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Is it safe to take cold showers for my brain? I have been taking cold showers on and off for the last 8 months. Recently i pour a lot of cold water to my head for quite long periods of time.

After i've heard about the recent suicide incident from a member of this forum i wonder isn't Mahasamdhi a form of suicide? Leo in your Outrageous Experiment video you've talked about how tempting it was to accept the call for leaving your body. Isn't that a form of suicide like jumping off a bridge?

After watching Leo's recent God-realisation video, i don't know what to make of some of the things he said... Leo has talked multiple times about how he is me and everyone else. He has talked that everyone is God and that as God i will experience everything. After all this, now he is telling that everyone is imaginary and kinda denying that others even exist. Which i don't understand, i don't get all. Saying that everything is imaginary is the same as saying that everything is real. It makes no difference. I can't know if Leo or my mum has a conscious experience or not but i think it is safe to assume that others do experience things also. I think Leo sometimes doesn't give a good-enough explanation on some of his topics. I don't know what to make out of all this.

I watched Leo's new video talking about how there are no others to teach and all of that is an illusion... Ok i can understand that if only God exists then there are no others to God But still there are multiple bubbles of experience. I am having my experience, Leo is having his, you are having your own and etc. That's why it is useful to teach others and improve their lifes. You can't deny their experiences and their suffering. That's why the bodisattva vow is very important to me and i don't consider it a self-deception.

@Shin If there is no other's consciousness , then are you not conscious right now? I bet you exist also and have your own experiences that i am not aware of that this moment.

@DIDego I am just doing a 'normal' cold shower using my bath. I have no idea about the temperatures.

@Leo Gura In your video ('Dangers of Spiritual Work') you have talked about that if someone will go All the way with spirituality then at the end he will have to surrender his entire life. This sounds like suicide. Also i don't think someone who commits suicide , regrets it.

@Nahm I believe Infinite Intelligence is all there is and it is appropriate to call God that. Yes God is a mystery but 'his' intelligence cannot be denied just by the fact of how everything perfectly works without a single glitch.

I've had a non-dual discussion with a friend of mine. He is also into non-duality. Anyways as the conservation went further along he concluded to the point that we cannot call God anything. We cannot call him even intelligent because there is nothing to contrast 'him' with. The only meaning intelligence has is by constrasting it with stupidity he said. I disagreed with him. My claim was that God is infinitely intelligent as an Absolute , with no opposite. I said that there is only Intelligence. His position was that we cannot call God any names and we might aswell call 'him' infinitely stupid. I believe he is wrong. What do you guys think? Any opinions?

@Ryan R His position is that it's not accurate to call God any names whatsoever because of non-duality and because every concept collapses. But i disagree with him. Let's imagine that God is just pure ''white'' . I understand that ''white'' gets all its meaning from everything that is non-white. White is constrasted against everything that is non-white. Nevertheless i think that in my scenario where God is just 'white' it would be appropriate to call him 'white'. The color would remain the same no matter how we called it. We could call it whatever but the color of God would not change. Same is for intelligence. Intelligence is all there is. It is like height. We can say that we lack height (we're short) or have too much height (we're tall) but still height is the case. I could not get him to agree with me on that. It seems to me that he doesn't really appreciate what God is..

@Mason Riggle I can imagine in my head a Universe that doesn't work, meaning it has no trees, no humans, no animals, no earth, no water, no art, no music and etc.

@Mason Riggle Intelligence for me is how the Universe works perfectly, seamlessly without any errors or bugs in it. It is obvious for me that God is infinitely intelligent meaning that 'he' has the capacity to create whole planets and galaxies that work perfectly. It is not just some random stuff.

@Leo Gura There are many ways i can interpret that.. Nothing exists out of God's mind, i agree. But many things exists out of my limited Consciousness right now. You are having an experience of being Leo Gura that is outside of my egoic mind. Same for you. You don't have access to my experience right now.

@Fran11 I believe your personal subjective experience exists there in actuality. I think we can't deny that. Right now i am having this experience and you are having your own.

