Leo Gura

@WildeChilde The difference is what you're identified as. If you identify with being a tree in the forest, when that tree dies, that's the end. But when you identify with being the entire forest, you never die. Materialism says you are the little self. Nonduality means you are the Infinite Self. It's a very different paradigm. Yes, the little self will die. In fact, it never really existed. But the Infinite Self is Absolute.

Ah, but you do assume. You assume mutations are unintelligent. That was always just an assumption. And now it's time to call that bluff. I don't claim to know absolutely. All my understanding is fallible. I'm just sharing unorthodox ideas to open up minds.

People forget that 35% of the Roman population were slaves. In the Greek times, it was standard practice that when a city was captured, all the men would be slaughtered and all the women and children raped and sold into slavery.

Well, 2500 years has passed (5000 if you include Egypt) and where we at with that? We got Trump for president and 35% of the population who thinks he's moving society forward. The rest are addicted to food, alcohol, porn, Facebook, TV, and money. The technological addictions will only get worse with time. This new generation of millennials will be utterly unable to meditate or concentrate. We got a real Matrix situation brewing. And most people don't appreciate how close the world is to nuclear annihilation.

It will just go over the normie's head. Always has, always will. The problem isn't Jim Carey, the problem is being a normie.

I have a good speed-reading book at the end of my book list. It will be more flexible than this spritz gimmick.

Guys, ease up on each other. A lot of personal sniping going. Have a discussion without making it personal or trying to "cure" one another. Worry about curing yourself, not others. When you force a cure on someone who didn't ask for it, it will have the opposite effect.

@Edvard You won't understand until I spend an hour and a half explaining it. This is a highly technical topic which sits at the intersection of evolutionary theory and information theory. You guys constantly keep falling into the trap of assuming that reality is simple and linear. When is it gonna dawn that every topic is enormously complex and counter-intuitive, requiring much research? If you haven't read the latest research on evolution, then as Walter says in the Big Lebowski: "You're out of your element." You can start by reading the books on my list.

It's not about verbal answers so much as about your ACTUAL identification. Here... let's make it very simple: 1) You believe you exist, right? 2) Okay, so then WHAT are you? What is it that you think you are? A body? What is that? And how can you be sure you're a body? Why aren't you the coffee table? If you're the body, then what is everything else? How can you be a body when the body is actually just a set of perceptions? Are you saying you're a perception? What about in deep sleep? There's no perceptions or body in deep sleep. So what are you then? What were you before you were born? Don't try to come up with logical answers. Instead, try to realize that you actually don't know what you are. And then just wonder, What could I be? Don't forget... maybe you don't exist!

You're being a smartass. I shared this technique as something that is helpful for that particular problem. And you start preaching to me about the Absolute. Unless you've done 10+ deep trips, please don't speak about psychedelics because you just don't know what you're talking about.

I will shoot a video about evolution in the future. It's a tricky and mindblowing topic. I have 2 books about evolution on my book list which point in the right direction, but still don't go far enough. Start by reading them with an open mind. The mistake about intelligence that people make is they think that humans are intelligent while the universe is dumb. But it's actually the other way around. The intelligence you possess as a human is just a tiny sliver of the universe's infinite intelligence. Intelligence isn't yours, you're borrowing it from the universe. Sort of like how you siphon electricity for your house from a power plant. The power plant has way more of it than your house does. Yes, it is the same intelligence which gives rise to thoughts, creativity, and insight. What I'm claiming is that the actual process by which genes get rearranged is not accidental but intelligent. It is actually impossible to design anything worthwhile through a random process, because a random process is just noise, not information. DNA is complex information. It cannot arise out of noise. It has to be intelligently combined. And natural selection is incapable of doing that. Evolution through random mutation and natural selection violates the laws of information theory, which says that you cannot get information from noise. You can experience the universe's infinite intelligence for yourself, at higher states of consciousness. I'm still not sure WHY the universe is intelligent. I just know that it is. I'm still trying to figure out WHY. When I trip, I try to ask it "Why are you intelligent?"

