Leo Gura

Weed definitely can raise consciousness. It's been used by yogis in India for this purpose for thousands of years. Of course most people use it irresponsibly, just like they do with food, drink, sex, and pretty much everything else. Blame the user not the substance. It takes great care to use substances for spiritual growth. It's not for kids and fools.

@Naturalist Careful, you are making a subtle duality between man/God, and God/world. There is a deeper consciousness which reveals that God is man and God is world. God is not limited in any way. Anything that is, God is. Seperation is illusion. Look at your hand. There are 5 fingers, but all the fingers are part of one hand. You are like one of those fingers which isn't realizing that it's also the entire hand. There is no boundary between a finger and a hand. Finger and hand ONE thing! Now apply this logic to the whole universe. The one giant Mind has an infinite number of virtual partitions, of which your ego-mind is one.

@7thLetter You need a mystical awakening to Absolute Love. Your heart is still closed. You still do not realize what Love is. Once you do that, it will soften you, and you will discover what life is really about, what God is really about. Intellect without Love is a barren desert. To transcend Yellow requires the greatest leap of all into the realm of the Absolute. You must have many mystical experiences which ultimately lead to the realization of God.

@Zizzero I will soon be adding new books to my book list which go into detail about Spiral Dynamics as it is found around the world. So I was basically quoting that. Personally I have not been to see it for myself. Generally-speaking Northern Europe is starting to dip their toes into Yellow. But it's still very early. There are no solid Yellow governments yet. But they will probably emerge first in Northern Europe. This is rather technical stuff which requires some deep reading. It cannot be philosophized about casually.

Yes, you are permanently changed. But the ego still returns. It's just more purified. The change is subtle but significant. Especially after a dozen trips. Those incremental changes add up to more than the sum of their parts. Basically it's no different than how it works with meditation retreats. One retreat will never totally change you. But the retreats add up over the years to something significant.

You got nothin to complain about. You are an hour's flight away from the Netherlands.

There is Goodness as an Absolute. It's what you would do if you were totally selfless and unconditionally loving. It's literally what God is doing to design this whole show. It is a Good which has no opposite. What you can do if fully align your agenda with that of God. Then your will becomes God's Will. This would be the ultimate way to live, but right now it is totally out of your reality. First you must realize what God is.

Netherlands and the Swiss are starting to move into Yellow a bit.

These days I am basically tripping when I just sit down and look at my hands sober. Of course I'm sure weed would open up my consciousness, but I have no attraction towards it for whatever reason. There are bigger fish to fry.

@CreamCat You are the government.

You are Hitler. You just aren't aware of it yet.

In a recent mystical experience I got a very strong vision that I should spend more time interacting with people face-to-face. Lately I've been feeling the itch to travel more, explore new places more, and meet new people. So I am considering doing some traveling and some touring in 2018. The idea would be to travel to major cities around the USA and give a new speech/video at each one, and also answering questions from the audience, and maybe even doing an informal dinner/hang-out. This wouldn't be a proper seminar or workshop, but more like a 2-hour live Actualized.org video + Q&A. But my time and resources are limited, so I have to start small and nearby. I know many of you are in Europe and all over the world, but that's too far and expensive for me to fly at this time. Depending on demand, right now I'm considering San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles, Bay Area, Seattle, Phoenix, Austin... in other words, places near me. But it all depends on demand. I have no idea yet which cities have how many Actualized.org viewers. It only makes sense to fly out if there are at least 10-20 people attending, considering the flight cost, hotel cost, and meeting room costs. Not sure about pricing either. Ideally I wanted to make it free to attend, but a ~$20/person admission fee might be necessary to offset the costs involved. I wouldn't be doing this for money. It would take well over 20 people per event to turn a profit, which I don't anticipate happening unless I go on tour full-time (which I don't have time to do at this point). Anyhow... I'm just spit-ballin' here. I wanted to throw this idea out there and see if you guys are interested, and more importantly, are there enough people in some of these West Coast US cities? Los Angeles-area and Bay Area would probably be my first two best options.

Yup, yup, yup! Super-monkey-God-consciousness

"Hi, I'll have a Denver omelet. Extra mushrooms." P.S. Thanks for the links.

Of course, of course. Psychedelics help you discover yourself. And since the Self is all that exists, through that you can discover anything of importance.

@purerogue That's cause Sadhguru's a good guru. Which is precisely why he's so dangerous for his followers. No matter how much he tells them not to worship him, that will only make them worship him more. It's like telling a girl you don't like her. She will only get more attracted. And if you tell a girl "I'm never having sex with you." She will only want to have sex with you all the more. Reverse psychology 101

@CreamCat Hitler in chilling in heaven Joke's on you for judging him.

@CreamCat When you publicly execute a few grunts at random, the rest of the army falls in line. Life suddenly feels so fresh Not only do you take this forum for granted, you take your life for granted.

I mean abolishing private property in practice. So for example, if you start a business, the government will own it. If you buy a house, your local town/village will own a majority stake in it. That's true communism. And no one is seriously advocating for it.

Perception, thought, and creation are not two. The universe is hell for devils because of how they perceive and how they think -- which is their creation. How you think about reality affects reality directly. By thinking of the world as a place where you exist, where others can harm you, and where one day you will die, you literally create your own hell.

You don't appreciate what you got until you lose it Maybe this calls for a round of bannings.

@mandyjw You'll need a very sick imagination to imagine what the last 2019 years would have been like without the molifying influence of Christianity and Islam. The leap from Stage Red to Blue was a major leap in human evolution. The mistake is comparing to some hippie ideal spirituality, which is stage Green, which never existed until 100 years ago, and only on the shoulders of Blue.

If anyone can find some links to the donation campaigns in Oregon and California, please post them here. Then I will post them on my blog for all to see. I wish I had known about this Denver campaign earlier so I could promote it.

Jesus did not leave a shitstorm. He spread the word about God as best as he could in his era. You have to remember that people were basically barbarians and slaves back then. So for them, Christianity was cutting edge high tech stuff, like the iPhone of their time. Remember that 99% of people could not read back then. And there were no books! Also, stop taking the word "devil" literally. These are nuanced teachings which require a highly intuitive and figurative mind to properly decipher.

See, this is what I mean by combining spirituality and politics. This is how society self-actualizes at the collective level. Conscious and engaged citizenry produces a better society. Maybe it's time to donate some coin to the Oregon campaign. They have a good shot at passing it with all those hippie Oregonians.