Leo Gura

Newbies and intermediates, focus on consciousness work, not superpowers. Remember that your greatest enemy on this path is going to be distraction. Focus on grokking the substance of reality and also living your everyday life more consciously.

@Dodo You can rotate your mobile device horizontally

There are a couple tricks you could use: 1) Try to enjoy your suffering rather than fighting it. You can make light of your moralizing like this, "There I go again... haha. I'm just like a moralization robot." 2) Realize that you can drop your moralizing at any time. The point of the mindfulness is so that you finally realize, "Ohhhhh!!! This is causing me so much damage. It's so pointless. I would be a fool to continue shooting myself in the foot. I will just stop." And you stop. Awareness Alone Is Curative doesn't mean you need to keep doing stupid stuff for months at a time. The point of it is to SEE your own stupidity and then drop it as soon as you're willing. If you're not willing to drop it yet, then keep up the mindfulness until one day you will become ready.

See... the problem with that question is that it takes the notion of "supported by evidence" for granted. That is a paradigm-dependent notion. In other words, if you were given a list of such claims, you would likely reject or dismiss them because they do not fit the materialist paradigm's standards of "evidence". The problem materialists face overall, is that they ask for gross material evidence of subtle immaterial facts. But you cannot grasp the subtle via the gross in many cases. The materialist paradigm discounts the enormous significance of changes in perspective, awareness, interpretation, and context. Here are some claims supported but undeniable evidence that science disregards: Consciousness isn't limited to the skull Intelligence isn't limited to the skull Evolution isn't limited to DNA You are immortal and can never die All boundaries between physical objects are man-made. There is no such thing an "object". You are literally every other human being There is not one single piece of evidence for the external world Psychedelics reveal truth which science hasn't even dared to imagine possible All of science is a human invented system. There is nothing universal about it. It it possible to die while the body is still alive Paranormal phenomena exist Time is a concept which doesn't actually exist Space is a concept which doesn't actually exist Ancient peoples and civilizations like Egypt were WAY more advanced than scientists or historians believe Witchcraft is a valid way of investigating reality Etc. But you're gonna have to expand your notion of "evidence" of course. Because if you demand double-blind clinical studies, you're barking up the wrong tree. Many of these truths can only be grasped individually, by you and no one else. Part of the problem of the materialist paradigm is that it only counts as "evidence" that which is communicable, model-able, and provable. But truth far exceeds communicability and provability.

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@Dan Arnautu Like I said, I install Windows on my MacBook. No virtual box. I don't use MacOS at all.

Love the commitment to the process here. Keep walking the path!

@Gabriel Antonio Awesome work! Keep at walking the path.

What's wrong is that the whole world is closedminded and we live in the Dark Ages. Welcome to the 21st century.

@Faceless Minds, like brains, do not exist. They are just concepts. You've never see a mind. "Mind" was an idea invented by humans some centuries ago, which has now become a part of your reality through unquestioned cultural indoctrination. Try pointing to your mind. I dare ya

@Joseph Maynor Culture is a war to define reality. If you try to change people's culture too much, they will kill you. So your best bet is to focus mostly on purifying your own mind. Then a bit of life purpose work to make your little impact on the world towards higher consciousness. If you try to purify people too much too fast, watch out! They'll kill ya and burn all your ideas. The devil doesn't like getting doused with holy water. Two drops is about all he can stand

Meditation is a tool from taking your mind out of symbolic consciousness into non-symbolic consciousness. When you're in non-symbolic consciousness, the insight of enlightenment (no-self) becomes much more likely to dawn. Although there are no guarantees.

@iTommy That's why God invented psychedelics Clears up all that BS within 60 minutes.

There are no arbiters of truth. That's is the whole problem. You assume truth can be arbitrated, but it cannot, because the thing doing the arbitration is itself in need of arbitration, and so on, to infinity. Reality is absolutely relative. That's the only Absolute thing: totally relativity. The truth you think you see out there, is the truth you're creating. Science doesn't observe the truth. Science invents it, and solidifies it through consensus and tradition. Science is a human-constructed narrative, similar to history. Truth is just like time, it is observer-dependent. Just because a billion humans agree on a thing, doesn't make it true. Which is precisely why the consensus must be defended so dogmatically. The dogma is just a side-effect of the denial of the fact that reality is absolutely relative. God is just the realization of Absolute Relativity. What Einstein discovered about time, you can discover about existence itself and everything in it. Nothing can ground anything because everything is ONE. Everything is its own ground. Everything is BEing. Everything is magic. But this requires consciousness to see. It cannot be taken on as a belief. Enlightenment is what happens when you take the scientific method and apply it properly, without any biases or dogmas, to the whole of reality. You discover precisely what everything is.

