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@Oppositionless So you didn't do practices, and started doing them after 5-meo trips? Is that correct? Or you're saying that those trips supercharged your practices?

@LambdaDelta Why did you watch gore in the first place? What's the appeal? Don't you get disgusted / disturbed by it?

@Psychonaut How successful are you at this? Does it come easily? Yeah, thats tough to admit, even to yourself. But is that all you really meant? I've also faced that myself. When I dig deeper to the reasons behind why I say "I love you", I mostly find selfish and conditional ones, and that frustrates me. Why the hell do we even call love it then?

@Psychonaut Are you sure about this? How does attachment trauma translate into compulsive masturbation habit? I'm asking because addiction can have many other reasons.

@Leo Gura Did you tell them that before the conversation and still agreed to talk?

@Natasha Tori Maru Cute. You need to have all the Spiral stage colors So the Purple is there as I see. Leo just merged all the stage colors into one robe lol.

@Nemra It would be interesting if you tried LSD now and compare to dream experience.

@Leo Gura Do we have to smoke DMT inside a dream too? Did it happen on it's own or you triggered it somehow? Or it was generated by a memory of an actual Awakening.

@Leo Gura What I mean is, at least for me personaly, I feel I need to go through phases of having relationships and sex, just to realize that, oh shit, those things don't solve my existential life issue. It's still there. But without going through that phase, I'm in a fantasy that relationships and sex will solve something deep in me. Which it hasn't yet. I sense that seeing that over and over again is what grows me slowly. And once I get rid of fantasies like that, then my mind focuses more on things along the lines of: okay, these didn't work, what can I do now. But also, what I realized is that I must not look at relationships or money as some ultimate solutions to existential issues, it's clear they are not that, but they have their roles and there are some needs to be met. Yea exactly. But it helps when you have some ideas of what's beyond all this survival stuff, at least in theory and possibility. It helps to not get drown into mindless survival activities for decades like an animal. Your content really helps with that.

@Leo Gura If the intention is burning through the desires, just to get more focused on more serious things later in life? Like a strategic move.

Why not? More people will hear about these concepts and teachings. It was actually quite fascinating to me, when two scientists where trying to understand what Leo had to say, you can clearly see some of the defence mechanisms in action right there if you observe. Also, it was fun and they clearly had fun doing it.

@Carl-Richard Did you got it? Through meditation alone?

@Leo Gura If they asked How questions, would you direct them to psychedelics? Would you tell them to contemplate during 5-meo-DMT trip? Won't that repel them due to psychedelic stigma? Or you would just direct them to more like a Ralston's approach, sober contemplation and deconstructing.

@Leo Gura Yea, she was actively trying to fit everything you were saying in her own existing worldview and explain it away in her own way, and not having that aha moment of wait, maybe this Leo guy is telling me something more structural, much more profound. But of course, that can't happen easily with a single conversation. Maybe they start to watch some of your content for deeper understanding. If they do, and you manage to set up a conversation next year as well, it will be much more interesting. Maybe by the second convo they have their own glimpses of the Absolute too.

One thing I noticed in the whole conversation the girl was acting and talking as though she was understanding what Leo meant, and finally in the end, maybe jokingly, but still, she said maybe she's already Awoke. @Leo Gura Is that like a defence mechanism or what? Like, "duh, I already knew all that, you've just put what I already knew in different language". And in reality, they have no I idea, they haven't even started scratching the sufrace of not-knowing for example. Do you get that often? Btw, great conversation, it was interesting and also fun to watch. Hope seeing you in these kinds of conversations more often.