Well, firstly, I am not fully sure because I only just had it.
It's an advanced and subtle effect.
It creates a deep sort of buy-in effect since the mind now understands the why of things and how you're supposed to be using intelligence in a big picture sense, a spiritual sense.
Deep spiritual understanding is not like a brute technique that you apply to generate tangible results, it's more of a subtle reorientation of the mind towards godliness. It has a clarifying and deepening effect. Your understanding of life, world, and self takes on a new richness and abstract appreciation. It actually makes you more intelligent when you understand the metaphysical structure of intelligence. You can start to use your intelligence in a more advanced, abstract, holistic, mystical, and beautiful manner.
Think of it as your intelligence getting spiritualized, imbued with spiritual signifigance where as before it was merely material and utilitarian.
Advanced spiritual intelligence isn't just practical, it's poetry, it's beauty. It's like your mind learns how to dance and surf the waves of consciousness. This aesthetic quality is very important and lost on people who just care about material "practical" results.
The point of spirituality is to bask in the beauty of God, to recognize and appreciate its genius.

That's all fine and good, but it is not God-Realization.
God-Realization does not have or need a "God-Realizer". The realizer of God is God. Consciousness is just conscious.
That's fine but still not God-Realization.
No.
False.
The only thing here is God.
This is an improper reductionism which misses the highest realization of what God can be.
God can be total emptiness, but that is just one form of what God can be. You overprioritize it, which is a bias you impose on Consciousness and Yourself. You are free to impose that bias on yourself, since you are God, but it isn't necessary and it prevents you from accessing higher consciousness and understanding some of the things I'm pointing to.
You are stuck doing the Buddhist reductionism shtick. I'm not saying that doesn't work. It works. But it misses a lot of good stuff.
If you keep insisting on formlessness, you will have it.
You can entirely lose your sense of self, but that does not make you infinitely conscious.
But also, be careful fooling yourself. If you had completely lost your sense of self, you couldn't even recall your own name.

There is no mystery to it.
Trump is an authoritarian whose only mission in life is to serve himself and anyone who kisses his ass at the expense of everyone else. Trump hates losers and weakness. So of course Trump will side with Putin over Zelensky.
Trump respects Putin because Putin is a powerful authoritarian. Trump is disgusted by Zelensky because Zelenksy is a weak democratic liberal man in a losing position.
If you can't understand this, you don't understand Trump at all. This is Trump 101.

@Santiago Ram It comes down to consciousness.
Ultimately there needs to be a recognition, down to your bones, that sober life is the only way.
What it will take for you to realize that is unknown. Lots and lots of suffering.
The reason 5-MeO works is by giving you more consciousness which is needed to have that realization.
Spirituality is just hyper-sobriety.

Yes, it's a great reminder and dispeller of Maya.
I'm sure there is but I have not reached it yet.
Strictly speaking there is a difference between dissolution of the human ego vs God-Realization or higher consciousness. These are not the same thing and they often do not coincide. You can have one without the other.
Many so-called enlightened people may not have much of a sense of self, but that does not mean they have higher consciousness of God. And you can have higher consciousness of God but still a strong sense of human self. To have both would be exceptionally rare.
Yes. But it wasn't really a object, more like the field of consciousness itself became hyper-dimensional.
You can have a hyper-dimensional experience of Love itself.
Imagine if Love was the hyper-dimensional object.

Ethnocentrism is the priveleging of one's own enthnicity over all others.
The clearest example of this is Zionism or Nazism.
It is self-bias at the level of ethnic identity.

It's purely a function of skill and ability.
Elites have skills, abilities, and intelligence which plebs do not have.
You must shatter this liberal myth that humans are equal. Humans are totally unequal in their abilities and intelligence.
The average human is simply incapable of buidling anything of significance. This isn't personal or moral, it's a question of how useful you are, how well you can build.
How much survival value are you able to generate for others? If you cannot generate survival value you are basically worthless and nobody cares what your excuses are. That's how society works.
This is what lefties refuse to understand because they are too busy moralizing about equality.

I know it's hard, but keep in mind that I had to appraoch 450 girls to get my first one. The learning curve is steep in the beginning. You should also try other locations than college. Locations where girls are more receptive to sleep around, where sex is more socially acceptable.
Just because 100 approaches don't end in sex doesn't say anything about your worth.
I did 450 approaches to get a girl. Does this mean I am worthless? How absurd.
Both categories are just silly human fictions.
You are God.

