ExploringReality

@Leo Gura The RDA+Squonk+flavorless vape juice is all I need to make a vape pen? Then I add the isolate and boom I'm good to go?

🫡✈️ I'm heading to mars

How many mgs? That shit is powerful. I cannot stand being stoned around stoned people.

Right! Even your earlier self-help videos would attract what the ego is searching for and your titles have gnarly hooks that are appeasing to sleepwalkers and once they got deep in the video, you basically disarm the ego, like the cleverness of the fox when it pretends to be playful to the cat only to snap its neck metaphorically. You jump up and down and smile to attract ego and once it's in there you spook the shit out of it into seeing it's absurdity and lack of consciousness helping to jolt one out it's dream of hell. What I love the most about you is you give super advanced wisdom and you also remind us to not depend on you and to transcend the training wheels and take risks of self actualizing.

This may be subjective, but all I have is my experience so I understand the paradox of speaking generally. I realized that what Leo is doing within the content of his episodes, even the beginning of actualized.org, all your old videos up till your new videos, you play the role as the shocker. I call you the shocker, like when someone is asleep and you jolt them awake. I'm not saying you're forcing people to wake up, but people are asleep. And the reason why I'm attracted to you is because I have awoken, and naturally I tend to look to see who's awake, even though I'm still fairly asleep even after I woken up. When you're talking to us, you're being filtered through the egoic mind, and I recognize that your wisdom is being distorted by ego, and the point of meditation and mindfulness in this work is to shed light on our asleepness. I got a hit on this last night, because I was listening to your episode on why truth is the highest value, and the first 12 minutes scared my ego and I wanted to fall asleep to avoid hearing it. It's like I'm a spiritual masochist and sometimes truth can be overwhelming to the ego. That's all I wanted to say. That you Leo are a shocker and I'm sure many people have felt hurt not by your words but because they have so many defenses and your wisdom can sometimes leak in or bust through those defense doors and when Consciousness shines through a dark cave, the bats and the ghosts and vampires do not like it.

People are sleep walking through life. thinking they are awake, the eyes are open but the mind is blind. Awakening is realizing that you are dreaming. You awaken from one dream into another, awakening is infinitely self awakening.

@Leo Gura Understanding is the key that unlocks insights. Understanding is the value of consciousness

@Leo Gura Robert Greene really highlights how humans are irrational creatures, especially the so called rational ones. We are irrational in our rationality. We like to think of ourselves as rational and logical, we are not.

Aye! The friends I made along the way are dead sages and fellow Voyagers.

@Leo Gura I've been listening to Vernon Howard's talks and he cuts through spiritual bullshit like a blade. "The world is like a giant hospital or insane asylum, where people walk around thinking they're doctors and free" his talks are very disillusioning.

All right fine, I'm going to put my protest flags back lol

Epistemic Sovereignty! The ability to stand in your own knowing without needing anyone to validate your knowing because your knowing is self-existent, self knowing, self evident. Needing reality to be validated really came when we were kids because we inherently were taught that our own perception cannot be trusted, so we naturally looked to others that took care of us to tell us what reality is. That's what gaslighting is, when you don't trust yourself and other people colonize your mind and define reality to you. Sovereignty of mind is what makes gaslighting impossible from other people. Others can only fool us when we don't trust our selves or we doubt our sense of reality. Imagine being absolutely sovereign, that's God 101. But it doesn't mean your cold or closed off, it just means you don't need other to tell you what you are or what reality is. Any how, hope this helps

I do not know! I am genuinely curious and in awe of the fact that I do not know. I am open to being conscious of the nature of this topic

The deepest conversation of God as man of God as man. Self reflection is infinite. Self is paradox.

What is rationality? Really. Is the universe Rational? Is a human Rational? Or is a human a very complex survival organism that uses a slice of infinite intelligence to serve its survival in irrational and rational ways? Are rational people truly rational. Is rationality dangerous? What are the pros and cons of constructing an identity of being a rational person? Also what is beyond rationality? These are delicious questions and I absolutely love this stuff

Great post. Only reason Im attracted to Leo's work is because he constantly and genuinely reminds you that he is not to be worshipped. He wants you to grasp your true nature, not his fingers. The Self is infinite Consciousness. I am reality. I am God. I am truth. Not just ideas or words that Leo says, but actual Truth.

I never voted before. Help

In the US the vote is yes or no on proposition 50

Yes vote yes or no on proposition 50?

What are y'all voting?

God help me

Thank you Leo

I just had a cognitive thrombosis reading this

Has anyone here experienced being in a relationship with the vulnerable covert narcissist? This shit will drive you insane. I've been spending the last month studying the psychology of narcissism and the different types. It's baffling because you could be in a relationship with someone or even family members can be narcissist and you wouldn't even know it. There are different types of narcissisms, malignant, overt and covert or otherwise known as vulnerable narcissist. The vulnerable covert narcissist is the most insidious and the most baffling of them all because they don't just tell you up front that they're a narcissist, they are the wounded victim and they're the good ones and no one understands them. They feed off of your emotional fuel whether it's positive or negative. They fish for reactions because it gives them a sense of control and security. They leech off of your validation and admiration, they are passing aggressive because they are weak and they project their shame and guilt on to you to avoid looking inward and seeing how dysfunctional and toxic they are so it's easier to cast blame onto others. Don't try to explain yourself, defend yourself or fix them because it only fuels their narcissistic supply. There's a very deceptive dynamic at play, they idealize you, they love bomb you and shower you with praise, and when you don't feed them that admiration and validation they devalue and disrespect you, you react and defend yourself which further fuels their emotional and narcissistic need, and then they discard you and throw you away or threaten to leave or just put you in the dirt. Then they Hoover you, try to bait you in because it gives them a sense of control of your emotions. All of it seems obviously toxic when you spell it out like this but anyone in a relationship like this you cannot tell what's going on, it's like being trapped in a spider's web the more you move the more stuck you get. It's important to know the distinction between healthy and unhealthy forms of feminine. You will never win with these folks because they lack empathy, self-reflection and accountability. Don't try to change them. Here are their parasitic tricks. •Victim theatrics escalate •Passive-aggressive escalation •Blame-shifting intensifies •Hoovering attempts •Overt anger or emotional explosions •Triangulation •Emotional withdrawal •Seduction or idealization flickers •Gaslighting intensifies •Searching for external supply Here are ways to handle them. •Set firm boundaries and enforce them •Gray rock — stay neutral and unreactive •Don’t argue or justify yourself •Refuse to feed drama or emotional highs •Protect your energy first, always •Keep communication clear, short, and factual •Recognize projection and don’t internalize it •Step back or disengage when manipulation escalates •Document patterns if needed for clarity or protection •Maintain your sovereignty and self-contained love

@Yimpa That was hilarious. Why does the narcissist twist the truth? They claim that you're the dysfunctional one and you're the toxic one