What Is Perception? - The Metaphysics Of Perception
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I try to talk to my friends and my girlfriend about these topics and they call me frikie and lost. Society turns its back on me. That's why I know I'm on the right path. I´m tankful you read this.
Aitor Jauregui Keep on your path brother 👍
@@inneraesthetics thanks!! =)
Well watch out because that argument does not make any sense: it is in EVERYONE'S interest if you do not speak of things which probably you do not understand. Speak to people where they're at. Be like a chameleon. YOU don't need to create a PERSONA out of "Society rejects ME, thus I am on the right path"
No. Just no
@@Nendomin it kinda feels bad when youre passionate about topics like these but you have to hide it and fake your genuine interests bec no one around you can relate
@@seddd Join the forum SED! Actualized.org/forum
Edit: and everyone else who feels the need to discuss these topics of course!
P.S apart from that: be very open minded about the people around you. Just like as you might be hiding these topics, so are others. This stuff is still kinda taboo usually. Not among intellectuals though, if you know how to bring the topics on properly. So look around you be open minded and youll find plenty of people.
On top of that, always remember you can learn even from your dog so to speak. But also from a lot of non spiritually minded people!
I used to think you were in the middle of mental health and insanity for such radical understandings but recently I've been gifted with very relevant epiphanies/awakenings that are life-changing. Every time it happens I come here to re-listen this information and everything starts to match and to have a completely different meaning. All of this starts to make so much sense to me. Thank you really!
The whole time I was watching this video I was experiencing a deep fear, so deep my body was shaking non-stop. I have had this realization many times in the past - on psychedelics, Mooji pointings, and contemplation - but was not able to fully see it during this video. My person was desperately holding on, and I kept inquiring into, “Who is the one who is holding on?” but, this time, the attention was directed toward attempting to recontextualize my entire life from start to finish, without a perceiver. I was running through memory after memory in my life and realizing that I wasn’t actually there the entire time (similar to the Fight Club analogy used in the Radical Recontextualization Episode). It was extremely terrifying for my ego. The consequences of the Truth was so viscerally frightening that I was not able to sink into the insight like I have in the past.
All “my experiences” and “my issues” had no owner, they were just pure consciousness floating out in space the whole time. Spooky.
Also, just recently I was contemplating my earliest childhood memory for some reason, and I realized that my first solid memory was when I was like 4 years old, which was odd to me. What was I before I was 4? Where was I located? Why are there no memories before this?
So, along the lines of Leo’s explanation, I had the insight/personal hypothesis that I was Source Consciousness the whole time - which is Pure Being without a commentator or ideas or even words at all - and the first memory I have only came AFTER I had gradually (and innocently) taken on the assumption that I am the one that is experiencing and owning these perceptions. Before I adopted this IDEA, I couldn’t remember anything because there was no “me” there to attach a referenced story to. That is why there are no memories before the idea that we are a person has been accepted as truth (with a lower case t).
Likewise, an old person in a nursing home that has lost their mind, they are actual Source or Pure Being but their whole “life” disappears. Their life doesn’t end when their body dies, it ends when they lose the idea of themselves as the person. When they lose this concept then their “person” goes away and they just Are, without any previous reference. And btw, at this point you can see just how fragile their whole “life” is. The “life” they assumed they owned disappears completely and the only thing left is Being. Everything they thought they were the whole time is no longer there, but their body is still there. They “die” before they “die”.
Not sure if this makes total sense, I just thought I would share with everyone my experience and also an insight that may contribute to Leo’s explanation. Any thoughts?
Thanks Leo. You da man!
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This scene explains how my ego felt the whole time haha
@@Yes-mc3us This was deep and helpful, especially the early memories part!
Alex Stewart thank you!!!
Alec Estes I here you man. Great explanation with memory.
Alec Estes I’ve been getting these epiphanies that totally creep me out. I wish I could put them into words. It’s actually like this whole thing is a big joke but profound. Like it’s simpler. I have no good words. But it’s terrifying
A few years ago I would seriously hate that Leo's videos were 30 minutes long. Now I get frustrated when he doesn't hover around 2 hours.
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@SUFI-4- LIFE! He didn't ask why
The exact contrary for me
@SUFI-4- LIFE! But then here you are doing the same exact thing watching these videos. Spare me your elementary attempts at trolling kiddo.
