Leo Gura

Most of my trips were on synthetic substances and they have all been great except for a few.

@Rilles Spirit of the plant my ass.

What was your old thing and what is your new thing?

No, you can become conscious that you are not inside a simulation. Your reasoning is assuming dualities which you could transcend and be free off.

Generally they aren't helpful and can lead to further confusion.

Awakening comes with surrendering the ego-mind's insistence on control. It is the ego-mind which wants to manipulate reality. The ego-mind cannot be allowed to do whatever it wants as that would become hell. Imagine if Bin Laden could materialize a nuclear bomb with his mind. Such power can only be allowed to the most selfless and loving. And infinite power can only be allowed to a completely selfless being -- the Godhead. Having form automatically limits your power. The cost of infinite power is total formlessness and total selflessness to the point where no one can even know you exist.

Yes, you need to set firm boundaries in a relationship as far as what you're willing to accept.

Yes, I did. Maybe. But there were other things they said which cross-validated. Overall I was impressed. It's pretty clear that they aren't speaking from some memorized script but that they are getting intuitive visions as they work with you. Stuff pops up for them in real-time. It's not like they sat down and studied a book which said: "Okay, if this guy walks in complaining about his thyroid, you tell him he was choked in a past life. And if he walks in with a back ache, you tell him he broke his back in a past life." You have to give these folks some credit. They are not idiots.

To experience yourself as God. Out of Love for yourself.

You're right that you DO have to distinguish between good and bad resources, teachings, teachers, etc. This is a deep epistemic problem which ultimately roots in the problem of distinguishing truth from falsehood. How do you know what is true vs what is false? If you had an easy answer to that, you'd be awake and you wouldn't need to ask the question. The whole challenge of life is that when you enter it, you start from ground zero with no idea how to distinguish truth from falsehood. So then an epistemic journey begins. Through a combination of life experience, contemplation, research, intuition, wisdom, and trial & error you slowly learn to sort out truth from falsehood. Of course most people don't do this. They just blindly accept whatever their culture tells them. But in our work here, the whole point is to undertake a serious epistemic inquiry and derive the truth for yourself. It's like putting together a puzzle or solving a criminal conspiracy. You have to investigate carefully and cross-reference everything. I addressed this process in this video: https://www.actualized.org/articles/how-to-develop-big-picture-understanding Anything anyone tells you about what is true vs what is false, you cannot know if it is true or false because that would be to beg the question. Which is why a direct personal inquiry is required. The only way you can know if what I'm telling you is true and a good teaching is by investigating and validating it for yourself. But if you want to jump straight to the answer, the highest teachings in the universe will emphasize a few key things: Direct experience is king Consciousness is the key to everything Love is the highest truth Selflessness is the greatest power You are God, You are All Reality is ONE & infinite Death is an illusion Don't get stuck in any one belief system. All belief systems are relative and incomplete. Of course, you don't know if the above is true or false unless you personally validate it. But I promise you that if you work at it, in 10 to 20 years from now, you can validate all the above beyond any doubt. But again, you don't know if that's true unless you actually do it. The purpose of your life is to go on this grand epistemic journey, the end result of which -- if you do it very carefully -- is Truth with a capital T. And by that point you become the guru and people come to you for advice. But you also cannot really help them because you know the only way for them to know what you know is to go through the long and personal process you went through. Truth is simply too big to be told.

Illusion is that which is, but isn't. Another good word is hallucination: an appearance without any underlying substance. Or, of course, a dream. Illusion = hallucination = dream

I recently went to two different psychics/healers. Each one told me that they got a vision that I was strangled by the neck in a past life, which created a blockage of the throat chakra. Can't say if it's true or not, but it was quite amazing that two different people said something so specific. What are the odds of that?

Even if you get pure synthetic mescaline it will still cause nausea, even if plugged. Mescaline's just not tolerated well by the body. But even so, it should be a lot more pleasant than drinking a gallon of cactus juice. Methallylescaline (MAL) is the closest synthetic mescaline analogue. https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Methallylescaline It will be much easier to dose than mescaline, and much cheaper.

This is a personal dev site. Whatever you don't have, you can develop. Passion can be cultivated. Start today.

Like I said, I don't drink or smoke. So I agree with God.

@ROOBIO What is the reason for moving to India? If you were going there to apprentice under a serious guru, that might be worth it. Probably not so good for starting a biz, although low cost of living and cheap labor can be very important when starting a biz. But there are other places you could do that from that might be better, like the Philippines. Online biz you can run from many places.

Yeah, Vegas gots to makes its monies. The fancy hotels don't pay for themselves Micro-dosing a psychedelic would be far preferable to drinking. Cheaper, healthier, and more fun. Modafinil is also a nice supplement for PU. Increases verbal skills and creativity.

I have seen Walmart and HomeDepot sell small San Pedros in pots for like $10. Not enough to eat, but perfect for your garden.

This is how you grow San Pedro

Oh yes. To death and beyond....

Well, you could probably buy a wife in Bangladesh for $400. Firstly, I don't know why you're so low. Orange/Green should be fairly attainable for you with a bit of personal dev work, which you'd be doing anyway as part of your coach training. Dare to aim high! Secondly, there still exists a lot of stage Blue people even in Canada who you could specialize in working with if you wanted to. Realistically, to be a good coach, you should be fairly decently developed and mature. That's sort of the point of going to a coach. If you're not mature enough yet, that's okay, just plan to be a coach later in your life and in the meantime train and work in some related fields. I wouldn't recommend becoming a coach if you are younger than 25 or even 30. You need some life experience first.

I am a soft Westerner Besides which, 5-MeO-DMT will enlighten you much more reliably than all those gimmicks.

Well, you know John The Baptist -- the guy who trained Jesus? You know why they called him John the Baptist? Because you came to him to find God, he would hold your head under water until you were near-drowned and dead, then he would pull you back up at the last second. If you were lucky you got a Near Death Experience. And so we got Baptism. Try doing that today and see how fast you get sued. And people complain Actualized.org is dangerous. Hehehe... In India some yogis would do the ring of fire: where they sit you down naked in the middle of the hottest noon sun, then they light 4 fires around you, to the North, South, East, West, and have you sit through that for hours.

That's still a thing?

That's just not true. Go apprentice under a serious Zen master or yogi. He will push your ass to enlightenment. Don't confuse mainstream spiritual celebrities like Eckhart Tolle with some of the hardcore masters. Of course you can take soft and hard approaches. The hard approach is not always best. It depends on the student. Most Western students simply can't handle the hard approach. Westerners tend to be soft and lazy these days. I've heard of a Japanese Zen master who would force his students to sit extra long without pee breaks so they could suffer a little bit more and wake up faster.