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OMG, dude! I thought I saw a moon today but now I can see that it’s just one of yours giant balls ? C.G. Jung will be proud of your experience! Great Job! Very Inspiring!

This night for the first time in my life I tried MDMA and here I want to share my experience with you in order to express it in the text and to share cool and, possibly, useful insights. Let's Go! Setting: Camping with my best friend in a rocky forest overlooking a beautiful lake Set: The desire to feel Love, personally test the effect of MDMA, understand how MDMA allows people to heal from PTSD and injuries, reflect on how I can be a better partner, understand the reason for my worries last month, find an additional reason for more motivation to work Dosage: 200 mg (tablet) Introduction: My Life Purpose is deeply connected with the developing of mastery in self-development and mysticism - I enthusiastically look to the future, in which I see myself as an expert in consciousness, spirituality, developmental psychology and psychedelics. A couple of days ago I finished reading the wonderful and very useful manual created by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and planned to experience the effect of the substance on myself. 0-1 hr / Beginning: No sensations, but closer to the 50th minute I began to feel the enveloping body and consciousness relaxing, as if something inside me began to thaw. 1-3 hr / Puzzle solved / Intimate Connection / Glimpse of Enlightenment: The MDMA effect began to increase significantly, like a rapidly filling bath with warm water, it was felt very naturally, but at the same time unexpectedly quickly and at some point radically changed the state of my body and perception. First of all, I noticed that the feeling of discomfort and mild pain in the area of the heart ceased to bother me. I usually experience this feeling during periods of stress (business, financial issues, social obligations), during or after an argument with a girlfriend, when closedminded or when someone offends me, hurts me. The best association that can describe this feeling is as if you had one puzzle missing in your chest that asks to be put in place and you feel that if I just put this puzzle where I need it, I’ll finally feel whole. I felt amazing ease and freedom to talk about all my feelings and experiences with my friend, not embarrassed or even thinking that I might seem like some kind of stupid, miserable, petty, etc. First of all, I experienced deep admiration for how radically my condition changed an hour after taking it. I watched reports, documentaries, saw positive statistics of people who were healed from PTSD, but now I could FEEL it personally and saw a great potential that this substance and this work are having and how benefitial it can be for society. I was inspired and said out loud to my friend: This sufficiently filled me with motivation and confidence that I'm on the right track, saturating my vision not with assumptions, but with personal experiences and vivid images about what a positive contribution this work can make. Then something completely amazing happened: My friend and I, of course, became sympathetic and began to express our love, respect and admiration for each other. We've hugged each other tightly and sat down to watch the sunset. At that moment, my friend wanted to read to me a letter that he had recently written: I was moved, just think - a letter to the cat! It was so sincere and so real. We were amazed by the Love and all what was left for us was to enjoy the moment. My friend leaned his hands on my lap and we've watched the sunset. At that moment, something very new was happening to me. I would even say otherwise: NOTHING happened to me - EVERYTHING happened without anybody. The words flowed by themselves, everything was there, but there was nobody with whom this would happen. For no reason, I began to say: At that moment, my friend abruptly jumped up and stared at me with hatched eyes and a shocked-enthusiastic sound of "WAAAAAAAA!" Apparently, at that moment he personally felt what these words were pointing to. For a small moment, even while he was looking at “me,” all that “me” had was the presence, awareness of unity and the absence of any explanation for what was happening, but deep confidence that it was Real. But pretty fast "me" returned back - I was glad and excited as if became conscious in a dream! Finally, at least for a second I felt IT. In a minute I've started discussing what happened with my friend, but he stopped me and said something like: To which I replied to him: “Oh, it’s hard for me to be in the present moment, I spend more time in my head,” but my friend noticed that this was just an idea! And then it dawned on me: I created the identity of a person who thinking, learning and constantly studing something and became the hostage of that identity. In the manual on the use of MDMA in psychotherapy, very much attention is paid to the feelings and sensations in the body. I started to looking after myself and noticed that my legs were shaking involuntarily, they were vibrating (this happens all the time when I'm tripping), and my eyes were running in different directions and could not concentrate on what was happening in front of me. I don’t know, maybe this is some kind of effect of a substance that I simply did not find out about, but at that moment it seemed to me that these were psychosomatic manifestations of my desire to escape from the present moment. Especially after