The solution to self-deception is not-knowing.

God is just Imagination. If you can imagine a self, the next logical step is to imagine an other. An other is just a self that isn't you. You can imagine that.
Without imagining others you would be lonely and bored. Other is also used to fool yourself into thinking you didn't create yourself but came from some "other".
Where did you come from? Either you created yourself or some other created you. To hide that you are God, you need to invent an other to offload the work to. You need to invent a mother and father to offload the responsibility for your creation.
Think of other as something which can be imagined. Which is why it exists.
You can imagine a kangaroo. You can imagine an other.

Yes.
Because that's what a "human life" is. That's what birth is. How do you think you were born? You had to imagine that you are a baby human and then carry on with that line of imagination.
Life is an act of supreme imagination. There is no life otherwise.
Existence is an Absolute. Existence absolutely exists, always and forever. You are pure Existence.
When enlightened masters tell you to find who you are, the true self, what they mean is to find that you are not a human but Existence itself.
Enlightenment is the realization that you are Existence. That's what Zen is about.
But God-Realization goes beyond even that (but also includes that).

If only it were so simple.
Life forces you to think, anticipate, plan, predict, decide, model.
Not thinking is not an option. This is one of the stupidities of teachings like Buddhism or nonduality. There is no such thing as not thinking. Everyone who claims not to think is thinking, and thinking poorly.

It's quite simple: you don't know what can and cannot be known.
Very intelligent and rational people commonly make this simple mistake of assuming that, "Well, reality is so tricky and difficult to know that nothing can be known for sure, so we must be humble because we can't be absolutely certain of anything at all." But this is in fact unknown and not true. You do not know if anything can be known for certain absolutely. Therefore you must keep your mind open to the possibility that something can be known absolutely. And that turns out to be the case.
You can know absolutely that you are God. How? Well, by becoming God.
Since you don't know, you cannot dismiss the possibility that it's actually possible for you to become God. Not as an idea, not as belief, not as concept, not as a mere experience, not as an intellectual conclusion -- but ACTUALLY!
God is, absolutely, the only thing that exists. And its existence is Absolute. This can be known with 100% certainty. This is the heart of Awakening.
Becoming God destroys skepticism because skepticism is a lesser intelligence than God. Skepticism is a conceptual position while God is Absolute and non-conceptual.
The mistake almost every skeptic makes is that he overlooks the possibility that there exists a higher intelligence than skepticism.
Can anything be known absolutely? This is an empirical question, not a theoretical one. You must actually go out and find the Absolute. You cannot assume that the Absolute doesn't exist.
It is a bad dogma of science that nothing Absolute exists. This is false. God is Absolute. Which is why science cannot find God.
Right now you exist. This is absolutely true and can be known for certain by you. But everyone takes this for granted as trivial. It is anything but trivial.
Today, so-called skeptics actually misunderstand original Greek Skepticism. The original Skeptics did not doubt the truth of phenomenal experience. To a Greek Skeptic, if you see the color red, is it true that you see the color red. That cannot be doubted. What the Skeptics doubted was all the conceptual baggage added to that phenomenal truth. But if you are seeing red, it is absolutely true that you are seeing red. Even if red is a hallucination, it is still true that you are seeing red.
"But Leo, what if I'm actually not seeing red!" << that is self-deception
Do not overlook the simple possibility that you can turn extreme skepticism into dogma and self-deception. It is possible to doubt things which in truth are just true and not doubtable. But your mind is powerful enough to doubt even truth. For example, your mind can trick you into believing you don't exist. This would be false but it would seem to you like you're being "rational", "careful", and "scientific". But in fact you are just misusing your mind. Being too epistemically cautious and paranoid is a form of self-deception. Rational people mistakenly assume that the more careful and paranoid they are the more truthful their view of reality will be. But this is false. Over-caution ends in self-deception because the mind becomes too closed.

