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So, basically, me having 95% of my savings in Canadian ETFs is me being a fool right now? (I'm in Canada. But I assume markets are too closely tied to USA)

The only thing I want Leo to reformat is his blog. The page numbering in constant change is annoying. Can't ever save my place easily.

@Leo Gura Appreciate the nudge.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/florida-girl-eaten-by-crocodile Honestly there's a couple things that come up from this. I thought this was a little bit profound I just want to highlight it. First of all I'm totally want to use this distinction in my mind in dating where I don't see a difference between tall people and short people, because I'm 5'3. Also Leo, I want to hear all your black pills about dating and survival. I think a black pill about being short is that women can feel genuinely disgusted by men shorter than the majority. Which is actually liberating for me to think about it in that way. To just start accepting BIAS for the way it is and to stop fighting it or being resentful towards it. This also takes into account the fact that you can level up your charisma with humor and charm many people too. More seriously though, I've been collapsing this distinction between what I would call dopamine fishing and drug addiction. Media addiction and drug addiction are just as harmful. They're both taking your attention off of your direct experience of the sensations in your body and whatever's going on in your mind. Seeing someone at a bus stop Glued to their phone Is like identical to seeing A homeless man on the street Firing up a crack pipe.

Are you me?

I experienced it first hand. Except the fame was just approval from an online "friend group." If I fell into a situation where millions of people were following me to be a LOLCOW for them and it was giving me loads and loads of money, I would be so unbelievably trapped.

This has been my experience.

@Zenterus Wisdom from my experiences: Let them go, let them die. Protect yourself. You CAN'T help them. This is the brutality of survival. There’s a story of a friend of mine who was on this extremely tough military training. All the men were carrying hundreds of pounds, like a minimum of 100 pounds per person, and they were marching for miles. Everyone was just dead. Dead tired. The amount of stress was unbelievable, and it was pushing people to their absolute limits. Some of the weaker guys were falling behind, to the point where they were going to get lost. And my friend was like, “Well, we have to go help them.” And the leader of the military pack was like, “No. Fuck them.” At first, my friend didn’t understand why he would say that. Like, why would you just say, “Fuck them, forget about them, leave them behind,” when people are falling back? Aren’t you the leader? Shouldn’t you be looking after the whole team? But later on, he understood. The reason is that in war, you have to accept that not everyone is going to make it. Some people will fall. Some people will die. Only the strongest, most prepared, and most resilient will prevail. In war, you cannot look after everyone. You cannot save everyone. There are moments where trying to save someone else means you compromise the entire mission, or you get pulled down with them. And this same wisdom applies to the war of daily life. You can look around your own city and see homeless people on the street. People who had certain circumstances, mental health issues, bad luck, trauma, whatever it may be. And some people are resilient, and some people are not. Some people survive, and some people don’t. And the hard truth is that you cannot look after all of them. You have to look after yourself first. You have to accept that some people may fall apart. Some people may not make it. And as harsh as that sounds, you cannot save someone else from drowning if you are also drowning. They will pull you down with them, and then both of you drown together. So the lesson is not to be cruel. The lesson is to understand survival. You help when you can. You have compassion when you can. But you cannot sacrifice your own life, your own stability, your own sanity, or your own mission trying to save someone who may not even be able or willing to save themselves.

Wanted to share, this is the best I could do with Chatgpt image generation.

Thankyou.

Women want the stronger one. In all meanings of the word.

Thankyou.

Beauty

Thankyou.

Thanks for the post

Had to share this here. Imagine live streaming your death of drowning in a subway. Horrific! I love finding examples of Falsehood, Devilry, and corruption that shake me to my core.

I consider myself insanely lucky with the amount of helicopter rides I was on (wildland firefighting), and that one time where I was in a helicopter with an aftermarket part in the rotor blades. That helicopter shook a lot during that ride. Didn't think too much about it other than "man this shit has gotta be off." That same day, another pilot of the same manufacturer brand of helicopters went down. The word I got was that the rotor blades straight up flew off of the helicopter, and he went down, falling out of the sky and killing the pilot. It was literally a situation of us or them for whoever was going to die first. I also almost got hit on the ground by the tail rotor. 1 meter in the wrong direction and I would have been shredded. The pilot was a fool with his landing strategy that day.

