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Bullshit is a function of mind. In experience, there is an intelligence which cannot bullshit itself. Can your table bullshit itself? Can the color red bullshit itself?

What I'm talking about is not "Absolute Solipsism", it's just a small aspect of the only Truth which is enlightenment. It's a small part of a big singular thing. To view "Absolute Solipsism" you have to partition truth to focus on that particular aspect of reality. Awakenings are just narrow experiences of the small parts of that big singular thing, which is Truth/enlightenment. I know Leo knows what I am pointing to, but he is probably not conscious of it right now, and if he is, that is still just a small aspect of Truth/enlightenment. Not the full thing. There is no existential subset of truth in reality that is like "Absolute Solipsism." Truth cannot FOCUS IN on a small aspect of itself. That is not Truth/enlightenment. That is an awakening which hints at Truth/enlightenment. It's like the elephant and the blind men.

Your POV is inside of everyone else's POV. You are viewing everyone's POV right now. You ARE everyone's POV. Otherwise you wouldn't be talking about "other POVs" in the first place. Hypothetically, if you DID experience everyone's "POV", their POVs would literally stop existing, because it would just become your POV. The POV of other people exists EXACTLY BECAUSE you cannot directly view them. It is a relative dualistic dance. Sometimes "other people" is visual perception. Sometimes it is a physical presence. Sometimes it is sound. Sometimes it is imagination. It changes. It is ephemeral. It's not some fixed idea of "Everyone is imaginary!" Is the flower in front of you "other"? It happens in your own experience, yes. But it absolutely has its own unique qualities, despite being in your POV. It has its own intelligence. Its own flair. Which cannot be imagined by any kind of ego "you", only experienced. There is an input from you, where you imagine things about people. You imagine things about yourself as well. This is being mistaken as "you" being "alone." No. Is realizing that the tree outside your house is being imagined making you lonely too? Do you want the physical tree to exist in your experience forever? Do you want a physical human to exist in your experience forever? No! It's a beautifully intelligent dualistic dance. Love it. The tree becomes concept. The tree becomes physical. The tree becomes an idea for a drawing. The tree becomes a creating of oxygen. You are putting a big limit on the tree when you say "It only exists when it is physical!" Same goes for other people. It is an anthropomorphic and materialistic interpretation of reality when you think otherwise. Really, any notions of "you" and "other" are equally real, because they are dualities which depend on eachother. Yin and yang.

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Yes. You're talking relatively here. Relatively, no. Absolutely, yes. "Everything that is possible" is an abstraction of experience you just created. It's a future event which can only exist as extrapolation from the present moment. It's infinite, but I get what you mean. The qualia is a certain way. But you are speaking relatively, because you are comparing it to some experience which has different qualia. You cannot point to anything in your experience which is actually limited. That's really just life. It all goes infinitely deep. The only question is can you perceive life as it is, or not?

I am not saying that this ends. It's just not Truth or enlightenment. This is life. Which can be lived afterwards. "Going deeper" is an exploration of reality and God. It is not a permanent clarity of all experience, which is enlightenment. It is definitely the end of seeking Truth and figuring out what you are.

Truth and clarity does not exist out of your current POV right now either. Let's use the solipsism logic. Are you experiencing "infinite experiences" right now? Are you experiencing "degrees of consciousness" right now? They're beliefs, no?

Assumption. Also, not an idea. I'm not thinking anything! Enlightenment is not something you think. I had ideas about enlightenment before, but of course I don't need them anymore. I don't need ideas about the color red when I'm looking at the color red. You think I'm trying to maintain some idea or existential position, which is wrong. I'm not maintaining anything. I'm just describing what experience is. You can see it too if you just stare at it long enough.

It is realizing exactly what your experience is all the time. It's realizing exactly what YOU are. It's not a function of philosophizing or thinking about things, it is an experiential shift which prevents you from misinterpreting your experience ever again. It is the desire to interpret your experience at all which is counter-intuitively causing you to misinterpret your experience. Your experience is not interpretation. Relatively speaking, it is a psychological/physiological recontextualization that occurs in your experience, it just immediately happens. It's like if a blind person could see colors all of a sudden. It's exactly like that, it's experiential. There is no thinking about it or second-guessing it. It exists outside of mind. Existence proves itself. You can trigger this through self-inquiry (as I did), or meditation, or whatever other practices you want. In order to trigger it, a serious discrepancy needs to be realized. The same discrepancy which makes "you" fear thoughts. The same discrepancy which makes you say "I am stupid and worthless." The same discrepancy which keeps you confused about experience. You are constantly being afflicted by scenarios in your mind. You are living two lives. The one that is experiencing what is experienced right now, and the one that is experiencing events that are not happening right now. It is a very simple thing and I truly believe anyone can achieve it. It's just that people don't care about their experience enough. If you just look at experience long enough, it will have no choice but to reveal itself. I want to say there is a certain "measurable" aspect to it, for example, my energy levels improved afterwards and my sleep became different. It seems to be the case that attaching to thought forms seriously detriments your energy and your ability to sleep properly. Nothing "changes" in experience, it is just seen with perfect clarity. When your experience is recontextualized, you just stay there forever. It's permanent. You don't experience time or boredom anymore. And then you just live the rest of your life like that. This is on the right track. But it is the same for everyone. The journey for getting there and the methods for getting there can be totally different, but this should not be confused with enlightenment itself. It's a single realization which has been referred to across history. This does not contradict the idea of reality having depth. Something being deep is simply not equal to Truth. It looks that way when you haven't figured out Truth, but you don't figure out Truth twice. The previous awakenings/breadcrumbs BEFORE Truth can be perceived as "depth", and it is depth, but it is misconceived to say that Truth deals in relative ideas of "depth." I am not saying that experiencing depth is wrong and I am not discounting any experiences of depth.

