SgtPepper

this is why I'm hesitant to go full vegan. I like plant foods and consume a good amount throughout the week. Kale, lettuce, tomato, beans, quinoa, broccoli, but I'll still have fish and chicken on the side. I don't really see how supplementation is the best way to go when it's laboratory produced vitamins.

egalitarianism is better

I don't think they're is anything wrong with it. I also play music while on psychedelics. I don't have a particular playlist, I prefer to listen to albums as a whole. I like to listen to a lot of 60s classic rock during my trips since the time period was heavily influenced by psychedelics like: the Beatles, beach boys, the doors, Pink Floyd. Tame Impala is cool too. Albums I've listened to while on LSD: Dark side of the moon Animals Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band Rubber Soul Revolver The White Album P.S. I do not listen to every song, Ill usually listen to half of the album before I'm ready to do something else or I skip to particular songs I like.

YES! This thread is hot. I was trying to make this point on the forum a couple of days ago, but that particular thread was shut down.

I am for balance. Contemporary feminism sometimes can comes off as anti-man though and is only pro-feminine. I prefer egalitarianism. Nobody discusses issues faced by males. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men's_rights_movement

How do you know it is placebo effect? that is a valuable and worthy conclusion. However, what if we could actually create it chakras or energy fields just by envisioning it and it becomes as real as real gets on a different plane of reality. Then as you constantly stimulate that area with those particular emotions, one's body can adapt and associate a body area with particular energy thus bringing it into reality for the user. It can then be an outlet to help resolve emotions and personal difficulties? I've seen people call it placebo, but it doesn't really address the utility and power of how our mind creates reality. Just in the same way that a child can confidently feel he/she is safe because he is wrapped in a blanket. OR that he is not alone because he/she has a stuffed animal that they can talk to.

I feel like I am stage blue, orange, and green all at the same time.

Try some gratitude and realize your blessed to just be alive.

Have a cry and get some sleep. You are creating your suffering by wanting things.

I'm not offended. I think Leo is the man, but his videos are not for everyone in my experience.

You don't observe duality from your perspective? I don't really need to believe anything to feel the difference of drinking cool water vs warm water. Edit: I enjoy reading both Joseph Maynor and Faceless' post. But y'all have me laughing with your seriousness. I like what Truth Addict said: life = duality = non duality. Also I enjoy the memes @Truth , but I can see how it doesn't help the energy behind these posts, but that's alright. I also see how hilarious it is! DUALITY

yes actually. I laughed a lot when I realized it was all me.

EVERYTHING or "God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and the principal object of faith.[3] The concept of God, as described by theologians, commonly includes the attributes of omniscience (all-knowing), omnipotence (unlimited power), omnipresence (present everywhere), and as having an eternal and necessary existence" - wiki. Many ways to conceptualize God really.

Looks interesting. I will definitely check them out!

But the whole point of video is to point out that Intelligence cannot be Boxed in. Science has failed to capture intelligence in its purity. To paraphrase Leo, science has only captured an aspect of intelligence. Not true in my experience. God is experienced through consciousness which is the foundation of experience. There is no need to do anything. Leo is just using words to express a quality about existence, but he is only doing this to communicate it to people, not to actually box intelligence, that would be impossible or inevitably inaccurate because intelligence in its pure state is impossible to grasp, like a tongue trying to taste itself. You are also not considering what made humans and what made humans to think. But I wouldn't even try to figure this out with thought. Leo is doing a service for the western world by bringing spirituality into the domain of rationality and English. Just because Leo is not enlightened doesn't mean he does not have ideas to share that can help other grow. In addition, Leo does not even encourage individuals to grasp truth via logical mind. He explicitly encourages individuals to experience this himself via consciousness.

Meaning is relative. At higher states of consciousness life becomes meaningless because Life is life. Your sense of self grows bigger at higher levels of consciousness so your perspective become wider and so there is less ego derived missions, thus egoic goals and beliefs lose meaning. So everything that is meaningful as a human dissolves at higher states because meaning is derived from ego or a perspective. Hard to say though, Universe created human, ego, and eventually meanings. Yin-Yang. It is interwoven into each other. Can't have meaning without meaninglessness.

I unconditionally accept Leo in his communication. Like another poster said, it felt like Leo was being honest and authentic about his experience. Leo's discussion about psychedelics is correct and it falls in line with my experience. I think at the end of the day, we just gotta do our best for ourselves. We have techniques for raising consciousness like meditation, yoga, psychedelics... Everyone practice it as much as you can, if you don't get enlightened, it doesn't mean you won't find gems and peaks, about who we are. On a material level, who knows what this could mean for our genes and future generations potential to become enlightened.

You tell me? Do you not feed and care for yourself? Were you not born with a given name and surrounded by a society with a bunch of similar looking people who also have given names? Did you not get on your computer to type in your reply? separation and egos are appearances and at a higher consciousness level they do dissipate. But “normal” consciousness is still a thing. Survival is still a thing. What is real is relative to where consciousness is at. On normal days, my actions DO effect other apparent beings. I can make my mom cry by saying Who i am is an idea and I’m not actually real. So I’ll just fast till death. I’ve envisioned already, but what is the point of that anyways. If I am not ego and ego is illusion, I’m already dead. Doesn’t matter what I believe I am. So I live the egoic life that is and exists on this level. A lot of gurus and people here will proclaim that content is distraction, yeah if you’re mission is to see ultimate truth, otherwise it is also beauty and a reflection of the ultimate truth And after a few awakening experiences, I’m not about to give up relationships I’ve created. It doesn’t really matter what game I play, egoless game or ego game. I’m still alive and the universe/God is living through “me”. its more complicated than my words can display. But at the end of the day, content is still here and it’s asking and coaxing itself to play along. So I, Sgt. Pepper play along. Knowing full well deep inside lies my real whole being, that is everything.

I agree that the ego is not a mistake. its there!

God exists. God created everything that is in existence and God is existence. Simple as that. like.. what do you mean no such thing as God. Look around you. It just is. and what that IS, is God. Now if you want to call it Brahman, or ISness or Being. Whatever, but I call it God because I like it. I saw a comment saying that is projection, I agree, but everything is projection? God projects himself on to himself for himself, he's spectacular like that.

One of my favorite spiritual videos.

I'm looking forward to his new insights. I definitely miss his weekly videos.

Thank you! I've also been wondering this myself. @captainamerica I haven't seen any books on the booklist that indicate channeling, but he has a paranormal list and it includes books on astral projection and cool stuff like that.

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/46/15307