Leo Gura

@dimitri No. Experience = imagination. There is nothing outside of imagination. Nothing exists unless you imagine it.

It's a sort of play. When you go to the movies, how come you care so much about what the characters are doing? You're there for fun. You know it's not real but you got nothing better to do. Yes, meaninglessness is a big paradox. It is difficult for the ego-mind, which has been addicted to constructing illusory meanings all its life, to suddenly operate without meaning. There is a difficult transition phase here which can last months or years, where the ego-mind will feel lost and directionless. But then you stabilize in emptiness and play. The point of life is PLAY! It's just like a video game. The mistake is that you take it too seriously because you are terrified of death and suffering. Imagine how bad video games would be if the main character was terrified of death? Well... that's you! Ta-da! Consider that life having zero meaning is the ideal situation. It gives you total freedom to play. It's an infinite sand box game this way. Otherwise you'd be a slave to some limited set of pre-baked meanings. This would make life boring and lame. YOU. ARE. GOD! Invent whatever the fuck you want. It's all your whim.

Stop assuming there ever was a dimitri character. There never was a dimitri. It is just a thought + feeling. Dimitri is imaginary. Like Santa Claus. Reality is happening without him. Think of it this way, if the thought and mental image of "I am Dimitri" never arose, he would not exist. When you think, "I am a man". That's imagination. When you think, "I am human." That's imagination. When you think, "This is my life." That's imagination. When you think, "I was born on...". That's imagination. When you think, "I am different from grandma." That's imagination. When you think, "Reality exists without me." That's imagination. When you think, "I am going to die." That's imagination. And when you think, "But I'm not imagining that!" That's imagination.

@FuriousGeorge Sounds like you're being way too logical with women. Make your conversations much more playful and nonsensical. Like playing with a child. Be childlike! Stop being like a professor. Learn to swim in both ends of the pool, not just the deep end.

Watch my video about The Role Of Balance In Personal Development. Balance is a tricky business. You cannot ever formalize it because it is dynamic. You might as well ask me, "So how do I balance myself on a unicycle?" By doing it. No one can tell you in words how to do it. You should expect to fall over many, many times before you master it. There is a very fine line between getting laid and being a sociopath

Of course words are arbitrary sounds. That's just how words work. There is nothing special about the letters "God", it's just something we human settled on. I could call it "pineapple" but that would confuse you even more. The way language works is that we establish a consensus about what difference words point to. Now you're trying to question this consensus and change it around willy-nilly. You can do that, but as soon as you do the entire language structure falls apart and becomes useless. So be careful about being too clever for your own good. Language is a pragmatic tool we use in this work. It can never reach the Absolute but it can point to it. Which is exactly what the word God does. It is a pointer. And it is a damn accurate pointer. Do not assume that this pointer was invented by fools. It was invented by geniuses much wiser than you. When you actually experience God, you will immediately understand why we call it God and not pineapple.

There is always a benefit to exploring different psychedelics. Each one shows you something unique and valuable. If all you learned was that 5-MeO-DMT is better for your aims than N,N-DMT, that would be a valuable lesson. But my guess is N,N-DMT will hold a lot more lessons for you than that. You never know what lessons you'll learn until you try.

Yes, but there is a big question as to what degree. In practice, even after decades of consciousness work you will still not have enough consciousness to turn a computer into a demon. You have to appreciate how sophisticated this imagination mechanism is. It literally IS physical reality. So it's not as easy to imagine things willy-nilly as you might naively expect. Your ability to manipulate physical reality for selfish purposes is tightly limited and regulated, otherwise a devil could really cause some damage. You are like an app running in a tightly controlled operating system environment. The OS does not grant you permission to access the most critical variables for your own safety. Otherwise you could easily kill yourself, blow up the world, or just go totally insane. The human life is a dumb-down kiddie pool, designed for morons so they don't accidentally kill themselves. And even so, many folks even manage to drown themselves in this knee-deep kiddie pool. You are far too selfish, unconsciousness, and unintelligent to be given full root access to reality. Actually, the only thing that's stopping you is your selfishness. It is impossible to have full root access as a finite self. Full root access is identical to infinite selflessness -- which you are incapable of in your human form. Full root access is only possible if you leave the human form forever. In fact, you would have to leave all form forever. To have full root access you'd need to become Absolutely Nothing. But then no one would even know you exist. You would be so all-powerful that you would totally remove yourself from physical manifestation. Which is to say, you would be so all-powerful your body would become identical to all physical manifestation. All of this is already the case, but right now you're stuck thinking you are a human. Until the day you wake up. Ta-da!

You could call it a kind of experience, but like a null experience. The experience of no experience or pure empty consciousness. It feels a lot like emptiness. It's so empty you cannot even feel it as being empty, because that's still not empty enough. "Experience" and "perception" are concepts which are already loaded with a hidden assumption of an experience and an experiencer. What you have thought of as "experience" your whole life is actually the body of God. Ultimately experience isn't experience. Experience is an improperly understood BEING. Being is not experienced or perceived. Being just is. You cannot get any more fundamental than Being. You cannot ask, "But who is experiencing Being?" Because at the level of Being there is no who and experience. You with a capital Y cannot be observed. YOU is! Again, "observation" is a loaded concept which assumes a subject/object duality which is illusory. Subjective/objective is a duality. We are talking about nonduality here, which means that you cannot ask if it is subjective or objective because there is no difference between anything in nonduality. What is a dream? A dream is when you think there is a difference between any two things, including the difference between a dream and not-a-dream. Is there a difference between a kangaroo and a refrigerator? If you said YES, then you're dreaming. You are dreaming that difference! The difference seems "real" precisely because you are dreaming it! A dream is when something, anything, seems "real". You are even dreaming the difference between "real" and "unreal". There is no such difference unless you dream it. Absolute Consciousness cannot tell the difference between what is real and what is not.

