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Leo does have an episode called “The Dark Side of Meditation.” He actually talks about Kundalini awakening at 28:55. He also has disclaimers at the bottom of every YT episode and talks about proper safety protocols in all his psychedelics episodes. More episodes on the dangers of self-actualizing: The Dangers Of Spiritual Work The Top Dangers Of Using Psychedelics The Dangers Of Misapplying Spiritual Teachings Becoming A Zen Devil - The Dangers Of Half-Assing Enlightenment Leo's Worst Bad Trips - Psychedelics Gone Wrong The Trap Of Projection, Especially Onto Teachers & Mentors Being A Spiritual Seeker, Good or Bad? Cult Psychology - Part 1 - How Cults Work The Trap Of The Toxic Life Purpose You have to verify theories for yourself and not just take Leo, or anyone, at their word.

This concept gets discussed in a bunch of different episodes, but I think the one you're looking for is "How to Become Enlightened" at the 16:20 mark.

…to edit my old posts in these compilation threads Actualized.org Summaries ? Leo's Blog: Table of Contents ? ▶️ Blog Videos, Summaries & Interviews ▶️ ? Actualized.org on Psychedelics ?

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Summary for Episode #492: Introducing 5-MeO-MALT - The Other God Molecule is in the "? Actualized.org on Psychedelics ?" thread.

