Connor Murphy the fitness influencer, has passed away

[OBEler]

@PenguinPablo I know someone who is bipolar and has his maniac episodes. He is not a genius, he is a fool in this state. But I can see how it can get some in genius states with the right intelligence.

Edited 12 hours ago by OBEler

[CosmicExplorer]

If I would have to bet my money on it, I would bet that Connor, during those last 6 years, was more happy than the average person. I don't think it was a suicide. I think it's likely that his death was actually caused by not enough neuroticism rather than too much.

Edited 12 hours ago by CosmicExplorer

[AION]

[Alextvvv]

On 09/07/2026 at 5:15 AM, Leo Gura said:

Mysticism isn't a joke, it is more serious than science. Yet some people treat it like a toy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwdzVVxnViw 

In this video, Connor is trying to enlighten his parents. His dad responds (36:03 - 39:30) that Connor isn't actually onto something, and that many Christians are "there" too. 

Is there something happening globally where Connor was trying to spread the word, or is this mysticism & awakenings like there always have been?

Edited 11 hours ago by Alextvvv

[Jodistrict]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

What you see in video is not the full picture but only what he wanted you to see.

He was not truly happy. Manic states never last.

"Although I laugh and act like a clown

 Beneath this mask I am wearing a frown"

---  John Lennon

 

[OBEler]

@Schizophonia

 

@all Please watch this video. It is the same pattern.  He took probably drugs then everything changed. He said also its just an act. He destroyed his whole image, there is no repair. 

 

[Girzo]

@PenguinPablo If you have a very high intelligence and talent to begin with, then maybe. I also know two bipolar people and both are very foolish and hard to deal with during an episode. Not genius at all, normal people, who suffer the condition and need to medicate it.

Edited 9 hours ago by Girzo

[PenguinPablo]

@Girzo There are different levels of bipolar.

I think full blown mania probably is not a great thing but I don't have experience with it.

Also...

From Gemini: Elon Musk has not publicly shared an official clinical diagnosis of bipolar disorder or hypomania. However, several psychiatrists, mental health professionals, and biographers have speculated that he exhibits traits associated with hypomania—such as extreme energy, impulsivity, and a reduced need for sleep. [1, 2, 3, 4]

[AerisVahnEphelia]

 

6 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I don't think Connor wanted to die.

He was just reckless and thought he could get away with it forever. His luck ran out.

Yeah, right. I was being a bit extreme, but he was suffering because of the impossible standards he had set for himself, and that probably created a constant state of anxiety, which in turn fueled his desire to hyper-perform.

By my standards, most elite athletes and high-level artists are mentally “sick” in some way. They often suffer from an intense need to prove themselves to the world.

That’s just my best guess, of course. I obviously don’t know him, and I had barely watched any of his videos around the time he started his whole ayahuasca phase.

So ultimately, no, he didn’t want to physically die. He wanted the suffering to stop.

Edited 8 hours ago by AerisVahnEphelia

[OBEler]

@AerisVahnEphelia nah, you don't know how addictive it is to be a gym rat. If you have the right genes bodybuilding makes you feel incredible.  It's like any other hobby, if you are incredibly good at it and see results you will go further for improvement . No insecurity complexes needed for that. 

[AerisVahnEphelia]

Just now, OBEler said:

@AerisVahnEphelia nah, you don't know how addictive it is to be a gym rat. If you have the right genes bodybuilding makes you feel incredible.  It's like any other hobby, if you are incredibly good at it and see results you will go further for improvement . No insecurity complexes needed for that. 

yeh endorphine is a hell of a drug I know.

[CosmicExplorer]

18 minutes ago, PenguinPablo said:

There are different levels of bipolar.

All mental disorders exist on a continuum (shades of gray), and the exact line dividing "normal" from "disordered" is fundamentally a human made construct. In a sense, everybody experiences micro manic and micro depressive episodes because everybody's mood is variable.

[Hojo]

1 hour ago, CosmicExplorer said:

All mental disorders exist on a continuum (shades of gray), and the exact line dividing "normal" from "disordered" is fundamentally a human made construct. In a sense, everybody experiences micro manic and micro depressive episodes because everybody's mood is variable.

Yes literally the way to stop going into manic and the depressive states is just stay depressed when you go manic.

 

[Leo Gura]

Psychedelics heighten the manic delusions. That's why they are dangerous for bipolar. Especially daily chronic use. That will send the manic episodes out of control.

If I was manic while doing 5-MeO for a month, I could easily have killed myself.

[Inliytened1]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Psychedelics heighten the manic delusions. That's why they are dangerous for bipolar. Especially daily chronic use. That will send the manic episodes out of control.

If I was manic while doing 5-MeO for a month, I could easily have killed myself.

It can happen to anyone with too.much drugs or alcohol.  All it takes is one bad decision.  I'm lucky I'm not dead with half the crazy stuff I did while drunk

Edited 3 hours ago by Inliytened1

[AION]

Guys stop painting this guy as a natural psycho. Why do you guys try to smear him like that? He was a normal guy. This is a video of his friend. He says he was a normal dude before his psychedelic arch. I think another thing that played a role is his success arch. He started earning a lot of money on a young age. When one is poor one doesn´t have a lot of options to fuck oneself up. If you have money you can go on path of hedonism and that can fuck you up too. Hedonism opens the door to suffering which opens the door to spirituality. But unfortunately he fell in the wrong hands in terms of spiritual gurus who underestimated the dangers of psychedelics.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by AION

[Joseph Maynor]

@AION  I agree.  I think he was a highly intelligent guy who was also very creative but he was also pushing the boundaries a lot too.  

[AION]

1 minute ago, Joseph Maynor said:

@AION  I agree.  I think he was a highly intelligent guy who was also very creative but he was also pushing the boundaries a lot too.  

 

Anybody who takes that amount of psychedelics will suffer and it will break their mind. He basically turned into a Frankenstein running around looking for love being rejected by his creator. And tragicomically enough Conners death resembles the death of Frankenstein who also died while running away from authorities.

 

[Leo Gura]

56 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

 I'm lucky I'm not dead with half the crazy stuff I did while drunk

Sorry to hear that. Alcohol can be wicked.

23 minutes ago, AION said:

Guys stop painting this guy as a natural psycho. Why do you guys try to smear him like that? He was a normal guy. This is a video of his friend. He says he was a normal dude before his psychedelic arch.

Except you conveniently ignore all the disclaimers and advice given against mixing psychedelics with mental illness.

No one who teaches about psychedelics thinks it is okay for a bipolar person to take psychedelics daily, for weeks and months. Everyone tells you that's very dangerous. That is called abuse of psychedelics. Yes, abusing psychedelics can be lethal.

No person with mental health issues should be taking psychedelics daily. That is crazy.

Perhaps Connor was normal, but lots of psychedelics can unlock latent mental illness. Psychedelics don't cause bipolar, but they can unlock it if one was already prone.

Psychedelics are just like guns. Reckless people will certainly injure themselves with it. That is not the gun's fault. The gun is doing its job.

What ever happened to responsibility? Whose responsibility is it to use psychedelics carefully? Why is that responsibility crucial?

Edited 2 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Jirh]

@AION Most normal people are natural psychos. You just don't know it because they put so much effort into hiding it. That's how they look 'normal'. Conformity is no joke.

I like to think that we're all psychos in some way, shape, or form. It's just that some of us know how to hide it better than others.