Of course. You're not awake enough.
Yes, that's imagination happening, creating a relative sense of space.
You are using the mind to compare thing A to thing B and then taking that difference as space. But where is that "space" located? Nowhere. Nowhere is infinite, so it is everywhere, giving the illusion of space. But there is no elsewhere but HERE and NOW. All places are NOW yet nowhere, thus allowing an infinite number of hidden dimensions to reality. Since everywhere is nowhere, all beings can be tucked away inside it, so to speak.
There can literally be an infinite number of universes taking place right on top of each other, so to speak. Since they are all nowhere. That's the beauty of nowhere: it is unlimited.
Reality is like a pair of pants with an infinite number of pockets
Absolute Consciousness cannot be doubted. When you get there, you'll understand. Until you do, you won't.
5-MeO-DMT is good for realizing nowhere.

You incarnate as all people. So in the end, you win and lose everything. You are reality experienced from every angle. One of those angles is your current angle. You can't have all possible angles without your particular angle.

Eventually you'll understand all of reality, how and why it was created, how to live properly, and you will transcend physical death.

To make a long story short: consciousness & love is the answer to all moral questions.
You cannot fake consciousness or love. You act from your current level of consciousness, whatever that is. No amount of moralizing, theory, ideals, or ideology will change that. If you want to act better, raise your consciousness.
The less self you have, the more loving you will be. If you want to be more moral, deconstruct your self until nothing of you remains.
You cannot have a self and be moral at the same time.

That's ok, this gives you an opportunity to start observing your thoughts. 
First, notice they are not your thoughts. They just appear in the field of consciousness or, as one would say, out of nowhere. As a thought appears, you watch it pass as you'd watch a dog pass in the park or a cloud passing in the sky. 
Secondly, as you observe your thoughts, do it without identifying with them or assigning labels to them, like 'the dog big, brown, slow, that person's', 'cloud white, fluffy', etc. In other words, observe reality without conceptualizing it.
Thirdly, notice the space between your thoughts, or when you first wake up and have a blank mind. That space/no-mind (no-self) zone/the observer is what your true nature is. A.k.a. awareness, God, the Absolute, Void, No-thing, Enlightenment, etc.
You can become directly conscious of it with practice.
 

@Nic Terpstra How about you actually do the work?
Nobody is gonna make sense of reality for you. That's your job. How about a few years of serious research, reading, careful contemplation, and basic meditative technique?
You're barking up the biggest tree in the universe. So don't be surprised if it doesn't all make sense for the first decade. Having it all make sense is the end-result of decades of work.
It's like you've just entered 1st grade and tell the teacher: "Okay, I'm ready for this. Tell me everything I need to know." That will take 12 years kid.

Everything is located in one place: literally nowhere.
Space and time are imaginary.
Right now you are nowhere. You've been in this nowhere for your whole life. You will be in this nowhere FOREVER! You cannot escape nowhere because there is nowhere else to go but nowhere, and you're already there. You've been nowhere FOREVER.
The trick is becoming conscious of this fact.

Practically, that is how human sexuality works. Since sexuality is a survival function its value is of course purely relative and imaginary.
Why is sex valuable to males and females? Ultimately for no reason whatsoever other than to advance the self. You don't go sticking your dick into tree holes because it does not advance your self. If it did, you'd do it and pay money for it. And tree holes would suddenly be worth a lot of money. There would be armed guards around every tree hole to ensure money is collected and the holes are not damaged (so more money could be collected in the future).
Just observe how sex works. You'll see it's transactional. Sex is a transaction between two beings who have certain needs which they want met.
By raising your consciousness high enough to realize that survival is an illusion and unimportant in the absolute sense. Survival is a relative matter. True morality is the transcendence of the need to survive. When you no longer care about whether you survive or not, then you have become truly moral. Otherwise you are a devil.

