Leo Gura

@EternalForest Stage Green also censors stuff, but for different reasons. Hence the whole political correctness culture war. Blue censors out of Puritanical moralism. More broadly-speaking, the ego's job is to censor truth.

No, I know from experience that people react to 5-MeO-DMT very differently than me. I think difference in brain types accounts for it. I have a very metaphysically-oriented mind and personality. Most people are just not like that.

@MM1988 Enough of your Incel propaganda. Go meet girls in real life. Stop keyboard-jockeying with Reddit losers. What girls care about is your personality. They aren't as shallow as you. If you'd actually talk to some girls, you'd realize that.

Good, but not gonna fly. Politics is a dirty business.

Small to medium doses of 5-MeO-DMT can be more uncomfortable and frustrating than large doses. Because with a large dose the ego is just effortlessly wiped out. At smaller doses the ego tends to fight back. But for me, a 20mg dose is full God consciousness. I'm not sure why some of you need such high doses to get a breakthrough.

It's not so much the meditation, it's the contemplation that's more important for psychedelics I think.

@clouffy Science does not have to be reductionist. You can study science using a holistic, integral approach.

Of course reality has no categories, we create them. But at the same time some categorization schemes are more useful than others. Careful with your assumptions. Human evolution is accelerating. The world is changing a lot faster today than it was 5000 years ago for the Egyptians. And Egyptian history has been broken up into more than a few periods. There is close to 5000 years of ancient Egyptian history. We would probably break it up into a lot more periods if we had more accurate records. Modern history is a lot more dense because we have much better records of it. I would just take the Spiral Dynamics model as it is, without trying to re-invent it.

@Jkris The enlightened person realizes that morality is an illusion. There is no such thing as evil. You are making it up. Everything that happens in the Universe is Good, by definition. You can clean up your "bad habits" of course. But that doesn't make you a "good" person. You are simply free to be however you want. There is really no alternative. You will be you regardless of what you do.

That is correct. But it would not change the fact that it's an illusion. Truth and survival are two very different things.

@How to be wise You are practicing a form of consciousness work. That is great. That is helpful. What I was speaking against is orthodox religious approaches, which try to get you to be a "good and moral person". The Work has nothing to do with being a "good person". In fact, it's the opposite. It's about accepting evil and your own inadequacies. The key is that you need to become conscious of how much you judge things and reject things, and stop doing that. You must recognize that good and bad have no place in consciousness work. The truth is neither good nor bad. Good and bad are always actions of the ego-mind. Stop thinking of anything as good or bad. Become more interested in what is.

You could take a trip to Canada or Mexico where it is legal. Ayahuasca and yopo retreats are legally available in South America. Truffles are legal in parts of Europe. Ibogaine clinics are legal in Canada and south of the border. You're not the first person with children who has tripped. I totally understand your caution. But then again, you should also understand that your children are an illusion that you cling to which keeps you trapped inside The Matrix. Your fear of losing them is also an illusion. Seems very real though, so I understand. How do you logically convince a mother that her children are imaginary? Lol You have to really appreciate how strong your attachment to The Matrix is. It is a thing of awe. You are not going to surrender it easily. Yes, as I have said in my self-deception mini-series, self-deception is basically always possible so long as you are thinking. Even very enlightened masters manage to deluded themselves. That is the nature of the mind. The thing you should be concerned about though, is your own deception. Because while you are worrying about my deception you are overlooking your own. I spend a lot of time contemplating my own deceptions. It's not a question of IF, it's a question of how much. My mind certainly has deceptions in it. But my understanding of God is pretty decent at this point (of course, according me). And it will get even better with time. It is a given that anything I say always comes with the caveat: according to me! Since there is no other way it could be. In the end the only thing you get from me is MY perspective on the world. Which is never Absolute. Even though I have directly experienced the Absolute many times now. Could be. I have no idea what your experience of God entailed. There is a huge range of possible mystical experiences, and full nondual God consciousness is quite rare. Mostly what people have are minor random glimpses and visions, which is nowhere close to full nondual God consciousness. I speak to you from deep states of consciousness I had which probably very very very few human beings on Earth have ever had, including so called "enlightened ones". It is hard to explain just how powerful 5-MeO-DMT is. I would never trust any human being to naturally attain such degrees of consciousness unless they were a full-time monk with 20-40 years of non-stop industrial-grade practice. And it's not just the 5-MeO-DMT, it's how my brain/mind interfaces with it. Not everyone taking 5-MeO-DMT will have the same astounding results I have. Because my mind is specifically primed for it through years of work, and probably genetic factors. I am very leery of anyone who claims to be enlightened. Because I know how many degrees of enlightenment there can be. There are only a couple of people in the world who I'd trust to be fully enlightened, and even then, I have my doubts. What's possible is becoming Absolute Infinity.