492. Summary: Introducing 5-MeO-MALT - The Other God Molecule -5-MeO-MALT is a little-known research chemical that’s as powerful, if not more powerful, than 5-MeO-DMT. Leo’s had some ridiculously powerful God realizations on MALT. MALT is not as well documented as 5-MeO-DMT. Because of this the potential dangers are higher with MALT than with more common psychedelics like LSD, shrooms and DMT. Do not do research chemicals unless you are mature and understand exactly what you’re getting yourself into. The responsibility is on you to use these substances very carefully and to follow all safety protocols and guidelines. -Don’t expect MALT or any psychedelic to be a magic pill that solves all your inner issues. Drugs won’t let you side step the need for inner work, meeting your survival needs intelligently, grounding between trips and proper integration. -The descriptions of MALT in this episode are based on Leo’s experiences. There aren’t many trip reports out there, so we’re dealing with a tiny sample size. Your experience will likely be different because Leo’s a very experienced psychonaut who follows proper safety protocols. He’s done hundred of trips and years of inner work. You might have to spend years working up to the kind of beautiful trips that Leo has experienced on MALT. -In this summary, DMT refers to 5-MeO-DMT and not n,n-DMT. ___________________________________ In a nutshell: 5-MeO-MALT is more loving, gentle, feminine and erotic than 5-MeO-DMT. MALT has all the same qualities as DMT, but in a different flavour. It’s holistic, very stable and great for contemplation and trip exploration (more on that below). Visuals are mild. It has a lower body load than DMT. Start with a low dose then work your way up. Be responsible. Ensure that your set, setting, and dosages are proper. At high doses, MALT packs an epic mindfuck that will melt your whole reality down to a puddle. Say goodbye to all sense of “other.” If you have big fears about solipsism, don’t take MALT. MALT & Dosing: The trip lasts 90 to 120 mins when plugged. Only 20 to 30 mins when vaped. Dosing is similar for MALT as it is for DMT. Plugging starter dose: 8-10 mg Vaping starter dose: 5 mg Plugging is perfect for MALT. Vaping is more intense and more likely to lead to a bad trip. The trip is a lot shorter too. Micro scoops are more accurate than milligram scales. Scales can be wildly inaccurate, unless they're laboratory grade. But scales are fine for measuring shrooms and maybe even DPT. -Make sure to post your trip reports!! Leo’s excited to get feedback about MALT and start gathering data. @Gerhard has good trip reports about his experiences with MALT on his channel. They can be found here. The MALT mega-thread can be found here. It has a few trip reports too! ____________________________________ -MALT has enormous potential to psychologically and spiritually heal people. It deserves to be explored and researched. We're making history by talking about it. Even most serious psychonauts don't know about MALT, and they’re missing out! Leo discovered MALT by experimenting with various research chemicals. He didn’t invent it in a lab of course, which is too bad. I was hoping he had a secret drug dealer name, à la Heisenberg. -There’s a powerful love component to MALT. If you want to discover the Absolute, Infinite Love of God this is an effective way to do it. -MALT will show you that everything is an infinite hallucination, infinite imagination, that absolutely everything you thought was real is unreal. Things like science, math, logic, reason, language, society, humanity, the Earth, human history. MALT will take you to Infinity and God realization. You will be coming face to face with God. -MALT is not a recreational psychedelic. Don’t do this at a party around a bunch of people in a loud setting. Do this with a serious spiritual intent. -Leo’s never had a bad trip on MALT, but this doesn’t mean that you won’t have a bad trip. Leo starts with low doses and observes all proper safety protocols (set, setting, dosage). -Exploration can be dangerous and risky, so you need to be aware of those risks. How much risk are you willing to handle? Misusing MALT can cause genuine injury, both psychologically and physically. If you give a normie MALT and just blast his consciousness, he’ll have a bad trip because he's not prepared. Your Body and Senses on MALT • MALT has no tolerance just like DMT. You could dose often, but you shouldn’t do it more than once a week. Don’t do it multiple times a day either. It can become addictive. • MALT has very mild visuals. Slightly stronger visuals than 5-MeO-DMT, but not nearly as many as n,n-DMT. There’s no fractal geometry. It has a faint neon, magenta tint that’s very beautiful. It has more colour and flavor than 5-MeO-DMT. • MALT is much more comfortable, manageable and less nauseating. It still has a body load but less so compared to DMT. A lower body load means you can focus more on contemplation rather than body discomfort. DMT has a pretty strong body load for most people, especially when you're coming up. You can feel nauseated or get all tense. You may have to work through bodily tension in order to access the deeper, metaphysical, existential aspects necessary for contemplation and consciousness raising. • You’re still very much in control of your body with low to medium doses of MALT. Because it doesn’t distort the visual field very much, you’re less likely to lose control of your body. Although that could happen if you take too much of it. High doses or breakthrough doses of MALT can create such deep states of infinite consciousness that you won't really be able to walk around very much. Your Consciousness on MALT • MALT is holistic and very stable. Because MALT is stable with a long trip time, you can stay in the God-realization state for much longer than with DMT. You can also experience long strands of thought which makes it great for contemplation. Shrooms can give you short, twisty, loopy thoughts, which makes it less holistic. • At high enough doses, terrifying levels of Oneness, Love and Ecstasy are possible. (It’s almost as euphoric as watching Cap’ lift Mjolnir for the first time ?) Yes, it is possible to experience so much Love and Unity that it scares you and drives you crazy. Leo talks about this here in his interview with Curt Jaimungal. Part of your spiritual work is raising your capacity to experience greater and greater levels of love and bliss. • Too much MALT can unravel your mind and reality. You can potentially develop mental disorders and lose grounding in your life. You might start acting out in unhealthy ways with your relationships, career, money, your physical body, etc. • MALT is very solipsistic. If you want to maintain the illusion of other people, this substance is not for you. • It'll blast away all your ideas about enlightenment and the stuff your gurus have taught you. All of that is nonsense compared to what MALT can show you. Substance Purity -You have to be careful about the purity of whatever substance you’re taking. One way to judge purity is by color. The closer it is to white or off-white, the purer the formulation. If a substance is darker in color, you should start with an extra low starter dose. Just make sure you’re not having any allergic reaction to impurities. Your body should feel good and comfortable, like nothing's being damaged. -Start slow, dose gradually (by 5 mg), until you figure out your personal breakthrough dose. Check for allergic reactions or weird sensations. Does it feel healthy or toxic? -MALT is naturally brown. The MALT Leo used was the color of brown sugar. Other trip reports say it looks like hot chocolate powder. Route of Administration -Don't assume you can handle a medium dose right off the bat. MALT is very easy to overdo and overuse because it's very potent. The most that Leo has done is 22 mg plugged. That caused a crazy deep trip. Plugging Plugging is the recommended method for MALT. Leo has a video on plugging. Summary is found here. You can plug the freebase or HCL version, but freebase must be dissolved in vinegar or coconut milk. Here’s a video on how to do that. Freebase is also 10-20% more potent than HCL. A trip lasts 90 to 120 mins when plugged. For plugging, start with 8 to 10 mg. That will produce a solid trip, maybe even a breakthrough trip (Leo had a breakthrough at 10mg). After that, you can increase your dose by 5 mg for each subsequent trip. Vaping You can vape MALT, but it’s more likely to lead to a bad trip. It makes the trip more intense and short. It’s also bad for your lungs. MALT is so extremely potent that it’s easy to overdose and blast yourself into a trip you can’t handle. The HCL version doesn't vape as cleanly as the freebase version. A trip lasts 20 to 30 mins when vaped. For vaping, start very low, like 5 mg, and gradually work your way up. Even 10 mg will be very powerful. 