Leo Gura

Ultimately there is no such thing as the subconscious mind. That is a conceptual abstraction. What is real is present in your direct experience right now, and at all times. But more practically-speaking, yes, you can basically become conscious of anything that is "running" you. But that is WAY beyond enlightenment and will take you decades of serious work. Very very very few spiritual masters have done this. Emotional self-mastery is much harder than enlightenment. I never said it was a useless tool. I said it has a major downside in my mind due to its addiction potential and dulling stoning effects. It's too easily overused, becoming a chronic thing people do. It becomes recreational all to easily. I don't see the point in it when there are better options available like LSD, mushrooms, or 5-MeO-DMT. Edible pot is probably better than smoked pot for spiritual growth purposes. Although I'm not experienced with pot. It never appealed to me. The trio of mushrooms, LSD, and 5-MeO-DMT will transform your entire life forever if used properly.

@corndjorn Awakening and enlightenment are identical terms (at least on this forum). Yes, there are many degrees of wokeness and many degrees of embodiment and mastery. Yes, there is much left to master and become conscious of even after a deep awakening. "Full enlightenment" is virtually a fantasy and no method promises it. To become fully conscious of your entire emotional system and subconscious mind is a very tall order to fill. But even here, I think psychedelics can be helpful as you can use them to become more conscious of all aspects of yourself. Of course psychedelics will not do all the work for you if you're shooting for "full enlightenment". You'll need to spend THOUSANDS of hours in contemplation and self-study to achieve that. If psychedelics cause you to get lost in ego, that's something you're doing. It doesn't have to be that way. I use psychedelics quite sparingly. For every 1 trip I do hundreds of hours of meditation, integration, contemplation, and study. So there is no problem. If you're just tripping balls every week and doing no other spiritual work, yeah, that could become problematic.

@corndjorn You just aren't using psychedelics properly. Not the right ones, in the right ways, with the right intentions. Psychedelics are very nuanced things. There is an art and a science to taking them which requires careful attention to master. A few trips is not anywhere near enough to figure psychedelics out. If you haven't taken 30+ trips in the proper ways, you won't really understand psychedelics. Psychedelics must also be combined with existential inquiry. Also, keep in mind that people have different brain types and personality types. Maybe psychedelics are not so effective for you, but for others like me, they are undeniably effective. So be careful not to over-universalize your personal limited experiences. It is a fact that psychedelics transform peoples lives. Just maybe not yours. Then again, I'm willing to bet you've never done a breakthrough 5-MeO-DMT trip.

@Just the mage Given that you've had this for many years now, your case seems special. I would recommend you find a yogi who's experienced in kundalini awakening and tell him your story. He should have some good advice for you. I also recommend you read some good books about kundalini awakening. There are exercises and practices for dealing with blockages and for venting the excess energy. I am no expert on kundalini, but from what I understand you need to get the energy out of your system with physical practices. You're not supposed to bottle it up. It has to work through and out of your system. Exercises that might help you: dancing, speaking in tongues, screaming, shaking your body, Osho's dynamic meditation, physical exercise, jumping, Hatha yoga, hitting a punching bag, etc. I would look for physical ways to vent that energy which feel best for you. If what you're describing really is kundalini activation, Western doctors are not going to help you, as they're clueless about it. In fact, they will probably give you harmful solutions. So go find a yogi.

He's got that backwards, religion is a kind of ideology. Ideology is not a kind of religion. Liberalism is not a religion, it is an ideology.

Content alone is never enough. The reason you're not succeeding is because you're trying to enter markets which are already heavily saturated. Business requires that you find new fertile ground. There are only so many YT spiritual teachers that the world needs. I was successful on YT not because of my content but because I was on there early, before it blew up, and I had significant marketing skills. My content is NOT what makes me successful or popular. Business success has almost nothing to do with content. It's about marketing strategy. You need to take some marketing courses. Your approach might have worked 10 years ago, but not today in those fields. Blogging is almost impossible to enter these days. Even when I started Actualized.org, blogging was basically dead to new entrants. You need to be more original than that. In business, a new field is only open for so long. After that, it closes. You cannot start a new Facebook today, or a new Google, or a new Microsoft, or a new car company. Those markets are saturated and monopolized already. You must find new markets.

"Listen, I'm flattered you like me, but I'm just not interested." Don't go into justifications. You don't need to justify anything. Just tell him you are not interested. That's enough. As a side note: you being 26 and never dating is a sign of dysfunction. Don't wait to make yourself perfect before you date. Part of the reason you may be depressed is that you're too closed off from people. Dating will make you grow a lot, so consider doing it. Not necessarily with this guy, but some other guy you like.

