Leo Gura

Hehehe... the notion of "a reality" is a cultural bias. Not to mention: time, space, science, math, self, other, life, sentience, death, mind, brain, language, money, society, country, race, age, pain, good, bad, up, down, and intelligence. You're grossly underestimating how deep the rabbit hole goes.

I know about astral projection. Seems to be real. I haven't done it. Post-enlightenment you'd return back to social life. You wouldn't live in a cave forever. I rarely have sex as it is. Meditating in a cave. Many of the authors of the books on my book list offer retreats or workshops. They are all excellent. No About 6 years ago. Yes, I knew about it from the very beginning of Actualized.org, but I wasn't ready to talk about it. And I didn't know it's fully scope and depth yet. 13.785% Almost no effect. A bit more monkey mind than usual. That's mostly all. Yes, but there's a good reason. Reality is the most beautiful thing ever. Yes. No view. It's just a bodily function, like crapping. No I've never met any aliens. I dunno. It's not a consistent thing for me. It requires discipline to hit it. Not much. I have higher priorities. You need to watch some of my videos on epistemology. Sorta. It's going slow because I have lots of inner growth to do on myself. I am in the process of outlining a book. Kids? Probably not, but who knows. I will, but I have to get it from my Mom first. It's a physical photo. It's random. I use lots of different techniques because part of my job it to experiment. The full life is actually quite good if it's in a decent part of the world. I feel like 1 day of enlightenment wouldn't be enough. It would be too short know or appreciate anything. I don't see them as different. It was done against my wishes. 45.381% Reality is way more twisted than that. You don't actually exist. You never have. You just think you have. So you cannot die and there's nowhere to go. No idea Oooo... good question. Ralston's books.

No No News isn't empowering. It's like bathing with pigs. I guess the best way would be by reading a high quality journal / paper. 8 hours usually Yes, you can start there. Yes, eyes open or closed. I usually do it easy-open otherwise it's easier to fall asleep. Shinzen Young Not sure. It's a pretty common idea in self-help. And it's just common sense. 1) Of course it inflates the ego. But it also does check the ego because I am open to feedback and my mistakes become more apparent to me when I interact with people. 2) I cross-reference dozens and even hundreds of sources. Every new insight has to fit all the other stuff I've learned. After a long time of doing this, it's really easy to filter out bullshit. I have no interest in creating a cult or a corporation. I just a guy doing his art. I don't want to manage a throng of minions. 1 I would like too, but have other priorities. Depressed, not really. Lazy and bored, yes. Yes, many subtle addictions. It's a complex issue. I've used them a lot. Less nowadays because of my existential work. Thousands of beliefs. The key is that I understand they are beliefs. Ask better questions No, because my whole life is already it. If anything, I have the opposite problem. I show my vision boards in the life purpose course. I wasn't really struggling. I was excited to get my career going, doing my art, and having a big impact in the world. No, it was a temporary thing. There's no conflict. Reality is infinitely complex and it functions all by itself, without you, without free will. I've very visual. But also intuitive. I don't. Not a priority for me. If I did go out, yes, I would rely on many things I learned in game. No, it's not updated. It requires a lot of work which I don't have time for right now. I would follow the weekly videos instead. No, don't remember that at all. Not a high priority. Yes, depending on your level of development. That'd be interesting. Never considered it. No. All the experiences have been very positive other than one death threat through the mail.

@SOUL Except addiction is 80% psychological.

@RossE Yeah, I've had that experience on shrooms where I look at a clock and laugh because the notion of time is so ridiculous. It's just a spinning thingy!

IQ is the biggest load of bullshit. Such a red herring. Never take those tests. All they do is compare you to some arbitrary standards some rationalist chimps concocted in their infinite ignorance. Unless you're clinically retarded, you're good. The highest IQ people are some of the biggest fools around. Just because you can solve a math puzzle quickly, doesn't say anything about your wisdom or level of consciousness. Self-actualization means you have to stop thinking of yourself as a statistic. Statics are for policy-makers and people who care about measuring the mob. As a self-actualizer, you are going to grow so high above the statistical mob that you will not even fit on the scale. You will be qualitatively beyond all that. Your true nature is Absolutely Infinite, and you're trying to measure yourself with an IQ test? Lol. You might as well be measuring your dick to see if it's big enough to self-actualize.