15 mg will probably be stratospheric. Comparing Different Psychedelics -Structurally MALT is quite similar to 5-MeO-DMT. If you have plenty of experience with DMT then you'll feel right at home with MALT. -MALT has some crazy deep potential for Love realization, while being less intense than DMT. It’s quite a potent combination! MALT trips are longer, so you can explore the space a lot more practically than DMT. -MALT is more feminine, loving, pleasant and positive than DMT. DMT is amazing, but can be rough, masculine and brutal. DMT is very radical in how it deconstructs your ego-mind and takes you straight to God realization. -MALT is more gentle. DMT just blasts you to infinity. DMT can be so shocking that it's difficult to understand and integrate post-trip. MALT is less of a blast to infinity. (Although you can blast yourself with any psychedelic at a high enough dose.) -Don’t assume that all 5-MeOs are the same or good, there are bad ones too. Each psychedelic feels different. 5-MeO-MiPT feels more erotic and physically stimulating than MALT. Whereas, salvia and 5-MeO-DPT feel dangerous, nasty and sinister. Leo’s also tried 5-MeO-DALT and said it was “not worth taking.” -Having breakthroughs on DMT changes the characteristics of all other psychedelics afterwards. It probably changes the characteristics of MALT too. -MALT is holistic and very stable. Two metrics that Leo uses to gauge different psychedelics is holism and stability. Holism -The more holistic a substance is, the more it allows you to think long, deep chains of elevated thought at a higher dimension, especially compared to the thoughts you have during the sober state. -Some psychedelics make it easier to focus and contemplate. Ordinarily, it’s tough to focus without being distracted. This makes contemplation difficult, same with probing deeply into existential questions. In order to understand advanced topics, you need a very very stable mind with excellent focus. Ordinary human neurophysiology doesn’t generally allow this, or requires you to train through meditation and concentration practices. -Some psychedelics can even expand both the length and breadth of your thoughts. Your thoughts can become multi-dimensional, multi-threaded and multi-faceted. Much like going from a single core cpu to a multi-core hyper-threaded cpu. Of course, integrating your insights afterwards can be a challenge. -Unholistic psychedelics will twist your thoughts around, like shrooms and LSD. Your thoughts can get loopy and twisty, like you have ADD. That makes it tougher to contemplate because you lack focus and get lost in a myriad of topics and tangents. That can also veer off into a bad trip, which is not useful for the work of raising your consciousness. Stability -The more stable a substance is the more you can explore your trip, probe into it and luxuriate in it. MALT is remarkably stable, which is part of what makes it amazing. It allows your mind to expand into a God realization state and stay there for a good 30, 60, 90 mins. You can deeply reflect upon every aspect of yourself as God and how you are dreaming up reality, your parents, your birth, other people, even the laws of physics, math and the universe. You get to see in real time how the mechanics of consciousness work and what's really going on with reality. -Even if you’ve had some God realizations, it’s different than understanding the actual mechanism by which God is dreaming up this dream. It took Leo many many many trips to understand that, and he’s had to use various substances to access that understanding. “But Leo, MALT sounds very similar to 5-MeO-DMT. Is there any point in trying it?” -The real answer is you won't know what you’re missing until you try. For Leo, there was enormous value in trying MALT even after using DMT many many times. Each psychedelic will affect you in its own unique way. They’ll also affect different people in different ways. Trying out different substances and comparing them is like having an array of tools in your consciousness toolbox. -If you can't access MALT don't be bummed out. DMT is still amazing, so are shrooms, LSD and n,n-DMT. You can still use other psychedelics to access the same basic insights and states of consciousness. You can also do it through yoga, kriya yoga or meditation if you commit seriously enough. -The choice for “best psychedelic” isn’t clearcut, unlike the choice for best, most superior Chris. Different psychedelics are like different flavours of ice cream. -Be careful about dabbling in psychedelics while thinking that you “know it all.” Just because you’ve tripped a few times doesn’t mean you understand how deep the rabbit hole goes. So keep exploring and going deeper and deeper. “But Leo, you keep having these awakenings and saying that each one’s deeper and better. How do you know that your latest one is the deepest and truest one?” -Insights on MALT do not contradict with insights on DMT, they dovetail. You don’t have to decide “which trip to trust.” Each trip causes a deepening of the same basic truth of Oneness, God, Love, Infinity, Consciousness, Non-Duality. None of that changes. You can explore Truth from different angles, perspectives and flavors and grasp it at different levels of holism. Then you can integrate the Truth and see how it plays out across your life in ever more comprehensive ways. -MALT will help you understand Actualized.org's most advanced teachings. (Yes yes, insert joke about squirting…water pistols—pewpew). You can understand where reality came from, why it exists, what is God, what is Love, what is Truth, what is Consciousness, what is Ego? What is the purpose of Life? MALT makes the highest truth crystal clear, but it’ll take more than a couple trips, because you have a lot of psychological baggage and false beliefs to bust through. You will have to deconstruct materialism, science, your gurus, your attachments, and all your ideas about enlightenment. You need to lay down a foundation to understand all the radical insights that will come to you through MALT. But if you gradually work your way up and do the work that’s taught at Actualized.org, you’ll be prepared. The Legalities of MALT -This episode provides general information about MALT. What you do with this information is 100% your responsibility. Consider the risks and dangers. They’re not just mental and physical, but legal as well. “But Leo, is this substance even legal in my country?” -Well, it depends on the country in which you live. You have to check the laws and check the situation there. Leo ain’t giving you any legal advice. What are the opportunities and the potential risks? -Although MALT is fairly unknown, your country might have various analog laws that ban the entire class of psychedelics. MALT might fall into that category, so do your research! “But Leo, I don't wanna do anything illegal I don't wanna get into trouble.” -Some psychedelics might be legal where you live. There are different types out there. It’s worth researching. -Consider travelling to a country where you can do them legally. There are ayahuasca and peyote ceremonies all over the world, or ibogaine clinics that treat addiction. You have to explore the possibilities and do your research. -Most people have more options than they realize. If you're serious about enlightenment work and you don't take psychedelics seriously, then you're not serious about this work. “But Leo, travelling to do psychedelics is too much of a hassle.” It’s less hassle than spending ten years struggling in meditation and never realizing you're God. Going to meditation retreats or therapy and buying book after book after book is a lot of work too. That costs time, energy and money. Even if it costs $2000 for airfare, hotel and an ayahuasca ceremony, if you have a breakthrough experience into God realization that’s still a bargain. The Future of MALT • MALT’s potential to transform and awaken humanity is enormous. The profound love that you can experience on MALT can have powerful therapeutic effects. Same with it’s capacity to help you introspect into your psyche and observe your ego-mind objectively. That makes it very powerful for dissolving dysfunctional, psychological tendencies you might have. • If you try MALT, do it responsibly and carefully. Leo releases his best content for free because he wants it to percolate through the culture. Don’t slap him in the face by abusing MALT and