Leo Gura

A breakthrough dose of snorted 5-MeO is closer to 30mg. Maybe even 35mg for those who are less sensitive or if your snorting technique is poor. 20mg vs 30mg is about a million times different. Can't speak to 4-ACO, haven't tried it yet. It should be similar to mushrooms. Make sure you don't snort it too deep, and make sure you flip your head upside down for a full 10 minutes and massage the 5-MeO into your nostrils after snorting. This makes a big difference. If you taste a bitter drip down your nose, that's you losing half your dose down your throat. 20mg effectively becomes only 10-15mg with improper snorting technique. Which of course is a weak dose. You ain't gonna be seeing God on that dose unless you've already broken through.

@MarkusSweden Start by having a direct experience of what "God" points to.

@MarkusSweden Well, the mind can invent all sorts of plausible-sounding stories. But in the end, the ultimate question is: How can reality exist at all? And the only answer is: everything collapses into unity. Infinity. This is borne out by quantum mechanics as it is by mysticism.

@MarkusSweden There is only The Self. All is ONE. But you are not going to understand this until you have a few deep enlightenment experiences. It's more radical that solipsism. But in a good way. Just who do you think you're talking to here?? Yourself!! Wakey, wakey

Haha! You are a tricky one! You cannot wrap your head around it because the Absolute is prior to your head. It generates your head. So of course you cannot go there using your head. Although, common sense should tell you that a picture of an apple is not an apple. An idea of NY city is not NY city. The map is not the territory because the map is itself part of the thing you're trying to understand. You can't use a map to get at the ultimate nature of reality because the map itself is but one subset of the reality you are trying to explain. And the subset cannot contain the superset. The map is entangled with the territory! There can be no map which sits outside the universe! Of course the map is part of the actual territory, which is precisely why the map is not the whole territory. Get it? You haven't really thought through what you are saying, otherwise you would realize that your model of reality makes no sense, collapsing into contradiction. You assume that when I speak of the Absolute it is just an idea. Well, that is your projection. Of course you cannot know if I have actually experienced the Absolute. Only I can know that. From your perspective, I could be lying or deluded. But that is all just a distraction from your own inquiry. If I told you I had been to a place called NY city and it is really cool, but your worldview is so limited that it must deny that NY city is even possible, you would say, "But Leo! That's just an idea! NY city is just something you read about in a book! It's just something you believe. How could you possibly know it exists? What if you're just deluded?" Your line of reasoning would be right, but only if I hadn't actually visited NY city. The bottom line here is: Empty you cup first, grasshopper. Your mind is not open enough yet for this work. You're underestimating just how radical reality is. Reality is non-Aristotelian and non-Newtonian. Even modern science has confirmed this. Your models are about 400 years out of date. What you're misunderstanding about my work is that I am not telling you to believe what I say, but to investigate your direct experience of reality very deeply, so that you can discover some radical stuff. Your discoveries will mirror what I say if you actually do them. But if you just sit around playing an armchair skeptic, you will get nowhere. You will stay stuck in the labyrinth of your own mind. Take your skepticism, and turn it inwards. Deconstruct your direct experience and see for yourself what is true and what is false. My work is just a breadcrumb trail. It is useless if you refuse to contemplate reality for yourself. P.S. The truth was NOT already formed and confirmed for me. I was a serious athiest my whole life. Then, in one moment, I died and found God. My entire worldview was so skullfucked that it physically scarred me. Nothing I can ever say can sufficently communicate to you how radical this was. So it is not how you think. It was not a validation of prior ideas. Nothing can prepare you for coming face-to-face with the Absolute. Because no idea is remotely close to it.

No, that was a long time ago. Just use Google!

@StephenK As with most relationships, it's always more complicated than people like to make it. Yes, they both affect each other to some degree, but it's difficult to quantify. The mind is an extremely complex system with thousands of variables at play. Generally-speaking, enlightenment alone will not cure you of your neuroses. Those need to be worked on specifically. But with introversion/shyness, enlightenment can make a big difference. It may not cure you completely, but it really helps when you realize that there is no such thing as "inner" mental life. Enlightenment sort of kills your inner world, throwing you out into the "outer" world (which is sort of like extroversion). Although don't mistake that with gaining social skills or becoming a good conservationist or even liking to be social. If you're an introvert, you will still probably be that way after enlightenment. The difference might be, you're no longer crippled by social anxiety or shyness so much, and you're not as inhibited or self-conscious. Generally speaking, you shouldn't wait for enlightenment to fix your mental problems. Start working on your mental problems now, alongside doing enlightenment work. The two will synergize.

@MarkusSweden A) I never really ranted against science. People misunderstand my position on science. I am more pro-science than most scientists. That's why I criticize them. Not because I dislike science, but because they a corrupting science with unscientific metaphysical assumptions (materialism). I am an advocate for the most hardcore and rigorous science. Which means, it must be open to absolutely all phenomena. Nothing can be excluded a priori. B) There will be a lot more ranting against science to come. I could make a whole channel about the improper philosophical foundations of science. I don't talk about it much because it's a very nuanced subject and goes over people's heads and it's tricky to talk about.

I don't know of any psychics off the top of my head. I'm not really into that stuff. Google around. I'm sure you can find dozens of them.

Lol That's can only be said by someone who doesn't understand that non-existence IS what the universe is! Non-existence isn't nothing. It's everything! Ta-da! Origin of the universe solved!

@StephenK You're still conflating ego with personality. They are just not as related as you assume. Personality is not a scar of the ego. It's got its own source. Of course ego can distort personality a lot too. And personality will inform how the ego acts out to get its needs met.

