Leo Gura

No, it isn't. That is your mind drawing a duality within nonduality. You have no volition! You are an ego which does not exist! You do not control anything. All of your reasoning right now is coming from ego. So it will all be wrong. You're wasting time here. Realize first that ego does not exist.

That's your mistake right there. Stop assuming that. You are imagining a "physical" world where you cannot walk through walls. That's what you're imagining! You ain't controlling anything anyways. That's just the ego talking. You dream stuff up at night all the time, and you don't control any of it. Why are you doing spiritual practices if you believe in a material world? You may as well stop. What is the use of spirituality if it is subject to physical laws? Spirituality requires that you give up EVERYTHING. Your notion of a world must go. It is just a fantasy. Which, BTW, is why you're clinging to it so desperately. Just let it go. Don't philosophize. Just let it go. Infinity is NOT a potential. It's right here! It's the whole world you see. Potential and actual are identical.

@Nahm Oh man... you will LOVE 5-MeO. I'm not vegan and 5-MeO still works great on me. But in general, you want to clean up your diet for tripping, especially don't eat junk on the day of the trip. --- I've been hearing that some labs in Canada (where 5-MeO is legal) are getting close to finalizing their synthesis process. They were having problems on the final step of the synthesis, which they have now figured out. Once some of these Canadian labs start making it, that should increase availability since China shut down production in 2015. At least that would be the best case scenario.

Same way people fall into the scam of materialism. There are people right now going to law school, for example, working their asses off 80 hours per week to become top notch lawyers and businessmen, and for what? It's scam. The rat race is a scam even more subtle than a cult. All because people take knowledge for granted. They just believe whatever their culture tells them. There is little difference between a Harvard lawyer and an Islamic fundamentalist. Most people are just robots. How about you?

Clean up your dirty mind

@Serotoninluv Yeah... stick to under 30mg dosages. You went too high. Small dosages also means more trips. Around 25mg seems like a good sweet spot. It's epic, but still manageable. This is super-interesting to me. I wonder why this happens? Not everyone sees God on 5-MeO. But tt happens to me EVERY time and it's so powerful. And it also happens to be me almost every time on other lesser psychedelics. I think we all have different brains/minds and so the psychedelic unlocks certain aspects of your brain/mind. If you are not primed for it, you will not experience God. I think it helps to do a LOT of existential contemplation/philosophy. When I experience God, it's not so much that I merely "experience" it, rather my mind becomes infinite and I feel my mind crawl over the mind God, and as it's doing so, it becomes the mind of God. There is still a thought process happening, but it feels like my thoughts have become hyper-multi-parallel-processes. My thoughts become slow, infinite, very intuitive, and cosmic in scope. It feels like my mind is able to contain all of God. The last time I tripped on 5-MeO, I became so infinite that I could look at an object and see the infinite chain of causes the created. It is like pure infinite knowledge. Like omniscience. Every object in existence has infinite causation. Take a paperclip for example. There is an infinite chain of actions which has led to its creation. My working hypothesis is that different brains will access different aspects of God in different ways (either with or without psychedelics). Which is why spiritual people argue with each other so much. They assume everyone is the same. But this is almost certainly false. There may be realms which your brain simply cannot access, or might have difficulty accessing without proper conceptual frameworks.

@Paulus Amadeus That's right. You can look forward to an infinite number of times being raped, murdered, and abused. And you can also look forward to an infinite number of times being loved, caressed, wowed, overjoyed, etc. You will experience every experience possible. When this really sinks into your mind, you will weep like a baby. And you will also understand why nonduality is so fucking radical that no one wants to accept it. It's way too much to accept. The Absolute will simultaneously awe you and scare the shit out of you. Just think about this for a moment: there are 39 million cows slaughtered every year in the USA. You, as God, will experience each of those slaughterings personally, with your own throat. And that's just cows, in this country, on this planet, in one year. There are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe with planets similar to ours, with who knows what kinds of creatures committing what kinds of acts of violence against one another. And the universe has 14 billion years in it. And this is just one out of an infinite number of universes! And suddenly you start to see the scope of God.

@bslpiontds Maybe instead of yoga you should just sit on a bed of nails.

You can buy chunks of San Pedro on eBay. No need to grow it. Just keep in mind, potency of San Padro is highly variable. Depends on how much sun it gets.

I like to rest my hands near my knees, palms up, totally relaxed. You can also do that but hold a mudra like touching your thumb and index finger together in a circle, with the other fingers straight out. Yes, gazing up at 3rd eye is straining. It gets more natural with practice. Do it gently.

How dare you, sir! I am no such creature.

@starsofclay I would use a pure synthetic mesacline, not a cactus extract. Plugging catcus extract would be even harder.

@Scholar That's good. You're definitely on to something there. Seems like you're becoming conscious of the immediacy of reality. That nothing is hidden. That every object is hollow, like a hologram. Appearance is reality. But! You still haven't answered the question, Who am I? What am I? You have yet to awaken to the fact of no-self. Inquire into what you are. Not objects, not the body, not thoughts, not emotions, but YOU! What is doing the observation? What is looking out your eyes? What is being aware?

