Leo Gura

Love is everything that has ever "physically" occurred, that you have ever known, seen, or felt. Love is every "physical" object. Love is Nothing.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course.

Actually, I have decided to unlock this thread so those of you who wish to vent can do so here. I imagine many will want to do so. If you have objections to the truth of God and Love, air your doubts and grievances with me now because going forward, God and Love will be the teaching. This is not something we can just sweep under the rug. Speak now or forever hold your peace.

You are God. You are omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. It would help if you stopped telling yourself otherwise. Since you are God, whatever you imagine becomes true. So if you imagine you're a limited human, that's precisely what you create.

This attitude is overly-simplistic, overly-reductionistic, & misses a giant swath of the spiritual terrain. To teach spirituality and not teach the metaphysical nature of Love is incorrect not only from the standpoint of doing your students a disservice, but also from the standpoint of Truth itself. By shutting off your mind through self-inquiry, you've disconnected yourself from the very source and purpose of existence and awakening: LOVE. Love is not an emotion or feeling. Love is identical to Truth. This is the danger of Neo-Advaita and Neo-Buddhism as commonly taught in the West today. The nuances and depth of awakening is lost, reduced to a binary flatland. I have interacted with many enlightened masters. I was once told of the following case: A modern day Buddhist came to an enlightenment self-inquiry intensive, inquirying into the question of What am I? After a few days of intense inquiry he had an awakening to Absolute Love. But he immediately rejected the awakening as inauthentic because his Buddhist dogma led them to believe that Love is not a real thing. He was trapped in looking for Nothingness. This is a mistake. The Love is right there, yet you deny it. We are not really in disagreement here. There are just aspects of the Absolute you have not yet become conscious of because you've over-reduced it. I understand that some of you guys will disagree with me. But I can only lead you as best as I know how. Whether you want to follow is up to you. Nothing said here should be taken as dogma. Discover the many facets of the Absolute for yourself. Directly! Through no human source. P.S. I have no problem with you guys doing psychoanalysis. My only point was that psychedelics will take you deeper than any talk-therapy will. But of course you're welcome to use them both. I support the use of multiple tools.

@Bodigger Congress has already proposed sensible gun control which is being blocked by Senate Republicans. Here's the bare minimum that I would propose: Federal background checks on all firearm sales Closing the gun show loop holes on private sales Ban of high capacity magazines Ban of bump stocks & other such mods Ban of body armor and armor piercing rounds Red flag laws Serious training and licensing in order to buy a gun at all. Like the DMV but for guns. Ban open-carry of firearms in public places Mandatory locks for all firearms Legal liability if someone accesses your gun to shoot a person when it wasn't properly locked Federal database of all firearms purchased and some kind of limits on people amassing arsenals. Waiting periods to buy firearms. A week or more. Ban mentally ill people or domestic abusers from owning firearms. All of this is totally reasonable and supported by the majority of Americans and even responsible gun owners. Of course this will not prevent all mass shootings. But it's a good idea to have these protections in place.

@Phoenixx The point of human life is become more conscious of what you are and what reality is. This requires raising awareness of oneself through self-reflection, contemplation, inquiry, meditation, disciplined practices, etc.

@OmniYoga The I you think you are is conceptual. It exists as a concept. In the same way that Santa Claus exists conceptually. Which is you say, the human self is imaginary. You are imagining that you were born. This a story you tell yourself to create a sense of self. Think of it this way: just because you have a thought about something -- like Santa Claus living on Mars -- doesn't mean that thought refers to anything in the real world. So the question is: why you assume that body is "yours"? Why isn't that body the universe's? See, you've confused the universe and yourself. Or to put it more accurately: the universe believes it is a human. In the Absolute sense, there is only the universe believing it is a human. The universe is trying to act human to convince itself that it is human. But it's just the universe. The human part is imaginary.

@abrakamowse "He" is you. Watch out for subtle ways in which "otherize" God. God is not some other, nor some external authority -- it is you.

Unfortunately this is no minor disagreement. This goes against the core of my highest teaching. My highest teaching is: 1) You are God 2) Truth = Love This is what I am guiding you guys to realize. I don't want this teaching corrupted or made shallow with neo-Advaita or Buddhism or some Jed McKenna silliness. What I teach is distinct from all that.

Just different.

Absolutely not. We talk not talking about gym class yoga here. We are talking about meditative yoga. These are totally different things. No. This is delusion. You need to access nondual states of consciousness to really grow. You have not even begun human growth until you've had your first mystical experience. This doesn't mean that all spirituality boils down to chasing mystical experiences, but you need some first hand experience of samadhi states. If you are not inclined to be spiritual then go watch some cartoons or whatever.

@Scholar I think you're nitpicking a bit. Not every Green person is some animal rights activist. Plenty of Green people eat animals and don't think much about animal rights. That's not what defines Green.

Because that is a very different trip.

@yellowschnee That is not nearly a high enough dose. You'd need double that for a chance of breakthrough via plugging.

@Arhattobe And my point is that not having any mystical peaks at all is the greater danger for most people. The biggest problem with people is that they are so lazy and complacent they have zero mystical experience. They do not even know this domain exists. So they have no will to meditate seriously. I find that spiritually adept folks do not appreciate how unspiritual average folks are. Just keep that in mind. Because you walked this path sober you have an highly unusual degree of baseline awareness, wisdom, and motivation -- which 99% of people do not have.

@yellowschnee I have not had much luck plugging N,N-DMT. You'd have to plug a BIG dose of it, and even then I'm not sure if it would yield a breakthrough. What was your dose?

You are wrong. You have simply not awoken to what God or Love are. Emptiness is, ironically, just one facet of a much deeper thing which you have yet to access. You have not accessed it because self-inquiry is not a very effective tool to get there. And these various Buddhist and Neo-advaitan approaches which are popular today are fundamentally dogmatic and shallow. The realization of Emptiness and No-self is just the beginning of this work, which you have mistaken for the end. If you are not conscious that you are God and that you are imagining all of physical reality, your awakening is skin deep. And if you are not conscious that Truth and Love are identical, again, your awakening is skin deep. Everything I say here on this matter I have personally verified and become directly conscious of. And so have others before me. I have told you guys many times, you don't understand how deep this goes. If you do not want to follow my teachings to God and Love, then this is not the right place for you. This is not something I will compromise on. There is enough ignorance around here as it is to have to deal with supposedly awake people who deny God and Love. You can fool yourself, but you ain't foolin me. God's eye is watching you. You are being guided here to something far deeper than you yet understand. If you doubt that, by all means, do your own thing or follow some other teacher.

That could happen. But the psychedelic helps to purify the mind, body, and heart. It's an incremental process of purification. Self-deception is always a danger, psychedelic or no.

1) Things are under the universe's control. But luckily you are the whole universe. 2) Death is something you're imagining right now. 3) Yes, you can break the chains of past and future by realizing that past and future are something you are imagining right now.

Advanced alien beings might not have much of a government. For example, I don't imagine DMT machine elves have giant bureaucracies and empires. LOL. Although who knows?

@Omni In my Spiral Dynamics - Important Nuances video I actually mention how regression might happen. Regression occurs when survival is severely threatened, but it should bounce back once the survival threat is handled. For an individual regression might happen if your business or marriage suddenly collapses. For a society regression might happen if there is a nuclear war or an economic depression. It also depends on how well established you are in a stage. If you're deep established regression will be much less likely than if you are just at the entry point of a stage. But generally speaking, a stage Yellow person is never going to regress to a stage Blue fundamentalist.

That is true, but irrelevant because we are stuck here now.

@zeroISinfinity Watch your blabbermouthery.