Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 92

"Look at the peace inside, giving way to the gods of destruction."
"Full of desire. You feel afraid that there's nothing left."
"The ocean is dry. Do you feel hollow?"
"Nowhere to hide. Nothing to swallow."
"When you can't recognize, anything solid."
"Where do you turn, when you can't buy it?"
"What can you believe in now? With no love to follow."
"Now that you have lost yourself, can anything help you now?"

"Just let your fears go. You might find your way back home."
"Let your fears go. You might find that you're not lost."
"Just let your fears go. You might find your way back home."
"Let your fears go. You might find that you're not lost."

"What did you learn? What was it worth?"
"What did you yearn for? Everything's lost now."

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Some guidance for the lowest point in your spiritual journey.
Lose yourself so you may find yourself.
May you find your way back Home.

Over the holiday break my brother showed me this series on Netflix called Love, Death, and Robots. It's a collection of 18 short sci-fi stories in animated form. What pleasantly surprised me was the depth and quality of the storytelling.

Three of the episodes caught my attention as having some profound spiritual significance:

1. Beyond The Aquila Rift — the ending is profound in that it shows that truth can be an ugly thing which most people don't have the courage to stomach. Most people don't realize how shocking and radical truth is, which is why it must remain hidden. Before you ask for the truth, make sure you can handle it. Tis a good life lesson.
2. Zima Blue - the entire arc of Zima-the-artist shows the interconnection between art, spirituality, and truth. Most artists don't realize that what they're really seeking with their art is Spirit. Zima found it, but it cost him his life. And of course his final deconstruction was shocking to everyone watching. Zim's arc is the spiritual path in a nutshell.
3. The Witness — the ending is a delicious strange loop. If you're still not clear what a strange loop is, here it is.

After you watch these three episodes, my commentary above will start to make sense.

Here's the trailer for the show, although I think the trailer sucks at selling it, so don't judge by the trailer. You must watch to understand.

Speaking of Division vs Unity, here is it in the flesh:

This is how Consciousness divides itself.

Can you fathom how amazing this is? How amazing You are?

Really cool:

Here's a selfish argument against racism and nationalism: if all the world's races interbreed, humans will literally become more beautiful and sexually attractive. Have you noticed that mix-raced people tend to be more hot?

Here's the proof. These images represent the averaged faces of every major ethnicity. Averaging faces (blending/unifying them) makes them more attractive to the human eye. Now imagine if we did a meta-average of all the ethnicities into one face. So, to put it starkly, it's in your best interest for all races to fuck each other ;)

Hint: If you want to have the most beautiful babies possible, have sex with someone who's a different race than you.

Great essay by Zizek. He has an excellent nose for sniffing out hidden mechanisms of devilry and bullshit:

Just be careful, his position of materialism, atheism, and anti-mysticism is delusional. He does not know what he's talking about when he speaks of God, consciousness, or love. The rest is good.

Unlike most billionaires, this billionaire is doing a great job at overcoming his self-bias:

We need more millionaires and billionaires to speak out against the devilry of neoliberal economics. Unfortunately most of them are so comfy it makes them blind to the systemic rigging. A lot of millionaires and billionaires hold libertarian and capitalist ideologies because that's what serves their survival, and allowed them to rise to the top.

It would be almost impossible for someone who's conscious of the devilry of neoliberalism to run a giant Fortune 500 company like Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Disney, Exxon, Boeing, Walmart, Coca Cola, AT&T, etc. To run such companies requires that management and investors bullshit themselves about how good and fair it all is. All of these companies need to believe that giant monopolies, low taxes, and deregulation are good for society. Without such a positive mythology, management and investors would have an existential and moral crisis.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

-- Upton Sinclair

Here's a nice intro to how Multi-Level Marketing cults work. Be sure to avoid these like the plague:

You'll never get rich this way because fundamentally this job generates no creative value. It's a parasitic system that feeds the leeches at the top.