Leo Gura

There can be no distinction between facts and theory. The two are epistemically entangled.

Lol Sorry to burst your bubble, but it also has infinite wisdom and infinite love

Depends on how you use it. All theory comes with the danger of misuse and mental masturbation. Most of my videos are meant to be INSPIRATIONAL. Not technical how-to's. You get inspired by the theory, which then makes you want to work hard to actualize it.

1+1=11

@Pernani You might as well ask that question of any profession, like being a doctor. Why do doctors bother with theory? If you were sick, would you go to a doctor who never bothered with theory?

If you were not limited to sitting down, you'd be standing up. You're overlooking the obvious: you ARE limited in that case. Your body is very much limited. Which is why it occupies a very specific position and location within the universe. Of all the possible ways you could be located in the universe, you are located EXACTLY one way -- the way you find yourself being right now! Ponder the following: Why would reality be one way vs another way? What would enforce or obligate reality to be any particular way rather than its opposite? And what would enforce that enforcement? And what would enforce that enforcement of enforcement? And so on.... You see?

@George Paul It doesn't make sense because your mind cannot make sense of Infinity. Your idea of Infinity is not Infinity, it is finity. See? The map is not the territory. Anything you think about Infinity is automatically wrong. Any logic you apply to Infinity will crumble and not make sense. Infinity cannot be held in the mind. But it is definitely Infinitely Intelligent.

@now is forever Your experience with psychedelics was only the tip of the iceberg of what is there. It's like you dipped your toe in the ocean, saw a shark, and ran away forever. The ocean is still there to be explored. If you don't want to explore it, that's fine.

@now is forever Questioning will happen naturally when you are in the middle of the trip. But it's not the kind of "questioning" you're talking about. The "questioning" you're doing right now is a sort of fear-based skepticism. That's not true questioning. True questioning is totally open and curious. Fear of being wrong shouldn't be on your mind. It's the ego-mind which fears being wrong. The psychedelic will reveal truth to you in an organic, effortless manner. You can doubt it afterwards if you like. If you try to apply fear-based skepticism in the middle of the trip, you are not surrendering, and you will likely have a bad trip. Psychedelics punish arrogance. And fear-based skepticism -- despite how it might seem to you -- is arrogance. Sounds like your aversion to psychedelics is fear-based. For me, stopping is not a problem or an issue. I have no attachment to psychedelics. I use them like a tool, in moderation.

@Galyna You're not going to understand nonduality by "figuring it out". It needs to be directly experienced. Meditation, yoga, self-inquiry, psychedelics. That's what you need. The present moment you are experiencing right now is a tiny fragment of an Absolute Infinite singularity, which includes all things that could ever be, and at the same time, none of it ever happened or even exists. What you are experiencing right now, is Absolutely Nothing. But it sure doesn't feel that way, does it? Because you have created a duality between something and nothing, when in fact the two are ONE. You are everything that could ever possibly be, and you are nothing. This is beyond the mind's ability to understand. It requires a radical shift in consciousness.

Of course the whole trick to mathematics is how to define the units, and every definition is permissible. You can say a carton of eggs is 1, or a dozen, a trillion trillion atoms. Mathematics is a projection of the mind. It's about where your mind chooses to draw the boundaries. Also, interestingly: 1 infinity - 1 infinity = 1 infinity. Infinity contains an infinite number of infinities inside it!

@onacloudynight Then you can emphasize meditation more. But 3-4 rounds is really nothing. I recommend you do 12-24 rounds at least. The point of yoga is to move that prana up your spine. Open those chakras. Then you can meditate. Otherwise, you're not really doing yoga, you're meditating. In which case just meditate and forget about yoga. Yoga is not for everyone. For some people, meditation will be a better path. Find what works for you.

Try it and see. That's the only way you know anything at all. You cannot know ahead of time how the Absolute is Absolute. But it's Absolute, and you'll know it immediately once you're in it. How is that possible? This cannot be explained to you because you are asleep. Of course it's possible to misinterpret psychedelic trips. Very possible. The tendency for self-deception is ALWAYS at work in everything you do. Self-deception is even possible after enlightenment. There is no escaping the possibility of self-deception, ever, so long as you have a mind. The question you should be more concerned about is: "What if my current thinking is self-deception? What if I'm having all these doubts about this path because I'm asleep? What if I'm questioning psychedelics because I'm really just too afraid and lazy to try them?"

@blazed The biggest difference is that solipsism is a conceptual philosophy. Whereas nonduality is ACTUAL. Solipsism also don't acknowledge the possibility of awakening And solipsism doesn't acknowledge other facets of enlightenment like that you are God, Absolute Infinity, infinite intelligence, transcendence of death, etc. And solipsism doesn't acknowledge no-self. A solipsist is still full of ego. Solipsism is still stuck at the level of human perception. It just says, "This bubble of human perception is the only truth. Others don't exist." With nonduality, it's more like: "Others exist as illusions that I created as God. The illusory world is infinite." Enlightenment is going to feel very different than solipsism from a first-person POV. Although the ego-mind may think they are the same.

