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@Mu_ What's an example of a deep trauma? Are these trauma patterns in personal history, or a sort of existential trauma that is hidden from all of us by egoic consciousness?

Many people have hang ups about death (nothing wrong with that; it's the scariest thing) and they want to be able to understand the nature of after death experience. Will I wake up from a dream? Will I enter an ethereal state where I assess the soul and chose to reincarnate? Will there be an experiencer after death? Well, look at it this way: everything that is alive must have an essence of what we call soul. So the process that occurs after the death of the body, when you return to essence, should be the same for every living thing right? So it follows the after death experience you encounter must be intelligible to both you and a dog, a tree, an ant and anything else that's alive (potentially inert as well, if you believe everything is consciousness.) If you think it has any meaning that can be groked by you as a human right now but is somehow more grandiose than the experience of an ant, rat or mosquito, then you are suffering from an egoic delusion. In this case you ought to investigate why your ego feels the need to create an after death story and face that demon. This limiting belief about after death experience may actually block you from awakening so do yourself a favour and shatter it.

Incredible post thank you.

@gswva "I don't want" is your problem fella. Stop resisting.

@Scholar Incredible and well articulated explanation of love. You truly are a scholar sir!

@Dario1995 I'm not looking forward to anything. I'm not looking back. I feel good in body and mind and I don't feel like I want anything else. Do I get it?

@seriousman24 Well I guess because by consciously "steering the ship" away from evil in our physical and emotional lives we create more space for realisation to occur. We're not avoiding evil because its bad. We avoid it because it triggers survival mechanisms that capture our attention more easily.

The more time you spend with this work the more you realise that any type of person is a beautiful to be around in some sense. It's the Ego that has "deep conversations" and It's the Ego that says "I don't want to be around average people". That being said, it is definitely great to have a few friends who are on a similar wave length or share the interest in non-duality. But certainly not necessary to detach from the people that aren't. They are still great teachers even if they aren't conscious of the lessons they give!

@Matt23 I second this. I'm starting to really question how some of the things he espouses are communicated to him "by shiva". Its pretty obvious society is going to crumble and he doesn't give an exact date so i agree there. However, I've heard him suggest that some members of Sat yoga institute will eventually live without food; something that has never been recorded before. He also suggests they build a giant beacon to emanate consciousness which will help humanity awaken in the same way that the ancients did with the Pyramids. Really? Lastly I heard one of the members say they were worried about their family and he brushed it off my saying that they will contact the worried member when they need help. How can he be sure? He thinks they'll still have phone and internet when this disaster of epic proportions arises? How did he verify this? He's got too many answers imo and I've seen this sort of headstrong "I know what's gonna happen" mentality spin out of control before.

@Gesundheit if you're way beyond her in "self development" then why do you consider her a gold mine and you to be a really terrible person who would drag her down?! Come on man be honest with yourself first of all and then give yourself the gift of love. You deserve it.

What do people think about his claim that the Pyramids were essentially consciousness satellites for advanced yogis to broadcast and triangulate higher frequency consciousness across the globe? Anyone heard anything to this effect before? It's far out man...

@James123 I do realise that every day, twice a day during meditation and when I'm high as fuck on psychedelics. But every time I finish, I go back to little old me haha.

Wow, just great. Imagine being able to live from that realisation without psychedelics.

@Roy great question. I think it's only as selfish as every other egoic delusion hah. Can the ego every really truly accept death? I'm pretty sure mine will always fear it and try to find a way around it. The irony is that if the ego lived forever it would eventually explore every concept including itself. In doing so, it would realise its own unreality! So if the digital ego became enlightened, what would it be?

@Keyhole since when is Karin Dreijer a shaman? Haven't you heard of dressing up haha

I think @VeganAwake made a great point about starving out the ego. It is necessary to show the ego to become nothing before we can accept living in light fully. When I was younger I had a massive breakthrough mushroom trip where I experienced the infinite wall of white light and eternal deafening peace. I spent a loooong time after that trying to work out how to get to that place again. It's only this year (6 years later) that I realised the thing stopping me was thinking that the Light was something or somewhere.

