Leo Gura

Yes, it's great stuff. No nonsense mindfulness meditation a la Shinzen Young.

That's not good enough. It doesn't count unless it's direct experience. Also, you ARE the one moving the fingers. Who else is there but YOU? You are all there is! You are the entire universe moving those fingers. The only problem is that you've confused yourself with being limited to a human body/mind. Start thinking of yourself as the entire universe. That will help a bit to give you proper perspective. But merely thinking you are the universe is still not enough. You must directly experience that it is so. This requires awakening. The boundary between self and word must collapse. Be careful not to just believe me. Belief is the enemy here, even if it's positive belief or belief in nonduality. True nonduality is not a belief.

@123456789 Take a closer look. They are all circular. You must break through the illusion of knowledge. No knowledge is actually possible. You cannot take science at face value in this work. You MUST contemplate for yourself. Even more fundamentally, all human language is circular. And science is a human language. You cannot do science, math, or logic without language. So really what you should start contemplating is, What the fuck is language? How is language possible AT ALL?

Actually no scientific variable is every clearly defined. Science has no definition for matter, gravity, energy, time, space, or any other fundamental property of nature. Because reality is groundless and nondual it is impossible to define. Any definition is partial, circular, and ultimately groundless. Check for yourself. What is energy exactly? What is matter? What is time? If you investigate this you'll discover that no scientist actually knows. You'll just be chasing your own tail. All scientific definitions must be circular. Energy is defined in terms of the unknowns of time, space, and matter. Matter is defined in terms of the unknowns of energy, time, and space. Time is defined in terms of the unknowns of matter, energy, and space. Space is defined in terms of the unknowns of time, energy, and matter. In this way, nothing is truly ever known but an illusion of knowing is created like a house of cards. See my videos on: Quantum Mechanics Debunks Materialism The Metaphysical Implications of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem Jacques Derrida, Deconstruction, Post-Modernism & Nonduality Reality Is A Strange Loop That should get you started in the right direction.

@123456789 Like I said this requires decades of contemplation work. Contemplate your own examples. For example: Einstein's theory of General Relativity is only true at macro levels. It does not work at the micro levels of quantum mechanics. But even if it did, that still wouldn't make a difference because General Relativity is not true in your dreams or in a video game. And in the end, it's still only an approximation at best of only certain kinds of physical phenomena. There are a trillion things which General Relativity does not account for. Not to even mention that General Relativity is not possible at all outside the context of the human mind. General Relativity literally does not exist for a donkey. Because General Relativity is a symbolic human invention and projection onto reality. The remarkable thing is that it has any predictive power at all (but again, only relative to human life and human consciousness).

Firstly, scientific models are NOT based on formal logic. Again, "formal logic" is a loaded word. There are an infinite number of different formal logics. So which one are you gonna base your scientific model on? They all contradict each other. You must do empirical research to determine whether your logic squares with reality. Often times it won't! In quantum mechanics particles do not follow Aristotelian binary logic. So physics has long ago debunked the naive notion that reality follows binary logic. The question of What is science? and How come science works? is a very tricky one. It takes decades of study and contemplation to understand it. In short, scientific models contain very partial and limited relative truths. They are true only under very very narrow circumstances and contexts. Just because some aspects of reality are predictable does not mean that reality is logical. In fact it tends to work the other way around: Whatever humans call "logical" is however reality happens to behave in contexts which are relevant to humans. For example, if chairs had a habit of turning spontaneously into cats whenever you sat on them, your mind would grow accustomed to that behavior and call it "logical". In practice, what you call "logical" is just whatever reality happens to do around you. If everyone you knew walked around naked on the street, you'd eventually start calling that logical. Because in fact it is impossible to distinguish between logical and illogical things. That is a matter of relative perspective. What's logical to me is not logical to you, and vice versa. Or to put it another way, YOU are the sole arbiter of what counts as logical. Whatever you insist is logical, becomes logical (for you). Whatever you insist is illogical becomes illogical (for you). Logic has no normative power. So if someone wants to be "illogical", they are free to do so and no amount of reasoning, argumentation, or evidence will convince them otherwise. Because they are only "illogical" relative to your judgment of them. They are not illogical in any absolute sense. There actually exists no standard to determine what counts as logical. It must be this way because reality is nondual and empty/groundless. Anyone who tries to ground reality in logic will fail. This was rigorously demonstrated back in the early 20th century. Logical positivism and the attempt to formalize reality with a finite system of symbols failed spectacularly. As it should have. Reality is not quantifiable or formalizable.

