Challenge: Invent A New Word

[Joshe]

29 minutes ago, Keryo Koffa said:

took me a long time to admit that maybe I was right and everyone around me was just stupid, even though I learned across layers why and how it would suit survival, role dispersal and societal homeostasis, the level of unawareness still overshadowed any type of justification to keep any of it up though, not knowing what to do about it either.

haha, yeah, I never wanted to admit it either. I just always told myself they were all capable of seeing the same things I see, their thinking just needs to be adjusted. They don't care because they can't see, I thought. They're so petty because they haven't contemplated it. All they have to do is contemplate it, right??  😂 There were multiple opportunities to join, and I tried many times, but in the end, I couldn't betray myself even if I wanted to. 

[Keryo Koffa]

28 minutes ago, Joshe said:

haha, yeah, I never wanted to admit it either. I just always told myself they were all capable of seeing the same things I see, their thinking just needs to be adjusted. They don't care because they can't see, I thought. They're so petty because they haven't contemplated it. All they have to do is contemplate it, right??  😂 There were multiple opportunities to join, and I tried many times, but in the end, I couldn't betray myself even if I wanted to. 

I've recently been continuously extending my consciousness in the realm of synchronicity and universal sub-telepathy, integrating perspectives, tearing down all my defenses, and inviting global judgement of all my insecurities, flaws and cringe aspects, then having perceived all its sources continue by stating controversial sentiments that betray the majority of the field while forcing awareness and uncomfortable truths to be diffused into collective consciousness. And then suddenly everyone was reaching out to me, full of doubts, questions, suggestions without me physically having communicated or reached out to anyone, it felt like I had withdrawn the energy that previously manifested them as npc fillers within my experience and made them independent sources that jumped up a spiral stage and were now projecting the most superficial lessons that came from that onto me, quite hilarious, as if I was the center of the world, but if I was, I sure wouldn't be on Earth. 🤭

Still got shadows, but I also know the narrative machine that postpones evolution because it waits for me to embody a generic arc, and I'm calling its bluff because if I don't get to create my world then it may as well abstract my consciousness away and stop pretending there's free will.

Edited June 17 by Keryo Koffa

[Joshe]

4 hours ago, Keryo Koffa said:

I've recently been continuously extending my consciousness in the realm of synchronicity and universal sub-telepathy, integrating perspectives, tearing down all my defenses, and inviting global judgement of all my insecurities, flaws and cringe aspects, then having perceived all its sources continue by stating controversial sentiments that betray the majority of the field while forcing awareness and uncomfortable truths to be diffused into collective consciousness. And then suddenly everyone was reaching out to me, full of doubts, questions, suggestions without me physically having communicated or reached out to anyone, it felt like I had withdrawn the energy that previously manifested them as npc fillers within my experience and made them independent sources that jumped up a spiral stage and were now projecting the most superficial lessons that came from that onto me, quite hilarious, as if I was the center of the world, but if I was, I sure wouldn't be on Earth. 🤭

Still got shadows, but I also know the narrative machine that postpones evolution because it waits for me to embody a generic arc, and I'm calling its bluff because if I don't get to create my world then it may as well abstract my consciousness away and stop pretending there's free will.

It’s interesting you say that. I’ve arrived at a similar recognition. I wrote down on a whiteboard 2 years ago “everyone is for you”. It’s still there and I glance at it from time to time and I say to myself “ yes, that’s true, but I’m ignoring it for now”, and I continue on with the npc filler. 

Sometimes I’ll be doing some mundane task like washing dishes and think of how I’ve gotten lost in irritability towards them, and I’ll recall that it’s all for me, then contemplate why, and my best hypothesis is transcendence. 

Postponement is a good word. I’m doing just that. 

Edited June 17 by Joshe

[trenton]

Another term I have been using is "poison wisdom."

Poison wisdom refers to Any kind of personal development or spiritual advice which is packaged in a seemingly benign or even virtuous ways, but which ultimately serves to undermine you. There are countless examples of this from not only religious ideologies, but from other sources of personal development as well.

An example from Jesus Christ would be from Matthew 5:28. "But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." In this example, Jesus appears to be saying something virtuous, but the problem is that if you apply this moralizing framework to sexuality it contributes to purity culture and the sense that sex can somehow be disciplined away. This backfires in many ways with one example being Catholic women who have rape fantasies because of the idea that they will not be responsible for the loss of their virginity. In spirituality it is a trap to speak of transcending sex in a moralizing way, which is common in religion. It is often a source of religious trauma which causes you to become conflicted with normal human desires.

