- Evolution of future teachings: Leo Gura explains his intent to evolve his methodologies and teachings as his understanding of reality has developed and matured.
- Reasons for reduced content output in the past year: Gura mentions that he has released fewer video content due to a focus on putting out high-quality and genuine material, chronic health issues, a possibility of burn out from consistency, personal life commitments, and integration of profound awakenings.
- Journey of reflections and adjustments: Gura shares his reflective journey about his present work and visions about future development. This involves contemplating his role as a teacher, personal development, character evaluation, and life's ambitions as he approaches 40.
- Rethinking teaching approach: Gura discusses his reconsidered approach towards teaching that involves generating genuine insights based on contemplation and brainstorming instead of simply updating older theories.
- Working on personal life at the cost of work: Gura admits that while he has dedicated time for his personal life and relationships, which he had neglected earlier, it has affected the time and energy he devotes to his work.
- Experience of divine awakenings and its effect on teachings: Gura shares experiences of his profound divine awakenings which affected the originality of his teachings as such awakenings take one beyond linguistic, logical stuff.
- Shutting off mind and aiming at more balance: Gura explains that to integrate divine awakenings, he practiced shutting off his mind which impacted his work as it cut off a lot of insights. Now he is aiming at balancing both relatively.
- Maintaining quality and not succumbing to pressure: Leo stresses the importance of maintaining the quality of his content and not succumbing to pressure, instead taking time to develop insights and brainstorm ideas until they cohere.
- Personal development and dealing with age: Reaching close to 40 years old, Gura discusses his journey of self-reflection, and rethinking his future life, work, legacy and character.
- Challenges of increased consciousness: Gura acknowledges that increasing his consciousness has led to recognizing his own ego, flaws, limitations, and the responsibility that comes with it, requiring higher maturity as a teacher.
- Refactoring understanding of reality: Gura details the profound awakenings causing him to rethink and reframe his understanding and models of reality.
- Evolving Teachings: Leo Gura feels it is necessary to evolve and upgrade his teaching methods and understanding of reality. He likens this process to upgrading the software on a computer, suggesting that improvements can be made to solidify, make more accurate, nuanced, and deepen the teaching content in order to create higher quality material.
- Being a Better Role Model: Leo highlights the importance of becoming a better role model, not just having superior teachings. This involves adopting a higher level of integrity and implementing teaching methods that align with the highest truth and love. He admits this will be a challenging process requiring changes in his teaching behaviour and delivery to engage with people effectively.
- Pruning and Enhancing Teachings with Direct Experience: Leo suggests a need to refine his teachings by discarding information and theories learned from others, and replacing them with insights based on his own direct experiences. This will improve the validity of his teachings and ensure they stay relevant and applicable to his evolving understanding of spirituality.
- Challenging Human-centric Views: Leo notes the limitation of human-centric views in understanding reality. He acknowledges they are necessary for human survival but, to transcend and go beyond being human, one needs to shed these views and operate from direct experiences and concepts that go beyond humanity.
- Accepting Contradictions as Part of Growth: Leo discusses the inevitability of contradictions in his teachings due to personal growth and evolution. By acknowledging mistakes of the past, embracing change and constantly improving, he identifies this process as a part of growth, much like a caterpillar evolving into a butterfly.
- Continuous Self-correction and Improvement: Leo emphasizes the importance of continuous self-correction and improvement in realizing the complexity of reality. He highlights that evolution and learning from past mistakes are preferable to maintaining a consistent but flawed understanding of reality.
- On Self Growth and the Impact on Teaching: Leo observes that he will develop and shift his understanding over time, leading to the evolution of his own mental constructs. He realizes that as he awakens, he must let go of or update these constructs. It's been challenging to articulate his deepest awakenings due to their unprecedented nature, calling for his unique approach going forward.
- Reflection on the Impact of Teachings on Others: Having worked for 10 years on YouTube, Leo acknowledges the impact his work has on others, both positive and negative. Aware of the potential for his teachings to be misused, he vows to mitigate any negative impact and reduce any immaturity and corruption in his teachings.
- The Notion of Being a Role Model: Observing that many people look up to him and emulate his behavior, Leo is committed to using his public platform for promoting consciousness, selflessness, and love. He pledges to lead by example and position himself as a conscious leader, aligning his micro-behaviors accordingly.
