Leo Gura

@egoless The Tibetan Book Of The Dead comes to mind. It talks about various bardo realms. The Buddhist scriptures are MASSIVE. They are like 10 times longer than the Bible. It's a very technical topic which I'm no expert in. I'm not a big reader of scriptures.

Sure, that's possible. I just don't know. It seems consistent with many of the deepest yogic and buddhist scriptures, which I must assume came from certain direct experiences. I doubt people just made that shit up. These scriptures were written by very advanced enlightened masters, whose level I may never reach in my life time. There is still much about spirituality which I do not understand. Because this field is extremely deep and wide and nuanced, and it can only really be understood only through direct experience. At the deepest levels, it's very hard to accurately interpret and cross-reference textual sources without massive direct experience of all the various facets of nonduality and the paranormal. I would suggest you guys just keep your minds open, shoot for No-self and Infinity, and stay humble with your awakenings because there's almost always more to become conscious of.

Yes, that's seems likely. Sure, that's also possible. I don't really know what happens after the body dies. I just know that I am Infinity. So if there's a hell or heaven, I am both of those things, and more. Infinity will go through an infinite number of "experiences": hell, heaven, monkeys, ants, aliens, cyborgs, whatever.

There never was anyone who knows. There are no knowers or perceivers. There is just Infinity BEing itself. And one of the ways it can be, is as a human. Of course a rock probably cannot self-reflect. But, for example, consider this possibility: that you (as infinity) will go through the experience of every Jew killed by Hitler in the holocaust. And you will also experience being every Nazi who pulled the trigger. And that's just a tiny tiny fraction of the stuff you'll experience. You will experience EVERYTHING! In fact, you already have. Your present experience just excludes that total perspective. The whole point is that YES, infinity WOULD "know" itself. That's how you're knowing anything right now! There is nothing but infinity. So if infinity wasn't knowing itself, you wouldn't be here conscious of this sentence. It ain't you who's seeing this sentence. That's just the illusion of perception. It is actually infinity BEING the sentence and your body. You're still looking at this whole puzzle from inside your self. You need to experience No-self to really crack this open.

Yes, you must follow the rules, so to speak. That's part of Infinity. If you don't get up off your butt and crack some eggs, you won't have an omelet. In this current life that you are living in, omelets don't spawn out of thin air.

That is correct, if Leo is identified with being a human. But if Leo is identified with being Infinity, Infinity will "experience" all of itself, forever.

There is only Infinity. So everything is inevitable. Talking about free will seems silly from this vantage point. Its sort of like asking, Does that rock have free will? A rock is a rock. And Infinity is Infinity. And YET! with all that said, individual choices are as important as ever. But it's not so much that Leo is making the choices, but that Infinity is making the choices.

@egoless Yes, it is the ultimate full circle. But now your attitude toward the whole thing changes. I was standing at Wholefoods yesterday chatting with a stranger, and I was acutely aware that his body is me. Also, I am aware that I will experience every evil and horror ever imaginable. And that makes me very humble and compassionate towards people. I literally carry the universe's suffering on my shoulders. And it's an awesome responsibility. There are very important attitudinal differences which come with such profound understanding. Even though ordinary life basically continues just as before. Perhaps most important is the maturity which comes after deeply seeing the Truth. You have seen things which no childish mind can stomach. You have seen the price of creation and it is deeply humbling.

Imagine, for a moment, a "thing" which has absolutely zero limits placed upon it. Sort of like an infinite dictator (AKA, God). And think for a minute of the enormous consequences of what such a "thing" would entail if it was actually real. God is not limited by the physical laws. God is not limited PERIOD! The consequences of such a thing are staggering beyond all comprehension. For example, just one consequence of such a "thing" is that it would have to include the very present experience you are having, because if it didn't, that would be a limit -- but it is unlimited. Imagine, for example, a mathematical matrix which contains every possible dream that every human being has and can ever have. That would be getting close to Infinity. But now include an infinite numbers of dreams by an infinite number of beings and non-beings. Infinity is the sum total of every possible situation. Another way to understand it is: If Infinity actually existed, how would it look like? It would look precisely as the present experience you are having.

