Leo Gura

Not really. They are nothing. Existence as you're using that term is still dualistic and something your mind is imagining. It's all absolutely nothing in the final analysis.

That is an acceptable texture and color. Texture and color of 5-Meo-DMT can vary quite a bit. Depends on which lab made it. Depends on freebase vs HCl vs oxalate. But don't assume that all freebase or all HCl looks the same. There is still a lot of variety in texture and color. Some is like a very dry fine powder. Some is almost sticky and clumpy. Some is more crystal-like. None of that matters so long as it's 98%+ pure 5-MeO-DMT. Which it probably is if it's 5-MeO-DMT at all. If a lab is capable of making 5-MeO-DMT at all, it doesn't cost them anything to make it 98% pure. There is little point in cutting research chemicals with junk. It's not cocaine or heroin which gets cut with junk by a long chain of middlemen to drive down costs. The research chemical industry doesn't work that way. The biggest risk with research chemicals is if they accidentally give you the wrong substance simply due to mislabeling it. 5-MeO has a subtle distinctive smell you can learn to distinguish. This makes for a nice easy sniff test. It's not fool proof, but a good way to make sure it's on the right track.

It all depends on specific substances. There is no country in the world where everything is legal or illegal. The devil is in the details.

You are not conscious of what you are doing. You create suffering because you are attached to being a self and staying alive. To stop creating suffering you'd have to die. But that's unacceptable to you. You're stuck inside your own insane dream, not understanding how you locked yourself inside. Awakening is the process of investigating how you locked yourself inside.

Ideally you'd get to a point where you are satisfied with just sitting silence. But that's a tall order to fill. I like to take late night drives around town and look at the city. Act activity you do you're gonna eventually "wear out" unless you're able to be satisfied just sitting in silence like a cat. The ego-mind constantly craves stimulation, excitement, and newness -- which creates suffering. A large part of the function of meditation is to train that out of you so you can be more cat-like and thrive off of presence and being alone. But again, this takes lots of training and it will come with suffering through lots of boredom which the ego-mind will create. Imagine a state of mental development in which you are happier sitting like a cat than others are playing video games, watching movies, smoking pot, or having sex. Can you see how powerful this would make you?

@Michael Paul You're not getting it. There are no people! People are something you invented, including your own personhood. Personhood and humanness are imaginary. You're not appreciating the depth of this whole thing.

It's not really rigged, it's just asymmetrical. For every girl playing Tinder there's a guy playing Tinder. Ladies don't just play Tinder. Ladies invest a ton of energy rigging their lives to attract guys. Most of it is done unconsciously. For example, how much time and money does a lady spend shopping and applying makeup in her life? How much energy does she invest in building and maintaining a social circle that later feeds her vetted mates? 1000s of hours go into this for attractive females. Mating is a highly sophisticated game which goes on under the radar of our consciousness. It's more sophisticated than a game of chess. But all of it just happens automatically.

@Bridge to Infinity Right. That's very common for newbies. As you fail over and over again you'll start seeing patterns in how your needy and weak behavior turns them off. It takes a lot of practice. At this point you would benefit from learning a bit of the fundamental theory behind female attraction. Most important for you is correcting your sub-communication: your eye contact, your body posture, your tone of voice, your physical touching, your smile, your attitude, your presence, etc. This is the most important part of game. It's not the things you say, its how and why you say them, and the things you don't say. You can attract women just by looking at them in the right way. If your interactions are dominated by fear, neediness, attachment, trying to impress her, trying to get her to like you, meekness, or being a dancing monkey -- you will lose a lot of girls. It's important that your interactions carry a man-to-woman sexual charge/intent. When you look at her in the eyes, she should feel like if you are ever alone with her you will fuck her. This is very different from your typical friendly chit-chat. You don't need to say anything sexual, but your intent needs to be clear from the very beginning. Look at her like you're going to fuck her. You have to risk getting rejected. Those who don't reject you will hook hard. When you are fearful, she can see it in your eyes and hear it in your tone of voice. Work on your smile. Make sure you're able to smile a lot and on cue. Always open with a smile. Learn to pump up your own emotional state so that you're in a good state when you're talking to her. State is huge. If you're in a bad emotional state she will sense it off you and react negatively. The ideal state is playful, carefree, yet decisive.

Depends on what perspective you take. From the absolute perspective, there is no time, so Infinity unfolds at once. It has always been completely acutalized. From the human perspective Infinity unfolds linearly over time. Doesn't matter which way look at it, the structure of all of reality is explained by the desire to maximize Love. From God's POV this Love is already fully actualized while from the human POV this love is in the process of unfolding, evolving, and increasing. And actually, we humans are in a process of co-creating it. So imagine a film director who wanted to make a movie that displayed love in the most loving way possible. Which scenes would he put int he movie? Whichever ones maximized love. Then the audience would watch the movie and see it unfolding slowly over time. But from the director's POV, the movie is already complete. In either case, the movie is maximizing love. But there is one additional wrinkle. To truly maximize love God had to create an infinite number of beings who could participate in the co-creation of the movie. So it's like the movie director created a trillion other movie directors and gave them an opportunity to direct one scene each for his epic mega-movie -- all of which would add up to The Love Movie. Love is maximized by creating an infinite number of beings and giving each of them the opportunity to realize that they are God. All of reality is structured so this happens. This includes war, genocide, terrorism, murder, rape, theft, slavery, and everything else. All of it is necessary so that each being can experience being God. But God's Love is so infinite no finite being can handle it. It kills everyone. Death is Infinite Love and it is the last thing a finite being wants. You will die precisely because God loves you. But you are too ignorant and selfish to understand that. The good news is, you will die anyway. You are powerless to stop it. You can resist for a while, but eventually everyone succumbs to Truth and wakes up.

