Leo Gura

Don't blindly listen to any one teacher. Don't place any one teacher or teaching on a pedestal. Corrupt teachers are no problem when you are pulling from 100s of sources, as you should be doing if you care about Truth and understanding. And you understand the dangers of the epistemology. All schemes for quantifying consciousness are very limited. Don't take them too seriously. You cannot understand higher levels of consciousness without actually going there yourself. It's like trying to tell a blind man about the color red. Nothing can be said. It's a very complex and technical topic which would require a lot of detailed explanation. 1) No idea. Not a valid question. 2) Well, of course I am a teacher, because I teach stuff. Maybe in the future I will travel around more and do some live talks/meetups. But not right now. 3) I'm a lone wolf type guy. I don't like personal support from anyone. I like to do things myself, or not do them at all. 4) Not really, it's become just normalized. I don't really do the work for you, I do it for me. 5) I consider all the videos leading to sagehood for those who are serious about it. I'm not tied to the notion of being a sage. It's just naturally the direction I'm pulled. Actualized.org is the sage school. Doubt, as in thinking it's untrue? No. I've experienced beyond a shadow of a doubt now that nonduality is factually the case. Do I backslide into old bad habits and struggle with embodying nonduality? Of course. How could it be otherwise? That will only be fixed with decades of work. You gotta accept the backsliding and not beat yourself up over it. You can only grow so much so fast. Nope, no light. No, I doubt that. You're not going to trick the system. If there is reincarnation, it's there for a reason. You're not going to shortcut consciousness or trick the universe about your level of consciousness. It knows. Just because you died on a psychedelic high, your base level of consciousness was still very low. If you die on a psychedelic, you'll probably be reincarnated as a jackass Sure, anything could in theory be used for growth. But I wouldn't expect serious growth from a fiction book. That's be way to easy. I like to be conservative in my planning. Then I can be pleasantly surprised with any excess Sounds like it. I may need to take some time off to work more deeply on myself. But then I think I'd return. I like giving advice. But it does distract me from doing the deepest work on myself. That wouldn't happen for some years. Too much on my plate as it is. No, they tend to be toxin and unpleasant. I've got better stuff to try. 1) There's lots of nuanced and basics-type topics. 2) I covered many of them in my recent Paranormal Phenomena video. There's a lot of weird occult spiritual stuff to research. A lot of weird stuff within psychedelics. 3) The extent to which our society, marketplace, food industry, drug industry, media, marketing, business, government, education system, and politics is corrupted by capitalism, dogma, ego, and money. If people only knew... There would be a bloody revolution. Shinzen Young is really good at teaching that. A little, but mostly they don't care, so I keep it to myself. I don't think they watch my videos much. They live an ordinary, chimp-like existence.

@jwkspeck The universe works in twisted ways. There's wisdom even in stupidity.

@jwkspeck If you think psychedelics are a beautiful tool, why not pay them the respect they deserve? You wouldn't go sticking a habanero pepper up your ass, would you?

@Wormon Blatburm You don't need to move to India to learn Sadhguru's techniques. Inner Engineering, his newbie program, is available in nearly every major city in the US. The reason you don't relate to Sadhguru is because he's teaching from a different cultural background, and he talks about VERY advanced stuff. It's not easy for a Western ego to accept what he says. I am not really an enlightenment teacher. I just give commentary on personal development stuff, and sometimes I bring up enlightenment.

This is exactly how: If you would only discipline yourself to sit down and do it.

@Cammy What you're doing every day is living to survive as an ego. Which is the opposite of enlightenment. What you are now as this ego is infinity pretending it is finity.

I don't understand why you would want to torture yourself like that. What's wrong with 200ug? You are not going to develop yourself fast. It just doesn't work that way. This whole process takes years to do right. Enlightenment is not the only factor here. You are not going to be able to sustain it without a solid foundation of more basic personal development work. Even if you somehow manage to wake up, you will be a half-woke Zen Devil, and your life will still suck.

