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    17 minutes ago, Brandon Nankivell said:

    1. So are you 100% certain?

    That question is like the original question. These can’t be answered, but only because the premise is an assumption. (That there are humans, and that there is already evil). Without the thoughts, in the clouds in the sky sense, the clear sky is readily absolute certainty. Knowing there is no evil is really more acutely knowing the love. Delusion naturally falls away and becomes light, and funny. 

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    Not convinced it is self-evident.

    Where then, is the evil, other than in thought?  And what is not convinced? 

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    Perhaps a whale considers that 'Evil' exists. And it could? But I'm not a whale, so I don't know.

    Right on. Stick with direct experience. Nothing is hidden. Reality is the Self, ‘it’s’ self evident. Sans only thoughts to the contrary. Reality can’t of course be found. Thoughts can be let go. True nature does what ‘it’ does. Fills ya up.

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    When I say 'Evil', I'm talking about 'Evil' itself, assuming it is a thing, not the sounds and letters that represent it.

    Right on. Keep inspecting assumptions. Thought experiments are very helpful for shaken em out of the bushes. 

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    According to Leo as stated above, Evil never existed.

    And that may be true.

    Time for me to shut up and meditate.

    Or watch another Chip Diamond video.

    ??

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    12 hours ago, Eren Eeager said:

    How Selflessness/nothingness = infinite intelligence? What's the connection between the two? Why being nothing makes you infinitely intelligence? 

    There isn’t a separate self, there are self referencing thoughts. Thoughts which go unnoticed, “me”, “my”, “I”, “mine”, etc. This is thought attachment, or attachment to finite thoughts which identify, or, the finite mind. When these thoughts are inspected and seen through, it is nothingness, infinite intelligence, which see’s through. 

    The trap at hand is the dualistic nature of the self referential thought attachment, combined with the narrative about said separate self “being nothing” and “being made” infinite intelligence. That is what’s already the very awareness of these un-inspected thoughts. “It” is actually you, and as such “it” is uncovered, by you. This is the greatest joy in all of life. 

    TLDR: Without the thoughts to the contrary..... there’s just that which you’re asking about. This is reality, as in pointing to what is actual right now. No one could tell you what “these” are, because it’s you.  If interested, meditation. ? 

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    On 1/28/2021 at 1:01 PM, Mosess said:

    Identification with the body after non dual awareness

    Hello awakened peeps!

    I noticed a pattern that everytime i go into non dual awareness,

    It’d be most helpful imo to be aware of thought’s about a you going into nondual awareness....

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    I get sucked back into duality and get identified with the body again.

    ...the off shoot is believing thoughts about there being a “duality”, and a you identified with it. Paying attention, inspecting these thoughts, unravels the pattern, and uncovers “the now”, or presence, being. That veiling narrative happens literally one single thought at a time, always in the exact same now. Noticing it is effortless. 

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    This happened about 3 times now, each time its always the body that i attach too. how can i stop attaching to the body?

    “Body” is only the thought “body”. There’s no “ghost” in “a body” attached somehow. It’s thought attachment. Meditate daily, first thing in the morning. Again in the afternoon.  Try telling the story of when “you first attached to the body”. Have a laugh. ? It’s a funny story when inspected, and having a laugh when spotted, it breaks the chain. 

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    its like i can be either inside or outside of nothing. if i am inside of nothing, i am inside but attached to the body, which is nothing, but now is something due to the identification if that makes sense lol. but when i am outside of nothing, it is literally nothing. And no im not high hahahaha just meditated my ass off this month

    Who’s that all about there? In a literal sense, who are you even thinking about? There’s no chest moving in & out of stuff. Nonduality isn’t some kind of haunting.  Right now, awareness is aware. Inspect thoughts about yourself, about time, about nonduality & duality ?. 

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    @sleep

    It might not have anything to do with the internet or the content focused on, but the relationship between you & You so to speak, and the dream in you that you want to focus on & create together. Give this a quick read, and listen to this. Then this, then this. Love to hear what you think.  

