Chronic health problems have basically destroyed my happiness. I have to work around it every day.
But I am still happier than most of you.

Yes, it's bullshit.
Your happiness is completely contingent on good health.
A human in good health cannot even comprehend what it means to have bad health. Such people are oblivious and naive as children.
But like I said, you can still be happy.

@Igor82 There is a notion called: attunement to the subjective reality of others.
You don't have to buy into the reality of others, but you must be aware of what their subjective reality is and how they perceive you. This has nothing to do with caring what they think of you or them liking you.
If you are dealing with a hungry lion, you should be aware of his subjective reality and your place in it. Inability to do this is a mental dysfunction.

Technically yes, but don't get too technical here. Grasp what I said at a high level.
You can understand the frame of mind of other people with whom you're dealing with.
The technical psychological term for this is "theory of mind". Look it up.

If you cannot have conversations with normal people without them looking at your weird, that's your clue you are spiraling out of control.
No matter how conscious you get, you should always retain your ability to talk with normal people in a reasonable way without them thinking anything is wrong with you.
The first thing I notice about people with mental illness and dysfunction is that they cannot communicate coherently and reasonably with me. They are lost in their own minds with little awareness of how others percieve them.

Yes, significantly. I have much less time and energy for game than normies.
Serious games requires a lot of energy because it's exhausting.

There was no disagreement here.
He was asking for a solution to self-deception and I gave it.
Yes, humans are monkeys. It has nothing to do with them being nice or not. A monkey is a survival robot. And that is what you are until you start taking truth seriously.
If you don't like being called a monkey then stop being one.

No pleasure you get will match the pleasure of exploring higher realms of Consciousness. Which is why the the wisest don't care about fucking.

The light at the end of the tunnel is Infinite Love. But the ego will resist like a bitch.
To truly grasp what consciousness is requires losing your sanity.
There is good reason why humans don't do this work. It's no joke.

1) That's way too big a dose to start with. Now you spooked yourself off.
2) 5-MeO-DMT can have a pretty uncomfortable body-load for many people. It takes getting used to. Usually the body-load passes once you're heavy into the trip.
3) Some chemicals will just never be right for you. Find the ones that resonate with you. However, know that it takes time to get the full potential of 5-MeO-DMT. You cannot do it with just a couple of trips. You must really test it out patiently, knowing that there is a goldmine at the end of the road if you succeed. But you may have to work for it.
4) You may have energetic or psychological blockages which are keeping you locked up and unable to open up to the full 5-MeO-DMT experience. Those blocks need to be worked out over time through smaller trips, perhaps on other substances.
5) Stick to 10-20mg doses. And also consider plugging vs snorting. Snorting is a really unpleasant experience which will just make you not want to do it again. Plugging results in a more gentle trip than snorting.
6) 5-MeO-DMT is not a fun, recreational psychedelic. It's as serious as it gets. It should only appeal to the most hardcore, metaphysical-oriented psychonauts.

I don’t think turns the Tripp into a happy pretty trip, but the benzo can kill or numb down the anxiety and after that who knows
also, how would the dosing work?

Personally I'm not a fan. Psychedelics are superior if you have access. Ketamine disables the body and perceptual system. It is not like a psychedelic, you clearly feel it is an anesthetic and medicine like.
Doing it a few times is okay, but I would be careful doing it on a regular basis. Although I know people who do it weekly and love it.
Ia it worth doing at least one or twice? Sure! You will have a nice reference experience for how consciousness works. But hell, DMT or LSS is so much better in my opinion.

Feel the suffering of it, and then leverage that to resolve to never make the same mistake again.
This is how you learn your biggest lessons, by fucking up. Don't waste a perfectly good fuck-up by not leveraging the emotional pain of it to grow.

The next time you suffer, pause in the middle of it and make the distinction in your direct experience between suffering consciousness vs unconsciously. Unconscious suffering is usually some kind of sneaky avoidance mechanism, like if you yell at someone or blame someone. Conscious suffering is to suffering and reflect on the root causes of the suffering. What lead you suffer? How is your ego-mind responsible? What have you been avoiding that lead up to it.

Authenticity and being real
I really like that Leo doesn't try to hide behind a mask of being overly politically correct just to be safe. He says what he truly beliefs without being apologetic about it. He doesn't avoid uncomfortaable topics or questions.
This is worth a lot in our world where most people are cold, closed off, and business like.
Integrity
Not promoting some shady nord vpn / protein powder / miracle nootropic kind of bullshit.
Not doing some stupid black Friday course sales.
Being open to criticism and actually responding to it.
Veing extremely open about the way he does his business. 
Basically,  with Leo you don't feel like he tries to screw you over at any opportunity he gets to squeeze a few extra dollars out of you. You know that when he publishes a video, he publishes it for its own sake and not to promote his upcoming new program which will only be available for 30 days and then will get a rerun in the next year.
Putting his soul into his work
No comments needed here, hands down the highest quality content on youtube.
Kindness and compasssion
I think this is something that many people look over and don't appreciate enough. But Leo is a really kind person.
Whenever there is a person on the forum who is in a really bad place and needs help, Leo always tries to help them. Even if they are a total emotional mess and act in really stupid ways.
 
