Leo Gura

@Arhattobe The psychedelic is a transformative tool. You are judging is improperly when you judged it like so: If it fully enlightens me in one go, then it's good. If it doesn't, then it's bad and useless. If you're gonna use that criterion, then you should apply it equally to meditation. Like so: if I sit down and meditate for 30 minutes and it fully enlightens me, then I will do it and it's good. But if doesn't, then it's bad and I'm never going to meditate again. How many meditation sits does it take to become stably awakened? 1000? 5000? 10,000? Now apply those numbers to psychedelics. So your comparison is fair. What would happen if you did 1000 trips? Would you become stably awake? If so, you'd beat mediation by 10x. Why do I have a deeper understanding of metaphysical reality than Shinzen Young, who has 40 years of professional practice while I have less than 5 years of amateur practice? How do you explain that? There's some facts and statistics for ya. You see, there's more to this than just awakening. You must look at psychedelics as a holistic tool for self-awareness, personal development, and mental health.

It's hard to say. You can only know by doing both and seeing which one gets you higher. 5-MeO is gonna be hard to beat. You could only beat it if you devoted your entire life to full-time practice. You basically would have no life but meditation. The real answer is to do both. They complement each other perfectly. Nothing I realize on 5-MeO-DMT really contradicts what the most advanced yogis say. The alignment is uncanny. If 5-MeO somehow revealed truths which were the opposite of what the most advanced yogis say, then we would have a serious problem, as you would not know which to trust. But if they are 90% aligned, then there's no problem.

Of course, that's exactly what it takes, decades of industrial-grade practice which virtually no one is ready to do. You have to understand that most people are not full-time yogis. So what good is it to tell people: become a full-time yogi, otherwise you will not understand anything I teach? What we need are efficient ways of communicating these powerful insights. 10 to 20 years of practice is not within the realm of reality for most people. So we need something more effective. Someone who is going to do these practices hardcore for 20 years is already fully-bought in. You are preaching to the choir when teaching him. The real issue is, how do you teach to new people? People who are not part of the choir. That's where psychedelics come in. And also don't forget, there are many Zen masters and teachers who still have never accessed levels of consciousness as high as 5-MeO-DMT can deliver within 15 minutes. So 20 years of practice is no guarantee whatsoever that you will beat out 5-MeO-DMT. Can someone like Sadhguru beat out 5-MeO? Probably, but that's totally irrelevant because that helps no one. That is like saying that Arnold can lift 500 pounds. Yes, he can, but your sister can't. She needs to use a forklift. The point of technology is to make things which almost no one can do accessible to everyone easily. Could you imagine how backwards it would be if everyone had to be computer programmer in order to use a computer or smart phone? Or a pilot in order to use an airplane? Think about it. Think about how backwards it is that a person must spend 20 years of his life chasing an enlightenment experience.

@Principium Nexus Well, if you want to be precise, tranquility underlies everything, emptiness underlies every emotion. So it's not about not being excited, it's about realizing that excitement is happening within the emptiness that is your true nature. Trying to achieve some monotone state is not the goal, nor will you ever succeed in that. You can have emotional ups and downs while being conscious and detached from them. Emotional range is good and healthy. Don't try to be monotone. Laugh & cry.

@Sleyker If you can watch the samples, you can watch the full course.

Sounds like Alfred Korzybski. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski Manhood of Humanity

Sure sounds like it the inexperienced.

@Jcent Keep in mind that not everyone is like you. Just because something works for you doesn't mean it will work for everyone. So stay humble with your advice. Health issues can be very complex, multi-factorial, and personal. Your fantasies about my right knee are purely your own projections. Do not stick your nose in other people's health issues as if you know them. The point of the money is to afford the medical treatments (which tend to be expensive). If @Fountainbleu didn't have a money shortage, then this situation would be much easier to handle. Not everyone can just take months off from work to heal. That is a luxury which assumes you've got money to burn through. Generally-speaking I am very against anti-depressants. But if there is no other way, then you must do what you must do to survive.

It has. The most amazing thing about reality is that it is intelligible. Nothing is arbitrary. Human logic is a tiny splinter off God's logic. It's not just patterns and survival. I'm talking about understanding the metaphysical structure of reality and why it is the way it is. There is no accident or randomness to it. It has a Logos.

Anyone try the oxalate version? How does it compare? Same potency as HCl?

