Leo Gura

Very true

It's hard to say. I think it's a combination of: genetics, my philosphical mind, years of contemplating deep philosophical matters, my relentless curiosity about nature, my relative lack of emotional obstacles, my good heart, my emotional maturity, self inquiry, and my past breakthroughs on 5-MeO-DMT. Meditation does not feel like it was an important factor for me with respect to tripping.

@mandyjw Lol, there's nothing courageous about being a stage Blue/Orange nationalist pseudo-intellectual. What Stefan is doing is devilry and ego. And he is misleading a great many people, building a cult. It's a total bastardization of philosophy. But he is too ignorant and too arrogant to understand this. He has trapped himself inside his own mind.

Firstly, even siblings are genetically diverse. Secondly, the genetic factor is still only one factor. Hard training is also required. Sadhguru did yoga from a very early age. Genetics alone is not enough in most cases. All that genetics do is make it easier, not easy. Thirdly, witchcraft seems to have some heritable aspects. Children of witches are more likely to have paranormal abilities from my understanding. I don't see any contradiction here. The cases you're describing are extremely rare and they could be explained by the mind web going through a catastrophic collapse and then reconfiguring itself. In a sense, all deep awakening is sudden. But also gradual. Virtually no one becomes a enlightened master in a couple of minutes. This is pure fantasy. Eckhart Tolle, after his egoic collapse, spent 2 years sitting on a park bench. That was 2 solid years of his brain integrating his breakthrough. The opposite of what you say is true: all enlightened masters that I know spent 10,000+ hours to become a master. And that was on top of their spiritual giftedness! On top of all this there could additional factors like karma, soul, past-lives, etc. It's way more complex than people think.

@livg7046 Does not sound to me that you are enlightened. Are you conscious that you cannot die? If not, you ain't enlightened.

Computer/internet is a duality. Computers ARE the internet!

Stefan is mistaking genetics with terrible economic inequality and culture. The IQ difference between whites and blacks is not a genetic problem, it's a social, political, and economic problem. If blacks were not economically and culturally oppressed, their IQ scores would rise by at least as much as their IQ difference between whites and blacks. The IQ is a very poor measure. IQ tests are culturally biased and they do not accurately measure intelligence, nor is intelligence or IQ a fixed genetic trait like eye color. You cannot change your eye color but you can change your intelligence. The solution is to provide blacks and everyone else in the country with free high quality education. Then human intelligence will shoot through the roof. It is ironic that people who cite the IQ test are themselves not exhibiting any great intelligence.

Especially one's own

This is true of all evil human beings: just an innocent guy who got sucked down a devilish rabbit hole. The devil is a fallen angel The Alt-right rabbit hole goes something like this: Joe Rogan >> Sam Harris >> Dave Rubin >> Jordan Peterson >> Ben Shapiro >> Stefan Molyneux >> Alt-right Whoever your mentors judge, you will learn to judge. Judgment is a virus. The ego's shadow is a virus.

One day I was at Wholefoods shopping for my groceries when I see a dude casually walking by me with a beard and giant DD cup tits. If that doesn't shake your mind loose of duality I don't know what will.

That's a polite way of Sadhguru saying, "I'm too woke for you bitches." #2Woke4ThisShit

Still debating how long till horses stop shitting? Lol What a clever way to avoid spiritual work.

Well, I told you guys very early on that I am going to change in big ways and that if you don't grow with me by doing the practices I will lose you in the dust. You have only seen 1% of my full potential and even less of your own. The point is, the theory is powerful and leads to high places. So get to work!

The paradox is that caring about other people can also become an obstacle. Women especially can develop an ego out of playing a "selfless" helper role. So you gotta strike a delicate balance. This whole process is a delicate balancing act. Too much to any one side results in pathology and getting stuck.

Radical openmindedness. You gotta be so openminded it kills you

Seems very likely. For example, it should be possible to take two brains/minds and merge them into one superbrain/supermind, resulting is some freaky stuff. Imagine a species in which every member's nervous system is interconnected with each other into a literal hive mind. That should produce some interesting new emergent stuff that cannot even be imagined. The Absolute itself will never change. But the extent to which it understands itself, the extent to which is sees the interconnectedness of all form, should vary dramatically. The formless does not get more complex, but the form does. And since form and formless are one, to be totally omniscient will require a full integration of all form across all time. Which no human being can do no matter how enlightened they get. To put it another way, you do not fully understand what God is until you have experienced and integrated all form. The paradox of awakening is that it is Absolute, but it is not total. There are infinite degrees of totality because form extends forever. So you can keep realizing more and more of yourself forever without end. And that's exactly what evolution is doing.

