Leo Gura

I dunno, that contradicts his other quote:

@Sockrattes At the moment it was invented You have to understand that Spiral Dynamics did not exist 100 years ago. Electrons did not exist 300 years ago. Human rights did not exist 500 years ago. Mathematics did not exist 10,000 years ago. Etc. All of these are conceptual schemes which cannot exist until they are invented. For example, the notion of a subconscious mind did not exist until Sigmund Freud invented it 100 years ago. Think about that! There was no subconscious mind before it was invented by a human! And then it appeared one day. The ancient Greeks did not have subconscious minds! You do! There were no electrons 300 years ago, now they exist! Ta-da! YOU are inventing all this shit while vehemently denying that you are doing so. You even invented the concept of your own birth. That's how you came into being! You did not exist until you thought, "I exist". And you will die as soon as you realize, "I never existed!" Ta-da! (Of course by "you" here I mean the ego, not the Absolute. The Absolute is eternal.)

@How to be wise A stage Red or Blue person cannot have full emotional mastery because they are fundamentally deluded by ego at that stage. They can have a peak mystical experience, but they will not have full emotional mastery because that is a stage far beyond even enlightenment. That requires unimaginable degrees of consciousness which a stage Red or Blue person could not muster. The whole point of being at Red/Blue is that you are resisting full emotional mastery. If you got it, you'd transcend Red/Blue. At least at this day and age. 2000 years ago might have been a bit different because culture was so underdeveloped.

No, I do not consume addictive substances. If psychedelics were addictive, I would not use them.

Indeed, you can eat people. Go for it. The reason you don't is because it is like shooting yourself in the foot, because identify with being human. Likewise, as your ego dissolves, you will start to identify with the entire universe, including animals, and you will have more compassion, so you will probably not want to participate in factory farming. At a high level of consciousness you will realize that swatting a fly is killing yourself. And you will also realize that there cannot be life without death.

@Mafortu Arguments and reasons are a stage Orange paradigm. Turquoise does not act to be good from reason. Goodness is inherent to Turquoise consciousness. There is no reason to be good. You be good simply because you want to. For no reason! Or be a selfish prick. Either one is good. Whatver turns you on. To be truly good is to realize there is no difference between good and bad. When your ego dissolves you will start to identify more with everything, including animals, and you will probably not want to play a part in factory farming, etc. But you also won't make a big self-righteous stink about it because you will realize there cannot be life without death.

@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