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Would you attribute this to the quality of your mind having ridiculous amount of insights and Awakenings you get on a daily basis because of the contemplative work you've done over the years? I remember you mentioning that you will have like three Awakenings a day or something like that. And that you'll have more insights than you can write down

In the iPEC model of the 7 levels of energy, level 2 energy with anger and conflict is seen as a necessary energy you must pass through.

This is illuminating to look at. And then to have a conversation with AI about this is interesting as well.

Illuminating on the dynamics of power and idle worship.

There seem to be two differences in opinion around 5-MeO-DMT dosing: 1) Gradual Ramp-Up Approach Start low Slowly increase over multiple sessions Learn the territory step-by-step Allow the nervous system to acclimate gradually The philosophy here is: “Build familiarity and reduce the chance of overwhelm.” 2) Direct Breakthrough Approach Start at a dose more likely to produce full ego dissolution The reasoning is that mid-range doses can sometimes create more fear, resistance, panic, or ego struggle because the sense of self is still trying to maintain control A sufficiently strong dose may allow for a more complete surrender experience instead of “fighting the process” The philosophy here is: “A clean breakthrough may actually be easier than resisting halfway.” Which approach did you chose, and why? (ChatGPT-Assisted Post.)

https://www.actualized.org/insights/exorcist-fantasies 10 minute mark. I giggled at the man doing the cross for the figurine. POV: Me in 45 years after doing consciousness work in a sloppy manner.

Legend.

I’m looking for grounded input on dosing with 5-MeO-DMT. I’ve had about seven prior experiences, all in what I’d call “handshake” territory. Each time was intentionally kept low to build familiarity, but in hindsight they were likely too low to move into anything deeper or fully immersive because the ego was left intact. (It was also kept low because I had no real reliable way to control the dose). (When I think back to the experiences that I did have, I remember the love being overwhelming as fuck, where the love is traumatizing. It's clear that YOU will not survive the love of God. It will kill you.) One thing I’m recognizing is that with 5-MeO specifically, you actually want to dose high enough to let yourself experience a full ego dissolution, rather than dosing too low and staying in that purgatory ego-fear/hellmode threshold state. At the same time, I also want to be very clear about the psychological side of that. On a dose like this, I realize you still have to be willing to accept death. You have to be willing to open yourself up to the experience: fully letting go of control and identity; surrendering. It seems like if that willingness isn’t there, the ego dissolution will not take place, and you'll be in for a world of pain. (There’s also one more thing to note around the route of administration. Ideally, for this kind of work, (consciousness work), the route that’s often pointed to is plugging, to allow for a longer time to linger in that space, supposedly. But with that being said, there still seems to be significant benefits even from being in a temporary state of non-duality from a regular dose of 5-MeO-DMT smoked. It needs to be recognized that smoking a breakthrough dose of 5-MeO-DMT (probably) will make a radical impact on you and your life. So I’m trying to understand how to think about this properly: What dose should one take? 10mg? or 15 to 20mg? because that's what my 5MeO buddies say is "Reliable breakthrough territory." (17mg) In Leo's lecture, 10mg is a starter dose. What if I jumped straight to 17mg? Notes from his lecture: How do people navigate increasing the dose without overcorrecting into unnecessary risk? (Considering that bumping up the dose in mg is in orders of magnitude relative to the experience.) What are the main risks when moving from repeated low doses into a significantly higher range? How do you realistically assess readiness, both psychologically and in terms of environment and support? I’m not approaching this casually. Set, setting, and having a sober sitter are already part of the plan. I’m mainly trying to sanity-check the reasoning around dose selection, route, and mindset going into it. I appreciate thoughtful input from people who’ve worked through a similar progression. (ChatGPT-assisted post) .

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