Leo Gura

Quickest way to enlightenment is 5-MeO-DMT. But mindful suffering is pretty good too.

Of course it is also true that unconscious people tend to be much less responsible with their sexuality, driven by 1st and 2nd chakras, so they end up spawning more babies and also infecting their minds with low consciousness beliefs and neurosis. Terrible parenting begets terrible parenting. The devil begets more devils.

That's heavy stuff. Will take some deep work to unwire that. Psychedelics and shamanic breathing might prove very useful for processing that. With awakening, you will realize you are perfect however you are. So chin up. Your courage in sharing that is already a big sign of growth.

Suffering. Deep deep suffering.

That is a great point. For those of you still far from awakening, start by tapping into the beauty in your life. That feeling of beauty is really powerful. Learn to cultivate it and channel it as often as possible. Beauty is all that remains after enlightenment. Just infinite beauty everywhere. The entire universe is one sublime work of art. A perfect masterpiece!

@Otogi Sure you can. It's a legit part of the spiritual domain and people naturally have tons of questions about it. People have started threads here before about all sorts of occult topics. They just don't usually label it: "Occult" Just be careful. It's a DEEP rabbit hole full of many potential traps and delusions. I doubt there is anything sweeter than total nondual awakening.

@Dodo It's one facet of the larger jewel. I've had awakenings which were far more profound than infinite love. But infinite love is great. The most profound awakening I've had so far was pure Nothingness, pure Mu. It was beyond love.

Bashar is a good example of a channeler. To be clear l never said whether channeling is good or bad. It is just a thing. Whether you should pursue it is not easy to answer. Be careful with judging spiritual techniques or methods with which you have no direct experience. From what I currently understand, what you really want is enlightenment. But it's good to know that stuff like channeling is really possible if you care about fully understanding how reality works. There are many facets to spirituality besides pure realization of nonduality. Way more facets than people realize. Like demons, angels, spirits, dieties, entities, astral realms, etc. Just don't get too distracted by all that stuff. Go for enlightenment first. Dabbling in the occult can be big distraction, and poses risks.

I never hated the illusion. I love illusions! Which is why I wanted to be fully conscious of it. Illusions are to be enjoyed for what they are. Like a good movie or video game or novel.

@Empty No, that is not even a glimpse. That is a beautiful, heart-felt experience, but not enlightenment or even a mystical experience. With enlightenment, it is as through you broke your entire perceptual system. It is a deeply metaphysical thing. Physical reality collapses. Life and death become identical. It is such a radical shift in awareness that your mind cannot even imagine it in your wildest dreams. It is so radical that it is beyond all human notions of beauty, emotion, and profoundity. It just leaves you paralyzed in awe, as you realize that you just died.

Enlightened man with access to extraterrestrial wisdom turns to Dr Phil for basic marriage advice. Lol...

Ego loves to fear the unknown realms of the psyche. Wikipedia is the not the best source for spiritual guidance.

Nice insight! The ego's hate is just a sort of twisted expression of love. The devil is a preversion of godliness. When you comb out all of the devil's twisted preversions, he becomes God!

Amen Emptiness is actually the most profound and "meaningful" thing possible. It's a paradox.

Actually, this is probably not true. There is a higher power working through you, even if you are full of ego. A divine intelligence is guiding you, which is why you are attracted to enlightenment in the first place. If not for this divine intelligence, there would be no hope of awakening. Your desire to be a healer is probably genuine deep down inside, it is just hampered by your lower chakra, fear-based, self-preservation instincts. What you need is simply spiritual purification, purging all of your lower chakra baggage. It is like you are a light bulb that has been covered over with so much rust and grime that only a few rays of light are radiating out. As you clean off the grime, you will shine with the infinite, eternal, unstoppable light of God. The ego will be annihilated in this light. And then you will become a great healer. But start with babysteps. This whole process will take years. You are right where you need to be. Follow your heart, it is filled with divine intelligence and will show you the way.

