Jo96

This happened to me after some fear arised in me or anxiety. After some time of no spirtual development and frustration. I came to the realization that all the fear and suffering was leading me to love. It broke my heart open and I feel this tenderness and humility and now its like everything is beautiful and I’m in love with it all. Feels like euphoria and ecstasy. Like im falling in love with reality. I love you guys ❤️

My whole life I have heard spiritual teachers some greater then other with much wisdom and spiritual knowledge. I have heard them and I have searched for what they have told me or gone through what there path was as it was laid out. I have nothing but love for Leo and the community but what I am beginning to realize is that there is no substitute for self discovery. I have spent so many hours listening to his videos and some less than genuine attempts to doing the excersizes . Taking psychedelics and meditating for hours because someone told me that was how you get enlightened. I’m beginning to realize that this is not a genuine search. It’s more like I hear a possibility posted in a YouTube video or teaching. I hear “ you are god” and so I think to myself my oh my do I want that. But in truth I never genuinely came to that conclusion, and how can I genuinely search for something that I don’t even know exists. So I’m at this paradox where the self discovery can only be taken up by me. There is no teacher I can seek outside of myself or else I’ll be seeking for something outside of my own genuine seeking and will fail because I do not possess the will. I don’t know. I feel like maybe that’s the path of any genuine seeking. You come to a point where you realize that nobody else’s answers will satisfy you. They are empty words for the ego to cling to. and so you have to say goodbye to the teacher. You have to remove all teachings from your mind and see what’s left after you remove it all.

That would be very boring sitting there for hours for the one time it happens lol

I was wondering if anyone knew about what was the cause for this? I’ve lately felt intense energy And feeling in what new age type people describe as the crown chakra, 3rd eye chakra, and heart and sacrum and groin area.” It’s actually been to the point where I’ve been sitting in a dark room and I have seen the room light up blue as electricity or sparks come out of my fingers. I have never seen anything like this. Any ideas?

No my floors are wooden

Will do.. thank you

I guess I just haven’t tripped enough times... Gonna trip tomorrow morning then ??

What’s the quickest most direct way to deconstruct the idea of a brain. I have been indoctrinated from birth to believe that their is a brain that consciousness is acting through. So how do you undo that programing and see from scratch what there is ?

I have no clue. I think the answer is probably irrelevant though. It’s like asking what is a table. A table is a table. You could say a table is made up of atoms. You could say it’s made up of wood. Just depends how you view it. A thought it sort of similar. It depends on how you’re looking at it.

I mean awareness

this video is absolutely brilliant

If you smoke weed Regularly that can make it harder to break through in my experience. Conversely if you smoke weed during an experience that can do magic.

You could go to wealthy affluent areas and pick up and sell the free items they Leave on the sides of their homes. There is an app called Nextdoor and they will actually update you when they are leaving stuff out in the “free” section. When I bought my house I completely furnished it with brand new monogamy wood furniture and a couch and all the outdoor garden equipment I needed by going to the San Fransisco bay area with a truck and collecting all the free stuff. Some of the tables I got were worth 10k alone. I could easily see someone just collecting and selling the furniture on OfferUp.

ignoring the various dogmas in the video I thought this poem was very motivational and made a lot of sense. I’ve been thinking a lot on ego development and realized that it may be possible to skip multiple stages simply by being in solitude as our egos develop relative to the world. for my own personal experience I skipped a couple stages due to a very strong existential Crisis that brought me to suicide. So I know it’s possible for others.( but hopefully in a less painful way) although if you skip stages it may take you sometime to reorient yourself. I know for myself I spent a very long time regressing and coming back simply because I didn’t know what to think of my new differences within my consciousness. It also isn’t helpful when our society is not very supportive of these higher strategist, and, Construct and, unitive stages. You can begin to doubt and question yourself, and even begin to think you’re simply arrogant or crazy as you try to express things to others in your life. You want to communicate with them like you did before on the same level but you realize overtime there is a profound disconnect that doesn’t allow certain truths to be discussed. So it can take some time to even realize this. I know for myself I just thought it was a matter of explanation or maybe I myself was missing something, and as a result old defense mechanisms would come up, ego backlash from the stress of the disconnect, and loneness. Taking the leap from pluralist to strategist and onward can be very difficult while holding together relationships. It’s not to say that it can’t be done, but taking some time in solitude is probably valuable as you take the leap.