You must be a newbee...welcome
Leo, you changed my perception of the world. You changed my whole perception of my very existence. You changed my perception of who I am. I used to think I am a slave to my emotions, you taught me otherwise. You showed me power within myself that I didn't know I had. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Now, I try to distribute my knowledge that I gained from you and many others, mixed with my own emotional journey and experiences with other people through my videos on my channel. Thank you for helping me grow, Leo! :)
You are an inspiration! Thank you!
Tanvir Ahmed dido
Thank you so much, Emma!
What does dido mean? :P
+Tanvir Ahmed Sweet! :)
Little bit of weed, little bit of yoga and a little bit of Leo. Perfect Sunday.
rituals like that are an excellent recipe for a fertile day
Replace weed with 5 MeO-DMT.
A year later and I’m living your reality 😅
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As I get to watch "I" not want to be an enchilada
You are as you are.
But Leo, are you saying that SpongeBob is God?
But Leo I like watching my SpongeBob shows...! :-(
Ahahahahahhahahahaha im ready! Im ready!
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Oh dear
I'm listening to this video for the tenth time and every time I listen to the video I discover that its meaning is deeper than the last time , it's literally life transformating.
3rd time for me.
I finally glimpsed it for a moment!!! I was able to really see the oneness of all, and realize I am not a separate being watching reality but that I AM REALITY. This is the second “Leo” video I watched, but I have been on my enlightenment path for a few years. You explain and word these delicate topics quite well 👍👍👍
I finished it, I have tears in my eyes. I feel happy, afride, sad at the same time.
Same here :)
Same I felt like really happy and relieved. Mind you I was depressed when I first learned about no self
It's nice to live in Europe and start the Sundays with Leo's videos. 😊
Watching this on my break at work
and I saw the video leo did on islam maybe thats the way someone sees it but im sure there is SOMEONE who also picked up a harry pottet book and walked away thinking that was a nice add on to the telli-tubbies franshies.
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@@AutisticVegan Muslim problems in Europe are wonderfully explained by Leo's spiral Dynamics video series.
It's nice to live in South America and start the Sundays with Leo's videos as well.
Leo is god. I am god, so I am Leo. So, hope you guys liked the video (:
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Leo hopes he liked the video
you did a good job
Some scientific theory about eyes with mechanism in them that process light through a optical nerve to your brain you have a lens in your eye and other things like a microscopic mechanism that is old
This one is really deep, had to listen to it twice. Good work.
Will York I listen twice too but I can’t usually listen back to back. I always grasp something a little more the second time.
It’s very insightful
That's because it's nonsense.
Your videos have made me angry, depressed, and have made me cry many times. Thank you Leo for your hard work always.
For glimpses of things like this, I often revisit childhood memories. That's when we were all enlightened, more or less.
It's the other way around
@@UranoSteam Depends who you ask
@@gogo311 Yeah it does
This channel is so where I am. You’re not able have THIS kind of conversation so THANK YOU
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You just gotta get the right mates, mate ;)
C I G You should check out Bentinho too, find the video where he discusses tuning into Presence for a few seconds a dozen times a day, you'll find the practice to integrate well here.
Thats assuming ...ah ...assuming Leo's ..ah ...u know.....that he's OK with it.
:-)
I love the way Leo attempts to answer a question philosophers and scientists have been struggling to answer for thousands of years. Go Leo
Except that they haven't really been struggling. When a monk goes to live in a cave and dedicates his entire life for spirituality, now that's what I would call a serious attempt to answer these questions
More i listen to this guy, More i get confused about my life
Step in the right direction
Confusion is necessary actually I believe he does have an older video called why am i so confused?
It's because he doesnt talk about anything. He's a deductive thinker not a progressive one
Advice for everyone here, go to a real therapist, leo use confusion to wash your brains :) . I was a real fan of Leo untill one day that i realized he is trying to think for us. think for yourself. dont let leo fuck your girlfriend, dont let leo tell you what reality is, who your friends are, dont let him isolate yourself because your environment doesnt accept LEO's IDEAS. Go to real therapists, you know? the one's that truly listen to your problems not pretending they know them, the one's that are adapting they're methods for you. Basically leo is saying that if you don't do what he says you are lazy or you dont want it bad enough. You may be traumatized, depressed but he doesnt care, you are lazy anyway.
The confusion is coming from your delusions. Let go and relax.
