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I found a cult run by a YouTuber with almost a million subscribers and nobody’s talking
about it.
So like if you’re not busy or whatever, I was hoping maybe we could discuss that.
There’s a big difference between my videos and all other videos on YouTube.
You’re getting something very different here, this is serious stuff.
That’s an understatement.
I’m actually at capacity and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for this information,
so I’m going to go ahead and drop it on you.
Now, the guy we’re talking about runs what appears to be a simple self-help/productivity
course.
I think these kinds of classes help a lot of people, and there’s not usually anything
wrong with them, but unfortunately this one happens to be a full-fledged cult.
So if you’re looking for those sort of courses without the cult leader aspect, allow me to
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Okay, so we’ve already established that we already know what Skillshare is.
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I said that last time.
What I also said last time is that instead of doing the part of the script where I show
you a Skillshare class, I just wanted to recommend myself because I can’t stand giving other
people credit for more than 5 seconds.
So if enough people signed up for free, I would create and upload my own Skillshare
course.
Well uh, enough people signed up so behold: the outline for my very own Skillshare course
about YouTube.
It’s kind of a lot.
I’m going to upload it at the beginning of next month, so now is the perfect time
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Even beyond that, an annual Skillshare subscription is super affordable, coming out to less than
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Alright.
Now allow me to present: Actualized.org.
Actualized.org is a self-help website.
“How to tap into the potential you always knew you had.”
Ha.
I don’t need a tutorial for that.
Because I haven’t done step one, which is “have potential”.
So as you can see, this is a very standard looking website for this sort of thing, and
it’s really just a funnel to scroll people to the bottom so they click the link and sign
up for his $250 course.
Now, this online course also appears to be relatively normal.
It actually reminds me a bit of those self-help courses I went over in my Instagram money
motivation accounts video.
“Fed up?
Dread Work?
Feeling uninspired?
Stuck in a meaningless job?
Not realizing your full potential?
Wish you could just get paid to do your art?
Not sure how to turn your passion into a career?”
\ m Honestly, you get 25 hours of video content
and the topics that he’s covering sound . . . like things?
So this course seems to at least be a thing.
Whether or not it’s a thing worth $250 depends on how much you like the course’s creator,
Leo Gura.
Now, Leo is a self-proclaimed “Professional Life Coach”.
From reading the blurb on his website, you’d think he’s just your average wellness guru
businessman, which thanks to the internet is quickly proving to be one of the most profitable
careers around.
Leo runs a YouTube channel titled after his website, called Actualized.org, and that’s
when I realized he has almost a million subscribers.
He’s been running the channel for almost 7 years, and it’s a bit different than the
website.
As you can see, it’s a bit more mystical, a bit more frantic?
So, we’ll just come back to come back to some of his videos in a bit.
After realizing just how huge his platform is, I looked at the actualized.org forums
and saw that there’s hundreds of thousands of posts, and it’s still active.
Leo is still active, with over 16,000 posts and his most recent visit being less than
20 minutes ago.
That’s weird.
So I had to know, how do you leave 16,000 comments on one website.
So I looked at his comments, and they're . . . weirdly similar?
“Your awakening is incomplete.”
“Your awakening is incomplete”.
. . . What?
Like, what?
So . . . huh?
So clearly something is going on here, right?
Because I was just trying to turn my passion into a career, I wasn’t looking for spiritual
awakening, like . . . what is this website—what is Leo Gura really about?
There’s no better tool than psychedelics, and if you’re not using psychedelics, honestly
you’re wasting your time.
Turns out the answer is a drug cult.
Just a drug cult.
There’s no other way of putting that.
Allow me to present to the psychedelic drug: 5-MeO DMT, or 5-MEO as I’ll be calling it.
Now 5-MEO isn’t illegal in the United States, it’s a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance,
meaning it’s super illegal.
Like, it’s beyond illegal.
You can’t buy it, you can’t sell it, you can’t make it, you can’t even have, it
in your possession.
And by can’t I mean not allowed, but by not allowed I guess it’s free real estate
because clearly that hasn’t stopped Leo.
See, people think that 5-MEO has some sort of helpful properties, which it very well
might under medical supervision in a research environment.
But because of its high potential for abuse, like all schedule 1 substances, and the fact
that it’s 10-20 times more potent than normal DMT . . . “normal DMT”, you 👏 should
👏 not 👏 be 👏 ta- 👏 king 👏 it.
Clapping after every syllable doesn’t make my point any more valid, but it makes 👏 me
👏 feel 👏 bet- 👏 ter.
But despite all of these glaring health issues, and the fact that it’s just literally illegal,
according to Leo, you 👏 should 👏 be 👏 ta- 👏 king 👏 it.
