Leo Gura

Infinity does not necessarily work the way your mind imagines. Reality is infinitely intelligent because it has unlimited power. In short, there is nothing to stop from being infinitely intelligent, so it is! What you must understand is that there are no constraints on reality as a whole. Reality is not random, arbitrary, or chaotic. It is fine-tuned by an infinite intellect which cannot ever be fully articulated, but you can become conscious that this is so.

@ActualizedDavid The substance of reality is nothing. There can only be one nothing. And you are it.

@Jkris Yes they can. Any psychedelic can. It's only a question of how deep are you daring to go?

If you were me, you'd be sitting here typing this sentence with no sense of being you. Since to be me is to be fully me, not you. What it means to be you is to not see through anyone else's eyes but your own. If you were able to see through my eyes, you'd be me! Which is precisely what I am: you looking through my eyes! And you are me looking through your eyes. Ta-da! This is possible precisely because the perceiver (True Self) is nothing.

He's a noob. He has much to learn about the ultimate nature of existence. That is not his wheelhouse. You don't go to me to ask how to build a rocketship to Mars and you don't go to Elon Musk to ask about God. God is real. End of story.

Or he builds a cult which goes off the rails and drives many people into delusion. What you have to take into account about every organization is how it plays out after the leader is dead. How much evil will it spread? If the leader enlightens 1000 people in his lifetime but leaves an organization which enslaves and brainwashes 100,000, it's not longer clear that it was a net positive. Is the Catholic church a net positive or net negative? Hard to say. The math is very complex in that equation. Jesus might be rolling in his grave.

@joeyi99 Well, all the great sages and prophets. Moses, Jesus, Buddha, Mahavira, Muhammad, etc. It's no accident that such people are revered as gods among men. And serve a role models for millions. Because to truly pull off such a thing requires you become god-like. In practice no leader is perfect. Many of them have secret hidden shadow sides which you don't see in public. For example Gandhi was an amazing leader but not without some personal shadow issues. Same with Martin Luther King Jr. Also take note how many of these leaders were killed by the ignorant hoards. That should tell you something. Personally I find Gandhi very inspiring. He gave up his whole life for his mission.

This is too deep a topic to get into here. If you want to discuss that, start a new thread about it. For now what I'll say it this: you can spend decades reading various scriptures and various claims by monks and yogis. But all of it will be hearsay and you will have no clue if what they are saying is true or not. You must ground this work in your own direct experience. Are there aliens? Are there past lives? Is there karma? Is there an escape from rebirth? Is there a God? Are there angels? -- the truth is you don't know until such time you are directly experiencing it. So rather than speculating about this stuff, invest your time having direct experience of the things you speak of. Try this rule on for the next week: Do not speak of anything you have not directly experienced. Have you experienced a kangaroo? Then don't speak of it. Have you experienced being gay? Then don't speak of it. Have you experienced outer space? Then don't speak of it. Notice how this one rule cuts out a lot of bullshit from your mind. This is called being grounded. You must constantly reground yourself in this work because the tendency is to float off into metaphysical speculations, and then even worse, debate over those metaphysical speculations. If you really wish to honor the monks and yogis of the past then devote more time to meditation, contemplation, yoga, and psychedelics. That is the only way to validate the things they said.

Do not prune this thread as doing so will likely break stuff in horrible ways. Just stay on topic here.

@Freakrik You can still enjoy life. Why is this so hard for people to understand?

Next time it happens contemplate: Why is this happening? What is the point of this? Why am I creating this reaction? Don't ask us. Ask yourself.

@AncestorOfAisle6 Yes, we know of him. He seems quite culty (although also genuinely enlightened). Not much new under the sun. Pathological enlightenment is much more common than people assume. Like I said, watch out for young gurus especially. They are prone to be Zen Devils. Upgrading society is good. The problem is, it's much harder to do than almost anyone realizes. Good intentions, pleasant words, and even enlightenment is not enough. It takes conscious leadership and a degree of self-mastery which very few people have.

@Highest Yup, but now to make that stick

@Shaun This is a totally normal ego backlash which will soon pass. The ego is incredibly strong and it will not allow you get rid of meaning so easily. If only it were so easy! It is a fact that no meaning whatsoever exists. This fact is very threatening to your way of life and your survival program. Which is why you are reacting with all those emotions. Those emotions are designed to get you back on track with your survival agenda. The fact that life is meaningless is itself meaningless, hence it is not bad or depressing. In order to be depressed you must assign negative meaning to life. So ironically the reason you're feeling so bad is because you are trapped inside an illusory world of (negative) meaning. The counter-intuitive move is to surrender all meaning. But ego is not gonna let that happen without a huge stink. In a few days you will forget you ever watched that video and you will fall back asleep into your unconscious life, as though nothing ever happened. That's how sneaky the ego is. It will just sweep all this truth under the rug, out of your awareness. What you should be really worried about is falling back asleep, not losing meaning.

Oh good God! Humanity is doomed.

Pretty good

Overall, ancient man was selfish, barbaric, and vicious like a wild dog. The end of slavery is a modern evolutionary advance. You have to consider the bigger picture. Consciousness not only has depth but breathed. God could go really deep by creating 5 enlightened masters or go very broad by creating 50,000 idoits hanging out on Facebook. Those 50,000 idiots might amount to more consciousness in the long run because they will breed like rabbits and share a technology like 5-MeO-DMT which then leads to 50,000 awakenings rather than just 5. This issue is highly nonlinear and counter-intuitive. Evolution is not a straightforward afair. What looks like steps backward are actually necessary steps forward. Therein lies the genius of the overall design. It's like a queen sacrifice in a masterful chess game. To understand God's plan you must look an infinite number of moves ahead.

@Pouya Sounds to me like you are on the right track but just second-guessing yourself. Just observe more rather than speculate. Sit down and observe what resistance is, how it works, when it arises, why it arises, when it passes, why it passes, what function is serves, what it feels like, etc. Those are all great questions. The purpose of contemplation is not deconstruction per se but to get to the truth of the matter, to see what is actually the case. What is actually the case about resistance? To answer that you must spend a lot of time observing it. The mistake is speculating about it based on your assumptions and theories. Stop doing that! Rather, observe it from scratch and make mental note of what you see. Study it like a rare tropical butterfly under a microscope which you are seeing for the first time in your life.

@Salvijus This is a thread about using 5-MeO-DMT to realize God, not ending all karma. You can discuss ending all karma elsewhere.

@hyruga Einstein disproved Newton's theory 100 years ago. And modern science still has no clue what gravity really is, even at the conceptual level. In fact, science does not know what anything is. ANYTHING! You are not appreciating the depth of this problem of knowing.

You already got your answer Others are you. God is all beings simultaneously. See my video: The Radical Implications Of Oneness.

@Salvijus I'm not really interested in such pedantic nondual debating. Get enlightened, realize God, and go about your life or leave this plane. I don't care. There's no need to debate it with me. If your intention is to leave this plane, then get on with it. No need to convince us of anything, no need to talk about nirvana on an online forum. If you really want to lessen your karma, begin by letting go of debating differences between Buddhism and Hinduism.

The point of evolution is to maximize consciousness and love. Which is the minimization of devilry. It happens exactly as everything you see around you in your life.

I don't do it actively like I once did.

@iamnotahumanbeing No sourcing question, per Forum Guidelines.