That is of course a very good point.
All progress is relative to one's past position.
But still, China's authoritarian features are hard to ignore. They have some serious structural problems. Chinese people cannot even vote! That is not sustainable and that is not conscious.
That is thanks to the power of holistic big picture thinking. It's precisely because I don't over-specialize in any one field that I am able to see a much bigger picture than most experts and professors. Specialization comes at the cost of wisdom and vision. I sacrifice technical accuracy for big picture understanding. Experts and professionals do the opposite.
Politics cannot really be understood properly without a deep understanding of epistemology, ideology, cults, metaphysics, nondualty, spirituality, consciousness, philosophy, sociology, psychology, science, religion, language, ego, devilry, Spiral Dynamics, developmental psychology, relativism, and history.
Rather than reading a lot of political theory, I spend a lot of time studying human beings, especially their collective behaviors. If you do that long enough without being ideological yourself, you will start to see how the whole game works. It's all about the mind clinging to various positions and refusing to acknowledge the bias and partiality of its own perspective. Without a deep understanding of epistemology there cannot be a deep understanding of politics.
By that logic, why should you raise a family? Why should you start a work project? Why should you start a video game? Why should you drive to the grocery store? Why should you start having sex?
Just as you're about to pull your dick out to have sex an airplane might crash through your roof and kill you.
Maybe you should just curl up into a little ball in the corner of your room and wait for death to take you?
There is never any guarantee that hard work will payoff before you die.
If you're asking, "But what's in it for me?!!!" you've already fallen into the greatest trap: selfishness.

The whole point of spiritual work is to overcome fear by facing it.
Consciousness transcends fear and suffering.

She is certainly ridiculed and dismissed for the most part.
She will not resonate with stage Blue or Orange people.
But also to be fair, I think she's not really cut out for being President. Presidency requires political experience. A person with zero government experience is going to be naive and make obvious mistakes no matter how well developed they are. Development and consciousness alone are not enough to make a great political leader.

That's where spirituality intersects with life purpose. Your LP should be about helping mankind raise consciousness in whatever way you find more meaningful. That could be through film, social media, writing, music, art, business, politics, education, engineering, or whatever.
The most important thing for now is to educate yourself further. A deep study should be made of Conscious Politics before you run off to start some political or social revolution.
Once you do that AND you find your LP, then your whole life will be making an impact and helping to elevate people.

They could, but it's a dicey affair. It all depends on exact circumstances and your personal preparedness.
I still think it's better than sitting on your couch all day watching YT videos.

Notice how Marianne Williamson is ridiculed as a hippie New Ager by the mainstream press and pundits.
That's how people ahead of their time are treated by the mouth-breathing masses.
She is certainly not electable today. And why is that? Because the level of consciousness of the majority of voters is too low to appreciate the level she is speaking from. So it will take a few hundred years of social evolution before her ideas become accepted as obvious and mainstream. In the meantime, over 10 million people will have to die for that lesson to be learned.
And the biggest mindfuck of it all will be: once her ideas are accepted as totally obvious, no one in that future generation will believe that it could have been any other way. They will take it all for granted.

If it advances any faster it will burn up in the atmosphere.
You have to realize that this has been a very long-term project from the very beginning. Amazing stuff is coming. But you must stick around for years to see it all unfold.
Everything up to this point has been a warm up lap.
It will all make sense in retrospect.

I really don’t understand why or how we even talk about matters of consciousness, God, existence, etc. I get the importance of the matter but in the end, nobody gets it. Nobody understands. It threatens people. It seems to create more division get people’s panties in a twist. It creates debate. 
Personally im really struggling to be authentic in my communication with others. How do I just ignore the stuff that I’m learning as a result of this work and simultaneously be honest and thus not have it effect people. I feel like this just creates more conflict and im tired of conflict. 
This seems to be the tragic part of this work. You come out the forest with gold and it turns to ashes. 
I can have some inspiring vision of raising the consciousness of mankind for example but what actually happens? Either a bunch of people just get deluded by the teachings, taking it totally for granted, nobody gets it, and you’re persecuted. 
Keep in mind, I don’t want to paint myself as some innocent victim soul. I do acknowledge I don’t communicate this stuff the most skillfully. Communication skills aren’t my highest gift AT ALL. 
I just feel like this begs the question though of why not just keep this to yourself? I’m starting to feel like the people who stay quiet are the real intelligent ones. 

You're clearly an advanced practitioner. That is great. Which is why I am nudging you to go one step further. Do not stop until you have a direct consciousness of why Creation is happening.
See my next blog video where I will explain it. But as you know, no explanation can do these things justice. You must discover it for yourselves. All I can do is tell you that I've done it and that it is possible and highly worthwhile.
Keep questioning:
Why life?
Why life?
Why life?
What is the purpose?
What is the point?
Why is it like this?
Why creation?
Why is God doing this?
What is God up to?
Why life?
Why form?
Why humans?
Why animals?
Why evolution?
Why all of this?
What the fuck is it for?
Why life?!!!!
I must know! I will not stop until I know!

