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Oct 8, 2018 A guided practice in shifting from conceptual belief to direct perception. Short sensory exercises with the hand and small objects are used to feel immediacy. The difference between imagination, scientific models, and present-moment actuality is explored. Themes include consciousness, truth as direct experience, confronting fear about death, and using repeated investigation to transform understanding.
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Spirituality Is Direct Contact With Actuality
- Spirituality is not a set of beliefs but the direct apprehension of what is actual, free from conceptual overlays.
- Leo contrasts belief-based spirituality with the immediacy of looking at your hand as the true spiritual practice.
Use The Hand Exercise To Ground In Actuality
- Do the hand exercise to ground yourself in actuality by looking at your hand and feeling its existence without conceptual thought.
- Leo instructs sitting with your hand a foot from your face, becoming hyper-conscious of its existence rather than labeling or explaining it.
Distinguish Present Actuality From Conceptual Context
- Most things we treat as factual (round Earth, birth, parents) are conceptual frameworks layered over present experience.
- Leo urges distinguishing present actuality (the hand) from historical/scientific concepts that are imagination when not present.