Eckhart Tolle also pointed out the problem with the "you are not your body" belief. This kind of spiritual advice leads to placing intellectual ideals over physical desires. It can cause you to become out of touch with your body which is necessary for deeper consciousness work. Although your feelings may not show you the absolute truth, they can get closer to enlightenment by giving you the relative truth of what you nervous system is trying to tell you. It helps you to live more authentically rather than robotically which is what happens when spiritual advice devolves into dogma.

There is plenty of poison wisdom in places like Andrew Tate's man philosophy, or maybe Incel forums. This kind of advice promotes the attitude that women need to be controlled or manipulated which undermines the possibility of forming any kind of deep authentic relationship with the opposite sex. It is also deeply foolish to live your life as a hustler thinking you are somehow badass, but actually you trap yourself in a deeply dishonest and inauthentic life style which although may come with material success if you are lucky, comes at the cost of deeper spiritual development due to the reduced empathy, compassion, and love required to maintain that level of selfishness and devilry. (This is probably how Leo's wisdom would frame selfishness as coming at a spiritual cost even if it succeeds in the short term.)

In the field of mental health there is a lot of poison wisdom around healing. Sometimes forgiveness is misapplied such that it enables abusers and silences victims. Therapists make all kinds of mistakes by mistaking trauma responses and protective measures as individual pathologies. This is how the educational system often produces incompetent therapists who are not well trained in detecting abusive dynamics or trauma responses. There is also a generational gap with mental health. The older generation was often taught things like "family above all else," "forgive and forget," "strong boys don't cry," and so forth. The result is that the older generation often lives in denial of how deeply trauma has shaped them and they start passing this "wisdom" down to the newer generations who continue to struggle with depression or trauma as if it were a moral failure. (note that poison wisdom is often very moralizing.)

A controversial example might be "stranger danger." This is commonly told to children to avoid pedophiles who offer them candy only to kidnap them and sexually abuse them. The reason this might be poison wisdom is because although there is a kernel of truth to it, the reality is that most kidnappings happen by the parents over custody disputes. "Stranger danger" assumes that your parents are more trustworthy than strangers, but this is not always true. Sometimes your father is a drug dealing sex trafficker who will abandon you and leave you to be gang raped in exchange for 2000 dollars. In cases like these it becomes obvious that "stranger danger" is a logical fallacy through rhyme of reason. The reality is more nuanced, and in some cases your parents might be more dangerous than a random stranger.

I am trying to think of how actualized.org could be a source of poison wisdom. After reviewing the subjects Leo covers, I think from a certain point of view most of it technically fine in terms of what is being pointed to. However, the way in which it could become harmful is that Leo knows that the majority of viewers will never actually reach God Consciousness or ego death. From this point of view although in theory what he may be pointing to is true, in practice most of us will fail and we might be set up for unrealistic expectations from this kind of spiritual wisdom. Maybe from a practical standpoint, much of this work will devolve into spiritual bypassing because only a small percentage of us will ever experience what Leo is pointing to. For the rest of us, if we lack direct experience, then all of this spiritual wisdom just turns into more philosophy that has no real positive impact on our lives. This is actualized.org becomes a trap even if what Leo claims is true. The problem with actualized.org is not necessarily that Leo is wrong, but there are real limitations caused by the practical realities that most of his viewers struggle with which in turn makes his wisdom counterproductive, and thus poisonous.

There are also various traps in personal development in general which seem good on the surface, but upon closer inspection there are some problems. In my opinion a problem with personal development is an overemphasis on mindset, as if mindset is the answer to literally every problem in existence. An example might be something like using positive thinking, but if deep down you don't believe it, then it will serve to sabotage you if you try those affirmations. What seems to be overlooked is that mindset is not entirely conscious. It is not that simple to just reprogram your entire neurobiology and nervous system to match the mindset that is theoretically optimal for success. However, although many people fail when following this self-help advice, it ultimately gets blamed on them for not having the right mindset rather than seeing the limits of the techniques and philosophies in self-help. This often becomes a form of victim blaming even though there is a reason that most people who try self-help don't become successful. Maybe framing everything as merely a mindset problem is overly simplistic, especially if the 100% responsibility principle isn't actually true but rather is a temporary idea to look for hidden opportunities.

There are probably endless examples of poison wisdom.

[saif2]

Spiralformation : A piece of information that you need to grow into higher levels of development in spiral dynamics, otherwise you dont.
It means a piece of information that you take in and expands your world view more in a way that meditation cannot. It does not mean pieces of information that makes you just more meditative. It does not mean a piece of information that does not do any change because it fits nicely in your current world view.

