Leo Gura

Or said another way, the personal self is a concept.

It varies a lot person to person and time to time. Psychedelics are not always predictable. Plugging is also a lot smoother than snorting. My first doses were snorted and a bit rough.

@Preetom No, it's not the same. Understanding is what leads to deep wisdom and Truth. Don't confuse understanding with theory or book smarts. Understanding is its own thing. It allows you to escape Maya and navigate Maya masterfully. Understanding is the key to everything.

@Tetcher The awakening on psychedelics is genuine (assuming you have an awakening on psychedelics -- which not everyone does), but it is usually temporary and the ego will return unless you do a lot of additional work to break it down. Psychedelics give powerful glimpses and insights which would otherwise take years of manual labor to get (if ever). Most people will never do enough hardcore spiritual practice to get as deep as psychedelics can take you within 60 minutes. Imagine if you could take a pill and become a Tiger Woods -level golfer for 1 day. Then you drop back to normal. But still, you now know what it feels like to be a world class golfer, which would otherwise take you 10 years of hardcore practice which you would probably never do.

@FredFred Not for about 6 months. Any psychedelic is 5-MeO-like to me now. 2 grams of mushrooms feels like 50% 5-MeO, 50% mushrooms. Basically a small dose of any substance tips me over the edge into full nondual God consciousness.

15mg is a small dose 20mg is a decent dose 25mg is a heavy dose 30mg is a monster dose At least for me. Tolerance varies person to person. Be very cautious with anything above 25mg. The mindfuck can become almost unbearable.

Truth is just exactly everything that is occurring this moment. Truth is not a concept. It is that out of which the present moment is made.

@okulele It's a phase. I'm going through that too. Old motivations must die and then new ones will arise. But not necessarily immediately. You must give yourself time to be rudderless and trust that a new sense of purpose will emerge from that.

Metaphysical issues as opposed to psychological or human-centric issues. For example, figuring out how to make money or get laid are not existential issues. They are merely the pursuit of your survival agenda. Questioning whether money or other people are even real would be an existential pursuit. You may be having lots of sex but do you understand that you are having sex with an illusion?

Of course you wouldn't. And that is precisely why you are a miserable suffering devil. See, you don't really want truth, you really want selfishness. Hence you do not have truth, you have selfishness.

The problem is that the ego does not know what true happiness or love are. The ego's selfishness and falsehood is precisely what prevents true happiness and love. Happiness and love are super counter-intuitive. You can't trust the ego's definitions of them. Because it is true. If you don't have the truth, you've got nothing.

That is a bannable offense.

That is merely due to lack of proper theoretical foundation, lack of self-inquiry, lack of meditation skill, incorrect dosage, and lack of consistent tripping. How silly would it be if NASA sent one rover to Mars and then said, "Okay, we're done. But we're so confused about Mars." To understand Mars requires hundreds of missions. One mission doesn't mean jack. It raises more questions than it answers.

@How to be wise Because happiness is a limited human thing, while Truth is universal. Truth is much bigger than happiness. Truth is there even if you're not happy. Truth is the only thing you can count on in this evanescent world. You should want the Truth even if it means it will cause you great suffering.

Psychedelics will definitely not wake society up auto-magically. Psychedelics do not eliminate the work, they thrust you deep into it. And most people have no foundation for how to deal with that. I do not push psychedelics on everyone. I recommend them only to serious self-actualizers, which is less than 1% of the general population.

Now you understand why 99.9999% of people aren't enlightened. For most people it takes decades to work that stuff out. This is the bulk of spiritual work. Breaking down that ego, which is more stubborn than a rented mule.

I have a video planned on this exact topic so you'll be able to verify your understanding then. But unless you've had a massive enlightenment you will not understand no matter how well it is explained.

Stop spreading libertarian tripe on this forum. This is supposed to be a place of higher widsom, not egotistical dogma. If you take Ayn Rand's ideas seriously you do not belong on this forum.

As leader of this place, yes, I make such decisions every day. This is not CNN where ignorance is given equal weight as truth in the name of neutrality. Ultimately if you don't agree with a spiritual teacher's guidance you should find another teacher. The guidance is sometimes given sternly, without room for debate, because the spiritual teacher has a greater depth of understanding than you. He's doing it for your benefit even though your ego may not like it. It's in poor taste to think you know more than the teacher. In that case, why be his student? And this is not to say the teacher is always right.

As Einstein showed, there never was such a thing as time. Time is a relative concept. People still don't get the signifigance of Einstein's theorems.

LSD is outstanding. For me it is second best to 5-MeO-DMT. But people will have various opinions because psychedelics affect people differently. Psychedelics are not as simple as people think. You don't just pop a pill and get the same result. Results vary ENORMOUSLY depending on many factors.

If it has to be explained, you don't got it. And no explanation will help you get it. This is the most profound question you can possibly answer. You have no idea how significant the answer is. It will derail your whole life. They call it rebirth for good reason.

Leo is a fantasy. Like Santa Clause. It would be wise to stop believing in it.

I didn't under sell it. Your mind was just full of stage Orange judgments and demonizations of Green. Now you see more clearly. Green is a great stage. Turquoise you cannot even imagine yet.

There is a very definite explanation. But if you knew it, you'd cease to exist and be enlightened. The ego-mind cannot answer that question because it requires the realization that ego-mind is a fiction. Which means you die at that precise moment. So the cost of answering that question is your death. Still want to know?