AlwaysBeNice

They are obvious divine medicine when you use them with the intent to heal. And you still have to do the work, it doesn't do it for you, it helps you. Nature didn't make a mistake in creating you nor did it make a mistake with the plants who work on our brains. And no, I've had 'bad' (no such thing as bad ultimately, only challenging) trips when I was younger and that was because it was putting me face to face with my fears, that my mind believed in because I was brought up in a sick negative world. @Ozisoki The One consciousness is projected into spirit which is projected into a body, in the collective physical world there are means to operate with the body so that the spirit can be projected back into itself or into thought realms, which is correlated by the brain as long as you are not dead. www.evidenceforthesoul.weebly.com

@John Flores I thought the same thing: 'Drugs are probably bad for the spiritual path, if God wanted you to have an experience, he would just give it to you'. But then it fucking dawned on me, hey, if these things are not meant to be taken, WHY ARE THEY ALL OVER IN NATURE? And when you take them with the intent to heal, go within, expand your awareness you will realize them for the divine tools/medicine they are, just wonderful technology.

Inner resistance coming to the surface

Because your life might be build upon lies, it 'forces' (or attempts to show you, you can still resist (painfully)) to look at your shit, if you are not willing to do so you might be quite torn up afterwards for some time.

Don't think that ever happened here.

This is actually really interesting to think about. How do you raise a child to have it stay and be as enlightened as possible. Of course, be as pure, positive and conscious as you can possibly be, since he is taking you as an example most of the time. But also teaching them about self-inquiry and the Self works wonderfully probably; creating the most spontaneous conscious smart sharp confident ecstatic peaceful children and allowing it to carrying and expanding that all the way into adult hood.

Non-existence exists in the place of non-existent existence, filled with all the non-existence there is.

Yes, 3D fractals in a VR should be interesting.

Truth is happiness, oneness, enjoyment, freedom. Ego is fear, entrapment, paranoia, depression.

Sounds like a low dose of 5-MeO.

Preference is not a phase, worrying about it and disliking situations you find yourself in with people are.

It can be beneficial or temporarily creating an even more wobbly life, it just depends on how ready you are. How much do you meditate now and for how long has that been going on?

Everyone at some point in their practice, probably sooner than later, will get in touch with their deep suffering they have been carrying around, and which we generally have learned to let out but to stuff up: 'be happy, tough up, don't cry, be a man, don't be selfish, don't be a drama queen' etc. But crying is a big part of the path and it will happen, and if you block it you are bringing yourself to a halt if, if you honestly seek to feel it you will fasten the transformation, either way, the dam should break at one point or the other. And if there is one thing that feels good, lightens the burden and in so literally enlightens you, it's getting in touch with our emotions and crying, it brings you to yourself, you can feel it. And paradoxically, when you feel the sadness, you don't get more attached to the 'drama' but less, you get closer to the still self and actually become more detached and at peace. So it's important and it's beautiful, always. The despair drama that is often associated with sadness does not come from the sadness but from suppressing it and not letting it all out and thinking there is no way out , and also because the belief that death is the total end and thus bad, however I know from my experience it's not, and anyone can come to the same conclusion through direct experience and or research (www.evidenceforthesoul.weebly.com). - So aside from meditation, which is always the key and path to inner fruition, what helps me also is a lot consciously connecting with a passed loved one, feeling the beauty of their return to their true self and the presence of it (either in dreams, meditation and or in an attuned regular state of being), but also the sadness that you might not feel them completely and also the strong emotion that comes from realizing the pain you have been carrying around and the lack of knwoing and being your true self as pure clear consciousness without suppression and delusion of separation. And also, watching people cry and looking at the suffering of the world head on. I always avoided these things because I thought i could not bear, but I found out that truly getting to the depth of the pain and compassion you see actually is what makes it also profound and beautiful in it's own way, that one can go so so deep (but also knowing that all eventually know the light as well). So if you feel like it, I would recommend looking at the suffering head on, look up the crying people from Syria or even people putting out their true selves in singing contests and getting recognized for once in their life. Don't be afraid, what you get in touch with you integrate and it feels good, whole and safe, but what you resist persists and that actually feels uncomfortable. Thanks for listening I hope it helps. God bless.

It's more like de-actualization. First disabling youtube comments under the how to become a sage video, then removing the big discussion about Athene, a big youtuber, wanting to debate with Leo, albeit asking him in a trollish arrogant matter. Now, I am not saying you can't, but this trend is a track of the path in my opinion, not very reflective of oneness/unconditional love. I understand it may be challenging being a figure many people look up to, people expect something from you and you don't want to disappoint them but why shut down potential of discussion all together? People weren't less appropriate then other times, in fact I saw a genuine civil discussion, and if people derail topics or are inappropriate you don't shut down the fun for all but ban folks. Peace out and thanks for your service.

Can't it be both again? If there's one thing that seems to stick it's the paradox, it's always both. Yes, master and no masters are the same, and no, they are not the same. Yes, there is nothing to do, and because there is nothing to do, there is everything to do. Also, the system stands because people uphold it and don't act to change it, but it will change just like it always has in the past, because some minority got up and inspired the majority, which will you be?

It lacks a definition of logic, though it seems like they point to inner connection with the one spirit, albeit they seem to be confused about that themselves, and step 3 is oversimplified and does not create full purification of the self in my experience.

You want to be whole, happy, engaged, alive, emotions are a crucial part of this, and they never have to be experienced as negative or undesirable, they are the shakti of life, the other side of the emptiness and peace. Only the stress and fear associated with them make it seemingly undesirable. In that sense, I would put fear in it's own category aside from emotions, because that is not opening up, that is closing down, caused by attachment. Even sadness is beautiful in it's own way when you can just feel it in it's raw state and know that death and change is not the end of life's magnificence at all. To live emotionally suppressed is more like true death, and surprisingly how most people in the 'advanced' western world live their lives, dead and empty on the inside because of the suppression of who they truly are and how they feel, looking for temporary fulfillment in food, entertainment etc. No, you want to be as in touch with your emotions as you can, it's what flavors and fuels life, all it takes is willingness and honesty, honesty that you are in pain now, a lot of it, that's what's paradoxically the way out. And techniques that work well with this are meditation, meeting good people and talking honestly, meditating on weed/psychedelics, walking meditation. Life can be truly delicious that way and it's within everyone.

Going within for healing and truth creates the best and safest foundation, there is no real danger to damage yourself, in fact the damage has already been done by the suppressing the spontaneous self of the child and creating unbalanced societies, it is more like anti-danger truly.

I'd say it's naturally there but you are too distracted with a mind and emotional body full of fear that you won't be in a flow state when looking at information.

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yes AND no Always the case with these ultimate questions, it's both.

I think striving for sagehood in the relative world is the finest idea and don't see at as a contradiction with there is nothing to do and you are already whole, because that means that you can do everything, and then why not shoot for the stars? Though one thing @Leo Gura, disabling youtube comments, how come?

Yes, we were naturally in the flow state as children as well. Though we were already conditioned and affected to a degree still, and now we can go beyond that even.

> By this I mean that you have to become the kind of person who can be enlightened before reaching enlightenment. That resonates. Makes sense, if an unstable person gets too much insight it might shake the foundation of the ego mind/life too much.