ahahaha i am a smart man and i know what Machina means......still bro ... Leo is at least entertaining...i mean for youtube standards AND free....its ok i think its a fair Sunday deal.
_ From the Absolute perspective this is so - although crudely put here. _ From the relative perspective (i.e. human) it depends on what one believes, because belief/conditioning/conceptualizing manifests an apparent reality based on the beliefs/conditioning and concepts that are part and parcel of one's believed identity as body/mind/soul or whatever.
walt dutchak Beautifully stated!!! I often hear people stating that belief iz inferior to knowing to which I ask them, how can we know anything if we don’t believe it exists or iz true? People often regard belief as a concept belonging to religion and then begin to hate it and disassociate themselves from it and their shadow self assumes it. We cannot get away from belief because it iz our beliefs that create our illusion of reality, the visible reality that comes from the invisible reality, that gives form to the formless. They then come up with delusional statements such as “I will believe when I see it” and they think it’s delusional that when we believe it we will see it but that iz reality. Most of “humanity” iz insane but iz in the process of becoming sane.
Pragmatically-speaking, there is a hierarchy. But of course you're not rigidly bound to it. You can choose to pursue creativity over food. But most people rarely do.
And even when I don't, my way of talking and had moments when I've seen that my mind was wrong, I was wrong and I am willing to admit it and following it
That’s not really true. He contradicts himself a lot and pretends to know what he is saying. The thing is that most people know our minds deceive us, is called the brain and what we see is through our senses. But that’s not really relevant to life overall. Not to mention if the mind is self deceptive then how can we trust anything he is saying?
SilentBOOM Actually questioning everything tends to lead to paralysis or a mental disfunction. You need to accept some things on faith to get anywhere. If people really did question everything as they claim then Leo wouldn’t be making money off a self help program. Spirituality wouldn’t succeed at all. People would be going to science, the only branch of knowledge that doesn’t claim certainty..
SilentBOOM Actually getting crazy is the opposite of freeing your mind, assuming the mind can be free or that it exists. It’s hard to take his word on anything after watching him butcher pyrrhonism. It was like watching someone apply it selectively against things he doesn’t agree with but not on himself. He didn’t succeed in attacking materialism but reinforced it. When it comes to any claim or act, you have to accept something on faith before going anywhere. That applies to anything. Science seems to have worked better than the mystics on that front.
Mind deceiving and MiND BLOWING! ...I recognized so many of my own deceptions during this video! You are a gift to humanity, you have been a gift to me in so many ways. I have moved forward, a small step at a time because of your generosity!
Dude... I wish I had even one regular friend who thought 50% like you do. We could have some great conversations. Nobody I know understands this stuff.
We all in the same boat tryna bring the knowledge to our friends. Mine as well. They’ve been shielded! We are lucky to get to see this side of RUclips and thinking. Do your best to spread the mentality. Good luck cuz it ain’t easy!
I'm right here, man. We're just in different elixirs. Like Leo said in this video, any given diluted person could definitely be you. Be that person in your whole social web that represents true wisdom!! We can't count ourselves as the enlightened ones.. EVER.. Simply given infinity even..
@@torinmorris6648 It's not just about enlightenment, or awakening, or whatever you wanna call it. Like Leo explained in his Self-Deception video's, there are many other aspects in life where you can become self-decieved.
Oh I had to laugh when Leo said he was bored with talking about non duality. I have been studying it for more than a dozen years. And nothing else. And yes, it can actually become tedious/boring! This video is spot on. Super helpful.. I will listen to it until I become bored .. lol
Took me months of mustering my courage and build enough motivation and enegy just to watch this video. My gawd... the pitfalls and trap they go so deep... so deep... 😳
6 years and I'm still coming back to these old videos to listen. What you do matters Leo you single-handedly allow me to become self-aware in my bedroom 6 Years Ago by myself after watching a video series called spiritual enlightenment that you made thank you so much for this content and the channel and your website. You truly are a gift
Thank you Leo. The first time ever for me to post a comment on RUclips. Thank you for your work and for sharing it publicly! A great gift to me and so many!
Leo thank you for creating this channel. I have no words to describe what your content has done and continues to do for me...can't believe this quality content is free on RUclips. You will go on to be a revered prophet in history...you're a prophet for the scientific age.
Meditating every damn day kept me on this path of Self Actualization. I realize what you did Leo! You pulled the same trick on me that Muslims do of praying 5 times a day. I mediated 20 minutes every day and that kept me from forgetting! The daily commitment kept me from forgetting!
I start noticing how myself is deceiving me! I even forecasted accurately what myself will tell me to avoid doing what is important. Just WOW. I can't wait for Part 2. Re-watching Part 1 now. Thank you so much Leo.
These are invaluable insights & wisdoms, God am I lucky to watch this on my couch, as opposed to tracking down some mystic in a jungle somewhere, or whatever lol. Seriously, this channel is pure gold, ty so much for it ❤
These have actually happened to me. The tiredness the anger, the desire for alcohol and no longer wanting to follow through on my commitments etc. shit this answers so many questions.
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Very deep and life changing lessons. Self-deception is super tricky. I watched the three videos over and over hoping I understand myself more. Hoping to have control of myself. Hoping to accomplish my goals and reach success. Now I know very well my enemy. Thank you for the confirmation. Thank you for the amazing videos.
I have been following this channel for around 1 year. This is the first video I watched and you said that I did not understand the depth of self deception. You were correct and I am now returning to these videos with a better grasp at the extent to which the mind deceives itself. One way is strategic forgetfulness and I might remember more methods by watching this.
This is useful for seeing self worth issues are illusions and getting off that hamster wheel chasing accomplishments. Something that has run my life for years.
I had to stop watching it after 25 minutes because I realized that I am using Leos videos as a way of distracting myself from doing self inquiry. This video helped me to get my prioritys straight, to find out who I realy am and everything else comes after that.
Another great video! Cant wait for the next part! Interestingly it took being suicidally depressed and feeling like I lost everything to really look inwards and figure out the true cause of all my suffering was my own mind. I looked super deep to the point where I was beggining to realizing my true nature beyond this world which initially made me feel even more depressed and isolated. Now I am radically open to learning and being a student for life and am open to knowing that everything I've ever known and believed is a lie but now it doesn't make me sad in the least bit and has actually pulled me in the direction of wanting to share value and contribute meaning in the ways I know how, which is though educating people about nutrition and mental health but from a holistic mind, body, spirit sort of approach...anyways thank you again for sharing! ;)
Probably true to some extend.. But any notion at all is perception, not reality as it is. You can close your eyes, think of your arms sensations and see it in your mind. Even though u do have an arm im assuming, wht u saw was nothing more than a notion. To identify as a God in human form will prevent enlightenment, because it assigns a self and deals with notions not reality as it is in front of u now. Enlightenment equals no self and full reality or being reality.
Insane truth been on this path for a year but you keep expanding my boundries. Just like other guru's but you have a very comprehensive breakdown that is needed for modern "scientific logical" society to see trough the first part of the bubble that no one else delivers. You got my respect.