That's precisely correct. The only way to access infinity is to literally become the sum total of what reality is. You are it, after all. Both: Discovering the substance of existence is impossible for science, or any symbolic method. AND The materialist paradigm of modern day scientists has closed them from being able to explore and explain phenomena which exist outside of their paradigm. In precisely that same way that dogmas of scientists 500 years ago prevented them from exploring the idea that the Earth revolves around the sun. The history of science is riddled with epistemic blunders, and today's science is still doing it. My point is that science isn't skeptical enough. The problem with science is that it is ideological and dogmatic. It misapplies skepticism. It uses skepticism to defend its traditions and dogmas. This is not really a discussion about science. It is a discussion about the nature of the human mind. The root problem of every human being, and every human institution (including science and math) is that they are extremely dogmatic and closedminded. Nobody actually bothers to investigate reality from scratch. All human knowledge is heavily based on tradition. Doesn't matter if we're talking about Muslim terrorists or Stephen Hawking. They both have the exact same disease of the mind. Just different content of dogma. See my video about True vs False Skepticism What science needs to learn to do is apply skepticism to itself, especially to its own foundations. This will make science more accurate and progress faster. There is no magic bullet. The point is that all questions are empirical questions, requiring open and unbiased empirical investigation. Differentiating what is true from what is false is a highly non-trivial matter. My point is that people take this for granted. Scientists assume they know things which they do not actually know. They do so to save time and energy. But the trade-off is that they are make big mistakes and dismiss important truths which are right under their nose. When you believe something is impossible, you cannot investigate it seriously. Science suffers the exact same epistemic problems as religion. There is no difference between the to. The problem is that science thinks it is immune to the problems of religion, which only deepens its problems. It doesn't do nearly as good a job as it could. Yes, it DOES claim to answer question beyond this. Science actively DENIES many things which are actually true. Science cannot not deal with metaphysics. If a scientist says, "I will just do my work and ignore metaphysics." That is a huge epistemic blunder. You cannot do that. That's is not an option. All methodology, modeling, data collection, and data interpretation is metaphysics-dependent. There is no such thing as objective observation. That's the whole point. Science assumes the universe can be studied objectively like a rat in a cage, but in fact the self is deeply involved in the process. The process of science is a lot more like doing surgery on yourself than observing a rat in a cage. You are deeply connected to the process. Your SELF distorts everything you look at. You are the rat! Did I tell you to join the New Age movement? The New Age movement commits many epistemic blunders too. All movements, all belief systems, all paradigms are not reality. I am talking about things here which do not fit into any movement or category. Virtually no human beings understand the things I am talking about here.

Next week's video be about the ultimate nature of all paradox.

Stop thinking about self-survival. You're obsessed with it. That's the whole problem here. You base all of your reality on whether a thing helps the illusion of you to survive. You see?? Survival has nothing to do with Truth.

@MM1988 You cannot understand what you're asking without being enlightened. There is nothing I can say that will convey it to you. You can only discover it through enlightenment. But once you do, you will understand that it is Absolute. And there is nothing beyond it because it is infinite. You cannot fathom the totality of infinity. Not only have I been in a coma or in a car crash, I simultaneously exist as every living being and non-living particle that can ever exist under every physical configuration of every universe possible, out to infinity. There is not a single possibility which I am not. So anything you can imagine, I am that, plus an infinite number of more things. I am an infinite hallucination. The energy you're wasting worrying about my delusion is a distraction from your own. None of what I say is to be believed. Go self-inquire. I have discovered for myself that the materialist view is not correct because I have been infinite. And a material brain cannot be infinite. This cannot be understood until you yourself become infinite. I hope you get there one day.

@Iksander Just added a book about kundalini awakening to my book list.

@DnoReally There are a few good books. See the Metaphysics category of my book list. Also the Consciousness category will be highly useful to you.

@StrangerWatch Yes, of course that's the case. But also consider the possibility that you may not have become aware of the full depth of what the word "God" or "Absolute Infinity" really points to. If you haven't experienced the existential terror, that leads me to suspect you haven't yet penetrated as deeply as is possible. There are many degrees of depth to awakening experiences. Of course everyone will react to the experiences differently too. A good way to double-check your depth of realization is to do 30mg+ of 5-MeO. Just to make sure you haven't missed the full-monty

Your mind is so attached to appearances (experiences) that it struggles to see that overlaid right on top of the appearance, is the disappearance. So you look at a chair, you see the colors of the chair, but you ignore the fact that in the exact same place of those colors, is nothingness. The colors literally ARE nothingness. But your mind isn't grasping that because it's overly focused on the colors. The mind is biased towards appearances. If you focus your awareness on the chair long enough, eventually you will start to get the sense that the chair -- although it appears right there -- isn't actually there! It is technically-speaking a hallucination, a mirage.

You are what you hallucinate. If you hallucinated being a sea slug, you would literally be a sea slug. Your current hallucination of being THIS human is precisely what makes you not be everything else you could be (and actually are).

@Serotoninluv You can also be conscious while sleeping. But let's start with the basics.

It's no more mystical knowledge than it is to say that Santa Claus is a fiction.