Leo Gura

@Dlenger1 The intellectual questions are a good beginning point, but ultimately you have to graduate from that to basically just sitting in silence with a calm mind and focusing intensely on "the seer" or consciousness itself. Just sit and kinda stare at consciousness itself. The problem with asking too many questions is that the mind then gets in the mood of giving verbal answers, which is never going to be enough. The Neti Neti method is helpful here. Anything you identify as yourself, you must negate by realizing that that thing or property cannot be the True Self. What you're really looking for is formlessness. "The seer" is formlessness. So any from you think you are cannot be it. And you have to be very careful about not thinking "I am formlessness" because that is still form! This is supposed to be frustrating process and it takes intense concentration to break through. You will not break through if you do this process without intensity and consistency. 20 minutes of inquiry is just not going to produce enough intensity for a breakthrough. It's very important to schedule some long periods of time for nothing but inquiry. Like a solid week of full-time 12-hours-per-day inquiry. That is how people break through in practice. You must concentrate on it like an obsessive psychopath.

The only thing you will ever find in the universe is yourself. Deeper and deeper layers of yourself.

Yeah, something like that. Trips definitely change you and open you if you do enough of them. It's not just a temporary high, it's an upwards arch.

@kieranperez Definitely don't go chasing mystical perfection. Do you! Just do you.

Sure, but will you actually do it? That's the issue. Solo is much harder emotionally.

You and every other man on the planet. LOL

@John Iverson Push-pull is a very delicate game. You shouldn't do it much over text or message. You must do it in-person. Text does not give you enough cues to know how the girl is reacting. In a face-to-face conversation you can quickly apologize like: "I was just joking. I actually love you. I want you to have my babies." But you cannot do that via text. It looks too weird and creepy. DO NOT try to attract women via text! It never works. Texts are purely for setting up a date and keeping in touch. Don't get overly cute via texts or you will lose many girls that way. Attraction must be built in-person. No amount of text game will compensate for shitting face-to-face game. Sarcasm and self-deprecating humor also does not work well via texts. Because texts do not convey enough information.

He is like me: we only need mild doses for crazy depth. Although I have never contacted an elf on mushrooms nor does that seem possible to me. Maybe on N,N-DMT though. On 20mg of 5-MeO I have total omniscience. It's crazy!

I am lost in his perfectly silky hair.

That hits the nail on the head! Amen That's what it's like to be spiritually attuned. It's like being a different human being. People like that are not common. The reason I am able to do Actualized.org is because I have some degree of this attunement (but not any paranormal abilities). It comes naturally to me. But even so, I have to struggle really hard to actualize it and live up to my full potential. Do not assume that it just comes effortlessly. With great intelligence comes great responsibility. Time to contact those fuckin elves and steal all their juicy elf knowledge!

@kieranperez The danger when discussing talent is that people get the wrong idea that if they are not talented, they cannot become a lot better. This is false. Even if you are not spirituality talented, you can absolutely train yourself to be massively spiritual. It will just take more work. Talent is a real thing. But talent alone is never enough and it's a terrible life strategy to expect to coast on your talent. It is also a mistake to not do spirituality because you are not talented at it. It's worth doing regardless of your talent.

@sausagehead The goal is to have a breakthrough experience but in a way which is safe, not too overwhelming or traumatic, and in a way where you can understand what happened to you and integrate it into everyday life. A very important aspect of taking psychedelics is to do in such a way that you do not traumatize yourself or freak yourself out so much that you never want to do it again. Very commonly what happens is that people take to high a dose, totally freak out, lose all memory of the trip, and then vow to never touch a psychedelic again. In my book, this is a total failure. You must learn how to trip consistently and moderately if you want psychedelics to transform your life. Blasting yourself is not the goal. Neither is microdosing and staying beneath a breakthrough. You want steady consistent breakthroughs which you can integrate well. Find a dosage and administration method which does this for you. It will be different from person to person.

