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Once you take the red pill, there is no going back. Ask yourself why you took the red pill in the first place. Maybe that will help you move forward. We can’t move back and we can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.

I second this.

I think Infinity Gods is 10% false teachings. All of those Gods are imagined within God. If there are other Gods outside of God’s mind, then God is not God.

But all the Infinite Absolutes are actually One Absolute. There cannot be another absolute. There is only One. If there was another Absolute, then that would mean that the first Absolute is not Absolute enough to contain and be one with the second Absolute. Having 2 absolutes implies duality and relativity. It would be an “other” Absolute which would make it relative and not Absolute. We all know that islands are held together by the sea. The sea represents the Absolute and all the islands are relative since they could all be submerged into the One Ocean. Hope that makes sense. Edit: another Absolute Consciousness is basically imagined within your own Absolute Consciousness. There are no other Absolute Consciousnesses because you imagined Infinite Gods. But that idea of Infinite Gods is a concept and imagination within your direct experience. It’s only real if you imagine it. If you stopped imagining Infinity Gods, you would be left with just the One Absolute Self.

The story says a student asked him: “How are we to treat others?” He replied: “There are no others.” The relative and absolute are one. All the sensory perceptions experienced right now: sights, sound, thoughts, etc. are all that exist. Qualia is absolute truth.

I still don’t understand The Infinity of Gods awakening/episode. I have validated Absolute Solipsism in my direct experience and awakenings. I haven’t validated Infinity of Gods because I am hallucinating all other minds and all other Gods.

I wanted to share some thoughts to improve the forum given the recent number of new users being trolls. Why can’t we make the forum private meaning that people cannot view things we say on this forum without first creating an account and if a user gets banned, they can no longer view the forum. I think this would protect forum users from having banned people from using information against Actualized forum members. In addition, I think it would help make forum users feel safe (for instance, fearing their boss or partner might view their posts). This is just my thoughts on the matter. I wouldn’t feel comfortable with somebody who isn’t an approved forum member to have access to my posts and journals. Think of people in abusive relationships who post in their journals. What is stopping their perpetrator from viewing their post? I think we need to have some safe guards against trolls and mentally insane people. They shouldn’t be able to have the ability and privilege to view our posts without being approved.

You guys are missing my point. I’m not saying that each of our posts is private to each other. I’m saying that in order to view the forum, you would to have a registered approved account just like how you have to have one to make posts. Nothing would be different. The only difference is that we won’t have some bad characters who can causally view the forum and all of our posts without an account. We have thousands of unregistered users who casually view this forum each day. How do you know one of those thousands isn’t your boss or someone who is stalking you?

If you really want to avoid truth and focus on your emotional needs, then why are you here? Why not just turn off your phone and live your life? You don’t need Leo or Buddha to validate something for you. I recommend you turn off your phone and take a break from social media and actualized just to see if anything changes for you. Best of luck.

If you’re not interested in consciousness work, then why do you care? Why not just monkey around like other humans do? You have to genuinely care about truth and stop asking others for answers that you could find out on your own.

What are you doing? You have no evidence to back up your claims. There is no evidence that Daniel Ingram is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. If you’re gonna make a claim like that about someone, cite the source; otherwise, it is wax in my ears.

@Leo Gura Actualized quote #281 says every mind is a subset of God’s mind. That God imagines all possible realities and all possible minds. But I have never validated any other reality or mind other than my own consciousness. This is starting to sound like panentheism where I am a mind inside of God’s mind but God is also a mind greater than me. I don’t see every mind as a subset of God’s mind. I see every mind as my own dream. Everything that exists is my mind. My bed, my room, the forests, animals, humans, ants, aliens, buildings, cars, etc. are all my mind. I don’t see these objects or subjects as subsets of God’s mind, I see them as God’s mind. I am the Universe imagining this human experience and the entire “world” but that doesn’t make what I imagine to be a subset. The issue with panentheism is that it assumes God is transcendent that somehow God is greater or more than just my consciousness/experience.

