WonderSeeker

I'm 27. 3-5 years ago I was a college hippy. I binge-watched Leo's deepest teachings to achieve awakenings: sober on LSD I read Ken Wilber, Peter Ralston. Went deep on all of it. Then college (vacation) ended. I realized I had to stop being spiritual and figure survival out. Today I'm still figuring it out. I can't re-watch any of Leo's metaphysical videos because they don't help me survive lol. (Ironic because I used to not care about survival as much). Anyways, I did some digging and found this old gem. Almost 12 years since: Most of the forum probably has never seen this video before. Nor will they watch it. It doesn't breach the profound threshold. But for me it's exactly what I needed to hear. In this video Leo shares the core concept of life purpose. He goes into his journey: college game designer internet marketing biz life coaching biz What's cool is I feel like I'm a vibrational match to who he is in this video. I'm ~6 months into my first business. But I'm dead-aware it's just a step in my journey. It's one of those outer layers I'm peeling back in my life purpose (credit David Deida on the analogy). I deeply resonate with this journey, starting off by knowing what you want... Then shifting gears to express other values that weren't getting the love they deserved... To building skillsets (such as sales/marketing/speaking) to be able to: express certain parts of yourself... generate long-term, sustainable income... So Leo, thank you for keeping these old videos of you up. I think current-me and 12-16 years-ago you are parallel lives. Crazy how there seems to be a sequencing to all growth in people. And ironically, it's comforting to know that all this pain I feel as I grow... Even when I feel like I'm back-peddling)... Is actually leading to awesomeness. ***** Thank you brother. @Leo Gura

Really starting to appreciate the challenges of survival. By this, I mean achieving the following: - Financial freedom - Healthy relationships - Mental health - Physical health I'm 27. 3 years ago I was having my first awakening experiences with stellar health, good friends, and broke (but not bankrupt) financials. But that was while I was still in college (which I leanred is a massive safety net). I delayed "real life" by going to grad school (because I rightfully feared how hard it would be to shift into the corporate world or try and make my own way, being a sensitive spiritual type). After finishing grad school I temporarily moved back in with my parents. Slipped into a depression after 1 week and hit rock bottom after 1 month. But after making just enough money, I moved across the USA. Worked a corp job that I hated. Quit. Drove Uber full time while trying Instagram sales, modeling, door to door sales, TEFL. (Everything flopped). I eventually had to get another corporate job and I restarted my intention to bootstrap a business and become financially free. Needless to say it's been exhausting AF. Been at it for 6 months. Never felt like quitting per se, but it's been a massive challenge because of the fact my sleeping/eating habits have been unnatural and low-quality. Plus I told myself I'd deliberately go celibate until I start earning enough money. Haven't been on a date since September... Yeah, it's been a b*tch honestly. But I guess the whole reason I'm saying this is to hopefully inspire those of you who want to make it to not lose hope and go after your dreams (even if it hurts). Because complacency hurts more. But also I wanted to ask people specifically who have become financially free and been able to work on other areas of your lives, how much failure did it take? And for how long? Are you more relaxed? Satisfied? Autonomous? Is it actually what you wanted? Do you feel that you can actually support a stable spiritual practice now that you are "free"? I ask because I guess I need to know the pain and suffering is worth it and not permanent (in this sense anyway). I feel like I've lost a fragment of my soul in the past couple years. Another struggle I've come up against is I've realized how challenging it is to not accidentally (or even purposefully) spead evil and unconsciousness through business. I've tried so hard to avoid it but I'm starting to accept you cannot, as a noob, start business at net-zero evil. It's just impossible. You're gonna have to do some evil sh*t to make it. Then reduce the damage as you go until you become a flowering of hope. This is my rant. —J

@Leo Gura Just saw your blog post (photo attached). How did you create a business when you were a noob? I'm trying to loosen my ethics so its easier to start (without being corrupt), but it's hard because I pursued spirituality first. Basically I don't wanna hurt anyone thru biz but I need to get my foot in the door first. It's a paradox I'm working through I guess.

Happy birthday Leo.

