ExploringReality

@Leo Gura hey Leo, What are the health challenges that you are facing right now? How does it prohibit your use of psychedelics? Do you microdose acid or stropharia? I'm genuinely curious about you.

@Unlimited Wow! That's an incredible sense of clarity to see how ones actions and input can contribute to the conflict between our families bro. In my experiences with arguing and fighting with my brother, a situation escalated in our late teens that led to him throwing a glass ceramic coffee mug at my arm, resulting in a permanent laceration that is a life long healing and recovery process. As it happened and blood was dripping, I immediately went to the bathroom tub, I looked at my brother in that moment of panic, pain and shocking reaction to what happened, I told him that I am sorry baby brother, I love you and I forgive you for everything, including my arm. I cried with him and took a bus to the hospital with my dad. That really opened me up on my journey in a direction of compassion, forgiveness, letting go, surrender, introspection, reflection, I also experimented with psychedelics during the first phase of this injury and that really led me to tripping so hard that I found @Leo Gura because I was researching the effects of psychedelics and wanted to see who else on YouTube I can find that explain the phenomenological nature of altered States of Consciousness under the influence of hallucinogens. Also what helps me on my journey are books on emotional intelligence. Loving kindness taught at a high perspective by sages and masters. The four agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. Also higher consciousness books that blend grounding compassion with all beings, tranquil, peaceful living around turmoil and chaos. Keep forgiving your family over time and it will deepen your love with them even if you guys depart in separate directions later in life, you can still agree to disagree, you set boundaries of respect and still appreciate them. 🩷

@The Crocodile You are not allowed on this forum anymore spreading lies, manipulation and deception. Begone demon.

😆 this forum is great but you can get lost just blabber mouthing and scrolling because our brains are addicted. It is a great resource and I'm in here often but I can see that it can be a space for productivity and communication but also a distraction depending on how you use it, or rather how it uses you. If you purchased the life purpose course then you know your time should be mostly on that. This forum should supplement your life purpose and journey towards holism and holistic thinking not substitute it. What do you guys think? What is the best way to use this forum? @Leo Gura can you make an episode on how to use the actualized forum and how to avoid the traps that inevitably people fall into? There are a lot of childish behavior here and stupid arguments over who has the biggest dick or who is more intelligent in they're wording and it never ends! Leo do you feel like a elementary teacher with a bunch of kids in a sand box that you have to monitor on this forum? Making sure there are no fights, disrespectful behavior and who needs time out? Hahahahaa

@Leo Gura Nvm it's working now

@Ulax We have a dick slinging contest then. Bring your shield 🛡️

I just spit my apples out, thanks

@Carl-Richard Aww yess!!! The Self talking to itself endlessly playing mind games.

@aurum In what context do you feel his perspective is low? God realization? He answered what is nirvana as a realization of the here and now point of consciousness. He said that trying to reach some place called enlightenment creates dissatisfied craving for getting something outside this present moment. He may be at a certain level or holarchy of consciousness yes that's true. But overall it's low if your an extremely advanced psychonaut, spiritual practitioner and connoisseur of consciousness expansion. But most people aren't there which is like saying LeBron James sucks compared to Jordan which may be true contextually but most people aren't even NCAA skilled to embody that comparison. What do you think?

@Santiago Ram @Leo Gura Go straight for Truth. Whatever it is. Do you really want to know and understand reality? That has been my key. It's facing Truth is what is the challenge

@Leo Gura Thank you. Consciousness is beautiful. There is nothing I need from anyone or anything because all is impermanence, consciousness exploring itself. Yes I will continue to play my game and be compassionate towards the suffering of the dream. To be in the world but not of it. It is bitter sweet and will learn to enjoy it. That all is a construct and I am God. Why would I consciously choose to live in a nightmare? I will choose to enjoy this construction. I went to Disneyland and the whole time I enjoyed it all while knowing it's all chimp shit and designed to suck you right in this. I notice this and it pulls me out of a good time a little.