His style
Some might call it arrogant and unprofessional but I like it.
Leo is funny and entertaining which is an especially big achievement considering the topics he talks about.
I like the fact that Leo can sometimes be brutal in his video and say stuff like "you are not taking your life seriously enough" because it is motivating and it helps me get myself together when I feel depressed and a mess in general. Some of Leo's videos are like a nice cold shower.
And omg, his costumes, how cana you not love his costumes. Him wearing this silly horned mask and complaining how much it hurts while talking about philosophy was pure gold, lol.
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@something_else Yeah, that's obnoxious as hell and clearly shows his sociopathy.
The thing that's not even being said about this is that he was basically scamming desperate lonely Incels. Which is like scamming a suicidal person. I wonder how many people he scammed in this way committed suicide, or I can only imagine how pissed off they must be a woman-kind as a whole. The really ugly thing about this scam is that he's doing it via the girls, so the Incels don't understand that it's not the girl who's scamming him, it's a guy behind the scenes. But once they are scammed they will just blame the girl and contribute to this toxic anti-feminist ideology. When really it's Tate's toxic masculinity that's the true cause. As Tate says above, most girls are not so heartless as to scam guys like this. Basically what Tate did is use girls to monetize his massive sociopathy because girls would never be this exploitative naturally.
Tate invented a method to use girls to laundry his sociopathy so that the victims never knew his face. Usually a sociopath cannot get too far into scamming people because his face becomes too well known to the victims. But in this case the girls were his front.
Truly diabolical stuff from Tate. He shows zero awareness of the harm his actions cause.

@Optimized Life The key is to find 1 or 2 good wings. That is possible through some of these chats. You gotta sift through the bullshit and find the serious guys. They do exist on there. Of course it varies a lot city by city. Contact guys one-on-one, do not post in the general chat areas.
Try looking for local forums.
The RSDNation forum used to be the best resource for this. They had a sub-forum for literally every major city in the world and it was easy to find wings. Nowadays things are harder. That kind of community no longer exists. But you can do some deep googling and find scattered stuff. It will really depend on your city.

Yeah, it sucks!
I really hate chores because they are totally meaningless and shallow and distract me from metaphysical work.
It's hard to say. It basically makes me not care about anything in this material world. It's hard to motivate myself to make money or even brush my teeth sometimes because it's all just bullshit.
Some days it's just the grind of daily life and nothing spiritual is afoot.
Other days I am racking my mind about how to raise my consciousness, how to embody this stuff, etc. Honestly it creates a lot of additional suffering. Life is much easier when you are not thinking so deep and just being a monkey.
But there are also moments of transcendent beauty and appreciation for consciousness/reality because it is so profound.
I'm making it sound kinda bleak but there is nothing better than Awakening. Nothing else in life matters. It's just not easy to integrate or live up to. It is a huge burden to live up to it. All the ego games are painful to observe in oneself. The ego-mind is still at work spinning its bullshit.

That is the mark of a true sage / yogi / philosopher / saint / mystic.
We are a rare breed. But the best breed

My pleasure.
Well, it was a somewhat gradual process, not just a single event. It was an accumlation of breakthroughs.
One was my first awakening ever at a meditation retreat which was sober. That made me realize the Divine. It was so short. But it was awesome.
Another was my first mushroom trip.
Another was my first huge 5-MeO breakthrough where I realized reality is Absolute Infinity.
Another was my first LSD trip where I first realized I'm God.
It's hard to even pinpoint where I began a proper spiritual path.
The first time I read about enlightenment in a book, about 11 years ago, I immediately knew it was the most important thing in the world. But I didn't act on it until years later because I was busy with building a business and learn pickup. And I had no idea it meant I was God. If I understood that back then I would have begun immediately.

That's like the early stages. It's good, don't get me wrong. Very good. Yes, you are the whole visual field. You are a bubble of consciousness.
But there's much deeper stuff to awaken to. The nature of the bubble must be grasped in ever deeper ways.

So, further Awakenings will take you to realizations such as:
You realize what the bubble of consciousness is, which is God You realize deeper what God is You realize what Absolute Truth is Your realize that the bubble is Nothing You realize Infinity You realize LOVE You realize Eternity You realize Intelligence You realize Perfection You realize how you are imagining everything around you, past and future You realize that you can flip through an infinite number of finite selves You realize that all others are you You realize what alien consciousness is You realize what insanity is You reach even deeper levels of no-self than you thought possible before You realize that there is an infinite different kinds of infinite love And more wacky shit beyond that These can come in any order, it is not a linear sequence.

That would require years of training your focus.
Serious Awakening is so radical that even after you experience it, you will not have any ability to reach that place through conscious effort. It's like aliens teleported you to their home planet and then dropped you off back home. You have no idea how to get back there.
There's many degrees of depth to this, so the question is what depth are you talking about?. Mild stuff you can do through retreats and strong concentration. But not the really deep stuff.

That's brutally hard.

Sit for 100hrs straight and focus on your field of consciousness until it breaks you.