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@Leo Gura Isn't having a no sense of self required to be aware of God? Is it possible to still have a sense of ego self and simultaneously be aware of God? So you being aware that your default state is God doesn't require loss of your sense of being "Leo". Is that correct?

@Leo Gura I guess I better get to work then. Thanks for the answers. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44321378-lsd-and-the-mind-of-the-universe This is a great book I've read just about that, I found it after watching the interview you posted a long time ago of an academic guy who did like 70+ high dose LSD trips over 20 years or something. He documents each of those trips and it's clearly visible how he goes through the layers of first his persona, then the collective stuff and then higher and higher, and the suffering he goes through. It's a great book for everyone interested with these questions.

@Leo Gura Does psychedelics boost that work as well? Or maybe a traditional therapist or breathwork or something can be more effective. So what if I don't have an access to psychedelics (yet) and I want to Awaken, and I'm not much genetically gifted spiritually, I guess I have to work with what I've got, and as you mentioned elsewhere, the second most powerful thing can be weeks of meditation nonstop. But still, if I envision to have access to psychedelics (maybe afford traveling in a few years to places where can I trip), how can I prepare (clear up the confusion, emotional baggage, trauma, wrong beliefs, ideology, etc) without them? My answer to that is basically do the epistemological work that you (and maybe Ralston) teach, question everyting, contemplate a lot sober as well, clean up information intake, make the body as healthy as possible, have some manual spiritual practices even if they don't change the state that much day after day, etc. What would you say?

@Leo Gura A question regarding your states post: So as I understand, there are many non-ordinary (non-human-default) states that we can access through meditation, contemplation, yoga, psychedelics (different psychedelics with different states), breathwork, lucid dreaming, astral projection, etc. But as I know you mean a very specific state when you say Awakening, where you realize yourself as God (or maybe as separate first, but still). Is that right? and if so, what are the best ways of accessing that specific state that you call Awakening, and why does it take so long, meaning that why can't just a random guy have a state change with one method with one try, why do we need many iterations of psychedelics for example.

@Leo Gura What do you think about dailiy 1-2 hour meditation?

@Leo Gura What do you think, how can Lucid Dreaming be used for metaphysical work?

@Leo Gura Can you share how? What changed?

@Leo Gura But didn't you say that psychedelics are the most effective tool? What are the other tools that you plan to use to access higher consciousness without psychedelics? Are you planning to return to practices like meditation or yoga?

@Leo Gura Isn't Awakening increasing the baseline ability of happiness / ability to accept reality as it is?

@Leo Gura Or you lack the practice of the techniques maybe? So if you did exercises of inducing OOBE for example, it won't happen, you know that for sure?

@MarkKol Unrelated to your question, but what's your diet like? What food categories have you eliminated so far? And do you eat 100% clean?

@Leo Gura Like what? Give us some examples

@Leo Gura What do you consider as spiritual work these days? More tripping?

@Leo Gura How can we avoid it on our own spiritual path? How did you avoid it? If you did.

@Leo Gura What do you call consciousness work these days? Same thing as Ralston calls? Because the term "consciousness work", I've mostly heard from you and him. So, basically, meditation, yoga, contemplation, psychedelics?