I was curious and I was going to try them. I just pushed it off, because, I don't know, I like to procrastinate. I felt like I wasn't ready. I might still do it if I get access to it. Did do edibles afterwards and it was just an odd experience. I do kind of consider that as a psychedelic though. I don't know how normal people perceive edibles, but it was definitely NOT recreational, haha.

Haha, I like that term, haunting. I will haunt the "degrees of truth" out of everyone. ? Cool breakdown.

You know Ralston took psychedelics, right? Did he take them wrong? Did he not do them enough? 100 more? 101?

That's about the exact response I imagined. Many people who take it and are very much fooled, you can even see it on this forum for yourself. It's also just very clearly a big fat assumption. You failed step one, making assumptions. You are delegating authority to psychedelics. Psychedelics are your new God, as is the case with Leo and most of this forum.

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Do edibles count? I took them a day after I became enlightened.

Is that what the alien squirrel told you? Maybe they lied. Delusion is a function of mind. It imagines ideas that contradict experience. There is no contradiction in reality. Reality does not lie. Direct consciousness does not lie. The color red does not lie or delude.

That's not metaphysical anymore, that's physical. Aw, that's not true. I probably wouldn't have become enlightened if I never found you.

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Yes, you are doing that right now. I assume you are talking about the "true self" here? Engaging in being functional is not going to "counteract" the truth of what you are once it is realized, no such thing is going to happen. No, but they won't make you forget what you are anymore. They are recontextualized. No, in the same way that you do not need an understanding of the color red to perceive the color red. Self-inquiry is probably going to be required, but it is just your minds tool for locating what is already "hiding" in your experience. It is not the thing itself, so it is possible for it to be unnecessary. Don't know what you mean exactly, but it seems irrelevant. Everything stays the "same" perceptually, it is just recontextualized. Like an optical illusion where you can flip from one image to the other, but the image itself stays the same. You do not stop engaging in thoughts and wants and needs, but they are realized to have nothing to do with you.

If anything is to be taken away: If you're not directly conscious of it, the possibility of deception is always there, because it occurs in that same way everytime. If you are "trusting" anything anyone says on anything existential/metaphysical, you have failed step one, which is to examine your experience, not to entertain ideas or trust other people. You are not an assumption. This entire thing is very personal and it has all to do with you and your current experience, never any other experience.

Not to my knowledge, a glitch maybe? I don't see any restrictions. Was there an explicit message telling you anything? Like a warning message? Doesn't look like you even posted that much. I'm pretty sure there is a restriction limit on posts, but there is a message that pops up which tells you exactly why it is happening, and I don't think it can last 12 hours. Next time it happens try clearing your cache or opening an incognito tab which has no cache, otherwise I've no idea.

Because you're a human that has survival needs. There is nothing existential telling you it is better aside from your relative desire to experience things as a human. This is a human anthropomorphism. This whole idea of higher and lower degrees of consciousness is anthropomorphism. OF COURSE Truth and reality doesn't hinge on achieving a HIGHER (dualism) degree of consciousness. And it seems that Leo has tried to reconcile this discrepancy by saying that "Truth" is different from "degrees of consciousness", so he is biting the bullet on the fact that it IS dualistic and separate from Truth, but it is not merely just a useful relative distinction he is making, it is creating a serious cognitive dissonance somewhere which is preventing him from considering enlightenment as a possibility. He is also definitely conflating "degrees of consciousness" with enlightenment/Truth. He needs to ask WHY it is necessary to switch to "higher" states forever to access what reality is. Just because an experience is morphing the metaphysics of your experience, that does not mean it is Truth or enlightenment. This might seem paradoxical and impossible, but the ONLY existential deception that can occur in the entirety of existence is non-enlightenment. Either you can see what reality is, or you can't. There are only states where things are THOUGHT to be finite. All states are always infinite. All states have access to Truth. If you do not handle this "enlightenment" thing, your lack of clarity will bleed into most of the rest of your experiences. Also the idea that Ralston is denying "metaphysical love" is a complete strawman.

Truth is, Leo has no idea what enlightenment is because he hasn't achieved it, he even says that it doesn't exist. Yet he judges it all the time. I guess it's because it contradicts his idea of reality, but isn't that what all his new and deeper awakenings are doing as well?

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I think it's the other way around, and what is happening is that your mind is conceiving infinity as "infinite experiences" or "infinite truths" or "infinite understanding" or something of the sort. "If reality is infinite, that means it can understand itself forever, therefore all the awakenings are Truth." This type of sentiment. I think the above is how I used to reconcile Leo's awakenings, until I became enlightened.