If you want a categorical improvement in your happiness that cannot be achieved through any achievement, you just sit down now and be happy by being present.

Short answer is no. There is no free lunch. All these chemicals deteriorate your brain over time with lots of use. So use them sparingly.
Psychedelics are not free. You are paying for it with your health. Making you grok that. Just because you have an epic loving experience of God does not mean it was healthy for your body. Don't get fooled by that.
Ketamine is certainly not good for you long term.

I am beggining to suspect how Yoga works, particularly pure physical Hatha Yoga. (Not talking about energy process such as kriyas, but merely what is called as 'Asanas'.)
What is Yoga. Well, you have to do a lot to start understanding it. I have done some Asanas more than 1000 times.
For example, I suspect Cat Stretch I´ve done it about 1200-1300 times. Maybe 1500 times. I´m not sure. So Is not like I´m talking from nothing. 
It seems exaggerated but understanding really what Yoga is does take some time. 
At first I believed the intention of Asanas was to clear and calm the mind in order for a higher perception or consciousness to happen, but that is a very basic understanding. 
After some time a whole new possibility opens up. Something much much much more profound of what you thought at the beggining Yoga was. 
When doing an Asana properly, the belief or feeling of individuality is dissolved (yeah, that goes for all of you solipsistic dudes out there).
Why it dissolves is not because it does something to the brain. 
Is because physically and energetically you are putting your body in such a way that is completely in synchrony and symmetry with Reality. 
Is not that you unite yourself with Reality. Is that the body merges and dissolves right there.
It was already 'dissolved' in the first place. You were already in Unity or 'One' with reality in the first place. But, the usual asymmetry of the human system, which in part is necessary for the process of survival (let´s remember, survival is about you vs me), makes it like you are not.. 
So it is created a sense of individuality through the life of a human. And most humans never break or dissolve this sense of individuality.
Notice im saying 'sense'. Individuality is not a reality. Is not a fact. It is just a sense, a compression that is formed. But if you align the body and the whole system in such a way, this sense of individuality or separation gets completely seen through and dissolved. 
From holding Asanas a lot of information can enter you. Just like with a Psychedelic.
For example, you can 'download' information in the sense that the whole Reality is just like a mirror. A Infinite Diamond Mirror. 
This is kind of impossible to explain, so let´s leave that as a motivator for people to start a Hatha Yoga practice. 
One day you will understand things that no book can transmit you. Neither I am because words are dual. Only through a direct experience of symmetry you can understand.
This will not only make your life more profound, it will give you an understanding of non duality, unity, God, etc... that it will be very sticky. It won´t be just like a state of consciousness that you can lose. It is a certain information that makes all the pieces 'fit'. 
Is not intellectual information, is something else, is much more...real. More clear. Is like you get direct connection to the hard drive of infinity, and you download it into your mind. 
The Universe is symmetry, perfect balance. For you grasp it, you have to make yourself completely symmetric and balanced within you. Then all is accessible for you. Because you are it.

I´ll meet you at the Bliss that we are. 

Love is not simply something to be felt. If you want to really grasp love you gotta cognize it, not feel it. Comprehend WHAT Love is.
Bliss is not the same thing as cognizing Love. If you successfully cognize Love, you will go way beyond bliss, you will enter ecstacy.

Level of consciousness by David Hawkins is a good model to see how these emotions are connected. It is not enough to understand an emotion. You have to link it.
 
Another great book on this topic is called emotional equations or something.  I forgot the name.  

@Ishanga You've got spirituality backwards. You don't gain control, you lose control. The illusion of control.
You will never control your health.
And the transcendence of suffering, if it is possible, is such a rare feat that very very few will achieve it.
The point of spirituality is the joy of being conscious for its own sake. Not to win prizes.

One of the best ways is to have a daily visualization practice where you picture only positive things for your life for 20 mins per day. And do it every day, like a meditation practice.

So I'm not sure if this is actually true but I had two insights about values.
1: There are two main values and all the other possible values come from them and they are Love and Freedom (like feminine and masculine)
2: your value system is designed like a pyramid and on top of that pyramid is either love or freedom
now a way to find your values is to think: combining what two values gives me love/freedom or what two values is my love/freedom made of. And then continue down the pyramid. What values is are the two values below love/freedom made of?
ofc to grasp this you need an understanding of what kind of love and freedom i am talking about and also then you also need to know yourself and your own defintion of these values good enough to design your own value pyramid but I think this might make it a lot easier and clearer.
 

The way I view game creation is as art and playing God. You get to create entire new beautiful worlds. That's the magic of it. This is a higher thing than mere entertainment.
With that as the focus, I do not care whether a game grows people or teaches them some kind of lesson. That is not the function of games. The function of games is to share the wonder and beauty of another reality. That's the spiritual part. Don't try to use the game to preach to people verbal lessons. That's not what this medium is for.
Anyway.... that's just my perspective.
I don't try to make games high consciousness, I try to make them beautiful and simply fun.