giving it a bad reputation through reckless behavior. • We’re building MALT’s reputation right now, by how we behave. Your behavior affects the image of psychedelics as a whole field. So don’t abuse it like a devil, by running through the streets naked on MALT. You don't just have a personal responsibility to not harm your body. You also have a greater collective responsibility to give this miraculous substance the right image and reputation. • Extensive scientific research on MALT is still decades away. Maybe it can be used to heal PTSD, suicide and depression, the way MDMA is being used. But, if MALT gets a bad reputation, scientists won’t want to research it. Society could demonize it, crack down on it and have it banned. Then its therapeutic potential will be squashed, and the millions of people who could’ve been healed by it will never get to use it. Do this work with love, respect and consciousness. The Future of Actualized.org & Psychedelics -Moving forward, Actualized.org will be emphasizing psychedelics as a teaching tool. Leo’s done a lot of introspection on this and has to be honest with you: psychedelics are the most direct and powerful teaching tools. -To really understand the advanced material he wants to teach, you’ll have to use psychedelics. Leo’s tried many ways to access deep existential insights and they’re simply not as effective at teaching others about the advanced subjects he wants to teach. Things like the nature of self, of other, of Love, God, Truth, Consciousness, Existence, science and so forth. If you're not using psychedelics you're simply wasting time. That's just the bottom line. (Keep in mind, you don’t need psychedelics for a lot of goals like pursuing your life purpose, or getting a great romantic relationship, or healing psychological wounds, or handling your survival needs, etc. Your strategies need to fit your goals.) “But Leo, are you saying everyone should do psychedelics?” -No. You should treat psychedelics like a loaded gun. You shouldn’t do psychedelics if you’re under 21, if you’re immature, if you have addiction issues, if you have serious mental illness, if you are being prescribed mind-altering medication, if you’re not willing to take safety precautions, and if you can’t take 100% responsibility for the consequences of doing psychedelics, among other reasons. Watch Leo’s episode on “The Top Dangers of Using Psychedelics.” (Summary is here). -Psychedelics and enlightenment aren’t magic pills. Get good at basic self-help first. If you’re pursuing Enlightenment before fulfilling your survival needs, you’re putting the cart before the horse. They can destabilize your reality if you’re not already grounded or if your brain chemistry doesn’t react well to them. -If you’re close-minded and don't have the desire to understand reality, then psychedelics won’t work. It’s why some people can party and trip for decades and never raise their consciousness. -If you abuse psychedelics, it’s also not going to work. But if you use it responsibly, carefully and deliberately with the right intentions, it's gonna work. Leo’s use of psychedelics is always done with extreme caution and with attention to safety. So, Leo’s not forcing you to take psychedelics (and he’s definitely not sharing his stash with you ). “But Leo, why are you so gung-ho on psychedelics when meditation and self-inquiry are just as powerful?” -When it comes to pursuing enlightenment and truly understanding reality, meditation and self-inquiry simply aren’t as powerful as psychedelics. Sorry. The thing that’s preventing you from understanding reality at the deepest levels is your inadequate state of consciousness, aka: the level of consciousness that you're occupying right now. The baseline normie state of human consciousness is insufficient to integrate every facet of the Godhead or understand how all of reality is constructed using God's imagination. -It is recommended that you maintain a spiritual practice apart from psychedelics for other reasons though. Meditation, yoga, and self-inquiry will build up your concentration skills and have other health and psychological benefits. But the truth is those practices aren’t effective at reaching the deepest, most holistic understanding of God. Meditation alone isn’t going to boost your consciousness high enough. “But Leo, are you saying psychedelics are the only path to enlightenment? Then why do so many gurus say otherwise?” -Psychedelics aren’t the only path, but they’re the most direct path to God realization. The problem is that your teachers are misleading you. A lot of gurus who poopoo psychedelics haven’t tried them or don’t quite realize that most people aren’t spiritually gifted. Sure, people like Jesus or Maharshi don’t need the boost to attain Enlightenment, but that’s probably not you. A lot of gurus and people who have spontaneous awakenings have natural talent that put them in the top 1% of spiritual giftedness. That’s why they can get disproportionate results by using easy, mundane spiritual practices. The bottom 99% cannot get the same results simply through 30 mins of daily meditation. It’s a deep disservice when the top 1% pretend as though the bottom 99% can stroll along the same easy path as the top 1%. -It’s a ridiculous failure on behalf of teachers. It’s more helpful and honest to say that you’re unlikely to be in the top 1% and that you will have enormous challenges that gifted people don’t have to face. The average spiritual seeker could waste 10 or 20 years on ineffective practices and still have no clue about God or Love or Consciousness. -Why waste all of that time and energy when you can take a psychedelic like MALT and understand directly within 15 to 30 mins. You don't need a book or a guru or a Leo Gura. All you need is a psychedelic, a set of careful safety protocols, a genuine desire to understand and a very open mind. You can experience profound epiphanies that will save you years and decades. -It’s a miracle that these substances exist. You're not going to believe what this will do to your consciousness. It will take you to levels that you could never ever reach through meditation or yoga, unless you were to devote 20 years to meditating and living in a cave. Thing is, even if you did meditate in a cave for 20 years, there's no guarantee you’d reach the depth of consciousness you could on a psychedelic. -Make sure you’re not in denial about all of that. “But Leo, why can’t you feed me answers like a baby bird? Gimme proof for God, for love, for solipsism, for the afterlife, for death, for heaven, for for for… Answer my questions goddamit, especially the creepy ones about your sex life…” -Leo’s done episodes on all that stuff (even his sex life!) He can’t keep explaining the birds and the bees of awakening over and over again. There are lots of things you can only understand through experience and by doing the work. Talking about something is not the same as viscerally experiencing it for yourself. Leo can’t explain psychedelics to you better than you actually taking a psychedelic. He spends so much time on the forum and in the comments section and on podcasts or interviews trying to explain God or awakening or Love, when it’d be much easier for people to understand by taking a psychedelic. It’s easy to waste a lot of time talking in circles around these topics. -Most people won’t be able to understand Leo’s most advanced teachings without psychedelics. There are many aspects of reality that can only be understood by experiencing a high enough state of consciousness that you get on a psychedelic trip. (Basically, you have to be high to understand Actualized.org ) “But Leo, you're just stuck on psychedelics and blah blah blah-baddy blah…” -If you don’t like Leo’s stance on psychedelics or you think tripping is fake and bad, you can always watch someone else’s content. Instead of trying to convince Leo to reject psychedelics, pick a more attainable goal like making pigs fly. He has his own unique approach and bias towards spirituality. To him, the responsible use of psychedelics is a more direct path to awakening than meditation and self-inquiry alone. (Although those two practices are very beneficial in their own right). He has to teach in a way that’s aligned with the deepest truths that he’s realized. -Also, you can still get a lot of value out of Actualized.org even if you skip all of the stuff about psychedelics. Leo’s non-psychedelic material is good for developing other aspects of your life. It’s also good prep work in case you ever do decide to try psychedelics. However, don’t expect Leo to change his stance on psychedelics just because you don’t like it.

