Collective Ego - Understanding The Egoic Dynamics Of Social Systems

[@ActualizedOrg]

Don't forget to do the free worksheet: www.actualized.org/downloads/collective-ego-worksheet.docx

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The best channel on this platform, and others.

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It's an awesome work sheet - thank you for putting it out for free! I just wonder when will it happen that all the egos of the so-called enlightened people will stop needing to earn millions of $$$? Or is it already happening? (yes, I'm completely aware that I'm manipulating here 😉) Is the collective ego holding you back? Are you ready for more innovation?

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The return of the Worksheet!

[@yourmatetom]

It still astounds me seeing how you can record long videos like these in just one take. Great content as usual.

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Your Mate Tom - How do you know that he did it in one take?

[@yourmatetom]

well even if it was 100 takes, the fact that Leo can release an almost 2 hour video without any cuts is freaking amazing lol. Especially given that it was pretty much flawless.

[@somedudeonearth4978]

Your Mate Tom - That I can't deny.

[@EvilSapphireR]

I guess I shouldn't be surprised to find Tom in a video that talks about collective ego of the society. Love your content man! Keep them coming!

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glad to see you pop your head up here hahaha

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[@LewisFernandezFilm]

Anybody else here have to intermittently pause the video because the truth bombs are so damn heavy on the ego and you need a break?

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Lewis Fernandez Always!!

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Lewis Fernandez no never

[@purepsychology2645]

Vibe kill but this made me contemplate suicide.

[@chrisossa2022]

Mind of Love can you name some of the books are talking about please?

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Niels Salen what is 5meo?

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[@billygraaf4547]

+Ignacio Meddina...It is far from it, but Leo iS a favorite

[@fakeaccount1999]

Yeah, I wonder how long He stays monetized before the collective ego gets in to him.

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I've been watching your videos for more than 6 years and I don't know where I would be without you

[@ghost-ld5zy]

I find it fascinating how you can be so articulate and fluent while being methodical and structured at the same time, excellent content Leo, as always!!

[@navigategoodluck9069]

This channel is pure gold, dang Leo, thanks for the work you are doing.

[@thelastofyou9800]

Jordan Peterson said that it's a futile attempt to try and "fix" society to match your own "ideal"/spiritual ambitions. Instead, you need to change yourself, change your inner world, and this will change what you see in your outside world/reality. I agree with him, trying to pick holes in society and groups of people is a waste of time and effort. Instead, one should lead by example, should be the change they want to see in the world. You can't change other people, you can't raise their consciousness or learn their lessons on their behalf. Remember, everything happens at the right time, in the right place. Why this rush? Why this idea that the world is "not conscious enough" and that we need to do something about it? Who are we to make that judgement? Life just is. Society just is. The level of consciousness development is at the level it should be. Trying to tinker with it is an egoic attempt in itself, because we think we are superior and we know better.

[@lynch8067]

The Last of You I couldn't agree more. This is pretty much described in the Tao Te Ching. All the concepts of right and wrong, good and evil are only social constructs and matters of perspective driven by ego in order to seek for securities and certainties. If you try to act superior by telling others you have a higher consciousness there will always be a counter force, people will act to be more superior than you because it's subjective and people perceive it differently so it's not gonna work if you degrading people and inflicting insecurity. Instead Lao Tzu adviced us to see things in different pov as much as possible, be compassion and flexible like water, change your view, don't clinge to certain ideal. In that way nothing bad or good is going to upset you.

[@mltiago]

I desagree partialy. Structural problems must be somehow dealed with.

[@gabriellemanier2223]

Jp!!

