Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 53

One of the reasons very advanced cognitive and moral development is so rare is the insane suffering you must incur to reach it. I mean here a very specific kind of suffering that is usually not even understood by people. It is the suffering of understanding how wrong you were, how corrupt you were, how selfish you were, how self-deceived you were, how immature you were. There are levels of self-deception in you which are so advanced and so ugly that you can’t even imagine them right now. I mean, truly understanding how flawed you’ve been and still are. Reaching the highest stages of development requires forcing yourself to confront and admit all this to yourself even when there isn’t a strict need. Because others around you will be too ignorant and unconscious to even understand your level of wrongness. You will recognize you are wrong in ways that most people don't even comprehend. People around you will be telling you how great you are, but deep down you will know you are wrong. And so you have to do it for yourself. No one is going to force you and it will be very painful. This explains why truly good people are so rare. You're not born good, you have become good by recognizing and eliminating all of your personal corruption and ignorance.

Just try to imagine if someone like a Trump or a Musk tried to become a good person. Not because they were forced, but just by their own desire. Put yourself in their shoes — knowing everything you know from studying all the Actualized.org concepts and being on this journey yourself — and try to imagine how painful it would be for them. Try to empathize with that. The pain of admitting all the stuff they are wrong about, and all the suffering they've caused people, would be unbearable. They would break down in tears, they should feel suicidal, they would go through depression and nihilism — just to admit their own corruption to themselves. They would need someone to hold them. But this isn’t unique to them, it will apply to you too, just hopefully to a lesser degree. And this process of realizing your wrongness and stupidity needs to happen more than once, over and over again for each higher stage of development.

By the time you're done with all that, you will become profoundly compassionate towards the ignorance, immaturity, and corruption in others because you will know how hard it was for you to come to accept yourself. To develop serious love requires not just acting well, but participating in evil. Consider that serious love doesn't come from avoiding murder, it comes from being a murderer and then redeeming yourself from that, learning to love and accept yourself after that. Only then can you understand and love murderers. Unless you go through that process, you will not have enough depth of empathy to understand the grotesque moral situation that a murderer is in.

Consider this: The reason that God is the ultimate Love, is because God is a Mind which lived through every possible perspective and personally participated in every possible evil, but through recognition and consciousness redeemed itself and learned to love itself anyway. So, literally, the reason that God is the highest Love is because God was every murderer who ever lived — and fully conscious of it. Only by going through all that ugliness consciously does one reach God's degree of Love. This is, literally, a super-human Love. A Love that cannot be achieved without infinite perspective. As it turns out, for profound metaphysical reasons, you cannot love something you haven't personally been through because you will not understand it. To love a thing requires understanding it. And understanding it requires living through it and becoming One with it. So there is a very profound relationship between love and evil. You won't get high degrees of love just by being nice to everyone, acting proper, and following the rules. That's far too shallow. You have to really experience oneness with evil. The most loving person will not be the one with the cleanest hands, it will be the one with dirty hands who went through hell and came out the other end a saint.

Note: Obviously this is not a license to start doing deliberate evil just for the personal development benefits. If you did that you'd very much regret it.

This is a very important video because it demonstrates the difference between meditative practice vs God-Realization. These are NOT the same thing. Daniel Ingram has extremely advanced technical meditative skill — more than anyone I know — and he's achieved all the classic Buddhist attainments on the enlightenment path. However, he still does not have a realization of God. The ontology has not been grasped. Pragmatism and scientism have not been fully deconstructed and still hold sway. The self-deception of Bayesian reasoning still holds sway. Absolute Truth has not truly comprehended and realized. God has not been grasped. The ultimate nature of Consciousness has not been understood.

Listen to the last 5 minutes of this long interview to see what I mean.

Start at timestamp: 59:00

This is why I'm such an asshole about these matters. The self-deception here is so insanely subtle and advanced.

No-self is NOT God-Realization.

Study this matter carefully.

This is not a criticism of Daniel or any disrespect towards his work. I appreciate his work a lot. It's just about making sure that at the end of the day you grasp that YOU ARE GOD!

Fischer Random. I played white against a 1900-rated bot. The bot played somewhat weak at the start but it was a fun end-game.