@Jed Vassallo You've clearly never gamed. Stopping a woman randomly in the daytime with a genuine direct approach makes her day. It makes her feel great. Imagine how you'd feel if a hot girl approached you at the supermarket and told you that she's attracted to you. You'd feel awesome even if you never took her up on the offer. You'd feel like king for the day. Go to a mall, stop any random woman and tell her that you just thought she was beautiful, and she will be so happy. Obviously don't lie about it, it must be genuine. You've also clearly never gamed. I didn't say that was the end of the conversation, I said that's the opener. From there you use cheeky conversation to build attraction. Stopping a woman cold on the street and being genuine with her about your feelings about her is extremely rare. It builds instant attraction and it makes you stand out from everyone else. I am not talking about a pickup line, I am talking about genuinely expressing yourself. This also makes her day. She will feel great the rest of the day even if she declines your offer for a date/coffee/phone number. The words you say to a woman almost never matter. What matters is how you carry yourself and the tone you take. Most attractive women will have boyfriends, but you'll never know until you try. Every street approach ends with an invitation to an instant coffee date, and failing that, a phone number. The biggest issue here is that you don't have the balls or skill to pull off such a direct and genuine approach, nor the skills to carry the conversation, nor the skill to close it. If you find a woman attractive, hiding your feelings about it to try to weasel your way into her pants is weak. She will smell your manipulations. Hot women like men who are clear and decisive about what they want. When a woman makes you feel something, you don't hide, you be direct about it, the way a strong man would. That in itself builds massive attraction. Women only hate being approached when you are being creepy, insecure, or obnoxiously cat-calling her.

@FredFred Doses below 15mg will be disappointing. Things start getting good around 20mg.

Learn Spiral Dynamics first before talkin shit.

Stay away from ketamine as it can be both physically harmful and addictive. There are much better options. I do not like the idea of you guys getting into ketamine.

For me integration doesn't require an active process. It's more passive. I just passively re-live the experience in my mind many times and contemplate it. My mind sorta just naturally goes over it again and again until it makes sense. The best way to enable this is simply to give yourself free time to contemplate. For example, I love driving late at night and just organically contemplating stuff. Not as a technique, but just doing it "naturally", for enjoyment, not to get a certain outcome. For me the obstacle to integration is being too busy with mundane chores or business or social obligations. So try to minimize those.

No one said you can "have" health. Health is not a static thing. I said "pursuing" health. Stop being dense. You can't "have" anything in life. Everything in life is impermanent.

@pluto8 You are a devil and full of BS. Watch my 3 part series on Self-Deception. That's what you're doing here.

@TKP If you have to ask us to verify it for you, you didn't properly awaken yet. Getting a little high is not enough to understand the full depth of awakening. Be careful with ketamine. It is a dangerous substance. To fully understand you need 5-MeO-DMT.

You know what a melted rock is called? Lava Granite has a melting point of: 2,219–2,300 °F

That is already known about Octavio. He's worked with something like 5000+ people. Yeah, out of 5000+ people you will have one or two terrible cases, especially when smoking it outdoors. A normal person is never gonna die from plugging 20-30mg of 5-MeO-DMT at home. 5-MeO raises heart rate for newbies. So if you have a bad heart condition, then it might be a problem. Although that raised heart rate is really only an ego reaction to facing ego-death. For example, if I take 5-MeO now my heart rate can stay pretty calm because I am used to the ego-death experience. It happens very gracefully now. I think forcing newbies to smoke 5-MeO (as Octavio does) is bad practice. Smoking is far too harsh for many newbies to handle. I can see that some of them might totally freak out. The best method for newbies is plugging synthetic. I would only suggest smoking to advanced psychonauts who already had a 5-MeO breakthrough.

@herghly Longer-active substances like LSD or mushrooms can be very good for getting answers. 5-MeO doesn't give sufficient time to really answer all the questions. Especially if you're smoking it. I did a lot of integration through LSD and mushrooms after 5-MeO.

It is possible to pursue things out of avoidance of pain, or out of joy or higher consciousness. If you are pursuing health out of avoidance of pain, you're doing it wrong.

You can't compare these directly to each other. This notion of "awareness" is a very loaded notion, changing depending on context. You could say awareness is there all the time. You could say awareness doesn't exist at all. Both are true simultaneously. You have to know what is being pointed it. Also, my newer video: What Is Consciousness? is a more accurate explanation than the video of mine you linked above.

@herghly Yup, that's how it is. And there's still deeper levels. After a 5-MeO breakthrough, most other psychedelics become very 5-MeO-like. So watch out. Lower your dosages. Allow some time to pass so you can integrate. I took me months, and probably over a year, to fully integrate my biggest 5-MeO breakthrough. And I've had numerous other breakthroughs afterwards which also took some weeks/months to integrate and make sense of. You ain't ever gonna make sense of it all in 1 week. What now? Become that conscious 24/7 Memories of it aren't good enough. You want to develop yourself to a state of permanent nondual awareness, AKA, Sahaja Samadhi.

@Paul92 Sounds like you've gone sane

Take a stone outside your house and try to melt it in your oven.

Soft metals like copper, tin, or lead can be easily refined via natural means. The first furnaces were made out of stone or clay.

Very good. Some good truth-nuggets there.