Leo Gura

@Timothy Well, psychics aren't omnipotent. They cannot do anything you want them to do. They are like any other profession. Police have their limits, and so do psychics. Hope it works out for your friend. If not, you can always try finding another psychic.

You and me are identical. You just aren't conscious of that yet.

The irony is that after enlightenment nothing really changes. If you're holding enlightenment as your ticket out of life, you'll be disappointed. Where you are now, is exactly where you'll be post-enlightenment. The key difference will be, the seeking will fall away, which can be a huge relief if you've been seeking for many years. Now you can just BE. Your suffering can also diminish, although to what degree will vary.

I went just for fun. I would not use a psychic for serious matters. If you have a problem, figure it out yourself and solve it yourself -- as much as humanly possible. Maybe turn to psychics in cases of last resort, like if you get cancer and no conventional treatment is working, then go look for a paranormal healer. I have used paranormal healers to work on some of my stubborn health issues which refuse to go away. And plan to do more of that in the future. The results so far have been limited, but I haven't put serious time into it either. I know there are good healers out there who are not scammers. Of course. That is the paradox of clairvoyance. As the ancient Greeks observed, once a prophecy is made, it will come true regardless of any actions you take to avoid it. Your avoidance of it will become its cause. Hence the "self-fulfilling prophecy" motif common in many Greek myths. Is that really how it works? I have no idea. All I know is, that witch told me I will win my legal case, and I did! And there was no way she could have known I had a legal case at all. So clearly she intuited something. You can't just cold-read something that specific. And I had to work my ass off to win that case. I had to argue the entire case myself without a lawyer because my lawyer doubled his rates at the last minute. So it was a bit of a miracle that I won. The irony is, if I had taken the witch's prediction seriously, I probably would not have worked so hard at the last minute to prepare my case, and I would have lost! So my skepticism is what made the prediction come true! It was a reverse self-fulfilling prophecy, hehe These days I take witches more seriously. I would think twice before pissing off a witch

@MarinM They can be very helpful, but not strictly necessary if you are following very precise instructions. I suggest you try to find a teacher, and only if there isn't one in your area, then go for the do-it-yourself method.

@WildeChilde Better question is: How do you know it can't? How do you know anything? What is knowledge?

My approach really isn't different. It's just that my work is much more holistic. Most teachers teach a strictly narrow path toward enlightenment in the same way that most math teachers only teach math. But that doesn't mean that life is only about math. See, most enlightenment teachers won't talk about how to have great sex. Because that's not their specialization. But that doesn't mean learning how to have great sex isn't deeply rewarding and worthwhile. Or that becoming enlightened obviates such learning. What you see with Actualized.org is not me being a nonduality teacher. You see my general passion for learning about life, of which nonduality just happens to be ONE facet. My goal was never nonduality, but living a great life and learning about a variety of cool stuff. Enlightenment is ONE domain of life. It just happens to be a very important domain because it's the domain of "What is the substance of EVERYTHING?" That's a pretty important and epic domain. But nevertheless, it's just ONE domain. And enlightenment is -- strictly speaking -- no more important than anything else. There is no reason why you should become enlightenment. And there is nothing wrong with you if you choose to ignore enlightenment entirely and decide to go become a potato farmer or an axe murderer instead. Life is free. You can do whatever the hell you like. Just be ware of the consequences. You cannot derive an ought from an is. If it's an illusion... so what? Life goes on just as before. The only difference is you understand it's an illusion. You can still raise your illusory children, walk your illusory dog, jerk your illusory dick, and eat your illusory ice cream. You can be miserable in the illusion or joyful in the illusion. Either way it's an illusion. And it doesn't matter how you feel about it from the universe's perspective. But how you feel probably makes all the difference from your perspective.

Science just needs to be honest that it's a human species specific perspective of reality. There is nothing wrong with subjectivity. The only mistake is confusing it with objectivity (The Absolute). No serious philosopher of science can deny -- these days -- that all scientific experiments are theory-laden and always subject to interpretation. This was all hashed out over 100 years ago. Logical Positivism, Rationalism, and naive Empiricism are dead. They have been debunked. Enlightenment is not the only thing to life. Enlightenment merely tells you what the metaphysical nature of everything is. That all is a dream. Enlightenment says little about what to do within the dream. Don't have such a narrow-minded view of enlightenment. After enlightenment, life must go on. Science must be done. This infinite reality must be explored, mapped out, understood, and mastered. Exploring infinity is fun and exciting work.

