelics, therefore she cannot appreciate the power of these substances. I am convinced that in the next 50 years psychedelics will render psychiatrists useless. They are already useless for the most part. This is why they end up commiting suicide.

@Someone here Apparently not.. I think there is some logic behind all this stuff. God is not an idiot.

There is nothing to do (this can be interpreted wrongly though). Everything has already happenened. This is the most liberating aspect of awakening. You realise that all your worries were delusions.

@flowboy This video is great and makes so much sense!! Finally a video saying what i've been thinking all along.

Basically i want to be using coffee strategically because it helps me to do my job easier but the half-life of caffeine has concerned me a lot. The half-life of caffeine is 6 hours. In this video they discuss about caffeine claiming that if you drink 200mg of caffeine after midday then 50mg of caffeine will be still in your system by the time you go to sleep. And this will result in 20% less deep sleep. Basically they suggest to stop drinking coffee after midday. But still the explanations in this video are not sufficient. They don't suggest optimal caffeine dosages and they leave many questions unanswered. Also i don't see how drinking your coffee 1 hour earlier can do that much of a difference as far as eliminating it from your system. If i take 400mg of caffeine first thing in the morning then after 18 hours i will still have 50mg of caffeine in my system when i am in my bed. So whether i drink it after midday or before it doesn't really matter if my dose is big. How much caffeine should i take for optimal sleep and at what times?