Leo Gura

And the end result

How about you just vote for the person who is most conscious and Spirally developed? Might work better than voting for Hitler

The Greeks had some badass philosophers. A shame what has become of philosophy today.

@Igor82 That's a tip of the iceberg dose. Get ready for an epic mindfucking at 20mg and above. Sounds like you've realized no-self so far, but not Absolute Infinity or God or Mu. Keep going down the rabbit hole. Plugging is far, far superior to snorting.

Par for the course when you run a cult

That's why you test 'em for midichlorians

@Jcent It is wise, before you go breaking down a system, to learn the system from the inside. Only a fool hastily disassembles a complex piece of machinery without first studying its inner workings. A common problem with young revolutionaries is that they end up creating a worse system than the one they rail against because they underestimate the practical realities such a system must contend with. Success requires striking a delicate balance between the old and the new, the status quo and the cutting edge, between the practical and ideal. Otherwise you easily end up with something like a cult, a communist revolution, or Bioshock: a dystopian abomination.

@VictorB02 Well, you gotta appreciate that people have mystical experiences and even enlightenments just out of the blue, sometimes with little to no practice. Meditation is everywhere all of the time! Meditation is reality. You don't have to be sitting on the cushion to be aware of stuff. Some people are naturally meditating all the time without even giving it a label or using any formal techniques. So yeah, side-effects are to be expected out of the blue in some people. Some people even have spontaneous kundalini awakenings. The harder you meditate the more side-effects you are likely to have. It's sort of like if I told you that by doing weightlifting you can get sore muscles, and some people respond in the comments: "But Leo! I don't do any weightlifitng and I still get sore muscles." Yeah, of course! Because weightlifting is not the only way to get sore muscles.

The universe has no rules. You are free to do whatever. Survival is often messy and dirty. If you can actually use this opportunity to help awaken mankind, then that would be wise to do, otherwise what's the alternative for you? But be careful not to fall into the trap of using a noble purpose to justify all sorts of selfish behavior, the way that cults like to do. That comes with a high karmic cost.

Mu

No, the book is a very long-term project.

Any word out of my mouth is a reference to Absolute Infinity, since there is nothing but it.

Good stuff

There is nothing more addictive to the ego-mind than an ideology which brings in $$$, fame, and pussy. That's a lethal combo.

When someone calls himself "unspiritual", what more do you need to know? Railing against spirituality is the new religion, LOL. It's sort of like those non-conformist kids in school who all non-conform so conformly. Someone should start a YT channel called UnUnSpirituality

@CreamCat Don't look for people to hold your hand. Just do it.

We already have a Joe Rogan thread.

@Equanimitize That is the crack spot

@d0ornokey Do you want "arbitrage" written on your tombstone? Then why are you doing it? Do stuff that you would feel proud to have written on your tombstone.

