Leo Gura

School/college has all the wrong focus. No attention paid to what really matters: practical psychology, nonduality, self-mastery, holistic understanding, love, consciousness.

@Azrael Good work! *hi-five* You've discovered true religion. Beyond all words.

@OBEler We're not gonna discuss that on this forum. But if you do some research online, you can learn a lot.

No Feb 2016 is like a lifetime ago for me! Outgrew that. But the issue is sorta moot as all of reality is supernatural. The natural/supernatural distinction is a contrivance. Point to one thing that isn't supernatural (or natural). I didn't say I HAVE given up. I was responding to a question which asked about the biggest challenge for me. Read the original question more closely. I will be spending Xmas with my Mom and brother. No. I don't trust IQ tests. Not really. RSD already has that covered. If I talk about pickup it will be aspects not usually addressed by PUA culture.

@Ape Never tried it. As a low-tech solution, you could make mushroom tea, although not at good as alcohol extract.

I would caution everyone about buying anything from research chemical companies (especially from China). They may be scams, or send you the totally wrong chemical. Always use drug testing kits to at least verify you got a DMT-class substance.

@Samuel Garcia Attaining new levels of consciousness or mindfulness is the key. This requires a consistent mindfulness practice. That duck/rabbit will look totally different when you hit a new level of consciousness. You've yet to see it for what it really is. Not only does judgment distort reality, your entire current level of (low) conscious distorts reality. If you're serious, start building the practices.

@Shan Mushrooms 1-2 dried grams as alcohol extract, or equivalent synthetic 4-HO-DMT (active chemical found in mushrooms). I try to avoid eating mushroom flesh as it causes unnecessary nausea. You'll have to do more research, but that should give you a starting point.

@Parki Yeah, that's the last step: the final surrender. YOU cannot reach the state of no-you. Enlightenment is the realization that there never was a you. It's like you're trying to find a needle that doesn't exist in a haystack. One day you must surrender to the fact that it isn't there and cannot be found. When this happens, it's FOUND!

@Vercingetorix The "research phase" is a good phase. The key to this phase is to do it actively, rather than passively. It's all to easy to say, "Yeah... I need more life experience." And then 20 years fly by and you've basically just been sitting on your ass because "I need more life experience" is such a vague plan. If you really need more life experience, good, that's a valid strategy. But now you gotta flesh it out and make it concrete. What kind of life experience? What steps will you take to acquire it? By when do you want to wrap up your research and commit to a LP? What kind of skills/training do you need? Etc. Write up a plan and get to work on it.

@Callum Milner Stop thinking of it as suffering. If you're doing the thing you're most passionate about in life (supposedly that's what your life purpose is), then why is it a point of suffering? It's basically like you're being told to go the toy store and select your very favorite toy out of all the ones every built, and then playing with it your whole life. If you say, "But I wanna dabble in lots of stuff!!!" You're welcome to do that, but then you won't have a career because you will be mediocre your entire life, and therein lies much suffering. Fulfillment comes from building depth in something, not from skimming the surface of a bunch of stuff. To offer value in modern society (and get success for yourself) requires that you invest at least 5-10 years into mastering ONE thing. Otherwise you've got very little to offer, as all your competitors will have more expertise than you. And remember, you're still allowed to have hobbies on the side.

@MochaSlap There's no way you can imagine how far it can go. And there's little I can say to help you imagine it. If you do a heavy dose of psychedelics, you'll get a little taste.

@Richard Alpert Don't be so eager to drop seeking that you fall back into ignorance before you've actually become conscious of the really deep stuff. That's just another trap. The point of seeking isn't to seek, but to do the work. And if you haven't done 10,000 hours of work, you ain't seen nothing yet. Don't over-dramatize seeking, as if you're being tricked into seeking for the sake of seeking. There's nothing wrong with pursuing a deliberate plan of spiritual development. In fact, it's necessary to have a plan. The fact is there's a lot of ignorance that needs to be corrected, and it will not correct itself without serious work. What you're doing is burning the bridge before you've used it to cross the canyon. Burn the bridge AFTER you're crossed. And stop advising people to burn their bridges before they've even started. That's counter-productive. It's like telling your child not to go to school because he's already complete and perfect.

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@Sri McDonald Trump Maharaj I'm definitely gonna talk about shadow work. And I have discovered a powerful new technology that can erase trauma without any analysis or intervention by the mind. Because psycho-therapy-type approaches tend to be very inefficient. I'll be talking about it soon.

Giving up Actualized.org and the pursuit of success. Actualized.org would have been a lot more successful had I not pursued enlightenment. What do you mean by trauma?

@Yonkey The problem is, all your logic is gonna crumble when push comes to shove. Emotions will over-power logic consistently. You cannot use thoughts to solve the problem(s) created by thoughts. When the shit hits the fan, logic will fail. Pursing spirituality and calling it "logic" is gonna create a lot of misunderstanding. Love, truth, or consciousness are much better labels.

