Leo Gura

What you need is a desire for Truth, radical openmindedness, and brual honesty with yourself. The word faith is confusing to people because they then think that Truth is some kind of wishful thinking belief. It is anything but.

They are one and the same, but they are simultaneously distinct. Just like how a coffee table is located in space, yet it is distinct from space. You can have space without a coffee table. Or space with a coffee table. Phenomena occur inside the witness (we could say). Phenomena are also identical to the witness. And the witness is also distinct from all phenomena. These are various aspects of nonduality which you will have to realize individually, and also together all at once. A good order of progression is first to realize the witness as distinct from phenomena. Then to realize that since the witness is nothing and nowhere, it is everywhere and everything, including all phenomena. Something which is nothing and nowhere is also everything and everywhere. That's what you're missing. The witness is not a point in space, it is omnipresent, sort of like how a vacuum is omnipresent.

How can anyone answer that for you? If you're gonna be a badass sage, you gotta figure it out. It will not unfold as you anticipate. There will be many unexpected twists and turns. So be flexible, yet also have a vision, be decisive, be proactive. Some stuff you try will work. Some will not.

If you close your eyes, the whole trip will just feel like a dream afterwards. Our #1 goal is to bring the psychedelic state into ordinary life. Oh, another idea for plugging freebase is to dissolve it in oil. I haven't tried but I've heard it can work.

@zunnyman You'd be surprised. The perfect person you imagine would actually be extra depressed because he sees it's not working, it's all a house of cards. Happiness is always relative. Having $100 billion will not make you happy, as unbelievable as that may sound to you.

That's general advice for all psychs. Our goal here is to recognize nonduality in everyday life. You need to realize what perceptions are. You need to experience your room and your body as God. So that when you arr sober still know that form and formlessness are one. It's SO critical to realize that form and formlessness are identical. Otherwise you're still in duality. Plugging is gonna be a very different experience. Very gentle yet strong and lasting for 60 mins.

@davidomni Great work! That's pretty epic for 10mg. Really, it was too powerful. Blasting into outer space is not ideal. Try plugging 20mg. It will be a very different experience. Make sure you keep your eyes open. It's important that you don't fly off to some other dimension but realize that the Absolute is ordinary life, not some colorful fractal. Medium dose, eyes open, and contemplate. Your sensitivity will only increase as you have breakthroughs. Watch out with mushrooms. They will become much more powerful and 5-MeO-like. Scale back all your dosages for all substances.

@111111 Fun read Good stuff if not a bit manic. Be very careful mixing psychedelics with modafinil. Reports seem to suggest that it's not a good combo. But I have not verified it personally. Yes, LSD is a very powerful tool, not to be taken lightly.

Sounds like its a problem of hyper-masculinity. Attachment to the macho identity. Although I haven't watched his videos for about 4 years. Sounds like he's drunk the MGTOW Kool-Aid. Which is a shame. It means he's developing a stage Green shadow a la Jordan Peterson.

Submission of the highs? I don't know what that means.

@David Hammond In practice, it's still about material success -- just higher forms of it. There cannot be true authenticity of psychological wholeness without awakening.

If you were in Australia you wouldn't ask such silly questions, you'd be too busy enjoying Australia and there wouldn't be a problem. Such questions arise precisely because you're not there.

Your dose is too high. There's not much point tripping if you're gonna be passing out. So you put 25% vinegar up your butt? Doesn't that burn? You don't dilute it with water? It's wrong in the sense that police show up or neighbors disturb you. You need to trip in a responsible manner. If you start running around the street naked, that's no good, even if it feels natural to you while you're high.

Dude, you're just confusing the poor guy. Meet the person where he is at. All this nondual one-ups-manship on the forum is starting to feel gross.

No, not faith. Does a scientist need faith to perform a lab experiement? It's just like that, except instead of some data, you will discover God.

@Billy Shears The only way to know is to do a lot of psychedelics. You might as well be asking, "How do we really know that Australia exists? I've only been as far south as Japan." If you really cared to know, you'd buying yourself a 1st class ticket to Australia, not sit around philosophize about it. You can't ever get to Australia through philosophy.

There is no difference between you and everyone else. That's the rub.

As you become more and more successful you will realize how hollow and unsatisfying success is. You will experience depression and disappointment. That will force you to re-evaluate your happiness strategy. Eventually you will have to admit that the only way to become happy is to awaken. And then you will pursue awakening in earnest. It takes a lot of chasing before we realize that chasing does not work.

What is it with people yelling? Keep that mouth shut. Don't freak out normies with this stuff. I've never had to yell. Use your inner voice. Anyhow... @Ellenier So the conversion from freebase to acetate using vinegar works?? How much vinegar are you using? What does the substance look like after the conversion? Can it be stored as acetate? Or are you only doing the conversion right before administration? I'm curious which form is best for storage.

Guys, you must do the work and have your own insights. My answers cannot help you. Take the things I say as loose orienting pointers. This is very advanced and tricky stuff. You will have to go through a lot of struggle to ultimately understand it. Self-deception is always possible. You must always be open to that possibility. But there is Absolute Truth. You must discover that for yourselves. I have discovered it for myself and that's all that ultimately matters to me. To doubt the Absolute is itself a self-deception.

They didn't look like anything. It was a purely formless understanding. It's just one of the many consequences of nonduality. If you are conscious that everything is nondual, then you realize that you were the dinosuars. Seeing the dinosuars is not necessary to realize this.

Cool! Sounds like a great watch.

@Nivsch You clearly have yet to grow into Green, since your worldview has this notion of "enemies". From higher levels you will see there are no enemies. Sure, any stage can have a lapse in awareness. Awareness goes up and down all day long. That's not the issue. The issue is your stage of development. There are valid criticisms of Green, but you are criticizing Green from below, not above. Seems like you are Blue/Orange.

It makes no sense to the ego-mind because the ego-mind is constantly trying to survive. The ego-mind as a mechanism does not allow you to feel happy other than as a manipulation or a reward for survival. So you are like a dog stuck in a cycle of chasing dog biscuits without realizing that there is an endless mountain of dog biscuits right over the hill. But you are so hungry for that one biscuit that you never go over the hill to dog heaven Motivation is a manipulation mechanism that the mind uses over you. Notice how easily you're controlled by the promise of a little pleasure in the future. You are so controlled by it you wouldn't even take infinite happiness if it was offered to you. Because you'd say, "But that would mean I have to stop chasing crumbs." Yes, you'd have to stop chasing crumbs. It's like you have been offered a billion dollars but you say, "I'm too busy to take this billion dollars because I'm busy chasing millions of dollars." Well, okay, have it your way. Indeed. That's what an intelligent person would do. The problem is, you can't do it. Because you're too hypnotized and addicted to life. Are you really willing to sacrifice your entire life for God? If so, do it. You are totally underestimating what awakening offers. It doesn't just offer happiness. It offers immortality and God-realization. You cannot even fathom such kinds of joy. It is a joy beyond anything you've experienced in your life. The technical terms for it are Bliss, Ecstasy, and Paradise. Imagine a literal Paradise. That's what you're missing by not fully awakening. So what's the catch? The cost of attaining this Paradise is surrendering your entire life. Which is of course out of the question for you.

@David Hammond There is only the Absolute. Everything relative is actually Absolute in the light of full consciousness.