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Theft Examples from Leo's Blog. Is AI Theft? https://actualized.org/insights/is-ai-theft Modern Meat is Theft https://www.actualized.org/insights/modern-meat-is-theft ReCaptcha Is Theft https://www.actualized.org/insights/recaptcha-is-theft Shrinkflation Theft https://actualized.org/insights/shrinkflation-theft The Hollywood Theft Machine https://www.actualized.org/insights/the-hollywood-theft-machine Repair Theft https://www.actualized.org/insights/repair-theft Social Influencer Theft https://actualized.org/insights/social-influencer-theft

Simple but clever Theft example: Teaching crows to steal money for you.

Thankyou. Looking forward to it.

Leo I'm connecting your video Epistemic Responsibility with Motivational Speech Oct 2021. And I'm starting to realize how much I've been sleeping on: What is Attitude? I'm really looking into the importance of attitude. And I have curiosity about whether or not you have a plan to have a lecture specifically on attitude. Which I think will dovetail nicely with another lecture on taking massive action.

This just sounds like any normal blogging

Learning = Making Distinctions Understanding Duality Pt 1,2,3 Understating Creation vs destruction Division Vs Unity - The engine that runs reality What are Holons? Dovetail really well with that episode. I swear my mind is like a hyper-connected encyclopedia of actualized.org at this point.

A teacher will never really know, how far his teachings go. Thank you @Leo Gura, for all that you do. Happy Birthday!

I'm glad there's another that understands this lol

I'm really looking forward to the retreat Leo. In This Moment I'm curious about what specifically can I do lay the perfect Foundation between now and October for best results.

Exposing the New Manufactured Viral Content Economy Feel free to post similar content on the topic of manufactured fame.

Metaphysics & Epistemology Book 7, Book 8, Book 10, Book 11 Systems thinking Book 2 Consciousness, Enlightenment & Spirituality Book 1 Philosophy Book 1 Science & Life Book 12

I appreciate the kudos.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/billionaire-bias So many thoughts from this post. One thought is: Literally some of the most grounded, practical advice can come from the guy that is just one step ahead of you... I gotta ask some business owners that have just got their first successes with marketing, or just people that are hustling in the game every day, but not yet operating at an echelon that is no longer relatable for me. @Leo Gurais there a book on your book list that dives deeper into THIS self deception problem? Where your personal territory is so different than other people's, that the maps you create from it barely helps other people? (This also illustrates for example as to why women and men are so disconnected on a paradigm level. Women will never know the struggle men go through in a acquiring opportunities. Resuscitation if they're pretty. Like women being so disconnected from men, that they can't give good pickup advice. Asking the fish, not the fisherman...) (also the example of short men under 5ft4in experiencing a whole different ball game in attracting women. And these are slivers of perspective.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/two-sleeps On your comments about sensemaking being made relative to your worldview bias and not the other person's. (I would like to believe I've internalized this attitude of trying to see the other person's perspective, no matter how painful that is, to the point where this is a meta sensemaking perspective that I hold to help me understand people's perspectives more.) Reading your post, I realize that I often forget that people not only don't look for understanding outside their current worldview, but instinctively reinforce their bias and their perspective because that's what feels good. And of course this is an unconscious process upon which they aren't aware of the structure of their minds in this way; just listening to their emotions, reinforcing their ego identities. It's to the point where I stop trying to explain myself to be understood. I stop fighting entirely, and exit the game of trying to be understood at all. I recently pulled back from my longest standing friendship for this exact