You should be aware that not only do Christians oppose wokeness (stage Green), they equate it with Satanism and Lucifer. This sounds absurd when I say it, but this is literally how serious Christians understand the world:

This is one of the many delusions of Christianity. You see... one does not merely become a Christian to believe in God, or even experience God. This ideology is a cancer that infects one's mind, warping one's epistemology and ontology, shaping how you interpret and make sense of the whole world. Under such a worldview the mind is not even able to make sense of things like trans rights, gay rights, feminism, Stage Green, post-modernism, spiritual pluralism, the New Age, psychedelics, politics, democracy, climate change, racism, terrorism, Israel/Palestine, and more. Being Christian goes way beyond merely a belief in God. If it just stopped there, it would not be a problem. But it never stops there because it is an ideology with a mind of its own, which seeks to monopolize, dominate, control, demonize, exclude, self-aggrandize, and reproduce. Christianity is not just a set of spiritual practices, it is a powerful political force which seeks to dominate the world.

In the end, the reason Christianity is a lower perspective is because it is too self-absorbed, too demonizing to make sense of total reality. Fundamentally, Christianity is not intelligent enough to be all-Loving. Because to be all-Loving requires total understanding of all perspectives. The level of intelligence required to realize God's Love cannot be attained through any kind of ideology. Period. Which is why, in practice, Christians have always been unloving, intolerant, racist, bigoted, and violent people. I don't need to demonize them, their record speaks for itself.

Do not be fooled by such Christians. They love to act kind, polite, friendly, and humble, but at the end of the day they believe that anything that goes against Christianity — everything that contradicts their biases — is demonic. And their solution to the demonic is — quite naturally — extermination. Don't underestimate how literally they take this. This isn't just mythology to them. They believe they are on this Earth to fight an existential battle between good and evil — evil being anything that contradicts Christianity. As a real-world example, many American Evangelicals, who are in power now thanks to Trump, view the Palestinians as Satan's children. Can you guess what their solution is for handling Satan's children?

Christians do not just view Stage Green as bad, they view it as ontologically demonic. That's the key insight! Only when you understand this insight do you understand how dangerous these people are underneath their friendly and cuddly facade. These people do not think for themselves, their minds have been hijacked by an ideology that seeks power. Christianity is the corruption of God.

The proof of it is, they elected Trump — the anti-Christ — and yet they sit there and still complain about how wokeness is Satanic. They can't even see that they put Satan in the White House.

The way Satan gets you is through the gaps in your epistemology. Which is why Actualized.org makes epistemology and truth as our top priority.

Note: Be careful not to over-generalize Christians. There exist some spiritually advanced Christians. Some Christian teachings are valuable. Please be nuanced.

Daniel Ingram is a serious neo-Buddhist practitioner, not just some New Age hack. So his opinions on this stuff are worth taking seriously.

I do not recommend that you get distracted chasing magick powers. I share this for sense-making purposes, not so that you run off and start doing it. For sense-making purposes it is important that your worldview have a reasonable account for such phenomena. Of course, it's all part of Infinite Mind, so it's no problem for the Actualized worldview. As I told you, God is Infinite Imagination. People still don't comprehend the significance of what that means.

Be ware, there's great potential for self-deception and fantasy within the occult. So I really don't recommend it unless you've already mastered everything else. Without a rock solid epistemic foundation dabbling in the occult will turn into profound delusion.

Credit: Thanks to forum user The Crocodile for sharing this video with me.

Lessons in corruption:

Notice, the more of a grifter, marketer, used car salesman, con-artist, or fraud someone is, the more passionately they support Trump. Grifters are so predictable. The more one bullshits, the more one loves Trump. Isn't it interesting how that works?

Note: For legal purposes, this is just my personal opinion. I make no factual claims about Grant Cardone or his businesses.

In my series Deconstructing The Myth Of Science, we discussed what I called "the black hole problem".

This is the black hole problem:

The black hole problem is not about faith or belief. It's about parts of reality being structured in such a way that makes 3rd person objective validation impossible.

It is nothing more than an ungrounded assumption that all aspects of reality should be 3rd person objectively verifiable. Just because some phenomena is not 3rd person verifiable doesn't make it false, it just means you aren't conscious of your own metaphysical and epistemological assumptions.

As it turns out, reality is not structured as anyone assumes. The fatal flaw in everyone's thinking is the expectation that your metaphysical assumptions should be correct. But why would they be? You never even bothered to check them. You're not even clear what they are.

God isn't about belief or proof. God is about realizing that all of your metaphysical assumptions are wrong.

Note: If you haven't seen the film Contact, I recommend you watch it.