Leo Gura

@littleBIG Do less actual practice, and more very precisely visualized practice. Practice the moves very methodically in your mind's eye. It will become even more effective than actual practice if done right. Careful with injuring yourself. Remember, no career success is worth ruining your legs for life. The damage you do now could come back to haunt you in your 40s, 50s, and 60s. So be careful.

You just have to understand that categories are not 100%-exception free. Male/female is a very useful and accurate category 98% of the time. Are there exceptions? Of course! How could there not be when we're dealing with 7 billion people? Is male/female your absolute identity? Of course not. From the Absolute perspective you are nothing.

The biggest problem would be getting addicted to it (as many people do) and turning it into a daily habit or a crutch for mood enhancement. I would draw a sharp distinction between taking a substance for mood enhancement vs taking a serious trip. Edibles probably have more spiritual growth potential, although I have not tried weed at all. It never really caught my interest.

@Serotoninluv Thanks for that report. Great stuff. @DrMobius My pleasure to be of service Here is my method for rectal administration of 5-MeO: Make sure you empty your butt first. Make sure you have not eaten anything for at least 3-4 hours. Don't eat any heavy greasy food that day. Make sure your 5-MeO-DMT is HCl form. DO NOT PLUG FREEBASE! That will burn like a bitch. Use 1ml plastic disposable needless oral syringes. You can find them on Amazon Heat up a small cup of pure bottled water in the microwave, so it's warm. Weight out 10mg of 5-MeO very accurately and place into a spoon. Use the syringe to suck up about 0.3ml of the warm water from the cup. Squirt that 0.3 ml of water into the spoon. Stir the 5-MeO so it is fully dissolved. Suck the entire liquid from the spoon into the syringe, including any particles left on the bottom. Put a few drops of lube on the syringe. Relax your butt hole and stick it in there about 1.5 inches. Slowly squeeze the syringe. Remove syringe. Tighten your butt and you should be all set. There should be no leakage. Go lie down on the carpet and enjoy your trip. Trip will come on FAST, within 5 minutes. You will start peaking at around 10 minutes. And it lasts for over an hour. Fear and heart-pounding is very normal for the first 10 minutes. It will pass as you surrender. Just breathe deep and relax and get curious about "What is the true nature of reality?" TOTALLY surrender! Start with 10mg and increase dose from there in 5-10mg increments. This method is more accurate and consistent than snorting. It wastes less substance. It comes on smoother and lasts a bit longer, which is perfect. There is some mild burning sensation in your butt for about 20 minutes, but it seems harmless and it's less unpleasant than snorting. N,N-DMT can also be administered rectally as above. BUT, most N,N-DMT is freebase! You must use a salt form of N,N-DMT, which is usually harder to find. But you can find it. N,N-DMT Fumarate is a good salt version. Because the doses with N,N-DMT are larger, you will need to use more than 0.3ml of water. Possibly needing a 2ml syringe. With this method, your N,N-DMT trip will be much smoother, more gentle, and last much longer than smoking it.

@Timothy That's an outstanding question. Thanks for expressing it. Sexuality can be surface level (as it is for most people) or it can be really profound and spiritual. Is sexuality just a craving? Well, yes. But you're sort of stuck with it. So the question is how to best channel it. Abstaining from sex entirely is an option, but only if it comes organically as the result of your growth in consciousness. Just telling yourself NO! is not gonna cut it. The drive is too strong and it will then become dysfunctional as you grow resentful and frustrated in not getting your needs met. I would say the more practical solution is to find a high quality girlfriend and develop a really deep relationship with her and turn sex into an artform. To me, this is much healthier than sleeping around with random girls or abstaining from sex when in fact you still deeply want it. I think if you want abstinence then you should first do some massive spiritual work so that it becomes organic. And until then, do the girlfriend thing. I am not one to hold biological urges as evil or wrong or bad. I prefer to meet my needs so fully that I transcend the need. Sex is an awesome thing when done right. This should be a practical solution for 95%+ of people. If your mission in life is to become an advanced master yogi, then by all means give up sex altogether and go meditate your ass off full-time and achieve super-deep states of consciousness which will purify you of all physical cravings. This will be very challenging path, suitable perhaps to 5% or less of people, but it will be awesome in the end. The only question is, can you really pull it off? Most people cannot. Sex doesn't have to mean sacrificing beauty. It is a part of the beauty when you approach it right. Can sex and relationships be a HUGE distraction from the spiritual path? Absolutely! But not necessarily. It depends on how you go about it. I don't see a serious conflict between having a girlfriend and pursing spirituality. In fact, relationships can make you grow a lot when done properly. It is not easy to sustain a conscious relationship.

