Leo Gura

Good. Progress. "Skull" is no different than "brain". There is no skull in your direct experience. Your skull is imagined right now. These are complicated conceptual questions. Don't worry about that for now. You can explore those questions in a few months -- assuming they still remain -- once you've done some serious inquiry grounded in direct experience. The short answer is: everything is self-caused. The brain doesn't cause pain. Pain causes pain. Pain IS pain. Everything is itself. That's it. A = A.

You don't know you're God and you don't know what God entails. You have not yet seen your own reflection in the mirror.

But ma FREEEDOM! What kind of country do we live in when I'm not even allowed to hate other people and then pay giant corporations to infect their customers with my hatred via toxic, manipulative, clickbaity memes? Ben Franklin is rolling in his grave right now.

When you realize you are the only one. - - - - - - When you inhale too much DMT. - - - - - - When you realize the stuff in the videos isn't just theory.

No. Fear of intimacy is not your problem. Your problem is a total lack of experience in dating. This is a very different problem, and actually easier to fix. Step 1: Stop playing victim and making excuses. Step 2: Watch some pickup videos about how to attract women. Step 3: GO OUT AND TALK TO GIRLS IN REAL LIFE EVERY WEEK! Step 4: Enjoy sex. Everything will auto-correct if you just keep going out regularly.

You yap too much to be Jack Nicholson It's the crazy ones who think they're sane.

A threshold dose of salvia

Me 60 seconds after a puff of DMT

Reminds me of what goes on on this forum

When you do something really bad in a dream, but then you wake up and realize you also did it last night in real life:

That moment when you realize Morgan Freeman is actually God but even he doesn't know it.

Let's give it a week and see where you're at. Don't make any rash moves.

No, I'm saying you are the first person who will come crying and asking for regulation as soon as your safety is threatened. You don't care about freedom. You care about your survival. "Freedom" is just a euphemism you invented for your selfishness. By preaching about freedom you are just blowing smoke up your own ass. You are terrified of true freedom. If true freedom was given to you, you would immediately reject it as you felt its gravity. It's like you're yelling, "Give me heat! Give me heat!" so we bring you close a fire and you like it. So you yell, "This is good. Give me more heat! More heat!!!!" but we tell this is close enough. But you yell even louder, "Give me more heat!!!!!!" so we bring you right next to the fire and it burns you. Then you yell, "You bastards! Why did you burn me?!" Like a child, you have no idea the consequences of what you ask for.

"Censorship" as you so sloppily call it, exists at all stages in various ways. All regulation, by definition, becomes political as people have different survival values and will disagree about which regulations are necessary or valid. Society will never not have regulation, and the regulation will always be grounded in some value set and worldview. There is no such thing as "without an agenda". You are complaining because it's not your agenda which being implemented. But any implementation of anything requires some agenda vs another. There will never be a mainstream non-toxic absolute "free speech" platform. The people who think Google, Facebook, and YT are violating their free speech are mostly trolls, cultists, fundamentalists, extremists, racists, homophobes, fascists, criminals, assholes, devils, and ignoramuses who cannot even understand the Constitution. So your "free speech" platform will aggregate the lowest scum on the internet and they will masturbate furiously together inside a toxic, self-reinforcing ideological echo-chamber without any adult supervision until some great evil precipitates, forcing law enforcement and the courts to shut it down. This is what happens on sites like 4chan. Although even 4chan has moderation and regulation, so it's not nearly as bad as it could be. There cannot be any healthy social media site which goes unmoderated. This is clear as day if you have any experience running a forum. This is the whole reason that societies creates laws in the first place. If humans were responsible enough not to need laws, laws wouldn't exist. Every law is a restriction on freedom.

@James123 Good. Let's see how it holds up for you.

You make it up.

After awakening:

When you realize all evil is Love. - - - - Your first mystical experience. - - - - When you realize it's all Nothing. - - - - When you realize it's ONE. - - - - When you realize death is impossible. - - - - When you realize your parents are imaginary and that you actually gave birth to yourself. - - - - The first time you realize God is real. - - - - When you take a hit of salvia and 2 minutes later you cannot remember human life. - - - - When you realize your birth was imaginary. - - - - When you realize the other person in the room with you, is you.

When you realize it's Infinity. - - - - When you realize there can't be anything but Consciousness. - - - - When you realize it's Eternal. - - - - When you realize that God has been watching everything you do your entire life. - - - - When you realize what God is. - - - - When you realize that enlightenment isn't nothing, it's God.

Like this:

When you realize your birth might be imaginary:

But what about my freedom to make you not breathe??? How can you take that liberty away from me? Clearly you're a tyrant.

You have to clarify in your experience what "a brain" is. What does the phrase "a brain" or "my brain" actually refer to in your direct experience? For example, the phrase "Santa Claus" refers to an image of a fat bearded guy in a red costume in your mind. How about "the brain"? You'll have to be very careful here not to get lost in layer upon layer of concept. If you think "my brain" refers to an actual physical object in your skull, think again! That is NOT true in your direct experience. That is a conceptual fabrication because there is no physical brain present in your direct experience. If you're honest, you've probably never seen a brain in your entire life. Which obviously means your entire notion of brains is imaginary. Now, of course, this is where your mind will get extra tricky. It will say, "Okay, but if we cut open my skull there is guaranteed to be a brain in there!" But now you need to carefully notice that this too is imaginary! You are imagining your skull cut open. This is not real in your direct experience. Now you will say, "But what if it becomes real?!" << But that too is imagination! The entire notion of a future is imaginary! You see, imagination works in multiple interwoven layers in order to create a sense of objective reality which isn't really there other than in your mind. If your mind stopped working, objective reality would disappear. Don't take my word for it. Take a look at it. Is there anything about reality which is objective outside your imagining that it is? How is it possible that you have ever accessed anything objective at all when 100% of your experience of life has been subjective???!!! Notice that objectivity is just subjectivity denied. Fun stuff, eh?