Of course NLP works. You can try it and see for yourself. This is the wrong field for which to ask for double-blind studies. Don't confuse academic science with personal development. They have very little to do with each other. The most effective techniques will have zero studies behind them. Such is the state of our culture. This is not a scientific problem. This is a cultural problem. If you insist on sticking to rigorous science, than you have condemned yourself to the development level of most scientists, which is extremely low. Don't confuse intelligence with development or consciousness. They are very different things. Scientific psychology is very rudimentary. CTB, etc. It's all very weak stuff compared to the what's available. One aspect of yourself you need to develop is to be able to just drop this modern preoccupation with science. If you like science, good, but just drop it now. You don't need it here. It's just another ideology. All the proof will be directly visible in your life and your emotional development. YOU are the evidence of the work. And that's all you really care about anyways. Your whole life revolves around you. Including your love for science.

Yes, the whole point of meditation is to be hyper conscious. Whatever technique you use, hyper-consciousness must be present, otherwise it's just a mechanical doing. So whatever helps you do that will be good. Meditating right after a short nap is ideal for me. Then there's least chance of sleepiness and greatest alertness. Another tweak you can make in your SDS is to make sure your eyeballs are totally still. Do not let them wander around at all. Even tiny eye movements break your focus. Not easy to do though. Will require much training.

It's a lot more twisted than you think. It's not about quantum levels or atoms or strings or anything like that. Those are still all physical models of reality. Eventually you'll reach a point where you totally stop seeing reality as an objective physical thing. The whole of reality is acting with a remarkable intelligence, like one giant infinite conscious super-organism. And you can't really subdivide its parts. It's not rational at its core, it's mystical. There are many different ways you can subdivide this super-organism and talk about what causes what. But ultimately those are very limited linear explanations. With that said, it doesn't mean anything goes. There are still "physical laws" at play, at least in our "physical" universe. You can't just sprout wings and fly off into the clouds. Rather than worrying about how LoA works, it's much more important to investigate very deeply how your mind distorts reality through conceptualization. That pretty much explains everything. But it's very tricky. Because everything you know is largely a conceptual creation of your mind, from people, to all your emotions, all your desires, all your ideals, all your beliefs, your self, and what you call reality.

@unknownworld No, you're just confused. I'm tired of arguing with you guys about this kind of simple-minded Neo-Adviata logic. If you don't understand how to follow spiritual advice, that's on you. Don't put that on me. You're just misleading people with your "no pursuit" talk. You haven't yet realized how much work you have to do on yourself, and how much there is to become conscious of. It would make your eyes water like an onion if you only knew.

@Afonso But what are you?

Everything will remain exactly as it is. Except for you.

@LetTheNewDayBegin Firstly, our universe is not the same as all of reality itself. Consider: what you know of as "our universe" is an infinitesimal part of reality. Secondly, that is not what is meant by infinity. Infinity is not a size thing. It's not a matter of measuring the universe's perimeter to discover whether the perimeter is or is not finite. Every physical thing is by definition finite, including the universe. What we mean by infinite is an "object" of actually infinite nature, which means it has no properties whatsoever, and therefore it isn't even an object, nor does it exist nor non-exist. It is Nothing. All of reality as a whole is an infinite non-object, object. Within that are found an infinite number of finite objects, including our universe. All of it neither exists nor doesn't exist. That's why it's called "nonduality". Everything is so ONE that even existence and non-existence collapse into one.

@Arizzi It's more his penchant for debating with people and trying to fit everything into a rational box.

@Beyond Words It all depends on your values and level of consciousness. At low levels of consciousness it of course makes sense to lie and manipulate and use force. At higher levels of consciousness it makes less and less and less sense. As the Buddha supposedly said, dust thrown into the wind comes back in your face. You are free to lie, manipulate, and even kill. But all your actions have consequences. It's a lot easier to run a low consciousness business than a high consciousness business. That's for sure. Which is perhaps why most spiritually accomplished folks aren't billionaires. Ruthlessness and selfishness is a virtue in our current business world. When I did IM, I did what I did because my level of consciousness was where it was at that time. And I did pay a price for it psychologically, spiritually, and even in terms of my physical health.

