Leo Gura

An appearance is that which doesn't exist, by definition. The problem is that you're attached to non-existence being some black void. No. Non-existence is the natural world. Look around you! You're inside of non-existence! Everything you see doesn't exist. That's what NOTHING is! Nothing is everything. You won't get this without enlightenment.

Of course. But it doesn't seem too hard. You can find guides online. You basically just chop it up, blend it up, boil it, and strain it. It's gonna taste nasty though, and mescaline almost always causes vomiting.

You can buy San Pedro cactus at Walmart, BTW.

Mescaline is supposed to be one of the most gentlest psychedelics. Although I'm sure it gets crazy at high doses. San Pedro cacti also vary in potency A LOT. Their mescaline content depends on the amount of sunlight the cactus got.

They don't.

No, it's ACTUAL dying. It's just that your paradigm shifts so much that you realize you were dead the whole time. The way to face that fear is with an overwhelming trust in Truth. You surrender to Truth until reality collapses and you just die. At the moment of death, you discover Nirvana. A peace and stillness the likes of which no human mind can imagine. It kills you with its beauty. It is infinite peace. Try to grasp it right now! You -- the thing which is conscious of all experience -- is death. You're dead right now. You just don't realize it. Death is conscious of life. Take a close look, if you dare

@cosmicrays Yes, of course. All your energy is blocked up. Your heart chakra is closed. It's a hell of a thing to unblock your heart charka. You feel like a brand new person afterwards. Like your whole body freed up. Unconsciousness doesn't just reside in the head, your entire body is physically blocked up, from head to toe. Emotions do not reside in the head, they are carried mostly by your body. Anger, fear, guilt, sadness, etc. That's all in your body.

@Alex K Go to Walmart and buy a box of foam earplugs for $3. You could even buy a set of gun-range quality ear muffs.

No-mind is useful too, in a different way.

I don't mean physical suicide of course.

@stevegan928 2 grams be enough to blow your mind. 4 grams will mindfuck you out of existence. Yes, it will guide you to truth. In 1 trip you will learn more than you have from all my videos.

@Danny M Start slow. This is a long-term game. It's better to do 15 minutes solidly, consistently, than 2 hours every day for 4 weeks, but then quitting in frustration. Treat this habit as a life-long skill you're developing. So there is no rush. With that said, don't distract yourself either. You should be able to commit to 15 minutes per day if you're serious about truth. You can always increase the time as you get better. Quality of inquiry is far more important than quantity. 15 mins of rock solid, laser-focused inquiry is better than 90 minutes of sloppy, dreamy inquiry.

@Psyche_92 If they were useless, they wouldn't have evolved.

The only way to end suffering is to die. I highly recommend doing so. It's really the damnedest thing.

@Revolutionary Think Peter Ralston told me that's how his daughter was born. He said she didn't cry for a week until he accidentally slammed the door. There's a whole book written about dark births by some doctor. Can't remember the name, sorry.

@Revolutionary Think You know it's very interesting. If the woman gives birth to the baby in a totally dark environment with no artificial lights and noises, no hospital staff and doctors, no drugs, no surgical equipment, the baby will be born without crying. It will not cry for days until something spooks it, like a sudden loud noise or a knock on the head. Our society is so fucked up that as soon as you are born, it's already a neurotic dysfunction in the making: doctors poking you, shining stadium lighting in your eyes, making stupid noises at you, putting you into plastic boxes. And people just assume that's the only way life can be. Watch out what you assume. You just might get it.

@doucey24 Yeah, that sounds like a good plan. What I personally find though, is that I enjoy having more flexibility in my life than following strict routines like that. But as you're starting off in this work, something like that strict habit could really super-charge your results. Later you will want to learn to be more flexible, so that your day doesn't hinge on you completing a mechanical routine.

@stevegan928 Get a SCALE and weigh those bastards and start with 1 gram max. If you can handle 1 gram, then next time (not in the same week), do 2 grams. If you go above 3 grams, get ready to have your ass handed to you so hard that you will forget you ever existed. If you follow that advice, and trip in a comfortable setting, you should do great and have the time of your life. But of course, individual results can always vary. Each batch of mushrooms can have varying potency.

@Wyatt Why did you have a stomach ache? What did you eat before-hand? How long was it before your meal and taking the LSD? If life is so utterly meaningless, why are you depressed about it? That's meaning! Notice this point very deeply. You felt afraid and depressed because most of the stuff you do is a house of cards built on top of an illusion of meaning. So when that rug is pulled out from under you, of course you get depressed. The solution is to slowly dismantle your house of cards. Make your actions and motivations more authentic, more in line with nature. It's like you're a donkey chasing a carrot on a stick, and then one day you realize, "OMG! I was never going to get that carrot! Those bastards!" How would you behave and structure your life if you weren't chasing carrots any more?

That is a gross misuse of the words "spiritual master". You're stretching it a bit too much there. Does Bill Gates have some spiritual intuition? Sure probably. Most people do. But a spiritual master he is not. Not even close. Like really, really not close. That would be like calling me a golfing master because I once went to a driving range and whacked a few balls which veered into the trees.

"Children want candy, adults want self-control." -- Rumi

Until you have the direct experience to which it points, yes. Consider, to a blind person, the word Red doesn't mean shit.

Actually, if you nearly get run over by a bus (a near death experience) you will quickly awaken to the fact that materialism doesn't matter. The busyness of "everyday life" cements the zombified stupor of unconsciousness.

He was fairly conscious for a scientist. But still, he did not grasp the ultimate nature of reality, which is possible to do.

@Pierre Of course God isn't a bearded man in the sky. God is Nothingness.