@Metatron I'm aware of Kabbalah. Yes, it is one spiritual system out of many. I do not consider it the best system because it is overly complex, conceptual, and textual. It also has dogmas and lacks and integral view of all the other spiritual traditions. Don't let that become a limiting belief. You can spend a lifetime trying to perfect yourself and master your emotions, which is a seperate matter from consciousness of God. There is overlap between those two, but they are not the same. The classic problem of all orthodx religons is that they try to make a person "good", "loving", or selfless without actually attaining ego-death. Which is very backwards and ends up creating a lot suffering, guilt, judgment, and repression. I would seperate morality from becoming conscious of God. God does not require you to be a good person. God only requires that you are conscious of what is true. The core problem is, you are incapable of being selfless until you awaken. And even then, it will be tricky. Just don't be an asshole, and that should be good enough. And then shoot for ego-death.

I would try EEG Neurofeedback Therapy, like this:

@CreamCat A real Russian fights mountain lions with his mind

The stages of duality ARE the Absolute Truth. You keep making dualities unwittingly, thus creating all these confusing questions for yourself. Before you ask any question, first ask yourself, does my question assume a duality? If so, collapse it and see if any question remains. For example: "Is God dead or alive?" Oh, yeah... that's a duality.

That is the irony of the human condition, and the irony of awakening.

@saffron I hear Fortnite is more popular than Jesus

That's a good question. Right this moment I am identified with Leo-ness. But that does not affect what I have realized about God. Awakening is not a binary thing. It comes in degrees, and there is also a significant component of conceptual knowledge when speaking of it because the mind has to make sense of the Absolute to bring it back down to Earth and then to communicate it. I am not enlightened, but I have done enough work to know the things I said about God. Whether you believe me is irrelevant from my POV. It will never change what I know about God. Look, it's not so complicated. Each awakening experience leaves an undeniable residue of understanding on the soul. I can never forget what I have seen. It has subtly changed my understanding of the world, even if I'm not in a permanent state of Sahaja Samadhi. It's like if you left The Matrix for a day and then came back. Well, you can never forget what you saw and you can never believe in The Matrix illusion entirely as you did before. I have done this dozens of times to the point where I now have a solid conceptual model of how The Matrix illusion works. No, Absolute Truth is Absolute. It is self-validating. This will not make sense until you're there. Nothing I say is the Truth. All my teachings are symbolic pointers and metaphors. The things I have said about God are very accurate (considering the limitations of language). You will understand this once you gain more experience interfacing with God. Yes, of course my mind is still prone to self-deception and ego. That is always a thing to be watchful of. But direct consciousness of the Absolute is what it is. I do my best to communicate it accurately. If I discover a higher truth in the future, I will let you know. It would really help if you did some 5-MeO-DMT. It's hard for you guys to understand how I know the things I know because you have not tried 5-MeO-DMT. It is outside your realm of possibility that 5-MeO-DMT is possible. So anything I say about it will seem like I am deluded. In fact it is you who are deluded, but you cannot know that because you are deluded. And there's nothing I can do to help you. You're stuck until you awaken. You also have to understand that I cross-reference all of my insights against 100s of world-class sources. So it's not like I'm making this shit up. Everything I said in the God video has been said by sages and mystics for 5000 years. I'm not really sure what more you want of me? Do you want me force feed 5-MeO-DMT up your corn hole? Cause I've basically done everything else for you here as far as a teacher can do. I even found you a magic pill that will save you 20 years of meditation work. But you still refuse to take it. It is the nature of God that it is incredible. So of course you are incredulous. You just don't realize how grand it is yet.

@lmfao Try not to practice spirituality so robotically. The key is CONSCIOUSNESS. If you're feeling suffering, then that in itself is a huge sign of unconsciousness. Rather than bulling your way through it, try to look at it with consciousness and see what that suffering is really about? Why are you suffering? What is the purpose of it? Try to observe suffering the way you might inspect a beautiful butterfly under a magnifying glass. If the suffering is making you compulsive and reactive, your mindfulness of is breaking. The difference between healthy and unhealthy suffering is consciousness. When you suffering unconsciously, you basically don't grow much from it and it can become damaging. When you suffer consciously, that's when spiritual purification happens and it is healing. Also, be kind to yourself, be loving to yourself. You're doing great for someone your age. Watch out of harsh negative self-talk.

