Leo Gura

@Voyager There are many paths up the same mountain. If you want to go ALL IN, you can, and that will be great. If you want to work on your career, and then go ALL IN, that also works. If you want to work on your career, and never go ALL IN, but still have a spiritual practice, that also works. Just depends on what you really want. It's gonna be a challenge either way. It's sorta like the difference between ripping off a Band-Aid quickly vs slowly. What's most painful (and I speak from experience with this) is not making a clear-cut decision and trying to do all 3 at once.

Then you shall remain unaware, as 99.9999% of people are, for that very reason. It's called a leap of faith for good reason. First you die, then you see what's up. You don't get to plumb "the mind of God" and stay yourself. The weight of that kind of knowledge would send an unprepared grown man running for Mommy. If you're not willing to face fear of death, then your mind has you by the balls, doesn't it? Sure it does! It can manipulate you into believing any kind of nonsense just by hiding the truth behind that one little fear. Trying to interpret Absolute Infinity at your current level of understanding and consciousness is bound to lead to all kinds of nonsense images of what it is like. It's not about vampires and black holes. It's more about how you constructed all of reality so that you could exist as your present self. But that won't make sense to you either. How could you have constructed all of reality???? Do you realize the significance of the questions you are asking? You are asking to understand ALL OF REALITY! ALL OF IT! Beyond life and death, before the Big Bang. You're asking to know the "mind of God". And yet you're unwilling to invest a couple thousand hours to do the work? Well then, you're not really serious about your inquiry. Your inquiry should bring you to the brink of tears. You should be willing to abandon food, sex, money, fame, family, friends, work, media, home, culture, science, religion, and everything else. If you were willing to do all that, then you'd be demonstrating the proper attitude of someone who cares about Truth. For all the disbelievers, I specifically went out of my way to find and promote 5-MeO-DMT. It is the most direct and scientific method of glimpsing the Absolute within 15 minutes. It will cut your learning curve by a factor of x1000 or more. And yet people still come up with excuses. You've been handed the magic pill to infinity, and yet, there's always a good excuse for staying yourself. Getting enlightened has never been easier. The problem is, no one really wants it. Hell, even I barely want it and I've glimpsed is fully glory. It's just so big.

Well of course all story-telling started out with the purpose of not merely entertainment but psychological, moral, and spiritual edification. What is the hero's journey story but that? Aesop's Fables Bible stories Homer's epics The earliest Vedic texts like the Upanishads Creation stories from all pre-historic cultures Star Wars Etc. etc. etc This list could be 10,000 items deep. Mankind has used stories to teach about all the vices and virtues of mankind: greed, arrogance, lust, gluttony, selfishness, violence, lying, backstabbing, goodness, selflessness, love, courage, humility, etc. These were not meant to just be entertainment, but stories containing lessons of how to (and how not to) live life. Yes, you can learn a lot from art, literature, and storytelling if you know how to read between the lines. The danger is, your mind goes numb from watching all that media. And you could have arrived at those lessons yourself by just sitting alone in room in silence for a week, or a few years.

@KaleKing To realize your dreams, you're gonna have to work your ass off. Which is the whole point of finding a juicy dream. What dream would be worth busting through the procrastination for? You need to find a vision which you'd be willing to bleed a bit for. And then you're gonna have to bleed a bit. Just do it and bust through the procrastination. There is not theoretical solution to procrastination. You just gotta develop and juicy vision and start taking baby steps every day. Of course it's gonna be hard.

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@Nahm Exactly as beautiful as anyone else.

What happened to him is that he couldn't handle being robbed of his illusions. That's what Truth/consciousness does. It strips you of all human constructions and pretensions. You need to love that. Love Truth over everything else. That life is pointless is a great thing. It means you have total freedom to play. Being is far greater than purpose. (Those taking the LP course, don't misunderstand that last sentence. You're NOT off hook for finding your LP.)

@How to be wise No, it will make enlightenment easier.

