Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 17
People have no idea just how much social media and search engines manipulate their view of reality.
Google is a profound source of epistemic corruption on the planet because they have prostituted the world's information. Google holds the largest source of the world's information but their primary agenda is to maximize profits. This is a huge conflict of interest and perversion of values. Any entity that holds the majority of the world's information has a profound responsibility to have truth as its #1 value, not profit. Google violates this fundamental responsibility, which must lead to evil.
It's pretty likely YouTube has my channel blacklisted because my videos get 90% less traffic than they used to. The profits I get from my work have fallen 70%, simply from algorithm changes. Don't forget that if you found Actualized.org, you got very lucky. I got successful on YouTube long before its recommendation algorithms were so heavily manipulated and filtered. If I started Actualized.org today, there's no way I could get a large audience and most likely you would not find my content. This is not some evil conspiracy against me, it's just how the Social Matrix works. The Social Matrix is not going to help you deconstruct it or transcend it. This is how society maintains its developmental center of gravity. Any content above the center of gravity of the development level of a culture will get very little visibility, such that 95% of the public isn't even aware that high consciousness, high development teachings exist.
Think about the hundreds of millions of people who could benefit from these teachings but will live their whole lives never even knowing these teachings exist because search engines and social media algorithms never show it to them. This is why society is so slow to raise its level of development. All the major mechanisms of society are designed to reinforce collective illusions and biases, to serve collective survival. Actualized.org content contradicts all that and threatens collective survival. So no social mechanism will ever promote this content, because it isn't profitable — profit being just another word for survival.
Do you see that truth cannot be turned into a profit machine, because as soon as it is, it comes corrupted to serve human survival and stops being truth. In order for my teachings to be as truthful as possible I have to sacrifice A LOT of profit. I have to place truth over profit. I can't care about profit because as soon as I do the quality of the teachings tanks and their spiritual power is lost. But because of that the content cannot generate enough profit to compete with all the other content which exploits and caters to human survival. Therefore the social mechanisms cannot profit off my content and so there is zero incentive for them to promote my content. For every dollar Google can make off of my content, they could make $1000 dollars off Joe Rogan's or Jordan Peterson's content — because my content is more true. There is a direct inverse relationship between profit and truth. And we live in a culture that values profit 1000:1 over truth. So how do you get such a culture to find God? You can't.
The point here is not for me to complain about lack of views. The point is that I want you to see the mechanism by which human beings keep themselves blind and ignorant. Why doesn't everyone understand God? Not by accident, by design. Every aspect of society is ingeniously designed to prevent the understanding of God/Truth. This includes science and academia. The issue is not that profound teaching don't exist, it's that they are nearly impossible to promote to everyone in society because all the mechanism of publicity are strictly regulated to filter out the most profound and purest truths. In theory the whole world could access my teachings for free and profoundly change their understanding of reality for the better. But in practice not even 0.0000001% will. This is nothing new. Society has been designed this way for 5,000 years. This is why the stuff I teach is not taught in schools and universities. There is a profound conflict of interest against truth in all social institutions, from elite universities to giant corporations to churches to TV to podcasts.
I'm just explaining why God is so poorly understood by mankind. There's this broadly held assumption that if some important truth is know about the universe, it will naturally bubble up to the top and become widely known. A scientist or atheist might say: "If God was real, why aren't universities teaching it?! Therefore God must be unreal." But that's not how society works. I have crystal clear scientifically-rigorous explanations of God. But no one wants to listen. There's a kind of tragic beauty in that. You can't help people who never cared about truth to begin with.
Google doesn't care about truth. Facebook doesn't care about truth. Harvard doesn't care about truth. CNN doesn't care about truth. TikTok doesn't care about truth. Joe Rogan doesn't care about truth. They all care more about profits. They all invest 1000x more time and attention into profit maximization than truth-seeking. So the world is the way it is. The funny thing is... if the world wasn't this way, I wouldn't have a job.
Don't forget how lucky you were to find this content. It's like a winning lottery ticket fell in your lap from the sky. Most people will never find me. So make the most of it.
This is so deliciously counter-intuitive.
You should want reality to be an illusion. It’s a common mistake to be horrified that everything is an illusion. Reality being a total illusion is the best way reality could be. As you do philosophy and truth-seeking, you should be giddy with excitement at the idea that everything will turn out to be an illusion. You should want nothing to be real. You should want humanity to be an illusion. You should want all human goals to be illusions. You should want physics and science to be illusions. You should want Christianity and Buddhism to be illusions. You should want everything to be your own imagination, because that is the coolest way for reality to be. The greater the mindfuck, the more profound reality is, the more beautiful.