So in other words, you've declared it so by your definition. How sneaky of you. Apples can only be red. There may be green ones and yellow ones, but those are not apples. Apples are only apples when they are red. Lol

Dogma is a belief held a priori, without open empirical investigation. Empirical investigation reveals that evolution is intelligent and that paranormal phenomena exist. Just because you haven't bothered to do the empirical investigation of these matters doesn't change the underlying facts. It just means you haven't bothered to look, because you assumed the results of the inquiry without having done the inquiry -- a classic epistemic mistake. The point is, when you hold as a dogma that something as impossible, you have no incentive to investigate the matter seriously. The reason this mistake happens is because you assume that what your culture (science) tells you is true. But this can never be assumed, as it begs the question. Whatever errors exist within modern science, of course modern science will not tell you about, because if it knew of the error, it would correct it. But the whole point is that there are errors of which science is ignorant and which it refuses to admit. Arrogance is huge distorting factor here. The point you're missing is: new science isn't "science", it's mysticism. It only becomes "science" AFTER a long and difficult battle against the dogmatic naysayers. Established science doesn't just surrender to truth, it resists truth tooth-and-nail until the old-guard literally dies off. So after you're dead, then the next generation will be more open to evolution being intelligent and paranormal powers -- which will be reclassified as "normal" and perfectly scientific. The next generation will grow up studying paranormal powers as perfectly legitimate scientific phenomena. And not only that, it will seem completely obvious to them that such powers exist. In fact, so much so, that you and your generation will be reclassified not as scientists but as dogmatic materialistic crackpots who held back true science. You and your current "scientific" position will become just another embarrassing epistemic blunder to litter the long and dirty history of science. But the good news is, you'll be long dead, so you won't know or care. You will be saved the embarrassment The stuff you consider "normal" today was considered totally paranormal 200 years ago. You just take it for granted because you underestimate the complexity and trickery of knowledge.

It's much worse than that. When I say "non-random" I don't mean some tricky notion of random. I mean that mutations are intelligent. Imagine, if you will, that the mutations are more intelligent than any human mind. After all, they did invent your mind. Now try to get your scientist friends to consider that possibility seriously. Good luck P.S. The universe possesses infinite intelligence.

It would be more authentic if he was playing with his nipples while he spoke

That's just because you're not being mindful enough as you do it. In fact, sex and all your multiple partners makes you suffer. You're a slave to your dick. See, the trick is, you actually enjoy your suffering. Such that you've forgotten it's suffering.

@MarkusSweden Because 5-MeO is the Grand Pappy of psychedelics. It shows you the most holistic picture, the most complete, the most nondual. The pure Godhead. It is so mindblowing it blows everything else out of the way. Yes, to your ego-mind "Nothingness" doesn't sound cool or flashy. But that's only because you have no idea yet what Nothingness really is. It's the opposite of what you think. If you think seeing aliens is cool, wait till you see Absolute Infinity.

@MarkusSweden There was never a sub-forum for politics. I think it would be too much of a distraction as people get very heated and ideological about it, and it ends up worsening their consciousness. This doesn't however mean that politics are unimportant. Government is a very important facet of life. Just not in the way that people discuss it on TV news or online forums.

@Charlotte Sounds like Matt Kahn is your savior.

That's a non-issue. Learn to be independent. Why are you letting your gf's ignorant opinions influence your spiritual path? You can find DMT which has been extracted using harmless, organic solvents.

I'm seeing too much cockiness on this forum. This is going to come back to bite you in the ass. This work is much deeper, broader, and more nuanced than you guys think. Just trust me on this. No one here is even close to mastery level.

@Faceless So do it un-mechanically. By your logic the most advanced yogis, monks, and Zen masters would be unconscious mechanical zombies merely because they have strict daily practices. Mechanical routines CAN stifle consciousness when mindlessly executed. But they don't have to.

@MarkusSweden It's fueled by money and corporate interests, which are money. But avoiding news is also not a viable option. You need to be an informed citizen. The better alternative is to subscribe to high quality news sources, serious publications rather than flimsy partisan ones, and to read books by serious authors and investigative journalists. There are many great books which expose the problems with society and government in a way which you will never see or hear on TV. Democracy hinges on a well-educated populace. Which is precisely why we see the current "fake news" epidemic and Russian disinformation campaigns. This problem is going to get worse before it gets better, so now is the time to increase the quality of your news sources. The next decade is going to be rocky as far as disinformation goes, so brace yourself.

@Kevin Dunlop By practicing consciousness and love every day. You must have practices in place every day which build up your consciousness and ground you in the Absolute.

Psychedelics come with some serious risks. If one is unwilling to accept the risks, one should stay away from psychedelics.