ExploringReality

No. I didn't know it was said that long. I came up with it in my own mind, it was my own insight but it's cool that I'm not the only one! Isn't it true that scientists and sages throughout time, stumbled upon insights that other people had as well? I'm not claiming to own that term, I only phrase it that way because I came upon it myself and not just hearing someone else say it and copying them. Like when the Europeans colonized the Americas, they didn't discover it right, but they made that journey and discovered it for themselves even if it was already occupied

@Leo Gura My game now is to forget that I'm God, and get my ass back in the dream. It's like spoiling a movie for yourself, I just want to spread as much love as I can to other people, and strive for greatness in the world before it vanishes.

"INFP power" funny enough, I’m actually ENFJ. My post wasn’t about personality style, but about a developmental stage where consciousness becomes self-validation. It’s less about inward idealism and more about realizing the self-knowing nature of awareness itself. I'm not sure if that was a stereotype shorthand on your part.

No. What I mean is that once one becomes God-realized, consciousness is self-knowing and self-validating. Epistemic dependence belongs to the relative, dualistic stage of development, childhood, ego, learning. Epistemic sovereignty belongs to the absolute, nondual recognition of consciousness as its own ground. It doesn’t depend on another knower.

@bazera All the survival stuff, think of Maslow's hierarchy of needs bro. Finances and business are crucial to have a safety net so you won't hit rock bottom. Your doing great, I'm 27 but I started psychedelics when I was 19 and it made it hard for me to be ambitious because I found God. I'm slowly getting my finances and career in order all thanks to Leo's life purpose course. I'm still doing all those survival things to get me to a spot where I can rest with God and not worry about survival while checked out of the game every now and then.

Epistemic Sovereignty! The ability to stand in your own knowing without needing anyone to validate your knowing because your knowing is self-existent, self knowing, self evident. Needing reality to be validated really came when we were kids because we inherently were taught that our own perception cannot be trusted, so we naturally looked to others that took care of us to tell us what reality is. That's what gaslighting is, when you don't trust yourself and other people colonize your mind and define reality to you. Sovereignty of mind is what makes gaslighting impossible from other people. Others can only fool us when we don't trust our selves or we doubt our sense of reality. Imagine being absolutely sovereign, that's God 101. But it doesn't mean your cold or closed off, it just means you don't need other to tell you what you are or what reality is. Any how, hope this helps

I can't tell my family they aren't real!!! They will think I lost it haha Im pretty good at keeping my mouth closed. But my eyes are dilating and I love to look. I love to look at my consciousness. I can look at my eyes in the mirror for hours. Before I do anymore tripping, my last mushroom trip, the mushroom told me to not trip again before my finances and relationships are aligned or else it will teach me a hard lesson. I straightened out since then. I can say I am a kinder gentler person because of psychedelics. I've realized that life is imaginary and that I need to get my shit together and get my ducks in order before I rip apart the fabric of survival again. A lot of bad trips for me personally have stemmed because of personal issues or just how shitty my life was. All my psychedelic troops have been what you would call a really bad horrific trip, it's like when a drug addict has a really gnarly intervention and they're forced to hit rock bottom and really self-reflect to the point where it hurts. Those are the kind of trips that I'm interested in. And I am very grateful to have them and I wouldn't change them for anything else in life

@Leo Gura I just want to get on my knees, cry and just pray. This is strong stuff that gives me flashbacks to an LSD trip I had. I had a strong God realization before that terrified me because I know my life is purely imaginary. But I couldn't tell anyone this without sounding crazy Leo. I can't unsee what I saw. I had a hallucination in which I awoken as a dead man without a body in a coffin, alone and I am dead for a eternity, but I try to forget that I am alone and immortal by dreaming my current life. When I awoken, I couldn't see myself and I was scared because the whole point was to forget myself. When I realized I am alone, I freaked out.

