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  2. What are your hobbies?

    Basman replied to Ampresus's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    How do you end up with that as a hobby? Because it's medical or because it's gore?

  3. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

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

    That is because that requires some heavy metaphysical work/understanding. Which is what I try to teach. It's not enough to have a mystical experience, the mind needs to mine it and integrate it into a much larger understanding of Reality. It is like assembling a puzzle, but they never assemble it.
  4. The map is not the territory. I will contemplate the following: How are personality tests conformity? What are the limits of personality test? How do personality tests limit one's Intelligence? How can personality tests be used to reinforce self biases?
  5. Hamilton Morris, John Vervaeke, Andrew Newberg, Sam Harris, Anil Seth, Roland Griffiths, Rick Strassman, Robert Wright, Thomas Metzinger, Evan Thompson. What do they all have in common? They all validate mystical experiences, but either deny or remain uncommitted on the actual metaphysics. At least publicly.
  6. Toxic masculinity be like

  7. Playing video games wisely

    UnbornTao replied to Ima Freeman's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Cool!
  8. The issue I see with this is that you seem to be talking about cognition, or a state of mind - the process of making sense of experience through interpretation. And consider this: existence was the case before you were born and had any state or the ability to cognize it. Yeah, belief is powerful. Not denying that. People may be so convinced of their beliefs as to die for them. In certain cases beliefs can also be very beneficial. Imagine that when Leo says "consciousness," he may well be talking about a different distinction from what someone like Adi Da or Ramana might be referring to. I think you're one of the believers in the psychedelic camp who think drugs can increase consciousness. And, by the way, I've watched the videos and done the drugs, too. I was in that camp as well - until I had to be honest with myself and eventually outgrew it. There was a video by Adi Da - an actually enlightened guy - who made the point that this path is wrong (in this particular sense) and potentially deluding. This notion is something people here are passionately unwilling to give up. The Buddha himself - the legend of complete awakening - could come back, try a bunch of these substances, and claim, "That's not it," and people here would still have a hard time accepting it, or would just come up with excuses as to why that would be. I guess the closest we have to that are Ralston, Adi Da, and Ramana. And what do they have to say about this matter? Seriously ponder that for a moment. It'd be a real bitch if they were telling the truth, right? You'd be chasing - what? A state? A fantasy? Thinking that you were after what's true along the way. And to be clear, they can be incredibly beneficial in therapeutic work and so on. It's an easy trap to fall into: denigrating this thing called awakening, whatever it is, into an experience. I've certainly fallen for that before. OK we should probably start another thread.
  9. Ahahhahaha love that one. I'm gonna use that hehe 😏
  10. It's true! I've seen a Slytherin once talking to an awakened guru and he confirmed! He looked at the boy and said: "Wrong house. You're fucked. Enjoy sleeping, Habibi"
  11. Thanks!

  13. What are your hobbies?

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

    Staring into the abyss.
  14. Deconstructing physical sex: An implicit assumption within the materialist paradigm is that physical sex is better than pornography. While there are differences between the two, they share way more similarities than there are differences. Up to 90% of the experience is the same, from a technical scientific perspective. This shows you just how ridiculous the whole notion of virginity is. If someone is watching pornography everyday and orgasming, they are basically getting 90% of a similar experience to physical sex. So what makes him a virgin according to science ? And once you know this it is freeing because, a big part of sexual frustration is related to fantasies we have in our minds about the sex we should be getting. While the reality is that, to a large degree we cannot control whether we have a partner for sex or not. However we can watch pornography as often as we would like, and get the same feelings and experience.
  15. I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter personality test. Jesus was defintiely a Gryffindor. Only Gryffindors can awaken.

  16. What are your hobbies?

    Ulax replied to Ampresus's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    I like tik tok lives and video games lol
  17. Oh and doing not knowing contemplation Where I just sit and actively deconstruct everything I know. With the main goal just being and sitting in Not Knowing
  18. I'm a big fan of the Medium Three Point Five as well. Most useful model there is IMO

  19. Finished the LP course

    Jannes replied to Jannes's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    I am kind of empty and open for love. Interesting.
  20. Approx: 1.Vipassana 2. Do nothing meditation 3. Psychedelics including weed 4. Fasting 5. Focused communication with others as the interconnections become clear, the fact that there is an universal mind

  21. Please answer this Poll

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

    AH! Just want to bump this up because it doesnt get bumped up if someone simply votes. The results seem pretty interesting, but I would like to see more votes.
  22. Ive asked people what silence is before and I let out a giggle every time they let out an audible answer.
  23. It might be useful to also look into Big Five for this topic. I'm not sure how all the traits correlate with awakening, but I'm pretty sure about two of them: openness to experience and disagreeableness. The higher those two are, the more likely you are to pursue awakening.
  24. I'm listening to this, I'm surprised it has zero views and comments LOL
  25. And neurodivergence is also very important to consider
  26. I'm curious what methods you guys have used to awaken and how it helped you.As well as to help narrow them down and catalog them. As I and many others have spent so much time doing practice that feels repetitive boring leading no where. Obviously psychedelics are the number 1 tool but its not realistic to be tripping every waking hour. Here's my go to list 1: Shinzen Youngs do Nothing technique. This is my most used practice and is where the bulk of sober development has come from. Its simple, effective, and can be done anywhere anytime. 2: Vispassana body scanning. Deconstructing disidentifying the body into awareness has lowered survival standards for me drastically. 3: Concentration. This has really helped me collapse epistemology into metaphysics resulting in way more construct awareness as it helps reflect awareness back on itself. Really collapsing concept into being.
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