Simple:
Love of wisdom Love of questioning reality Why does anything exist?
How do we know anything for certain?
What is the point of life?
If God exists, who created God?
What is the color red?
What makes mathematics true?
If I turn my back on the moon, does it still exist?
Why does war happen?
Even... What is philosophy?
Etc.
Every kid will understand such questions. So philosophy is simply the serious pursuit of such questions.

There is only 1 room in the house. Yours. The end.
All other minds exist in your mind.
You have always had Absolute access to everything that exists. Here it is. This is it.

This is typical. Many different kinds of mystical states exist, and most of them are temporary.
You can't really hold on to a positive state. Which is why the ultimate goal of awakening is to transcend all states by realizing Nothingness. If your happiness is contingent on a high state, then you'll lose it as soon as your state drops. Which is why chasing states becomes a trap.

Hehehe, you're just not conscious enough to see it yet.
It makes MASSIVE consciousness to realize that everyone else is a projection of your own mind. You will not reach this level of consciousness via meditation.
You can be awake, but still under the illusion that other minds exist. Because awakening has many degrees.

It's very problematic to look at enlightenment as a function of time. It's more a function of effort.
You can meditate for 40 years and never awaken. Because your effort is still weak.
If you are serious about awakening you need to start doing week-long and even month-long retreats.
Awakening via 1 hour per day of meditation is virtually impossible. You need to reach a certain escape velocity, which is almost impossible to do but through uninterrupted retreats.

Yes
Not necessarily. Some people seem to be immune to it. But that's pretty rare. You should assume it will work if done right.
Be careful not to over dose. It's extremely powerful.

He's speaking at a high level of abstraction. As wise people tend to do.

Lol
Rule #1: Don't talk about pickup to normies.

I've recently watched Leo's episode on Learning = Making Distinctions and thought that it was a very useful method to apply to anything new you want to learn about. Here's the link if you haven't seen it: 
I tried out the apple exercise he mentions in the video. There's a local supermarket where I live in Hong Kong which sells a variety of apples, which I think are mostly imported from New Zealand. I bought three different kinds from there, tried them and noted down my observations here:


Normally I don't think about it very much when buying apples, but after trying this exercise I discovered a whole, diverse universe of sensations in the simple act of mindfully biting three different apples. 
Distinction-making is an extremely powerful tool, and one which has opened up my curiosity about life. Somehow life becomes a lot less boring and more diverse the more you appreciate its fine distinctions.
How about you? What distinctions have you made recently? 

What's there is raw sensation, so to speak. But even to call it "sensation" is already too much. We call it Being to be more precise. Being is sensation stripped of the subject and the biological perception process which is a conceptual overly.
So when you think that "I am a human and my brain is seeing the color green because light rays are bouncing off the object and into my eye...." << that entire thing is a story you are projecting over top of the raw Being of GREEN.
You know it's really green because it is GREEN. GREEN is GREEN. You can't get any more underneath it. GREEN is the Absolute in this case. GREEN is Absolute Truth, but you're not recognizing it as such because you have a story in your mind which says something like, "Green is just a color that my brain is generating."
NO!
You must throw out that story. Leaving you with just: GREEN.
Yes, exactly. This isn't a bug, this is a feature.
Yes, of course. Every object is a hallucination. But hallucination is the same as the Absolute.
Illusion = Reality
It goes much deeper than that. "Perception" is also a deception. But not in the way you think. There is nothing "true" behind the perception. Perception needs to be recontextualized as Being/Truth itself.
See my videos: What Is Perception, and Understanding Recontextualization
This is tricky stuff. Your mind will struggle to get it.

The mistake in your thinking is that you assume perceptions are yours. Perception is not what you think it is. Perception is Absolute Truth. So you have 100% access to what reality actually is.
Nothing is hidden.
Absolute Consciousness is beyond self-deception or falsehood.
Knowing can be wrong. Being cannot be wrong. Which is why spiritual practice is about transcending knowing to being.

Women are attracted to confidence and inner strength. That's why.
Stage Red narcissists and sociopaths can be extremely charming.

Hey, don't blame me. We tried being nice to hot girls, and they always reject it.
If being nice worked, I would get laid more than Hugh Hefner.
I had to go through 2 years of intense training just to teach myself not to be nice to girls.
The hotter the girl, the more sociopathic and narcissistic the guy must act to appeal to her.

