Leo Gura

If you were in Australia you wouldn't ask such silly questions, you'd be too busy enjoying Australia and there wouldn't be a problem. Such questions arise precisely because you're not there.

Your dose is too high. There's not much point tripping if you're gonna be passing out. So you put 25% vinegar up your butt? Doesn't that burn? You don't dilute it with water? It's wrong in the sense that police show up or neighbors disturb you. You need to trip in a responsible manner. If you start running around the street naked, that's no good, even if it feels natural to you while you're high.

Dude, you're just confusing the poor guy. Meet the person where he is at. All this nondual one-ups-manship on the forum is starting to feel gross.

No, not faith. Does a scientist need faith to perform a lab experiement? It's just like that, except instead of some data, you will discover God.

@Billy Shears The only way to know is to do a lot of psychedelics. You might as well be asking, "How do we really know that Australia exists? I've only been as far south as Japan." If you really cared to know, you'd buying yourself a 1st class ticket to Australia, not sit around philosophize about it. You can't ever get to Australia through philosophy.

There is no difference between you and everyone else. That's the rub.

As you become more and more successful you will realize how hollow and unsatisfying success is. You will experience depression and disappointment. That will force you to re-evaluate your happiness strategy. Eventually you will have to admit that the only way to become happy is to awaken. And then you will pursue awakening in earnest. It takes a lot of chasing before we realize that chasing does not work.

What is it with people yelling? Keep that mouth shut. Don't freak out normies with this stuff. I've never had to yell. Use your inner voice. Anyhow... @Ellenier So the conversion from freebase to acetate using vinegar works?? How much vinegar are you using? What does the substance look like after the conversion? Can it be stored as acetate? Or are you only doing the conversion right before administration? I'm curious which form is best for storage.

Guys, you must do the work and have your own insights. My answers cannot help you. Take the things I say as loose orienting pointers. This is very advanced and tricky stuff. You will have to go through a lot of struggle to ultimately understand it. Self-deception is always possible. You must always be open to that possibility. But there is Absolute Truth. You must discover that for yourselves. I have discovered it for myself and that's all that ultimately matters to me. To doubt the Absolute is itself a self-deception.

They didn't look like anything. It was a purely formless understanding. It's just one of the many consequences of nonduality. If you are conscious that everything is nondual, then you realize that you were the dinosuars. Seeing the dinosuars is not necessary to realize this.

Cool! Sounds like a great watch.

@Nivsch You clearly have yet to grow into Green, since your worldview has this notion of "enemies". From higher levels you will see there are no enemies. Sure, any stage can have a lapse in awareness. Awareness goes up and down all day long. That's not the issue. The issue is your stage of development. There are valid criticisms of Green, but you are criticizing Green from below, not above. Seems like you are Blue/Orange.

It makes no sense to the ego-mind because the ego-mind is constantly trying to survive. The ego-mind as a mechanism does not allow you to feel happy other than as a manipulation or a reward for survival. So you are like a dog stuck in a cycle of chasing dog biscuits without realizing that there is an endless mountain of dog biscuits right over the hill. But you are so hungry for that one biscuit that you never go over the hill to dog heaven Motivation is a manipulation mechanism that the mind uses over you. Notice how easily you're controlled by the promise of a little pleasure in the future. You are so controlled by it you wouldn't even take infinite happiness if it was offered to you. Because you'd say, "But that would mean I have to stop chasing crumbs." Yes, you'd have to stop chasing crumbs. It's like you have been offered a billion dollars but you say, "I'm too busy to take this billion dollars because I'm busy chasing millions of dollars." Well, okay, have it your way. Indeed. That's what an intelligent person would do. The problem is, you can't do it. Because you're too hypnotized and addicted to life. Are you really willing to sacrifice your entire life for God? If so, do it. You are totally underestimating what awakening offers. It doesn't just offer happiness. It offers immortality and God-realization. You cannot even fathom such kinds of joy. It is a joy beyond anything you've experienced in your life. The technical terms for it are Bliss, Ecstasy, and Paradise. Imagine a literal Paradise. That's what you're missing by not fully awakening. So what's the catch? The cost of attaining this Paradise is surrendering your entire life. Which is of course out of the question for you.

@David Hammond There is only the Absolute. Everything relative is actually Absolute in the light of full consciousness.

@vpandey It is not a state. It is an Absolute. See, the problem is, you don't have any reference point for what an Absolute is. You don't even understand that an Absolute is possible. Because all you've experienced in your life are relative things. Absolute means it is true under all possible circumstances. It was true before the Big Bang happened and it will be true after our universe ends. An Absolute is not state-dependent, it is not a function of the human mind, it is not an experience, it is not an perception, it is not belief, it is not an assumption, it is not a theory, it is not a thought, it is not an intuition. It is ABSOLUTE!

@Extreme Z7 Don't get too obsessed with me. It's too incestuous and not healthy. I am not as great as you imagine me to be.

Facing your fears is one of the keys to life. 1-2g of mushrooms in a good setting should be a wonderful thing. Bad trips come and go. Not such a big deal. You're not going to break your brain with 1-2g of mushrooms. The worst that can happen is you will freak out a bit. But even that is not a big issue on 1-2g. The real mindfuckery begins around 4g. 1g is a very safe starter dose. 2g is pretty awesome but still within the realm of reality. And at 4g reality starts to collapse in really twisted ways. I remember in my worst trip, at 4g, I realized I was all the dinosaurs who ever lived. That was freaky.

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@davidomni Sounds like you're over-prepared for some breakthroughs into godliness. Make sure you only do it on an empty stomach. May the force be with you

@herghly "I'm too busy meditating to have time for awakening."

@herghly Making time is the whole key of integration. We are so busy that we don't gives ourselves time to just hang out and do nothing. Even when we meditate we tend to be busy doing meditation.

@herghly I like going for a long late-night drive around town and just letting my mind wander and contemplate whatever it feels like contemplating. Play some chill tunes while you drive and enjoy the lights. That's probably my fave way to integrate. Driving puts me in a great mellow meditative mood. A sort of integrative flow state. Road trips out in nature in the wild are also amazing for this. Do a 3 hour road trip through a mountain, forest, or desert. Those are some of my fondest times.

@Esoteric You're gonna have to snort a massive amount of it to get somewhere deep. Like 1 gram of it. It's gonna be painful, aweful, and gross. But you can do it, as the natives do: Pure 5-MeO is far, far more pleasant.

* Leo twists Joseph's manly nipple * Awakening dawns

I would just say, keep observing. A few days of observing are not enough. You need months and years of observing. The observation process itself is curative and self-correcting. You don't necessarily need to "do" anything about it. Just observe all your survival mechanisms at work. Observe why you feel you need them. Observe your attachment to them. As you do that, their grip over you loosens. Then you are more free to behave however you want without being dominated by survival concerns. For example, observe how you manipulate people and why you feel you need to. That's very eye-opening and there's a lot to observe there. Observation is not the same thing as stopping your manipulation. I'm not asking you to stop anything. I'm just asking you to observe. With lots of good observation, many manipulations will naturally fall away. Not all, but many.