Leo Gura

Understanding and insight goes way deeper than ego or langauge. Eliminating internal dialogue is not necessary for awakening or insight. You can be going through an awakening and still have access to some internal dialogue which comments on and makes sense of what is happening. An ego self is not required for this. After an awakening it can be a good practice to sit down and write out what happened to you. This is not ego. This is a good way to clarify things in your mind. It's not enough to just have awakening experience, you also have to then purify the mind. The mind needs to upgrade its logical understanding of itself so it can communicate about these things better. All of this is part of the awakening process. It is certainly possible to have an awakening but then return to a muddled and confused mind which misunderstands what just happened to it. You have to grow your mind along with your consciousness.

Some great questions here. I had many of them myself when I was starting out. Yeah, consciousness is tricky, tricky stuff.

One day Mohammed saw a Bedouin leaving his camel without tethering it, questioned him as to why he was doing this. The Bedouin replied that he was placing his trust in Allah and had no need to tie the camel. The prophet Mohammed then replied, “Tie your camel and place your trust in Allah.” So don't forget to tie your fucking camel.

Classic stage Blue nationalism and ethnocentrism. You see it on Fox News all day long. That is their whole business model.

@FoxFoxFox Creativity is not about finding fault, it's about expressing love. And at a deeper level, finding fault is also love.

Because I am Love. What are you?

That was a mild samadhi state. Good stuff. Headed in the right direction, but just the tip of the iceberg. It is true, I am you. But what is you?

You should not get PTSD if you dose properly and reasonably. PTSD comes from overdosing. Careful, gradual dosing is critical in this work. Don't just double your doses willy nilly or eyeball doses like many fools do.

You need to have an awakening to what Love is. It cannot be told to you in words. I understand your skepticism, but all happenings truly are an expression of Love. It's too epic to believe. Even when you awaken to it you will be too amazed to accept it. It's too good to be true. Yet it is Truth itself. Psychedelics help. Take some DPT and ask it to show what is Love. Brace yourself for a mindfucking of unspeakable proportions. The only thing capable of understanding the full extent of God's Love is God itself. A human is too tiny to fathom it. Only God understands. Fortunately, you are it! Your awakening is not complete until you understand why you created it all. It will melt your heart with pure Goodness. It is a Goodness without an opposite.

Good, keep 'em coming. But also, try to state objections you actually have, rather than restating the well-trodden objections of cynics. I want objections which are grounded in genuine confusion and puzzlement, not just cynical trolling or devil's advocacy. What aspects of spirituality are genuinely confusing to you?

But what you're overlooking is that oneness does not require that you experience my experience. You have set up that stipulation. Now you must realize that it's you who set up that stipulation, so undo it. Your fantasies about how oneness must be is getting in the way of realizing how oneness actually is. Oneness includes twoness and all the rest. I doesn't make sense because you're not awake. If it made sense, you'd already be awake and we wouldn't need to have this conversation.

A dark room retreat requires 24/7 darkness. People have done 30 day dark room retreats. Of course not solo. They had help from outsiders.

This is simply the dualistic nature of language & distinction. See my 3 part series about Understanding Duality, where stuff like this was resolved in great detail. "Spirituality" is used in two senses: relative and absolute. In the absolute sense, everything is Spirit. But in the relative sense we make a distinction between those who are conscious of Spirit and those who are not (the materialists). So even though a materialistic scientist is studying Spirit in this lab when he is doing his chemistry experiments, he isn't conscious that chemicals are Spirit. And so we say he isn't being spiritual. He has mistaken Spirit for matter. It is like that man who mistook a coiled rope in a dimly lit room for a snake.

You can't understand it without awakening. And it's too radical to explain to you verbally. You have to stop being a self to understand it. Your self-hood is getting in the way. Self-hood is the illusion. There simply isn't no such thing as a self. It's being imagined. What I'm telling you is: your birth is imaginary. You were never actually born, you simply believe you were.

I love that nostalgia feeling.

Yeah, the devil loves nothing more than to cloak itself in God. That is the devil's cleverest survival strategy.

Fruits and nuts will not be enough to sustain you. You will be extremely hungry and quit. It would be more reasonable to light-proof an entire bedroom plus attached bathroom, so you have more space to move around, sleep, and store food. Right now I pretty much sleep in a pitch black light-proofed bedroom. All the windows and even the door is totally blocked with special thick curtains. That would be the way to go about it. Logistical planning for retreats is very important. You need to address all practical issues ahead of time so you can fully focus on the retreat without distraction. You could even install a small fridge in your bedroom to hold pre-cut fruits, sandwiches, pasta salad, etc. You could stock up on beef jerky.

I was responding to your usage of that label.

Unconscious minds are divisive. Notice something: United Kingdom United States European Union People don't really understand what unity means.

Of course. This is a given. But non-government is even more corrupt. You police the government with your vote and political activism. By being a good citizen. That is democracy. If you shirk that responsibility then we get an oligarchy or monarchy. But then you will start to bitch and moan about being oppressed. But it was your apathy which allowed the oppression. Serious liberals are all about reducing systemic corruption. "Small government" does not solve the corruption problem, it simply outsources the corruption to cartels and giant corporations where they have zero accountability to the people. Corruption is not a government problem. Corruption is an ego problem. Devilry will happen through all possible mediums, public and private alike.

No it won't. You are part of the world. God helps those who help themselves. By shirking responsibility for collective systemic problems, you help cause them. The world only takes care of itself because other people do the heavy lifting for you while you obliviously enjoy the fruits of their efforts. This is why spirituality and politics need to be integrated. Political laziness is not a virtue.

@peanutspathtotruth Sometimes you'll need to take months between trips to fully integrate the insights and shifts. Allowing that time is important. You can't just do 10 back to back trips unless you are very experienced already.

@Bodigger You are taking government totally for granted. Everything you own is afforded to you by government. Otherwise it would be stolen and you would be killed. Government is not here to solve your personal problems. Government is here to set up a good environment for growth.

@ValiantSalvatore Like I said, it's not a function of time. If you try to reduce meditation to numbers like that, you'll end up shooting yourself in the foot, as you will overlook the most important aspect: quality. 10 minutes of quality meditation is worth more than 10 hours of poor meditation. Be very careful about pursuing consciousness mechanically or numerically.

Sorry, I don't buy that. As our environment changes due to technological advancements, the human will be less and less suitable and require further evolution. It's already happening. Natural selection is always culling those who aren't adapting to an ever changing environment. And our environment is changing faster than ever. There is no such thing as the peak of evolution. Evolution is relative to environment. If you move to Mars, you ain't gonna be at your peak. And humans on Mars will evolve accordingly. The geometry of the solar system doesn't need to change for this to occur. Evolution never stops or peaks out. It is relentlessly ongoing every second of every day.