[@evaldasjonaitis5948]

Say you look at it from a compassionate point of view - something needs to be done about it. Take Monsanto as an example. During the past several years they've only created more fuss, more casualties. Sufficiently ''royal'' position in the ''market'' (more of a poker table) allows them to continue their cycle of bullsh*t. Now, if we manage to take responsibility of our actions, individually it seems a very heavy, if not impossible task to take on the problem so to say and be the ''leader''. It's a risky game to say the least. However, by thinking in terms of the collective we naturally increase the possibility of making change and progress, don't we? It is the capability of looking at things from a third person view in a way. Obviously, a pole has two ends. You may contemplate and ramble on facebook for hours and hours, though talk is only talk. People need to move their asses and be willing to sacrifice a little bit of their precious time to 'gather' and MAKE change happen. Whatever tool you may use, use it wisely. After talking to a monk a few days ago, I've realised how easy it is put a backpack on your shoulders nowadays, all this luggage that one believes helps him to move forward. Instead of accepting reality, we go against it. We try to be the example, yet the world is falling apart, or so it seems. Seeing through fear, through these ego-driven systems is what we need. And each one of us, more or less, has the capability to do so. Don't get me wrong though, I partially agree with you. Embracing ourselves is healthy. Nevertheless, having a collective sense of being helps you to 'tune in' so to say. I mean, Sisyphus wasn't a saint either. The load of the rock came afterwards however... Share the love and bit by bit things will unravel. BE the love. :)

[@billygraaf4547]

+The last of you, well that thinking is good and of course the base of even going further, but I do believe that IF we do not DO anything and take NO action towards ANY direction, the more negative forces as narcissits and evil people (yes I know that we ALL are also evil, me too, forget that right now) WILL take over,(because the negatve forces are VERY good at taking actions) and that IS how it is now, because it is too easy to just say that "it is what it is" that is not what we mean by saying that. We do not mean "give up" and surrender...the contrary. Live, breath but be aware that every breath you take and step you choose to take (or NOT take) have consequences, It is so easy. You meet someone treating someone else poorly, raise your voice and even if you dont want to say STOP, at least ask why, reason with this person...take minimum action. I LOVE Jordan by the way :-) Such an incredible person. Tnx.

[@weiyingkao]

Thank you Leo for raising our consciousness! I've been watching your videos for the last 2 years and I've been so inspired!

[@saiyedsaleem2662]

I understand each and every word you say. And all I have to say is that, I respect you. Thank you

[@Spiral.Dynamics]

This video should have a subtitle: Leo explains everything. Thanks, dude.

[@mattlagace8165]

This is the greatest episode you've ever created. Understanding this, Changes everything. Leo, thank you.

[@fnessdidit]

This is the best video Leo has ever uploaded

[@MikeJones-jt5kl]

Me, Myself, and I. Only one is real. “Me” which i call M-eGo and “I” which is individual perception, and Myself. Self is the Universe. And I used to think only about the fake. Thanks Big L. U showed me the path to true happiness. Let’s hope it continues.

[@soubhikmukherjee6871]

This was one of your best episodes Leo.

[@noushinpnz220]

I love you so so so much!!!! I want to be your student and follow you forever, I introduced your channel , ideas, techniques to so many people almost everyone around me I meet or need help. I've been following you for a yeah and half now and my life has changed incredibly and can not wait to be developing and actualizing myself more and more and teach everyone!! your a true Hero or Humanity!!!

[@zanderwidjaja3746]

I have no idea how express the appreciation that I have for all of your videos leo. I'm lost for words. I do think I have been inspired by your work. Thank you for doing what you have done.

[@naturallyflow]

when the people in group have high conscience , there will be no group only some people are meeting at the moment Thanks for your effort and going outside yourself by creating these videos hope to meet you one day

[@FrodeOsen]

Hey Leo, Thanks for making us aware of these collective ego mechanics. I actually read a passage in Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth" today where he spoke about the collective ego. Got a beautiful insight from reading and reflecting on it; when people are emitting egoic behavior, it's possible to experience compassion (and not annoyance) with the simple reminder: "That's okay; it's the collective ego taking place in them, but I also know there's a sane being in there (somewhere)." Just wanted to mention it. As always: I love your insights; you've truly assisted in awakening me to the desire for doing consciousness work toward an enlightened Being and world! Will remain a faithful/committed investigator by your side! Frode

[@silvestrerasuk1]

i think this is your BEST most potent video to date !! and that says a lot cuz they are all high quality. thanks for the upload. keep growing ! enjoying this journey with you Leo 👍🏽👍🏽 👏🏽

[@YOUSSEF9587]

is there such a thing as collective enlightenment

[@alganpokemon905]

there probably will be in the future. what a fascinating question

[@rumpsugg]

From Leo's blog: "No new KZbin video this week. Taking time to integrate Hawaii and deciding how to proceed with life."