Are you still thinking about holding in-person workshops..? ?

Try these two versions. Let me know if the formatting is okay. As for an analogue format, I'd guess your best bet is printing it out. ActuTextbook(v2)ForEpub.zip ActuTextbook(v2)ForMobi.mobi.zip

@mariustuhut Great job summarizing that episode ??

📜 Leo's Blog: Table of Contents 📜 ▶️ Blog Videos, Summaries & Interviews ▶️ 🍄 Actualized.org on Psychedelics 🍄 (has all resources on psychedelics) Leo’s “20 Dream Killers” article. There’s an Actualized.org Textbook. It was assembled by @Cepzeu and others. Summaries that are in the Textbook (v2) will say: (book pg XXX). You can also check out Leo’s Personal Development Blueprint. It covers over 100 concepts in personal development. Actualized.org Youtube Episodes: The first 200 episodes have transcripts in the video section of Actualized.org If you want to contribute to this thread, select one of the episodes that still needs a summary and post it here Episodes: 1 - 300 Episodes: 301 - 537

Well, he wears it with confidence and is having a great time. That’s what matters most. I’m a bit confused about the tuque and gloves though. Is it cold inside? If it’s a fashion statement, then why not wear a fedora… or a top hat and monocle ?

I'm a heterosexual woman and I too would be fascinated to see that.

Adventures in Vegas III Leo showing off his cleavage in Vegas!! Gorgeous venue. Looks like a blast. @Leo Gura have you always enjoyed clubbing or did you learn to love it as part of your personal development journey?

I’m sorry to hear this. So sorry for your loss @Sine WaveInTheOcean had a lot of insightful things to say about psychedelics and through his trip reports. I liked reading his posts. He was a kind, gentle soul.

Yeah, his content is great. His MindScience series is another must watch.

@Tyler Durden All of Actualized.org's stuff on Psychedelics can be found here. Includes blog posts, blog videos, episodes, etc. As @Sempiternity pointed out, "How Psychedelics Works" is a good, must watch episode (if you plan on doing psychedelics).

