All Personal Questions For Leo

[Leo Gura]

On 3/9/2017 at 2:30 PM, AstralProjection said:

@Leo Gura First off love your videos. And please take the time to research astral projection a bit. I view only second to psychedelics in power to transform. In fact in many ways astral projection is more powerful than meditation. See why bellow in the first video.

1) Did you know that you can go to the realms of light that are without form through astral projection?

2) Have you heard of William Buhlman? He's one of the few people that have gone so far inward through astral projection to the point where he had no body and there was no form and he was a ball/orb of consciousnesses. There are many other astral projectors that have gone way beyond ordinary mundane astral projection to very deep sacred places. 

3) What do you think about astral projection Leo? Thanks!

Out of Body Experiences, the Astral plane and the Afterlife -William Buhlmam

William Buhlman on OBEs at Monroe Institute Professional Seminar 2014

I know about astral projection. Seems to be real. I haven't done it.

On 3/10/2017 at 0:06 PM, Chrissy j said:

@Leo Gura one time on this forum you said going to the extreme for enlightenment would probably be the best life possible. I get you would probably live an amazing life but do you think a life purpose and personal development coupled with enlightnemnt would make for a better life? Or would a life based solely on pursuing enlightenment like in a cave with nothing and no communication would be better? And how much do you think life purpose, personal development, family, material things, friends, and anything else would make life better if you chose to keep these instead of just pursuing enlightnement solely?

Post-enlightenment you'd return back to social life. You wouldn't live in a cave forever.

On 3/10/2017 at 0:18 PM, username said:

Have you considered celibacy for spiritual growth?

I rarely have sex as it is.

On 3/13/2017 at 3:34 PM, Salomon Tolosa said:

@Leo Gura what else would you be doing if actualized.org didn't exist, what project would you be building instead? 

Meditating in a cave.

On 3/13/2017 at 6:05 PM, LRyan said:

Hi Leo,

Thanks so much for putting all of this great wisdom out there!  It is life changing stuff.  Would you be so kind as to suggest a few reputable places to attend a meditation retreat or a retreat to further awareness/consciousness for my journey?  I have been searching for awhile but I have no idea which places are truly worth attending.  I'm from Canada so most of these places  will be out of my country so I need to be cautious of where I choose to go as travel is expensive and I need to buy a lot of books and take your online course so I have to spend wisely!!!  I would appreciate any tips you can offer!

Lisa

Many of the authors of the books on my book list offer retreats or workshops. They are all excellent.

On 3/14/2017 at 6:42 AM, LRyan said:

Also, I wanted to ask you if you see different colours when you meditate?  I usually start seeing colours after I settle into the meditation and have seen pink, purple, yellow, blues and some green.  They seem to all be circular and seem to come in and out of the field and disappear and re appear..?

No

On 3/17/2017 at 0:19 PM, Echoes said:

@Leo Gura At what age did you learn about Enlightenment and Spirituality and that there is such a thing as absolute truth? Did you already know about all this when you uploaded your first video on the channel?

About 6 years ago.

Yes, I knew about it from the very beginning of Actualized.org, but I wasn't ready to talk about it. And I didn't know it's fully scope and depth yet.

On 3/19/2017 at 4:44 AM, Maya_0 said:

How mindful are you throughout your day (%)?

What effect do psychedelics have on your mind the days after taking them? Do you feel hazy? Do they affect your cognition or mindfulness?

13.785%

Almost no effect. A bit more monkey mind than usual. That's mostly all.

On 3/31/2017 at 4:28 PM, cirkussmile said:

Do you get tears in your eyes sometimes for no reason?

Do you ejaculate? + your view on that.

Yes, but there's a good reason. Reality is the most beautiful thing ever.

Yes. No view. It's just a bodily function, like crapping.

On 4/5/2017 at 4:56 AM, Kazman said:

Have you read anything from Walter Russell? What is your opinion on him?

Also: what is your take on ancient aliens?

No

I've never met any aliens.

On 4/6/2017 at 8:33 AM, John said:

When and where did you reach access concentration?

How did it affect your practice moving forward?

I dunno. It's not a consistent thing for me. It requires discipline to hit it.

On 4/8/2017 at 10:53 AM, Scarecrow said:

Do you do travel the world any?

Not much. I have higher priorities.

On 4/9/2017 at 4:49 AM, Loreena said:

Are you a Christian ? 

What's your religion (technically) 

You need to watch some of my videos on epistemology.

On 4/9/2017 at 5:40 AM, Evilwave Heddy said:

Have you got a course in the making as we speak?

