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Hey everyone, I’ve been pondering a pretty mind-bending question about the nature of infinity and experience, and I’d love to hear your thoughts. Imagine consciousness as an eternal space where you’re not just living one life; you’re living every possible life. You live as a human in every imaginable form—rich, poor, every culture, every era. You live as a bird, as a fish, as an alien on another planet, as a creature in the desert or the snow. Every spectrum of existence is just another thread in this infinite tapestry. Now, here’s the real question: if this eternal consciousness is experiencing absolutely everything, does it ever run out of new experiences? In other words, does infinity just mean repeating the same loops after a while, or is there truly an endless well of novelty? What’s more powerful: the eternity of the journey, or the infinity of possibilities? I think it’s a beautiful question because it touches on what enlightenment might mean: becoming aware of this infinite playground we’re all part of. I’d love to hear everyone’s perspectives on whether you think we eventually reach a point of repetition, or if the infinite truly never ends.

love Sephalopods, they are so alien. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BD7ujXex1/

Sephalopod intelligence is the closest thing to alien intelligence, we have on earth. Here are some of the things that struck me as I was researching about them: They have twice as many neurons as a cat but 2/3 of them are distributed in their 8 arms and only 1/3 in their head. Each of heir arms has basically its own brainstem and sense organs. Their arms can act independantly but also concertated. They can change the color and texture of their skin to match their surrounding within an instant despite their eyes being color blind. They do this with photoreceptors in their skin. They can solve compex problems and mazes, they have memory and the capability of abstract planning and can recognize people. They exhibit play despite being an antisocial and solitairy creature. (Play as a form of learning is usually only found in species that form social relations.) Contemplating this is valuable to realize just how many aspects of our mind and our intelligence we take for granted! Realize how radical this becomes: It's not a given, that your body is one entity. Imagine the possibility of your left arm, just going on, doing its thing for a while, grabbing, managing and learning stuff, while still allowing for your body acting as a whole if one of arms fins some information that would necessitate that. This ability to switch between centralized and decentralized intelligence is something that humans are not good at at all. How would it be to have an octopus awakening and become octopus-god? Realize what aspects and what believes about yourself and your intelligence would need to be dropped? More Resources: My Octopus Teacher (Neflix) Inside the mind of an octopus, interview with Dr. Jennifer Mather (Youtube) Dr. Jennifer Mather about Octopus Intelligence (Youtube)

NeoNazism is fringe, MAGA isn’t. If MAGA’s fringe why has it democratically been voted into power twice? It’s so fringe that we have parallels across the West - populism started hatching in Europe before Trump even came on the scene. Why? Because that structural tension I mentioned above is coming to a head - MAGA is manifesting as a symptomatic solution to that tension and is just one of the more cruder versions of it - populism with American characteristics. Even if MAGA is temporary, the conditions that caused its rise are structural and yet to be fixed. You’ll keep seeing similar movements that differ in name and keep mislabelling them as fridge. The reason it seems fringe or alien is because each side is standing inside a different cultural universe with different base assumptions about reality to the other. How do people share political space if one side believes reality/truth is more flexible and fluid (chosen) vs the other viewing it as more fixed or given (by God, biology, tradition)? Abortion is a thorny subject that exposes that divergence on reality. Both agree killing a life is bad, but can’t agree on when life begins (conception vs viability/independence). Their base assumptions about the reality of life differ, which means their problems and solutions will differ, which means their political visions will be mutually exclusive - as different as a flat earther vs a round earther. @Joshe Centrism can def be lazy both sides-ism or the harder work of integrating worldviews and complexity. Leftist progressivism can look brave, but be equally simplistic moral chest thumping that dodges the work of integrating ideals with reality. Basically, the left believe that the ideals of freedom, equality and inclusion are what allow society to progress - and that as long as we are moving towards that, society will progress. It believes there are no limits to those ideals and aspirations - but mother reality says otherwise. And if your politics is based upon the illusion that those limits don't exist and are merely self-imposed “constructs” by the relic of tradition, then the reality of ignoring reality will show itself in the form of unintended consequence. Also, ISIS and Taliban don’t seem to suffer from cowardice but lack of conciousness and wrestling with complexity.

