Leo Gura

@Key Elements That's right, you must explore and discover the truth for yourself. All else is hearsay. Which is why I do BOTH: psychedelics and lots of non-psychedelic methods. I was only arguing against those who oppose psychedelics on dogmatic grounds. This anti-psychedelic dogma is almost always rooted in lack of experience with psychedelics. People do not fully appreciate just how badly our culture stigmatizes psychedelics. They take on this stigma and argue from this stigma unwittingly. Psychedelics have not become mainstream yet, so you will often find people criticizing them simply based on that.

I repeatedly stated that there are many facets and levels of depth to nonduality, and also all kinds of mystical and non-ordinary states of consciousness. But this is actually a case for using more psychedelics, not less. It's precisely because there are so many facets and various kinds of states and levels of depth that without psychedelics you will almost never explore even a small percentage of them. There is also a confusion happening here between stages of development vs states of consciousness. They not the same thing. Also, NDEs are not permanent. By definition, an NDE is a near death EXPERIENCE. And I've never conflated NDEs with awakening. They are very different things. I have repeatedly told you guys that this entire field is much more nuanced and complex than most people assume. And therefore, psychedelics are a great tool to explore this vast landscape and see what's up. The only problem is that people don't want to do it. They want one simple solution rather than doing 100s of trips and dealing with all the questions they will raise in your mind. No one is suggesting that you trip once and close your mind down. Just the opposite. You trip more and more, with each trip your mind opens more and more. It's sort of like you're being told, "Hey, go travel to Africa, there's cool stuff to see there." and you say, "No way, it's too dangerous!" or you say, "I've been to Africa once and seen everything there is to see." Both attitudes are deeply misguided. You could trip 100 times and still not see everything there is to see. People who have tripped less than 50 times, I can't even take them seriously. They have a massive lack of experience. So before you ask people for advice on psychedelics, first ask them, how many times have you tripped, and on how many different substances and at which dosages and under which conditions? That will shut most people up as it would be embarrassing for them to admit their lack of experience. Before you even think of hanging up the phone, answer it 100 times. You never know who's calling. Whatever excuses you have for not doing psychedelics, that's just what they are, excuses. Are there dangers? Of course! Exploration of any kind is dangerous. If you want to be safe, stay in the middle of mindless herd. Exploration is for daring souls. The mindless herd will always whine and complain about why exploration is evil. Don't ask a sheep for advice on how to be a lion.

You could form another idea, but that would be just another false identification. You could believe you are a unicorn, but so what? After all ideas are extinguished, what remains is Nothing. And Nothing is not an idea. Try to imagine life, but without you. Like, there is still a body, but no you inside it.

Yes, it will shock the shit out of you. That's the point: enlightenment shock treatment You will integrate afterwards. After just one 5-MeO breakthrough, you will never look at reality the same way again. Even though you will fall back into duality and ego. You will still have a memory of awakening. And that memory will serve as a roadmap for pursing awakening.

No, it is not beyond. It is just that. But there are many facets to that insight and many degrees of depth to it. I merely said that enlightenment teachers do not understand that 5-MeO can go there as directly as it does. If there was a pill you could take which would give you the level of consciousness of a Zen master with 40 years of daily practice, 5-MeO would take you there in 15 minutes and possibly even give you a deeper insight into that than that Zen master has had. Of course, the difference is, after 60 minutes, you'd be back to normal. Whereas the Zen master is stabilized in his insight. The purpose of 5-MeO is to give you a very deep glimpse of total nonduality. To show you how little you know and how worthwhile it is to pursue.

You didn't get it. You got a tiny glimpse of the Truth perhaps and it freaked the ego out. Yeah, Truth is scary to the unprepared mind. Enlightenment is the most wonderful thing. But you gotta prepare your mind for it with spiritual practices. Be careful judging enlightenment by one psychedelic trip. That would be a big mistake. Psychedelic trips can be weird and freaky. That's not enlightenment per se. Do 20 trips, then see where things are at. One trip means almost nothing. Truth is an acquired taste. You will appreciate Truth more and more as you complete healing your past trauma. More trips should help you heal. Just be open to what the trips are showing you. Sometimes they show you harsh truths. This is in fact great! You just gotta be open to it. Be curious about reality rather than trying to defend yourself.

Probably try to figure out the mushrooms first. It's important to find your right dose to determine how high your natural tolerance is so then you can properly dose other psychedelics. 2g dried should be a fairly strong trip. 4g dried is a very intense trip. But individuals can have different tolerances. And mushrooms can have different potencies. It's easier to dose LSD.

There are many ways to skin the same cat. Going so fast is not necessary. I actually find a lot of value in slowing down the labeling, so you can really feel into every sensation fully. The labels I use are: see, hear, feel. Although I don't do this practice much any more. These days I focus on yoga.