Sorta. It's going slow because I have lots of inner growth to do on myself.

On 4/9/2017 at 6:54 AM, Vaishnavi said:

I recently saw a video you created about 3 years ago where you talked about your vision, where you even mentioned writing books someday and having kids, but now that you're involved with enlightenment work so heavily, is that vision still relevant? I mean having kids and marriage and writing books, things along those lines? 

I am in the process of outlining a book.

Kids? Probably not, but who knows.

On 4/12/2017 at 3:03 PM, RossE said:

@Leo Gura Please can you post a photo of yourself when you were overweight? It would be very illuminating to see how far you've come with your health. And I'm just nosey I guess

I will, but I have to get it from my Mom first. It's a physical photo.

On 4/13/2017 at 10:10 PM, onacloudynight said:

Do you alternate days between doing the do-nothing technique and mindfulness with labeling? Or do you use both techniques in the same day?

It's random. I use lots of different techniques because part of my job it to experiment.

On 4/17/2017 at 10:13 AM, Lynnel said:

Would you prefer to live a full life (arround 90 years) and never even hear about enlightenement or live only one day as an enlightened being ?

The full life is actually quite good if it's in a decent part of the world.

I feel like 1 day of enlightenment wouldn't be enough. It would be too short know or appreciate anything.

On 4/18/2017 at 3:28 PM, Mondsee said:

In some maybe not very recent videos you said the one big thing you wanted to focus on and master was personal development. Is it still the same? Has it maybe shifted more towards enlightenment?

I don't see them as different.

On 5/13/2017 at 2:29 PM, The White Belt said:

@Leo Gura - Leo. The Peter Ralston interview. Why let his team put it on a channel with no way near as many subs as yourself, let them split it up into bits and render the quality quite badly? Did you film it for Peter or for your channel? 

It was done against my wishes.

On 5/14/2017 at 1:24 AM, Huz said:

How much of the material you present on your channel have you, or do you, actually embody ?

45.381%

On 6/2/2017 at 5:18 PM, Edvard said:

@Leo Gura FINALLY! I've been looking for someone else with a notion like this for several years. I was always thinking this is what Richard Dawkins is wrong about, since I got into getting to know about "new atheism". It didn't make logical sense to me that consciousness would cease to exist with death, and I have been getting more and more sure about it. Problem was that I couldn't find any of my atheistic "idols" thinking like this, and not many other people elsewhere (a few partly on the internet, with questionable sources).

My reason for it, and I use logic, maybe that's not how you look at it (because you say you can't use logic to develop enlightenment), is that firstly, you can't be conscious of being unconscious, which means that time doesn't pass for the "dead". If you get unconscious on earth you won't feel the weeks or months it takes to wake up from a coma. So what if this time is infinite? You'll never wake up? Will you wait? No, to me this paradox leads me to supect that "I" had a 100% chance of experiencing consciousness, because that's the ONLY time that can exist, and always will continue to exist in the "future" (I'm not defining time in scientific terms here). There were an infinite amount of other people or "consciousnesses" who could have been in my place, so it just doesn't seem like a coincidence, if it was, consciousness wouldn't have been needed in nature, because of a deterministic universe. I suspect consciousness is a necessity, like a law, because being uncoscious for eternity doesn't make any sense. And like you say when enlightened, I am nothing, but also everything, the universe. That's my notion. 

We had to wake up somewhere on the time line of eternity, is a quote I have used earlier (by me). Before we were born, we were "dead", so in that sense, we have already raised from the dead. Makes sense?

Loved to see this comment, that made me happy, lol.

Do you agree with my take on this?

Reality is way more twisted than that.

You don't actually exist. You never have. You just think you have. So you cannot die and there's nowhere to go.

5 hours ago, Morky said:

What do you think about Tulpae, healthy multiplicity, and multiple consciousnesses? Do you think more than one consciousness can inhabit your body? I would really recommend that you look into these ideas if you don't know much about them.

No idea

5 hours ago, Skenderberg said:

@Leo Guraif you only had the chance to recommend one book to the entire world, wich one? and why. 

Oooo... good question. Ralston's books.

[Dan Arnautu]

Do you have your own Self - Actualization journal (in either written or digital format) that you update regularly? I am not refering to a commonplace book, but a journal like other users have on this forum, based on the guidelines that you gave towards making one.

If you do, did it impact your life positively? 

[Edvard]

Are other animals self-actualized? Can they become self-actualized or enlightened? If not, where does the IQ limit go, or wisdom, or whatever human quality animals don't have?

