Leo Gura

@whatishappeningtome There's a time to learn and a time to execute on those learnings.

I haven't tried.

@arlin The ego-mind can't really fathom the glory of awakening so it demonizes and judges it. Keep in mind there are various degrees of awakening. The initial shallow levels can feel nihilistic. But then you discover God, Infinity, Love, and Goodness as Absolutes and you fall in love with reality. It's truly too good to believe. The goodness is so good you will deny its reality at first. It's too good for the ego to handle without imploding. Which is why the ego judges it. Love is a threat to your very way of life because you have been living in fear. The ego is like a rabid dog which bites the hand of the doctor who tries to cure it. That is the divine tragedy.

Yes

Yes, just think of consciousness at the "stuff" of reality. So replace trillions and trillions of atoms with one field of consciousness. This field is like an LCD screen which can display any image: dog, tree, human, alien, etc. The screen is unlimited in what it can display. God is that entire screen and also all the images it displays. Image and screen are one. Right now you are one image. After this image dies, a new image will appear. And so on forever. So nothing actually dies, it just changes images.

The full Truth and nothing but the Truth is hard for a mere moral to accept, especially after a lifetime of lies, self-deception, and dualistic social conditioning. But it's wonderful once you get past all that. The Truth only looks upsetting when it's seen from a position of falsehood. Truth stings the devil because it threatens to transform him into God. For a devil not to become God he must deny Truth. So that's what devils are constantly doing. Otherwise they'd be God.

@Poluch You're not going to be able to extract 5-MeO from yopo. Yopo extraction will yield bufotinine, which is a very different chemical. It's got a very high bodyload. 5-MeO is a very delicate molecule which gets destroyed via traditional extraction methods. There is also very little of it there in the plant to begin with. You are better off milking a toad if you want "natural" 5-MeO.

@Peo The ultimate answers to the ultimate questions are mystical experiences. BUT! This doesn't make intellectual contemplation useless. You must start somewhere. You cannot just jump instantly into a profound mystical experience. You must first ask quality questions to prepare your mind. This questioning sets intent and direction. It gets your mind looking in the right direction. It makes you curious. It makes you question and doubt everything you think you know, which then opens up the mind to have a mystical experience. So the two are profoundly connected. And even if you could just have immediate mystical experiences it would not be sufficient because your mind still has to interpret them properly, make sense of them, speak about them in some coherent way, interconnect various distinct experiences, and figure out how to apply them in a complex social world. Which is why quality thinking is still important, even after awakening. You can't just completely skip over the mind. The mind is still there. It still holds various beliefs and opinions and worldviews. A lot of work goes into purify all that so that your mind becomes ready to do God's work. To skip the mind is to get stuck with the old corrupt mind that you started with.

@arlin Reality is unlimited, so it is all things. It both is and is not self-conscious. Some parts of reality are self-conscious while others are not. A dog is not self-conscious but a Zen master is. The dog does not know it is God, a Zen master does. The substance of reality is CONSCIOUSNESS, but be careful, as this does not automatically mean that all parts of reality are conscious of themselves. CONSCIOUSNESS is not the same a self-consciousness. Consciousness/God is so powerful it can imagine itself to be a dog, thus forgetting that it is actually God. When that dog dies it will realize that is was God the whole time, merely pretending to be a dog. At the highest level, God is fully aware of itself as God. But as its various incarnations it can be deluded and unaware. Just as you right now are unaware that you God. You are conscious but not fully Self-conscious. You are playing the role of a dumb human Until you wake up. Wakey wakey

@SaltyMeatballs Action alone will never be enough. A vision for your life will never be found in any external object or event. The vision must come from deep inside your mind/heart. You can do a bunch of stuff, and that might be good grist for the mill, but eventually you have to sit down and imagineer your highest vision. Be visionary! Don't discount the power of your mind. Creativity comes from inside you.

Lol Sounds like a good way to lead people straight to hell.

@kamill Videos and courses will be much better than books for this purpose. Better yet, consider hiring a dating coach or taking a bootcamp. Getting good a dating is extremely hands-on. You cannot learn it as a theory. None of the theory translates into real life. You need massive field experience. 50 parts experience to 1 part theory. Otherwise no results. For cold approach to work you need to be doing 100s of approaches each month. At least until you develop some skill. Then you can ease up.

@Waves What is my highest vision for myself? What does my soul crave to express? Good luck

Careful what you wish for

I would expect that most people following Actualized.org are in the first two phases, as you're lost and looking for answers and direction. People in the 3rd phase are probably too busy to watch self-help videos.

That is a goal when you're on a retreat with the intention of breaking through into deep states of samadhi. But outside of that life must go on, and in fact you will need advanced types of thinking to act effectively in the world and help the world to awaken. Be careful not to denigrate the mind. The mind is an important tool. Acting mindlessly will result in foolishness. The trick is not to identify with your thinking and the conclusions of your thinking. Most people think about stuff and then they turn the end result of that into an identity.

That ego voice gets recontextualized as the voice of God. That's God talking to itself! The voice does not need to disappear. Thoughts serve a very useful function. The goal is not to stop thoughts but to realize that thoughts are not your only identity. And to get peace from your thoughts when you desire it. The average person gets carried away by her thoughts, totally lost in them. An awake person still has thoughts but isn't dominated by them. Be careful not to demonize thoughts, or judge thoughts as bad. Also be careful not to adopt an anti-intellectual form of spirituality, where advanced forms of thinking about the world are dismissed and denied. For example, systems thinking is still very important for resolving world problems and actualizing God's Goodness. Living in a cave is not a sustainable solution to world problems. Spirit and intellect must be integrated. Your thought process must become multi-dimensional and suffused with spirit rather than suppressed. Thoughts are really only a problem when they are egoistical thoughts: thoughts of selfishness, manipulation, fear, judgment, rationalization, criticism, blaming, greed, lying, jealousy, denial, etc. Purify your thoughts of all that toxic stuff.

@The Blind Sage I have given the reason: I am busy with more important things. Stick to 5-MeO-DMT. It's all you really need.

@Truth Addict We'll see about that.

@paciucr No

I hate you all! Don't forget, that's also love

"Understanding Nothingness"

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