Leo Gura

@ExploringReality Rent a cheap motel room.

My closet has an A/C vent. Even the cloest is not necessary. You can sit on your couch.

I don't even do that anymore. I've boiled it down to the bare essential: at home I just sit in a chair in my dark closet. You do not need any fancy place to do your retreats. All you need is a closet and no distractions from people. The hardest part of the retreat is just setting aside the chunk of time to do it. It's like planning a vacation, but in your closet.

At home is great as long as you can enforce discipline on yourself. There is no need to pay thousands of dollars to do retreats with people unless you are too weak to handle it yourself.

I don't have a way of quantifying it for you. Obviously deep no-self was experienced. It's possible to go so deep into no-self that memories of your name and life are absent. It's like forgetting you were ever a human. In a sense being human is something you're constantly imagining. Until you're not.

You can say it, but that's not how Christians see it.

Ego is more than just thoughts or ideas. It is a state of consciousness. Which is why it's so hard to shake. You don't break free of ego just by stopping thinking. You need a state change, which is beyond your conscious control.

That's not the issue. The question is why?

It affects people quite differently. Do not assume everyone has the same trips on it. Yes, it is not healthy for you if used chronically. But using a few times is not a problem. For me, ketamine is way inferior to DMT, 5-MeO, or mushrooms. But I know people who have profound experiences on K.

I don't know much about how Hindus hold their gods. I thought Hindus were more open and polytheistic.

It's just one aspect of this work. To have a reference experience for God is a great thing to acquire. Of course it's not the end of the work. It's just the beginning. And on your way to acquire that reference experience much inner work will need to happen. So the benefit is not just in that one reference experience but all the work necessary to get it.

Ralston teaches different things than me. There are things Ralston can teach you that I cannot. And there are things I can teach you that Ralston cannot. I should not be your only teacher because that would be too limiting for you. And Ralston is also limited.

You're not quite getting it. It's not that Christians think Jesus is the GOAT, they think he is the ONLY son of God. Christianity is the belief that ONLY Jesus is God. A Christian does not consider any other enlightened master as God. To you, Jesus is just the same as Buddha, but to a Christian the Buddha is a satanic being while only Jesus is God. Christianity is literally a personality cult.

That is the billion dollar question! We don't know. It's like asking why does the mushroom in Super Mario Bros make Mario big?

What they want is to keep Western influence out of their region.

The site has been updated with the most recent videos and audios from the YouTube channel. I've been behind on that and now it is all up to date. The iTunes and Spotify feeds are now up to date. Sorry for the delay.

@Someone here How do police make sure you aren't raping everybody you come across?

I listed them in rough order of how much I like them. Read the top 3 books and you will see how good they are.

It is somewhat valid, since that kind of questioning does happen, but it misses the raising of consciousness that psychedelics provide. The raising of consciousness is the most important factor.

Meditation is like a poor man's psychedelic.

Definitely not all. That is not necessary. I skim the most important stuff and Mods do too. It's not a perfect system but it's good enough.

Yes, that's true. But they chose to die on that hill. If someone grabs land and then gets killed for defending the stolen land, that's not genocide. That's karma 101. But Zionists want to frame it as genocide. Conflict over stolen property is not genocide.

I don't recall that. I don't know. I would suggest searching for an ENTP book.

Thanks! Here Daniel Ingram talks about intense meditation techniques like Fire Kasina. To remove that boundary you either need psychedelics or intense concentration/meditation practice. Kriya yoga could also work. There's just no way around hardcore practices because that boundary is very serious and deep. If it could easily dissolve then everyone would be mystic and no one would be a materialist. So it has to be hard and rare.

Because their worldview makes it impossible for them to realize God.