Just be a radically openminded scientist. Which means, you don't exclude any phenomena a priori. You are open to running any kind of experiment and you are willing to accept the results whatever they end up being, even it the result is paradoxical, unorthodox, radical, or undermines the very enterprise of conventional science. The perfect scenario is to realize the Absolute for yourself, become fully enlightened, and then you will be able to do incredible science if you still desire to. All scientists MUST study and seriously contemplate epistemology, metaphysics, transpersonal psychology, holism, and nonduality. Without that, you cannot be a good scientist. With that, you can be the next Einstein. FYI, many of the fathers of quantum mechanics were mystics. They were no orthodox materialist fools. Which is why they were able to figure out quantum mechanics in the first place. The best scientists think precisely along the lines I advocate. They are radically openminded and anti-traditionalist. Don't get discouraged about science. It will reform itself in the next 100 years. We need good people leading the way. Science is quickly coming around on nonduality.

@roe Well... what did you expect yoga to be? Everything will collapse into unity. Of course it's intense. Everything you thought was real will collapse.

People really misunderstand my attitude towards science. I'm all for the scientific method. My criticism of science is essentially that it's not scientific enough. I criticize those areas where science holds dogmas and unquestioned metaphysical assumptions. The scientific method behind quantum mechanics is valid. The problem there only arises when the discoveries of quantum mechanics are misunderstood by people who hold a materialist metaphysics. They don't understand the profundity of what quantum mechanics or something like Godel's incompleteness theorem is pointing to. I don't disagree with scientific method. I merely point out how it is misapplied and the results of science are misinterpreted. I also point out the limits of the scientific method and suggest that there are alternative methods which can go beyond those limits. I want science to be more pure, more openminded, more humble, less orthodox, less conservative, less of a religion.

@molosku You can trip balls on many other more common psychedelics.

A breakthrough dose of snorted 5-MeO is closer to 30mg. Maybe even 35mg for those who are less sensitive or if your snorting technique is poor. 20mg vs 30mg is about a million times different. Can't speak to 4-ACO, haven't tried it yet. It should be similar to mushrooms. Make sure you don't snort it too deep, and make sure you flip your head upside down for a full 10 minutes and massage the 5-MeO into your nostrils after snorting. This makes a big difference. If you taste a bitter drip down your nose, that's you losing half your dose down your throat. 20mg effectively becomes only 10-15mg with improper snorting technique. Which of course is a weak dose. You ain't gonna be seeing God on that dose unless you've already broken through.

@MarkusSweden Start by having a direct experience of what "God" points to.

@MarkusSweden Well, the mind can invent all sorts of plausible-sounding stories. But in the end, the ultimate question is: How can reality exist at all? And the only answer is: everything collapses into unity. Infinity. This is borne out by quantum mechanics as it is by mysticism.

@MarkusSweden There is only The Self. All is ONE. But you are not going to understand this until you have a few deep enlightenment experiences. It's more radical that solipsism. But in a good way. Just who do you think you're talking to here?? Yourself!! Wakey, wakey

