Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[moonawakening444]

2 hours ago, ExploringReality said:

How is it possible for a bag of meat and bones to ask the question "what am I"? Animal's don't contemplate their own existence. This is crazier than you may think, for an organism to wonder what it is and to notice the weirdness and absurdity to ask that is the mystery.

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[Butters]

@Leo Gura in all of your research have you found anything particularly disturbing around global elites and occultists? 

I'm talking something in the arena of '90% of humanity will be wiped out in the next 50 years' like the Chinese professor said in his last video

You said you've been watching his videos. Where do you think these ideas are coming from? 

 

[Leo Gura]

17 minutes ago, Butters said:

I'm talking something in the arena of '90% of humanity will be wiped out in the next 50 years' like the Chinese professor said in his last video

This is delusion.

Be careful with that guy.

[Stick]

8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

 

I am less of a cultist than the monk you are speaking of.

 

That's fair; most of monkism is conformity.

 

8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

 

Nothing inherently wrong with going to a nightclub/party.

 What is inherently wrong with being a Mormon?
I haven't reached your level of awakening so maybe its a bit presumptuous but shouldn't you always look towards higher levels?
One of my goals in life is to mediate so much that I stop being human anymore.
Don't you have goals like this too? or are you satisfied with the current level.
And if you do then isn't the more effective method to love mormons the moment you think of them? Or maybe just meditate and observe the mind.
Again I am mostly ignorant on spirituality, most of what I say is just what I picked up watching your videos. I am just curious why you don't strive towards even higher plains of consciousness.

[Nemra]

Would people of faith, particularly fundamentalists, prioritize understanding their own epistemological processes and take epistemic responsibility instead of being blindly faithful before their suffering gets too much?

I don't think so.

[Butters]

5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

This is delusion.

Be careful with that guy.

How do we distinct delusion from truth in a case like this? Surely not everything that can't be verified or isn't mainstream is delusion. 

If I were to answer this I would say intuition. Him saying it didn't 'feel' true, but surely we can't be fact checking on gut feeling. Because the Holocaust doesn't feelingly resonate with me either but did happen.

Also it's not backed up by any of the other sources I follow, but the man is a historian so where does he get this from I wonder.

Edited Sunday at 08:04 PM by Butters

[No1Here2c]

Truth is

Delusion becomes what is real

What is real becomes as delusion.

Consciousness lies between.

Hidden, unseen.

Edited Sunday at 08:13 PM by No1Here2c

[Leo Gura]

35 minutes ago, Butters said:

How do we distinct delusion from truth in a case like this?

A history professor predicting the future in 50 years is delusion.

Dude is way too arrogant.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Humanity has always been shit at predicting future circumstances.

In fact - Bryan Johnson's whole Don't Die + AI controlling and leading our lives, and the solutions for transhumanism and a population that never shrinks - are based 100% on the fact we are dogshit at predicting the future. 

[ZenSwift]

@Leo Gura, Do you have any specific teachings on surrender specifically? 
I'm noticing that surrendering to death and surrendering to fear on a psychedelic is a hurdle for me, (and as I can imaging for many). 
I can imagine that some of this would be covered in your workshops to realize God, or awakening course? 

I'm going to review your lectures on understanding Fear, Death, and maybe the one on Letting Go. 

 

[Leo Gura]

@ZenSwift You can use visualization to practice surrendering. This will help when the real time comes.

But beyond that, just do it.

[Lila9]

He forced Christine and Tolga to take videos of him running and jumping like a bison in the wild. For hours.

Hahaha they had so much tolerance for his attention-seeking behavior and constant need for validation. The way he fishes for compliments.

They also tried to stay polite when he said such disturbing things about the girls in order to not expose the fact that they are trying to collect evidence of him sexually abusing the girls. It clearly wasn't easy for them. 

It gives a glimpse into the emotionally immature mind of a narcissist and a cult leader.

This is why it is easy to catch criminals with this profile of attention- and validation-seeking behavior.

Christine and Tolga did a very good job.

[ZenSwift]

9 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

@ZenSwift You can use visualization to practice surrendering. This will help when the real time comes.

