Leo Gura

@isabel By that logic, why not eat people?

Beat me to it Failing that, a juicy spiritual book. Something non-popular but deep. Although if your teacher is already woke, he probably doesn't want a book.

Challenging the materialist rationalist paradigm = banned Whatever you do, don't call science a delusion, or you will spoil the scientists' delusion

Whatever juicy insights you think you get on weed will be 100x deeper on LSD. So that's really LSD's selling point. LSD is the second most beautiful substance (after 5-MeO).

Journaling, contemplation, and visualization should help a lot with this. You could use just these 3 techniques + psychedelics to totally transform yourself within a couple of years. But you must do them consistently. And Kriya yoga too! Kriya is excellent for raising your baseline level of consciousness to almost mild psychedelic levels.

Enlightenment is waking up to the fact that all of this is a dream. Development is about fashioning this dream to be the best that it can be. Even once you awaken, the dream will still continue and you will have to do something. Even doing nothing is doing something.

Your whole existence is a placebo

It shows naivate to take analogies too literally. All analogies break down when you push them far enough. The point of the analogy was to help you see you are asleep, not to get you to start fantasizing about flying through walls, etc. Wake up first, then you can worry about the issue of control, if it still exists.

@fluidmonolith Obviously you don't ascertain truth via degree of mindfuck. That would be as silly as trying to ascertain truth via how many dollars it can earn you in the marketplace. A deep truth will often be a mindfuck, but not vice versa.

Yup, you got it. Now work to embody it on a daily basis.

The only problem is that its addictive. LSD is not.

There is no such thing as evil. Evil is the projection of YOUR ego. To you evil appears to exist because you think it is important that you survive. If you surrender your attachment to survival, all evil in the world will disappear at that precise moment.

Materialism is not an enemy of consciousness. Turquoise transcends and INCLUDES Orange. Amazon means you can get nonduality books in 2 days, which is awesome! Leo cannot lose because Leo is Jeff Bezos and everything else.

This is not Blue, this is very clearly Orange.

Yes, they will experience hallucinations. Their perceptual system will get scrambled but their sense of oneness will be unfazed (if they are deeply enlightened). I know an enlightened master who took 1000ug of LSD. He could no longer distinguish if it was night or day. But he was still grounded in Nothingness.

See video: Using Maslows Hierarchy Of Needs To Self-Actualize It addresses this issue.

@Sahil Pandit Great example! I was looking for an image just like that for my book.

@Butters Yes you can. Intuition alone is not enough. What's required is consciousness, intelligence, self-reflection, broad study, shadow work, emotional mastery, and openess to feedback. Without all of those, I can almost guarantee you will go wrong.

Both! See videos: Paradoxes Of Personal Development How To Deal With Confusion

This is the dumbest logic I've ever heard. By this logic, you shouldn't own anything because everything is made by someone else to make money. Homes are a far safer investment than commercial real estate.

@11modal11 No, no, no! You're misunderstanding enlightenment.

No. Like I said, certain kinds of concepts are very useful for avoiding traps. Green falls into many spiritual traps. Yellow is in a better position to pursue enlightenment than Green. Green is still way too tribal and Tier 1. You can pursue enlightenment at any stage.

There is no thing that creates thoughts. Thoughts arise within emptiness. Everything arises within emptiness. You cannot "experience" emptiness with the senses. But you can be conscious of it. Because it is consciousness. Emptiness is self-aware. That's what existence is.

"Get more lap dances." -- Rupert Spira

Well, if you don't want an LP, then why you taking the course? That's like enrolling in a business class and saying, "But I don't want to run a business." Don't do things just because I tell you. You must be intrinsically motivated to do them. Follow your passion. Not my words.