You are being far too flippant and one-dimensional. What you're exhibiting here is an absolutist pathology of awakening. A form of Zen devilry. Life is multiple-dimensional, infinite, and complex. There's way more to this work than you hold. What is silly is that you think you've reached some kind of end. Nothing is never done. Life is reinventing itself all the time, without end. Join the party.

No, that substance is the opposite of addictive. You probably won't want do it more than once in your life.

I mean becoming conscious of Truth/God. Yes, and this is a complex and multi-dimensional thing. There is a LOT of subtle self-obsessed crap even after your first awakening. But also, realization is not just about becoming aware that you are nothing. It's also becoming aware that you are everything, and then realizing how God works through everything. So there are a lot of gems to be mined here. Actualized.org is a full-spectrum teaching. We are not merely interested in realizing nothingness here. We are interested in all dimensions of life and how they intersect with that Nothingness. That Nothingness turns out to be identical to every domain of life. How do you structure your life and society as a whole to align with your realization of Nothingness? How do you help elevate and awaken the whole world in an effective and non-pathological manner? These are the types of issues we're interested in here. We are interested in understanding what everything is and how everything interconnects. Which is a much broader scope than most spiritual teachings.

I have taken a break from yoga and even meditation lately. My spirituality is becoming more organic and natural to the point where I am surrendering my rigid practices. Remember that the ultimate goal is for your entire life to become one seamless act of meditation, creativity, and love. You become God-like. Of course I still have a lot of work left. This is just a phase I'm going through, trying new stuff to see what works best. Yes, my mind is gradually becoming more and more quiet, making it easier to be in a semi-meditative state all the time, or at least especially when sitting down.

That's true, we love shortcuts. Then again, not all shortcuts are automatically bad. The whole point of human society is to invent technological shortcuts for stuff that used to be impossible or really difficult. A car is a shortcut for walking to work. A farm is a shortcut for hunting migratory packs of animals. etc. Is it sustainable? I don't know. The research is still pending. What were are doing here with Actualized.org is on the cutting edge of human knowledge and technology. There is both risk and reward for being on the cutting edge. The discoveries we make, our children will take for granted as obvious. But right now it is not obvious. I would not recommend taking modafinil every day for months on end. Use it occasionally and stop if you feel like it's becoming a crutch. I don't use it much. Sometimes I just forget to take it for weeks at a time. I can function without it. But sometimes its a nice boost to my creative or meditative work. As of this writing I have not taken modafinil for over a month. Simply forgot it even existed. So to me it has no addictive quality at all. If I felt it had an addictive quality, I could probably not take it at all and I definitely would not recommend it publicly. My standard for recommending stuff publicly is that it must be non-addictive. For example, I do not recommend ketamine because it has some addictive qualities. I think modafinil can be very helpful to people who are new to this work. After years of meditation and so forth, you will probably outgrow it. Some people really struggle with ADHD, for example, and it's not just in their head. ADHD can cripple one's ability to self-actualize, which is a great shame. So it's nice if we have some tools for helping people to combat that.

I don't think they change brain type. I think they can change how the brain is wired, which is very significant. Not sure about brain chemistry since there's no way I can measure that. Subjectively it feels like the last 13 5-MeO trips have significantly changed how my brain works in a permanent way. It's subtle, but also significant. I am not the same person I was a few months ago. But also, I'm not totally different either. It seems pretty clear to me that if I do another 50 trips, I will be permanently changed after that. My consciousness will be much more expanded at the very least. Perhaps even a more radical change could result. I suspect that at some point the brain/mind will totally collapse and reconfigure itself to function at a much higher level. Permanent superhuman levels seem within reach but I have not verified it yet. It's going to take a lot of tripping and serious integration work. And won't be easy. Cool

When you change your DNA into that of a chimp, post us a selfie, and we will admit we were wrong. Epigenetics is real and valid. But it does not mean you can change it without limits. The limits are very tight, as they must be, to ensure you don't kill yourself.

@Shakazulu Around 150ug. You have to take into account that I am extremely sensitive to any psychedelic. More so than most people. Every trip for me is an epic breakthrough.

This topic goes way beyond realization. And what I'm saying is that there is no such thing as one "realization". That's an abstraction. In fact, each realization is unique, with a unique depth, breadth, level of embodiment, and corresponding state of consciousness. And none of this contradicts Oneness or the Absolute. You have to appreciate that realization does not happen in isolation. It is always intermixed with mind and brain. With one's state of development, with one's body, with one's energetic system, etc. The realization is happening through a unique human body and mind. So no two realizations are identical even though the Absolute is one. The Absolute is always the case, but one's awareness and understanding of the Absolute varies a great deal. Case in point, a mule does not understand the Absolute even though the Absolute is there in the mule. A mule is not aware of God, even though it is God.