what just happened: perhaps my ego was frightened by its own disappearance, even for a second. I began to observe my feelings and sensations, and an insight occurred to me: I have been trying to escape from the present since childhood, because it's very often brought me pain, which I could not and did not know how to cope with. Next, I immediately remembered how my mother and grandmother were often arguing with each other, and I was confused by that - I loved both of them, but at the same time did not understand how I should be: if mom doesn’t love grandma, but I do love - does that mean that I'm a bad person? Then I remembered how difficult it was for me to do the homework and my mother was angry at me, annoyed, and even called names. Intuitively i've decided that there is nothing to restrain and the best way is just to let everything go out (let your inner healing intelligence do the work, as they say in MAPS). I began to speak on behalf of my mother all those feelings and attitudes that, when I was a child, I thought she felt: After that, for some reason, the image of my close friend from childhood came to my mind, whom I envied and with whom we often swore, and I always felt weaker and worse. Once I stole the batteries from his CD-player and our friends and I started laughing at him and even mocking him. At some point he felt helpless and already with tears in his eyes grabbed his hands by my throat and demanded his batteries back. I was frightened of him and gave them away, but, to my surprise, I remembered that even when he was so helpless, I regretted being frightened of him and did not beat him for grabbing me by the throat. Last night, it seemed to me very important to admit to myself everything that was - without trying to hide under the carpet what is considered "unacceptable." I tried to live through all these moments and express everything that I feel. Apparently, for most of my childhood and adolescence, the only thing I had to do with reality was to avoid it. Avoid poverty, helplessness, anger of parents and teachers, dangers that were everywhere. I acquired this strategy and began to use it as the main one, even when I had already become strong enough not to run away from the present moment and feelings. 4-5 hr / The End: The most important and significant has already happened, everything that happened afterwards is also beautiful, but it's no longer needs to be described. We became very close with my friend, thanks to this experience. We sat and enjoyed the dawn on the rocks, we enjoyed life, ourselves and felt deep gratitude for everything that happened to us. Interestingly, after 4-5 hours, my mind completely got out of control and it started a kaleidoscope of gibberish ideas and images that so spontaneously and easily poured from one to another, just like cartoons all happen contrary to any laws. Just from thin air. 2 days later: When I told my girlfriend about the trip, she asked me about how everything went for my friend. When I started talking about him, a sense of joy, sympathy and pride captured me and I began to cry. My friend was very pleased with what happened: he managed to overcome something very difficult in his life. According to him, this day was like a birthday for him. 3 days later: During the trip to the store, I enjoyed listening to music, weather, riding a bike. I felt that I was pleasant and comfortable. During this work, I had some very happy moments and breakthroughs. 4 days later: I did not have any obvious changes and dramatic changes did not happen, but I get more pleasure from my work. Conclusions: MDMA is a great tool for working with yourself, traumas, feelings, fears, anxiety, deepening intimacy, Love for yourself and everything around you, spiritual revelations and mystical experiences. I can no longer escape from the present moment. I am strong enough to accept Reality in all its diversity. It is difficult to be in the present moment if you condemn it, if it's contradicts your identity. This is a great way to get close to a person - a partner, friend, relative, etc. MDMA can be a very powerful tool in order to get yourself out of your usual state and refresh your vision, to understand how it can be different or even during a trip to resolve and live injuries that keep you in an unpleasant state. MDMA has a great potential for becoming an escape drug, especially for those who do not know anything about its therapeutic properties and how it should be used for self-development. How does my behavior change due to what happened? I will practice mindfulness and acceptance to develop the ability to be here and now I will be a good partner - strong, real, grounded, I will listen carefully, will be more sensitive I will strive to ensure that in my life there is as much as possible a feeling of love for everything - I will continue to understand the structure of reality, people, society I will express my feelings more honestly and sincerely I will continue to strive to comprehend Absolute Love, God I will be freer from my old identity, come up with a new, broader and more functional I will be more restrained and relaxed - eat slowly, take my time, pay attention, concentrate Question: It's hard enough for me to sell to myself the idea of why being in the present is cool. I kind of understand this, but at the same time I really love and am used to delving into my mind, concepts, etc. What is the value of just being? How one can appreciate it deeper? How can this be better understood and learned? Thank you for reading!

