The Lucid Dreamer

@Kksd74628 You should type like this, like, all the time.

The U.S. also has an incredible amount of conviences that even many European countries don’t have. I visited France and Italy, and where I visited, you’d be lucky to even find a public restroom you didn’t have to pay for. Very little variety when it comes to food choices, and if you ever needed to go to the store to pick up something after 7, you’re basically shit out of luck. Everything would be closed, and you were just straight up on your own on Sundays. Almost no stores would be open. My spoiled ass was so happy to come back to the states where I have access to so much convenience. ? Thank the Lord for free public restrooms and 24/7 convenience stores.

There is no one there to leave the cycle of death and rebirth to begin with.

That’s only because in the absolute sense, there is no such thing as a person to begin with. There is only what is appearing NOW. But literally EVERYTHING has/will/is appearing NOW. Including the experience of being Hitler taking over Germany. Including the experience of being one of those aliens or whatever the fuck they are flying around in those flying saucers. Including the experience of being your mother in agony giving birth to you. You are the Now and the Now is INFINITE.

There are many benefits that come from regular meditation, but one thing you should not expect is for it to make you feel like you’re on a perpetual 5-MeO-DMT trip. The ways in which it changes you is so subtle and gradual that you may not even notice it until a couple of years down the road when you will finally look back and remember how you used to interact with the world and other people. You will most likely notice that you are much more calm and collected, less frustrated, much less likely to lose your shit when something inconveniences you. You will become less judgmental of others as you’ll be much more aware of your own neuroses. You will interact with the world much more consciously, and not just react to everything that happens in your environment in a knee jerk fashion, able to become aware of the emotions that are rising up in you as to not let them overtake you. You will become more aware in general of everything that is happening around you and within you. Little details that your mind used to filter out will now become more apparent, increasing your overall observation. You will start to live more in the moment and not stress so much about the past or future. You will start to take life less seriously (in a healthy way) Though I usually don’t want people to expect meditation to make them feel like they’re in a perpetual drug trip, I do have to say that my own day to day experience has become more vivid and “trippy” in a way. I think this is because mediation trains your mind to stop taking your reality for granted and to dissolve the boundary between yourself and what is being experienced, so it can make it feel like life is sort of popping out at you, and everything starts to feel more miraculous.

I totally feel you on that. Getting out of bed in winter time can be like torture. I have a space heater right next to my bed that I’ll turn on about 2-3 hours before I have to be up, so by the time I get out of bed, my room is all warm and toasty when I take off the blanket.

Here’s some that matches a dmt trip. I love these tracks.

All experience is happening within infinite consciousness/the eternal Now. That includes the experiences of all the people you know. The thing that needs to be grasped is that their consciousness is still YOUR consciousness. You are looking out from behind their eyes right now. Because consciousness does not belong to any individual. But I mean you probably already know this shit. To be honest, I’m not exactly sure why Leo puts it the way he does. It’s almost like he wants people to misunderstand.

It’s possible to adopt stage green - stage turquoise ideas while actually being around stage blue cognitively. Steven Bancarz is a great example of this.

Leo takes at least a month off at the beginning of each year. Maybe he’ll post a new video this weekend. But if not, whatever. He can take an extended vacation if he wants.

Because Advaita Vedanta already existed in India, and it basically taught the same thing in different language. Plus Buddha didn’t claim to be God as explicitly as Jesus did. There were plenty of spiritual yogi types at the time teaching similar things.

Different tools for different types of insight. 5-MeO-DMT is good for understanding there is no self, and that you are God, aka everything. Salvia is good for figuring out that what manifests in reality is dependent on your state of consciousness, and that consciousness is capable of literally anything.

@Leo Gura Party pooper.

