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Obviously? Having no experience of them and you think you know? Your current narrative seems judgmental and ego driven. "I know better than those people". I smell a trap there... Contemplate on what your ego is afraid of losing. ------------------------- Tip: Have Ayahuasca a few times and let's talk.

A riddle that can be answered in one second doesn't serve its purpose

Probably not, but you can escape Plato's cave. When your eyes open, life will be a new experience.

An interesting theory to entertain on this matter is the Hindu concept of Avatars. Below I am quoting passages I found online. --------------- Avatar literally means "descent" in sanskrit and it refers to the descent of divinity from heaven to earth, and is typically used to describe an incarnation of God. An Avatar is a special emissary of Light and Love that incarnates for the benefit of humanity, having technically no karmic obligation to incarnate. Paramhansa Yogananda explained that the term avatar refers to a soul who has been freed from maya (delusion) and is sent by the will of God back into manifested existence to help others. Examples include the founders of major world religions, such as Jesus Christ, Buddha, and Krishna. Yogananda said that an avatar “is born not to show us how great he was, but to give us hope that the state of consciousness he had attained, we too can attain. -------------------- The point is that in certain eras, very high level souls are "sent" to earth to help people realize their path. Avatars are divided in levels with some being sent to establish civilizations, like Moses, and others to establish religions like Buddha or Jesus. In any case, as per the principal in our work here, these should not taken in faith but being put in contemplation among others, in order to give a broader understanding without clinging to the explanation or having the need for it to be in a certain way.

You couldn't expect less from a guy with that taste in armchairs

Rule: If one hasn't tried psychedelics a few times, he is not qualified to talk about them. Only assumptions and blablabla.

Exactly. And then you have this testimony

If you had a huge library, would you read only one of the books?

From Martin Ball's book "The Entheological Paradigm"

The whole scene, from the moment Dr. Strange enters the room till his awakening experience, is what would happen in an encounter of Leo and Sam Harris. Plot twist: there would be something in that tea, except honey

I was in a similar position some months ago, feeling emptier every day. Nothing had a meaning any more, and days were passing functioning in auto-pilot. I had depression before, but boy, that was on another level. Alongside the sense of spiraling down the abyss though, I was feeling a kindle smoldering deep inside telling me that's not all. I had a feeling that there is something wrong and I have to do something. One day I got it. I managed to saw myself driven by the lowest parts of my ego more and more. I was losing the battle of the selves. The self (ego) was conquering the Self more and more. Then one day I had an epiphany: "I m tired of Adam. I have to defeat him" (let's say Adam is my real name). I realized that the ego I ve been constructing for decades became too much of a burden, paralyzing and catastrophic for my life. I saw myself standing opposite of Adam. But I didn't feel strong enough at the point to fight. So, I called upon the BIG gun. A month later, during and incredible and unforgettable night, the BIG gun shred my ego to pieces. I went through hell, felt my ego resisting, surrendering and dying. My Self arose and for the first time and I felt totally liberated. Despite the ego back lashed hard the next day, it lost some of its power. Everything had a meaning again. The feeling of void was diminished and during the last months big changes have happened to my life and I now can see my ego in a way I never was able before. I still have a lot of battles to win, but I learned some of its weak points. I started meditating daily and consistently and started Kriya Yoga all over from the start. With my story I d like to point out that it may be your ego that has taken all the teachings and Leo's paradigm and created a distorted view, that serve a dark side of it. Elaborate this possibility, think about if something is getting "joy" from this despair. See if it's lower consciousness disguised as higher consciousness that has taken you in these muddy roads. As for the BIG gun, you may have already guessed what it is: Ayahuasca

It gives you this (0:40): Open your eye

From my experience, to get guidance and answers to such questions, Ayahuasca works better than mushrooms. If your only option is mushrooms, try the McKenaii variety in a dark room alone. The experience on them has similarities to Ayahuasca. Trip safely, consciously and responsibly.

Being able to feel how some people close to me generally feel, what life tastes like for them. It helped me understand them better. I thought it could be just my projections on them but then it was no just thoughts, it was so real like for a moment I literally got in their shoes. I felt like I was hacking the infinite existence web.