A secondary illusion is imagining future re-birthings. When all separateness ceases to be imagined, what remains? All that is necessary is to become free from the illusions created by thought. - Bob Harwood aka Zendancer I'm sure many people here would proclaim that their birth and death are imaginary. But are you believing in any of these other ideas like past and future lives, afterlife, awakening from a dream, etc? If you do believe these things, you're falling into the same trap! The distinction is that your Ego has used your spiritual knowledge to drop the old (primary illusion) and picked up the new (secondary illusion). But its still the Ego.

@Identity Are you drinking a lot of coffee?

I love my fancy watch, i like my expensive clothes, i enjoy my nice girlfriend, i enjoy looking at my bank account balance and i adore my reflection. I am attached to them, but the I who is attached is just like them - a creation in the mind of God. Realise this and you don't need to let go.

@Aaron p The part of Leo that wants to be healed is Ego, because only Ego can desire things to be different from the way they are. Just because Leo is God, doesn't mean that Leo's Ego can control God. In fact, Leo's Ego cannot control anything. It only creates the illusion of control so that it can appear to be a person, separate from everything else. In reality, a person cannot be separate from everything else, because there is only one thing (a no-thing), God!

@John Doe Get some N-N DMT (more common kind) and smoke about 20-30mg. It will still blow your head off but you maintain the feeling of being "in the room" and you can open your eyes etc. Otherwise low dose LSD is good. Mushrooms can be a bit more weird at first so maybe save them for later. With these drugs you can take a benzodiazepan like Valium or Xanax if the trip starts to go bad. This is basically a kill switch. The important thing to remember is that the drug is like a very strict teacher. It will demand your attention and if you try not to listen to it, you will be punished. Simply surrender to the experience and you will have nothing to fear.

The only conclusion I can come to is that suffering is superfluous in the eyes of God. To what kind of God is suffering considered a byproduct of experience that doesn't take the preference experiencer into account? 1) an impersonal God that does not differentiate between types of experience i.e the only thing that exists is capital L Love and the flavour doesn't matter. 2) a God that is playing some higher dimensional game or entertainment experience like reading a book or playing a video game. Of course your life has suffering, just like the greatest stories told. Sunshine and roses is boring.

It's in the title. Leo's all over Covid-19 awareness. He's got videos about society, corruption and systems of government. Where's the video about the single greatest threat to our existence as a species? He's read Ecodharma (booklist) and you don't have to look as far as that to see how much of a massive and wide reaching problem this is. Leo, if this video is in the works, that's great and I look forward to it.

@mandyjw Of course, to the enlightened sage, this crescendo of nature erasing life on Earth must look like the end of a cosmic song amongst an infinite playlist. Beautiful. However, my worrier, and the worriers of 99% of humanity (aka the Ego) actually form the conceptual identity that believes in death in the first place. I'm a teacher and I can assure that when the end comes, informing my students that they never had intellectual superiority over nature and returning to dust is actually part of God's perfection is not gonna make them feel any better. Maybe we ought to just ignore it and hope that the end comes quickly so that we don't have to suffer for long!

@SoothedByRain My feelings exactly. I've been wrestling this beast for almost a year since I realised that the situation is utterly hopeless. What video do I want Leo to make? One where he details just how dire the situation is and what the results entail for the idea of the future of human civilization. How we can use this crisis as a tool to help us awaken before the chaos. How we can understand that the entire human civilization is in the equivalent of hospice and we need to be guided to our demise. The most unsettling thing is this optimism many, including Leo, have that makes them believe the battle isn't lost. There are people still having kids and talking about "green recovery" it literally makes me want to throw up. It's more blatant trickery from the ego trying to hold onto the illusion that everything will be all right. If you're reading this and you think I'm a "doomer" just exaggerating the situation, I dare you to spend 20 minutes googling the figures from any alternative news source (the mainstream media is optimistic of course). We have less than ten years left.