These are some of the films I've found Leo praising on the blog and the forum. Documentaries were also not included in this list, I think those deserve their own separate list. @Leo Gura Can you fill me in on the rest? Perhaps some more obscure ones or films that mean a lot to you which you haven't had the chance to talk about yet? I think you've got good taste 👍Especially when it comes to science fiction! -------------------------------------- The list: A Guide for the Married Man (1967): https://actualized.org/insights/gaslighting-masterclass The Man Who Would Be King (1975): A great classic film showing how stage Red dominates and exploits Purple tribal people to gain absolute power. Star Wars Ep. 4 (1977): Star Wars Ep. 5 (1980): Star Wars Ep. 6 (1983): "The Star Wars movies have a lot of juicy Hero's Journey wisdom. The Force is so similar to enlightenment!" Extended forum post: https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/50749-spiral-dynamics-stage-red-examples-mega-thread/?page=32#comment-703985 https://www.actualized.org/insights/trust-the-force https://actualized.org/insights/george-lucas-explains-star-wars Alien (1979): "Just don't expect it to be as great or as serious as the original Alien films. [Alien Earth]...it's like high-budget Alien fan fiction. I am enjoying it." Caddyshack (1980): https://actualized.org/insights/be-the-ball Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) "The reason I link Temple of Doom clips is because it's the classic example of how a Purple undercurrent runs underneath a veneer of Blue civilization." Aliens (1986): "There only exist 2 Alien films. 1 and 2. Everything else is non-cannon." Wall Street (1987): https://actualized.org/insights/wall-street-orange Robocop (1987): "First film I ever watched. And still one of the best films of all time." "You don't need to patronize to children. Children can watch adult films and fully enjoy them. I watched Robocop when I was 5 years old. I treated it as a "kid's" movie. You don't need to put cute idiots into a movie for children to enjoy it. This is so insulting to children. Children have been turned into pussies by such people. Robocop is the perfect children's movie." Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989): https://www.actualized.org/insights/the-thugs Fletch Lives (1989): https://actualized.org/insights/fletch-on-being-wrong The Abyss (1989): https://actualized.org/insights/the-making-of-the-abyss Terminator 2 (1991): https://actualized.org/insights/i-cannot-self-terminate The Lion King (1994): "The Lion King is a classic hero's journey movie. Worth a re-watch. I have a whole book that explains how they wrote The Lion King using the Hero's Journey structure." Goldeneye (1995): "Personally, I prefer my laser beams on the heads of sharks. On the other hand, Goldeneye was a good movie." Braveheart (1995): "There are many admirable qualities of healthy stage Blue. Relentless loyalty and sticking to principle is one of Blue's top strengths." From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) "That is a perfect film." Trainspotting (1996) "Great film. The Robert Carlyle character is epic." The Fifth Element (1997): https://actualized.org/insights/5th-element-opening-scene https://www.actualized.org/insights/quintessence-the-5th-element The Postman (1997): "The Postman is a great stage Red film. The villain is a well-done classic Red:" "People do not awaken en mass when their survival is threatened. They retreat into egotism, xenophobia, and violence." Private Parts (1997): https://actualized.org/insights/private-parts Contact (1997): "It's an excellent film." https://actualized.org/insights/the-black-hole-problem The Thomas Crown Affair (1999): https://actualized.org/insights/the-thomas-crown-affair Snatch (2000): https://actualized.org/insights/brad-pitts-greatest-role Gladiator (2000): "A perfect film" https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/106073-most-movies-are-disappointing-nowadays/#comment-1569112 K-PAX (2001): "Good movie. They don't make 'em like that any more. Fucking superheros, ruined Hollywood." A Beautiful Mind (2001) https://actualized.org/insights/proving-infinity Crazy/Beautiful (2001): https://actualized.org/insights/crazy-beautiful Catch Me If You Can (2002): https://actualized.org/insights/catch-me-if-you-can Death to Smoochy (2002): https://actualized.org/insights/death-to-smoochy Ladder 49 (2004): "Blue is the type of person who would die in the call of duty for his country/people. Reminds of the movie Ladder 49, which was a stage Blue tearjerker: Same phenomena as jumping on a grenade to save your troops. Classic Blue move." Flight of the Phoenix (2004): https://actualized.org/insights/flight-of-the-phoenix Lord of War (2005): "Orange meets Red" "Great Orange film" "A brilliant film" Also referenced here: https://actualized.org/insights/pig Into The Wild (2007) https://actualized.org/insights/into-the-wild I Am Legend (2007): https://www.actualized.org/insights/this-is-love Slumdog Millionaire (2008): "That's a great movie." Avatar (2009): "A human species identity is certainly present and will only get stronger as we transcend our national identities. If aliens became a commonly recognized thing, humans would develop a much stronger human species identity which would contrast itself against the aliens. Then at some point there would need to be unification of the alien and human identities. The humans and aliens would start to have sex with each other, and so on. At first this would be hated and even outlawed. But then it would become normal and even desirable. The movie Avatar touches on this issue" Splice (2009): https://actualized.org/insights/splice Limitless (2011): "Such a great movie! :D" "Modinfinil is like that movie Limitless, but less extreme and far less negative side-effects." Bone Tomahawk (2015): https://actualized.org/insights/bone-tomahawk-film The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015): https://actualized.org/insights/the-man-who-knew-infinity Passengers (2016): https://actualized.org/insights/passengers Blade Runner 2049 (2017): https://www.actualized.org/insights/blade-runner-vibes A Quiet Place (2018): https://actualized.org/insights/a-quiet-place Annihilation (2018): https://actualized.org/insights/annihilation Sputnik (2020): https://actualized.org/insights/sputnik Greenland (2020): https://actualized.org/insights/greenland-film Don't Look Up (2021): "We are barely able to hold on to democracy in the US and get people to wear masks. Forget about planning for existential planetary risks." Finch (2021): https://actualized.org/insights/finch Pig (2021): "The last movie I watched was Pig. Pretty good." https://actualized.org/insights/pig Dune (2021): "I like the new Dune films, mostly for the vibes and world." SISU (2023): https://actualized.org/insights/sisu-nazi-hunting-mayhem The Surfer (2024): https://actualized.org/insights/the-surfer Road House (2024): https://actualized.org/insights/road-house-film Dune 2 (2024): "I like the new Dune films, mostly for the vibes and world."

