ZeldaStar

We do have one spiritual community here I am aware of! They do psychedelic retreats, meditations, ecstatic dancing, etc https://hccollective.ca/

Words are limiting here, it's good to discuss some definitions. These are my definitions, defined relative to time, space, and human words: Perceive: A collection of senses, memories, consciousness, feelings, and visions, that occur relative to time. Exist: Whatever is being perceived by you in the current moment. Experience: A memory of a past existance Dream: An experience that is so significantly different compared to another experience, that it is clearly defined against a different time or space construct. Wrong: That which does not serve You within the current moment Choice: The ability you have to experience anything you desire and retain memories of such experiences. You: That which is a combination of your body, your mind, and your environment. Everything: That which cannot be fully described to another relative to time or space, but can only be experienced individually. It can be imagined as simply, Infinity. Real: A word that does not lead to Everything; frequently misused for a materialist paradigm Awoken: That which is Everything, and nothing else. And so I claim that if you are choosing to exist relative to time, by the way I am using the words, it's wrong for you to claim that others do not exist. I'd be interested to see how you define these words, and why you choose to select words that make you feel like life is pointless and meaningless within your dream. I wonder if it's fair to say you've had an experience of being Everything, but you are not Everything right now, therefore you are not alone relative to time either.

But the way you are defining "exist", your thoughts that they don't exist equally don't exist either, so clearly your thoughts that they don't exist are also a filter you've put around reality. I don't think words like other people don't exist explain what reality is accurately. I actually think instead reality is proving the statement that everything can exist. The way I see it is that in any thought you have about another, that other does exist relative to you having a thought, because you are thinking about it right now. They exist as equally as you are existing right now. It's not like a fictional characters in a video games, which do not exist outside of the video games. That's because in a video game, the characters exist in a lower level of consciousness than you are. You are able to fully control them. But in life, the other characters exist on an equal consciusness as you. You cannot control them. That's what makes it interesting, and that's what makes the whole game so much more fun than video games! So from my perspective, no you are not all alone, because to be all alone, you would have to not have the thought that you are all alone, because there would be no one to have this thought. We, which is all Nothing, has somehow created a reality in which we have infinitely many equals, some above our level of consciousness, some below. And I believe there is much more above to go for all of us, and it's a shared journey...

Wanted to share a profound and very intense trip I've had recently. This trip was a last-minute decision. For some context, before the trip I had just got back from a work offsite trip. Throughout the whole 5 days of the trip, I kept digging into my fears. I've been deep at trying to let go, meditating, doing yoga, reflecting, and trying to overcome my fears. This search was mostly in response to my frustration with myself being less extroverted, less social, and not having the balls to cold approach. Of course, bringing so much attention and trying so hard to overcome/understand my fears had the opposite impact, and so throughout the work trip I felt more fears than usual. I felt less in the moment, I felt odd, less flowing. And I kept observing how my mind manufactures different fears—like, for example, right before I was about to do a presentation. There was also some drama and some strange vibes I picked up from other people at the offsite, which fed further into my fears. On my flight back, I felt so frustrated with it all. And I really wanted to understand why. Where are these fears coming from? So I made the spontaneous decision to take shrooms (1.6 grams) at 7 PM and expand my consciousness so I could finally figure this thing out. It was my third shrooms trip. About 50 minutes after taking it, I closed my eyes and opened a portal in my imagination to the "spiritual world." The best way I can convey how it looked in words: it was a world that's not bound by material rules, a world with flying spirits laughing about life and the material, and plenty of unusual things happening. I was still myself as an ego, so the world was separate from myself, and I was able to navigate and switch my consciousness between the "real world" and the "spiritual world." I started laughing about something in the spiritual world, and suddenly I imagined that I was one of a group of 10 identical creatures, just like myself, all laughing together. Suddenly I wondered—who are those people? Are they real? And as I zoomed into an individual person, my mind started going in cycles, contemplating what's better—living as "one," or living with "many" others. It felt like the cycle of thought could go back and forth forever. Then, I stopped myself from going further, and I tried to re-orient my mind back toward my fears. I asked consciousness over and over again to show me my fears. I wanted to discover what they are. Consciousness told me it's quite complicated. For my fears are deeply tied to my survival. I understood that my brain has been protecting me, filtering reality from myself. I kept facing some back-and-forth about objections as to why I should not become conscious of my fears, but I persisted in my desire to see them. At some point after this request, I had a realization: people don't see me the way I imagine they see me. Suddenly, I became conscious, all at once, of the source. I perceived 1,000 different situations throughout my whole life—situations where I did something wrong, behaved strangely, wasn't able to do a task everyone else was good at, or did something socially unacceptable. The thing is, I experienced those situations not through my own lens, but rather through the lens of the people who saw me in those situations. I realized how my subconscious brain was protecting me by distracting me and using defense mechanisms like playing computer games or watching movies so I wouldn't think too much about how other people perceive me. And so it occurred to me just how differently an "average" human brain behaves compared to my brain. I believe (but haven't been diagnosed) that I'm neurodivergent. And so I realized that for an "average, unconscious" human brain, it's a painful/icky experience to see someone who does not behave in the standard/regular way within a situation. It's icky to watch someone behave awkwardly. And I finally understood why—because my personality, and those behaviors in those situations, are uniquely pointing people toward a painful truth: that reality is NOT perfect. I'm... un-beautifying reality. But that doesn't mean I'm ugly. For I have never had problems with learning, success, or achieving anything I've set my mind on. And so with this personality design, a person can't just go ahead and reason to themselves, "Oh, he is worse than me," because I'm probably "better" than them in the objectives they would use to describe "better," like money, looks, morals, intelligence, and kindness. And yet to some people, the design is and will always be ugly, yet they can't "rationalize" it; it's just a "feeling" they get, like something is wrong, different. I then realized just how controversial it is to create a human that would uniquely, subtly, merely through their existence, demonstrate to people that reality is not perfect. I finally realized this controversy comes all the way back to my birth. Because my own birth was controversial; I was unplanned, born to a mother who only had sex with condoms, was very young, and was told by everyone around her to have an abortion, yet refused to do so. Finally, I discovered who I am: a part of consciousness that appeared out of infinite consciousness, that became frustrated with how consciousness was going, and decided to birth itself to change things and show consciousness its own flaws. I also realized this part of consciousness is growing, and it's spreading throughout society. I saw that consciousness is evolving forward and for the better. I then realized I have the choice, and the option, if I choose, to here and now change my personality and become someone completely else. I saw it's just a book we are writing, and I can choose to rewrite this book if I like. However, I also liked my personality and how my whole existence was structured. It was so beautiful, so elegant, just the right unique, perfect amount of "different." Because while I may be "different"/neurodivergent, it also comes with its talents. Like, yes, I will always suck at learning a new skill for the first time, but whatever I put my mind to, I have the right genetics/motivation/focus that allows me to achieve what I want. The comedown from this trip was difficult. It was very late (2 AM), and I was left with all of the content of my subconscious mind exposed, just conscious of thousands of different situations in my life where I've made people feel icky/weird. But after a few weeks, I managed to move on and just accept that this is who I choose to be. I've also been able to see more of the other sides and how the creation is only meant to be ugly for a certain type of person. Others, maybe ones whom I would consider "more evolved," see me completely differently—as a kind, positive force in the world.