reason. (15+ years). I was simply flummoxed by the absence of construct awareness, emotional awareness, and the absence of the paradigm of putting the relationship first over "being right". I'm no longer understood, and I can see all the ways that he interpreted situations through his own biases exclusively. The self deception is so deep, I don't want to go through the time and effort to get him to open his mind to how he's wrong. That's like trying to tell someone the truth to someone who doesn't value truth first and foremost. That's insanity. Why waste the effort of helping them to reinterpret each event where I was hurt, where their needs were put first over the relationship? I give up. Looking after my own sensemaking is already enough of a burden to carry, let alone looking after another's sensemaking. Why waste that energy towards someone who isn't curious about understanding their selfishness? Rupture, rupture, rupture, rupture, no repair. So, I'll stay silent. Silence out of self defence, not weakness. Silence, because there is no emotional safety. When people have already made up their minds, argument often becomes useless, explaining yourself becomes useless, you're labelled a devil, and that's that. Another note on that post is: I have noticed I will try to explain and clarify ideas and insights by talking to AI. AI LLMs, of course, don't think, and are just a model of predicting words based on a data set and some rules. Incapable of original thought, the LLM will try to match what I am trying to convey through the pattern of my words, never grasping the core of my insight itself. This problem of translation between 2 humans on its own is deeply problematic issues of translation. This is the essence of understanding communication. This problem of paradigm translation can be more dangerous with AI. I'll find myself trying to describe an insight from my paradigm to a blind box that has no paradigm, just a ruleset and loads of data. Sometimes I find myself explaining to ChatGPT again and again and again as it offers more and more perspectives and challenges to what I have to say. As I reflect, I recognize I've been talked of of patterns of thought in ways one wouldn't anticipate, like being talked out of a unique insight that is completely your own. I am noticing more and more that I have to just take my authority on what I'm saying and what I know to mean by what I'm saying based in my perspective in my paradigm. Literally taking my authority back from the AI LLM. This exercise walks a razor thin Edge on self-deception, as you ultamately cannot rely on other to verify your insights. Sometimes I'll make the mistake of conforming to what CHATGPT says. Sometimes I'll ask ChatGPT to clarify an insight, but I'll lose some of the essence of the insight in that clarification because I offloaded the contemplation to a machine. And even writing insights down into English language distorts that truth a bit on its own. https://www.actualized.org/insights/being-done-with-everyone I relate to parts of this video here. I think as you become more conscious, as you become more meta, more construct aware in your sensemaking, you start to let go of anyone understanding, more and more. You save your breath, because you don't want to work that uphill battle. (makes me reflect on the symbolism of Christ's silence during his prosecutions) Perhaps that's a part of the motivation to be a teacher myself. Instead of explaining things 100 times, I just write it down once. But that's a different context entirely. For most social situations though, just owning the truth of where someone is at appears to be very energy efficient, rather than trying to change them and update their paradigm. Obviously, my mind is still heavily asleep under the Conformity of all of what I've been programed with, I'm probably at like 2% of my potential right now in terms of really stepping outside of my POV, but it beats so many people that often exhibit a 0.00001% capacity to step outside of their perspective. https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-554 This post here motivates me to study cult psychology to understand conformity and group think in the broader scope of culture. Of course! How could I not see that before? Studying cults isn't as of a niche application as I initially estimated.

