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  2. What kind of evidence do you want?

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    Mellowmarsh replied to Breakingthewall's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God

    “The real remains the same without changing. But everything changes in life, so the real, which the mind thinks is real, is illusory. The sages realised that the real in life is illusory, meaning, to the mind, that the real appears to be in life, whereas it is not in life as an actuality. ‘Neti Neti’ means ‘not this, not this’ or ‘neither this nor that’, to signify that ‘this’ or ‘that’ is illusory and not real. Illusory means the real exists, but the existence of real is illusory, to mean the real does not exist in the manner the mind thinks it exists. The illusory exists as a play of light and sound, which gives rise to a deception of reality. The real that exists in the world, including the world, is illusory because every atom of the real that exists is light. Therefore, the real that exists is an illusion of light and not an actuality. The sages have rightly proclaimed that life is a play of light and sound, without a real cause or effect, and that light, which has no real cause, reflects only illusory effects of reality. Therefore, the real or advaita cannot be known, taught, practised, searched or experienced. Only the illusory can be known, taught, practised, searched and experienced. To understand that life, as the mind thinks it is, is illusory is advaita, non-duality or absolute understanding. Life has gifted the mind only to man, so that he may understand his own mind. This absolute understanding leads to enlightenment.“ https://www.academy-advaita.com/en/
  4. You are making shit up to support your argument. Present some evidence that psychedelics always destroy good structures of the brain, please.
  5. I just looked up the guy that was a major champion of psychedelics and look at his situation right now, posted 1 month ago. And this is his latest video: So sad. And somehow he thinks his house burning down is god's work. That is magical thinking 101. That is like one of the biggest trade marks of bad spirituality. Apparently he couldn't find a new home, because the video is still up so he is basically homeless right now with a bunch of kids.
  6. Actualized changed my perspective on the war on drugs. I was initially close minded because my parents were drug addicts. Psychedelic research introduced the distinctions necessary for this issue. It gave me a different frame for interpreting drug addiction and the damage it caused me in life.
  7. I do, maybe not every line every time, but you need to understand the output enough to be sure that it won't mess anything, also you need to remember what you did, where you made changes, you need to maintain understanding of your codebase, you must not allow it to turn into AI slop, which will happen very fast if you're not careful. I review code of my co-workers daily and some of them who are reckless and irresponsible don't read what AI generates, commit and push slop that will mess up the project if I allow it, so it's AI generated but still need a competent reviewer.
  8. @bazera Do you think it is necessary to learn coding from scratch prior to being able to check and understand what AI generates? Do you feel there is use to still practicing coding in this way, as a method of retaining the skill? Interested in the redundancy factor and how that effects cognition, skill and ability. And if these can atrophy with disuse.
  9. Same for the company I work for, we haven't written code manually since Opus models got good. @Leo Gura What you need to distinguish in coding is vibe coding vs coding with AI assistence. We don't write code manually anymore, but it's super critical to check and understand what AI generates. You have to know what you are doing to deliver quality results. Vibe coding is when someone doesn't understand what he's doing and he's just prompting, without even checking code, without even using IDE. Of course that won't work with enterprice level software, that can only work with prototyping or doing unimportant work.