Example: A conservative is preoccupied with his group planning to get new equipment for their department, because the other department was jealous about this possibility and the attention received from the manger. 
Spiralformation: How about you do a feasibility study to assess the pros and cons of it. Then the conservative takes it, understands it and utilizes it. (This grows his world view from blue to orange or from premodern to modern, from group centered identity to rationality and competency)

[Eskilon]

Flying by the seat of God's pants

To act without the awareness of God, relying on ego, separation, Illusion, sleepiness, disconnection, materialism and devilry.

Edited Sunday at 06:33 PM by Eskilon

[Null Simplex]

@trenton Poison wisdom is great.  Something I will use.

Edited Sunday at 08:56 PM by Null Simplex

[UnbornTao]

Somebody make up some new words about being an idiotic genius.

1. Ignosapien. Not a fancy one.
2. Subtleism - whatever
3. Awakenism? - sistematized beliefs about what enlightenment is and means
4. Etceterasis - rethorical device; the compulsive use of "etc." after two half-baked examples because you can't (or won't) come up with a full list.
5. Etc.

[Carl-Richard]

20 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Somebody make up some new words about being an idiotic genius.

Degenius.

[J J]

That's one I came up with a while ago, when journalling:

Truthphobia = The absolute terror you feel when your ego has to let go of itself in order to grasp the true nature of reality,

Has happened to me quite a few times, both meditating and while on psychedelics. Truly frightening.

Edited Sunday at 10:01 PM by J J

[UnbornTao]

On 29/6/2025 at 10:37 PM, Carl-Richard said:

Degenius.

Degenerate + genius?  

Gnoofus - gnosis + doofus.

Gloof - genius + goof

Edited 37 minutes ago by UnbornTao

[Rafael Thundercat]

On 12/06/2025 at 2:20 AM, Basman said:

I've been working on a new word that describes the kind of group think we tend to see on the internet which I felt no previous word adequately described.

The word that I came up with being "ideological cult", which I define as a rigid group-identity centered around a particular ideology that excludes non-conformist thought and borders on being fanatical.

Characteristics of an ideological cult:

• Is always a group identity.
• Highly conformist. Everyone involved just adopts and parrots the core beliefs of the ideological cult unquestioningly and non-conformist thought and behavior is excluded with prejudice.
• They almost exclusively propagate in echochambers because their highly defensive of their beliefs.
• Is usually is an attempt to solve some kind of common grievance but ends up creating exaggeratory, dramatic and binary thinking. Leans heavily on a victim mentality.
• Can be left by simply no longer subscribing to the core ideas of the cult, unlike a regular cult which relies more on indoctrination and power dynamics. You don't have to know anyone to be part of an ideological cult. It is defined by the core ideas and group-identity.
• Instills a world view of natural enemies, of us VS them (incels VS women/chads, sovereign citizens VS the law, trans VS transphobes, etc.).
• Tend to be algorithmically biased and are therefor prone to hyperbole and a sliding scale of extreme thought.
• Can have idol worship at its core but doesn't have to be (Eg. MAGA).
• Can be isolating, like an ordinary cult, as they can promote self-sabotaging beliefs, like thinking your too ugly to date.
• Propagate through the internet almost exclusively as ideological cults wholly rely on communication tools to survive.

Examples of ideological cults:

• MAGA
• Nofap
• The online Trans movement
• Any pill community
• Flat earth
• Incels 
• Antifa
• Hardline veganism
• Sovereign citizens
• Postmodern "woke" ideology
• Andrew Tate fans

This definition is still kinda half-baked to be honest but I feel like there is no good word to describes these ideological groups that we see everywhere now online. There should be way more examples of ideological cults than I could come up with if my definition makes sense. These ideologies often prey on peoples insecurities and ignorance and cloud their thinking with exaggerated and false beliefs. It paradigm locks people in a conformist sort of way. 

Sounds a bit like Cancel Culture, could be named as a disease of the mind Cancelationmania or some like these. The inability to jump from different perspectives and understand meta and sytemS To a point that someone desire to cancel perspectiveS ,is a sort of wish to kill the other side.

[Mada_]

Psychoslouch:

Someone who takes psychedelics without any prior research, doesn’t way their dose of mushrooms, takes them at parties. Has never heard of DMT Nexis and has only read trip reports by accident. Watched Instagram reels and texts their friends whilst tripping on acid. 

[Rafael Thundercat]

Not a new word but a new expression :

" Nuance wont kill you" 

Is from this video: