Leo Gura

The distinction between self/other is a concept, and it will collapse. Leaving only one thing: YOU! Your mother is a concept. In fact, she is actually you. You came out of your own vagina. Ta-da! Yes, this freaky to realize. It can feel like you're all alone. That's right! God is all alone. But do not confuse this with solipsism.

@Speedscarlet Of course. But "feeling better" is not a good measurement. Rather, how conscious are you of how your emotions manipulate you.

At good way to view emotions: Emotions are self-manipulations to maintain the self's survival agenda.

Part of the problem with Green is getting lost in relativity: "everything's relative so anything goes. Let's let criminals run loose and do whatever they want." No! All POVs have some partial truth, BUT not all POV are equally functional. Some POVs are really pathological, dangerous, and limiting to upward mobility on the Spiral. Green is a more evolved and healthier POV than Orange, but Green still has its limits and problems. Your Orange friend is slightly more deluded than you. And it can be useful to point out his delusion to him.

Remember that people below stage Green don't have much concern for environmental issues because their mind is preoccupied with more selfish things. So the root solution to climate change is to raise more people to Green cognitive development. Then, from that, the rest of the external solutions will follow. A Green populace will vote for green politicians and green energy. Climate change is really a problem of excessive Orange. As we can clearly see with Trump, who is in such denial about it.

And another from the same artist: http://glenneth.bandcamp.com/track/haze

Forming outside groups is against Forum Guidelines.

Psychedelics are not for cowards.

Psychedelics will cause bad trips. This is guaranteed if you do them enough times. The key is it doesn't matter. A "bad trip" is just part of the growth process.

To awaken on your deathbed is like to open your eyes as the credits start to roll at the theater. I cannot imagine a greater tragedy.

That is a solid glimpse of the ox's tail. Good job!

@Lauritz You saw one dust particle that flew off the tail of the Ox

@herghly Tis a good insight.

That's a serious dose. Welcome back

I am creating a new course, it will be awesome and it will be released sometime next year. No more details beyond that yet.

The Dark Night does not usually last for years. That is rare. Many people don't even get a Dark Night. When the Dark Night lasts a long time that is for people who have no theoretical foundation, no good guidance. By watching my videos and reading the books you should be able to avoid all that. P.S. Giving up your loved ones will be necessary regardless. All loved ones come and go. They do not last forever. Enlightenment requires you to surrender everything, but after that you come back and can appreciate it that much more. Detachment -- counter-intuitively -- heightens your capacity to love.

@kieranperez Rules trade certain freedoms for others. Rules are important for a society to function, but also rules must be well selected and you must understand why the rule was created. There is a big difference between following rules consciously vs unconsciously. And rules in society are much more appropirate than a rule-based personal morality. Your personal morality should not be rule-based but heart and consciousness centered.

@Mihael Keehl What you got there with the mushroom is a little taste of BEING. A tiny taste. You only skimmed the surface of the ocean that is psychedelia. Contemplation will come naturally at deeper levels. You have to distinguish between contemplation which is artificial and contemplation which is organic. At higher doses you will be hit with organic contemplations without any need of writing down lists of questions. What's most important is just genuine curiosity about reality, not a list of questions. The list of questions is good to make, but you do that BEFORE the trip, and you don't look at it during the trip.

Great thread idea

@Charlotte Well, there are skillful and unskillful ways to communicat Truth. You gotta meet the person where they are at. Telling normies things like, "Nothing is real!" or "Who is saying that?" is just not skillful.

It does not make sense to you because you are not awake. If you woke up you'd immediately know that you are all creatures (and non-creatures) in the universe. This is not a theory or a conceptualization. It is the Absolute. But only if you awaken. You don't need to become every creature to know this, you just need to wake up to what you are. To wake up is to become the entire universe and all objects in it. At the moment of awakening you realize that you will reincarnate infinitely, forever. Because you cannot die. This means the big Self, not the ego. The ego was a fiction to begin with. It never was. But the big Self takes on infinite forms.

@Speedscarlet I made that clear in my Radical Implications of Oneness video. I've never said that the ego will reincarnate.

There are many good scientific articles. Science, by its very nature, is a collective consensus-building activity. So if you're gonna use science at all -- and what other choice do you have? -- you're gonna have to accept a lot of stuff as expert hearsay. So in this example you were just being too dismissive and smartassy. Remember, stage Green & Turquoise must build on top of stage Orange rather than excluding and denying it. Science denial is not a tenable position. What you can do instead is talk about various ways to interpret the science, various ways to recontextualize empirical data.

@Cammy It is true that you have a tendency to act shy. But the root source causing the shyness is falsehood. You are shy because you have fear. And all fear is falsehood. Uncovering why you are fearful in social situations will ultimately eliminate the shyness. Fear is overcome by understanding what it is you fear, why you fear it, and facing that fear.