JosephKnecht

Think of the path to enlightenment as a ladder that rises to the heavens. On the ladder, there are many steps and each step brings you closer to the top. Climbing up involves mastering each step. One step might be meditation, so you should get good at it before you proceed to climb higher. Another step might be becoming financially independent, so you must become independent before you climb higher. As you keep climbing and getting better at things, your fears dissolve slowly. If you skip steps, there is a risk that you might fall from the ladder, so you must be careful not to skip important steps. After some years, when you have climbed high enough and many fears have been resolved, you will start to question your fear of death. Only when you resolve the fear of death, you will awaken.

I am not a gamer. In the past decade, I have played only two games and both of them blew my mind. Game #1. LIMBO Game #2. INSIDE Both games start without any instructions, much our real life. As you go through the games, you must find clever ways to survive and escape traps. The art in both games is absolutely amazing, so even if you are not a gamer, you should play them for artistic purposes. If you know games similar to these, feel free to recommend them.

After having some non-dual experiences that broke my conceptualizations of reality a few years ago, last year I stumbled onto a bald guy on youtube whose videos helped me re-contextualize my experiences. Don't remember the exact first video I saw, but probably it was one describing some psychedelic states.

No fall is safe. To be willing to fall you must give up safety. If you never fall, you will be locked in a safe forever.

@Bazooka Jesus Jesus! Fire the bazooka. I am losing my way with the words. Expansive is expensive. Do you know what is the greatest Freudian slip? Freud was in love with his own mother but was unwilling to admit it. Instead, he came up with the Oedipus complex and projected that all male children are in love with their mothers. Doesn't that sound slippery to you?

I think the question could be worded differently. Every model of reality is ultimately false, but some models are useful. Reality is the ONLY TRUE MODEL OF ITSELF. If you seek to categorize people based on certain traits, and your subjective experience of reality reinforces your model, then you have a useful model. If your categorization is invalidated through subjective experience, then you have a useless model. You decide what is useful and what is useless.

Free will cannot be explained through negation, so the wording seems a bit off. You can nuance for yourself if I asked yourself one simple question: Did you have a choice in having free will? Contemplate.

If Light has a color, what color would it be? If Light is invisible, how does it make everything visible? Try finding a prism and shine some light on it. In the reflection of the light, you will see that the Light is composed of all the visible colors of the rainbow, as well as all the invisible colors. Every Light has Orange light if seen through the right eye. Well, through the left eye also. @legendary lol. That is legendary.

A buck for the whole universe? That's too expansive man. Get Real

When God was creating the world, he could have given HIMSELF EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE. But, that seemed unwise. Instead, he chose to create A SELF and OTHERS. The OTHERS would give the SELF everything he needed until the SELF becomes FULFILLED. That seemed wise. As long as THE SELF needs OTHERS, there will always be OTHERS to fulfill HIM.

I found a summarized version of his podcast. Here it is...

You don't have to do them. Read more books, mediate. Maybe in a few years when you have improved your living situation, then you can try them.

concept = concept That is clear and concise. Everything is a definition of itself. To further define the meaning of a word, you must use other words. These other words should give you an approximation of its meaning but never its definition.

You have to know algebra to understand calculus. If you don't understand algebra, you will never understand calculus. There are certain prerequisites to knowledge. If Leo doesn't cover them he would lose most of the people in the advanced topics. The main purpose of his videos is to inspire you. If it makes you emotional, you are attaching too much value to his words. Don't do that. You can assume that everything Leo has ever said is wrong. Try to think for yourself to prove yourself right. Only then you will have less Dogma and more Truth.

Are you sitting during mediation or laying down? I usually do a long meditation in the morning and a shorter one before going to bed. Try to vary the times of day when you meditate.

Not conscious = no head Little conscious = many thoughts inside the head More conscious = fewer thoughts inside the head Most conscious = no head

The Ego on this one. Reality is a prison that Ego creates for itself. Most human Egos fall into one of these traps and stay there their whole lives. Your desire to have all the knowledge in the world is a trap your Ego is creating for you, and you might spend your whole life in this trap. What Leo is really good at is noticing these traps and not falling into them. That is his talent. If you don't fall into traps, you have much more time to move onto something else. When you don't fall, you rise faster. Then the question becomes, how does one get good at avoiding traps? Read a lot, understand patterns, meditate, contemplate. Doing psychedelics helps because they lift you up higher plane where you can explore the greatest trap aka LIFE.

Socrates is alive. In fact, he is on this forum. What do you think @Socrates? My guess is that he would poison the minds of the youth again and will be put to death. But this time, he would drink the poison much faster

The seeker seeks That which he does not have. He seeks because he knows that He is not complete. What the seeker doesn't know is that he already has Everything. The only thing He doesn't have is Nothing. Nothing can never be had, so the only way to get to Nothing is to stop seeking.

What is a concept? Who is the real You? Where is here? Try to contemplate these questions.

There are 2 types of learning. The first one is through experience. You desire for experience and until you exhaust the desire for the experience, you will not be satisfied. The second one is through learning. You can learn deeply why you desire these experiences, and once you learn the desire will go away. If there are still desires, you have not learned deeply. In the end, it matters not which of the two types you pick. The first one takes longer, while the second usually is shorter.

Observe how many times you have used "I". Who is I? Nothing vanishes through enlightenment but the I. If you want to be happy, try to define what happiness means for you? Enlightenment doesn't give you happiness. Enlightenment gives you Absolutely Nothing.

Can only DMT produce a DMT state of consciousness? Yes, DMT is the easiest way to produce that state, but there might be other ways to get to that state. Since you have been taking psychedelics for a while, if you compare your state when you took DMT for the first time and your last time, you have to admit that there is a difference in your state of experience. So even the same substance does not produce the same state of experience. There is something else that varies the experimental result. In essence, I agree with you, but disagreements are more fun.

Ha. I think this Connor guy is trying to cut into the Spiritual niche of Leo. How dare he? But I have an idea. This Connor guy used to pick up girls shirtless before he went full God mode. So there is a void in the market in shirtless guys picking up girls. Someone needs to fill the void in the market. Since Connor became the new Leo, maybe Leo should become the new Connor. Who wants to see Leo picking up girls shirtless in the next video?

I can confirm that it is certainly impossible. It is not impossible, just very unlikely. I know a person personally that can access non-dual states without any substances and only through meditation. However, this person is highly spiritually gifted. He can remember many previous lives, is extremely intelligent, and has deep intuitive knowledge of astrology. I never understood the astrology fascination. Given that these states are completely subjective, I can not guarantee that he has achieved a level of awareness of the Buddha, Jesus, or Leo . I only know that he has achieved enlightenment without psychedelics. So not impossible, just very unlikely.