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Am I imagining only my perceptions? The being-ness that I'm currently experiencing? Like is THAT all that exists? and everything else doesn't? When I look at the front of my hand, the back of my hand doesn't exist, when I flip my hand, the back of my hand exists, but not the front. Correct? Am I imagining all the universe at once? Like universe as all the stars and planets, etc. I intuitively believe that I don't need things like gravity, the earth, physics, biology, etc. to exist in order for my hand to manifest in front of me. No cause and effect. Just effect grounded in itself, effect with no cause. When I'm looking at my room with no reflective surfaces, do my eyeballs even exist? I don't see my eyeballs. Is the Universe with a capital U just my present experience? Sights, sounds, feelings, smells, tastes, thoughts. I'm even struggling to find a question that pinpoints what I'm really trying to ask. How the hell do I figure out these questions? Any pointers to contemplate/trip about?

Time and time again I hear: The Mind is the wrong tool for enlightenment. For grasping the absolute. Etc. Well, could you help point me to making the distinction between mind and no-mind? I feel like this would help.

This thread excites me to trip more and more. Gonna become a mega genius with all the integrated insight.

Man, this feels like a 900IQ post. ? The whole time I'm reading this I'm wondering about the contemplation, study, and observation behind this learning to create this post. I want your sources! What are your favorite / most powerful systems to study? Have you tried to use this kind of thinking to inform crypto investments? I'm thinking about using this for understanding my body, my mind, behaviour, beliefs, myself, mind, reality, relationships, etc

Question ESPECIALLY the assumptions that keep the idea of you alive, the assumptions that hold reality together and the assumptions that are "too sacred to question", or "too obvious to question", or "too apparent to question". Those are the best ones to question. @Kksd74628I love you too.

I need to learn more about this "frame" idea.

@Leo Gura How much time do you bask in Being during the day?

It makes so much sense how detachment from reality allows you to easily stomach taking risks which allows you to manipulate reality without the emotional baggage attachment brings.

I never thought of systematizing socialization into goals like this. I definetly have to try this. Like just go to a mall and strike up conversations with random people browsing products at a store, or wherever really. @Illusory Selfyou've definetly inspired me

@Leo Gura has this been updated yet? If so, I'll link it here for other people that stumble on this thread.

I'm always hearing "I broke through on x psychedelic", but what does "breakthrough" actually mean? I looked up Google's definition: "a sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development." How do you define it? What is it that you're breaking through? What is it that you are breaking out of?

@tedens this reminds me a of an Alan Watts talk. Exactly the same idea. Very insightful piece.

What do you really want? What do you want to experience in your life? What would not sit right with you on your death bed if you didn't experience it?

Work on it! Leo has a fantastic course on it. 10/10 will do again. You have yet to understand how every action that is happening right now is maximizing the love of the universe in the biggest picture. This technique helps a lot more when you life Create a life purpose so clear, a vision so clear, that its clear where you are and aren't serving yourself. Vague visions produce vague results. Vague visions provide vague direction. If your direction isn't clear, then you have no map to make distinctions of the territory.

Holy shit.

Interesting. Good to know!

@Late Boomer take time to integrate the insights and ramifications so deeply that you actually learn how to love and appreciate reality as it manifests. If you can't appreciate something in reality, then you simply don't comprehend and understand it deeply enough. See Leo's video: "Comprehension has many degrees" where he lays out a model. Your lack of nuance in understanding the intelligence of the design of reality holds you back from loving reality as it is. I'm working on this stuff myself! <3

@Late Boomer yeah on mobile I cannot delete a quote box or an @user @Leo Guranot sure if you're aware of this problem. Maybe a "clear all" button? An "undo" button as a workaround? Maybe just fixing the root problem with the coding?

If you're not going "holy shit" with realizing the level of depth that the social matrix influences your perceptions, I'd argue you have a wake up call headed your way. Study how language alone, the words that you know and don't know, is what precisely allows you to think certain thoughts. If it's not in your vocabulary, you can't even THINK it. You can't even conceptualize it. It's 100% outside of your awareness, completely blind. This is apparently how North Korea controls their people: by limiting the WORDS they're allowed to use. Imagine banning all the words that would be used to cause a revolution up against you.

I love how when the guy on the phone is talking about God, it completely goes over the podcaster's head.

I'm pretty content with the bubble I've created. I will actively seek out new channels when I want to use the search bar.

Pick out a poorly placed assumption, and then overexaggerate a completely wrong interpretation under their assumption. Utilize recontextualization.

The Duality of you vs other. The point where you can't even tell the difference between what you call "you" and what you call "everything else". #### Well define for yourself what "sane" means, held by the collective population. When you finally realize what reality actually is, you'll gain touch with reality for the first time, but to the one that assumes that this collectively held matrix of illusions is reality, they'll say that YOU lost touch with reality. Calling YOU psychotic, calling YOU insane, but the deep irony is that it's precisely the other way around.

Sounds like a good time. I look forward to it.

@Leo Gura Yeah just to be clear I'm not making the assumption that you sleep with women that are like mega wasted, just making the assumption that you slept with women who've had one or two drinks, because as you said, it's a social convention. I'd just like to make that distinction. I guess I conflate the word "intoxicated" with having any amount of alcohol. I'll have to be more mindful that this word may mean "complete loss of control" for some people. Okay maybe for alcohol, but what about psychedelics? Surely a girl on something like LSD or shrooms would be an advantage, no? I'd be operating under that assumption if I was going to a burning man festival. Not that I'd chose someone who's completely inebriated, just one that's clearly already having a good time.