None of them have ever taken 5-MeO. And 5-MeO should not even be in the same category as other psychedelics. It is its own thing. No one who hasn't taken it has any idea such things are possible. Even if they are enlightened, they still don't understand what 5-MeO can do.

@Onecirrus Convert that energy into a concrete spiritual practice, like yoga or meditation or self-inquiry. It does no good whining aimlessly about one's suffering. You must use it to mobilize yourself into serious practice. As you start taking action your suffering will diminish. There can be no awakening without hardcore practice.

Not necessarily. Both can be done at once. Or you can focus one or the other strategically.

The world is constantly evolving. People are more openminded every decade, every century, every millennium. It is a good time to be alive.

@Revolutionary Think Obviously, since you're here, you have avoided some nasty ideologies in life. Otherwise you could not be openminded enough to watch my videos. So you did something right. More than most people. Probably 90%+ of the world cannot watch my videos. Because they are simply too attached to some ideology. A lot of openminded people find it hard to understand that most of the world is closedminded, and that if not but for a bit of luck, you would have been one of the closedminded ones.

Yes, from your current POV and level of consciousness. that's how it appears. But what you're missing is the Absolute. You are assuming the Absolute will just be another relative phenomenon. Except the Absolute is not that. It's Absolute! "Direct experience" of the Absolute is not like a regular experience. That word "experience" is misleading here. We use that word because you do not have direct consciousness of the Absolute and so it cannot be communicated to you in any other way than to call it "an experience". But it's not really an experience, or a perception, or a thought, or a belief, or knowledge. It's something entirely new which you've never encountered before. And yet it's right there under your nose right this second. What you're missing is that you have 100% raw direct unmediated access to Absolute Truth, prior to perception or experience. Because you believe that you exist, this sense of self which you think is real has co-opted the Absolute and recontextualized it as "my experience". Such that the Absolute is right there, but you cannot see it because the ego has managed to convince itself that "this is MY experience". Once the ego is realized to be an illusion, "experience" will be recontextualized into the Absolute. There actually never was such a thing as "experience" or "perception" or "a human looking at the world". That was the Absolute the whole time, but you didn't realized it because you were so self-absorbed that you mistook the Absolute for "my life, my experience, my perception." If you could understand what I am saying here, you'd already be enlightened and there would be no need to have this conversation as it would be perfectly obvious to you already. Can you notice that you are not a human being, but that you are God? It's right there! Look! You're God! See it? The thing looking through your skull, your eyes, is God. Seriously. Stop fucking around and notice it. Realize what you are.

@Revolutionary Think You still accepted a lot of beliefs which you're yet unconscious of. Rebels are not as rebellious as they like to think. You still have a lot in common with your culture and parenting. And reacting against a teaching often just creates an ideology of the opposite kind, which is no better.

@kev014 It doesn't really matter what I think. Get clear about your life purpose and then follow it every day. It basically just boils down to that. Trust in the over-arching strategy and principles of LP to carry you if you work it.

@MrDmitriiV You're assuming there is a you who can die. There isn't. You are an idea.

You should distinguish between noting and labeling. Noting: noticing a sensation with your awareness. Labeling: giving the sensation a name like "see", "hear", "feel". Noting must always happen in this practice. Labeling is optional but highly recommended. Keep your labeling simple! Don't go creating 10 different labels. 3 is sufficient. You do NOT note/label EVERY arising sensation. That is impossible. There are dozens of sensations arising each second. Rather, you select just ONE and note/label it. It's not a lot. It's 1 note/label every 2 to 10 seconds. You can linger your awareness on a sensation for as long as 10 seconds if you want. Try various speeds until you find one which you like. Keep this whole practice very simple. Don't over-complicate it.

@MarkusSweden There are many subtle forms of ideology. It's not as easy to avoid as you might think. It would be a dangerous mistake to think of ideology as simply being a Neo-Nazi. Many stage Green ideologies are "love"-based. And virtually all the highest consciousness teachings are turned into ideology by the mind. I've been studying this topic for over a decade and I still don't have a solid handle on it. This is a very slippery topic.

@Jacko I would imagine you could accomplish more on your own and enjoy it more. Learning is so much more enjoyable solo, without all the stupid tests and class schedules. As long as you have the motivation for it. College curriculums are so lame. They don't cover the most important and juicy topics.

Not yet. I've held off on that technique to focus on mastering the other ones. I might add it in in the future.

@Tony 845 It's mostly just a phase. You pass through it. It's not solid enlightenment yet. And it doesn't happen to everyone. I have a vid called: The Dark Side Of Meditation, which covers this to some extent. Solid awakening is the most awesome thing. Assuming you're the metaphysical sort of person. If you're attached to being an ego, then it could be a problem. I've never experienced anything as good in life as awakening. But that's me.