Leo Gura

I found this very amusing. Brace yourself: https://www.quora.com/Is-Leo-Gura’s-Actualized-org-a-scam

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@Joseph Maynor No, you're only whoring yourself out if you are whoring yourself out. Not everyone is a whore. And there are many degrees of whoring. Watch out with this overly simplistic, fatalistic thinking. If not being a whore is important to you, you can design such a life. Saying that everyone is a whore is like saying everyone is a criminal. That's a very convenient way to think if you are a criminal.

All of this is purely subjective and relative -- a construction of your mind. The differences are large and significant only because your ego says so. Notice how you sneak your egoic agenda into the discussion to help you convince yourself that you have a winning argument here. The oil spill only matters because you think it matters to your survival. The oil spill is a positive thing from the perspective of bacteria that thrive off eating the dead animals killed by the spill. All argument is ego, not truth. Once you see the truth, you will stop all argument.

It does not have to be that way. That's the way of lazy sheep. That happens to people because they never do personal development. Senility is not just some random affliction. It is caused by things like improper diet, improper use of one's mind and body, and improper lifestyle.

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@Viking Imagine if you took this approach to shitting. Dude, just enjoy it. What do you expect at 20 years old? Stop being guilty about it. And carry on with your spiritual practices. 15 minutes of wanking off never stopped no one from enlightenment.

Well, it does vary from person to person, but yeah, that's generally how it feels. You start to feel like you're inside a dream, everything is consciousness, and you are God looking through your own eyes. What once felt like a solid, heavy, material, physical reality now feels like an airy, intelligent, living, fluid field of spirit. Your body just becomes an extension of your mind.

@Serotoninluv Well, you gotta be careful with comparing a 5-MeO peak experience with something like Sahaja samadhi, which is what @eputkonen is talking about. You can function very well from abiding nondual awareness. But not so much on a 5-MeO peak. The 5-MeO peak is too nondual to be practical for everyday living. Which is precisely why normal and even enlightened people are not that conscious 24/7. At a certain point you can become so conscious that there is no world any more.

It's very common to have brief glimpses of nonduality and then fall back into duality. But after a certain point, after enough glimpses, something should crack in you and then nonduality becomes your permanent way of seeing the world.

@Shakazulu You are the boss. You create the list for you. Stop looking for someone's tit to suck.

On 600ug of genuine LSD you will not be able to see clearly enough to walk.

Nonsense. I'm teaching myself Kriya yoga and it works like charm.

@Seed That's nonduality! Enjoy

Take extreme ownership of the problem and get a job or start a business. Freedom is purchased through hard work and strategic thinking. Flailing your arms around is not going to solve this problem.

Lol, mushrooms are hypnosis all by themselves. It's like you're trying to glue wheels to a horse.

Much of academic psychology is pretty crude. It certainly won't incorporate spiritual or mystical insights. But there's some value in it. What you really want is transpersonal psychology, humanistic psychology, positive psychology. Or just straight up spirituality, mysticism, and nonduality.

@Revamped Expose yourself to high quality Green people and inhabit their POV. Read Green books, watch Green videos. Why do Green people love Green so much? What are you missing? Contemplate that. Hint: what you're missing is love.

+1 An excellent Turquoise community.

@Haumea2018 That is a good point. Which is why I don't recommend taking psychedelics to those under 21. Psychedelics require enormous maturity and wisdom to use properly. They are a tool of the gods, not for fools.

I made a blog post about this topic not too long ago: https://www.actualized.org/insights/anekantavada

Kriya Yoga!

Nice quote. Yes. Whitehead was the kind of scientific mind which is rarely seen these days. His later works are quite good. He understood the ignorance of positivism, materialism, and reductionism. It's like modern scientists are going through an idiocracy phase.

You don't need thought for action. A thought is as real as a rock. But a thought of a rock is not a rock.