AtmanIsBrahman

Job interview questions

The more intelligent you are, the more creative you are. And you become more intelligent through spiritual work. So whichever spiritual practices make you more advanced.

“Love is the realization that there is no difference between anything”

I think you have to accept that being into spirituality with the depth that many of us are on this forum is extremely uncommon. It’s likely genetic, as Leo always repeats. Just like you can’t blame people for not being 7 feet tall, you can’t blame them for not caring about truth. There are also a number of life circumstances that have to line up perfectly for someone to do spirituality. Having a good childhood, education, being encouraged to think independently, seeking out philosophical and spiritual knowledge, finding the right sources (Leo).

Interesting insight into vipassana. I wonder how effectively this could be done at home. In theory, you shouldn’t need a retreat, but the change in atmosphere and strict schedule can help. Another thing that comes to mind is Buddhist dogma. The enumeration of states of consciousness or the “correct way” to act is counterproductive imo, and only takes away from the bare meditative practice. This is especially annoying because it shows how Buddhism really is just a religion like Chrisitanity. The juice to be extracted from Buddhism is the practices; the rest is residue.

I’m going to try to manifest a height increase. This is an exercise in radical openmindedness. Those of you who think you’re open minded — would you be openminded enough to try this? I’ll update with my results.

Yes, kind of. I think of manifestation as a sub field of psychic abilities domain. It can also be called law of attraction, law of assumption, conscious creation, or affirmation practice.

Chris Langan has a great mind in many ways, but his theory is fundamentally conceptual. He gets some things wrong, such as hell existing. He also has weird political views. But yes, definitely worth looking into. This is probably the most interesting Curt interview, after Leo of course.

Hmmm… I definitely agree that focusing your energy on something will affect your life in some way. The question is how much it can actually affect reality or “the dream” though. I just think that if you are imagining all of reality, you must be able to change it even on a physical level. One could argue that you wouldn’t want to do that because you’re beyond the ego’s desires in that state of consciousness, but I don’t really buy it. This is also where psychic phenomena, black magic, etc. come in. My intuition is that if these practices were 100% garbage, they wouldn’t have been practiced for so long in basically every human culture.

You’re being kind of cryptic with your words. It’s hard for me to get what you’re trying to say. I explained what I consider manifesting to be. It is making a change that wouldn’t have happened otherwise just through your thoughts as opposed to your actions. Do you have any experience with manifestation, or do you have a different idea of what it means?

I want to get your opinions on this. Can you truly manifest or is it just a psychological gimmick? There are two types of manifestation. One is that you create an image of something in your mind and motivate yourself to pursue it. But this isn’t real manifestation because it’s your actions in the objective world that produce a result. For example, visualizing yourself getting hot women and then going out to talk to them. The second type is more interesting — manifesting as a spiritual endeavor. This means that you manifest something without actually taking action. For example, you think “I want to grow taller as an adult” and then that actually happens. This would be true manifestation because there is no objective-world action that would lead to the outcome. I have no direct experience of this type of manifestation, but my intuition tells me it might be possible. If what Leo says about reality being imaginary is true, it must be possible to do these kinds of things, even if it requires a way higher state of consciousness. Do you have any direct experience of “true” manifestation? If you do, explain what it was and your epistemology behind it, i.e. why it wasn’t an action in the real world that produced the result.

In a conversation, when someone mentions xyz and then the other person says “That’s crazy, I was just thinking about xyz” or “I have a friend who did xyz thing.” It’s fake and just trying to appeal to the other person’s ego.

I agree with you generally, but what if you buy the watch because you want to appear high-status and wealthy, even though you don’t personally value it at all? Are you a conformist or a master social engineer? Or is wanting to appear high-status itself conformity? Even in this kind of example, it’s not so obvious that it’s conformity. Identifying conformity is a messy business.

Gym is definitely an important part of self help. You will be respected more and treated better with an aesthetic physique

Just from watching part of the podcast, it seems like he has a bit of a resigned, depressed outlook on life — not that uncommon among intellectual types who don’t do spirituality. It feels like he’s decided to take the little tidbits of joy he can get from life. Not sure this is the peak of wisdom/maturity.