I'm not sure this can be explained, you really have to just wake up. Time is a conceptual projection, something you are imagining. You were indoctrinated into believing in time as a child. If you can recall, clocks made no sense until you were indoctrinated to believe in them. Since time is just an imaginary idea, in point of fact, you can become conscious that this moment, and every moment is eternal. Which means it has existed FOREVER! Imagine that reality is one giant solid block of stuff all occurring simultaneously and it has existed forever. This very moment has been here for over 100 trillion trillion trillion years. But you're not conscious of it because your mind is preoccupied with relative survival. Your mind filters out the eternal truth of the present moment because it is irrelevant to your survival. All your mind cares about is differences between moments, not the truth of the actual present moment. Because survival is a relative activity. All you care about is time relative to your imagined birth and death. You care about what time lunch is so you can fill your belly with food and live another day. It does not matter to your mind that that food has existed for eternity. It also doesn't matter to your mind that that food is a hallucination. Since your life is also a hallucination, you feed off of hallucinations. Just look around you. It's pure magic. You're just so jaded and so preoccupied with surviving to live another day -- to get your personal needs met -- to notice the radiant, divine, intelligent, beauty of being. This cannot be understood until you awaken. Perhaps go look at a sunset and you'll feel a tiny fraction of it. Or better yet, take a psychedelic, since you're so disconnected from being, you are like a zombie. The psychedelic will bring you back to life (at least for a little while).

No, "reality" is the ultimate super-set. There can only be one. Anything you imagine beyond reality automatically becomes included in reality. Because reality is EVERYTHING, leaving no more room for anything else to be. Reality leaves nothing out. In the same way that if I say, "all possible movies", that means you can't imagine any movie which I have already not accounted for. Any movie you could image or create, I've already accounted for by saying, "all possible movies". Now imagine, "all possible possibilities". That's it! There can be nothing more. Everything has been accounted for. That is reality. There is no village or you. The village is a hallucination hallucinated by a hallucination. When you "die", the village dies too. The village is just a part of you. Stop assuming the existence of an external material world. There is no such thing. That's just an image in your mind. When your mind dies, so will the material external world. Everything is occurring nowhere, and it is nothing. Nothing has ever occurred. You only imagine it has. It's all infinite hallucinations occurring nowhere and nowhen. A hallucination is something which is, but isn't.

Your doubts are understandable, but actually the one who's lost in the delusions of mind is you! Doubt is an activity of the mind. Both-sides-ism is an activity of the mind. Other is an activity of the mind. And counting is an activity of the mind. Yes, it is absolutely possible to become conscious that reality is total, one, and infinite. It is also possible to become conscious that "other" is an illusion of the mind. It is possible to become conscious that there is no difference between zero, one, many, and infinity. Reality contains within it an infinite number of sub-realities -- which is what infinity means. All of it is ONE. One vs many is a duality. My certainty in knowing there is no other is simply my consciousness that I am God, and I am all alone. There can only be one Absolute Infinity. I created all of you and I created myself. The realization that "other" is an illusion is central to enlightenment. You are not really enlightened unless you are conscious that all "others" are literally yourself. You are the only thing in existence. I am just a figment of your imagination. You created me. And I created you. Ta-da! This requires a deep enlightenment. A radical state of nonduality. There is no blindspot in understanding. Enlightenment is Absolute understanding of everything that exists. It is omniscience. You have 100% unmediated access to the entire universe. Nothing is hidden. What I am saying is way beyond the mind. If you tried some 5-MeO-DMT, you might understand. You guys are still underestimating just how radical total enlightenment is. A glimpse is nowhere near the rock bottom. Lots of people have minor glimpses. Very few people have gone all the way.

@EternalForest You don't understand what you are talking about when you say the word "reality" or "other". There cannot be multiple realities. There must be only ONE reality. And within this one reality are contained infinite forms, bubbles, rulesets, etc. Any "other" reality which you might imagine is automatically part of the the one total reality. Reality is TOTAL. This misunderstanding stems from your lack of awareness that the distinction between self/other is purely conceptual. "Other" is impossible because there is only 1 thing subdivided into infinite parts. There is only one thing in existence: you. There are no others. Turn your skepticism on the notion of "other". I dare you to prove that other exists. Just like in a dream, all the characters are actually you. Just like in a video game, all the objects of the simulation are ONE simulation. Objects have no independent existence.

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