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What's the goal here? I see the value in understanding my selfishness, accepting it more and more, and becoming more conscious of the gross and subtle ways that I behave selfishly, but I'm not sure how to transcend that. It comes down to transcending survival, but is that really possible? I guess the goal is to be more acutely aware of ones selfishness, and the consequences it has on life in general, and on other people, and collateral damage. @Leo Gura What do you think? Do you try to transcend selfishness altogether? Is that something you see as even possible while physically alive?

@Leo Gura Dude come on, you prefer asians over slavic girls? Maybe that's because you're russian yourself Don't know how that relates to it though.

@Leo Gura I don't think so, eating too much makes you fat. When I'm on a caloric deficit, even if 80% of those calories are carbs, I still lose weight. Maybe eliminating carbs seemingly makes the process more rapid, but carbs also retain water so that might be water weight that you seem to lose couple kg's so quickly. Also, in my experience, carbs are the best source of energy for workouts, cardio and weight lifting.

1. Go to this site and calculate your maintenance calories => https://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html 2. Subtract 300-500 calories from that and it that calories for couple months 3. Track weekly, and monthly, make sure you meet that caloric number on average at the end of week and month Do these three and it's basically guaranteed that you'll lose weight if you stay consistend with step #3

@Leo Gura But you also had girlfriends during that time, haven't you? And you also mentioned you might pursue one later and that you wanted to burn through the karma of having more fulfilling intimate relationships. I guess your point is that ultimately your focus was on Actulized, instead of any girl, but you also did that to some degree, pursuing women, but you always had your eye on the most important thing for you, which was philosophy and creating Actualized.

@Leo Gura Have you always been this way? Or you've become like that gradually after you did all the spiritual work and psychedelics?

@Leo Gura But how? Ralston talks about that in his books and podcasts as well, to just stop doing it, but I don't understand how, I am not aware of myself creating / doing the thought / emotion, it feels automatic. Even if I force myself to not think of rejection for example, it feels untruthful because deep down I feel myself being hurt. Does your answer assume some high-level self-awareness skill that meditation helps develop for example?

@Thought Art Why do you think that being 30 is old for dating? Of course it's easier in 20s, but still.

@Leo Gura Which one was missing most of the time? Which of these do you find the hardest to be compatible to with a girl? Or just combination and different degrees of these.

@Leo Gura By business you mean all the survival stuff that we do or just strictly finances and career? Just asking because I'm very careful about this point, I'm 29 and slowly bulding my life (career, skills, finances, dating life, living environment, travel, health and fitness, basic self-help, healing trauma, therapy, removing addictions, etc). But at the same time I slowly realize that life should not be about these ultimately, there should be something deeper going on. And I look at those as foundation, handling survival to the point that I am not desperate in any major areas. Also, I see the trap of losing myself in all these and not taking metaphysics seriously once I'm somewhat satisfied with how the survival is handled. Its a tricky thing to balance.

@Leo Gura Okay, so the reasoning is that first handle survival needs (acquire marketable skills, finances, dating and socialization skills, have no debt, have some basic home, etc) because once you get too metaphysical and trip some more, you might lose motivation to do all the above and therefore not do them, which will make life harder? Is that your point?

@ExploringReality Can you elaborate on this a bit more? Like, why exactly is it a problem to have financial and relationship issues and trip at the same time? Why is that an obstacle?

Just do this

@lostmedstudent You can just order them and get it delivered? So 5meo-dmt and mushrooms are legal in Canada?

@Leo Gura That's the thing with these ceremonies and shamans, I don't know how much say will I have in that, or how will I make sure that the dose is not too large, even if they tell me it isn't. I'll just explain to them that I don't want to be taking a large dose so they consider that. I want to have someone experienced around when I'll be tripping my first couple trips, I have no idea what to expect and the thought that there are people that can more or less take care of me will be soothing. Also, retreats are easier in a way. I don't want to deal with shady websites and people to acquire chemicals myself yet. Once I get more experience, I'll probably find ways of tripping alone.

Hey, I want to do a retreat where I'll be having 5meo-DMT experience as my first mystical experience ever in my life. I've dabbled with meditation and kriya yoga but very inconsistently. I've never had a chance to try any psychedelics. I've been contemplating sober and deconstructing many of my beliefs over the years, but now I want to take it to another level and I want to actually experience non-egoic consciousness because I feel like that will have a catalyst effect in my growth and development. Question for those who have experienced the effects of 5meo, what would your advice be, to go ahead and do it and see what it brings, or slowly build up to it with other psychedelics (mushrooms, LSD, etc)?

@RawJudah How are you planning to do that? Are you planning to reconnect with old friends, or going to bars / clubs for cold approach, or going to social events by yourself and meeting new people, or? I'm looking for some ideas of the ways to socialize more myself.

@Peo They will have huge problem, that was my point. My point was that people who game at 50, probably already have gaming experience of like 20 years. There wont be many noob old gamers at the club.

Even the way he phrases 5-meo as the "toad juice" feels kinda off. I'm sure all his followers will refer to that substance as the toad juice and dismiss it as well.

@Peo The point was about starting and getting serious about this field, wasn't it? So if you have like 20 years of experience, yeah you wont have a problem to game at 50. Now imagine being 50 years old with maybe 1 relationship experience (wife) in your life, zero attraction skills and deciding to learn pickup and start dating again. I'd imagine that to be super challenging, for obvious reasons.

@Leo Gura I don't have as much of an experience with consciousness as you do, but I don't understand how a guy like him can miss such things. So if he hasn't done enough yoga, how can he say that it won't work. Even if he did, and it didn't work for him, how can he be so sure that it won't work for other people? Same for psychedelics. So, according to him, this "direct consciousness" is only achieved through contemplation, the way he teaches it. As much as I like his work (books, podcasts, etc), it seems a bit off. But I still think it will be very valuable to attend his workshops as a beginner in this work, but also in the back of my mind I will keep those points you mentioned.

@Leo Gura According to you, where do you think he is wrong exactly? I know two points that you've mentioned so far, those were Love and psychedelics. Any others?

@Leo Gura With Awakening here, do you mean some crazy levels of consciousness you tend to talk about lately? Or some enlightenment experiences (ones you had years ago) would do? You talk about the spectrum of Awakening and degrees of it, so can boredom be dealt with if one has milder version of Awakening?

@Leo Gura Including talking via internet? Like this forum, youtube comments, social media, messengers, etc? I was under the illusion myself that I liked being alone, but the it hit me that when I'm physicall alone (since I live alone and work from home), I'm constantly connected to dozens of people through group chats / forums / etc. And that actually being alone is really painful and I'm constantly distracting myself. I think you meant removing all that shit, right? Just yourself and your mind.

I haven't been into that plane myself, but I like this pyramid that I've found on reddit. Maybe it has some truth to it. https://www.reddit.com/r/AstralProjection/comments/mi3pbz/i_made_a_pyramid_diagram_to_give_a_crude_idea_of/