Leo Gura

It flew out the window as soon as Howard blamed the government for his failure to operate his own phone. And also, the guy does not understand the basics of how to multiply two dimes together.

And the absolute stuff can also be wrong. As I said, I am not talking trivial things here.

I am working to let go of it. But I also try to be humorous.

It's enough to hear him talking about how the technical glitches in his operation of his phone or Jamie's playing of a video are a conspiracy by the government to shut him up. When evaluating people like this, what you look at is their grasp of epistemology and self-deception mechanics, not the content of their beliefs.

Sounds like a classic conspiracy nutcase.

A beheaded baby is not genocide, it is a war crime or collateral damage. Genocide is not any specific low level attrocity, it is a high level intention. Don't forget that if you bomb the house of a Hamas leader and his family is inside with him, like the Bin Laden house, you could end up with some blown up babies. That's how a war on terrorism works. Terrorist houses are targetted imprecisely. I'm not saying that was necessarily the case here, but just because you see a blown up baby you cannot assume it wasn't connected to Hamas. It could have been. You have to be careful and accurate in how you frame these things because its easy to get outraged over dead babies. But all war has collateral damage and this needs to be kept in mind to maintain intellectual honesty.

A whole week of Buddhist meat for crocodiles

Discovery Channel has Shark Week. Actualized.org can have Crocodile Week.

The terrain of Consciousness is a lot more interesting and tricky than they make it out to be.

Crocodile pizza. Can't believe no one caught that Actualized easter egg yet

I don't remember if it would work in an e-liquid. Vaping without e-liquid is possible but gross.

What I mean is, you can be so-called enlightened and still hold bad or deluded views. So clearly enlightenment is not the full picture to this work. And I don't mean this in a trivial way, like an enlightened guy forgets where he put his keys. I mean existentially significant gaps in the mind. Which is why ego-loss is not my top priority. You guys keep being puzzled why I don't have the same priorities as every other spiritual rodent.

Generally speaking salt form doesn't vaporize well, it tends to burn. You can try it but it won't be pleasant. Adding oil or water is not gonna help. You'd need to do a freebase conversion which I'm not experienced in.

Where is inside your mind.

I don't agree with his scale of consciousness. His political ideas are quite bad. He thinks climate change is fake. He thinks Ben Shaprio is great. The Christian flavors in his work are limiting. I can't remember what else. I haven't read his stuff in a while. But at the same time, he has some awesome insights too. So it's worth studying.

I was speaking more broadly, not him specifically. In case you haven't noticed, I got an axe to grind against Buddhists. They are not lying, but they still live in a sort of enlightened spiritual human fantasy. A lot of fantasy still takes place even after all the enlightenment. MIND is always making shit up. That's how reality is created. People are creating their own realities and living in them. Enlightened people are not above this. This is why I proritize understanding. Without understanding you will not understand how MIND is doing this. MIND is a tricky fucking beast and enlightenment is not the end it. Imagine being fully enlightened and thinking Ben Shapiro is great. That's the reality of enlightenment.

Sure, you can do that for a while. Notice, David Hawkins did A LOT of thinking after all his so called enlightements. Don't let these guys bullshit you. They all think, and many of them think poorly. Any Buddhist who tells you he doesn't think, you can just laugh at him.

I regard that as a spiritual fantasy. What really matters to me is Consciousness, and that does not preclude thinking. In fact, it includes crazy new dimensions of thinking, like Alien Thinking. The ideal of mental silence is just some silly thing created by Buddhist types. It doesn't capture the full scope of Consciousness.

All thinking to silence, no. Other stuff yes.

Before you order tons, do a few trips and see how you like it. You will see how it works. Psychedelics also give understanding, which helps with making sense of the whole spiritual terrain. This is different from permanent ego loss, but it is also very valuable.

No, he was not a charlatan. There is much good in his teachings, but also some parts I don't agree with.

It's probably possible. But there are degrees to all this, and this notion of removing all negative emotions is far-fretched. Realistically you will still have negative emotions, suffering, addictions, false beliefs, attachments, and so forth. People love to idealize this whole thing into some fantasy of total perfect enlightenment. But if you actually look at how these so-called enlightened people live, they are not so perfect. Psychedelics temporarily raise your level of consciousness. That is all. However, this rise can lead to all sorts of crazy realizations which you would otherwise never have. There is wild variety to the kinds of realizations possible. Do not expect psychedelics to permanently remove your ego. The function of psychedelics is to give you a massive gain in consciousness for a short period of time. That is how you should think of them.

That is true. But there is still the question of whether that is temporary or permanent. And if it is permanent, what degree of it became permanent. Some aspects of self could still be operational, and most likely will be. It's not a good idea to treat ego as a simple on/off binary. Although certainly there can be a state in which ego is just zero. Whether you will attain that as a permanent state I cannot say.

What you guys should understand about me is that I have very different priorities than most spiritual people. I do not care about ego, or maximizing a joyous life, or any other thing that spiritual people care about. I care about pure consciousness and understanding. So that's my bias and focus. Frankly, I don't know what will create the most joyous life because it never even occured to me to care. But I am fine with you having your own spiritual priorities. Ego has many degrees to it and could be defined in various ways. You have a sense of human self that Consciousness is imagining. This goes so deep that it even includes your memories of your own name. If your sense of self was wiped out deeply enough, you could not even remember your own name or that you were born from a mother. Consciousness could even replace your sense of self with a totally different sense of self. For example, you could adopt the Leo sense of self. Your sense of self is a very complex and sophisticated thing. I suggest that you stop taking the word "ego" or "self" for granted and actually investigate in your experience what "ego" refers to for you. For example, when we say that Trump has a big ego, what exactly does that mean? What is the difference between a big ego and a tiny ego? Generally speaking, reducing ego should increases joy. So that's a simple rule you can follow. In general, the human self is quite a bottleneck on your Mind. You want to move out of the human self into identifying with all of Consciousness.

5-MeO is very serious. If you are scared so easily you probably shouldn't do it at all. Trying to race your way past this is not a wise idea. You need a serious intention to face truth, not an avoidance strategy.