Leo Gura

"[Reality] is a hallucination hallucinated by a hallucination." -- Douglas Hofstadter

There was a bug in the iTunes XML feed -- an "&" symbol which screwed the whole thing up. I fixed it today.

We'll talk more about karma in the future. Yes, it's a deep topic. Nirvana I have experienced. It's Infinity.

You're getting in over your head. 300ug is way too much for you. Even 150ug will mindfuck you to the point where all your plans will fly out the window. Take it slow.

I usually use those words interchangeably. Some teachers like to split hairs about it. I prefer not to because it confuses people. Suffice it to say, if you knew what awareness/consciousness was, you'd be enlightened. It cannot be explained in words. Everything is awareness/consciousness. But you are not aware/conscious of what awareness/consciousness is! If you want to become aware/conscious, place your awareness/consciousness on awareness/consciousness itself for a long time without distraction. Eventually the true nature of awareness/consciousness will dawn. And that will be enlightenment. It does no good to ask people what awareness/consciousness is. You must observe it directly in your experience. There is the answer.

I have not made a video about nihilism or existential crises yet.

@eskwire Careful what you wish for.

@Sweetest Your mind is too closed for this work. Way too much epistemic arrogance. What 5-MeO does, you could not imagine in the wildest science fiction movie. It basically kills you. Try for yourself and see, rather than doing armchair philosophy. It's all fun and games until you start dying.

@7thLetter Here's how a master does it: The #1 leverage point for earning money is fame/popularity/reputation. If you can fake that, you've got it made

Thanks!

@eskwire You ain't really done Vipassana till you've plugged some 5-MeO up your butt That's a little secret Goenka forgot to tell you about

No, it does not. You are misunderstanding what consciousness is. You haven't actually had a direct experience of what nonduality means. You're intellectualizing it. I know an enlightened master who took 1000ug of LSD after his enlightenment to test himself. He was unable to tell the difference between night and day. But his grounding in Nothingness was unshaken. Consciousness isn't a product of the brain. The brain is a form within consciousness, and as consciousness is the only thing there is, it is self-interactive. A rock hitting you in the head and causing a bruise is consciousness (a rock) interacting with consciousness (your head) causing a change in consciousness (a bruise).

Lol, That's the #1 secret of the millionaire mind: advertise yourself shamelessly.

@John Iverson 1) Ego backlash 2) Sex drive is hard to just stop. In fact you bascially can't. The only way to transcend it is through lots of conscious spiritual puriffication work. I wouldn't worry about sex too much. Don't try to suppress it. Learn to accept it and to fulfill it in healthy ways.

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@SeekingPeace You are seeing a higher truth. Most work is just a waste of time and life. There are other options to the conventional rat race. You could join an ashram or commune. I have a friend who didn't want to work so he joined the Hare Krishna commune in Tennessee. I don't necessarily endorse that. Communes can have lots of issues of their own, but it's certainly one viable possibility. Research your options. Stop thinking inside the rat race box.

Awaken

Reality doesn't work by chance at all. It only seems that way when the linear materialistic mind cannot fathom nonlinear infinity. When a scientist says "chance" or "random", what he really means is: "It's too complex for me to figure out in detail. And I don't want to admit it because I know best and science knows all. So chance."

Mushrooms and LSD are equally intense. Just depends on dosage. A high dose will scare the shit out of you regardless of substance, so make sure you get your dose right and go slow.

@blazed You still get bored with it and quit out of boredom. Boredom always wins in the game, no matter how good it is.

You have to take into account that the people in solitary confinement are already very mentally dysfunction. Many of them are violent offenders and probably have mental illnesses. So solitary for them only makes things worse. They also do not know how to meditate or self-inquire, or that this is even an option.

Just to be clear, I will not be sitting still the whole time like the story of the Buddha. In fact, I am sort of over the whole Zen formal sitting thing. I do not care how I sit or if I move. My #1 priority will be surrendering of the mind and maintaining contentration on the present moment. I've sort of stopped caring at this point about using formal techniques. I just sit and focus on the immediate present moment and the fact that consciousness is happening. I will also be doing lots of 5-MeO to definitively demonstrate its permanent enlightenment potential. My goal is to show that 5-MeO is the best tool for awakening, along with just sitting and surrendering. I want to demonstrate that 5-MeO can permanently rewire the "brain". It was already done so for me, but now we will take it to the next level. I want to accomplish what the Buddha accomplished, but using 5-MeO. Or to show that it isn't possible.

Time is an illusion. Reality is not causal. Nothing causes anything else. Cause and effect is an illusion. Infinity just is.

Best way to get over games is to notice how every game -- even the best games of all time -- leaves you feeling hollow and unsatisfied.

I don't hate Mooji. Nothing I said was hateful. I was merely pointing out how ego distracts itself from doing the work. Just because you don't kiss someone's ass doesn't mean you hate him. There is a middle position. Respect your teachers, but do not kiss their ass. This isn't complicated. But people love to worship people. Lots of people looking for idealized daddy figures to worship, like Osho.