Leo Gura

Anonymity in large numbers creates a lack of responsibility. Individual responsibility is off-loaded onto someone else and evil behavior becomes normalized: "everyone's doing it, so it must okay for me to do it too." In small tribes anonymity is impossible. But in a society of millions of people, and online, it's the opening of Pandora's box. When nobody is holding you accountable it's much easier to behave like a devil.

People here grow and change a lot. People outgrow this forum and go off on their own. Which is exactly as it should be. Don't create false limiting beliefs like that. I get messages, comments, and emails from people on a daily basis with stories of who much they've grown or changed. Most people are never going to write a detailed public report of how much they changed.

Meh, if that's all that happens from your joining a cult, you got out lucky

@Igor82 Nice, but you've only scratched the surface of what 5-MeO offers. You've seen less than 0.1% of its potential. Don't stop now.

@pluto Interesting method. Would require lots of 1st hand experimentation to verify.

Deficiency needs is a good answer, but I would also say lack of familiarity with the Spiral Dynamics model itself, and lack of epistemic inquiry. The dynamics of knowledge (epistemology) needs to be directly explored and contemplated. Also systems thinking. Seeing the world as a complex web of impersonal inter-related systems. Most problems are systemic problems requiring systemic solutions. Few people look at the world this way. They look at the world too personally, as if the world revolves around them and their judgments, as if the solutions are linear and black & white. Yellow is nonlinear thinking. Most people are highly linear thinkers. Yes, but Green still clings too much to its SJW perspective as being superior. Green is not able to detach enough from its own perspective.

Infinite intelligence. Stop assuming reality is dumb. Reality is smarter than all human minds combined. The devil, in his egotism, mistook the intelligence of God for his own.

That's a solid strategy. I don't recommend working at McDonalds. But this topic of resources is too detailed and complex to discuss here. Just by doing some solid googling you can find mostly anything you need. You have to be serious about it though. There are literally 1000s of amazing resources but you're too lazy to use them.

Man, for now, I would say just forget about that. Your mind is filled with fantasies of being some crazy Buddha. Don't worry about that for now. Spend the next 5 years just learning how to survive and thrive in America. Then revisit the Buddha issue. Remember, Buddha was 27 years old when he left behind his life of luxury, success, and family. He had a wife and child. He was experienced with the ways of material living. And then it took him another 6 years to finally get enlightened. So you've got plenty of time. 23 year olds are basically babies. You have virtually no life experience or survival skills. So build those up. This is not unique to you. Most 23 year olds these days are like this. As was I at that time. You'd be amazed how much can get accomplished in 10 years. Way more than you could image.

@daniel695 Becoming conscious of your emotions is the core of all development and awakening work because emotions run your entire life. It doesn't matter what medication you're on, you can still mindfully observe and inquire into emotions. Your entire life is run by emotions 24/7. The issue isn't that you have too few emotions, it's that you're totally overwhelmed by them to the point where you cannot even tell where an emotion ends and your life begins. Observing and deconstructing emotions is very challenging work, for anyone, regardless of medications or not. You could start by observing every day in which ways you suppress emotions.

@Ampresus That's nonduality. Now the trick is taming that Ox. Your body? What is a body? Does it really exist? Or is it a conceptual construction? Inquire deeper into what this "body" really is. There is no difference between "your body" and a coffee table.

@kieranperez Look, man, just start doing the practices. Start doing the exercises. Start building one habit at a time. You need to find ways to take the stuff I've talked about and exercise it every day. It's not rocket science. There are so many ways to exercise the theory.

Another way to say: "thought and emotions are so impaired that all contact is lost with external reality." As it turns out, external reality is a thought! To be lost in a fantasy, thought is not impaired, thought is hyper-active. The purpose of meditation/yoga is to impair thought.

@Identity Sounds like you're progressing nicely. Just make sure you keep yourself grounded in actuality. Be careful not to conflate direct glimpses with your feelings, thoughts, theories, and images of them. The deepest truths are not images. Distinguish between the creations of your mind (thoughts, stories, images, memories) vs actual BEING. This is paramount. Notice that nothing you think or imagine about the Truth is the Truth.

