Leo Gura

Societies are NOT man-made systems. They are self-driving, self-evolving organisms. You could not stop globalism with World War III. Higher levels of organization are going to happen whether you like it or not.

Some Stephen Hawking quotes to ponder:

Truth is an acquired taste

No! What you're failing to understand is this: If everything were possible right now, that would entail the possibilty that you are sitting in a specific room, reading this specific sentence, only holding your specific beliefs, on the planet Earth, in your specific city, in this specific universe, with these specific physical laws, where you cannot read people's minds, nor jump through walls, nor are you Stephen Hawking, and your iPad is square rather than triangular, and the sky is blue but not red or any other color. Infinity does NOT mean that the sky will be rainbow colored! Infinity means it will be blue for you right now. Unlimited means: every limit possible! Infinity includes every single individual number: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Infinity is not a blurring together of all the numbers into a muddled mess, as you imagine. Infinity even includes the case of you sitting here and misunderstanding infinity and arguing nonsense.

Of course concepts are things. A photo of Santa Claus is a real object. It's just not Santa Claus. The map is not the territory, but a map is still part of the territory. What you are talking about here is becoming conscious of what a symbol is. I have an important video about this topic: Grasping The Illusory Nature Of Thought.

Now I feel bad for ripping on materialists Let's hope he realized Infinity in the very end.

@Greatnestwithin I don't use any bench. I showed you on my blog what I use.

There are also high-tech options like this: https://throneofzen.com/products/alexia-meditation-seat-fabric-sand

With a syringe full of 5-MeO-DMT

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.