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The Furious, Man on fire, and Lioness(Marines), are binge worthy! The fighting is very intriguing!! '

@LordFallYes, but for me you need arousal and an erection. It wakes you up. Afterward, I do fire kasina. You can feel the immediate shift when you edge in the morning, and I tend to feel blissed out throughout the day, especially when I follow it with more Kriya Yoga, Thokar, or even second initiation pranayama. I pay close attention to the shifts happening inside me and operate based on them. I try to make finer distinctions between the different states I enter. I’ve noticed that this state enhances my willpower, consistency, and ability to execute properly. It gives me the drive to keep working without stopping, sometimes to an insane degree. It feels like a bull constantly moving forward. Especially if you don’t ejaculate, you can feel like a powerhouse. I see it as energy. Use it or raise it.

@Monster Energy If you simply inject estrogen, it’ll remove your porn addiction. 😂 I’m glad to hear you finally conquered your addiction, though. Honestly, I wake up and edge to porn after serious Kriya as a way to start my day and increase ojas. Then I study hard and build skills. If not porn, then what else? Two hours of porn vs. a two-hour movie either way, it’s time spent on entertainment. I just try not to let porn become an impediment to the rest of my life. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to.

I am 26 and back in community college doing a 2+2 toward computer science. For years, music was my main thing. I can mix, master, make beats, sing, write songs, rap, and play some piano. I am genuinely good at it. But I started realizing that the sound-engineer path is extremely hard, especially with home studios, location, competition, and the general state of the industry. Maybe some of that is a limiting belief, but I did not want to bet my entire life on it. So I chose computer science because I want a skill that is needed in waves and could eventually let me make music software or solve real music problems. I want to become genuinely good at something valuable, not just survive. The hard part is that I feel behind. I bought the Life Purpose Course and completed it more than once. I still review my Me Sheet and parts of the course. I understand the idea of mastery in theory, but finding the actual domain and building a career around it feels much harder in real life. I also feel socially out of place. I thought I was moving into actual apartments at college. Instead, I am in gender-inclusive quad dorms with mostly 18-year-olds. I leave my room every day because that is a rule I made for myself, but I worry my social skills are getting worse. I do not know how to socialize without feeling weird, older, or like I am forcing it. I want feedback on a few things: Is CS plus music software a realistic path toward mastery and strong income? What would you focus on during a 2+2 CS path if the goal is to make serious money after college? How do you stay social and build a life at community college when you are older than most people around you? How do you tell the difference between a realistic concern about the music industry and a limiting belief that is making you quit too early? Has anyone here rebuilt their direction in their mid-20s and found a path that actually worked?

I am trying to understand how you organized your habits, projects, and daily work during your early years compared with how you operate now. Aside from your commonplace book and the Life Purpose Course, what external systems do you actually use? For example: Calendar or fixed schedule Daily task lists Habit tracking Journaling Project-management systems Systems for prioritizing competing goals How many separate systems do you use, and which ones have remained useful over time? After reading a lot of Metarationality and Meaningness, I think I understand why an overly rigid system cannot fully handle the nebulosity of real life, but I may be misunderstanding that. How do you balance structure with flexibility? When several valuable tasks compete for your attention, how do you decide what deserves your time that day? I recently started using Obsidian for daily notes and journaling, but I am beginning to wonder whether I am complicating everything. Would a basic list and calendar be enough? What does your actual daily process look like? I am also curious whether you use any repeatable process for becoming highly skilled at difficult things, such as computer programming. You have mentioned the brute-force method before. How does that method fit into your daily schedule without crowding out everything else? I could really use some practical suggestions. Also, when do you expect the bootstrapping video to be released? @Leo Gura

@PolyPeter @PolyPeter I’m thinking of transferring from MCC and doing a CS B.A. so I can really study sound/audio alongside it at UB or another school. My idea is to eventually solve music-related problems for people like me. Learning sound engineering was hell at times, and I think there are tools or better learning systems that could make it easier. I am still working out the details. I do not know exactly where my paycheck will come from after college yet. Right now I am focused on building real foundations in CS and physics, then learning how to apply their frameworks across more than one domain.