The reason I care less is slightly different. I do believe the space of minds is very high-dimensional and comparable IQ points do not translate in terms of which submanifolds you can access from that space. Consider a crude example of Terence Tao v., Grothendieck. The first is an analytic prodigy and you see this in the type of math he is prolific in - harmonic and real analysis. When he was young and tested by specialists, they remarked he was willing to overlook faster and more intuitive spatial solutions for the sake of bashing it out analytically. Grothendieck was very famously the opposite - analytically/procedurally slow (Grothendieck prime 57) but visually and intuitively an absolute freak. That said, I also don't fully discard IQ as a marker. I don't believe it is normally distributed (\sim \mathcal{N}(100, \sigma)), but rather Heavy-Tailed. My Abstract Algebra professor was Noam Elikies, who by all accounts is most likely with an IQ above a 200. And you can fucking tell - he feels like an actual alien.

There was a problem processing the uploaded file. Please contact us for assistance.??????? emotions are the result of complex neurochemical reactions within the brain, involving the communication of neurotransmitters and hormones between brain cells and other bodily systems. These chemical signals trigger neurophysiological changes associated with our thoughts and physical responses, influencing our mood, behavior, and overall experience, which includes happiness. You create your own happiness, whatever that may be. happiness. does not choose you. You choose what makes you happy in life. I guess you could also say happiness is a state of consciousness. Pointless disputes. When I went into insanity, on the Amazonian cubes, I just went with it, and it became sanity after a time; it became the norm if you know what I mean. This was near the end of the trip, and no ego death does not bother me in the slightest way whatsoever. The funny thing is, I am still me when I awaken to God every time. This was the strain I took PES Amazonian. I just checked out the site where I got the Spore Syringe from, and it came up with Origin: Unknown, weird. Thank you, my alien friends. Do aliens watch over God? Yes.

Ahh, interesting twist! lol. I'll need some time with that one. The footage is compelling if you trust those sharing it. According to AI, the government has intentionally spread fake alien stories before. You mentioned before that you like to analyze the humans closely to see what they might be up to. You didn't have any bells going off with the way they were talking, tonality, words, etc? Just my intuition, but I sense bullshit.

Sorry, I haven't been following it closely. What's the difference in NHI and alien intelligence?

What would it take for an alien race to acquire interstellar travel? How old might the species need to be and what would that likely say about them? What level of technology would they need? What purpose would an advanced alien race have flying over a heavily surveillanced part of our planet? Would they be spying? Plotting against us to take our resources? Just joy-riding? You can place weights on the possible answers and when you add them all up, the most likely answers support my assumption. I'd be open to better logic, but the whole "we can't truly know, but we'll weight the probability towards alien craft", which is what the vast majority of people who see this video are doing, just doesn't make sense. Interesting, indeed.

This show has gotten so bad. Should be called Alien: BS. EP6 is the worst.

Visual artifacts or psyop makes the most sense. If aliens can galaxy hop, they aren't getting struck by a 1980s missile. The tech required to avoid getting hit by flying objects is trivial compared to the tech for interstellar travel. If they can galaxy hop, it's highly likely they can avoid detection. But also, if they can galaxy hop and go anywhere they want, they'd already have all their energy needs met, so they wouldn't be here for resources. Or are they trying to spy on us? Not likely, as they would have tech that could spy on us without risking their detection. So what exactly would this alien be doing flying over contested waters where all sorts of surveillance is taking place? None of it make sense. The performative nature of the hearing points me towards a psyop. The government has been at this for a few years now. Not as exciting, I know, but if you lean towards actual aliens, you're choosing to believe that for emotional reasons - the logic doesn't compute.