@integral School was for studying my passion which was geology. It brought me around the world. It opened my soul up basically. And yes, school in general helped me come out of my shell, because before I was just a sad, traumatized dude always fighting an uphill battle. While yes I went into debt because of school, it gave me the space to open up to stage green in ways most at college fail to develop deeply. I went to college 6 years and at the 4 year mark is when I found actualized. I meditated, read dozens of books. School paid for a 6-week trip to Mongolia. My life got really good for a couple years. (Still hard, but better). But now all i see is dog-eat-dog if I have any chance of breaking free and getting rid of 70k in debt. It's a monumental task but I like to think there's pieces of the puzzle i havent seen yet that will aid in the journey and make all the hard work so far worth it. School opened me up, made me worldly. Gave me opportunity. Reason I can't use it fully is my dream was to become a geology professor ( I fucking love teaching it and taking people on adventures in the mountains). But when I got a front row seat to what academia was all about (all the falsehood and BS) it made me realize I can't do that. I immediately saw all of society as sick. I was both laughing and crying because I listened to Leo's deconstructing science video while doing microscope work lol. After coming to terms with my new view of things, i had to make a decision. "I have to build my own system if I wanna be free," became the way of thinking. Still is. I worked on social skills. Dating. Sales. Now marketing. Business. Just trying to make it. Then build something more authentic once the money machine is in place. That's all. Thanks for replying, G

@integral Appreciate the points brother. Yeah I am idealistic in a way. Been letting go of it for years. I'm building a ghostwriting business. Using Twitter and eventually LinkedIn as funnels. Already made a few hundred. Yeah I'm alright with all of this. I get it. But to say I wasted my time in school is wrong lol. You don't know my life buddy. Anyway thanks for sharing. Taking it in stride

@WikiRando Cool insights. I think caring about not causing suffering with your work makes making money harder. Like I inherently care about not causing suffering. But I also acknowledge that my corporate job causes it too. I try to tell myself my business will cause less suffering and the amount i cause will reduce as I become more secure in my own life. For me financial freedom makes putting all the pieces (girlfriend, spirituality, health) of the puzzle in place easy AF. I tried all of these being broke and it's unsustainable. Owen Cook says it's easier to date as a brokie which is true if you don't mind living a low life. In a sense hes right because it means you dont place your worth on money. Otherwise it's one of the dumbest things he teaches. If you wanna live the most well rounded life you need money (plenty of it). I personally don't need a harem of women, just a solid girlfriend (and eventually wife). Bringing it back, why do you think some people struggle more than others to get there? I didn't grow up in the best family, but also not a particularly bad one either. My parents are good people and in spite of having some fuck ups they gave themselves up for me. Idk, I guess it really doesn't matter. Just keep going and 5 years from now everything I just typed can be re-hashed as a comedy skit lol

Okay. I grew up without a good foundation in $$$ and am seeking a better understanding. Anyone have solid resources for learning about: Banking and how banks work Personal finance Macro-economics Micro-economics Stock exchange Crypto Looking for the most practical resources (for dummies). Not videos about money corruption, bank corruption this and that. Just looking to develop a foundation so I can stop wasting money and learn where to put it and how to spend it. Ideally I want to go global (possibly even pull all of my money out of the U.S. with everything that's going on). As I'm bootstrapping my current small business, I'm looking to go global with my life. This channel has inspired my thinking lately: Thanks y'all!

@WikiRando Awesome man I'm going to 100% be watching these videos. May even snag the books tbh. @LastThursday Cool analogy. Reminds me of the systems thinking book on Leo's book list

@Leo Gura, your blog post about bullshit books is on point. As a social media ghoswriter, I have to say it's sad to see this dynamic play out. A few years ago I was in the middle of writing a book while getting my masters of science. I stopped because I felt it was nowhere near the level it need to be for publishing. I attended a local writing seminar to get help on it. The authors at the workshop kept saying to even be considered for publishing you need thousands of social media followers. And none of your manuscript can be referenced in your posts. Based on that I see why so many are barred from writing good books. That and why celebs with millions can chuck 10k at a ghostwriter only to prompt-engineer AI to whip something up for them. All the more traps to be aware of as a consumer, writer, and philosopher in this twisted world we live in lol

Rogan has so much reach and halo effect. I can 99% bet he didn't even watch the video. Probably just had some dumbass ghostwriter clip and slap an obvious hook on it Rogan and his audience are too shallow at this point to actually care about this stuff. (Which is evidenced by the comments as well)

If you're American, your liberal dad probably grew up listening to these guys: Had no idea this band was Green. (Actually a pretty healthy, well-rounded version of it too). Here's how I can tell: • Anti-war messaging (eg, Orange Crush [Vietnam] and I wanted to be wrong [Iraq]) • Creating songs intuitively • Channeling their feelings • Playing from the heart • Hippy AF set This interview holds a lot of beauty. Shows their maturity and the lessons of lasting friendship: Notice how in the interview, each one of them is trying to distribute credit or credence to the rest. Very non-hierarchical. Personally learned a shit-load by listening to and studying these guys.

