r0ckyreed

Trying to outsmart Leo is a self-deception. It’s an ego game. The God game is trying to outsmart yourself. Outwit the Devil that you are. Trying to outsmart Leo is like arguing with a character in your dream thinking it will wake you up. The more you argue with the dream, the deeper you sleep within it. Most things in the dream is a distraction from questioning the Dreamer. However, something’s in the Dream can be helpful in waking you up. The job is distinguishing the two.

It’s going to vary for each individual but the basics of handling immediate trauma are: 1. Establish physical safety first. Do whatever you can do to cover physical safety. Take back control over your environment and change it so you can feel safe. 2. Grounding skills - Techniques you can do to calm your nervous system and facilitate present-moment awareness. - meditation - sensory grounding (essential to engage the senses) - nature exposure - self-hypnosis - physical anchoring (moving your body to bring awareness to your body and give mind temporary relief) 3. Distraction techniques when emotions become too intense. This is where your Tetris or other games come in. The goal is to redirect attention to something neutral or non-threatening to let your nervous system recover. 4. Social support and professional services 5. Good Self-Care rituals - gym, meditation, diet, sleep, sauna, nature exposure, gratitude journaling, etc. 6. Self-Compassion, positive thought-looping, reframing, etc. 7. Allowing yourself to mindfully reflect and contemplate. I recommend doing this step last because most people spiral instead of reflecting. If reflecting is too intense, then go back to mastering previous steps.

Thats right. You’re taxing your working memory, which allows the brain to process the trauma. This is how EMDR works. Tax the working memory and multiple brief exposure therapy like flipping back and worth through the pages of a book until the distress goes down. Tetris alone is a distraction technique, which is good to deal with uncontrollable emotions, but it isn’t quite enough to fully process trauma. It’s a cope.

I am an EMDR Therapist and find trauma fascinating. Trauma is sneaky. It doesn’t have to necessarily bother you. The mind is very clever in suppression and dissociation. The key is whether your today is being negatively influenced by the past. Trauma affects our choices, attraction, cognition, epistemology/philosophy, communication skills, attachment styles, etc. It doesn’t have to cause distress to be trauma. This is why not all people with a trauma history have PTSD. This is the distinction. It is possible to go through something traumatic and it not having or no longer negatively impacting your today.

There is a difference between Big T Trauma and little t trauma. Everyone has little t trauma but not everyone has T Trauma. Little trauma is like heartbreak, a rude comment someone made to you that hurt you, close calls, being made fun of, etc. Big T Trauma is life threatening or close encounters with death or violence such as a car wreck, sexual assault, being robbed, etc. It is not really the events that matter but really your reaction when you look back at the close encounters or small encounters. If they still hold weight on you today, it is T/t/rauma. A good example for me was being berated for calling someone by the wrong pronouns. Everytime I approach that person, I approached with caution and anxiety. This is trauma and is different than Trauma.

You are correct. As long as I am human, I will never be in full God Consciousness. The most Awakened being can never be fully God while they are human. Full God is Death. So I wouldn’t say I’m bypassing. I’m acknowledging my human biases, as well as Ultimate Existence. I’m just saying that from the perspective of God, there is no ugly. To the Devil (which is me), there is. Just because I am conscious of God right now doesn’t mean I inhabit that state 24/7. I would claim that no human can. Anyone that says they are in full God Consciousness 24/7 is kidding themselves. Ask them how conscious they are of God when they are sick, dying of cancer, watching genocide or scrolling on social media.

God sees Absolute Beauty everywhere, even in a dog turd. If you can’t see war, ignorance, corruption as Absolute Perfection, then you are in Devil Consciousness not God Consciousness.

I disagree with quote #412. Ugliness doesn’t exist. Ignorance, war, greed, corruption, etc. isn’t ugly, it is Absolute Beauty. How can reality be Absolute Good if there’s ugliness? Ugliness is also Absolutely Good and Beautiful. But nothing is inherently ugly, it is always inherently Beauty and Good. Perfection, God, Good, and Beauty go together. Ugliness is finite perception. Beauty/Perfection is baked into Reality.

One thing I notice in Leo’s communication that could be improved is his tendency to overgeneralize science and assume the worst in scientists. For instance, Leo critiques science as if science is just a stagnate methodology that isn’t improving itself. Science is constantly improving and the domain of science is so vast that it is difficult to criticize the whole thing. Newton looking through a telescope and testing his observations is science. Science doesn’t have to be done in a group or within the domain of academia. Me sitting in my armchair contemplating and testing my observations and insights is as much science as academia. Academia science may be more rigorous than an Ethnography or philosophical contemplation but it’s still science. Leo tends to assume scientists are lazy, biased, atheistic, and dogmatic. This may be true of a lot of academic scientists. But it’s still a big generalization full of assumptions about a group of people. There is never any mention of a Tier 2 scientists. I am sure there are more great scientists out there than Leo may acknowledge. Leo assumes scientists don’t account for relativism or don’t take philosophy seriously, but I don’t think this is true. I bet there are a lot of scientists that think deeply about philosophy. I understand Leo’s critiques and have seen the dogma myself but have also seen the opposite. I just notice this bias to reduce science down or assume the worst. But there are probably great truth-seeking awakened scientists in the world today. Why couldn’t an awakened person be a scientist? What even counts as a scientist? A true capital S Scientist is one who cares relentlessly about Truth. So in a way, all of Leo’s critiques of science are of small s science and not capital S Science. Edit: How is me taking psychedelics and noting/testing my observations and insights any different from Newton looking through a telescope and noting/testing his observations/insights? They are both science. I still enjoyed the episode. Much love. 🙏

Chairs do NOT exist!!!!

Death and Truth are identical. When you kill every belief, burn away all tradition, all your attachments, what are you left with? Truth!! Truth is the only thing that survives Death. Buddhism and chakras can’t be Truth because there was a time when they didn’t exist. There was a reality without Buddhism, without meditation. These are all human endeavors. No model of reality is Truth. Burn it all down. Let it die and look at what remains. Any belief you cling to is delusion. If you aren’t willing to let it go, then it is not Truth you hold but Maya.

Chakras and full lotus is BS. You don’t even need to sit to meditate. You don’t need a fancy chair nor an ass mat. Y’all are getting lost in the Maya. Meditation is a lifestyle not just one act. The only meditation you need is reflecting on one question: “How conscious am I of Truth right now?” Thats it. Anything else is a distraction. Counting your breaths, counting your beads, mandalas, chakras, pranayama, supreme fire, Wim Hof, etc. is just mindless conformity until you recognize it as Truth. Nothing will get you closer to Truth than directly meditating on Truth. Don’t meditate on the breath. Meditate on Truth. Just be honest with yourself, any other “meditation” is taking your eye off of Truth. Contemplate Truth and rest in Truth. That’s it.

Ask him about the nature of solipsism, time, external world, advice on relationships/sex, masculinity, discipline vs blissipline, contentment vs ambition, understanding the feminine, etc. @BlessedLion

I think I’m missing why the relationship ended in the first place. If you don’t resolve that, then you might make the same mistake in the next one. We repeat what we don’t repair.

Wow! Thanks. I’ll check it out.