@optimize First of all, these are quality problems. Acknowledge how far you've come. You've build something rare and you ain't done yet. Secondly, yeah! Welcome to survival! Survival is a cut-throat activity. It is not easy to balance between business & art. It is not easy to run a conscious business. Which is why virtually no body does it. Yes, your business can get fucked at any time, and if you neglect it for too long, it will probably die. Such is life. There is no life without death. The solution is to accept it and face your fear of failure/business-death. I used to get these fears a lot. I still get them to some extent but a lot less so after my many mystical experiences, which teach me that death is inevitable and nothing to be afraid of. After you experience a few physical deaths, business death doesn't seem so serious any more. That said, if you are going to be running a business you should run it well, strategically. Think about ways to make your business more future-proof and self-sustaining. You can do that without being paranoid about it. Make the distinction between being strategic and proactive vs being paranoid. You can do one without doing the other and vice versa. Of course your survival is tied to your business performance. Business IS survival. The solution here it is not get too wrapped up in survival. Yes, survival is necessary but don't make your entire life about survival. Don't make your entire business about survival. You must skillfully evolve your business beyond survival to incorporate play, artistry, beauty, and consciousness. This must be done while still keeping one eye on your finances. Just like how an artist cannot paint all day long without eating food. But it would be a mistake for him to get so paranoid about food that all he does all day is eat food and never paints. A balance must be struck between eating food and making art. Likewise between business and art. Most successful entrepreneurs end up workaholics. You should probably make time for other stuff like relationships, travel, spirituality, etc. Do that without neglecting your business. If you're earning $100,000 you should have enough money to hire a bit of extra help. Consider hiring an online contractor to help you out. Consider how to align your art with your biz. Yes, I always feel a desire to grow and expand my biz. But I have to be disciplined and say NO! to lots of opportunities because biz is not as important as spirituality, for example. I pass up on a lot of opportunities because biz cannot be your #1 priority in the end. That way lies disaster. How do I handle fears of my business getting fucked? At this point I've basically stopped caring. I've almost stopped caring if I die. This was made possible through spiritual work and profound mystical experiences which show me that biz and life are just a hallucination. None of my life or work really matter. This is all just a game. It's being done for fun and artistry. You could get run over by a bus tomorrow. So why worry about it? Getting over the fear of loss of my business took many years of work. It also helped that I saved up a comfortable nest egg. My YT channel could die tomorrow and I would still be able to live for 15 years without working. I strategically designed it this way. You can too. Not in a week, but in a few years time you could. Sometimes I still think of the business aspects of things, but at this point in my life, career, and development I spend more time thinking about living in a cave than running a business. You are not at this point yet. Maybe you'll get there in 5-10 years of work. It all depends on what your goals are for your life. For me, the point of business is to enable my passion and artistry. Design your business such that it allows you to do your art. Artsy fartsy stuff is not waste of time if it part of your life purpose and your life purpose is fueling your biz. The whole point is to align all these things in a balanced way. If you set up your business properly, you should be able to take time off to pursue spirituality, travel, leisure, art, relationships, etc. That will take some years to actualize, but it's worth it. The first few years of building a business usually requires LOTS of hours of non-stop work. But the whole point of all that work is so that in the future your business is more or less on auto-pilot. Tie the artsy-fartsy stuff to the success of your biz. Remember the importance of dynamic balance. See my balance video. Have a long-term strategic plan. Automate, outsource, and streamline stuff as much as you can. Fear is always a psychological self-deception game. Your fear is something you want to contemplate and face head on. Just building your biz more is never going to solve the fear of losing your biz. Your biz could be making $1 billion per year and you'd still fear losing it. Even more so! Because fear is never based in reality, it is purely mental. So explore that. To really overcome fear you must do deep spiritual work. Fear is inevitable without enlightenment. Overall, you're on the right track. Just fine-tune things and take it to the next level. Next level does not necessarily mean: more money & bigger biz. Next level means: a new balance, or action at a higher level of consciousness.

@captainamerica There is a deeper problem here. If daytrading offers no value, setting yourself up as a trainer of daytraders is just doubling down on the problem, you see? You are effectively creating a pyramid scheme. The whole point of a pyramid scheme is that it takes a product or service of no genuine value and makes it appear to have short-term value by convincing other people that it has value. If you realize that daytrading has little to no value, why are you positioning yourself to teach it to other people? You just geometrically multiplied your bad karma. It's as if I told you that robbing people's houses created bad karma so you come back to me and say, "What if I don't do any robbing myself but instead I train hundreds of people how to rob houses?" Lol Go create something which you know offers massive genuine value for mankind. Teach that! Do you really want to spend your precious time on this Earth teaching daytrading? Is that what you want your life to be remembered as: the daytrading guy? Is that really the best thing you can think of?

@Pouya It depends on how much they do it. 2-3 trips is usually not enough for the average person to get a profound nondual experience (when snorting/plugging). Most people need a rather large dose of it to break through, and the problem is, they are too afraid to do it. They do 1 or 2 small trips and call it quits before the breakthrough happens. Because the ego is hellbent on preventing enlightenment. Psychedelics do not work on people who are not metaphysically curious and serious. This is not a pursuit for lazy people just dicking around. You have to be serious about reaching Truth. You have to be willing to try and fail many times. I have no respect for people who do 2 trips and call it quits.

@Haloman You are also programmed to shit, eat, and kill. The key is to keep your base desires well-regulated via consciousness and wisdom. In other words, you can shit, but don't shit where you eat. You can have sex, but do so responsibly, authentically, and consciously. Or be an animal. It's up to you.

@SQAAD I would be more worried about absorbing viruses or sperm than memories Seriously though, the problem with people who have multiple partners is that they do not know how to relate consciously with 1 partner, nevermind 3 or 5. It's sort of like those parents who don't know how to raise or feed 1 child, yet they have 5. Classic case of biting off more than you can chew. It's a form of greediness. What is so lacking in you that you need any of that at all? << that's what you should contemplate.

@Pouya There is no way to do the work without doing the work. P.S. Well, maybe 5-MeO-DMT