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Meditation is hard for newbies however way you slice it. I remember when I started meditating almost two years ago. Every minute of it was torture but not anymore. Once I watched all of Leo's mediation videos and experimenting with different ways, I found something that worked for me for a while. Now I meditate for an hour on a daily basis with ease and joy. Here are my steps: 1. Lay down in symmetry as if you are on your death bed I know people object to this because it may seem contrary to conventional methods but the fact is you are more relaxed when you lay down. Keep in mind that there is enormous work behind the scene to keep you straight. Why bother when you can stop that work by laying down. Don't forget every experience is a meditative experience. 2. Use Mouth tape If you don't know by now the fact is you are supposed to breathe through your nose. (For more information please read the book Oxygen Advantage by Patrick G McKeown). Simply using mouth tape will silence the monkey mind significantly and you won't be confusing the mind to breathe through mouth or nose. One less neuroticism! 3. Use Face Mask One of the most important skills to improve your meditation is to watch out for your neuroticism and you have lots of them. Keeping the eyes closed is one work on its own. Why bother to keep your eyes closed when you can put on a face mask. That also reduces a significant portion of monkey mind thoughts. 4. Use Leo's guided meditation I have used many guided meditations but nothing comes close to Leo's guided mediation. No classical, No cute metaphors or ego comforting statements just pure non-duality wisdom. The moment he says "enjoy your silence" by the end I am in a nondual state. 5. Stay static(The no manipulation technique) whatever happens I can not stress this enough. Stay in the position you started meditating whatever happens. It itches, don't move. You want to correct your posture don't move. you want to move your head, don't move. When you think about Mount Hiei monks meditating for days in a static position, you have no excuse not to be static for 20minutes or an hour. That is the gateway to a meditative nondual state. This is how I meditate and I love it and have improved my happiness and clarity enormously. For sure there are other techniques but newies could probably benefit from this. Much Love to all!

The goal is to grow at the being level therefore do them simultaneously. Don't consider them separate and understand consciousness work is a life long journey. The sky is the limit.

1. Please watch Leo's How does Psychedelics work? video. 2. Get your metaphysics and epistemology straight. Keep in mind of the mind body problem at all time and its solution which is that there is only one universal perception ( Non duality with capital N). Please watch Self deception 1-3 and what is perception? videos. 3. Stop thinking as human(the grand illusion and falsehood) during your trip instead think as your true self which is pure consciousness. In fact since your life by itself is one Psychedelic trip, think as above even during your "ordinary" existence.

I just finished reading this book. The book is 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning for a reason. I recommend anyone who is committed to the "Truth with capital "T", is open minded and is courageous enough to challenge his/her belief to read it. Ernest Becker used some strong words filled with intelligence to analyze and invoke the reader for a critical thought on a taboo topic. This book is not about fetishization of psychology as a belief system. In fact, it is against it. Fear of death is deeper than ideology. It is the primary motive of life along side heroic transcendence, victory over evil and the delusion of immortality. The author puts death into perspective with exquisite explanation and in congruence with Søren Kierkegaard, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank and other's wisdom. Definitely a "Leo's standard" book.

@longusername12345 I would have loved to but that it would be against the rule of the forum and would be unfair to Leo. However, the process is simple if you bought the list. You just search the authors some of them even have a youtube channel.

I really really really love Leo's book list. It is the most underpriced product ever. Every time I finish one book, I am always dumbstruck and ask "why are people not talking about this?"(Of course I know why). Another resource that I use and might be helpful for others is I make youtube playlists based on the book list categories. You will be surprised how much quality information is out there for free. Even though books have an obvious edge over the interviews, lectures, and other videos, I have got many great insights by watching these videos. I wonder if other people also do this too.

I love listening to Audiobooks. It is awesome we are living in a time where almost all books are having an audio version. Listening to the author adds an extra level of attachment and better retention which you would not get from reading a paperback book. My only advice is to also have the ebook version to highlight key paragraphs and points. Also I find https://www.sumnotes.net/ a great tool to summarize my annotated notes. I have attached an article where audiobook myths are debunked! https://thriveglobal.com/stories/why-are-audiobooks-better-than-books/ Do you guys agree with that?