Thank you Leo, I actually got it. I've been working on this for 5-10 years, and I really got it while watching this video! I disappeared today, and I can finally relax into being/trust/truth/oneness/everything-nothing
Your videos have contributed to me - and many others of course - immensely with your videos. Your presence has helped me through hell, heaven, and everything in between. Bless you, Leo
Leo, your insight is priceless. Thank you for presenting this information out in such an easily digestible way. You’re content is amazing and has helped to transform my life. Keep up the GREAT WORK!
One year later I come here to say that "now" I am understanding what you are saying here. It was not an empty year, no, no. I spent the time keep reading, listening to other thoughts in other videos. Waw Leo, Thank you very much for your hard work here. My gratitude to you.
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Absolutly amazing, as always!
No way haha happy to see you here!
After watching 70+ of your videos, you have fully changed me Leo . Love you and thank you ❤️
You just made "the observer is the observed" by J. Krishnamurti clearer but until one experiences it by themselves everything remains the same :(
Very true in being similar to JK. But it is partial - the observer is the observed, and the observer is not the observed
It is a ego stripping and painful at times so I thank you for being a voice in my bubble when it gets tough 🥺❤️
Great video,I had to listen to it three times,and do the exercise over and over again.This is mind blowing.🔥🔥🔥⭐⭐⭐⭐
This video popped up as I was scrolling through Leo’s podcasts on iTunes. That is what I call perfect timing.
It seems like this consciousness is like a laid tablecloth and the ego is like a bump which gets created from the tablecloth and “feels” he is separate and has it’s own experience
Yes, a knot in the cloth
One of your most profound videos. I had multiple waves of goosebumps throughout the video. A slight panic attack followed the sponge analogy, proving that it was on spot. The exercise created an opening I have been craving for days. I could finally grasp that my sense of self is another layer of experience intermingling with sight, sound etc in the perceptual bubble. Now the sense of self feels like an echo of a song I have listened to on repeat. Can't thank you enough for the episode and keep it coming :)
Wow. Talk about a realization without psychedelics.. great vid
Yes I experienced. Osho in one of his discourse(in hindi) said that observe the world as if a film is running in front of u and this experience would be consciousness itself. From u I came to know that we are basically forgetting ourselves for a while or dissolving ourselves with the object. Thanks.
You’ve changed my life.
Out of the thousands that will hear this and only like two people will understand this, here I am. I get this and understand. It has been resolved like you said by saints and sages for thousands of years. My curiosity and passion to seek truth eventually lead me as well and you make it very easy to understand.
I think the shortcoming of materialist scientists is that when they examine the material universe they don't realize the material universe is examining them right back.
Exactly!
I just read one of the other comments. Leo, you are helping us change our perception of the world. More accurately you are helping us see the lie (concept) of the personalized "I ". I can better understand what it means to just "be". To all of us who watch Leo's videos, let us not ever turn him into a guru. Just feel an enormous gratitude for the work he does and doesn't ask one penny from us.
I think these videos are wayy to advanced for the level of where meny people are .. i dont think you can go to a full time job to pay your bills and be enlightened at the same time ..
It is possible eventhough it can be challenging. These videos are too advanced for most viewers yet I think they are worthwhile. If only few land on fertile soil now it is enough. I'm also optimistic about the future. If these video's last at the internet for several decades people may be more receptive for it's content. RUclips can serve as a time-capsule in a way.
+doit_vehicles Yes, this vid is very advanced. But you can grasp this and still keep a job.
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1. It would be nice if thees ideas were actually testable and provable.
2. Even if one ass-umed that this presentation is 100% fact, how is that relevant to anything?
If you're being tortured and starved in Hitlers prison camp, do you give a flying fook whether all this b.s. is true or not.
You are still being subjected to torture and starvation and your senses have no choice but to sense them.
There are somewhere between 0 and 1 humans in the history of humanity that can ignore the reality of their 'living' experience.
There are between 0 and 0 lesser life forms that can utilize this stupid nonsense we're assuming is fact. Fact or not, it's useless to 99.999999% of life in the universe.
Existence for 'living' things is bookended between procreation and the food chain, and filled with hunger, fear, suffering, and a gruesome death via teeth, claws, poison stinger, starvation, ..., ..., ...
So basically, in dictionary terms, you can think of existence as eternal hell. Once you 'die' you respawn somewhere else, as someTHING else to do it all over again... hunger, fear, suffer, die... hunger, fear, suffer, die... hunger, fear suffer die. So what's more *real* to you... what Leotard is telling you, or the inescapable truth that life is eternal hunger, fear, suffering, and death. You can think of the universal consciousness as the embodiment of evil itself, as its effectively experienced, and you're already in hell, you're just too gawd damn stupid to see it.
