Leo Gura

Of course it's not straight forward. By design. Otherwise you couldn't experience what it's like to have a human POV. The deeper question is, why would you care to escape it? The way your question is framed it assumes that escape is better than not-escape. But this is only true if you think it is. God escapes itself, then it returns to itself. Since it has nowhere to go, since it is in all places at once. Liberation is to realize that there is nowhere to go, nowhere to escape because all places are equally good. So long as you think that one place or state is better than another, you will suffer and seek to change your state. To be liberated is to be surrendered to whatever state happens to arise, seeing the perfection of them all. If you try to cling to any one state, including formlessness, it becomes a problem. You can't escape the totality of what you are.

Well, obviously, since that's basically what enlightenment is. You'd have to sit and concentrate on nothingness for many thousands of hours. Or do decades of yoga. Yoga is basically a method for naturally producing 5-MeO-DMT or its equivalent. Dark room retreats are another method. Long fasts are another method. Shamanic breathing is another method. All these techniques are designed to change your state of consciousness.

@ColdFacts It's not a belief. And your ability to carry God's love is so limited because you are a devil.

@hikmatshiraliyev How do you know the brain is true? The point is to investigate. This is a truth-seeking project. You have to want to sift through everything to get to the bottom line. Warning: that is not the same as armchair skepticism or cynicism. Sitting around and doubting stuff via an online forum is not genuine truth-seeking, it's a distraction.

Absolute Infinity. Nothing beyond it. Since it is ALL.

Your mistake is thinking of life as bondage. It only is if you think of it as such. Imagine a kid is sitting there enjoying playing his video game and you come up and tell him, "But what's the point of all this dying and suffering?! Let's turn it off this bondage." The problem is not with the kid, but with you. Bondage is a way of looking at the world, not a fact of the world. It can be exciting to know that you will get to live many different lives, experiencing the world in many different ways. One day you will be born on Mars. That will be a cool life. One day you will get to be the Pharoh of Egypt. That will be cool. One day you will get to be a bald eagle soaring through the sky. That will be cool. Etc. It's all cool from God's POV. Even the "bad" stuff. The key is to adopt God's POV.

Look, this is a highly personal matter. Your trips will be very different from mine. So my experiences are not a good point of reference. My first trip I had a panic attack. In the end, no of that matters. Just minor obstacles.

If America was truly libertarian we would all be dead or enslaved. In fact, you would never have been born. That is what you don't understand. There is a very good reason why no nation in human history has ever been libertarian. Because it would be pure hell. In fact, it simply could not be suatained for more than a few decades before it collapsed. If you want a libertarian lifestyle the closest thing would be moving to Somalia. You're welcome to move there.

If you eliminate much of the ego, God will speak to you all the time. The only obstacle to talking to God is you! Purify yourself first.

You don't have to give up experience to be liberated. Experience is nirvana, is infinity. You just need to be more conscious of what experience really is. Liberation is NOW, NOW, NOW! Find it in the NOW or you won't ever find it.

I have been in that place. Form does not have to stop being created for total liberation. Form is perfect however it is. How can you be liberated if you need form to stop?

Be careful! That is merely your assumption. Many people have died and returned. You can't understand the answer from your current state of consciousness. You must awaken first.

Surely it must have. I don't get much ego backlash from 5-MeO. It's sorta like a walk in the park after 35 trips. This really depends on you. It will vary so much. For me, I feel like God coming back to human form. But yet still God. Sometimes it's disappointing that I cannot be on a 5-MeO peak 24/7 because that would be the ultimate. It usually feels liberating. Yes, old survival patterns reinstate themselves quickly. Your work then becomes to observe them and let them go.

@Key Elements Of course there's much else. Reality can be explored to infinity. The exploration of it will never end. I talk about many things besides enlightenment.

Don't forget, you are God. So you can talk to yourself any time you like

This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. LOL

Ahahahaha.... Silly libertarian...

Nothing and Everything are identical. There are many degrees of realizing this. It's not that you're realizing anything totally new, but you're going deeper and deeper down the same rabbit hole, realizing God more and more and more until finally you hit total omniscience. The highest truth is not nothingness. It is that you are God and you have direct consciousness of how you are creating the entire universe -- every last grain of sand on every beach in the universe. To somehow separate nothingness from form is actually a shallow level of nondual realization. There are much deeper levels. All of this, and more, 5-MeO-DMT can show you effortlessly. These are levels of consciousness which even the highest spiritual masters rarely attained. At these levels of consciousness you are literally God. You are the creator of all spiritual masters. Your power and authority is total, singular, and absolute. No teacher can teach you anything at this level because you have become all teachers, and more. This level of consciousness is completely unspeakable and unimaginable. And yet it is the ultimate truth. I hope one day ya'll reach it. But I wouldn't bet money on it unless you're doing lots of 5-MeO-DMT.