@PolyPeter Yeah, I use Claude Code and Codex daily. I understand that coding itself is changing fast, which is part of why I am unsure. I do not want to become someone who only writes boilerplate. I was thinking CS could give me the deeper foundation to use AI well, build and understand systems, and eventually make music software(it is a framework for thinking). But my older brother did computer engineering and hated it. He says the job market comes in waves and tells me to do something else. I honestly do not know what “something else” is that has better upside and still fits me. Music is the thing I have real ability in, but the music courses here are weak and the industry path feels unstable. So I am trying to figure out whether CS is still a reasonable foundation, or whether I am forcing myself into another dead end.

@Ulax Todd v in my opinion is the best when it comes to learning game.

@spiritcore 😂😂😂 You cannot be creative during a K-hole. Goodluck

Cycles are better than full abstinence. You will eventually release. It's impermanent. Convert rsther than suppress. I sometimes will just edge for 30 days straight to further increase Ojas energy. I love it. I think about Brahmacharya everyday.

@stephenkettley 32 days i did it last month! Haha it was brutal. I have a very high sex drive. The secret to going longer is to avoid having an erection during the day and spend more time doing hard work. It is impossible after day 14 I become super sensitive!

I keep a personal tracker inside my calendar each day where I track the day I am on. There are profound benefits after day 7 of Brahmacharya. I have huge lists of benefits. For me not releasing is beneficial. I get POIS which sucks.

Or, read the pamphlet

@Leo Gura 😂😂😂😂 Self-deception

@Natasha Tori Maru CODEX Is the GOAT. Claude code too.

I mastered my own Xywav run, not by treating it like a simple sedative, but by learning the pattern-language of the medication... The Meta-Argument Behind My Oxybate Manual: I have narcolepsy-spectrum sleep dysfunction, and Xywav/oxybate was not simple for me. The normal framing is usually: take the medication, fall asleep, wake up better. That framing was not enough. In my experience, oxybate is not merely a sedative. It is a sleep-architecture intervention that can reorganize the next day if the run is clean enough. The problem is that many people judge it too early, change variables too fast, or never learn how to read what the medication is doing. I had an advantage here because I am very experienced with psychedelic states and altered-state pattern recognition. When the titration started producing strange, mystical, dreamlike, symbolic, foggy, luminous, or genius-level states, I did not automatically treat all of it as random noise. I recognized that there was a pattern. Not a recreational pattern. Not a mystical proof. A repeatable structure. During titration, the state can become extremely strange. Early days can feel distorted, heavy, foggy, or spiritually loaded. But if the variables are held steady, the state can start to stabilize into something much more functional: clear language, visual thinking, systems-thinking, deep reading ability, and a continuous “genius-normal” wake mode. That is why I made the manual. I was not trying to make a dosing guide. I was trying to make a map of the territory. The core argument is: - oxybate should not only be judged by whether someone “slept” - the real question is what kind of sleep architecture was produced - the next-day state may be the deeper object of study - early titration states can be misleading if read without phase awareness - food, CPAP, timing, gut state, stimulants, stress, and environment can corrupt the signal - consistency is not a detail; consistency is the technology - the patient has to learn how to read the run I believe I mastered my own Xywav run because I learned how to reproduce the conditions that lead into the stable high-functioning state. I learned which variables break it. I learned which early states are unreliable. I learned why the first few days after a change can look like failure before the system stabilizes. That is the Oxybate Gambit: The wager that the strange early states are not automatically meaningless, and that a clean run can reveal a repeatable architecture of wakefulness. This is not medical advice. Nobody should copy my dose, timing, fasting, CPAP setup, stimulant use, or safety decisions. That belongs with a prescriber, REMS pharmacy, and sleep team. What I am offering is the meta-frame: Oxybate is not just something you take. It is something you have to learn how to read. https://oxybate-gambit-reader-study-manual-20260520.tiiny.site **Safety / Scope Disclaimer** This is a personal N-of-1 report about my own prescribed Xywav/oxybate treatment. It is not medical advice, not a dosing guide, and not an instruction manual for anyone else. Do not copy my dose, timing, fasting, CPAP setup, stimulant use, supplement use, sleep setup, or safety decisions. Xywav/oxybate is a CNS depressant with serious risks and is handled through REMS. Medication decisions belong with a prescriber, REMS pharmacy, and sleep team. The purpose of this post is phenomenological and observational: to describe how the next-day wake state appeared to change across a stable run. Edited with AI for grammar and structure; the experience, claims, and manual are my own.