I don't find that to be true.
1) Research shows that conservatives are consistently more closedminded than liberals. Conservatives are generally not interested in exploring other POVs. Liberals are more open to that and more tolerant of other perspectives. Of course not always so. Many liberals also become dogmatic. And many liberals especially hate conservatives and therefore misunderstand them.
2) Spiral Dynamics research shows that conservatives are lower in their cognitive and moral development than liberals.
I agree that we need more mutual understanding of all perspectives. Which is why I spend a lot of time studying conservative perspectives. But conservatives almost never do that. When was the last time you saw a conservative reading a book on Marxism or Feminism? It's laughable. They would never do that.
It's not that conservatives merely disagree with socialism or post-modernism, for example. They fundamentally do not know what socialism or post-modernism is. Even highly educated conservatives like Jordan Peterson, who is a professor, do not have enough intellectual curiosity and objectivity to understand socialism or post-modernism. Liberalism correlates positively with higher education. Which is why conservatives like to ridicule and demonize universities and academia.
I agree that most leftists do not understand the right wing to their core. But the right wing understands leftism even worse. Just go watch Fox News to see the proof.

@SunnyNewDay 1g of mushrooms is the perfect starting dose. Nothing crazy should happen at such a dose.
Above 2g is where things start to get serious.

I’ve counted them all up: This was my 13th ride on the psychedelic ferry. And it was an insightful one to say the least. 
If you want to skip straight to the trip, please feel free. However to those interested, I will provide some background. 
The last 4 of my trips really go together. It all started in April when I decided to trip again after a half year off. This one trip changed my life. And it told me 2 things (besides many others) that are crucial: 
Psychedlics are your path.  Your path is the one of energy and purification. The subsequent trip was my first breakthrough to absolute infinity. And my last trip was a deeper insight into the mechanics of God and me becoming aware of the “One Eyeball seeing”. 
 
If you’re interested you can read them here (I’ve labeled them for my own reference): 
Creativity and Beauty | #10 Infinity | #11 The Pixel | #12  
Now on to lucky number 13.
Man. Where to begin. 
I will start off with the method of administration. I ground up the shrooms, put them in a tea bag and then followed @Nahm's Ginzing™ tea procedure. It worked like a charm and the peak was even longer than usual (felt like years but must have been a good solid hour of hanging around in the God Head). 
 
My intentions where: 
Who is aware of the “Pixel” (= God/the one eyeball seeing/that which within all dimensions and so on are contained)?  What is the energy part of “Energy and Purification” (I figured out purification in #12). What is my role in this life time?   
The Trip:
Like the last time I began a conversation with God after the come up. Again it asked me: “What do you want to learn?”. Again I stated my intentions. Again it showed me my impurities. Again I surrendered and admitted what I was suppressing (in this case feelings for a girl). 
Then again the real trip began. 
It started with my 3rd intention: “What is my role in this life time?” I also asked: “What is my medium or mode of creation?”.
God proceded to state: “Art”. 
It was that simple. I tried to question it. I pondered it. But there was no fucking around. My life purpose is art. 
My soul’s yearning is creation. I am half warrior, half artist. It even showed me that my body was made out of the two halves (left = artistic, right = warrior) with my heart being the one of a warrior. It also showed me how to use my left hand. 
Following were visions of me living my purpose. I saw my designs and artworks on shirts and canvases. It also showed me sharing insights. It was beautiful. 
And what was also remarkable: I always kinda knew that I was an artist. And a particular scene came to mind: In Germany if you finish your school you go for a last test where you have to pick 4 classes which count double and will be tested extensively. 
I took art as my last one. And I got a B- for my sculpture. Years ago I could not belief why my teacher would do that as we were pretty close and the sculpture was good (imo lol). I then realized that this was his final teaching. I pretty much copied the sculpture I did in class months ago and with this grade he taught me to be original. He taught me I could do better than this. What a man. 
 
It turns out there are two modes of creativity: 
Copying something - Re-creation.  Tapping into true imagination and God’s creativity - Creation.  Don’t get me wrong, most art is copied and still great. However true creativity is something else entirely. That’s the art which moves mountains. Btw. I also revisited on of my first trips where encountered a Balrog in the realms of consciousness. Of course I don't know, but it seems that either the makers of the Lord of the Rings movies, or Tolkien himself has pounded some mushrooms. 
After that, this part of the trip seemed finished and proceeded to go pee. 
 
