Leo Gura

@Achilles Start with small doses of LSD or mushrooms. See how you handle that. There is no reason to guess or speculate with psychedelics. You can dose very small and see exactly what your tolerance level is. You just have to be patient and responsible, unlike what most people do: just eyeball a big dose, damn the consequences.

@Hsinav Yeah, maybe. Not everyone is willing to scour through all of Osho's YT videos.

@Betterself That's very very common. I've had that too. The reason is goes away is because the enlightenment needs to be deep enough and total enough so that your mind understands the mechanism of the illusion. What is really going on? That's usually not clear after one glimpse. Many glimpses may be required because the materialist/dualist paradigm sits very deep in the mind. It's like your operating system, and it needs rewiring. Also, the Truth itself needs to be distinguished from the exciting experience or the emotional after-effects. There is a difference between mystical states and insight.

@Timotheus I never said that. I am saying the opposite. With lots of consciousness work you can end your suffering, at least for this incarnation. Next incarnation is another matter, and is irrelevant to this incarnation. Suffering is simply the result of being an ego.

@Clown I would say that you don't need or want a guru, but it is extremely valuable to meet and learn from enlightened masters face-to-face. It's a very different experience than watching a YT video or reading a book. The trap would be to fall in love with one teacher and stop thinking critically and stop studying various sources. But if you are serious about this work, you should get off your ass and go meet some quality teachers face-to-face. They will help transform you. Just don't start fawning all over them. And, yes, STILL read books and watch YT videos. Do not subscribe to any one teacher or teaching.

Cause that one sits under the whole pyramid

@Crystalous A grain of sand is infinitely large. Yes, thought is a form of reality. There is no boundary between a thought and a car. The substance of reality is one.

@ZeN Do not start with any high dose trips. Figure out how to hit a threshold dose first using your odd orange substance. Then, GRADUALLY up the dose in 5mg increments. Your dosing should look like this: 5mg >> 10mg >> 15mg >> 20mg >> 25mg >> 30mg Only move to the next dose if you were able to handle the previous one.

@vanish Be careful. Do not do anything to harm yourself physically. You are here to solve the puzzle of life, not to escape it.

@Edvard God is not happening through time. God has already instantly experienced everything there can ever be experienced. God just IS everything. It doesn't wait for things to unfold. Waiting for things to unfold is a human limitation. God has no interest or agenda. God just IS. God's "agenda" is to exist as everything possible.

@Crystalous Every object is infinite. Reality has infinite resolution.

You should be able to dissolve even 30mg of 5-MeO in 0.3ml of water within 10 seconds without even stirring it. 5-MeO dissolves instantly, like table salt. It sounds like you got some bullshit 5-MeO, or perhaps it's freebase, not HCl? Freebase doesn't dissolve in water, it needs to be dissolved in oil or something. I dunno, never tried it with freebase. Or maybe the powder you have is not 5-MeO at all. You could try snorting a tiny bit (5mg) just to see what it feels like. Snorting freebase should be very painful. But even 5-10mg snorted should produce some funky effects. Not enough for a trip, but you will definitely feel the 5-MeO "flavor" and some mild intoxication. If your 5-MeO is orange-colored (assuming it is 5-MeO at all) it might be a low purity, requiring a larger dose. Pure 5-MeO should be white.

Enlightenment may be the end of suffering for you as a human (assuming you become massively enlightened and embody it totally). But all the other creatures will still carry on in their ignorance. For example, The Buddha supposedly became full enlightened and ended his suffering. Okay, but now here you are! You are The Buddha! Do you suffer? Of course! Since you don't know you're The Buddha, you're back into suffering. So The Buddha continues to suffer as every unenlightened life form. If one enlightenment were enough to end all suffering in the world, all suffering would have ceased to exist since 2500 BC onward. Yet here we are, still trying to get enlightened. Every individual must complete his/her own enlightenment. It does no good for you that The Buddha once got enlightened -- even though you are identical to him -- because you are not conscious that you are identical with him. That's the whole problem.

