Leo Gura

That was the mystical experience! You silly goose. ALL experience is mystical experience -- if you stop taking it for granted.

This is a classic psychedelic effect. It's a sign of the loosening of consciousness into a more fluid, imaginative state. When I look at my couch pillow on LSD, I start to see a thousands eyes looking back at me. My consciousness first imagines them and then they materialize -- since physical objects are imaginary.

In the same way that 1 = 1 or A = A is tautological. Everything = Love. The end. If someone has to explain to you that 1 = 1, then the problem is you don't get it, and nothing can be done to fix that until you get it.

Do whatever you want. Just be honest with yourself why you're doing it. I'm not gonna play games with you guys about who is and isn't using roids. Bottom line is they can lie to you and you'd never know. I just assume every pro is using them and I'll be more right than wrong. I will certainly NOT be giving them the benefit of the doubt. They don't deserve it. There is no way you're going to maintain that low level of body fat without extreme, unhealthy, and unsustainable measures. To suggest otherwise is highly deceptive to newbies and wannabes. You are not going to look like that, so stop even thinking about it. And the only reason you're thinking about it is because it feeds your ego. I don't care if you build muscles. Just be honest with yourself about why you're doing it.

Of course. This why lots of kids are being born with autism, ADD, and other such problems.

God simply IS Love. It is not a mistake that God cannot be something else. God must be absolutely tautological. There is no option for it to be otherwise, which is what makes it so amazing and powerful.

You really need to stop citing 1 in a 100 million genetic spiritual freaks as your baseline for how spirituality works. What works for Ramana will not work for the typical person. I have yet to meet a person who is deeply awake from self-inquiry. Perhaps a few masters who were already exceptionally spiritually gifted to begin with. The trick is not in your technique, its in your baseline state of consciousness. When your state of consciousness is correct, the technique is barely needed and takes little effort. When your state of consciousness is off, you can self-inquire for 40 years and get nowhere.

Because it is way too threatening. Serious growth requires truth, and truth undermines all social institutions and holders of power. You can't even get Kansas to teach evolution. Never mind something like mindfulness.

The whole point of reality TV shows is to push your buttons and rile up your ego. It is designed for chimps.

The most important thing for you is to move out of the country by any means possible. I would focus all my energy to hatch a long-term plan to move out, and then work towards that every day. You will immediately start to feel hopeful. Find some excuse/reason to move out: work, business, university, etc. If you develop serious skills in something valuable you should be able to find work abroad and move out. Work on marketable and high-value skills.

Anyone? Cause it's in the hopper.

God is too staggering to fit your simplistic little logical schemes. Infinity is a fucked up thing and your human mind will not even come close to making sense of it.

Treating all of mankind as a holon is not some crazy idea. All of mankind has one common ancestor. Basic evolutionary theory treats man as a holon regardless of what island they live on. Like I said, it's a matter of your perspective. I jump to relativity because it's a deep feature of all these problems and debates. Once you really grasp relativity you will stop this kind of silly hairsplitting. You'll just be at peace knowing it's all a matter of relative perspective. Grasp so deeply that it's all relative that your mind just shuts up and sits in silence.

This is fake stuff that you will not sustain, and it is OBVIOUSLY done purely for the ego. What do you think all those tattoos are? Ego And that dude is on HGH and steroids to look that cut. Basically you can assume that every professional gym rat is on steroids. It's just a scam to sell you wannabes a fantasy. Even Joe Rogan is on HGH and God knows what other drugs. It's all fake shit. The whole industry is designed to prey on insecure men's egos. Ego. Ego. Ego. Ego. Ego. That's what these people are posing for. They sell you these poses because you think it will make girls like you. But the truth is, deep down you hate yourself and you suck with girls for much deeper reasons.

Of course that's the end goal. The challenge is how to get there. You cannot tell an inexperienced virgin to "just BE attractive". RSD has always taught to "just BE attractive", but they give you practical ways to work towards that if you suck. And almost all of us start out sucking real bad. When you are a newbie you gotta be a serious try-hard. It won't look natural. But over time it will become natural.

Why do we need two parallel threads about this issue?

Possible, but not likely. And even if you do it, it probably won't be a deep realization. The first time it happened to be on a meditation retreat, sober, I realized the divine, but I did not realize I was God. That came much later.

