Leo Gura

Again, the difference between the two is imaginary. People are imaginary BUT, since everything is imaginary and there is nothing but imagination, people are in this sense as real as anything can be. From the Absolute perspective people are unreal. From from the relative perspective people can be spoken of as if they are real. When I interact with many of you, I treat you as if you are real because that's helpful for navigating the everyday world of human survival. It would not be appropriate for me to treat the guy at the grocery store as if he was a cartoon character. But from the Absolute perspective I know that I am the only one here. Yet I don't live from this perspective most of my day as I run chores and do ordinary survival activities. The illusion of other is very strong, even after some awakenings. It's easy to fall back into the illusion of otherness, especially when people behave like dicks.

It doesn't make sense to you because you are interpreting what I say from a dualistic paradigm which assumes a self/other distinction. You are projecting your delusion of duality onto what I say. I am conscious that other users on here are simply projections of a universal mind. You are not conscious of this. So when I speak to others, I know am just speaking to myself, but you do not know that because your ego is in the way. Your ego will not even allow you to imagine what it would be like to realize that the self/other distinction is unreal. No matter who I address I am addressing you and I am addressing myself because you, me, and all beings are ONE! Everyone is the only being in the universe. It's like a massively multiplayer online game where one central server runs all the players. God's mind has fractured itself into a trillion pieces. Or it imagines it has. In truth, nothing is fractured because the distinction between fractured vs whole must itself collapse, leaving behind Absolute Unity. A Unity which has no opposite. The human mind cannot imagine such a Unity because it is too total to allow for a finite mind to exist in it. Within this Absolute Unity there is no difference between your human body, a chair, a kangaroo, a taco, or anything else. All of it blends into ONE. This is the Godhead. This is what you were before you were born as a human self.

Psychedelics are of course imaginary, just like everything else. @Nivsch It doesn't make sense to you precisely because your worldview assumes there is an external physical reality. Once you drop that assumption, all the sudden psychedelics cease being physical objects and all of your objections fall away. My claim is not that everything is a hallucination except psychedelics. My claim is that everything is a hallucination, including psychedelics. Which means, when you eat a mushroom, you're not actually eating a physical substance, you're hallucinating eating a mushroom. There is no difference between a mushroom, a chair, a house, a tree, your body, your Mom, or Santa Claus. All of them are just different kinds of imagination. Taking psychedelics helps you to realize this. Yes, it's strange-loopy and paradoxical. As it must be since everything is ONE. So go hallucinate eating some mushrooms

Mystical traditions all around the world have talked about intelligent non-human beings since the dawn of time. You just don't want to take them seriously because you've confused the limits of your tiny personal experience for the limits of the universe. Talk about aliens is very distracting because its gets the ego all defensive and dogmatic, driving it deeper into the materialist paradigm. The surest way to tank your credibility as a teacher is to talk about aliens. You will instantly lose 90% of your audience and be branded a crackpot cult leader. People will laugh at you and call you names. In olden times you would certainly have been burned at the stake for witchcraft and heresy. That's how closed minds behave.

@Shaun It's very simple. If you are a student of nonduality you should know by now that nonduality means oneness. How can you pursue oneness while maintaining the notion of twoness (self vs other)? You are not conscious yet of the implications of ONENESS. It means... you know... that everything is ONE! Which means you are the only being in the universe. This does not contradict Rupert Spira. You're just not understanding yet the full implications of Spira's teachings. Don't confuse oneness or nondualty with solipsism. Solipsism is not radical enough to be true. And yet, you are all alone. Technically, the duality between aloneness vs togetherness collapses. But when this happens your ego will perceive it as solipsism. If you're not careful you will reject/deny this important insight of God's existential aloneness because you are so attached to the idea of there being others.

By that logic we shouldn't teach kids that Africa or kangaroos exist. It's silly to demand that people visit Africa first-hand before you can talk to them about it. It's not useless. It's very important for people to know that they are God, even if only conceptually. The greater danger is falling into the belief that there is no God or that God is something other than you. You do not prevent false belief by staying silent about God and keeping a secret. How can you expect someone to visit Africa if no one tells them it exists to be visited? In this sense, talking about Africa is very useful. All great things begin with talk. Everything is a spectacle. God is a spectacle. To downplay the grandeur of God is deceptive and misleading.

It's not misleading, it's simply what's true. Obviously claiming you're God is totally useless without the consciousness of it. Devils have misused spiritual truths for thousands of years and that's not about to change.

Survival requires manipulation. You are a devil for good reason. It works!

Dating and relationships are predicated upon manipulation. But pickup takes it to the next level. You can do pickup, the biggest thing to avoid there is the ideology which often comes with the activity. The problem is not so much that guys do pickup, it's that they develop a toxic masculine ideology to go with it.

The problem with your reasoning is that it assumes a distinction between self/other, which is imaginary. What dies is the thing you imagined was real -- self or other. But that wasn't a real thing, it was an imagined boundary. For example, if the imaginary boundary between America and Canada stopped being imagined by all human minds, then America and Canada would both "die". But of course in truth nothing has died because it wasn't real to begin with. Things "die" when they stopped being imagined. Which means: if you stop imagining yourself, you will die.