He is a huge advocate of 5-MEO, to the point where I literally Googled “5-MEO DMT”,
and Leo came up.
On the first page.
Twice.
“5-MEO-DMT: The Magic Pill to Enlightenment & god”.
Um.
Apparently, Leo isn’t so much into the largely unconfirmed potential medical benefits, but
rather the extreme hallucinations and physical reactions that 5-MEO causes, which he’s
mischaracterizing as “enlightenment”.
Yes really.
Now when I saw this video, I thought “Okay.
Maybe he’s just sharing his experiences”.
After all there’s a huge difference between mentioning that you take psychedelic drugs
for spiritual purposes and recommending that others do the same.
So I watched the full thing, and he’s not just recommending that people try it.
He’s recommending that people use it multiple times.
Higher and higher and higher and higher until finally something cracks in your brain, and
then enlightenment is had.
So the “awakening” he’s so adamant about can only be achieved by taking this drug.
Honestly, if that’s the case, I don’t want enlightenment.
Brain alteration?
It’s not the vibe that I’m going for.
Now, I would like to point that Leo sort of includes precaution and safety statements
for 5-MEO.
Like he says in the beginning of the video that misusing it can be lethal.
But what good is a 5-second disclaimer if it’s immediately followed by over 1 hour
of content hyping up the thing you’re not supposed to try.
Every time he shares a health risk in the video, he immediately follows it up with five
more reasons why the good actually outweighs the bad.
Not just that, but he even shows you how to take it.
*sniff sniff* Like this just- keep sniffing it in.
Is that allowed?
Like is that kind of content actually allowed on YouTube?
I feel like I’m going to get in trouble for putting that clip of his video that he
didn’t get in trouble for-- in my video.
It’s like he even knows how iffy this whole thing is because he has a comment trying to
discourage the video from becoming a lightning rod for 5-MEO dealers.
Now, obviously, not all of Leo’s followers are on board with this part of his teachings,
seeing as it’s, you know, insane and against the law.
So it’s actually causing a bit of consternation on the actualized.org forums, and things are
getting a bit heated.
Someone actually made a post on the forum calling Leo out, and they named that post
“5-Leo DMT”.
That’s actually very clever and I'm upset that I didn’t come up with it.
And guess what Leo’s reaction was.
Take a guess at what his grand statement was.
“Maybe try it a few times before you go criticizing”.
I don't know where to start with that, so I’m not going to start.
But you know, with all this being said, keep in mind that just because someone uses illegal
drugs, that doesn’t make them a bad person.
Unfortunately in Leo’s case however, being a bad person is what makes him a bad person.
Now, I point out all the time that I’m better than other people; 50% of that is jokes, 100%
of that is true, but I don’t think I’m on a higher plane of consciousness.
It’s completely outside of your ability to imagine it in your current state of consciousness.
So what is “it”, what are we not able to comprehend about Leo.
Well I realized it when I some more responses on the 5-Leo forum post that was calling him
out.
Apparently, apparently, the icing on the cake, the cherry on top, the other food-related
idiom that indicates you’ve reached the climax of this video, is that Leo.
Is.
god.
It was just utterly radical realization of myself as god.
So yeah, remember at the beginning when the website said “How to tap into the potential
you always knew you had?”
That’s the potential.
That’s the root of Leo’s teaching.
He thinks that every single person is actually god and that we each, independently created
the entire universe.
You’re absolutely infinite and eternal, and that you’re constantly creating everything.
But of course, Leo is more god than you are, because he knows he is.
And he’s running out of patience with people who don’t.
LEO: At this point, I’m becoming very intolerant of people’s games and ignorance and close-mindedness.
That’s why he was telling people on the forums that they have “not yet awakened”.
Because they refuse to admit that they’re god, and by extension that Leo Gura is god.
So now, long-time members on the forum are calling it a cult, you know because it is,
but they’re getting shut down by the other members who haven’t realized it yet.
It’s causing so much drama that Leo has taken a break, which he’s currently on at
the time of this video, in order to avoid the controversy that is actualized.org.
Oh no wait, he’s taking it because “Awakening” and also “Healing”.
So yeah that’s the story of how I discovered a self-help website that turned out to be
a front for a literal cult run by Leo Gura, a man who thinks he’s actually god and is
encouraging his followers to repeatedly take psychedelic drugs because that’s his shortcut
to enlightenment.
So I think the moral of the story is pretty obvious . . . subscribe to my second channel.
I upload there several times a week, and while they may not be as fancy as this video, at
least I’m not running a cult fueled by 5-MeO DMT.
In most of my videos.
Anyway, looks like I’ve gotten ten minutes of content out of this, so leave a like, tell
me what you think, and subscribe if you haven’t already.
Thank you for watching and a big thank you to my 329,000 subscribers.
Okay bye.