Leo Gura

You might also want to take a stab at self-inquiry. It has a very different feel than meditation. Meditation without serious self-inquiry tends to not produce enlightenment. It is important that you start to deconstruct the self and reality. The upside of this is that it has positive effects long before enlightenment happens. You can get a lot of value from just deconstructing everything you know. Pick a thing and deconstruct it. Deconstruction dovetails very nicely with psychedelics too. If you are really serious about spiritual growth, you can get a ton of it very quickly by combining contemplation, deconstruction, and a psychedelic trip once very two weeks for 1 year. With this formula you will grow more in 1 year than you have in the last 10 years combined. My deepest and fastest growth has come from this approach. In fact, it's too effective. I've had to back off on it because the mind can only integrate so much so fast.

@luckieluuke You don't need very high doses. Moderate doses are ideal. Just do them mindfully.

Meditation requires hardcore practice to get serious results. Most people who meditate will never get nondual states because that usually requires industrial-grade levels of meditation. It's very easy to waste years meditating ineffectively, doing weak versions of meditation. Also, not all people have the same level of spiritual atunement. For some people meditation is easy and they don't need a lot of it to get big results. But this is not most people. Psychedelics are far more effective for nondual insights and states. So yeah, doing some higher dose trips will definitely get you a taste of what you're after. But as far as your daily practice I'd say, either upgrade your technique to something more stringent, or switch to Kriya Yoga. I find Kriya far more effective than meditation. To get serious results from meditation usually requires doing hardcore week-long retreats and 1000s of hours of meditation. I'm one of those people for whom meditation is not that effective. For meditation to be effective you must develop laser-focused one-pointed concentration. Watch my video: Meditation vs Concentration. I've met people who have done 20 years of Vipasanna but still don't know what enlightenment is. This is actually the norm. Infinity is a very radical state of consciousness. Very few human beings are capable of it without serious practice or outside means like psychedelics. If you want to experience the highest levels of human consciousness, schedule a 5-MeO retreat. It will be worth the hassle and it will motivate you to meditate more.

@CreamCat I didn't call him a fucking moron, the former US Secretary of State did Forum comments are my version of Lays potatoes chips. Can't take this shit too seriously or you'll go insane trying to out-logic all the nonsense that exists on the internet. Many things don't even rise to the level of warranting a serious reply, in which case ridicule and snark becomes an effective tool. It's the equivalent of a Zen slap across the face. Someone like Trump has not earned enough respect to be reasoned with. Sometimes you gotta call devils for devils when you see them. Pretending that a devil is not a devil just to sound "fair" is actually untruthful. And that's exactly what a devil like Trump will try to exploit to his advantage. The middle ground between truth and falsehood is falsehood.

In Zen, they just wack people like JP and Sam Harris across the face. You have to appreciate that most nondual teachers are preaching to the choir. They only teach that tiny percentage of the population which is already primed and ripe for the teaching. They make no effort to prime the rest of the population. You either come begging the Zen master for a teaching, or you have no chance to even enter the Zendo. It's one game to teach primed people nonduality. It's another game entirely to prime the vulgar masses to be receptive to nonduality. If you want to make your life easy as a teacher, you only teach students who are Spiral stages Green and above. The really hard work is teaching Orange and below, who are dense, arrogant, and numerous as fuck.

That is where you are wrong. The confirmation bias in this case is on behalf of the materialist scientists who reject the statistical and anecdotal data. The data is all there. People just suck at handling the radical truth. The mind naturally denies whatever does not fit its survival agenda. That's all it is. Bigoted minds deny cutting-edge truths all the time. This has been happening in every domains of life for over 5000 years of human history. And you can bet it happens today. The problem is that you're trying to capture subtle phenomena using gross means, like trying to capture a delicate butterfly using a bulldozer. And then you complain that butterflies don't exist. Yeah, because you kill them with your fucking bulldozer. The solution is: leave your bulldozer at home.

