Leo Gura

@stevegan928 Trust your intuition.

The problem with responding to critique is that it makes one look defensive, and only further feeds accusations of acting from ego. It creates debate, which is always anti-consciousness. There is no consciousness to be had in a debate. All ego needs to do to win, is drag consciousness into a debate. Instant win. Sorta like fake news. In the battle between low consciousness vs high consciousness, low consciousness has more latitude and power. High consciousness has to stay high consciousness, which often just looks like silence. It's sorta like waging war on terrorists. Every time you do it, you're forced to stoop to their level, and by definition you lose and they win, because their goal it to drag you down to their level. Dragging people down is much easier than lifting them up. It's interesting to see how a spiritual master like Jesus allowed himself to get nailed to a cross by refusing to stoop. Now that is true embodiment of nonduality. And a very rare thing.

@Hunter Arrington "Hey, this is Ra, for Actualized.org..."

@khalifa That's sorta like asking if chocolate is really better than vanilla? Different people have different meditation styles. Find the one that fits you.

I mean healing of the sort Jesus is said to have done. Keep in mind, there may be different degrees of healing. From very mild forms, to extremely advanced forms which very few people are able to demonstrate. You won't find interviews on TV about such things, because anyone who speaks of it will immediately be demonized and their message distorted due to dense closedmindedness in mainstream society. You know why you don't hear about the most profound and deepest things? Just take a look at what happened with this thread. When this kind of dynamic is commonplace all across society -- and even among enlightened people -- you can really appreciate the need for esotericism. It's virtually impossible to openly and genuinely discuss a radical worldview in public because people's web of belief immediately gets threatened, and they become emotional and combative. And the whole thing devolves into a debate with projections and character attacks. No actual research or investigation happens. And people are left even more ignorant and closedminded than they previously were. Such are the epistemic dynamics of mind which have kept mankind in the present dark age. And may lead to man's annihilation. Intolerance, bigotry, crusading, war, the excesses of capitalism, closedmindness, lack of empathy, low consciousness, lack of holism, lack of systems thinking, lack of understanding of epistemology, ego, Zen Devilry... it's all closely interconnected. And enlightenment alone will not be sufficient to escape it.

That assumes you already know what realty is. Boy, you guys really don't like practicing openmindedness. Interesting to observe. I should post more openmindedness tests. So we can reveal your mind's true colors.

@electroBeam Not everyone develops it of course. And it doesn't mean you can heal someone's "man flu". One of the problems here is that when people hear "healing" they assume all sorts of silly things about what that might mean, creating a sort of straw-man. Also, don't expect a enlightenment master to spill all his deepest wisdom and abilities to you on CNN. They're usually very careful and quiet about it. Cause they know you're gonna misunderstand them.

I'm aware of this DMT hypothesis. I haven't personally tasted any DMT dripping down my throat, but then again, I'm not a yogi who's spent 10,000 hours training his pineal gland using arcane yogic methods. As for Bohm's holographic universe, it fits perfectly with what I've experienced on 5-meo. Bohm was a genius; more genius than Einstein in my opinion. He grasped reality conceptually. Too bad he died depressed, never having actual direct consciousness of his theories. His heart would have sung with joy to find out how right he was, and what impact this could have on his emotional state and degrees of fulfillment in life.

A) This is trivial because when one speaks of "raising" consciousness, it's a linguistic device. Not a literal existential claim. It's a way of speaking to help people understand certain things about this work. Again, you assume I'm naive about these things because you like to nitpick rather than seeking to be inclusive and hearing the intent of the communication. This is what happens when you let the left side of your brain become a lawyer for the ego. It can nitpick anything anyone says. You could take the words of Buddha himself and make him look like an ignorant devil if you so desire. B) All nonduality teaching and communication is METAPHORICAL. As it must be. You cannot speak of enlightenment non-metaphorically. EVER! So whether you choose to speak of it in religious metaphor or scientific rationalist metaphor, it's all metaphor requiring decoding. C) The self resides in EVERYTHING. Thought is an aspect of self. EVERYTHING is an aspect of self. Atman is Brahman, Brahman is Atman. Your conceptions of nonduality are excluding duality, which is an immature conceptual of nonduality. No masterful nondual teacher rants against duality, mundane life, education, mastery, or other people teaching nonduality using alternative styles. Because he understands the game. I could choose to teach nonduality by only speaking of it in terms of Jesus. Jesus this... Jesus that... Satan this... Satan that... And that would be no less valid than whatever your favorite way would be. I encourage you to seek to be more inclusive and generous, rather than nitpicky and harping. The ultimate goal is full acceptance of reality. So long as you harp, you aren't really understanding of reality, or embodying nonduality.