    This is a meditation specific to what you described. 

    Go for walks, spend time in nature. Get away for a while if you can, away from your norms. Get something cathartic on the calendar. A retreat, float tank, or something like reiki, or a massage. Something newish can be a fun & easy way to change focus, wake up a bit and change a pattern effortlessly, inspired. 

    Watch for the trap of believing you need something so you can change the viewership. By spending time without screens, being, good feeling, floats automatically. It’s not per se something you can even do. You’re intrinsically good. Just focusing that goodness in a direction that is leaving you uninspired.

    Also consider your power as a creator & as a contributor, which is so inherent, effortless and consistent in all of us it’s actually super easy to miss. If the creators of those videos had no viewership, they’d have no means to continue. You hold more power than you might realize. 

    Truly, you’re loved in all cases, no matter what you do. You literally can’t get it wrong. That love can feel weighty when we’re not giving our best though. You’re the present brother, the gift. Open it up. It’s good. Super good. You’ll be amazed by what you got in you.

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    @sleep

    You can tell a human is bullshitting by the moving lips. xD 

    But the duality of language is all we have to communicate, at least linguistics wise, to conversationally point to that there is a truth. The truth literally can not be spoken, no one can tell you who or what you really are.

    (Imo) Thought is for communicating and choosing, exercising preferences (creating). Trusting what someone else says would be misuse of thought, which would feel off. Trust is not a proper lens for thought to begin with. 

    Contemplation, proposing a question and receiving insight directly from our source is direct, and strengthens intuition. Noting that, always listen to your own intuition, which is not a thought, and is not dual like thought. 

    It might be helpful to view conversations as ‘the middle’ or ‘where we meet’, existential or otherwise, as Epistemology which is essentially the philosophy of knowledge, all of which is an illusory appearance, or duality. But again, linguistic communication wise, that’s what we have to work with.   For some, it is a passion, an art, and imo quite beautiful, and there is an large spectrum of helpfulness when it comes to pointing. There is also the relativity, or ‘where you’re at’ to consider, and at times one ‘pointer / teacher’ is better than others, yet things can go full circle, and a ‘pointer / teacher’ which didn’t resonate before can suddenly strongly resonate, or help things ‘click’ into place. 

    Skepticism is scrutinizing or doubting knowledge, healthy (imo). Cynicism is one’s own attitude of distrust of others based on their motives and intentions, and (imo) can be healthy and unhealthy. I would then default to your intuition.

    Every human which speaks, also eats, and no human will ever be perfect, because reality is already the truth, perfection. What you might be looking for, what might resonate is Brahmavihara. 

    To really inspect, it is most helpful imo to recognize one can not think perception, nor perceive thought. Awareness is directly aware of thought, and of perception. 

    Self doubt (again imo) is never justifiable, or appropriate, because it is self referential thinking (thinking about yourself, when your self is already the awareness of thoughts) and it is always ‘off’ in terms of feeling, but one must decipher between thought-doubt, and self-doubt. Again, default to intuition, and or contemplate a question with source.  Feeling on the other hand, never fails, and is never wrong - yet is the most misunderstood misinterpreted subject matter on earth, apparently imo. 

    A great habit whenever you are experiencing a ‘problem’, is to flip your own script. Say ‘this is not a problem because_____’ and let the ‘problem perspective go’, and source will fill in that blank from goodness. That positions the mind, or yourself, to be the benefactor of the deepest teaching of the best teacher, life, and suffering. 

    At ‘the end of the day’, you are the authority. 

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    12 hours ago, Anon212 said:

    How does one stay "radically open minded" and filter out the rubbish?

    Direct experience. Who cares about the “rubbish”, it’s really just thought about someone’s direct experience anyways. :) 

    There are experiences to be had that are not only unbelievable, but are beyond understanding & explanation. 

