Leo Gura

Debates are only done ignorant minds. Ignorants love to spin their wheels in their ignorance. Ignorance likes to strut around and posture like a cock. That's what debate is. It has nothing to do with genuine truth-seeking.

We had swarms of locusts in Vegas last year so big they could be seen by weather radar. A big rainy winter causes them.

We have a 40 work week now. You are still free to work more if you want. But you are not free to force others into workaholism along with you.

Poor and misinformed thread. Don't speak of things you have not tested.

It is an infinite dial, but there are points on the dial where God awakens to itself as God. God realization is a distinct event. Either it is, or is not occuring. This point delineates awakeness vs asleepness. But even so, there are many degrees to God's self-awareness. Hence many levels of awakeness. Almost no one has reached the highest levels. Not even your favorite enlightened teachers. I consider most of them asleep.

The difference between you and a rock is imaginary.

No because creation is endless. God itself cannot ever reach its own end because it has no beginning or end. You can count up the natural numbers forever without ever repeating one. Give it a try.

Pure foolishness. Where did the universe come from? What is existence? Why does it exist? How was it created? Why was it created?

No! There is only your mind. But your mind is identical to the whole world and other people. You imagine the entire universe because you are God pretending to be human. You are one. There cannot be anything outside of you. All outsides are inside your mind.

Kambo will make you vomit your guts out. But that can be healing. You can use the search function to find some old threads about peoples' experiences with it. I wouldn't expect it to heal serious things like Alzheimers. But it might heal you at the mental/spiritual level, helping you shed some ego. Kambo is not a psychedelic at all. It is a poison. It's basically like deliberately getting bit by a snake just for the experience.

"Every generation imagines itself." -Leo But that's more Turquoise

Yup! You got it. That's devilry.

You are consciousness itself and consciousness has infinite capacity for self-awareness precisely because it is itself.

When you are being aware that you are human, you are actually misunderstanding what you are. You are imagining that you are human, in the same way that you could imagine that you are a kangaroo. But that doesn't make you a kangaroo. Only in your mind. In fact, you are God. But you are too busy imagining you are human to notice this. The human obscures the God like clouds the sun.

You beat me to it! I was gonna post this to by blog tomorrow. You devil!

As you do more of this work you will become more compassionate with regards to the needless suffering of others. You need a heart awakening to really start to care about people. Most peoples' hearts are so closed and all they care about is themselves. But you cannot create a well-functioning and healthy community that way. Imagine a family in which no one cared about the others. It would be a toxic disaster.

@pregnantplatypuss Of course everything is ultimately Empty. But that doesn't mean you can't be passionate about your LP. But also, if you're first starting to become conscious of the existential Emptiness of life, that will likely rob you of motivation and make you depressed for a short period of time until you integrate it and the ego gets over it. A sense of meaninglessness and loss is a common egoic reaction to deep consciousness work. It will pass once you go deeper. It is one of the many threshold guardians which guard the deepest Truth. Trust that your sense of passion will come back even stronger once you fully awaken. But also be open to your passions changing and evolving. Maybe your passion for your current work will die completely but that's because some new greater passion with take its place. Be open to that. Remember, the ego will go through a period of mourning its own death. Just like it does with the death of a loved one. There is a period of resistance, emotional upheaval, depression, then acceptance, letting go, and moving on.

Of course authoritarianism exists precisely because it works. But it only works up to a certain point. At higher levels of consciousness it stops working and becomes counter-productive. So yes, at certain (low) levels of consciousness you have to be a dick to be successful. But at the highest levels of consciousness being a dick will not work. Not understanding that there are different levels of consciousness and that your followers have different levels of consciousness and different systems of values will make this guy's analysis and interviews incomplete. There are many different leadership styles which correspond to consciousness and values levels. Not to mention that you someone cannot escape being a dick if they are stuck in a certain level of consciousness. The leader himself has to grow massively to stop being authoritarian and yet remain effective. This is not easy to do for most people. Which is why its so rare and authoritarianism and abuse of power is so common.

LOL, oh the ignorance

You can become aware that a glass is half-empty, and then aware that the glass is half-full, and then aware that the glass is you.

Selfishness always works in the short-term but crumbles in the long-term because Truth is selfless and the self is false. It's the same reason life always ends in death. Death is Truth so it must always win out.

You guys love to play word games. When you are fully conscious that you are God, that is enlightenment/awakening. How long it lasts is irrelevant. It could last 1 minute or 100 years. For as long as you are conscious, you are awake. As soon as you are not conscious, you are asleep. If you are in doubt whether you're awake, you're asleep. If you have questions about what God is or means, you are asleep.

They are perfectly identical. God is that which has no self. Which makes it the One Absolute Self -- an infinite being that contains all beings.

Just no. It was created by people who actually seriously awoke. There is a clear difference between those who awoke and those who have not. Stop muddling the waters by saying everyone is woke.

Look at society like a family. If your mother got cancer, you would never leave her alone to die because she couldn't pay $2,000 month for her medication while you were swimming in cash and buying million dollar vacation homes and sports cars. You would not charge your mother $70,000 for treatment. It's just that simple. 60,000+ people die each year in America from lack of ability to pay for healthcare. Does that make any sense? Purely from a financial POV if these people didn't die think of how much tax money they would bring in over their lifetimes. It's idiotic for the government to let them die. The government is actually losing money on each death. Each person can bring in at least $5k to $10k in tax revenue each year. Not to mention the compassion angle.