@sarapr Not really. Big picture understanding is the deepest understanding there is. The deepest depth comes from wholeness, not from technical specialization. It's deep because it encompasses everything, interconnecting more dots. Big picture understanding produces wisdom and vision which technical specialization cannot. Yes, you can do both. Although there are obviously tradeoffs between where you allocate your time and energy. For the most business/career success, you need to specialize in one thing. For the deepest personal development, you need to go broad and understand many things.

I was being sarcastic.

I made a post just last month on my blog: https://www.actualized.org/insights/modern-humans-are-350000-years-old Homo sapiens are at least 350,000 years old, if we are to trust current science. Neantherthals had very different brains from us. They might even have been far more spiritual, but got killed off by the more egotistical and pragmatic humans. Just speculation, but quite plausible. Homo sapiens may also have been genetically far more spiritual in the past. The spiritual ones would have easily gotten killed off by the bloodthirsty ones, like dodo birds.

I always knew Jesus spoke in a high-pitched British accent.

How is the simulation possible and why does it exist? And what is the relationship between subject and object? Don't let clever words mask the underlying ignorance.

@Cesar Alba Start with just reading, taking notes, and thinking about what is possible -- get your bearings. Order 20 good books and read them a bit each night over the next year.

The distinction between science and pseudoscience is nonsense. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. 100 years ago x-rays were pseudo-science. Today, it would be pseudo-science to deny their existence. 400 years ago, telescopes were pseudo-science. Today, you would be called insane if you say, "Telescopes are a tool of the devil meant to deceive mankind." Yet that is exactly what the good scientists of the day told Galileo. No! Empirical evidence does not matter at all when you're dealing with a dogmatic person. That's the whole point! The evaluate evidence properly requires total openmindedness. Stop assuming that scientists have it. Not even close. Yes, it will. And it has. And we have it. But so what? It will not become a part of mainstream cultural knowledge or mainstream science because they are the gatekeepers and will throw it away. It will just become religious myth. No, he won't. He will be ridiculed as a fraud or delusional religious kook. And in the rare case where you do succeed in getting a lab to study him, that lab will get discredited and their results thrown out for "improper procedural methods." Obviously the methods must have been improper, because everyone knows that stopping the heart is physically impossible. You're still not grasping the depth of this problem.

@electroBeam The materialist paradigm exists, just like Santa Claus.

Hahahaha... You give scientists WAY too much credit. Do you realize that scientists are masters as explaining away and ignoring anomalies? That's what they do for a living. The scientist's first choice is always to reject any data which doesn't fit his metaphysical paradigm. Because obviously the paradigm is right, and the data must be erroneous. And in the rare case where one scientist is successfully convinced that the whole paradigm is wrong, what do you think will happen?? What do you think his colleagues will say when he runs over to them and say, "Look guys! I found a man with no heartbeat! All our theories about human physiology were wrong!"? Will say hug him and say, "Wow! Great work! Let's admit to the public we were fools all this time. Let's re-write all the textbooks and tell all the doctors we taught them lies for 100 years. Yay! Hooray! All our reputations are going down the toilet! Yay!" They will just ban him from the university for talking woo-woo pseudoscience. They will say he's been hanging out with religious kooks and has turned to a New Age believer. His reputation will be destroyed, no serious scientist will ever want to work with him, and all of his grant money will be pulled. You don't get it yet. Science is a political game. For a thing to be accepted as true, it must win a long political battle. It's not about truth, it's about self-preservation. "Black matter" isn't a problem for them because it fits the paradigm. It's "matter". Try to get them to fit "God" or siddhis into their paradigm and see what happens. They still don't accept the full ramifications of quantum mechanics. The greatest professors at CalTech still do not know the difference between a math equation and a cheeseburger! What wisdom can you expect from such a dense person? It's like explaining a joke to a donkey. There is no substitute for having a sense of humor. And there is no substitute for consciousness or radical openmindedness.

@electroBeam Super Mario World is so consistent! Look! Mario is affected by gravity and he doesn't fall through the floor! And fast-moving turtle shells really hurt! Therefore, Super Mario World must be real. QED #RationalistGenius

@Shanmugam I would bet that human beings have been independently experiencing nonduality for 50,000+ years. Way before any kind of written surviving records, languages, or traditions. Psychedelic mushrooms grow on every continent. And they would have certainly been eaten.

Yes, all enlightenment or spiritual practices ultimately lead there. Self-inquiry Contemplation Meditation Yoga Psychedelics Etc. You don't really stop seeing the elephant. You rise to a new level of consciousness where you realize that the elephant was always also a non-elephant. The non-elephant exists in exactly the same place as the elephant! An elephant is a non-elephant. Get it? No. Mind cannot go there. Some form of meditation is required. If you eat some mushrooms, you'll see it.