    The best experiences ‘of’ reality are the meta spiritually speaking, and aren’t shared publicly, in the same sense the best bands will never get signed. The ‘average person’ would not be able to relate at all, to the degree they’d say you’re lying, a charlatan, crazy, or all three. Direct experience reveals you can even offer this for free, and people will still call you some degrading identifying name without even recognizing their mental dissonance. 

    Reality only seems consistent. But in actuality you aren’t. 

    It’s hard to grasp if Siddhi’s are real because the mind can’t grasp what is not in it. Siddhis are more real than cars & houses. They’re experienced post the finite mind being suffused, post identity. There’s no concern of anyone using them inappropriately because there is no such thing as anyone using them, which is likely why they’re ‘rare’. 

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    1 hour ago, SamueLSD said:

    @Nahm  how can no thought mean enlightenment? My dog isn't enlightened ( I assume )

    I don’t recall saying that no thought means enlightenment, if I did I misspoke. I agree with your recognition of truth in regard to that otherwise dog-matic assumption. While I wouldn’t suggest your dog is enlightened, I would suggest it is not possible for your dog to be enlightened, because it is already enlightenment. If a thought arises to the contrary, let it go, don’t be it’s bitch. xD 

    Thought is the activity of the finite mind. Thinking and thinker, are belief, and are the looping & perpetuating of this activity. In more intense experiences, rumination, overthinking, anxiety, etc.  Brought to rest though, insights begin to arise within and fill the meditative mind with it’s own true nature of infinity. An apparent series of insights (plural & individual) ensues. The nature of these insights is the inevitably of the finite mind ‘eating itself’, ultimately casting itself aside like a space suit that got you here and no longer fits, and is no longer necessary. 

    @Javfly33 ?

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    1 hour ago, Adamq8 said:

    Don’t get me wrong i dont want to be lame or something when asking this.

    You couldn’t be lame if you tried. 

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    This is the final thing i cant shake it is just that..

    Like a woman at a urinal, there is simply nothing to shake. 

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    I just mean that if non duality is true, how can " I " arise out of non existence..

    Nonexistence is a thought. Like unicorn. There ain’t one. Existence is not a duality. You are not a duality. 

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    If it is not two wouldnt non existence be the ultimate always?

    There’s no “it”. That’s the implied duality, which there isn’t. You’re shaking nothing. 

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    is non existence and existence the same thing? Ofcourse language is limited here and this maybe dont make any sense at all

    to me awareness IS always and forever. 

    What’s really happenin over there? 

    Is awareness to you? 

    Or is awareness aware of the thoughts, ‘you’, ‘me’, ‘his’, ‘hers’, ‘mine’, ‘my’, etc. 

    What is a ‘my’ ‘awareness’? Seen that? Heard that?        Thought that. 

    Anybody seen my outer monologue? I seem to have lost it. It must exist, just can’t seem to find it. 

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    21 minutes ago, Adamq8 said:

    @Nahm So death is non existence in other words lights out , we say true self just to feel better about it then, no one experiences death it just is 1 blink then _____ so actually spirituality is false.

    You can’t think death or nonexistence because reality is nondual, and you are ‘that’, or if ya like, ‘this’.   ‘It’. Is. This.    Not the thinking about a thought you can’t even think!   Surrender the nonsense! Be done with it!  Acquiesce to the R?al. Align yo ‘self’. 

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    There is no GOD or true Self, it is just you got born from your parentes you are made of matter and when the brain goes awareness and conciousness is gone forever like u never existed, so spirituality is nihilism in disguise. 

    So lame dude. More of the same nonsensical references to thought of not even anything. 

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    Enjoy this life cause u aint never coming back.

    Thats what u are saying in my interpretation :)

    Thats why death is an illusion guys, no one will experience it.

    I’m saying exactly what you think I’m saying. 

    You = Magic. 