@Electron You can push things a bit, but you're not going to become passionate about something you don't care about. You have natural passions already within you which must be unearthed, and then cultivated. What you're asking is sorta like trying to get a ball to roll up hill. Even if you could do it, it's not worth the energy. You want to become more organic as you grow, not more contrived and forceful.

@Space It's almost the exact opposite of what you're saying: do nothing but be conscious. Just sit and be conscious without manipulating anything.

@DoubleYou There is a long history of Indian and Middle Eastern yogis using hashish for spiritual purposes.

This! *thumbs up* Ahhhhh.... The non-self-actualizing walrii of the world

@Skenderberg Watch out though, because it can easily become addictive. The reason I like psychedelics is that they're non-addictive. If they were addictive, I wouldn't do them. Which is why I avoid things like Ketamine. Alcohol can also be useful for people who are up-tight. But the costs are just too high.

@RossE Didn't affect my energy like that.

@Lou7 Why do you want the approval of mindless chimps?

All pretty much on point. That's the truth of things. You had a rather deep trip for just 1.7g of mushrooms. You did a lot of heavy existential probing here, so it must have been quite overwhelming. In future trips, you can spend more time focusing on individual facets so you can get a better grasp of each one. Shrooms are quite twisted. Hard to really understand things fully on them. Other substances like AL-LAD are clearer and they don't screw with your memory as much as shrooms do. You have yet to glimpse the full magnitude of God/void as Absolute Infinity. That will be quite the thing to glimpse. Welcome to real spirituality. The portal has opened.

@MsNobody Sounds very odd. I'm not sure what that means. Maybe your mind isn't very spiritually oriented. Or maybe you're just very stuck in egoic consciousness. Or maybe your acid is some weak knockoff. Anything over 35mg for 5-meo is approaching overdose/lethal territory for normal people. So be careful. With 5-meo, you gotta make sure you're fully absorbing the dose and not just letting is run down your throat. Unskillful snorting could cost you half your dose.

There ain't no whos. What the heck would a who be anyway?

@2000 Just do it and see what happens. No one knows what your journey will be like.

Start observing how unsatisfying games really are. Notice how much you suffer while you play them. The whole hamster in a wheel syndrome of finding newer and newer games to keep you happy. Try to maintain mindfulness of this wheel of suffering even as you play games. See video: Awareness Alone Is Curative.

@The White Belt You tell me. Should you?

That's when you know you're doing it right Good work! I sometimes wonder the same thing, "Fuck, this is heavy... why am I telling people to do this shit?"

@Taavi Welcome to spirituality. Now your journey begins.

You can work through your inner demons on low doses too. No need to rush to high doses. Listen to your intuition about these things. It knows what's best for you.

@TJ Reeves Of course mindfulness means you will experienced emotions MORE, not less. All part of the path. Just keep at it. Don't make any knee-jerk changes to your life.

@pedro23 Totally normal. That's spiritual purification at work. Like I've been saying, a lot of personal development is actually physical. Traumas and fears are physically locked in your chakras and muscles throughout the body. It helps a lot to include a physical purification routine into your practice. Like Hatha Yoga or Holotrophic Breathing. Holotrophic Breathing can literally exorcise demons from your body. It gets scary intense. But very healing. Like years of therapy done in 1 hour. Or just having a punching bag to hit might be a simple solution. Also, don't be afraid to let your body go and flail around in a safe location. That energy needs release.

@Empty Some values serve falsehood/ego, like money, sex, fame, success, etc. Some values serve Truth, like unconditional love, creativity, helping humanity, openmindedness, etc. The ultimate ego-transcendent value is Truth. Without it, nothing functions properly.