Leo Gura

By that logic the word "I" should be retired as well And many, many other words.

Yes, these are very important facets you're still missing. Hard to reach them with standard meditative practice. Psychedelics will allow you to reach them easily. That's all great, but there's more! Becoming conscious of the imagination and creation process is crucial. You won't regret it. It's the real payoff of this work. No. Creation and imagination are central. These are not ancillary things. We are talking about how the entire universe comes into being. Very fucking important stuff Try some DPT

@sandimay If there is brain damage, I would be careful about masking that over with nootropics. Make sure you try to heal the root damage first.

I think his detoxes are decent overall. But I've also found better detoxes. He's denounced some detoxes which I have tried which work better than his detoxes in my experience. I don't deny that his detoxes and dietary changes can help people. But just because something works for a lot of people does not mean everything in his books is correct. You want to be epistemically careful.

@Stevewonder6262 Duplicate accounts are a bannable offense here.

I take criticism all day long for 8 years. I don't debate people because debate is a stupid ego game. If you want results, do the work. Or don't and then you can whine instead.

Imagination means it is a mental activity. The physical world is the mental activity of an Infinite Mind. For example, you can become conscious of how you are imagining your own hands or your parents or your childhood. My entire body is imaginary. Made up of figments of consciousness. You will readily admit that dreams are imaginary, right? Like, your body inside a dream is imaginary, right? Obviously. Well, now just go one step further and apply that to the physical world. It is just a bit more of a powerful form of imagination.

In a sense it is not. It is a limited state of God's mind. God's mind can expand infinitely beyond your little bubble. But assuming it isn't expanded. This is what it is. You see, when God's mind is limited, that's literally what God becomes until it changes to something more unlimited. So, in a sense, God is able to lock itself out of its own mind. When God imagines it is a human, it's as if God doesn't exist. From the human's POV that's the case. And since the human's POV is just God limiting itself, that limited POV becomes reality. Until it changes to something more expansive. Reality is nothing but POV. So being stuck in the human POV is like the death of God. And taking on the God POV kills the human. That's a bad example because that's a dream within a dream. Awakening will reveal that to be an illusion.

Absolute relativity is the ultimate truth. Everything is Truth. Obviously Why would God deny anything?? God will even allow you to deny God, Truth, Consciousness, and Love. The highest Love is to allow the denial of Love.

How can anything exist at all? MAGIC! Since God is infinite, it needs no cause, process, or how. It's infinite. It can just pull whatever it wants out of its own ass. That's the whole point of infinity. It makes the impossible possible.

Look, reality is completely relativistic. So if right now your state of consciousness is such that you think there are no other higher states of consciousness, then that is literally what is true. Until you imagine otherwise. Or consider this: For an atheist, there actually is no God. Until he imagines otherwise.

Attention all cult members: Do not shut down anyone. Don't be jerks.

Except nobody is doing anything to you here. People are just expressing their perspectives and worldviews. Just cause you hear something you don't like doesn't make it abuse.

@Stevewonder62 Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I take many measures to make sure my work never becomes a cult. But you don't understand that so you see it as a cult. To call this place a cult is a joke. You don't understand what a cult is.

There is nothing outside your direct experience.

So that unicorn is a pedophile? That would explain the horn.

Ironically, this post is gaslighting. There is no cult here other than the cult you wish to see. Yes, question your self. What else do you expect a spiritual teacher to say? This work has nothing to do with me. What Leo says or does is completely irrelevant. Stop making it about me. Simple. Do the work and make progress.

Nothing but consistency itself. Consistency is a just a slow rate of change as opposed to a rapid rate of change. And also a certain sense of order to the change. That's also imaginary. All that data is here, so to speak, and it needs no cause. You imagine data behind the scenes because you are unwilling to accept that the present moment is uncaused and absolute. If you deny uncausality, then you must forever go about hunting for and imagining hidden causes.

I am suggesting that basically all awakened teachers are still in limited states of consciousness which maintain their mind's structure for the purposes of survival. You don't fully appreciate what consciousness is unless you've been in state where you cannot even remember your name. All memory is obviously a limitation of consciousness. I've been in states where I can access the memories of every being in the universe. Since memory is just imagination. You are not really remembering your name, you are imagining it. To function in this material plane you must be limited.

It's worse than you think. You're imagining others, period.

Lol. Of course you are. Direct experience IS imagination. Your mind is the world. That's precisely the point.

Obvious you are not limited to any simplistic category. These categories are relative and no more than rules of thumb.

@Lyubov Of course! Lol

Could there not be? You'll have to spend decades breaking down that character. Awakening will not do that for you. Structure of the mind remain even after awakening, otherwise you'd be dead. If you can still remember your name, obviously old structures of the mind remain.

Every physical object is imaginary. There is nothing which is not imaginary. You are inside of a hallucination and there can be no reality other than hallucination. If you think, "But that thing there isn't a hallucination!" << that's your hallucination!