304. Summary: Leo's Super Healthy Blueberry Smoothie -Try replacing your current breakfast with a healthy smoothie like this and notice how much better you feel! Observe the performance benefits that you get after a week. Ask yourself if that’s worth it to you. If you’re into self-actualization, you may find that the smoothie is better for you than a standard American breakfast. -This is what you should be eating if you’re doing consciousness work, meditation, contemplation, self-inquiry and more. You need to clean up your diet to clean up your mind. So feed your brain and body nutrients! -You need a high quality blender, like a 1000 watt Ninja blender or a Vitamix. Get a high quality blender because a cheap one won’t last very long and won’t break down your food properly. -A healthy shake is a great way to start your morning. A raw, fresh, alive drink will fuel you much better than a bunch of sugar and starch, like a traditional heavy breakfast of bagels and cereal. -It takes 5 mins to make. It’s convenient. You can drink it on the go. It’ll keep you satiated for a couple hours. -It’s worth spending more money for organic ingredients. -The matcha and cocoa add antioxidants. The vanilla and banana add flavor. The banana also adds a creamy texture. -The proportions for all ingredients don’t have to be exact. Ingredients: 3/4 cup Organic Frozen Blueberries 3/4 cup Almond Milk (sugar-free) 1 Banana 3/4 tsp Matcha Green Tea 3/4 tsp Beet Juice Powder 1 pinch Freshly Ground Vanilla Bean 1/2 tsp Raw Cocoa Powder 2 handfuls of Spinach (pre-washed) Combine all ingredients together using a blender. Tips For a Healthy Diet -You need good, healthy recipes that you can use every single day, so that you’re automating your healthy diet. This makes good nutrition effortless. • Leo’s Vegetable Soup is one such recipe. -The tradeoff with eating healthy versus not eating healthy is that you’re not going to get as much variety in what you eat. Healthy foods may seem “boring,” but they will raise the quality of your life, which is the opposite of boring. -Sticking to a healthy diet is easier if you identify your highest priorities. If you value self-actualization, growth and maintaining a high level of consciousness throughout the day you’ll need energy. Same if you enjoy getting the results you want in life, whether it’s achievements at work or in meditation or in your spiritual practice. Abs are made in the kitchen. -If you want to live a high consciousness lifestyle, it’s very difficult to do that on the Standard American Diet (a S.A.D diet). -Make it a point to find healthy, practical recipes that you can add to your diet to make meal-prep very routine, automatic and effortless. They should be fast to make, with ingredients you can buy quickly. Ideally with ingredients you can stock up on, so you don’t have to go to the store everyday. You can even make large batches of it and store it in the freezer and keep it for a long time. -Having a vision and life purpose will motivate you to eat healthy and have the necessary energy to fuel whatever you’re trying to accomplish. If you don’t have a vision, you’ll have no reason to eat healthy and you’ll revert back to junk. -The performance results you get outweigh the short-term cost of not having flavourful junk for breakfast. Making nutrition easy will free up your time and mental energy to put towards self-actualization work!

