Leo Gura

Illusion is that which is, but isn't. Another good word is hallucination: an appearance without any underlying substance. Or, of course, a dream. Illusion = hallucination = dream

I recently went to two different psychics/healers. Each one told me that they got a vision that I was strangled by the neck in a past life, which created a blockage of the throat chakra. Can't say if it's true or not, but it was quite amazing that two different people said something so specific. What are the odds of that?

Even if you get pure synthetic mescaline it will still cause nausea, even if plugged. Mescaline's just not tolerated well by the body. But even so, it should be a lot more pleasant than drinking a gallon of cactus juice. Methallylescaline (MAL) is the closest synthetic mescaline analogue. https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Methallylescaline It will be much easier to dose than mescaline, and much cheaper.

This is a personal dev site. Whatever you don't have, you can develop. Passion can be cultivated. Start today.

Like I said, I don't drink or smoke. So I agree with God.

@ROOBIO What is the reason for moving to India? If you were going there to apprentice under a serious guru, that might be worth it. Probably not so good for starting a biz, although low cost of living and cheap labor can be very important when starting a biz. But there are other places you could do that from that might be better, like the Philippines. Online biz you can run from many places.

Yeah, Vegas gots to makes its monies. The fancy hotels don't pay for themselves Micro-dosing a psychedelic would be far preferable to drinking. Cheaper, healthier, and more fun. Modafinil is also a nice supplement for PU. Increases verbal skills and creativity.

I have seen Walmart and HomeDepot sell small San Pedros in pots for like $10. Not enough to eat, but perfect for your garden.

This is how you grow San Pedro

Oh yes. To death and beyond....

Well, you could probably buy a wife in Bangladesh for $400. Firstly, I don't know why you're so low. Orange/Green should be fairly attainable for you with a bit of personal dev work, which you'd be doing anyway as part of your coach training. Dare to aim high! Secondly, there still exists a lot of stage Blue people even in Canada who you could specialize in working with if you wanted to. Realistically, to be a good coach, you should be fairly decently developed and mature. That's sort of the point of going to a coach. If you're not mature enough yet, that's okay, just plan to be a coach later in your life and in the meantime train and work in some related fields. I wouldn't recommend becoming a coach if you are younger than 25 or even 30. You need some life experience first.

I am a soft Westerner Besides which, 5-MeO-DMT will enlighten you much more reliably than all those gimmicks.

Well, you know John The Baptist -- the guy who trained Jesus? You know why they called him John the Baptist? Because you came to him to find God, he would hold your head under water until you were near-drowned and dead, then he would pull you back up at the last second. If you were lucky you got a Near Death Experience. And so we got Baptism. Try doing that today and see how fast you get sued. And people complain Actualized.org is dangerous. Hehehe... In India some yogis would do the ring of fire: where they sit you down naked in the middle of the hottest noon sun, then they light 4 fires around you, to the North, South, East, West, and have you sit through that for hours.

That's still a thing?

That's just not true. Go apprentice under a serious Zen master or yogi. He will push your ass to enlightenment. Don't confuse mainstream spiritual celebrities like Eckhart Tolle with some of the hardcore masters. Of course you can take soft and hard approaches. The hard approach is not always best. It depends on the student. Most Western students simply can't handle the hard approach. Westerners tend to be soft and lazy these days. I've heard of a Japanese Zen master who would force his students to sit extra long without pee breaks so they could suffer a little bit more and wake up faster.

When death comes for you, your only option will be surrender. Then you'll understand the wisdom in it. Manipulation and survival (what you're describing with your examples above) are always limited and will at some point hit a dead end. At that point the only thing left is surrender. Sure, go ahead and run from the lion if you can. But once the lion has you by the throat, you should surrender. The whole spiritual path is about learning the wisdom of surrender. Which is why most ego don't like to do it. They are too busy surviving and manipulating the world, hoping they can keep it up forever. But it never lasts. You cannot manipulate forever. That is devilry.

I'm into personal development. I don't want some monkey on my back. You don't learn PU well when drunk. I have never had an interest in alcohol. It's like the opposite of a psychedelic: a stupid man's drug. It's also terrible for you. And here in Vegas drinks cost $10-$20 each! For $20 I can get a lap dance from a hot ass stripper who will rub her tits in my face.

Well, not much you can do about that. Just do your best. Even if you quit early you can always push harder at the next retreat. It will be a lesson learned.

Just be curious about stuff. Stop taking things for granted. Go outside and wonder at the ants crawling around on the sidewalk. Buy a magnifying glass to look at them closer. Study them. Appreciate how amazing they are. And so forth. That would certainly help open your eyes. All spiritual practices are ultimately about this. But even before you do heavy spiritual practice you can just start by being much more curious about small mundane things like ants, birds, trees, people, clouds, language, politics, religion, science, space, the moon, etc. There is no end to curiosity. Buy a telescope and look at the stars. Buy a microscope and look at the microscopic life in a puddle of water from the sidewalk. Leonardo Da Vinci is a great role-model for curiosity. Maybe study him and his work a bit. Or if you're really lazy, just search for cool stuff like this on Youtube:

@Identity You can go to a hypnotherapist or psychic and do past-life regressions, or they can read your past lives for you. If you want to believe in that sort of thing. In fact, you could go to multiple different ones and cross-reference their results. I've had some psychics read my past lives. It's interesting. Hard to say what it really means though because I don't have a direct experience of them so it ultimately boils down to a story from my POV. But if you could corroborate it with your own direct experience, that would be something even more interesting.

Have you planned out all your logistics? Lodgings? Water? Food? Supplies? Planning out the logistics is key, so you have everything you need once you start and your mind can be fully absorbed in the present.

Buddhist monks talk of the "dancing Buddha." That's when you stare at a Buddha statue for so long and with so much focus that it starts to wave around and "dance" -- just like it would if you took some LSD.

That's right, the stronger your focus the more psychedelic your visual field will become. That's a tiny taste of how psychedelics work. Imagine that multipled by 100.

There cannot be liberation without surrender. The ego-mind wants control, so it views surrender as "bad", which is precisely backwards. Sure, that can be useful to identify.

@Kshantivadin If you don't want to love, don't love. But you have no idea what you're missing. Love is not something that you can be forced to do. You do it willfully out of mature consciousness and wisdom that love is the best in ever case.