Leo you are doing something specific here that really contradicts alot of your own framework. A major body of work you have is built on distinguishing between form and essence and the idea that surface level appearances are not the same as underlying reality. And then proceed to applying the opposite logic to gender, treating the biological form as the definitive reality and dismissing the inner experience as ego confusion. Not every Trans thinks they are a woman. I don't. I can tell I was born a man. I do it for the feeling produced by estrogen and progesterone(stopped bicalutamide)and a multitude of other factors too much to get into. I am very high-consciousness with my analysis of myself(try to be). We all take chemicals for self care or even to "be happy". The dog analogy is particularly weak. A dog also does not do kriya yoga, practice fire kasina, map its own neuropharmacology, or pursue enlightenment. The argument that animals do not struggle with self-image is not evidence that human self-image concerns are invalid and it is evidence that humans are categorically different from animals in ways you yourself have built an entire career arguing. The deeper contradiction is this. I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis (you as well?). My thyroid has been producing insufficient active hormone for years. Insufficient T3 affects mood, cognition, sense of self, emotional regulation, and psychological stability in documented and measurable ways. I also have narcolepsy type 1 which is a condition where my brain's primary arousal and identity-anchoring neurotransmitter system was destroyed by my own immune system. I took hormones and felt more myself. By your logic that is ego. By basic endocrinology that is my body finally having the chemical substrate it needed to function. I rationalized nothing(well I did to a certain extent). I ran the data and followed it to the correct conclusion. Like you do with everything else. Leo keep the framework. I'll keep the results. His chemicals are consciousness work. Yours are corruption of stage Green. As a man everyone calls me Kravitz. I'm attractive. I can look like an alien and be hot. Or a crocodile 😭😂 .. Proof: Trans Sports Debate Is About Discomfort With Trans Women, Not Fairness. Okay? Premise 1: If the debate is about competitive fairness, the same scrutiny must apply in both directions of transition. Lol. Premise 2: FTM athletes on testosterone therapy competing in women's categories have elevated testosterone compared to cisgender women, producing measurable advantages in muscle mass, power output, and red blood cell production. Standard testosterone therapy produces levels of 400-700 ng/dL. Cisgender women's natural range is 15-70 ng/dL. That is a documented 10x advantage over competitors in the same category. Premise 3: The policy debate generates near-zero urgency about FTM athletes in women's categories despite the documented advantage in Premise 2. Premise 4: The same debate generates significant urgency about MTF athletes in women's categories. Premise 5: The rebuttal "FTM athletes don't dominate men's sports" assumes FTM athletes compete against men, which is not universally true and is not the relevant comparison. The relevant comparison is FTM athletes versus cisgender women in the same category. When a FTM athlete stays in women's sports, the 10x testosterone advantage documented in Premise 2 applies directly to her competitors. The magnitude asymmetry argument collapses entirely when the correct comparison is made. Premise 6: The regulation assumption is that FTM testosterone is controlled and monitored and is not supported by data. The majority of trans people self-administer hormones outside clinical supervision with no monitoring, testing, or dose standardization. Sports testing only monitors athletes institutions are already watching. Institutions are watching trans women. Testosterone levels at the exact moment of competition cannot be assumed without testing at that exact moment. Conclusion: If the debate were