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It’s worth it man. Once you taste Nirvana and know Truth, nothing can be beyond one who is a holder of such knowledge. Nothing can truly threaten one with such knowledge. Seeking ultimately ends in completion when the forces of Infinite Existence (God) and Nonexistence (Dao) clash within yourself. They are you, and you know this. At least as much as anything could be a you that is.

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This has a lot of good tools to use and somewhat fresh perspectives to offer. The most important singular concept is that your focus determines the probability of what you will experience in the future. Watch it for a minute at least to get a feel for it.

How to Use Meaning, Attachment, & Imagination for Advanced Spiritual Development (Enlightenment) This is an advanced video. I don’t spend much time trying to cover the basics of non-duality. This video is mainly for people who have a good understanding of non-duality and would like to look into new practices.

A lot of good effort and info as always ?

Watch the video in my signature from 12:35 onward for a couple minutes. I describe a palpable experience with prayer which was quite amazing. It’s not some magic reality manipulation machine. It’s more about sharing your love with those who need it and aligning with LOA better than getting gifts for yourself.

I mean as a hypothesis it’s plausible under normal philosophies, but I personally don’t have confidence in it myself. I used to love ideas of the higher self and such things connecting us all to Brahmin, etc. but I realized that whole time I was just believing in a model I was given just because it sounded plausible really. Cut down belief and concepts to the degree in which there is no such idea as solipsism during your consciousness work. That’s way more important than spending time trying to figure solipsism out. If you awaken deep enough, maybe you really can find a definitive answer.

Are you sure you’re not a robot? Trust me, the ego runs itself.

This is a good point though. I had already suffered enough to be fully comfortable with total annihilation. But still these insights, when framed properly, are good safety rails. I think an important thing is to stop talking about physical death as if it’s the same as psychedelic death. This is a big epistemic error imo which had the dangerous outcome we saw. We don’t know beyond all doubt what an afterlife will contain. The difference is in the psychedelic case you have a functioning body left behind in this specific dream once you come down from the trip. Physical death... ain’t nobody coming back.

The Vice episode really makes him look like a joke compared to seeing him in a proper context like this a few times.

Fasting should likely be grounding overall. It creates physical pain, cravings, and general lower nature drives to be at the forefront of focus often. These things can help bring his state down. The issue is that if he managed to transcend these things due to their intensity pushing him to do so, that could certainly trigger more of a heightening of state. If he is intermittent fasting as it sounds, he should be good. Of course he could always have some rare reaction, but intermittent fasting with enough calories and nutrients should not significantly affect his state regarding the creation of stronger manias.

There is no such thing as a conscious process at the deepest levels of this. You’re letting the continuity bias of the waking state/dreams give you a human body and feeling of a center of experience. Your interpretations label things as “conscious,” a “process,” etc. At the end of the day, even consciousness as a label must fall. This should typically be done once you have some true and deep no-mind and No-Self awakenings. You can literally run on autopilot without conscious control. Why would others require it? There’s no self here. Why would there be other selves? Now this is precisely where Leo makes his leap to solipsism based on having no direct conscious experience of something outside his consciousness. Leo is basically saying, or should be saying, that the mechanics of consciousness do not all for “two consciousnesses” to be experienced at once in one person’s consciousness — it’s a tautology. As soon as you become aware of an “other” consciousness, it has precisely been assimilated into your completely nondual and boundary-less existence at that very moment. The fact that nonduality is real — if you take this as a given, it’s up to you on that — means that anything to ever come into your consciousness is You. This is a problem of verification being shielded from possibility due to definitions and tautology of consciousness always being one “field.”

Quite good actually. I can’t believe that Vice piece on him made me see him as a fake. I’ve started seeing more of him on here, and I welcome it now that I’ve lost the temporary bias.

People are really taking these teachings beyond where they’re meant to be taken off of probably a rather partial awakening process. They’re missing the Love, becoming enraptured in beauty. They’re missing sitting at a family gathering in a high consciousness state and thinking of all the amazing relative gifts you’ve been given. @mp22 YOUR LIFE STORY IS THE STORY OF GOD’S LIFE FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE. TREAT ABSOLUTE PERFECTION WITH ITS DUE APPRECIATION ? That’s my message to people worried about no meaning and everything. If you saw the scope, you’d see the meaning. Would it be some immutable Absolute meaning? No, but it sure is amazing. Sorry for the caps, but seriously guys. If you haven’t had the deep love/beauty/pure consciousness awakenings enough to transform nihilism of any sort, focus on trying to create that next. It is the foundation for a safe and accurate understanding and use of the teachings. Part of the teachings is an inherent dedication and love toward life. That’s really one of the requirements to try to attain as early as possible imo.