[@soulcube8008]

Midlife-Crisis haha

[@billygraaf4547]

+rumpsugg (what does that word even mean ;-)) ? sorry got toask) Anyhow my heart just jumped, I read "...how to proceed with WIFE" heheh I always pictured Leo to be a more radical openmindedness than wishing to become ordinary "married" with only one wife.

[@rumpsugg]

I'm not quite sure. Haha =)

[@becunning]

Hawaii has some insane intense energy.

[@danettem614]

This is just what I needed to see after studying lots of Eckhart Tolle talks. This is next level in terms of spreading the joy of living in a higher consciousness by finding a way to effectively spread the word to others. As we move more into the realm of compassion we tend to develop a genuine concern for the well being of others. I started to brush the surface of this idea of "collective ego" but I couldn't arrive at it to this depth on my own. So thank you so much! Looking forward to more of this for sure!

[@dianereyes3560]

I wish we have more of you. We need millions

[@daft444]

Thank you for all your work Leo. It's incredible to see how much passion there is in your videos ! Love from France ! (and the collective ego of the baguette's country)

[@manufacturedreality8706]

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.” ― Lao Tzu

[@growthwisemedia538]

This is one of the most important videos I've ever watched. Thank you Leo 🙏

[@omarmyth286]

I can't imagine how my understanding of existence and life would be without watching you Leo .. Dayum !

[@Jaccobtw]

This is brilliant work. Brilliant. So essentially, nations, corporations, religions, (and even KZbin channels!) have egoic mechanisms to self preserve. This would mean that conflict cannot exist without the ego, nor can evolution. One cannot know himself without knowing what he is not

[@rogerrobinson4446]

I am amazed that you have not felt the backlash of one of the collective egos' view of you as a threat. Awesome video!

[@EsimCan]

Man, thanks for this, it is so wonderfull to see you seeing these things and how they articulate in a very specific way in you.

[@lynch8067]

Delightful as always Leo,Congrats. First i wanna say thank you for posting the video, this is the subject i've been working on within self development. Basically ego is simply just a defense mechanism try to protect oneself from personal harm. But this mechanical system is not very useful to give oneself a balance view instead it resisting, escalating, colliding and causes more suffering all because of FEAR.

[@ActualizedOrg]

Yup

[@somedudeonearth4978]

It's nice to see that some of your older videos help keep me motivated. Thanks man.

[@psychedguitar2716]

its astounding that people dont belive me when i say i can "see" the future its hard for me to step out of my ego and understand people who dont see this.

[@volpe_sol]

Not to make this about politics, but i'm amazed on how Leo seems to be describing the modern Left word by word! This is just amazing.

[@jamespartee6460]

Leo can you please make a video about overthinking? It is ruining my life I get stressed out very easily. I watched your video on neurosis it helped a lot. Thanks for your video you are improving lives.

[@ActualizedOrg]

Meditation, yoga, concentration practices. You are not going to solve overthinking with more theory. You need to start doing the practices.

[@vitavitavitaaa]

thanks for the last couple months of content leo, really great high quality stuff, i personally really appreciate it, gives me such a boost

[@jynxkizs]

I wanted to share this video with everyone until you mentioned ego backlash from people not ready for it. I might not agree with everything said 100%, but this is excellent food for thought.

[@AndiGee]

Give me another soup recipe Leo!

[@dougtaylor26]

mayzen1hp give yourself one. Google vegan or macrobiotic soup recipes and go try them out.

[@billygraaf4547]

I eat the same damn soup everyday since 3-4 years, two times a day and I feel amazing. Eat to nurture body and mind, I'd say, and not to "please" yourself...but yeah I know it takes years and years and years to be able to actually WANT to do that. Shit now you got me wishing it was already lunchtime!! I love my soup!! Contains EVERYTHING my body and mind needs to perform the best (yes even in that area!) hahaha/Billy

[@chrisogonas]

WOW, Leo this is real rich material. It does peel off the mask of ego deception. I learn tonnes from your sessions. Thank you!