[Leo Gura]

10 hours ago, Dan Arnautu said:

Do you have your own Self - Actualization journal (in either written or digital format) that you update regularly? I am not refering to a commonplace book, but a journal like other users have on this forum, based on the guidelines that you gave towards making one.

If you do, did it impact your life positively? 

No, I don't keep a narrative of my growth. I sorta scratch that itch through my videos and blog. But I do journal to myself sometimes.

10 hours ago, Stefano Provenzi said:

what do you think about sri aurobindo and especially his concept of suprementalization?

and what abouth the theosophical society, did you learn a lot from it?

Thanks again for everything you share with us, and especially your dedication

I haven't read into Aurobindo much. It's rather dense reading which I don't want to wade through right now.

Didn't study the Theosophical society much other than the gist of it.

8 hours ago, Edvard said:

Are other animals self-actualized? Can they become self-actualized or enlightened? If not, where does the IQ limit go, or wisdom, or whatever human quality animals don't have?

Animals are vastly different from humans because they do not conceptualize. So they are like effectively enlightened. Although they don't appreciate the fact because they can't self-reflect. At least that's my best theory of it so far.

Best not to compare yourself to animals. You have a much more complex set of issues to deal with than any animal. Even if you're enlightened, you still have a TON of human stuff going on in your head.

[Anirban657]

@Leo Gura What is your current level of consciousness? Are you at self-consciousness or objective consciousness?

I am reading the "The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution" by P. D. Ouspensky and I am learning about consciousness/awareness more.

What does increased levels of consciousness/awareness look like? Are there special powers? 

Edited June 5, 2017 by Anirban657

[LifeLife]

In your recent video you talked that you do neurofeedback brain traning. What do you mean by that? What practice do you do or service that you use? Do you use a specific product? etc.

 

Thanks  

[Dizzy]

Leo, you are very wise and I certainly admire you. I haven't read as many powerful books as you did, yet for the little part I know about you (about 2 years watching your videos), I can relate myself to you in some aspects
Well, I so hope you are willing to answer my questions.

1. What is your best guess of the level of consciousness that most of your audience is right now ? 


2. Your life purpose is to grow and share with the world your insights, right ? Or so I understood from your videos, please correct me if I am mistaken. Do you see yourself as a teacher? Did you ever consider making some sort of event for your viewers and audience to meet up with you and discuss topics (as this forum), but in a direct face talk?  Or is that impractical ?

3. You always mention that its essential to cut it out people around us that has useless habits as we get serious with self actualization. At this point, do you have personal support from people on a similar level that you are now? 

4. Did you ever have tears of joy when considering how many people's lives you have deeply touched as pointing them out how to create a profund life ?
 
5. That may be a long shot, but are you still into sage development ? If so, when you do realize you are a sage, did you ever consider opening a Gura Leo Sage School?  

 

 

[Echoes]

@Leo Gura Do you still sometimes have periods of doubt about nonduality and fall back into assumptions of the "old" paradigm? If yes, how do you deal with such periods?

[AstralProjection]

@Leo Gura Did you experience any light of any sort whether it was clear, white, or dim when doing any psychedelics? And if you so what kind of light did you experience on which psychedelics? Thanks a million!

[AstralProjection]

@Leo Gura If reincarnation is real, do you think it's possible that dying at the point of ego-less psychedelic death would cause one to have a very noble rebirth? Or perhaps have to never reincarnate again? Thanks again.

[Dan Arnautu]

What is your take on fiction books? Can they be used effectively for growth? I saw a comment where you said it's ok to read both fiction and non fiction books depending on what you want to get out of them. 

[Veggies]

How would you describe your love towards yourself?

Edited June 10, 2017 by Veggies make me FART

[Dan Arnautu]

In the video on ”Contemplating your own death” you said you were already 30 and would be lucky to live another 30 years. Why do you see such a short life expectancy in your case? That only amounts to being 60 years old. A lot of even neurotic and unhealthy people live to 80 for some reason.

[Gabriel Antonio]

do you think Matt Kahn is enlightened? 

[Epiphany_Inspired]

@Leo Gura LOVED new video! (Usually I'm the one that seems crazy though...lol...)  Are you really considering stopping advice giving?

Please consider how your wisdom can inspire others to action. If we think of just your new video, how you spoke about: everyone is wired differently, at a different spiritual frequency, etc... this clearly illustrates how outside perspectives can be of enormous, even profound benefit...we have limitations with our own lenses, programming, etc there are obviously things that you can see that we can't....and sometimes vice versa....perhaps this is another part of nature's plan....different people... for sharing unique perspectives and insights...