The awakening process is going on. A tug of war between devil-consciousness and God-consciousness. The devil will not go quietly. Purifying a lifetime of selfish habits, attachments, and defilements requires years of serious, deliberate work. It will NOT happen automatically overnight. Awakening will NOT erase all your defilements. If only it were so easy. The mind and body have a very strong inertia. Changing them is like derailing a freight train by throwing tennis balls.

Of course. If that wasn't the case, how could people reach high states of consciousness without any psychedelics at all? The more psychedelics you do the more you will realize that there is no difference between a trip and real life. They are identical. You are always high. The more you trip the more your mind tunes into seeing the Absolute. And the psychedelics purify the mind and body of defilements which limit consciousness.

@ugreglo Dude, you're WAY overthinking it. Sex happens all the time for the dumbest reasons. All you need to do is go out and talk to girls. Sex cannot happen while you sit at home on the internet. All your attention should be on going out of your house and being face to face with lots of new girls. That's it. Do not worry about anything else. If you put yourself in lots of social situations girls will want to sleep with you. Tons of girls will reject you. It doesn't matter. Don't even think about it. Get rejected 10 times a day and you will stop caring.

You can use research chems and other psychedelics like LSD, mushrooms, 4-AcO-DMT, DPT, etc. and accomplish an epic amount of consciousness work. Don't limit yourself to one substance. You don't need shamans.

As I have said elsehwhere, the "plan" is Infinite Love. Everything you see is what Infinite Love looks like, including all demons and devils. The plan is complete perfection and it is fully actualized at all times and in all places for eternity. You/God are Infnite Love. Here you are! Ta-da!

Oneness

@mandyjw In practice the mating game is a lot more brutal than your ideals. Nice guys and socially awkward guys aren't necessary fake. But you girls still don't like them. Attraction is not based on ideals or unconditional love. It is blind survival and there's nothing "fair" or "honest" about it. But hey, don't take my word for it. Discover for yourselves how mating works. If you observe it carefully you should see that it's pure selfishness on both sides. It can be quite disgusting when you really look into it. After all, you would not be mating at all if not for survival needs. Notice, you don't mate with your vacuum cleaner. Why not? Or maybe some of you do? But again, that would also be purely to satisfy your survival needs. For this reason the male and female perspectives on mating when never be fully reconcilable because they are not interested in truth or fairness, they are interested in maximizing survival while justifying it as truth. So the key here is to notice the self-bias of both sides. You and your partner are both biased and in denial about it.

Of course. I said learn to swim in both ends of the pool.

Also remember that girls are not saints. Fundamentally mating is about survival for both man and women alike. So of course you will be judged by how well you fit into the other's survival needs. Girls are not obligated to love you no matter how you are. If your authentic way of acting is to be serial killer or some creeper, girls will rightfully reject you. Being authentic does not guarantee any level of results. Usually when we say "be authentic" we assume you will be acting within certain norms and criteria which girls find valuable and attractive. It can be easy to fool oneself into thinking that one's neuroses, bad habits, lack of socialization, and egotistical quirks are "authentic". Ex: Farting when you feel like it might be authentic, but don't expect it to attract girls off the street.

@tenta To be fair to Yang, he's been stating for a while now that he agrees with "the spirit" of Medicare For All but not Bernie's exact implementation. Reasonable people can disagree about how best to implement universal healthcare. Bernie's plan doesn't have to be the only way. Although I think it's a good idea to kill private insurance because they drive up costs too much while adding zero value. A universal healthcare plan which does not have a mechanism for cutting out gluttonous corporate profits is not really a plan at all. The key problem is affordability and profiteering. It is not possible to cover 330 million people while maintaining existing corporate profit margins. The profit margins are what needs to be attacked via a populist movement.

@Apparition of Jack Just don't fall into the trap of thinking that China is your enemy. All enemies are projections of one's ego-mind.

Why would you think you're going backwards? Just because it's a difficult experience doesn't mean a damn thing. In fact, it means it's growing you -- the devil in you just doesn't like being purified. How did you think this awakening process would go? Did you really think you could awaken yet still keep the devil in you? And did you expect the devil to go quietly without bitching? Of course it's massively frustrating to awaken. Which is the only reason virtually nobody does it. Frustration is the cost of success.

Whoever you imagine.

@dimitri You imagine that too. Any meaning you give to the number 666 is your own doing. Why are you doing that? Why are you creating all this meaning? Think about it.

@dimitri No. Experience = imagination. There is nothing outside of imagination. Nothing exists unless you imagine it.

It's a sort of play. When you go to the movies, how come you care so much about what the characters are doing? You're there for fun. You know it's not real but you got nothing better to do. Yes, meaninglessness is a big paradox. It is difficult for the ego-mind, which has been addicted to constructing illusory meanings all its life, to suddenly operate without meaning. There is a difficult transition phase here which can last months or years, where the ego-mind will feel lost and directionless. But then you stabilize in emptiness and play. The point of life is PLAY! It's just like a video game. The mistake is that you take it too seriously because you are terrified of death and suffering. Imagine how bad video games would be if the main character was terrified of death? Well... that's you! Ta-da! Consider that life having zero meaning is the ideal situation. It gives you total freedom to play. It's an infinite sand box game this way. Otherwise you'd be a slave to some limited set of pre-baked meanings. This would make life boring and lame. YOU. ARE. GOD! Invent whatever the fuck you want. It's all your whim.