Thank you so much for that little window we can see through and all that hints to get an idea and an inspiration what to search for and to consider. You and your work are truly an inspiration and a unique help for me and so many other human-beeings in this complex, toxic and deceiving but yet beautiful world/humanity. I Sent you all my good energy and love to you where ever u are! may you continue this important and beautiful work and share this path for good of all of us. may all of us raise. my deep respect. bless!
As I watch your videos I deceive myself into thinking that if I jailbreak my mind with enough knowledge and reflection and shadow work, I can just skip a few steps to self actualization. And then I watch one that just kicks my ass again. Thanks Leo.
i saw this video 2 months after release and completely changed my life , for new viewer scrolling comments, its absolutely useful if you want more aware.
Thanks for all the context, I always knew something was up but could never zero down on my downward spiral. It's self sabotage and self preservation all at once. As you said - very beautiful and tragic all at once. Some very painful and hard hitting facts right here. Just finished watching the 9 stages of ego development before this, and the art of not knowing... gotta admit, I've never had a RUclips channel question my morality like this one has.
Wonderful Episode...One can keep coming back to this one as a way of sharpening up...like the "Egos favorite defense mechanism" episode. Turned some important internal mental clocks for me. Well thought out. Thanks
Did this video make anyone else light headed? I practice spirituality and non-duality, and there were still many self deceptions I did not take account for and now I feel much more liberated and all in all I have learned a lot here. Thank you Leo.
You are right about not trusting my own mind. I just stop a addiction i have been trying to give up for 1 year. It stopped because came to me that every time i do it, it's because i lie to my self. I don't care what my mind says i never will go back.
At 13:10 leo talks how the mind constructs an indestructible illusion of reality and I agree to this. The illusion my mind tells me feel so real that even if my body shakes (due to too much anxiety) i still can't let go of that illusion and instead i just follow it and then feel worse.
I’ve noticed your condescension drop away as you grow, I find that a good sign that you are getting there and it makes your lessons more trustworthy to me. (Or is it me growing?) This topic has been at my forefront for a few months, as I see through my victim stories. I am very excited to walk through this with your guidance and tips.
This is the most profound episode so far Leo, this is why I love this material, thank you for existing. and sharing these insights with us. You’re truly one of a kind Leo thank you
Thank you for all the hard work and time you put into your videos and research- I listen to you for more than 10 hours a week and you have been an integral part of the extraordinary life I am living.
Leo, I've been viewing your content since you were recording your videos outdoors, and not a one has had the impact that this one has had. It finally clicked Thank you.
Leo - I have been meditating for a few years now, and once in a deep state, I've recently been experiencing an extreme, overwhelming feeling that I am being pulled out of myself. I've experienced mandala, but this is different. I feel as though I could literally die if I allow myself to let go. I believe it's a primal fear of death, and possibly just a barrier of fear itself that I must break through within myself, but that in itself is the problem. Have you ever experienced this barrier, and if so, how did you go about it?
Of course. You will literally die. That's enlightenment. Just what do you think meditation is for? It's suicide. Don't worry. Ego death is the most beautiful thing. All your fears are just illusions.
Leo is speaking about very deep and high philosophy, he is getting more and more advanced soon no one will be able to understand him, i love leo's self-dedication and discipline in the journey of seeking truth, i realized that anyone who seek the truth for the sake of truth it self is the only who can get deep into this, if someone get into this to be 'enlightened' or happy or watever, they will give up pretty soon. this requires a crazy high amount of curiosity and passion . maybe next generations will listen to leo like we now listen to alan watts or terence mckenna, the sad truth is that these topics only interest small amount of people in this universe , most of them are intp,intj,infp,infj ,etc
Was listening to this again and it clicked. Awareness is everything and I can't shake it. I can't escape myself. I thought about the big bang and realized that's happening in awareness. Yesterday is a concept within awareness. Thought about who could be running this thing and realized that's just more thought and stuff happening in awareness. WTF man!
1 hour in--"Why isn't there a Self Actualization course in school?" I'm going to start this course, and I'm going to base it on Leo's work. I am John the Baptist, pointing to Leo
You might as well say that thinking that reality is unified rather than fragmentary is in itself just a defense mechanism that allows you to quell the fear of death by deluding yourself into thinking that you're an inalienable part of the entire universe and are thus immortal in the sense that all of reality is immortal.
Thank you very much for this video. I have been following your work for a while now, at first just to gain more confident, but now it has come deeper than that. The problem I had with other self-help books and talk is that the effect wears off really fast. It never sticks around. I guess because most of those are just superficial, kind of like curing the symptom rather than looking at the real issue. Your videos are helping me realize a lot of things that I have struggled to figure out all by my own. Now with your help, it might become clearer on what I should do next.
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The problem here is that we are trying to make sense of a phenomenon that we can't make sense of unless we take a side. At some point in time, things that are here just were not here. Hence to be here, they had to emerge from what they are not. We can call the process by which "old things" become "new things" several names. We can call it change, we can call it transcendence, we can call it creation, we can call it deception, we can call it evolution, ... Each metaphor making a different story of the process. If we really want to be objective, we must admit that this process can't make sense of its own, and that we need to take a side. So, one has to be careful using too lightly the words « fake », « true », « illusion », « deception », « selfish », "trick" and whatnot to make sense of intellectual explanations. For they are highly charged human metaphors and in the end, using them lightly can lead to even greater "illusions" and "deceptions". By overcoming "deception", it somewhat seems that we uncovered some kind of veil. Whereas we just changed the veil. A perception is what it is. Nothing more, nothing less. When you feel that you changed a perception. Well you did not. Because it is no longer the same perception. It's not that the perception itself changed. It is that you tell yourself that it changed :) In a other words, it seems to me that "deception" as a process (the deception hammer) simply has practical value to negatively label your experience and make a change (destroy the deception with your deception hammer). If your experience doesn't require change to be actually positive, then you no longer need to call it "deception".
Leo, I've watched this video a number of times. It's filled with insights and resonates with me deeply. You've replied to me in the years past and I'm eternally grateful. I'm now 24 and have been self reflecting for about four years since my first "lightning strike" experience that literally caused me to collapse, seizure, and puke for hours on end after waking up from the seizure. Exactly as you said, giving me goosebumps hearing it. That initial experience was before I had ran into you, but shortly after diving deep into the works of Carl Jung and Alan watts and more. I've felt really stuck for months now. I've gone from a totally deceived individual, specifically from a born and raised Christian to an atheist / agnostic and beyond in a shockingly short period of time. My entire identity has been shattered again and again. I've dealt with derealization and depersonalization along this path, without help beyond books, guru's and RUclips. I'm stuck in the sense that I feel so disconnected and at odds with the world and people around me. I seem to have numbed myself on the emotional spectrum on both ends. I've experienced multiple lightening strike moments through psychedelics and meditation in the past year. I've voided the void many times. It just never seems to stick. I've given up measuring my progress and still continue the self reflection. I increasingly see the beauty and wonder of life and relality, but experiences of pain and joy are rare (both sides of the emotional spectrum). It's like I've given the show away, or spoiled the game of life for myself. At 24, being an American I feel alone and misunderstood / unknown by my friends, family and the society around me. I now lack motivation, purpose, and direction outside of my actualization work. I feel as though I can't move forward any longer because the world around me isn't moving forward with me. It use to be a source of great pain and suffering for me, but not anymore because of the realization of how little it matters in contrast to infinity / the absolute. I don't share any of this with anyone close to me for obvious reasons. I could go on and on, but do you have any advice to offer? I'm on meds for the seizures, the neurologists have confirmed that I don't have epilepsy. They are non epileptic psychogenic seizures. PNES is the acronym. They are baffled and have no answers for me. I ask that you look into the connections between this work and the physical / emotional stresses not to be taken lightly. For example the seizures, DP / Dr, etc. I've done a lot of research and there are many cases similar to my own throughout history when pursuing self actualization. I apologize for the rambling, it's to show that I'm serious about this work and to give you information that could help you with content creation on actualized.org. Thank you Leo.