But beyond that, just do it.

Appreciate it. 

 

[Human Mint]

I've been regulating light at evening for a year now and it feels quite sacred.

Also that's where I enjoy the most watching Actualized.org videos. I get to ponder every sentence unlike at daytime. As if I was around a campfire wondering about the world.

Society definitely behaves like ignorant rats with all this technology.

[Leo Gura]

4 hours ago, Lila9 said:

He forced Christine and Tolga to take videos of him running and jumping like a bison in the wild. For hours.

Hahaha they had so much tolerance for his attention-seeking behavior and constant need for validation. The way he fishes for compliments.

They also tried to stay polite when he said such disturbing things about the girls in order to not expose the fact that they are trying to collect evidence of him sexually abusing the girls. It clearly wasn't easy for them. 

It gives a glimpse into the emotionally immature mind of a narcissist and a cult leader.

This is why it is easy to catch criminals with this profile of attention- and validation-seeking behavior.

Christine and Tolga did a very good job.

Self-snitching is a bitch 

[Jordan]

On 4/14/2026 at 9:52 PM, gengar said:

So do you think Yogananda was lying, self deceived, or telling the truth when he talked about his chronic health issues being cured from "thought"?

I got better from 6 months of back pain by listening to an audio book then meditating for around 4 hours. I went from not being able to sit for even 5 minutes without pain to being comfortable sitting for 1.5 hours the next morning.

Edited 8 hours ago by Jordan

[gengar]

Let's take a minute to contemplate on how an intelligent mind like Leo could write something so appalling as the following: 

(https://www.actualized.org/insights/art-with-a-capital-a)

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He is right that Art with a capital A is about enriching the viewer, dare I say, enriching the viewer spiritually. However, the problem I have with this is that Art just isn’t a good medium for that. You can consume all the Art in the world and it will not enrich you spiritually as much as just contemplation and psychedelics. Just as video games are a terrible medium to deep story-telling, Art is a terrible medium for spiritual enrichment. The spiritual enrichment that art like film and video games offers is as thin as a potato chip.

Not to be a jerk, but for all of his fancy talk, you can play all of Jonathan Blow’s games, which took him a life time to create, and you will get less enrichment than just contemplating one of my videos. Human literature is just not deep, never mind video games.

 

I think it has to do with his American nature. We Europeans are deeply entrenched and connected to art and its link to traditions of philosophy, sociology and metaphysics. And if you deeply study these traditions, you'd see that most of what Leo is talking about is already in there, albeit spread out and less direct. Nothing Leo is saying is essentially new; it is the way that he brings it in a direct, condensed and confrontational manner that is his genius. 

Even though I think Leo's work is absolutely life changing, genius and among the best of the last 100 years, and the most direct confrontation with reality of anything in modern times, to see this level of unintelligence from him is honestly repulsive. He does not respect art and unironically places his art above the art of all others, literally stating that one of his videos surpasses the entire corpus of Blow. the metaphysics of Blow's work are found and appreciated in the manner of aesthetics linked with meaning, no matter how simple. To expect other's people's art to also be as philosophical as his stream-of-consciousness philosophy lectures is laughably stupid and showcases a profound unawareness of fundamental facets of art, philosophy and their interactions with each other the world. The idea that Leo really thinks that you can even compare different forms and corpi of art in this way, is mind blowing.

[Rafael Thundercat]

@gengar  How Dare you Offend God? ( Contains Irony)

[Leo Gura]

@gengar Dude, you love to take things I say and twist them into way more than it is.

It is like you are hunting for things to be disgruntled about.

I don't place my art above anyone.

The themes of human literature are shallow and grossly overrated. Nevermind video games. A profound video game is like a profound story in a porno.

Edited 2 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Rafael Thundercat]

6 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

@gengar Dude, you love to take things I say and twist them into way more than it is.

It is like you are hunting for things to be disgruntled about.

I don't place my art above anyone.

The themes of human literature are shallow and grossly overrated. Nevermind videos.

If you would took out this sort of characters from this Forum you would probably almost be talking alone here. To much Leeway to this disgruntling behavior. ( new word in my vocabulary)