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@vibv I love rain, when I'm tripping and rain happens it's such a moment for me

@Leo Gura More of a classic definition: you listen to people and you hear the rain. I might have started contemplating more less from that frame but was seduced with the metaphysics of listening along the way.

@Leo Gura Yes, I see your point. What is your definition of listening? In some of these experimentations indeed listening become the fundamental receptive quality of awareness more than conventional listening, although I did have plenty of conversational listening with other people, which was very fruitful as well, but maybe not as juicy as the metaphysical aspects I discovered by focusing on listening.

This week I’ve been contemplating listening and really listening, as much as I could. What is listening? At one level, it’s simple receptivity. Communication theory gives us a clean model: a transmitter, a channel, and a receiver. When we speak or act, we transmit. When we receive, we listen. But more deeply, these aren’t just mechanical roles: they point to properties of consciousness, and to the way reality is intrinsically interconnected. For listening to truly happen, something in us must become quiet, still, and hollow—an inner and outter spaciousness that allows input to penetrate the whole body, mind, and energetic field. After more contemplation, I decided to stop understanding listening from mind and to focus instead on listening itself—the act, the state, the direct experience. So this week I set aside time to simply listen. After hours, listening became spacious and three-dimensional. I found I could tune to any part of reality (rain, voices, distant engines, birds) as if each were a transmitter, and I was the receiver, it was a contraction of the consciousness space between the two nodes (I and that) and a channel created through attention or the focusing of consciousness. I also noticed how multilayered listening is. Even when I was resting in it, subtle thinking would arise—interpreting, labeling, making sense. And that thin layer of meaning-making would quietly fracture the purity of listening. So I began to develop a kind of meta-listening: listening to the impulse to comment, to conclude, to frame. Ironically, that made me even more silent. The more clearly I noticed the mind’s movement, the longer I could remain in an unbroken presence of listening. I listened to the rain, to kids playing, to cars passing, to birds. I listened to other people like never before. The connection became richer, not only in quantity but in quality. I realized how much I had been missing: how many cues slipped past me because of divided attention, subtle inner chatter, or because I was “listening to respond” rather than listening from open awareness itself. Sometimes I listened out of obligation, not out of connection. This week made the difference unmistakable. What transformed me most was listening to myself. I saw how many parts of my psyche I habitually repress: how often desires, ambitions, contradictions, and uncomfortable truths arise, and I instinctively force them to shut up. But as I sat for hours, I listened lovingly to every part of myself. I listened to my mind and felt a rush of unreleased material: old hurt, unprocessed memories, “wrongdoings” done to me that I didn’t want to acknowledge, much less integrate. I sat and listened to the whole of my repressed story as it asked, simply, to be heard. Then the body began to speak. Every ache started revealing its “why.” The pain in my back, the knot in my stomach, discomfort in my head, the imbalance in my foot, the acid in my stomach—each sensation carried a message, a history, a need. I listened to each part patiently, one by one, until I finally rested again in something like absolute listening: empty receptive consciousness space. Listening felt all-embracing. I put on music and experienced it differently too, much more vividly than I’m used to. I could feel the singer behind the voice. I could sense layers within the song: each beat, each texture, each word as sound, each feeling and bodily response, the explicit and the implicit. Overall, I’m deeply grateful I committed to this one-week listening practice. It turned out to be far more beneficial than I expected. It improved my relationships with other people and with myself. I reconnected with the beauty of listening and its qualia: the felt textures of attention, the spectrum from strenuous to gorgeous and everything in between. Listening isn’t only an instrument of communication. It’s a mode of presence and, in its purest form, a way of connection and unconditional love.

Oh absolutely, it's an inner key to self stimulate the inner glands and hack the biochemical brain lab. Thank you very much for your sweet words brother. Beaming Infinite Live to you👽♥️ At some point one has to wonder, where all do these techniques come from? How were they discovered? From that fountain one must drink. I like the word Steering and in my life I've discovered that trusting it becomes an amazing catalyst for growth. Be the divine instrument in God's hand. I sometimes deliver messages to people, I feel a divine urge to say something to someone. Once in a train I couldn't help myself and had to tell a person that a personal situation would finally resolve and she should worry not anymore, that her prayers were heard. Let the work happen through you, this is the Truth, be a pure vessel for God's Play to unfold.

