Leo Gura

@Orange Without an identity, you couldn't be you! Think about it. What would you be without this particular constellation of traits and boundaries you call "me"? When I had my deepest mushroom trip, I lost my identity so much that I stopped existing as a "thing". By the end of that trip, I was begging to return to be "something". I couldn't handle being unlimited and undefined. It's too weird. And so I came back as Leo. Grateful to be little old familiar Leo. How would you know yourself if not by your limitations? It's one thing to philosophize about that. It's a totally nother thing to actually become unlimited. It's scary as fuck.

@rush You haven't been at it long enough. Be more patient. Try meditating every day for at least a couple years to start to see some progress on overthinking. And even then, you're really just scratching the surface of what it takes to tame the monkey mind. Right now it's like you're trying to stop the Titanic with a BB gun.

@Peace and Love Sorry for your loss. The solution is to turn into the emotions and feel them fully. But not unconsciously. See my video: How To Deal With Strong Negative Emotions There is a conscious way to feel emotions. You can suffer greatly, but as long as you're not running away from it, or distracting yourself, you can let the suffering grow and mature you. There are also many lessons and insights to have about life from experience of great suffering. Here are a couple to jog your mind: Notice that everything is impermanent Notice that people who don't actively develop themselves and don't cultivate spiritual connection don't cope well with suffering Notice that your life too is short. Use this to clarify your top values and priorities. Notice how and why you create suffering or resist certain emotions Notice how material attachments create suffering (yes, people are material) Notice how great suffering can make you more compassionate for others' suffering Etc. Drawing out such lessons is difficult when you've got a lot on your plate, so don't overwhelm yourself too much. If you're having a crappy day, sometimes you just gotta give yourself some comfort and forget about personal development. But it's a good idea to keep your meditation habit going every day no matter what, so you've at least got that one period in the day where you can re-ground yourself.

@Mrkvn8 Look at this process like a psycho-spiritual colonic. If you're going to get your colon cleaned out, don't expect the stuff coming out to look pretty

Of course I didn't mean this soon. It might take you a few years (or decades) to realize your jackassery

@Frogfucius A little bit of higher consciousness can be a dangerous thing. This is a phase of the newbie on this path. A trap. Later you will look back on this attitude and cringe a bit for its lack of refinement. You've yet to experience deep suffering, which builds compassion. And you've yet to experience true Love. There is MUCH you're still not conscious of. So don't get cocky, kid You blew up one Tie fighter, but there's an entire squadron out there you've yet to face.

That's enlightenment. That's what we're talking about of course!

Of course! That's why it's funny. When I say hippie, it's part tongue-in-cheek, part self-depricating, part preemption of criticism from stage Orange people. As you actualize, you will become a total hippy. Orange must pass through Green to get to Yellow. But they've demonized Green so much that they've burned their only bridge, so to speak. If you read Martin's biography, you'll get a very strong hippy vibe.

@Pauline Bureau The question you really gotta ask yourself is, Are you actually close to your family now? Probably not as close as you think. Most families are stuck in a coping pattern, looping over and over. How do you imagine that will end? Egos can't really relate or love each other because they are too busy wrapped up in their own crap.

You can master physics if you want, but it really has nothing to do with enlightenment or raising your consciousness. Studying physics is not what's going to all the sudden convince people of enlightenment. They resist enlightenment and higher consciousness out of ego, dogma, and ignorance. In fact, many genius physicists and neuroscientists are still fundamentally ignorant of consciousness. The most direct way to enlightenment (short of 5-meo) is simply to sit down and be aware of what is happening right now in your direct experience. No matter how much physics you learn -- you could become Stephen Hawking or Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman -- you will still not be enlightened and you will still not understand what reality really is. Because it's NOT possible via conceptual knowledge. The map is never the territory. This limit is baked into the entire scientific method. You cannot do scientific method to reach enlightenment. It's important to grasp this, otherwise you will waste years or decades in vain. If you take a 20+ mg dose of 5-meo, you will immediately realize why all conceptual attempts at enlightenment must fail. We're dealing with something MUCH vaster here than mere physics. You have to simultaneously grasp all of existence AT ONCE! This is not possible for the mind or brain to do. The only way to do it is to stop believing in mind and brain. These are illusions. Existence has no physical substrate. It's way more ingenious than that!

