Leo Gura

All I can say is, find out for yourselves. You don't know what I do or do not know. For all you know, everything I say is a lie. That's for me to know and for you to find out.

@egoless I have no qualms cracking down on threads which are just mental-masturbation. This is a place for people to accomplish useful work. Not monkey around. You can monkey around elsewhere.

Peter Ralston is closeminded I suggested he take a snort. He declined. Careful judging things you've never tried.

I'm pretty sure in the next 100-200 years 5-MeO-DMT will be force-fed to all human beings like vaccine shots are today. That will shift things dramatically. If mankind survives long enough, one day, 99% of people will be enlightened.

When you realize there is only one being -- nothingness -- you'll realize that it infinitely reincarnates as everything. There's really no difference between you and your Mom and a random mom 5000 years from now and chimp mom from 1 million years ago. It's all exactly the same consciousness. The Buddha is now looking through your eyes, looking through your Mom's eyes, looking through your dog's eyes. You are the Buddha. You just don't realize it yet.

An exquisite example of paradigm blindness. Almost seems like it should work. Almost, but not really. Keep learning young Padawan

I did not delete that thread. I'm not sure how it ended up in the Trash Bin. I'm guessing probably because some user(s) disagreed and used the "report" function to flag it as spam. That thread has been re-instated. Don't get you panties in a twist There is no conspiracy to censor dissenting opinions here. Very few threads are ever deleted, only if they devolve into complete stupidity or break obvious Forum Guidelines, like asking how to source drugs.

It is impossible to change someone who doesn't want to change. Consciousness cannot be forced upon people, they must desire it themselves. Some people are too far gone into unconsciousness 99.99% of people will never wake up. They will get another chance in the next incarnation. But if you really wanted to wake someone up, a gradual ramp up of psychedelics would be the best tool for the job.

@martin_malin Freedom tends to ultimately be a spiritual value. But it can be corrupted. What's the positive side of why you like freedom? What are you desiring it for?

THIS! That, in one sentence, is the entire predicament of mankind. ------- Sounds like the perfect trip there. P.S. Next time, don't put mushrooms into a sandwich. Eat on an empty stomach with orange juice. The trip will go better without putting that sandwich poison into your body. If you are hungry, you can eat half a banana 60 minutes prior to trip. If you eat junk food on psychedelics, like a bread sandwich, don't be surprised to get punished for it. Eat clean foods like fruits or some smoked salmon a few hours into the trip.

When you understand why you don't want your avatar in your favorite video game to get shot, you will understand why an enlightened person doesn't want to get shot. The desire to get shot is an egotistical fantasy that you have concocted because you cannot see the beauty of the Grand Illusion in which you presently find yourself. If you were conscious, you would be spending your time thinking of how to participate in infinite creation and advancing the consciousness of mankind, not posing stupid questions about shooting people. As you are a materialist, I could pose you a similarly stupid question: Why not stab yourself in the arm? After all, science tells you it's just inanimate matter. Quarks and stuff. Mostly empty space. And objectively speaking, pain is just some impulses in some neurons in a brain. So who cares? Scientifically-speaking, there should be no problem for you to stab yourself in the arm with a fork. Scientifically-speaking, there is no reason for you to be alive, since, after all, the entire universe will eventually undergo heat-death anyway. So all your science and scientific progress and technology and society is totally pointless. You might as well kill yourself now and save the hassle. Scientifically-speaking, there is no reason why your suffering matters any more than a goat's suffering in Africa. So by this logic, there is no reason why we cannot slaughter human beings like goats. That's science right there. You can't argue with science.

@Slade There is a snowball effect that will happen. You start with a little nugget of LP, like telling jokes, and as you work on it over the years, it will deepen, and as you contemplate the essence of what impact you're trying to make, and who you authentically are, everything will deepen in an amazing way. Don't expect super depth from the get-go. It's like you found a diamond in the rough. Now you gotta polish it to see its full glory, which will take some years to see. Be okay with that.

That's your mistake right there.

You have been told a million times to begin self-inquiry. Yet you ignore the work and keep asking, "But how?!" Well, good luck with that.