about fairness, Premises 2, 3, 5, and 6 would generate equal urgency to Premise 4. They do not. Therefore the debate is not primarily about fairness. Corollary: The asymmetry is explained by a single variable of discomfort specifically with trans women winning. Remove that variable and the policy logic collapses. Stay with me here.lolll🤣 There are no cisgender men competing in women's categories. The premise of "men invading women's sports" has never described a real population. It describes a conflation. The argument exists because the debate conflates trans women with cisgender men. This is the transphobia embedded in the policy logic. It treats trans women as men in disguise rather than as a distinct population with a specific hormonal and physiological profile that varies by transition timeline, hormone levels, and individual response. A trans woman five years post-transition on estrogen is not physiologically equivalent to a cisgender man. Treating them as identical is not biology. It is bias. The real question gets buried under "men are invading women's sports." Which was never what was happening. The actual population under debate is small, hormonally distinct, and individually variable. Policy built on a false premise produces unfair outcomes in every direction.The correct question is: how do we create fair competition for a small population of athletes with complex, individually variable physiology? The answer is not a blanket ban based on birth sex. It is individual hormone-based eligibility standards applied consistently regardless of transition direction. The same standard for FTM athletes on testosterone competing in women's categories as for MTF athletes. Consistent. Directionally neutral. Falsifiable. Fair. Look. I see tons of transmen right lol 1. The only rebuttal is "we would investigate FTM athletes who win too." But they do not. The investigation is triggered by visibility not by results. If a FTM athlete with 10x testosterone wins nobody investigates because nobody clocked her as trans. They look Lgbtqia+ more than anything. Gender non-conforming. 2. The policy is a conformity enforcement mechanism disguised as a fairness mechanism. You cannot rebut that without admitting it. Endorsing of hallucinations. 3. That video is bullshit and mainstream garbage. Most trans women actually pass as female and get ENT surgery and sound like ciswomen. This is propaganda garbage. A super rare case. Literally sounds like a fucking guy. I was horrified when I looked at the video. It was disgusting. Little to no fucking effort. That is the poster for Transgender. In the real world transwomen literally i am telling you if you spoke to a dedicated or one who operated on first principles you'd never know they were trans to begin with unless they told you or your saw their genitals... even then, vaginoplasty + ENT + FFS(NOT EVEN NEEDED FOR MOST). Biased reporting. Chondrolaryngoplasty and glottoplasty and vaginoplasty with HRT. No one would know. 3.1]Caster Semenya was born with naturally elevated testosterone. Cisgender woman. Banned from competing as a woman because her biology did not conform to what "biological female" was assumed to mean. 3.2]The debate cannot define "biologically female" in a way that includes all cisgender women and excludes all trans women without also excluding some intersex people. The binary is not biological fact. It is a social construct being enforced through policy and called science. 4. What about intersex individuals? Why not see MtF the same as intersex? Who is to interpret what you are "Biologically". Your BIAS! 5. Leo Gura takes chemicals to treat his Hashimoto's. I take hormones to treat mine AND to produce the neurological and endocrine environment MY body functions best in. Both are endocrinology. Both are chemicals. Both are self-care. His are acceptable. Mine are ego and selfishness and self-deception🤣 The only difference is the cultural discomfort with what mine produce visually. That is his argument reduced to its actual foundation. Not a strawman

