Leo Gura

The key to confidence is massive personal experience. You must sink 1000s of hours into those things you wish to be confident about.

Desire is not a bad thing per se. Desire for Truth and Love is precisely what you need to awaken. Distinguish between low consciousness and high consciousness desires, survival needs vs being needs.

@ROOBIO Always solo

It begins as armchair philosophy, and as you become more serious, it turns into true contemplation. Of course there is no clear line between the two, as that would be just another duality.

Be very careful with dosage. Start low. A little goes a long way.

I suspect this is true. I have not verified it conclusively because I've never done it orally. But the plugged experience is so intense and different than typical 4-AcO-DMT trip reports that I assume plugging it really is different. It's like the most intense version of mushrooms. I hesitate to take that shit again. It's like 5 hours of nonstop mindfuckery.

You wrote something important here, but I find your writing is a bit ambiguous and confusing. It would be nice if you started a separate thread where you explain this more clearly and in greater detail. I think it would be very valuable for our members. Write a guide on how to clear vasanas.

@winterknight You underestimate psychedelics. No therapy session will come close to the healing power of one solid trip. Not even in the same ballpark.

The deepest trip I've ever had in my life came from plugging 4-AcO-DMT. It was so nondual that you wouldn't believe. I stopped being able to tell that I was human. But of course that's because I've done many trips to build myself up to this point.

You guys should not even be talking about feminism until you've read 10 books about it. So much foolishness in this thread that I can't even bother reading it. Suffice it to say you have no historical context for women's rights and you have a massive male self-bias. This problem can only be solved with serious study and education. By all means be a man, but don't do it by creating an anti-woman ideology. Imagine being a man without being threatened by the success and empowerment of women. That's what true masculinity looks. A mature man would understand and support the basic aims of feminism. A juvenile man is thratened by it. It's this kind of nonsense which is why I sharply criticize JP. He helps spread this cancer of the mind.

No because what you don't understand is that Truth is prior to proof. What this misses is that actions must happen regardless. Just sitting back and saying "Well, Hitler will resolve itself. I will do nothing because it doesn't bother me." is a dysfunctional way of embodying spirituality. You are not just a passive observer of life, you are right at the heart of its unfoldment. The choice to do nothing is still a choice. Sitting back and letting others fight Hitler for you is rather lazy and irresponsible. Because once Hitler gets to your front yard, you will wish you'd done something.

You don't have to suffer, but if your life is too easy you will not appreciate the full depth of what life is.

4-AcO-DMT plugs extremely well. That shit is intense. Some of the craziest tripping I've ever done.

@Nivsch Now analyze the situation as if you had no personal stake in the game. It's going to be very difficult for you to step outside of your Israeli self-bias if you live in Israeli and identify with being Israeli.

The ego hates equality when it is on the benefiting end of an inequality. Any move towards equality will be perceived as unfair by the ego who stood to benefit from the inequality. That is selfishness 101. If you take away a slaveowner's slaves, from his POV, he's losing something. And that's perceived as unfair.

Please tell us how many books on feminism you've read. This is a legit problem. But it has little to do with feminism. You could blame video games. Video games certainly have a lot more to do with it than feminism. Why don't you target video games instead? This is false. This is exactly the kind of ideology that toxic masculinity promotes to avoid dealing with the root issue. Notice the blaming attitude here. Traditional roles were not erased by feminists. Those traditional roles were never sustainable to begin with because they were built upon collective mental fictions and norms. Those norms had to break down with rise of various technological advancements. You also underestimate how stiffing and limiting those roles were. People got sick of fitting into such narrow and artificial roles. Society was never going to stay at Spiral Dynamics stage Blue, nor will it ever go back to those roles. Evolution marches forward. If you really care about unity, then stop parroting this ideology and go read some books on feminism with an open mind. You need to step outside your male perspective and look at society from the POV of women. Which is precisely what you won't want to do. And this is what's creating your perceived division. If you would see the world from the POV of women, your projection of division would cease and unity would result. You would also become happier and you'd be more successful with relating to women. Remember, women in America could not have a line of credit from the bank until the 1970's. Just think about that! Stop being so goddamned self-centered. The world doesn't revolve around you.

You should watch the Netflix documentary: The Family That will change your understanding. Stage Blue can be extremely genuine in its devotion. That isn't the problem. The problem is that they cannot recognize that their devotional path is just one out of many others and not the best. This leads to a monomaniacal devotion which never doubts itself, where the ends justify any wicked means. You are not yet properly understanding stage Blue. Study up on it.

@Jed Vassallo Daily visualization for a couple of months straight. Make visualizations intense and emotional. What you're talking about in your example isn't a belief per se, it's a goal / intention you want to have.

How would you describe the actual process of shedding subconscious and instinctual defilements? What causes that to happen vs not?

@RendHeaven Evolution step #1: Mushrooms Evolution step #2: Catholic Confessional Evolution step #3: Psychotherapy Evolution step #4: Mushrooms

I like it.

To relieve the devil of his guilt so he can go back the next day to being a devil?

@winterknight I just had a mini-epiphany. When you recommend psycho-analysis to supplement this work, that's exactly why I recommend psychedelics. Just like psycho-analysis the psychedelic's function is not primary to enlighten you but to clear out lesser blockages, shadow issues, and to show you what is getting in way of awakening. The benefit of psychedelics is that it's faster, cheaper, more direct than months of talk therapy, and gives awakenings as well. But of course for those who cannot access psychedelics, I can see the value of psycho-analysis. I've not done formal psycho-analysis but I'd guess 3-12 months of psycho-analysis = 1-3 psychedelic trips. The cost savings would also be very significant. I've noticed that most people who take psychedelics don't have very deep awakenings on them because first the psychedelic must clear out psychological baggage (AKA, psychoanalysis). The existential insights require a purified mind and heart. The deep existential insights tend to come in later trips, after the mind has been purified a bit of its human baggage. Just a useful insight I thought I'd share with you guys. The oversight I made in the past is that I tended to think of the psychedelic purely as a gateway to nondual states. But that's only half of their function. The other half is the psycho-analytic resolution of psychological baggage.

I found that when you start this journey it tends to be quite neurotic and not very effective. But at the same time, you can only start where you're at, so neurotic practice is better than no practice at all. You problems could be answered with a couple of deep psychedelic trips, where you would face the real existential root of your dysfunctions and let them go. Then you could proceed with a more organic spiritual practice. The value of the psychedelic is not so much in that it enlightens you, but that it clearly shows you what is preventing you from awakening, what is holding you back. Otherwise you could waste years chasing your tail in circles. One of the biggest challenges of the spiritual path is what we get in our own way. We all have unique ways of getting in our own way. Psychedelics help you understand your unique ways of getting in your own way so you can stop doing it. It tends to not be enough to just intellectually know how you get in your own way. You need a deep mystical experience of it to learn the lesson and change your ways. Intellectual efforting here just tends to be very slow and needlessly ineffective compared to a few psychedelic trips which will just bombard you with all the answers in a way that no book, therapist, or guru could. Really, once you learn how to properly use psychedelics, you will never need a teacher or book. The most powerful answers are in your trips. Everything else is weak sauce that literally wastes years of time and thousands of dollars in money.

Oneness is not a belief. Oneness is an Absolute.