I’ll be interested to see a new video from you about fitness. I think, not only me)

That part is the hardest to open my mind to) Thanks man!

Now I’ve realized that I have the desire not to See, but to Understand. I wish I can understand everything — God, Infinity, Reality, Consciousness, Truth, Allah, Absolute. What is understanding? Why it’s so desirable? Seems like it’s not simply Being Aware of Everything without a construct/interpretation

These one is outrageously hilarious ? You becoming very creative with your messaging ?

@Leo Gura What make us to confuse like that? Logic and Concept-orientation? I can see how guy is influenced by some of the materials like “what is actuality” and “Absolute Truth”. You yourself, as I can see, have used logic, rationality, common sense, epistemology, open mindedness, intuition and somehow gone as far as you are. What is the core distinction? What helped you to not to stuck into the concepts or mediocre spiritual answers like “you’re already Enlightened”? I guess that the psychedelics made a lot for ya. Therefore, how do you not confuse and misinterpreted what was happening with you? For example, while I’m on microdosing on shrooms/LSD I’m having a visions. I can’t call it thought, it’s more like animations of the principles of reality. For example, I remember the vision in which I saw why struggle is a necessary part of growth: I’ve seen in my minds eye how the spherical energetic structure going through “struggle”, it was cringed and tensed and then went through this process and expanded, becoming more than it was originally. And it was obvious that it won’t get developed before it went through this process, therefore any resistance is worthless, because that process is good and will make you more whole. It became obvious for me that it was the illustration of what is struggle really is and you shouldn’t be afraid and avoid it. It was an insight! But how do I really know that that was really about that? Maybe it’s my interpretation and accumulated knowledge, that I’ve gathered before. In other times I’m often having a visions of infinite numbers of spheres which are close to each other and they are moving together and it’s obvious that they are connected (but without any wires or cables). You can see that from the big picture it’s pattern-like construction, which can be separated by your minds eye (perspective change) into any lesser structure or pattern. Its seems like the more developed way of thinking.

I have a lot of girl-friends to whom I recommended 24 character survey and most of them are having “appreciation of beauty and excellence” as one of the top-5. Why? P.s. most of them green

