Leo Gura

@Charlotte The dream is a facet of your own mind. You are using these scenarios, emotions, stories, and thoughts to manipulate yourself towards "stuff" -- whatever the ego is after.

That would be fear. Yes, you can certainly have that fear. But truth doesn't care about your fears. There maybe lots of legitimate fears about flying to the moon. But if you have not flown to the moon, you get no say about what is on the moon. You chose to not experience the moon. And of course all fear stems directly from ego. So you fell into the trap of letting the devil dictate your inquiry into truth. And so the very thing you feared: delusion, you have made real.

The basis of all genuine understanding is direct personal experience and investigation. Until you perosnally gain significant experience with psychedelics, you will not understand what the words "psychedelic", or "experience", or "reality" even mean. 1 or 2 trips is also not enough to understand. This will require some serious investigation from you. Until such time, you can even begin to imagine how little you understand. If you are too lazy or scared to investigate this domain of life, that's on you. Then you have chosen personal comfort over truth. Since you do not know what truth is, you also do not know where truth could be found.

The realization of nonduality is an extremely radical shift. Really, your old life is gone. You are dead at this point, so the question of "function" (survival) is moot. There is nothing left to survive. The game of life is over. You have awoken from survival. Consider, the only reason you worry about survival issues is because you hold the belief that you are alive. What would happen if that belief was surrendered? What would happen if you surrendered all control over your life such that there was zero effort or struggle? What would happen if you became God? Would worry about anything? Nonduality is not a paradigm. It is Absolute.

@alankrillin I never claimed that everyone is succeeding. I would guess that 90% of people who watch Actualized.org take zero action so they get very little results. It's like watching videos about weightlifting and expecting to get jacked without ever stepping foot in the gym. This work requires serious intention, motivation, passion, and persistence. By definition, 99% of people will be too lazy and myopic to do it. We are talking about the most advanced wisdom available to mankind. This will not be actualized effortlessly. But if you want, you can totally transform your life. The choice is yours. How serious are you gonna take it? It doesn't take 3 years to see results. If you were serious, in 3 years you could earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash or transcend death using the information I've talked about. The problem isn't that what I say it too good to be true, it's that it's so true you'll hardly believe it when you see it.

Probably not in practice. Careful not to get fixated on being perfectly developed. This is just more ego. Just focus on becoming more conscious one bit at a time and enjoy life. Do not make personal development a mission. The mission is to enjoy life, not to be working on yourself forever.

There is nothing but you. The only thing you will ever find are deeper levels of yourself.

Self/other is a duality, which means it must ultimately collapse. Those people you call "other" are really just facets of yourself in the same way that all actors in a movie are all one movie. There exists nothing but YOU. But not the personal ego you, the Cosmic You. You as the entire universe. Look at another human being in the eyes and realize they are you. Don't think about it. Actually try it. This is best realized on a psychedelic. Your ordinary mode of consciousness is too weak to see it in most cases without massive concentration work.

Obviously it would work. It just seems like an extreme step to take and comes with needless dangers. Plugging works great. You don't lose anything if your technique is good.

@Cameron A classic case of the lesser Jihad to avoid the Greater Jihad. All cults create an evil "other" to fight against. This allows the ego to feel good about itself, thus avoiding self-reflection. Self-righteousness is a dead giveaway of egoic behavior. When you are deeply conscious of Truth and Being, you will not act self-righteously or judgmentally. Judgment automatically disconnects you from Truth.

The ego loves to assume it is already fully developed. That conveniently means no more work is required. The ego loves to live in the world of ideals, abstractions, intellectualizations, and soothing fantasies. You constantly have to give yourself reality-checks in this work. You must be brutally honest with yourself about your deficiencies, limitations, and lack of development. As a rule of thumb you are never as developed or as conscious as you think you are. It's very easy to listen to advanced stages like Yellow and Turquoise and to assume you're already there just because you intellectually understand those stages or you can picture them in your mind's eye. But that's just imagination. That's not the actual level you're acting from on a daily basis. Most of your daily actions probably stem from much lower levels like Red, Blue, Orange. A very helpful exercise is to monitor all of your thoughts on any given day and analyze what percentage of your thoughts are stemming from which color stage? How much time do you spend thinking about money, sex, power, fear, selfish needs, dogma, judgment, anger, etc? Probably 90%+ How much time do you spend in systems thinking, metaphysical contemplation, unconditional love, or solving global problems? Probably less than 1%.

