Leo Gura

Blast that through a mega-phone at Emerald

I don't know. I'm making an intuitive guess based on my understanding of Consciousness. If remote viewing was entirely fake there wouldn't be so many people reporting about it. That's my guess. Same thing with UFOs. There's just way too much smoke for there to be no fire. But it's possible it's an elaborate illusion, I can't rule that out. History is basically hearsay unless you have some hard artifact of it. But even if you have a hard artifact there's no guarantee it means what you think it means. Basically, my solution to history is to not take any history too seriously. It's mostly entertaining stories. I wouldn't hinge my worldview on any of them.

You serious?

I never said low consciousness isn't consciousness. Jesus. You are impossible.

@Osaid But you do experience various degrees and states of consciousness throughout your daily life. You are not as conscious when you are sleeping as when you're awake.

I'm pretty sure that if leftists had carte blanche they would put tampon dispensers in men's bathrooms. Not that I personally care. It's just bad vibes and bad optics in terms of winning elections. Just because you are a sane leftist Emerald, doesn't mean there aren't unhinged leftists out there.

Yes! God makes distinctions. You are treating distinctions like they are some evil thing.

No, they are not other. You never see infinite brightness. All the light you see is some degree between zero light (dark) and infinite light. Blink your eyes and you will see degrees of light. No such thing is implied. Low consciousness is still consciousness, as low light is still light. You are confusing yourself with your own strange framings.

Your experience is Absolute Truth.

There can be loose dreams and rigid dreams. Just because it's rigid doesn't mean it's not a dream. A dream can be as rigid as a brick wall. Just because H2O goes from gas to a block of ice does not change the fact that it's the same H20.

There is no contradiction. Lower consciousness does not contradict higher consciousness any more than dark contradicts light.

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But even false things are true (have being). Depends on what you mean by falsehood and truth. But disregarding truth is not going to turn out well for you in the end.

I have extremely clear memories of many of the trips dating back 5+ years. I clearly remember all my most important trips and realizations. I can replay them in my head and get a mild high from it. Including weed.

Simulation is the wrong word. Don't use that word. Because simulation means a copy or a model of a higher reality. But Consciousness/Being has no higher reality and it is not a copy or model of anything else. Being is not a simulation. Being is Being.

Yes. That's my situation. Correct. Although your wording is weird because I see Leo as God. So there's not a contradiction for me. The word "Leo" is a just a pointer to a field of Consciousness which is God. But then within this field of Consciousness there is also a Leo ego/self-image. That self-image could come or go, but God is the whole field and everything in the field. But properly speaking Leo should refer to the whole field of Consciousness, since that whole field is my life. Leo isn't just the body or the self-image, Leo is the entire field that constitutes my life. Leo is everything I am conscious of. And so is God.

But we stereotype all people. "White boy", cracker, Tech bro, hot girl, fatty, hippie, fuck boy, frat boy, bimbo, himbo, bum, cuck, Libtard, geek, nerd, nigga, grifter, etc. You're not going to stop that.

Don't confuse frame with frame rate. These are totally different notions. And your consciousness does not have a frame rate. Consciousness is not a video game. It's infinitely continuous.

There's degrees and facets to all these realizations. And the facets interpenetrate and combine. Emptiness of the self can be distinct from emptiness of the world. But of course then self and world collapse into a unity too. So the emptiness of self and world is the same emptiness. But you will probably realize them as distinct facets at first. And then you can realize emptiness to deeper degrees. No-self has degrees too. There is a degree of no-self that's so deep that you won't even be able to remember your own name. Most enlightened people haven't hit that degree.

Frame is a way of looking at something in your mind. State is the actual physical being of this present moment. What humans call the physical world is actually a state. You entire visual field is a state of consciousness. If you drink a bottle of vodka the state of your visual field will change.

I am happy to be wrong on that point. If you are serious, go ahead and do the research. It is not hard to type in: "ESP research studies" into Google or ChatGPT.

Eventually you'll discover that Truth and Beauty are identical. All the consciousness you experience in daily life is the Beauty/Truth that we're talking about and seeking. You seek a deeper connection/recognition of the Truth/Beauty of your present consciousness. That's all. Don't think of Truth as some far away dark thing. Truth is your present visual field. I both remember very deep states and I'm also very clear that any state I'm in is God. So even though I'm not in a crazy high state right now, I'm still aware that my default state is God. This is different than before because I didn't recognize my default state as God before. First you learn to recognize God in the high states. Then you learn to recognize God in the low states. So eventually all states are seen as God. That's the goal. Do not dismiss the power of memories of higher states. Spiritual teachers love to poo-poo this as memories not being real. But powerful memories serve as pointers to God, much more powerful pointers than any words from a spiritual teacher. I can just think of a psychedelic memory and it shifts my state in the right direction or brings profound new insights. It is much better to have memories of higher states than to not have them.

Yes, fear is a major obstacle. How did I overcome the fear? By doing so much psychedelics so many times that eventually I gradually acclimated to it. If you hold spiders and snakes in your hands enough times eventually you will stop being afraid of them. But the first few times you hold a spider it is scary. If feels like your entire visual field is recontextualized as God. Everything you see glows with God's radiance. That's what you're after. You don't need to think your way to it, just trust that it will eventually happen to you. Well, this is where psychedelics are so useful. If you can get even one short glimpse of God on a psychedelic then you will have a target to aim at and look forward to. I use my psychedelics memories to motivate me to work towards higher states. But also I'm now conscious enough of God that I can get motivation from just appreciating its beauty, and then aiming for more of that beauty. Really, the motivation is Beauty. Try switching your motivation from Truth to Beauty. It's about the Beauty of Consciousness. That's what you're really after.

@shree That's why I've stopped using the enlightenment word. It's hard to know what people mean by it exactly. They seem to use it in different ways while acting as if there is only one binary state called enlightenment. I do not subscribe to this view of Consciousness. From what I gather, mostly what they mean is loss of the sense of an ego self. The no-self realization. But to me that is just a small aspect of Awakening. Keep in mind that people can use these terms in different ways. So you always want to drill the user of the word down on what exactly they mean by it. Don't assume. Force them to spell out the phenomenology of that they mean. What does enlightenment feel like for them? That will give you a better idea.

Basically no. No particular state is required for that. That's mostly a function of time. Time has a healing quality as you simply forget the setback.