Haha! You are a tricky one! You cannot wrap your head around it because the Absolute is prior to your head. It generates your head. So of course you cannot go there using your head. Although, common sense should tell you that a picture of an apple is not an apple. An idea of NY city is not NY city. The map is not the territory because the map is itself part of the thing you're trying to understand. You can't use a map to get at the ultimate nature of reality because the map itself is but one subset of the reality you are trying to explain. And the subset cannot contain the superset. The map is entangled with the territory! There can be no map which sits outside the universe! Of course the map is part of the actual territory, which is precisely why the map is not the whole territory. Get it? You haven't really thought through what you are saying, otherwise you would realize that your model of reality makes no sense, collapsing into contradiction. You assume that when I speak of the Absolute it is just an idea. Well, that is your projection. Of course you cannot know if I have actually experienced the Absolute. Only I can know that. From your perspective, I could be lying or deluded. But that is all just a distraction from your own inquiry. If I told you I had been to a place called NY city and it is really cool, but your worldview is so limited that it must deny that NY city is even possible, you would say, "But Leo! That's just an idea! NY city is just something you read about in a book! It's just something you believe. How could you possibly know it exists? What if you're just deluded?" Your line of reasoning would be right, but only if I hadn't actually visited NY city. The bottom line here is: Empty you cup first, grasshopper. Your mind is not open enough yet for this work. You're underestimating just how radical reality is. Reality is non-Aristotelian and non-Newtonian. Even modern science has confirmed this. Your models are about 400 years out of date. What you're misunderstanding about my work is that I am not telling you to believe what I say, but to investigate your direct experience of reality very deeply, so that you can discover some radical stuff. Your discoveries will mirror what I say if you actually do them. But if you just sit around playing an armchair skeptic, you will get nowhere. You will stay stuck in the labyrinth of your own mind. Take your skepticism, and turn it inwards. Deconstruct your direct experience and see for yourself what is true and what is false. My work is just a breadcrumb trail. It is useless if you refuse to contemplate reality for yourself. P.S. The truth was NOT already formed and confirmed for me. I was a serious athiest my whole life. Then, in one moment, I died and found God. My entire worldview was so skullfucked that it physically scarred me. Nothing I can ever say can sufficently communicate to you how radical this was. So it is not how you think. It was not a validation of prior ideas. Nothing can prepare you for coming face-to-face with the Absolute. Because no idea is remotely close to it.

No, that was a long time ago. Just use Google!

@StephenK As with most relationships, it's always more complicated than people like to make it. Yes, they both affect each other to some degree, but it's difficult to quantify. The mind is an extremely complex system with thousands of variables at play. Generally-speaking, enlightenment alone will not cure you of your neuroses. Those need to be worked on specifically. But with introversion/shyness, enlightenment can make a big difference. It may not cure you completely, but it really helps when you realize that there is no such thing as "inner" mental life. Enlightenment sort of kills your inner world, throwing you out into the "outer" world (which is sort of like extroversion). Although don't mistake that with gaining social skills or becoming a good conservationist or even liking to be social. If you're an introvert, you will still probably be that way after enlightenment. The difference might be, you're no longer crippled by social anxiety or shyness so much, and you're not as inhibited or self-conscious. Generally speaking, you shouldn't wait for enlightenment to fix your mental problems. Start working on your mental problems now, alongside doing enlightenment work. The two will synergize.

@MarkusSweden A) I never really ranted against science. People misunderstand my position on science. I am more pro-science than most scientists. That's why I criticize them. Not because I dislike science, but because they a corrupting science with unscientific metaphysical assumptions (materialism). I am an advocate for the most hardcore and rigorous science. Which means, it must be open to absolutely all phenomena. Nothing can be excluded a priori. B) There will be a lot more ranting against science to come. I could make a whole channel about the improper philosophical foundations of science. I don't talk about it much because it's a very nuanced subject and goes over people's heads and it's tricky to talk about.

I don't know of any psychics off the top of my head. I'm not really into that stuff. Google around. I'm sure you can find dozens of them.

Lol That's can only be said by someone who doesn't understand that non-existence IS what the universe is! Non-existence isn't nothing. It's everything! Ta-da! Origin of the universe solved!

@StephenK You're still conflating ego with personality. They are just not as related as you assume. Personality is not a scar of the ego. It's got its own source. Of course ego can distort personality a lot too. And personality will inform how the ego acts out to get its needs met.

@MM1988 She predicted I would win a major pending legal case. There was no way she could have known I had a major pending legal case. She told me, "Don't worry. You will win it." And so I did, a year later. Real psychics do WAY more than cold-reading. They actually have paranormal powers. The nature of paranormal powers is that they are intuitive and therefore vague. While there may be some scammers, the whole "scammers" thing is overstated. That's just an excuse the materialist paradigm must make because that model of reality cannot account for any paranormal phenomena. After the levels of consciousness I've experienced, to me, anything paranormal looks quaint and quite normal. I have experienced things that are more radical than getting anally probed by an alien. So if an alien ever tries to anally probe me, at least I can think to myself, "Well, at least this is still not as radical as a 5-MeO-DMT breakthrough."

I've warned you guys about Neo-Advaita in the the Becoming A Zen Devil video. The further I progress in this work, the more problems I see with Neo-Advaita. Although, like all teachings, it has got its pros and cons. You definitely can't rely on Neo-Advaita to lead you to mastery of self or consciousness. It's more like an intro to enlightenment for Western newbs.