@ChimpBrain Not so many Audibles this time. The deepest books are usually not available on Audible. Gotta work for it Rule of thumb: the more popular a book is, the less profound it is, the less truth it contains.

@Nadosa Try to judge less and be curious about reality more. REALLY BE CURIOUS about your new situation. It's actually quite cool if you think about it from outside your ego. It's not horrible, it's just a new perspective on reality.

@Alii Yes, that is planned.

@Vingger It radically progressed my understanding of nonduality, in ways that would not be possible in 20+ years of meditation or yoga. This understanding is both intellectual and at the emotional/body level. Less-so at the body level. As far as rewiring my mind habits, not so much. I find psychedelics are not too effective at that. They are more effective at giving you radical glimpses which shock your mind into seeing the world from a radically new perspective. But your old mind-habits largely remain unchanged. Of course that may vary from person to person, and if you do a lot trips, there may be some significant rewiring. Experiencing Absolute Infinity is a life-changing event. It was the most important event in my life. Your life cannot be the same afterwards. Although most of your habits will remain unchanged and your level of consciousness will drop back down to baseline. You will be back asleep, but you will at least know what true awakening looks like. If you want to significantly rewire your brain with psychedelics, I think it's possible, but will require 50-100+ trips spread out over a long time. I'm up to about 12 5-MeO trips total. If I did 30 trips back to back, that would produce some serious change. The trouble is, it's so jarring it would probably put your entire life on hold as you have to deal with all the emotional baggage, fear, depression, and resistance that rises. It would be brutal on your ego, and you probably couldn't take it and have a big ego backlash. It all depends on how ready you are to awaken.

@WaterfallMachine -- Sadhguru

@Space Just to be clear, I believe it's possible to go deeper with meditation/yoga than with psychedelics. It just requires exceptional talent and enormous amounts of grinding work. We're talking 10,000+ hours of it, done in large consecutive chunks. Read Om Swami's accounts of how hard he meditates, for example. It's an insane, super-human feat he does. It's just not realistic for most people. This is the kind of stuff only monks have time to do. This is like Olympic level meditation. The reason I talk about psychedelics is because they offer ordinary people a glimpse of what a 40 year enlightened master or full-time monk experiences. Imagine if you could take a pill and experience what it is like to play golf at Tiger Wood's level, or to play the piano at Mozart's level, or play chess at Gary Kasparov's level. That would be awesome, and highly useful to normal people. Well, psychedelics are just that. For example, I've had insights on 5-MeO that Shinzen Young has yet to have, and he's like 80 years old and has been teaching this stuff for 50 years. I can see that Shinzen is not fully enlightened. This would be totally impossible for me to see without 5-MeO. I've talked to students of his who have been practicing with him for 10-15 years, and they are still not enlightened, or even close. (BTW, nothing against Shinzen. I think he's a great teacher.) It's almost impossible to convey how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Yup "Matter" is a precipitate of Infinite Mind.

Nonduality is NOT solipsism. But the ego-mind may not see it that way at first. It is true that you are the only thing in existence. You created every human being that exists. Of course the trick is, we're talking about the universal YOU, not the personal you. It's very simple logic: if nonduality is true, there is no division between anything. There is certainly no division between you/other. You are your own mother. You created Actualized.org to help you awaken. You even wrote this sentence. You are God in every literal sense. The ego is of course afraid of this. And it may be a shock to the system when you first start to realize how radical nonduality really it. It may feel like madness. Of course it's not madness. It's TRUTH. But TRUTH is a radical thing. It requires a very deep surrender. In the end, once you fully surrender, it will be fine. Great even. Nonduality, at the highest degrees of it, is extremely radical. It will shock and terrify the ego-mind. That is the #1 obstacle which keeps people unenlightened. You have to surrender to the radicalness of it. You have to surrender to the madness. It's not really madness. But it will appear to be madness relative to the normie paradigm you are used to. Enlightened people are basically insane by all conventional standards. They just happen to be insane in a functional way. And they don't frame it that way because it would scare off newbies. The lite degrees of nonduality can feel pleasant and nice. The deepest degrees of nonduality can feel downright terrifying and depressing. And the final stage is peace and wonder.

Isn't that the whole point? Of course don't overdo it. Ramp it up gradually over weeks and months. But 6 pranayama is really nothing. People do up to 72 or even 100+ pranayamas a day. Most of you will need to do 10,000s of pranayamas to start seeing serious results. Some will need less, depending on your spiritual attunement.

@Salvijus Have you ever done 2 weeks of nonstop self-inquiry?

@Kode13 Yes, of course all theory and teaching is concepts. If you become really conscious, you will not need my teachings. But it will probably take you much longer to reach that stage than you think. Hell, you can walk this entire path all by yourself, without reading a single book or watching a single video. But if you were the kind of person who was going to do that, you wouldn't be here, would you?