There are no beings. There's just You. Alien Consciousness is not a being, it is your own Consciousness at a high level. Like if your IQ suddenly became 10,000, you would enter Alien Consciousness territory. Psychedelics are dangerous because they destabilize the human mind. That's not a bug, that's their function. Psychedelics are for people who want to go beyond being human. That comes with risks, but demons? No. Never seen a demon. If you want to dream up demons, you certainly can. But that's your doing. You can also fear a xenomorph under your bed, as children do. What you should fear is not demons, but your own self-deception. Spoiler alert: the demon is your ego.

Hic sunt dracones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons https://www.actualized.org/forum/search/?&q=hic sunt dracones&author=Water by the River No dragons Nothing to see here! But it seems after a little heavy dracones-partying some time back in the day, the most obvious "nothing to see here" performances ebbed a bit down. Godspeed! Nessie & dracones & Angels & Demons swimming & frolocking in the River & biting our heroic psychedelic avantgarde pioneers to the best of their abilities. Even Truth-loving ones. Its their Raison d'Être. The only thing they can't stand is love & compassion & boddhichitta. Truth-Love alone they eat for breakfast. Musical Coda playing by the River: Why? Its Game Lila on. Dr. John Churchill paraphrased: Its true that it can be considered a divine adventure, a divine play & comedy, but its also a f****** war. PS: Of course the higher dimensional (Alien) subtle beings/intelligences/entities are by a vast majority non-demonic/evil, although some high-performance higher dimensional dark/subtle beings have also been reported since the dawn of time. Not ones standard demon. And if operating in subtle realms (aka psychedelic trips), one better is firmly rooted on the Light side of the Force. Or one tends to attract f****** smart demonic distorter-shadows: Please allow me to introduce myself... And having these chaps with style & taste in ones pit crew... can be quite a show.

I used to believe all the new thought and new age spiritual stuff in this community and what Leo taught... however, there is something to consider... What if psychedelics and alien consciousness is the wisdom of ancient demonic spirits that are seeking your own destruction? Who or what do you spiritual invite in when you take psychedelics or accept alien consciousnesses?... They don't give you wisdom for free... Many times Leo has said that he was close to killing himself on these trips... This is exactly what demons do. They give you all this wisdom and love bomb you just so that they can kill you or steal your soul... Don't take this lightly. If you are right it doesn't matter what you believe or think. But if I'm right then it does matter. Praying for your souls. Peace be with you.

Thanks, now my sleep is good my big baguette brain has more and more good ideas. No "Human" "ego" "can be" "afraid" of "something" But "alien" "ego" "hsyio564654 '444" "dddd" "dxxXXXXXXXXX àà""... Fear of being "castrated", being "less powerful than other human" and even "being hurt" because of that, but in nothingness they are no support even for fear. You need a support for fear, that's "something" "somewhere" No need to be in nothingness btw you can castrate "fear" right now with drugs for example (benzos, opiates...)

After realizing that there is a balleye octopus alien in the new Alien movie I think Leo is making a Satirical comment in how the quality of the Sequels of Alien got downgraded. Well, many other movies follow the same pattern.

oh man laughed so hard on that latest post on Alien Earth.

I mean, they're making Spaceballs 2. Alien: Cage is very possible.

You say that relativity is baked into the fabric of reality. Can you elaborate on this please? What is relativity? And how does it relate to ideas of right and wrong and the distance between objects? Yes they are both relative. But what is relativity? Is this the answer for what Context is? I can definitely see it's radical implications of how I understand reality and live life but it's so slippery to catch it. Also your response is what I imagine to be kind of like an alien landing in my mind, a synchronicity, perfect timing, feedback in consciousness work. I don't know lol, it feels like I'm in a Spartan total warrior video game,

IMO, the only good Alien or Predator movies in the last two decades were Predators (2010) and Prey (2022). Anything Alien since the 2000s is pretty much trash. AVP1 was OK.

There's no character development or depth. The premise started out awesome with the the idea of consciousness being transferred into a new bodies. The first episode was very good and into the second. And the alien on the research ship was cool. But then as it progressed it became like a low budget horror show.

Putting children into adult bodies and then having them deal with deadly serious emergencies is a juvenile plot. Why would anyone think that is a good premise for an Alien show? That's the premise of a Mickey Mouse Club teen show. Watching people make stupid childish mistakes is not interesting. All the main characters are fools. The plot will be advanced by their foolishness and immaturity.

Nothing is ever going to feel that good. There's only so much you can do with Xenomorphs. Maybe if James Cameron came back he could make it good, but he's too busy making Avatar 9. Even Ridley Scott does not know how to write an Alien film.

The writing is pretty wack ngl. I don't care about any of the characters so far and the special effects look cheap af (when they're not practical). I'm literally just watching it to see Xenomorph action cause I just love the design of thay creature so much. I feel like since Disney now owns the Alien and Predator franchise, that the new stuff post acquisition feels very Disney-fied and nowhere near as good as the first two alien movies in terms of characterization and world-building. I can't see myself finishing it unless it starts to get really engaging.