It is asymmetrical. The masculine does not need to do this.
This is a fuction of the masculine containment dynamic. The feminine needs to test that the masculine container is legit and won't collapse. The masculine does not need the same from the feminine.
The feminine is screening the masculine for strength. The masculine is not screening the feminine for strength but for beauty.
The masculine version of this is asking to see the girl with her make-up off. Haha! 
Men fake strength and women fake beauty. Which is what the real value is and why both are tested for fakeness.
Real value is always faked by imposers to gain survival advantage. It's all just unconscious survival.

This whole notion of shit-tests can just be subsumed under the notion of masculine containment. Once you understand that notion then shit-tests are just a natural consequence of it.
The man's role is to ground the woman and she will play around with that. That's what feminine means.

Be careful with these kinds of stories. Negative meaning is not Truth nor deep consciousness.
If you were really conscious you would be in love with Consciousness and Yourself.
Hatred is clearly a sign that ego is acting up and signing negative meaning to reality.
Please be gentle with yourself.
You're missing the Beauty and Genius of the illusion.

Just be alone and enjoy it. Notice that nothing is wrong or missing.
You literally need no one and nothing.
There is a lot of culture programming you need to undo in order to realize you are just fine alone.
You are not going to overcome it without spending weeks and months all alone doing nothing. That's what solo meditation retreats are for.
Really Awakening is necessary because without Awakening you haven't conquered boredom. Awakening is about boredom killing the ego.
Realistically it will requires spending years sitting alone. This is not a small task you accomplish in a few weekends.
I can go months without talking to humans.

The Absolute Good is that nothing matters!
Anything mattering is not good, it's bad. Only a fool needs things to matter.
Nothing matters -- so be happy.

I didn't say no phenomenology.
Yes to phenomena, no to a body or finite self or "a life".
You don't need to be in a human body to be conscious, experiencing, thinking.
Human perception will stop. But other perception could start.
You could be conscious of the totality of God. Or various parts of it.
You could enter all kinds of interesting disembodied dream states, similar to when you dream during sleep. That is a taste of what is possible.

Yes, reincarnation. Or even just kinds of God-consciousness without incarnation. Incaration is not necessary for Consciousness. There can be states of Consciousness which have no body, no self, no life.
Yes and no.
There are multiple ways in which death is not real.
1) Death is not real because you are Consciousness and Consciousness is Absolute and never dies. Consciousness is all there is.
2) Death is not real because NOW always exists and you are NOW.
3) Death is not real because death is imagined by Consciousness.
4) Death is not real because you can keep reincarnating forever as anything you want.
5) Death is not real because the human self is imaginary and not real, so there is no one to die, just an idea/illusion "dies".

What you are starting to realize is that you are a cosmic Mind imagining reality.
That is God.
God is physical imagination. That means whatever is imagined hard enough becomes physically real. And there is no reality outside of your imagination of it.
Mind IS reality.
You ARE reality.
And of course you are imagining people out of whole cloth.

It depends. Both possibilities exist. If you go into the formlessness very deeply eventually you will reach a point of complete annihilation where there is not even bliss, love, orgasm, or anything -- just a total blank. It is such a high degree of Unity that you can't even call it Unity. It is so united that it has no distinct qualities. It is Unity but you cannot call or think it "Unity". It is Love but it is a Love too deep to even be called "Love".
Just to think of reality as "Love" or "Unity" already requires a degree of separation and form.
If you have complete formlessness you cannot even regard it as "formless", because "formless" is a form.
However, you can also be conscious of formlessness while being in a state of form. You can think formlessness. You can comprehend it as Love.
So there are multiple ways here. The common mistake is to try to reduce it to just one way. That's the error of the Buddhists.