The following is a quote from Harper magazine quoting Nixon's domestic-policy adviser, John Ehrlichman: The following is a quote from Rolling Stone: So be careful with how you allow government to dictate your consciousness. BTW, recreational marijuana is now officially legal in Vegas! Yay! (not that I smoke it).

@kurt I'm happy to be proven wrong. Because I'm not loyal to any position. I was proven wrong about psychedelics for example. So I changed my views 180 degrees and become a psychedelic advocate. It's never been my goal to create a bulletproof ideological castle. That's not what Actualized.org is about. It's about helping you grow and explore consciousness for yourself by sharing ideas and resources that you probably wouldn't have otherwise discovered on your own given the state of mainstream culture and business. As a researcher, it doesn't bother me if I do research that sometimes leads to a dead end. Cause I understand that's the cost of doing research. Then again, sometimes the research hits the motherlode, like with 5-meo, and some other technologies which I will be sharing in the future. I've been surprised at the "magic bullets" I've been able to find. In the end, by doing all this research, I will be able to help many more people raise their consciousness than conventionally possible.

"Aliens" do sound silly when you think of them as creatures from Men In Black lurking around the corner. They sound less silly when you think of them as untapped aspects of consciousness/mind/brain. Understanding as well that EVERYTHING is an aspect of consciousness/mind/brain. It really helps to stop thinking of reality as being a rigid physical thing composed of atoms or "strings". It's clearly not. I think of it more as an infinite possibility cloud or gigantic neverending ball of yarn.

"Hopper" means it's uploaded and scheduled for release.

I do not know the validity of channeled material. But I will tell you this, the bits of it that I've read/heard are very psychologically advanced. Regardless of its scientific truth-value, the psychological lessons it teaches -- just as self-help advice -- is of remarkable quality and utility, showing advanced insight not generally available to the rational mind. Unless one assumes all of it is a genius hoax perpetrated by spiritually-advanced people. But if you understand spirituality, you understand that spiritually-advanced people, generally-speaking, don't have much reason to lie or trick you. They are actually much more likely to have genuine desire to help you, while YOU are the one who resists and tricks yourself out of their help. I always prefer to assume that my own mind tricks me, more than anyone out in the external world tricks me. No, I was not open to these kinds of ideas a few years ago. Because my research wasn't broad enough back then and my mind hadn't yet been blown totally open from experiencing that reality is truly infinite. It might be the case that channeled material is constructed by usually-untapped portions of the right-hemisphere brain. Your brain might be filled with more than one consciousness. Some of these consciousnesses may be "locked away", until they are tapped. Then again, we have to keep in mind that "brains" don't actually exist. Everything you call reality is constructed by your "brain". Reality is much more twisted and ingenious that most people could ever imagine. And that's why they get stuck. They underestimate reality whilst overestimating their understanding of it. Basically, it's hubris 101.

@quantum To value a thing means you prioritize it above other things vying for your attention. How your prioritize things then affects all your actions and choices. Ex: Are you gonna spend time contemplating, or go jerk off, or go earn money, or go play video games? At some level, your priorities determine that. Consider for a moment, just how different your entire life would be if you truly set Truth as your highest priority. Wow! What a thought.

