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@Alex_R Have you heard lectures from Ram Dass? He is a famous teacher who did over 100+LSD trips and then let go of that since you cannot sustain that high

@Alex_R I totally agree, I feel his content always prepare ls me for the next step spiritually as well. Most of his episode are very synchronistic for me. Let see, this too is a part of reality that I need to learn to accept. Maybe it's finally time to venture alone and build my own path. Maybe it's god's way of removing the training wheels from the bicycle and I need to ride it alone my own path. I have nothing but gratitude for his videos. I will take this as a start of a new chapter in my life. The most valuable thing Leo taught me not about his insights, but rather how to think and inquir in a way where you don't get trapped in juicy traps.

@Alex_R My question is, is this 0.01% of people even the accurate representation of the whole? I watch all his video for the past 5 years every week and I: - Gained confidence in myself - moved from India to Canada to explore more of Leo's teaching - Started an amazing YouTube channel that gave me purpose in life - literally opened my mind and made me really smart about certain concepts and got a better understanding of it - I read and re read over 100 books from Leo's book list since 2019 - doing my masters in AI and left my shitty 9-5 job where I just manually type stuff. All this wouldn't be possible without Leo, literally. I'm sure there are soo many more people like me. However, they just don't have the time or the interest to spend time in this forum. However, I feel the future of the channel is driven by people that just happen to spend more time here

Haha, I feel you. I remember like 3-4 years ago, in the end of one actualised.org video, Leo with tears said, just stay with me and I'll promise we will go to places no one has ever gone before. Something about that stuck a chord with me and I have been watching all the videos ever since. Maybe the video does more harm than good? I think the channel will pivot to a more Ram Dass like content

The discussion about the video taken down is certainly very interesting considering the nature of this work

Yea, you can check his blog where he posted his statement

Also, any ETA on next Leo video?

inspiring! Keep us updated!

Do people realize that they are standing beside a god! But who's the god in the video or ... video is the god? haha jk jk Happy New Year Guys!

Damn, just checking this now. Didn't expect so many comments. I understand now why there is no comment section in Leo's blog post

@Lukares Do you have any good books on body awareness, breathing, relaxation? If so, you could you please share them in the order of importance? Much Appreciated!

Leo did a business talk on this blog! Really useful! The crux is: 1. Find out your highest excitement! That will give you clues as to what passion is 2. Find ways to become the best in the world in it! But vido, there are soo many people, how will I be the best? Good question! that's point 3 3. Pick your niche. This helps you distinguish your crowd and collaborate with other people. 4. Try to earn 100$ first in the niche. This will be your test run and make the Minimum viable product. This will help you know which one pays and which doesn't. 5. Expand that to 1000$ then 10,000$ etc. Remember the scale is exponential so you will not see much for the first couple of years. Note: This process will take 10 years. But you will start seeing results in one year. Just giving you a realistic timeline so that you don't get discouraged. No get rich scheme sadly. Not yet except one technique. Message me and I'll show you how. Pay me 1000$ and I'll turn it to 10,000$! I promise you this is not a scam. (obviously joking)

Is beliefs just thoughts? Or emotions or something completely different? I understand that it is a bias. But what is the quality of the bias. How do I find into its nature experientially?

After watching the video, I clearly can see how I avoid the truth and how most of my problem is around this fact. I see sometimes I bottle emotions up to just to avoid truth. I am still trying to understand the "Why" aspect of avoiding the truth. What belief am I believing that is operating in the shadow that's programming me to avoid the truth? why is it so scary? Why is an assumption whose ring of truth fading away feel soo death-like? what is the underlying belief which fear operates by?

I am not like fat fat. I'm like 76kg and my height is 5 7. After New year, I would probably be like 72. I have a major problem in avoiding truth when it comes to programming. Something about it just makes me go, I'll deal with it tomorrow. That's where I relate hard. I procrastinate by reading Leo's book list hoping to read something that just "hits" me and magically I no longer avoid the truth Realized after this episode that that's like mental gymnastics haha So I'm looking to heal this situation and translate the intuition to all parts of my life. I also have a deep longing for understanding the root of falsehood which I'm slowly processing today. Didn't expect ALL of minor falsehood to relate to something as huge as death

Thanks for the detailed post! I appreciate the honesty and feels good to know everyone struggles with this to some extent. I was familiar with the concept of death and was processing stuff like getting hit by the car, etc. However, only today I connected the dot that my avoiding to look at my weight is due to a core fear of death which is why I prefer falsehood.

AHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA That's funny

Ohhh makes sense. Such a weird paradox. To stay alive, I need falsehood but to know the truth I need to let go of this falsehood. Huh.

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For me, it's mental masturbation! The content is soo good but is very advanced and the pace is honestly verrry fast in terms of self-growth. The series of self-deception is a good example. The series is old but still advanced and today's concepts are based on it. Luckily I have been watching Leo's videos for years without skipping a week which helps me keep things up to date which is a luxury that I feel people who recently joined actualized.org don't have. I feel to reach Leo's level, it's a full-time thing where one needs to at least spend up to 60hrs every week consuming books from the book list, contemplating, coming to the conclusion on your own so that this is part of direct experience which honestly takes a lot of time if you are like me who is doing this on the side. Your progress is going to be much slower than Leo's which is intimidating if you are new to the work. I don't feel I'll ever get to the same complete understanding as Leo, personally, I am interested in understanding Truth and Love which is a subsection of all actualized teachings To fully understand actualized teachings without making it a dogma, you have to read the books from the book list as well so that your perspective is open and not boxed in. I know people say just watching the videos is good enough but honestly, you need to consume the books as well to fully appreciate the work. This is essential because the information from the books is needed for you to derive the truth for yourself and make it a part of direct experience. That's a lot to ask from the audience which might be offputting to some. I personally love this work and have the luxury of time and headspace to think about this stuff which I feel not many people have. We are all stressed about relationships or jobs or business etc. Building off of the previous point, for me, actualized teaching is like a touchstone in this work. I go, explore all the ideas, read all the book, contemplate love, truth, etc, and when I come back to this work, the stuff he says makes soooo much more sense and is easier to see what he's pointing to. One needs to be open-minded and skeptical at the same time to watch the videos. You cannot blindly believe what he says but need to be open to the possibility that what you think is false and what he says is true at the same time. That's a tough ask from the audience's perspective and very not many people have that kind of viewpoint. Especially when you talk about something that's personal like religion and GOD. You need to go through the spirals (if you watched spiral dynamics). Just because you watch actualized, you can't skip levels. You can't go from orange to turquoise and need to go through the levels even if the pace of actualized is like he's doing a spiral dynamics speed run. That's mindfuck and might be disheartening for some. Could cause inner dissonance when you are lower lever but think you are higher level in consciousness because you watch actualized.org. You might develop a superiority complex as you might feel you know "more" than the average Joe spiritual guy You could feel lonely in the process since this is a solo journey. Honestly, the nature of the work itself is mind fuck and I feel actualized is just a victim to the brutality of the work. Positives: No matter what spiritual questions you have, Actualized.org has a good video on that subject in depth Makes you ask questions that you didn't even think were possible The style ties beautifully when you read self-growth and consume it. Most of the videos don't need an update to them. so the information doesn't lose value over time. This I feel is a peak inquiry into life itself, to the depth I think no one has ever gone to! So the understands are new and exciting and probably we are the first-gen to see it play out this way! Answers the questions without much mind game bullshit. Pretty straightforward!

I have been contemplating this and trying to find an answer. Any replies are greatly appreciated. Leo mentioned there are bad things are feel good and good things that feel bad. I understand this. Expanding on this, there are assumptions that one makes that feel true even though they are not. Only looking back can you see that the thing you were doing is not the truth but the assumption. My question is: Why does this assumption that I make feel so true? Even though in my mind I know this is not true, it feels true. This feeling of truth, is that even the truth? How can something so wrong feel so right?

Okay. If I tried to inquire about this phenomenon experientially, How do I make the distinction between the survival drive and Truth? Not conceptually, but if I became mindful of the experience itself, where do I go from there? How to contemplate this?

@Leo Gura Are you telling me that I made an assumption about truth (truth being this survival drive) when I was little and its coming to bite me now? I understand that and for me a little bit of a mindfuck. However, the next question would be what is the quality of Truth or Love and is that different from survival feelings

Apart from books from Leo's list, is there any other book you guys know which helps in understanding and manipulating energy? I feel stuff in my body and want to understand and master it. Any help will be highly appreciated

I actually read her works! Nice recommendation!