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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

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?

My first thought to this is "we'll see"

I lacked experience with eating weed directly like this. I had gummies and chocolate. So I'm actually disconnected from understanding how much of the physical plant would do what. I also heavily conformed to group think. Believing that "it wasn't gonna be that much." I even fought for a lighter dose despite being met with heavy judgement of "you're not gonna feel much with that." It started from a golf-ball size dose which was "the typical dose," and I took an eighth of that. I also lacked finding sufficient information on Bhaang. I was also depressed and was open to taking something for an insightful trip. In my mind I didn't think weed was the majority of the ball, like it was 80% other herbs. In essence, I didn't think that amount of Bhaang was going to impact me that much. So basically poor sensemaking all around.