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I remember trying to do some research on the myth of science episode and ended up on a "scientific" reddit thread about that video. Many comments were like " I couldn't even watch cause blah blah blah" or he is XYZ so he shouldn't be trusted. Excuses after excuses to stay close minded and not even entertain an idea. Imagine if the slightest criticism of science touches a spot, imagine what the word god does. This relates to the average person's inability to think clearly and consciously. Combine the restless "monkey mind" that chatters endlessly with a fairy tale narrative—something like "Leo said X and Y, and here’s why that isn't true"—and you get the typical confused viewer. They live in a fantasy, yet still hold strong opinions about everything. Dare I say I view most people as NPCs, same script every time no originality nor drive for growth or change. I strongly believe we've been "educated" in the wrong order. First, we should learn to master the mind—because it's easier to keep an empty cup empty than to fill it and then try to empty it again. Then comes mastery over thought and emotion, so we become immovable by any circumstance. Only on that solid inner foundation should we build real knowledge and technical understanding that would inevitably result into worldly mastery. I was always open-minded I had a deep intuition that appearance deceives and it could always be something deeper, and that is not something that can be taught.

We are slowly but surely making progress in science, and I'll use this video as a starting point to address materialism and share my contemplations. @Leo Gura If I want to fully exhaust the debate between materialism and idealism — not just scratch the surface, but master it to the point where I can dismantle any materialist argument — should I even bother studying mainstream physics? Or should I focus solely on deep philosophical and nondual understanding? I notice that most materialists immediately retreat to the standard scientific script when challenged. They never drift into deeper territory; they never question the script itself. It's as if they're protecting the narrative more than seeking truth. After years of consciousness work, the primacy of consciousness is clearer to me than my own existence. It's obvious. It’s reality itself. Yet the debate is often reduced to appeals to authority, endless references to secondhand "evidence," and a rigid worship of what other humans have said — without firsthand verification or genuine contemplation. When one side is operating from direct experience of truth and the other from stories and hearsay, it's laughable to even engage on their terms. Their castle is made of playing cards, and they don't realize the wind is coming. My deeper frustration with the current scientific culture isn't just that it often breeds falsehoods. It's that science — which once stood for courageous truth-seeking — has been neutered into a competitive status game. It’s now a glorified credential mill, where students and academics posture for superiority, where qualifications outweigh insight, and where complexity masks emptiness. And this is amplified the more blue a society is (like my country, Greece, for example). This is capitalism's shadow embedded into knowledge production — but that's another conversation. More urgently, this decayed version of "science" has infected society with a dangerous bias against consciousness work. The very practices that could revolutionize human flourishing — self-inquiry, direct awareness, nondual exploration — are ridiculed or ignored, dismissed because they don't come with double-blind placebo studies. God forbid you thought something through for yourself rather than citing a paper written by a stranger in a lab coat. Our culture has been so gaslit that people no longer trust their own direct experience — the most fundamental tool of knowing anything — unless it’s rubber-stamped by an institutional authority.

Trump putting overtime to make us laugh 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/

It is so sad to witness. The collective epistemic damage they have inflicted on public opinion her and all the fox-like institutions is equivalent to the plastic there is on the oceans. It will take decades to undo. The root cause for me is the low quality education system, 95% is reciting. No political class so kids understand how government ought to work, no psychology class so kids understand behaviour and when pathology starts, no basic logical class so kids understand how to form sound arguments and learn to debate on topic and not appeal to authority nor emotion and most importantly no epistemology class to understand what knowledge is and where to ground it on. If we had a solid education system, fools like these would never pass through the cracks, and we would autocorrect as a species. But this is wishful thinking since it ain't so. And now they view education as a "left-wing indoctrination facility". So, even the medicine that would correct this pathology is attacked now. Cancer is attacking cancer medication, who would've thought 🤣 Look at where we are, look at what the white house is tweeting... https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1913241658579440126

Anyone who isn't against Israel's genocide is an epistemic scoundrel, point blank period. Perspective on Israel-Palestine is a better litmus test than opinions on Trump. More potential has someone to be epistemologically sound from a place of liking Trump than agreeing with Israel's genocide.