@MM1988 She predicted I would win a major pending legal case. There was no way she could have known I had a major pending legal case. She told me, "Don't worry. You will win it." And so I did, a year later. Real psychics do WAY more than cold-reading. They actually have paranormal powers. The nature of paranormal powers is that they are intuitive and therefore vague. While there may be some scammers, the whole "scammers" thing is overstated. That's just an excuse the materialist paradigm must make because that model of reality cannot account for any paranormal phenomena. After the levels of consciousness I've experienced, to me, anything paranormal looks quaint and quite normal. I have experienced things that are more radical than getting anally probed by an alien. So if an alien ever tries to anally probe me, at least I can think to myself, "Well, at least this is still not as radical as a 5-MeO-DMT breakthrough."

I've warned you guys about Neo-Advaita in the the Becoming A Zen Devil video. The further I progress in this work, the more problems I see with Neo-Advaita. Although, like all teachings, it has got its pros and cons. You definitely can't rely on Neo-Advaita to lead you to mastery of self or consciousness. It's more like an intro to enlightenment for Western newbs.

I got a psychic reading done in Austin about 6 years ago from a gypsy witch. Didn't believe in them at the time. Just did it for fun. It pretty much came true.

@Ranz Kafka That sounds pretty smooth to me. You have no idea yet what "unsmooth" looks like. Be grateful you got that glimpse at all and carry on the work. Never forget: this is RADICAL, SERIOUS work. What you experienced is perfectly normal and reasonable. You ARE going in steps. That was ONE baby step! You've merely scratched the surface so far. A few hairs on the ox's tail, to quote Shinzen Young

Be very careful here. Your understanding of science is lacking and your perspective has many factual inaccuracies. Here are some corrections for you: Science has conclusively disproven the existence of matter, absolute time, and absolute space over 100 years ago. Black holes, anti-matter, curvature of space-time says nothing about the ontology of such things. You are confusing phenomena with substance. Spirituality doesn't disqualify proper science, nor vice-versa. Reality according to quantum mechanics is an infinite quantum wave function (nondual singularity) with no such thing as space, time, particles, or a physical world. Quantum mechanics has shown that the process of observation necessarily affects all knowledge of the world because subject/object are entangled. Most of the fathers of quantum mechanics were in fact mystics. They did not believe in materialism. Biology has never proven the existence of an ego. Science has never proven the existence of a physical world. Science has never proven the existence of any boundaries between objects. The best cosmological theories seem to show that the universe arose from nothing. The latest evidence from biology is showing that evolutionary mutations are non-random. All of the above inaccuracies come from mainstream cultural notions of science, which are 300 years out of date and totally backwards. Real science is not what people think it is. And the most modern science fully supports and is compatible with nonduality. Obviously, because the universe is nondual. There is a big difference between strict scientific observations (which are valid) and science as a materialist religion (which is invalid). The place where popular science gets into trouble is when it tries cast the world as a clockwork universe. But this has been clearly disproven for over 100 years. The worldview of Aristotle and Newton is dead. The only problem is, 99% of people still don't realize it. Because their understanding of modern science is a woefully inadequate cartoon caricature.

The devil flips everything upside-down, inside-out. Bad is called good. Falsehood is called truth. Insanity is called sanity. Dysfunction is called success. And illness is called health. The labels society creates are designed to perpetuate ego. So of course society will tend to hold spiritual purification as "evil". That's why psychedelics are demonized, for example. Buddhism is too radical for a materialist culture to accept. It's only accepted as "another religion". But with all that said, there is still a difference between depersonalization and enlightenment. Depersonalization is incomplete, half-baked. The Infinite Self isn't realized. God is not realized. Love is not realized. The mind is not fully jailbroken.

That is not a belief. That is his direct nondual experience. For him, there is literally no difference between him and you. To you, there is. Because separation is relative.

Personality is part of the body/mind. It's not a lie. It's just a particular way a creature behaves and emotes, it's likes and dislikes, etc. There is nothing false about having a personality. Just don't mistake it for the True Self, and no problem. Even pets have different personalities. The problem here is one of wrong expectations. Why would you assume all beings should act alike? Just stop assuming that. Every creature is unique and a bit quirky. Quirkiness is not a flaw or a mistake to be corrected. It's part of the infinite diversity of life. Different genetics and different environmental conditioning will necessarily create different personalities. You shouldn't expect a dog who's been beaten from birth to have the same personality of one who hasn't been.

Usually when we say "belief" we mean a particular thing. You're using that word in an odd way. BEing is not belief. The present moment is not a belief. And states are not beliefs. Beliefs are conceptual positions one holds about reality. If you are fully in the NOW, your beliefs would be suspended. Although you will still have plenty of them in the back of your mind even after enlightenment. Even the most enlightened masters hold false beliefs.

The key is to avoid processed foods as much as possible. All those crackers, chips, bread sustitutes are basically junk. Just because the box says "vegan" or "gluten free" doesn't make it healthy. People eat all sorts of vegan, gluten-free junk in the same way that people eat "protein bars" thinking they are health food, when they are basically candy bars remarketed as "health food". If a product is trying to be a substitute for something junky, I basically also consider it junk. For example: Vegan mayonaise or gluten-free bread or dairy-free cream cheese.

@Solvinden You can cook stuff and keep it in the fridge for up to a week, depending on the recipe. Get creative and be more open to changing your habits rather than saying, "I don't want to cook twice a day." I often cook twice a day. It ain't so hard.

Enlightenment makes the personality more pronounced, not less, because stifling fears are eliminated and authenticity skyrockets. Enlightenment is not a state. It is simply what is. Personality != ego

@ElenaO Try practicing Mindful Eating.

Emotions are extremely subtle and sneaky. For example, try to notice the sensations in your arms when you are angry or frustrated or annoyed. Then try relaxing your arms consciously and see what difference it makes. @ElenaO Good work! Keep observing. Especially during meditation.