Leo Gura

@MarkusSweden You are just wrong. You're still trying to reason this out intellectually, and that will not work. Stop theorizing and do the practices with an open mind. (Right now, your mind is not open.) The situation is the exact opposite what you think: Truth is all there is. There is no such thing as non-Truth. Non-Truth does not exist. The whole point of spiritual practice is that it IS possible to transcend experience. Experience is not all there is. Experience is a 2nd order phenomena. 1st order is BEING, which requires no experiencer. Experience is a dualistic notion, which is why it must be transcended. At higher levels of consciousness, experience will become recontextualized into Absolute Being. Nothing visual will change. But a radical recontextualization will happen once the ego is seen to be non-existent. You will realize that what you used to call "experience" was really Absolute Being the whole time, you just weren't conscious of it because the ego was in the way.

I would tweak that to say: the goal is to be joyful with whatever is. So if you're feeling crummy, be joyful about it. It sounds paradoxical, and it is, but it's not.

The why is, you want to feel good, feel complete. If you felt complete right now, you would not want anything. Notice that every day, you feel incomplete. Your entire life, you've felt incomplete. So you chase things which you think will make you feel complete. But it never works, because completeness is an existential insight, not a material object. This is because, you are disconnected from who/what you are existentially. Completeness can only come with existential understanding. It's sort of like if you imagined you should have 3 arms, but you only saw you have 2. So you'd go looking to acquire a 3rd arm to feel complete. But the counter-intuitive move is not to go chop off someone's arm and stitch it to your chest, but to realize: "Oh!!!! Duh!!! I should only have 2 arms! So everything is perfect! " Happiness is wanting exactly what you presently have. Unhappiness is wanting something you don't presently have. It's that simple. But not easy to really grok. The mind will not just surrender its wants. That requires enlightenment. Your very life is tied to your wants. The reason you want anything is because you want to stay alive. So the really counter-intuitive move is to say, "I want to die."

@TimStr Great report! Great work. Some powerful insights there. P.S. I don't advise 5-MeO for people who have never done milder psychedelics. AL-LAD is great for newbies but still very powerful.

Thanks ya'll. Lots of deep stuff to share coming soon. I'll post some videos of my retreat to the blog soon, and usual-style videos on Sundays.

For those of you into Kriya, I would highly recommend that in addition to reading the original Kriya book I suggested, you also read the books of Santata Gamana. I now prefer his more simplified techniques. It's a much more streamlined version of Kriya which I think will be even more effective. I found too much needless complexity and variety in the other way. Right now my technique stack is very simple: Mahamudra x3 Kriya Pranayama x24 Kriya Supreme Fire x3 One-pointed Concentration for 5 mins Eventually, with lots of practice, you should aim for something like the following stack: Mahamudra x3 Kriya Pranayama x36-x72 Kriya Supreme Fire for 10-20 mins One-pointed Concentration for 10-20 mins (Bonus: Yoni Mudra x3) (Bonus: Kechari mudra) EDIT: ideally, do this stack twice per day. But if you don't have that much time, at least once per day. Don't attempt to do this second stack right off the bat. It will not be sustainable. You need to gradually build up to it, like with heavy weightlifting. I think the original book I recommended is still very good as an introduction and foundation because Gamana's books are so short and thin that they do not provide enough information about Kriya to a total newbie. They are aimed at people who have already been initiated in one school or another. If you are strictly following the original book, that is okay. You can keep doing that if you want. Or you could switch to this more streamlined version like I decided to do. I don't like learning too many complicated techniques. But that's just me. Both ways should work in the end. It's mostly a matter of style. Although I actually think the streamlined version will end up to be more effective because it concentrates your limited time on the most powerful techniques, and less time is wasted on learning new complex techniques.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/03/wild-wild-country-the-mindboggling-story-of-the-cult-next-door/555791/ This should be an interesting watch. Sounds like they have some rare behind-the-scenes footage. Haven't seen it yet, but sounds like Osho fans will be disappointed, although I doubt the documentary makers understand the power of what enlightenment is. How could they unless they have awoken themselves? P.S. I am still waiting for you guys to buy me my first Roll's Royce

"[Reality] is a hallucination hallucinated by a hallucination." -- Douglas Hofstadter

There was a bug in the iTunes XML feed -- an "&" symbol which screwed the whole thing up. I fixed it today.

We'll talk more about karma in the future. Yes, it's a deep topic. Nirvana I have experienced. It's Infinity.

You're getting in over your head. 300ug is way too much for you. Even 150ug will mindfuck you to the point where all your plans will fly out the window. Take it slow.

I usually use those words interchangeably. Some teachers like to split hairs about it. I prefer not to because it confuses people. Suffice it to say, if you knew what awareness/consciousness was, you'd be enlightened. It cannot be explained in words. Everything is awareness/consciousness. But you are not aware/conscious of what awareness/consciousness is! If you want to become aware/conscious, place your awareness/consciousness on awareness/consciousness itself for a long time without distraction. Eventually the true nature of awareness/consciousness will dawn. And that will be enlightenment. It does no good to ask people what awareness/consciousness is. You must observe it directly in your experience. There is the answer.

I have not made a video about nihilism or existential crises yet.

@eskwire Careful what you wish for.

@Sweetest Your mind is too closed for this work. Way too much epistemic arrogance. What 5-MeO does, you could not imagine in the wildest science fiction movie. It basically kills you. Try for yourself and see, rather than doing armchair philosophy. It's all fun and games until you start dying.

@7thLetter Here's how a master does it: The #1 leverage point for earning money is fame/popularity/reputation. If you can fake that, you've got it made

Thanks!

@eskwire You ain't really done Vipassana till you've plugged some 5-MeO up your butt That's a little secret Goenka forgot to tell you about

No, it does not. You are misunderstanding what consciousness is. You haven't actually had a direct experience of what nonduality means. You're intellectualizing it. I know an enlightened master who took 1000ug of LSD after his enlightenment to test himself. He was unable to tell the difference between night and day. But his grounding in Nothingness was unshaken. Consciousness isn't a product of the brain. The brain is a form within consciousness, and as consciousness is the only thing there is, it is self-interactive. A rock hitting you in the head and causing a bruise is consciousness (a rock) interacting with consciousness (your head) causing a change in consciousness (a bruise).

Lol, That's the #1 secret of the millionaire mind: advertise yourself shamelessly.

@John Iverson 1) Ego backlash 2) Sex drive is hard to just stop. In fact you bascially can't. The only way to transcend it is through lots of conscious spiritual puriffication work. I wouldn't worry about sex too much. Don't try to suppress it. Learn to accept it and to fulfill it in healthy ways.

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@SeekingPeace You are seeing a higher truth. Most work is just a waste of time and life. There are other options to the conventional rat race. You could join an ashram or commune. I have a friend who didn't want to work so he joined the Hare Krishna commune in Tennessee. I don't necessarily endorse that. Communes can have lots of issues of their own, but it's certainly one viable possibility. Research your options. Stop thinking inside the rat race box.

Awaken

Reality doesn't work by chance at all. It only seems that way when the linear materialistic mind cannot fathom nonlinear infinity. When a scientist says "chance" or "random", what he really means is: "It's too complex for me to figure out in detail. And I don't want to admit it because I know best and science knows all. So chance."