I am suggesting that basically all awakened teachers are still in limited states of consciousness which maintain their mind's structure for the purposes of survival.
You don't fully appreciate what consciousness is unless you've been in state where you cannot even remember your name. All memory is obviously a limitation of consciousness.
I've been in states where I can access the memories of every being in the universe. Since memory is just imagination. You are not really remembering your name, you are imagining it.
To function in this material plane you must be limited.

Could there not be?
You'll have to spend decades breaking down that character. Awakening will not do that for you. Structure of the mind remain even after awakening, otherwise you'd be dead.
If you can still remember your name, obviously old structures of the mind remain.

It's worse than you think.
You're imagining others, period.

Imagination means it is a mental activity.
The physical world is the mental activity of an Infinite Mind.
For example, you can become conscious of how you are imagining your own hands or your parents or your childhood.
My entire body is imaginary. Made up of figments of consciousness.
You will readily admit that dreams are imaginary, right? Like, your body inside a dream is imaginary, right? Obviously. Well, now just go one step further and apply that to the physical world. It is just a bit more of a powerful form of imagination.

Psychedelics are a gateway which show you the work you need to be doing outside of psychedelics.
Put the down the LSD and get to working fixing all the shit that LSD brought to your attention.
Then, take another hit some months down the road.

Notice that you are giving meaninglessness a negative meaning, which is not true meaninglessness.
If you do nothing and don't try, that is just as meaningless. Except you will be miserable.

Blocking Mods is not possible for the same reason that you cannot have a mute button for police. Police have sirens and loudspeakers for a reason.
I keep a very close eye on Mods to make sure they don't abuse their power. If I see a Mod abusing their power, I will act on it swiftly. But I'm mostly very satisfied with the job our current Mod team is doing.
Just because you think something in "unhealthy" from your POV does necessarily mean that I or others will agree. You need to develop some thick skin in an online forum, where people are mostly doing their own thing and I cannot personally micro-manage everyone. People will have different opinions and be at different levels of development.
If someone feels there is abuse by Mods, by all means message me and I will look into it. But you better have a strong case.
#ModLivesMatter
P.S. And if you feel another member is being abusive, report it to me or the Mods. But again, you better make a strong case. We will not tolerate abusive behavior on this forum. But abuse has to be more than a personal offense.

@Breakingthewall Relying on a chemical to sustain your consciousness is a terrible long-term strategy. You must find ways to get the same effect naturally. Otherwise you will always be a slave to that chemical.

Don't lose sight of the point.
The point of skepticism is not an end in itself but a means to arrive at truth. What we really care about is truth. Do you have a pure, genuine desire for truth? If you do, then you will be loyal to that end, not to skepticism. Skepticism is only valuable in so far as it is helping you in your mission to reach truth. If skepticism stops serving that function, then you must discard it.
For example, how do you know that your use of skepticism isn't a self-deception? Why do you assume skepticism will lead you to truth? How can you be sure you're apply skepticism properly?
Ground yourself in a pure, genuine desire for truth, and the rest will fix itself.

Needy is when you're desperately asking another for something.
Like if I came on this forum and started begging you for donations because I didn't have my finances together. People who don't get their shit together end up in a state of desperation for money, sex, a sale, love, or whatever.
One of your self-help goals should be to create a state of such abundance that you don't have a desperate need for anything from anyone.
Fill your cup until it runeth over and never gets depleted again. This is how you attract people to you. Nobody wants to be friends with a leech. (Mostly because everyone wants to be the leech themselves.) The secret to life is to surrender all your leeching impulses. Make a commitment to stop being a leech in every area of your life. This is the magic of living selflessly. God is infinite selflessness, infinite giving, infinite abundance.

The point is to compare apples to apples.
It would be interesting what would have been said about Eckhart Tolle if you had 500 hours of video of him from ages 28 to 35 and you had 22,000 forum posts and some 50,000 YT comments from him.
The thing you gotta take into account is that you guys have a lot more data on me than any other spiritual teacher in existence. So it's much easier to find stuff you don't like.
If you had 50,000 YT comments from Jesus, I wonder what you would find objectionable. If you knew all of Jesus' opinions on dating, sex, diet, environment, politics, race, etc. do you honestly think you would like them all?

There's two kinds of certainty:
Certainty from ignorance, and certainty from direct experience.

1) George Floyd was resisting arrest very much. Excessive force was used. Trial should occur to sort out the details. And I still support BLM. Yes, the Floyd case was a self-fulfilling prophecy of his fear. But that doesn't justify the excessive use of force. My take on Floyd is nuanced. I did not "victim shame" him.
2) Dating advice has a very specific pragmatic context. It is not spiritual advice and is meeting the guy where he's at and telling him what he needs to hear to correct himself.
3) I tend to make posts on this forum rather casually and sometimes flippantly, because I make thousands of posts. These are not carefully constructed rhetorical masterpieces with hours of research. I'm spitballin here. Sometimes the posts are sloppy or rough.
4) Sometimes my tone is obnoxious and arrogant. I will work on that in the future. You'll definitely see that improve as I grow.

Watching Borat is insufferably cringe. How does Sasha not break character? He has a god-like ability to stomach cringe.