[@danalyze]

New thumbnails are so exciting, it's like art! :O

[@OverflowURS]

Thanks for these videos, Leo. You are a good person, so glad to see there's more of us out there. With this raising of consciousness you and we ARE going to make everything better.

[@alexiusscott9880]

Leo u make so much since!!!!!! 🤯🤯!!!!! I can’t put it in words. This is the first time life started to make since to me!!!!!

[@SouhailEntertainment]

Introduction to Collective Ego - 00:00:04 Definition and Importance of Collective Ego - 00:00:56 Examples of Ego in Social Systems - 00:01:37 Ego as Irrational Self-Preservation - 00:02:22 Complexity and Order in Systems - 00:05:18 Mechanisms of Ego in Social Systems - 00:07:00 Examples of Collective Ego in Various Domains - 00:10:31 Collective Ego in Religion - 00:46:08 Collective Ego in Science - 00:54:53 Collective Ego in Politics - 00:58:04 Principles of Collective Ego - 01:20:49 Consciousness and Leadership in Social Systems - 01:44:21 Worksheet and Application - 01:47:40 Conclusion and Next Steps - 01:55:08

[@CastVooDoo]

This is something I learned with in myself,nothing new to me. I was visited by La Santa Muerte , my spirit guide now, and she taught me this. She teaches us to accept death and that death is an illusion.

[@Fools_Journey]

Thank you, Leo. Always a welcome addition to the day.

[@user-lu9hq6jv4v]

Very well explained, thanks.

[@MikeJones-jt5kl]

Excellent video Big L. As always it’s exactly what I needed to hear. You are the universe talking to me - it talks to me all the time and I think it has always been guiding and talking to me it’s just now I am more awake to listen. Of course I am not special it talks to everyone it’s just you can’t listen when your asleep. 👊🏽❤️

[@10use]

Very Powerful Episode! Lots of interesting points to reflect on spread throughout. Highly recommended.

[@heraclitussage2383]

Cool worksheet! Also to reflect...examples of these in "MY" own life: Self-bias, transparency, judgmental double-standards, denial, projection, manipulation, abuse of power, basic needs...

[@drjohnpillz]

Thank Leo! Your always teaching me things I didn't know that I didn't know.

[@budda777pl]

Personal ego - me vs you. System ego - we vs them. Always a separation.

[@christechtips7804]

I cannot wait for the Ecology episode that you’re going to shoot in the future! It aligns with the social systems!

[@mau_lopez]

Another amazing video, full of awesome insights. Have never had a serious thought about the ego of social structures. Really good stuff. Thanks again Leo !

[@WisdomMastery]

So is actualized.org also a collective ego? Is it a contradiction to have a group that tries to show the social construction of reality? This group in of itself is also a collective ego, it seems.

[@tokitomuichiro735]

More respect for Leo. Transformative work here.

[@Just-A-Nerd-888]

This man just shifted my hole realty

[@edsonxinio]

This video is gold hope it gets viral af

[@bearifiablepau2095]

Oh man Leo, thank you for this. I don't know if I'm going to survive in my community without my ego (many people have cult-like thinking). This you talk about is something I have intued all my life and never really found a way to pinpoint until now. When i was in middle school i knew i was weird for not following the crowd (I obviously faced social-murder). I had "strange" thoughts i couldn't share with anybody. Right now my life is all about how to align my values with my survival tactic. Actualized.org is helping my in spades. Just know that I feel a lot of gratitude which I will utilize to improve myself and hopefully, by example, others -there really is no other way. Many thanks and please know you are making a huge difference in peoples lives! ;)

[@wasiquewadood1404]

Good boy Leo is back with 2 hours long content.. Time to rip the fuck out of this ego

[@chrisossa2022]

WTF???? LOLOL!!!

[@messiahbookz63]

its alright guys just go to his blog to find today's video. i guess it would count as a substitute but still better than nothing right?

