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Anyone would be a techno-misfit if you just snatched them from the first century and dropped them in 2018, so questioning whether Jesus would be kind of misses the point somewhat? He had an ordinary trade (carpenter) for 30 years before he started preaching so I guess he was like your average tradesman today, plus raised the roof at parties with his water into wine trick!

Are they? I would question this bit. ULTIMATE REALITY.

Oh man... if I could just shoot another leaf, I might make a beetroot!!! LOL!

I understand the root of suffering to be (and I'm not sure where I read or picked this up), that if you need something you are in a state of wanting, and if you have something, you are in a state of fear that you will loose it. I guess also you could play a simple game and try to conceive your own paradise, and put in there all that you want, an element of danger when climbing a mountain, an element of fear when hunting, and element of difficulty when conquering a woman, and you really end up with the current world exactly as it is... for you. I think!

LOL!

I always knew my guru was going to be a funny bald headed software engineer from Vegas, but there we go!

Who would have ever thought you'd find Jesus returned, on You Tube???

KNOWLEDGE!!

Because you as god wanted to play this game in which it's part of the human condition.

You seriously gave psychoactive drugs to your dog, yes?

I do apologise Shin for looking so critical. I had another breakthrough with self enquiry this morning.

It might be a great self enquiry if you've already answered your questions in the past? Like... you've already had the Freemasons ceremony, now all you need at the door is a special handshake.

Personally I would leave the dog out of it. Maybe the whips and chains also.

I only really get time about once a week for self enquiry and so I've been doing this for about 2 years. I have posted before about some progress with this. I just wanted to post the following video which is really, really useful. I listened to it on Friday afternoon, then I listened to it before self enquiry twice on Monday morning. This time, I felt like a 10 tonne weight had landed on my whole body and shoulders, well and head really everywhere. I had not had this before. And then I started entering the rapid heart beat stage, but wasn't sure whether to close my eyes or not (as I do this open eyed) and alas, I closed my eyes and it started to subside. However, now I got that far twice, I'm pretty certain now that it will come, and I think if you can take the urgency out of it, that's a good thing when it comes to meditation, right? The other thing I do is vary the question Who am I ? a lot. This isn't specifically spelled out to us, however I feel that the words in the questions are just labels, and we all have a different meaning for each label, so, be safe and ask a few different questions. "You" will know the meanings when you hear it! Forgot to say, for a 10 minute meditation, I felt great afterwards!!!

@mohdanasGood for you. I'm having a baby! It's taken 12 years to do. I read about I need to die and leave everything behind etc etc, but I also know that the Universe loves creation - all of it!

You give LSD to your dog, porn, WTF?

This web site doesn't help very much. Sometimes it can make me feel like I need to do a bunch of drugs I don't have access to just to feel like I'm making progress.

@Leo Gura The effects used at the peak of another psychedelic can last for several hours. Source: http://www.dmtsite.com/5-meo-dmt/information/sources.html

You just don't get addiction do you. You think it's something related to a given substance and not something related to the character of the person. Some people will form a chronic addiction to coffee and start planning ahead their next cup and stashing supplies of it so they never run out before they've even finished sipping it.

One answer would be that the brain has evolved to aid survival and procreation and natural selection would avoid "visions" and "enlightenment", anything that distracts us from the fight / flight / hunting for food. If you're asking "but why drugs", the whole brain is a drug factory, it's all run on neuro transmitters and electrochemical impulses. It's a bit like asking why I can bypass something in a computer with a paper clip, and then asking why this paper clip is so amazing.

Unfortunately though, these ways of looking at things don't provide any practical answers to anything. If you believe the universe is all a construct, you can still ask how that construct adjuncts or interfaces with being? which is after-all what Leo, you think that 5Meo does, right?

I listened carefully to what he said. There seems an apparent contradiction either between DMT and Mushrooms or between Russell Brands philosophy and that stated on this forum a few times... His main argument in this short clip is that DMT produces states that are constant or consistent between participants whereas the exact opposite is report about mushrooms; in that they emphasise or form out of, the pre-existing beliefs of the participant. The question isn't about the differences between different drugs or opinion, but that Russell Brand used this as an argument for proof of there being a consistent underlying sub-strata to existence or dimension that we can experience. Anyone?

If you confront the thoughts head on, you empower them. I'm sure Leo has banged on about this in his videos and it makes perfect sense. Even if you see an old school hypnotist like McKenna, he will hypnotise someone and allow them to see compassion and understanding for their old ways and thank them for their work which is "no longer needed." This is why going inside your mind with compassion is the opposite to leading a celibate life and putting on a massive front of righteousness - we all know where that leads...

No - it's a higher level of consciousness than the physical concept "pill".

He spit. No swallow.