Leo Gura

Yes The Truth is not a one-dimensional thing. There are many degrees to realizing it. It's best to think of it as a spectrum of consciousness, or a jewel with many facets.

And if your friends jumped off a bridge, you would join them? Have you noticed yet that most of your friends aren't masterful people? So why are you seeking to be like them? You stay competitive by working smarter, not longer. Long-term consistency is far more important to your success than working long hours. If you worked for 30 hours per week for 30 years, you would out-master 99% of people in your field, including those who are working 70 hours per week. Because they cannot sustain that over 30 years. They will burn out. You can crunch for short periods of time when the situation really hinges on it. But that shouldn't be your main strategy. That's what you do when you're backed into a corner. No, work and personal dev are separate things. I was talking about 40 hours of work max. Studies have been done long ago (by factory owners) which show that 40 hours per week is the most productive schedule. Over 40 hours starts to become counter-productive. This stuff is counter-intuitive. By trying to get more, you actually end up with less.

That's right. You cannot imagine Absolute Infinity. Just keep self-inquiring. Obviously whatever you're been doing has been working. So keep working it without getting too cocky or clingy about it. God is terrifying. It's the death of you. The Devil is scared to death of God.

@egoless It's a tiny glimpse. Careful though, about chasing mystical states. That can be a big distraction. Your present experience -- regardless of state -- is already nondual. The most important thing is to realize that, so that you are conscious of nonduality 24/7, regardless of state. The Absolute is the Absolute always. It's true right now. It's was true during meditation. It's true after meditation. It's true while you're on the toilet. It's true when you're angry. It's true when you're happy. It's true when you're miserable.

All Eastern forms of yoga were designed for enlightenment. That's is the whole point of yoga. Of course it works if you work it. Yoga is a very complex and technical subject which I am not qualified to teach. If you want to learn it, learn it from a yogi.

@unknownworld I got nothing against smoking it. I just find snorting it powerful enough already. I never come back from a 5-MeO snort thinking to myself: "You know... that was just too weak. I could have used a stronger dose." A lot of trip reports I read from people who smoke it show that they come back not knowing what the hell happened, and their consciousness basically remains the same. Understanding what you're experiencing is very important. It's the most important part of the trip IMO. If you really understand it, you will be able to "see it" during regular life.

They never went away. It's just that some topics don't warrant them. And lately I've been covering more abstract/philosophical topics.

This is why I say 1% theory to 99% practice. When you get this ratio out of whack, you get lost in the labyrinths of the mind. Watch my video about Balancing Theory vs Practicing. That's a super important video that most people rarely grasp. Watch it several times. It's very profound -- not to toot my own horn, it's just a very deep topic. Pay extra-attention to where I say that you must learn how to use theory to break out of bad practice, and practice to break out of bad theory. A flexible, conscious mind should be able to do that. It requires some contemplation about the limits of mind, and then some training. It's not easy to do. Even as I say this, and even though I've shot that video, I still struggle with doing it in practice. The mind is extremely self-deceptive. No one is immune to the Devil's trickery. I notice my mind deceiving me all the time. It requires constant vigilance and work. Most people are forever lost in the infinite labyrinths of the mind. And the only thing what will save them, is death. You're like a computer stuck in an infinite loop. So be happy death is possible In fact that's what enlightenment is: death. That's really the only hope you've got of escaping the labyrinth. That's why you're in the labyrinth to begin with. No labyrinth = no you. You ARE the labyrinth!

@rush Because the mind is addicted to concepts and unconsciousness. Why? Because our culture is deeply corrupt from head to toe. People are born and just assume we're living is some great, sophisticated, enlightened age. When in fact we're living in the Dark Ages. Humanity will look back on the 21st century the same way we look back on Nazi Germany or the Mongols. You've been raised to be a Mongol amidst a horde of Mongols. So of course it's hard to be anything else. You're going against the current. This isn't evil. It's just the current state of humanity. We must go through this phase to ultimately reach the enlightened age thousands of years from now. Future generations will take enlightenment for granted as it gets handed to them on a silver platter via some magic pill. You cannot. We aren't there yet.

@PetarKa Yes, of course! Which is why you can't think your way to enlightenment. Thinking about enlightenment/truth isn't it, it's just more thinking. Thinking about awareness is not the same as being aware. This is the key trap of mind: it thinks that it can think itself out of thinking into awareness, but that's just more thinking! What's required is to realize this trap, and drop thinking (at least for a while). Thinking is just one mode of approaching life, and then there's an infinite number of other modes. There is a discontinuous jump between map and territory. An insight -- an ah-ha! moment -- is required here.