I find it hard enough to realise God, can't imagine the Meta of Infinite Gods. It must be alike to realising Infinity and then Infinite Infinities. That's my intuition. Like a fractal finding it's complete self in a part of itself and then finding Infinitely complete replicas of itself within itself. I've done that with Infinity but that looks a decade ahead to do with God.

Hindus call it mula bandha. There are three main locks: Mula bandha Pelvic floor Lift energy upward Uddiyana bandha Abdomen Draw energy inward & upward Jalandhara bandha Throat Contain and regulate upward flow. When all three bandhas are applied together, it is called Maha Bandha. When I'm in deep yogic samadhi I stabilise comfortably in Maha Bandha. A weird thing that happened to me on a psychedelic trip before getting to know about kriya yoga is that my tongue wanted so deeply to do Kechari Mudra, it felt like breaking my tongue at that time but when you hit the spot oh God it's like a self-estimulating your own brain chemistry and glands. So this a possible explanation, or it could be any other cause. As a general norm I prefer to be as relaxed and open as possible.

Absolutely! I was gonna write QiGong but then slipped my mind, was thinking a few minutes to recall it but just posted it. So thanks! I like this lady: Just posted three Banger videos and disappeared from YouTube. Kundalini yoga is great but I feel it's moving energy from a pseudostatic standpoint, with QiGong I get to move energy from a moving flow. It's great. On microcosm orbit it's just another way to move energy around the body there are many really, that works great. My favourite (although not that accessible even for me) is torus style. When you wire your energy like this, you're both high as kite and grounded as a rock

You should try it all. I have done so many weird shit you wouldn't even imagine ahahah. So this was my approach, trying as many techniques from mystics, different religions and schools of thought as possible. Try one technique for a month let's say and then report feedback. Moving to the next. So after some time you've got yourself a wide bufet of experience and you'll find stuff that works for you and other that doesn't. Try everything with an open mind, for example right now millions of people are fasting as a spiritual practice in Ramadan style, try everything. Then discard bullshit and what worked best for you invest and deepen it or craft your own combination of practices. Overall, what I like is the following: Kriya Yoga (from Yogigems in YouTube) Vipassana meditation Do nothing meditation with boundless spaciousness (recommend Michael Thaft) Autonomous Contemplation Breathwork (Wim Hof and alternate nostril breathing)

It's fine, I'm very guilty of that myself, sometimes I can't help it. That's why I always try to surround myself with people that have more experience, maturity and intelligence than me, in this way I get humbled and can learn. You gotta take calculated risks, where there is a will there's a way. I just can't buy it that with you intelligence you cannot make it for this 2026 to find an interesting psychedelic compound in a safe way. So if you make a one year goal to do so, in 2030 you'll have tried 4 new substances, how exciting right!

Probably the lack of love, care, connection and support for one another. We need some more healthy green vibes. The inability to see different degrees of holism. Lack of epistemic humility. One thing that annoys me is casuals speaking like know-it-alls. We're here to learn and share. We all make mistakes and are limited. We're not as intelligent as we want to show, we all are plenty of short comings. Lack of work in basic spiritual skills like daily meditation or yoga. Dismissal of psychedelic work, not going deep enough or wide enough. 100 trips is just the teaser, barely starting to go deep. Going wide, trying at least 20 different chemicals.

I got the feeling that most psychology degrees are very biased towards the pathology branch. I do like the work of Jung. Thanks for the advice on those courses. You need many special equipment that costs too much to make as a personal investment, you cannot spend 10k for every other subject; that infrastructure is provided by the university to put an example. If you study biotechnology, you're not gonna have a bioreactor home or a full chemical lab, etc. Just to put an example of what I mean.

@JoshB Mmm, it's hard to go so far while being in a nightmare, a lucid nightmare is still a nightmare. Take care of your human life, it's the foundation for all spiritual work. Read my signature: God-Realize, this is First Business. Know that unless I live properly, this is not possible. There is this body, I should know the requirements of my body. This is first duty. We have obligations towards others, loved ones, family, society, etc. Without material wealth we cannot do these things, for that a professional duty. There is Mind; mind is tricky. Its higher nature should be nurtured, then Mind becomes Wise, Virtuous and AWAKE. When all Duties are continuously fulfilled, then life becomes steady. In this steady life GOD is available

It's only I brother get over it An Infinite I I'm just your mirror

Touché I once told you Actualized.org is the religion of the future but you disliked that comment I was thinking more on content talking on religion or different religions for example. What is true about hinduism and what's bullshit, etc. Or a holistic video talking on the religious sentiment or on different mystics. Something like your second video of Infinity.