@Geo A lot more disconcerting things will happen than rocking. The advice is always the same: Just shut up and keep meditating Notice how easily phenomena distracts you. Every little thing instantly becomes an excuse to YAP, YAP, YAP, YAP, YAP inside your head and lose track of awareness. It doesn't matter is Satan himself comes for a visit. It's just a distraction from really being aware.

@cetus56 Cause reality seems to unfold in certain patterned ways. There are boundaries. An unbounded collection of boundaries.

You ain't too wise if you're placing pragmatism and safety above passion If you're older, all the more reason to stop screwing around and get serious about your passion. You're gonna be dead soon!

@Beyond Words Set theory & category theory. Did you know that Georg Cantor (father of set theory) discovered the Absolute Infinite set? He called it God. And he was right That's as close to God as you're likely to get conceptually. Shinzen Young told me category theory (basically a more generalized and expanded set theory) pairs very nicely with nonduality. You seem like a passionate fellow, so my advice to you regarding life purpose is to aim to craft a very customized purpose that sits at the intersection of at least 2 if not 3 or 4 sciences/fields. Then you'll be in an awesome position. Crave out your niche. Your niche probably hasn't been invented yet. YOU invent it! But it will take time. So don't be too insistent on knowing your exact niche right now. For you it's gonna be a multi-year-long process of doing research, study, and experimentation, as you hone in more and more on your niche. Rather than asking us, or trying to figure this out theoretically, instead, you'll want to follow the breadcrumb trail of your greatest passion. What are the top 3 things you love to study the most? What top 3 fields excite you the most? Figure that out, and then study the shit out of all them. And then your intuition will tell you where to go from there, and you will invent a niche for yourself. This is sorta like passion mixology

@bigzbigi Any attempt you make to try to conceptualize consciousness will fail. Because a concept itself is a subset of the superset (consciousness). If you become conscious enough, you'll grasp this, and then what you're currently attempting to do will look silly. You'll laugh at yourself. The interesting thing about Absolute Infinity is that it cannot be conceptualized. How it works is not by neural networks (that's way too weak and small). It works by BEING ABSOLUTELY INFINITE! That's what it IS! It doesn't work, it BEs. Imagine an infinite-dimensional singularity that simply IS. That's reality. The mechanism is like an infinite, unbounded explosion of being. "God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere." -- Empedocles

@AlexB That's why it's a good idea to have at least 1 or 2 no-exceptions habits. If you embodied what I told you from the very beginning with meditation -- make a commitment to meditate every day no matter what for the rest of your life -- then things would go a lot easier for ya. Ironically, a 100% commitment is less painful and easier than the way you're currently doing it.

A state of deep meditative absorption or Samadhi can easily do that. But that's not necessarily enlightenment.

This is an important issue that I will address in a video. For now, suffice it to say that your teachers have not experienced higher state of consciousness, and so are stuck in a naive realist paradigm. It's not important to justify consciousness in terms of quantum mechanics, so don't get hung up on that. But if you actually look into quantum mechanics you will clearly see that the ramifications of it basically say: there is no such thing as physical reality. Many people who know about quantum mechanics don't realize that throws naive realism under the bus. This isn't appreciated nearly enough by modern society. We still collectively believe in a physical, external reality, which has long ago been shown not to exist. And altered states of consciousness can convince you of this. The trap to avoid here is trying to justify or predicate consciousness upon quantum mechanical explanations. As if quantum mechanics is somehow a threat to consciousness, like evolution is a threat to creationism. That's not the case here because consciousness is not a model or a belief system.

This is potentially very dangerous. If you overdose by just 10-20mg, you would lose consciousness and drown. And the Jacuzzi + effects of 5-meo will be very rough on your heart rate.

Don't be so sure about that. I mean, it CAN be that if you make it that, but it doesn't have to be. Just ask yourself this, if you're not going to self-actualize, what's your better idea of what to do with your life?

@Meta Morphoses That's not what we mean when we speak of Absolute Infinity.

@Lisaya Nonduality means there's nothing in control.

@Mark96 Reiki won't make you enlightened, but it can heal or release various pyschosomatic issues that we all carry. Which is a good thing if you're serious about self-actualizing. Your body carries A LOT of emotional baggage, which weighs you down and can even cause things like cancer.

Or... open up a 5-meo lab

@Schulzy Okay, but you do realize control is an illusion, right? You in fact don't control anything.