Update on the Kriya Yoga practice motivation department: I have been asking myself: What are the most meaningful things for me to be doing? It currently appears to be: Raising my Consciousness Developing Mastery I reflect on things I remember Leo saying: And I combine it with a community challenge to practice Kriya 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening for the next 8 weeks. Plus, there's the good chance of going to Leo's retreat, and I want to put myself in a good condition for that. When I asked Leo what's the best thing I can do for preparation, he said Kriya Yoga. Roger that. I also remember reading Leo talking about him doing several sits of Kriya per day. Primarily with Maha Mudra and spinal breathing of some sort. As this had a Pareto principle level of gains just from those 2 practices. Something like that. So I'll likely eventually follow suit.

This guys channel details a lot of interesting facts about animals and their relationships with eachother. https://m.youtube.com/@OddDanny/shorts

I can probably get AI to scrape it, but not make it pretty

Font 6 please

I would prefer this because I like to copy it all to like a big PDF. I wish there was a way to like load like 100 posts at once. Or even a big pdf to download of the Blog. That's exactly what I'm trying to create.

Dear @Leo Gura, What is the most effective way to create a beautiful mind? This is the most inspiring thing for me. Nothing else comes close. For me, it appears to be as follows: (In order of immediate effectiveness.) Number 1: Awakening. Reaching states of God consciousness and states of non-dual awareness, states of consciousness of absolute truth. This ideally looks like creating as many 5-MeO-DMT breakthroughs as I can consciously and healthily stomach. Including that, is by facing my fear of death directly, through lower doses of psychedelics and through direct self-inquiry, till I reach death similar to Leo’s "2C-B Trip Report - Experiencing Physical Death" https://youtu.be/9_WL0hoRA7s In addition, facing all of your traumas, systematically facing fear, ideally through psychedelics. Getting into the right state. https://www.actualized.org/insights/wrong-state Related: https://www.actualized.org/insights/brain-fuel Number 2: Developing your Sensemaking, Studying epistemology, and metaphysics. Deconstruction of Reality, rationality, science, etc., Practice of Real Philosophy through Direct contemplation of Reality from first principles. Studying Leo’s content. Reading books from Leo’s booklist (and any other great metaphysics/epistemology/consciousness book). Studying The 9 Stages of Ego Development. Creating loads and loads of requisite variety in your studies: Hundreds of sources, hundreds of experiences, hundreds of case studies, contemplating hundreds of things, etc. Making explaining of reality and contemplation of reality into a strong almost automatic habit. Really living the life of a sage. Number 3: Actively Becoming aware of your Bias/Selfishness/Devilry/Corruption/Double Standards/Where you are wrong/ Self-deception by having a routine contemplation practice into this. Understanding the force of survival to profound degrees. Number 4: Rewiring your nervous system and Altering your Brain Chemistry: Rewiring your nervous system with Kriya Yoga Practice, Heavy Metal Detox, Eating Clean, doing proper exercise, mastering your sleep schedule, drinking properly filtered water, ridding any additions to stimulation that is frying your brain, whether that be media addiction with your phone or substance use. Cultivating a brain that can actually focus and isn’t distracted into oblivion. Number 5: Systematically designing your life and survival situation to be aligned with Truth and Love. Ideally aligned with a consciously created life purpose such that acting in a conscious loving way is rewarded, not punished. Mastering your survival such that it is conducive to this work of being a sage, effectively creating a lifestyle of inquiry and learning. Now, obviously, in practice, these are going to be pursued alongside each other, but I simply want to pinpoint down: What the hell is the most effective in creating massive growth? What the hell do I focus on to really create a beautiful mind? What are the biggest levers of this work? (For definition's sake, I’ll quickly define “the work” as: Creating a beautiful mind aligned with the intelligence of God. Or: The raising of your consciousness, raising your sensemaking ability, jailbreaking your mind, unlocking access to “alien intelligence.”) What are the biggest levers in aligning my mind with that of God? To be direct, I would appreciate Leo’s perspective on what he sees as the most impactful areas for my growth in consciousness development. If needed, I’m open to providing more context so this can be meaningfully addressed here on the forum. I infer that Leo has become more restrained about openly promoting psychedelics, likely because he recognizes the influence he has and the risk that people may misuse them irresponsibly. That said, I still want a clear, direct answer on what the most important things are to focus on. If I want to create a beautiful mind: What are the best things I can do, the highest leverage techniques that will get me there? You could say I’m looking for more clarity on the direction with all of this... Additional Contexts to mention. Because Leo, I’ve been studying your work for a long time: Leo, On Nov 4th 2018, you’ve mentioned “The most powerful techniques you’ve discovered” in the episode “65 Core Principles