Extracting 5-MeO from plant sources is extremely difficult. Much harder than N,N-DMT. You'd have to be a chemist and need thousands of dollars of lab equipment to do it. Most plants that contain 5-MeO also contain N,N-DMT, and in much larger quantities. So you'd need a method to separate out both molecules. And 5-MeO-DMT is much less stable of a molecule than N,N-DMT. I have only heard of one instance of a person being able to extract it. And the guy was a professional chemist. And even, it seems his results were mixed. Or maybe someone will invent a better method in the future. But for now, it seems unrealistic. Finding a toad would be easier.

@Monkey-man If a psychic entered Trump's head, the psychic would be the one walking away traumatized

@John Iverson I bet you there are mystics and yogis in the Philippines. You just gotta look harder If not there, then certainly in nearby places in Indonesia or South East Asia. Here is just one example: http://www.phala.dhamma.org/

You can meditate under almost any circumstance, including getting tortured or at the dentist's office. Is it IDEAL to meditate after a large meal? Obviously not because you will be more sleepy as blood from your head rushes to your stomach. But I often meditate after meals. Just keep your meals lite. Or ideally do your session a few hours afterward or before.

@cactus Sounds like what she experienced wasn't enlightenment but depersonaliation disorder. This is like a half-baked enlightenment. A sort of negative infinity. It's definitely an incomplete awakening. A proper enlightenment should still leave you passionate about participating in life. Of course something like the desire to get a master's degree might completely fall away -- especially if the degree was in a field which wasn't authentic to begin with. But then new motivations arise -- more authentic ones. Yes, some enlightened people choose to become recluses. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but it has to be done authentically, not out of fear or depression or lack of passion. True enlightenment should make you MORE capable, not less. Of course inauthentic parts of your life will fall away. This may be painful or scary at first, but ultimately that's what you want: a more authentic life. I wouldn't worry too much about this. Depersonalization is rare, and I think it mostly happens with people who don't study the theory enough and don't realize what they're getting into so it can blindside them. They somehow misinterpret Emptiness or No-self as a negative thing, which it isn't. I find my awakenings very motivating, and so do most people I think.

I also said in that very same video that I do not possess knowledge of all facts. That is not what we're talking about here. We're talking about understanding the metaphysical nature of everything. That doesn't mean you become a walking encyclopedia. There is an infinite number of facts, so on one can ever know even 1% of them. Nor is that desirable. What can surprise science is that reality is infinite and science isn't understanding WHAT it is.

Since there is only BEING, it cannot be grasped. You must BE it.

There are no perceptions. There is only BEING mistaken for perceptions. The cause of every phenomena (or instance of BEING) are literally infinite. So you can study them FOREVER and never reach the end. Studying the brain can tell you things -- especially how to manipulate things -- but it will not tell you what anything is or why it is here. For that, you need to grasp BEING directly, which conventional scientific method can never do.

The infinite beauty of reality.

Success and caring don't have to be at odds with one another. Don't stop your success. Evolve your success into a more caring kind of success. Stage Green succeeds when others around it are also succeeding.

"Brains do not exist" and studying the brain scientifically are not in conflict at all. We are talking about two different levels of reality. Brains exist as perceptions. Perceptions are empty and not happening inside yet more brains (yet more perceptions.) What sense does it make to say that a brain (a perception) is happening within a brain (another perception)??? Perceptions do not happen inside other perceptions. That is the illusion that must be broken. In truth, there is no perceptions happening at all. There is only BEING which is mistaken for perception.

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Do both!

@Ayilton Doesn't matter. Just make sure you practice it on 4 hours of empty stomach. Serious yoga should not be done after meals.

@D-tron It's all a natural part of the spiritual purification process. Stay the course and try not to get too wrapped up in phenomena. If you get a lot of phenomena like that, that might mean you are paranormally sensitive and could develop siddhis (paranormal powers) like seeing auras, etc. That can be cool and useful stuff. But it can also be a big distraction from pure awakening. I suggest you go for pure awakening first. Then you can circle back around to siddhis if you still want. Personally, I've never got anything like that. But I'm a very rationally-minded person.

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