Leo Gura

@AxelK It would impact the mind's phenomenal experience. But consciousness is way deeper than you're presently thinking of it as. You don't have direct consciousness of consciousness yet (of course, otherwise you'd be enlightened) so you're confusing consciousness with phenomenal experience. But consciousness is independent of experience. That's the whole point. Consciousness was there before you were born. And it will be there long after you're dead. Also note: "the brain" is an idea. It doesn't exist in direct experience. And when it does, it's a phenomena, not a brain. All of it occurring in consciousness (Nothingness). Discover the eternal, immovable Nothingness that you are.

@Extreme Z7

God is INFINITE! Meaning... UNLIMITED! Do you realize what that means? God includes INFINITE limits! INFINITE EVERYTHING! So now... you (an infinitesimal limit of God) is asking God to remove one of its infinite limits, thus becoming less than absolutely infinite! You see how silly that is? It's like the number 2 asking infinity to subtract the number 5 because it hates 5.

You guys deserve a trophy for how many times this thread has been derailed. While you debate ideology and silly minutia, I'm growing by leaps and bounds. Anywhooo.... The more I read The Law of One, the more I'm blown away by the depth of valid spiritual insight it possesses. This here is the motherlode: There you have the essence of masterful embodiment of enlightenment. That is THE KEY!

@Babybat Tell us what you identify with. From your direct experience, not from ideas. There are many additional facets to enlightenment, and various additional insights. So there certainly can be more. Here I was covering the most fundamental insight of WHAT you are. I left out facets such as: love, mind, other, reality, God, life, etc.

@Neo There is no you

@sadlabounty Life is suffering when lost in falsehood. You have no idea yet the infinite love and beauty of TRUTH. Reality couldn't be any more beautiful and lovely than it already is, because it's already infinity so. There's nothing higher. Whatever your greatest fantasies of paradise might be, they are less lovely than what's actually true. But this will require work to realize. Don't expect to feel it without doing the work. The self is too small and petty to understand such profundity. You literally lack the physical and emotional bandwidth to feel the full power of love that reality has to show you. It's sort of like you're an off-the-shelf toaster trying to plug itself directly into the Hoover Dam generators. If you did, the raw power would blow you to smithereens. You would die and be reborn, never again questioning the source.

@Ramu Adyashanti's not arrogant. He's trying to highlight a specific trap. Just because you're aware of the trap already doesn't mean other readers are. And also, in this work, it's always good to have reminders of the obvious. Yes, Zen-talk, as I refer to it, can be infuriating. But once you deeply awaken, you'll see that most of the things they said make perfect sense and were communicated masterfully. Adya's actually a very clear communicator as far as enlightened masters go.

@Ape First trip: 1 gram dried. Second trip: 2 grams dried. Third trip: 4 grams dried. For newbies, I've found that 1 gram seems to work well. You want to make sure your first trip is not too harsh or negative, otherwise you'll just get scared off. 1 gram shouldn't get too freaky, but can still be very spiritual for a newbie. I don't recommend actually eating the mushroom flesh. Make an extract or brew a tea so you avoid nausea and vomiting.

@Alexanderryen I'm familiar with Olli's method.

@BeginnerActualizer I suggest you do a meditation or enlightenment retreat. Where you can sit and focus for 100 hours straight. It's hard to breakthrough by doing 1-hour daily sits. That's generally not nearly enough. That's just basic maintenance work.

@Costa7 I would assume they are copyrighted.

@ZeN Psychedelics are definitely a bit random. Sort of a pipe-bomb vs sniper rifle approach to spirituality. Since psychedelics have been used for thousands of years by shamans all over the world, I'm not too worried about it. They are one tool in the toolbox, and they certainly aren't the sole solution. Meditation and contemplative practices are still required.

@Carlos It would have a mind-blowing strong effect no matter what. There is some risk with doing any psychedelic. If you are doing it with the help of a provider, like Dr Octavio Rettig in Mexico, he's an expert, so you'd be in good hands. If you wanna do it on your own, try some mushrooms first.

