Leo Gura

That's a given. A sociopath will always find weak and vulnerable targets to leech off of. He uses their empathy and decency against them because they justify to themselves, "Well, surely this guy couldn't be such a heartless monster, maybe he just made an honest mistake?"

Yes, absolutely that. That's all it is. Self-awareness. Yes, that's all there is to meditation. Anything more is a distraction. You can move your focus around as you sit there doing nothing. You can focus it like a flashlight into the body, but I recommend you maintain the wideest possible focus on your entire field of experience. The body will be part of that but play no special importance.

It's really quite outrageous how shameless Tate was in confessing his numerous crimes on camera. He's exactly the kind of character I pegged him as when I first heard his name. But way worse. I gave him too much benefit of the doubt. Anyone defending this is flat out retarded: Tate is a classical dark triad sociopath. This has nothing to do with being a man or being conservative. He's just a criminal con-artist. But even worse. He whored out his own girlfriends to cover his gambling debts. That's all you need to know about him.

Do-nothing is the core of meditation. Combine do-nothing with a gentle but firm concentration on doing nothing. Ease into it. It has to be comfortable and easy. Basically just sit and be at total ease with the mind not constructing anything.

Yes! Well said. That's exactly how it is, only it gets more and more insane the deeper you go. Salvia is clear but very mentally uncomfortable and disturbing for me. It feels like throwing a baby into the middle of a 100 mile swamp at night and just leaving it there to survival all alone.

That's basically true of all "bad" experiences period: your mind is bad at interpreting the state and wants to avoid and escape into a more pleasant state.

Not for everyone of course.

I vape pure concentrated THC (called shatter), and even that I will soon replace with a sublingual tincture. I hate the taste of weed. If I could find pure synthetic THC powder that's what I would plug.

Of course it is.

Yup, millenials and zoomers invented the ego.

@John Paul Don't speak too soon. Stick around and you might have a change of heart

Yeah, it's that way for me too. Similar to salvia in alien vibe. Weed just affects people differently.

The collapse of all his mental contructions and the self-awareness of his immense biases and selfishness. Peterson is stuck playing a game of ideology which rewards him with money, fame, and love. He has sold his soul to the devil while fully convinced that he is crusading on behalf of God.

I don't go by strain or dose. Any THC will do. Smoke till you are too terrified to smoke any more.

@ardacigin Well said.

There are many different kinds of awakening and higher consciousness, so you have to specify what claims people are actually making and what your goals are. Since you can't know who's claims are highest, you should keep an open mind and don't assume you've reached the end of whatever consciousness is capable of.

There's no way to test that at this point since it's water under the bridge. Certainly 5-MeO has potentiated all psychedelics for me to some extent. However, I think I was always exceptionally sensitive to weed, I just never tried it until very late in my psychedelic experiments. In a sense it was perfect to leave it for last. In retrospect I see that not toying with weed was all part of my divine plan because it is so potent and I had to build up to it.

5-MeO goes deep but my most deepest consciousness has been on weed.

But what happens when you don't take that LSD for a year? Your migraines come back? I don't deny such benefits are possible. You just gotta be real honest with yourself about whether it was the psychedelic that caused it and whether the benefit was temporary.

His goal was never to make you happy, but to make you as paranoid as him. To feel healthy a sick man needs the whole world to share his sickness

The issue is that a mature role-model will never try to entice you with promises money, luxury cars, and pussy. Anyone who pitches you that already shows you the level he's at. And most people are not enticed by promises of maturity, they want to be promised candy. So the most immature people end up being the most popular because they just feed you the very bullshit you want to hear.

He was basically the same pre-benzos. He's always been a consistently neurotic ego.

It varies. I'm not always hitting it hard, but there were times when I hit it so hard I nearly killed myself simply because I wanted to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. I wouldn't really recommend that to anyone because it's dangerous. I have become conscious of things that no one has ever talked about, and I don't even plan to talk about it, because it cannot be talked about and no one will understand these things but me. So I keep it to myself. I've become so conscious that I hardly have a desire any more to teach humans, because none of them will understand, and all human spirituality is nonsense. If you trip deep enough you will reach this point yourself some day. I wouldn't really recommend it to a general audience because those levels of consciousness are way too hardcore for all but the most exceptional humans to stomach.

Maybe, but this is the exception, not the rule. Generally-speaking you should not expect any permanent changes from taking a psychedelic. I don't like it when people hype that part up because it presents a misleading picture of what psychedelics will realistically do for you. I am getting a lot more realistic these days about how psychedelics work. Psychedelics are dangerous because they can make you start to believe your own fantasies about them, so you gotta be super careful and rigorous about your claims. Too many soft-nosed claims are made by hippie types of people. Basically, if a hippie tells you that psychedelics cured their depression, don't be so gullible as to believe them.

My methodology is very simple: access higher states of consciousness by whatever means work for you. That is the only way to do true spirituality. Everything else is games. This methodology makes no guarantees that you will come out a good person or that you will dissolve all your egoic structures, because no method guarantees that. There are 1000 ways to screw it up and that will never change. The average person is highly likely to screw it up. There is no way that you will realize what God is without it awing you. If you didn't get the awesomeness that's because you didn't really Awaken to God. The awesomeness is a not a human egoic reaction, it's actually a Truthful reaction of Consciousness coming to understand itself. Consciousness is Absolutely Awesome. And the only reason you're not getting that is because there's a giant ego obstructing your view. Lack of being awestruck by Consciousness is the egoic position. So you got that backwards. You're not awestruck yet simply because you haven't realized the magnitude of what you are. Awe is a property of God. Why wouldn't it be? What kind of lame God do you envision? It takes a lot of consciousness to see the obvious awesomeness of God.