Leo Gura

I didn't say it wasn't worthwhile. His programs are good. But 5-MeO-DMT is better. And also, you can do both, so there's no need to disparage one or the other.

And a motorcycle can damage the yogic system. That didn't keep Sadhguru from loving them. Hasn't your mother ever told you to not ride motorcycles?

Now that's enlightenment!

Funny how Sadhguru has no problem riding a sports car, motorcycle, airplane, or helicopter rather than using his legs, but then has a problem with using technology to travel within one's own mind. That's a rather materialistic view of technology. If he is such an inner engineer, why neglect the most powerful inner engineering tools? None of his programs will change you as much as a few psychedelic trips will. The most powerful technology is spiritual technology. The most advanced guru is psychedelics. You will never meet a human guru more powerful than 5-MeO-DMT.

IPEC, the coach training program I completed has a Myers-Briggs-like assessment for gauging a person's level of consciousness. It's quite good but they charge money to take it. That's just one example. It's not hard to design a questionnaire which will assess a person's level of consciousness. Here are a few same questions: On a scale of 1 to 5, rate how much you agree or disagree with the following statements: Nothing is bad in the world. The world is perfect exactly as it is. I am able to give love freely to all living beings. Fear is an illusion. All living beings are interconnected. Science is a partial, narrow, relative way of understanding the world. If the body is destroyed, my true self will not be harmed. Morality is a relative human invention. Every religion is part true, and part false. I am responsible for creating my emotions. All evil is done out of lack of consciousness & ignorance. Etc. An unconscious person will not be able to strongly agree to any of the above statements because their ego is too insecure and because their everyday experience does not demonstrate the above truths. To an unconscious person the above questionnaire will appear stupid, childish, hopelessly unrealistic, and even delusional. Which precisely tells you their level of consciousness.

That 1/4 tsp you mention is not used for measuring the substance, it's merely used as a mixing container. Such a sized spoon is big enough to mix basically any dose of psychedelic that is safe to consume. When you suck up the substance + water mixture from the spoon using the syringe, the suction will pull up all particles of matter, even if its not fully dissolved. Of course a few particles tend to remain on the very bottom of the spoon. But you can even suck those up by adding a couple more drops of water after your first suction, and doing a second smaller suction. If done carefully, that second suction should ensure that you get 98%+ of the substance into the syringe. Use the microscoop to stir the substance into the water.

Consciousness is fundamental. You cannot measure it because it is the means by which all measurement is made. In other words, consciousness is self-knowing. But more practically it actually is possible to devise tests for consciousness. Such tests have already been created and they can quickly show you how conscious you are. Of course if you're not very conscious you will reject the test's validity because who wants to admit they are not conscious? It doesn't, rather infinite Will has a good story

Legit but you need to have the right expectations. They will not make you enlightened. They are nowhere as powerful as psychedelics or a hardcore meditative or yogic practice. I consider them good training wheels for newbies.

One of biggest drawbacks is that it can make you lazy, isolated, and spoiled. Most people need some degree of external pressure to keep them straight, otherwise they would become spoiled and lost in themselves. Not being accountable to anyone is not all sweetness. Because then you have to hold yourself to account, which is quite the challange.

It wasn't a discussion of Vedanta, it was framed as a nonduality war and devolved into that. Threads which split hairs over unspeakable truths are not helpful, they just get folks riled up and defensive as folks talk past one another. 5 blind men and the elephant syndrome. It's literally a debate about nothing.

Firstly, you DO get some access. You have some access to it even now. You've been using God's creative aspect your whole life. What do you think your mind is? Don't take your mind for granted. It is a powerful creative force. Secondly, there are still limits because that's what it means to be human. You cannot just grow wings and fly off into the sunset. Because God has imagined a rule-bound world. That is what your current state of consciousness entails. If you were to radically change your state you could grow wings and fly away. Which you can do in your dreams, for example. But you tell yourself that that doesn't count. Well, that's your mistake right there. You are imagining that dreams and reality are two different things. They aren't. They are just different states of consciousness.

Because if that happened they'd all soon realize they are full of shit.

@Chi_ Yes, but when you flatten it don't push it down into the scoop, slide off the pile lightly sideways.

It's possible with a body. I have been there many times. But living from that place isn't too practical. @Corpus The body is imaginary, including all those bacteria you're imagining. Cancer is imaginary too.

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Why is it that I have no problem with microscoops? The right dose every time. The volume of your substance is not going to change day to day. Just use totally flat scoops and it's very consistent. Scooping also reduces spills and waste.

You could not stay alive long at such levels of consciousness. It is not practical because you do not care what happens to your body. There is a good reason humans have very limited levels of consciousness: it's not so practical otherwise. You could not accomplish work or raise a family and thus the species would go extinct. To live as a human is to be in a limited state. Human = limit. Unlimited is what you are when you stop being human.

@CreamCat You ARE a good story

Yang is popular amoung young naive tech savvy stage Orange males. It's technophile pipedreams. It would be like if Elon Musk ran for president. His fanboys would be all over it, but they would not understand that Musk is not so advanced politically. Don't confuse tech stuff with serious reform of society. The Yang Gang is not stage Yellow, it's Orange. So watch out. Yang pushes all the right buttons of tech savvy stage Orange males. Notice that. That's why they like him so much. It's an unconscious response, not careful critical thinking.

You're not getting it. MONEY is the hierarchy! Money means nothing without a hierarchy of wage slaves who will work for you to get your money. There is no escaping society other than through death. You can live alone in the woods but you will still be intimately tied into society regardless of how much money you have. If you watch Life Below Zero you see just how badly people who live alone in the remote Alaskan wilderness depend on society to save their ass. They could not live otherwise.

Enough of this spiritual masturbation. Go do something productive.

@kieranperez In practice it's very challenging because your life is about survival as you. You can't have it both ways: you can't stay yourself and radically change. It's one or the other. Being you means not being something else. And you are deeply committed to being you. You are not just a blank slate. Your biology has certain trade-offs. You can't just turn yourself into a kangaroo because then you would no longer be a human. By being born as a human you already made the choice to not be a kangaroo. That's what human birth is! That choice! So now you're stuck with it until you completely relinquish that choice (via "death").

@Psychonaut Yeah, 20mg will probably not be felt by most people. Although 40mg is a strong trip for me. So don't get cocky. Shaving your balls after taking a psychedelic is one of dumbest things I've ever heard. But hey, they're your balls, so knock yourself out.

@John Iverson On Datura, for example, it is possible to hallucinate entire people out of thin air and hold them as real. You could hallucinate a person, have a conversation with him for 2 hours, only later to realize that he was just your own imagination. Datura is lethal so don't ever try it. But it's important to understand that such things are possible because physical reality is imaginary. If you've taken high doses of psychedelics you have first hand experience of how your imagination can become reality. It doesn't happen in conventional states of consciousness because it interferes with your survival.

I have none to report. (Yet) Maybe, which is why you shouldn't dwell on negative thoughts.