Don’t you see? We don’t need the physical or social world to be real — that’s an inferior form of meaning. The meaning of life shouldn’t come from any particular thing being real, it should come from the realization that you live inside of God’s Mind, inside an Infinite Dream. Don’t you see? It is so much more meaningful, so much more beautiful that you're imagining the world than that you are in a "real" world. Reality has the most beautiful design: an Infinite Illusion. Don’t get bummed out by this, fall in love with illusion. You are an Infinite Illusion falling in love with itself. Nothing could be more meaningful because nothing could be more profound. Don’t you see? It's more beautiful that your children are a metaphysical illusion than that they are a physical reality. The love for your children is so much more profound when you realize that they are figments inside of God’s Mind! Wow!
You want love to be infinitely flexible, unbounded by physical reality. You want metaphysical love. You want unlimited love. Unlimited love requires Infinite Imagination: the power to imagine entire worlds. This means the worlds are imaginary. If love was limited by physical reality, it couldn't be Infinite Love! Your physical views are too small to be contain Truth/Love. You want love to transcend physics. Don't you see? You want your love for your children to transcend their physical existence. The only way to love your children forever is if they exist inside an Eternal Mind! You want the physical division between you and your children to be imaginary! You want UNITY. UNITY is only possible if all difference is imaginary! Don't you see? God has already thought all this shit through. God is designed to maximize love. Which is why physical reality is an illusion. Stop resisting the genius of the design. Embrace it. Trust in the beauty of illusion and be at peace.
I invite you to fall head-over-heels in love with illusion.
I invite you to fall in Love with Yourself.
Imagine the power of a life lived for pure understanding. You don’t care about other stuff. You don’t care about pleasure or money or sex or power or success or love or politics or friends or family or sports or small-talk. You just wake up and your primary motivation is to understand reality — truly, genuinely, actually. Not how you want it to be. Not what you believe. Not some spiritual fantasy. Not how someone told you it is. You only care how anything actually is. You just want to know what is true.
And now, try to imagine what steps you would take from this one pure intention. How you’d think, how you’d question, how you’d study, what sources you’d gather, what tools you’d use — if your goal was pure understanding of the highest truths. How would you go about deriving pure, actual understanding of reality from scratch?
Just look at the purity of such a life! Look at all the bullshit that is instantly eliminated. Would you run off to join some fancy university? No! Would you join a cult? No! Would you believe New Age stories? No! Would you trust science? No! Would you believe religion? No! Would you subscribe to any ideology? No! Would you trust Buddhism? No! Would you trust reason? No! Would you trust mankind? No! Would you become a political activist? No! Would you join a giant corporation and do grinding administrative work to earn money and climb the corporate ladder? No! Would you get drunk and high? No! Would you waste your time chasing girls? No! Would you waste your time hanging out with loudmouthed friends? No! Would you waste your time in online debates? No! Would you spend any time defending and rationalizing your worldview and beliefs? No! Would you need someone tell you what to do and how to think? No!
Why not? Because naturally none of this is compatible with a genuine desire for understanding and truth. People who do that shit never cared about truth, they had some other agenda! So what would you do? You would sit down and start exploring your direct experience from scratch, making observations about the world from first principles, observing how your own mind, body, emotions, and rationality work. You would derive all understanding from scratch, trusting no one, believing no one, caring about no one’s approval, validation, nor opinion. It would just be a pure, genuine, selfless process of exploring raw experience, communion with reality itself, having direct insights into its structure and true nature.
Do not underestimate the power of genuine motive for truth and understanding. This cuts through all human nonsense and noise. This desire is completely self-sufficient, able to bootstrap itself from total ignorance to Omniscience. This is the purest, cleanest, healthiest way of life. You just wake up every morning and you look for truth and understanding.
Note: You don't have to be so pure and perfect about it. This was an idealized scenario. You could still make room for stuff like work, fun, family, occasional sex. This was an idealization to help you see the power of pure desire for understanding. To see how self-guiding, self-correcting it is.
This kind of motivation generated Actualized.org. My secret is, unlike everyone else you know, I actually cared about knowing what's true. Not something else. That makes all the difference in the world. I was far from so pure and perfect about it. But the core motive was there. I am not saying this kind of life is right for everyone. I'm just explaining where my understanding ultimately comes from. People often think I do this work as a career, for money, for ego, for approval, to run a cult, to change the world. People even think I do it to help people. No. I do it for pure understanding. Because that is the purest motive.
