Leo Gura

@Violinpracticerdude Very simply, your mind is stuck in Spiral Dynamics stage Orange. See my video about that. That's all that's going on here. What's required of you if you wish to develop further is radical openmindedness and serious research. You need to have a genuine desire to question your own worldview. The issue here is no religion vs science, the issue is questioned metaphysical and epistemic assumptions which both religion and science hold dogmatically and refuse to question. The distinction you've drawn between religion and science is a myth which you unquestioningly absorbed from culture. What we're pointing you to here is not religion or science, but something far beyond both.

@gilded_honour As long as you want to stay alive for more than 5 days, life forces you to do things. So your only choice is: do nothing and die, or do something. And if you choose to live, then the question is, what should I do with my life?

@Viking What was your childhood like? What did you spend your time doing?

@Nic The greatest gift you can give the world is via your life purpose. Ahem... I created a whole course about it Working in a soup kitchen is peanuts by comparison to how much you will impact the world if you find your LP.

There is no solution to discipline other than discipline. You must set a clear goal and then work towards it every day, building momentum over time. For this, vision is very important. But in the end, you must.... JUST DO IT! Start small and ramp your way up over the weeks, months, and years. If it was easy, everyone would be mega-successful. No one else can do it for you and there are no shortcuts or magic pills. You gotta have the courage to bite the bullet and endure some emotional labor and discomfort. The key is consistency. You must chip away at it every day and not bite off more than you can chew.

That was a light trip. Tip of the iceberg compared to what 5-MeO reveals.

Teaching enlightenment is actually the easiest gig in the world. Any fool can do it. Here's the formula: Step #1: What are you? Step #2: Whatever object you find that you think you are, you're wrong. Step #3: Repeat steps #1 and #2 until enlightenment happens. In fact, we could program a 1980's computer to teach people enlightenment. Or just go do some 5-MeO-DMT and you'll instantly understand what enlightenment is.

INTP is mine! You are not allowed to be INTP. Find some other personality type!

Now you know how I feel

@Sahil Pandit You need a serious mindfulness practice.

@Fuku Most people avoid emotions. This results in a "bad" life. The solution to emotions is not avoidance, but full embrace, acceptance, and consciousness of them. Most people who act out emotions like fear, anger, sadness, etc. are not really being emotional, they are doing the opposite: avoiding emotions.

@Bob Saget Yeah... that's how mushrooms can be, especially when you're so inexperienced and you take a dose of 3.5g. Your first dose should have been 1g. What happened was, the mushrooms were showing you nonduality but it is far too radical for you to accept upon first contact. The Truth is too overwhelming and the ego recoils in horror. The mind gets lost inside itself -- this produces the sense of insanity and hell. As you develop and become more conscious, and as you trip more, you become better able to surrender to Truth without struggling with it, and the trips becomes deeply enjoyable and profound beyond anything you can imagine. The more conscious you are, the more you meditate, the better you are able to control your mind during the trip. People with no meditation experience and monkey mind will get lost inside their own minds on mushrooms. Your mistake was starting with such a high dose. Dozens of trips are required to slowly get a feel for how to surf in the psychedelic headspace. Every trip builds on the previous. No two trips are the same. With each trip you figure out a bit of the puzzle. Mushrooms are one of the most challenging psychedelics at higher doses. They can get really twisted and they can easily butt rape you. Especially if you're egotistical and cocky. Don't get scared off. Just get more serious and lower your dose to something you can handle. Getting humbled by a psychedelic is a very good lesson. It lays the foundation for all future psychedelic work.

Emotions are tools your mind uses to maintain itself. There is no such thing as a useless emotion. Every emotion is there keep you being you. If you want to change, however, (that is, you want to be a new you), then learning to master your emotions is the #1 skill for that. By changing your emotions you change who you are. How you emote is who you are. Emotions are to a human being what flight controls are to an airplane.

Count how many times you wrote "me", "my", "I" in your post. That's why. You keep thinking you into existence. Stop thinking about yourself and you will cease to exist. "You" can't get enlightened. Enlightenment is the end of you-ing. This problem requires extreme mindfulness. Watch for I-thoughts like a hawk and deconstruct them or let them go. It needs to become clear that the self is a conceptual fabrication, not a physical object. And this needs to be seen deeper than at the level of thinking about it.

@non_nothing How else could you be you? God had to create you as an illusion because there is nothing but illusions.

This is not exclusive to Green. People are generally lazy across the board, people love to play victim across the board, and people have no sense of direction across the board. Of course! All of this is just the complacency of mainstream society, and these days people are so spoiled with video games and easy childhood that they have zero work ethic or self-determination. This is why self-help exists. JP is himself stuck in victim thinking and so are all his followers. This is just what ego does. It never wants to take responsibility. Especially not for emotional or mental issues.

@Arthur I have no idea about Ascent vaporizors.

@Arthur You can vaporize HCl by putting it on a neutral herb substance, like mullein leaf.

Absolutely! That's the whole point. Not only can you, but you must if you want to realize your full potential.

5-MeO is definitely effective for addiction treatment. This has been demonstrated over and over again by folks like Octavio Rettig. Of course it is also an effective anti-depressant. And safer than ketamine.

Nice! A stage Turquoise artist.

@Arthur Be patient. You will get your breakthrough. Each trip builds on the previous. Dosage is not the most important factor. To get the deepest insights you need to hone a strong intent and practice contemplation seriously. And if that fails, vaporization should do the trick. It will hit hard and fast, so start low.

@SoonHei Yup That is also known as Sahaja Samadhi. That is our ultimate goal. But still, do not forget about development. You can be in Sahaja Samadhi but still be at a low stage of Spiral development.

@Arthur Good! Wait till you up the dose and get skullfucked by God's infinity