@Jude_ I feel a lot of gratitude for your help. I’ve stumbled upon your letter to Leo firstly and found a great guy. It was a feeling that I often catch when read some genuine and heart-driven posts. Like “Damn, I wish we’ll be friends” ? I’m also have a Life Purpose similar to Skin-encapsulatedego and finding your answers very valuable! I’ll be pleased if you also answer some of mine, when you’ll have time and desire to do so: • How do you keep yourself in check? This question especially important because we are here have a visions, which are quite radical for mainstream culture a psychology community, therefore it’s not that easy to find some supervisor-therapist which will be radically openminded and experienced in spirituality, psychedelics and holotropic states. • How do you balance Teaching and Psychotherapy? Is there any great examples of therapist/teacher? Stan Grof seems like very knowledgeable guy. I’ve find that I’m very passionate about not only in coaching, but in educating. I’m enjoying in expanding clients perspectives and showing them the bigger picture, new concepts. Interestingly, I’m enjoying in when its done one on one, but not in the groups, because the atmosphere is more intimate and deep + the quality of explanation is better, because it’s personified. • What is the role of the Humor in psychotherapy? I’ve found that Humor and Playfulness are my biggest strength and I’m enjoying making people laugh and become more liberated with the help of playfulness during the sessions. • Why therapy usually is only 1hour long? Can you do it more? What’ll be the consequences? • What you thinking about Online Therapy vs Offline? Do you find it very different or it’s kinda the same? • Who’s your role models are? • How do you reassure the the client has become independent and haven’t slippered off the track after your work is done? • What is your biggest struggles in your work? • When you find yourself judging or frustrated by the client, what do you do? • How can you politely interrupt the client when he got off the track during the therapy? • How many time it took you to have sustainable income by doing therapy? What has helped you the most do that? • What do you do, when you yourself got off the track and not embodying the things towards which you trying to navigate your client? @Skin-encapsulatedego Thanks for your passion man! You’re inspiring me to do the work even more!

C’mon man, there’s no rush. Куда спешить? ? I just was interested in the reasons: you preparing to it or you just haven’t decided yet or there’s something else? Mybe you just waiting when the Cyberpunk 2077 will be released?

But why you are still here? What holds you back?

Hey there! Guys, I’ve decided to brainstorm some important skills and actionable steps that I find very important to implement more in my life and career to become a great sage. What you think are the best and the most direct ways to develop a mastery in the Epistemology? What are the best actionable steps in your opinion? Here’s my thoughts on it: 1.1 Learning the most interesting concepts and models and verifying the results all the most interesting concepts in your direct experience 1.2 Contemplating the nature of things and verifying the results of it in your direct experience 2. Learning, observing and reading about Ideologies, Cults, Dogmas, Beliefs, Biases, Religions, Cultures, Tyrants, etc. 3. Drawing the distinction between an Actuality/Direct Experience and an Imagery by consciously observing and comparing both of them 4. Mindfulness meditation on a daily basis 5. Psychedelics + Contemplation (but I’m afraid that here you are required to be already skilled in Epistemology, because there is a big potential for free interpretation, according to my LSD/Mushrooms experiences) 6. Decomposing the most interesting/common/important personal or collective Values/Beliefs/Biases/Paradigms/Dogmas/Prejudices/Rituals/Cultures 7. Practicing openmindedness by considering radical perspectives 8. Journaling and Contemplating on what is Truth? 9. Learning and observing Self-Deception in oneself and others around 10. Question peoples ideologies and beliefs with the goal of understanding it’s mechanism (not to change them or make them drop their beliefs) I’ll continue later to brainstorm such a skills like Contemplation, Openmindedness, Concentration, Enlightenment, Love, Mindfulness, Holistic Thinking, Business and Marketing, Listening, Questioning, Explaining and Convincing. Join me! P.s. My personal invitations going to: @Leo Gura @Nahm @Serotoninluv@Skin-encapsulatedego @Harsh Bagdia @Hello from Russia @Greatnestwithin

Hello everyone! I decided to reflect on what will be the trends in the future, when Psychedelics will become more relevant and generally accepted, especially in the field of Self-Development. I assume that in the near future the following areas will develop strongly: It is interesting that what will be needed most of all, what infrastructures will be needed in order to qualitatively implement these works? Here is what occurred to me: Also there is an interesting questions to answer: What will happen next? What will be relevant when all this appears? What will be a new breakthrough in the industry of psychedelics, self-development, spirituality, awareness? Please join my brainstorming session and share your thoughts, let's think together! P.s. @Harsh Bagdia I've read your post and wanted to congratulate you on finding your LP and found that we have a lot in common, especially in domain of mastery and vision. Think we should contact with you and become a LP buddies! @Leo Gura @Nahm @Serotoninluv You guys are seem to be very educated and experienced in that field, I'll be pleased to find your comments on that!