that’s a beautiful idea bro and I commend you for finding the time with such a busy life. I think you will benefit along with your friends and family from whatever insights gained. Whatever you gain you’ll take with you. For me personally I have noticed my mind loosening up with each meditation/ each dream/ each psychedelic session/ each self inquiry. So don’t worry if you don’t accomplish it all. In fact you’ll probably accomplish more if you let go of the idea of results. Don’t go in with any expectations. Just come in with loose plan. Set aside things like your phone, and other distractions, and be open to some deviation while also remaining mindful of what your mind is doing. While watching your mind in its natural state you can learn a lot simply from watching how you are unfiltered, and without being too rigid. There’s this tendency to take a rigid approach to spiritual work which can be valuable for some lessons. However is actually counter intuitive to learning some of the deeper lessons as it relates to your ordinary life. As if you remain 100 percent rigid on how to do things you won’t know how you are naturally.

If you have strong headwind towards it I think you should do it. It’s true what others are saying that everything is love, and it’s true you could go about realizing this through doing anything. However if this is what your soul is calling you to do I think that you will find a lot of valuable experiences from it that could catapult you out of your illusions (wether it works or not you’ll know)

thank you. That was 2 years ago. I’m better now bro. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. If you feel to: close your eyes and sit in meditation with it or lay down. It was very powerful in my own experience. (:

Just this. How do you know if you do know, and if you think you can’t know how do you know that’s true?

@zazed yeah I got to that point, but now I’m at the stage where I’m questioning if I actually do not know.

So then how can we be introspective into ourselves ?

I’m not mr enlightened nor can I say I have much more knowledge than anyone else. however after listening to Leo’s work for years and doing psychedelics along with having a couple moments of non dual breakthroughs I cannot really sit through a class and reason the same way that the teacher is asking me to do. I feel like I possess an understanding that I cannot really explain within the criteria he is asking me to express it in. for context my teacher has a PHD in Philosophy. Is very focused on disproving the existence of god and particularly through the lens of Christianity. I mostly kept quiet but he noticed my essays and we had a few conversations revolving around non duality and ego development. The problem I reached was that his understanding of the world was completely self referential(Similar to maybe a christian citing the Bible, he cited the scientific method and an objective reality.) well I dropped all response to his emails as I felt it was somewhat hopeless and futile to express any of my views to him, as mine were self referential as well(only with an understanding of the perception oriented nature of reality) What is your advice for confronting/ speaking with people who approach life this way? Especially in an Institution or university where you are expected to produce honest work and essays around your own views in their criteria. I attached the convo. Maybe you guys could also find some holes in my understanding as well.

I have no idea. I don’t know how anybody could really prove that. I don’t know what’s gonna happen in 5 minutes. How should I know what will happen when I die. for those of you who say the body isn’t real or it’s imagination. That still doesn’t discount the fact that you’re here now In this way and one day you won’t be in this way.

I came to this realization today thinking about infinity. I think there’s a logical fallacy that can occur that somehow something being deeper or more nuanced or smaller is somehow more true. This is in fact true but it’s also false. To me that’s like zooming into your hand and saying that the cells are more important than the hand or zooming out and saying the body is more meaningful than the hand. By nature of making the judgment you are perceiving higher and lower stated or consciousness. In reality all that is just is. I could probably take a million 5meo doses and while I have no doubt I would learn a lot about reality that doesn’t mean that it’s anymore true than what is for me right now. All that is is. that’s all. Just thought I’d share.

I just keep seeing a ton of articles about the post office. Some are saying in some states like 17 percent of mail in registration was “lost” I mean I wish I could say I had faith in the Democrats to challenge this but I don’t. What if trump cheats his way to victory?

Absolute perspective ? ?