1) You can feel it in your body just from the hangover effects. Psychedelics tax the body and you can feel it.
2) If you do a lot of psychedelics frequently, you will feel the toll and also the psychological addiction.
3) Even if there were zero negative physiological effects, you are still getting addicted to them psychologically, which in itself is bad. Sober life is the ideal. The further you stray from sober life the more problems you will have.
4) There are studies which show that chronic weed use leads to physiological damage like reduced memory, etc. So even mild psychedelics are harmful long-term.
5) Weed is certainly addictive. Millions of people are addicted to it. This is obvious since they struggle to quit.
6) If you use psychedelics a lot you will feel yourself losing joy during your sober life. You will only have joy while you are high. Which is a bad habit to develop and it the classic problem of heroin or meth addiction. You shouldn't need a chemical to make you happy with your day. If you do, that's obviously wrong.

Robbins is not a scam, self-help is not a scam, the problem is the corrupt way in which it is marketed and sold. And also the shallow materialistic versions of it. There is a grifty quality to Tony Robbins and his ilk. There is a fakeness to it, as you saw in that video.
It's similiar to religion. Religion is not a scam but it is so corrupt.
If McConaughey wanted to do a legit self-help course he could, but instead he got seduced by the Tony Robbins crew into this fake cringe grift. And the problem is that Tony Robbins' crew have deluded themselves into thinking this is an acceptable way to teach personal development. This is like preachers who tell you that God will give you a place in heaven if you just send a check for $100 dollars.

The reality is that government has little impact on your individual life unless something very specific happens like a draft for WW3, or you get unlucky enough to get in some terrorist cross-fire.
If you don't got to protests and you don't work in government, virtually nothing will happen to you.
You can live in Putin's Russia or Saudi Arabia, and unless you are actively challenging political power or your country is at war, nothing bad will happen to you. How do you think most of the world lives? Most people live in peace even in a warzone. Even in Ukraine people mostly live in peace and go about business as usual.
When bad stuff happens, it falls on a very small percentage of the population. Only those who are unlucky get hit.
Realistically we are talking about a market crash and some bad inflation. That's mostly what I expect. Plus a bunch of media noise, chaos, and corruption. And of course the death of democracy. Death of democracy does not mean that you personally get a gun to your head.

I don't want to tell you how to invest your money, so you do what you think is best.
But as far as my thinking goes, when the market is down 40%+ for a period of a 3-12 months, that's when it's time to reinvest. The lower it goes the righter it is to reinvest. So if goes down 60%, you can reinvest without worry.
Like I said, you have to consider upside vs downside ratio. Your upside right now is 10-20% max. Your downside is 50-70%. That's a bad bet.

This was the first time I had a direct experience of something - or rather, nothing - as a result of one of Leo's videos (in this case it was 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' if anyone is interested). At least one as potent and instantaneously eye-opening as this one. As I contemplated the concept of 'nothing' and the concept of everything being nothing, something suddenly clicked in my brain and I could see it. It is tricky to explain how it appeared to me but I will make an attempt so that someone else may share my experience, too. Instead of seeing 'nothing' as some separate realm, something completely oppositional and removed from what we are experiencing right now, instead consider it as an element of it. Since nothing is comprised of literally nothing, and since non-existence does not exist, one can see that this nothingness, this non existence, is boundless and is everywhere. Since it doesn't exist, it doesn't have a form or a destination or anything to it whatsoever. It is silky dark matter without a jar to contain it, it is ever-permeating and flows like a snap of the fingers, like water, like a black hole, like none of these things but these are the mental images that the feeling of it conjures up in me so follow this feeling with me if you tend to understand things more intuitively. It is everywhere because it is a complete and total opposite, untouchable and unmovable because to touch or to move it is to change it into a component of something. I hope this has made sense! I do not know if it did, as it is something that makes a lot more sense once you 'see' it for yourself. I am also sharing this because this realization has brought me a lot of peace. Directly before this happened, I was going through what could be referred to as an existential crisis of sorts, a sudden and extreme fear of death that I had not felt since childhood. However, after this realization struck me, although I did not immediately understand why, I immediately knew that my problem had been solved and that there was nothing to worry about. Nothing cannot touch you, it has already touched you, it is already encapsulating you and because of this you will always be safe from it. It isn't scary because I know now what it is. It has been here the whole time. 

No matter how serious things are you still need time for rest and entertainment and socializing.
Do not guilt trip yourself over such things. It's only a problem when it is used excessively as an escape, addiction, or distraction.
There is no problem going to a concert a few times a year. That is fully compatible with work and life purpose.
If you work hard for 8 hrs on your LP, that is enough. Then you take the rest of the day off. And you can not work on weekends. This is important for long-term sustainability.
Your life should not be only about work. So there's no contradiction here. Going all-in on an LP does not mean you have no social life. Find a way to build a social life that aligns with your LP and perhaps even leverage your LP to socialize and have fun if such a synergy is available.

