Leo Gura

@Outer A mindfuck that would send a dualist like JP into a nervous breakdown.

Lol His whole life is fear based. What else can you expect from such an ego? Fear is his whole organizing principle and same for his fanboys. They are frightened children trying to act macho without any awareness of what is driving them.

@kieranperez It is not simply a matter of "new stuff". It's about the level of depth one grasps it at. As I have said many times before -- but people refuse to hear me -- there are incredible degrees of depth to this work. Whatever you think you've understood or grasped, you can understand and grasp it 1000x deeper. People mislead themselves by looking for new topics, new teachings, new experiences, when what is really most paramount is grasping old vanilla teaching more fully. How deeply do you understand what existence is? That is the key thing.

@kieranperez Yes, there is enormous wisdom in yoga. It's a very powerful technology.

Well, at least this shows you are starting to question existence. Which is the most important point. Of course none of the above is actual conscious, it's more just your mind starting to realize that conventional knowledge is a farce. Reality did not come out of nothing. It is nothing. Something and nothing are identical. The mistake is seperating the two, holding them as opposites.

@zunnyman I said the online course is weak sauce.

Gifted people tend to take their gifts for granted. It can be difficult for some gurus to realize just how stuck, dysfunctional, and addicted most people are. Ralston teaches stuff that 99.9999% of ordinary people will never get.

@MM1988 When a person is deluded in Chinese, you speak to them in Chinese. All symbolic representations of Truth are self-negating and contradictory.

@MM1988 When a person is deluded in Chinese, you speak to them in Chinese. All symbolic representations of Truth are self-negating and contradictory.

Psychedelic trips always come with risks. This cannot be avoided. Ultimately, the only way to overcome a fear is to face it head on.

I found this very amusing. Brace yourself: https://www.quora.com/Is-Leo-Gura’s-Actualized-org-a-scam

Enough

@Joseph Maynor No, you're only whoring yourself out if you are whoring yourself out. Not everyone is a whore. And there are many degrees of whoring. Watch out with this overly simplistic, fatalistic thinking. If not being a whore is important to you, you can design such a life. Saying that everyone is a whore is like saying everyone is a criminal. That's a very convenient way to think if you are a criminal.

All of this is purely subjective and relative -- a construction of your mind. The differences are large and significant only because your ego says so. Notice how you sneak your egoic agenda into the discussion to help you convince yourself that you have a winning argument here. The oil spill only matters because you think it matters to your survival. The oil spill is a positive thing from the perspective of bacteria that thrive off eating the dead animals killed by the spill. All argument is ego, not truth. Once you see the truth, you will stop all argument.

It does not have to be that way. That's the way of lazy sheep. That happens to people because they never do personal development. Senility is not just some random affliction. It is caused by things like improper diet, improper use of one's mind and body, and improper lifestyle.

Thanks!

@Viking Imagine if you took this approach to shitting. Dude, just enjoy it. What do you expect at 20 years old? Stop being guilty about it. And carry on with your spiritual practices. 15 minutes of wanking off never stopped no one from enlightenment.

Well, it does vary from person to person, but yeah, that's generally how it feels. You start to feel like you're inside a dream, everything is consciousness, and you are God looking through your own eyes. What once felt like a solid, heavy, material, physical reality now feels like an airy, intelligent, living, fluid field of spirit. Your body just becomes an extension of your mind.

@Serotoninluv Well, you gotta be careful with comparing a 5-MeO peak experience with something like Sahaja samadhi, which is what @eputkonen is talking about. You can function very well from abiding nondual awareness. But not so much on a 5-MeO peak. The 5-MeO peak is too nondual to be practical for everyday living. Which is precisely why normal and even enlightened people are not that conscious 24/7. At a certain point you can become so conscious that there is no world any more.

It's very common to have brief glimpses of nonduality and then fall back into duality. But after a certain point, after enough glimpses, something should crack in you and then nonduality becomes your permanent way of seeing the world.

@Shakazulu You are the boss. You create the list for you. Stop looking for someone's tit to suck.

On 600ug of genuine LSD you will not be able to see clearly enough to walk.

Nonsense. I'm teaching myself Kriya yoga and it works like charm.

@Seed That's nonduality! Enjoy

Take extreme ownership of the problem and get a job or start a business. Freedom is purchased through hard work and strategic thinking. Flailing your arms around is not going to solve this problem.