ExploringReality

@Thought Art sigh 😔

@Leo Gura all there is, is me. I am a strange loop.

@Oppositionless That's a powerful experience, please honor that. You are courageous for stepping into that experience.

@freddyteisen That's a very powerful realization, to suddenly suspect that the story and self image isn't what you Truly are. Consciousness is so mysterious, you will continue to unravel the mysteries of consciousness on your journey. Prepare for paradoxical mindfucks that will flip your reality inside out. Keep exploring and breaking through the filters. See you behind your eyelids 💪🏼

@Emerald Yes. are we eating to live or are we eating to die? Is a question I love asking my self. Being more conscious of what goes into my mouth has made a huge shift in my physical and mental performance, but also got me in touch with my feelings on a cellular level and on an emotional level, my body became very sensitive to junk food, dairy and processed meats after switching over to a whole food diet. If I drink a cup of soda, it makes me feel bad and a shit storm erupts with an gnarly stomach ache. But more than that, I can connect deeper with my body, other life forms no matter how far away, small, big, dangerous and cute. I can see into an animal's eyes and see a sovereign consciousness looking back. Also I became disgusted with how society, the educational system and media completely rot us through food from the very beginning. Classrooms are filled with junk foods to reward kids good behavior. It makes me angry as to think about how my parents were chewed up and spit out of this same system. When I eat, I am more mindful of what and how I eat, honoring the body, nature and all sentient beings.

What makes us different from animals? this is something I'm contemplating on, it just hit me. The true difference is self reflective awareness. Not just being aware, but being aware that we are aware. The animal is the horse. The human being is the rider who suddenly realizes, I am riding a horse. This is a kind of metacognition. It’s the divine spark that opens the door to ask, “What am I?Why am I here?” “What is this?” No other animal stares into the void of Consciousness and reflects on existence. I'm wondering where this comes from, and I don't want to hear anything about evolution and biology because that's just in the dream. I think a deeper answer is metaphysical. From God's perspective, the human being is not a product of matter, it’s a dream character within consciousness waking up to its source. A self-knowing loop in the infinite field of Being. Whoaaa!!!! You, as the human, are the interface between animal nature and God-consciousness. A bridge between the finite and the infinite. That bridge itself is the missing key I'd say. We are God dreaming it is man. The mystery of form waking up to formlessness. You are not a body with awareness, you are awareness appearing as a body for a while, to know itself through limitation. And what makes the human being human is not just emotion or survival, but the capacity to transcend survival, to die for love, for truth, for beauty. What makes us human is not that we survive,but that we can choose to awaken, love, and die for something greater than survival. That’s God, realizing itself through us. 💥

@theleelajoker You can choose to respond

@Hojo Coming from someone who constantly judges, so ridiculous to see t in others but can't see it within themselves, what a pity

@Terell Kirby Relatively speaking they do. Don't gaslight people through conflating the Absolute with the relative.

@Aaron p I do too, but I would rather drive my fist into their skull, then look at them with forgiveness and mercy as to not shut their lights out. Kinda brutal but Im like a wild animal that wears slacks, reminding myself to not pounce on people when they test my patience sideways haha

@Hojo I'm done entertaining your ridiculous attempts at gaslighting me.

@Hojo your not defending yourself, your reacting because the mask slipped, and accusing me of using chat to bypass your inadequate mind. Also I brought it in the equation because I was poking fun at the fact that you're saying that all Spiritual Awakening is just touching yourself and that it's useless, I thought it was quite funny because it seems as though you've never really touched yourself with your attitude

Classic spiritual bypass 😂 when all else fails, brag about your body counts. You’ve touched a lot of bodies, but have you ever touched Being? Also I don't care about you having sex, it wasn't a literal claim, it was a double entender, a joke if you failed to understand.

@Hojo You’re mistaking cynicism for insight. Dismissing deep realization as just touching yourself only shows you haven’t touched anything real yet. Your saying touching yourself is useless, it sounds like you never had a good awakening, or a girlfriend lol

@Hojo You're mistaking intellectual loops for clarity, and dressing it up as spirituality. You're confusing levels of awareness with the nature of awareness itself. The fact that humans and animals are on a spectrum of self awareness doesn’t mean the quality of awareness is the same. What makes humans unique isn't just degree, it’s our meta-cognitive ability which your not appreciating. We don't just see the mirror, we realize there is a mirror, that we’re seeing through it, and that the one looking is empty. That’s not just baby mind with more thoughts that’s a structural leap I'm sure Leo would agree on. Your parroting spiritual sounding ideas without actually realizing the place those ideas are pointing to. You've mistaken the map for the territory, then declared the map evil. Bro’s out here saying contemplation is satanic while using contemplation to explain why contemplation is satanic.

@Hojo You’re confusing having more thoughts with having deeper awareness. Contemplation isn’t just piling on mental noise, it’s realizing what the mind is, questioning it, and sometimes even dropping it entirely. That’s not the same as a baby’s mind or a hog’s instinct. Animals may be closer to God in their simplicity, but they’re not aware of that, notice that difference. They don’t contemplate the nature of being, death, or illusion. Only humans can do that, and that capacity used properly doesn’t pull you away from God. It points you back to the source.

