Leo Gura

Don't you mean Neolingus?

Weinsteinry: whining about current affairs online in a self-important, obnoxiously over-intellectual manner while being calm and polite but actually resentful and passive aggressive

Where was my Asian in school when I needed him?

Roger Love has some good vocal training courses.

He died?? How?

Of course it's You. It's All You.

It's more of a money, fame, and skills -ocracy. You don't need to be good-looking to create massive success for yourself. Don't envy people who coast off their good looks. That's like envying trust fund babies. Look at Owen Cook. He's not good-looking and look at all the success he created for himself. If you focus on why you can't, you will never succeed.

Hard to say. It's like smartphones. They are so useful but also ruin your mind. Tasting the Devil's honey.

Salvia has joined the chat.

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." -- Sinclair Lewis

I am not talking about any particular substance. I am talking about Consciousness in general. Substance is irrelevant. It is true under all substances and no substances.

Then you're describing a positive mushroom trip

@Judy2 Sure, loss of self/awakening can also come with psychotic or schizophrenic elements. There is an endless variety of trans-human, no-self states of consciousness. Loss of self is not some unique state. It's an entire domain of states. In fact, the self state is a tiny island amidst an Ocean of Selflessness. You're basically describing a bad mushroom trip.

This isn't hypothetical. Mystics and spiritually talented people like Teal Swan have naturally looser default states of consciousness. That's why they become mystics. It comes naturally to them. Yet they are not schizophrenic. So there are dysfunctional and functional versions of porosity of the boundary. The Muhammad of the Koran is one example of such a person, if the stories are to be trusted.

I'm trying to showcase some of the artistry of Consciousness.