Leo Gura

That's right, the devil is only a relative illusion. All devils are actually God. Relatively, there are devils. Absolutely, there is only God.

It tends to work both ways. If you act in a loving manner at the 2nd order that helps move you to consciousness of the 1st order. And consciousness of the 1st order helps with acting more lovingly at the 2nd order. Which is why in all serious mystical schools they emphasize right action and compassion alongside meditation. But you can only go so far without consciousness of the 1st order. That is what most people are missing most. Compassion and action cannot ever substitute for lack of consciousness. So the practical answer to your question is: become conscious of 1st order Love. Then you will know how to act. It's not possible to fake being unconditionally loving. It will only happen as a result of awakening. The same analogy can be used for relative vs absolute truth.

You are never going to develop emotional maturity without facing your fear. That is what this whole thing called life is about. If you cannot face your fear of kissing a girl and her rejecting you -- that is much easier than transcending sexual craving and loneliness together, which requires awakening, which requires facing death. The mistake here is that you think you can avoid a small fear by facing a giant fear. But if you cannot face the small one how are you ever gonna face the gaint one? The solution here is to bite the bullet and go kiss some girls. It's not as bad as your mind paints it to be.

Think of how an FPS video game works. There is actually no separation between the player and the world. The entire scene is rendered in one seamless frame. The player is enmeshed in the world. In fact, there really isn't a player. There is only the world, shaped in such a way that the illusion of a player is created (arms, feet, nose, blood, etc.). But all of that is really just part of the world. Your life is no different than an FPS game, with no one behind the screen.

It's like this:

70mg+ is when things get really interesting.

The trick with the internet is that it can be used for good or for devilry. The wild west days of the internet are over. Internet is far too powerful a technology not to be regulated. The internet could basically be exploited to create a new Nazi like movements and destabilize governments. Balancing freedom vs regulation is very tricky. People do not appreciate how tricky it is.

@TheAvatarState It wasn't a pre-calculated thing. I asked what was most important to me in the moment. Technical minutia is something the ego-mind cares about. There are much bigger fish to fry.

You certainly can.

Nice short little video:

Relative to an oil or banking executive Musk is doing great. We can't really expect him to be a guru. As a big business guy he's about as conscious as they get. But of course nowhere close to enlightened. Be probabaly just did some LSD.

Do spiritual practices. That's why they exist.

Of course many business people are seduced by Silicon Valley and Wall Street culture. The center of gravity of the culture you hang out in will either pull you up or drag you down, depending on how high your aim is.

Teachings are more healthy when they don't demonize other stages, especially the higher stages which most peoole have yet to reach. So, for example, to be vocal about the dangers of stage Green right now is problematic because most people are still clinging to stage Blue and Orange. People need to be show the value and beauty of Green. People need to be lead to Green and beyond. Healthy teachings are those which lead folks to higher stages without demonizing other stages.

Fear and deep habits of self-judgment. Social survival is deeply wired into your mind. More, deeper awakenings are required and some serious, industrial-grade spiritual practices like meditation/yoga/concentration. Psychedelics will not rewire decades of bad mind habits. That requires daily practices over years. Emotional mastery is the hardest part of this work. It's much harder than a few awakenings and psychedelics alone will not be enough for that.

If you have a reliable friend, why not use that? As a newbie this will give you some peace of mind.

Observe yourself chasing positive states and notice how this subtle duality and attachment creates suffering. Expecting constant bliss precludes true peacefulness since when your bliss dips you start to complain, "Where did my bliss go? How can I get it back?" Which is the very root of unhappiness: trying to escape the present moment. It's okay to chase bliss. Just observe this dynamic closely so that you become more and more aware that it cannot ultimately work. Through lots of observation of this clinging you will slowly aikido your clinging into surrender.

If you have no memory of it, then that's the problem. You either did too much or you just weren't conscious enough to retain anything. This is one of the problems with smoking it. It's too fast, without giving you time to contemplate and understand what is actually happening to you. Contemplation is key here. This is why plugging it is much better for our work. The whole point of psychedelics is to make sense of how your consciousness changes. Not just to have an experience but to UNDERSTAND why this experience is happening and what it is that is happening. Next time lower your doses and contemplate what reality is. You're looking for insight.

@How to be wise Fortunately I care less and less what materialists think.

Conservative "intellectuals" are pathetic.

Chomsky is awesome.

Indeed We could stop acting like animals.

Imaginary foolishness is what all that is. If you really want to know, go do the work.

It ain't HPPD when you're in the middle of a high! LOL What happened was that you saw how your mind constructs/imagines reality. Yeah, you're in a hallucination at all times. The only question is how solid or loose is that hallucination. When you're sober your mind is very rigid and locked in. When you're high your mind is loose and free to imagine new physical realities. Nothing surprising about this.

I'm starting to regret teaching you guys this concept because of how badly you misuse it.