@Anton Rogachevski Well sure, "experience" is just a label we attach to everything you're sensing. Don't overthink it. Experience simply means: the 5 senses plus thought. In other words, EVERYTHING you've ever encountered from the moment you were born till today. But then there's consciousness beyond that. It can't really be imagined because imagination is related to sense experience. Try not to think of it as anything. Not some alien landscape or anything. Consciousness may just be Nothing

@TJ Reeves Great work! That's what all of this ends up leading to: an ecstatic life.

@Markus One solution to that problem is not to smoke it.

@Revolutionary Think You know in India why they eat with the right hand only? Because they wipe their ass hole with the left Like I said, no drive, no problem. I love sex, but I've spent most of my life turning my head the other way cause I got bigger fish to fry. It's sort of a blessing to not care about sex. The sex drive is responsible for a lot of suffering.

Great stuff! This Youtuber clearly "gets it". Philosophy as it should be.

Well, if you have no drive for it, and no problem, then good for you. You'll save yourself a lot of hassle. But then again, maybe you're missing out on something cool out of fear or closedmindedness. If your logic is that it's gross, how do you take a shit in the morning?

@Outer 5-MeO is too awesome and too powerful. Like a nuclear weapon. AL-LAD is much better for contemplation work.

@Ilya AL-LAD is my fave psychedelic so far.

@Hsinav Not yet. Working up to it.

Beware of the magic pill mentality. The people who really progress in this work are committed to the process of doing the work, not just getting a quick one-time result. With the right attitude -- wise, careful, patient -- all of life will open up to you. With the wrong attitude -- trying to just get a quicky -- who knows what kind of horrible stuff might happen? Ego death is no small thing. It's something you'll want to fully explore. It will hardly make sense the first time it happens. It's up to you how you choose to trip. I'm just giving my best practices.

@Zedi You just gotta navigate it however you can. The best is if you can keep your good habits and practices going even if you're feeling resistant or emotional or shitty. But sometimes you will fall off the bandwagon. Just get back on as soon as you can, without beating yourself up or creating additional drama. Falling off the bandwagon is OKAY. The worst part about falling off is the guilt and drama the ego creates around it. So if you're going to fall off, try falling off in a chill manner.

@Socrates Ideally you'd want to have some milder trips first. But if you only get one rare opportunity, like perhaps with Ocatavio and 5-MeO, then maybe its worth it. Because 5-MeO isn't easy to find. The point with tripping is not just to have a trip, but to make sense of what you saw. A trip doesn't count for much otherwise. Its hard to make sense of something so big without lots of groundwork. You gotta use your intuition and inner wisdom here. What I've learned is going SLOW is really great. Slow and steady tripping is what 99% of people fail to do. Which is why they largely remain unconscious. I would personally NEVER do a full hit of any new substance that I haven't baby-dosed before. Especially smoked. It's just so much wiser to baby-dose your way up.

OF COURSE!!! What else did you expect? The ego ain't gonna lie down and die. It will fight tooth and nail, like a hooked fish. The closer it gets to the bank, the harder it will fight. The ego ENTIRE PURPOSE is tp resist and survive through ANY MEANS possible. Which of course means deception and trickery. It will sabotage you in infinite ways. You're dealing with life and death here. This ain't no joke.

@LaucherJunge Start with LSD or mushrooms. Small doses. DMT will fuck you up. You ain't ready to make sense of it.

@Ilya If you're referring to Morning Glory Seeds, I wouldn't bother. Mushrooms or LSD will be far superior with less toxicity and negative side effects. I've learned not to half-ass psychedelics.

@LaucherJunge I hope you have prior psychedelic experience if you're even thinking of smoking that.

@Samuel It means he's so ignorant he doesn't even have a clue how ignorant he is. Beliefs don't mean jack. He's only happy because stuff is going his way -- for now. When his girlfriend leaves him, and his music doesn't pan out, and his health deteriorates, and his weed gets taken away by our Keebler Elf Attorney General, let's see how happy he'll be.