You can think of the content of Leo's videos as explaining that there's no such thing as good or evil, only perceptions of events, yet when asked to willingly give your child, pet, spouse over to a serial killer for their enjoyment, how many humans on earth would do that? I seriously doubt even Leotard would do such a thing, as I doubt the sincerity in which he buys into his own nonsense.
TasteMyStinkhole it’s interesting because I think we should try to understand reality.
@@TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt ...Life isn't just suffering...theres millions of positive things in life to be grateful for...sunrises...sunsets...bonding with people you love...all the other simple pleasures in life...hot and cold water delivered in an instant...plus we live at the most economically and technologically advanced time ever...you can literally do anything you want and go anywhere in the world in a few hours...I fail to see how everything is suffering...im sure a part of you recognizes all the good that is around you...As for the suffering that is great too for a life full of only 'good' things would soon be boring as fuck...in a perfect nerfed world where nothing went wrong people would actually suffer more...you would yearn for anything to break the cycle...you would yearn for something 'bad' to happen...not to mention such a perfect world would cease to be perfect for we can only recognize contrasting things...we habituate to that which is constant...a perfect world would cease to be recognized as such...Would you play a video game where you knew you would always win? Do you really want a life with no suffering?...Have you contemplated what that would be like? Struggle is part of the game of life...It may not be fun at the time but its what makes the game worth playing.
Holy shit ... I got it!! Finally... you explained it so simply, in the beginning you see flash glimpses, then your mind pulls you back ... but the fact that you had a glimpse is the beginning of death which is what your mind is trying to blockade!!! It is mind blowing Leo ! You are an amazing being!! ❤️❤️❤️
Yup. Leo wtf. Had to pause the video and turn the light on, shit was getting to scary. I think I get ya. I was touching my bed covers without the ego, and It was the bedcovers touching skin. The external world feeling itself.
Thank you. I've been meditating every single day for over 3 years now. Been watching your videos since I started. I get it. I am one of the people you hoped would get the message. I can't put into words the massive impact you've had on the quality of my life, and consciousness. I've understood what you've been saying since your "Spiritual Enlightenment - The Most SHOCKING Truth You'll Ever Hear", video.
I just opened the video to get the title to mention it here, and it has 11k likes, and 1.1k dislikes, talk about synchronicity...
Hope you read this and it gives you some joy, I get it Leo. We are LITERALLY one. I've confirmed this VISUALLY, in ways that language is too limited to explain. Years of meditation and mushroom trips have shown me. The mushrooms were definitely part of the breakthrough I had to understanding that everything is one thing. I saw it VISUALLY through my direct experience.
You are doing great work! Great episode. One of your best. Keep up the good work!
What we actually experience are the qualities of our perception. No qualities, no perception. The Mind derives meaning from the 'driving' qualities that change our inner state of Being as they change.
Holy shit I got it leo its suddenly so obvious why this cant be talked about this is def the only way thank you man
Thank you Leo! From "my" perspective, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is also a great intellectual to study these theme and the relations between subjects and objects, existence and non existence. And, yes, "I" agree that the ego (sel-fsystem) and the meaning are constructions. Another thesis, words and perspective is that the Universe is only Information. Following this spiritual path, life and being can be amazing.
Leo could you make a video about the Ego, exactly what it is and it's purpose in reality?
this is gold and yeah there was a glimpse and also a rememberance or intuitive knowing that "I" already know this and have been there.
“You are the idea that you’re a physical object” *explosion
This is one of your best videos for sure, still blows my mind that something this profound is just openly accessible on RUclips
Well as a person with sinestesia I can see shapes and colors on music or any kind of sound . I also feel what others feel ( mirror sinestesia) but if I say it to people they call me crazy. So I chose to embrace nature . Being surrounded by nature teaches more than any school , book or video.
+Pink dolphin See video: Why People Seem Crazy
Actualized.org Thanks . Sure I’ll. 🙏🙏🙏
I’ve been following Leo for 4yrs now, as well as doing a lot of other work. I’ve gradually come to understand certain facets of Awakening, God, Truth, Reality, etc. but I really struggled with this lesson on Perception. Until today! I just rewatched, having done another year or so of hard work, and this time to combination lock clicked into place. I couldn’t stop laughing and writing. Realization after realization. Hysterical laughter. Then sadness. Then laughter. Then nothing. It all went away and I couldn’t see it anymore. But something lingers. Maybe another four or five years of hard work before I can see it and keep seeing it!
