Leo Gura

@Skenderberg Watch out though, because it can easily become addictive. The reason I like psychedelics is that they're non-addictive. If they were addictive, I wouldn't do them. Which is why I avoid things like Ketamine. Alcohol can also be useful for people who are up-tight. But the costs are just too high.

@RossE Didn't affect my energy like that.

@Lou7 Why do you want the approval of mindless chimps?

All pretty much on point. That's the truth of things. You had a rather deep trip for just 1.7g of mushrooms. You did a lot of heavy existential probing here, so it must have been quite overwhelming. In future trips, you can spend more time focusing on individual facets so you can get a better grasp of each one. Shrooms are quite twisted. Hard to really understand things fully on them. Other substances like AL-LAD are clearer and they don't screw with your memory as much as shrooms do. You have yet to glimpse the full magnitude of God/void as Absolute Infinity. That will be quite the thing to glimpse. Welcome to real spirituality. The portal has opened.

@MsNobody Sounds very odd. I'm not sure what that means. Maybe your mind isn't very spiritually oriented. Or maybe you're just very stuck in egoic consciousness. Or maybe your acid is some weak knockoff. Anything over 35mg for 5-meo is approaching overdose/lethal territory for normal people. So be careful. With 5-meo, you gotta make sure you're fully absorbing the dose and not just letting is run down your throat. Unskillful snorting could cost you half your dose.

There ain't no whos. What the heck would a who be anyway?

@2000 Just do it and see what happens. No one knows what your journey will be like.

Start observing how unsatisfying games really are. Notice how much you suffer while you play them. The whole hamster in a wheel syndrome of finding newer and newer games to keep you happy. Try to maintain mindfulness of this wheel of suffering even as you play games. See video: Awareness Alone Is Curative.

@The White Belt You tell me. Should you?

That's when you know you're doing it right Good work! I sometimes wonder the same thing, "Fuck, this is heavy... why am I telling people to do this shit?"

@Taavi Welcome to spirituality. Now your journey begins.

You can work through your inner demons on low doses too. No need to rush to high doses. Listen to your intuition about these things. It knows what's best for you.

@TJ Reeves Of course mindfulness means you will experienced emotions MORE, not less. All part of the path. Just keep at it. Don't make any knee-jerk changes to your life.

@pedro23 Totally normal. That's spiritual purification at work. Like I've been saying, a lot of personal development is actually physical. Traumas and fears are physically locked in your chakras and muscles throughout the body. It helps a lot to include a physical purification routine into your practice. Like Hatha Yoga or Holotrophic Breathing. Holotrophic Breathing can literally exorcise demons from your body. It gets scary intense. But very healing. Like years of therapy done in 1 hour. Or just having a punching bag to hit might be a simple solution. Also, don't be afraid to let your body go and flail around in a safe location. That energy needs release.

@Empty Some values serve falsehood/ego, like money, sex, fame, success, etc. Some values serve Truth, like unconditional love, creativity, helping humanity, openmindedness, etc. The ultimate ego-transcendent value is Truth. Without it, nothing functions properly.

@Rocky Not being compelled to argue or debate is a good sign of wisdom. Keep growing further. You don't need to surrender to others opinions. You just need to start inquiring into reality for yourself in a deeply, brutally self-honest manner.

@Jone You've got a killer, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity here, so #1 thing is to make you don't squander it. You need a clear plan. You need to get clear with yourself what the hell you want to get out of the next year. I recommend starting it off with a 7 to 10 day solo retreat. Just sit there, detox from all the media addictions, and get in touch with what your highest self wants. Then after it's over, formulate your plan.

@The White Belt Modern generations of kids have definitely been spoiled rotten with video games, porn, food, internet, TV, and mobile phones. It's getting harder every year for people to get enlightened. The atmosphere is so toxic and seductive. What can you do but just try to bust through it? Expect it to be painful at first.

