Leo Gura

No idea. Love? Probably none. Solipsism, certainly. Which is why I took down that video. Some are, some aren't. It's hard to measure such things. That's fair. But in this case my point was very specific. Ralston's apprentice claims to be "enlightened" by your and Ralston's definitions. However, he doesn't know what Love is. How can this be? And I give fairly straightforward answers about what psychedelic experiences are and how they work. Of course that doesn't mean people will have an easy time integrating or embodying them. Yes, psychedelics will screw with your mind. But they can also take you to insane levels of understanding yourself and reality. I'm not that relevant to the process. In a sense, the psychedelic is your teacher, not me. Which is what makes psychedelics superior to all human teachings. If you are smart you will use psychedelics to replace me as your teacher. Of course, be warned, the higher you go in consciousness the more unstable your mind will become. This level of instability is not reached via any other spiritual techniques because no other spiritual technique grants you such high consciousness. So don't bite off more than you can handle.

Bingo!

In truth, YT's policy relates to public pressure and outrage. That is their one ultimate unstated policy: don't piss off the mob too much or you get canned. But this opens the door for manipulation. This is why the court system does not work based off mob rule. Court decisions are often not what the mob wants because justice requires careful evaluation of evidence. The evidence against Brand has not yet been carefully evaluated.

@Someone here I am not rude out of thin air, but after months and years of putting up nonsense. You guys need to get serious. You are making poor arguments and getting lost in the same self-deceptions over and over again. You should notice that I use a variety of methods on you. I use logic, I use humor, I use patient explanation, and when all that fails I get rude with you. And finally I ban you. This is the ladder of escalation.

But we don't know that he's a rapist yet. And if it is YT's policy that rapists are not allowed to be YouTubers, then they should state so explicitly in their terms of service. Imagine if you went to a grocery store and they told you: "Sorry, you raped someone 15 years ago, so no food for you." The reason we have a legal system is to punish crime so that private businesses don't have to. If Brand raped someone, let him go to prison. But nowhere is it written that the punishment for rape involves losing your YouTube channel. What YouTube should police is the content of videos posted on YouTube, not outside behavior. If Brand was promoting rape on YouTube, then YT should rightly ban him. But he's not even close to doing that. This alleged rape occurred before YT even existed as a platform.

No they won't. You are speaking garbage. Ralston's idiot enlightened apprentice, Brendon Lea, has no idea what Love is. And that's because all he does is blindly follow Ralston's every word. Which does not include Love.

TRUTH = LOVE is one of the most shocking and important realizations I've ever had. And if I had taken Ralston's ideas on love seriously I would have never had this realization. Ralston is in effect gaslighting his students about Love.

Love requires a distinct Awakening of it's own. It's not at all obvious what Love is and how it relates to Truth or Consciousness. It takes serious intelligence and insight to realize the connection.

I don't know such niggly details.

I promise you that Ralston's students have no idea what Love really is.

FYI, YT has demonitized gun channels in the past on a platform wide level. But then they reversed it. YT is pretty fickle. I'm betting they will eventually reverse this Brand action because it is so rash and excessive. I think a lot of people will also support Brand once they hear of this. YT has gotten themselves into a PR disaster now. I usually support YT, but this action of theirs has even pissed me off. And I don't even like Russell Brand. But Brand deserves some due process here. Brand is not some sort of Andrew Tate or Alex Jones.

I disagree. Don't forget that YT/Google also have many internal employees who are easily offended by issues such as rape and LGBTQ+ issues. #MeToo cancellations have a power beyond most other issues. Look at how Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis got attacked and nearly canceled last week just for writing some letters to a judge in the Danny Materson trial.

@Osaid You are missing that Ralston does not teach the metaphysical reality of Love. The reason he does not teach it is because it isn't a thing for him. He regards love as but a human emotion.

Your link is borked.

That's a horrible idea. You can easily snort 10mg.

Ralston would disagree with you. The thing is that even you so-called "enlightened people" all disagree with each other. You can't keep your stories straight. Which just goes to show how little your enlightenment means. I've even had "enlightened" people on this forum deny the existence of God. That's how little enlightenment is worth.

I already answered this in a perious thread. My answer is: I was being charitable to him. Because I have a lot of respect for his work.

In the end YT is gonna do whatever keeps the most people happy. But this policy is not sustainable. There needs to be a quasi-legal like process where YTbers have a chance to defend themselves against mob outrage and slander/gossip. Some new President needs to establish a court that deals exclusively with social media cancelations because this is getting out of hand.

I think YT got flooded by angry women after that documentary.

Hard to avoid that these days. Some large company has to handle your payments. YT is over-reaching here. They must have gotten a ton of angry fan mail to ban Brand over the last few days. This thing is turning into a clusterfuck. At this point it's not clear how a Youtuber needs to behave off-platform not to get cancelled. For example, I have no idea what off-platform conduct is unacceptable to YT. Kinda concerning. It's one thing to police on-platform content, but now YT polices your off-platform behavior??? And not only that, but even hearsay and rumors about your off-platform behavior can get you banned? That's so problematic. If YT wants to ban Brand they should at least wait until he is convicted in court. And even if he is convincted of rape, I don't see why that should get his channel banned. It's not like his videos promote rape. Many celebrities have been convicted of many things. Kobe Bryant was accused of rape. Does that mean Kobe Bryant videos should be removed from YT?

Welp, YT has now demonitized Russell Brand: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/media/russell-brand-youtube-channel-monetization/index.html That is quite gross to demonitize for only hearsay.

Endless new dreams, yes. Suffering, no. There could be dreams without suffering.

People say that LSD-Rumi is a rapist.

Is Barbie's gynecologist a 12 year old boy with a toothpick?

After Consciousness frees itself of the human dream, it can dream anything it wants. But don't confuse that with "you" -- this ego -- having control over the process. God is in control.