I'd like to add a potential topic for actualized.org. Dreams. I dream vividly every night, I've dreamt lucid dreams in which I've felt the oceanic experience / the lightning strike and have woken up immediately into a seizure. That happened on one occasion, sent me to the hospital via ambulance. Incredible right? It's beyond me, just when I think I've experienced it all. It could be absolutely nothing at all, a neurological disorder maybe? Interesting nonetheless.
+Zach Wenzel It's hard to say. Your situation sounds unique so if I were you I would continue experimenting and learning, trying various techniques to see find what resonates. Sounds like you might have had a gimpse of the Absolute, but might be interpreting it in the wrong way, or not seeing it completely. Sounds like you might also have some trauma or shadow to work on. Or need some healing. Keep researching and troubleshooting it.
Best philosopher of the 21. century haha you thought philosophy through, ALL THE WAY to the very end. its insane how well you can articulate this stuff. im just starting to sort of vaguely sensing the stuff you are perfectly nailing down with language within its boundaries.
If a self-deception can get away in anything, and you ultimately can't beat your mind. Why trying? Why are you pointing out to all those aspects of life saying that it's a self-deception? Family is a self-deception? It is, it's constructed for you to live more safely, it's a mental construct. What do you gain with the knowledge of this fact? The sense of supperiorness to others that don't get it? What emotions are driving you to talk about these self-deception, what are you getting out of it? If self-deception is just deepening and deepening, then do you assume that you're less self-deceptive then others? If no, why are you making 2-hour video of telling the world that it's self-deceptional. I find it useful to know that I can be self-decepted. The fact that sometimes I'm self-deceptive gives me the freedom to see it in myself SOMETIMES. Do you want people to figure this out for themselves? Is this the point of your video? Is self deception infinite? Is it possible to escape it? A lot of questions hahah, but I wonder what do you think. Please upvote this if you're curious in the same fashion.
Man this is heavy for a 19 year old Danish guy, great video Leo. This is a guldmine i Will dig into In the future to come;) But isn’t self deception like a hole? When you dig In the hole of self-deciption with your self-deception it would never be truely removed? Just an endless paradox
Wow I done this to my self this year and gambled my life savings away. I convinced my self the futures market wasn’t gambling. I was under a huge amount of stress due to studying at the same time. I am only just getting over what just happened. I can’t wait to read the book you are writing. Cheers from down under your videos they have kept me going.
After 13 minutes of watching I have a question which I think is very important for me, and that is- How do I take things seriously without stressing my self out ? It's a very materialistic question but please answer.
When I first found you, I enjoyed your content but had to stop due to self anxiety. Today I'm watching this video already having let so much go, it feels better to be past that. More to go. Good luck all on the process.
Hey Leo, this was a great video bro... I totally agree with you. The mind is where the impersonal ego lives, that's why it's so important to live and speak from the heart of truth. The ego mind can lead you astray and deceive you, it can manipulate and self-sabotage you if you don't learn to live in alignment... I've learned that living in alignment allows you to truly trust yourself based on the heart of truth. The ego mind is so powerful it can make a person commit suicide or murder! You hit so many great points in this video, awesome stuff bro... peace... ✌
Self-Deception Part 1 (Derive your own notes. If you cannot trust yourself, how can you trust me? :D Enjoy!) “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself. And you are the easiest person to fool.” -Richard Feynman Self-deception covers its own tracks. - Daniel Goleman Descartes Meditation: - Descartes doubted everything - build a philosophy from what he can know - Cogito ergo sum (i think therefore i am) The point here is that the one thing no philosopher takes seriously is that: - the mind is a self-deception machine The most important doubt is the self-deception mechanism of mind. My mind = Evil demon Reality = self-deception within a self-deception within … The most important doubt is that my mind has complete power over me. I am prisoner of my mind. The number one mistake in life is assuming that my mind can be trusted. Laws of epistemology: 1. my mind is inherently self-deceptive - No assumption can be trusted - if I think something doesn’t need investigation that = self-deception - mind wants to construct reality without knowing it is constructing reality = self-deception 2. I don’t need to worry about other people deceiving me. - The only way people can trick me is if I trick myself - my whole life is trickery and conspiracy theory 3. self-deception goes beyond society, cultural, physical, and psychological - it is what i consider reality to be and goes beyond that - Ex. consider how easy it is for my mind to fool me - my mind holds all the power, sleep, sex drive, governs logic, emotions, experiences, beliefs, narrative, what i will debate, governs evidence, probabilities, governs what I consider real, concentrate, and imagination Self-deception goes deeper than confirmation bias. Self-deception goes to existential level Don’t underestimate the power of mind. When I wanna investigate my mind, my mind can pull a switch to make me sleepy, enhance sex-drive, and controls memories. Mind rationalizes and justifies and convinces itself of reasons for not looking at itself Mind is the ultimate puppet master over me. The mind controls me, I don’t control my mind. Can I trust my own mind? Can I deceive myself? The problem is that my mind is viciously circular How would I know if I am deceiving myself? Imagine that the self-deception mechanism is more intelligent than me and was designed by God himself. Self-deception is so total that there is nothing to compare it against True skepticism = pointing out my own self-deception and others (skeptical of skepticism = meta-skepticism) false skepticism = pointing out deception in others but not myself Why does the mind deceive me? What if reality = perception What if there is no objective reality Consider the alternative that there is Nothing and that existence comes from deception. How does God create the world? - God creates the world through self-deception Why does God deceive himself? - How does God come into being? - By tricking itself that it is the part, not the whole Self-Deception becomes the mechanism of creation Reality is deceiving itself in order to come into existence. The greatest self-deception is that: - I am real - I am important - I must survive Without a self there is nothing to do, nothing to deceive, and nothing to care. Descartes could doubt everything but couldn’t doubt the self. People only like truth if it serves them. Mind needs to distort truth, and flip truth and falsehood around People lie to get what they want. Is there something beyond living? Mind’s job is to keep the idea of ME alive. - The body is part of my idea of ME Notice that most of the thing I love in life are self-deceptions: 1. money and wealth 2. ownership 3. Laws and rights 4. history 5. security 6. movies 7. love 8. porn 9. time and language 10. power and fame 11. confidence 12. science 13. meaning 14. purpose 15. ideologies 16. families 17. nations 18. corporations 19. equality 20. ranks 21. status 22. friendships 23. videogames 24. culture Ownership - Do I own my house? Do I own my dog? How does a piece of paper mean I own something? Security - Buying a lot of guns for safety and power. There is no such thing as security. We are all going to die. The more power you acquire the more insecure people are. Dictators are the most insecure. - Ex. Donald Trump - eats at Mcdonalds because he is afraid someone is going to poison his food. - Guns and power will not give you security Laws and Rights - they are invented. We have no rights. We convince ourselves that they are real Movies - They are all deception. They are pixels on a screen. Fame - what is fame? How does somebody have more value than others? What is value? Self-deception Confidence - I deceive myself that I will do good Family - What is family? Special connection between genetic DNA? No difference between my mom and a coffee table. Nations - The country and borders are imaginary Equality - There is no equality in reality. Fairness is self-deception for survival Video games and everything in life is all about deepening the illusion Reality is a Magic trick - We want deception because if we were not fooled, reality would lose its magic Knowledge - conventional knowledge- what you learn in school - epistemology- knowledge of knowledge and how we acquire knowledge. Mind and society withouts self-realization Society and culture is one collective self-deception Evidence of Self-deception: 1. self-reflect and notice my rationalizations, manipulative behaviors, and self-deception. - Ex. You blame others for mistakes but not yourself - Car traffic 2. People believe lots of crazy stuff - Ex. Billions are self-deceived, but I believe I am the exception - How am I deluding myself? Nobody asks this question. - Don’t worry about others self-deception. Worry about my own self-deception - Mind’s job is to get me to never self-reflect 3. So much disagreement between people - Disagreement is everywhere - All debates are self-deception 4. How humans treat evil - one nation believes another nation is evil. Both nations believe each other is evil and justify all attacks on each other - Where does evil come from? The human mind to advance its agenda - Evil = selfishness - Survival = evil - Everyone is called evil but me 5. Every generation thinks its better than an old generation - all generations are self-deceiving themselves Live life exactly the opposite of Donald Trump Logic is the primary tool for self-deception Why do I trust reason and logic? How do I know logic is trustworthy? - Logic itself is based on faith Self-deception is a personal investigation Self-deception makes us susceptible to suffering because the ego cannot handle the truth. If I was fully honesty, I would completely collapse Change entails a death of the self What the mind hates the most is investigating its own self-deception A good analogy is jailbreaking the mind It is like trying to play chess against myself because I = my mind. I know all of my attempts to jailbreak Enlightenment does NOT remove self-deception Enlightenment does NOT cure problems The mind will still be there after enlightenment I am God that is tricking itself that is not God but that I am me. Atheist’s response: - If God exists and is all powerful and good? Could God create a stone that he cannot lift? - God is so powerful that he can deceive himself that he is God. God is tricking itself that I am a finite being. - That is what it means to be all powerful is that God can trick itself and can create such a stone! Liberation = end of self-deception Suffering is a consequence of self-deception No one is immune to self-deception Self-deception = a mine field with millions of mines If I knew all of reality it would lose its magic Make self-reflection one of my primary goals. All knowledge, learning and understand will not be clear if everything is filtered through my ego. The ego is the mud on the mirror. Wipe away all identities, beliefs, and egoism till the mirror is clear is when I will see my true self. Self-reflection seems to me to be all about looking at reality through this clear mirror.
sometimes I think about how we have made so many inventions and theories and science and stuff and I ask myself "but isn't that only about the world we know about? we know so little compared to what is really happening right now at this very moment around us" very helpful video, congrats
Placebo effect is powerful if you know how to use it. Just because something isn't real doesn't mean its bad. If you can self-deceive yourself with purpose to achieve goals that align with society's and your own values then more power to you. Awareness and learning = unaware unawareness -> aware of being unaware -> aware awareness -> unaware unawareness. Everyone should take advantage. Thanks for the video, Leo.
1:17:00 "If you wanna learn how to have the best life possible, do everything that's the exact opposite of what Trump does. And that's self actualization in a nutshell" :)
Leo the type of dude to save humanity.
Haris čauš not save but help
Ya Zir !
Machina how is he destroying humanity
Machina how is it philosophical nonsense?
ahahaha i am a smart man and i know what Machina means......still bro ... Leo is at least entertaining...i mean for youtube standards AND free....its ok i think its a fair Sunday deal.
"There is no more connection between you and your mother than there is between you and a coffee table" You made my day
Leo has the best quotes
I thought that was quality..but I am pretty sure if i actually told my mum that, she would properly throw a plate or cup at my direction. hehehe
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_ From the Absolute perspective this is so - although crudely put here.
_ From the relative perspective (i.e. human) it depends on what one believes, because belief/conditioning/conceptualizing manifests an apparent reality based on the beliefs/conditioning and concepts that are part and parcel of one's believed identity as body/mind/soul or whatever.
walt dutchak Beautifully stated!!!
I often hear people stating that belief iz inferior to knowing to which I ask them, how can we know anything if we don’t believe it exists or iz true?
People often regard belief as a concept belonging to religion and then begin to hate it and disassociate themselves from it and their shadow self assumes it.
We cannot get away from belief because it iz our beliefs that create our illusion of reality, the visible reality that comes from the invisible reality, that gives form to the formless.
They then come up with delusional statements such as “I will believe when I see it” and they think it’s delusional that when we believe it we will see it but that iz reality. Most of “humanity” iz insane but iz in the process of becoming sane.
Food, clothing and shelter - these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception. - U.G Krishnamurti
I Love July and water and oxygen of course :D
In practice it ain't so simple. Humans also need love, self-esteem, creativity, etc. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Actualized.org there is no Hierarchy of needs. Even Maslow doesn't beleive this and never said this. Higher needs take priority over lower needs.
Pragmatically-speaking, there is a hierarchy. But of course you're not rigidly bound to it. You can choose to pursue creativity over food. But most people rarely do.
What about love?
All truth seekers must say to their selves, "I could be wrong."
I know that I know nothing_socrates
Do you think is enough just to say to yourself "i could be wrond"? Can't you still deceive yourself after that?
An open door.... 💚🙏
All the time when I make a decision
And even when I don't, my way of talking and had moments when I've seen that my mind was wrong, I was wrong and I am willing to admit it and following it
your videos have changed my life for the better leo , your work and advices are priceless literally !
Great comment. Very true.
That’s not really true. He contradicts himself a lot and pretends to know what he is saying.
The thing is that most people know our minds deceive us, is called the brain and what we see is through our senses. But that’s not really relevant to life overall.
Not to mention if the mind is self deceptive then how can we trust anything he is saying?
SilentBOOM Actually questioning everything tends to lead to paralysis or a mental disfunction. You need to accept some things on faith to get anywhere.
If people really did question everything as they claim then Leo wouldn’t be making money off a self help program. Spirituality wouldn’t succeed at all. People would be going to science, the only branch of knowledge that doesn’t claim certainty..
SilentBOOM i agree with you my freind
SilentBOOM Actually getting crazy is the opposite of freeing your mind, assuming the mind can be free or that it exists.
It’s hard to take his word on anything after watching him butcher pyrrhonism. It was like watching someone apply it selectively against things he doesn’t agree with but not on himself.
He didn’t succeed in attacking materialism but reinforced it. When it comes to any claim or act, you have to accept something on faith before going anywhere. That applies to anything. Science seems to have worked better than the mystics on that front.