There is some suffering from not finding the right woman. But also that suffering is self-created. Most of that suffering comes from buying into the idea that you need a woman.
It much depends on what you want out of life. Obviously if you want a family, if you want socialization, if you are extroverted, then you will suffer more from not having those things. This depends on your personality type.
I am not actively dating, but if it lands in my lap I will not say no.
I don't invest time into pursuing women at this point. This of course means I barely get women. But I might invest time into that in the future. My prioritizes change every year. Right now women are not my priority.
The reason I don't invest time in pursuing women now is because it holds less meaning for me than it used to. It's very obvious to me that no woman will ever satisfy me. I've sort of deconstructed the fantasy/illusion of women. It is clear that they are just cheese in a rat maze.
I still desire them, but I am also disillusioned with them. I am not opposed to relationships but I also don't spend much time dreaming for them.
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None of this is to say you guys should copy me. I encourage you all to go burn through your karma and pursue your natural desires until you exhaust them. Don't try to act like a monk when you are full of unsatisfied desires. Being a monk should come organically, not be forced. Monk mode comes organically later in life once you've played out all the human games.

This work has nothing to do with superiority. You are merely seeking greater consciousness of God. If you do that seriously it will automatically make you superior. But that is irrelevant because Consciousness is the only thing that matters.
As an adult among children you know you are so superior that it doesn't even need to be said or thought.
This work will make you an adult among children, a lion among sheep, an eagle among pidgeons, a whale among fish, an alien among men.

@theoneandnone You can think of it as pure Goodness.
Imagine if Goodness existed as a pure abstraction.
Well, it does. That's what Infinity/Consciousness is.

@TheGod The human cannot take it.
It will kill the human if it goes too high. Physical existence is a limit on Love.
If you want Infinite Love that is death.
But you can get a sneak peak.

That's why monks live in seclusion.
Once you are deeply conscious society has little to offer you.

The day my life changed is when I realized my experience of reality is not happening in what I conceptualize as my “brain”. In fact I don’t have a head or a brain outside of what I conceptualize. Implications of this realization were as follows:
what i call my body became an appearance in reality, I could step outside of identifying with it for periods at a time. when my body become an appearance in reality, the distinction between it and everything else in reality collapsed. There was longer any difference between what I called “my” body and the body of “others”. Meaning the self - other distinction collapsed. The idea that I ever interacted with anything or anyone outside of present experience of reality was seen as an illusion. This ultimately brought me to the realization that the experience of reality is not happening inside of any container that I could label “me” (what I call “me”). The “me” I take myself to be possess nothing in reality- humans I call “my” parents, “my” career, “my” house, “my” lover etc. The absence of me/my is what makes reality / the experience of -infinite.  

Well, it is everywhere.
God is Omnipresent. But this technically even transcends space.
"Everywhere" is said loosely since "where" is a metaphysically loaded notion.

Well, it's nothing personal. It's just unconsciousness.
Is a rat bad for being a rat? No. That's just it's level of consciousness and it can't know any better. It's just a survival machine.
Humans are just survival machines and there's nothing personal about it.

LD50 of psychedelics is very high. People do not die from taking a moderate dose of psychedelic. Look up the LD50 for LSD to see how far you were from physical death.
Just because subjectively you felt like death does not mean your body was close to death.
The danger with psychedelics is not death but psychotic breaks.
To actually die from LSD your dose would need be 100x what you took. 500 tabs of LSD.

I prefer to keep things real.
Never forget that humans will eat you alive given the right circumstance. Your compassion will mean nothing to them. They will tear you apart like a pack of dogs.
I have no illusions about human nature.
Humans are evil, ignorant creatures.
It is not. The more god-like one behaves the more worshop one will get no matter what. Because humans worship God. This has nothing do with me.
Why do humans like me? Because I communicate godly things. That's also why they hate me.

No!
Stop parroting Ralston. Ralston is wrong and you are wrong for parroting him.
I only talk Absolute Consciousness.
I'm not talking about anything relative or even human here.
All your ideas of enlightenment are kids games.
You do not understand what God/Consciousness/Infinity is. I do.
There is no fucking brain. There is just God.
I am so conscious that I could shoot myself in the head and not die.
You do not understand what I am saying. You do not understand that your entire life is a hallucination, including your damn dog. You are parroting nondual tripe, but you are not conscious of God.