Leo Gura

No! You guys still do not understand distinctions. Distinctions are NOT mind made! Distinctions are NOT concepts nor thoughts! Mind is a distinction. Made is a distinction. Concept is a distinction. Thought is a distinction. Enlightenment/nonduality does not eliminate distinctions. Elimination is itself a distinction! Instead, you just become conscious what the true nature of a distinction is. So, what is a distinction? You have no idea. Contemplate. Maybe it's not anything

Just? Lol Yeah, it's only EVERYTHING! From the way you speak, sure sounds like you're missing love.

@kieranperez 500+ years

If you are going to trip you need to learn how to boost yourself out of negative states. You can proactively shift states at any time, rather than having them control you. Practice causing yourself to feel happy, excited, confident, calm, loving, etc. Practice shifting state.

Peace is an Absolute. It is present even in the middle of a battlefield. If you are aware enough to notice it.

The purpose of any emotion is to create behaviors necessary for the ego's survival. Mind you, I said ego's survival, not the body's survival. It's a preemptive defense mechanism, so that you end up getting what you want.

@GroovyGuru If it bothers you so much you aren't ready.

The astounding thing is that understanding is possible. Everything can be understood.

@Key Elements I don't know what you're saying. That psychedelics are somehow wrong? If so, then you need more experience with them.

What is understanding? is a very profound question indeed.

Sweet!

Except something IS nothing! The whole point is that nothing does in fact exist. His logic fails.

@XYZ Nice try devil, but you still don't know it, you're just pretending like you know it so that you can continue being a devil whilst thinking you are an angel. Think of devilry like an onion. Many layers to it and it stinks and makes people cry

@KP_Spirituality27 You don't need to be enlightened to answer that question. Just look at enlightened people throughout history. Did they continue having sex? YES! YES! YES! How could they have sex if they did not desire it? You can figure this stuff out through simple deduction.

A flute with no holes is not a flute. And a headache is not a brain.

Well obviously. That's not even the future, that's already today. Life in the real future will be so different it will be impossible to understand it for today's humans. There will be things far beyond humans or even living creatures. Stuff in totally new dimensions as yet unimaginable. I forsee a future where beings can materialize physical objects using their will and imagination through no physical mechanism. Imagine building a jumbo jet using your mind and it appears before you. With enough intelligence that should be possible. That is how God does it.

Map and territory are ONE. Stop creating dualities!

"The better the model the bigger the problem." Getting lost in the map is much more problematic than getting lost in the territory. Finding your way out of a forrest is easy compared to finding your way out of your own mind. The forrest doesn't play devilish tricks on you the way your own mind does.

@Charlotte Good stuff. Yeah, it helps to have a deep theoretical foundation in spirituality to make sense of experiences like this. Yeah, nonduality is so radical it does not make sense to the lowercase self. Takes a lot of trips to make sense of it all. Psychedelics make it much easier as that breathing is hard work and gets pretty messy. The breathing works more at the bodily level than the mental/understanding level. That's still useful, but don't be surprised if it doesn't make sense.

When you fully realize what ego is, it will be like you were never even born. It will not even be possible in that moment to imagine that there could ever be a self or a human. A human is 100% a total illusion, including birth, death, mind, body, and biographical life. None of it has any reality whatsoever. There is no such thing as biological creatures who are born, live, and die. All that is imagination. But you can't understand this at all from your current state of consciousness. Your current state of consciousness IS the imagination at work, locking in "reality". Whatever it imagines is "real" for you right now.

5-MeO is almost too powerful for such questions. You will be in such a degree of consciousness that your old life will have zero import or meaning. Your old life will simply not make any sense because it is pure illusion. Under 5-MeO human life simply does not compute. It's like looking at a 2D object from the 4th dimension. Your only desire will be to share 5-MeO with the whole world. Mushrooms or LSD are milder and better for asking such questions.

@Angelo John Gage A really good way to verify if your desire is coming from ego or from the heart is to ask while on a psychedelic. Ask when you are in a state of nondual God consciousness. See what comes up.

@Angelo John Gage Good But just in case, keep an eye on that desire of yours. Desire is a tricky thing. Desire and attachment go hand in hand. Developing a "good" spiritual ego is a common way to avoid actual awakening. But after you awaken you can certainly have a life purpose focused around promoting justice.

@Angelo John Gage The desire to change the world is tricky. Yes, part of it is genuine but part of it is also ego. On some level you still don't accept or love terrorism and war. Which is a self-hatred. You have to make sure that you're changing the world not as a reaction against some part of it which you refuse to accept. Are you conscious of why war is necessary? Of what function it serves? If what you seek is one half of a duality, like peace/war, then that will not work. What's necessary is to transcend both of those and discover Peace as an Absolute which unifies and embraces peace/war. That is how you get true Peace. See, the problem is that the terrorist too is busy creating a good world, from his POV. Everything who tries to change the world for the better is in danger of falling into the trap of the lesser jihad. The desire to do good cannot be taken on blind faith since a devil always frames what he does as good. Good intentions are not enough to create a good world. You also have to be aware of how goodness is relative.