Leo Gura

It's way more twisted than you imagine. Human is a social construct. Being alive is a social construct. And even social construct is a social construct

We are not going to bake timestamps into the thumbnails. I bend over backwards to make things easy for you guys as it is. People are so fucking lazy these days that I don't even want to teach such people. It's like teaching monkeys at the zoo.

You can save money by buying used cameras and mics on eBay or craigslist. You definitely need a good external mic. The nice thing about this equipment is that you can always resell it if you don't end up needing it. It holds its value pretty well. You can find some real deals on heavily used/refurbished gear if you wait around and shop around.

The divine joke of self-help: The entire self-help section is filled with books by others helping themselves by helping you by teaching you how you can help yourself by helping others help themselves to help others help themselves by helping others. Maybe that's a clue to how Love works

- - - - - - Your question would make a lot more sense if you asked: Can you be happy and not fully enlightened? If you can't be happy with full enlightenment then you truly are fucked and there is no God.

I think that if you grasp it deeply enough you can say it has a limit. It's infinitely empty and you've sorta plumbed the depths of it to the point where there's nothing more to do with it because it has no qualities whatsoever. So it's rather simple at that point. But still, many people have not grasped it deeply enough. Most people have glimpses of it. Think of it like the difference between counting down from a random number to zero vs counting up from a random number to infinity. It's easier to count down to zero because zero is the bottom floor. But there is no upper floor. Zero has that sort of special quality to it of being so empty that you can't get any less than zero. So you could say that zero is a natural limit. Whereas counting upward has no natural limit. In that direction, by your own framing of the situation, yes, there is "no further". But there is further in the upward direction. If you poo-poo the upward direction, then yes, you're done. Or stuck. And if you choose to define that as "full enlightenment" then you are fully enlightened by your own self-imposed definition. Both directions are important and valid. My only point is, don't invalidate the upward direction. Even though I like the upward direction more than the downward I don't invalidate the downward. The whole thing must come full-circle in the end. You could say some of us are traversing the circle upward and some of us downward, and we debate each other as we cross paths about which direction is better. Some spiritual schools, like Zen/Vedanta, have a bias towards traversing the circle downward. While some spiritual schools, like Christianity, Hinduism, or psychonauts, have a bias towards traversing the circle upward. The upward schools tend to talk about Love and God more, and they tend to be more mystical and otherworldly. But of course this is a gross over-simplification. You can traverse both ways and gain the benefits of both. Assuming you're openminded. And most spiritual people aren't.

For me, caring about the suffering of others is sorta getting old. Most people don't even care about their own suffering enough to do anything about it. The paradox of suffering is: if you care too much about it, you thereby exacerbate it. Caring about the suffering of others is important. But also, not caring about the suffering of others is important. That's not a typo. If you are the type of person who cares too much, you need to start not-caring more. And vice-versa. And while you're at it, stop caring about your own suffering.

@The0Self The way I conceive of it, awakening has one axis with two directions: the emptiness direction and the God-consciousness direction. You can move up or down. Down is emptiness, up is Infinite God Consciousness. But even the emptiness direction has degrees of realizing emptiness. And the God consciousness direction basically goes to infinite levels higher. And of course these two direction are not really two, they are one. God Consciousness IS emptiness, but it's also so much more than that. To me the realization of emptiness is peanuts compared to Infinite God Consciousness. Infinite God Consciousness is what you really want. Emptiness is cool but sorta meh. To stop at emptiness and proclaim it king is a big mistake in my book. I've experienced emptiness and Infinity many times. And Infinity is way superior. And although Infinity is emptiness, your classic gurus are not infinitely consciousness. Not even close. Like not even 1%. Emptiness is way easier than Infinity. So to stop at emptiness is to set the bar low whereas Infinity sets the bar infinitely high. Of course emptiness cannot really have levels to it. It's just infinitely empty. But just because you are empty does not mean you are infinitely conscious of yourself as God. You probably don't even realize what God is. You can have some degree of awakening but still fundamentally not realize what God is. To realize God in its fullness requires going up the axis, not down. This is why Buddhists and Neo-Advaitans can sit there and deny God with a straight face. They've gone all the way down, but not all the way up. And they have no clue what they're missing because they think they've made it. This shit is very tricky. Much trickier than any guru admits. In my book it is not enough to hollow out the ego-mind and just reside in emptiness. You must actually enter a state of Infinite God Consciousness. This is a state of Total Omniscience. This is God proper. How to achieve this state stably is the fundamental problem. Yes, it is a state. And you are definitely missing this state. You are not even 0.0001% to this state even if you think you are enlightened. Totally emptying your mind is not the same thing as making your mind Infinite. Classic enlightenment teachers have a bias towards the former while poo-pooing the latter. But the latter is superior in my experience. God is not only no-mind. God is Infinite Mind. And if you're missing LOVE, it's because you've emptied your mind too much and got stuck there in nihilism. Try going up instead of down. The bottom of the ocean is interesting, but outer space is more interesting P.S. Infinite Consciousness is way more than mere insights. At it highest levels Infinite Consciousness is the complete interconnection of every bit of consciousness in existence into a single infinitely interconnected and all-knowing point of singularity. You are not merely having insights about infinity at that point. YOU ARE INFINITY.