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    4 hours ago, Vision said:

    I've noticed that the more I journal, contemplate, meditate, etc - The more my motivation for survival needs - such as financial security - declines.

    It’s just a lame paradigm. Breathe in this prana, slap yourself, splash some cold water on your face, recognize you’re pretending you’re serious and be sincere, and shake it off. Change perspectives like you’d change liquid pairs of transparent shoes. Always coming or going, never fixed, never expected to be fixed, right, etc.  

    Need is a belief, ‘disconnective’ of truth, of source. Imagine standing in front of an audience...”ok everyone, what I need you to do”. Most people would already feel the discord. Motivation is the avoidance of unwanted. Motivation for survival needs is the avoidance of death, which is literally love, which you’re trying to align with. Love is not lame sir. This paradigm is lame. 

    Wanting is connective. Wanting is infused with feeling. Inspired. Inspiration. Feeling is not a paradigm. Feeling is not a paradigm about yourself. 

    You’re not in a future. You’re presence. Intelligence and feeling are not in a future, ‘they’ are obnoxiously abundant right now. Stop expecting ‘them’ to be in a future! Life is like “you’ll enjoy this moment or else!”, cause ‘it’ LOVES you that much. Ain’t nothing you can do about that. Can’t escape this love. Come up with all the conditions you can, love is like “whatever, ‘thoughts’ “. 

    Don’t ‘double up’ on discord using me calling your paradigm lame. It is lame.  If you notice you are, that is ‘beating up’ on yourself. It’s mechanical, robotic, asleep, reaction, and it will not do. It isn’t true, it isn’t you. It is so far off from how amazing you truly are, and what you’re capable of, and it is not indicative of the simple unavoidable fact that you actually love everything.  Jump off the thought cliff.  Free fall into now, not a story about you. Mother loving you bro! You! Look around, the “answer’s” in the room, and in your heart, not your head. That’s just a preference tool, nothing more. 

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    I used to work 4x more efficiently, but all this money-making just feels out of alignment with my true self. But I still need a solid foundation so that I can have the autonomy to not worry about survival needs, and put even more time into spirituality. So in this way, survival and spirituality are one.

    Comparing yourself to the you in the past - or is that just a thought? Now? The very habit you’re letting go of...?

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    My main problem is with how my motivation with survival needs plummets the deeper I go into consciousness work. 

    My neighbor isn’t focused on a problem and has no clue what you’re talking about. 

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    I've tried having this particular mentality; "Just push through, and you'll have all the time in the world to do what you want" 

    But I feel like that thought pattern stops me from being present. 

    Yes. It’s like saying “this, this is shit. In the future though, this might be better”. That’s thought attachment. That’s believing you’re an object in time. There’s no future. That which is appearing as this will also be that which is appearing as that. 

    ‘Your’ thoughts are perfectly accurate in their depiction of this “past” you speak of. 

    ‘Your’ thoughts are also perfectly accurate of a “future” you speak of. 

    What say you?

    And it shall be. 

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    Any advice? Should I temporarily stop doing consciousness work? Or reduce it to solely meditation? 
     

    You came here to bring the love & inspiration, to kick ass and have a good time. Not to find something to point a finger at. Not to “get to the bottom of the problem”, not to solve lack. Rather, to enjoy the miracle of focus, and not to take it, life, or experience (NOW) for granted. 

    Throw your whole consciousness work paradigm in the garbage. 

    Every morning when you wake up - notice you did. That’s an unexplainable miracle. 

    Don’t go to the screen, don’t go to thinking about your “situation”. Don’t go to your thinking about what other people think. 

    Put headphones on. Sit still for ten minutes. Inspire and awaken yourself. I triple dog dare you to not allow your body to move to the music. If you can do that you’re a ‘better’ man than me. But not as Happy. 

    It’s ok to be crazy you know. You don’t have to live in anyone else’s world. 