@OnceMore Good. Now sit down and answer this question: What do I want?

I don't consider 15-20ug of LSD a low-dose trip. That's a micro-dose. There is a big difference between, say, 20ug of LSD, 100ug of LSD, 200ug of LSD, 30mg of 5-MeO snorted, and finally 20mg of 5-MeO smoked. Each one of those is like a whole order of magnitude larger than the previous. I'm not scared of doing 100ug of LSD. 200ug is a bit scary but still alright. But 30mg of 5-MeO snorted is a frightening thing when you understand ahead of time what's coming. 150-200ug of AL-LAD is prefect for me for doing serious consciousness. If 5-MeO could last for 6 hours, it would be much better for consciousness work. But the problem is, it only lasts 30 mins.

@unknownworld It will overwhelm the mind regardless. The point of understanding it is so that you integrate the insight and have it change your everyday consciousness. Just having a big trip and not understanding what happened will leave you no better off than before after you come back. No, I haven't smoked it. Snorting has been powerful as fuck enough for me. I barely want to snort it ever again. It's ridiculously powerful. If a regular person smoked it, I can see them getting nothing out of it. Because it would be overkill. It's much more effective to slowly peel back the onion, from my experiences with tripping.

How many hours are you "working" in total per week? That's the key number you should be looking at. If you're working more than 40 hours per week, you're over-working, so don't expect it to be sustainable. Studying 8 hours per day for 6 days is a lot of studying. What the hell are you studying so much?

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@Pure Imagination It has nothing to do with odds or luck. You're thinking about this totally the wrong way. Don't confuse statistical averages across society with one individual's spiritual path. If you want to, you can have 100% chance of being enlightened. People are unenlightened not because they can't, but because they don't have any desire to be.

@spicy_pickles Who do you mean when you say "certain people"? Are these friends, family, spouse, coworkers, schoolmates? What is your age? If you want better advice, be specific about your situation.

@Serotoninluv The "technique" is being committed to walking this entire path of truth and growth for the sake of pure understanding. If you have that as your core intent, then everything else will fall into place. You will naturally trip consistently, you will naturally seek out the right teachings, you will naturally experiment with diverse substances, you will naturally inquire, you will naturally sacrifice ego for truth, you will naturally return for more even after a bad trip or some backsliding, you will naturally take time to integrate your experiences, you will naturally not break protocol.

@KPAVLOV It takes a lot of consistent tripping over a long period of time to make sense of things. One or two high-dose trips is not gonna fly. You're asking the mind the make sense of things which are way beyond it. It's possible, but only with consistent inquiry and more tripping on less powerful psychedelics. When you take yourself too far too fast, bad trips become likely because your mind is totally overwhelmed. Smoked 5-MeO is too fast and too powerful for good understanding. LSD or AL-LAD is better for that. Or at least snorted 5-MeO. Smoked 5-MeO trips do not last 60 minutes. They last about 5-15 minutes. Snorted lasts 45 mins tops. The less consciousness work, the less existential thinking you've done, the less you're gonna be able to make sense of a 5 minute DMT trip. Sounds like in that trip you went up against what I call the insanity threshold -- that point when you realize that if you go any further it will turn into literal insanity. That's a difficult one for the mind to stomach. But past that threshold is the best stuff. In future trips you can learn to surrender to it and go deeper.

That's an illusion which is your job to overcome. See, right now, you're not even remotely conscious of just how dishonest you are in your interactions. So much so, that if you ever start to become conscious, your mind's first line of defense is: "Pfffft... well, that level of honestly is just impossible in the real world." That's an excuse! It only seems so impossible because right now your entire life is house of lies. Very authentic interaction is possible, but you're gonna have to really work for it. It won't be easy given all the habits of manipulation and lying that we're all conditioned with in this society. Which is NOT the say that you should go around telling everyone all the intimate details of your life or spouting off everything that enters your monkey mind. This is an issue which requires a lot of very subtle consciousness work. Start by watching my video: How You Lie

If you imagine an Absolutely Infinite block, notice that it must contain this very moment you're experiencing right now, and what's more, contain it an infinite number of times.

@Bas It has begun. Good...

Read the book: Enlightenment Through the Path of Kundalini, by Tara Springett

@electroBeam Cause they have less self.