@Fountainbleu It's hard to say. Are you saying that all of these social anxiety issues started after your car crash?? You didn't have them before? Brain trauma is a serious thing and requires serious treatment, not merely spiritual techniques. There are supplements and various EEG brain training methods which might help you a lot. Research neurofeedback brain training. You can also contact the Dr Amen brain clinic in California. I know they do great work when it comes to assessing and healing brain injury. Or find another similar provider. I would focus on doing whatever it takes to heal your brain injury because you are gonna have to live with it for life and it will seriously affect your earning potential. If you need to take some meds to start a biz to earn the money to heal your brain, that is a good plan if you cannot afford to heal yourself immediately. Here's a link to Dr Amen's clinic: https://www.amenclinics.com You should also do research into brain injury recovery. Many books have been written on the subject. Educate yourself on the best ways to heal.

Things are not just as they are. They are a very specific way, a very deliberate and intelligent way. Everything is intelligible. It is possible to become conscious of why every hair on your arm exists exactly as it does and not otherwise. It is possible to understand why the whole universe exists. Profound awakening required of course. This is no ordinary reason. You must penetrate the very structure of God. It has a logic to it.

@Adam M Motel room works just as well. On LSD, even a dirty bathroom will be so interesting and profound you will never be bored. You can easily spend 5 hours tripping in a bathroom and have the time of your life. The kingdom of heaven is within

@Nahm Little devils they are.

@SQAAD You (ego) cannot. Egolessness is required. Surrender is required. Deep, profound surrender. Consciousness is required. Profound consciousness. A blinding radiance that bleaches out all shadows.

There is nothing wrong with Zen teachings per se, I was just saying that they are minimalist. Minimalism does not make people aware of what they are missing. How many Zen students really understand the depth of Zen? Virtually none. It requires super-human levels of consciousness. The Buddha said: no one will understand. And so it is. It's too much.

The point is EVERYTHING.

@tsuki The Zen approach suffers from the problem that it undersells God. It plays coy. Virtually no one who practices Zen understands how deep consciousness goes or what God is. Only a few of the highest Zen masters do. For example, Shinzen Young does not understand why reality exists. He's not fully woke and he does not know it. That's with 40 years of professional Zen practice. BTW, nothing at all against his teachings. I'm just saying there are levels which virtually no one has accessed. I am just using this example to point out how tricky this work is. No one is safe. Proceed with extreme care.

No they aren't. They are just less corrupted by beliefs and less rigid. Kids are very selfish and nowhere close to woke. They are like animals. They have no clue they are God.

Well, there's no cure for ignorance. Try, try again until awakening is undeniable.

@Key Elements The Absolute Truth is totally self-evident and self-validating. It is prior to doubt or question. Infinity answers all whys. But not logically or verbally. It's just Infinity. The end. What else could anything be? You ARE the Absolute Truth. Look at your body -- there it is. You're BEING it.

@Wisebaxter You should distinguish God in its pure form vs God as the devil. In it's disguise as the devil God does all sorts of evils. In its pure undisguised from God is pure love and goodness. For God to hate it must incarnate itself as an ego and delude itself into believing it is not God. So when God forgets who it is, it does evil. When God is forced to play the game of survival, it does evil in order to survive.

@Highest You exist, as God, which is nothing. Non-existence is not a thing. Non-existence does not exist. But there is more. Have you become conscious that God is infinity? And what infinity means? Have you become conscious of Infinite Intelligence? Infinite Love? Infinite Goodness? Eternity?

If you mean Absolute Truth then your contemplations should eventually converge. But even so, there are many facets to Absolute Truth such that even the same person will not reach the same point twice in a row, never mind other people. The trick is that the Absolute is singular, but it can be seen in various light, so to speak, and it will be interpreted very differently by different minds. It's sort of like looking at an object with very little light in the room. The object itself is always the same, but the lighting conditions plus your perspective on that object plus your distance from that object determine what you will see. Someone from 100ft away at night will see something very different than someone 2 inches away in full daylight. And then there's your reactions, opinions, feelings, and judgments about the object. All of that makes it very unlikely that two people understand/see anything the same way, even the Absolute. But even so, there should be some rough broad consensus. As far as relative truths are concerned, the situation there is even worse. The mind will color everything in such a way that your understanding of relative truths will tend to be very different from other people. Because how you see the world is a direct reflection of how you must see it in order to survive. Survival distorts perception enormously. What you see, what you know, and how you understand things is almost totally dominated by your survival needs. Truth is hardly anything your mind cares about. Your mind is 99.9% preoccupied with survival. Which is why there is so much disagreement between people.

@Pouya Well, that is true, but it's much misunderstood by common folk who merely believe it but have no direct experience of what those words mean.