Leo Gura

It's not a good teaching for several reasons: 1) Everything is Mind. You're never escaping mind. There is technically no such thing as no-mind. 2) Even people who have supposedly reached no-mind still think. Which paints a false picture of what no-mind refers to. 3) God-realization and awakening can be had with a fully active mind and thoughts, and in fact it's useful and important for the mind to contemplate and make some sense of God. 4) The mind can technically be used to grasp the Absolute. But this mind has to be fueled properly with psychedelics so it becomes a transhuman mind. 5) Mind is not what prevent awakening. Your state of consciousness prevents awakening. The key is not to shut off the mind but to raise one's state of consciousness. Which can be done by shutting off the mind but not necessarily. If you raise your state without shutting off the mind, it works just as well, and perhaps even better. 6) An empty mind works well in a mediation retreat setting, but doesn't work so well in a complex world of survival which intellectual problems exist. 7) An empty mind can still be ignorant and wrong and full of dogma and bad believes and opinions. You cannot solve intellectual problems by just shutting off the mind. This is like sticking your head in the sand. - - - - - - By no-mind what they basically mean is a meditative state free of thoughts. A still mind for a certain period of time, in contrast to monkey-mind.

This. The whole teaching of "no-self" is problematic in this regard. The mind can get so stuck on the notion of no-self that it becomes blind to the fact that all is the God Self. The correct teaching is not no-self, it is God Self. Even though, of course, God has no self. I feel that neo-Advaita and Buddhist style teachings can get people stuck in no-self.

There is no such thing as a single God-realized state. There can be many kinds and degrees of them, and they can come and go or stick around. Lots more variation exists here than we are commonly told. There is no good map of all these possibilities.

Depersonalization is simply not God-realization/awakening. Depersonalization is some other kind of lesser state of consciousness. There can be thousands of alien and weird states of consciousness, some of them quasi-mystical, but not really the same as full on God-consciousness.

Or your butt

A nice load of bullshit.

Unconsciousness is imagined by consciousness. Quite the mindfuck.

Completely misleading because ancient wine and beer was infused with psychedelics. Alcohol was the least important ingredient in those brews. The cult of Dionysus was not getting drunk, they were tripping balls.

The source of a purpose isn't thinking as much as it is love and feeling. That which makes you feel the highest love is your purpose. Then thinking is used to develop it. You cannot logic your way into loving some part of reality enough to build a purpose around it.

A foolish idea.

Take responsibility for creating your purpose. You are an author. You are free to write whatever kind of book you want. What do you want to write? That's all.

He ain't doing journalism.

If you were awake you would.

You dreamed up reading the Bible. You don't need nuggets of gold when you realize you are God.

You don't need to do anything illegal to violate terms of service of platforms and get canceled.

Christ is something you (God) dreamed up to keep yourself alseep.

@The0Self Not worth that risk given how many amazing tryptamines exist.

Stop fooling around and realize you are God.

FYI, ketamine is not healthy for you, so you're much better off realizing God on 5-MeO or some other tryptamine.

Because it's easy, it takes no intellectual work, and it sells like crazy. It's the equivalent of selling candy to children. Recording casual conversations with people is actually the easiest form of content to make. You can do 5 of those per week. Try generating 5 serious lectures per week of new content. Just no.

And I'm talking about you -- which is all that matters.

It's such a dumb example. If you were in Detroit you wouldn't be here asking questions.

Because those first 100 trips or so shatter one's reality so thoroughly. After your human reality has been shattered in a hundred different ways, now you're ready to really trip. No

It's a relative notion, but still a very useful one. Of course you don't sit around wasting days, weeks, and months on end in regret. But having some regret about how you've wasted your time in the past is a great thing. More people should experience that. The point of that regret is to hone your priorities and strengthen your motivation and commitment to a purposeful life.

@Tristan12 If you are at all like a normal human you will regret it.