@Serotoninluv It's individual ego which thrives in anonymity. Which then creates a toxic collective ego. Of course collective ego also loves to disable transparency. For example, CIA secret torture programs and NSA wiretapping thrive on lack of transparency, so they cannot be held accountable. And that's when evil happens. The individual ego off-loads responsibility onto the collective ego, and the collective ego off-loads responsibility onto the individual ego in a game of phone-tag. You see the ego's game? It always points the finger at someone else. That's how the devil operates because the devil cannot ever stand looking in the mirror -- because then he'd see his own devilish face, which would contradict his self-image of being an angel. The devil always thinks he's an angel and refuses to see any evidence to the contrary -- therein lies the devilry.

@kieranperez You are being way too harsh on yourself. Go watch some Matt Kahn videos and practice some self-love and self-acceptance. You cannot change your life from a position of self-flagellation and self-hatred. Well, you can, but it's gonna be very ugly. Being harsh with yourself just tends to heap ego on top of ego, problem on top of problem. Slow down, collect yourself, find peace in the now, and slowly begin the process of assembling your life, brick by brick. All the resources you need are basically available these days online.

It is really any different than sucking on breasts or anything else? Contemplate what kinds of things you like getting sucked.

Anonymity in large numbers creates a lack of responsibility. Individual responsibility is off-loaded onto someone else and evil behavior becomes normalized: "everyone's doing it, so it must okay for me to do it too." In small tribes anonymity is impossible. But in a society of millions of people, and online, it's the opening of Pandora's box. When nobody is holding you accountable it's much easier to behave like a devil.

People here grow and change a lot. People outgrow this forum and go off on their own. Which is exactly as it should be. Don't create false limiting beliefs like that. I get messages, comments, and emails from people on a daily basis with stories of who much they've grown or changed. Most people are never going to write a detailed public report of how much they changed.

Meh, if that's all that happens from your joining a cult, you got out lucky

@Igor82 Nice, but you've only scratched the surface of what 5-MeO offers. You've seen less than 0.1% of its potential. Don't stop now.

@pluto Interesting method. Would require lots of 1st hand experimentation to verify.

Deficiency needs is a good answer, but I would also say lack of familiarity with the Spiral Dynamics model itself, and lack of epistemic inquiry. The dynamics of knowledge (epistemology) needs to be directly explored and contemplated. Also systems thinking. Seeing the world as a complex web of impersonal inter-related systems. Most problems are systemic problems requiring systemic solutions. Few people look at the world this way. They look at the world too personally, as if the world revolves around them and their judgments, as if the solutions are linear and black & white. Yellow is nonlinear thinking. Most people are highly linear thinkers. Yes, but Green still clings too much to its SJW perspective as being superior. Green is not able to detach enough from its own perspective.

Infinite intelligence. Stop assuming reality is dumb. Reality is smarter than all human minds combined. The devil, in his egotism, mistook the intelligence of God for his own.

That's a solid strategy. I don't recommend working at McDonalds. But this topic of resources is too detailed and complex to discuss here. Just by doing some solid googling you can find mostly anything you need. You have to be serious about it though. There are literally 1000s of amazing resources but you're too lazy to use them.

Man, for now, I would say just forget about that. Your mind is filled with fantasies of being some crazy Buddha. Don't worry about that for now. Spend the next 5 years just learning how to survive and thrive in America. Then revisit the Buddha issue. Remember, Buddha was 27 years old when he left behind his life of luxury, success, and family. He had a wife and child. He was experienced with the ways of material living. And then it took him another 6 years to finally get enlightened. So you've got plenty of time. 23 year olds are basically babies. You have virtually no life experience or survival skills. So build those up. This is not unique to you. Most 23 year olds these days are like this. As was I at that time. You'd be amazed how much can get accomplished in 10 years. Way more than you could image.

@daniel695 Becoming conscious of your emotions is the core of all development and awakening work because emotions run your entire life. It doesn't matter what medication you're on, you can still mindfully observe and inquire into emotions. Your entire life is run by emotions 24/7. The issue isn't that you have too few emotions, it's that you're totally overwhelmed by them to the point where you cannot even tell where an emotion ends and your life begins. Observing and deconstructing emotions is very challenging work, for anyone, regardless of medications or not. You could start by observing every day in which ways you suppress emotions.

@Ampresus That's nonduality. Now the trick is taming that Ox. Your body? What is a body? Does it really exist? Or is it a conceptual construction? Inquire deeper into what this "body" really is. There is no difference between "your body" and a coffee table.