Those are serious allegations, IF true. But I have no idea who this woman is or if she is being accurate, or if she is somehow disgruntled. Again, the only way to adjudicate this matter is to dig into all the details and see it for yourself. I am not in the business of doing that. All I do is make general meta points about how cults work, so people are armed with the best wisdom possible. One of my top values with Actualized.org from day one is independence. I strongly discourage my students from worshiping anyone or being loyal to any one teacher or teaching, including myself. This should be obvious from the body of my work. From what I can intuit, there probably ARE some cult-like activities happening in Mooji's community. How bad it is, I have no idea. But none of this changes his status of being awakened in my book. To what degree he is awake is hard to say. In the end it doesn't really matter to me because I don't hinge anything on it. People who worship him are fools. Women who sleep with him and expect something from it other than sex, are also fools. To me this is so obvious it doesn't even require saying. But I certainly understand how young naive spiritual seekers can get suckered into it. But also keep in mind that if a spiritual teacher is doing his job right, there will be plenty of people who hate him and spread totally fictious rumors about him. People make shit up about me all the time. It's quite shocking to see totally false stuff written about you. I've seen it and it always baffles me. That's because the ego-mind finds very creative ways to deny truth, often attacking the messenger. It cannot be otherwise. Ignorance cannot help being ignorant. Both of these things can be true simutaneously. As a general rule of thumb: be very careful about joining any ashram. They are notoriously cult-like in various ways because no one there has bothered to study cult dynamics. To be awake does not mean you automatically understand cult dynamics.

To be fair, IF Mooji is running a real cult, the tactics they use can be so sneaky and manipulative that it will be very difficult to report them to the police. Many serious and violent cults go completely unreported to police because they so brainwash their members. A member of my extended family was in a cult where she was sexually abused and she still has not publically spoken out about it for fear of retribution from the cult leader, who still runs that cult to this day. It's been running for decades and abused so many women they have a dedicated support group just for the ex-members of that one small cult. And yet they are unable to stop it. True cults are very sneaky.

@Shadowraix It's whole purpose to begin with was the defense of ego. Of course the more egotistical a person is the more they project and the more they deny that they project. Projection cannot work without also the denial that one is doing it. Hence people who do it the most have no idea they are doing it. To them it simply feels they are right.

The only trick is to be conscious of one's own projections. Which of course no one wants to do.

This is false. Spiritual teachers live within larger societies and governments which make their work possible. Sadhguru's ashram can only exist because of a massively complex government which protects it from destruction and ensures his property rights. Otherwise a horde of Mongols would invade it, burn it to the ground, rape all the women, kill all the men, and enslave all the children. So while of course Sadhguru himself will never go fight off Mongol hordes, the only reason he doesn't have to force anything on you is because he has a government army and police force do the dirty work for him. They stop the devils so that there can be peace enough for enlightenment to be taught "without force". Yet if you go to his ashram and start acting like a devil, they will call the police and force you off the property. Of course Sadhguru is wise enough to understand and appreciate all this. The problem is, you aren't. You fundamentally do not understand what government is, how it came to be, and why it is necessary. No monastary tolerates devilry. They will kick you out if you don't follow their very strict rules. The devilry that you guys get away with on this forum would never ever be allowed in a serious spiritual school. Half of you would have been kicked out long ago. Some of you would have been slapped hard across the face for your foolishness. Most of you would never have even been allowed inside in the first place.

This question has been answered many times. Inside/outside is a duality. Consciousness/body is a duality.

That is the scoop. But the big end is not 25mg for 5-MeO HCl. More like 10mg. You'd need 3 flat scoops for a 30mg dose of 5-MeO-DMT HCl. Roughly speaking. Oxalate seems to be a heavier molecule and less fluffy, so it would need maybe 2 or 2.5 scoops for a 30mg dose. With HCl I usually do 1.5 to 2 scoops. Roughly 20-25mg. That's the perfect dose for me. Your perfect dose will vary from mine. It takes trial and error to find it. Why? I don't see a need for it. The trips are perfect as they are. I like to keep it simple. Best to do it when you are most stable and non-moody. But also, 5-MeO will alter your state so much that you will forget you ever were a woman. So it won't matter at that point. It's the before and after where you might struggle with your moodiness or physical discomfort. Probably don't do it on your period. When plugging, for me, the trip starts in 5 minutes and hits peak at 10-15 mins. It's very fast-acting. For other people I have seen it take longer to kick in. They must have an ass of steel