@Edvard The one playing word games is you. If it doesn't matter, then you shouldn't mind dying or suffering. But you do mind, because you are self-biased. The metaphysics matters enormously. The only reason you seem to exist is because your metaphysics tells you so. Change your metaphysics and you cease to exist, and so will suffering. The problem here, is that you're assuming there is such a thing as an objective metaphysics. But there is not. Which means your mind can make up whatever nonsense it wants and count it as reality. Which is precisely how you came into being. If you were truly objective, there couldn't be a you. You exist as a fragile fantasy, which is why you suffer so easily. Every sharp corner threatens to pop your bubble of delusion. That's all that suffering is. Your game is to avoid every sharp corner to protect your little bubble, and enlightenment the deliberate bursting of that bubble once and for all. No fantasy bubble, no more problems.

Hehe, of course you can't seem shake it off. That's what makes you, you. The self is an extremely tenacious illusion. As it must be, since your very life depends on it.

@Alien This is actually a non-trivial point: There is no substitute for consciousness. The only way to be conscious, is to be conscious! There is no shortcut, there is no alternative. You must be conscious directly, not through some materialistic process, technique, or trick. Because consciousness transcends and underpins everything else. To try to use something else to get to consciousness is backwards. Instead, use consciousness directly to get to everything else. In other words, don't wait for pain to bring you consciousness. Bring consciousness to your pain. You can always have a thing without consciousness. But you can never have consciousness without consciousness.

No one doesn't realize it. That's the absurdity of it. You assume there are whos, but there aren't. Ask yourself, "WTF is a who? How could one possibly exist?" Notice, it can't!

@blazed There are infinite perspectives. If you weren't your perspective, you'd another, or none at all. It's sort of like you're asking, why is a tree a tree and not a rock? Because if it was a rock, it would be a rock, not a tree. And what determined which thing a thing will be? It's absolutely infinite. All things have been, are being, and will be. That is the wonder of God.

Yes, this is a pervasive problem for mankind. Because very few people think about life from scratch for themselves. They just go along with the herd, which means you are indoctrinated by the lowest common denominator of your culture and era.

Maybe. You wouldn't be the first person. But also, not necessarily. You can just sit and contemplate and figure lot of shit out purely in your head. It really helps to contemplate your own death. I have an episode by that very title. By contemplating your own death, you get clear about what you want out of life. You're taking life totally for granted right now. If you became really conscious of what life is, you would have enough motivation for 50 lifetimes. Soul-searching takes work. Because it is abstract work, people tend not to recognize it as work, and so never actually do it. And then they wonder why their life sucks. How many hundreds of hours have you spent soul-searching? Take a week off and go spend it alone in a cabin in the woods thinking about your life. That's where real work happens.

THERE IS NO YOU! There are only appearances identical with nothing. You are nothing. You are not bound to anything because you don't even exist. Eating, sleeping, jumping in front of a car -- that's not you. That's appearances appearing. Stop assuming you're an appearance. Check direct experience. P.S. "the screen" you are talking about, is nothing. It's a not-screen.

@John Iverson You've got the whole thing backwards. 1) You don't exist. 2) Neither does anything else. The only problem is that you are identified with appearances and consider them "reality". That is all. Try flipping your model upside down. Walk around for a day telling yourself, "Everything I'm seeing, is what death looks like." You are walking around inside of death right now. You're just calling it "life". The truth is, you are already dead. You just don't realize it. Just because appearances arise, doesn't make you alive.

Only if you are more conscious while it is happening

Lol See, that's the problem right there. The ego is manipulating to get its same old self-agenda through. But the point of evolving to healthier forms of motivation is that parts of the ego must die. The old self-agenda must die. It's a tricky thing. You have to surrender your old ideas of what is right, good, and proper for your life. And that's a scary thing. You cannot do that if your #1 goal is getting shit done or maintaining the status quo. Your #1 goal should instead be: truth and authenticity. You have to face the hard question of whether running is something you do at all. And why? Why do anything? Why not just eat ice cream all day? Yes, you will definitely sacrifice results in the short term. That is the nature of all consciousness work. It is not about results. It is about truth and authenticity. To put results above truth is to put the cart before the horse, and is what ultimately leads to all human problems. It's hard to strike a balance between the two at first.