If such a person can get an audience, even if this is ragebait, it tells me everything I need to know about the average American. https://x.com/TheTwinsPod/status/1909732898321879533 Another example of tremendous self-deception: https://x.com/Acyn/status/1913023872036970612 To be honest, i dont know what would be worse, for them to do it on purpose to manipulate public opinion, or do they believe these things and dont care to be accurate or truthful.

Are we gonna be so nonchalant about this? If you care about "conscious anything" in these times, your only goal should be to get rid of Trump and make a democracy 2.0 that is idiot-proof, meaning no bad actor can destroy it from within. Like Aristotle said, "The Purpose of Knowledge is Action, not Knowledge" and I agree with that quote in the political context. Conscious politics entail helping society evolve from whatever stage it is at. At the current state of an imminent threat of fascism, if you aren't actively acting against it, you could be called an accomplice. Way too many people wanna talk bullshit about conscious politics when in fact they dont even the balls to embody Red/Blue and defend the constitution. Talk is cheap, action speaks louder, and only through action can you embody a stage. Are you guys gonna wait until they come to deport your family members? Do you even have the courage to shoot an ICE agent if you knew he would 100% deport your family member to a death camp? Compliance = consent and submission to fascism makes you a slave, not a conscious philosopher. This isn't specifically aimed at Leo, but to anyone who acts as a "yellow" e-philosopher but can't even embody red/blue.

I was watching this video and was contemplating if consciousness increase through psychedelics was even possible to be seen as some "brain changes" though mainstream science. I haven't found the way to combine science, yoga, consciousness and psychedelics in one precise perspective. Should we discard science when talking psychedelics? Do we focus too much on the subjective POV? Is any perspective higher than the other? I can argue any of those but I can see that it disregards other perspectives. What do you guys think about this video in general? @Leo Gura Do you think a Leo x Dr k talk would be productive for your audience?

I would guess Leo cheats or abuses takebacks in these games. It is one thing for the bot to play weird "computer moves" and another to see Leo do the same. You dont get to play 91% accuracy unless you are 2200+ elo in standard chess and if you are 2200 in 4 months of playing the game you are 100% cheating. Anyone familiar with chess knows bot games are suspect in the first place, why not play versus humans? Maybe you need that takeback Not buying it.

@Leo Gura This is either wishful thinking or just ahistorical. You have taken the development of America up to this point for granted. Why didn't you build actualized.org in Russia? Do you think you would be able to post about substances and even, God forbid, talk against Putin? Of course not. I don’t understand how you aren't alarmed enough by how fast things can go to actual full-blown fascism. Fascism isn't a thousand years away; it is fifty, if not less, for some countries. Some of our parents lived through it, and experienced it, it is not far away. Not to mention that the system doesn't self-regulate to make it impossible for bad actors to do real damage to the democratic process. Yes, people will continue to do their jobs and strive to build businesses. Still, the most fertile ground to do so is a democracy with the least corruption possible, not an idiocratic authoritarian regime. Trump keeps pushing the pedal to authoritarianism as hard as he can, if everyone postpones action until things are irremediable, then we have made an enormous strategic flaw.

Free speech isn't Binary, imagine it like a volume knob. Trump slowly by surely turns it as much as he can toward the fascist side. Objectively speaking, if you live in the US, your freedom of speech is far less with Trump than with any previous president.

@yetineti The lack of foresight is astounding. If you would risk waiting until martial law is in place you have failed strategically. If you guys can't take the hints where this is heading I dont know what to tell you. Hopefully, I'm wrong, but I'm usually not.

Saying things "haven't changed" is the ultimate cope. People left and right get mistreated either by being transported to a neighboring country's jail or denied entry to the US just cause they "tweeted against Trump". And this is the beginning, things dont look good for the USA. If you willingly stay it is not a matter of "things not changing enough to leave" but a lack of accountability and integrity to adhere to someone's values. A fascist society will never be a good breeding ground for anyone wanting to build anything worthwhile on.

Guys how shady, anyone can get one lucky prefire in the <130ms range, the thing is to show your average. The one highlight doesn't mean shit. @Leo Gura Your hardware matters a lot, the faster the mouse, monitor,etc the better your results will be. edit: dont forget to try this also, super fun and challenging: https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/sequence

So funny how even the right wing of Florida dissed this rapist. Tate is pulling way too often the "matrix" victim card, not so alpha male of him if you ask me 🤣🤣