For me, the way I approach all of this is by starting with metaphysics. Before anything else, I had to figure out—truly, totally, and absolutely—what metaphysics is. What is the ontology of reality? What is reality itself? In my experience, that’s actually much easier than epistemology. Epistemology—the attempt to understand, interpret, and make sense of reality—is messy. It’s full of traps, distortions, self-deceptions, shifting frameworks, and constant revisions. It’s complicated and unstable. You’re always refining, correcting, evolving your models. It becomes an ordeal in itself. Metaphysics, by contrast, IS direct. It’s immediate consciousness. It’s right here, right now. You’re awake to it. You realize it. You are it. There’s no mediation—it’s identity, It's oneness. So my method has been this: I prioritize metaphysical awakening first. I become absolutely conscious of the truth of a given facet of reality. I allow the realization to happen fully. But then comes the real work. Because one thing is to awaken—to have the realization. Another thing entirely is to understand what that realization means. What does it entail? How does it ramify? How does it restructure your entire mental architecture—your network of assumptions, your conceptual framework, your lived understanding of reality? That part is deeply human. Messy. Slippery. So I went all in on metaphysics. I put all my chips there, aiming for absolute understanding: omniscience from the standpoint of Infinite consciousness. Then, when I return to the human domain—the finite mind, which is like a bubble within infinite consciousness—I contemplate. Again and again. I revisit the insight from my current baseline state of consciousness and try to make sense of it conceptually. Once a contemplation feels coherent and stable, I test it. I look for its limits. And then, during another awakening, I immerse my human understanding back into that higher consciousness to try to break it—to expose blind spots, distortions, and ceilings. Each time, I attempt to reach a higher level of holism. In the end, though, epistemology remains what it is: trying to hold a cup of water from the full ocean. The human brain—this skull-bound structure—is attempting to polish itself into a pristine diamond mirror that reflects the totality of reality. You keep refining, removing blind spots, increasing clarity, holism and intelligence. That’s how I approach it, at least. I hope it offers something of value to you.

Show me a paper that you think is deeper, more complete and better than Leo's videos on metaphysics and epistemology. I'll be delighted to read it. I do believe he lacks content on philosophy of religion, which I myself have studied to good extent. I have more of a syncretic approach to mystical branches of religion more than refusal or allergy to that whole domain.

In some ways that's true, but in others it's false. So given that we agre in what's true I'll point out in what way it's false. You're not gonna understand certain engineering fields without proper mentoring or for example become a Doctor. There's something that university gives you and it's very hard to learn it without it. Your comment also clearly comes from someone who has a degree and therefore being above, we see it's limits. I'm a full two engineering degree graduate and so what, it really tought me very little, but even that little couldn't have happened without the rigour and process of the university. I'll soon enroll in a master, so I still get value from the whole university system.

Of course, I had that in my mind too, but thought it was needless to say I didn't study philosophy because it was "history of philosophy" not Pure Philosophy. Same with psychology, it's about pathological psychology most of it, not human self-understanding or development.

@zurew I think you sometimes underestimate the degree of Leo's understanding of academic philosophy, remember he formally studied philosophy at university and earned his degree in the field. So I'm just guessing here but it's very likely he has a better grasp of that than you, unless you are a philosophy graduate yourself or have done the equivalent work (aprox. 6.000h to 7.200h) of university level academic philosophy.

Cool, thanks for sharing

I experience strong tolerance when vaping DMT on a vape, every hit takes more substance to reach the same state. I've been checking the scientific literature and this doesn't seem to be the case for most people. Do you experience DMT tolerance when redosing? In multiple days in a row there's no tolerance for me, but on the point of redosing I do feel it very substantially.

I still have faith for this one🤞🏼👽♥️

Mmm, I don't think it's that, as I could be vaping 5meo like air all day with 0 tolerance. It's only with DMT so far, soon I'll try it with Malt and see how the tolerance works. I have the intuition it's something about neurotransmitters.

I think it would be helpful to reference your work when talking in interviews. E.g. if you wanna know more about evil: Go watch what is The Devil? What is Goodness? Etc. A full 3h lecture on the topic...