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You didn't pick and eat a mushroom and then have a psychedelic trip, you only imagined that you did.

Rather than give a mediocre interaction on a plethora of platforms, give a high-quality interaction on a select few platforms.

@Angelite your dogmatic clinging to your religion will keep you from ever seeing the truth. Those who have had God realization can tell from the way you are talking that you do not know God. You do not know Allah. God created these chemicals in order to give itself a way to wake from the dream it created. It created the dream to come to know itself, psychedelics are a way it can come to know itself from within the dream. God created everything, for a reason, and part of that reason is to realize what it is! Ancient religions have been corrupted, to think that you are getting The Prophet's accurate message more than a millenium later is folly. The good news is, you can still try a heroic experience with the mushroom God gave you, you may wake up from the dream and find that Islam is only part of the picture ... (as I did from being raised as a follower of Christ).

"The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding" --The Kybalion

@Bill W I Agree with Bill. We want to lower the moderation burden as much as possible so that Leo can focus on awakening and teaching. Newbies can read the guidelines if they're confused and if their threads get locked (as one of mine has) then they will learn from that (as I did).

How can I know what the best balance is for me, between extreme radical spirituality in life, and living practically in the "the world"? (is this the objective of the life purpose course?) How can I know when my desires are coming from my devil side? How can I know when to fight devilry in others and when to let it be/slide/burn?

@Leo Gura In this way Truth is that evil doesn't actually exist, only Good? as there is no perspective from which evil is absolute?

Have you ever written something in "permanent" marker, only to have it eventually fade away? This will happen with everything, and in this way, impermanence is permanent. God is impermanence, God is infinity, infinite impermanence, permanent change. Permanent impermanence. try not to barf

The things that drastically accelerated my own growth were: vipassana retreat, travel, psychedelics. Good luck! @arlin

Worth making sure that you are maintaining a balance, he has a specific video about the role of balance in personal development work ...@Mezanti

Consider "face culture" and it's implications, you're not going to change anyone's mind. These things develop very early on in childhood and are hard to change, the best you can hope to do is prevent it by staying in communication with your boss and or getting the hell out to a better work environment. I apologize if this advice is not useful outside the western 1st world.

Should I have children? or would this be a distraction? How can I / should I find a partner who is high-consciousness? How can I become more aware of how I am perceived and/or change it? Should I pray? What does prayer do? Does taking a vow of poverty help or hurt the ability to awaken mankind? How can I get the spiritual lessons from the metaphors of the big religions? How can I deal with non-depression suicidality, the rational desire to not exist that is present even with positive/stable emotional state? What is the best way to introduce someone to this work? Is it worth trying or should I leave them alone? (friends, girlfriends, parents) What should I do for my parents as they age and eventually die? What should I do if I can't / how can I find a therapist conscious enough to help me? Why do none of my potential life purposes appeal to me? Why are only my toxic values appealing? How can I avoid losing my friends and loved ones as my life becomes more radical and Truth based.

@arlin do you have a daily meditation practice? If you do, especially an hour in the morning and an hour at night, you will be ahead of many of the forum members. Also, watch this video, twice:

Not sure if this is a low-quality thread, or an example of beating hatred with Love. (maybe both?)

There is a hermetic principle of gender and also another hermetic principle of polarity, after awakening I've started to see it EVERYWHERE.

I'm linking to another topic where I ask a bunch of questions about Faith and Prayer, just cause it seems related and I think that probably people looking for one should be at least aware of the other and they could be linked: apologies if this is not acceptable behavior, I am open to feedback.

Should I start a new thread to request this? Or revive this old one ... I don't know. I am curious as I think I had a deep insight about prayer and faith: its similar to 'forgetfulness' in Islam. I would love to have a deep video expounding on The Function of Prayer and The Mechanics of Faith. OR, is it as simple as faith is dogmatism and prayer is mantra/metta meditation? Seems that it could be deeper than that ...

My last and most profound mushroom trip culminated in a physical death that presented as a psycho-somatic seizure to those around me (I was dead at the time so I didn't know my body was convulsing until I started to come back into it and noticed its tense and contorted position relax out of the seizure.) While I was dead there was no concept of self OR other, there was nothing. Although I have a strange memory of seeing a buddha face made out of TV snow/checkerboard. Maybe this is what a body without a spirit does? A friend told me years ago that he had a seizure during a shroom trip and I was shocked, but now 10 years later it's happened to me. My nurse friend told me that if it was a real seizure that I wouldn't have been able to immediately stand back up, give a smile and a thumbs up, and then walk away like I did. (to calm down the panicking Thai restaurant workers. This happened in the middle of a resto in Thailand on Panaeolus Cyanescens) She told me that the medical term "psycho-somatic seizure" is what I experienced. This is the trip that caused me "Self And God" realization. (I lifted that term from the Light and Sound teachings) It occurred to me in this trip that the point of life is to fall as deeply in love with God as possible. (which I'm now starting to suspect may be infinitely deep) apologies for all the parens

Long-time lurker, first time poster. I had God realization recently, and have been wrestling with how I participate in the evolution of reality in an infinitely loving and selfless way. This video is seemingly the only political/cultural commentary I've heard recently that comes close to what Leo is talking about in his latest material. I am curious about Leo's take on it.