@Hojo Yes, certain animals may show rudimentary self-reflection, like recognizing their body or navigating social dynamics, but we humans are capable of reflecting on our own reflections, creating recursive loops of awareness. Contemplation isn't just one feature though, we are able to hold many layers of abstraction, meaning, and inquiry about existence itself. we don't just think, we know that we think, and then we question why we think, who is thinking, and whether the thinker exists at all. This recursive self awareness is what opens the door to philosophy, art, religion, science, and even metaphysical inquiry. yes an advanced animal can self reflect, but there are many dimensions to self awareness and ours is multidimensional. It's interesting learning about cephalopods and octopuses from Terrance McKenna because he States based off observation and with his experiences with psilocybin mushrooms, that octopuses communicate through a visual language on the surface of their skin but we mistake their physical and bodily changes as surface level survival defense mechanisms. But really octopuses are very intelligent and they communicate through a visual language which you can see, which minimizes ambiguity within their society. Intelligence in nature is so versatile, that we take for granted our ability to self inquire and to have this meta awareness. But when you look at nature you can see many forms of advanced varieties of intelligence.

@Natasha Tori Maru Girl, your okay

@Leo Gura I do use it to ask powerful questions in my contemplations, but it is not useful to just take the answers generated as the end all be all without going deeper into investigation using your own mind to derive the answers for itself rather than relying on the AI to do it for you. AI is a powerful tool but it should not be a substitute for critical thinking. For example, if you're stuck still trying to figure out and implement your life purpose, you can use AI to hover over blind spots in your quest figuring out and living your life purpose but it will not give you the answers to your life purpose for you.

@Sugarcoat I'm not just specifically referring to feelings, I'm talking about the raw life forces that drives nature. Makes a baby cry, moves an animal and keeps you breathing. The drive of survival itself, even if your numb to emotions and disconnected from them, the horse is still there moving but may be numb to it and you won't be aware that your riding it. You see?

I was thinking about how human beings are basically two things. Using the Rider and the horse analogy, I've observed that we have this animal nature which is the horse in the analogy, but we also have this rational intelligent nature to ourselves and that's the rider in the analogy. From this frame it's beautiful to see how the horse, which is representing our emotions and our energy is this powerful force of our animal nature and that we must learn to ride and to tame our emotions, desires and raw primal strength. We have the ability to channel this energy intelligently using our intellect and logic, and this is how great works of art and beauty are created in all fields of life is because we are channeling this raw primal animal force and all animals have but what makes us human is the fact that we can turn inwards, reflect on our experiences and channel this energy into something creative. So that's a great way to view ourselves and it can be very easy to get sucked into our emotions and live with destructive life because we're not controlling ourselves and riding that horse in a way that is not destructive but creative. Controlling ourselves doesn't necessarily mean that we have to suppress or repress ourselves but to work on ourselves, integrate the many various parts of ourselves and to flourish as our true authentic selves using our intelligence and logic to channel our energy into something productive and uniquely our own. I heard a boxer by the name of Chris eubanks once said, " it's not what or who you take from and whether it is in sports or business something useful that you can use as your own, but it's where you can take it to" and I believe that if we all learn to understand ourselves as the rider and the horse we will be able to make better decisions yes, but also channel that raw primal emotion and energy into a uniquely creative way. Let me know what you think about this, I'm sure you've heard of this analogy before if your a personal development junkie, I know Leo used it in one of his older videos but looking at it from this angle I feel it really shed some light on it and can help us take a step back especially in the heat of a moment to see the bigger picture and to be more responsible and intelligent because our emotions play a really really huge factor in our lives, or maybe the only factor for most people. And don't get me wrong being more intelligent and logical doesn't mean that we have to turn off our emotions and become cold but it's actually the opposite, we are tuned into our emotions more fully, and we learn to ride it like a horse, steering in a direction of our highest passions and not let it take us over and destroy others and us.

@Davino Solipsism is God's recognition of its own sovereignty as The One and All. The Mind of God self illuminated upon itself as the Infinite is the unlimited version

Leo, your basically a Rational Mystic. A modern sage. A philosophical Yoda. It's amazing what you've done with actualized.org, your definitely going down as one of the greats on human history, way ahead of your time providing timeless wisdom on many levels within Maslows hierarchy of needs. Thank you for taking me on this wild journey of actualizng and Awakening. Your triangle logo is that pyramid of needs, thirst of being and that pinnacle light at the peak is representative of Transcendence.

Wow! God is the fucking Goal, but you don't know what you Truly want!!! You are lost in a sea of desire but have lost steering, and your distracted with lesser goals because your ass has to survive. But I have a question for you forum users! If you had to pick between realizing Truth/God or choose sex, food and shelter and other survival goals and desires psychologically, socially and conceptually, which one will you choose? imagine there was a gun to your head right now and your life depends on making this choice. Are you going to take Truth really seriously and trying to figure out what the fuck is Reality? Or not? Is the question. How serious are you? This is true spirituality. Spirituality is connecting with God which is the highest Truth. How serious are you in trying to prove God?

@Leo Gura I love reading Plotinus. Return to the One baby. This inspires me when I get back home tonight I'm going straight to my bookshelf and grabbing that motherfucker