Leo Gura

In other words, you're a donkey.

Your logic here is so warped I don't even know where to begin. Why is it that self-inquiry or meditation cannot do the simplest thing like teach you to play the violin? Do you see how absurd your logic is? 1) Existential realizations have nothing to do with technical skill at manipulating the dream world. You are smart enough to know this. 2) No therapist will teach you how to play a violin. This example is just absurd. It does a disservice to serious therapists to promise such results from therapy. Objective reality is all your imagination. Whatever God imagines is reality. If God imagines a chemical system, that chemical system will behave precisely how God imagines it behaves. The standard of proof is very simple: take a breakthrough dose of psychedelic and you see all objective reality melt away. There are relative truths within every dream. And the dream itself is Absolute Truth. God is an Absolute. All possible dreams at once. - - - - - - - It would be wise of you to actually watch my videos and to be on this forum to learn and not just teach, because your awakening and understanding of what reality is, is still surface level. You are not conscious yet of God or Love, and many other important facets of the Absolute. Nor have you had a psychedelic breakthrough, given the arguments you make. You are hallucinating this entire conversation. You are hallucinating your therapist. You are hallucinating chemistry. And you are even hallucinating psychedelics. But you are NOT hallucinating God. You ARE God. The one who is hallucinating. All of your memories of having ever done psychotherapy are a hallucination. You're imagining it RIGHT NOW! Which is why it feels true. It's true because you (GOD) say it is.

Much much more.

Nice

Dark Souls?

@moon777light You have barely even begun to notice your self-bias. Self-bias is not about helping others. It's about cutting through your own bullshit.

For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must die.

Interesting

@Ero Yes, I was not really disagreeing with you. Just adding to it.

@Ero As I explain in my video: Why People Seem Crazy -- the assumption that human beings live in the same reality or have access to the same things is a flawed one. People can have very different "brain chemistries" -- for lack of a better word, which is why people disagree so much about spiritual matters. It's not so simple as people merely being wrong or deluded. People are experiencing different territories and processing those territories in very different ways. Because there is no such thing as "the human brain". Each human brain/mind is unique. There can be a lot of overlap, but also a lot of divergence. Spirituality is way more complex than people make it out to be. It's easy to overlook this complexity when one sticks to a single orthodox school or teaching. But when you explore all schools, all teachings, all the edge cases, you start to see that it's not simple at all and there is no one path or single dimension to spirituality. Rather than thinking of spirituality as a single axis, think of it as a 3 dimensional volume. And even that might be oversimplifying it.

I am not some super human. I have emotions and dislikes just like everyone else. If a moth flew into the Buddha's ear, he would probably freak out. It is a freaky experience.

Just do the practices and it will come naturally.

Stop dramatizing it. It's no big deal.

How often does one breathe in insects that this is a problem?? Although, funny story, when I was a kid on vacation in Mexico, as I was playing with my GameBoy a moth flew straight into my ear and got stuck there. It was buzzing around in there. Had to find a doctor to get it out.

What you call objective reality is nothing but a chemical state. A few changes in chemicals and you would not know what a violin is. "Objective reality" is the dream. 1) Time 2) Cost 3) Why would I go through a middleman who doesn't even know he is God, when I can commune directly with God? There is nothing a therapist will tell me that God won't. You might as well be telling me to go to Catholic confessional.

What would happen if you poke her with a stick?

Whatever you imagine.

There is no such thing as death. Death is a fantasy in your mind.

They don't last long enough for microdosing.

It's not right to compare them with MDMA. I don't experience much elevation in heart rate from 5-MeO-DMT or DPT. But of course taking them daily is overkill. No one is going to take those substances for more than a few days in a row. It just gets too intense. The most I've done was 13 days in a row, and it's just way more nonduality than a human could want.

How do you know this? Be careful with such assumptions. To put a guy from 2500 years ago as the highest authority figure when you haven't even met him in the flesh is to set oneself up for epistemic blunder. I think that's generally true, but this notion of "absolute" is quite problematic because in practice you can be in a state of little to no self-involvement and yet not be conscious of important facets of reality. I prefer to think of these as somewhat independent variables, with both being desirable and both being synergistic. Insight helps overcome defilements, and overcoming defilements helps attain deeper insight into the metaphysics of reality. Historically it just seems pretty clear that there were gurus and masters who have had very deep metaphysical insight yet still plenty of defilements.

I've had this idea for a long time of leveraging the collective creative effort of this forum. I feel that a lot of our creative potential is lost here in talking and debating. A much better use of our time would be to work collectively to create the world's greatest database of self-actualization & spirituality resources. As you guys study self-actualization and spirituality you will naturally stumble upon life-changing resources which often go forgotten and unshared. I have been wanting to find a way to channel your guys' expertise and creativity towards some higher purpose. Now we have a new sub-forum dedicate to this purpose. It will be a heavily moderated sub-forum. Please read the Guidelines there before posting. It's important that we maintain a high quality threshold on this sub-forum. https://www.actualized.org/forum/forum/32-high-consciousness-resources/ I look forward to seeing some great contributions. Let me know what you think about this idea.

Good, keep chipping away at it. It will all make sense at some point.

See my book list.

That's simply explained by the fact that you identified strongly with your cat but not your relatives. When you own a small cat it feels like your baby and so you feel much more responsible for it. Remember, the meaning you assign to objects and people is purely relative and imaginary. So if you get attached to a coffee table, you will mourn its loss.