Most of you have not heard about this model. Disciples of Clair Graves's work did a helluva job popularizing it into Spiral Dynamics. But not so much with Kazimierz Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration (TPD). Yet, this model deserves to be as well-known IMO. This is for you if you are: gifted an HSP extrasensory alienated by society in general The theory places emotional intelligence (EQ) over cognitive (IQ) in terms of real transformation to get to levels of consciousness of mystics and sages. The theory says if you're going though deep emotional struggle as you try to make sense of self and society, it's a massive sign you're actually growing. As you develop you define your values more and more sharply and begin living them more closely. This is what forms a human personality, as opposed to fitting-in. I could go on and on. Here's a couple resources if you're curious. Also can't recommend the book by Sal Mendaglio enough. I'm making a big study out of this work and plan to teach it online in combination with trauma release. @Leo Gura you should check this out. Pairs well with SD and EDT.

Bro skipped church! 😂 Definately a pro move. You must be from Utah. People I've met there are either Morman, morman outcast refugees, or New Age ESPs like Teal Swan.

Structuralism = God Logic = Jesus

Troll level 9000 achieved

What's up, y'all. First trip report in years. No, the title is not clickbait, I actually became Trump on today's trip (read on). A little context... From 2019-2023, ALL my LSD/mushroom trips ran exactly the same. Light-hearted "museum" dose trips where I explored my senses and let my consciousness roam around my environment. But 2024-now? Trips literally teleport me between "this" reality and somewhere else. In today's 3.5g mushroom trip, I had the usual come-up symptoms: - tingly feeling along spine - visual enhancements - clear insights I lied down on my hotel room floor, windows shades open, so the sun could shine on my body. The warmth felt amazing. When it felt natural I got up and sat in my bed (like I was on a roller coaster waiting to depart the station). I got really cold so I put on several layers. What happened next I could not have predicted. I felt like I hitched a ride on a rocket ship leaving the planet - no control. I surrendered my entire being. I became the earth. Climate change took over. As the earth, I watched forests get wiped-out by 10,000 mph winds. Earthquakes shaking all civilization down. Then, even more shocking... I BECAME Donald Trump. I merged with his consciousness and experienced billionaire wealth and supreme commander power. It felt great and shockingly I felt no resistance (I'm not a Trump fan by the way). From here I got up and looked out of my 6th floor hotel window. I observed the busy Taco Bell with pure awareness. I felt the struggle of the drive thru patrons as they confusingly navigated the poor set-up. All seen from an eagle-view. What happened next is where it got CRAZY. I slid into my FIRST EVER rodeo with infinite love. I get swept up in a fuckin oceanic hurricane of deep, pure love. I started flipping around my hotel room. I tore my bed apart and summer-salted off of it 2 or 3 times (somehow didn't sustain any injuries). Just when I thought it was over, it was not. The love kept getting more and more infinite. It was so good I couldn't fucking believe it... pure ecstasy. I could literally hear the frequency in my ears getting higher and higher as I soared beyond reality. I thought of Ken Wilber, Peter Ralston, Leo. I realized I'm creating them and I became conscious of how I was doing it. The whole time I felt like I was orgasming HARD from my root through my ribs. Tears slowly and gently leaked out of my eyes and into nothingness. I knew trips could take you places, but this was a totally different level. Who else has had such experiences???

what kind of AI response was that hahaha Woah that's wild. But that's a perfect example of being Positively Integrated. Life is simpler and functional. Nothing wrong with it per se. Where would you place yourself now having removed yourself from the Morman way? There's five. I. Positive Integration II. Unilevel Disintegration III. Spontaneous Multilevel Disintegration (no going back) IV. Coordinated Multilevel Disintegration V. Positive Reintegration Level five pairs well with the tenth Ox-hearding picture. Master returns to the marketplace. 1,000% with the scarcity thing. It feels so wrong when you know they're psychologically weak and you "sell" them. I regret a couple sales where I pressured them.

I have the best speeches. The finest. You know it. They know it. The ratings. Oh! And, do the weave.

Trip went from 10am to 6pm

I don't but plan to in 10 years (I'm 26).

Ah, sheit. I used to think the same way. And guess what? I didn't succeed. Why do you assume truth is not practical? Don't you need to practice something to access truth?

Simple: being open-minded is a meta-opinion you have. You prefer it over being closed-minded. Open-mindedness even allows you to be closed-minded in cases where you don't have all available data (which is 99.99% of the time). Follow your gut and course-correct to save time.

^Is this the main reason you want to go the USB route? You're giving up interlinking, embedding, ease of access, time, etc. Seems like a hassle. PDFs in a folder is so 2010

@Leo Gura You sonofabitch, I had work to do!