    Tomorrow, wake up, take a piss...and then listen to this. Let the content go. It’s not about the content. FEEL the frequency. You’re entire life will change. 

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    6 hours ago, Adamq8 said:

    @Nahm So death is like sleep just that it will never ever display anything again?

    Like the materialistic notion of lights out forever

    Am I interpreting it right? :)

    Never again an experience? :)

    Non existence forever, " you" have 1 shot of this " life" then bye forever.

    Thats what infinity means?

    Death is like sleep & nonexistence in that there is no direct experience of these, sans this, which can’t be named or thought, and yet appears to have meaning. 

    3 hours ago, Someone here said:

    I have no idea what you are talking about. Honestly.. Not just tryanna smart ass it with ya. 

    Ok good.. So now you are denying that you have a nervous system just because you can't see it?  Why don't you go ahead and deny your digestive system.. And stop feeding that stomach that you can't see (internally)?. Man sorry I don't resonate with this. I don't know why you must deny the brain's more than obvious correlation with your consciousness activity to justify whatever nondual insights you have.. Why can't both be right?  Stage turquoise btw is all about holistic big picture thinking and integrating science with spirituality with religion etc together.. Not to exclude clearly existing parts of reality. Which doesn't make any sense whatsoever. 

    And of course.. Everything I'm saying here are "thoughts" .. Duh? That doesn't mean it's flawed. It might be flawed.. But not Because it's thoughts. That's like saying the grocery store in my town does not exist when I'm holding it mentally as an idea. No one actually lives like that or takes such approach seriously. 

    Take a brief look at neuroscience..  Scientists were able to Record  the electrical activity of neurons directly from the surface of the brain.. the scientists found that for a simple task.. such as repeating a word presented visually or aurally.. the visual and auditory cortexes reacted first to perceive the word. The prefrontal cortex then kicked in to interpret the meaning.. followed by activation of the motor cortex in preparation for a response. During the half-second between stimulus and response... the prefrontal cortex remained active to organize all the other brain areas.   It's fascinating how this system works. And how can we actually enrich our spiritual understanding when it's integrated with the science of it. 

    Again, it only seems some thing is being denied because it seems some thing is known. If thinking, think both, neither, all & none. 

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    1 hour ago, aurum said:

    Thank you Nahm for sharing this. I feel like most of us just argue with Leo on this forum and don't often express gratitude. And yet his work has helped likely everyone here.

    I'd love to see more Leo appreciation in the future.

    I feel that too. 

    1 hour ago, aurum said:

    It's so fascinating because she's saying a lot of the same things we talk about here, i.e surrender, forgiveness, seeing beyond just temporary pleasure and seeking true happiness. I suppose it really comes down to the intention behind those words.

    Curious what your interpretation was.

    The points that stuck out to me...

    The premise is the question, “Can I Be Gay and Catholic?”  (Why would this even be in question?) 

    -Created a foundation to support widows and orphans, awesome. 

    -“Struggling with same sex desires”. As if that is a problem, something to deny, correct or feel ashamed of. The struggle is with emotional suppression influenced by ignorance, dogma, and misplaced authority. 

    -“If you’re attracted to the same sex you’re not supposed to be married, you can’t have sex or have a romantic relationship, if you’re gay”....”so the question is can you be happy?”  This potentially tricks the viewer into the same delusional dogma, as if being gay and or happiness were in question in the first place, by anyone other than the presenters of the video. They‘re riddled with judgment and their own shame, yet fully deluded by their own beliefs, and projecting this out for the world to share with them, vs inspecting & addressing their own issues, which there isn’t to begin with for anyone who is not a bigot. 

    -“There’s such a lie out there...sex does not make you happy”...There isn’t a “lie out there”, but it sets the stage for their dogma coming. Who says sex makes you happy in the first place? Expression, being yourself without judgment, guilt, or shaming yourself...being the happiness you are, ‘makes you happy’. 