@Leo Gura Gracias, amigo! @Nahm Thanks, man! I've started trying myself as a coach 1.5 years ago and I really liked this medium and already making a decent income from that. For the most part, my specifics right now is to help the green young guys and girls add a little more structure to their lives and begin to become aware of the processes at the meta level. My plan is to move to the Netherlands, get a master's degree in psychology and get a legal opportunity to use psychedelics in working with clients. Most of all I want to work with leaders - my vision is to help leaders become yellow and turquoise, so that they can provide very high-quality transformations in the world. I'm not so much interested in working with traumas and dysfunctions than working with actualization and transcendence (transpersonal psychology) with the help of my work and psychedelics. Qualitative development and transformation of identity. I really like the image of the sanatorium, in which strong leaders come in order to "refresh" or learn something or work on further development in a spiral. However, I am not a team player at all and I don’t really like the image of owning a big business and workers. The approach of the lone master is closer to me. The biggest obstacle that currently stands in front of me is that I need to start attract an income for myself, with which I can save money for education and moving to the Netherlands, in addition to ensuring monthly expenses. To do this, I need to establish a flow of customers and create additional products that can be sold in parallel with consultations (online courses, webinars, etc.). Now I think a lot about coming up with some elegant way to marketing my services on the Internet. One of my main strengths is humor and playfulness. The other four are spirituality, perspective wisdom, optimism and future-mindedness, love of learning. Besides spirituality and abstract thinking I am very good at using my sense of humor (in my opinion it's the sub-skill from the abstract thinking) while working with clients and, in general, in life. Also, to be honest, it'll be a lie for me to say that I'm waking up highly motivated right now, because I'm trying to find my own, original, inspiring and innovative niche. As you can see, there is a tendency among forum participants to become a psychotherapist using psychedelics, a shaman, a psychonaut, etc. I'm really thinking about the integration of the Humor + Self-dev, not as a comic. but as a humorous self-dev master. George Carlin x Leo Gura = ?

Great report! I’m also starting to feel the deep correlation between the practices, theoretical foundation and the understanding. Even 0,4g or 0,8g of mushrooms or 1/4 of LSD can fuck me up sometimes nowadays ?

Thank you for the link!

