Leo Gura

@Prabhaker Osho was negligent. It's amazing how Sheela got out in 29 months on attempted assassination of government officials and bio-terrorism charges. She got off very light.

No, I've probably only scratched the surface of how deep the insanity goes. I don't really care to ever experience it again. Which is why I stay away from mushrooms. McKenna had some mushroom trips that were supposedly so terrifying he never took them again. I'd stick to AL-LAD or 1P-LSD. I think if you play around with mushrooms long enough, they will scare the shit out of you and probably sour your whole attitude towards psychedelics.

@Prabhaker When your followers are placing diseased beavers into a blender to pour into the local water supply to poison an entire city, I'd say something's a bit wrong

Oh, BTW, 5-MeO-DMT must be done an a totally empty stomach. No eating for like 4 hours at least. You will be very sorry otherwise. I've noticed the trips can start to get wonky with even a bit of food. I've also noticed the trips get wonky for me if done in the morning. Otherwise I never get nausea.

@Ethan_05 Awakening is the most amazing thing ever. You literally become God. Your motivation should be: I want to know what reality is and why it exists! Tap into that deep curiosity until it's the primary thing driving your life. Or find some other way to frame it. If you're a God-believing person, then you could frame it as: I want to know what God is! Since you are young and in high school, you have LOTS of free time, especially during the summer. Stop screwing around and do a 10-day meditation retreat. You can easily get a glimpse into awakening within those 10 days. And then you'll have your motivation.

That's really interesting. Share more of your findings with us.

I've found my perfect dose now through lots of experimentation. 22-25mg rectally. Below 20mg is powerful, but not quite fully Infinite. 25mg is just to the point where any more would be too much to tolerate. At least that's for me. Everyone will be a bit different. On my retreat all of my doses were in the 20-22mg range. A few of the doses didn't work as planned because my plugging technique wasn't perfected yet and also because weighing out substance accurately is quite challenging even on a milligram scale, especially in a humid environment. I want to transition to volumetric dosing because the scale is just not consistent. These micro scoops should do the trick.

@phoenix666 Yup, that's mushrooms for ya They can take you to infinity, but the road will be twisted. Breaking through that barrier of insanity is a really important step. So long as you're afraid of going insane, you're not yet capable of contemplating the nature of reality. The Truth lies beyond insanity. You may want to upgrade to a less twisted psychedelic, like LSD. The trouble with mushrooms is, it can be hard to integrate their lessons because they can be so twisted. 5-MeO-DMT is the polar opposite of that. You get Infinity without any twist, which is ideal. I haven't found any other psychedelic which is as clear and as direct. Most psychedelics are murky and capricious. The visual distortions also get in the way. And mushrooms fuck with your memory and sense of time in a weird way. They sort of hypnotize you.

I usually do it without music.

You got it! Keep digging deeper. There's more!

@Deutsche22 You'll need to be extra-strategic about your spiritual work in this case. Use the most powerful techniques like: Psychedelics Kirya yoga 10-day retreats etc.

No, no, no. The ego self is your physical existence. The idea that were born and are alive. The no-self is death of that. Imagine that one day your life just ended. Like you were never even born. But your body keeps on living. That is enlightenment. What people fail to understand about enlightenment is that "being alive" and "being born" and "physical existence" are just IDEAS! And once you realize they are IDEAS, all of reality will unravel and your life will collapse into Infinity. Physical existence is not a fact. It is an IDEA.

Yup, sad. That's what happens when materialism goes to its fullest conclusion. It is totally hollow, and the more successful you become, the more you start to see the truth of that. Most poor people are lucky because they will never get successful enough to realize just how pointless success is. It's very hard to believe unless you actually start to experience this phenomena for yourself. After you get all of the material stuff you most-wanted, the very next day will be the worse day of your life. So be ready for that. Have an escape plan. Materialism corrupts creativity because creativity is a spiritual pursuit.

Enlightenment Intensives are very.... INTENSE. They will definitely push you hard and you will grow in more ways than one. Ralston's teaching style is very advanced. He doesn't coddle you at all. Most people will not get the depth of what he has to offer because he doesn't present it in an easily accessible, mainstream-ized way. But the Enlightenment Intensive is just dyads. You do not get any "teachings" or theory during an Intensive. It's just a week of pure self-inquiry in a very structured setting, with partners.