You're amazing, but my mind could be deceiving me about you being amazing.
Cyndy Schlumberger just say he is in a good track
Haha!
How would one's mind benefit one's own position or circumstances by saying Leo is amazing for this?
Love for truth?
Mind deceiving and MiND BLOWING! ...I recognized so many of my own deceptions during this video! You are a gift to humanity, you have been a gift to me in so many ways. I have moved forward, a small step at a time because of your generosity!
Dude... I wish I had even one regular friend who thought 50% like you do. We could have some great conversations. Nobody I know understands this stuff.
We all in the same boat tryna bring the knowledge to our friends. Mine as well. They’ve been shielded! We are lucky to get to see this side of RUclips and thinking. Do your best to spread the mentality. Good luck cuz it ain’t easy!
Everyone worries about the latest trends, who’s fucking who, and buying shit to impress people they don’t even like.
I'm right here, man. We're just in different elixirs. Like Leo said in this video, any given diluted person could definitely be you. Be that person in your whole social web that represents true wisdom!! We can't count ourselves as the enlightened ones.. EVER.. Simply given infinity even..
No 1 RUclipsr. So much value and good presentations. Amazing how one can do all this videos.
here are the top 5 reasons why reason is the best tool for existential investigation
You know shit's real when Leo is bored with enlightenment.
Lol
@@hershalldow52 I was laughing so hard. I came back to watch this a second time now I realized how my ego is tricking me and others.
this is literally about awakening
@@torinmorris6648 It's not just about enlightenment, or awakening, or whatever you wanna call it. Like Leo explained in his Self-Deception video's, there are many other aspects in life where you can become self-decieved.
Oh I had to laugh when Leo said he was bored with talking about non duality. I have been studying it for more than a dozen years. And nothing else. And yes, it can actually become tedious/boring! This video is spot on. Super helpful.. I will listen to it until I become bored .. lol
Took me months of mustering my courage and build enough motivation and enegy just to watch this video. My gawd... the pitfalls and trap they go so deep... so deep... 😳
This guy is unbelievable. And he riffs the while time. Shows he's living it....not just talking...
6 years and I'm still coming back to these old videos to listen. What you do matters Leo you single-handedly allow me to become self-aware in my bedroom 6 Years Ago by myself after watching a video series called spiritual enlightenment that you made thank you so much for this content and the channel and your website. You truly are a gift
Cheers!
Thank you Leo. The first time ever for me to post a comment on RUclips.
Thank you for your work and for sharing it publicly! A great gift to me and so many!
Leo thank you for creating this channel. I have no words to describe what your content has done and continues to do for me...can't believe this quality content is free on RUclips. You will go on to be a revered prophet in history...you're a prophet for the scientific age.
If My mind can control me then OMG This is mind blowing.
Meditating every damn day kept me on this path of Self Actualization. I realize what you did Leo! You pulled the same trick on me that Muslims do of praying 5 times a day. I mediated 20 minutes every day and that kept me from forgetting! The daily commitment kept me from forgetting!
I start noticing how myself is deceiving me! I even forecasted accurately what myself will tell me to avoid doing what is important. Just WOW. I can't wait for Part 2. Re-watching Part 1 now. Thank you so much Leo.
These are invaluable insights & wisdoms, God am I lucky to watch this on my couch, as opposed to tracking down some mystic in a jungle somewhere, or whatever lol. Seriously, this channel is pure gold, ty so much for it ❤
These have actually happened to me. The tiredness the anger, the desire for alcohol and no longer wanting to follow through on my commitments etc. shit this answers so many questions.
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Real heroes don't wear... fuck it
Thanks to leo i am analyzing how this comment could be deceiving me
Thanks for the assist.
Made me laugh from how profound that comment is.
Thanks
Don’t just think about “deception”... Meditate on it! Over and over again...
Mind blown 🤯!!!
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True that makes your minds subconsiousness truly comprehend
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22:25 Speaking of trust. "Institutions seek to preserve the problems to which they are entrusted to solve" - Clay Shirky
batfly facts
Institutions need a scapegoat.
How else can they keep the lights on and get the student loans paid off?
More like just an opinionated topic
And transparency... Can't forget about it. Otherwise we're left with riddles without cause.
Very deep and life changing lessons. Self-deception is super tricky. I watched the three videos over and over hoping I understand myself more. Hoping to have control of myself. Hoping to accomplish my goals and reach success. Now I know very well my enemy. Thank you for the confirmation.
Thank you for the amazing videos.
This is awesome. Thank you Leo, can't we all just press that like button? There are people out there searching for channels like this!
I have been following this channel for around 1 year. This is the first video I watched and you said that I did not understand the depth of self deception.
You were correct and I am now returning to these videos with a better grasp at the extent to which the mind deceives itself.
One way is strategic forgetfulness and I might remember more methods by watching this.
This is useful for seeing self worth issues are illusions and getting off that hamster wheel chasing accomplishments. Something that has run my life for years.
It goes deeper than that.
I had to stop watching it after 25 minutes because I realized that I am using Leos videos as a way of distracting myself from doing self inquiry. This video helped me to get my prioritys straight, to find out who I realy am and everything else comes after that.
This is what I am suffering from right now - thank you Leo .
Another great video! Cant wait for the next part! Interestingly it took being suicidally depressed and feeling like I lost everything to really look inwards and figure out the true cause of all my suffering was my own mind. I looked super deep to the point where I was beggining to realizing my true nature beyond this world which initially made me feel even more depressed and isolated. Now I am radically open to learning and being a student for life and am open to knowing that everything I've ever known and believed is a lie but now it doesn't make me sad in the least bit and has actually pulled me in the direction of wanting to share value and contribute meaning in the ways I know how, which is though educating people about nutrition and mental health but from a holistic mind, body, spirit sort of approach...anyways thank you again for sharing! ;)
"You are God deceiving itself into thinking that it's not God, but that it's you"
Torgeir Klevstuen Damn, I FELT that in my bones!
Probably true to some extend.. But any notion at all is perception, not reality as it is. You can close your eyes, think of your arms sensations and see it in your mind. Even though u do have an arm im assuming, wht u saw was nothing more than a notion. To identify as a God in human form will prevent enlightenment, because it assigns a self and deals with notions not reality as it is in front of u now. Enlightenment equals no self and full reality or being reality.
Insane truth been on this path for a year but you keep expanding my boundries. Just like other guru's but you have a very comprehensive breakdown that is needed for modern "scientific logical" society to see trough the first part of the bubble that no one else delivers. You got my respect.
Thank you so much for that little window we can see through and all that hints to get an idea and an inspiration what to search for and to consider. You and your work are truly an inspiration and a unique help for me and so many other human-beeings in this complex, toxic and deceiving but yet beautiful world/humanity. I Sent you all my good energy and love to you where ever u are! may you continue this important and beautiful work and share this path for good of all of us. may all of us raise. my deep respect. bless!
Thanks
As I watch your videos I deceive myself into thinking that if I jailbreak my mind with enough knowledge and reflection and shadow work, I can just skip a few steps to self actualization. And then I watch one that just kicks my ass again. Thanks Leo.