Sooooo..what does one do with this knowledge?....What can I do after hearing this that I couldn't before?
So i have experienced the fear of insanity while breaking through. The fear of insanity got me to back off instead of pushing through. Should I have just kept going?
Leo is probably an alien, I mean have you ever seen him sneeze in any of the 200+ hours of his content??? I think not!
I got a sense of this when I was meditating a year or so ago - that the "experience" I was having did not require an "experiencer". This video helped clarify that realization to me. Lately in my meditations I'm able to "remove myself from the equation" more easily. It is like a movie is playing with no one watching, but it's there all the same.
Sunday Church session has arrived at Actualized.org. The time is now.
Thank you Leo I decided to buy your life purpose course and I am halfway through and I cannot thank you enough for your content. You have exposed many concepts that impact my daily life. Thank you.
"this is god" *points to a sponge* 😂
My favourite video of yours so far
I think my biggest insight was the switch between "nothing exists but perception" to... everything exists but perception.
This has really transformed my resistance to stillness and nothingness
Thanks so much
*Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.*
Sounds like capitalism
Profound. You are pointing us to truth Leo. Maybe pointing is not the accurate word to use. Leo, you are helping us see the truth. The "I" exists without it having to be personalized. This is so huge! Normally one can get a glimpse of this truth by quieting the mind. I am going to have to listen to this a 3rd, 4th and 5th time etc. I can't wait for your other training videos on metaphysics. Thank you Leo. Love to you.
your sponge example reminded me of Interstellar. Ive always felt like that movie showed a sliver of the truth. The part he was in that multi dimensional cube'd with endless corridors. Good stuff brother I am glad I found your channel.
JoeNoBuddy that was behind the wall right. Where time was not linear Or am I thinking of a different movie
@@daxross2930 where he could see his daughter as a child again waiting for the ghost in the wall that was him in that space. YEAH MAN!
Loved the movie. I want to watch it again
Hi Leo! My message is simple: I am 20 years old and had various extremely profound psychedelic awakenings. It seemed practically impossible to process and integrate these through conversation with the people of my surrounding. Your content finally is the first source I can truly resonate with, mainly because it mirrors a lot of insights that I already had declared myself metally ill for. You played an enourmous role in ankering reality. Really, I do not want to know where I would be without the help you give. I could not be more grateful. Thank you so much from the core of heart!
+Thorsten Fuzzi I hear ya. You're welcome :)
You cannot kill the ego .. embrace it. Understand it. It is your astrological program.
one can use the ego as a vehicle/vessel to carry across transcendental ideas. Most people understand only the language of ego. One can craft metaphors that resonate with ego that will lead them on the path.
why are you here Christ ?
You can kill it, that’s enlightment, duh
Martin Haristoy then how do you get it back
CarbonNation TV It comes back naturally after every enlightment experience but each time it comes back weaker until it completely dies and that’s when you cease to exist, because you realize you never have existed, you just thought you did, that’s why Leo says you are just an idea
I've always felt holistic about losing one's self for the greater good but having this "click" is truly grateful and humbling to be even around for. Truth, luck and contemplating got me here. Thanks Leo
+Gkozak Sweet! :)
Yeeeeeah brother! Your an inspiration Leo and have truly changed my life for the better.
"Pure is-ness" is my new favorite term for being.
Kragatar I like it
Hey Leo, right before watching this video I was watching a long video of someone that has been in the journey of actualizing itself for more than 30 years, with many books and so on, and like many other individuals with the same background, wasn't able to find the proper words to deliver the message, which was basically the same you were talking about here. I've realized it more and more that the message is the same but you've got the skills to deliver it...some rare skills, and I truly (from the deep of my heart) thank you for that and for following your passion and your call. Thanks again! Aryel.
i relized the bubble thing when i was sitting in a car i tried to trick my mind to make it look as if the car was fixed and fixed on mechanical arms to toss around simulating bumbs and a ground and imagined everything in the windows as like video and it hit me somthing could be behind me and i could perceive im moving around and going places and stuff when infact were all ina fixed position with infinite realities in other things happening behind wht we r seeing into
edit: like look a screen of a game it looks 3d and stuff but its flat take wht ur looking at with ur eyes and imagine its actually all flat against ur eye surface whats the space around u tho. we only see light spectrum wht do we not see?
edit: wow i didnt watch all before commenting and u basically said wht i just said plus a couple of other things ive realized nothing is even real were made of light we see only light whos to say somthing is solid because it feels solid to me it could just be tht way to me cause thts the way perception works on the spectrum this thing
I admire the legendary note of Charles Mingus ; “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”
With due respect, world of science is so much focused on formulas and calculations which are also product of a perception chain developed since years. Actually all explanations are always with us naturally. What we need to do is to think to sync ourselves with where we come from ....”the nature”
So if I think deeply enough about it, I'll think myself out of existence?