@Franz I'm not an enlightened celebrity or guru. I'm just a dude doing his work. I've never taken social status seriously.

Astral projection IS definitely a real thing. Not sure what significance it has exactly, but you can definitely train yourself to do it. That would take a long time to answer. I have the best books listed in my book list. After I experienced Absolute Infinity, I'm much more open about that. Life is basically an illusion. I wouldn't be too surprised if consciousness is "recycled" or there is an afterlife that's totally beyond our comprehension. Yes, many more videos on psychedelics. There is much to say about them. The reality is that not even 0.01% of the world's population will successfully live out their life purpose at this point in history because they are too unconscious. So it's not a problem on the practical level. Theoretically, yes, it's a problem. Should be obvious Not for relationship problems. Only for attraction problems, and even then, only with many warnings and qualifications. I want to make a small course about that. To teach you the full technique. A step backwards for consciousness. But not too surprising, as Trump reflects the materialistic stage Orange consciousness of most of America. The more consciousness work you do, the more you will realize how shockingly little responsibility you take for your life. All of your emotional reactions and your suffering is basically a manipulation to avoid taking full responsibility for your life. It goes way deeper than you ever suspected. Typically I do at least 2 60-mins sits per day. Sometimes more. Rarely less. Right now, none. I got tired of working out. Not sure what you're asking, but I already know next several milestones. If I could re-live my entire life, I almost wish I had the courage not to go to school or university at all. I'm discovering now how terribly damaging they were on my psyche. But in some ways that's wishful thinking because the most important thing I did get from it was my thirst for understanding and self-education. Assuming I had the time and resources to educate myself instead of going to college, I would definitely select that. But this probably won't work for most people.

They don't tend to work out. I have, if you count my psychedelic-induced experiences. I haven't researched the matter, so I don't know. They can be a huge waste of time and energy. Although it's good to at least know the basics. Do it yourself. Lead from the front and don't worry about inspiring them to change. That's very difficult. It's too shallow. I want to invest my time and energy into something more profound. Slowly. Not my main focus right now. I have been doing less and less scheduling lately. I've learned that I'm most creative when least scheduled. I used to create many to-do lists and timelines, but they don't suite my personality type and make me feel disconnected from life. Reprogramming my subconscious mind, which I will be creating a course about since its complicated. 10-20 years is for a deep mastery and embodiment of the realizations. No Do the the work that all my videos are pointing to. It's a legit tool. Haven't had time to delve into it but I want to.

@Gavalanche If you check out the second book in the Consciousness category on my book list, there you will find an example of an individual who pursued enlightenment very diligently and successfully while living a modern Western lifestyle, getting married, AND becoming a medical doctor! So watch out for making excuses about how you can't do it while working a 9-5 job. I bet you that guy worked more than you. Of course he was very serious about doing enlightenment work. He wasn't sitting around and wasting time. If you are strategic and motivated, you can do it quickly. The real problem is that you don't really want it badly enough. Serious enlightenment work is not pretty or easy.

Modern folks tend to re-invent the wheel a lot in ignorance when it comes to psychology or spirituality. It's ironic because psychology and spirituality have been fully understood by humans since over 5000 years ago. It's very simple and it's virtually unanimous. The core problem is simple: ego The core solution is also simple: realize that ego is an illusion God is what remains when ego is realized to be an illusion. There cannot be true freedom until this is realized. God is not a set of patterns or universal laws. God is not logic. God is indiscriminate and unbounded, whereas patterns and laws and logic are limitations, facets of Absolute Infinity. This technique they share may be helpful on a practical level, but remember, there are much deeper and more profound things to discover. If we're gonna boil down reality to one thing, it should be CONSCIOUSNESS, not logic. What this video is doing is sorta making a weak version of spirituality palatable to rational-minded people who normally dismiss spirituality and religion because of its packaging. But actually these people do not understand the deep core of all religious and mystical traditions and how practical and therapeutic it is. Modern culture needs things packaged in "logic" in order for people to swallow it. Which is actually a big part of the problem because logic is a tool of the ego. The problem with trying to rationalize nonduality/reality is that it will always ultimately fail, because rationalization is conceptual in nature, and reality is beyond concepts. What would really help people watching this video is to let go of their need for logic, concepts, thinking, rationality, science, and evolution. Now that would be a really counter-intuitive move, and lead to an amazing transformation!

@Mitch I didn't mean creating a fake business just for practice. I meant creating your dream business. Any business you create will have to be your baby for many years.

@Muhammad No, that's not a life purpose. That's you setting a goal to move away from discomfort. There's nothing creative in that. There's no love in that. There's no passion is negative motivation. And also, it's totally self-centered: you're doing it only for you. You're not going to accomplish anything great that way.

@Bebop Congrats!