Once I finished watching this video, I said, Wooooow That actually was an awesome self-deception!
I never understood why i act so stupid and this video gave me light, thank you so much for those insights Leo.
Lmao "I Never understood"
of course
Pretty sure my mind is pissed off i watched this video. Been getting the silent treatment ever since
Haha! Relatable.!
i saw this video 2 months after release and completely changed my life , for new viewer scrolling comments, its absolutely useful if you want more aware.
My psychology professor just talked about this in class today!!! Awesome
Thanks for all the context, I always knew something was up but could never zero down on my downward spiral. It's self sabotage and self preservation all at once. As you said - very beautiful and tragic all at once. Some very painful and hard hitting facts right here.
Just finished watching the 9 stages of ego development before this, and the art of not knowing... gotta admit, I've never had a RUclips channel question my morality like this one has.
Wonderful Episode...One can keep coming back to this one as a way of sharpening up...like the "Egos favorite defense mechanism" episode. Turned some important internal mental clocks for me. Well thought out. Thanks
Did this video make anyone else light headed? I practice spirituality and non-duality, and there were still many self deceptions I did not take account for and now I feel much more liberated and all in all I have learned a lot here. Thank you Leo.
You are right about not trusting my own mind. I just stop a addiction i have been trying to give up for 1 year. It stopped because came to me that every time i do it, it's because i lie to my self. I don't care what my mind says i never will go back.
can you give updates on how it goes then?😊
Guess i can if i remember.
So how has it gone?
At 13:10 leo talks how the mind constructs an indestructible illusion of reality and I agree to this. The illusion my mind tells me feel so real that even if my body shakes (due to too much anxiety) i still can't let go of that illusion and instead i just follow it and then feel worse.
I’ve noticed your condescension drop away as you grow, I find that a good sign that you are getting there and it makes your lessons more trustworthy to me. (Or is it me growing?) This topic has been at my forefront for a few months, as I see through my victim stories. I am very excited to walk through this with your guidance and tips.
Watching and listening to your videos, Leo, makes me feel like I’m going down to the rabbit hole.
This is the most profound episode so far Leo, this is why I love this material, thank you for existing. and sharing these insights with us. You’re truly one of a kind Leo thank you
You have to feed your mind with great things or it can be your worst enemy. He’s a good bloke.
"Nothing is true , everything is permitted " - Assassin's creed game
Jefff sfff :))
Going back over some of your old videos is well worth it. 👊🏽
I agree, you have been such an inspirational blessing in my life! I love all your videos!
Thank you for all the hard work and time you put into your videos and research- I listen to you for more than 10 hours a week and you have been an integral part of the extraordinary life I am living.
The rabbit hole gets deeper
The ass hole too
I am impressed by all that you have discovered. Thank you to guide us to God (Absolute infinity, ourselves, everything)
When I heard the opening thesis- I instantly thought of Alan Watts and many of the Eastern philosophies/spiritual traditions
I agree. His insights are priceless.
Leo, I've been viewing your content since you were recording your videos outdoors, and not a one has had the impact that this one has had. It finally clicked Thank you.
Sweet! :)
Leo - I have been meditating for a few years now, and once in a deep state, I've recently been experiencing an extreme, overwhelming feeling that I am being pulled out of myself. I've experienced mandala, but this is different. I feel as though I could literally die if I allow myself to let go. I believe it's a primal fear of death, and possibly just a barrier of fear itself that I must break through within myself, but that in itself is the problem. Have you ever experienced this barrier, and if so, how did you go about it?
Of course. You will literally die. That's enlightenment. Just what do you think meditation is for? It's suicide.
Don't worry. Ego death is the most beautiful thing. All your fears are just illusions.
Go ahead son
@@ActualizedOrg Do what?
How’d it go
Leo is speaking about very deep and high philosophy, he is getting more and more advanced soon no one will be able to understand him, i love leo's self-dedication and discipline in the journey of seeking truth, i realized that anyone who seek the truth for the sake of truth it self is the only who can get deep into this, if someone get into this to be 'enlightened' or happy or watever, they will give up pretty soon. this requires a crazy high amount of curiosity and passion . maybe next generations will listen to leo like we now listen to alan watts or terence mckenna, the sad truth is that these topics only interest small amount of people in this universe , most of them are intp,intj,infp,infj ,etc
Can't wait to read your book. Great video!
Was listening to this again and it clicked. Awareness is everything and I can't shake it. I can't escape myself. I thought about the big bang and realized that's happening in awareness. Yesterday is a concept within awareness. Thought about who could be running this thing and realized that's just more thought and stuff happening in awareness. WTF man!
1 hour in--"Why isn't there a Self Actualization course in school?" I'm going to start this course, and I'm going to base it on Leo's work. I am John the Baptist, pointing to Leo
Don't be surprised when they crucify you
Just wanted to say thank you for the work you put in behind the scenes to produce these videos. This one must have taken a great deal of research.
You might as well say that thinking that reality is unified rather than fragmentary is in itself just a defense mechanism that allows you to quell the fear of death by deluding yourself into thinking that you're an inalienable part of the entire universe and are thus immortal in the sense that all of reality is immortal.
Thank you very much for this video. I have been following your work for a while now, at first just to gain more confident, but now it has come deeper than that.
The problem I had with other self-help books and talk is that the effect wears off really fast. It never sticks around. I guess because most of those are just superficial, kind of like curing the symptom rather than looking at the real issue.
Your videos are helping me realize a lot of things that I have struggled to figure out all by my own. Now with your help, it might become clearer on what I should do next.
Watching you over and over again what solid shit Leo love ya
Please come back been watching you thru two accounts for 4 yrs sad
I think this is the most important video from Leo..thank you. Its mindblowing.
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
The problem here is that we are trying to make sense of a phenomenon that we can't make sense of unless we take a side.
At some point in time, things that are here just were not here. Hence to be here, they had to emerge from what they are not.
We can call the process by which "old things" become "new things" several names.
We can call it change, we can call it transcendence, we can call it creation, we can call it deception, we can call it evolution, ...
Each metaphor making a different story of the process.
If we really want to be objective, we must admit that this process can't make sense of its own, and that we need to take a side.
So, one has to be careful using too lightly the words « fake », « true », « illusion », « deception », « selfish », "trick" and whatnot to make sense of intellectual explanations. For they are highly charged human metaphors and in the end, using them lightly can lead to even greater "illusions" and "deceptions".
By overcoming "deception", it somewhat seems that we uncovered some kind of veil. Whereas we just changed the veil.
A perception is what it is. Nothing more, nothing less. When you feel that you changed a perception. Well you did not. Because it is no longer the same perception. It's not that the perception itself changed. It is that you tell yourself that it changed :)
In a other words, it seems to me that "deception" as a process (the deception hammer) simply has practical value to negatively label your experience and make a change (destroy the deception with your deception hammer). If your experience doesn't require change to be actually positive, then you no longer need to call it "deception".
Amazing video. Thanks so much. My mind has been deceiving me my whole life.
Would definitely buy his book when he publishes it!
Best episode ever!
Congratulations and thank you.