🤔
Ego death
This work is hectic! Been watching Leo’s Video’s for some time on a daily basis sometimes I’ll reach 3 hours a day. I advise anyone to take time to integrate and work with all the principles provided in order to bring it into your daily life. Self development and inner work requires rest and process but dam it you just can’t stop can’t you .Great job man
His name is Leo and he dances on the sand...
Duran
Hey Leo I think it is really important to mention more often that everybody is going to experience god in their own unique way and that everyone will have their own unique explanation for what the experience was like. Maybe it'll help people to not get trapped into ideologies.
Your work is awesome btw ❤️
56.25 the mind traps itself with concepts...
Around 20:00 - 40:00 that was very well explained. I was able to comprehend what it is on a slightly deeper level
If Leo was in Breaking Bad:
- Say my name!
- I am you!
holy fuck, it all makes sense now.
Chuck Norris mediated so hard he became enlightened and returned to maya to setup actualized.org
Lol 😂👍
Strangely enough, that's almost the idea of the bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism. Despite it being very much in reach, they put off nirvana until they've led as many other people to it as possible. That means being enlightened but still choosing to be reborn.
Is it true? can you absolutely know its true? how does the thought make you feel? who would you be without the thought?
@SUFI-4- LIFE! what makes you say that
you and everyone else
i found you back in 2016 with a video about anxiety, and ever since then i've been watching a lot of your videos.
well... i listen to them while i do other stuff, like a podcast.
you've taught me so so much and made me so incredibly confused, but i'm so grateful TO you and FOR you.
i never commented anything cause i was so perplexed i totally forgot commenting was a thing. in my mind i respond to what you're saying while i listen, so i forget you can't ACTUALLY hear me, lol
anyway, thank you for what you do, i'm one of those people whose lives have been changed thanks to your videos 💗
Hey Leo long time viewer here the best video you ever made was one on the hero’s journey, I don’t normally ask but could you please do one on the heroines journey in the same format, thanks
+Gauldron Sage I don't know much about the heroines journey. Best for a female to explain that.
Actualized.org ok thanks anyway would really appreciate it,
The hero’s journey episode!! Yes!! That’s my favourite too:-) The man’s got a way with storytelling!!
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adam DiRe you should delete your comment it’s retarded, think before you speak
You are raising a very interesting point that perception does not exist without subject. Well subject also experiences its own body(object - like its brain, different limbs etc) and thus its own body does not exist either. Thus subject does not exist either. And thus nothing exists. Additionally if there is no subject, what happens when brain injury happens, our perceptions get distorted and thus by that evidence it suggests that brain is creating perceptions.
I don’t get it
A few books off the top of my head that I recommend, relevant to what's said in this video:
Neuropsychopharmacologist & professor, David Nutt:
"Drugs without the hot air"
Aldous Huxely:
"Doors of perception"
James Lanza:
"Beyond BioCentrism"
Stephen Harrod Bughner (recommended by Dennis McKenna, on Joe Rogan podcast):
"Plant Intelligence in the Imaginal Realm"
Rupert Sheldrake
"The science Delusion"
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Those books helped me better understand sensory gating (the doors of perception as Aldous put it) and how they work in the brain. Understanding that and listening to a lot Alan Watts will really help reinforce the meaning of all this, from a non-mechanistic & non-materialist viewpoint.
We are an idea and we are "BORN" of an idea. What were you before you existed? You were a thought in your parent's mind. Your parents came together and joined their thoughts into an idea that is having a child. That idea is distinct to your parents, that is, what it IS to be a parent and have a child is distinct to each person and parent. This is what creates us, we are ideas from ideas, so on with our parents, so on infinitely, forever
wow that really opened me up, thanks mate!
@@alexstewart7511 cheers bud!
Out of curiosity, what kind of idea is a rape child spawned from? The people who would become my parents obviously didn't collaborate my conception. If anything, I feel like my nonexistence was on their mind. But I didn't get the memo, and came into a life where I'd be killed before I even knew I existed. Iv'e just always wondered, "why am I here?"