Not nearly as farfetched as mainstream folks would believe. Try going to a local healer in your area who does energy body-work (like Reiki). Put your skepticism to the test. Or check out the work of Mantak Chia: http://amzn.to/2h0CO4B http://amzn.to/2i4Zj5T

@J I would look into the following things if I were you: Seeking out professional psychological care and getting a clinical diagnosis if there is one. Reading books about your condition, so you have background knowledge Starting to change your habits one habit at a time. Drop some bad ones, add one healthy ones. Meditation habit every day for the rest of your life, no exceptions Reprogramming your subconscious mind (I'm hoping to release a course on that sometime next year) Life coaching (if it's within your budget) Being more social, going out more, making new friends, dating. Clean up your diet. Cut out wheat, sugar, all processed foods, all soda, all alcohol, all coffee. Get full bloodwork done to identify any problems that might be physiological Consider changing your environment, like by moving to a new city or new apartment. For a clean slate. And lastly, if you stay tuned, I will be releasing a video that will share a powerful new technology for unwiring stuff like depression, ADD, and aspergers. I also have a book on my book list that discusses research about autism and aspergers. So you understand your situation better.

Sure, up to their limit. They do have limits, which are worth knowing. Here's a decent book discussing the limits of scientific method, written by a scientist and philosopher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method His core point: Science cannot have a method. Any science claiming to have a method is not real science. Because you cannot know ahead of time what you don't know. EVER! And the history of science clearly bears this out. I take the lessons of history and apply them to my epistemic process. Which means I have to hold everything loosely. Study of history is also extremely important. Or you will blunder.

@electroBeam Yes, basically. As Ra says somewhere in Book I (and I'm paraphrasing): the fastest way for humans to grow is through interaction with other humans. This is why the most conscious entities on Earth are highly social chimps. Interdependence spurs conscious development. A tree doesn't need to push itself to be highly-conscious. Humans do, or we kill ourselves. This rang very true for me. Relationships grow you A LOT. Business grows you A LOT. Pickup grows you A LOT. Being a leader of a community grows you A LOT. The trick is to engage all these with the INTENT and PRIME DIRECTIVE to raise one's consciousness. Most people in business or in pickup or in politics do NOT do that, so they waste tons of growth opportunity. Could you imagine starting a business whose main function was to raise YOUR consciousness vs making you money? Now that would be radically counter-intuitive. But also a genius strategic move.

@Motus I have not personally met any such people, but I wouldn't be surprised if they existed and were outwardly humble about their abilities due to rampant ignorance and fear of misunderstanding.

@Valentin I'm well aware of Bashar. Fun guy. Useful advice, regardless of what you may think of his, shall we say, style or existential claims. Fits great with my life purpose course actually. He basically shows you how to follow your passion.

@hundreth False equivalency. Don't conflate openmindedness with stupidity, or lack of discernment. Just because one does research and is willing to accept some deadends, doesn't mean one is open to researching every irrelevant thing. By that logic, research couldn't happen, as it would get lost in a never-ending sea of possible research targets. It helps to actually study how scientific method works. Philosophy of science is very useful here.

@electroBeam That is an excellent question. I intend to shoot a video about that. What I've learned from my study of epistemology is that the best approach is: Digest as many diverse sources as humanly possible (being sure to include books, videos, and face-to-face contact) Seek diverse life experience through travel, psychedelics, relationships, business, etc. Then throw all of it away as you contemplate reality via direct experience. Then behold, as your understanding of reality blossoms, as your subconscious mind integrates everything automatically, producing the biggest picture possible. Unfortunately I see many people very resistant to this approach. They like to pick one thing and only do that while poo-pooing everything else. And I'm not surprised by their lack of understanding of reality, despite whatever attainments they've made. Their ignorance is obvious when I then interact with them. They lack holistic understanding.

Have you been able to accomplish yourself? If you have a practical technique for cultivating spoon-bending, I'm all ears.

@hundreth If you keep growing, all your "logic" will melt away. You will be like Jeff Goldblum in The Fly, slowly but surely transforming into a New Age hippy. Much to your own horror. Turns out it's not so bad after all Love and consciousness make logic look like a rusty unicycle. And then you'll become like a New Age vampire, lurking in the shadows of the self-help world. But happy as fuck about it.