ExploringReality

@Leo Gura You're blog post on Daniel Ingram, you emphasized and mentioned a user on the forum for your blog post. I'm asking because this user created a thread on mod abuse. You know what I mean Leo lol. Im wondering because a mod barely locked it and seems like you mentioned the crocodile in your blog post to blow smoke up her ass before having that thread locked. Don't act dumb either haha

How would you describe yourself?

@Leo Guraare you using reverse psychology by tagging on your blog post? Like giving candy to a crying child. Be honest.

The ideas of "good" and "bad" are pretty much based on your personal survival and the sense of self you've built over your life. What you think is good is anything that helps you survive and feel secure in who you are. What you think is bad is anything that threatens that. But in reality, there’s no objective “good” or “bad” in the universe – it’s all relative to you and your experience. A lot of these ideas of what’s good or bad actually come from your childhood. Your parents, caregivers, or the adults around you taught you these ideas through rewards and punishments. As a kid, you learned what was “good” based on what made you feel safe or got you praise, and what was “bad” based on what brought punishment or made you feel rejected. These early influences shaped how you view the world, but they’re just social constructs, not universal truths. Especially religious indoctrinations!!! These are core to your ideas of what's good and what's bad, even if you consider yourself not religious, it's in the air around you and that gets internalized through a process of domestication. Now you guilt yourself and have that inner voice of momma and Papa telling you your a good little boy or a bad little girl.

Amazing Leo, that struck me like lighting.

@Princess Arabia That's usually the case lol. It's always more mature to be kind even after a rejection or uninterested from the other person.

This term is so beautiful, evocative and powerful. Synonyms for Awakening. •Breaking through barriers and limitations of mind. •self-realization •awakened awareness •conscious awareness •expanding Consciousness •waking up •Metaphysical Rapture •Infinite Expansion •Divine Satori •Timeless Revelation •Shattering the Illusions •Cosmic unfolding Y'all add more, these are beautiful. ❤️

When I was 9 until 15 I would have many dreams and visions of blue beings that were over my body. I would get intuitions and a strong vision of being worked on a surgery table. Also since I was 10 years old Ive been fixated on what is consciousness and just being deeply curious as to what reality and existence is.

@Vynce is that aarogan? Loved him, my youngest brother was Gimley, my older brother was the elf guy and I was always aarogan 💪🏽😉

A Human Being is a strange and fascinating concept. Nature is said to build upon itself so it's likely that animals and humans are very similar structurally but also different. Being Human is integrating this lower animal self with something higher within. Depending on ones circumstances, genetics, psychology and upbringing ect... do influence wether one is being human or more of an animal. Because animals don't think about their choices and long term consequences like a human concept. Now this problem of transcending desires and human cravings is something that we have puzzled for a very long time, yes? Word it how you will but the drive for sex, food and comfort, can these be transcended? I don't mean not ever having sex or not eating comfortably, but being non attached, seeing long term relationship between action and consequences, and not being pulled by lower reptilian survival drives. these drives aren't to be neglected, but to be understood and integrated

I have reached this Love, not completely, but enough to understand that love is acceptance, inclusion and embracing not just the good but the foolishness and ignorance and so called 'bad". Your blog post on the suffering of development is something I resonate with. I see how through each threshold of development there is an uncomfortable and serious self reflection and understanding of how wrong I am in so many areas of my life, from the most taken for granted ways to the most obvious ways. I've noticed this with psychedelics, there is a point in the trip where it gets serious. Seriously seeing how self deceived I am and how wrong I am in light of my own consciousness. Facing this depth of wrongness within myself is difficult but I have the wisdom to see that by facing myself in a new light, I am bringing the light of consciousness and shining it on what's deeply unconscious. Self Deception is God's ability to Deceive itself. Self-Trickery is a great word. The great Joker as Alan Watts likes to say. I have reached levels of consciousness that forever changes how I see criminals, schizophrenics and psychopaths. Not because I condone such behavior but because I can see that it's all God living through itself so totally that it literally threatens your sense of reality, morality and beliefs of what is going on. Not that what these people are doing I agree with or think it's right, relative to my survival and human bias!!! That is the important insight.

Leo what is your take on funerals? Have you attended a family or relative funeral? Are you sad and go through mourning phases like those around you? Or do you see it so differently, therefore affected differently?

It is very exciting reading ken wilbers materials , you get smarter as you learn. But remember the map is not the territory and the models are only sign post pointing towards something that the sign posts are not.

@Something Funny Integral models from ken are different from SP but includes and overlaps a lot of different developmental models into a single meta-model. It is true that ego wants to see itself as higher on a stage than it really is. I believe we all have holes in our development as in Maslows hierarchy of needs which is only one model. But we all have different stages of the spiral within us that we have not integrated and transcended.

Depends on the person genetics and psychology. I'm very athletic and train everyday, I smoked before a half marathon, a few hits and I'm locked in. It does make me more self aware and paranoid in a good way, more like pronoia instead of paranoia.

I mean experiencing reality from a totally new way. Not just conceptually imagining a different perspective but actually inheriting a new world, reality and experience. Like imagine you are sitting here or standing where you are right now, you are looking at something then suddenly your Consciousness leaps out of your current sense and experience of reality in this moment into a new state of consciousness that confirms that consciousness is non dependent on the brain and body. This experience of breaking out of ordinary states of consciousness to extraordinary states of consciousness is so vital and exhilarating that once this happens, life will never be the same because you have broken through. It's not a breakthrough into something separate from ordinary reality, but a breakthrough through our taken for granted sense of what reality and consciousness is.

Don't get lost and sucked into corridors of believing in things which you have no direct contact with. It can bring you comfort but stay mindful of the many traps when you are in a vulnerable situation. Try using Maslows hierarchy of self Actualization for long term satisfaction and fulfillment. Study Leo's catalog of teachings and insights, getting at the root of our problems and situations may not be comforting at first, but pays off in the long run

You mentioned a combination of supplements in your video below that you take when you feel a strong cold come on and it wipes it away within an hour, I'm curious to know what these are to help me out in rough times please.

That sounds like a difficult situation to be in. Keep reflecting on yourself, learn from the past, accept what is. Be open to the uncertainty of the future, you sound like you want to change and that is something that can drive you. Be open to the mysteries of reality. Have you explored non Duality and advaita vedanta teachings? Check out sri nissargadahta and Ramana maharishi. I'm open to non physical connections and guidance, for me I've always been attracted to channeling, psychedelics and suffering.

@Leo Gura Do you take any supplements at all now? If so which ones do you? And if not, why not?

@Leo Gura Some guy who made a living being boxings top pound for pound fighters recently filed a divorce against his ex-wife after she slapped him. The court gave her ownership over a $300,000 g wagon that he bought as a family car and she took the kids from him. A week later she married a black man. I don't think she's coming back after that

@Leo Gura In divorce your wife can take ownership over actualized.org, your revenue and access to your hardware and software

@integral Thank you, 🙏🏽 I need to continue growing myself inside out, use the life purpose course and stay disciplined.

I've heard your talks when tripping. LSD or psilocybin, when everyone is sleeping and my eyes are dilating and expanding, suddenly my consciousness is fluid and not dependent on eyes. My perceptions and sense's are turned up and listening to you Leo it's as though we aren't really watching you compared to on a psychedelic. It clicks differently. While tripping, my mind immediately goes towards self inquiry, it's not my mind contemplating, it's the universe contemplating itself.

@Leo Gura @Leo Gura Your right, was a joke.