Haumea

There's nothing to solve, I think. I agree with you that the 5eo-dmt experience was a Stage 3 "God Consciousness" experience. The only peril here is that he stabilizes in that stage and believes that's full enlightenment. Otherwise it wasn't a bad experience to have, it likely accelerated his progress. I've had experience with spirit guides on psychedelics (that's of a stage prior to Leo's experience) and it was definitely helpful. As far as striving, this is natural until you stabilize in the last pre-nonduality stage. Eventually, you realize it can't be done and let go. He knows it intellectually already but accepting it takes time. Yes, no other, no world, no enlightened being, everything is perfect exactly as it is.

Loreena, His whole metaframe is default blind trust of all kinds of authority. It's as if he lacks the imagination that it could be corrupt, let alone that it is likely corrupt. Very naive, especially politically. E.g. see here. (I went looking for specific examples of this after posting the previous paragraph, but I think it illustrates my general observations well.)

Haha,

Pretty much what Leo said. It's about where the rubber meets the road. People seek out and abuse power. Every system is corruptible, either in terms of financial gain or just the power to commit depravity.

I don't think there's that much disagreement actually, just varying descriptions of the same stages of enlightenment. There's entry into non-duality: "localized" no-self, characterized by non-doership/spontaneous action; then cosmic self, i.e. "I am the universe" feeling; then God Consciousness, i.e. the pure "I am" feeling, the seed of manifestation; then nirvikalpa samadhi, i.e. "the Buddha has been met on the road and killed", i.e. "I am the truth", and then the Ultimate or Absolute, where the I-thought has been terminated and no longer arises: sahaja. "No Other, No World, No Enlightened Being, Nothing Ever Happened, etc." The entire process after ego death is eliminating the subtle aspects of mind that cause The Other to arise.

I've listened to his podcasts and have found him to be conventionally intelligent but severely - severely - lacking in self-awareness. He blindly takes his metaframe (set of implicit beliefs and assumptions) for granted; there's little self-reflection as to whether it is even valid for examining certain issues. This produces a GIGO effect: you can have the most sound logic, but if your premises are naive or foolish, it's worthless. I don't think he's even close to non-duality.

Not to sound flip or anything, but if you're enlightened and have to smoke somebody, it's God's will. I would guess the chances of what you're describing happening are maybe one in a thousand, if not even rarer.

I've had that too, and been told by people in the know that it's a consequence of exposure to non-duality frequencies. You're adjusting to a rise in consciousness. Lightheadedness, weird sensations in the head, etc. I thought it was something physical at first.

Because doing anything else seems pointless at this point. Once you unplug yourself from the Matrix, those Matrixy activities seem ridiculous.

Yeah, that was my reaction. If you can diligently execute every thing on that list, more power to you. Otherwise, it's not about what you put on a list, it's about what you will realistically do that matters.

I've now had close to a week of ego death experience (the orienting center point that the ego needs to exist could not be found, it was diffused into a small mass of emptyness) in total. It's really not that different in terms of activity from having an ego in my experience. The difference is (1) you're not identifying with any of the action, it feels spontaneous, and as a consequence of that (2) the self-consciousness that existed in the ego state is gone, so all kinds of thoughts, positive, negative, indifferent happen as before, but there's no ego to get sucked into their narrative. You're not drowning in them, there's a dam rerouting them. So I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Your body goes on as before. Motivations are largely a consequence of physical processes: fears, desires, needs, etc. If you had them before there's no reason you should lose them. Another benefit of ego death that many people are unaware of is that you can't really process some of your psychological issues until you reach the initial stages of enlightenment (i.e. localized no-self and cosmic self.) This is supposedly when a lot of purification occurs, and people act out. Leo has a video on Zen Devils - I think that's an example of this phenomenon. Fortunately, unless you're in a position of power over people, you are not likely to make a mess of things.

Putting aside the issue of whether these particular teachers were enlightened "instantly", there are some people who go from duality to full enlightenment with breathtaking speed (e.g. in a day or in a week or a month.) I believe it all has to do with past-life spiritual karma. Some people come into this life ready to pop, and at some point their time comes. Maybe they were saints in previous lives, etc. It doesn't really matter - you could be one of these people or not; it doesn't really change much. One takes it as it comes.