Leo Gura

What you're taking for granted is how much the materialist paradigm blinds the scientists. You cannot do an honest investigation into anything which your paradigm assumes as impossible from the outset. The issue with science is that it refuses to take seriously its implicit metaphysical assumptions. Science says, "Assumptions? What assumptions? Metaphysics? What metaphysics? We don't do any of that. We fairly investigate all of reality." No! You don't fairly investigate all of reality, you only investigate the stuff you think is real and only using the methodologies which agree with your existing paradigm. That is not objective, that's highly biased. To do science properly, one would have to have zero methodological preferences. Your methods and metaphysics literally limit what you can discover. You cannot discover a thing which you hold to be impossible. In such a case, the mind will just dismiss the discovery away by saying something like, "Oh, well, that's just a hallucination. It's just taking place inside a brain, so that doesn't count." I am not merely speaking about scientists not living up to some impossible ideal. I am making a point about a deep epistemic ignorance which permeates not only science but all human systems of knowledge. People do not realize how problematic their paradigms are. The enlightenment approach doesn't make sense. It's just TRUE. Truth doesn't care one bit about making sense, or about proof, or about convincing you. Truth is just what is true. It is actually impossible to access Truth through science because science is a symbolic system, and Truth is nonsymbolic. But good luck getting a scientist to understand that.

@AleksM Existence vs non-existence is a duality, a distinction. Reality is nondual. So all distinctions collapse. Since there are no boundaries in nature, every thing is made out of one thing: itself. (A strange loop.) That which exists, also does not exist. It's quite the mindfuck to look at a chair and realize: "Lol! It doesn't exist!" This takes a pretty big leap in consciousness to see. A good exercise to try is to sit down on your couch, take a pen in your hand, and stare at it for a long time, trying to notice that it does not actually exist. Try doing that on a psychedelic, otherwise it's really hard to see. You'll start to laugh once you see it. "LOL! Of course it doesn't exist!" It's the most obvious thing in the world.

Perceptions are to consciousness what matter is to empty space.

Most scientists seriously claim that consciousness takes place inside a brain and reduces down to nothing more than the firings of neurons. If you tell a scientist that paranormal phenomena are real, he will say you are nuts and tell his colleages to kick you out of the scientific community. If you tell a scientist that reality is mystical, he will call your a superstitious Creationist. If you tell a scientist that science doesn't access truth, but is a human invention, he will think you are crazy. There is an enormous difference between the ideals of science and the actual closedmindness of science. In practice science is not objective and it does not care about truth. It cares about doing science-as-usual.

@Nexeternity Thanks for the feedback

Yes, with every update I delete a few of the lowest books on the list so overall quality rises. I want the list to be tight.

@Finn If you get stuck like that, just skip that part and move on. Don't be perfectionistic. You can always revisit a part. The key is not getting paralyzed. That's the worst of all possible scenarios.

Eric Maisel has a lot of books around that subject.

https://www.actualized.org/articles/grasping-the-illusory-nature-of-thought Clearly you need to start meditating.

Visualization is an ENORMOUSLY powerful tool when used right. Like any tool, it can be abused. It's not a matter of visualization vs meditation. Do BOTH! (at separate times)

@DnoReally Consider the possibility that the fabric of reality itself is intelligent.

@Monkey-man I will shoot a video about evolution soon. It's a deep topic. I didn't say 100% of all mutations are perfect. Obviously there are some bad ones. In fact, most of the random ones are bad. It's the intelligent ones that lead to progress.

@ZX_man The title says otherwise.

@RossE Good work!

The real paradox is that enlightenment is easy.

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.