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Most of you seem to be underestimating Elon Musk.

Psychedelics are incredible. But really, seeking a way to bring an end to seeking is the cosmic joke.

@Swarnim God realisation isn’t a good pointer at all. It’s just another experience, like an opioid high. The “answer” to all of this is found only when all seeking / wanting things to be different stops completely. There is nothing you can do about any of this. There is no you to do it. There is no subject / object awareness. There is no agent anywhere that can change a single thing. There is no doing. There is just this, and only this.

Crying over a cup of tea? ? Careful not to freak out the barista at your nearest Starbucks. Maybe best ask for coffee instead. Joking aside, no you’re not enlightened, but it doesn’t matter either way. Enlightenment is the end of living a life. It is final.

This is exactly why Leo should provide downloadable, life-sized, cut-out-and-keep photos of himself.

It’s less than that.

Just returning your call. My goal is coalescence and homogenisation of all points of view, but it’s no fun unless I can play in esoteric mode.

@meta_male The seeking of meaning is the suffering. Labels like "narcissist" are a form of dehumanisation and condemnation. Pathological narcissism is very rare. Carelessly throwing this label around helps neither the apparent victim nor the apparent perpetrator (both of whom can suffer a lot)

narcissist /ˈnɑːsɪsɪst / noun: One of the most dehumanising and most commonly-misused diagnoses of the past decade.

No value whatsoever in Freud or Jung or anything else. They can both be entertaining though (probably Jung more than Freud)

Hey all, look at this list of exactly equal things, none of which exist: A beautiful sunset A long straight road Free will A field full of cows You A late train Thirst A difficult chess puzzle Awareness Gaslighting

Honestly, the behaviour that troubles me the most is from the far left. They’re like the new Red Guards. That which is considered these days to be far right is very rarely genuinely far right. It’s just that the Overton Window has shifted so much. Churchill once said that if you’re not left wing when you’re young, you lack passion. And if you’re not right wing when you get older, you lack intelligence. Leaving the extremes of far left and far right aside, there is some truth to this.

Researchers have apparently grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play Pong: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63195653

I think he just wants to see more balance.

'No self' is not a state that people permanently reside in. It is just what is (already) That is, there are no people, and there is no you. People say there are glimpses, but really once seen it cannot be unseen (and the idea of a glimpse then seems quite silly)

"They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat." "That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars." "They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines." "So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact." "They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines." "That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."

Don't get hooked on Aristotelian logic ;-)

If your goal is to relax, I think it is best to lie down and go to sleep.

@Leo Gura He has democratised Twitter Blue, so total conversions account for the entire user base, not only the existing checkmarked users. Estimates of the total user base seem to vary, anything between 280m to 450m. A conversion rate of 5% seems reasonable. But even if it is half of this, that is still $700m from Twitter Blue subs + approx $5bn from advertising and data licensing (again not accounting for growth)

Let's say Twitter Blue on-boards 5% conversion of 300m users = 15m users. 15,000,000 users X $8 (subscription fee) = $120,000,000 per month / $1.44bn per year In 2021, Twitter made $4.5bn from advertising and $0.5bn from data licensing. So in total, revenues are currently approx $6bn per year. Employee overheads are now reduced by 50% (could be more)

Well... that is the prototypical hyper-animated, plasticky, Loony-Tunes style DMT world. A lot of people have experienced that. You have said in the past that you've never experienced strong visuals on psychedelics. Perhaps your brain chemistry now allows this - in which case, yes - when these unfathomable alien landscapes are first encountered, it really does seem exactly like a portal to another dimension has opened up. The world you're describing always has that cartoonish circus / carnival vibe with playful (although sometimes ominous) entities. I've seen it before many times. Bizarre playful creatures doing cartwheels, backflips, helicoptering around... all of that will be extremely familiar to those who have visual experiences of alien worlds on DMT. The neuroscientist Andrew Gallimore has recently released an erudite and academically stringent new book 'Reality Switch Technologies', in which he argues that DMT and other psychedelics provide chemical gateways to alien worlds by altering neurochemistry. The changes to brainwave frequency prime the cortical columns to pick up new reality "channels" or "stations". Maybe take a read.

The stuff that men and women find attractive at first glance doesn't have that much to do with what they actually want. All that men or women ultimately want is to feel as loved as possible. Love can take many forms. Beauty is a type of love. Wealth is a type of love. And these things can provide some limited satisfaction. But within the context of a relationship, the highest form of love is to feel - and to make someone else feel - truly understood, appreciated and admired for who they are. This trumps everything else a thousand times over. Relationships based too heavily on beauty, success or convenience typically end in bitterness because the foundation was never there. We only ever seek these things out of a sense of incompleteness anyway. Getting a few spiritual ducks in a row before embarking on a relationship can help a lot.

It's just another experience. There is nothing special about it, but novelty is a lot of fun.

You're not here This place has obvious entertainment value, but sometimes I think Leo doesn't push it quite far enough.

It is actually. There are no grades of enlightenment. It is final.