If only Grandiose Narcissists knew this, our world will be a better, more loving, and conscious place. First of all, you are not grandiose, you are in fact just a tiny dot in infinite consciousness living in an eternal self-deception ocean. If we take the current human population you are one in 7.8 billion. If we consider all animals(keep in mind you are also an animal) you are 1 in 20 quintillions, or 20 billion billion ! If we consider all animals and humans( humans are obviously animals) that have existed from the start of time (4.6 Billion ago) and to the future, you become even more negligible. When you consider that you were a zygote at one point and that zygote was formed out of possible millions of sperm and egg permutation. You become even more negligible. This all is without considering that you live your whole life with a distorted perception not considering the imprinting factor, entanglement factor of survival, and language factor. Therefore, just keep calm and raise your consciousness and awareness instead of deluding yourself and others with your BS.

@BipolarGrowthOperate at beyond belief level and beyond language level, everything will be unbelievable. The question is how did you believe anything in the first place? Most of your experiences sound to be operating at the projection of mind level projecting illusory gray alien, illusory Archangel Michael, illusory Terence McKenna, and your illusory ego-mind self. Ask how could I be deceived by illusion talking to an illusion? Thanks for sharing though!

@Swarnim The hate trap is a low conscious, vicious circle to be avoided by any means. I really liked Leo's videos which start "Rant against ------". They appear to be offensive on the surface but they have a gem of truth inside. I will make sure to add the love tone next time I post. Cheers!

@Swarnim Not at all. In fact, I sympathize with their lack of awareness and their insecurity. This was just something to contemplate about and it was kinda true. All I care about the truth.

@Amaal Indeed

@Javfly33 I consider this statement as being metaphorically true. The ego is concocting yet another story to satisfy the immortality project. If you are not going to remember your past life, why does it matter? Did you forget you are consciousness? How would you know if you were who in a past life? and how far are you going 3 lives why not 4.5billion years? The mechanics of that understanding is just too fantastical. It requires deeper metaphysical and epistemic inquiry. Therefore, I would just try to understand that I am one. I cultivate my non-dual awareness, reduce my self-deception level, climb the spiral, contemplate,introspect----- Fomo is just a projection of the mind, I would just deconstruct it.

@BipolarGrowth Of course I am the first non-dualist too- by the virtue of the fact that we both are I with the capital I.

@Raven1998 Because you constructed "your body" in your mind. The classic mind-body problem.

@Raven1998 When you say you. are you referring to you with capital Y( self with capital S) or the waking consciousness you?

@Marinador I like this quote. Jed has a way of expressing harsh truth which is hard to swallow for the conventional mind.

@Someone here I was a smoker too once so I do sympathize with your situation. I tried reading about benefit of quitting books, Allen Carrr's book is great. Even though they help they were not still good enough for me to unwind the pattern I created. I tried watching Anti smoking commercials which are horrific to say the least it worked for a while but then I relapsed. I tried smoke free app. It worked for while but then I relapsed. The thing about cigarette is it is a silent killer and the psychological and physiological dependence it puts people under is massive. You deeply want to quit even while you are smoking but the ego falters and then that shatters you will power. This addiction works at psyche level If I have to mention a single thing that helped me it has to be 5Meo. After my breakthrough experience cigarette became history. I came in contact with my breath and found my center. To my surprise there was no urge and neuroticism to smoke. You have made the first step which is your desire to quit. Therefore, my friend you have all options you can read books, use apps, watch videos and operate at language & psychological level or use the direct route of obliterating your ego and unwinding the pattern. Best of lucks!

