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@How to be wise to understand infinity is to understand that in fact there has to exist the possibility that both can be in alignment. But also to expand on Leo's point there is a stage of enlightenment in which the formless is fused back with the formed. At this stage you still pursue your life purpose but you pursue it through the lens of non-duality. It can be, but it may not be the way you imagine in it now.

@SoonHei yes brother you have it. Now have you been able to transcend and actually become the present within your direct experience yet? It is really something special when that happens. Language and concepts of it can only go so far and then you must leave those things behind and transcend. Actualize and be the strange loop. Have you reached that yet? I know you were trying the dark room?

This band is so awesome i am able to achieve mystical experiences while listening to them. If any of you are from the states you have probably heard of Rush. I don't know if any of them were enlightened but their music is pure brilliance and it would be a shame that they weren't. Their lyrics incorporate science and spirituality in such a wonderful harmony i encourage you check them out. There is a channel with all their albums and lyrics as well. If there are any Rush fans out there lemme know!

@TheAvatarState Yea awesome lyrics. Totally agree guys - Hemispheres is my favorite too especially la villa strangiato! But all there stuff is pretty awesome! I also like 2112 a lot!@cetus56 I will check out Dream Theater; i think i've actually heard of them. @ground Yeah I know - I usually do 30 minutes of the Do nothing or self inquiry/observation techniques with no music and then at time I will do 30 minutes with music if I feel like just blissing out

I'm currently reading The End of Your World by Adyashanti and it's amazing so far.

Thanks guys i will check these out.

@Pharion couldn't agree more..this guy had massive wisdom. And after reading his work the guy truly had a strong concept of non-dualism. I think he had the intuition just never experienced a true awakening or that would have propelled him into turquoise. The guy was clearly centuries ahead of his time. Reading his book was one of the most amazing books i have ever read.

Umm wait.. the best teachings talk about making millions of dollars and attracting women? Now granted i only listened to a minute of each video but if thats the case this guy is sitting at orange bigtime. Does he have any real depth to him? I mean i guess that stuff is good for you youngins trying to up your ego but does he have anything for the enlightened been there done that guy or do we have to continue to listen to zen masters cause that's working for me so far

@Leo Gura @Leo Gura No i get that. I became conscious of that but what i mean is that is something else. That is the divine love (or give it its own name) This involves what your next video is about in which the use of the same word in different contexts causes confusion and misunderstanding.

@Leo Gura Indeed. Love is absolute therefore the only thing that can define love is the emotional state. So you are either talking about the absolute or you are talking about love. The only way love can be love is as an emotional state. Otherwise it has no meaning. The absolute incorporates all things.

@Leo Gura And you shall never tame it yourself while you still give the unlearned a negative label such as newbie. That said i know you ate already aware of this ..we are our own greatest enemy are we not?

@SpaceCowboy Intuition. Because he came back. Once you actually awaken you become...IT....no words will be able to describe it so all the fucking names they give it..awakening..enlightenment...consciousness..spirit..guess what? Those are all just labels. It's just fucking ....it. and its not right either. Because Its pure fucking being dude. When and if you actually return to the ego you can't unsee it. Ever. Your ego will try. Trust me it will. But the fact that you returned at all provides fhe intuition that there is more work to be done. Unless you are awaken you wont understand. Sad thing is that's where im at now and so i dont mean to come off as condescending but thats precisely why my awakening wasn't abiding.

A great book on post enlightenment is The End of Your World by Adyashanti which goes into more depth on what happens after awakening and the two types of awakening. One is the non-abiding awakening which is what most people have, vs an abiding awakening which is very rare. Most people (myself included) get a non-abiding awakening. This means you have a glimpse of the absolute, of total clarity and non-duality, but this glimpse can be a few moments or a few weeks, or even a few months. For me it was a week. It doesn't endure, and you return to the "dreamstate" as he calls it. This means there are still components deep within you that remain dual/divided in his perception. For these people the next phase is to do some serious, honest self inquiry and deep, sincere consciousness work and work towards an abiding awakening (one that endures for the remainder of your life) which can take years if ever. So for most, as Leo pointed out I believe earlier, to even get an initial awakening you have do a lot of inner work which would indirectly improve your depression/anxiety. While awake, you are completely one with reality and non-dual, so mental illness would not be present. But after you return to the ego - the very reason you returned to your ego at all - is that you still have some of these issues that need to be worked through.

@luckieluuke indeed. I actually had my awakening without any psychedelics. Mine lasted a week I gradually faded back into my ego...the opening closed but it is never truly closed once you have awoken. Anyway i would love to try this but i would probably lose my job and piss off my family if i disappeared into a dark room for a week LOL. I would not doubt that it could work though!

Umm yeah Im gonna leave this one alone...safe wasnt a real good word i was just not sure if it was legal in any of the states so thats what i was wondering.

Leo But isn't 5 MEO DMT illegal here too? How to address legality issues and even where to safely obtain and use in the states?

@Wisebaxter That's exactly right! It's the part after when you come back and say oh I had a thought, and become aware of WHAT the thought was, that's the essence of observing your thoughts!

Discuss Triggers and how they can alter your path quickly and send you spiraling in the wrong direction. I know it is part of self deception and illusions but triggers play such an important role in that - self awareness of triggers and when they appear can really help you in your daily life to keep the path.

