Leo Gura

@Emerald My guess is, we will have to have some Green leaders first before we are ready for Yellow leaders. Bernie Sanders seems like a healthy Green leader. There is a high likihood of a Green leader winning in the next election cycle as mainstream America sees the full ugliness of Trump's version of Orange America. It's going to turn a lot of moderate, mainstream people off. Trump is less consciousness than the average decent American. The entire culture needs to shift Greener. Which is why we have this on-going culture war. Blue/Orange does not want to shift Green. Hence it's so actively demonizing Green and fighting against it tooth and nail. Hence the rise of someone like JP, who's riding this wave. But Green is coming regardless. It cannot be stopped. #MeToo and weed legalization is sweeping the nation, and more of that will come. America still has yet to awaken to Green's opening of the heart. To me, it's not a question of IF, it's question of HOW LONG? It's gonna be interesting to watch it all unfold.

Yes, in the end, Trump will be a good thing for mankind. We need Trump to learn the lessons of electing narcissistic morons. Of course this lesson will come with some great costs. As all lessons do. Trump's depravity is shedding light on many weakness in our institutions which need shoring up. We are lucky Trump is too incompetent to be an effective dictator. In the future, we might not be so lucky.

I think TYT plays an important role. They have some good ideas and initiatives which are much-needed, like their push to pass a Constitutional amendment to get all money out of politics. That would be a game-changer, and is very much needed, and it's not even a partisan issue. Both left and right wingers should be for getting all money out of politics. TYT is certainly far superior to right-wing (stage Blue/Orange) propaganda outlets and talk show hosts like Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin, Alex Jones, Breitbart, Fox News, etc. But TYT also increases the polarization in our politics. It adds gasoline to fire and it has its blindspots. And it tends to over-simply the right wing without really understanding it. Which ends up backfiring. A stage Yellow approach would be wiser, I think. We need a politics which isn't Democrat or Republican, but Spirocrat But society hasn't evolved that far yet. Of course in the long run society will become more harmonious, integrated, and fair. As it has been for the last 2000 years. But not without some ego backlash and bitter battles. Tyranny never gives up without a good fight. Infinity necessitates war. One of the most profound things you can contemplate when you're tripping on LSD is: Why does war exist? What is the existential basis for all conflict? Be prepared to have your mind blow.

It's a tricky topic because in the ultimate big picture, EVERYTHING serves its purpose. Cenk's demonizing the right has its purpose. White people lynching black people has its purpose. Nazis killing Jews had its purpose. Racism, war, genocide, slavery, anti-Semitism, rape, murder, theft, corruption, harassment, abuse, tribalism, etc. It ALL serves a purpose. It's all totally inevitable and part of Infinity. This is the bitter pill that no ego wants to swallow because the ego loves to judge and be self-righteous and to create an environment which aids the ego's survival. So if you're gonna say that demonization is moving us forward. Okay. But also realize, so did Nazi concentration camps. It will take some deep enlightenment experiences to accept that. It will not make sense to the ego-mind. The ego-mind is too selfish to see it. And the ego-mind will try to use this fact to further its agenda by saying things like, "Well, I robbed that person, but it was totally inevitable, like Leo said. So I didn't do anything wrong." Of course this is just ego being a sneaky manipulative snake. Which is also inevitable. Reality cannot be other than exactly how it is. The challenge for ego is to surrender to what is. By definition, anything that happens within reality, servers the ultimate purpose. There is nothing within reality which is "wrong" or "should be otherwise". You cannot optimize reality beyond what it is. It is already 100% optimal and anything that occurs is part of that opitmality unfolding. It just unfolds in counter-intuitive ways. Most people would not think that murder is optimal, but that's because they are not seeing the biggest picture. They are not thinking infinite moves ahead the way God does. So to them, stuff looks sub-optimal. But that is just ignorance. At higher levels of consciousness that will fall away and there will be total acceptance. This is the #1 reason why nonduality cannot go mainstream. This truth is too brutal for people to accept.

That's a gross generalization, coming from ego. Nobody really cares about your masculinity but you.