This guy from video seems like the typical journalist, who is click-bating, but in the sphere of spirituality and psychedelics. It doesn’t seem that he was really made any research before. It more seems that he just saw the couple videos and made an assumption. Even if he’s right, it’s hard to grasp from that video. It’s more fear based. But yeah, that thing with Octavio, it’s still an uncertain territory for me, that’s why: I personally was at the retreat with Octavio, and his a very masculine, sexual, passionate men. You must also consider, that he was a drug addict (crack, cocaine) from Mexico, before he became the Shaman. He was at the such a low point, where he even delved in the trash to find some food. There’s two POV that I wanna share: 1) Octavio is brutal masculine uneducated men who is doing his purpose but from stage Green with the strong Stage Red mixture. I haven’t smelled any Yellow from him at that period. The red flags, that made me cautious with him were: • When at the start of the retreat he passionately discussed the cases of deaths during (there were only 2 from more then 8000 people, as I know) his ceremony’s, he was saying something like: “I think it’s one of the greatest options — to die while you tripping on Toad Medicine!”. Not the best thing to say at the start of the balls-tripping. • When I asked him to give me the lower dose, because I was interested in being conscious during the trip. He’s answered “I’m not giving a half-tickets”. That’s seemed for me as rigid position. • The thing with water still a mystery for me. And I was a little bit pissed, when some of the participants were “helping” to Octavio with water, while it was quite obvious, that nobody knows why exactly the water is necessary. Some stage purple/red shit. 2) Octavio is a very decent, charismatic, passionate, compassionate, loving guy, who went through hell because of his drug addiction and Mexico upbringing. He’s seems very very authentic and like he is living his Life Purpose. Here is some green flags: • When he was working with those who went on the retreat with a drug addiction, he was working with them for the long stretches of time, publicly and privately, and gave them as much medicine, as found necessary without any extra charges. From his personal story I know, that when he’s discovered Bufo Alvarius for himself, he has closed himself at home and stated to trip his balls out for weeks to cure the crack addiction. • I personally know the girl from the retreat, who is now is more than a year clean, while she was using speed for ten years. • When at the retreat there was a guy, who was doing cocaine and came to trip. After the first session he started to walk away from Octavio. At that moment Octavio was trying to bring him back peacefully but after couple failures he started to be more aggressive and brutal — he was shouting and even slapped the guy once to bring him back. After they’ve came back at the yard, Octavio asked everybody to applause and appreciate the bravery of the guy. it’s very very looked like the Ego beating and “putting at the place” for those, who need that. P.s. But it’s easy to be biased to the guy, to whom you came from Russia by Leo (trusted source) recommendation. it’s seems like the brute force approach to the special cases like drug addictions: your Ego is so fucked up, that you are resisting the medicine and change, that it may bring to you. In that case you may need some Stage Red approach. I can easily imagine something like that somewhere in the tribe. • He wasn’t brutal or harsh with me, my friend and many those who were participating (except the water thing, that doesn’t seemed very violent). At my third trip I even became violent with him (some shadow thing occurred), but he hasn’t get mad or angry attacked back. The guy always was very positive and playful. After my third trip I was wanted to do more, but was quieter exhausted and my throat is already hoarse, and he declined my request and it’s seemed like he care about me and that I’m not overdoing that thing • I’ve witnessed people that was so blissful and experienced something very deep, like Love or God-realization, while Octavio was near by, singing songs, smiling at them, helping to not fall on the ground. • I have a friend of mine, who went there at the next year after me and she was very greatfull and positive about the whole thing and her experience was amazing. Conclusion: If you are a wise, experienced psychonaut, you have an access to the 5-MeO-DMT and doing that because perusing something noble like truth or enlightenment, understanding etc. you don’t need any Octavio. If you are a drug addict, traumatized, he probably may help you, at least partially. I’m definitely know, that you can find couple people in Europe, that are more knowledgeable and gentle providers of the 5-MeO exp. I probably won’t spend my time, money and energy on that thing again and won’t recommend it to anybody.

As NY Times article saying: “The oversight board will focus on the most challenging content issues for Facebook, including in areas such as hate speech, harassment, and protecting people’s safety and privacy. It will make final and binding decisions on whether specific content should be allowed or removed from Facebook and Instagram (which Facebook owns)”. Here’s the website — Oversightboard.com What your thoughts on that? It’ll be interesting to see, who’s gonna decide, will be there any Stage Yellow Spiral Dynamics thinking involved in the decision making, how corrupt it’ll be and which benefits it’ll bring.

@Leo Gura Hey there! I just wanted to ask you about the relationship between the Impact and the understanding of Oneness. In your Life Purpose course you are emphasizing a lot on the importance of the Contribution and Impact. That your vision must be about something more than you. That something like that will motivate you and will be something very rewarding. BUT what do you think about that now, when you achieved such I high states of consciousness and able to recognize, that everything is Perfect, Love and Absolute Goodness + the only one, who can is real is God himself. I want to fulfill my purpose and I want to have my life aligned with my top values and my work to be something that is very authentic to me. But right now it’s became a little bit harder (because of your videos, my own contemplations and trips that I had) to envision the impact that is really worth it. What do you think? I’m really interested in truth here more then in answer, that will be beneficial for my agenda

Hey @Leo Gura! I just wanted to thank you for the last video — it’s a masterpiece! You nailed it so good! Everything was flowing and seemed so elegant — metaphors, exercises, explanations and pointers. I really loved it! I think I had a mind orgasm because of the complexity and effortless penetration in the essence of that video. It’s very rewarding to being able to grasp and evaluate the content of the video because of the practices and work that I’ve done previously (learning, reading, tripping, contemplating, observing) and because of your mastery and devotion to the work. Now, when I’m constantly working as a consultant with people, I can appreciate it even deeper (self-bias ?)! Thanks a lot! ❤️ P.s. Please Please Please make a part 2 video about the abstract understanding. I think after that my mind will explode and the cum from my mental masturbation will drown the whole Russia ?

