Leo Gura

Why are you so sure we haven't? After all, hundreds of thousands of people report they have. Be careful not to confuse your personal lack of experience as evidence of absence. By that logic no one's ever seen a platypus.

@kieranperez The questions you're asking here are good ones. Keep asking them of yourself as you contemplate, meditate, and trip. If your desire to understand consciousness is deep enough, eventually you should get the answers until everything becomes clear. Remember that you are imagining the entire physical world with all of its rules and limitations. So if some physical scenario (like your camera example) works the way it works, it works that way precisely because you imagine it that way. But you're not aware yet of how you're doing it. Notice that your confusion rises because you imagine that it (the camera) should work some other way. You imagine that way and then super-impose it upon your yet deeper layer of imagination of the physical world. So the confusion arises because you're imaging things at various layers and getting tangled up in them. You imagine there are other people and cameras who see things. Then you complain how come they don't see things as you see things. Because first and foremost you imagine they are separate from you. You gotta untangle the many layers of your own imaginings. Of course first and foremost you gotta realize that "you" and "imagination" are themselves entangled, confused, and imaginary notions.

@kieranperez Like I said before, imagination has many layers to it. It is not so simplistic as imagining a unicorn and it physically appears. Reality/consciousness has many partitions and levels which are hidden from itself. Just like a sophisticated operating system. The OS does not allow access to all of its parts willy nilly to any random app. There are permissons and layers of security to ensure the integrity of the whole thing. There are aspects to consciousness which are private and aspects which are public. This duality itself is imaginary though at higher levels of consciousness. The whole point of being an individual creature is that you have this private domain of consciousness to work within. You are master over your private little dimension. Or at least it appears that way to you because that's how you know you're an individual being. God had to imagine that for you. Now you want to blur those boundaries but you're still so busy being in a state of separation. What good would God's design be if I could imagine that your child is a dog and he suddenly turned into a dog? Can you see why such a design would be problematic? So as a human I am precisely not given such powers. All limitations and boundaries are purely imaginary, but as a human you are not given consciousness of how this imagination works -- for your own benefit. It's too much for most people to handle. Human life is on a need-to-know basis. God does not reveal things to you which you do not need to know. Unless you need to know them. Then all is revealed. Which is why a burning need to know is so important in this work.

You can very easily be decieved by your own imagination by getting lost in it. For example, you can imagine a religion or a system of morals or a scientific model and then believe in it so strongly that you forget that you imagined it. It's like you're a writer who writes a novel so deep and so fantastical that he starts to confuse it for reality. He starts to believe that his fictional characters and all their problems are real. Of course if you are fully conscious there can be no self-deception. But the problem is few people are fully conscious because consciousness is so vast and deep. It's precisely because you are the ultimate authority that you can totally delude yourself. If you imagine with your full conviction that you are a Muslim or Jew or Christian, that will become your reality until death. The nature of consciousness is such that it can fully mesmerize you. Because it is singular and all-powerful.

It's not so simple. There are many different facets to God's awareness. Sometimes you're aware of one facet but not another. In practice you have to sorta see different facets individually and then piece them together. There's just too damn much to see it all at once.

No, it's because your mind is actively denying that such people are yourself. When you judge another human, you are separating them from yourself, which is fundamentally false.

Excellent! That is precisely correct.

I also find it problematic that he does not explicitly talk about God either. He is God-realized but he keeps a lot of things unsaid. He's got an autistic personality style.

That is his style. He's very rigorous and detached. Very Zen-like, very masculine. It has its pros and cons. It's not that he's not loving. He is a loving guy. But the problem is he doesn't explicitly teach it. The word love is not part of his vocabulary, which is a problem from my POV.

He is an excellent teacher, but he is missing the most important and deepest aspect of awakening. I used to think I was crazy to think so, now I know 100% that he does not understand existential Love. Love and Truth are one. This realiziation is critical. It is the core of this work. Love is not merely a human emotion. Love is the entire reason for existence. It's not just Ralston, I notice now that many Eastern spiritual schools do not properly understand or teach Love. Zen and Buddhism are guilty of this. Even Vedanta to some extent doesn't teach Love properly.

@xthebentnecklady I can save you the time of traveling all that way to slap me. Just slap yourself and it will be the same thing. Who knows, maybe that slap will wake you up from your dualistic delusion. So give it a try

Indeed

These are delicate molecules we're dealing with, so you definitely don't want to boil it or apply a flame to it. Just put a shot glass of water in the microwave for 20 seconds. It gets very hot. Then you can pour that onto your substance.

You ain't truly awake unless you realize that Truth = Love.

Align yourself with love and you will align yourself with God. God only has one intention: Infinite Love.

If you stare long enough at the carpet without blinking your eyes, you will see it start to melt and wave around. You can also notice neon tips. I mean sober. Usually sober people just overlook psychedelic effects in their visual field. It is filtered out as irrelevant to survival. But it's right there under the surface. If I sit down and meditate for 10 minutes my carpet starts to wave.

Enjoy it while it lasts cause it will pass and ego will return.

See, you don't understand understanding

You guys have much to learn about what insight and what understanding is. Stop being smartasses and contemplate deeper.

This is an attitude of selfishness. The goal of this work is to surrender and accept ALL reality, not just the parts your ego thinks are "good". Let go of needing life to be any particular way. Then happiness is posisble.

Scoops are very precise, but only relative to each substance. So each new substance you gotta start off with 1 scoop and work up to find your sweet spot. Yes, it's harder to share your dosages in this case.

This is false. Insight goes beyond thought. But also thought can carry truth, and must itself be a part of Truth, otherwise it could not exist.

Ultimately the only thing that's required to reach the truth is a genuine, unwavering desire to know the truth -- not your ideas of the truth or what is convenient and pleasant for you, but the actual truth, whatever it is, whatever the cost. If you have that intention, then you will ultimately reach the truth. And anything shy of that will not take you to the deepest levels.

Being indepedent is great but women should also cultivate their femininity. Don't try to out-man men. Rather charm people with your femininity. If that resonates with you. People fall all along the masciline-feminine spectrum. Find your place along it. Femininity is great! Strength can be either masculine or feminine.

@peanutspathtotruth You don't need some high power vinegar, just a few drops of the kitchen kind. Why are you so eager to stick high power vinegar in your ass?? You could probably even get away with just suspending the freebase in water. It does not really nees to dissolve to plug. DPT plugs just fine and it refuses to dissolve in anything.