@dharm4 Indeed

I'm not sure why 5-MeO seems to not work on certain people. Or it works much less effectively. Probably has something to do with differences in brain physiology and also innate spiritual attunement. My guess is, not all human brains are equally susceptible to 5-MeO-DMT. I'm guessing you need to have the right structures already present in the brain which can utilize the 5-MeO, otherwise not much happens. Either you require large dosages or maybe this chemical is just not the right one for you. Do you have a high tolerance to other psychedelics like LSD or mushrooms? 20mg of 5-MeO should produce radical shifts in consciousness. You may want to experiment with smoking/vaporizing it. Just be careful with dosage. Smoked dosages need to be MUCH smaller. Start with something like 5mg smoked, then work up to 10mg, then 15mg.

Thanks everybody!

We already have a Mega-Thread about this topic in Consciousness sub-forum.

That's how we get wise.

And what if all of these conspiracy concerns are just a false flag operation masterminded by a race of Troll-people who live deep under ground to rise up and take over mankind? Allow me to pull out my Glenn Beck chalkboard and connect some dots for you... The Clinton Foundation, working closely with the Globalists, have been sending emails deep down under the Earth's mantle, as evidenced by their email server in Hawaii near the volcano. Now you ask, "But Leo! Why would Hilary Clinton want to ally herself with the Troll-people?" This should be obvious: They are both pedophiles. How do we know this? They both like to eat pizza. Which their child slaves bake for them in the underground volcanic pizza ovens. Why do you think the US has such a strong military presence in Honolulu? To keep the Troll-people in check, of course. Now you say, "Yeah, Leo, it sounds so silly when you put it like that." But that's just what they want you to think! It's precisely because it sounds so absurd that they can get away it! P.S. Check out my new Alpha-Male-Bro multivitamin pack coming the Actualized.org store. It's got calcium which we extract from the crushed skulls of arctic baby seals. We crush their skulls by hand to make sure the bone dust is 100% pure, unlike all the other brands. Make sure to buy a few year's supply because these suckers are flying off the shelves and you never know when those Troll-people will shut down the internet as the first step in their quest for world domination. Because they know that step #1 to subduing the population is by reducing their calcium and testosterone levels, turning them into effeminate beta-cucks, allowing the government to take away all our automatic weapons.

Even if they are true, they do not belong here because they are distracting. Even if the CIA killed JFK, what does that change for you? Nothing. Now you just become more paranoid and judgmental. Whatever the CIA is hiding, your own mind is doing even more such hiding within you. Allowing for discussion of conspiracy theories quickly devolves into Alex Jones -type nonsense. BTW, I think it is totally plausible that the CIA or some other internal elements of the government killed JFK. But that is irrelevant, and all it boils down to is speculation. The fact is, there's a lot we don't know about the world.

Yes, the effects could be due to lack of oxygen due to an initial increase in oxygen, which then leads to an even greater increase in CO2, which is what then produces the beneficial effects. The reason I am unconcerned about this is because this is technical minutia. It does not matter to me if this technique ultimately works via net total oxygen deprivation. I have done enough research to see that the technique is reasonably safe and beneficial for the majority of people doing it responsibly. BTW, early Christian Baptism worked by submerging the head underwater until the person nearly drowned. Triggering a near-death experience. That is real mysticism for ya. Spiritual techniques can be pretty hardcore. And I don't consider Shamanic Breathing anywhere near as dangerous. Having technical knowledge does not reduce ignorance nor increase wisdom. You could have the CO2 mechanism right, but your conclusion about not doing Shamanic Breathing could still be wrong. This would be the greater mistake. My concern is not debating scientific minutia (which is always subject to error and misleading interpretations such as you are doing) but with high-level, holistic understanding -- which is where my advice comes from. My advice is never based on technical studies, but on a deeper holistic intuitive understanding of reality. What you are claiming as scientific fact is actually your interpretation. You are misusing science by taking it so much on face-value, without proper context. You are ignoring the extent to which your mind is interpreting "the facts". I did not take any corrective action because none is needed. What I did was address your concerns by pointing out that you are taking your science out of context. Obviously you disagree, and you're free to do so. Tens of thousands of people have done Shamanic Breathing without damage in workshops all over the world. That is proof enough for me. This isn't rocket science.

Mmmmm... The God of Omelets

@blazed

A) My fame level is tiny compared to his. B) It has been challenging managing even my tiny level of fame. Fame is like jet fuel for the ego-mind. It worsens all of your basest proclivities. I have to be very mindful not to get the fame go to my head, and still, sometimes it does. C) I have been doing lots of personal development work unlike most successful people, so I can do a self-diagnosis much better and I know what all the solutions and traps are, so I know what to do if things get really bad. D) Low to moderate levels of fame are actually quite nice, as long as you are spiritually mature and you aren't chasing after it. It's the mega-levels of fame where things can start to get ugly. Tom Cruise levels of fame are toxic, I think. You don't want everyone in the world to recognize you.