Hey there, @Leo Gura Today I have had an “aha” moment, but I thought it will be a good idea to double-check: Do you think that your top results from the Character Strengths Survey can be a good pointer onto your potential shadows? For example, I’ve found that I have a top-3 strengths as humor, spirituality and perspective wisdom but some of my top-3 weakness’s are industry, social intelligence and citizenship. I’m definitely have some special relationships with my social skills. I’m often depreciate and ignoring the value of behaviors appropriate to the current atmosphere. I have a friend of mine, who have done the test and he has the industry as the one of the top strength, but the spirituality as the top weakness. He kinda depreciates that strength. Not hating, but ignoring as if it was some useless thing. My girlfriend have the top strength as an appreciation of the beauty and excellence, and she very often can be mad because of the things or actions, which are seems opposite for her sense of beauty. Or she has a strength as a social intelligence and she can often be bothered or pissed by the actions of “social ignorance” and she often struggles from the social conditioning. A lot of my friends, who has done the test are creative and genuine, humorous and beauty appreciators, but they have lack of self-control or industry. BTW, Is there a big overlap between the strengths and values? The top strength — is a thing that you appreciate the most and are willing to realize because of your current values and worldview, am I right?

@nexusoflife Great post! Very inspiring, thank you! ? Which techniques you’ve used to do the Shadow Work? Can you please elaborate on it a little bit? Thank you very much! One day I’ll be able to also say to you that I Love you, because we are One ❤️

@Leo Gura According to your latest Awakenings, what do you think is the purpose of Existence of the Kangaroo or Human Being, If everything already fully understood? What is the Purpose of exploration? I suppose that there is correspondence between self-understanding and exploration of the Kangaroo... Maybe I’m wrong? Maybe God, even fully self-aware, still have an infinite number of forms to explore? But still, is there any purpose for exploration? Maybe there’s no purpose what so ever... Is it the same as you’ve said in your video about the Purpose of Life? Also I remember your blog-video, where you’ve drew a flower-like figure with lots of closed-cycled lines going outside from the center (Total Omniscience/Love) to the peak of the curve (Biggest Possible Ignorance) and back to the source. ?

In the great book about the materialist paradigm from the booklist I’ve found a bunch of beautiful metaphors and explanations, which are making the incompleteness of the naive realism very explicit and have deepened my personal understanding of what is ego and consciousness. I have a question to @Leo Gura and others who have read the book: What is the psychedelic experience and how it will look like inside of that mercury whirlpool metaphor? Hope my question is clear.

@Leo Gura According to your experience, do you think that the author of the book is right in his hypothesis about the purpose of God/Mind? ”These considerations point to a telos for the topology of the membrane: if the entire membrane could fold in on itself to form one single loop encompassing all of mind – a kind of cosmic sphere of mind – there would be no trade-off. Self-reflectiveness would be all-encompassing, in the sense that all vibrations of mind – all mental contents – would fall within the field of self-reflection. There would be no ‘unconscious.’ Moreover, there would be no illusion of separation either: this one loop of mind would identify itself with all good and all evil, all bliss and all suffering, all polarities and perspectives. The full nature of mind would unavoidably penetrate the field of its own self-reflective contemplation. Why doesn’t the membrane of mind simply use its freewill to form this single global loop at once? Why hasn’t it happened yet? Why all the struggles? The answer here is rather simple: for mind at large to know that it should shape itself as a single loop it would already have to have the global self-reflectiveness that only a single loop could provide.”