Leo Gura

Most places on the internet become echochambers unless proactive measures are in place.

Reddit has some very useful and great content, but it all depends on the topic and subReddit. Some subReddits are toxic echochambers, other subReddits are great. SubReddits on health problems and psychedelics are really good and useful.

China invading other countries would be as disastrous for China as Ukraine is for Putin. You cannot invade countries successfully in our current era. That time is over. Invading a country is like rape. Today, the social cost of everyone knowing you're a rapist is too high to be worth the rape.

There are already strict laws on how much fish is allowed to be fished. Those laws just need to be enforced. America has been regulating fisheries for over 100 years, with good success. Many fish populations have recovered thanks to regulations.

You cannot take understanding out of Awakening/God-Realization. God IS self-understanding. That's all it ultimately is. When you understand yourself totally enough, you will know you are God. That's all there is to it.

If you think human progress is a myth, go live in the Congo. This guy pontificates about progress being a myth while sitting atop the mountain of progress. Progress is indeed normal and will continue to happen regardless of what anyone says or does. If you wanted to, you could not stop human progress.

Lol. This is such a nothing-burger. Ed Sheeran's opinion on Gaza makes zero difference. Such performative moralism.

Lol NO ONE! ONLY YOU! That's why I keep harping on Sovereignty and Autonomy of Mind. You truly have to accept that your Mind alone defines truth. Your Mind needs to accept that, "I alone define truth". NO! There is zero room for self-deception in being AWAKE. Self-deception is everything that humans do until Awakening. Self-deception does not apply to TRUTH.

I would disagree here. A baby cannot Awaken. Awakening requires realizing that you are God. If "you are God" is not realized, Awakening has not occurred at all. A baby can experience higher consciousness, but the baby will not be able to understand what it is. There is no Awakening without understanding. It is not enough to experience God, because everyone is experiencing God at all times. The issue is, Do you understand what God is? So experience of God is not technically enough for Awakening.

Just don't overlook that this applies to science and all forms of knowledge. Is the Earth really round, or are you just agreeing with science? Is 1+1=2 really true, or are you just agreeing with the dogmas of math? For any truth, you are going to have the question of: Is this really true, or am I just convinced its true by social forces? That's why truth cannot be a social thing.

Don't be too available via text. Keep texting short.

Unity flattens all ontology, yeah. Ultimately everything is the same. Everything is Being/Consciousness/God. Idealists aren't conscious of God. They have no idea what is really going on. It's just conceptual for them. Consciousness and Maya are not two separate things. Maya is made out of Truth. I am not talking about concepts when I talk about Awakening. I am talking about different kinds and degrees of higher Consciousness. There is way more higher Consciousness than your two categories. Categories are themselves hallucinations. You like to interpret that I am talking about concepts because that doesn't threaten your view of this domain. You are still holding onto that Buddhist view of all this. Also, concept is not anti-Awakening. You can have Awaked Consciousness and understand it deeper with concepts. Concepts are not an enemy per se. You are using concepts regardless to do sense-making. Buddhism is also concepts. Ralston is also concepts. Any teaching uses concepts.

I mean, not on your first experiences of God.

That's not really insanity, that's trans-human-sanity. You are going beyond human sanity, which is just an island in the Ocean of Consciousness.

That problem exists for any worldview. I don't know what you are saying.

No one can tell you which of your goals will succeed or fail. You have to prove that yourself through effort.

Let's start a list of the best music for listening to on psychedelics. Obviously taste in music is very subjective, but try to post the best of the best here. This music should work well with psychedelics and tripping. Chill, moody, down-tempo, ambient, techno type stuff. There's lots of obscure psychedelic & chillout music that can be found on SoundCloud.

I don't know.

Discuss: This guy says there's a UFO housed in Las Vegas!!

Intro To Serious Philosphy

This is not something to theorize about. You must go and experience the leading edge of God-Consciousness and push it to imagine a higher level of God than the one you presently know.

@Xonas Pitfall I dare you to imagine that there are other Gods just like you. You guys still aren't getting it: GOD is only limited by your imagination. Where you stop is where GOD will stop.

It is contradictory if you assume it's false. But I dare you to imagine that it's true.

It is exactly an example of what I said.

Think of it like this: Consciousness has to imagine how Woke it can be. If it can't imagine a new level of Wokeness, it can't reach it. If you tell yourself, "Buddhist enlightenment is all there is to consciousness", then that becomes your reality. Because you aren't willing to imagine anything more. So my advice is: be ambitious with your imagination, rather than playing humble.