[@Chameleon569]

astonishing content Leo, so eye opening ! So enlightening. Thank you for all you do. You helped me find my life purpose and change trajectory of life. Keep up the amazing job you do !

[@IFYOUWANTITGOGETIT]

Why is fragmentation through the ego beneficial to the collective consciousness. What is the end game as is implied that their is.

[@JanAnkerstjerne]

You are so awesome Leo. Great explanation about the ego. Its huge.

[@georgelawson4667]

I've been living and working in China for about a year now and it's quite easy to criticise how the country operates under the communist regime. In many ways it's advanced economically since the 50s and 60s, but this progression itself has faced some backlash with, for example, the president now claiming life-long dictatorship over the country and banning the internet outside of China (I can only watch this content using a VPN). I think just lashing out and directly criticising this would only deepen the problem though and so it's better just to notice how it operates and understand how similar resistance to change is occurring within myself. Then I can live as an example to others rather than preach. As dire as it seems right now, you've got to have faith that change happens gradually, and not expect anything to change overnight.

[@dearmeecha1310]

I love how you explain stuff. It makes so much sense. When you said that someone could stab you in the eye with a fork I laughed out loud. 😂 Thanks for your hard work.

[@tusharraje1945]

Hey leo, at 9:20 you mention the more ordered the system is the more fragile it is, I want to know your thoughts on following observation. For example let's take the system to be a nation - Communist China. It is a highly ordered system but yet seems to be remarkably stable vis-a-vis other democratic developing countries. So if you say that the more ordered system seems to be more fragile, then how is China seems to be more stable and more prosperous compared to say democratic countries like Indonesia or India? Or is it that in the long term Democratic countries will turn out to be more stable and prosperous?

[@ActualizedOrg]

+tushar raje What I mean is, the preservation of subtle gradations of order becomes more and more necessary for complex systems. For example, adding a few drops of cyanide into your bloodstream will kill you within a few minutes because your body must maintain a delicate steady-state constantly for you to stay alive. China requires extreme degrees of control and manipulation to keep itself alive and stable. If those control mechanisms are ever disabled, it will collapse like a house of cards. Which is why the Chinese government is so repressive and bad about civil rights and free speech. The more a collective ego represses free speech, the more fragile it is. Highly ordered systems can be very stable. That's called creating a monopoly. Every ego tries to maximize its own security, although often this attempt backfires, leading to its downfall. China's repression of free speech and civil rights may soon backfire.

[@tusharraje1945]

Actualized.org So can it be said that every ego by default will maximize its own security as that is what ego does and we cannot escape the implications of it unless we destroy the ego completely? So my question is can we control ego's self preservation instincts from going out of hand and harming us or we need to destroy it completely to escape from its implications?

[@studentofspacetime]

A question about spiral dynamics. How much can you trust that model? I cannot see any independent information about it, since it’s trademarked. Social science (with its ego :) ) doesn’t seem to say anything about it. Plus, the several founders of the model are not even on speaking terms, which is ironic, given that they have mapped out all these post-tribal levels of consciousness.

[@ActualizedOrg]

It's shockingly accurate for understanding group behavior, at least up until you start to become enlightened. You don't need independent information about it. You just need to learn it and start seeing it happening all around you. And, of course, always keep in mind that it is merely a model, a handy generalization. Not Truth.

[@thelastofyou9800]

Leo, you should read "12 Rules for Life" - by Jordan Peterson. Especially Rule 6 - Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world - it will answer your current episode. The world will go to the next spiritual level when everybody (individually) will "clean their rooms". It might take a while, it might never happen (as Ekhart Tolle said) but there's nothing anybody can do about it by themselves. I tried bringing my family to a higher level and I failed. The world at large is even farther target than that.

[@ActualizedOrg]

+The Last of You Jordan Peterson should take his own advice ;) That is only half-true.

[@weiyingkao]

Rewatching this one today. So good!

[@OneBalance]

I have never been able to fully comprehend the transcendence of self-preservation. But I suppose that is because the mind represents duality in and of itself. So weird to think how anything could continue to exist in one's mind after the experience of enlightenment. You would think everything would cease to exist, and that the experience would be terrifying.