Leo is my Hero
shut the fuck up j mace LOL
Leo, I've watched this video a number of times. It's filled with insights and resonates with me deeply. You've replied to me in the years past and I'm eternally grateful. I'm now 24 and have been self reflecting for about four years since my first "lightning strike" experience that literally caused me to collapse, seizure, and puke for hours on end after waking up from the seizure. Exactly as you said, giving me goosebumps hearing it. That initial experience was before I had ran into you, but shortly after diving deep into the works of Carl Jung and Alan watts and more. I've felt really stuck for months now. I've gone from a totally deceived individual, specifically from a born and raised Christian to an atheist / agnostic and beyond in a shockingly short period of time. My entire identity has been shattered again and again. I've dealt with derealization and depersonalization along this path, without help beyond books, guru's and RUclips. I'm stuck in the sense that I feel so disconnected and at odds with the world and people around me. I seem to have numbed myself on the emotional spectrum on both ends. I've experienced multiple lightening strike moments through psychedelics and meditation in the past year. I've voided the void many times. It just never seems to stick. I've given up measuring my progress and still continue the self reflection. I increasingly see the beauty and wonder of life and relality, but experiences of pain and joy are rare (both sides of the emotional spectrum). It's like I've given the show away, or spoiled the game of life for myself. At 24, being an American I feel alone and misunderstood / unknown by my friends, family and the society around me. I now lack motivation, purpose, and direction outside of my actualization work. I feel as though I can't move forward any longer because the world around me isn't moving forward with me. It use to be a source of great pain and suffering for me, but not anymore because of the realization of how little it matters in contrast to infinity / the absolute. I don't share any of this with anyone close to me for obvious reasons. I could go on and on, but do you have any advice to offer? I'm on meds for the seizures, the neurologists have confirmed that I don't have epilepsy. They are non epileptic psychogenic seizures. PNES is the acronym. They are baffled and have no answers for me. I ask that you look into the connections between this work and the physical / emotional stresses not to be taken lightly. For example the seizures, DP / Dr, etc. I've done a lot of research and there are many cases similar to my own throughout history when pursuing self actualization. I apologize for the rambling, it's to show that I'm serious about this work and to give you information that could help you with content creation on actualized.org. Thank you Leo.
I'd like to add a potential topic for actualized.org. Dreams. I dream vividly every night, I've dreamt lucid dreams in which I've felt the oceanic experience / the lightning strike and have woken up immediately into a seizure. That happened on one occasion, sent me to the hospital via ambulance. Incredible right? It's beyond me, just when I think I've experienced it all. It could be absolutely nothing at all, a neurological disorder maybe? Interesting nonetheless.
+Zach Wenzel It's hard to say. Your situation sounds unique so if I were you I would continue experimenting and learning, trying various techniques to see find what resonates.
Sounds like you might have had a gimpse of the Absolute, but might be interpreting it in the wrong way, or not seeing it completely.
Sounds like you might also have some trauma or shadow to work on. Or need some healing.
Keep researching and troubleshooting it.
This is your best episode ever! Awesome work! I wait for part 2! Cheers!
Best philosopher of the 21. century haha you thought philosophy through, ALL THE WAY to the very end. its insane how well you can articulate this stuff. im just starting to sort of vaguely sensing the stuff you are perfectly nailing down with language within its boundaries.
If a self-deception can get away in anything, and you ultimately can't beat your mind. Why trying?
Why are you pointing out to all those aspects of life saying that it's a self-deception?
Family is a self-deception? It is, it's constructed for you to live more safely, it's a mental construct. What do you gain with the knowledge of this fact? The sense of supperiorness to others that don't get it? What emotions are driving you to talk about these self-deception, what are you getting out of it?
If self-deception is just deepening and deepening, then do you assume that you're less self-deceptive then others? If no, why are you making 2-hour video of telling the world that it's self-deceptional.
I find it useful to know that I can be self-decepted. The fact that sometimes I'm self-deceptive gives me the freedom to see it in myself SOMETIMES. Do you want people to figure this out for themselves? Is this the point of your video?
Is self deception infinite? Is it possible to escape it?
A lot of questions hahah, but I wonder what do you think.
Please upvote this if you're curious in the same fashion.
Thanks Leo, you have been on fire with these videos lately!
So true! Thanks Leo.
DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP topic ... i love where this channel is going ... keep it going Leo...
Man this is heavy for a 19 year old Danish guy, great video Leo. This is a guldmine i Will dig into In the future to come;)
But isn’t self deception like a hole? When you dig In the hole of self-deciption with your self-deception it would never be truely removed? Just an endless paradox
+isnissen Yes, endless paradox is the Truth.
Actualized.org
My god...
Actualized.org
So why do it exactly, Leo? If you are in agreement with my fellow dane at the top comment that is.
Holy shit... It really kicked in on my second time watching.
You're working too much Leo ! ;) Thank you. :)
“So off you go playing video games for the next five years” lmaoooooooo 😂
Wow I done this to my self this year and gambled my life savings away. I convinced my self the futures market wasn’t gambling. I was under a huge amount of stress due to studying at the same time. I am only just getting over what just happened.
I can’t wait to read the book you are writing.
Cheers from down under your videos they have kept me going.
My mom is a coffee table
Lol
That's what SUB C means. She procriates, she thus, isnt a table.
Leo you are my light man . You are a great help to humanity . Keep rocking ... can’t wait for part 2
My heart was racing during this one... What's the actual technique of self reflection?
Leo, you are simply one the best. Thank you
After 13 minutes of watching
I have a question which I think is very important for me, and that is-
How do I take things seriously without stressing my self out ?
It's a very materialistic question but please answer.
When I first found you, I enjoyed your content but had to stop due to self anxiety. Today I'm watching this video already having let so much go, it feels better to be past that. More to go. Good luck all on the process.
I‘m going crazy while listening to this.
Of course insanity is contagious
Hey Leo, this was a great video bro... I totally agree with you. The mind is where the impersonal ego lives, that's why it's so important to live and speak from the heart of truth. The ego mind can lead you astray and deceive you, it can manipulate and self-sabotage you if you don't learn to live in alignment... I've learned that living in alignment allows you to truly trust yourself based on the heart of truth. The ego mind is so powerful it can make a person commit suicide or murder! You hit so many great points in this video, awesome stuff bro... peace... ✌
Self-Deception Part 1 (Derive your own notes. If you cannot trust yourself, how can you trust me? :D Enjoy!)
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself. And you are the easiest person to fool.” -Richard Feynman
Self-deception covers its own tracks. - Daniel Goleman
Descartes Meditation:
- Descartes doubted everything
- build a philosophy from what he can know
- Cogito ergo sum (i think therefore i am)
The point here is that the one thing no philosopher takes seriously is that:
- the mind is a self-deception machine
The most important doubt is the self-deception mechanism of mind.
My mind = Evil demon
Reality = self-deception within a self-deception within …
The most important doubt is that my mind has complete power over me.
I am prisoner of my mind.
The number one mistake in life is assuming that my mind can be trusted.