- On Teaching Conscious Leadership: As Leo's journey continues, he is focused on improving his delivery and communication to better embody spiral dynamics tier 2 cognition. He highlights the rarity of conscious leadership and pledges to better demonstrate this aspect in his future teachings. Leo's ultimate goal is to be a cheerleader for the highest potential in his audience.
- Leo's evolving approach to his teachings: Leo reflects on his career since starting Actualized.org, acknowledging that he started from a place of deep ego. He discusses the journey he followed to reach his current level of consciousness, from the basics of self-help to deeper perspectives on spirituality and awakening. Leo admits that past teachings contained both beauty and brilliance, but also noise and corruption due to his level of consciousness and development at that time. He strives for more purity and less ego in his teachings, and is committed to his personal growth to be able to relay more pristine teachings.
- The concept of 'noise versus signal': Leo introduces a new concept of 'noise versus signal' where noise represents corrupted teachings and signals stand for genuine insights. Drawing attention to the limitations of every public intellectual, he emphasizes that they are bound to make mistakes and have biases. He proposes a 'poison pill strategy', intentionally incorporating falsehoods into his teachings to prevent blind acceptance and encourage critical thinking among his viewers.
- Leo's teachings and his audience's personal development: Leo stresses that the purpose of his teachings is to encourage personal development, not to idolize him as a spiritual teacher. He admits his mistakes and explains that the journey of self-improvement and spiritual growth is chaotic and messy, but necessary for evolution. Leo acknowledges that only a small part of his past teachings might resonate with some viewers due to their specific level of consciousness, indicating the significance of personal growth to understand and validate teachings.
- Admission of his flaws and future aims: Despite feeling uncomfortable about the flaws in his past teachings, Leo is forgiving of himself since he believes he couldn't produce any better during those times. His focus moving forward is to produce very clean, pure, and spotless work. He is committed to raising his consciousness and developing himself more to become a better teacher. Conceding that he's not perfect, Leo wants to ensure that his teachings remain a guiding tool for personal evolution rather than becoming a dogma. He wants to build teachings free from corruption, biases and self-deception.
- His role as a spiritual teacher:Leo stresses that he is a self-taught spiritual teacher, having no formal education or training in this area. He embraced his journey from basic self-help concepts to profound spiritual realizations and used his platform to document his personal evolution. His intention is to guide, model, and inspire his audience to follow their own paths of evolution, exploring their potential and reaching higher levels of consciousness.
- Leo Gura's acknowledgment of his arrogance and its origins: Leo reflects on how his arrogance stemmed from a mixture of intense ambition from a young age, sovereign intellectual independence, and dissatisfaction with societal norms. He explains that his arrogant attitude has been a tool for him to cut through societal constructs and reach an understanding of absolute truth through his own direct experience.
- Arrogance in spiritual growth: Leo notes that while this arrogant attitude can be perceived as anti-spiritual, in his case it has led him to the highest levels of awakening because it maintained his intellectual independence and allowed him to avoid falling into the trappings of any spiritual school, guru, or belief system.
- Arrogance and teaching style flaws: Leo acknowledges the negative aspects of his arrogance, admitting that it might give off an obnoxious vibe, turn off audiences, and corrupt his teachings and demeanor. He agrees that it is not an intelligent and artful way to teach nor does he want his viewers to emulate this behavior.
- Leo's intention for future personal growth: He expresses his intention to correct this character flaw as his teachings mature. However, he emphasizes the importance of maintaining intellectual sovereignty as a value that he wants transmitted to his followers.
- Admission to exaggeration: Leo identifies that he can sometimes exaggerate points in his teachings. Upon his self-reflection, he realizes this stems from his attempt to communicate the 'spirit' or emotional impact of the teachings, rather than adhere to technical precision.
- Exaggeration vs. technical accuracy: Leo tends not to prioritize technical accuracy over the emotional significance of his teachings. He criticizes academics who focus excessively on technical accuracy to the detriment of conveying emotional significance.
- Purposes of exaggeration in teaching: Leo admits to exaggerating intentionally, aiming to emotionally engage his students and demonstrate the significance of his teachings, especially during discussions about awakenings.
- Importance of signal to noise ratio: Leo emphasizes the importance of distinguishing 'signal to noise' ratio in the teachings and information content consumed online. The 'signal' is the pure, good stuff, while the 'noise' represents corruption in teachings resulting from the teacher's lack of consciousness.