And if you cannot find a cure, maybe look into learning to love the pain. Look into Masochism. People who have rewired their mind, to view pain, which everyone else seeing as bad, as something beautiful and pleasurable. Anything in reality is not inherently good nor bad, that is meaning that each of us put on something. I believe it would be possible, through extensive mind work, to rewire your mind to view your sensations of the body as something you can enjoy. It's an extreme idea, but sounds like you're in an extreme situation, so best to consider anything and everything. 

You are not going to find a gauranteed solution. Instead what you can do is test out various people and solutions and take strategic gambles. Maybe someone can help you, but no one is going to know who, including the healers themselves.
My advice to you is to patiently test various solutions and deeply research your condition and others who have it and cured it.
You can find online forums and support groups dedicated to people with your exact condition. That's where you need to go.

BPD can be a really taxing, stubborn, life-long condition. It's hard for such people to live normal well-functioning lives because their mind is so chaotic.
It's no surprise that such people have a high suicide rate.
It's hard for a normal person to understand the hell that BPD can be and how stubborn it is.

Ambition is probably the least recognized yet most important personality trait.

I have been fascinated and obsessed about Hyper-Mind since reading Leo's blog post.
A different mode of cognition, how does that look like?
So I decided to start from scratch, what I discovered is that the gap between being and understanding is cognition. Therefore: What is limiting my cognition to understand what is?
I could see that mostly my mind works in the auditive space using language, here I identified the first bottleneck .

Following this analysis, I started contemplating all sensory inputs as workable for an advanced Mind. Such a Mind would understand by visual thoughts, running engines inside itself, drawing, creating but also condensing in high abstractions symbolically. This Mind could use not only sound and light, but also taste, smell, touch and feeling to cognise. Like a soup of sensations it would map and cognise reality.

To understand, it would run its own simulations and play intelligently and on the fly with what is happening, like a virtuoso jazz musician. Having the capability to do, is not the same as doing, nor it means cognizing before the simulation or right experiment is performed.

To make this more concrete I started searching for examples. Maybe I'm losing my Mind with Leo here or is there something to this? While reading the post again and again, I was reminded of Nikola Tesla. For example, he never constructed a prototype in his entire life. He designed all his engines visually in his mind space, for weeks, months and even years, he ran simulations in his mind and saw the misbalances and errors of its design, therefore making adjustments if he knew how to do so. When his invention worked perfectly in his Mind, he then constructed the finished product, which always ended up working as he had envisioned. This was his work style for his whole life.
By this point, it becomes clear that linguistic thought is not the only way Mind can structure itself, great musicians are able to run symphonies in their minds, more vividly than even in real life. Mozart said he could hear entire compositions in his mind before writing them down. From a very young age, he had the capability to think exclusively in notes and sounds, in the same way you were able to think verbally. Beethoven, after being deaf, was able to keep composing by what he explained as "imagining the sounds and vibrations in my mind".
In the field of math, Euler was able to operate in numbers and think fully inside the mathematical world without any word contamination. Not only he solved and understood math consciously and linearly, but was able to snap solutions out of his mind directly from pure intuition, just by seeing an equation. Fascinating, isn't it? Srinivasa Ramanujan described cognizing mathematical equations as living entities with distinct personalities and properties. In the beginning, he independently self-educated himself about maths , he arrived to the same well-known mathematical conclusions travelling through different paths than those walked historically by other mathematicians. His novel contributions were therefore developed in his own intuitive system and mathematical instincts, which then were formally proved by his peers.
Another example came in my contemplation, Escher, with his unique way of cognizing in a self-contained system or cohesive self-referencing universe. His artistic tessellations of intricate shapes fitting together are a testimony of this concept. His art is filled with strange loops and paradoxes all fitting nicely one inside each other. The beauty, complexity and intellectual depth of his work are breathtaking.

Taking all these examples, let's run our own simulations to see how a Hyper-Mind would be:
Hyper-Mind is the evolution from Awake-Metaphysics to Cognition-Epistemology, from Eternal-Being emerges Understanding-Mind.
Hyper-Mind is able to run simulations using all of consciousness phenomena, it is comfortable in infinity, paradox, recursiveness, multidimensionality, counter-intuitiveness, systems, complexity and fractals. From 0 or infinity; it starts scratching distinctions to run its simulation and see what happens. It imagines things into existence and becomes directly conscious of its interactions and complex emerging behaviors.
Hyper-Mind is a universe-generator on its own, a self-designing Mind that reconfigures itself and self-adjusts accordingly to its own conscious sovereignty. It is Reality understanding Reality, a mechanism by which God explores God. There is absolute infinity to explore. Dreaming world-simulations into existence for it's own sake and understanding.
Hyper-Mind is Sentient Alive and Conscious
 
 

https://www.actualized.org/insights/wikipedia-emotions
 
I just wanted to add that ChatGPT is amazing at helping you logically differentiate between different emotions.  Many diferentces are subdle but important for your emotional vocabulary.
Of course, the most accurate understanding comes from direct experience and personal contemplation, but a theoretical background helps a lot
Feel free to share any that are missing on the blog post 