I think a lot of people don't really appreciate what infinity actually entails. That's because they are not exposed to some very gruesome aspects of reality for the most part. Today i stumbled upon this video on youtube which was very disturbing to me (don't watch it if you are afraid of some very serious emotional distress). It created a lot of distress for me. It is easy to just avoid looking at this type of material. Most people just react by saying 'why tf do you watch that sh*t'? And i agree on one level but on another level i think you are just putting your head into the sand, you are avoiding a part of yourself. Most people i know do this. I also do this. I no longer watch gore videos because i already watched some in my early 20s and no more is needed. But i don't regret having watched them to be honest. These kind of videos are so powerful at changing you permanently. I really believe noone is really the same after watching something very horrifying. It leaves an imprint on your mind till the day you die. You are forever a changed man for better or worse. It is very easy to live our lifes like this stuff doesn't even happen. I am having difficulty sometimes accepting these terrifying gore aspects of reality (although now i am more tolerant and less fearful). And almost none spiritual teacher really addresses this stuff....They do a poor job at seriously addressing these gruesome aspects of reality which really affect many people.

@Nahm Yes i could imagine of unicorns but when i see other people or animals , that's not merely an imagination of mine. It is part of reality. Others also can confirm that X person exists for example.

@Nahm Yes i agree with you on a certain level. But i believe we can't deny the existence of others.

@Tim R ahahahahaha

@Nahm No but it is safe to assume that others have their own 'private' experiences like i do. For example when i see an ant down on the floor, i always assume that this ant is having a 1st person experience of some sort. This gives me the compassion to avoid stepping on it.

@kinesin I don't do Wim Hof specifically. But ocassianally i might do some deep breathing for a while.

Non-duality is very hard for the ego-mind to grasp and understand. At least for my own ego-mind. It is so easy to believe that your Consciousness is located 'inside' your body when whenever you walk to, your body comes with you. It is like the only thing that stays constant with your wherever you go to. This of course creates the belief that you are the body and your Consciousness is located inside the body. To believe otherwise seems insanity unless you are in some deep non-dual state. That's why i believe non-duality is so rare. In this dream it seems like we are the body and that everything is generated from our brains. It is still really hard for my mind to reconcile all of this.

@Salvijus I believe that the more you purify your ego, the better your chances of having this mystical experiences. This time around i am not trying to gain an advantage over others. I really just want to understand God completely. Also i want to help others in some way or another like Leo and other people have helped me.

Today i had a Paranormal Experience while tripping on 30grams of magic truffles (3g dry). What i experienced was a Presence of a Yellow Light...... At first i was like ''WTF is going here, am i going insane??''. And i got worried and scared to be honest. Then i surrendered to it and it was Beautiful. Maybe the Most Profound Experience of my life.....Because it opened some new Possibilities for me.. I layed down in my bed, and there was this Presence of this Light that was kinda Comforting and Soothing. It felt like an Angel was on my side and telling me ''Chill out, everything is Always Fine...'' There was no verbal communication with this Yellow Light..... It was just vibrating and at certain points was becoming less dimmer or more yellowish.....This Light felt like something Beyond of this world, but also something that is always present with me... During this period of this 'Paranormal' Yellow Light i also experienced some deep intuitions/guidance about the future. (The advice of what my next move should be regarding my career). To be honest this advice was not what i wanted to ''hear''....... Let me counter some objections here... Firstly the dosage was super low (also because of tolerance) and i wasn't hallucinating at all. It wasn't like i was seeing trippy visuals or any of that. Secondly i am pretty sure this Yellow Light wasn't anything else 'external'. (I was just sitting in my room). Also i experienced this Light multiple times. Both with closed eyes and open eyes. It happened for quite some time and also multiple times which was the most astonishing thing.......... I really don't know what to make of all this.. I know deep inside that this a 'paranormal' experience and not a mere hallucination. Yet i am not sure... Even when you experience paranormal activities, the fear of losing your mind kicks and you prefer to deny it or rationalize it away. I am always aware of how easy it is to delude yourself , and that's why this experience was so difficult for me at the beginning... This experience opened some new possibilities for me and made me appreciate more the power of consciousness. I searched on YouTube and found some other people with similar experiences.

@acidgoofy Yes! Also I am no longer trying to grasp intellectually ,understand or figure out things i experience on different states of Consciousness. It's like trying to grab the air.

@outlandish Nice to hear this!! Yes it was also very unexpected for me also. It caught me by surprise... Now i really consider the Paranormal stuff Leo talked about in his 5-meo Outrageous Experiments video. What he said doesn't seem so crazy to me anymore.