Leo Gura

They work on a small scale. They do not work without mainstream society enabling it. They also do not work as a mainstream society itself because not enough people are that developed/conscious. Mainstream society needs hundreds more years of development to get there. Mainsteam society IS THE spiritual community. It just happens to be at a very low level of spirituality today, like 3%.

@tecladocasio Dude, humble yourself. You talking about things you don't grasp. Your bullshit doesn't fly here.

No! You guys still do not understand distinctions. Distinctions are NOT mind made! Distinctions are NOT concepts nor thoughts! Mind is a distinction. Made is a distinction. Concept is a distinction. Thought is a distinction. Enlightenment/nonduality does not eliminate distinctions. Elimination is itself a distinction! Instead, you just become conscious what the true nature of a distinction is. So, what is a distinction? You have no idea. Contemplate. Maybe it's not anything

Just? Lol Yeah, it's only EVERYTHING! From the way you speak, sure sounds like you're missing love.

@kieranperez 500+ years

If you are going to trip you need to learn how to boost yourself out of negative states. You can proactively shift states at any time, rather than having them control you. Practice causing yourself to feel happy, excited, confident, calm, loving, etc. Practice shifting state.

Peace is an Absolute. It is present even in the middle of a battlefield. If you are aware enough to notice it.

The purpose of any emotion is to create behaviors necessary for the ego's survival. Mind you, I said ego's survival, not the body's survival. It's a preemptive defense mechanism, so that you end up getting what you want.

@GroovyGuru If it bothers you so much you aren't ready.

The astounding thing is that understanding is possible. Everything can be understood.

@Key Elements I don't know what you're saying. That psychedelics are somehow wrong? If so, then you need more experience with them.

What is understanding? is a very profound question indeed.

Sweet!

Except something IS nothing! The whole point is that nothing does in fact exist. His logic fails.

@XYZ Nice try devil, but you still don't know it, you're just pretending like you know it so that you can continue being a devil whilst thinking you are an angel. Think of devilry like an onion. Many layers to it and it stinks and makes people cry

@KP_Spirituality27 You don't need to be enlightened to answer that question. Just look at enlightened people throughout history. Did they continue having sex? YES! YES! YES! How could they have sex if they did not desire it? You can figure this stuff out through simple deduction.

A flute with no holes is not a flute. And a headache is not a brain.

Well obviously. That's not even the future, that's already today. Life in the real future will be so different it will be impossible to understand it for today's humans. There will be things far beyond humans or even living creatures. Stuff in totally new dimensions as yet unimaginable. I forsee a future where beings can materialize physical objects using their will and imagination through no physical mechanism. Imagine building a jumbo jet using your mind and it appears before you. With enough intelligence that should be possible. That is how God does it.

Map and territory are ONE. Stop creating dualities!

"The better the model the bigger the problem." Getting lost in the map is much more problematic than getting lost in the territory. Finding your way out of a forrest is easy compared to finding your way out of your own mind. The forrest doesn't play devilish tricks on you the way your own mind does.

@Charlotte Good stuff. Yeah, it helps to have a deep theoretical foundation in spirituality to make sense of experiences like this. Yeah, nonduality is so radical it does not make sense to the lowercase self. Takes a lot of trips to make sense of it all. Psychedelics make it much easier as that breathing is hard work and gets pretty messy. The breathing works more at the bodily level than the mental/understanding level. That's still useful, but don't be surprised if it doesn't make sense.

When you fully realize what ego is, it will be like you were never even born. It will not even be possible in that moment to imagine that there could ever be a self or a human. A human is 100% a total illusion, including birth, death, mind, body, and biographical life. None of it has any reality whatsoever. There is no such thing as biological creatures who are born, live, and die. All that is imagination. But you can't understand this at all from your current state of consciousness. Your current state of consciousness IS the imagination at work, locking in "reality". Whatever it imagines is "real" for you right now.

5-MeO is almost too powerful for such questions. You will be in such a degree of consciousness that your old life will have zero import or meaning. Your old life will simply not make any sense because it is pure illusion. Under 5-MeO human life simply does not compute. It's like looking at a 2D object from the 4th dimension. Your only desire will be to share 5-MeO with the whole world. Mushrooms or LSD are milder and better for asking such questions.

@Angelo John Gage A really good way to verify if your desire is coming from ego or from the heart is to ask while on a psychedelic. Ask when you are in a state of nondual God consciousness. See what comes up.