Laws of epistemology:
1. my mind is inherently self-deceptive
- No assumption can be trusted
- if I think something doesn’t need investigation that = self-deception
- mind wants to construct reality without knowing it is constructing reality = self-deception
2. I don’t need to worry about other people deceiving me.
- The only way people can trick me is if I trick myself
- my whole life is trickery and conspiracy theory
3. self-deception goes beyond society, cultural, physical, and psychological
- it is what i consider reality to be and goes beyond that
- Ex. consider how easy it is for my mind to fool me
- my mind holds all the power, sleep, sex drive, governs logic, emotions, experiences, beliefs, narrative, what i will debate, governs evidence, probabilities, governs what I consider real, concentrate, and imagination
Self-deception goes deeper than confirmation bias.
Self-deception goes to existential level
Don’t underestimate the power of mind.
When I wanna investigate my mind, my mind can pull a switch to make me sleepy, enhance sex-drive, and controls memories.
Mind rationalizes and justifies and convinces itself of reasons for not looking at itself
Mind is the ultimate puppet master over me. The mind controls me, I don’t control my mind.
Can I trust my own mind?
Can I deceive myself?
The problem is that my mind is viciously circular
How would I know if I am deceiving myself?
Imagine that the self-deception mechanism is more intelligent than me and was designed by God himself.
Self-deception is so total that there is nothing to compare it against
True skepticism = pointing out my own self-deception and others (skeptical of skepticism = meta-skepticism)
false skepticism = pointing out deception in others but not myself
Why does the mind deceive me?
What if reality = perception
What if there is no objective reality
Consider the alternative that there is Nothing and that existence comes from deception.
How does God create the world?
- God creates the world through self-deception
Why does God deceive himself?
- How does God come into being?
- By tricking itself that it is the part, not the whole
Self-Deception becomes the mechanism of creation
Reality is deceiving itself in order to come into existence.
The greatest self-deception is that:
- I am real
- I am important
- I must survive
Without a self there is nothing to do, nothing to deceive, and nothing to care.
Descartes could doubt everything but couldn’t doubt the self.
People only like truth if it serves them.
Mind needs to distort truth, and flip truth and falsehood around
People lie to get what they want.
Is there something beyond living?
Mind’s job is to keep the idea of ME alive.
- The body is part of my idea of ME
Notice that most of the thing I love in life are self-deceptions:
1. money and wealth
2. ownership
3. Laws and rights
4. history
5. security
6. movies
7. love
8. porn
9. time and language
10. power and fame
11. confidence
12. science
13. meaning
14. purpose
15. ideologies
16. families
17. nations
18. corporations
19. equality
20. ranks
21. status
22. friendships
23. videogames
24. culture
Ownership
- Do I own my house? Do I own my dog? How does a piece of paper mean I own something?
Security
- Buying a lot of guns for safety and power. There is no such thing as security. We are all going to die. The more power you acquire the more insecure people are. Dictators are the most insecure.
- Ex. Donald Trump - eats at Mcdonalds because he is afraid someone is going to poison his food.
- Guns and power will not give you security
Laws and Rights
- they are invented. We have no rights. We convince ourselves that they are real
Movies
- They are all deception. They are pixels on a screen.
Fame
- what is fame? How does somebody have more value than others? What is value? Self-deception
Confidence
- I deceive myself that I will do good
Family
- What is family? Special connection between genetic DNA? No difference between my mom and a coffee table.
Nations
- The country and borders are imaginary
Equality
- There is no equality in reality. Fairness is self-deception for survival
Video games and everything in life is all about deepening the illusion
Reality is a Magic trick
- We want deception because if we were not fooled, reality would lose its magic
Knowledge
- conventional knowledge- what you learn in school
- epistemology- knowledge of knowledge and how we acquire knowledge. Mind and society withouts self-realization
Society and culture is one collective self-deception
Evidence of Self-deception:
1. self-reflect and notice my rationalizations, manipulative behaviors, and self-deception.
- Ex. You blame others for mistakes but not yourself - Car traffic
2. People believe lots of crazy stuff
- Ex. Billions are self-deceived, but I believe I am the exception
- How am I deluding myself? Nobody asks this question.
- Don’t worry about others self-deception. Worry about my own self-deception
- Mind’s job is to get me to never self-reflect
3. So much disagreement between people
- Disagreement is everywhere
- All debates are self-deception
4. How humans treat evil
- one nation believes another nation is evil. Both nations believe each other is evil and justify all attacks on each other
- Where does evil come from? The human mind to advance its agenda
- Evil = selfishness
- Survival = evil
- Everyone is called evil but me
5. Every generation thinks its better than an old generation
- all generations are self-deceiving themselves
Live life exactly the opposite of Donald Trump
Logic is the primary tool for self-deception
Why do I trust reason and logic?
How do I know logic is trustworthy?
- Logic itself is based on faith
Self-deception is a personal investigation
Self-deception makes us susceptible to suffering because the ego cannot handle the truth.
If I was fully honesty, I would completely collapse
Change entails a death of the self
What the mind hates the most is investigating its own self-deception
A good analogy is jailbreaking the mind
It is like trying to play chess against myself because I = my mind. I know all of my attempts to jailbreak
Enlightenment does NOT remove self-deception
Enlightenment does NOT cure problems
The mind will still be there after enlightenment
I am God that is tricking itself that is not God but that I am me.
Atheist’s response:
- If God exists and is all powerful and good? Could God create a stone that he cannot lift?
- God is so powerful that he can deceive himself that he is God. God is tricking itself that I am a finite being.
- That is what it means to be all powerful is that God can trick itself and can create such a stone!
Liberation = end of self-deception
Suffering is a consequence of self-deception
No one is immune to self-deception
Self-deception = a mine field with millions of mines
If I knew all of reality it would lose its magic
Make self-reflection one of my primary goals. All knowledge, learning and understand will not be clear if everything is filtered through my ego. The ego is the mud on the mirror. Wipe away all identities, beliefs, and egoism till the mirror is clear is when I will see my true self. Self-reflection seems to me to be all about looking at reality through this clear mirror.
sometimes I think about how we have made so many inventions and theories and science and stuff and I ask myself "but isn't that only about the world we know about? we know so little compared to what is really happening right now at this very moment around us"
very helpful video, congrats
I enjoy my weekly mindfuck. Thank you Leo.
Lmao me too, this is self torture 😂😂😂
same lol
WOW! I watched this video the exact moment I needed. The synchronicities go even further, this morning I shared a quote from Richard Feynman
"Part 1"
OHH YEA BOYYYYYY
Zedd
My longest self-deception (10 hours)
Thick ass boyyy
Placebo effect is powerful if you know how to use it. Just because something isn't real doesn't mean its bad. If you can self-deceive yourself with purpose to achieve goals that align with society's and your own values then more power to you. Awareness and learning = unaware unawareness -> aware of being unaware -> aware awareness -> unaware unawareness. Everyone should take advantage. Thanks for the video, Leo.
1:17:00 "If you wanna learn how to have the best life possible, do everything that's the exact opposite of what Trump does. And that's self actualization in a nutshell" :)
damn all that Trump analogy got me laughing so hard :DD
Mauro Lombardo the opposite of Hilary
Dumm, everybody with some reason knows the democrats are the big liars. By far and far. So I know Leo suffers bigtimes.
Oh em gee. Can. Not. Wait. For part 2.... Been watching this alll week. This IS consciousness 💓 broken down artfully.