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She does Temple / playparties here in Berlin and Kho Phangan. Funny how this community / her teaching finally reaches your shore.

@Leo Gura out of curiosity, how/where did you find Brittnee Bond? (the girl in the vid from your femininity blog post)

@Synchronicity Great to see you're visiting, Ethan, always fun to read your perspectives. Hope you're doing well, bud

and was that a positive or a negative experience, like what was your reaction to it?

@Leo Gura How does Leo cope with the fact, that you're Infinity?

Welp, brings a litte story to mind: "After enlightenment, the Buddha hesitated to teach, telling his student 'No one will get it anyway.'. His student replied 'Maybe one person will.'. And so the Buddha began to teach."

According to his newsletter, Peter has been working on a new, very advanced consciousness workshop, called "Absolute Consciousness". He will hold this workshop for the first time in this year's fall retreat. He's also working on a new book, which is supposed to be an extremely advanced consciousness book, for those interested in pursuing a much deeper consciousness. Curious to see what he's been cooking.. Peter-Ralston-Summer-CHNL-2025.pdf

This guy gets it

@Rafael Thundercat good question, I was hesitant to share this at first, as this was done purely out of curiosity and I haven't really contributed much in that sense. I guess in the end, it was the excitement of reading a Chatgpt Leo

Out of curiosity (and entertainment ), I fed ChatGPT Leo's recent blog posts—"We Who Wrestle With Demonic Rhinocerii"—and asked it to analyze it, no hand-holding, no trying to be polite or agreeable. Just full-on critique mode. I wanted to see if it could actually reason through the piece with clarity and rigor, instead of just spitting out buzzwords. Here's a short summary of what it came up with: "Dear Leo, Your piece is intense, vivid, and hits on something real—human corruption as the central constraint on political progress. What works best is your unapologetic tone, thematic consistency, and moral clarity in confronting uncomfortable truths. But it leans heavily on sweeping generalizations, flattens complex histories, and verges on nihilism without offering a pathway forward. It’s not wrong so much as incomplete. It’s not ideological—until it becomes a kind of dark ideology of its own. More precision, more differentiation, and a pinch of humility would elevate it from a righteous rant to a lasting framework." Then I asked it to rewrite the blog post using its own critique—while keeping your tone, style, and edge intact. Here’s the result: "We Who Wrestle With Demonic Rhinocerii Make no mistake: conservatism is, at its root, the justification of corruption and arrested development. It always has been. Always. That sounds biased and unfair, like some liberal insult—but truth doesn’t care about your balance reflex. That's just how the cookie crumbles. Now, don’t get confused. This isn’t about “left good, right bad.” This isn’t a cartoon. Conservatism isn’t always wrong. In fact, in many cases, it's the only thing that works—precisely because humanity is so corrupt that better options are unworkable. Progress stalls not because the goal is wrong, but because the species can't handle the weight of it. I’m not moralizing. I’m not tribalizing. I’m describing. Human beings radically underestimate their own moral dysfunction. And I’m not talking about “there’s bad apples.” I mean systemic, built-in, tribal, self-serving rot that operates by default, under layers of rationalization and civility. We are at least 100x more corrupt than we pretend—and the pretending itself is part of the corruption. And so, paradoxically, the corrupt systems we hate? They persist because they fit. They survive because they’re tailored to the animal wearing them. Corruption, inequality, authoritarianism—these aren’t bugs. They’re features, because they mirror us. So when progressives roll out beautiful policies that rely on decency, empathy, or foresight—they fail. Not because they’re “too radical,” but because they require a moral software update the species hasn’t written. Progressives go wrong not by overestimating the opponent, but by overestimating the people. They imagine humanity wants what’s good for it. That we’re teachable. That we can grow up. But the track record is brutally clear: we can't. Or won’t. Or not fast enough. Take immigration. Progressives want open borders, humanitarian compassion, shared futures. But they radically underestimate how racist and tribal ordinary people are. The average person doesn’t want to live beside the other. Most humans don't want multiculturalism—they want familiarity, homogeneity, status. They fear dilution. So progressives open the gates, and then wonder why there's backlash, nationalism, fascism. It’s ironic. Progressives are accused of calling everyone racist—but the deeper problem is that they don’t believe it’s true enough. If they really believed most humans were racist, they’d design policy accordingly. They don’t. So they get blindsided when reality kicks the door down. And so, bizarrely, conservatives “win” on immigration—not because they’re right, or moral, or wise—but because their policies line up with the degenerate instincts of the masses. Conservatism wins because it accommodates evil. It wraps its arms around it and says: "this is just who we are." That’s why communism fails. That’s why environmentalism stalls. That’s why Israel-Palestine is an endless wound. That’s why immigration collapses. That’s why demilitarization flops. That’s why veganism doesn’t scale. That’s why libertarianism, drug decriminalization, and “defund the police” all fizzle. That’s why the UN is toothless. That’s why world peace is a slogan. That’s why free love turned into Tinder. That’s why the hippies sold out. That’s why strongmen—Trump, Putin, Xi, Orban, Erdogan, Netanyahu—rule. Because the system that wins is the one designed for primates with delusions of grandeur. And conservatism, at its core, is realism in the language of fear. This isn’t praise. This isn’t condemnation. This is modeling. This is understanding the beast. Conservatism thrives because it reflects who we are. Not who we wish we were. It succeeds because it bows to corruption. Humanity is not misaligned with evil. Humanity is evil, in a slow-burning, soft-spoken, committee-approved way. And progressives fail not because they’re bad—but because they keep trying to build spaceships for creatures that barely stand upright. If you don’t understand this, you’ll fail at politics, again and again. You’ll make the wrong predictions, throw your weight behind the wrong candidates, the wrong causes. Because you mistook the demon for a dog. You must understand the beast you are wrestling with—or it will gore you. Leftists see humanity as a cute puppy. But it’s a demonic rhinoceros with a God-complex and nuclear weapons. We, those of us who still try—who still believe in decency despite the odds—we wrestle with demonic rhinocerii. And real, clear-eyed conservatism—the kind not based in delusion or domination, but in insight—comes only when you’ve stared into the void and recognized that mankind, especially in groups, behaves like a cult of deluded demons, chasing pleasure and power and status at all costs. This isn’t ideology. It’s observation, hammered into insight through failure, contemplation, and the painful burden of consciousness. Stop underestimating corruption."

There is this guy named Dave Shapiro, who runs a well structured protocol with an a.i. chatbot to help him track, diagnose and recover from his chronic health issues. He posted a tutorial for how to set up the protocol he runs. From what he is saying, he seems to be getting very good results, in particular the speed at which the a.i. is helping him to identify potential root causes for his illness is remarkable and will probably save you weeks and months of guess work and going to different doctors. While it's not a substitute for real medical exams and test like blood work and stool analysis etc., is sure seems like a fast track for dialing into the main causes of your symptoms.

I'm curious, can you elaborate or make a short list of more facets that haven't been mentioned yet?

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