Oh yes they would.
Tolle is the equivalent of a rock star. He's got STATUS, which girls love more than psychopathy and confidence combined
STATUS is the ultimate game. Status is the ace of spades.
If Eckhart Tolle was an enlightened nobody, then he wouldn't get laid by hot girls.
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It's important to also keep in mind that what I was talking about in this thread was HOT girls. There is huge difference between girls who are average and girls who at like top 1% HOT. Those top 1% girls are much more demanding than your average girl.
An average girl you can treat nice and she will like you. A top 1% HOT girl you must treat like trash for her to like you.
I didn't make the rules. It's just how the game works. Don't go treating average girls like a dick. Only the top 1%.
There is a huge difference between dating average girls and dating models. A HOT girl can earn lots of money just being a model. The hotter she is, the rarer she is, the more guys are drooling over her, the more psychopathic you must be to catch her attention.

The psychedelic alone is not enough. What really matters you must have a burning desire to fully awaken. This desire is the key and it's very rare.
Without such a desire, no matter how many psychedelics you take, you will not fully awaken.
God will never force you to surrender yourself. You must do it willingly.

No. If only it were so easy.
In practice it's much harder and messier.
Firstly, there's no guarantee that just being born to good hippie parents will make you Green. You could still turn out a Red rebellious teen who does heroin.
Secondly, even if the kid has an easy path to Green due to his comfy environment and education, he will still not have fully integrated the lower stages. He will be a weak, flimsy Green. A lot of people in their 20's today are Green on the surface, but at their core they are hollow. They haven't developed the assertiveness and courage of Red, nor the discipline and work ethic of Blue, nor the success of Orange. This is very typical. It's a very flimsy Green. Such a kid will believe in universal equality but can't even muster the balls to approach a hot girl nor has the work ethic to hold down a job and pay his bills because his hippie parents paid for everything.
In practice you need years of experience working through each stage. You might need to do it backwards in the sense that you start off as a hollow Green, then you go back and master Blue, then Orange, then Red, and then back to Green to fully appreciate Green and become rock solid Green, then Yellow, and beyond. Each of these phases might take you 3-5 years of active work.

After you do enough psychedelics, the distinction between being on psychedelics or off them starts to dissolve away.
That itself is a duality.
You also have to consider that people like Ralston were likely born with an abnormally high amount of natural psychedelic neurotransmitters.
Not everyone has the same neurotransmitters in their brain just like how not everyone has the same level of testosterone. It's foolish to expect that you can out-lift someone with a natural testosterone level of 2000.
Yogis and sages OBVIOUSLY have higher levels of the right neurotransmitters. This is clear in them from birth. They didn't work for it. They got it as a gift.
I know people who were basically enlightened from childhood or were born with siddhis.
You are NEVER going to naturally match the consciousness states of someone like Sadhguru. He's a genetic freak. Some piddly yoga practice will NOT be enough to match his level.

But it's not like one awakening contradicts the next. Each awakening simply expands the depth of understanding of Truth/God/Love/Oneness/Infinity. So your question is moot. What I am talking about is not like believing in something which could turn out to be false later on.
I don't just know it. I AM it. I AM INFINITE LOVE types these words.
God knows itself by being itself. It is essence of consciousness that it can be perfectly self-aware. I have had infinite self-awareness.
Again, you create a duality. The two are One.
Exactly! Because surrender would kill you. Which is the last thing you (the ego) wants.
What controls God, is God!
The whole trick here is that you (ego) refuses to let God/Love control you. You are a devil, which means you think you are in control and that without this control you would die.
You are resisting surrender of all control to God out of deep fear.
Imagine for a moment that you would not have to make another decision in your life again, because you just completely trusted that God would take care of you. That's what total surrender/awakening is like. You completely surrender all attempts to manipulate reality to make it suit you. It's total selflessness. You are so selfless that if God tells you to jump of the roof and die, you would just do it without any resistance. You would have no will of your own.
THAT is what utterly terrifies the ego. You are to scared to trust God's intelligence. In your selfish arrogance you think you are smarter than God! That's your devilry in a nutshell. You refuse to bow down before God out of fear. And God perfectly understands this. God will not force you to bow. God will wait for a million lifetimes until you wise up and decide to bow out of your love for Truth. Because the Truth is, YOU ARE GOD! So how can God force himself to realize himself when he has chosen to stay asleep?
You see the problem here? If you were human, God could force to awaken. But you are not a human, YOU ARE GOD! If you are God, and you have chosen to be asleep, not even God himself can save you because you are him but don't realize it!!!
Imagine if, one day, God forgot that he was God. How would God ever fix that, especially if he refused to accept that he was ever God?
That is EXACTLY your situation.