@Leo Gura Its awesome and terrifying. It's jolting Leo. To realize that I've been it all along feels like a dead man Awakening in a grave. It's like spoiling the movie that I believe is real. I watched my dad growing up watching all the classic movies, so sucked in that I would watch my Dad looking at the movie and be more interested in watching him instead of the movie. It is beautiful Leo it really is. This consciousness is so fucking gargantuas. How can I forget this and pretend to not see this? Or how can I integrate and synthesize this?

@r0ckyreed You don't know til you weigh it, until then it's just speculation. Don't look to anyone for advice now, beyond this point it's your journey and nobody else. You decide to eat the whole or half, get on the trip and trust yourself.

@Sugarcoat Same to you

@Sugarcoat Lol stop. I do have a bug up my ass when it comes to psychedelic use

@Sugarcoat It definitely helps to do your homework.

@r0ckyreed If you don't have an accurate scale, start with half the amount, wait 2 hours. Be patient because after chewing them your body needs to break it down. Don't go looking for changes in consciousness, like I said use the time before the come up to reflect on your life and to prepare yourself to be willing to surrender and let go to the experience. Since it's your first time you want to start low even if you don't have a scale and then see what you can handle and how you react. Have a safe peaceful and reflective trip

@Sugarcoat wrong. You need a microdose scale to measure the amount you are taking. Everyone needs less or more for them, but these are strong hallucinogens. Read books from Terence McKenna because you don't need a specific number of stems and caps. It's the weight and strain that determine whether you have a mild trip or a full on psychedelic experience outside of set and setting and neurological wiring and sensitivity to consciousness expansion

@r0ckyreed Don't worry about it being anything other than five hydroxy dimethyltryptamine. A microdose scale. If you fast for more than 4 hours or a day, hydrate with water, meditate 30 mins before you take it. Stay home, it's hermit mode time. If you have any spiritual books you can read those. When you take it don't expect anything miraculous or mystical to happen. Instead use the first 30 minutes to an hour to reflect on your life and be willing to accept whatever it is the mushroom is going to reflect to your mind. If there are things that you don't want to think about come up just allow them to come and allow them to go without getting sucked into the content too much. It's like taking a long train ride from home to a new place within. Remember to accept whatever happens and to let go. Use your breath as an anchor for the coming and going of existence. Follow the inhale let go of the exhale. Do some yoga if you can as well feel your body. Love your body because you are beautiful.

Yes those are definitely psilocybe cubensis. Ask him what strain it is. It looks like no more than a gram, before taking them make sure you disconnect the phones, turn off the television, set the whole day aside so that nobody is bothering you. Do not eat for 5 hours before taking them and do not eat any junk food throughout the whole day. Slice up some apples and fruits to have that ready for later. This is not for recreation this is for your spiritual experience.

@Sugarcoat @Sugarcoat Go into it ready to die

@Sugarcoat It is possible to transcend and collapse dualities because they are constructs of the human mind. Dualities do serve our survival, and there is a strong emotional charge pushing our drive to survive. Which is why even if you are directly conscious of Truth, the ego can still exhibit fears and desires like a zombie that won't die. It's okay to play the game of life and death while also knowing and seeing the big picture. The Absolute is imminent as well. There is an old saying paraphrased by Alan Watts " I pray that death doesn't find me still un annihilated" meaning the ego has disappeared before death caught up with it.

@Sugarcoat Do you think there is a possibility of transcending those dualities?

Do you feel that spirituality can infuse your ambition towards living in a more practical way or is it something that is separate from the more practical? There is a duality between spirituality and reality that we've created. This makes me curious to see if our spiritual pursuits and exploring consciousness and reality have to be separate from our ego driven needs and survival. Just like peak experiences, higher consciousness and altered States are temporary experiences and then you plateau, this motivation and renewed energy will plateau in time and you do need anchors to ground you or something to remind, replenish and rehydrate the soul for inspiration and vision. I did take Leo's life purpose course and that definitely helps me to renew my spirit. Basically I'm wondering can spirituality and meditation be infused into life purpose and practical results making? They seem sperate, or can they be a synthesis?