Leo Gura

@David Turcot The nature of infinity is that the whole is the part and the part is the whole. What you believe is false. If Truth would only be present in deep sleep, it would not be Truth, it would be contingent. The whole point of Truth is that it's ALWAYS the case. Stop arguing and open your mind to the guidance being given you. This is not a point of debate or uncertainty. You are simply mistaken.

@Outer I don't find it nearly as insane as the materialistic paradigm you keep defending.

@David Turcot Keep contemplating, grasshopper.

God is Nothingness. But what you're missing is that Nothingness is identical to Somethingness. Thus, everything you see before your eyes right now is God. Somethingness = Nothingness. God = Everything. This is the essence of nonduality. All distinctions collapse such that everything becomes Nothingness. Nothingness is NOT a blank void. Nothingness is precisely everything you see around you. You are holding Nothing as distinct from Something. Which is a duality. When that duality finally collapses, you will realize, "Oh shit! Everything was Nothing the whole time! There is no difference between existence and non-existence, life and death, reality and fantasy."

Channeling is a very common phenomenon. You can learn to do it yourself. Hundreds of how-to books have been written about it. But you must have a radically open mind. If you think people who a different than you are deluded, then you're really stuck.

@pfletcha That can be tricky especially for beginners. If you need to, take some quick inhales in between your outbreath, so you can make it all way down to the 1st chakra. With time you will build your lung capacity, improve your exhale, and improve your visualization so that will become less and less necessary.

Virtual reality = hallucination = illusion = dream = Maya = the Great Mind It's exactly the same thing said in different ways. What "virtual reality" really means is: a reality without substance. Appearances with nothing behind the scenes. Pure information. Software without hardware. Pure mind. Virtual reality is just another way of saying idealism.

@isabel Think of consciousness like water that goes on forever in all directions. You can dye the water with various colors, but if the water is stirred around too much the colors will just dissolve and all that remains is clear water. This water cannot ever "die" or go anywhere because everything is always 100% water. There is no alternative to water in this universe. Your body is made out of various colored dyes in this water, and eventually it will dissolve. But the water (which is what you really are), will always remain because it has nowhere else to go. The water is not in the colored dyes. The dyes are in the water. The dyes are themselves made out of water. There is only one thing in existence: water. It just takes on different forms. You can make a chair out of water, a table, a cat, a dog, your mother, your father, your boss, your car, your body, etc.

God-mode is not other than whatever is happening in your experience right now. Your very experience is God-mode. It just requires a radical recontextualization to see it. Currently you are contextualizing your experience as "humans perception of a physical reality". This is false. All that's required to enter God-mode is to destroy that false conceptually-based context. You are already in God-mode. The problem is you don't realize it yet. You're misinterpreting what's right before your eyes, confusing God with "physical reality".

@Cortex You have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. These people are so high-functioning it is beyond your ability to fathom. They are also extremely modest and humble. Which makes it difficult for a stage Orange person like yourself to appreciate their depth of mastery because you have confused Tai Lopez -style flashy gimmickry for proof of high functionality. That Sadhguru looks like a homeless person makes his mastery all the more remarkable. You expect an immortal human being to have gold chains around his neck and a diamond watch? Get real.

@MiracleMan No, it does not imply a doer. There is no method to enlightenment. Enlightenment is always the case and there is no way to get to it other than to realize it right now. Stop looking for a "how". There is no how. How is already too indirect. It's difficult precisely because it is RADICALLY DIRECT. You are already it, yet you are trying to "get to it", which is already 1 step too far. Enlightenment is step 0. The mind does not know how to take step 0 because any movement of the mind is already step 1, and so one step too far. You keep looking and looking but looking will not work. What's required is being. Being is prior to looking. Take a psychedelic so you can be shown what being is, so you know what to pursue.

@Dinesh Karki Legally immigrating here will be very difficult these days. The number of permanent residencies given out each year is very tiny. You're about as likely to win the lottery. The best way to move here is to start a successful business in your home country, then expand it into the US and hire 20 employees here. Then they will give you residency and citizenship. That's how my dad did it. As always, if you want something in life, rather than asking others to give you value, you become the provider of value. Don't ask the USA to provide you with free value. Provide the USA with value first, and then the doors will open to you. This is a general strategy for anything you want it life. Provide massive value to others first without asking anything in return. If you really want something, you gotta be willing to work for it and be super creative.