@Rilles That might as well be the definition of enlightenment. Lol External reality? What's that?!

Overall I would put him at Orange/Green. The part in him that I find Yellow is his openmindedness to diverse perspectives. I mostly used Joe as an example of the multi-perspective aspect of Yellow. But that's far from Yellow's only aspect. Joe still has a lot of Orange that he needs to transcend. The deeper I learn about Yellow, the more I see that extremely few people are solidly at Yellow. Yellow is very deep and sophisticated.

Not the deepest levels in my opinion.

@Mada_ When all of reality collapses, yes, it will feel like you're going insane because you are unable to distinguish between real and unreal any more. Most of what you used to think of as "reality" was just a thought-based fantasy. Including your own birth and the existence of other people. Hang in there. These kind of insights can be rough. Truth requires acclimation.

Lol, he HAS lost his mind. That's what enlightenment is. Mind is just an idea. Mind does not exist, neither does sanity, and neither do you. You don't yet realize the tree you're barking up. Spirituality is not going to go the way you think.

@smd I received various private messages from people who were hurt by Rali's cult. It's very easy for stuff like this to get out of hand, so don't take it for granted.

@kieranperez It sounds to me like you need to focus on handling some of your basic survival needs. Learn to survive in the world a bit more so that you develop a knack for success and getting stuff done. As you meet those lower level needs, you'll be ready to move up into higher needs. A skyscraper must be built on a solid foundation. Don't worry about spending a few years learning how to do business. Business is important to learn. Practical skills are important to learn. You want to handle all of your survival needs so that then you have lots of free time to delve into spirituality, art, etc. It's kinda hard to do art when you can't pay your bills. Learning to get practical stuff done is part of your developmental growth. I had to learn a lot of practical stuff before I could get Actualized.org off the ground. Actualized.org runs due to practical know-how, not airy-fairy spiritual ideas. Go learn to be a programmer or whatever you need to move you along towards your dreams. I learned lots of scripting and programming because it is so useful.

I get that. Then again, it's almost a lie then. Because in fact for you it is more than a belief. But maybe I'm just splitting hairs here. The trick when talking about God is that you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If you say it's just your opinion or belief, that is untrue and gives the wrong impression. If you say that it is Absolute Truth, that makes you sounds like a fundamentalist nutcase, and also gives the wrong impression. It's like we are afraid to say the truth because we know no one would believe us. So we play coy. Just food for thought.

@Angelo John Gage A decent explanation of a very tricky topic. I noticed you saying several times that you "believe" this. What is your direct experience of God? If I was shooting a video like this (and I do have this topic planned for the future as a video), I would make sure to stress that God is not a belief, or a theory, or a speculation, but a direct experience which the viewer can have. This is what's most amazing about God: you can realize it for yourself! This is what most people misunderstand. A newbie watching your video would walk away with the idea that what you're talking about it is just a philosophical theory of God. The viewer would think, "Well, how does this guy know? He's just theorizing. This is just his opinion." It's absolutely critical to plant the seed in the viewer's mind that consciousness of God is a real thing and requires doing concrete practices. Otherwise God forever remains an idea. The whole point of such a video would be to get people to realize that they must start doing the necessary practices. Other distinctions which might have been useful are realism vs idealism, and esoteric vs exoteric versions of religion. Really what your video was debunking were the exoteric versions of God. All mainstream religions are exoteric. Most religious people don't even know that esoteric religion is possible. It's a very tricky topic, so you did a decent job. The tricky thing about God is, it's both deeply personal and impersonal, encompassing every set of attributes.

Indeed it is The holiest of holies.

@Aaron p The most important test is called Ehrlich. It mostly tests for psychedelic Indoles. Those other tests are be useful too for filtering out other harmful agents (you don't want to find meth in your psychedelic), but you need a positive test for Indoles. There is no test kit that's able to distinguish 5-MeO-DMT from other Indoles. And freebase vs HCl is not something you can test with a kit. The kit don't care. Test kits are not to be fully trusted. Which is why you always want to test new substances with very small doses to verify your batch is what it claims to be.