101. Summary: Self Image - The Amazing, Absolute Key To All Personal Growth Self-image is one of the most powerful, important, practical tools you can use to transform your life to ridiculous levels. There’s lots you can say about the power of self-image. This episode’s just an intro. Take A Look At Yourself A lot of these ideas about self-image come from Maxwell Maltz’s classic self-help book Psycho-Cybernetics. It’s a highly recommended book on Leo’s booklist. -Maxwell Maltz was a plastic surgeon in the 1950s. He started studying psychology and the concept of self-image, because as a plastic surgeon he noticed some interesting things. Some of his patients had crippling emotional problems because of their appearance. Some had deformities, some thought their nose was too big or that their face was too wrinkly or that they were just plain ugly and unacceptable. Maltz would fix up their appearance, make them beautiful, and patients would react in one of two ways: Some patients would feel radically more confident and go out and change the rest of their life. They’d feel great and be full of self-esteem. Other patients would still feel ugly, even though they were now beautiful. In fact, some patients were so upset with Maltz that they accused him of not having made any changes to their face at all. They would call him a charlatan or a quack. Of course, he had made changes, but the patients had such a strong self-image of being ugly that their self-image still remained even after becoming beautiful. It shows how your self-image is what determines how you feel about yourself and your life, no matter how positively other people assess your looks. This is a really powerful concept. (Some pretty girls (not all) who get put in the "hot, beautiful" or "8-10" category see themselves as average, because they're subconsciously comparing themselves to other "hot" girls. So they sometimes have a self-image of being "average" because they're "average" among other beautiful girls. It'd be more accurate for them to compare themselves to the general population and feel grateful to be pretty at all. It's the same for some Harvard grads. A fair number of them feel like "underachievers" or even "failures" because they're comparing themselves to other Harvard grads, not to average joes who don't have degrees from Harvard.) But What Is Self-Image? Self-image is a subconscious framework for how you see yourself and your life. It’s what you believe and what you think is true about reality. Every belief you have is part of your self-image. Especially beliefs about what you think is possible. Do you think it’s possible for you to earn a million dollars a year? Do you really believe that? If you do, then that’s part of your self-image. If you don’t, if that sounds like some ridiculous fairy tale, then being a millionaire is not part of your self-image. Holding a limiting belief about your potential makes that pathway of reality blocked off to you. Your mind is creating a map or mental model of reality and how the world works. This model is mostly subconscious. You’re not aware of all the assumptions you make about how your world works. Or how society works, how life works, how you work and who you are. You’ve been programmed by your parents, culture, school, your job, your friends and basically every single person you’ve ever come into contact with. Circumstances have also programmed you. Putting your hand on a hot stove programs you to flinch and never do that again. Watching Captain America: Civil War programs you to like good guys with lovely shoulders who have blue eyes with specks of green around the irises (it’s a feature, not a flaw Baron Zemo—duh ?) Those lessons from your environment get seared into your subconscious. It becomes part of your self-image and model of reality. You’re more careful around a hot stove because that burned your hands. You also never want Jared Leto to play the Joker again because that burned your soul ?. Unravel The Thread Your self-image is like a large ball of yarn. There are hundreds of thought strands, all tangled and bunched up together. All the experiences you’ve ever had, all the lessons, beliefs and assumptions you’ve amassed are wound up into that tight ball of yarn. It’s a pretty big tangled mess. It’s all sitting below the surface, subconsciously, so you don’t even see it. You might see a thread here or there, but basically, 95% of your behaviors and actions are subconscious. What’s powerful and important about that is your subconscious determines your results. “But Leo, isn’t having a self-image egotistical?” Well, in order to drop the ego you first have to develop a healthy ego. You can’t just drop the ego when your ego is weak and underdeveloped. It's important to integrate the healthy aspects of the lower stages of development before you can move on to higher stages. (Dr.K from Healthy Gamer has a good segment about leveraging the power of self-image, ego and identity here (9 mins): Maintaining Balance Wanna know why you’re stuck in life? Your body and mind are like a thermostat that’s been programmed to stay at a specific temperature, determined by your subconscious. It tends to keep you in a state of homeostasis and equilibrium. (Ep: Understanding Ego Backlash) So, you get stuck at a specific salary, or weight, or happiness set point, or quality of relationship and so forth. To create big changes, you need to unravel the ball of yarn that is your self-image and subconscious. Self-image is so powerful because you’re going to align your behaviour and actions with what you really believe is true. So, what so you really believe is true? About your potential, your personality, what you deserve, how smart you think you are, how the world works, etc. What’s even crazier is if you believe something is true despite it being proven false, you’ll still behave as though the lies are all true. That’s why the beautiful patients still thought they were ugly after they became beautiful. Your behavior is shaped by what you believe is true, not by what’s actually true. If you believe a lie is true, it will feel true even if it’s ?. There are many things in your self-image that are complete horse shit and illusions, total fabrications, and they’re keeping you stuck in life. If you want to create massive change in your career, your confidence, your relationships, your fitness or anything else, then you have to start digging into your self-image and work on your subconscious. Changes That Last When you start changing your self-image (which is absolutely possible), you start to create lasting changes that are sustainable. They’re not subject to the yo-yo effect. That’s how you can create huge weight loss or massive success with the opposite sex, or with your finances and your business. That’s how you create transformation in your psychology and epistemology and your emotions. It’s how you become optimistic instead of pessimistic. It’s how you tackle anxiety, depression, alcoholism and more. All of those changes happen by working on your self-image. Whether you’re conscious of it or not, you’re sculpting your self-image. It’s why understanding epistemology is so transformational. You get to find out how you’ve been deceiving yourself, which helps you unravel your self-image and subconscious. It’s also why meditation, psychedelics and awakenings can be so powerful. They give you a clear, undeniable experience of who you really are beyond your limiting beliefs and cultural programming, as one with the Godhead. Self-Image Examples Here’s how self-image works on a practical level. There are thoughts about yourself and thoughts about reality. These beliefs create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thoughts about Yourself You don’t see things as they are; you see things as you are. Really think about the following limiting beliefs. What results would they manifest in your life? -If you think,“my thoughts are what’s real. It’s just how reality is.” You’ll be way less likely to question your limiting beliefs. -How about “I’m a failure”? Just imagine how that thought would play out in your life, believing you’re destined to not win? That thought will propagate itself like a virus and ruin your life. If you think,“I failed in the past, so I’m always going to fail,” you’re less likely to look for evidence that shows you can win and learn. Just because you failed once, or even several times, that doesn’t mean you can’t learn from failure and change your future. If you’ve had several failures, that’s probably because you haven’t unravelled your self-image and subconscious, but you can do that now and create massive change. -Watch out for “it’s genetic” and “I’m naturally like that.” Those beliefs will kill your potential. “I’m shy because my parents were shy and I have shy genes” makes you feel hopeless to changing. If you feel hopeless, what chance do you have of creating a fun, thriving social life? Can you see how important it is to root out a belief like that? -Also watch out for “This advice about self-image isn’t true.” If you believe that, you’ll come up with excuses. You won’t do the work of uprooting your subconscious, cognitive distortions. -There are shocking things about yourself that you believe right now, with a 100% faith and certainty, which are completely bogus and are completely destroying the quality of your life and your potential to grow. -Watch the episodes on how to “Stop Being a Victim” to understand the power of your self-image and subconscious. Thoughts about Reality What if you believed that: “Money is hard to make.” There are so many negative self-image problems with money. Do you think that belief about the “reality of money” will have an effect on your salary and how much is in your bank account? What about: “Life is unfair” or “Life is hard and difficult.” That’s a fairly ugly limiting belief. How would that perspective affect how you interact with the world? What about: “Other people think I’m ugly”? How would that play out in your life? How eager would you be to socialize and approach people you find attractive? These are just some common examples out of thousands. Which limiting beliefs about reality and yourself are you carrying around? Break The Manacles Everyone has limiting beliefs as part of their self-image. Unquestioned, faulty assumptions will perpetuate a low-quality of life. The spooky thing is you don’t even know that they’re there until you unravel them! A lot of things in your self-image are completely illogical, stupid and foolish, until you articulate them and look at them objectively. Take a thought like, “I’m unworthy of love.” Logically you’ll say “everyone deserves love,” but you don’t really feel that way deep down. A thought like that will create a whole host of relationship problems. You’ll drive your partner bonkers trying to get them to give you compliments. You’ll feel rejected, angry and bitter if they don’t lavish you with enough love. You’ll create a lot of stress and drama, because you’re insecure. That’ll drive the other person away and make the relationship fall apart. Then the self-fulfilling prophecy gets fulfilled, which reinforces the initial belief “I’m unworthy of love.” However, you can avoid all that by uprooting your belief of unworthiness, thus creating a totally different chain of cause and effect. One where, instead of draining your partner because you feel unworthy, you instead share, celebrate and magnify love with them, making them happy to be with you. Lift With Your Legs The biggest takeaway is to understand how important your self-image is and how it determines your entire life. It’s real and not some silly self-help buzzword. You need to focus on figuring out your self-image. This is where change happens. It’s like the saying, “if you’re going to lift a heavy object, lift it with your legs and not your back.” If you lift from your legs you’ll have the strength to carry the heavy load. If you lift with your back, you’re just going to hurt your back and maybe drop the box on your toes. Creating an inspiring, flourishing self-image is like lifting with your legs. Using willpower is like lifting from your back. It’s probably the method you’ve been doing up until now. Maybe you say to yourself, “OK, enough is enough. I’m going on a diet” or “I’m starting a business” or “I’m going to read a full summary instead of just skim it .” Then you try to start that new business or that new diet and you quickly fall off, because your willpower breaks. It’s because you’re not using your strongest muscles. Willpower is great, but it’s more useful in short bursts, like starting a habit. For long lasting, transformational change, you need the big muscles of self-image to follow through and maintain a habit. That’s the key to massive change. Let your subconscious and self-image do the heavy lifting. Your subconscious is the power center of your results. It’s where 95% of your action stems from. This involves deep introspection work. Coaching is really good for getting you these insights too.. It can bring up stuff from your subconscious, and get you to realize things you haven’t realized before. Yes, you can change your subconscious. Maxwell Maltz says it takes 21 days to create a lasting change to your self-image. That’s how long it takes for new habits to permeate into your subconscious. It’s actually not that difficult, but it takes persistence.