One and many are ONE! There is no difference between a single player game and a multiplayer game, unless you imagine there is. There is no difference between ANYTHING unless you imagine there is. From the absolute perspective there is no difference between a hotdog and the sun, no difference between Jesus and a cockroach. YOU ARE IMAGINING ALL DIFFERENCES! WAKE UP! It's not one or many. It's one = many.

Actually, I am

Your mind is imagining all of reality. If you start imagining devils enough, they will become real for you, just like anything else. Right now you are imagining that you are a human, sitting here reading this computer screen and interacting with another human called Leo. Demons are no different. Just replace "computer screen" with demon or whatever else you want. Of course in practice you do not have anywhere near enough control of your consciousness to alter what you are imagining right now. That would requires decades of consciousness work. Oneness means that anything you encounter in the world is your own imagination. Right now you are imagining me. You could also imagine a demon.

That he did. That he did. Unfortunately, of course, it won't fly. Too radical even for most Dems. At least for now. It will take some decades for the Overton window to shift on drug legalization. Legalizing weed nationwide is the first most important step. We're getting close. Should happen within the next decade.

@Nak Khid You say the word God but you have no idea what is means. It is an empty word for you. You might as well be talking about space kangaroos. You have a more accurate idea of what a space kangaroo is than what God is. And yet, you are still God. That's the depth of this problem. How are you ever going to realize yourself?

There's a bit of a hypocrisy about sex in the woman's mind. She likes it. She will often have it frequently will random dudes. But then she will deny having done so because she doesn't want to appear easy or slutty. From the guy's perspective it's frustrating because the more a guy tries to be a nice guy, the less his chances of sleeping with the girl. She often sleeps with the fun asshole instead because he makes her feel spontaneous. Girls rarely reward nice guys. So we are incentivized to be jerks. The more a guy cares about a girl, the less likely she is to sleep with him. If a guy is totally detached about a girl, the higher his odds of sleeping with her. That's the paradox of attraction. From the guy's POV, total detachment until sex is necessary for success. You cannot invest in her at all until sex. And the guys who are best at that are total asshole players. So they get laid the most. It requires an almost sociopathic level of detachment. So ironically, the hottest girls reward sociopaths the most. And of course that makes perfect sense from the POV of survival. The more selfish the better, until it comes back to bite you in the ass. The problem with dating a sociopath is that he also doesn't give a damn about you.

Pickup is a lot like Zen. The harder your try to act how you should, the less you will succeed. It's very counter-intuitive. Ultimately all that good pickup is teaching you is: 1) Go talk to lots of girls! 2) Be authentic, don't be a dancing monkey, and be willing to get rejected for who you are. This will look different for each guy because authenticity is relative. 3) Don't be socially awkward or creepy. But to really learn these lessons you gotta go out a lot and fail a lot. You will try to impress girls a 1000 different creepy ways until you learn it. 95% of your results from pickup simply come from you going out every night and approaching. The theory only accounts for the other 5%. So don't waste too much time worrying about the theory. You learn by going out and talking to females. The theory will tend to put you inside your head, doubting yourself. The reason you've been having success is simply because you've been going out. If you go out long enough, sex will randomly fall on your lap. Some nights you will get laid for no good reason whatsoever, simply because you happened to be in the right place at the right time.

It matters enormously to you, in your mind.

God has nothing to do with human language or human culture or human tradition. Humans are unreal. You are not a human. You are just pretending to be a human. YOU. ARE. GOD. There is no other more accurate word for your true nature. "The Universe", "The All", "Existence", etc. are all misleading. You prefer such words because you do not want to admit that you are God. You are looking for a safe word which denies your truest nature. You cannot understand what God is until you realize you are it. And once you do, you'll understand everything I said and why I said it. And until then, you will not. You cannot understand what God is without awakening. "What is God?" << Now that's a great question to contemplate. God cannot be explained to you by anyone because you are God and are the only one. If you do not realize what God is, God will forever remain cut off from itself until the day you die. Your death will be the end of your denial.

Yes, the psychedelic revolution 2.0 is brewing in the shadows. One day it will be upon us and people will be shocked by how quickly things unfold. It's like bamboo growing its roots for 10 years before it bursts to the surface like...well... bamboo.

The way people in mainstream culture throw around the word "cult", they use it to disparage any POV which contradicts the ones they're comfortable with. It's often a materialist defense mechanism. But of course materialism is the biggest cult of all. See my 2 part series on Cult Psychology to really understand how deep this issue goes. The most amazing thing about cults is that people don't realize they're in one. But if that's true, how do you know you weren't in one since birth? Culture

Just take a shit. It ain't complicated. But you better do it every time prior to plugging.

That's all fine and good. But are you conscious that you are God? It's all too easy to get lost in philosophy while missing the truth which is right under your nose. No book or philosophy can take you where you ultimately want to go.

Well, my style and communication are mostly on display for all to see. It's not really worthwhile to teach style to people because they need to find their own style and method which is authentic to who they are. It's a trap to try to follow directly in my footsteps. Rather you can teach and mentor people but do it in a way that most aligns with you. Develop your own style and method. That's how you'll really shine. The world does not need more Leo's. It needs you to be fully, authentically you. One of the biggest traps with having teachers and mentors is that you start to copy them too much. To really flourish in life you must eventually let go of your teachers and mentors and go your own way. Like a bird leaving the nest.

@mandyjw Let's also be real though, many women still love to sleep around. Attractive women have lots of sex.

@molosku I love your book metaphor. Very powerful.