Leo Gura

@Widdle Puppy Good report!

Be careful with all of these Western philosophical notions of truth. They are not Truth with capital T. If you want to see Truth with a capital T, just silently look around the room you're in right now. You're looking at Truth. But you're not fully conscious of just what it is yet because ego it taking this room as "my experience", which is a subtle conceptualization still. The Truth is exactly what's right in front of you. Train your awareness right on it and hold it there for a long time without moving. Just silently observe the Truth. Connect with the mystery of existence. Your body is made of Truth, the floor is made of Truth, the coffee table is made of Truth, etc. The question is, what the hell is it? It ain't molecules or atoms. It ain't even experience. What is it?

There are a lot of great cutting-edge physics and science lectures available on Youtube these days, so I thought it would be nice if we started to pool the best ones. Please think twice before posting a science video here. We want really good videos which demonstrate high Yellow/Turquoise holistic science. Find videos which are really big picture or have some larger metaphysical, epistemic, or spiritual implications. I'm thinking of stuff akin to the work of visionary scientists like Einstein, Niels Bohr, David Bohm, etc. Stuff that is post-materialist, post-rationalist. Stuff that's outside the box and really captures the imagination. Of course we shouldn't expect these scientists to really fathom nonduality. Most of them will still be materialists and still stuck in their models. But still, they will often say interesting tidbits which dovetail with nonduality.

In this work you are not after a "picture of reality" you are after pure reality itself, which means all picture must be discarded. If you want pictures of reality, go study science. Inquiry is not about pictures. It's about BEING reality. This notion you have of "reality" has to go. It's just a concept. Deconstruct it. What is this thing you call "reality"? Notice it's just an idea. What you see in your direct experience is prior to your notions of "reality". Strip all knowing from the present moment until you are just left sitting in your room with no idea what anything is. Even remove the idea that you are alive, sitting in a room. Or that were ever born. Strip it all off! Try to get to pure raw sensation without any ideas or images of what it is. Don't worry about missing out on reality. Everything that is true is independent of interpretation or images in the mind. The fact is, you do not know what anything is. Period. Try to get your mind to see this. Don't just think it, experience this not-knowing. One of the biggest reasons you are stuck is because you have an image of "an external reality" in your mind. You are taking this image to be reality when it is not. This image must go. Consider the possiblity that there is no such thing as external reality in the same way that there is no such thing as Santa Claus.

@hoherbasti There are no extraction methods for 5-MeO that I know of. You would need to be an organic chemist with tens of thousands of dollars of lab equipment to extract it successfully. It is a very delicate molecule. It seems easier to synthesize than to extract. And you'd need to be a good chemist to synthesize it too, with costly lab equipment. Also, 5-MeO is not really a motivational tool. It will likely have the exact opposite effect: it will show you that your entire life is a meaningless lie. Although discovering God was very motivating for me. But for many people it would be more terrifying than motivating. You'd be better off starting with something like LSD and see how you handle that. You could do years of work just with LSD.

That is super-typical of Blue thinking. It's not even ugly from their perspective because they really believe in the whole good guys vs bad guys narrative. And of course, we are always the good guys so we can do no wrong. The lack of compassion comes from lack of exposure to the "bad guys". Excellent example!

@How to be wise Very practically for your self-inquiry, start with the premise that only what is strictly in your experience is true. Under this premise, your face does not exist unless you are looking at it. And even when you are looking at it in a mirror, it still is not "yours" or "a face" because those are concepts, not direct experience. Notice that under this premise even the notion of "Truth" is not real but conceptual. Notice further than even the notion "real" isn't real! The first most important distinction to make is between concept/thought & actual experience. But then inquire further. By deconstructing your web of materialistic beliefs your experience will ultimately become recontextualized into Absolute Being. The Absolute in none other than what is in your direct experience right now once you strip off all the concepts. But there are a lot of concepts to strip off. Way more than you can presently imagine. Psychedelics will help you see the Truth directly. Which will then help self-inquiry and deconstruction. Truth cannot be spoken because it is the the sum total of everything that is the case. You could say that Truth is the physical substrate of reality. Be careful with trying to conceptualize or imagine Truth. All concepts and images take you away from Truth or Being. See video: Grasping The Illusory Nature Of Thought.

@electroBeam Interesting... I wonder if it's any good.

@Charlotte Ayahausca can be rough. Should be easier for you to do some mushrooms or LSD at home with a friend trip-sitting. Start with small doses.

Kriya yoga works wonders. By far the most effective method I've found besides 5-MeO.

@Nara5 Welcome!

Do a forum search. This has been discussed before.

Ha! Good luck! No such book exists. Which is why I'm working on it.

@Self Discovery Excellent! So Green, so Hawaii! Hawaii is a Green's paradise. Except for all those damned fucking Orange helicopters flying around.

An interesting thing I've noticed: The highest quality teachers usually do not teach psychic powers. They generally don't even talk about them even though they have them.

In Russia, when they stab the real hand, the guy still doesn't flinch.

There definitely is such a thing as post-rational. You just haven't gotten there yet. What you are saying is still within the Aristotelian linear logical paradigm. The point of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem is that it cannot be understood via logic. It is only understandable via intuition. You think you are using logic when really you are using intuition. You cannot encapsulate Truth mechanically. Or in other words: all logic relies on intuition. But even that aside, there is something even deeper than Godel's theorems. Yes, Godel's work is still largely within the rationalist paradigm, however, that's just the departure point. The point of post-rationalism is that you stop using reason entirely, you stop arguing, you stop proving, you stop communicating, you stop thinking. Reason is not the foundation of anything. Reason is just word-games. The foundations of reality have nothing to do with human reason. No, you don't need logic to understand all this. And also, post-rational doesn't mean you stop using logic forever. It means you are capable of transcending logic when appropriate. Post-rational people are not irrational, nor do they reject all rationality. They are just able to go beyond it and they are aware of its limits.

Subjective vs objective is a duality. Reality is nondual. Anything you could say about nonduality would be false, as all thought and speech is based on dualistic divisions like subjective vs objective, real vs unreal, existence vs non-existence, big vs small, matter vs mind, dual vs nondual, etc. Truth escapes all attempts to encapulate it.

Love is being itself. Like the physical building blocks of reality. But this cannot be seen while through the cloud of smog of the ego. You have to die to see that all is love. Ego is incapable of such love. Only with death does it come.

@isabel Mystical experiences are not permanent awakening. Mystical experiences are nice, but you need to go deeper, beyond experience to Truth itself, which is not an experience or a state. There are many depths to how awakened you can be. So always keep boring deeper and deeper. For an awakening to stick, the illusion of self needs to be thoroughly decontructed. It's very common to keep falling back into the illusion because you still haven't fully deconstructed it.

This is how self-actualizers walk