[@ActualizedOrg]

+OneBalance Nothing and everything turn out to be identical. Life and death are identical, so there is nothing to fear in the end. Everything is infinite.

[@OneBalance]

So interesting. I'm on and off my own path, trying to battle some addictions and old patterns. So glad that you've committed yourself to Truth as you have. You are a great service to others. See you next time!

[@spbkoon3385]

I'd like to note that enormous complexity is not a necessity for ego development. As you've said, Leo, families develop an ego. Hell, even couples develop an ego very quickly. "Us". Sometimes such an ego will be developed by one person and the other will not even know he's a part of anything. When this is revealed, the first person would go through a painful process of collective ego death, or maybe he'll even refuse to believe the non-existence of union.

[@ActualizedOrg]

+spb koon A family of 4 people is a system made out of 400 billion neurons interconnected into an unfathomable complex web. Nothing simple about it.

[@positivegrenola]

I've suddenly had a backlash recently where I've fallen off massively on my meditations, stopped reading as much, been eating worse and other habits like that which have been going great for quite a while before. I'm not really sure how to get out of this hole I feel like I'm suddenly in, does anyone relate to this at all and have any solutions that worked for them?

[@shadowworkcoach]

Hey, I can totally relate to this. It's part of the cycle. What works for me is to try to practice presence of the observer and not to make of the ego and situation an enemy.

[@messiahbookz63]

Same here, we just gotta get up and dust off our feet. Again until we get to where we want to be.

[@positivegrenola]

Ramona If I try to think about it, I may be having an underlying belief that the work I'm putting in isn't doing enough or I'm doing it wrong, since a lack of results was also a story I've identified with for a while. That's a really interesting idea though, so it's suggesting being present when these distractions come up and not give in to them, or still continue the bad habits but be aware of yourself doing it?

[@shadowworkcoach]

The underlying belief is your ego preserving itself. Your mind then generate thoughts below it and you identify with the content produced. Don't believe it.

[@shadowworkcoach]

Do something to prove it wrong. Just a tiny action, step in the direction where your mind doesn't believe you can go. This will produce a mindfuckery and it will have to re-arange itself in another direction.

[@rudrakanya]

This episode was very difficult to watch and absorb, so I split it over several days. The full impact hasn't sunk in yet but I just want to share one thing about a topic you touch on towards the end, the conservatism-liberalism conflict, because it's something I struggled with as I'm sure many others do as well. Being too conservative means you have no heart. No zest for life to explore new experiences which grow you. And being too liberal means you have no brain. No capacity for judging the consequences of your actions. I need to be very liberal with my actions, and build on my ability to do things for the good of others, and conservative with my reactions, and control my ego from going rampant and lashing out against things "out there" which I don't like, or from chasing after and being overly attached to things/ideas that I do like.

[@ActualizedOrg]

+Aishwarya Murali Don't frame it in terms of conservative and liberal. That is the wrong axis. The true axis is unconscious vs conscious.

[@studentofspacetime]

Awesome video Leo. You’re basically exhorting us to become bodhisattvas

[@tusharraje1945]

Hey leo, I have one question. When a person destroys his own ego, he or she is termed enlightened. What will you call a society which destroys it's collective ego and is that even possible? Are there any examples in history?

[@ActualizedOrg]

+tushar raje I don't know if there is such a parallel. I doubt it. At least not in the current evolutionary stage of civilization. Maybe in 100,000 years collective ego will be able undergo a kind of enlightenment. Who can tell?

[@tusharraje1945]

Actualized.org So will the collective ego of civilizations evolve in gradual manner or will it take some big calamity to change it? My guess is that it will take some big calamity to transform the collective ego. But the question is will Human race survive such calamity?

[@andymeissner8727]

Another beautiful episode brother! I’m so grateful everyday because I’ve had the opportunity to learn from you! I’ve been really working on daily mindfulness of when my ego does things that are subtle but obvious after becoming aware that they’re happening. It’s crazy that so much of my daily inner work lines up with what you were recommending at the end of this video. I’m thankful you have been such a helpful resource on my journey for living this extraordinary life I have. 😇 namaste 🕉

[@natashavanderveen2615]

Really needed this one right now! Thanks.