Personally, I was disrespectful to you about your advise, and I am truly sorry. I have so much gratitude that you have taken your time, to help me on a number of occasions. "Tough-love" has actually worked on me effectively before, weather I "like it" or not...lol.....

[Dan Arnautu]

Are you interested in trying Hawaiian Baby Woodrose (LSA)?

[Afonso]

1) What's the thing you most want to share with us in the future?

2) What's the top 3 most outrageous and incredible things you have found in all of your research? (that you haven't made a video out of)

3) Besides Enlightenment, what's something incredibly unknown in modern society?

[The White Belt]

Do you ever speak to your family about enlightenment and your research? How to they respond? Do they watch your videos and how do they react? Especially to the ones this past year. 

[Leo Gura]

On 6/4/2017 at 9:12 PM, K VIL said:

how do we discern evil teachers from teachers of love? do we attract what we are? 

i was listening to byron katie and getting into it. but something is off about her. she mentioned she abused her kids, and loving "what is"

my intuition is telling me is a fancy marketing scheme. how do you balance learning with the fact that there are corrupt teachers out there?

Don't blindly listen to any one teacher. Don't place any one teacher or teaching on a pedestal.

Corrupt teachers are no problem when you are pulling from 100s of sources, as you should be doing if you care about Truth and understanding. And you understand the dangers of the epistemology.

On 6/4/2017 at 9:22 PM, Anirban657 said:

@Leo Gura What is your current level of consciousness? Are you at self-consciousness or objective consciousness?

I am reading the "The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution" by P. D. Ouspensky and I am learning about consciousness/awareness more.

What does increased levels of consciousness/awareness look like? Are there special powers? 

All schemes for quantifying consciousness are very limited. Don't take them too seriously.

You cannot understand higher levels of consciousness without actually going there yourself.

It's like trying to tell a blind man about the color red. Nothing can be said.

On 6/5/2017 at 3:38 AM, LifeLife said:

In your recent video you talked that you do neurofeedback brain traning. What do you mean by that? What practice do you do or service that you use? Do you use a specific product? etc.

Thanks  

It's a very complex and technical topic which would require a lot of detailed explanation.

On 6/5/2017 at 10:06 AM, Dizzy said:

Leo, you are very wise and I certainly admire you. I haven't read as many powerful books as you did, yet for the little part I know about you (about 2 years watching your videos), I can relate myself to you in some aspects
Well, I so hope you are willing to answer my questions.
1. What is your best guess of the level of consciousness that most of your audience is right now ? 

2. Your life purpose is to grow and share with the world your insights, right ? Or so I understood from your videos, please correct me if I am mistaken. Do you see yourself as a teacher? Did you ever consider making some sort of event for your viewers and audience to meet up with you and discuss topics (as this forum), but in a direct face talk?  Or is that impractical ?

3. You always mention that its essential to cut it out people around us that has useless habits as we get serious with self actualization. At this point, do you have personal support from people on a similar level that you are now? 

4. Did you ever have tears of joy when considering how many people's lives you have deeply touched as pointing them out how to create a profund life ?
 
5. That may be a long shot, but are you still into sage development ? If so, when you do realize you are a sage, did you ever consider opening a Gura Leo Sage School?  

1) No idea. Not a valid question.

2) Well, of course I am a teacher, because I teach stuff. Maybe in the future I will travel around more and do some live talks/meetups. But not right now.

3) I'm a lone wolf type guy. I don't like personal support from anyone. I like to do things myself, or not do them at all.

4) Not really, it's become just normalized. I don't really do the work for you, I do it for me.

5) I consider all the videos leading to sagehood for those who are serious about it. I'm not tied to the notion of being a sage. It's just naturally the direction I'm pulled. Actualized.org is the sage school.

On 6/5/2017 at 11:09 AM, Echoes said:

@Leo Gura Do you still sometimes have periods of doubt about nonduality and fall back into assumptions of the "old" paradigm? If yes, how do you deal with such periods?

Doubt, as in thinking it's untrue? No. I've experienced beyond a shadow of a doubt now that nonduality is factually the case. Do I backslide into old bad habits and struggle with embodying nonduality? Of course. How could it be otherwise? That will only be fixed with decades of work. You gotta accept the backsliding and not beat yourself up over it. You can only grow so much so fast.