He's right at the brink - he just needs a non-dual experience...like Leo said he is right where Einstein was...sadly it is said that none of the founding fathers of Quantum Mechanics were enlightened. The problem is these guys have been scientists there entire life, so to become 100% open minded to spirituality is nearly impossible for them. The only way you can discover the truth for yourself is if you are completely unbiased to ANYTHING. That you don't have any paradigms of your own or at least are open to others. I don't know much about Joe other than remembering seeing him host MMA fights - but he seems open minded and may just need to stumble on Actualized.org and actually mediate and maybe take some DMT LOL. I think he would be dumbfounded. Long term scientists might be a different story.

Yes, in a sense it does boil down to that. But self actualization, self development, self-awareness, etc, is an ongoing process and you are never really finished with it until your ego dies. That said, the more self actualized you become the more you become fulfilled being in the present moment - thus the happier you are as an individual.

@Krisena Krisena what i meant is that the root of OCD is uncertainty..thats why its also known as the doubt disorder. While enlightenment is complete certainty..its the paradox of OCD. Therefore they are one. I have had pure OCD my entire life so i know how debilitating it can be. My obsessions were with immorality and immoral thoughts though i have other forms as well. The guilt of my thoughts and not realizing it was OCD in my early life nearly destroyed me. So yes while his case might not be true OCD he can still benefit from the wisdom. That said..by dwelling on the fact that "oh its an illness" and not looking at OCD from the opposite side of the coin one will have very little hope of recovery. Afterall all that we are is our perspective. Its true that some are so crippled by the disorder that becoming conscious of any of this may be beyond them but for many they have more mild cases. Its a lot like the paradox of good and evil. If you take a non dual approach to evil you can never overcome it as you still look at evil as evil.

@Tony 845 Ha..i have pure O too bro and awakened about a month ago. A full awakening. When you become pure being it is cured. It is completely gone because you have pure consciousness. How ironic right? The name pure OCD and pure consciousness and how they cancel eachother out. Its gone because you have complete certainty and you are everything. Even a deeply enlightened person doesn't walk around forever in this state because in truth thats death. So as your small self after being enlightened (because you do come back changed) your OCD will be drastically better..why? Because your consciousness has increased even as your small self. And you are more self aware. Your OCD gets weaker and less pure. You can identify it immediately and shoot it down and with mediation it really gets weak. Initially when i returned to my ego my OCD tried to make me doubt that what i experienced was real even though i had mystical experience and non duality experience after non duality experience one after another after another for a week straight..waking up in the middle of the night etc. I mean i was fucking still trying to tell myself that spirituality wasn't real after all that so i needed to ground myself in meditation immediately following...because someone with OCD can be prone to really bad ego backlash especially since no one around you would really believe or understand which only feeds the OCD (Everyone i know is a materialist and either blue or orange) as was i before i stumbled onto spirituality and only gave it an open mind after seeing Leos addiction videos and intuitively sensing this was right after spending decades trying to find peace looking outwards and running from the sense of emptiness and uncertainty that OCD feeds you....but oh how things come full circle don't they? Message me if you want to discuss further

@Elysian Thats exactly right. But its even deeper than that. That's why i don't consider OCD - the doubt disorder - to be an illness. It's just as much an illness as it is a gift. If you truly have OCD you also have a direct sense into the gateless gate. For that is what OCD is. You sense the uncertainty of the nothingness. That's why i believe you can become enlightened much easier (without pyschedelics) as with what happened with me. All the pieces must be in place of course. Having OCD is just part of it. For me it was decades of running unconsciously from the nothingness and the OCD although paradoxically sensing i needed to run towards it...to look inward and be the emptiness. So those with OCD do not despair for you have the keys to the gateless gate. You just have to find it. On a less deep note the others all make valid points. In order to manage your OCD you have to be self aware and aware of when the obsessive thoughts come up..to let them pass and remember they are not you and are illusory. This is the essence of mediatation and self actualization anyway. Its just a shame most OCD sufferers don't even know what they have and even if they do they believe that their thoughts are them and real and the guilt of their thoughts will slice through their being. So meditation and self awareness are the keys to managing OCD.

@Elysian HI Elysian, this is excellent advice. I was going to advise him on the Do Nothing Meditation, but it sounds like you have a lot more knowledge than I do. I've had Pure OCD my entire life, which is thought obsessions, with no physical compulsions. It's like torture. On the other hand, I've always had a very hightened intuition about consciousness and non-duality, so when I found spirituality and actualized.org, within a few weeks of mediation I experienced awakening and liberation. It was the most amazing thing I have ever experienced in my life. Enlightenment alone will bring your OCD to much loser levels, but it won't get rid of it completely - that said with the practice he specifies above you can probably get to complete liberation from OCD or at least so low that it is pretty much just something small in the backround that comes up here and there but is very tolerable. As he says though, it must be incorporated into your lifestyle for the rest of your life (the meditation practices) to keep these illnesses away.

@Leo Gura One thing i think people get confused with is yes that's true from the perspective of the absolute, consciousness,the higher self, the godhead, (and of course if you watched Leo's video there are many names for it) but in essence, your true self. Don't get that confused with the partitioned consciousness, the small self that is your ego. From there you are one perspective and reality is relative. You are in a "dream" which is consciousness - so everything in the dream is just that. Your mother is still your mother, but you don't have access FROM YOUR perspective to her consciousness, to her memories, otherwise you would no longer be YOU, and you would be HER. So when these things are discussed we should be careful from which perspective we are talking about. The absolute, or the part! What happened with Akuma is he got a glimpse of his true self - and it's fucking majestic, beautiful, beyond words, and terrifying at the same time. it's like DAMN, whole shit, I AM EVERYTHING. Then you sync back into your ego and it's like, wtf?