Maybe so, but you don't understand what Love is.
It's easy to access some state without proper understanding of it. Understanding is something deeper than a state.
Accessing states is not good enough. You must contemplate to understand it fully.

It squares up perfectly. Being more feminine is what makes you more dramatic, emotional, playful, and charismatic. But you still need to be confident and assertive.
Don't try to act macho. Act feminine and playful. BUT, be confident and assertive as you do so.
The ideal man is like a knife coated in honey. It's sweet on the outside but it's made of steel on the inside.

Existentially, of course those assholes are deeply neurotic and scared egos. But the act is good enough for most girls. Most girls are equally as neurotic as the assholes they get attracted to.
Like attracts like. The more screwed up the girl, the more screwed up a guy she will attract, and vice versa.
Yes, of course.
But also, to be assertive requires being a bit of a dick sometimes.
You can be a warm dick
Attracting girls is a very specific and narrow skill set. It's like fishing. You need the right bait.

They like: confidence, assertiveness, detachment from outcome, driven-ness, strength, leadership, charisma.
Which tends to be what assholes have a lot of.

There is an interesting twist to the guy-pays-for-her-on-first-date: if you pay for her, she will subconsciously feel more obligated to have sex with you. It will be emotionally harder for her to say NO at the end of the night.
Which might be worth it
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Once I went on a date with a perfect 10. She was hotter than a top-notch porn star. She wanted me to buy her jewelry before we even had the date. I laughed it off like she was insane. She actually appreciated that because I could tell she's used to getting pussy guys to buy her whatever she wants on account of her hotness. So she got attracted to the fact that I didn't show any weakness and didn't let her play her usual games. She could respect that.
So we meet for the dinner date. She immediately tells me she's horny and wants to have sex. I tell her right off the bat that we're splitting the check as we sit down. She orders a fancy shrimp appetizer thinking that I'm joking. She starts looking at lobster on the menu. I tell her again, we'll be splitting the check. She looks at me in horror and disbelief, like I am kidding. Waiter brings us the fancy shrimp. I tell her I'm not kidding. I stand up and walk out, leaving her sitting there to pay for the shrimp.
That was probably the only time in her life a guy walked out on her and she has to pay for the date
In retrospect, I should have paid. That was the hottest girl I've been on a date with. $50 for sex with her would be a bargain. Girls that hot are 1 in 5000. But she was so spoiled rotten. A hot girl knows how to use her looks to get whatever she wants. It's a way of life for them.
That experience taught me to be a little less cheap. Just a little
If you don't push past the edge, you'll never know where the edge is. If you're a guy, see how far you can push it. It will be an interesting learning experience, and you'll grow some balls in the process. And it's a great way to test how much your girl really likes you. If she likes you enough, she will pay for you. Or, you might lose a few.

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This is a VERY important point! So listen close. This IS THE KEY TO THE ENTIRE ENLIGHTENMENT PATH:
You will NEVER become enlightened unless you surrender all EXPERIENCES. This includes all pleasures, all people, and ALL of life AND reality itself!
The whole point of this path is to gradually (or suddenly) work yourself up to that. You are already enlightened. The only thing standing in the way is your clinging to experience, and your conviction that "good" experiences are valuable and desirable.
This is what makes enlightenment so rare. Few people are willing to trade life for Nothing. It's too counter-intuitive to do in practice for 99.9999% of people.
*Note: to surrender ALL experience does not mean you will never experience again, or that experiencing is wrong. But you do have to deeply grasp that all experience is SUFFERING. The reason you want "good" experiences is because you suffer, but the reason you suffer is, ironically, because you cling to experience and refuse to let it go. So you're stuck in hell, unless you wise up and wake up.
As you meditate, you should be constantly paying attention to how every experience arise and passes away, and leads to suffering. By deeply grasp this core dynamic of reality, you will develop the nerve to quit the whole shebang. You basically have to say, "FUCK YOU! I QUIT!" to all of life/reality.
Only then can there be true happiness. And this level of "happiness" is not like an MDMA high or anything else. It's ETERNAL! FOREVER! You have broken all of reality. Reality stop being real at this point. You have literally transcended death. You have stopped being human.
And then you proceed to chop wood, eat Cheetos.
If this doesn't appeal to you, it's because you haven't suffered mindfully enough yet. Suffer some more -- a lot more -- and then maybe in 10-20 years you'll think back, "Hey, I vaguely remember that crazy Leo guy saying something about all experience being suffering. Now I'm starting to see his point. How do I break out of my self-created hell-hole? I'll do whatever it takes, because this is no longer tolerable."
Or... you just have to be deeply curious about TRUTH at all cost.