Thanks. Your mind hallucinates all of reality. Religion is a hallucination, so is science. If you go deeper, you realize that your mind is hallucinating all distinctions - self/other, reality/fantasy, etc. If you get really present in this moment, you will realize how your mind is constructing the entire universe and how your mind is constructing gravity this instant. Look at a chair. Notice how your mind is constructing your entire experience and sensations of what you call a chair. Notice that it is also constructing gravity, time, external reality, other minds, and much more. This is obvious stuff. Spirituality is about connecting deeply to what is most true in this present moment.

My own personal notes from video. I only put in the useful info. I omitted redundancy. Real Vs. Fake Spirituality “Real spirituality is about annihilation of the self. Fake spirituality is about survival as a spiritual-flavored self.” - Leo Gura Make the distinction between fake and real spirituality. This one distinction will make a big difference in my life. Recognize that there are wrong ways of doing spirituality. Contemplate for myself “are there wrong ways of doing spirituality?” Find examples and find out what makes them wrong. We live in postmodern relative times. Spiritual people think spirituality is relative and we can all do it our own way. This is partially true but partially deluded. Spirituality isn’t anything goes. Relativists have a problem with saying Nazi spirituality is legitimate if they hold spiritual relativism. There is a core to spirituality and there is a lot of variability within the core of spirituality. What is spirituality really about when we get rid of all tradition, beliefs, rituals, groupthink, etc.? Spirituality is about realizing that your mind imagines all of reality. Real spirituality is about seeing through the illusions of all human games and realizing truth. The default condition of the human mind is ignorance. People live based off of their belief systems and become attached to them and confuse it for spirituality. Spirituality is a deeper perception into the nature of reality. My mind is always making stuff up. Always constructing things in the same way when I was a kid. Adults and kids imagination is no different. Relationships work the same way of imagining the partner better than they actually are. Human are imagining things and making this up for enhancing survival. Spirituality is following a truth-seeking process in using my mind in a truthful way. Truth-seeking is a personal existential inquiry, figuring out what is reality, self, mind, truth. Nobody can do my pushups for me. Spirituality is about questioning everything in reality. Distinguish concept from actuality. All of science and religion is a concept. Be unbiased in my skeptical. Spirituality is about deconstructing the self - my entire life story and future. Why deconstructing the self? The center of all my drive is all about the self, self-survival. The mind is making up myself. The self is the filter through which I make sense of and see through all of reality. Truth will cause me a lot of suffering if I have a lot of illusions. All of therapy is about the client to confront the truth Psychological problems come from an avoidance of truth. Self-reflective people are spiritual and philosophical. Why deconstruct the self? Best possible outcome is connecting with Infinite Self. Being free of illusion. Finding inner-happiness. I got my wife, mansion and I am still miserable. Why? Illusion. Illusion from society. Reality has disillusioned me. Majority of problems in life are related to how I constructed my self, others, and the world. I need to question these because culture has influenced my constructions. The problem of doing spirituality to escape suffering is already selfish. Spirituality is about transcending survival. I am an illusion and am trying to survive as an illusion. Unconscious survival is being an animal. Humans are lost in survival. There is a higher way to live than survival. Fools gold is drugs, sex, fame, status, etc. True gold is to live for metaphysical reality. Live in appreciation for the beauty of reality itself. I am deeply satisfied with existence itself without needing fancy things like drugs, sex, fame, vacations, mansions, etc. I can be happier being conscious of existence than I would sex. A sign of true spirituality is sitting alone at home and being satisfied with doing nothing. How connected am I to the magic of the present moment right now? Do I need fancy houses and sex to be happy? People turn spirituality into a survival pursuit. People think they need to go to church or go to the Pyramids or go to a yoga retreat or fancy vacations or party with friends to be happy. This is fake spirituality. There is no direct consciousness of reality. Expecting to feel loved all the time is fake spirituality. Different types of illusions. Secular illusions and spiritual illusions. I am a slave inside my own dream. Spirituality is about breaking free from mental slavery. I am slave by my own emotional attachments. I am a slave to culture. I would rather be a spiritual slave with others than be free and alone. What is required to be free of mental slavery? That’s real spirituality. Real spirituality is about achieving a sovereignty of mind. Develop autonomy of mind. I will be able to think in creative ways and find solutions to