[@userjames2009]

13:52 Egoic (I am this and I am not that) mechanisms on the Windows operating system: * The registry -- it has a definition of the current Windows version and a list of all installed programs * Windows activation and which version of Windows has been authorized during install or use. This is also checked externally by Microsoft during Windows updates. * Checkdisk for allowed vs disallowed states of the file system * System File Checker and its indexes backup files caches * Windows Defender, a built in antivirus Basically anything that identifies its 'allowable' state and makes modification harder

[@dimitrijmaslov1209]

MEO, where is the episode on "Maslow"s: B-cognition & D-cognition?"

[@michaelrenzelman4523]

I wonder how an individual whose moving towards a nondual, minimizing ego work with others still stuck in other egoistical or collectivist spaces? After watching your series on Spiral Dynamics and Systems Thinking, and I’ve been questioning dualism... which I’ve been doing for a long time. However, I feel I keep getting pulled down into lower mindsets of groups or individuals within those groups. While you explain this very well, I find there is little here on solutions. The more I see things from a systems perspective and in a non-dualistic space, I find myself getting frustrated and falling back into judgement. I seem to be in a continuous existential crisis here.

[@ActualizedOrg]

+Michael Renzelman Embodiment is requires. Lots of inner work. Do the practices I suggest.

[@simonturner7878]

Hi, sorry the unrelated question, I bought your book list looking for the book recommended in "the importance of real yoga" and can't see the book being referred to. I know you don't want to say the name of the book, but can someone give me some pointers? What category is it in? Thanks

[@mroctober2978]

Kriya Secrets Revealed (5th edition) by J C Stevens.

[@ActualizedOrg]

+Simon Turner It's on page 2. Do a ctrl+F search of that page for "kriya".

[@simonturner7878]

Excellent, thank you

[@chrisossa2022]

Leo, thank you so, so, so much for this video. How helpful, how true. Also, I'd also like to congratulate you because you seem to be cursing much less now. Since i am actually trying to catch up with every single video you've ever created, I notice that your older videos are a bit annoying to watch due to all the cursing mainly because the only times I can watch it is when I have my six-year-old following me everywhere in the house, and the cursing is really uncomfortable.

[@ActualizedOrg]

I've tried to reduce the cursing to a minimum.

[@modernmountainmonk9666]

Hi Leo, do you think there is a non-dual purpose for egos to exist? It seems they are involved in the rebalancing act that is nonduality.

[@ActualizedOrg]

If something exists, that's because it can't not exist. Ego serves a very important purpose. None of humanity would be possible without it.

[@modernmountainmonk9666]

I sense that if a wave (finitude) in the ocean exists its because the ocean (infinity) has already accepted it. This is why we must accept all aspects of existence as vital. Would you agree?

[@TheCrowsnest86]

Leo, you're fucking great, seriously. Your channel and website are exactly what I was looking for in this informational cacophony of today's world.

[@bollista4577]

Thank you for revealing the Truth gradually. Knowing it all at once would be so depressing. I can barely handle it right now, however I've been following your steps for over 2 years now. Seeing myself now, as part of nature, struggling for life, looks nothing but overlapping EGO systems' self preserving efforts. My Ego is a unique mix of 1000s of ego systems. Freedom has no sense to me anymore. The most noble goal would be serving and preserving humanity? Or all life? Or all universe? What is the largest scale of ego in existence trying to preserve itself? If existence necessarily has to involve ego, than shouldn't we go for serving the survival of the greatest ego possible? Like Elon Musk does with making plabetary colonies in order to preserve humankind somehow?

[@ActualizedOrg]

No, that is just more delusion. With enlightenment, you escape the entire ego dynamic forever. With your enlightenment, all egos everywhere are destroyed, because they were illusions to be begin with. It's one hell of a thing.