I know. And I told you that's a mistake.
You have invented a self-reinforcing delusional tautology. Like: The Bible must be true because by my definition it was written by God and God cannot lie.
Or like: science must be true, because if something isn't true then it cannot be real science.
You can craft all sorts of definitions like this, but you will get reality wrong by using them.
The critical point in all this is to realize that you cannot trust your own mind. You're trying to skirt this point with clever mind games but that will fail because your mind will deceive you. That's not a maybe, that's guaranteed. You are already in a state of self-deception, you just don't realize it.
The point is that there is no way to trivialize the distinguishing of truth from falsehood. This is like a law of the universe which you are trying to short-circuit. You're trying to do the psychological equivalent of traveling faster than the speed of light or building a perpetual motion machine.

It's not about money. It's about the ego feeling important and significant. Because these people are spiritually bankrupt all they have to live for is the feeling of self-importance they get from achieving ever more. If they stopped they would feel empty and miserable. They would have to do spiritual work from scratch and feel ordinary and lost.

Of course.
But notice further than even once those people get money and sex, they still don't care about truth, they continue endlessly chasing more money and sex.
Do any of the richest and most powerful people lack access to basic needs? No. Yet they are still lost in chasing success and survival.
And I cared about truth before I had money or sex.
Caring about truth transcends your material situation. Which is why getting a billion dollars will not suddenly make you care about truth.
And also notice, if you really cared about truth you would work really hard to handle your base material needs so that you can focus on truth without being distracted by survival.

It is important not to create a shadow out of selfishness.
Selfishness absolutely needs to exist, which is why it exists. Without selfishness you could not be alive.
Yes, turning selfishness into a "bad" is a trap.
Again, the point of awakening is to realize that nothing bad has ever existed, including of course selfishness, which is just what is meant by evil.
If you think selfishness is bad then that's equlivalent to saying that evil exists. Which of course is wrong.
But also notice the trick here: when someone behaves very selfishly towards you, you will not be able to stop yourself from calling it bad. So not demonizing selfishness is very, very advanced stuff. Most humans are nowhere close to that. Even spiritual humans will fail at it.
A better way to put it is that excessive selfishness is problematic and self-defeating while a healthy level of selfishness is appropriate and even necessary.

Don't guess.
Sit down and observe what meaning is, how it is created.
This work is not about guessing about how things are, it is about sitting down and looking at what is actually going on. It's like science. Do the science of meaning.
Go outside, pick up a rock, and ask yourself, What does this rock mean? And look at it. There is your answer.

It's like I need to write a quote, and then write an explanation of it. Like some kind of BIble/Shakespeare commentary. But this feels over-the-top. Sometimes I don't feel like over-explaining it. But it's also important that it not be misunderstood.
There is a trade-off between pithiness and clarity. Quotes sacrifice clarity for pithiness.

More like: less dense ego equates to those things.
Less ego, less gooding and badding.
Observe what role gooding and badding play in upholding the ego.
The ego is like a bird that flys on two wings: good and bad.

Feelings are more primitive. Emotions are feelings + conceptual content like thoughts and images.
If I stab you in the foot with a fork, that's a feeling. If you hate me for it, that's an emotion.

Note that in the evolution of living things, feeling was the first sense to evolve. Feeling is more primordial than vision, smell, hearing, taste. Cellular organisms can feel before than can see. In fact, all the other sense organs evolved out of feeling receptors. Your eyes literally "feel" photons. Your tongue "feels" food molecules.
That shows you how fundamental feeling is to survival. And why emotions override rationality and logic.
If you felt bad enough you would not be able to do anything: walk, talk, smile, eat, make money, socialize, and even think.
At some point you will feel so bad that your only option will be death.

You're asking why religion is popular.
Because it takes the highest truth and perverts it into a cartoon fantasy for ignorant people to follow without actually doing the work.
Every ego wants to think that whatever fantasy it believes and follows is absolute truth.
It's like asking why is pizza and porn popular? Because it feeds the ego's deepest cravings.
In the case of religion, it feeds the ego's need to know and to be certain of itself.
Ego loves to worship God, but only on its own terms. Rats want to worship rat-God. Rabbits want to worship rabbit-God. Humans want to worship human-God.
Also, who do end up realizing God tend to be pretty exceptional people with what seem like magic powers. So it's like watching Tiger Woods play golf. It can look like magic which you cannot do yourself.

Because in the end God is the highest pursuit and purpose. Nothing else really matters. You can't compare God with shooting golf balls or making money. The promise of God is very enticing beyond material rewards.
When all these religions were founded humans were much less materialistic, capitalistic, pop-cultural. There was little to do other than God, family, and farming.