That is my natural inclination, but one of the problems with teaching self-actualization and nonduality is that people get so sucked into all sorts of twisted ideologies -- like that of JP, Sam Harris, Stefan Molyneux, SJW, capitalism, post-modernism, anti-post-modernism, etc. -- that it becomes impossible to teach them without some amount of deconstruction work. That is in fact the unconscious goal of people like JP, Sam Harris, Stefan Molyneux, etc. -- their job is to make the intellectual marketplace so muddied, confused, and polarized that it becomes impossible for people to find serious spiritual teachings. This is no accident. This is how the devil works: through muddying the water. The devil knows he can never win on merit because his position if fundamentally false, so all he can do is confuse people and stall out the clock. This is a classic tactic use by global warming deniers, for example. They just need to muddy the waters and sow enough doubt to stall out the clock to get their paycheck. So some of these devils need to be called out on their BS sometimes, to put them in their place. Otherwise the unwitting masses start to take them too seriously. An intelligent devil like JP or Sam Harris is a dangerous thing. It is not obvious how he is wrong and how best to rebut him. To a casual observer a lot of the things he says ring true and reasonable. Of course that's precisely how the devil works. He sprinkles nuggets of truth into his bullshit lasagna. The purpose of all ideologies is to distract from truth-seeking. Which is why ideologies have been so widespread throughout all of human history up to and including today. The devil's strategy is: flood the marketplace with so much bullshit that people cannot even tell that actual Truth is possible. If you want to safeguard a precious diamond, throw it into an ocean of liquid shit full of fake diamonds. Then no one will ever find it.

I don't agree that Plotinus was that low. Seems clear to me from his writings that he was deeply nondual and conscious of God way beyond no-self.

@Mikael89 You are failing to question the metaphysics of awareness or perception. How is it possible for thing A to see thing B? You are taking this ablility for granted. As if it is possible. It is not!

How can thing A be aware of thing B? If a brain can be self-aware why can't a coffee table? To say that God is self-aware is to say that everything is self-aware. In fact, there is nothing in existence but self-awareness. Name one thing which is not self-aware. Self-awareness has no opposite.

Enough with these stupid anti-enlightenment threads. You think you are being smart and clever by doubting enlightenment but in reality your ego is just being a devilish jackass.

@Strikr It's a stupid notion. Nietzche just misunderstood spirituality. What he blasts as "slave morality" is just surrender, humility, love, peace, and enlightenment. Nietzche's entire understanding of the origins of religion are wrong. Humility was not forced on anyone. Humility is the end result of ego loss. Nietzche's ego demonized it. I would put him at Orange. He hated Blue. A classic Orange atheist nihilist knee-jerk reaction to Blue.

Many statistical studies have been done on ESP. They all come out positive in meta-analysis. The chances of ESP not being true are like one in a billion according to the statistical analysis. The problem is that no serious scientist wants to accept it because it would ruin his career. Not to mention that you can teach yourself to do it. Check out Dean Radin's research.

@SuperLuigi I can almost guarantee your first game project will fail. If only it were as easy as to just sit down and make a game. You must be extremely prudent and strategic about testing niches and taking risks in business. Starting a successful biz usually requires many years of experience within a certain field. You must know many of the traps of your field. The advice is, find your life purpose and master a specific narrow field.

@Finland3286 Another thing you can do is research. Read 10 diverse books on nonduality and that will clear a lot of stuff up for you. You don't have to reinvent the wheel here. Mankind has understood nonduality for 5000 years at least. It's all been written down for those who care to read. It's sort of like you're struggling your way through mathematics when all you gotta do is pick up a math textbook. Nonduality is actually older and more solid than mathematics. They just don't teach it in school because it destroys all reality and society.

@Emne Yes, of course! That's usually the case. Passions start out like small seeds which must be watered and tended to flower. You don't just start with a giant raging passion.

@Joseph Maynor Illusion vs non-illusion is a duality. Your mind is still constructing that. All dualities must go!

They are far less accurate judging truth and deception in themselves.

Oooo! Nice!

@NoSelfSelf Yes, about 5 books in that category.

@Nevon Real vs unreal is a conceptual distinction of your mind. In other words, the universe does not know the difference between real and unreal. YOU created those categories! In the same way that the universe does not know the name of your cat. You invented that name and gave it to the cat. The cat does not really have a name.

Classic!

"Woo-woo" is just the excuse of a bigoted mind to justify its bigotry as science. Every cutting-edge scientific discovery feels "woo-woo". Until the mind gets used to it, then it becomes "established science" which could not have been otherwise. The ego-mind always plays this game of moving the goalposts and denying its own bigotry. Reality distortion 101

@Ingit You got it backwards: there never was a person before the coma. Pure self is __________ . All the coma did was disable the mechanism which constructed the false self. Like turning off a movie projector. No actors are killed because they were not real to begin with, just some moving light. Turning off the projector does not making the on-screen actor suddenly experience "the real world". There is no real world outside the movie world.

Just a hunch With 5-MeO there are breakthroughs and then there are BREAKTHROUGHS. Snorting produces inconsistent dosages as it can easily fail to properly absorb. Dealing with a leaking nose is also a big distraction from the trip. Plugging is SMOOOOOTH. And lasts twice as long. Only to bigoted minds. Doctors prescribe it all the time. Once you plug you'll never go back.