[@jasonreed1352]

The lining of the bag of egoic tricks: the illusion of vertical supremacy. In psychology terms (used a little more accurately black and white with respect to pedanticism (a not so unimportant matter with these issues)): The self-perception of grandiosity If the sheer human population is not sufficiently grandiose to have taught us our lessons about the true nature of the perception of grandiosity with respect to actual grandiosity, perhaps this time we will be wise with the microscopic miniscule thread of awesomeness that is the actual conscious collective awareness of the true nature of reality as it CAN be seen from an individual perspective. It is my hope that the sheer ability to network so quickly over broader collectives has created by very virtue of the emergence of it from the collectives "out" of which "it" emerges (which includes literally every one), a greater capacity for humanity to understand the rarity of such conscious ability at least in humanity (if not perhaps any other anything on the earth. when put to the slightest effort on the most balanced, and pure levels of perception attainable, in my perception), to understand with practical conscious clarity any way to consciously perceive even a categorical way that we could take this opportunity to evolve. Sort of like a revolution, but with the ability to help others through having actually come to be able to help ourselves. This will shift the median frequency of authentic conscious self-perception up from the truest of dark ages, which would happen automatically and (contrary to chivalrous folklore) not be anything that required external battle or the conquest of anything external. Only internal misperception (primarily, misperception of what these lower and midbrain cognitive functions are telling us individually about our selves to our selves. (separate on purpose) Individually and collectively) especially of emotional states and emotions we perceive to be "negative". That negativity that just can't seem to be nailed down, is only a guide within the self to where one can see with greater authenticity, the error in one's perception of one's perception only. Baby steps while in the nuts and bolts of reality perception. Once returning to "the surface" (autopilot everyday functional mode), just keep your mind's eye open for perhaps any greater clarity in what you experience. Speaking of which, I'm thinking about the possibility of collective consciousnesses as only egos, as you state. I think you may be partly mistaken. Our perceptions of them can only ever be egoic representations, but the patterns they follow will resemble the patterns of the authentic consciousnesses that they likely authentically represent, and are out of our capacity to see them with our eyeball cameras on our faces without having come to truly understand the nature of what patterns even CAN represent to us for us. Try holding that knowledge in these little ol' monkey brains, and the nature of the necessity for abstraction becomes apparent. And if the proverbial pineal gland needed a little stunting because we weren't ready for what it allegedly possibly could have perceived, then that's a damned shame. And probably had to do with some unresolved trauma for the being(s) who would make such a decision if that even "happened". However, adaptations in logic-understanding capacity seem to perhaps supersede another more horizontal-type addition to our consciousness sensors. I say seems, because if it does then it is immediately rendered horizontal (and more in alignment with authentic understanding with far less risk of catastrophic failure due to infantile misutilization through forgetting that superiority is the first step in the creation of suffering both external and internal) It can happen on an individual level without going insane as far as I feel I have come, and how far you seem to be progressing. Namaste With karmic eyes on the edge of their seats for the next episode of: "How in the hell did these monkeys get here!" lol Ok. Onward. Much love, Leo.

[@NizzyD92]

Can't wait for the new content, Leo!

[@journeythroughchina6489]

Hi Leo what is the actual definition of consciousness that you refer to in this video? I feel a clear understanding will help me.

[@Kickz1212]

Hey Leo There is an issue with the podcast RSS Feed actualized.org/itunes error on line 37 at column 43: xmlParseEntityRef: no name how do i fix this?

[@phillopfilbrandt310]

Thank you so much for everything Leo

[@phoenixrising1675]

You forgot the #metoo movement, now that is one dangerous fucking ego right there....

[@PetterKrWiik]

Don't forget your own collective, but universal ego which is your name, looks, clothes, skin color, profession, religion, etc. It's like a username in the online game server of life ("society") that you're forced to play unless you become a monk or a hermit

[@holisticanxietyadvice8549]

Man is this video good. Such such such gold

[@dougtaylor26]

Man... the last 10 minutes were incredibly motivating!

[@tamaleesen2759]

It was hard hitting video. Back to back ego battering. No escape. Every where it's the opposite of truth. What to believe what not to believe. Where to go...... It's a massive trap.

[@IFYOUWANTITGOGETIT]

Anything that is alive is under the control of the Will which represents itself through ego. Schopenhauer was on to this a long time ago.