Leo Gura

Watch out for that monkeymail

The irony is that freedom actually is an absolute good. But it's not at all what the ego wants. If you actually got a taste of absolute freedom you would shit your pants in horror. God is holding absolute freedom at bay for you, treating you with kid gloves to keep you from freaking out. Or rather, you are doing it to yourself via the mechanism of fear.

Well, you are still very far from enlightenment so you can easily turn back and live your hedonistic fantasies. Yeah... that's a bitch, ain't it? Curiosity kills the cat If you don't want the Truth then stop asking questions about it You don't have to do enlightenment. That's right, enlightenment won't benefit "you". But imagine how powerful you would be if you no longer needed a personal benefit from anything, ever. Dare I say, you might become God-like -- hehhehehe....

No idea. Everyone reacts differently. You are probably carrying around a bunch of lies, wounds, trauma, and egoic shit in your mind which the mushrooms are trying to surface. As you purify your mind trips should get deeper and more blissful. But there can be a long purification process. It all depends on how dirty your mind is. Or maybe you just have a negative physical reaction to mushrooms for some weird genetic reason. In which case you can try other psychedelics to see if they fit you better. Mushrooms are pretty squirrely.

It's way more fucked up and twisted than you can fathom. Remember, your entire visual field is imaginary, including your body. Imagination IS reality. So there is no fundamental distinction between you imagining your friends, you imagining the world, or you imagining yourself. It's all imaginary. You are thinking of it like this: "Oh, well, if my friends are imaginary, that sucks. That means they aren't real." But what you're not realizing is that EVERYTHING isn't real. Real is whatever you imagine hard enough. So your friends are real in the sense that you imagine they are. But as soon as you stop imagining them, they will disappear. As will your own body. So it all boils down to how unconscious you are of your own imagination. See, Leo is a fragment of your schizoid God-mind. But you don't like hearing that so you imagine Leo is real, and therefore Leo is real for you, as long as you keep denying that Leo is imaginary. So the entire game of life is imagining shit while denying that you imagined it. That's how "reality" is created. Ta-da! The only question is, how deep do you want to see the Truth of what you -- as God -- are doing? How deep can you stomach it? Are you willing to realize that EVERYTHING is imaginary? Or are you gonna cry uncle and play denial games? Since you are God, if you decide to play denial, there is no one in the Universe who can stop you. Only you can stop yourself. Do you dare become conscious that you are imagining Leo? Or... is that too unnerving? See, the problem is that just by telling you this I'm already spoiling your fantasy. But don't worry, you will fall back into the fantasy very quickly. Just stop listening to me.

@GreenLight Ultimately you're gonna have to do consciousness work on that anger. Anger is often just a cloak for hurt. If you are angry a lot, you must introspect deeply to discover the hurt inside you. Who deeply hurt you and why? And you will have to acknowledge this and heal/forgive that hurt. That is the real solution here. Not hitting bags or people. Your anger is actually armor you created to keep yourself from feeling deep hurt. To take off that armor you will have to experience the hurt that you've been avoiding and denying. Allow yourself to feel hurt rather than posturing with anger.

1/4th The rest of the nootropics are unnecessary with modafinil.

The only solution I know is: A) Psychedelics B) Very rigorous week-long retreats where you meditate nonstop using something like labeling. It will be hell and you suck it up and do it.

@JJfromSwitzerland Maybe your friends are imaginary? Be careful. Why do you assume that you see the world from your POV? What if the world is not actually seen from your POV? After all, you as an ego are imaginary. Do you see the problem here? You assume you are real. You assume that perception is "yours". What if it isn't?

Join a boxing gym or local MMA club. Or just buy yourself a punching bag for home. They are pretty cheap. And experiment with other kinds of vigorous cardio exercises. You could even buy a trampoline and jump yourself dead-tired on it. It's fun too! Some cities have indoor trampoline parks where you can run around and jump like a crazy horse. Just be ware of spraining a muscle.

Spicy chai tea with honey and coconut milk > coffee

You are playing with fire. Watch out. An LSD trip is supposed to last 5-6 hours. The rest is after-effects. My LSD trips were precisely 5-6 hours of solid trip, and like 3-4 more hours of mild after-effects.

Yes... Crowder's Law, or Shapiro's Law, or Tucker's Law My mind is wired for extreme creativity, which makes it very difficult to meditate, or concentrate on a single thing, or empty the mind. So meditation techniques are very ineffective for my brain type. My mind is wired such that I receive a near-constant follow of creative imagery, visions, ideas, and insights no matter what I'm doing as long as I'm not asleep. And it is almost impossible to stop this torrent of imagery. It's like a constant creative noise. This is very good for creativity but very bad for meditation. There is a distinct threshold that consciousness can pass at which point it "awakens". But just because you pass this threshold does not mean you cannot become even more conscious and more awake. You can become orders of magnitude more awake than that. But you at least need to cross that threshold to enter woke territory. I don't. These are all good questions you should contemplate and pursue your own answers to. From certain levels of consciousness that I have accessed it is obvious to me that most other people have not accessed it. That doesn't mean it is impossible or that only I can do it. It just means that most human brains are not suited to accessing the highest levels of consciousness in the same way that most cameras are not suited to photographing x-rays. And most humans are unwilling to modify their brains. I care about what is true, not about what people want to hear. Oh, btw, Truth and Good just happen to be identical Not a monk, but you gotta be crazy, like a fox Everything is the way it has to be

In certain narrow ways, yes. I am exceptionally gifted with intuition and when my brain is combined with psychedelics. Neither of these things can really be taught. You either got it or you don't.

In other words, you hold no position of wealth, power, or status

They are quite different. Reptilian brain is gonna drive you towards very base survival needs and cravings like food, sex, safety, fear, anger, greed, laziness, etc. Intuition is sorta free of all that if you can get yourself clear-minded and not under craving. The basic distinction is fear vs love.

Good job hunting giraffe

Yeah, but if it appeals to Oprah's audience it must already be shallow stuff. Sometimes there are rare exceptions and gems. I definitely has an anti-mainstream bias. Sometimes I backfires but I enjoy this particular bias. I has worked well for me overall. Actualized.org is too radical and offensive to be endorsed by anyone who wants to keep their job and status.

That future is my life today and it could be yours too

Every technology comes with pros and cons. There's rarely a free lunch. Social media is not going away, so get used to it. Everyone needs to learn how to use it responsibly and for good rather than devilry.

Oddly, caffeine has no effect on me. I get no boost from it, nor any addiction or withdrawal. Modafinil FTW!

Probably. But I meant what is actually meaningful from a human perspective, like if we started to classify them. You can think of these states like different planets in the galaxy that you could visit and explore.

This is why I generally don't like any mainstream teachings. The more mainstream they are, the shallower and more watered-down they must be. There is an inverse correlation between depth and popularity.

You have to be careful with such gross over-generalizations. But generally speaking progressives are more cognitively and morally developed. This does not make them anywhere close to perfect so they still make plenty of mistakes.

It's not a matter of money. Cenk isn't doing it for the money. He's a true believer in the Green crusade and cannot envision something beyond it. It's a paradigm lock. And I can't say I blame him. Cenk's role is needed. Someone has to fight the fucking MAGA devils and the corrupt neoliberals. In a sense, stage Yellow thinkers are not practical because they are too far head of everyone else. Cenk is at the right level to make significant social change. Yellow includes Green within it.