Leo Gura

Dude, don't be so hard on yourself. If you feel lonely there's nothing wrong with finding some people to socialize with. In a sense that lonely feeling is telling you: "Hey dummy! You should socialize more!" What's inauthentic is desiring to socialize with someone but then not doing it out of fear that they will reject you. The authentic thing would be to walk over and say, "Hey, I was looking for a new friend and I saw you. So here I am. Please don't reject me or I will have to hang myself in my mother's basement with her vacuum cleaner cord." BE MORE VULNERABLE WITH STRANGERS!

There's not really much to discuss here. Try various techniques and discover what works best for you. And just keep an open mind that what works best for you will not necessarily work best for others. People's minds work in very different ways.

If you want it, then it's not a should. In the end, do WTF you want. I don't care. I'm just giving suggestions.

That's technically true. But it's highly misleading. When I applied to CalTech by in my high school days I called them to ask what GPA I need to get in. They told me, "We have no GPA requirement." That's technically true. You can apply with a 3.5 GPA. But if your GPA is below 4.0, you ain't getting in. So be careful about kidding yourself. There are definitely things you can do to increase your odds of enlightenment. If this wasn't true, your teachers would be out of a job. Ralston holds enlightenment workshops. Obviously because he believes this increases your odds of enlightenment. So what? A little story ain't gonna kill ya. Language has it's value too. Such things are not mere entertainment. They are part of this work. Be careful about holding language as contradictory to Truth or awakening. Awakening can infuse itself into language. Some great spiritual texts have been written and channeled. And they ain't just stories and BS. There is serious truth and wisdom in them. For example, it is possible to communicate directly with God. Of course this will involve language. Language can be problematic when misused. But language should also not be dismissed entirely. Language is an amazing tool. You just have to be aware of its limits. Everything is Truth. There's noting but Truth.

Well of course that can happen. As Ralston said, you can get enlightened while falling in a bathtub. A lot of random shit can happen. If you facilitate 1000 students some of them will accidentally get enlightened by picking their nose. But that's a red herring. That doesn't mean you should bank on "picking your nose" to enlighten you. Not all spiritual techniques are of equal efficacy. Some are really really ineffective. So my point is, find what is most effective for you. Psychedelics are unique is that they are exceptionally effective. Same for meditation & yoga. Watching cartoons is not effective. Although even that could work once in a billion people. Ralston is also wrong. It is possible to invent a method for enlightenment (at least a temporary one). And 5-MeO-DMT is it. To call 5-MeO-DMT a mere change in state is very very misleading. Make sure you do it before you say such things. And it's not good enough to toy around with it. You gotta seriously do it. You gotta hit a breakthrough. I'm tried of people talking about 5-MeO who have not had a breakthrough. Trying a psychedelic don't mean shit. You gotta have that breakthrough. Lots of people have tried meditation but that doesn't mean anything. Trying it is not good enough. You must actualize its full potential. And that requires some serious effort, not a casual experiment. Keep in mind there are some people on whom 5-MeO-DMT seems to have no to little effect due to their genetics or whatever. So their dud experiments don't count. Ralston's teachings are very advanced and most of you will simply not be able to actualize what he is talking about. So watch out. There is good reason why spiritual techniques were invented. Most people need them.

You're not quite understanding how psychedelics work. There is nothing but states of consciousness. So you cannot escape states of consciousness since consciousness is the only thing that exists. There are just many different states and then there is understanding of how consciousness works. The point of a psychedelic is not to put you into a crazy state of consciousness per se. It's to reveal how consciousness works. The practical reality is that your state very much affects what you're able to become conscious of. If you're stuck in a bad state, you're basically fucked. You will not be capable of doing what Ralston says. In fact, basically no one is capable of doing the stuff Ralston says because their state is inadequate. The point of meditation and yoga is to permanently up your state so you have a reasonable chance of doing what Ralston takes for granted you can do. Although enlightenment is not directly limited to a state, one's state is really important for success in this work. Good luck getting enlightened while you're in some PTSD state, depressed state, or opioid addicted state. States run your whole life. So dismiss states at your own peril.

Yes But that still doesn't mean he gets all there is to get about it. These are notoriously complex and tricky issues. So don't be looking for simplistic answers here.

This stuff is so predictable it's like clockwork. I feel bad saying "I told you so". These cults can be smelled from a thousand miles away to anyone who's seriously doing this work. Unfortunately virtually no one is seriously doing this work.

It's very different because on the one hand you have a serious climate catastrophe which is being made worse through denial and indifference. On the other hand you have Trudeau wearing some brown face paint at a dress up party. Sending a mob after Trudeau is overkill. Giving a stark and impassioned speech to the UN about climate change is appropriate. Let's get our priorities in order.

Shaming some folks in a UN speech is one thing, sicking a mob onto a political leader for a minor past mistake to get revenge is another thing. This requires a delicate balancing act. I don't think people should be fired for minor mistakes, like what happened with Al Franken. Sure, he made some mistakes, but did it really deserve a firing? We need some way of repremanding a person without destroying their whole career.

@peanutspathtotruth Your mind is simply not developed enough to handle the revelations which the higher doses must reveal. Don't worry so much about getting a breakthrough. That will come naturally once you are ready for it. The way you get ready for it is by doing smaller trips, contemplating deeply, doing other practices, and taking time to integrate each trip. Do 10-20 smaller trips and integrate all those insights. Then you'll be ready for a breakthrough. You're trying to go too fast and your psyche isn't equipped to handle it. This work is a marathon, not a sprint. It took me about 1 year to integrate my highest dose (30mg) 5-MeO-DMT trip. Now I can handle a lot more (not dosage-wise but insight-wise). It all comes down to this key question: How much mindfuck can your psyche handle? The mindfuck goes much deeper than anyone expects. It blindsides you and you don't even know what happened because Truth is such a mindfuck.

And that is why you suffer. Your desire for goodness creates hell, since good and bad are in truth one. So by desiring goodness only you desire falsehood.

@samedm9 Something and nothing cannot be distinguished. Unless you imagine they can.

Yup, within the dream. The dream has rules that you've imagined. Careful to distinguish relative vs absolute truths.

Love is Nothing.

It serves the purpose of maintaining your identity as a material being. Once you realize there is no brain, your whole life collapses. "The brain" is like the ultimate plot hole filler in the narrative that you call your life. The purpose of the brain is not physical (as you assume) but imaginary. Without the story of a brain you have no way of explaining where you came from or what you are.

Love is more powerful than mob revenge. What you are describing (mob rule) is barbarism. That will not end well. Don't forget the power of forgiveness. "Forgive them father, for they know not what they do."

I take a full spectrum CBD oil. It has no psychedelic effect. It's just for health. If you want a high you can take THC the same way.

Or so you imagine.

There exists no storage solution for radioactive nuclear waste. Think about that. You want to build radioactive material that will last for 10,000 years with no plan for what to do with it. That shit will leak into the ocean. Japan has plans to dump their Fukushima radioactive water straight into the ocean!

Careful what you wish for. One day you may find yourself on the receiving end of that mob. Especailly since you're a public figure. We are talking now about the unhealthy aspects of stage Green. Also consider, is sicking a mob on your enemies a loving move?

They still suffer and go through a hellish life.

I died

Love

I fall in love with myself