How do I create a Beautiful Mind?

[ZenSwift]

Dear @Leo Gura, 

 

What is the most effective way to create a beautiful mind? 

 

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“From decades of existential contemplation, cultivation, and deconstruction of all human ideas, my mind has become an exotic garden where alien flowers bloom and iridescent hummingbirds zip from blossom to blossom.”

https://www.actualized.org/insights/automatic-love 

 

This is the most inspiring thing for me. Nothing else comes close.
 

For me, it appears to be as follows: (In order of immediate effectiveness.) 

 

• Number 1: Awakening. Reaching states of God consciousness and states of non-dual awareness, states of consciousness of absolute truth. 
  • This ideally looks like creating as many 5-MeO-DMT breakthroughs as I can consciously and healthily stomach. 
  • Including that, is by facing my fear of death directly, through lower doses of psychedelics and through direct self-inquiry, till I reach death similar to Leo’s "2C-B Trip Report - Experiencing Physical Death" https://youtu.be/9_WL0hoRA7s 
  • In addition, facing all of your traumas, systematically facing fear, ideally through psychedelics. 
  • Getting into the right state. https://www.actualized.org/insights/wrong-state 
    • Related: https://www.actualized.org/insights/brain-fuel
• Number 2: Developing your Sensemaking, Studying epistemology, and metaphysics.
  • Deconstruction of Reality, rationality, science, etc., Practice of Real Philosophy through Direct contemplation of Reality from first principles. 
  • Studying Leo’s content. Reading books from Leo’s booklist (and any other great metaphysics/epistemology/consciousness book). Studying The 9 Stages of Ego Development. Creating loads and loads of requisite variety in your studies: Hundreds of sources, hundreds of experiences, hundreds of case studies, contemplating hundreds of things, etc.
  • Making explaining of reality and contemplation of reality into a strong almost automatic habit. Really living the life of a sage. 
• Number 3: Actively Becoming aware of your Bias/Selfishness/Devilry/Corruption/Double Standards/Where you are wrong/ Self-deception by having a routine contemplation practice into this. Understanding the force of survival to profound degrees.
• Number 4: Rewiring your nervous system and Altering your Brain Chemistry: Rewiring your nervous system with Kriya Yoga Practice, Heavy Metal Detox, Eating Clean, doing proper exercise, mastering your sleep schedule, drinking properly filtered water, ridding any additions to stimulation that is frying your brain, whether that be media addiction with your phone or substance use. Cultivating a brain that can actually focus and isn’t distracted into oblivion.
• Number 5: Systematically designing your life and survival situation to be aligned with Truth and Love. Ideally aligned with a consciously created life purpose such that acting in a conscious loving way is rewarded, not punished. Mastering your survival such that it is conducive to this work of being a sage, effectively creating a lifestyle of inquiry and learning.

Now, obviously, in practice, these are going to be pursued alongside each other, but I simply want to pinpoint down:

• What the hell is the most effective in creating massive growth? What the hell do I focus on to really create a beautiful mind?
  • What are the biggest levers of this work? 
    • (For definition's sake, I’ll quickly define “the work” as: Creating a beautiful mind aligned with the intelligence of God. Or: The raising of your consciousness, raising your sensemaking ability, jailbreaking your mind, unlocking access to “alien intelligence.”)
  • What are the biggest levers in aligning my mind with that of God?
• To be direct, I would appreciate Leo’s perspective on what he sees as the most impactful areas for my growth in consciousness development. If needed, I’m open to providing more context so this can be meaningfully addressed here on the forum.

I infer that Leo has become more restrained about openly promoting psychedelics, likely because he recognizes the influence he has and the risk that people may misuse them irresponsibly. That said, I still want a clear, direct answer on what the most important things are to focus on.
 

If I want to create a beautiful mind: 

What are the best things I can do, the highest leverage techniques that will get me there?

 

You could say I’m looking for more clarity on the direction with all of this...

 

Additional Contexts to mention. Because Leo, I’ve been studying your work for a long time:

Leo, On Nov 4th 2018, you’ve mentioned “The most powerful techniques you’ve discovered” in the episode “65 Core Principles Of Living The Good Life” as follows:

https://youtu.be/BqWPqZK-Ikg?t=7326

• Psychedelics
• Meditation
• Meditative yoga
• Journaling
• Contemplation
• Visualization
• Solo Retreats

 

Leo, if I am remembering correctly and if I understood what I read correctly, I've seen you express attitudes and opinions that Kriya Yoga was far superior to any meditation. Right now the most effective techniques appear to be psychedelics, kriya yoga, contemplation, and solo retreats.