I can know God because I am God? This present consciousness right now is God? Is that why it's called Awakening, because God is asleep or dreaming Im not God? Why do I as God do this? Why the forgetfulness and remembering? Why hide and seek? Why do I sneak up behind myself and say boo!? Existence is the ultimate proof? The light of my own consciousness is God? Why do I look for God everywhere besides this present consciousness? Sorry for the long rant. Is God realization some big bang of an experience or is it a simple ta, dah!!! Moment like remember my glasses are on my face? Why is God unrecognizable to myself as God? What am I missing? I had Awakenings of God realization but they scared the shit out of me, probably because my dose was to high. My journey from that point was to just get back to a sane sense of reality and to live in the dream of survival. Eternity, Infinity and deathlessness scared the Jesus out of me so I am here, playing survival but I want another awakening because my last peak was about 7 years ago

Leo!!! Cough up the good stuff. Like Terrence mckenna said " take a good look at the people around on this forum, somebody here has what your looking for" 😅

Ram dass, Terrence mckenna. These guys kept the light and went deep within. Still had delusions but consciousness was the main focus. I use to read be here now while tripping on LSD, incredible but that was only the start to my journey

Pure foolishness. Psychedelics are direct consciousness. Peter ralston is a genius but we can't just give our authority and sovereignty of mind to other people no matter how conscious they are, they are inherently putting a cap on areas to which they are ignorant. It's the old "don't do drugs, there ain't nothing in it but change of state" nonsense. My attitude is that psychedelics are to be respected more than I respect Peter or Leo. Some people just have shitty maps of certain territories, the very first actualized.org video I ever came across was while tripping on psilocybin and I found Leo's episode on his experience with magic mushrooms!!!!. I was astonished how swiftly and elegant you described your experience of transcending your life story and your experience with deep spiritual Love. But the only reason why I was able to appreciate your experiences is because I was coming directly from my own! I can tell you from first-hand experience, all of my psychedelic trips, have literally raised my consciousness. You don't understand what consciousness is until you have a psychedelic experience, not just taking a psychedelic. Imagine how you would feel if you were to take four shots of coffee but you're not jittery and just pure clean consciousness. Just imagine that times 10 and also try to understand it's not exactly that because if you haven't tripped then you wouldn't know what I mean. Consciousness expands to the point where it swallows yourself image and your identity.

Great post. Im still looking to find a vape pen

Speaking is an incredibly profound and weird thing. This ability to create mental replications in the mind, internalize meaning and symbols, move our mouths and understand each other is miraculous. How is this possible? I'm not asking for an answer which would use language, I'm asking as in when one looks up at the sky and wonders about the stars through time. Reality is incredibly rich and deep. Human language is fascinating in that we can use it as an intellectual flashlight and describe phenomenons. It has its limits, but it's totally worth pushing those limits and examining the edges of reality and our entire frame of cognition. Is language the fruit of the tree of knowledge metaphorically? Also there seems to be a war of words and narrative when it comes to relationships, politics ect... Language shapes reality like a container shapes the water it holds. We take for granted that language is just concept and treat it as a finger pointing to the moon, but I feel that language is something so profound, at least I'm open to seeing language from a higher elevation. Language is the colors that highlight reality. There are a lot of stupid people that hijack language and twist and flip reality, this could be known in the form of gas lighting or narcissism, but also think of people that are really good with language, Terrence mckenna, Leo guru, Alan Watts, etc. Somebody once said that language was invented so that people could lie, how true is that? Language is like a chameleon, it's not what it appears to be, or it is exactly what it appears to be. This requires epistemic humility and mastery. Because growing up we had to accept would serve our survival, and our minds get filled with all sorts of language viruses. Part of having sovereignty of mind is to be able to think for yourself, turn skepticism inward, self-reflect, contemplate, and being very open-minded. Think of a good salesperson and a bad salesperson and the results they get. Think of lawyers and defense attorneys, think of the make or break of a relationship. Think of getting a job promotion, etc all of these are choices and results that are influenced by language, and if you can learn to say it right it makes all the difference. It's possible to understand all of reality with language, but not the limited version of language that you probably are thinking of right now, a trans linguistic language a meta language, a construct aware language.

The 48 laws of Power by Robert Greene is the antidote to being fucked over by power and control. It's like having kids, you are the parent you set the stage, don't let other people come in there and raise your kid. They will infest their minds and influence them with all sorts of toxic shit that they sucked up from culture and society. When you have children you better not give up control, and make sure that your power as a parent is being guided by higher consciousness, good nutrition, lifelong learning and being a conscious powerful parent