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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Leo Gura: Infinite Consciousness, God Realization, and Free Will

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

Curt Jaimungal

Philosophy, Science, Physics, Society & Culture

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2021

⏱️ 358 minutes

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I personally subscribe to The Economist. TOE listeners get 35% off the annual subscription. No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOE Curt Jaimungal and Leo Gura explore infinite consciousness, god realization, free will, and love, weaving together physics, philosophy, and personal experience. The conversation dives into nondualism, solipsism, psychedelics, and moral questions while questioning the nature of reality.0:00 Introduction4:15 Disclaimers + physicalism vs nondualism10:12 Truth is merciless + developing one's own Weltanschauung14:05 Embodying a philosophy22:35 Chris Langan, the CTMU, and Distributed Solipsism27:08 Physics and consciousness depend on one another32:36 Reality is a dream and truth45:12 Epi-consciousness and Gödel's incompleteness theorem1:11:02 Epistemology, nescience vs ignorance, and hierarchies1:27:25 Using language is delusive and deficient1:30:49 The two kinds of "love"1:43:19 Being precise with one's words1:59:25 Free will2:15:23 The reason the universe was created2:23:55 Creation and destruction (the same? different?)2:30:03 Paradoxes and contradictions2:41:34 Meditative exercise for God realization2:55:56 On Donald Hoffman3:08:15 Steelmanning the materialist (how do you insights from psychedelics are true?)3:19:34 Ego, and free will3:26:43 Leo's own self-deception3:29:37 The "woo" of paranormal healers and psychics (Leo's personal stories)3:49:50 On Sam Harris' morality and the Moral Landscape4:01:35 Experimentations with psychedelics4:09:42 How to not have a bad trip / become suicidal from nihilism4:19:05 On attachment (beneficial or not?)4:22:51 Thomas Campbell4:30:31 Bernardo Kastrup4:33:47 Frank Yang4:51:28 Raymond Smullyan (excerpt reading by Curt)5:03:49 Curt is too selfish to have a TOE5:05:52 When you realize you're God, the universe ends5:09:11 Why use the term "God"?5:12:58 Principle of impermanence not impermanent?5:14:39 Proof that you have free will5:19:49 "Everyone has good intentions"5:23:08 Hate comes from love5:31:45 Interview with Matthew Phillips of TranscendSPONSORS:- Project Transcend: https://www.projecttranscend.com/- Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/TOE- Algo: http://algo.comRESOURCES:- YouTube link: https://youtu.be/R-w8k4smC74- Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal- Crypto: https://nowpayments.io/donation/TOE- PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802- Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything- Better Left Unsaid documentary: http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal features long-form, technically detailed interviews with leading researchers in physics, mathematics, consciousness, and philosophy, exploring topics at the level of active research. For academics, graduate students, and anyone seeking depth beyond popular science. FOLLOW: Substack | Spotify | YouTube | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Leo is the founder of the YouTube channel Actualized.org and describes himself as a psychonaut and a mystic.

0:06.0

Leo is a proponent of idealism, that is, that consciousness is fundamental rather than material,

0:12.0

and also a proponent that you listening to this, you watching this, you are God. You've simply forgotten that you are.

0:19.0

In a similar vein to Rupert Spira, though there are differences between Rupert Spira and Leo.

0:23.6

Click on the timestamp in the description if you'd like to skip this intro.

0:26.6

For those new to this channel, my name is Kurt Jai Mungal. I'm a filmmaker with a background in mathematical physics,

0:31.6

interested in explicating what are called theories of everything.

0:35.6

Predominantly from a mathematical physics perspective,

0:38.8

as well as delineating the possible connection consciousness has to the fundamental laws,

0:43.3

provided these laws exist at all and are knowable to us.

0:46.8

This is an episode that you'll benefit greatly from watching twice,

0:50.3

perhaps the second time at a much higher speed,

0:52.8

mainly because many may be turned off by the certainty at which Leo expresses some of his views.

0:57.5

However, around the four-hour mark, Leo expresses the doubt that he has, the skepticism he has, which not only humanizes him, but makes his propositions more palatable.

1:07.0

Often people reject propositions thinking that they're dispassionately assessing the arguments when in fact they dislike the person professing those statements or they dislike the manner in which they're professed or they dislike what they perceive to be what their perceptions are of the types of people that would glom onto those ideas rather than the ideas themselves.

1:25.6

Disentangling these is a non-trivial act, but an

1:28.4

exigent one, given our tendencies for dismissal, yet simultaneous longing for acceptance.

1:34.0

Leo and I had so much to talk about that around the six-hour mark, we realized I hadn't even

1:38.4

gone through half of my notes at that point, so in about a week or two weeks we'll be uploading

1:43.2

a part two, mainly focused on him,

1:45.7

whereas this episode is focused on his ideas. If you enjoy engaging with others in real time,

1:50.9

perhaps just witnessing, perhaps not engaging, on consciousness, physics, and psychology,

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