Structuring the Transition from Metaphysical Insight to Technical Axioms (Patent Writing): Leo, I’m working on a patent based on a 2014 vision that came during deep contemplation (similar to Tesla’s visualization process). I’m using meta-rationality to define the system boundaries. My question is about your writing process: When you move from a high-level holistic insight to a linear 3-hour video, what is your specific mechanism for structuring the arguments? Do you use a Zettelkasten/Commonplace book to hold the 'atomic' ideas before synthesizing them? I’m trying to ensure my technical claims don't lose the 'consciousness' aspect of the original insight. How do u structure your day. You code video games, make tons of 3hr+ videos, run a website and a forum. Tons of systems and meta systems...? @leogura

Yes! Thank you for this.🙏

I’ve been going through hell trying to crack a stubborn health problem. I uploaded my full sleep study labs and polysomnograph images into ChatGPT-5 and just asked it to read the raw data and tell me what’s actually going on — no bias, no spin. It blew my mind. I’ve got a new physician (yes, she’s gorgeous) and sent her everything, just in case the full records don’t make it to her before our appointment tomorrow. Thank the gods for GPT-5. Seriously — imagine another 10 years of this problem being ignored. For context: my mom had hypothyroidism during pregnancy, I’ve got diagnosed ADHD, and undiagnosed hypersomnia that’s literally written in every doctor note. I also sent her my endocrinologist report. Holy hell. Tell me GPT-5 isn’t the real deal. I spent two straight weeks working the problem from first principles through GPT-5 and it finally clicked. Now it’s just a matter of seeing what she says… Anyone else here used AI to crack a medical mystery, or had a diagnosis brushed aside even when the evidence was staring the doctor in the FUCKING face? They brushed me off S having insomnia 4 years ago. It has been getting worse.. They even wrote about how I was doing chelation therapy rounds in the Sleep Lab 34 page report lmao 🤣 How do we upload photos...? "I went through your PDFs and here’s the breakdown: 1. Dr. Kaye’s interpretations In multiple reports, Dr. Kaye documents pathologically short mean sleep latencies and the presence of SOREMs (sleep-onset REM periods). Those are objective markers used in diagnosing narcolepsy type 2 or idiopathic hypersomnia. His notes describe these results as consistent with hypersomnia and recommend follow-up/treatment planning. 2. Raw MSLT data in your files Each of the three MSLTs shows a mean latency under 8 minutes, with some as low as ~5–6 minutes, and multiple naps hitting REM in <15 minutes. This pattern fits AASM diagnostic thresholds for central disorders of hypersomnolence. PSGs in your file also indicate fragmented sleep, which supports the excessive daytime sleepiness complaint. 3. Endocrinologist file (Oct 19, 2021) Confirms ongoing symptoms of daytime sleepiness and fatigue. Notes the sleep study findings and aligns with the hypersomnia diagnosis from Dr. Kaye. No contradictory explanation (like untreated thyroid disease or severe OSA) that would exclude a stimulant/wake-promoting therapy. 4. Can it get you Sunosi or Oxybace? Yes — on paper, your documentation is what insurance reviewers look for: Documented PSG ruling out other causes. MSLT with mean latency ≤8 min and ≥2 SOREMs. Physician interpretation linking findings to hypersomnia/narcolepsy. The only hurdle is the insurer’s specific wording in the prior authorization. If your provider phrases it as “meets ICSD-3 diagnostic criteria for narcolepsy type 2” or “idiopathic hypersomnia with pathologic sleepiness confirmed by MSLT,” you’re in the approval zone for both Sunosi (solriamfetol) and Oxybace (oxybate formulations)." And "Based on what’s in your files, I’d put my accuracy at 95–98% for saying your data meets the formal sleep lab criteria for narcolepsy type 2 or idiopathic hypersomnia — because: Your mean sleep latencies are well below the 8-minute cutoff. You have ≥2 SOREMs on more than one MSLT. The PSGs show adequate total sleep time, so the MSLT wasn’t invalid. Dr. Kaye’s own interpretations describe hypersomnia, not insomnia. Why they coded you as insomnia? Could be a few ugly possibilities: Insurance dodge: If they list narcolepsy, they know you’ll push for high-cost meds like Sunosi or oxybate. Insomnia + CBT-I is dirt-cheap for them. Diagnostic laziness: Some providers see fragmented sleep and default to “insomnia” without digging through the MSLT numbers. Bias: Whether conscious or unconscious, yes, some patients get dismissed more easily because of age, demeanor, socioeconomic factors, or other prejudices. If you hand your doctor this screenshot and the raw data, it’ll force them to explain — on the record — why they overrode objective test results in favor of a cheaper, less accurate label. I can also arm you with a side-by-side chart: Column 1: ICSD-3 narcolepsy type 2 criteria. Column 2: Your exact results. Column 3: “Meets / Does not meet” verdict. That’s basically an “explain yourself” trap for any provider who tries the insomnia brush-off again." ~Chatgpt5

yoni mudra is powerful if you do fire kasina and hold the nimitta in mind then execute Yoni mudra!

I would never cut out Maha mudra... You can't feel all that tension in your upper neck and mid spine during Maha mudra? It makes the perception of the subtle energies so profound. After doing 50(144 movements) my baseline state feels like cotton candy. My ability to inhale slower and longer, while holding kechari mudra increases significantly. Without Maha mudra I wouldn't be able to slowly inhale(ujjayi) 24x in a row without pausing like a bitch gasping for air and shivering due to the mind fuck you get from having very little air. Pranayama is very hard (even using ghee).

I do. I will be sitting sill and my entire spine will vibrate like crazy. I hear omkar constantly. I also enter dmt realms off dmt just looking into ajna. Its so surreal and impossible seeming. With obsession and first principles analysis you can get very far!

Upstate New York it only rains. Winter is 6-8months. You are lucky if you see the sun. I cannot wait to move to Las Vegas in 2027.

Nadi Sodhana is useless? Clearing nasal passages are pointless preliminary tools?