Leo Gura

The quality of your answers depend a lot on the quality of your questions.

I'm not in a relationship at the moment.

Need/desire is a duality. You are the one defining them. Whatever you say is a need becomes a need. Strictly speaking there is no need to do anything. You could just lay down and die. There is not even a need to live. Practically speaking, sex is one of the most powerful human drives. Good luck ignoring it. It's designed to be unignorable. By saying that sex is a need all we're saying is: it's a core biological drive which dominates human survival. It can be overcome, but not easily, and not through something as simplistic as NoFap. You might as well be practicing NoShit.

@Arcangelo Sounds great!

@Patrick Lynam I'm not really sure anyone offers MDMA assisted therapy since MDMA is illegal in most countries and a serious therapist would not want to risk it. You can either do psychedelics on your own and that itself is the therapy. Or you can consider doing psychedelics with a shaman like with Ayahuasca or toad venom or ibogaine clinics in Costa Rica, Canada, etc. Traditional talk therapy certainly works, but nothing compares to the therapeutic power of psychedelics. You don't need a therapist to administer it. The psychedelic is 100x wiser than any silly therapist. The therapist is more of a distraction than of help during a trip. The psychedelic will show you everything you need to know about yourself and your issues if you come to it with a genuine intention. All that's required is that you want to know the TRUTH about your issue. That's all. The psychedelic will show you all the answers, as much as you're willing to stomach. Just make sure you follow a proper tripping protocol. And start with small doses. It's very smart to take charge of your own mental and psychological issues. No one can really sort you out but you. Which is why traditional talk therapy is so gradual. The answers are all inside you, if you'd only sit down with a notepad and introspect. You can teach yourself how to diagnose and troubleshoot all of your own psychological problems. Of course if you have the cash to burn, talk therapy could be good too. But you can't just rely on talk therapy to fix your life. Your life will require a lot deeper work to truly sort out. No talk therapist even understands how deep this work goes. So it's worth your time to learn how to self-help.

If at first you don't succeed, try try again. It's just that simple. You try stuff until you improve and master it. Never judge your progress by a couple of attempts. It takes many attempts before you learn to surrender. Sometimes it takes 50 attempts. Sometimes 100 attempts. This is how mastery is done. See my old video called: Mastery Shamanic breathing is not so hard. You can probably get good at it in 10-20 attempts.

@kev014 Sounds like your soul already knows the answer. The soul only has one function and desire: full realization and embodiment of God. That's all it wants and the only thing it is after. Everything else is scenery along the way. This is all that life is about. There is nothing else. It's not just about joy, there is literally nothing else to do but stall it out and deny it, or do it. It takes a lot of vision and wisdom to actually do it though. Talking about it is all too easy. You have to get very clear that this is what you want.

You are expecting too much. It's too early for that yet. Be happy with mid to high Green politicians. Politics is a very pragmatic sport. You can't be too idealistic about it. It's not about perfection, it's about gradual incremental improvements. The best you can get is the best you can get. Overall, society is still pretty damn good in America or Europe. Compared to how society was 500 years ago.

@Preetom Still feels like a missed opportunity to not call himself Muji.

@Salvijus What isn't?

Moving this to the Self-Actualization sub-forum so that it gets more views.

Mu-ji Why did he name himself after a cow?

The ego-mind returns surprisingly soon. Like within 30 minutes you're back into standard ego operating mode. But of course shaken to your core. It's often a relief to return to ordinary life. But there is also a deep regret for losing that full-on God-consciousness because nothing in life will ever top that. Sometimes the God-consciousness lingers for a few hours or even into the next day. The saddest part about 5-MeO is that you cannot be that high 24/7/365. Losing touch with God is one of the deepest pains. But as you awaken more, you will start to realize that God is present all the time, even if you're not on a peak. This takes a lot of tripping to start to realize. Enlightenment is right here, right now, at all times. But only if you're awake enough to see it. It does zero good telling an unawakened newbie that enlightenment is right here, right now, at all times. He just cannot see it. He needs actual breakthroughs and mystical experiences to demonstrate it to himself. That's where the 5-MeO comes in so handy. After enough tripping, your whole life will start to feel like a trip. The materialist paradigm slowly gets snuffed out forever. I no longer experience myself as in a material world. The world gradually becomes self-luminous.

@Shin Good luck proving Love wrong, devil! Ahahahahahaha..... You will be dead, and on your grave, Love will dawn.

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.