Leo Gura

Yeah, but a lot of foolish people have done mushrooms without realizing their full significance. So that means little. They have to be done in the right way with a proper theoretical understanding of nonduality. An ideological or closedminded person doing mushrooms won't gain much from them, and could in fact go deeper into delusion. The irony is that the very thing JP needs most now is stage Green compassion and community support.

@Harikrishnan Sounds wise to me.

"Do or do not. There is no try." As a general rule I don't like to smoke anything to avoid harming the lungs. If I was gonna do weed, I would take a pure THC extract tincture sublingually.

This is where it gets very problematic. The hive mind can be very ignorant and evil, and also easily manipulated by power hungry devils. We have to be careful not to ruin people's careers over minor gaffs and bits of foolishness. If he was a proper racist I would agree, kick him out of office. But I don't think that is the right reaction in this case. It is important that we allow room for public servants and celebrities to grow and mature. I like when a public figure is able to admit his past mistakes and grow from them. This is necessary in a society where people are self-actualizing. Otherwise no one will admit their mistakes because they will be too scared to get rejected or mauled by the hive mind. I think pubic figures should only be fired if they did something significantly bad and they refuse to accept responsiblity and grow from it. We don't want a society where we tar and feather people for minor offenses. For example, Trump deserves to be kicked out of office because he is unapologetic about anything he does and he refuses to correct his ways. I don't think Trudeau is in the same ballpark. I think this brown face scandal will make him a better person overall. He seems to regret his actions. These kind of scandals are actually helpful for the evolution of our culture as a consensus develops that blackface is hurtful and racist. Believe it or not, many people don't know that yet. People who did not grow up in the South aren't that familiar with blackface. For example, I never even heard that term until a few years ago.

No. Relative truth in this case would be for scientists to get to bottom of whether vaccines have any harmful side effects. If they do, that is a relative truth. If they don't, that is a relative truth. The solution here is simple: invest a lot more money studying the subtle side effects of vaccines with an open mind. See what the research reveals. Or maybe just invent new vaccines which use less toxic substances in their creation. I hear some vaccines contaim stuff like mercury. Of that's true, that's probably harmful to folks. So find a way to make non-toxic vaccines. This is really a scientific problem. The trick is that we need much better science. Right now science is too materialistic and corrupted by corporate funding so it's hard to trust. You can appreciate why stage Greem hippies are skeptical of science. There is plenty of terrible scientific research on nutrition, for example. Nutrition science and drug science is very skewed by corporate money, lobbying, and fear-mongering.

Careful not to demonize thought. Not all thoughts are bullshit. But the thought that all thoughts are bullshit is bullshit Thoughts are only a problem if you get lost in them. Otherwise thoughts are a beautiful thing and are important to human life. There cannot be human life without thought. The key is to have high quality thoughts and to be able to go into silence at will.

This is where you need to distinguish between relative truth vs absolute truth. Of course vaccines and children are imaginary in the absolute sense. But relatively speaking, there is a legit scientific question about whether vaccines cause negative health side effects. This question is yet to be settled, which is why people argue over it. But even once it is settled, in the absolute sense all of this is imaginary. Think of it this way: when you are writing a plot for a novel there arises the question of whether your plot is consistent with itself or self-contradictory. But either way, the entire thing is a work of imagination.

Good stuff:

Since I release on the weekends it takes extra work to release elsewhere too. And I generally don't work on weekends.

That's technically correct, but also don't underestimate how much you CAN understand others perspectives if you are really willing to listen. The problem is most people don't want to understand. Not that they can't.

Finger pointing to the moon. Some of you guys here are like donkeys looking in a mirror but just not getting it. No amount of pointing can help you. You must sit down and do the work, not debate nonduality on a forum. You will never get it by debating it on a forum. Get it?

I meant, it needs to be the most meaningful thing out of the things you could be working on. Unless you are a billionaire, you don't have a choice in life. You will have to work to make money. The only question is, will you work on things you find most meaningful or not? Even if you value deep relationships, you'll still have to work. Because work IS survival. You cannot be alive and avoid survival. The only question is, what will be the quality of your survival? Are you gonna be scamming old ladies out of their life savings, are you gonna be selling poison at McDonald's, or are you gonna do something meaningful for the world? Up to you. Don't be surprised if you hate your life when you sell poison at McDonald's for 8 hours every day. You should hate your life at that point because what you're doing is so stupid. That hate is a message that God is sending you. God is telling you, "Why you being so stupid when you could be doing something so much more amazing with your life?" Living life in stupid ways leads to lots of suffering.

Point of View Exactly. That's how Absolute Truth works. It's true in all cases. Our objective here is not to deepen conversation but to transcend conversation. You cannot awaken or realize what reality is through conversation. So stop trying that. Of course The only-physical paradigm is horse shit. No, it cannot be 100% true. It is deeply confused. Not ultimately because the brain IS imagination. So what you're saying is that imagination can come from imagination. Which is silliness. You don't understand what you yourself are saying. Infinite Consciousness. Awaken and see for yourself. You're just mentally-masturbating here. You're not doing any serious inner work or self-reflection. What you seek is awakening. And nothing can prove awakening. Awakening requires awakening, not this armchair philosophy you're doing here. You have to realize that there is something beyond your mind which you will never access via language or thought. But it can be accessed. Just not by thinking.

Well, you can do whatever you want. Personally I would not date a girl who doesn't have sex by the end of 2nd date. Ain't no such thing as celibate girls unless maybe they're nuns. And even then I wouldn't take this celibacy seriously. This is an act. Not real celibacy. Again, you can do whatever you want. These are just my personal standards.

Psychedelics Why you making this so hard when it can be easy? Exactly. Be careful throwing pearls before swine. Most people are not worthy to be told what spirituality is. They are too selfish to understand the communication.

You're thinking about work all wrong. Rather than seeing is as something you have to do, find a way to make it something you love to do. In general, don't do things because you have to, do them because you want to. This means being proactive about your work. It's not really work then, it's creativity. Don't you want to be creative? Why not? You are God after all! You created the whole universe and creation is a beautiful and exciting process. You're disconnected from your creativity. That's your problem. Find a way to reconnect and this issue about work will dissolve. Then your problem will be that you work too hard! Your work needs to be the most meaningful thing in the world to you. You have yet to realize the significance of life purpose. You know it only as an intellectual abstraction, not a tangible burning passion.

Right, you're hallucinating that. You just aren't conscious enough yet to see it. Your skepticism seems justified from your POV. But your entire POV is an illusion, which invalidates your own skepticism. Einstein was not awake. So using his words here only drives you deeper into the illusion. No, you just don't like the answer I'm giving you. It's too radical for your taste. Your mind still thinks it can outsmart God. Give it up.

Seems like par for the course. Most politicians don't care about the most marginalized groups.

Yup, some people need a much higher than average dose. Try 250ug, then 350ug, then 500ug.

The realization that you are God and that your mind imagines everything.

The brain is a hallucination. Do the work and see.

A beautiful example of stage Blue ethnocentrism:

Best to keep dating and enlightenment separate pursuits. If you wanna date, go date. If you want enlightenment, go do enlightenment work. Dating is not about finding some Buddha to bang. You bang whoever you can and see where things go from there. Don't expect your partner to know anything about enlightenment. Maybe if you're lucky you'll bump into a girl who meditates or does Hatha yoga. But even that is rare. And even then it will all just be surface level stuff.

Sit, be silent, and don't do anything with your mind. Sit like a cat.

Notice that consciousness is prior to speech. Stop taking what people say so seriously.