Oh yeah, I’m sure the DMT experience is peanuts compared to a full blown NDE. Though on paper, they seem to have some similarities in terms of their sequential structure: Going through a tunnel, communicating with beings who greet you on the other side as if they’ve known you for eternity, encounter with “God”, which in the NDE’s is going into and merging with the light. Not sure what that experience is like on DMT. There is also similarities in the type of information people come back with. However, there does seem to be a big difference in terms of aesthetics between a DMT experience and an NDE. On DMT, you see a lot of colorful geometry and almost everything you see in the experience has this sort of geometrical quality to it, including the entities. Almost no one who’s had an NDE has reported their experience being like that to my knowledge.

And what I’m saying is that whatever is happening within your consciousness is exactly what you want. Whatever is happening in the present moment is exactly what God wants to imagine. So right now, God wants to imagine being a being who cannot manifest a fridge at will. So here it is.

@WokeBloke You first.

Are you even reading my posts?

Hilariously, I was standing right in front of my refrigerator when I read this. So technically, I created a refrigerator. ;P Yes, that’s actually correct. When I say that the ego is not God, what I really mean is the ego is not the whole of god. The ego is simply a finite partition of God’s infinite imagination. So right now, you, as God, want to imagine being an ego that wants to argue with people on this forum about not being able to manifest refrigerators at will. And so here it is.

Yeah, maybe there’s nothing you can do to get a perfectly concrete answer…. but for some reason, I have this suspicion itching at the back of my mind that if I could finally get the balls to break through on some N,N,DMT that maybe, just maybe I could get some kind of clue. Probably just wishful thinking, but my curiosity at this point will drive me to try almost anything to understand reality.

That is the ego asking that question. The ego is not God. You as God are manifesting exactly what you want in this instant, including the ego that you falsely identify with asking the question as to why you can’t imagine whatever you want. Everything that is happening right now is exactly what you want.

Bruh, I’ve literally heard people describe it that way, haha. That is also a big question for me. I would presume that the nature of Infinity is such that there is no limit to how deep it can be experienced. Perhaps the very nature of reality is of God constantly reincarnating and experiencing ever deeper levels of itself for eternity.

Haha, no joke. This phenomenon sort of makes me think that many of these experiences must be levels of magnitude more intense and profound than a 5-meo-DMT experience. Which would make total sense, as the physical brain is literally dying/dead at the point of the experience. As profound as a 5-meo experience can be, your brain is still functioning.

Right, but more instantaneous in this instance. I’ve read NDE’s where the person had literally no understanding of non-duality prior and actually had fundamentalist Christian beliefs and came out of their NDE understanding almost all of the main points Leo teaches. They literally found out in matter of like ten minutes what took me ten years to unravel. Mind blowing.

Did he have he have any understanding of these things before his NDE? If not, that’s quite remarkable that he could have gained that much insight from this single experience.

I agree. Leo says over and over that his material is mainly for serious practitioners, but perhaps he should put an official disclaimer at the beginning of each video that delves into those deep metaphysical topics. Or even a suggestion that before they watch the particular episode, they should go watch certain foundational episodes that will lead up to that topic. I know he does that sometimes, but I do feel like he should take a little more care in making sure people understand what they’re getting into. At the very least just to cover his ass, haha. Cause this shit really can have a negative effect on the minds of people who have not taken the time to build the proper philosophical foundation. Before I ever listened to Leo I had already gone through 3-4 years of my own self-inquiry and deep philosophical contemplation. I had already found out on my own that there was no self, that I was the universe experiencing itself(I didn’t like the term “God” back then), and that I, as consciousness itself, was going to live through every lifetime. I realized that reality must necessarily be absolutely infinite and that everything manifesting within consciousness must therefore be relative, purely conceptual, and unknowable. So by the time I got to Leo’s teachings, these concepts of being the only one in existence didn’t really phase me. I was 27 years old at that time. But there are kids who are like 16-18 years old who come into these teachings who have probably only took one philosophy class in their life, if that, and there’s this talking head on YouTube telling them that their entire life is a dream and no one in their life is real. I can totally imagine the emotional turmoil I might have felt having heard that when I was that age. That definitely could have fucked me up.