Also, consider this:
I deliberately try not to act saintly because that is what makes students worship the teacher and leads to all sorts of unrealistic expectations. You see, if you discover that Ekhart Tolle watched some porn, this would outrage and disgust you because in his public persona he presents this image of a saintly figure. You probably can't even imagine Ekhart Tolle having sex. This entire stereotype is damaging and absurd. Ekhart Tolle's audience would be better served if he said FUCK! once in a while.
The trap is that as a spiritual student to go looking for ever-more saintlier teachers to validate your naive ideas about this work. And once you find this saintliest teacher, he feels so beyond you, so super-human, that you can't help but worship him and believe his every word. And later you discover that he eats meat, has sex, looks at porn, drinks wine, makes mistakes, supports centrist capitalist politicians, avoids paying taxes, hunts animals, kills a fly, gets a divorce, has sex with a hooker in Thailand, gets angry, or whatever else, and your whole fantasy about gurus collapses.
This work is not about acting saintly. It would be best if you dropped this expectation of saintliness. Saintliness is precisely what creates cult followings.
P.S. Your revered guru Alan Watts drank himself to death and you can't handle Leo enjoying some porn? I could easily not mention my enjoyment of porn to you, and then you would think I am 50% more saintly. I could further boost my saintliness by 100% by never saying FUCK any more. Ekhart Tolle drinks wine. I don't even drink. So HA!
Don't forget that your expectations for my behavior are largely your own fantasy, and I have no obligation play into your fantasy of how conscious people should behave. My only obligation is to not exploit you, not abuse you, and not mislead you into delusion. But if I want to watch some porn, then I will and you'll just have to go cry in the corner I guess.

Basically not. The visuals are actually a lesser mode of consciousness. When consciousness becomes maximally infinite, it is pure abstraction. Any form would limit it. If you are seeing some DMT machine elf, that is still a limited form. You'd be better off dropping that form and going for pure abstraction.
It's a bit like art.
Realist art requires a less advanced mind to appreciate and understand.
Abstract art requires an advanced mind to appreciate and understand.
The deepest levels of understanding are pure abstractions.

It depends on how you define "personality".
If you define shyness and insecurity and inexperience as part of your personality, then yes, you can change that.
But there will always be an deeper, more fundamental personality which you cannot change. But that personality is not inherently shy.
Don't worry about these philosophical issues. Simply go get massive experience socializing and that will fix many of your problems until your question melts away.
I used to be extremely shy and socially insecure, to the point of not being able to have a conversation with a taxi driver or hair stylist or grocery store clerk.

My deepest trips were done without music.
Music is good for lighter trips or to boost mood or in the afterglow phase.
But if you want to get some serious work done, turn off the music at the peak.
The reason I said that music can be a distraction is that it becomes too beautiful and hypnotizing, luring the psychonaut away from contemplation. Music on psychedelics is like a siren song. But we don't trip for pleasure, we trip for insight. I'm careful not to turn tripping into a pleasure-seeking activity.

This is not true.
And stop framing this as "tricks" to get in a girls panties. Proper game is about becoming a legitimately more attractive and higher value guy. It is not fake. It is real. The confidence and humor developed through pickup is REAL. And it will be respected and appreciated.
Today I am genuinely much more attractive than I used to be. Because of the development work I did. And any woman who sleeps with me will benefit from that. It's not some trick I'm running on her.

Well, if you want to wake up to a pig by your side every night, no one will stop you
High value is not just about sexual appeal or physical appearance. It's the entire value proposition of being in relationship with someone else.
Contemplate this: The only reason you relate with anyone is to get value out of them. What that value is, will vary. It could be sex, companionship, intimacy, someone to talk to, happiness, peace of mind, security, money, love, children, a house, or whatever. All of that is value.
If you wanted no value, you would not relate in the first place. So don't act like you don't want it. Clearly you do. You want a whole bunch of things from that person. Things you don't even consciously know about.
Being in a relationship is not charity work. You are hoping to extract value from it. And as soon as you stop getting the value you expected, you will break it off to find it elsewhere.

There is no mystery or contradiction.
Dating and relationships have a material foundation, a survival foundation. If this foundation is ignored or denied, it is like being a hippie who ignores the importance of money in favor of love and peace, but then finds herself homeless and begging for coins, or prostituting herself.
While women love to talk about intimacy and love and relationship, the hard reality is that they will get attracted to guys who have a solid material masculine foundation. Then the love comes. There is no love for weak guys.
If you want a solid shot at love, handle the material/survival layer first. Then you might get some shot at love.
This is not a matter of treating women as objects. There are simply real survival forces at work here and to ignore them will produce bad results for men and women alike.
Love all you want, but also tie your camel. Love cannot replace tying your camel.

You don't need to use cockroaches as an example.
Just go to your local bar/club and hit on some women. See how ruthlessly they shut down your attempts at love. They don't give a damn about your love unless you make them wet.
The only way to get to a woman's heart is through her pants. But of course this is never spoken of in polite company. This is something every guy must learn the hard way. Try to get a woman to love you without getting in her pants first.

Yes, spend a few years or a decade figuring all that out.
Spirituality will not save you from handling survival.
By day, survival. By night, spirituality. At some point the two will merge. But not for a while.

@Mada_ No. You are being super needy and low-value. She will never sleep with you due to that.
You have to stop caring about any one girl until she sleeps with you.
Zero investment before sex. Zero!
This is the #1 rule of attracting women.

There are many factors that go into being "high value". You don't need to check every box to get a girl. But the more boxes you check the higher value girl you'll be able to attract and keep.
Edgy means saying and acting is slightly outrageous ways. Edginess spikes the woman's emotions and makes her feel alive and adventurous. An edgy guy keeps the woman's emotions stimulated by saying and doing bold and unusual things. This is what creates that classic "bad boy" vibe.
It is not necessary to get a girl. But it can be highly attractive, especially to very hot, very feminine girls.
Nothing in game is ever necessary. You can get a girl by being a total fool just through pure luck. But game is all about maximizing your value and odds.