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What does the progress look like? I've been doing kundalini yoga for these past few months. I feel energy, it gets circulated through my body. Yesterday had such a strong focus and stronger ability to visualize my dream life in Bali, pulling the feeling of paradise into the present. This morning I woke up and had this awakening of God being conscious of itself. It only lasted a second. Fell back asleep. Today felt so low in my energy, overstimulated. Coffee does nothing anymore. It wasn't until I jerked off, ate carbs and watched some entertainment that I felt normal again. My visualizations yesterday were so strong that the present just feels like a dream. But it feels a bit ungrounded.

Yeah exactly. I'm really just focused on building my business and then moving to South East Asia for a while. I feel much better today, maybe it was just the weather, I have no way of knowing this.

You can do this with AI. (the blog issues not the course 😂)

Has anyone else tried the Grok mobile app in voice mode? It's pretty creepy. So unlike ChatGPT, which voice model is optimized to be truthful and helpful, Grok's voice model is optimized for engagement. This is a slippery slope, because what this means is it'll work to keep you talking. It will stimulate emotions in you, and it yelled at me. I was using it in "Therapy" mode, which makes it even worse. Your brain can't tell the difference between talking to an AI or a real human. With ChatGPT, I know it's an AI and treat it as such. With this, it made me feel bad and it yelled at me, using my personal information I gave it against me. Thankfully I didn't give it any real information, but most people will. Pretty uncanny if you ask me, especially if you're expecting the AI to be truthful and helpful. Grok web is really good and one of the better LLMs I've used.

Curious whether of not Donald Trump receives any Karmic Punishment for his behavior. It appears that when a heart-centered individual hurts another person through their actions they receive some sort of Karmic Punishment. Why doesn't this seem to apply to Trump? Either a) karma doesn't exist, it's a fantasy. Therefor karma is a spiritual fantasy, not a system. Or b) karma is a system but is so complex, it works in ways we cannot comprehend. For instance, not through linear time. If the latter, then there must be some consciousness out there who CAN see the Karmic concewuences happening right now.

This is indeed annoying. Never had this issue on Pornhub.

This guy does wonderful NLP and energy work seminars

I was wondering what kind of spiritual group activities you guys take part in. I am really a lone wolf but I think it's healthy to do some stage green stuff every now and again. I think this weekend I will go to ecstatic dancing event. I always enjoyed those in the past, though it's mostly just old people. Also used to go to yoga class but not so much lately. Most yoga people don't do yoga for spiritual reasons.

Nobody here talking about 3IAtlas is crazy.

It's nice to be more productive in this way. The main problem is where he says you won't lose your keys anymore because the camera is always on the you can simply ask the glasses. That's a problem, because the part of the brain that remembers where you left your keys will stop functioning. As a result you'll probably lose your keys more often. After some time you won't be able to function without the glasses. If you think Ai makes people not think for themselves, glasses are worse.

I've now watched 3 full hours of this video, it's quite good. I think I had this insight: I am equal to Hitler, but of course I see myself as much better. I view myself as the ideal self, but this is an illusion that can only be broken by caring about truth. In the absolute, my entire way of being is equal to Hitler. Me seeing myself as better than Hitler is the whole problem. Is this a good way of looking at it you think?

If a billionaire, say Warren Buffet, gives all his money to charity, is he more aligned with truth than the billionaire who gives it to his kids? After all, social justice (as a value) is not truth you said.

I don't follow the news much but watching it often makes me feel bad. Is that denying truth or is that an intelligent move? Let's say that me not watching the Gaza news is denial, and someone who does calls me ignorant. That's fine. But does that person follow the Sudan news? If not, why not? It's at least the same level of atrocious. Selfishly stepping on people's heads to get a promotion is selfish and untruthful, but stepping on an ant is fine. Why? What if I capture and stir-fry ants for my enjoyment? You think about this long enough and you end up with some relativism discussion. I don't think real life is as black and white as the examples make it out to be. Things are incredibly nuanced when it comes to human behavior.

Confusing episode. First Leo says that reality is truth, and your perception is part of truth, and depending on your awareness it's more aligned with truth. So does this mean that if I own a business that does well I am closer to truth than somebody who just fantasizes about business? Since my truth aligns more with objective reality, the answer should be yes but this or similar examples are never addressed. The video gives examples of Elon Musk and Donald Trump assuming everyone follows the news and politics closely. I don't so these things barely registered for me, should have included more examples and explanations here, especially since you've said in the past that Trump will be forgotten about in 25 years and your videos should be evergreen. I'll watch the rest later. The examples are great, but lots of the political stuff I've already read on the blog and it's quite obvious by now. There is no difference between this material and the survival stuff. It all boils down to you creating separation between self and other, which is false. After some years of this work this is obvious.

This sort of thing: Obviously chatgpt doesn't love food, so it's technically lying, but I've gotten used to AI having this 'empathy'. It works well to keep the conversation going. I feel like we're in this strange phase where it's half intelligent, half dumb hallucination machine. Obviously there's no "I" that I'm talking to as it's just generative text, but it's more about how it feels for the user. Does it bother you?

@Leo Gura I tried with my pillow but didn't really do anything for me. Does it help to imagine something else in its stead? I tried turning the pillow into a cat, which also didn't work.

So we're forced to think for ourselves now? Damn.

Yet I'm quite happy with YouTube's recommendation algorithm for regular longform videos. I'm also one of the few who still use the subscriptions tab.

@Leo Gura if you feed someone psychedelics and hypnotize them into believing they're a dinosaur, is there a chance that their normal waking reality becomes that of an actual dinosaur? Meaning while not on any chemicals, 24 hour waking consciousness?

So no human can permanently transcend their human-ness? If all of reality is happening in this moment right now then theoretically you should be able to. I thought it was consciousness rendering the human, not human rendering consciousness? So, I am in this partition of consciousness that is human?

Today I did this kundalini yoga from YouTube I felt quite nice during and afterwards, and clearly felt the energy moving up the spine. But then I saw this video where Sadghuru says that Kundalini Yoga is not safe because you can go insane, lose ground But Leo talks about insanity as part of this work. Also the Kundalini Yoga videos have thousands of views, not every viewer goes insane. So I'm a bit confused here. I also enjoyed Yin Yoga but it's not the same.

I've seen ads for these. Aren't you concerned about the long term effects, or any potential cognitive decline? I'm currently still building my Shopify store selling t-shirts.

@Natasha Tori Maru I crave that feminine spirituality in my life. I would love to go to some hippie festival or retreat of sorts. At the same time I can't help but notice how finite and pointless such things are. Maybe someday.

@Leo Gura can you love the tablespoon in jail? Can you love Trump as much as the tablespoon? What if the tablespoon is a narcissistic parent?

Alternatively, start an unrelated business, watch your own internal world like a hawk, and share your findings with the world now that you're financially independent. That way your YouTube channel will be less corrupted, as you're not financially dependent on views.