Leo Gura

Consciousness is always consciously creating, but you are not fully conscious of that.

You got it! Reality is Love. The end.

@Neuroknot He was never at solid Green. And regression is rare but possible under tighter survival conditions.

Yes, I don't doubt they do. I don't say that I'm the most conscious. All I claim is that I have accessed peak states of consciousness which are super-human and which very few people have ever accessed or could access naturally. Sadhguru does not understand psychedelics, so his opinions on them are irrelevant to me.

Depends on how you define "level of consciousness." Generally speaking your state will drop back to what it was before the trip. But you will remain insights, memories, and it will leave a mark on your psyche. But you will not keep the higher state as that requires neurotransmitters which you lack. Well, every state is God, so here it is. But this current state is nothing like the God-mode state of 5-MeO-DMT. I'm not in God-mode, I'm more in human mode.

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It's both

Well, it's just impossible to maintain those peak states. The understanding you can keep.

I can be if I train my mind on it. But most of the time I operate as if others are real. It's not useful to metaphysically question people all the time. It's an illusion that I play within. Sort of like when you play a video game, you're not constantly question that it's all just a game. You buy into the illusion and act as if it is real, at least for a while. Yeah, hang in there. It can in certain ways. Mostly I notice less fear about needing to please others. So I act more authentically and I feel less of a need to play social games. I think awakening makes one more direct and authentic with people. I've noticed that I care less and less what people think about me, which frees me up to act however I would naturally act if I was alone. Yes, less shyness, less fear, less distance with strangers. More compassion for their personal suffering.

@StripedGiraffe I struggle with that myself. It's tricky and challenging.

It does, but that doesn't mean your ego-mind will like it. The more Truth and Love, the more terrified you will get. Because it's not there to please or suit your personal survival needs. The deeper you go, the more of your life you'll have to surrender. How much are you willing to surrender? How selfless are you willing to be? This is very challenging for a human. It's much more challenging than people expect. Because you can't imagine how much illusion there is to surrender.

Other people are an illusion. If you shake that illusion, life becomes very dull. Just you by yourself. The illusion is very hard to entirely break. For practical purposes we continue treating people as if they are real because that's what survival dictates and our minds aren't interested in truth, they are interested in illusions.

@Javfly33 It's much more complex than that. Imagination has many layers to it and your present state of consciousness does not give you access to the deepest layers. Those layers which you don't have access to you call "physical reality". As you gain more access "physical reality" will start to become more and more fluid, less solid, less "real".

I would be careful about any such claims to a "Collective Awakening". There is no collective. There is only YOU!

It's obvious to me at this point. Can I prove it to you? No.

Yes! You are literally imagining the new reality you want. Basic LoA. You are using the power of imagination to drill a portal to God. Many spiritual techniques rely on this mechanism without being explicit about it. That's how prayer works, for example. If you pray long and hard enough to Jesus, he can manifest himself to you. Because in fact Jesus is just a facet of your own mind. This is why some people worship Jesus, and it works for them. Other people worship an elephant man, and it works for them. Other people worship the devil, and it works for them. You can even worship Leo and one day I will appear to you and guide you to God. It doesn't matter what specific form your worship. This is why an infinite number of different religions can exist. The details of the imagery are largely irrelevant, as long as you take it seriously. The whole point is to blur the materialist boundary between "real" vs imaginary. This boundary itself is imaginary! The more you can blur this boundary, the more powerful you can be at manifesting and manipulating reality. This how yogis develop supernatural abilities/siddhis. They train up their imagination skills.

Yes, this would be a state of Total Omniscience or Infinite Consciousness. I've been in this state. This is God's purest, highest state. In this state, God is an infinite singularity which is completely self-aware and self-understanding. Nothing is hidden from its awareness. It is just pure Consciousness, pure Love. It has happened already! The mistake is assuming that Infinite Mind is limited by past or future. Past and future are things which Infinite Mind imagines, so it is not limited by them. God does not need to wait for some future state in order to become fully God. God is always fully God. But temporarily it can forget that it is God as it explores finite parts of itself. If God wants to know what it's like to be a kangaroo, it has to stop being omniscient for a while and pretend to be a kangaroo. During this brief period, past and future arise. Otherwise there is no past or future for God.

Love, Will, Omniscience, Omnipotence, Intelligence, Benevolence, Creativity, etc. are all inherent to Infinity/Consciousness. The highest Will simply chooses the highest Love, which then necessitates the entire Universe exactly as it is. Because God IS Will, God IS Love. It doesn't "do" Love, it IS Love and all of its free Will goes into being Love. You can say God chooses to be Love, or you can say God has no choice but to be Love because God IS Love. Both are the same. There isn't a "how". God is Love. No "how" necessary. It is direct. Or, you could say it does so via Infinite Consciousness/Intelligence/Will. If you were infinitely conscious/intelligent, you would have no other wish but to express Love. So then your Will and your Love would be the same thing. God/Infinity is a tautology/necessity. God cannot be anything other than God. Reality cannot be anything but Love. There's nothing accidental about it. It is designed to maximize Love. Because very few people understand or have direct consciousness of the deepest nature of God. You don't need to speculate. Consciousness can have complete self-understanding.

@Mongu9719 Watch yourself devil. You're skating on thin ice.

As always, he's describing self-deception, which if true, applies first and foremost to himself. You don't understand self-deception unless you understand that you are thick in the middle of it right now.

Of course reality as a whole can be thought of as one system, but it's also made up of an infinite number of smaller sub-systems. You can compare different sub-systems to find commonalities which helps you understand them.

There is no difference between something and nothing. That difference is relative.

Ego is God imagining it is not God but a human. God is free to imagine itself to be anything: a rock, a tree, a coffee table, a kangaroo, a man, a woman, an alien, or... it can be aware that it is God. It's like when you play a video game so hard you forget you are a human. Well, God is playing your life so hard right now that it forgot it is God. As soon as you remember, that will be Awakening.

It is possible, but not realistic. And your level of realization, even if it does happen, will be very low.

@Joker_Theory Perceptions don't have to change. You just realize that your body is already God. God is exactly what you see now, minus the ego. A change in your state of consciousness is required. This is accomplished with spiritual practices like self-inquiry, meditation, psychedelics, yoga, etc. The practices must be done rigorously.