Leo Gura

@Speedscarlet At these levels, it's not possible to easily communicate. The work becomes very subtle. You can't look too far ahead. Just keep in mind that you don't really know how deep the rabbit hole goes, and that it's very easy to underestimate it. After you achieve your initial few awakenings, then more possibilities will open up to you -- depending on where your interests lie.

1) Exactly. That's called detachment. But it's precisely when you are detached that you can enjoy life and live with deep passion. 2) Yes 3) Technically speaking consciousness is not experience. Experiences come and go, but consciousness is Absolute. When you become deeply conscious, misery will become impossible, because you'll just see right through that illusion.

I would be more worried about the toxic food your put into your body every day, than the trace impurities in DMT. This is a good example of reversal of priorities.

I'll be just fine. No need to save me. But thanks for caring. I guess there's some love in you after all

Minds do not exist. There is only the Infinite Self. YOU ARE IT! There is nothing happening here but YOU! Yes, Sunyata means Void. The entire universe is a hallucination. It has no substance. Everything is Nothing. Nothing is Everything. Mu

Nah, there's deeper.

@Shanmugam On the other hand, he may know much more than you.

Lol I never said anything of the sort. That is your own projection coming from your own issues with women. Watch out with all this anti-feminist stuff, because you're using it to create an identity and shore up whatever personal fears and wounds you have. A psychologically healthy, conscious person will not rant against feminism, regardless of whatever wrong feminism may commit. A conscious person doesn't rant or hold grudges against anyone. That kind of axe grinding comes from ego. Ego has ideological positions which it needs to defend because it is unwilling to surrender to infinite love. Human social structures are hierarchical and still overwhelming male-dominated. They are tools of ego and used to acquire and maintain power over others. Breaking this down would be serve equality and democracy. And one way to break it down would be to replace the male-centered values with more female-centered values. Female-centered values are underrepresented in business, society, government, military, etc. They always have been, and will continue to be for a long time to come.

@Shanmugam I find him genuine. I could of course be wrong. He might be an axe murderer for all I now. But I don't worry about it because I do not hinge anything serious on him. He is but one data-point in my entire understanding of this field out of hundreds of other data-points. I don't like wasting my time arguing over spiritual teachers or digging into their personal lives. This is a distraction. Take the good, leave the bad, and study more. Don't hinge your path on any one teacher, and none of this will be a problem.

@StephenK It's very simple. You're inside a dream. This dream has infinite complexity and structure. You can explore and learn of the predictable patterns of the dream. But no matter how much of that you learn, you will still not understand you're inside a dream, unless you wake up.

Sadhguru looks an Indian Rupert Spira. No wonder he lets his hair grow out! P.S. Of course you're gonna be accused of murder if your wife does Mahasamadhi. No ordinary person would understand such a thing.

@jpablos16 If you feel your spiritual journey is talking on a dark, sinister quality, then what you're missing is the self-love component of this path. Only you can decide whether you should be pursing success vs spirituality. It definitely is possible to do both. But it's not necessarily a smart idea to begin both endeavors simultaneously. You can make a plan to work on shoring up your career for 3 years, and then moving your time and energy into more serious spiritual pursuit. Or vice versa. If you choose to focus on your success/career, you can still keep a small meditation habit going and read books, etc. You gotta have a larger strategic plan. Draft up a plan for the next 10 years of your life. So you're not living month to month. In 10 years you can accomplish A LOT of stuff if you plan it out well. Within 10 years you can: attain enlightenment, build up a solid career, buy a house, get a nice girlfriend, have a child, and more! You can have all of that by the time you're 31! Just think about that.

@John Lula No, you will be unable to do it alone if you don't already have some retreat experience under your belt. It's too challenging and planning the logistics is tricky. Start off with a formal, grouped retreat. After a few of those, you will be ready to do a solo one. Regular Vipassana is quite challenging already. It will kick your ass.

@Mighty Mouse You have yet to have an awakening to infinite love. Try contemplating it: What is love? It is not an emotion and it has nothing to do with fear.

McBuddha

@Nexeternity Try doing a solo meditation retreat. It's even better than Vipassana. Rent a cabin in the woods on AirBnb for 10 days. I'll be in Hawaii next week doing that.

@Mercurio3 There is no body, and there is a body. You have to be clear about which level of reality you're talking about. In the same way that when you talk about "a cat", that's one level vs saying "there are only atoms, no cats". That's another level. The nature of a nondual reality is that in order to talk about it, you have to define your terms, and your terms will always be limited and ultimately break down when taken far enough. Language is a pragmatic tool of the mind. It is not ultimate truth, but it can be relatively true. No, I didn't get any orange light. I just became directly aware of absolute infinity. N,N-DMT is much more visual than 5-MeO, so that's probably why.

No bro. You just lack mastery of this field because your approach has been too gross and heavy-handed. You have overlooked important things in your via negativa approach. Integrity is not about rules or morals or seeming noble. It is another, much deeper matter. It is a measure of how well you're expanding into the infinite.

That's too gross of an approach to this field. It's not so simple as: this is true, that is not. There are many levels and depths of teaching. Different people need different teachings depending on where they are in life. There is absolutely a need for newbie teachings. In fact, they are the most important in many ways, because that's where 98% of the world is at. Almost every teaching has its place, and its pros and cons. And I find you can learn a lot even from re-reading newbie material. So don't get too snobbish.

Yes, the relationship is not 100%. But that doesn't mean it's an unuseful metric. Integrity is actually a very important indicator of true embodiment. A person with zero integrity cannot become deeply conscious. Because he fundamentally doesn't value the truth. And compassion is a very important indicator of embodiment as well. There is no spiritual mastery without compassion.

@Mercurio3 There is a big difference. You can have a broken leg, which would be a physical problem. Or you can have an energetic blockage in your system. Another way to state it is: there is the physical body and the subtle body. Of course these are ultimately relative distinctions, but useful for this work.

@Nexeternity Now observe how quickly ordinary life sucks you back into unconsciousness over the next week

Why not start with 1g of mushrooms first? If you gonna get into psychedelics, do it properly. Which means you don't do 1 trip, you plan on exploring the field.

Actually, less conscious. Trump is not Orange. Trump is Red/Orange. I wrote about that here: https://www.actualized.org/insights/trump-and-spiral-dynamics A typical priest would have more compassion for mankind than Trump, and way higher integrity. Trump has zero integrity. He runs on pure self-preservation at all costs.

Your life will never be the same again after a breakthrough on 5-MeO.