emotional traps. God is complete sovereignty of mind. My mind is God’s mind, imagining the universe. Everything is my own hallucination. The more truth-seeking I do, the more I see that to be true. People don’t want to take responsibility for imagining the whole universe. The whole universe is my mind, so psychology is the study of everything. Take psychology to an existential level not a personal level. Religion makes it impossible to help me achieve sovereignty of mind. Direct experience with the present moment. Hand exercise - compare image of hand vs actual hand. All of science and religion is like the hand in my mind not direct experience. People want spirituality to be magical and mystical and direct experience and looking at my hand is boring. God is not in the clouds. God is the present moment. I have finite time. I could spend the next 3 years to build a church or I could spend the next 3 years meditating. The church was an illusion because it did not raise my consciousness. The church was an obstacle to me raising my consciousness. I could’ve spent 3 years meditating. What does God want? Does God want anything? Real spirituality: What are all the things I am doing in my life that are obstructing my consciousness? Addiction Sex Shopping Materialism Preoccupied at work Chasing money How is what I am doing increasing my consciousness? How can I raise my consciousness? List activities that raise my consciousness. Try out an activity for a week and see if it raises my consciousness. See which activity raises my consciousness. Don’t trust any teachers or google. It is important to have a deep desire for truth. What distinguishes real vs fake spirituality? Why do spirituality at all? What is the core of spirituality? What is real spirituality? What are distractions from spiritual work? Why are there so many distractions from spiritual work? Why is spirituality corrupted? Before all human ideas, there was reality, which means the human ideas are not truth. Spirituality is about not-knowing. Be able to contemplate and let go of all ideas to the point where I don’t know I’m human. Let go of belief of round earth. Sit in not-knowing. Almost nobody teaches real spirituality. Real spirituality is about annihilation of the self. Nobody wants to do the work of self-transcendence. But everyone wants to have the self-image of being good and selfless. People want the fruits but not labor of spiritual work. Nobody will deceive me as much as I deceive myself. Is my spiritual process making me more conscious? Is it helping me deconstruct illusion and making me more selfless? Spirituality is not: survival ego scheming defending constructs tradition authority worship money romance social media marketing/business Fame Break free from social media influencer vortex. It is another dream. That is a distraction from real work. Serious work is sitting alone in a closet for a week. It is important to generate my own love. Real spirituality is being stuck on a deserted island being full of love. Truth and feelings are different. Am I prioritizing truth or my feelings? Spirituality is not about alleviating suffering. It is not a coping mechanism. Fake spirituality prays for survival. Real spirituality prays to let me stop caring about survival. Pray to confront and face truth/reality. The real work is sitting alone in a room dying of boredom. Get so bored that my ego dies of boredom. It is like voluntary solitary confinement on myself. Real spirituality is inquiry. Fake spirituality is everything that distracts from inquiry. Mother of all traps is conflating collective survival with spirituality. How to do real spirituality: complete not-knowing. epistemology and inquiry deep desire for truth direct experience question everything identify and deconstruct my worldview contemplate reality and what am i study how my mind works identify principles of proper truthful living and align my life with that work is done solo deconstruct everything surrender all mental attachments to all my beliefs Mindfulness - apply consciousness to everything I can 24/7 mindfulness face boredom, face the mundane. Die of boredom. See the magic and beauty of God in the Present Moment. Hardcore meditation retreats Cut out all addictions and distractions Create time and space for sitting and doing nothing Let go of ambition to be famous Take responsibility for being a sovereign mind Do I feel spiritual when I am by myself, when I am sitting alone. If I am spiritual on the cushion, then I can be spiritual in life. Why do we call it spiritual work? Because I am going against survival habits. If the work is easy, it wouldn’t be as valuable. Everyone would realize God and have good mental health. Have a high standard for pure spirituality. Do the work to have insights. Don’t turn my spiritual process into an illusion. Fall in love with reality. We want pure reality. The purest connection to reality as possible. It is fun to deconstruct reality. I can appreciate the intelligence of the illusion. There is a genius behind the dream. Fall in love with the illusion. Not the same thing as being lost in maya. Reality is an infinite hallucination. There is a payoff for the spiritual work. I am not doing it for a negative purpose. I am doing it for a positive purpose. Live in infinite beauty and intelligence of God. A mind that hallucinates a universe out of nothing. Realize beauty of infinity.