- Sources of 'noise' in teachings: He identifies major sources of noise in teachings or any informational content including lack of consciousness, selfishness, biases, limited life experience, and arrogance.
- Admission of inevitable mistakes: Leo acknowledges the inevitability of making mistakes and encourages learning quickly from them without beating oneself up. He asserts the importance of forgiving oneself for past mistakes and emphasizes refraining from making the same mistakes repeatedly.
- Caution about expecting perfection: Finally, Leo warns viewers against expecting perfection either from him, themselves, or their gurus. Despite his aim to improve, he acknowledges that he remains vulnerable to making mistakes, self-deception, and corruption.
- Teaching Style Critiques and Adjustments: Leo Gura acknowledges potential flaws in his teaching style and provides a list of aspects he aims to improve. He intends to change his tone to appear more solid and grounded, reduce arrogance and belittling, be more precise in his use of language, have more respect for his audience, and exhibit more careful judgement and criticism. Leo Gura seeks to find a balance in teaching and not assume the intelligence level of his audience to avoid misinterpretations. He also wishes to be more accurate with his insights, ensuring the highest god realization is communicated effectively and not understated.
- Risks of Technical Accuracy in Teachings: Leo Gura reflects on the problem with a strong emphasis on technical accuracy in teachings. He underlines that while it can lead to technically accurate reports, it may result in a lack of understanding of the bigger picture or true importance of the discovery. He is critical of the dry and neutral reporting style in academia and prefers to communicate the emotional significance of his teachings. He also highlights the deceptive nature of data, facts, and studies, and their potential misuse. Despite his occasional use of exaggeration, Leo insists that he tries to stay true to the emotional significance of subjects like awakening or god realization.
- Understanding Audience Demographics and Tailoring Teachings: Leo highlights the challenge of tailoring teachings to his audience, which he acknowledges is diverse in their levels of intelligence and development. He expresses a desire to improve the accuracy of his assumptions about his audience and to recognize the spiritually advanced viewers. While Leo admits to sometimes assuming his audience is unintelligent due to a general state of ignorance in the human collective, he wants his teachings to encourage and honor their intelligence. He also understands the necessity of issuing certain warnings and precautions in his teachings for less informed viewers to prevent potential misuse or misinterpretation.
- Assumptions about his audience: Leo Gura acknowledges the need to make assumptions about his audience's knowledge, experiences, and levels of consciousness in order to present his teachings effectively. He recognizes the need to make his assumptions more accurate and respects the diversity of his audience.
- Inclusion of non-heterosexuals and females: Gura aims to reduce the sexism and heteronormativity in his teachings. Even though the majority of his audience is male, he wants his teachings to be valuable to everyone, including females and LGBTQ+ individuals.
- Improvements to his teaching style: Leo aims to be more precise, professional, less pushy, and less vulgar in his teachings. He also wants to become more inspirational, hopeful, and encouraging while also recognizing and acknowledging the spiritual advancements of his audience.
- Criticism and language choices: Leo aims to become less reactive to criticism and focus on his work. He also aims to avoid exaggerating or making "absolute" statements, and plans to be more generous in crediting other teachers and influencers.
- Addressing mental illness: Leo realizes that a significant percentage of his audience is mentally ill and wants to adjust his teachings and disclaimers appropriately. He recognizes the need for more sensitivity and caution in this area, although he clarifies that mental illness and trauma are not the central focus of his work.
- Intention for future teachings: Going forward, Leo Gura wants to avoid unnecessary drama in his life and work. He aims to focus on delivering concise, potent insights rather than extending the length of his video teachings. He also wants to be cautious about giving specific advice, understanding that he doesn't always have all the answers.
- Reflecting on personal limitations and setting boundaries: Leo Gura acknowledges that he tends to limit his exposure to personal dramas to focus on his work, which can hinder his understanding and experience with mentally ill individuals. He respects those who choose to specialize in helping such individuals but clarifies this isn't his priority as he's focused on higher-level aspects.
- Improving conciseness and potency in teachings: Leo aims to enhance his teachings by making them more concise, direct, and potent, and reducing excessive examples or ramblings. The quality of his videos is dictated by how much insight they provide within a short timeframe, not by their length.