@Hardkill You can work on multiple facets of your life and the hierarchy at once. It would be a mistake to start only from the bottom of the hierarchy and not do any other work (like meditation) because you tell yourself, "Well, Maslow said I cannot learn to meditate until I satisfy all my sexual cravings, because meditation is a need higher up the hierarchy." Instead, how the hierarchy can be useful is by showing you where you need more development and what is holding you back. For example, you meditate for a year and you notice you're not getting the great results you expected, so you ask yourself, "Hmmmm... I wonder what my problem is? Oh, yeah! It's because I haven't had sex in 5 years and my mind is driving me crazy to be in relationship. Maybe I should fix this issue. Or maybe it's because I've been living in my parents basement for 5 years and my mind is telling me it's time to get a job and move out on my own." Don't use the hierarchy to limit yourself, use it to diagnose obstacles which need addressing. A serious spiritual seeker can pretty much ignore the entire hierarchy and shoot straight for self-transcendence. Although this is rare.

@Extreme Z7 By facing it head-on. By doing hardcore spiritual practice. You've been told all the standard techniques a hundred times now. Start doing it. And start doing it seriously.

He is too hairy to die.

I wouldn't make a habit of it. But it can be very valuable to see what true love feels like. Some people have very closed hearts. It's also possible using other psychedelics, but MDMA is supposed to be the most direct path. I get infinite love sometimes on psychedelics, but it's not consistent. MDMA specifically targets that part of the brain.

Not sure, I have not experienced anything like that. Do the yoga gently. You shouldn't be exerting much force or effort.

Don't worry, before that happens, AI will make all of us humans obsolete We will become monkey's in our AI overlord's zoos.

That is also possible. It is a bit suspicious that the universe is 14 billion years old but the Earth is 4 billion years old. It seems like that gap should be much bigger.

I did not experience infinite suffering. It's just clear to me that I will reincarnate and experience the universe from every single possible perspective, as every living being, from an ant to a bird to Hitler to Trump to an alien. Right now I am experiencing the universe from the perspective of the person reading this sentence -- YOU! But that is just something Leo's mind cannot access because to be "Leo" is to be locked into Leo's POV.

Well... technically reality is eternal and infinitely old. But it seems like our particular universe is 14 billion years old. But there are probably an infinite number of other universes.

I have a great speed reading workbook on my book list. You can increase your speed by 5x using that book. But you'll have to do all the exercises in it. It's a bit of chore to learn.

What the devil secretly craves the most, is to be God. It is just that he is going about it the wrong way. Here's real-world example. Research has shown that up to 55% of all heroin addicts and alcohol addicts were really just looking for an experience of God. But since they didn't know how to have the real deal, they instead turned to heroin and alcohol, confusing it for an experience of God. When they finally experience the real deal, they stop being addicts. The 12-step program is based on this insight. This is generally true of all human beings. Everyone is basically looking to become infinite, but the ego is confused so it goes about it in the oppoosite ways. It tries to become infinite through acquistion of material stuff: food, sex, money, children, cars, clothing, fame, success, technology, scientific knowledge, religious tradition, luxury, power, etc. But none of this will work. The only way to become infinite is to drop all material methods and realize God is what you are. Rather than fighting God, die to God. Be infinite! That is the counter-intuitive move which the ego fails to see because it is too scared. The devil's dirty little secret is that he is too afraid to die to God. He isn't able to take the leap of faith required. So he becomes an arrogant devil instead. He says, "Fuck all this talk of surrender! I will never surrender! Fuck you God! I don't need you. I will be my own God instead!" The desire to become infinite is baked deep into everyone's psyche. It is just being dsyfunctionally manifest because of one's ignorance and selfishness. Baked into the desire for life is the desire for ego-death. Life and death go full-circle. They are one and the same thing! But good luck getting the ego to see it.

Empires fall because they are dictatorial and egotistical. If a system is built on ego and falsehood, it will ultimately collapse. White supremacy and racism, for example, are collapsing.