Leo Gura

You have to learn to recognize consciousness even when it doesn't fit your expectations.

Yeah... don't seem too pleasant. I would stick to regular psychedelics. Putting yourself through hell isn't necessary.

@SirVladimir You can't lay on the nonduality lectures on a wounded, grieving ego. In a situation like that, you apply compassion, then you bring up nonduality LATER, once he's not emotional. The whole point of an emotional reaction is that the mind is resisting reality. So of course at that moment the last thing it wants to hear is a nonduality lecture. That's like talking calculus at a mule.

You know... Adderall is basically Meth.

@Swagala The real you don't exist. Ta-da! So what are you calling "me"?

Hard to imagine humanity not still going. The question is, at what pace? In what condition?

@kieranperez Research, research, research. See my latest blog post.

@Revolutionary Think The mind cannot stop the mind. Stopping the mind requires some serious meditation/self-inquiry. Years of it. Or some deep tripping. Keep at it. Don't try to stop it in the ordinary sense of telling yourself not to think while laying in bed. That doesn't work.

@kieranperez Psychedelics help with all matters, even those you didn't know you had. The problem is, you're on a chemical cocktail of stuff already, and who knows how all of that will mix? Worst case scenario, it can kill you. You should do serious research online to find people who were taking your kind of cocktail and see if they had any complications with psychedelics. Mixing SSRIs and psychedelics is a bad idea. Ween yourself off first if you want to become a psychonaut. That is the best general advice.

Precisely! Which is why 99.999% ain't enlightened and won't be for a long time to come. The trick to understanding reality is that whatever happens is precisely what was supposed to happen. If you work your ass off and get enlightened, that was supposed to happen If you work your ass off and don't get enlightened, that was supposed to happen If you sit on the couch your whole life eating Cheetos, that was supposed to happen If you read this and decide that all is hopeless and you are victim, that was supposed to happen If you read this and decide that you will double your efforts and that leads your enlightenment, that was supposed to happen How do we know it was supposed to happen? Because it happened!

@cle103 You should be grateful you've had enough wisdom and motivation to get this far. If you made it this far, you can make it to the end of the rabbit hole. No one said this would be easy. We are talking about suicide here, after all. The ego will not give up without a fight.

@Source_Mystic Yes, of course, as it must be. When you truly grasp it, there is nothing to say. And nothing said can make you truly grasp it. That is the game we are playing. Fish huddle together only in the darkness, because they are too scared to step into the light.

@Serotoninluv If it was pleasant, you wouldn't need me telling you about it, it would be advertized on TV

Ahahahaha...... I have created a monster.

By doing self-inquiry, contemplation, studying nonduality, and tripping consistently. Yes, I also meant normal human state. Infinity is independent of state and independent of being human. Self-inquiry is the key. Ya'll keep avoiding it. That's the whole problem here. If you actually did it, you wouldn't need me or this forum or anyone else. But you hate doing self-inquiry, so here we are. Actualized.org is just babysitting for kids who refuse to do self-inquiry

@AleksM Yes, that's no-mind. That's good. But most people are not there yet, and will never get there unless they are led out of the mind using the mind. That's the point of spiritual teachings. And even then, the fact is you still use stories -- or differentiation of truth from falsehood -- to navigate everyday life. For example, if I told you that nukes are flying here from North Korea, that's not a story you can ignore, if true. Which brings us back to the original problem. It's not a problem that ever goes away.

Human experience IS the infinite. They are not different one bit. Reality is amechanical. What you see, IS the mechanism! You ARE the mechanism. Every object you see is the mechanism happening DIRECTLY! BEING is the mechanism. The problem is, you're not conscious of this yet. Be careful about looking for infinity somewhere else. Everything you see is it.

@cetus56 Differentiating truth from falsehood is a deeply nontrivial problem. I've spent the last 15 years of my life studying it. That's what epistemology is about. And I have not read a single book which accurately and comprehensively addresses this issue. Which is why I am writing one. It is the deepest problem that exists, IMO. And 99% of people don't even know its a thing. And even when they are told, they still don't know the depth of the problem. Even many enlightened people do not appreciate the depth of the problem.

@air9 Think: "Let me really enjoy this."

@egoless Take your end goal, and make it your life purpose starting tomorrow. You can farm mushrooms in the afterlife.

@CruellerSloth What impact do you want to have on people? What value do you want to give them?

@egoless Careful not to get distracted here. What is the impact you want to have on humanity/world? Will farming serve this impact? If not, it's not part of your LP.

@Revolutionary Think Yes! Reality is a spontaneous happening. It's doing you, you're not doing it. But you shouldn't take this on as a belief. Rather, you should become conscious of it happening RIGHT NOW in your very experience.

Lol, such a typical PUA move. "Come on Bro! Stop being a faggot! Get in there!" Yes, it can work. But it belies a fundamental rift in oneself.

You don't know that at all. You're just pretending you do.