Seems like your method is a combination of theory and meditation. What you’re missing is psychedelics. I was skeptical of psychedelics until I tried them myself. It is whole other awakening. Far more radical than meditation alone. But awakening through meditation is still essential.

Got it. If you wanted to, you could ask Leo or a mod to take it down. Don’t worry about misleading others. The key insight was misleading yourself. Nobody can mislead others. People mislead themselves by putting too much of their trust in others. Cults of course mislead people, but you had to first mislead yourself to join a cult and not question it in the first place.

Practical takeaways from video: 1. Create a daily meditation and contemplation habit. 2. Go on retreats where the goal is to fall in love with reality as it is. 3. Die from boredom. 4. Reframe spiritual work as meaningful pursuit. 5. Distinguish real vs fake spirituality. The ultimate test is if I am able to be satisfied alone and if I can let go of all attachments.

Isn’t that what you did when you claimed to “awaken” to Absolute Solipsism?

This is an example of fake spirituality. The mind is very sneaky constructing its illusions. Psychedelics alone won't deconstruct illusions if the intention behind the trip is to maintain the illusion.

No we aren’t. Ignorance/Delusion is the default. Enlightenment is insight into reality not hereditary.

Jesus is a social construct. Notice that no social construct can be truth.

I have always been a critic of using AI for any intellectual or spiritual work. I presented arguments in the past, but many of you seem convinced AI is equivalent to using Google. Not so fast. AI can easily be used to enhance your self-deception in a way Google can’t. Don’t call you using AI spiritual or intellectual work. It’s a sham. You will never achieve sovereignty of mind by using AI to facilitate your contemplations into reality. It defeats the whole purpose. ChatGPT is gonna make the whole nation even more dumber and less likely to think independently. I see kids now who are cheating on their homework using AI. You guys have your head up your ass if you are ignoring these dangers. Here is an article on how a person become even more deluded using ChatGPT: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-chatbot-psychology-manic-episodes-57452d14 I make this post to remind you to be wary of outsourcing your mind to AI/ChatGPT. If used correctly, ChatGPT can be a great tool. But let’s be honest, ChatGPT is not going to be good for society due to its current level of development. Just because you can use AI smartly doesn’t mean society will. Society is abusing the crap out of AI and this problem won’t be solved by improving AI. There really is no solution at this point. Society is already heading towards deeper levels of self- deception. At some point, OpenAI will sell its soul to corporations and ChatGPT will be used for marketing. The best solution is to limit your use of ChatGPT and its constraints on your mind. Thinking for yourself or using Google might take longer, but it will help you facilitate independence of mind rather than being fed information that AI feeds you. The only solution is for us to be aware of this problem and actively fight to promote smarter AI use.

@Leo Gura If you see 5 problems with your videos the week after you release it, then wouldn’t it be wise to not speak absolutely? For instance, I remember a video you made about politics and you talked about how drug decriminalization and universal income would push people towards actualization. The way you presented those topics were as if people were fools if they thought otherwise. But it turns out that you were wrong about drug decriminalization and universal income being effective means for self-actualization. Look at Portland. Look at the rise of self-deception in politics this past decade. People can have their basic needs met but doesn’t mean they will care enough to pursue truth and avoid self-deception. People can be lost in state blue no matter what needs you give them. This is just feedback. You still do great work. Thanks.

Thanks mate. I loved your insights and videos on meditation. You are great inspiration! What meditation techniques are you most using now? What’s your go-to method for ego annihilation these days? Keep up your great work man. I’m so glad you’re back.

Thanks. I will look into it. I first am gonna do a weekend at-home retreat before considering that.