Soul_Guy

@Leo Gura In your Game Awakening post you say "An insight that even the best pickup coaches do not teach because they do not comprehend its significance." But I would say this is EXACTLY what Owen Cook teaches. Sure, he probably overcomplicates it sometimes, but all the stuff he talks about is trying to get you out of the logical mind and into a state of play.

This was my issue with your "reality is not a simulation" video. My understanding of what you're saying is that the essence of absolute reality is not a simulation - which I agree with. But when people are saying that this reality is a simulation, they're not necessarily talking about absolute reality. If we are talking on a relative level, isn't it possible that we are in a simulation?

Imagine going for a walk and suddenly Leo Gura flies past you on a scooter with a sombrero.

@Leo Gura In response to your post about Exorcist Fantasies, I’ve been reflecting on how many so-called “Christian fantasies” might actually be real energetic or emotional experiences - just filtered through a particular lens. What someone interprets as a “demonic exorcism” could just as easily be seen as the release of stuck emotions or trauma. I’ve gone through intense emotional purges myself that felt like exorcisms - so I get why someone might describe it that way. But here’s the thing: calling it “trauma release” is also just another interpretive frame. Who’s to say one lens is more valid than the other? Perhaps they’re all just metaphors - different ways of pointing to the same ineffable human experiences. And some people will resonate more with "demonic exorcism" - some will resonate more with "trauma release".

Could you describe more about what is below the Tepid Place?

Put your higher self at #1.

How does it work? From what I understand the substance is diluted so much that no molecules of the original substance remain. So that makes me skeptical about its efficacy.

What about finding the beauty in dark and "negative" things? A pure mind would focus not only on positive and beautiful things, but also would be able to see the beauty in "negative" and "ugly" things. The pure mind is one that embraces both the light and dark - and sees it all as God, whereas the corrupted mind is one which is stuck within the illusion of separation - and thus controlled by the "darkness".

Damn, that's pretty lit.

@Leo Gura If the world's most successful people are lost in delusion, why is this necessarily "bad"? If they are living very successful, happy lives but are cut off from "truth" because of their endless success - why is this necessarily inferior to living a life of truth? Why would someone in this situation want to break out of the delusions and seek truth - what would be in it for them?

Yeah that part was stupid, but everybody has blind spots. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. Did you watch the whole video? To be honest I didn't really understand a lot of the technical stuff he was talking about, maybe some of it is right and some of it is wrong - but what I DID notice was the underlying philosophy behind everything he was saying. The whole model he was describing seems to be rooted in a philosophy that is much more in tune with the way that reality works according to spiritual teachings - balance, oneness, etc. For instance, the periodic wave of elements he describes basically says that all of the elements are actually the same one substance but it is being perceived in different ways. Here's my understanding of the whole 1x1=2 thing. Obviously, yes 1x1=1 in our current mathematical system. But he is arguing that this entire system is based in bad fundamentals that don't align with the natural balance of the universe. So what he's saying is that we should create a new system with different fundamentals - and this will allow us to do things that were not possible under the old paradigm.

Yes, I think that is how the universe that we are currently experiencing operates. We are drawn towards the light - we are playing the game of finding our way back to the light. But here's an interesting perspective I've been pondering recently. Imagine that there is another universe that operates in the exact opposite way to what you described. A universe in which the goal of the "game" is to move towards the darkness.

Maybe everyone can do it, but it just comes more naturally to some people. Like, if you spent a lot of time training yourself to do it, maybe you'd eventually be able to do it.

While I realize that Owen sometimes exaggerates things, I think he does this to reach people that are stuck in a deep hole of apathy, to help them jolt out of that state and take action. Also, he doesn't claim that looks don't matter. I've definitely heard him say that looks matter, just not to the extent that people think they do. I've also heard him talk about how his looks do hurt him but he makes up for it with good "game" - because he can't win if he's playing in the same "lane" as the conventionally attractive guys, he creates his own lane and wins in that - that is the core of his "game". Isn't this very similar to what you are saying?

But how do you know this though? Unless you know him personally, it seems like you're just guessing.