@unholy This is not necessarily a self discipline problem. Don't be judgmental about yourself.Everyone has a different way of learning things. Some people can easily stay focused for hours, others can't. Maybe you are not interested about what you are reading. In this case you change to something else and see if that interests you. Notice yourself and see what gets you excited to your authentic self. Awareness by itself is curative. Now that you are aware you can try different things that feels natural to you. Some tips: - make a goal to read x number of books per year. - sign up to Good read. it is a must you can track books you read, wish to read, your progress, connect with readers and authors.( it is facebook for books in short) - since focusing is an issue you can try audiobooks to start with. - Use Pomodoro technique ( focus for 25/15 min take 5 min break and do another one) - have a common place book(notebook, keep or other note taking apps or websites) - get excited about reading.(Leo's book list are awesome)

@Ar_Senses Overall it is great brainstorming idea. However, I sense a huge wishful thinking. For each bullet point the major question I would ask would be how would this be corrupted by existing egos, collective egos, belief systems and ideologies? Even now there is a huge division within the so called "Psychedelics Community". There are encouraging signs that Psychedelics will be more relevant and generally accepted. Nevertheless, there will also be inherent problems that will make your Utopian Psychedelic environment to take centuries before they are realized. Wishing you the best!

@Parththakkar12 Thanks boss. this is one of my favorite video. it will be helpful.

@LaucherJunge David raises valid questions and points. I am with him as far as exposing manipulation and exploitation of the masses by the elite and the powerful. However, his romanticising of "the good old days" and the yearning of the fulfillment of the Orwellian Prophecy is ludicrous. He makes it look like the 1900's were the best time to be alive. Forgetting how our old stories and attachment were the one's that created the division and chaos in the first place. Let's say Covid is flase flag operation? So what? tell me your solution. Is Icke going to topple the government? Are "Second amendment" people going to fight the US army? If "the cults" were capable of doing what "they" did, "they" have already done the damage and will continue to do so. His posts are only going to dumb down the people and further the sleepwalking. My friend never forget man is the most domesticated animal of all. We are still "young" creatures and are still in the age of "slavery" with a tiny shift in the overton window. No need to Crocodile tears. The definition of Narcissism is to be complaining on a system that feeds and protects you. Half of the world's population does not have that luxury.Where is the love for children dying and starving in Africa? For them getting displaced, slavery, ethnic cleansing is business as usual. Not getting government subsidy in a lock down. Please have some desire for truth.

@Jacobsrw Two Facts: 1. Big money interest, politicians, corporations, billionaires etc are interested in exploitation and manipulation of the mass by hook or crook. This is their Modus operandi. This is what the ego does! 2. David Icke and Brian Rose are not fully awake. They don't investigate their self bias and self deception. The relative truth lies in between.

@Leo Gura This is classy response.

@Jahmaine My position is a fully enlightened person is also an ape so I would expect him/her to do all it can to save it's "life". It would not make them less spiritual engaging in their survival need that is their survival instinct. Highly spiritual and less spiritual are just labels used for the human mind to play the status game so he/she would not be less spiritual. Since non duality can not be understood by a conscious agent who is enmeshed in a willful conscious self deception cycle, they can not "help" him/her in a "non-dual" way. The non dual perspective is pure awareness of the absolute truth. For an experience to exist though there needs to be a duality. Hence of course they would do something if they are threatened. if they do nothing when they are threatened then that means they have a serious problem. The fact that they don't identify themselves with being the meat bag does not make exempt from suffering. In fact when push comes to shove they will be the first to act in a conscious manner. At least that is what history teaches us. It would not be apparent subjective Utopia because the world will not be full of enlightened people. How is it possible to have an enlightened society when egos are deliberately and by design are mass programmed with low consciousness stuff, to attain maximum selfishness and operate in self bias at all times? To be enlightened it requires to be irreverent, denounce status quo, be non conformist, be a heretic, blasphemous, non ideological, non cultish or be anti any main stream thing. Fortunately or unfortunately enlightenment is not a community project. I would estimate a world with full of enlightened people to occur in the next millennia but by that time rulers and dictators will be long gone.