Leo Gura

Free healthcare is exactly like free school. Contemplate why public schools are good.

It's a good video. Makes some good points. I wonder though how bad a nuclear meltdown can get, and how bad a leak of nuclear waste can be once we have a 1000x more nuclear plants. Chernobyl and Fukushima might be the tip of the iceberg. If some nuclear plant leaks all of its waste into the ocean, how bad would that be?

Please, cut the personal sniping.

Of course vaccines were good for mankind overall. I don't think anyone disputes that. The question is, how do we make them even better? Yes, gasoline cars were very helpful for mankind. But now it's time to upgrade to electric cars which should come with less harmful side effects. See, the problem is, even if vaccines save 10 million lives for every 1 life they destroy, if you're the mother or father of a child who will get destroyed, you're not gonna take it quietly. Statistics are no consolation when your luck runs out. I don't understand why all-organic vaccines can't be produced. Do we really need mercury in there? Or is that just some cost-cutting measure?

Self-transcendence is just the final step in Maslow's pyramid. One step above self-actualization. Don't make self-actualization and self-transcendence at odds with one another. They work together. In the end, to fully actualize yourself you must fully transcend yourself. The first half of this journey you spend actualizing your human self. The second half of this journey you spend actualizing your God Self. #1 leads to #2. And then #2 undoes #1. It's hard to undo #1 until you do #1. Most people need a lot more work doing #1 before they can even entertain #2.

"There is no path, but only a fool doesn't walk it."

With or without me, you're always nowhere But I'm happy to point it out to you in case you forget

How could God not be curious about itself? God is too amazing and too mysterious to not be curious about itself. Imagine if you went to sleep in your bed and then magically woke up the next day on an alien planet. You would naturally be extremely curious to explore it. You wouldn't wake up and be like, "Oh, it's just some alien planet. Boring! I'm going back to sleep." Instead you'd say, "OMG! WTF is this? Let's look around. This is amazing stuff!"

That's a very good insight about your fear. But you must take it deeper. What is it about your identity which allows this fear to have any teeth at all for you? Obviously you've somehow made intellect an significant part of your identity (of who you think you are). So you fear losing that sense of intellectual self. Contemplate that. Try to get more clear about it. And of course you know the ultimate solution here will be to surrender that intellectual self. You must bite the bullet that you will have no intellectual advantage over anyone else. At first you will resist accepting this because it will feel like a serious loss of meaning. You will feel like your life will become worse as a result. It will feel empty. But that emptiness is Truth. That emptiness is the True Self which you are avoiding. That emptiness leads to liberation. Remember, a big part of waking up is surrendering meaning. Especially those things in life you find most meaningful, which for you probably means the meaning which comes with intellectual pursuits and knowledge acquisition. Notice that knowledge acquisition is a subtle form of greediness and materialism. Like the businessman hoards money the intellectual hoards ideas and insights. Hoarding of ideas and insights must ultimately be surrendered to attain the final liberation. Because your truest Self is more empty and insubstantial than an insight or a piece of knowledge. Of course don't make the mistake of demonizing or rejecting insight. Just don't build an identity out of it. That's all.

Enlightenment makes you realize that genetics is a hallucination. But relatively speaking, basically everything causes epigenetic change. So that doesn't mean much.

Hehe, after the deep topics we cover here and with psychedelics, therapy will seem like child's play. The only way it could work is if you find a REALLY good therapist, not the typical hack.

Obviously you guys are still too afraid. Fear is conquered by facing it. See my recent videos on fear. You got a lot more tripping to do and inner work to do before your mind is ready to surrender. You're in just the early stages of this work. So just keep chipping away at it. Try to not think of it as death so much. Death is not real. Reframe it as waking up to yourself as God. This will make it less scary.

If you watch Part 2 you will see I said exactly that: all fear is fear of one self. Which is to say, all fear is fear of one's own mind. All those "external" things you fear are your own mind which you have disowned.

They are not opposites. They go hand in hand. If anything Ralston was talking about insight.

Kriya yoga is good for this. It's less mental and more physical. You could also try using binural beats as training wheels to build yourself up. Meditation is very difficult in the beginning.

Connection is not a function of time. Connection can be built within 90 minutes if it's done right. What takes most guys two weeks can be done by other guys in 90 minutes.

Not right now.

@Raptorsin7 I have many books on my book list which teach that stuff. Read and implement.

You can be the toad milker

Hard to say because that could mean so many things. There's definitely been some permanent evolution, but still more to go. No I'm not really concerned with meeting people's definitions but just exploring my own consciousness deeper and deeper. I've sort of given up on the idea of attaining some permanent end-state. I'm always becoming conscious of more and more stuff, so I'm just following that wherever it leads me. So much it's hard to explain.

I don't have any formal practice right now. I just live life and try to be conscious. But this is not good advice to follow for newbies. Your practice will change depending on where you are in your path. So be careful comparing yourself to others. Find what you need right now.

They were real. Reality IS hallucination. Real and unreal cannot be distinguished.

Nonduality is not a belief. Bad trips on DMT are no different really than good trips. A bad trip is nothing more than the tripper getting scared of his own shadow. If you take too much DMT too fast you will scare yourself, of course.

Deal!

Until you die