@Huz You could not begin to fathom how much contemplation Ralston has done. I would bet that most human beings are physiologically incapable of it. Human beings are not all the same. You have to know what your limits are and strategize accordingly. Which is one of the reasons no one can decide such things for you. Only you can know what you're capable of. Chasing after two rabbits, you might catch neither. I find it very difficult to do both simultaneously. Both require lots of energy and attention.

@How to be wise That is essentially self-inquiry / meditation. Start by noticing: "I will become enlightened" << that's a thought!

Ekhart Tolle sought till the brink of suicide. So that should give you a good idea of how much effort this process demands. I'm not here to be ideological. What I say, I say for pragmatic purposes, to guide people, anticipating common traps. The most dangerous idea they can get is that they will reach enlightenment by continuing their lazy, unconscious way of life, hoping to mirror Ekhart Tolle's 1 in a billion instant enlightenment. That is a totally invalid strategy. Not based on my ideology, but based on simple common sense pragmatics. Seeking tends to auto-correct. Non-seeking rarely does. As evidenced by 7 billion non-seeking, unenlightened people. This is not about Leo. This is simply about laying out the raw facts of the spiritual path and what it takes to get shit done. The overwhelming problem is that people fail to get it done. If 90% of people were getting it done, I wouldn't be writing so forcefully. The reality is that less than 1% will get it done. Don't worry about me, I will get it done. My cause isn't just to get myself enlightened. I have bigger plans. If you feel that's egotisical, well... that's your projection. I know my cause and what the universe wants me to do. I'm not gonna wait for my own enlightenment to help others. You have to understand that everything you know, absolutely everything, including physical space, is a mental construction. You have to appreciate how brutally significant this is. It means that the distinction you make between physical/non-physical, real/unreal is a construction! Which means -- when you realize this -- that you will physically die! Enlightenment is equivalent to physical death from the ego's point of view. Not just psychological death, but physical death. Because you will cease to exist as a physical object. Because you will realize that physical objects are illusions. This is why it's so difficult. Everything you think of as solid physical reality will unravel like a cheap sweater, and so will your physical body and brain. The body, the brain, the mind, you, other people, life, sentience, language, physics, chemistry, history, morality, mathematics -- all of these things are totally unreal. This is a very radical thing we're talking about. It's nothing short of annihilating reality. To complete this enlightenment processes fully means the body will remain, but you will be dead inside. Because there will no longer be an inside! The idea of "an inside" will die. It never existed in the first place. You merely assumed it. And as you should know by now, assumption is the mother of all fuck ups. Don't worry too much about it though, your death is the most beautiful thing that could possibly happen. P.S. Did you really think you could become immortal without dying? This enlightenment thing is good, but it's not THAT good. You gotta pay the ultimate price. Your head has to go on the chopping-block. Yes, it boosts self-inquiry enormously, as I have said many times. I use exactly the technique as I say in the video. Don't make it complicated. It's a very simple technique. You just have to discipline yourself to do it. And it's not even that difficult to start.

When I had my first glimpse, the sun was setting, god-rays where shooting through the clouds, and even a little deer ran through the grassy meadow.

@Yamazaki Good work! Some heavy lifting done there. All very positive stuff. Your future trips can now go deeper into Truth. This was you getting your cup emptied of bullshit. You've felt a tinge of ego-death, but it gets way deeper. After you work through some of your worst fears, the immense beauty of nonduality will shine through. Take some time off and your mind will be back to normal in no time. 5g is a pretty strong dose, and mushrooms are pretty twisted. You might want to consider future trips on small doses of LSD or AL-LAD or the like, which give you more opportunity to contemplate and make sense of nonduality without getting your whole world flipped inside out.

It is going slowly because I am focusing on exploring the depths of my consciousness.

It's one hell of a tricky dilemma. In theory, the best course of action is always going straight for Absolute Truth. You'll be glad you did. But in practice, you won't understand this until you're basking in Absolute Truth. This issue is THE ENTIRE challenge of spirituality and Truth. Hardly anyone can muster the vision to directly pursue it. Which mostly means, they never pursue it at all. Notice how strongly you're being seduced by Maya, just like everyone else. Maya is overwhelmingly powerful. It will not let you see God until you are ready to slit your wrists.