    -(because I’m gay) “Then I’m gonna have to be alone, or a nun, or the cat lady”.  Could also just be you, as you are. 

    -Then she misinterprets Jesus in a rather extreme falsity...”If you want to be my disciple, then you will deny yourself, pick up your cross, and follow me daily”.....She uses this to support the suppression of herself, and her sexuality....and this is really the telltale line of their intentions in this video.....

    -”To deny myself doesn’t mean to ignore it, to brush it under the rug, to pretend like I’m totally attracted to dudes and get married....which I did.” “It means to look at yourself and deny this part of you (sexuality, being gay). 

    -“I found a true joy in denial of self”. That one kind of speaks volumes for itself. 

    -Then she uses the example of cheese cake. That it’s ok to desire it, but it’s sinful to act on that desire that I know is not inline with Christ. This is literally God saying this. She carries this analogy in to health, stating that it is unhealthy, to be gay and act upon being gay. ...”So it’s the same” she says. 

    -Then the real punch right in the source...”Take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, not the obedience of your own feelings”. Translation, put the church and it’s dogma ahead of your feeling and common sense. 

    -“The moment I’m done with that cheesecake, I feel sick”...”It’s the same with these sexual desires too...” She’s shaming herself, and seems to actually believe she is not. 

    -“I found that true joy through mass, through the community, through being authentic.” That one also speaks for itself. 

    -Then she equates being gay with “pornography, perversion, lust, greed, pride...all these other things that are weighing us down and keeping us from true joy”.  “I’m at church every single day, because Satan knows what silence with the Lord will do”.  Shame and emotional suppression doesn’t equate to there being someone else, even a Satan, at fault. 

    -“What advice would you give gay people in parishes”....”Be real, be truthful...He knows He is God and we are not, so be real in the truth of Jesus Christ.”   It’s as if she has never read anything Jesus said. 

    -“And don’t just be truthful without the love of Christ, truth and love, do not separate them”. The truth is there are gay people, and the lady saying this is gay, and is suppressing herself, to feel better about judging and shaming herself, for being gay. The only reason this seems to be a problem is because people feel better about themselves from judging other people and believing they are better than others because they are religious. They are literally creating their own suffering and their efforts are to entice others to do the same. 

    -“There’s always something to battle with and I’m not ashamed to say that”. There’s nothing to “battle with”. It’s her own dogma and judgement and shaming of herself and others.  Jesus never said a word about Satan, or being gay. 

    -“I’m not coming from a place of judgement, I’m coming from a place of unzipping my heart and sharing”. 

    -“When people ask me how can I be gay and Catholic...I answer, why is being gay coming before your Christian identity”?  Where to even begin with this delusion & suppression, really. 

    -“What do you tell, especially young people who come to you?”...”Do not waste the blood Jesus shed...believing that these desires are not sin. Don’t change what sin is. There are people who judge you and force you to be different.”  That’s literally her, in this video. 

    -“And please, please please, please, do not identify yourself with your attractions and your own feelings, please. You’re a daughter or a son of Christ.” (Unless you’re gay, according to - her - whom - is gay.) 

    -“Let Him be God, and not you”.   ?

    Half a million subscribers. The name of the channel is literally “Ascension”. 

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    @Preety_India

    Self realization, awakening, reality, emotional understanding & clarity, dreamboard, creating, etc. You know, easy read coffee table stuff. 9_9

    @LfcCharlie4

    Not trying to thread hijack, but I’m just going to nab this opportunity to add something along the lines of radical views. I’m not posting this video in support of it, or for discussion & comments, etc, like threads and videos usually are posted on the forum. I want to post this to share it, because it led me to be so profoundly moved by the work that @Leo Gura is doing that it brought me to tears yet again. And that is not to short change the community at all, nor any of the awesome creators here. The layers upon layers of delusion and emotional suppression inadvertently conveyed in this video are astounding. Infinite love, respect & appreciation for you Leo. Your work is amazing, and it matters.