Opening the heart chakra is wonderful stuff, but it is not enlightenment. There are many facets of growing yourself which are great and wonderful to do, but are not enlightenment.

@Phill Some of us know what death is, because we have died What you seek and don't know it yet, is AWAKENING. When you understand fully what reality is, you understand what death is. Death does not exist.

@phoenix666 The pursuit of meaning becomes a very sneaky high-level trap. The search for meaning is directly the avoidance of emptiness. Because in truth, all meaning is illusion, and BEING is meaningless. The ego hates this. But the good news is, once the ego is shattered and total nonduality dawns, you will relaize that BEING is far more profound and superior to meaning. BEING is what you see on psychedelics. Now imagine if your whole life was like that. Your life would be so empty, it is infinitely full. And from this position of total selflessness, you can do anything and help anyone with ease and joy. Your intention to help people is great, you're just going about it too shallowly. If you really want to help people, awakening should be your top priority.

Why is it Leo's obession? Lol You guys really gotta look into this thing called projection.

@phoenix666 Your issue here isn't addiction per se, it's just an unconscious, highly socially-conditioned lifestyle. You are stuck in the rat race. So of course stress would be normal with that. Your entire lifestyle is materialistic and fear-based. That's understandable. You are just trying to survive. But it isn't how you would choose to live if you became deeply conscious of what reality is. I am not saying to drop everything and quit. I am just saying that as you become more conscious, your lifestyle will change to be slower, less forced, more healthy. And then the stress will be less of an issue. Underlying this entire pursuit of survival is a deep sense of inadequacy and fear of emptiness and death. All of that seems like it's normal and "just how life has to be", but that isn't true. You can learn to live conscious and healthy. But explaining how is too much for a forum post. That requires a lot of research and trail and error to figure out.

Oh, some fun gossip about David Deida. I once went on a date with Tony Robbin's copywriter. She knew all the dirty secrets. She told me that Tony Robbins had to physically kick David Deida off his cruise ship because he was getting handsy with Tony's wife. Lol Oh the delicious irony of it all...

That's only because they don't know how to use them properly. I have successfully use psychedelics to become conscious of every facet of nonduality. Total nonduality, beyond anything humanly imaginable. So much nonduality, that I see most enlightened masters now as not fully realized. David Deida, for example, is not fully realized.

That's like being a tyrant and asking yourself: Why the fuck would I want to stop being a tyrant?

Well, you are experiencing it. You're unconscious of what you're experiencing, but you are experiencing something. So then you got nothing left to do but kick back and enjoy your pina colada at the beach. You have no interest in Truth. You will live and die in delusion. Enlightenment is the realization that you have always been dead. No one was born. Nothing is happening. The confusion about this comes from that idea you have of death as being "lights out." That is not death. That is your materialist idea of death, which turns out to be wrong. Death cannot make sense from the materialist paradigm. It only makes sense once you're dead. No self = death The Buddha was a man who sat under a tree and meditated for so long that he died. But then his body kept on living and teaching for another 40 years. How that is possible you cannot understand so long as you are alive. To awaken, is to awake up from life, in the same way that you can wake up from a bad dream to realize it wasn't ever real. See my video: Life Is A Dream

@phoenix666 But look deeper. Why can you not just still comfortably with the stress? Why are you running away from it? Notice that if you sit down with any negative feeling, there will be a kind of agitation there, and it will feel "lonely" for lack of a better word, facing it. Just having a bunch of stress in your life is not the same thing as addiction. If you just have lots of stress, that's already a symptom of some deeper problem in your life, and chances are really good that that deeper problem is only a problem because you are afraid of facing emptiness. Example: You are stressed about finishing all your school work because deep down you are afraid of failing school and ending up with nothing -- AKA emptiness. Example: You are stressed about pleasing your husband because deep down you are afraid that otherwise he will leave you, and you will end up all alone -- AKA emptiness.