You wouldn't think it stupid if you were an oppressed woman with no voting rights and few legal or financial rights. You think it's stupid because it doesn't fit your ego's agenda. From your ego's POV, there's nothing wrong and no need for equality because you already have a decent position in the game. But if you were a woman in Saudi Arabia with no right to drive or open a bank account, you might feel otherwise. Or if you had a couple of daughters who get sexually harassed, you might start to see things differently. Now your ego will have some skin in the game. Now it will be personal for you, whereas before it was academic. What feminist movements are doing in action is creating more equal rights for women. On paper, they have all kinds of academic theories. But in action, women today enjoy many benefits the couldn't imagine 100 years ago. To understand feminism you have to step outside your male perspective. It ain't about you.

Green rant against Blue/Orange: I like this one because it shows how Blue/Orange demonizes Green, and then Green demonizes Blue/Orange back. So both sides end up vilifying each other without mutual understanding. It's tribal warfare.

If I recall correctly the Google cofounders went to a Montessori school. Montessori schools are great if you can afford them.

Guess who hates equality? Mr. Ego Equality will always be resisted by those whom equality seeks to level. The ego doesn't want equality, it wants control. The ego is a little tyrant. And no tyrant wants to be deposed. But in the end, the tyrant always loses. It just takes a long time and a lot of people get hurt in the process.

Sounds like you are very right-brained. For such people, like myself, it can be very easy to understand something in a nonlinear, nonverbal fashion, but then quite a challenge to articulate it linearly. Because the truth is nonlinear, all linear explanations of it are partial and misleading. But with practice you can get good at articulating the inarticulable. Writing in a journal would probably help you organize your thoughts.

Objective vs subjective is a duality.

You're playing with a nuclear weapon at those dosages. Don't be surprised if it gives you PTSD.

6g is too much. That can be traumatic. 2g-4g is very strong already. 6g will kick your ass. So watch out. Only for experienced psychonauts.

SeaCode: a company that hires foreign software engineers to live and work on an cruise ship which sits just outside US boarders in international waters so that it can avoid US labor and wages laws. Allowing it to set up sweatshop-like conditions. http://www.sea-code.com Libertarianism at its finest

Orange ego backlash against Green:

Green chastising Orange:

What would it look like if you were doing it right?

People who gripe about feminism usually haven't ever bothered to study it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism Ask yourself this: "How many books have I read on this topic?" The whole point of griping is that its a distraction from study, contemplation, and understanding.

A) Your sits should be no longer than 60 mins each. Take short breaks. Get up and do some walking meditation. B) Hardcore monks and yogis sit through excruciating pain. Levels of pain you can barely imagine. This approach only works if you're really hardcore.

Find/create a Green niche for yourself. That's what the Life Purpose Course is about. It's not gonna land in your lap by accident. You have to engineer it. The beauty of going into biz for yourself is that you get to set the values and color of your company.

@Charlotte Take larger dose, so you can discover you're inside a dream and your therapist doesn't exist That'll put your problems into perspective.

@lmfao Or... that's just a clever story your ego has concocted because it doesn't want to grow outside its comfort zone. Opening your heart takes work. Especially if you didn't receive proper love from your mother.

Enlightenment is not an opinion or a belief. Either do the self-inquiry work, or don't. If you are interested in enlightenment, you do the work. You don't ask other people for their opinions about reality. Their opinions will not help you at all. Just like if you wanted to become a millionaire, you never ask people, "What do you guys think of millionaires? Are they real?" You go do the work to become one.

Yeah, I've been there. I feel ya. Especially the breakups are hard. It's important, when do this work, that you don't make major life decisions too rashly. If you had a good relationship, then I don't really see a point in breaking it up unless you are just not interested in that any more and want to go 100% solo. Of course it will be hard going full-Buddha. Much harder than most people realize. Expect major ego backlash. Fast, dramatic, and intense is what you're signing up for when you go full-Buddha. It's not necessary to go full-Buddha. But maybe for you it's the right move. Only you can know what you're capable of.

There is no such thing as subjective perception. Ego appropriates the Absolute for itself, creating the illusion of subjective experience. Without ego, subjective experiences becomes recontextualized into the Absolute. Your experiences are not really yours. And they are not really experiences, but Being. "But Leo! I'm having this experience right now! I'm seeing the world!" << No! That is ego! The universe is simply being. The universe is not happening "to you". This life is not yours! The universe is alive without you. Without ego, what was always subjective becomes objective. Being has instant direct objective knowledge of itself via no mechanism -- DIRECTLY! Being is. Out of blind self-centeredness, the ego-mind mistakes Being for perception. It's like looking at clouds and always seeing rabbits instead of clouds because you're always looking for rabbits.