Leo Gura

@StephenK That's right, all knowledge is actually BEING. There isn't even experience. There is only being. The Absolute is beyond all language, knowledge, or logic. But it is there! You are it. Any further questions you ask is you staying stuck in the mind and failing to understand that being is incommunicable. Therefore the only right next step is to shut your mouth and sit silently.

No The human mind sees the world through dualities: small/big, short/long, skinny/fat, dead/alive, ugly/beautiful, finite/infinite, animal/man, man/machine, etc. That doesn't mean every duality is good/evil.

Master real yoga

@vanish Easy there grasshopper. Watch that ego kicking back into overdrive. You've only BEGUN this consciousness process. Don't turn into a Zen devil.

Well... except for that diamond Rolex Poor Osho. It was so hard to be poor back then.

No, I was saying, how would know you've reached the highest stage of awakening? The whole problem is, you can't know. You might think you're at the highest, but you could be wrong. I've experienced so many degrees of awakening at this point that I'm having to stop saying "This is it!" because as soon as I say that, the next week or month I find something deeper. This is a very tricky issue because every awakening feels like it's the deepest and nothing could be deeper. If you think you've reached the end, you're probably kidding yourself. There exist superhuman levels of consciousness which cannot even be conceived of by most ordinary meditators or enlightened teachers. There seem to be states of consciousness so great that they may not even be reachable through natural biological means. States so great that they could not be spoken of at all. This is why spirituality becomes so contentious. It's very hard to compare the states of various people. Especially if you've never achieved those states yourself. The point is, you cannot make these comparisons while keyboard jockeying on this forum. The only way to really know is to become a fully enlightened master and see how far you are able to get. Otherwise, you've got no chance of figuring out what is "the end". Everyone will of course tend to disagree about what "the end" is, because no one is going to admit, "I haven't reached the end." Consciousness also breeds arrogance. This topic is beyond the scope of what most people here can fathom. It requires decades of careful study and hardcore practice. This is way beyond the realm of Neo-Advaita teachings or YT videos or experiencing no-self.

Of course paranormal abilities are real. They just don't work according to materialist's expectations. Which is precisely why materialist science excludes them from their domains of study, creating a self-fulfilling blindspot. In other words, paradigm blindness at its finest. That's what happens when you ignore epistemology while at the same time engaging in epistemic pursuits.

Running a high consciousness community is very challenging, especially when you get hundreds or thousands of people involved. The leader has to be extremely responsible and conscious, and even then, things will likely get out of hand behind his back, or after he dies. A community's interactions are a direct reflection of their individual levels of consciousness and ego. Collective ego is a very tricky thing to manage. Political factions will break out, and the leader has to know how to deal with them appropriately. Every spiritual community tends to splinter. This is true not just of spiritual communities but all communities in general. Nations have to crack down on splintering. Hence the American Civil War for example, and the stuff going on with Brexit, Spain, etc. The challenge is maintaining unity without becoming a dictator. That's something even this forum faces. It requires stage Turquoise consciousness to pull off well.

I feel a stretch. Not sure how you can't feel it stretch. If it's short, you should feel the stretch even more. Try manipulating your tongue in whatever way necessary to feel a stretch. Emphasize the stretch rather than the tongue's position in your mouth. One Om per chakra. Oms in Kriya are very quick.

@Dino D The problem is, you still assume you exist. For all of your talking and emoting and theorizing -- you still fundamentally assume there is a you. But there isn't. And until that is understood, nothing will really change. "OHHHHHHHH!!!! There is no ME!!!! Duh!!! OF COURSE!!!!!" No Self No Self No Self No Self No Self No Self No Self ....

Universe/mind is a duality. The ultimate Truth is nondual. You cannot grasp nonduality via dualistic distinctions. You can try, but all you will get is paradox and strange loops due to the self-reference problem. You are the universe trying to ask itself, "What is the universe?" If you don't know, who else can tell you but yourself?

@Prabhaker Thanks, good stuff!

@Rilles And that was in Oregon! Full of left-wing pot-smoking hippies.

@Aimblack I never said you can't do it. I merely pointed out that by your logic, you can practice mindfulness meditation at a strip club. There is a reason spiritual teachers like to be hardcore and orthodox. Because otherwise noobs come in and start to corrupt the teachings with their sloppy and egotistical ways. "Let's do yoga while listening to heavy metal music. What could go wrong?" "Let's do SDS while masturbating to porn." "Let's lock each other in a room and beat each other with sticks to help us get enlightened." (This actually happened in Osho's commune.) Etc. You can always break the rules. But the rules are there to keep you from kidding yourself. And the ego loves to kid itself in this work. The ego will look for every way possible to defang the techniques.

Genetically modify snails with DNA from the Bufo Alvarius toads so that snails produce 5-MeO-DMT in their slime. Then sell the snails to people as pets which they can keep at home, harvest their slime, and trip their balls off in a legal way. Patent pending Or hire a chemist to invent a totally new psychedelic compound which is not on any banned substances lists.

@Power If you're doing SDS, mindfully feel into your whole body. It's a great practice for developing body awareness. And this will get you out of your head.

@Geromekevin Can't speak to any particular document, but there's been much evidence that has surfaced of government intelligence agencies, including the Russian KGB, experimenting with paranormal abilities. Frankly, they would be irresponsible not to. If the KGB had paranormal capabilities but the CIA didn't, that would be a huge problem for America. So obviously both sides would need to do research into it. And if they did develop such paranormal capabilities, they surely wouldn't tell us about it.

How would you know?

Eckhart Tolle never tells you about how evil Transformers may land on the planet from another galaxy and battle you for domination of the world. Why! Why! Why did you not warn me of the Transformers, Tolle????! Damn you! And the dinosaurs!!! Why did you not warn me about the genetically engineered dinosaurs what would break loose from their cages and prevent me from reaching enlightenment??? Tolleeeeee!!!!

At least we can rest assured that we now have a confirmed torturer as head of the CIA. I have a good idea for how to torture people: give them 10 tabs of LSD. At least then maybe they will come back loving you. I should patent that method. "Leo's Psychedelic Torture Recipe" (tm) As a bonus, it leaves no trail of evidence that later needs to be destroyed.

@vanish Haha, sounds intense man. Welcome to true spirituality There is still deeper to go though. Realizing no-self is but one facet of this thing.

@Angelo John Gage Yeah, I've skimmed over that one before. Good thing that high levels of consciousness are not much compatible with the evil shit the CIA is up to. They tried to use psychedelics too to create super-soldiers, without much success. The soldiers started loving everyone too much to shoot them. Lol

If done improperly, yes, that is a trap. The ego mind tries to "materialize" all spiritual pursuits. It can't help itself. The devil is not going to surrender to God easily. He will first try to get God to surrender to the devil. The devil doesn't want to ascend to God's level, he wants to drag God down to his level. It's not gonna work, but he'll still try.

No, don't bastardize spiritual techniques with laziness. "Leo, can I do mindfulness meditation with labeling while eating a Big Mac and snorting cocaine off a stripper's tits?"

That's a good start. The most profound levels of happiness come from ego loss and selflessness.