Jim123, Leo is right. It's not that you are wrong, it is that you just haven't got it yet. . . ...give it a minute . . . . . . If the above statement makes you angry or creates any negative reaction in you, it means that is true.

Let's say that the SD was not corrupt/lost and you now decided to create all the music that was in it and publish it. You would like to create more music, right? Where would that music come from? You are sill there so the divine state of creativity is still there. You have blocked yourself. You conceptualized that SD card as being your whole inspiration. The muse is always there to bring you the best ideas. Now you believe that you can't and it is manifested that way. Can't be otherwise Let the loss back, believe that you have it, and it ll come again. Here 's a little story to cheer you up: Jesus and Satan have an argument as to who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they agree to hold a contest with God as the judge. They set themselves in a room before their computers and begin. They type furiously for several hours, thousands lines of code streaming up the screen. Seconds before the end, a bolt of lightning struck taking out the electricity. Moments later, the power is restored, and God announces that the contest is over. He asks Satan to show what he has come up with. Satan is visibly upset and cries to his screen that has only the cursor blinking, "I have nothing! I lost it all when the power went out." "Very well, then," says God, "let us see if Jesus fared any better." Jesus enters a command, and the screen comes to life in vivid display, images of unimaginable beauty unfold, the voices of an angelic choir pour forth from the speakers. Satan is astonished. He stutters, "But how?! I lost everything, yet Jesus' program is intact! How did he do it?!" God chuckles, "Jesus saves." (in your case, backs up)

If you can't convince your family and cannot be away from distractions for 10 days, then don't go. There is no point on being in the retreat and thinking of how to secretly check the phone and sending an sms to the family. You will be cheating yourself and missing the point. Prepare the family for the 10 day radio silence and then go experience it. Being 10 days in isolation is a big part of the experience

I have been puzzled from this. What do you think?

Stay around to enjoy the amazing feeling and the laughter after realizing the self-deception you have been trapped in. When the ego-mind has gone so deep in confusion as you seem, the epiphany of Truth may have Godly proportions. Remember Eckhart Tolle. The night he became enlightened he was in a similar state Be safe, be wise.

I assume that being in this forum means that you have understood that there are different levels of consciousness, hence different levels of comprehension. To see bad as good requires a major perspective shift. The moment of the realization comes suddenly when consciousness is raised enough. The mechanics are simple: Let's say that there is 'good' and 'bad' as you currently perceive them. Your current 'bad' is indeed not equal to your 'good', they are vastly different, and that's why the whole thing about bad==good seems absurd. When you grow further, the 'good' and the 'bad' will get more depth, different quality, different feeling. That higher consciousness 'good' is a puzzle piece that fits perfectly to the higher consciousness 'bad' piece. In order to reach that point, firstly you need to leave space open for the possibility that the bad==good is true. Needs trust. The suffering will still be there after the realization but you ll get a different notion of it. Then, besides the new 'bad' and 'good' you will understand more about the suffering and the paradox that it exists because 99% of the people can't see its true nature (what Leo is saying in his video 'what is the devil'). And you don't need to get enlightened to get it. Spiral dynamics stage yellow is enough.

If 1.000.000 persons that have understood, told you that your point of view is false, would you accept it? And if not, what would make you to accept it ? (apart from experiencing it yourself)

A common thing in noumerous testimonies after psychedelic use is that the experience felt like the realest thing ever. Inside a psychedelic experience you feel like you have awoken from a dream and you finally can see clearly. The even more common thing everybody will tell you is that you have to experience it yourself to get your answer. P.S. Most reliable source imo are shroom grow kits from well known websites. Trip safe.

Your just answered your question... Sorry bro, there is nothing there. Be careful of these mind traps.

Yes. The legitimate way to analyze words is etymology and glossology (linguistics, history of words etc.). The fact that the word evil can be written by taking some letters out of the word 'believe' doesn't mean anything. There are numerous words containing the letters 'i,e,l,v'. So what? If you seek to see something, you will make it up someway, to see it and fulfill some 'need'. Ask yourself, 'Why do I get some sort of satisfaction by 'seeing' these things? '

What could go wrong according to your ego?