Once I returned I lied down and set my mind to the “Who is aware of the Pixel?” question. 
However I was put off by some roof worker hammering on top of my flat. 
Then something happended which still takes my breath away: There was a voice out of nowhere which said:
 
“You know you can stop the noise, right?”. 
I was like: “What the fuck, how?”.
It answered: “Remember”. 
The hammering stopped in that instance. 
What. The. Fuck. 
There is no “How”.
God just wills it.
I am remembering more and more how I built all of this. And how I engineered all of this so I forgot I did this. It is so ingenious. Holy fuck. 
I looked at my hand. I wanted to change it. It changed into a claw of some sort. Almost like a pig foot. I wanted to make it green and alien. I realized that there was an invisible “lock” on that. I couldn’t do it. HOWEVER I also realized that this lock was imaginary. It was my limiting belief (forget the personal development mumbo jumbo). And if I surrendered this belief I could literally turn my hand into a tentacle. Holy fuck. 
 
However now the real mindfuck commenced. 
I asked: “Who is aware of God?” “How can God be aware of itself”?
The answer was: There is NOTHING to be aware of. 
Perception is a lie. 
Fuck. 
.
I really wanted to use less swear words to keep this report classy but man… what a mindfuck. 
 
Later I also asked: What are all these thoughts in my head and what is the ego? 
The answer: Thoughts come from the field of infinite potential (which is HERE and NOW). They are made out of the one “stuff” call it consciousness. And they are illusory. That means: They create separation. God uses thoughts so you perceive yourself as other so that God can look at itself. Then it made itself forget that it did that so that Trump doesn't turn all cats into chickens, or worse 
And if theses thoughts recede you go back into oneness aka no separation. Holy fuck. 
It really does nothing to read this in a book. You gotta experience it first hand. Mushrooms taught me that over and over: If you read, it’s heresay. If you gain insight from the hand to hand combat of existence, it’s wisdom. Books are still crucial but there is no comparison.  
 
Then there was only one intention left: What is energy? 
The answer: There is nothing which is not energy. There is only one “stuff”.
I really wanted to learn more, what the role of energy is for awakening, what the Kundalini is and so forth but I was to exhausted at this point. 
I just stayed in the Godhead, setting my intent to heal existence and ask some more questions however the main part of the trip was over. 
Only one more thing: If you think God is this serious, nihilistic “thing”... get that out of your head. God is playful and even humorous (yet also brutal in some sense that it uses evolution as its playground and paintbox). It played around in this trip. It joked at the beginning why I would not want to see some aliens (my intent was set on the above 3 things). And it also showed me how silly this notion is: 
We are humans. Living on rock. This rock is inhabitable by accident. Somehow life poofs into existence which is of course proven by science. And this rock is the only one which has intelligent live on it.
Yeah, sure. Cool story bro.  
There are no accidents. None. 
Thank you. 



P.S. I planned to trip monthly but this is getting pretty intense and exhausting. If one of you experienced psychonauts has some insight into picking your pace and so on, I would be grateful. 

P.P.S. You might wonder, what these insights change in ones day to day life. Aren't they just some psychedelic "state"? Well no. What I can say with absolute certainty is that I've done 1-3 years of growing in the last 4 months. I am much more aware of the ego's trickery and I feel like I am becoming an embodiment of Love. I also feel much more joy on a daily basis. I respect every life form ten times more (e.g. if there is a pigeon or crow in my way, I step aside so I do not disturb it and I also watch my step avoiding to step on ants and so on). 
 

@kieranperez The questions you're asking here are good ones. Keep asking them of yourself as you contemplate, meditate, and trip.
If your desire to understand consciousness is deep enough, eventually you should get the answers until everything becomes clear.
Remember that you are imagining the entire physical world with all of its rules and limitations. So if some physical scenario (like your camera example) works the way it works, it works that way precisely because you imagine it that way. But you're not aware yet of how you're doing it. Notice that your confusion rises because you imagine that it (the camera) should work some other way. You imagine that way and then super-impose it upon your yet deeper layer of imagination of the physical world. So the confusion arises because you're imaging things at various layers and getting tangled up in them.
You imagine there are other people and cameras who see things. Then you complain how come they don't see things as you see things. Because first and foremost you imagine they are separate from you. You gotta untangle the many layers of your own imaginings. Of course first and foremost you gotta realize that "you" and "imagination" are themselves entangled, confused, and imaginary notions.