I've only done small doses of THC but my experience has been that it felt more similar to alcohol than psychedelics. It has usually made my thought process worse, more cyclic, stuck. Curious if people had similar effects here?

Just purchased, excited to watch all the clips! I have a question about the clip "You Are Not Serious Enough To Succeed". Sorry if this is wrong place to put this question. It has always made sense to me in the context of financial success, gym, etc. However I'm currently reading the books about Conversations with God, which mention this as well. But also the books mention another topic - that whatever it is we "want", we also repel, because we're producing an experience of wanting something rather than the experience of having something. How do you balance these two perspectives? The reason I'm asking is that I find in my life that when I am too serious about something - say dating, I struggle to be as present in the moment and relaxed, which can hurt instead of help.

Mark Carney doing pretty well in Canada so far

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As a serious coder I can confirm no one in my company or any serious engineer I know in my friend circle has been replaced, yet I've been hearing people scared about AI replacing them for the past 2 years 🙃

Thanks Leo! Your content is extremely insightful. I was also contemplating this to myself previously. I believe the ego is selfish, and God is Selfless. So the ego cannot control God while it's operating from a selfish perspective. Unrelated to this video, I had a question for you. I watched your 30 Awakenings in 30 Days video. You mentioned you were getting pulled into the infinite dimensions of Love. And you were conscious that if you go there, you would take everyone else with you. Yet you also wanted say goodbye to your parents before you leave. Which one do you believe is True now? Would your parents continue existing in a separate dimension of infinity without you, or would you have awakenen completely and taken everyone else with you?

In your psychedelic experiences, have you been able to experience God level creator consciousness? Basically, I am wondering if you could somehow modify something beyond your mind (what is being perceived in a "sober" state) during your psychedelic experience, and then have that change remain after you come back? Or do you believe such levels would require a sacrifice of the self?

Hypothetically, since we are all equal imaginations with the same access to Consciousness, could we prove this is true by gathering as a group, find one person who would be willing to go to the deep end of the consciousness experience with these understandings in mind, merge completely with God, apply some changes to reality from God mode, and then come back?

That's interesting. Have you watched Leo's videos on holism? I've always been in favor of more unity within our country, and I feel like this desire for separatism from Quebec is hindering us on the self-actualization journey. Curious what's your perspective on how that ties in with self actualization.

Very Interested, followed your work for nearly 3 years now, and I have so many questions and wanna learn more.

I like SOLVED with Mark Manson