Leo Gura

@Ero As I explain in my video: Why People Seem Crazy -- the assumption that human beings live in the same reality or have access to the same things is a flawed one. People can have very different "brain chemistries" -- for lack of a better word, which is why people disagree so much about spiritual matters. It's not so simple as people merely being wrong or deluded. People are experiencing different territories and processing those territories in very different ways. Because there is no such thing as "the human brain". Each human brain/mind is unique. There can be a lot of overlap, but also a lot of divergence. Spirituality is way more complex than people make it out to be. It's easy to overlook this complexity when one sticks to a single orthodox school or teaching. But when you explore all schools, all teachings, all the edge cases, you start to see that it's not simple at all and there is no one path or single dimension to spirituality. Rather than thinking of spirituality as a single axis, think of it as a 3 dimensional volume. And even that might be oversimplifying it.

I am not some super human. I have emotions and dislikes just like everyone else. If a moth flew into the Buddha's ear, he would probably freak out. It is a freaky experience.

Just do the practices and it will come naturally.

Stop dramatizing it. It's no big deal.

How often does one breathe in insects that this is a problem?? Although, funny story, when I was a kid on vacation in Mexico, as I was playing with my GameBoy a moth flew straight into my ear and got stuck there. It was buzzing around in there. Had to find a doctor to get it out.

What you call objective reality is nothing but a chemical state. A few changes in chemicals and you would not know what a violin is. "Objective reality" is the dream. 1) Time 2) Cost 3) Why would I go through a middleman who doesn't even know he is God, when I can commune directly with God? There is nothing a therapist will tell me that God won't. You might as well be telling me to go to Catholic confessional.

What would happen if you poke her with a stick?

Whatever you imagine.

There is no such thing as death. Death is a fantasy in your mind.

They don't last long enough for microdosing.

It's not right to compare them with MDMA. I don't experience much elevation in heart rate from 5-MeO-DMT or DPT. But of course taking them daily is overkill. No one is going to take those substances for more than a few days in a row. It just gets too intense. The most I've done was 13 days in a row, and it's just way more nonduality than a human could want.

How do you know this? Be careful with such assumptions. To put a guy from 2500 years ago as the highest authority figure when you haven't even met him in the flesh is to set oneself up for epistemic blunder. I think that's generally true, but this notion of "absolute" is quite problematic because in practice you can be in a state of little to no self-involvement and yet not be conscious of important facets of reality. I prefer to think of these as somewhat independent variables, with both being desirable and both being synergistic. Insight helps overcome defilements, and overcoming defilements helps attain deeper insight into the metaphysics of reality. Historically it just seems pretty clear that there were gurus and masters who have had very deep metaphysical insight yet still plenty of defilements.

I've had this idea for a long time of leveraging the collective creative effort of this forum. I feel that a lot of our creative potential is lost here in talking and debating. A much better use of our time would be to work collectively to create the world's greatest database of self-actualization & spirituality resources. As you guys study self-actualization and spirituality you will naturally stumble upon life-changing resources which often go forgotten and unshared. I have been wanting to find a way to channel your guys' expertise and creativity towards some higher purpose. Now we have a new sub-forum dedicate to this purpose. It will be a heavily moderated sub-forum. Please read the Guidelines there before posting. It's important that we maintain a high quality threshold on this sub-forum. https://www.actualized.org/forum/forum/32-high-consciousness-resources/ I look forward to seeing some great contributions. Let me know what you think about this idea.

Good, keep chipping away at it. It will all make sense at some point.

See my book list.

That's simply explained by the fact that you identified strongly with your cat but not your relatives. When you own a small cat it feels like your baby and so you feel much more responsible for it. Remember, the meaning you assign to objects and people is purely relative and imaginary. So if you get attached to a coffee table, you will mourn its loss.

No Insight is the thing that allows you to even know what a defilement is. And insight is what gets you free of defilement. Desire for more insight certainly can become neurotic if you turn it into a rat race sorta thing. But it don't have to be that way. Make a distinction between healthy and unhealthy pursuit of truth and understanding.

LOL You know not what you speak. When psycho-analysis allows you to contact machine elves and communicate with them through multiple dimensions of symbolism and telepathy, or to get direct downloads from the mind of God, or to pull demonic spirits out of a patient's body, then let's talk. Playing violins is kindergarten stuff. You do not understand how psychedelics work. You do not even know what symbols truly are until you do some heavy tripping. To say that psychedelics are a "just a chemical" is a silly as saying that therapy is just a chemical. Everything is chemicals by that logic, including all symbols and your therapist. That therapist is just a soup of chemicals. This sort of selective, reductionist logic is a telltale sign of self-bias. I never said therapy doesn't work. Of course it works. But psychedelics work 1000x faster.

Which is why I say bi-weekly. Tolerance resets after about 10 days. 5-MeO-DMT, N,N-DMT, and DPT have no tolerance at all.

No video. You simply must become conscious of it. Without psychedelics you probably never will.

Not IF. Humans are a hive super-organism just like ants. You don't see it because of self-bias.

If you have to ask "What do you mean by God?" you are not conscious of what God is. Yes, God is Consciousness, but that doesn't mean you're conscious of God. God is God and cannot be reduced to any other insight. God is not anything else but God. The insight of God is very distinctive. You'll know it only when you become it. If you don't know what God is, just be honest with yourself that you don't know, rather than playing mind games.

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@SoonHei Molecules are of course imaginary, but I (as God) am imagining them. My body is materialized directly through God's Will. My body is the crystalized Will of God. You can become directly conscious of that. Since you are creating your body, otherwise you could not see it.

@GabeN Good! But now reframe how you think of it. Rather than seeing this as "being all alone", see it as "I am in total union with all beings!!!" When you are making passionate love to a woman/man, are you alone? Yes! Because you two are one. But that just makes it better! That is the whole point! Not aloneness but Unity. YOU. ARE. UNITY! Aloneness as an absolute includes within it all forms of togetherness. What you must realize is that the pinacle of togetherness is aloneness.