You have to be very careful to distinguish formal logic from the word "logic" as it is commonly used in mainstream culture. Certainly formal logic is not what you use to run your life. Not anywhere close it. And even in the case of formal logic, did you know that there are an infinite number of different formal logical systems with varying truths? So which one are you gonna say is the truest one? How will you decide? By using some meta-logic? But then there are an infinite number of meta-logical systems with varying truths. So you'll need a meta-meta-logic, and so on to infinity. As Kurt Godel proved, no logical system which is complete is consistent. And no logical system which is consistent is complete. This is because Truth is infinite and cannot be captured in a finite set of symbols. Most people who tout themselves as being "logical" have no clue what logic really is and its limits. In everyday life the ego co-opts logic to commit devilry. Even the craziest and most deluded people think they are being "logical". So how can you trust logic then? You could think you are being perfectly logical whilst you are totally deluded. So logic is no guarantor of truth.

Most people would not be able to handle days or weeks of 5-MeO. Remember that I only did that after YEARS of prep, and it was not easy. Don't try that at home. You'll have a psychic breakdown.

What is it you mean by "logic"? That's a super-loaded term. Contemplate: What is logic? It certainly isn't true in any absolute sense.

@George Fil It's too generous to call Peterson a stage Yellow thinker. Zizek too is probably more Green than Yellow.

@bejapuskas Being the devil that you are, you are already a master at lying. So no need to practice it any more.

@zeroISinfinity Relative life vs Absolute life is a duality too. With lots of awakening you will merge the two worlds into one, such that your everyday life becomes infused with Spirit, Divinity, God, Goodness, Intelligence, and Love. More work is required! So back to the self-inquiry salt mines!

Lol, your ego is unreal! I have already answered that in The Radical Implications Of Oneness video.

Thanks guys! You take the edge off getting old.

That is good. I support studying all kinds of perspectives. I will do some meta politics topics in the future where we look at the fundamentals of what politics is, how it works, and how it fits with spirituality. Those will be very powerful videos, unlike any political analysis you've ever seen. It will not be about any particular political candidates or partisan grabage.

Classic conflict of stage Blue vs stage Orange That can be difficult if your parents are solid Blue. They will not be openminded enough to allow it. But you might be able to convince them. You could try to explain to them how meditation will lead you to God. And then when they go to church you stay home and do meditation. Emphasize the mystical aspects of their religion. Every serious religious practitioner does meditation/prayer/contemplation. Guide their religiosity to spirituality.

Number is a duality Each number is a division. How many divisions can you make? 0 to infinity and everything between.

@oMarcos No, sleep is not awakening. Sleep is unconsciousness, awakening is consciousness. After you awaken deeply you can be conscious even during deep sleep. It's sorta like existing in a pure void. Sleep is a tricky thing. The fact is you don't really know what sleep is. That requires contemplation.

@Harikrishnan Yes, he's nondual and there are many nondual sufi writings. Rumi is one. Ibn Arabi is another. Hafiz is another.

@NorthRise Why torture yourself with low-consciousness videos when so many high consciousness videos exist? There is not enough time in the word to listen to every foolish debate on Youtube.

@Gadasaa You were never actually born. You imagine it.

That is not what I am talking about. You are talking about an imagined unconscious state. I am talking about total consciousness. You cannot understand because you have not yet awoken. Once you awaken you will understand what was being pointed at. Your ideas of awakening are never going to match actual awakening. That's what makes this so challenging.

@Caitwin The most useful thing would be to distinguish between dualistic philosophies vs nondual ones. If it's dualistic it can still have some nuts of wisdom, but it will also contain a lot of misguided things. If you're using impure sources you will waste a lot of time sorting the the truth from the delusion. Sometimes I start reading a book, see too much dualistic delusion, and just stop reading. Such an impure source is not worth the effort to untangle when crystal clear sources exist.

Be careful. Just because someone is a mystic or is enlightened does not automatically put them at Turquoise. The whole point of Spiral Dynamics is to differentiate between stages of development and awakening. They are not always correlated. Don't just assume that your favorite sage/mystic is Turquoise.

The mind is a very powerful tool. Precisely because it is so powerful it is easy to get lost in the labyrinth of one's mind -- an endless labyrinth of symbols and ideas which tend to validate themselves no matter how misguided they are. Using the mind properly requires serious training, otherwise it falls into gross delusions. Unfortunately almost nobody teaches how to properly use the mind. People either teach how great the mind is, or how terrible the mind is, but not how to use the mind wisely.