@hundreth You are welcome to change whatever you can. The real problem will arise when life hands you a situation you cannot change. For example, if your daughter was gunned down in a school, will you be able to accept that? That's a really tough one. Will you be able look at the gunman in that case as yourself? Or will you separate yourself from him? The best way to change a thing is to first fully accept it. Self-agenda is not bad. Nothing is bad. But self-agenda can be an obstacle to seeing the truth clearly. Of course you will exercise your self-agenda. But the deeper question is, how conscious is your self-agenda? Most people are stuck acting out of self-defense without realizing they are acting out patterns from their childhood. So they are sort of like robots stuck in a loop. And that tends to make the situation worse.

@egoless The Tibetan Book Of The Dead comes to mind. It talks about various bardo realms. The Buddhist scriptures are MASSIVE. They are like 10 times longer than the Bible. It's a very technical topic which I'm no expert in. I'm not a big reader of scriptures.

Sure, that's possible. I just don't know. It seems consistent with many of the deepest yogic and buddhist scriptures, which I must assume came from certain direct experiences. I doubt people just made that shit up. These scriptures were written by very advanced enlightened masters, whose level I may never reach in my life time. There is still much about spirituality which I do not understand. Because this field is extremely deep and wide and nuanced, and it can only really be understood only through direct experience. At the deepest levels, it's very hard to accurately interpret and cross-reference textual sources without massive direct experience of all the various facets of nonduality and the paranormal. I would suggest you guys just keep your minds open, shoot for No-self and Infinity, and stay humble with your awakenings because there's almost always more to become conscious of.

Yes, that's seems likely. Sure, that's also possible. I don't really know what happens after the body dies. I just know that I am Infinity. So if there's a hell or heaven, I am both of those things, and more. Infinity will go through an infinite number of "experiences": hell, heaven, monkeys, ants, aliens, cyborgs, whatever.

There never was anyone who knows. There are no knowers or perceivers. There is just Infinity BEing itself. And one of the ways it can be, is as a human. Of course a rock probably cannot self-reflect. But, for example, consider this possibility: that you (as infinity) will go through the experience of every Jew killed by Hitler in the holocaust. And you will also experience being every Nazi who pulled the trigger. And that's just a tiny tiny fraction of the stuff you'll experience. You will experience EVERYTHING! In fact, you already have. Your present experience just excludes that total perspective. The whole point is that YES, infinity WOULD "know" itself. That's how you're knowing anything right now! There is nothing but infinity. So if infinity wasn't knowing itself, you wouldn't be here conscious of this sentence. It ain't you who's seeing this sentence. That's just the illusion of perception. It is actually infinity BEING the sentence and your body. You're still looking at this whole puzzle from inside your self. You need to experience No-self to really crack this open.

Yes, you must follow the rules, so to speak. That's part of Infinity. If you don't get up off your butt and crack some eggs, you won't have an omelet. In this current life that you are living in, omelets don't spawn out of thin air.

That is correct, if Leo is identified with being a human. But if Leo is identified with being Infinity, Infinity will "experience" all of itself, forever.

There is only Infinity. So everything is inevitable. Talking about free will seems silly from this vantage point. Its sort of like asking, Does that rock have free will? A rock is a rock. And Infinity is Infinity. And YET! with all that said, individual choices are as important as ever. But it's not so much that Leo is making the choices, but that Infinity is making the choices.