I need to get back on it. I’ve taken a break from the last two. I’ve just had so much transformation recently it seems kinda silly to watch videos.

You as God. This is the idea at least. If you had to have conscious control of everything you created at all times, you’d be the weak sauce of all deities. Do you beat your heart or release white blood cells or is there a separate consciousness running all of these things?

This is quite baseless epistemically speaking. You aren’t going to solve the solipsism question... It’s impossible to fully verify either way beyond all doubt that there is consciousness which you are not experiencing right now or that there isn’t other consciousness.

God-Realization contains within it everything really. Any serious spiritual practice or technique will bring you closer in due time. Leo explains so many different techniques in videos and forum guides/posts. Why not do the work to explore the resources he’s already made about these approaches? Everyone’s path will be incredibly unique with all things considered. You’d probably be better off to see which techniques really work for you and resonate with you than to follow a straightforward God-Realization for Dummies guide. Leo can give you some good maps and a compass if you’re lucky, but you’re the captain of your own ship.

If you can count an "actual entity" and seriously regard it as that, you're incapable of seeing the nondual solipsist's view.

What is "Against Solipsism" here? This just looks like a definition of solipsism. Yes, your minds appear as valid as the subconscious mind in the solipsist model. You say this like a nondual solipsist would likely think the subconscious mind is something that exists outside of consciousness which is probably unlikely.

I will give you an alternative suggestion. You need to be building an experience of no-mind in my opinion. This is essentially becoming so present and in flow of effortless existence that all mind activities essentially disappear while they can still be done. This is a lot like what many people seek for in meditation. No thoughts. But no-mind can have as many thoughts as it wants without thinking. You've probably accessed this at least briefly in the context of flow states. Some people don't access no-mind and No-Self through meditation very well. Doing activities you're really passionate about, especially if they have an intellectual component, can help produce no-mind states. Eventually, acting out of your true Authenticity with less and less resistance will bring you into no-mind if you're anything like me. What is the point of no-mind in all of this? It is to show the illusory nature of the thinker. It is to realize that this was never a solid basis for what you could truly call a self to any permanent degree. Intellectually realizing this and experiencing it in the manner I'm suggesting are completely different.

I came into non-resistance by first developing a regular no-mind state. This happened most organically by focusing on my passions. It was also a result of many different spiritual practices. Then, one day I realized that I had been in no-mind so often that the awareness being pointed to the no-mind state in this moment caused an awakening. I can do everything in my day with no-mind. Eventually with some further contemplation on the nature of Self, I ran into a strong No-Self awakening. Now I fully can recognize the ego, but the resistance is gone because I know there's nothing to do. I'm not doing the ego's activities. They do themselves. I watch as the ego lives its life and accept the union between this identity and the non-doer.

You’ll have to really have a strong desire in most cases. Intense suffering can be good for giving the motivation needed. Regardless, there are not rules to enlightenment really. It’s always a unique process. Maybe something in your life will work out to where you do become enlightened with happiness and peace as motivation. It would probably happen due to a change in heart and greater passion to know God or something similar that stemmed from experiencing the peace and happiness you want.

The idea that mushrooms cause more psychotic breaks than say LSD is probably just flat out false if you had the real data. Shrooms were safer than marijuana in one study which examined emergency room visits relative the the total number of people engaging in using that substance. Marijuana causes psychotic breaks in both people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It is incredibly unlikely that shrooms will act in some way that is more dangerous than other serotonergic psychedelics. Yeah, if you do 50ug of LSD then take 20 dried grams of shrooms and go psychotic, don’t be surprised. It’s more of a dose issue than a specific substance when we’re talking about such things. What you should really worry about is substances that not only stimulate serotonin systems but dopamine systems as well. This is stuff like MDMA and other stimulant-type psychedelics. LSD is more of a worry than shrooms here, but it’s really not that dangerous for breaks when compared to more dopaminergic drugs. Simply drinking too much coffee can cause a psychotic break which could result in uncovering a dormant mental illness. I had a manic episode from Prozac (prescribed) and a couple shots of espresso.