Side note: What is your opinion now on the relative effectiveness on journaling and visualization? 

 

In your Solo Retreat notes of March 2019 you mention that 5-Meo-DMT is THE tool to use for awakening your consciousness: https://www.actualized.org/insights/solo-retreat-notes-feb-2019 

• “5-MeO-DMT is the ultimate awakening tool. Let's stop beating around the bush. No other technique, method, or teaching is as direct, deep, or powerful. Not meditation, not yoga, not contemplation, not self-inquiry, not any other psychedelic. 5-MeO-DMT is the guru. No guru can do for you what 5-MeO-DMT can do for you. If Christ or the Buddha came back to life and personally taught you one-on-one for 10 years, they would not be as effective as a few doses of 5-MeO-DMT. That's a bold claim. Yet it's undeniably true for anyone who seriously experiments with 5-MeO-DMT. 5-MeO-DMT will not solve all of your growth challenges, it may not even permanently awaken you, but it can lead you to super-human levels of awakening if you use it properly — and I emphasize PROPERLY!”

 

In your episode “What Is Fake Spirituality?” You stress that REAL Spirituality is Ego Dissolution and that You're doing spirituality to experience God, which aligns with 5-MeO-DMT use a lot. 

• You also outline an overall scope of what real spirituality looks like in practice. Outlining all the points of direct inquiry. https://youtu.be/ECUHkflwBQc

In “An Intro To Serious Philosophy - Top Advice For Philosophers” you mention committing to at least 100 psychedelic trips.

• Alongside having a rigorous contemplation practice, a practice of inquiry through deep contemplation and observation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InmNW96qcUk

 

You stress like crazy pretty much everywhere that proper sensemaking is number one. 

• https://www.actualized.org/insights/conscious-vs-unconscious-sense-making 
• https://www.actualized.org/insights/the-loop-of-wrong-sense-making 
• You also stress that Truth is the highest priority to have. https://youtu.be/nvNGha_g2U4 
• You stress exercising Epistemic Responsibility: https://youtu.be/W5kvXJNMMM4 
• You underline that a deep study of your own self-deception is imperative to this work. 
• You emphasize becoming conscious of your selfishness and bias. 
  • Understanding your forms of lying, Devilry, Corruption, Why you avoid Truth, Double Standards, Understanding Survival, Where you are wrong, etc. 
• You stress that you have to understand how your sensemaking is being squashed by conforming to pre-established systems of thought. Such as Skepticism, Science, Rationality, Post-modernism, and also understanding the nature of belief, such as understanding ideology, understanding authority, and understanding conformity itself. Deconstructing all of your thinking is the bread and butter: Deconstructing rationality, science, ideology, belief, etc. 
• You stress that Truth = Love. You Stress having holistic attitudes towards your sensemaking with Understanding holism.
• Developing sovereignty of mind is also imperative to further rid your dependence on others as mentioned in your video: The Root Solution To People Pleasing & Loneliness. An awakening into solipsism helps here as well, obviously.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZqEMok_NXw

And you know what, to be honest, I might just be overwhelmed by the workload.

There is a lot here. And there comes to be a point where I start asking what are red herrings and what aren't.

In a way I'm very lost in Maya.  

To be clear, I genuinely enjoy studying and learning this material, it's my favorite hobby at this point. But I notice I struggle to follow through with the level of industriousness that I want to be at.

For example, let’s say I aim to read at a rate of about one book per week, yet I’m currently struggling to maintain a rate of one book per month. I want to be a completionist with Leo's work. Lots of it is due to managing survival, but the other half has also been just not being industrious with my studies in the way I would like to, another aspect of this is the sheer volume of this work. I think I am fooling myself by focusing on studying all of the content, and putting little to no focus on the Pure Philosophy of contemplating reality from first principles. I'm honestly really bad at that. I do that actually really rarely, yet I understand the power of it, I can change my paradigm of reality in an afternoon if I want to contemplate for 5 hours straight. But this is what my behaviour has been like. 

Another note is this: I have significant difficulty focusing. Gotta love that ADHD. It’s hard for me to pick one task or one project and see it through to completion. Even when I intend to commit, I find myself pulled in different directions, which makes consistency challenging. This is also why I’ve been so interested in Leo’s mind programming course. At the same time, I recognize that I’ve done the best I could given my current level of awareness and understanding.

You better believe I'm lost in my personal maze. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeIfHozjcls

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Edited 2 hours ago by ZenSwift