If you watch the following video through to the end, in the second half, you will have a profound epiphany about the relativity of size and measurement.
This requires some patience because this is not a pure philosophy video.
Ordinarily, we speak and think of physical objects as having a certain objective size — the hard stuff that science simply measures and reports. But upon a deep epistemic and metaphysical inquiry you realize that there is no such thing as "an object" with fixed objective dimensions. It is impossible to know any object's dimensions for profound reasons, not just epistemic but also ontological. How do you know how long an object is? Only by comparing it to another object (your ruler). But you never know the dimension of any object, including your ruler. The length of all objects depends on: 1) it's temperature, 2) the accuracy of your ruler, 3) the material of your ruler, 4) the temperature of your ruler, 5) the velocity of the object, 6) the velocity of your ruler, 7) your mind's definition of the object, and more!
For example, look at how clever this gets: How long is an elephant? What is the correct "scientific" answer? Do you unfurl its trunk and tail when you measure it? How far do you unfurl them? Do you stretch them or not? How much is the correct amount to stretch them? How do you calculate how much you stretched them when you unfurled them? Which unfurling method did you use? At what temperature are you measure it? At higher temperatures the elephant's tissues will be more flexible and stretchy. Do you measure the elephant in the morning or evening? A elephant in the evening may be longer because it stretched out more throughout the day. Do you include the hairs on the tip of its nose and tail? What if those hairs fall out just before you measure it? What if a new hair grows right after you measure it? Do you count that one dead hair that has half-detached from the elephant's skin and is only holding on to the elephant with dirt and oil? Do you count the dirt coating the hair? Is the elephant stationary or running? What velocity is the elephant moving at? The faster the elephant's velocity the shorter its length. Is the elephant in a strong gravitational field that's pulling it apart? What does it mean to say that an elephant is X.XXXXX meters long? How long does that truth last? When does it stop being true? All of this has massive implications for science and engineering.
You might think this is merely a problem of lack of accuracy, but it's deeper than that. The problem is ontological. What even is an object? What counts as an object? We ordinarily assume that an object like a steel bar just exists and has certain properties, but this assumes many things. A steel bar at room temperature is a solid object, but the same steel bar at 10,000 degrees is an amorphous cloud of iron plasma. So where does the iron bar end and the Earth begin? An iron bar is always shedding particles. An iron bar is never pure, covered in oil, dust, dirt, vapor. Does that count as part of the bar? How long is a cloud of iron plasma? Is it one cloud or two clouds? Science cannot solve this problem just by doing more measurement or more lab experiments. How many clouds are there in the sky today? Science cannot tell you the answer. Not just because it's hard to count them but because there literally is no such thing as "a cloud" without your perspective of it. You are needed to define "That is a cloud, this is not a cloud. That is one cloud, this is two clouds". And this problem isn't just a macro-scale phenomena that can be solved by zooming all the way down to the atomic scale, because at the sub-atomic scale you can't even say what an electron is, where an electron is, how fast it is. Electrons are not the simple, discrete, crisp things your mind assumes they are. Sub-atomic particles morph into various other sub-atomic particles within nanoseconds, faster than you can measure them.
What scientists don't understand is that to even call something "an iron bar" is already to assume too much! What is the difference between an iron bar and a kangaroo? You think these are crisp, distinct objects. But if you became as conscious as me you would realize that the difference between an iron bar and kangaroo is just relative and imaginary.
The problem of measurement, definition, knowledge, and identity is so ontologically profound that not only is it impossible to measure anything, it is impossible to say that an iron bar is different from a kangaroo! This is what science doesn't understand. My goal in this work is to guide you to such a profound comprehension of reality that one day you realize that the difference between an iron bar and a kangaroo is imaginary. Which is to realize the Unity of all things. Which is to realize Love. LOVE means that you stop distinguishing an iron bar from a kangaroo.
Humans assume that you can just say, That's an iron bar, and That's a kangaroo. But the ontology of reality is so profound that you can't say that! To say that requires making many, many over-simplifications and assumptions, and to engage in all sorts of gross biases. Reality requires that the difference between an iron bar and kangaroo be imaginary, a relative illusion held inside a Mind.
This is the difference between materialism and idealism. Materialism isn't capable of understanding reality in such an advanced, fluid, abstract, and relativistic way. Because materialism requires distinctions to be objectively real. And that hampers science because it hampers the mind. Don't forget that all of science is just a product of the mind. If your mind isn't fluid enough to understand reality then your mind will be bad at fundamental science.
Note: Adam Savage is a beautiful human. Model his passion for work. Become as passionate about your work as he is in his.