And what if not doing drugs makes us delusional and fucked up? Be careful assuming the default position as truthful or healthy. That is not a safe assumption.

RSD is enormously manipulative at multiple levels. Of course manipulation is often critical for survival (which is mostly what you're doing). The point is to become more conscious of what manipulation is, why you feel the need to do it, and karma/suffering which results from it. You have a lot of work yet to do to understand the depth of what manipulation is and how much suffering it causes in your life. The problem with manipulation is not that you're being bad towards other people, per se, but that it's like pissing into the wind. It comes back in your face in ways you're not conscious of yet. Manipulation is not a satisfying way to live. When you manipulate you are selling your soul to the devil for a piece of chocolate cake. Yes, the cake tastes good, but at what long-term cost? Of course It all depends on what your goals are. I don't know what you're asking. The video is not for me, it's for others.

The solution to the free-rider problem is to adopt an abundance mindset. If you are confident in your skills and the value you add to society you don't need to worry about a few poor people enjoying some crumbs that fall off your table. The free-rider argument is advanced by people with a scarcity mindset who fear that there won't be enough to go around. The truth is that there are enough resources on this planet for every human to be comfortable. If only those resources were shared fairly and not hoarded. The free-rider problem is also seriously overblown. It's not like the government will supply you with a comfortable living while you sit around and play video games your whole life. People on food stamps and welfare programs are not automatically bums. Many of them are hardworking people. The true free-rider problem is the free-riding that corporations do when they lobby and corrupt government to get tax-breaks, cushy government contracts, wars, subsidies, and less regulation.

A human species identity is certainly present and will only get stronger as we transcend our national identities. If aliens became a commonly recognized thing, humans would develop a much stronger human species identity which would contrast itself against the aliens. Then at some point there would need to be unification of the alien and human identities. The humans and aliens would start to have sex with each other, and so on. At first this would be hated and even outlawed. But then it would become normal and even desirable. The movie Avatar touches on this issue.

The Father is Christ, the wood he was nailed to, the nails he was nailed with, the person who nailed him, the entire Earth the cross was placed in, the galaxy, universe, and the one reading this sentence right now.

It's a good vision but also you underestimate the importance of non-psychedelic work. Laying the right theoretical foundation in people's minds is crucial for psychedelics to be effective. Also remember that people below stage Green will vehemently resist and misinterpret psychedelic insights. The problem of awakening mankind is much more challenging than simply giving psychedelics to ignorant people.

This is getting into comic book villainy:

The opposite is true. The greatest creativity comes from blending of various cultures. Diversity leads to creativity. Insular communities are incestuous and narrow. It's like inter-breeding within your own family. Your genetic diversity will be low. It has been shown that major cities are far more creatively productive than small villages. Why? Because of the diverse cross-pollination of cultures, people, and ideas. Preventing the rise of big cities by isolating everyone into mono-cultural villages is regressive and anti-evolutionary. The rise of consciousness requires higher orders of complexity, diversity, and unity. Diversity does not mean destroying individual cultures. It just means appreciating their diversity, allowing it to flourish and cross-pollinate. The blending of American and Chinese culture will produce something much greater than isolating American and Chinese cultures into their own corners. Yes it does. It's a unified global culture which appreciates and respects individual sub-cultures. It's just not the old culture you're used to. It's a new meta-culture. It's not different than unifying a bunch of cities into one country. The cities still maintain their individuality but also function better together under one banner. This creates peace between cities where there would otherwise be war. Without a unification NYC might want to nuke LA. Likewise, without a global unification one culture will want to dominate and destroy others. You're making a case for nationalism, which is a very dangerous ideology. Globalism respects all cultures without needing one culture to be the best. Of course there are some trade-offs when unifying any set of diverse things, but overall the costs are worth it. Under globalism you are allowed to practice your favorite religion, eat your favorite food, wear your favorite clothes, have your favorite kind of sex, without being harassed for it. Every culture grows, evolves, and dies. So you can't preserve them no more than you can preserve 80's technology.

Stick to classic psychedelics rather than some cough syrup shit. This site is not for promoting use of unhealthy substances.

Good. Keep digging in that direction. Perceptions are not felt by any thing or object. They just float around in space.

Consciousness work is not merely theory though. If all you have of spirituality is theory, you aren't really doing spirituality. Be careful to distinguish theory vs consciousness. They are not at all the same thing. A theory of enlightenment and love and God don't mean shit.

The maniuplation problems of pickup go WAY deeper than that. But if it grows you out of Orange or incel toxicity, go for it. It is possible to cherrypick PUA teachings, leaving behind the most egotistical stuff.

If it warrants being called low quality we don't want it here. We want to maintain a high quality standard on this forum over all.

Maintaining a good YT channel requires consistency of content. It's not really up to me. This is the nature of the market.

Freebase is about 5mg more potent than HCl. My numbers are ambiguous since 5mg is not a big difference. Tolerance is a much bigger factor.