Did your mother choose to have you?
A huge amount of respect for, credit to, and appreciation of, Leo for this content. Attempting to put the absolute into words, where 99.999% of people would just shrug their shoulders or utter dogma ... this is a show of bravery and commitment to the ideals explained in the last few minutes. Awesome!
"I" am the univers tricking myself into thinking that I am a human beeing.
yep. insane
Even though it's a huge flaw to do this, I was looking for a flaw with you. You quitting that retreat is one of a couple I've found, a big one for me. Even though I know I'm saying this out of ego, I'm going to be the one who transcends all. I fully get you're just a figment of my imagination but the satisfaction of surpassing you and others is oddly gratifying. I do thank you for pointing me in the direction of what was happening when I had the realization this wasn't real and I was creating myself and everything around me. You've also been great in other aspects, seriously, much appreciated.
It's weird that you posted this video because I was earlier today thinking what would it be like to be raised without perception as we were taught it is! And I thought that it should be very radical
I was just talking about perception with my sister just the other day lol
@@kiriwest165 Wake up!
@@Candymannproductions ?
There has always been a knowing about this in me but now that you spoke it I just became aware. We are only a thought. That’s it
Very well said Leo.
In the words of Alan Watts, “ You ARE the Universe experiencing itself”. I enjoy experiencing your videos. 😂
you're basically saying the same thing as the materialist. you're saying there's perceptual world floating around and the materialist says there's a materialistic world floating around. what's the difference???
but the only difference is that in the materialist view there is an external world and then a sentient being creating the perception but what you say is there is only perception so no one is needed to create the perceptions but that doesn't make sense since this biological thing like a human is still there and clearly it's doing sth but you say no it's not it's just there and if you say the biological is doing sth but only the ego has been taken out of the picture then you're basically not saying anything different.
+Sara The difference is the materialist believes in perceptions, awareness, an internal world, a self, sentient creatures, death, physical objects, etc. All of which is pure fantasy. The materialist might as well believe in unicorns and Santa Claus while he's at it.
@@ActualizedOrg isn't what you are saying just the materialistic view minus the ego?
@@cpgm100 Yeah. But the ego, or thoughts, have a function. Unless you are being fed all the time and are taking care of, then you don't need it. ;) Becoming aware of this make you seperate yourself from being your thoughts to perceiving your thoughts.
_ Sara - if you take this all the way then there is 1) no you, me, I, they... 2) no ego 3) no mind 4) no universe (i.e. no worlds, no other people, no animals - NOTHING).
_ All the above 'things' is what duality encompasses.
_ From an ADVAITA (not two or non-duality) perspective, there is NOTHING, i.e. NO THING. Things are of the mind - i.e. thoughts. NO THING is beyond what thought could ever conceive and thus not available to perception which is illusion.
_ In essence there is no object and no subject. Those are constructs of thought.
_ Because there APPEARS to be an external world, duality, we call that ONE and only "thing" that exists CONSCIOUSNESS or AWARENESS ... but it is still a limited projection of thought/mind/ego which fears its own demise and tries to justify its own existence even though it is not real.
_ REALITY is beyond description or explanation. The truth is in silence, in stillness, in the space between words or thoughts.
_ BEING ... the present participle of the verb TO BE is possibly as close as thought can come to "pointing" at the nature of reality. It IS or I AM - to be ... being. No qualifications, no descriptions, no thought about it at all - for it is beyond all thought.
That which appears to be NOTHING (NO THING) is EVERYTHING but not really a 'THING'. It is the limitation of language (which is dualistic in nature) which prevents "SELF-realization". Not the personal self, but what one might call the universal self or BEING or even God if you wish to use that word.
_ Everything else is illusion, like the water in the mirage in the desert. __ The mirage is an appearance of 'some thing' - BUT there is actually NO THING there. This, of course may be a poor analogy, but it points towards the elusive nature of the topic under discussion.