An enlightened person can do that. Because with enlightenment you will realize that there is no one in this universe but yourself. You are all alone. And this isn't a problem. It's perfect. Then again, don't use this as some excuse to not learn how to interact with people. Be careful about taking on enlightenment insights without first having experienced enlightenment. You cannot fake your way to enlightenment. It's better to admit wherever you currently are rather than trying to act in ways which you haven't developed to yet. Nor should enlightenment be pursued for silly purposes like: "I want to be happy on an island all by myself." If that happens, it will happen naturally AFTER awakening. Be careful not to try to achieve post-awakening results pre-awakening. Post-awakening results only come post-awakening.

You guys bullshit on here way too much. Stop speculating about things you clearly do not understand. Be here with an open mind and ready to learn, not to spout your pet theories about consciousness. You are being told how it is. Don't complicate it. Just open your mind to the teaching. This is not a topic to debate or even discuss. Everything is consciousness. Period. End of story. Stop wasting time arguing about it. It's your job to have a direct experience of this truth.

Do not discuss drug sourcing on this forum.

That's your porblem right there. Discussing the nature of existence with teenage gamers in an online chatroom, lol. What could go wrong? You're still not getting it. The ego does not care about truth. Nor do atheists. You may as well be preaching scripture or teaching calculus to a donkey. At least the donkey won't resort to smartassery.

@Outer Just cause it's messy doesn't mean it isn't a pro lab. That pic shows you just what it takes to make 5-MeO. And don't forget he was raided by the FBI.

Stop and just look around the room for a minute. Everything you're seeing is consciousness. That is not molecules or atoms. That's consciousness. Consciousness can take on an infinite number of colors, shapes, and qualities.

Not without $10,000 of lab equipment and knowledge of organic chemistry. Sasha Shulgin describes how to synthesize 5-MeO-DMT step-by-step in his book, TiHKAL. But he was an organic chemist with a professional lab, unlike you, so don't even try. 5-MeO-DMT is difficult to make even for professional labs.

@Jordan94 You could also try breathing through the nose. With all these kinds of techniques, it's not about strictly adhering to the rules, it's about finding what is workable for you, your mind, your personality, your body. Stick to the spirit of the technique but otherwise feel free to experiment a bit. That way you will customize it to suit your individual needs.

That's something particular to you. Maybe try slotting Kriya into some other part of your daily routine. Like in the evening. For long sits I have several different cushions on hand and a Zen-style Seiza meditation bench, and swap between them in between various Kriya exercises. I find it too uncomfortable to sit for 1 hour cross-legged. It tends to cut off circulation in one of my legs, which distracts me from my yoga. The Seiza bench also creates much better spine alignment. But it still starts to get uncomfortable after about 1 hour. Still, far more comfortable than sitting cross-legged. It's important to find a sitting position which you can be in for 1 hour+. Because your sets will get that long. So try various ways until you find something which you're comfortable with. I am still experimenting with the best sitting postures for a 1h 20 min set. It's quite challenging to sit that long and then still be able to concentration in the last 10 minutes (where concentration is most important). That's something particular to you. That's not normal.

I shot and uploaded the video but am deciding to re-shoot it because this is an important topic and found some better ways to phrase things. It will be at least another 48 hours. Shooting, rendering, and uploading a long video takes about that long.

@David Turcot Yes, it can be tricky to discuss these things. But then again, I'm using standard terms here. If "awake" is unclear to you, that's because you've never experienced awakening (enlightenment). It's very clear once you do. Mind is bit trickier to define, but in this context it means: all the thinking you're doing to try to make sense of reality. The entire domain of concepts. Paradox is pretty easy to define: a contradiction due to a self-reference. For example: "Everything I say is a lie."

It's a matter of perspective. Depends on how much you want to split hairs. From a high-level perspective, they are all basically the same. But people love to split hairs about it.

You are misleading people about things you do not fully understand yet.