Leo Gura

There's really no contradiction. Just different ways to phrasing the same thing. Meditation techniques which focus attention are very good. I wouldn't besmirch them as merely "preliminary exercises." Self-inquiry is a concentration exercise. It is also possible to meditate on nothingness. But it's an advanced kind of meditation which is not easy for most people to do because the mind easily clings on to some form. So instead most newbies are taught a technique like: focus on the breath. It is possible to put your attention on Nothingness if you're very conscious. It requires taking your attention off of all form. Basically you're trying to become conscious of formlessness, Shiva, or the Godhead.

It's not feasible in the long-term. And the deeper question is, why are you interested in working that much at all since work will never make you happy? It clearly shows that you have your priorities backward. Work is endless. It's an endless game of chasing one's tail. You want your work to be enjoyable and you want to have lots of spare time for spirituality, personal development, and enjoyment of life. What you want is not effectiveness or success, but consciousness, joy, peace, and health. Working long hours should only be done for short periods of time for critical strategic purposes, like if you're launching a new business you might work really hard for a year or two, but only because you'll then have more free time.

Nothingness is prior to mind, space, or anything else. The answer is "sorta." Attention is put on it through the self-inquiry process. Your mind must become very still and your concentration laser focused. Do not confuse this with putting your attention on some idea or concept of nothingness. I am talking about ACTUAL nothingness, not any idea you have. An idea you have of it, is not it, and it will prevent you from accessing it. So be careful. DO NOT TRY TO IMAGINE NOTHINGNESS. That is a giant waste of time. It will not work and you will not even be close. Or a psychedelic can take you there easily. It's best not to think of it as "putting my attention of nothingness" but rather, nothingness is what you ARE. You are it. It is your truest nature. So rather than looking for nothingness, look for what you are, your truest nature. When I say "you" I am talking to that nothingness you are.

Sounds like you accessed channeling. Very interesting. I didn't know that MAOI would affect vaporized DMT. That's kinda odd since it was already active. I guess MAOI just supercharges any substance. Have you tried plugging DMT salt? That should last 45 mins or more and be smoother than vaping with no MAOI required. Warning: combining 5-MeO-DMT with MAOI can be lethal. Never do that.

Greenish I'd say. He's very similar to Obama.

Plugging is still extremely powerful. And you can increase the dose to the point of whiting out. So lack of intensity is not a problem. It's just more gentle and longer-lasting. That gentleness is very good. You don't want to freak yourself out or overload your system. It's also easier to keep your eyes open.

@Esoteric Yeah, it's mostly bufotinine which is a weird psychedelic with high body load. Don't mistake that for pure 5-MeO.

@Identity Survival, survival, survival.

@Ellenier Very interesting. Great discovery!

Yes, when I was in college I had to work really hard on health to lose 65 pounds. I was really fat my whole life. I still went to college, so it wasn't 100% of my time, but it took a lot of attention and willpower to acheive that transformation and make it stick. Starting my first business and quitting my job. It's basically impossible to become wealthy without learning business, sales, and marketing and being very serious about business. Business does not tolerate bullshit and wishful thinking. You must deliver hard results or you're dead. Most people cannot handle that. It's brutal. See my video: Small Business Advice.

That's a bad way to frame it. The whole distinction between conscious and unconscious is bogus. There is only consciousness at various levels. Trips are super-conscious. Freud and Jung are not good teachings. They did not understand nonduality. Jung has some redeeeming quilities, but still not good enough for our purposes.

What you need is a desire for Truth, radical openmindedness, and brual honesty with yourself. The word faith is confusing to people because they then think that Truth is some kind of wishful thinking belief. It is anything but.

They are one and the same, but they are simultaneously distinct. Just like how a coffee table is located in space, yet it is distinct from space. You can have space without a coffee table. Or space with a coffee table. Phenomena occur inside the witness (we could say). Phenomena are also identical to the witness. And the witness is also distinct from all phenomena. These are various aspects of nonduality which you will have to realize individually, and also together all at once. A good order of progression is first to realize the witness as distinct from phenomena. Then to realize that since the witness is nothing and nowhere, it is everywhere and everything, including all phenomena. Something which is nothing and nowhere is also everything and everywhere. That's what you're missing. The witness is not a point in space, it is omnipresent, sort of like how a vacuum is omnipresent.

How can anyone answer that for you? If you're gonna be a badass sage, you gotta figure it out. It will not unfold as you anticipate. There will be many unexpected twists and turns. So be flexible, yet also have a vision, be decisive, be proactive. Some stuff you try will work. Some will not.

If you close your eyes, the whole trip will just feel like a dream afterwards. Our #1 goal is to bring the psychedelic state into ordinary life. Oh, another idea for plugging freebase is to dissolve it in oil. I haven't tried but I've heard it can work.

@zunnyman You'd be surprised. The perfect person you imagine would actually be extra depressed because he sees it's not working, it's all a house of cards. Happiness is always relative. Having $100 billion will not make you happy, as unbelievable as that may sound to you.

That's general advice for all psychs. Our goal here is to recognize nonduality in everyday life. You need to realize what perceptions are. You need to experience your room and your body as God. So that when you arr sober still know that form and formlessness are one. It's SO critical to realize that form and formlessness are identical. Otherwise you're still in duality. Plugging is gonna be a very different experience. Very gentle yet strong and lasting for 60 mins.

@davidomni Great work! That's pretty epic for 10mg. Really, it was too powerful. Blasting into outer space is not ideal. Try plugging 20mg. It will be a very different experience. Make sure you keep your eyes open. It's important that you don't fly off to some other dimension but realize that the Absolute is ordinary life, not some colorful fractal. Medium dose, eyes open, and contemplate. Your sensitivity will only increase as you have breakthroughs. Watch out with mushrooms. They will become much more powerful and 5-MeO-like. Scale back all your dosages for all substances.

@111111 Fun read Good stuff if not a bit manic. Be very careful mixing psychedelics with modafinil. Reports seem to suggest that it's not a good combo. But I have not verified it personally. Yes, LSD is a very powerful tool, not to be taken lightly.

Sounds like its a problem of hyper-masculinity. Attachment to the macho identity. Although I haven't watched his videos for about 4 years. Sounds like he's drunk the MGTOW Kool-Aid. Which is a shame. It means he's developing a stage Green shadow a la Jordan Peterson.

Submission of the highs? I don't know what that means.

@David Hammond In practice, it's still about material success -- just higher forms of it. There cannot be true authenticity of psychological wholeness without awakening.

If you were in Australia you wouldn't ask such silly questions, you'd be too busy enjoying Australia and there wouldn't be a problem. Such questions arise precisely because you're not there.

Your dose is too high. There's not much point tripping if you're gonna be passing out. So you put 25% vinegar up your butt? Doesn't that burn? You don't dilute it with water? It's wrong in the sense that police show up or neighbors disturb you. You need to trip in a responsible manner. If you start running around the street naked, that's no good, even if it feels natural to you while you're high.

Dude, you're just confusing the poor guy. Meet the person where he is at. All this nondual one-ups-manship on the forum is starting to feel gross.