@egoless Yes, it is the ultimate full circle. But now your attitude toward the whole thing changes. I was standing at Wholefoods yesterday chatting with a stranger, and I was acutely aware that his body is me. Also, I am aware that I will experience every evil and horror ever imaginable. And that makes me very humble and compassionate towards people. I literally carry the universe's suffering on my shoulders. And it's an awesome responsibility. There are very important attitudinal differences which come with such profound understanding. Even though ordinary life basically continues just as before. Perhaps most important is the maturity which comes after deeply seeing the Truth. You have seen things which no childish mind can stomach. You have seen the price of creation and it is deeply humbling.

Imagine, for a moment, a "thing" which has absolutely zero limits placed upon it. Sort of like an infinite dictator (AKA, God). And think for a minute of the enormous consequences of what such a "thing" would entail if it was actually real. God is not limited by the physical laws. God is not limited PERIOD! The consequences of such a thing are staggering beyond all comprehension. For example, just one consequence of such a "thing" is that it would have to include the very present experience you are having, because if it didn't, that would be a limit -- but it is unlimited. Imagine, for example, a mathematical matrix which contains every possible dream that every human being has and can ever have. That would be getting close to Infinity. But now include an infinite numbers of dreams by an infinite number of beings and non-beings. Infinity is the sum total of every possible situation. Another way to understand it is: If Infinity actually existed, how would it look like? It would look precisely as the present experience you are having.

Extracting 5-MeO from plant sources is extremely difficult. Much harder than N,N-DMT. You'd have to be a chemist and need thousands of dollars of lab equipment to do it. Most plants that contain 5-MeO also contain N,N-DMT, and in much larger quantities. So you'd need a method to separate out both molecules. And 5-MeO-DMT is much less stable of a molecule than N,N-DMT. I have only heard of one instance of a person being able to extract it. And the guy was a professional chemist. And even, it seems his results were mixed. Or maybe someone will invent a better method in the future. But for now, it seems unrealistic. Finding a toad would be easier.

@Monkey-man If a psychic entered Trump's head, the psychic would be the one walking away traumatized

@John Iverson I bet you there are mystics and yogis in the Philippines. You just gotta look harder If not there, then certainly in nearby places in Indonesia or South East Asia. Here is just one example: http://www.phala.dhamma.org/

You can meditate under almost any circumstance, including getting tortured or at the dentist's office. Is it IDEAL to meditate after a large meal? Obviously not because you will be more sleepy as blood from your head rushes to your stomach. But I often meditate after meals. Just keep your meals lite. Or ideally do your session a few hours afterward or before.

@cactus Sounds like what she experienced wasn't enlightenment but depersonaliation disorder. This is like a half-baked enlightenment. A sort of negative infinity. It's definitely an incomplete awakening. A proper enlightenment should still leave you passionate about participating in life. Of course something like the desire to get a master's degree might completely fall away -- especially if the degree was in a field which wasn't authentic to begin with. But then new motivations arise -- more authentic ones. Yes, some enlightened people choose to become recluses. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but it has to be done authentically, not out of fear or depression or lack of passion. True enlightenment should make you MORE capable, not less. Of course inauthentic parts of your life will fall away. This may be painful or scary at first, but ultimately that's what you want: a more authentic life. I wouldn't worry too much about this. Depersonalization is rare, and I think it mostly happens with people who don't study the theory enough and don't realize what they're getting into so it can blindside them. They somehow misinterpret Emptiness or No-self as a negative thing, which it isn't. I find my awakenings very motivating, and so do most people I think.

I also said in that very same video that I do not possess knowledge of all facts. That is not what we're talking about here. We're talking about understanding the metaphysical nature of everything. That doesn't mean you become a walking encyclopedia. There is an infinite number of facts, so on one can ever know even 1% of them. Nor is that desirable. What can surprise science is that reality is infinite and science isn't understanding WHAT it is.

Since there is only BEING, it cannot be grasped. You must BE it.

There are no perceptions. There is only BEING mistaken for perceptions. The cause of every phenomena (or instance of BEING) are literally infinite. So you can study them FOREVER and never reach the end. Studying the brain can tell you things -- especially how to manipulate things -- but it will not tell you what anything is or why it is here. For that, you need to grasp BEING directly, which conventional scientific method can never do.

The infinite beauty of reality.

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