Leo Gura

No bro. You just lack mastery of this field because your approach has been too gross and heavy-handed. You have overlooked important things in your via negativa approach. Integrity is not about rules or morals or seeming noble. It is another, much deeper matter. It is a measure of how well you're expanding into the infinite.

That's too gross of an approach to this field. It's not so simple as: this is true, that is not. There are many levels and depths of teaching. Different people need different teachings depending on where they are in life. There is absolutely a need for newbie teachings. In fact, they are the most important in many ways, because that's where 98% of the world is at. Almost every teaching has its place, and its pros and cons. And I find you can learn a lot even from re-reading newbie material. So don't get too snobbish.

Yes, the relationship is not 100%. But that doesn't mean it's an unuseful metric. Integrity is actually a very important indicator of true embodiment. A person with zero integrity cannot become deeply conscious. Because he fundamentally doesn't value the truth. And compassion is a very important indicator of embodiment as well. There is no spiritual mastery without compassion.

@Mercurio3 There is a big difference. You can have a broken leg, which would be a physical problem. Or you can have an energetic blockage in your system. Another way to state it is: there is the physical body and the subtle body. Of course these are ultimately relative distinctions, but useful for this work.

@Nexeternity Now observe how quickly ordinary life sucks you back into unconsciousness over the next week

Why not start with 1g of mushrooms first? If you gonna get into psychedelics, do it properly. Which means you don't do 1 trip, you plan on exploring the field.

Actually, less conscious. Trump is not Orange. Trump is Red/Orange. I wrote about that here: https://www.actualized.org/insights/trump-and-spiral-dynamics A typical priest would have more compassion for mankind than Trump, and way higher integrity. Trump has zero integrity. He runs on pure self-preservation at all costs.

Your life will never be the same again after a breakthrough on 5-MeO.

Nope, they are not that. Anyone who says that is speaking from lack of experience.

@Shin Well, to be fair, they are from the psychedelic generation. But they don't talk about it because it would destroy their reputations and because their job is to teach you their systems, not to help you explore the entire domain. And honestly, many of them do not have enough experience with them. Nonduality teachers tend to have a very narrow focus. This is both good and bad. But Shinzen Young, for example, became a Zen monk after a deep psychedelic experience.

@LiakosN No, just forgive yourself with unconditional love. That is repayment enough and will heal your karma. Love is a powerful tool.

@DrMobius At the peak of the breakthrough I had some kind of kundalini energy arise and explode out through my fingertips. It can only be described as a kind of freaky paranormal phenomena. It altered my finger prints, creating tiny fractured scarring which still remains a year later. It was like an explosion of infinite love.

@Elisabeth Why don't you ask your bf?

@egoless Being delusional is the default state.

@egoless It's not really "seen" on psychedelics. You can't "see" infinity with your eyes. But you can access it through a sort of hyper-intuition which is, remarkably, clearer than sight. 3rd eye if you will. This phenomenon is hard to imagine because it's immaterial. It's too crazy to be believed. I still have a hard time believing it, and I've "seen" it many times now. It always blows my mind.

Precisely! No-one reincarnates. Reality is infinitely self-reincarnating. There can be all sorts of structures which define various beings, but ultimately the consciousness, the "substance" of it all, is one. Could some structures get preserved in between physical deaths? I don't see why not. Reality seems to have an infinite memory.

I can relate with that. There's always conflicting desires in us, even for stuff we supposedly want most. You can try contemplating your fears. You can try creating a new compelling vision of why you're meditating in the first place.

@Mighty Mouse You got a dirty mind, Mouse.

By that logic you couldn't ever enjoy boobs.

It's actually impossible to do science without metaphysics. Otherwise how the hell do you know what you're studying? There's not a single concept which you hold which isn't wedded to your metaphysics. The only question is, how aware are you of your metaphysics? And does your metaphysics acknowledge that at rock bottom everything must be infinite and groundless?

Of course!

@Mighty Mouse Now we know how Richard Gere became a Buddhist. The circle is complete.

Really? Why haven't you been able to use rationality itself to reveal the limits of rationality? The scientific paradigm does not even make sense to itself. You just gotta dig a little into it and the whole thing is seen to be house of cards. Matter?? Energy?? Molecules?? Quarks?? Time?? Space?? Reality?? Existence? Life?? Knowledge?? Physicality?? Objectivity?? Evolution?? Intelligence?? What are all these things?? Nobody knows. Yet the show keeps on running as if everything was settled. The scientific paradigm unravels like a poorly-knitted sweater. If you want to be a scientist the key is: pretend like it isn't. P.S. Of course with all that said, science can still be redeemed.

Love it! Encapsulates ego in a nutshell.

Why not? Everything is special in its own way. And nothing like boobs to put a smile on one's face. You haven't realized God until you can find him in a whorehouse. P.S. You'd be surprised how many strippers are into yoga and psychedelics.