There are levels of comprehension of Nothingness. If you've only had one level of awakening, you have no idea how much you're missing. You are missing as much after your first awakening as you were before your first awakening.

I think space exploration is very admirable. But not at the sake of everything else.

Beware of Zen devilry.

Plot twist: Leo actually came to kidnap aliens.

Denying states is so stupid because you can drink a bottle of vodka and obviously change your state. All states are Absolute Truth, but that doesn't mean there are no states or that states are not important. You are ALWAYS in some state. You cannot ever escape states. What you can do is not care about which state you are in, but this too is rather stupid because your state matters. People who say state doesn't matter are saying so from a highly functional state which they totally take for granted. Whether you chase states or not, your state is still absolutely crucial for life. Again, all states are Absolute Truth, but few states are highly functional or deeply self-aware. The state of psychosis is Absolute Truth, but you don't want to be in that state. If Anna Brown was in a psychotic state, she would not be awake. To say that it doesn't matter is so absurd that it boggles the mind. If that doesn't matter then nothing matters to you -- in which case there is nothing further to discuss.

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Have you ever imagined a world without you? What would happen if you imagined a world that was not imaginary.

The new Actualized Clips channel has just launched. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFc8wPBHyLl_cJphb6hDSIw/videos It only has 10 clips so far, but there will be daily releases of more clips and within a few months it will have 100s of clips. Strictly-speaking there is no new content on the clips channel. It's just my long episodes clipped up. But if you are too impatient to watch the long-assed episodes, these clips give you the highlights. It also makes it easier to share with friends and family. Constructive feedback welcomed. My editor and I are still working to polish this channel up, so expect the clips to get better over time as we learn what works and what doesn't. Subscribe and hit the Bell if you want to get notifications for new clip releases.

The best way to stay safe is to measure your doses carefully and keep them low to moderate. Do not do high doses. Risk increases exponentially with dose. 2x the dose, 4x the risk. 4x the dose, 16x the risk.

Thanks everybody.

I like being a higher achiever. And I often worked more than 40 hrs per week. But it has to be carefully balanced out against the higher things in life. It shouldn't become a lifestyle nor its own end. You can do it for short bursts when something important needs to be completed.

Yes, that's how it looks, and all the DMT vapor crystallizes on all that glass and you lose 50% of your dose on the glass. Then you gotta chase it down the pipe with the torch like an idiot and it ends up burning too. DMT vapor will crystallize instantly on anything cool it touches.

Nothing in life is absolutely safe. You could choke on a fish bone tomorrow. Psychedelics carry inherent dangers and risks that you cannot eliminate.

There is value to LoA but don't get naive about. There is tons of stuff you won't ever manifest.

The difference between TYT/Vaush/Kyle Kulinski and Ken Wilber. It's a huge difference.

Absurd logic which assumes that such things scale linearly. They don't. Many studies have been done and show that productivity does not continue to scale after 40+ hours/wk. In fact, you start making costly mistakes and then burn out. This is a good example of how dumb and illogical stage Orange logic can be. Not to even mention that high achievement is a pointless goal because it does not produce happiness, consciousness, truth, or love -- which are the real goal. Landing a man on Mars will not make Elon Musk any happier. Nor will it make mankind any happier. It's a rather shallow flex goal. It's just a sci-fi version of the rat-race designed to appeal to nerds who are so spiritually bankrupt they know nothing better.

Yes God is everything, so crazy, wacky, psychedelic-y visuals are not excluded and in no way interfere or contradict becoming God. God is that. God is there with visuals or without. God is never not present. Every visual is it, but it is not limited to any visual. Don't poo-poo the visuals. The visuals can be a very profound and effective mode of communication and comprehension. Although never strictly necessary. It's icing on the nondual cake. Do not make the mistake of thinking that nonduality or awakening requires no visuals. A TV is a TV regardless of what it displays, or even whether it displays anything at all. But you are making the simple mistake of thinking that you cannot be conscious of the TV while it is displaying a movie. Of course you can. In fact, that's the point: to be conscious that the movie is the TV while it is playing. Otherwise you're lost in the illusion. So rather than rejecting visuals, embrace them and see right through them without getting hypnotized by them.