Of course he will not agree that his version of good is ego. But that's his ego talking. The point is that Good is an Absolute which cannot be defined and it has nothing to do with human ideas of what is good. Human ideas of what is good is ego. Absolute Good is when you realize that even the Holocaust was good. And JP is not willing to go there. Whatever his ideas of good are, they will be limited and egoic. Absolute Good is an extremely radical thing that an ego cannot handle. Absolute Good is EVERTYHING: sex, money, family, and even murder. See, if I ask JP if Stalin is Absolute Good, he will say No! And he is wrong. However you want to define it. The definitions of holons are always relative and flexible. I would challenge you on this. Your notion of constraint is too narrow and limited. Even uncontacted tribes are part of larger society -- even if they don't know it -- because larger society works around those tribes not to disturb them (or it disturbs them). An island is still part of an ecosystem and it won't stay an island forever. Again, this will be relative to how you wish to draw your boundaries and what kind of perspective you wish to take.

It's not that easy. You must concentrate like a motherfucker until your state changes. You will not get anywhere without insane concentration.

I don't remember the context in which I said this. You'd have to give me more context. It seems like you're reading something special into that phrase when it was just as simple invitation to self-reflect.

Yeah, I see your point. You could frame it like that. That's basically one level of abstraction higher than money, sex, science, family, etc. Of course everything boils down to something like "good". But what JP does not understand is that his definition of good is actually evil. What he calls good is ego/survival. The ego defined "good" as whatever helps it survive. And survival is in a sense the one constant for all of life. But it is not the Absolute, survival is the greatest bias/illusion/delusion that keeps you from realizing God. Just because there are men living in uncontacted tribes does not in any way break the notion of men as a holon. A holon does not require physical contact.

As soon as I start to deconstruct science he will throw a hissy-fit. It's all about the defense mechanisms. As long as you don't trigger them you are okay, but as soon as you start triggering them his mind will close all the way down. Because it's not about truth for him, it's about his self-preservation.

No If you are schizopherenic you will need specialized advice that I do not specialize in. You can still use my work of course, but you have to be extra careful and picky about how to apply it and which parts apply to you. If you have a rare mental condition that only 1% of people have, how can you just expect someone like me to cater to you? I can't cater to every edge case that exists, there are too many of them.

It can work but you have to be funny and confident about it. If you're just saying things in a needy and meek way to get her to like you, that will not work. The rule is: say things which YOU think are funny. Don't say things to impress her. Amuse yourself when you are with her. A high value guy is not about how much money you have, it's how strong your personality is. If you are humorous and non-needy, you become a high value guy. Obviously if you work at Starbucks you should not be making jokes about working at Wall Mart. Find other jokes. You are not thinking deeply enough about attraction. You think some funny line will make her attracted. That's a mistake. That's not how it works. Attraction is a holistic feeling she gets by being exposed to a strong personality. There is no magic line or joke that will make her attracted. You can get attraction with some girls within 3 seconds just by how you look at her, without saying a word. Attraction is more about your vibe than what you say. The words you say matter little. What matter is how you behave and carry yourself around her. If you can make her laugh, that's always a good thing. But also, do it in a way where you seem strong and powerful, rather than weak. She shouldn't be feeling sorry for you but respect you as a genuine man. Well, you need to cut out all signs of neediness while keeping the humor. You don't need to be perfect for a girl to get attracted or even sleep with you. It's just that the better you are the higher you percentages will be. Girls will give you some leeway. They don't require perfection from you, so relax. Fake it till you make it. Don't grovel before girls. Act like you are the prize, not her. Act cocky. For example, a cocky line I love to use is, "Hey, has anyone ever told you how beautiful [pause] I am?" Of course you will be needy until you start getting lots of success. In the meantime just try to contain the worse manifestation of your neediness. It's okay to be needy on the inside for now. Just don't show it to her. Don't act desperate. You can think about her, but don't call or text her too much. Hold yourself back. Less is more. Work on suppressing all outer signs of your neediness. Inner neediness can only be cured by getting some results. But the girl does not know about your inner neediness, all she knows is what you express outwardly. So just hold your shit in.

@Christdas I would not be so easy on Dawkins as that kind old man. Dawkins would get such a dose of deconstruction that he would start shitting his pants.