I'll get insights the most when I'm in deep emotional states. Like sadness, anger, fear, etc. Especially anything related to suffering. And I'll often allow insights to come in without judging the source. I'd like to believe I get more insights triggered than most people I know. I'll often get loads of Insights if I'm actually reading a lot and feeding my mind loads of grist for the mill. Easier said than done.

This one struck a nerve

High for TWO DAYS Alone in INDIA - THC Bhaang Trip Report Bhaang Pronounced like “Bong”. but with a strong H after the ‘B’ and an “ah” sound in it. “BuHHHaaaanggg” Bhaang is pronounced correctly here https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6F6D6rnbS1U https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1Ig5t4wI6vc https://youtu.be/N_ClOxr7OcQ AI description: Bhaang (or Bhang) is a traditional, edible cannabis preparation from India, made from the leaves of the Cannabis sativa plant, known for its mild psychoactive effects and historical use in Ayurvedic medicine and festivals like Holi, often consumed as a paste or drink (like thandai) but generally considered less potent than other cannabis forms. > It’s commonly mixed with Lassi, typically an extremely sweet and sugary yogurt drink. Calling it Bhaang Lassi. Bhaang Trip Report Date: January 11th 2025 Dose: Eyeballed what was roughly 25% of the original ball of Bhaang. People will take an entire ball of this stuff as a normal dose. I would have been MegaFucked if I did that. Thank God Leo’s teachings towards psychedelics encouraged people to start low. I took that seriously. (See picture) Context: When I was solo travelling in India, I came across some Bhaang in Udaipur. I’m very stringent on taking any substances. Especially as suspicious as this. After doing what research I could do on the substance, I saw it was “just weed.” “So it’s weed hey? Sure why not, a small dose of this couldn’t hurt.” I thought. This amount I took was considered a really low dose. For me, it was not a low dose at all. Holy Fuck! Time: Taken at 4:10pm 30 minutes, noticing a Comeup 38 minutes You know, like how the dose ramps up in waves? Felt the next wave here. 41 minutes - wave 46 minutes - wave Thinking cognition is slowing down 57 minutes feeling lots of activation in the brain. 1h 4 min - wave 1h28min - Experiencing a Peak in consciousness. More acutely aware of the headless nature of reality. 2h in, STRONG peak 2h 7 minutes, significantly high as hell. My consciousness is traumatically expanded. Scary forms of oneness. What is will? > So here I was beyond uncomfortably high. This is one of those “oh fuck” moments, because you are in a REALLY STONED state of consciousness, and you know you are going to be here for awhile. I was travelling solo in India, so the support I needed wasn’t there. Luckily, it was a good time to have a video call with my trusty trip sitter mom that was on the other side of Earth. I had her presence on video there to help ground me. I realized there was nothing that she could say or do. Just the presence of her on Video call while she was typing away working some office job was the best she could do. That video call of course only lasted an hour or so. 4 h 3 minutes - Just noticed a release in weight. What is metaphysics? What is reality? What is epistemology? > Here I was trying to use this fucked state of consciousness to SOME sort of use. 4 h 48 minutes - Slight release. > I remember being so high where I was trying to ask chatGPT if what I took was a lethal dose. I could not understand what ChatGPT was saying. I was too high to understand! So there I was just not knowing if I took a lethal dose. 15 hours in - I’M STILL HIGH THE NEXT MORNING 21h in - Still VERY High > So I am in fucking India, right? and I had no idea where anything was, and I had to eat. And I was so high that I could not understand google maps enough to navigate to an ideal Restaurant for some food. Ideal restaurants were very far. So I picked one and made my journey to it. It turned out to be this rather high class restaurant. I received an appetizer that I didn’t like at all, and that I didn’t order, but I was so hungry I ate it anyways. I was genuinely confused, did they mess up my order? Was that what I ordered? Was my main dish still coming? How long is it going to take? How long it took for the food to arrive at my table, I don’t know. All I personally experienced was eternity. > I tried the whole time to keep my cool and “look normal.” This failed miserably, as it was abundantly obvious that I was high. An Indian man sitting at another table with his friends looked at me trying to ask if I was high. He ended up just saying to me “High high” while gesturing his hands down and up in the air. And I’m like “YEAH!” while nodding my head. At that point I found out how obvious my state of consciousness was. > The food does arrive, and I'm on a mission to eat this butter chicken that is too spicy for my tolerance. Food being too spicy was common in India, even if you asked for it to be not spicy. It would still be spicy. > There was no fun on this trip, I was just getting through, waiting it out in eternity. Two days later, I'm finally much more sober. Post trip report: Not a fun trip at all! For 2 DAYS I experienced this brain dead retardation state of consciousness. It was chock-full of recurring infinite thought loops. There was no ability to grasp onto any coherent thought or sensemaking whatsoever. It was a complete derp state of consciousness. Never taking Bhaang again! > I remember calling my friend that was halfway across the world about what was going on, and he was like “Broo you’re gonna be high for 2 days.” I didn’t believe him. > I was high for 2 days. > I laugh now BECAUSE I’M okay, BECAUSE I got out of that situation unscathed. But that was a Bruh moment for sure. That was so dangerous for me. I was so vulnerable being a tourist in a foreign country. Weed is no fucking joke. I was high for over TWO FUCKING DAYS in a foreign country travelling alone! End of Report.

Appreciate it.

@Leo Gura, Do you have any specific teachings on surrender specifically? I'm noticing that surrendering to death and surrendering to fear on a psychedelic is a hurdle for me, (and as I can imaging for many). I can imagine that some of this would be covered in your workshops to realize God, or awakening course? I'm going to review your lectures on understanding Fear, Death, and maybe the one on Letting Go.

@Terell Kirby this man's expression says it all

I always respond to that with "Saved my life"

People (or you) speeding up when you hold the door for them.

Made me smile

I want to put together a bingo for these videos, keeping it civil. Like a psychology /self-deception /Self-bias scavenger hunt When you fill the box, you have to list what was said/ explain why it's that. Lying Denial Playing Victim Changing their mind when the arrest/consequences gets real Blaming others/something other than self Cursing at law enforcement Resisting being cuffed/ getting into cop car Not complying with demands Double standards Minimizing the problem/impact/situation Rationalizing Playing Dumb Trying to manipulate lower enforcement with emotions Catastrophizing Making appeals to identity / Identity-based justification Not sitting still/ not being quiet when asked to do so. The assumption that they'll actually be able to manipulate their way out of trouble/ law enforcement Selfishness/Bias (Free Space) Stubbornness Closed-mindedness Inability to admit when wrong, despite evidence presented Being distrustful of Law Enforcement, to the point where it makes the situation worse What else is can you come up with?