You haven't researched this topic deeply enough, so you can still handwave it away as "merely placebo" in your mind. With more research, you will no longer be able to do that. Again, I'm not a fool. You think I haven't taken into account placebo in my research? The bigger question is, have you taken into account circularity in your thinking? The problem is that you guys who think you know about nonduality by learning it from Jed McKenna or the like, is that you generally don't do research. Because, hey, your premise is it gets in the way of enlightenment. And then when you hear something "different", you easily handwave it away because, hey, it's not related to enlightenment. (Notice the circularity?) But of course that's only because you haven't done enough research to have of a bigger picture to see that there are many other facts left unexplained. In your mind everything seems explained, but that's only of course because you haven't exposed yourself to the broader set of experiences available. If you did a powerful psychedelic, or seen a person channeling, or spoken with a real healer, or spoken to a shaman, or seen an actual spirit, or encountered a non-human entity, or had an enlightened master read your mind, or had an enlightened master transform your body-energy, or seen an aura, or traveled out of body, or had a near death experience, or did a past-life regression under hypnosis, or re-lived memories of being in your mother's womb, or researched schizophrenia, or researched multiple-personality disorder, or researched many other edge-cases in brain science like split-brain patients and phantom limb phenomena... you'd be MUCH more openminded, and better off for it. But all that stuff is "just a distraction from enlightenment" so I guess you don't care to waste your precious time investigating it. Although I find it odd that you don't mind wasting your precious time arguing about how nothing but enlightenment matters. The problem with modern "skepticism" and "rationalism" is that it isn't real skepticism, but a veil for ignorance. It's become a weapon to shoot down all edge-case phenomena -- the very thing I've been warning you about and trying to inoculate you from by teaching radical openmindedness and concepts from epistemology. But people still think I'm kidding. Don't think that just because you understand enlightenment, or have had an enlightenment experience or two, that all the sudden your web of beliefs doesn't have you by the balls. It still does.

"Leo doesn't listen" would be your projection. Remember how I warned ya about that. Maybe Leo does listen? Maybe Leo is aware of all these traps you think he's unware of? Maybe Leo isn't the fool you think he is?

@NTOgen Of course following the "reptilian brain" or one's samskaras is not a good idea if one wants to thrive. Indian traditions have really good distinctions of the parts of the mind and which ones create problems vs which ones solutions. The West has a very crude vocabulary for mind-stuff.

That's right. You cannot understand it because you are like an ant trying to understand the Milky Way. It is not possible. But, by raising your consciousness, you're able to access deeper understanding. So you gotta start doing the work: meditation, contemplation, self-inquiry, psychedelics, etc. to raise your consciousness. Raising consciousness is not easy. Takes a lot of time investment.

No, create your own purpose. I am merely offering ideas and possibilities. You design your own life. Nothing I say is ever normative. If you want to become a serial killer, go for it.

@Kenhol You can tell them you've found God. And then watch with amusement as they give you a weird look like you're crazy. But in the meantime you know they are actually the ones deluded beyond their ability to imagine. And you just look at them with pity and compassion for their ignorance. I mean... this stuff is beyond belief. You cannot believe it. It's the most elaborate hoax ever conceived. Perfectly executed in it's deception. I'm frankly surprised we have the ability to break free of it at all. Most creatures don't.

Real vs unreal is something your mind created. There is no such distinction in the ABSOLUTE. You'll be very surprised to discover that what you call reality is no more real than last night's dream. Don't underestimate the power of your mind to deceive you. If you ever experience the ABSOLUTE, you'll know it has nothing to do with brain chemistry. The fundamental problem is, you've never in your life experienced a higher state of consciousness, the ABSOLUTE, or Truth. So all you've got to work with is experience and thoughts. Both of which are woefully insufficient. You're missing an ENTIRE CATEGORY of stuff from your worldview. It's sorta like you were born blind, and now you're trying to persuade non-blind people that color doesn't exist. "Leo! How can you be sure colors exists? What if it's untrue? What if you're wrong?" Enable your vision, and you'll see it's a non-issue. You cannot solve the problem of blindness intellectually.

@Kenhol Dude, you've been exposed to ESOTERIC knowledge. This is stuff you'd normally have to get initiated for with decades of training! You're not supposed to go around preaching it to fools on the street. You'd get killed for that just 100 years ago. If someone asks, you tell them you like to meditate.

@Stoica Doru Keep in mind that at your age, existential crises are normal. That is part of the emotional work of growing up. Remember to love yourself and care for yourself. Don't push yourself too hard. Sorry, I'm not an expert on treating dark night of the soul.

Maybe, if you're autistic / left-brained. For right-brained intuitive people emotions can be much more reliable that logic. Go hang out with some highly evolved intuitive right-brained people. Wow! The potential! I would never rely on logic to make important decisions. Intuition is far wiser. And pretty much all the spiritual traditions recognize this fact. None of them tell us: go be more logic. They tell us the opposite: your logic is killing you. BTW, mystical experience and religious experience takes place in the RIGHT hemisphere, not the left. Pretty obvious why. The left brain is linguistic. The right brain is holistic. The left brain is a manipulative computer. The right brain integrates everything together and uses wisdom. Of course having a healthy balance is best. With the left-brain serving the right-brain.