  10. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Natasha Tori Maru replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    When I ask myself the question, I like to push it into a reframe. I invert it to "What did I gain?" It allows me to connect to the negativity around loss. Grief comes up - and the negative charge I felt is discovered to have wallpapered over the true feeling. Grieving is then allowed, and processed. Connected with. The feeling then abates naturally. And I feel peace. I suppose the connection to the feeling is the same Goodness as the Goodness that flourishes from the connection to God. The connection to Self. The Knowing of Self. The Loving of Self. Connection is the ultimate Goodness!!
  11. "The difference between you and me is that I don't mind what happens." Nisargadatta How would it be possible to make that statement without having had a permanent cessation of the separate sense of self ? I understand your frustration with neo advaita, I felt the same way, which is why I was surprised when I connected with Jim's message a few months ago. I think him, Tony and some others really have a unique way though of pointing out the hopeless dilemma of the seeker. When this is heard on a deeper level, it allows for a natural unravelling of the sense of a separate self, at quite a rapid rate. So for me it's been very effective in that way, but I also still find value in Leo and many other teachers. I just don't agree with the claim that a permanent cessation of the separate sense of self will not allow for any daily functioning. All that's happened is the drop has permanently seen through the illusion that it's somehow separate from the ocean. Spirit and intelligence still happens, there's just no personal ownership of it all. Nature seems to be doing just fine without ego etc.
  12. There are not a lot of good examples of ethical use of psychedelics. I know some psychedelic champions on youtube and their lives all turned sour to say it politely. Just saying I said so is not enough. They have to become the living example like good leaders/parents/gurus should be.
  13. I think there is a lot of speculation happening because we do not know what he was doing or not doing.
  14. And that has been plenty disclosed too. There is never enough disclaimers for fools. This work cannot be fool-proof. You can't talk a reckless person out of being reckless.

  15. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Leo Gura replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Hehe. This is like asking, "Why was life difficult for you? Why didn't you just die quietly?"
  16. Even when fully healthy it can be dangerous. Psychedelics are like an atom bomb for your mind. It can destroy the bad structures and rubble which is good but it always destroys some good structures too. I know some people who have gone on their psychedelic arch and they lost their sharpness, creativity and fire and turned into Frankenstein's reiterating their small minds/worlds.
  17. @AION Most normal people are natural psychos. You just don't know it because they put so much effort into hiding it. That's how they look 'normal'. Conformity is no joke. I like to think that we're all psychos in some way, shape, or form. It's just that some of us know how to hide it better than others.

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    Breakingthewall replied to Breakingthewall's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God

    No problem, just admit that you are wrong and I'm right, then everything would be ok 😘

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    VeganAwake replied to Breakingthewall's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God

    We're just not talking about the same thing, and that's ok! There wasn't a good reason to butt in on your topic! All is well!
  20. Sorry to hear that. Alcohol can be wicked. Except you conveniently ignore all the disclaimers and advice given against mixing psychedelics with mental illness. No one who teaches about psychedelics thinks it is okay for a bipolar person to take psychedelics daily, for weeks and months. Everyone tells you that's very dangerous. That is called abuse of psychedelics. Yes, abusing psychedelics can be lethal. No person with mental health issues should be taking psychedelics daily. That is crazy. Perhaps Connor was normal, but lots of psychedelics can unlock latent mental illness. Psychedelics don't cause bipolar, but they can unlock it if one was already prone. Psychedelics are just like guns. Reckless people will certainly injure themselves with it. That is not the gun's fault. The gun is doing its job. What ever happened to responsibility? Whose responsibility is it to use psychedelics carefully? Why is that responsibility crucial?
  21. Anybody who takes that amount of psychedelics will suffer and it will break their mind. He basically turned into a Frankenstein running around looking for love being rejected by his creator. And tragicomically enough Conners death resembles the death of Frankenstein who also died while running away from authorities.
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  24. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Natasha Tori Maru replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    The Cost of Understanding Why was there a cost for you? If one has nothing to prove, true listening, true understanding, naturally happens. Don't you think? Do you feel you had to give something up that was unwillingly given? Why is there pain / fear here for you? After all, this is where the "negativity" arises from. Where did you first feel the pain of this cost? And has this been connected with, so it is not echoing through the work again and again?
  25. @AION I agree. I think he was a highly intelligent guy who was also very creative but he was also pushing the boundaries a lot too.
  26. Guys stop painting this guy as a natural psycho. Why do you guys try to smear him like that? He was a normal guy. This is a video of his friend. He says he was a normal dude before his psychedelic arch. I think another thing that played a role is his success arch. He started earning a lot of money on a young age. When one is poor one doesn´t have a lot of options to fuck oneself up. If you have money you can go on path of hedonism and that can fuck you up too. Hedonism opens the door to suffering which opens the door to spirituality. But unfortunately he fell in the wrong hands in terms of spiritual gurus who underestimated the dangers of psychedelics.
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