I recently bought the Claude Opus 3 after seeing it on Leo's blog and found something really creative that you can do find your life purpose and ideas for task/projects to get you there. I generated a PDF from OneNote with all my notes from the Life Purpose course, uploaded it to Claude, and asked it questions to help get me on track. Some of the best questions I asked were:
-Given what you know about me, what are some different ways I could formulate my Life Purpose statement to make it sound more authentic? 
-Give me a vision of what my life could look like if I was living my Life Purpose, be specific
-Give me a list of tasks and projects that I can do in order to get on track with my Life Purpose
-Brainstorm a list of people who have a life purpose similar to mine and a brief summary of how they did it
It's not a substitute for doing the real inner work but I think that it is a great tool to use especially if you took the Life Purpose course and want help brainstorming an working on your Life Purpose

Yes.
Reading books is very slow and comes with a lot of filler content which isn't relevant to a question at hand.
Solo work is important, but it can be hard to work based off nothing. The AI helps to seed your mind with fresh ideas, like having a brainstorming partner.
And two minds are more powerful than one, if they communicate well. You can use the AI to find gaps in your logic, which is hard to do solo.

Let me know what you think:
https://www.actualized.org/insights/leo-does-political-philosophy-with-ai

God is an Infinite Dream. You can dream up hell, demons, dragons, aliens, whatever you want.
God is literally made out of demons, dragons, kangaroos, aliens, and such.

I wrote a list of how above.
Lately my vocie got deeper because I am was gaming in loud ass clubs, forcing me to project my voice a lot more.
When you project your voice a lot the tissues in your vocal chords tough up like calloused hands, producing a deeper, richer sound effortlessly.
Gaming in Vegas will give you the voice of a titan

Lupe Fiasco gives a good lecture about rap in an MIT media lecture:
   Actually good to learn, and does have several overlaps here in Actualized.org. What do you guys think about it?

Share songs that are close to perfection; ideal; archetypal.
 

Look for jobs or businesses which pay much more than average. Such things can be found with effort. You have the internet so do lots of research.
The way I started my first business was I literally just asked myself: "What is the highest profit thing I can sell?" I searched around online and found a thing with insanely high profit margins.
Getting rich is all about profit margin.

Dude there are some real gems on there, good post 

I feel that people here need a reminder of what this place is about.
This forum is not like other social spaces on the internet where the function is to rant and rave about whatever stuff surfaces to your reptilian brain. The function of this place is your development, maturation, and evolution to higher consciousness and selflessness. So this place has a bias by default. It is not just willy-nilly post-whatever-you-feel-like-because-this-is-internet,-land-of-infinite-freedom. This requires intention. This requires caring about truth. This requires observing the reactive habits of your ego-mind, which include: rationalization, projection, denial, confirmation bias, emotionality, gaslighting, blaming, judging, moral posturing, etc. This is not a place to vent or promote ideology. It is not a place to attack others. It is not a place to waste time as you avoid doing work on yourself.
I see many here posting in ways as though you never even studied any of my work and you are not interested in becoming more aware of your self-deceptions and egoic reactions. It's time to cut the monkey games and behave in ways that align with what is talked about in the videos. I am not perfect at this, I work on this too every day. I don't need you to be perfect about it, but I need to see you trying.
This forum is a place for going meta. It's a place to scrutinize yourself and find ways to make yourself better, not to nitpick others or engage in debate. It is not about the content of what you post but the structure of your mind and why you think the way you think and do the things you do. It's about deconstructing yourself.
Think long and hard about whether you are on board with this mission. If not, then this place is not for you. Go elsewhere online where you can be free to act out your ego and battle other egos. That's not what we do here. Going forward I will be keeping an eye out for this, looking to see if each of you is here to do the work, or just to vent ego. Those venting ego will eventually be kicked out.
Every time before you post, as you write your post, I want you to stop and ask yourself, "How is this post just me acting out my ego in the usual ways?", and "Is this post just me venting and justifying my selfishness?"
In a nutshell, I want to see people doing more self-reflection and being more conscious of their behavior at the meta level. Are the things you are posting in alignment with principles of higher consciousness and higher stages of ego development? Are you acting in a mature or immature way? Are you being selfish or selfless in your communication? Are you acting like a monkey or like a God-like being?
Basically, I want more Tier 2 discussions rather than Tier 1 discussions. So make sure you study that difference and strive to discuss topics in a Tier 2 fashion. Tier 2 requires you to be more aware of your biases and less self-absorbed in your personal emotional baggage and survival agenda. Notice how most of the stuff you post is just a cry from your survival agenda, nothing more. Like a baby crying for candy and throwing a tantrum or using tricks to manipulate others.
You are still allowed to have fun here, but don't get carried away with petty human nonsense. Watch your own tricks like hawk. No one else can do this for you. This is your job. This is how you grow. It's not about me policing you, it's about you learning to police yourself because that's what conscious beings do because they respect life.
Cheers!