Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about my

Enlightenment experience. So I just came back from a 10 day silent meditation retreat and I had a really

interesting experience at the end of the retreat and that's on top of all the cool insights that I got

that I'm excited to share with you in the upcoming videos. But what I got here is I got what I think I'm going to call my second enlightenment experience.

So I did have one before this, which was about a year and a half ago when I first began this journey towards alignment.

But the problem with the first experience that I had, it's hard for me to even understand what was happening then because back then I didn't have

The concepts and framework that I have now to understand what the hell is going on in these experiences

This is actually a common phenomenon for

example for people who do mushrooms or psychodellics, is that they have this

kind of consciousness expanding experience, but then they lose it and they

don't retain any of it and they can't even make sense of it

and it just seems like this, oh, it's just, you know, just a cool emotional state that I was in for a

while. But it's actually not that and the problem is that you don't have the intellectual framework that's necessary to really make sense of it.

So the first experience I had was kind of murky and it was hard to distinguish it from a hallucination and my eyes were kind of closed and I was very sleepy and yeah

I won't talk about that but the second experience this was something remarkable that I've never experienced before in my life and here I was completely awake completely alert eyes open hallucinations, and it was a really extraordinary thing.

And what I want to do is I think it would be valuable not to just tell you about this experience,

as in all I had some awakening experience

but to tell you about this experience as a step by step process

for how I generated the experience because the experience was created.

This is something you do through work.

This is not something you just

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