- Staying true to personal experience and maintaining careful advice: Leo intends on aligning his teachings more with his direct experiences. He aims to be more careful while giving advice, realizing that specific situations necessitate bespoke advice due to varying life situations.
- Being more responsible with words and reducing aggression: Leo wants to be more responsible with his choice of words, more gentle, kind, and less aggressive. He acknowledges the need to be less dismissive of differing viewpoints and aims to present teachings that are more about universal truths than his personal insights.
- Emphasizing higher integrity aiming for self-awareness: Leo aims to live and teach with higher integrity, increasing self-awareness, and responding less to emotional reactions. He plans on carefully monitoring his actions and words to avoid having a negative impact on his audience.
- Previous teachings still valuable but should be considered with growth in mind: Leo affirms that his previous teachings still hold value, recognizing the evolution of his thought process. He advises listeners to match teachings to their own level of growth, emphasizing the importance of understanding the evolutionary journey alongside the ultimate teachings.
- Approach in modeling the teaching process: Leo provides a unique model of the teaching process, showcasing the errors, learnings, and improvements in his teachings. This process mirrors the personal evolutionary journey most individuals experience, and Leo believes it is crucial for his listeners to appreciate this process alongside his teachings.
- Comparing personal style to mature teachers and addressing potential growth: Leo compares his teaching style to mature teachers like Eckhart Tolle. He acknowledges that although he may not be as mature yet, his style may resonate more with younger individuals who are familiar with modern culture and relationships. His evolution provides a realistic pathway from the listener's current situation to matured teachings.
- Reminder of the growth process: Leo reemphasizes the significance of personal growth and evolution, urging listeners to understand the process and challenges it entails, which he believes are more useful to the current younger generation than mature teachings alone.
- Evolution of Leo Gura's teaching style: Gura acknowledges aspects of his past behaviour that he isn't proud of, such as arrogance, and sees them as growth opportunities. He believes this growth comes from facing one's past mistakes, being honest about them, and forgiving oneself.
- Importance of conscious leadership and spiritual teaching: Beyond personal spirituality and awakening, Leo stresses on the additional skill of becoming a spiritual teacher or a conscious leader. He notes this does not happen automatically with one's awakening but requires extra work and development.
- Stylistic changes in Leo Gura's teachings: Leo plans slow, subtle changes in his teaching style over the next year and beyond, applicable to his videos, blog posts, and forum activity as well. He aims to hold himself and his audience to a higher standard.
- Coming updates on Actualized.org: Leo is working on 100 new episodes for Actualized.org, providing a roadmap for the next two years. He is also developing two courses, one on reprogramming one's mind and another on accessing the deepest levels of god realization and using psychedelics for spiritual purposes.
- The next level of Gura's life purpose: His renewed commitment is to become his teachings and not just teach them. He acknowledges the rare privilege he has to model truth, consciousness development, intelligence, and love. Leo expects his audience to stay updated about his courses as he doesn't plan on actively marketing them.
- Promotion of Courses: Leo encourages viewers to sign up for the actualize.org newsletter and stay informed about his courses. He plans to release one course in 2022 and the next a year later, emphasizing their life-changing potential. He affirms his commitment to producing valuable and practical content.
- Upcoming courses and maintaining viewership: 16Leo Gura stresses the importance of commitment, personal development and long-term vision in relation to his upcoming courses. These teachings will offer a deeper understanding than his present YouTube video content. He acknowledges the challenges faced due to changing algorithms and platform competition such as TikTok, which has halved his viewership and monetary gain. He encourages his viewers to support him by purchasing his courses which contributes to the sustenance of his teachings and channel.
- Course content and Leo's journey: Leo guarantees valuable and practical lifelong transformative teachings which he believes will feel like a bargain for the price paid. His understanding of reality has reach a profound level after a decade of work which will be shared with viewers in his upcoming videos and courses. He describes learning and growth as an intricate process of cutting and polishing a diamond till it shines its inner brilliance.
- Goal of learning and future transformations: The aim of his work is to assist his viewers in their process of self-transforming into an inspiring and brilliant version of themselves, leading to endless joy. Leo mentions that personal growth not only brings about personal fulfillment but also attracts opportunities, improves personal relationships, and brings about material success. He hints at his upcoming content referring to it as his 'best work' and encourages his audience to subscribe and stay connected.