On 6/7/2017 at 10:41 PM, AstralProjection said:

@Leo Gura Did you experience any light of any sort whether it was clear, white, or dim when doing any psychedelics? And if you so what kind of light did you experience on which psychedelics? Thanks a million!

Nope, no light.

On 6/7/2017 at 10:50 PM, AstralProjection said:

@Leo Gura If reincarnation is real, do you think it's possible that dying at the point of ego-less psychedelic death would cause one to have a very noble rebirth? Or perhaps have to never reincarnate again? Thanks again.

No, I doubt that. You're not going to trick the system. If there is reincarnation, it's there for a reason. You're not going to shortcut consciousness or trick the universe about your level of consciousness. It knows. Just because you died on a psychedelic high, your base level of consciousness was still very low. If you die on a psychedelic, you'll probably be reincarnated as a jackass

On 6/8/2017 at 3:17 PM, Dan Arnautu said:

What is your take on fiction books? Can they be used effectively for growth? I saw a comment where you said it's ok to read both fiction and non fiction books depending on what you want to get out of them. 

Sure, anything could in theory be used for growth. But I wouldn't expect serious growth from a fiction book. That's be way to easy.

On 6/10/2017 at 5:19 AM, Dan Arnautu said:

In the video on ”Contemplating your own death” you said you were already 30 and would be lucky to live another 30 years. Why do you see such a short life expectancy in your case? That only amounts to being 60 years old. A lot of even neurotic and unhealthy people live to 80 for some reason.

I like to be conservative in my planning. Then I can be pleasantly surprised with any excess

On 6/19/2017 at 0:41 PM, Gabriel Antonio said:

do you think Matt Kahn is enlightened? 

Sounds like it.

On 6/21/2017 at 1:30 PM, Epiphany_Inspired said:

@Leo Gura LOVED new video! (Usually I'm the one that seems crazy though...lol...)  Are you really considering stopping advice giving?

Please consider how your wisdom can inspire others to action. If we think of just your new video, how you spoke about: everyone is wired differently, at a different spiritual frequency, etc... this clearly illustrates how outside perspectives can be of enormous, even profound benefit...we have limitations with our own lenses, programming, etc there are obviously things that you can see that we can't....and sometimes vice versa....perhaps this is another part of nature's plan....different people... for sharing unique perspectives and insights...

Personally, I was disrespectful to you about your advise, and I am truly sorry. I have so much gratitude that you have taken your time, to help me on a number of occasions. "Tough-love" has actually worked on me effectively before, weather I "like it" or not...lol.....

I may need to take some time off to work more deeply on myself. But then I think I'd return. I like giving advice. But it does distract me from doing the deepest work on myself.

On 6/23/2017 at 0:30 AM, Joseph Maynor said:

Hi Leo.  You mentioned doing a creative thinking course.  Do that!  Please.    I forget which video you scatted some ideas on this.  I was really impressed.  Consider doing a course on creative thinking as you discussed.

That wouldn't happen for some years. Too much on my plate as it is.

On 6/23/2017 at 5:23 AM, Dan Arnautu said:

Are you interested in trying Hawaiian Baby Woodrose (LSA)?

No, they tend to be toxin and unpleasant. I've got better stuff to try.

On 7/7/2017 at 5:26 PM, Afonso said:

1) What's the thing you most want to share with us in the future?

2) What's the top 3 most outrageous and incredible things you have found in all of your research? (that you haven't made a video out of)

3) Besides Enlightenment, what's something incredibly unknown in modern society?

1) There's lots of nuanced and basics-type topics.

2) I covered many of them in my recent Paranormal Phenomena video. There's a lot of weird occult spiritual stuff to research. A lot of weird stuff within psychedelics.

3) The extent to which our society, marketplace, food industry, drug industry, media, marketing, business, government, education system, and politics is corrupted by capitalism, dogma, ego, and money. If people only knew... There would be a bloody revolution.

13 hours ago, Stefano Provenzi said:

Where can I exactly find more resources and info on the meditation with labeling technique? Like books, or videos

I've already practiced it, but I'm really curios to discover the nuances

Rock on Leo

Shinzen Young is really good at teaching that.

9 hours ago, The White Belt said:

Do you ever speak to your family about enlightenment and your research? How to they respond? Do they watch your videos and how do they react? Especially to the ones this past year. 

A little, but mostly they don't care, so I keep it to myself. I don't think they watch my videos much. They live an ordinary, chimp-like existence.

[Loreena]

Do you think that everyone else is a chimp

Edited July 13, 2017 by Loreena