Leo Gura

Full monk mode is nearly impossible these days due to internet. If you have a business you can't be in full monk mode.

I didn't say no phenomenology. Yes to phenomena, no to a body or finite self or "a life". You don't need to be in a human body to be conscious, experiencing, thinking. Human perception will stop. But other perception could start. You could be conscious of the totality of God. Or various parts of it. You could enter all kinds of interesting disembodied dream states, similar to when you dream during sleep. That is a taste of what is possible.

Because he is just using them for sex.

I don't know what that means.

@Inliytened1 I don't exclude meditation, but it is not the focus on this retreat since we will be short on time anyway and it won't be necessary. If people want to learn meditation there are much better teachers of it than me. My speciality is in teaching understanding.

Yes, reincarnation. Or even just kinds of God-consciousness without incarnation. Incaration is not necessary for Consciousness. There can be states of Consciousness which have no body, no self, no life. Yes and no. There are multiple ways in which death is not real. 1) Death is not real because you are Consciousness and Consciousness is Absolute and never dies. Consciousness is all there is. 2) Death is not real because NOW always exists and you are NOW. 3) Death is not real because death is imagined by Consciousness. 4) Death is not real because you can keep reincarnating forever as anything you want. 5) Death is not real because the human self is imaginary and not real, so there is no one to die, just an idea/illusion "dies".

All those retreats were bad. Which is why I want to design my own. I will not teach meditation but all the facets of God/Consciousness will be taught.

Technical problems.

Yeah, he is shmeless about it. He's rationalized it to himself in his mind in the same way he has rationalized that he is God's gift to women, when in fact most women who sleep with him will regret it. That's how narcissist works.

Yeah, that's why 5-MeO's are prefered.

I have tried most of those. They tend to blur together in my memory so I can't give a clear difference between them, and it would be different for your brain anyway. -MPT, -McPT, and -MIPT tend to be preferable to me.

Nothing IS Consciousness. That's what you are missing. But also, once you are free of the human dream other higher dreams become possible. Attachment to the human dream precludes more advanced dreams.

I don't remember the precise differences but they can very different. Just depends. You can't treat then as the same just because the chemical letters are similar. One letter can make a big difference.

None of them do much. 5-MeO-MALT or 5-MeO-MIPT are the most visual. MALT has neon magenta visuals/vibes. MIPT has more body feel and emotions.

Okay. See you in death.

Obviously he needs social media marketing to get people into the Free Tour. He also sold a lot of Hot Seats from the Free Tours. It's a great, efficient business model.

The MPTs and MIPTs are pretty good. 4-HO-MPT 4-HO-MIPT 4-Aco-MPT 4-AcO-MIPT All worth trying.

That's the tricky balancing act of politics. You have to bullshit the public but do it in a way that they perceive as "authentic". Because if you are really authentic you will not get elected because society is built on lies. See, Trump mastered the art of spewing pure bullshit but making half the country think he's being authentic. That's why Trump won. The problem with Dems is that their bullshit fails to come across as convincing. Trump got away with it because he told the stupidest half of the populace exactly what their reptile brain wanted to hear. It is much easier to bullshit people when your bullshit feeds their basest reptile instincts. Then they ignore that it's bullshit.

Acceptance is one thing. Ending your formed life is entirely another.

Of course these are huge decisions which severely limit and shape your whole life. You mus be very intelligent in making these decisions, which is where most people screw up.

Authenticity in the domain of politics is a very loaded and tricky notion. No politician is allowed to be truly authentic, otherwise they would never get elected and the public would turn on them. Politics is not a domain for authenticity, honesty, and truth because the entire political system is built on lies, fantasies, and corruption. Look at cases where politicians accidentally let slip something truly honest. They are crucified for it by their political opponents. You can't be truthful in politics because your political opponents will immediately weaponize it against you to kick you out of power.

That pure formlessness is not a permanent state since you are alive. That's what being alive means: you have all sorts of forms happening to you. You are alive. To be alive is to be dreaming. To be alive is to be committed to dreaming. Even "enlightened" people are dreaming.

There is some suffering from not finding the right woman. But also that suffering is self-created. Most of that suffering comes from buying into the idea that you need a woman. It much depends on what you want out of life. Obviously if you want a family, if you want socialization, if you are extroverted, then you will suffer more from not having those things. This depends on your personality type. I am not actively dating, but if it lands in my lap I will not say no. I don't invest time into pursuing women at this point. This of course means I barely get women. But I might invest time into that in the future. My prioritizes change every year. Right now women are not my priority. The reason I don't invest time in pursuing women now is because it holds less meaning for me than it used to. It's very obvious to me that no woman will ever satisfy me. I've sort of deconstructed the fantasy/illusion of women. It is clear that they are just cheese in a rat maze. I still desire them, but I am also disillusioned with them. I am not opposed to relationships but I also don't spend much time dreaming for them. - - - - - - - None of this is to say you guys should copy me. I encourage you all to go burn through your karma and pursue your natural desires until you exhaust them. Don't try to act like a monk when you are full of unsatisfied desires. Being a monk should come organically, not be forced. Monk mode comes organically later in life once you've played out all the human games.

It depends. Both possibilities exist. If you go into the formlessness very deeply eventually you will reach a point of complete annihilation where there is not even bliss, love, orgasm, or anything -- just a total blank. It is such a high degree of Unity that you can't even call it Unity. It is so united that it has no distinct qualities. It is Unity but you cannot call or think it "Unity". It is Love but it is a Love too deep to even be called "Love". Just to think of reality as "Love" or "Unity" already requires a degree of separation and form. If you have complete formlessness you cannot even regard it as "formless", because "formless" is a form. However, you can also be conscious of formlessness while being in a state of form. You can think formlessness. You can comprehend it as Love. So there are multiple ways here. The common mistake is to try to reduce it to just one way. That's the error of the Buddhists.

What do you mean by "it"? The most advanced understanding of Consciousness cannot be modeled. Human growth can be somewhat modeled and that's what Wilber has done. I am at a point in my understanding that I don't use models to understand Consciousness.