You and 99% of humans. That's normal. That's just a consequence of being disconnected from your True Self and enmeshed in the Matrix of culture. Your survival almost entirely hinges on surviving within the Matrix of culture. Misalignment here can easily get you killed, so ego struggles and suffers a lot to navigate this domain successfully. In practice you should do both: 1) Try to fit in within reason. Don't bend over backwards but also don't rock the boat too much. You don't want to be locked in jail, or punched in the face, or sued, or fired by your boss. So in this sense you must fit in within reason. But most people go way beyond this, trying to fit in far too much to the point of becoming a slave to impressing others. 2) Work towards awakening and transcending your biographical and social identity. With this a great relief will come and you'll find yourself able to fit in without struggling to fit in. You will just flow with life and you won't worry to much about playing social roles. Yet at the same time you will still be able to play them, but consciously rather than reactively. So you won't suffer from not fitting in the way you do now. You will find your unique personality and place in life and you will stop caring how others judge you. It will not affect your happiness because you'll be totally grounded in your authentic personality and in your heart. What people don't realize is that an enormous part of their identity is social. We'll discuss that in future videos. Very few spiritual teachings discuss this aspect of waking up.

If you realize that a causal chain is infinite, it's basically the same as realizing that nothing is caused at all. Because zero and infinity are identical. You could say there are infinite causes. Or you could say that everything is its own cause. Or you could say that everything in uncaused. Those are just different ways of looking at the same thing. It's paradoxical because Infinity cannot be captured in symbols or any linear finite framework. Infinity always finds a way to break out of any linear framework such as: A causes B causes C... causes Z. Nope! Cannot be that way. That kind of framework will ALWAYS be partial and incomplete. The Absolute cannot be formalized. Truth must always be bigger than anything you can say about it.

@luqqzr My rule of thumb is: complete the course by whatever means necessary. Don't be a perfectionist about it.

Yes, this can happen, especially with a bad upbringing. But even so, if a person is truly spiritually gifted they should have some sense of it, however faint and obscured it may be by bad social conditioning. These people should feel like "I am just different from other people." They may not know why yet or how, but they can intuit that they don't quite fit in with dumb society."

This question makes no sense. I don't recommend psychedelics for people under 21 and those who are not emotionally mature. The reason I don't recommend it for people under 21 is because they are generally not emotionally mature or responsible. But there are always exceptions. I have not.

If you're asking that question, then you probably aren't, unless maybe you had a really dysfunctional childhood. Generally speaking, spiritually gifted people will have one or more of the following: Find it very easy to meditate or concentrate Are extremely interested in metaphysical and spiritual topics (more so than other topics) Are naturally very loving Really interested in Truth for its own sake Have paranormal abilities: they see auras, angels, and others weird stuff, they have telepathic abilities, etc. Exceptionally intuitive They have spontaneous kundalini activation/awakenings Are wise beyond their years, wiser than all their peers Not all of those need to be present. Just one or two of those is already great.

@Pouya If you want to live in a good society the government must be as conscious as possible. Unconscious rulers become tyrants who spread evil and chaos. Case in point: Trump There is a profound link between spirituality and government. Of course don't confuse spirituality with organized religion. I am not talking about theocracy.

Great! Looking forward to reading a detailed write-up from you once you return. It will be difficult but worth it. Hang in there. Don't give up. P.S. If you have not successfully completed at 2 week retreat, start there! 30 days is REALLY REALLY hard.

@lukej Awesome! Yes, that's awakening. Or at least one degree of it. There's almost always more. The trick also is integrating it into your everyday life and living in alignment with it. Yes, we've had this similar experience.

Well, in that case, just realize that this entire work of developing oneself is all about transcending culture, realizing how toxic, deluded, and dysfunctional culture can be. "Culture is not your friend." -- Terence McKenna At the same time, don't hate culture either. Just become aware of how limited, partial, and artificial it is. There is no liberation or freedom without transcending one's culture.

For me it feels like I am borderline. There's no full ego-death, so the ego can feel uncomfortable as it twists around trying to make sense of things. Those borderline trips can be some of the worst. You want to find a dose that blasts you past the borderline state but doesn't lead to whiteout or overwhelm. That should be somewhere in the 20-25 mg range for plugged HCl. Oxalate is weaker than HCl so if you're using that you might need to go higher. If your substance is not pure, if it's not white-colored, you'll need a higher dose. Any color other than white contains impurities. If you are smoking it, your dose needs to be much lower. Do NOT smoke 20-25mg unless you've done lower doses.

@MM1988 Before you go making such judgments as "this is impractical", you should spend some time actually contemplating and working with what was said. Don't pre-judge your results. Nothing in the duality videos suggests you should stop brushing your hair or wiping your ass. It's much more nuanced than that. It's going to take you lots of experience and contemplation to understand what was said in these duality videos.