@Lynnel Start with very low doses.

@Franz When you understand why, when you eat a banana you don't eat the peel, you'll understand why, when I eat mushrooms, I don't eat the flesh.

@Lynnel Tripping takes faith and courage, and a reverence for truth. If you cannot sooth and contain your fears, then you probably shouldn't be tripping. You always start very lite with doses. Like 1g of dried mushrooms. You won't see any demons or aliens on 1g of mushrooms. Not even close. Even on 5g of mushrooms you shouldn't see any entities. But 5g will certainly be a mindfuck in other ways. There's nothing really scary there, unless your mind takes it as such. The psychedelic simply reflects your own attitude back at you. So if you're scared of the world, you will be scared. If you're a peace with the world, and you've done work on yourself, you will be dazzled and overcome with love. It's sorta like heaven and hell. Sinners go to hell. So if you've been a deep sinner your whole life, watch out with tripping. You'll be in for some rude awakenings. If you've been a saint your whole life, tripping will be easy. You'll have little to account for. Your heart will be light. Bad trips are directly proportional to how much you cling to ego, and how closedminded you are.

@Space I would say both. Getting even 5 seconds of true not-knowing is so hard and rare. It takes real work. When you actually hit that point, enlightenment is like seconds away. You'll feel it. Terror will arise in your body. You will feel very noticeable progress in your inquiry. Like you discovered how to REALLY inquire for the first time. All prior inquiry will seem like mental masturbation by comparison. It's like you're trying to jailbreak your phone, and the old OS just keeps blocking your hacks over and over again, until finally you're right on the cusp of hacking the old OS totally out of the way. And in that moment, all defenses go down, and you sense the seriousness of that. It feels like you're about to brick your brain.

@Seed I said that, because that's what you needed to hear Until you've experienced the Absolute, you have no frame of reference from which to question it. My questions in this post are of a speculative, pushing-the-edge-of-my-knowledge type questions. I wouldn't give this as advice to newbies.

@oysterman Hehehe.... well of course! That's what enlightenment is all about. You will cease to exist! What did you think would happen? Rainbows and butterflies? The ego is not going to like enlightenment one bit. Luckily, once it's out of the way, everything is great.

@Seeker_of_truth The most important aspects of the wounded ego to fix are: Low self-esteem Victim mentality, refusing to take 100% responsibility for your life. Drama, making everything into stories Negative self-talk Childhood trauma, abuse, rape, etc. Mommy and Daddy issues Hard addictions like drugs, sex, food, etc. Depression, nihilism, anger, jealousy, greed, pettiness Neediness for love or approval Sexual repression, guilt, moralization Lying, cheating, stealing Religious indoctrination, severe closedmindness, ideologicalness Basically, therapy work.

@OnceMore The point is to show you how dishonest you actually are most of the time. That it horrifies you, should give you a good idea how much growing up you still have to do. Notice the horror as you see that your entire lifestyle is sustained by hundreds of lies every day. And then you wonder why you're not happy? Well, that's one big reason. Figuring out how to live an honest life is no easy thing. It might mean radically changing things. Which is of course why you see the technique as so impractical. Your whole lifestyle was architected as a house of cards. Which are glued together with lies. So of course you will feel extremely threatened when someone suggests taking your glue gun away. It IS a very difficult technique to execute for the average Western lifestyle. Because everything from our families, to our marriages, to our careers, is built on lies. Imagine what your life would have to be like, if you made a vow to never tell another lie again in your life? It's a very illuminating thought-experiment. Now realize, some people ACTUALLY life that way. For real. Do you think they are happy or unhappy people?

How convenient, lol