Leo Gura

That's a serious dose. Welcome back

I am creating a new course, it will be awesome and it will be released sometime next year. No more details beyond that yet.

The Dark Night does not usually last for years. That is rare. Many people don't even get a Dark Night. When the Dark Night lasts a long time that is for people who have no theoretical foundation, no good guidance. By watching my videos and reading the books you should be able to avoid all that. P.S. Giving up your loved ones will be necessary regardless. All loved ones come and go. They do not last forever. Enlightenment requires you to surrender everything, but after that you come back and can appreciate it that much more. Detachment -- counter-intuitively -- heightens your capacity to love.

@kieranperez Rules trade certain freedoms for others. Rules are important for a society to function, but also rules must be well selected and you must understand why the rule was created. There is a big difference between following rules consciously vs unconsciously. And rules in society are much more appropirate than a rule-based personal morality. Your personal morality should not be rule-based but heart and consciousness centered.

@Mihael Keehl What you got there with the mushroom is a little taste of BEING. A tiny taste. You only skimmed the surface of the ocean that is psychedelia. Contemplation will come naturally at deeper levels. You have to distinguish between contemplation which is artificial and contemplation which is organic. At higher doses you will be hit with organic contemplations without any need of writing down lists of questions. What's most important is just genuine curiosity about reality, not a list of questions. The list of questions is good to make, but you do that BEFORE the trip, and you don't look at it during the trip.

Great thread idea

@Charlotte Well, there are skillful and unskillful ways to communicat Truth. You gotta meet the person where they are at. Telling normies things like, "Nothing is real!" or "Who is saying that?" is just not skillful.

It does not make sense to you because you are not awake. If you woke up you'd immediately know that you are all creatures (and non-creatures) in the universe. This is not a theory or a conceptualization. It is the Absolute. But only if you awaken. You don't need to become every creature to know this, you just need to wake up to what you are. To wake up is to become the entire universe and all objects in it. At the moment of awakening you realize that you will reincarnate infinitely, forever. Because you cannot die. This means the big Self, not the ego. The ego was a fiction to begin with. It never was. But the big Self takes on infinite forms.

@Speedscarlet I made that clear in my Radical Implications of Oneness video. I've never said that the ego will reincarnate.

There are many good scientific articles. Science, by its very nature, is a collective consensus-building activity. So if you're gonna use science at all -- and what other choice do you have? -- you're gonna have to accept a lot of stuff as expert hearsay. So in this example you were just being too dismissive and smartassy. Remember, stage Green & Turquoise must build on top of stage Orange rather than excluding and denying it. Science denial is not a tenable position. What you can do instead is talk about various ways to interpret the science, various ways to recontextualize empirical data.

@Cammy It is true that you have a tendency to act shy. But the root source causing the shyness is falsehood. You are shy because you have fear. And all fear is falsehood. Uncovering why you are fearful in social situations will ultimately eliminate the shyness. Fear is overcome by understanding what it is you fear, why you fear it, and facing that fear.

This is a very poor framing of the situation. Imagine if I convinced myself that my learning mathematics would hurt everyone I care about. Enlightenment makes you more capable of helping, loving, and healing everyone you care about. This is the proper framing.

Awakening and enlightenment are the same. Don't over-complicate this. You will never get everyone on the same page, but that doesn't matter. It's like trying to get everyone to agree that red and crimson are the same thing.

Don't fall into the trap of making this about me. Focus on your work. There is nothing special or important about me.

But climate change is a Chinese hoax

That's redundant. If you are infinite that already includes being all creatures at all times. You are EVERYTHING!

No. Why would that be necessary? God is being all creatures at all times. But from your POV you only see your POV. Just like how an online videogame server works.

@Black Elephant Great article. It will definitely work with practice.

It's a quality problem to have. Eventually you'll probably get so over-stuffed with self-help theory that you will need to detox from it. Eventually, to deeply awaken, you'll have to let go of the desire for hoarding theory. But right now you might still be at the point where more theory is helpful to you. You'll have to play it by ear.

I'm seeing a lot of misunderstanding going on here. Watch your projections and assumptions about enlightenment. Enlightenment is simply consciousness of the Absolute Truth. No particular behaviors or lifestyle correspond with this. Behaviors and lifestyles can vary greatly. It is possible to be deeply enlightened be still be manipulative, abusive, addicted to things, etc.

@Roman Edouard What you're discovering is that your mind plays in active role in constructing reality. Reality is not like how materialists think it is: an external static object. Rather it is a dynamic mindscape. How you use your mind makes an enormous difference in how you experience reality.

Of course you should try to maintain as high a consciousness state as much as you can. This is transformation, this is growth. You will change and people around you will start to notice it and they will usually not like it because they expect you to be the old self. Become your new self anyways. Change requires the old dying to the new. A metamorphosis must happen. You are the caterpillar turning into the butterfly. Other caterpillars will not understand your new butterfly form until they do it themselves.

@gilded_honour The bottom line is all criticism is delusion, coming from ego. In a high state of consciousness you will not be criticizing anyone. In the same way that you will not be doing violence in a state of high consciousness. This does not mean people aren't being dangerous fools. There are plenty of dangerous fools in the world. But criticizing fools is itself a delusion because fools cannot help being fools. The more proper attitude is to have compassion and understanding of their state of ignorance.

@inFlow Good work. You saw the Ox. Now to catch and tame him.

@kieranperez Ralston can definitely focus like a motherfucker. A normal human cannot focus like that without rigorous training. That's what concentration practices are for.