I have to say this. of all the times leo doesn't make sense, this is one of a kind. you basically ended with the same thing you began with. I don't know how all that could possibly make sense even in your head. colors are not floating around in the universe. colors are just waves floating in space, not colors. you started with how things were when there were only steroids in the space and obviously there is no need to even say anyone has to know about them and no one would even think that way cause that's what would make sense in the first place and you start from that and get to the same thing. you did not resolve anything all you did was to say it can't be resolved well I don't know what to say to that ...
i was really hoping you could give an explanation to that question but really you don't make sense at all. just watch that video again and see how you're not making any sense
I was contemplating on what video to watch next, and I'm glad I chose this one because this is the cleanest and most practical explanation for enlightenment I've come across. As you were talking I was becoming more and more aware and alert to this moment, and very peaceful at the prospect that there's no experiencer, because that's the end of all suffering! No target that's been aimed at. And it makes perfect sense why it's hard to realise, that there's no fireworks or angels flying down it's simply a re-interpretation of reality. That same reality that's always been here.
I'm surprised that I wasn't feeling much fear, but just pure awareness and starkness to my bedroom that is still very fresh now. And my body feeling lighter and more energised. Maybe it's because I've had enough suffering that I don't feel so attached to myself anymore, who knows. Could be proved wrong and get an ego backlash some other time but for now this little insight into Truth feels amazing.
It's interesting how perception was explained. Like a snow globe.
My own visualization is something quite similar. Take an inflated balloon and everything inside the balloon is what we think of as reality, or this current world we inhabit. But we are always outside the balloon and the only way we experience the world is by poking into the balloon.
Of course, by poking into the balloon, we never get to experience the reality because it's similar to that of a condom. We're wrapped in this balloon as we poke around. We are never able to see things for what they are because the balloon material distorts our vision of what reality is. But for some people, just experiencing the world with a condom around us is just not enough. We feel that there's something more. We begin our seeking and as we 'sharpen' ourselves through spiritual purification, increasing awareness and focus, emotional awareness, improving physical health, we can get sharp enough to 'pop' the balloon, finally being able to see reality for what it is.
🍃Beautiful🍃
I see life through a condom as well.....
@@Slimenator lol, you know it!
Kyle Knitter is he saying we're all dicks?!
Very deep core metaphysical point here, Leo!
"Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]." - The Gospel of Thomas
Yup, that's nonduality.
Perception implies there's a percepient... That's duality
Marin Topulli Maybe watch the video?
he'd lose most of his subscribers if he talked about nothing every week
Thats some alan watts stuff right there!
Rewatched Zendevilry and the 10 Things I Wasn't Aware I Wanted and it all came flowing back to me. I am here to do nothing more than to master "experience." What do I experience? What do you experience? How little control do I have over these things? Is there perhaps a window I have into other's experience and what doesn't that mean? Starting this year off the right way. I know you are too, Leo.
God is a sponge and I'm a hole of emptiness inside it. I'll have to think about it.
Thanks Leo. I've come to some of these conclusions on my own having watched your videos over the past year and implementing the teaching in my life. One thing I've been practicing is increasing the amount of time in my day without thought. I do it when I walk, sit still, even drive home from work. I can often do it for over a minute now....with truly now thoughts.
Try nofap.
How did it help you?
The Boxer 93 according to the mormons it doesnt work -- they just soak up their sheets anyway while dream-sleeping, presumably hands free!
@@adamdire5895 haha i'm not sure, i ask because i tried it for a month and it had some benefits for me, just wanted to know how it works for others
The Boxer 93 I understand it works best when one is handcuffed on the backside.
But posting pics of grandma in her bathing suit in your bathroom has its adherents too.
From what I experienced it helped with my meditation practice, my mental clarity, my energy levels, my confidence with people and myself, my low sex drive, my self control, discipline and finally helped with my enjoyment of life.
Leo, I want you to know that your joy is becoming my joy, the deepest whicn can ever exist! Thank you for your marvellous help! F.
Leo and many others still don’t understand the Ego I see. Smh.
You do ?
Please do explain, we have a wonderful comment section that we can use for clearing things up.
As to paraphrase, to add to something that Terence McKenna said...
What advantage does the knowledge of others truly give? Subjective understanding is so much more valuable. As Leo promotes, it is the personal exploration that matters...
You comment like you're pointing a finger... No one can say that you have the correct ideas either. It does not agree with your own definitions, so its much easier to judge.
I suppose what I'm saying is... Give us some hints to what is missing or stay silent. What purpose is behind an aimless comment?
Paul Ciampo the purpose is to ruffle the ego
The ego is your astrological programming .. get a natal chart down and know thycellf so you can embrace yourcellf not kill it.
The god we all are would love to be you that’s why you exist. Without the ego The god we all are could not experience itscellf subjectively to enjoy its illusion of itcellf.
~Natureboy The Christ 🌞