Leo Gura

It's very different from 5-MeO. DPT is like a twisted form of mushrooms. I guess that's the best analogy for me. I need to experiment with it some more.

Once you start taking Buddhism seriously, it effectively becomes the operating system of your mind. You don't yet appreciate how limiting and dangerous that is -- if you're a serious truth-seeker. Now, if you just wanna dabble in spirituality and not think too hard, Buddhism is okay. But if you want to get to the bedrock of Consciousness, you will have to be way more intelligent then aping some Buddhists -- be they West or East. You cannot reach the highest levels of Consciousness by aping any human. You have to think completely original thoughts! You have to navigate without any map. You MUST tap into true Intelligence! Only the highest Intelligence will cut through all the illusions, constructions, and limits of your mind. You need to become so Intelligent that your mind sees through Buddhism like an x-ray. That way you can move beyond into trans-human and Alien Consciousness.

If you are so bothered by the Spirituality subforum that you need a new one for "the good stuff", then I don't think we can help you here. You're in the wrong place. The Spirituality subforum has many serious and important threads. I see no reason why your best mystical experience doesn't belong here. This subforum is also the most active and popular so it will get the most views. Creating new subforums reduced views, so I'm generally against it unless it's really warranted.

It's still not ideal. You want to move towards your LP as soon as you can.

Stop with this nonsense.

I don't think there would not be enough posts in such a sub-forum. We create new sub-forums only if there's enough volume of posts to fill it, so it doesn't feel like a ghost-town.

You can have Direct Consciousness of the Absolute nature of Self & other. That's the method: Direct Consciousness. Not necessarily. God could also be laying a trap for you. Fooling you into thinking you understand solipsism. If you misunderstand it, then you will become trapped, not Awake. If God didn't play games there would be nothing else to do. It's like you enter a video game world and then complain why nobody in the world is confessing that it's a video game. And then you complain about it being a game world and not a "real" world. Because you need CONSCIOUSNESS to have clarity and for things to be obvious. You lack the consciousness, hence confusion. It's always YOUR dream. How else would an "other" be created? God has to employ trickery to create reality, otherwise there is nothing. In that case you would never know "other". To dream! You call that death. You are scared of it. That's the only reason you're alive. If you want Truth then you must be prepared to face death.

For me DPT is not like that, it's much too serious, at least at a full dose. At a low doses it's sorta not here nor there. But you won't know till you try. DPT is usually not something you take for fun.

All things are ultimately One. Reality is composed of imaginary differences. Yes, the difference between your Mom and a dog is imaginary. However, don't forget, imagination IS reality.

@StarStruck You are so stuck on Tate. Others are not even thinking about these stories you project and make so central to your worldview.

There's criticism of nonduality from above, and from below. So watch out.

It is not shameful, but also keep in mind that it does cause harm to others. Which is why they will shame you for it. Just because a child is not developed does not mean people will be happy when he starts throwing shit on the walls, even though he doesn't know better.

@PeaceOut96 I cannot really say what I could say, because people would consider it dangerous. So I will keep my mouth shut, for now.

Who is this guy?

When I die I am taking the whole Universe with me

@Yimpa I put my foot down on issues of highest importance for reaching the highest levels of consciousness. I see my role as helping people transcend the illusions created by Buddhism and nonduality, which have become so popular today, and go unquestioned because students do not have the balls nor intelligence to question it. But follow whatever path resonates with you most. Just don't expect me to follow any human teachings. I am playing a much deeper game.

I'm not going to play your Buddhist games. I know what Consciousness is, beyond anything any human can fathom.

I am not one of those. I just know there's even better stuff ahead.

I don't remember. You pull wherever is most likely to succeed. It should not matter. As a default, in Vegas, you try for her hotel room first. Because it is closest. If her hotel room is not available, then you pull to your place.

@Flyboy Well, the problem is that you think you understand me. I didn't do what you call "the work", because I realized it leads to a state of self-deception. Of which Frank Yang, Shinzen Young, and Daniel Ingram are prime examples. These people do not fathom God or Consciousness. And you will follow in their footsteps.

And I have a strong feeling that if I asked almost every Buddhist to explain God to me, they could not. That's a moment worthy of self-reflection.

Lol This is YOUR framing. You are defining those words in your own quirky way. Nothing about "spirituality" means that you must transcend suffering. You are right that that is not a focus of my work. At least as this time. Maybe in the future I will focus on that more, but right now I'm just not interested in that. No. This is a highly misleading frame which will cause problems for you down the road. In your mind, disconnect spirituality from suffering. You can be spiritual with suffering, you can be spiritual without suffering. You can be mystical without suffering, you can mystical with suffering. BTW, I can pretty much bet you that any spiritual teach you know, if I hit him in the head with a hammer, he will suffer. Don't kid yourself. I don't think I know of a single person on this planet who has transcended suffering. Maybe a few exist, but they are so rare that it's highly unlikely you'll ever reach that. To me this is a silly goal. You're gonna be chasing something you'll never truly attain, and ironically you'll create enormous suffering for yourself in the process. Properly speaking, spirituality is the pursuit of God. Any suffering along that way is just a sideshow. It is irrelevant when it comes to connecting with God. What you really want isn't to end suffering, it's to connect with God. Generally speaking, as a byproduct of connecting to God, you will suffer less and experience more joy.

I'm not sure about that. If I shoot you in the foot, I wouldn't call your suffering in this case a misunderstanding of anything. You understand it all right, but that doesn't remove the suffering. Removing suffering requires retraining your nervous system. Period. There are many spiritual paths and practices which no doubt will bestow benefits to you. Various kinds of benefits, from better sex to more money to less suffering, etc. I'm not telling you that my way is the only way. To understand the stuff I am talking about you will have to work out a lot of your karmic crap. I consider Vipassana to be a form of reductionism. There are benefits to that, but ultimately it's gonna be limited. You will not get the big picture understanding of God. You cannot understand God through any kind of reduction. Which is why these Vipassana monkeys can't speak about God very well, and will even dare to deny that God exists. God doesn't really exist for them because they have spent 20 years reducing Consciousness down into component parts. This doesn't generate high-level comprehension. Depends on what your goals are. Again, there will no doubt be benefits to his path. Will you understand God the way I do? No. If you add psychedelics, that changes things significantly. 10 days of non-stop concentration in total silence, without any other humans, is about as powerful a practice as there can be. Although you still will never be as conscious that way as through a psychedelic. But you can do both. A Ralston workshop works in a different way. It gets you thinking about reality in new ways. This is handy. But it doesn't replace a solo meditation retreat. Ideally you'd do all the above and optimize it to suit your tastes and needs.

For me I can only speak for myself. Because I barely stand to be here as it is I got some bad news for ya: ego death will not actually free up your consciousness to reach the highest levels. Ego isn't the only issue here, and far from the most important factor. Your human life places the most severe limits on Consciousness. Even if you removed 100% of the ego, as a human your consciousness will still be very low. Egoless humans are not that conscious. The point of physical death is that it eliminates the restrictions of being human. You can't be as conscious as an alien when you're stuck in a human meat suit.

How did it acquire total understanding in the first place? Consciousness has to explore itself to achieve it. Consciousness is like a computer program that has to execute in order to see what the program does. So here you are, executing.