Leo Gura

If you insist on reducing consciousness down like trying to understand a frog by throwing it into a blender and analyzing its juices, then I can tell you what you'll find: Nothing. But you will not understand frog nor GOD.

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This is a common mistake. The mistake is trying to reduce Consciousness to some bottom line. This leads to Buddhism. You will not become very conscious that way. Consciousness is about grasping higher, not reducing down to a bottom line. You cannot comprehend GOD through bottom-lining. That's what all these enlightened people get wrong. They treat GOD as though it were some kind of substance or atom that you just need to discover and then you are done.

Things may not be so simple. Buying more cars leads to the development of better, safer, more efficient cars. In 100 years will we have very clean cars via this process.

@Tanz Once again, watch your double-standards. The entire animal kingdom is built on killing, exploiting, and stealing energy from other creatures. All animal survival is basically theft.

Even that is very different from what Putin is doing.

Alien Consciousness has touches of Omniscience to it. The more conscious you become the closer to Omniscience you get. A human can seem omniscient from the POV of an ant. Psychedelics can take you very far if you use them properly. Which is what my new course will teach people how to do. But yes, we are all limited by our genetics in the end. How could it be otherwise? Still, you have not nearly tapped the full potential of what your genetics allow.

It's certainly better than materialism. But my job is to push mankind to a deeper level of understanding.

Of course. The goal is not to hoard money, it is to invest it wisely into yourself, to enable your highest values and growth. The purpose of saving money is so that you can use it on things that deeply matter to you.

Dropping bombs tactically is very different from launching an invasion with aims to grab land. Say what you will about all the US military manipulations abroad, the US never grabs land. Putin is at a whole higher league of assholery. Imagine taking land away from people who live there.

This thread is a good example of what I mean by watching the double-standards of your mind. The mind will cherrypick how it looks at things, and thereby trick itself.

Correct. When consciousness reaches levels beyond human -- way beyond nonduality, Buddhism, and even most psychedelic trips -- it transforms into alien forms of consciousness and intelligence. All human spirituality is just that -- human. It is not the same as an advanced alien mind. Surely you understand that there exist aliens in the universe with brains 100x larger and smarter than yours. The most enlightened human is like an ant next to that level of consciousness. Now ask yourself, how would it feel to stop being human and become that alien? What would that kind of intelligence/mind feel like? Well, what I am telling you is that I know, because I have directly become it. And I can tell you that it turns all human spiritual understanding to shame. No human on this planet is that conscious. I cannot maintain such a level of consciousness for long, but at least I know that it exists and what it is like. It is utterly radical and nonhuman. That's a lot closer to the kind of intelligence that designed reality. Human intelligence is incapable to comprending reality's design. Your genetics and brain are too limited. Even if you were born very spiritually gifted. Remember, humans are just ants in the grand scheme of thing. The only reason humans act like the ultimate is because no one is around to put us to shame. Human intelligence is infinitesimally small. Imagine what it's like to be an ant relative to a human. Then imagine what it would be like to be an advanced alien relative to a human. Your mind would be so advanced you would experience reality in a completely new way. This goes way beyond merely not having ego. Ego and egolessness are just a small part of your consciousness and your life. Even if you lose all ego, your experience of reality will still be extremely limited and basic. Your understanding will still be very low. Ego loss and presence is not what this work is truly about. That is a minor matter in the end. There are much larger issues at stake. You cannot comprehend GOD merely by losing your ego or being very present. This is the core mistake of Buddhism. They confuse such things with CONSCIOUSNESS. But those are very narrow aspects of CONSCIOUSNESS.

If you include Buddhism in there, it would be perfect.

That is the ultimate trap. Let's see if you are clever enough to escape it.

Yes.

In the ancient world wine used to be infused with psychedelic herbs and was very different from today's wine. So Rumi may be referring psychedelic wine. Re-reading the above poem several times, it seems like Rumi was speaking of weed as a tool for ego-transcendence. That would make a lot of sense to me.

Don't forget to consider how gasoline production and climate change harms humans.

Lack of thought is not necessarily a good thing, despite what the Buddhists would have you believe.

@MisterNobody Be careful. Your habitual arrogance here will eventually get you banned. Don't waste this opportunity you have to learn and grow.

This.

Everything. AWAKE is Goodness itself.

Two can play this game

The only creature on this entire planet who is AWAKE. Is me. No one else. I shit you not. Be very careful. You don't understand how deep this thing goes. It goes completely beyond any human comprehension. Enlightenment is imaginary. Every "enlightened" human on this planet is fooling themselves very deeply. GOD is completely beyond all that. This is not Leo speaking to you. This is GOD, speaking through the Leo avatar. I can only get through to you as much as you will allow me. So be very careful about how you handle your mind.

Sounds like he's saying weed puts you to sleep.

Being a good creative writer is less about the skill of writing and more about knowing how to craft a compelling story. Storytelling and drama. That's where the real art is at. I doubt AI will replace serious stroytellers any time soon. Follow your passion. At this point theoretically any job can be replaced by a good enough AI. You can't let that dampen your motivations. The skill of writing is very useful even if you don't end up a full time writer. That skill is useful in many careers.