@GoobyBooby Leo made two blog posts in 2017 about being wrong. It'd be great to see an update on more stuff he's gotten wrong ? Nothing I Say Can Be Trusted Things I've Been Wrong About

I didn't say there's anything wrong with tripping recreationally or chasing material stuff. You'd die if you stopped chasing material stuff. I'm saying that talking about bad trips is helpful. Psychedelics are very powerful. They're no joke, and honestly, it's quite rude to scoff at other people's problems and bad trips. That's just my opinion. Yours may differ.

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@Javfly33 If you’d actually experienced this problem you’d realize it’s absolutely possible to experience a Oneness that’s so deep that you feel it will kill you. That’s especially true if you’re trying to raise your consciousness and not just tripping recreationally. It's a scary experience and worth asking other people for advice about. Bad trips happen and they can be traumatizing if you’re new to psychedelics. I’m personally glad @ZenSwift started this thread. It's been an interesting read.

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This depends on the particulars of your situation. Some things to keep in mind: -Figure out why you burned out after a couple months and address those problems. What caused your unsustainable work/life situation? Did you hate the job? Commute too long? Neglecting your health? A loud inner critic that didn’t let you enjoy your accomplishments? Those challenges are different for everybody and will likely pop up again unless you fully address them. -Sounds like your passion project is a tech startup. The vast majority of successful start ups are created by founders who didn’t quit their day job until the startup was successful. There’s lots of podcasts, books and articles about creating a successful startup. This one from Tim Ferriss and Reid Hoffman is a good start. Unless you have the chance to get paid right away to do your passion project, you should probably keep a day job to fund your passion. Not having a stable source of income creates a lot of stress and neediness, which drains your passion! -Once you get healthy habits in place they should become automatic. They won’t take up too much time or effort unless you have a complicated health situation or your goal is to become a bodybuilder. Learning some healthy recipes and getting a solid 3-5 times a week exercise routine doesn’t take much time at all. -Work hard on weekdays and socialize on Friday night and Saturday afternoon or night. -High quality relationships are important. Having excellent social skills and a network of happy, good-hearted, inspiring, passionate people are the biggest force multipliers you can have. It’s not just about getting laid or promoted at work (although you can do that too). Healthy relationships make you happier, more resilient to setbacks, increases life expectancy, strengthens the immune system, makes life more meaningful, makes it way easier to get jobs or funding for a startup or a nice, pretty girlfriend and so forth. Ignoring that aspect of life to focus on career only works for jobs that are truly a one-man show. This means investing in high quality friendships, not just amassing Facebook friends or getting distracted by gossip and human bs. Quality > quantity. Granted, it can be tough to do that if you don’t have access to likeminded people. That also doesn't mean becoming a people pleaser, chasing popularity or having poor boundaries. Actually, if you have significant wounding around relationships, it's important to start healing that asap so you can reap the benefits asap and let the benefits compound over time. -Watch Leo’s “Advice for Young People I & II” videos. It’s perfect for your situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Ap1-UkPLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liwbIO4tbxE