Of Living The Good Life” as follows: https://youtu.be/BqWPqZK-Ikg?t=7326 Psychedelics Meditation Meditative yoga Journaling Contemplation Visualization Solo Retreats Leo, if I am remembering correctly and if I understood what I read correctly, I've seen you express attitudes and opinions that Kriya Yoga was far superior to any meditation. Right now the most effective techniques appear to be psychedelics, kriya yoga, contemplation, and solo retreats. Side note: What is your opinion now on the relative effectiveness on journaling and visualization? In your Solo Retreat notes of March 2019 you mention that 5-Meo-DMT is THE tool to use for awakening your consciousness: https://www.actualized.org/insights/solo-retreat-notes-feb-2019 “5-MeO-DMT is the ultimate awakening tool. Let's stop beating around the bush. No other technique, method, or teaching is as direct, deep, or powerful. Not meditation, not yoga, not contemplation, not self-inquiry, not any other psychedelic. 5-MeO-DMT is the guru. No guru can do for you what 5-MeO-DMT can do for you. If Christ or the Buddha came back to life and personally taught you one-on-one for 10 years, they would not be as effective as a few doses of 5-MeO-DMT. That's a bold claim. Yet it's undeniably true for anyone who seriously experiments with 5-MeO-DMT. 5-MeO-DMT will not solve all of your growth challenges, it may not even permanently awaken you, but it can lead you to super-human levels of awakening if you use it properly — and I emphasize PROPERLY!” In your episode “What Is Fake Spirituality?” You stress that REAL Spirituality is Ego Dissolution and that You're doing spirituality to experience God, which aligns with 5-MeO-DMT use a lot. You also outline an overall scope of what real spirituality looks like in practice. Outlining all the points of direct inquiry. https://youtu.be/ECUHkflwBQc In “An Intro To Serious Philosophy - Top Advice For Philosophers” you mention committing to at least 100 psychedelic trips. Alongside having a rigorous contemplation practice, a practice of inquiry through deep contemplation and observation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InmNW96qcUk You stress like crazy pretty much everywhere that proper sensemaking is number one. https://www.actualized.org/insights/conscious-vs-unconscious-sense-making https://www.actualized.org/insights/the-loop-of-wrong-sense-making You also stress that Truth is the highest priority to have. https://youtu.be/nvNGha_g2U4 You stress exercising Epistemic Responsibility: https://youtu.be/W5kvXJNMMM4 You underline that a deep study of your own self-deception is imperative to this work. You emphasize becoming conscious of your selfishness and bias. Understanding your forms of lying, Devilry, Corruption, Why you avoid Truth, Double Standards, Understanding Survival, Where you are wrong, etc. You stress that you have to understand how your sensemaking is being squashed by conforming to pre-established systems of thought. Such as Skepticism, Science, Rationality, Post-modernism, and also understanding the nature of belief, such as understanding ideology, understanding authority, and understanding conformity itself. Deconstructing all of your thinking is the bread and butter: Deconstructing rationality, science, ideology, belief, etc. You stress that Truth = Love. You Stress having holistic attitudes towards your sensemaking with Understanding holism. Developing sovereignty of mind is also imperative to further rid your dependence on others as mentioned in your video: The Root Solution To People Pleasing & Loneliness. An awakening into solipsism helps here as well, obviously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZqEMok_NXw And you know what, to be honest, I might just be overwhelmed by the workload. There is a lot here. And there comes to be a point where I start asking what are red herrings and what aren't. In a way I'm very lost in Maya. To be clear, I genuinely enjoy studying and learning this material, it's my favorite hobby at this point. But I notice I struggle to follow through with the level of industriousness that I want to be at. For example, let’s say I aim to read at a rate of about one book per week, yet I’m currently struggling to maintain a rate of one book per month. I want to be a completionist with Leo's work. Lots of it is due to managing survival, but the other half has also been just not being industrious with my studies in the way I would like to, another aspect of this is the sheer volume of this work. I think I am fooling myself by focusing on studying all of the content, and putting little to no focus on the Pure Philosophy of contemplating reality from first principles. I'm honestly really bad at that. I do that actually really rarely, yet I understand the power of it, I can change my paradigm of reality in an afternoon if I want to contemplate for 5 hours straight. But this is what my behaviour has been like. Another note is this: I have significant difficulty focusing. Gotta love that ADHD. It’s hard for me to pick one task or one project and see it through to completion. Even when I intend to commit, I find myself pulled in different directions, which makes consistency challenging. This is also why I’ve been so interested in Leo’s mind programming course. At the same time, I recognize that I’ve done the best I could given my current level of awareness and understanding. You better believe I'm lost in my personal maze. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeIfHozjcls 🐀 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 🧀