It's all fun in games until someone loses an eye.

In this episode, I want to talk a bit more off the cuff than usual

about some of the dangers of actualized.org and just the general dangers of doing this work that we're doing.

I'm talking about the dangers of taking personal development to the existential level to the metaphysical level to the

spiritual level so many of you are following along you're listening to me talking

about Enlightenment awakening you're listening to me talking about Enlightenment and Awakening, you're listening to me talk about

the Buddha or meditation or yoga, some of this sort of stuff.

And I get the sense that you're not really aware of what you're getting yourself into.

And so it can be good to talk about this and that's what we're going to cover today.

So what are the dangers of actualized.org?

Sometimes I get criticized for my teachings being dangerous.

That's right. But you have to understand that the very nature of these teachings is like what are we really doing here with these

teachings we're not merely talking about how to make money or how to attract a partner or how to improve some aspect of your life, like your health and so forth.

This is ordinary sort of

boilerplate

self-improvement. Of course I've covered those topics a lot in the past and this is kind of a sort of a self-improvement

which isn't very threatening to people.

You know, this is sort of a Tony Robbins style self-improvement.

It's great, you know, I started off, I cut my teeth on Tony Robbins, nothing against him.

It's useful. It's very useful. But there's a deeper level.

There is the existential level that we're talking about and then you get into

spirituality and you start to learn about non-duality and awakening and enlightenment and all this and

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