NOTE: I AM NOT SAYING LEO IS WRONG NOR FULL OF SHIT. I DO NOT KNOW. IF ITS NOT IN MY OWN EXPERIENCE I DO NOT KNOW. I HAVE NO STAKE OTHER THAN WANTING DIRECTLY EXPERIENCE WHAT IS ACTUALLY TRUE. 
These questions aren’t directly geared towards @Leo Gura, however some are.
I also want to be clear that I do think miracles are totally possible. I think collective healing, levitating, the highest reported siddhis, etc. are definitely a thing. I treat them as separate from enlightenment as you can meet people who have some of these highest siddhis but I certainly wouldn’t call them more enlightened than anyone else. Liberation and enlightenment is a different ball game from altered states and “higher” experiences as far as I’m concerned. The latter is still all relative, however cosmic and “god-like” they seem. 
The Video Camera Test: 
This is more of a general question... why is it that when I take a Psychedelic and experience hallucinations that are as unreal and as much an illusion as anything else that exists (which is relative) that if I take out a video camera adhd record myself I don’t see what I saw? What does that say? After all, everything occurs in me subjectively, so why wouldn’t it be consistent? 
Further, let’s say I was a schizophrenic and I had those imaginary people who “other ordinary people” would tell me isn’t real. However, idealism and relative dualism goes, that technically is real for me because I’m the source of everything that comes into my experiences. But if I take a video camera and film my imaginary friend, would I see him/her/it on the screen? If not, what does that reveal?
Leo “Tapping Into Collective Consciousness”: 
Once again, I want to be clear - I’m not saying Leo is full of shit. I don’t know and I’m merely playing devils advocate since I ordinarily tend to agree with Leo 99% of the time.
Leo why is that if you tap into collective consciousness, I or most other people don’t notice anything? 
If you perform something like this and it doesn’t yield any results at all, can you really still say that you actually did it? Assuming the case that it didn’t yield results (and hey, maybe it did), that’s like saying I closed my eyes and visualized talking to a girl doing pickup and fucked her “in the real world” (don’t get pedantic - you know what I mean) when really I was just sitting at home in my bed going through the notions in my mind’s eye and calling it the real thing. 
Again, I don’t doubt the existence of such high end miracles. However, if we wanna know if someone can really heal someone, have that person perform the miracle and we’ll see the results. If we wanna see a yogi walk on water, we can go out and watch him walk on water (as we shit our pants). If we read someone’s mind successfully, we can report it. Not that far from science really. 

@Guided Good work, but don't be drinking when doing pickup. Do it sober.
I did over 3000 approaches and never bought 1 alcoholic drink in my entire life.
Try to stay away from canned openers. Just push yourself to approach and improvise gibber-jabber. Try to plow through and maintain the girl's attention for as long as possible. Do not eject. You keep talking to her until she tells you to fuck off or leaves. Plowing is key. That will build your conversation skills. You will suck a first, but you will also quickly improve if you make the commit to never eject from a set.
Try to open to some sets and make them last for 30-60 minutes.
Don't make your conversations logical. They can literally be any random useless nonsensical stuff, like how much you hate Trump or how much you love pizza. Talk, talk, talk your mouth off. Allow yourself to let loose and be emotional and opinionated. You can also make up fantastical shit like: "I'm going to buy everyone in this bar a kangaroo. Help me pick out a name for my kangaroo."
Here's the key to night-game conversation: The words coming out of your mouth do not have to make any sense.

Yes, consciousness definitely helps ground you and be more detached and authentic. But it's also not a cure-all. Approaching is a very specific skillset which needs to be honed, just like golf or tennis. Consciousness helps with all skillsets but doesn't replace training the skillset.
I would not be immediately in state.

Lol, this isn't exactly a big secret. Basically all guys suck at talking with women unless they trained that skill.
You should approach even if you are not relaxed or "in state". Sure, you will blow up sets, but it doesn't matter because blowing up sets is what gets you to relax.
Never expect your first approach of the day to go smooth. The first few approaches are just warm ups. They almost always blow up. If you're approaching, you should be doing at least 10-20 approaches within a few hours. Once you blow the first 10, then you'll hit state and you will start acing the rest.
The key to learning game is to find a location where you can do 10-20 approaches within a few hours. Find an area with tons of girls so that you aren't worried about blowing sets up. Become an approach machine for a while and your skills will skyrocket.
I remember when I approached 750 girls in one month. That was a productive month! You'll be amazed at what opportunities materialize from 750 approaches. The most unlikeliest of things pan out with those numbers. If you approach 750 girls, one of them will just want to suck your dick for no reason at all, LOL. Most guys don't meet that many girls in their entire lifetime. You can do it in one month.