Leo Gura

I have no experience with that.

Good God! Tolle is scraping the bottom of the barrel now. Lol

No! Lol The point of relativism is that you cannot do that. Any book you read will claim to be the truth, but it cannot be. Reality cannot be put into perspective because it is the sum total of all perspectives.

Mushrooms, LSD, 5-MeO-DMT, etc. They're all create for creativity in their own ways. There's a reason artists love to take them. It's like steroids for artists but 1000x stronger.

Yes, but discover what works best for you.

That comes with doing the practices. And psychedelics. Which I consider as "doing the practices".

@okulele A trip video is not gonna awaken the viewer of it. It will just look silly to an outside observer. All the magic goes on on the inside, not the outside. So there's no way to capture the profundity of a psychedelic breakthrough on video. You gotta take the psychedelic for yourself.

@lennart You're never gonna be naturally as high as MDMA makes you. That's sorta like expecting to be on a constant heroin high. Not gonna happen. But doing years of Kriya yoga might best the closest thing, if you open your heart chakra and deeply awaken.

Ego labeling ego, LOL.

@How to be wise You have been given all the spiritual techniques many times.

@Conrad Locking this thread because the way you are expressing yourself is moralistic and not really about a genuine discussion. You want to preach your opinion here but that is not what consciousness work is about. It would be wise of you to contemplate the various dualities which infect your thinking, such as right/wrong, moral/immoral, dead/alive, human/non-human, biological/non-biological, etc. And to notice how your position is a function of ego survival. Go meta. Don't get lost in choosing between left and right positions.

Because mastery of all of aspects of oneself requires decades of hardcore spiritual practice, and even then, you'll probably fall short. It's not as simple as you want it to be. The mind is a relentless beast and it will not be tamed easily. A single awakening event will not be enough. The real work only begins then. See my video on The 10 Ox Herding Pictures where this is explained.

Love without consciousness of the Absolute will not work. Your ego will co-opt it. Dismantle the self and love will result. By shooting for love, you'll likely end up with ego. The problem with shooting for love is that its easy to bullshit yourself into thinking you're being loving while deep down the ego is pissed off because it is unable to sustain true love. It's the same problem as trying to be good/moral while still unenlightened. Religious people try that all the time and it doesn't work. They end up being more evil. This is very counter-intuitive stuff. So watch out. If you really care about love, forget about love and sit down and do what the Buddha did. Then you will have love.

Be careful not to confuse Love with certain ways of acting or even being. True Love is so radical it does not care which way a person is being. Any conditions you set on how love must be is not true love. Unless you are able to see Hitler as an expression of Love, then you're still not getting it. Love is not something you can do. You must reach an appropriate state of consciousness, at which point everything appears to you as love. So any of your plans to be loving is not going to work. You must become enlightened first. You cannot act or fake your way into true love. If you seriously pursue enlightenment, the end result will be true love. Otherwise not. Survival is going to co-opt love for its purposes.

You can't really define it like that. It's not that I have no fear of death, it's that my relationship to death has changed. Again, it's subtle shift. You do not become Terminator. The body still instinctively doesn't like the notion of death because it will not survive the process.

We just had a long thread on solipsism. Search for it.

Don't waste our time with such things.

Someone please give Sadhguru some DMT

Letting go of theocracy is a real challenge. At least your country ain't Saudi Arabia.

@Pouya That is called mysticism.

Science is a conceptual, symbolic, relativistic, and dualistic enterprise. It cannot overcome this ever because all language is dualistic amd science cannot be done without language. Try it. Beyond language is mysticism.

All of your knowledge is groundless, relative, and ultimately delusional. You do not actually know what anything is. Read what the ancient skeptics wrote. Read Outlines Of Pyrrhonism.

@Pacific Sage That may be true but what I am saying goes deeper. It is an abstract point about frames of reference. "Bad" only exists relative to some frame of reference you establish. How else can you determine when to call a thing bad? You need some criteria. Whatever criteria you choose will be aribtrary. You might say death is bad. But that's only true assuming you don't want to die. If you want to die death now becomes good. You might say, but who wanta to die? That is irrelevant. The point has already been made. It is an abstract point. There cannot be bad as an Absolute.

The epistemology and metaphysics of science is a very complex topic. There is no silver bullet against science. The devil is all in the details. Many books could and have be written about it. The core problem is that science does not question its own foundations. How do you know science is capable of accessing Absolute Truth? After all, this has never been demonstrated by science. And how would you demonstrate it anyway? By using science? Do you see how that begs the question? If science is incomplete or flawed then you cannot use science to validated science. You need a meta science. And a meta meta science, and so on to infinity. Science actually has no foundation because reality is infinite. The ancient Greek skeptics showed 2000 years ago why no human knowledge is possible. But the scientists ignored them. And they are in denial about it to this day. You cannot convince a scientist that science is a dream. Because scientists hold science as a dogma. Like religious people. You will never convince a Muslim that his idea of Allah is a dream. Because his mind is not open to such a possibility. He is not interested in searching for Truth because he thinks he's already found it.

I think you missed the point. I didn't exactly say people like suffering. I was just making a point about frames of reference. Torturing a puppy is only bad relative to the assumption that suffering is bad. From the Absolute perspective, suffering is not bad.