StripedGiraffe

There are many ways of having these experiences. You can have them through meditation, self-inquiry, and yoga. Consider that it will likely take years or even decades to have these awakenings from these practices alone. The fastest way to have these experiences is by combining these practices with the responsible exploration of psychedelics. Also, it's very important to use contemplation with your psychedelic experiences. Some other practices that can create these awakenings, from what I hear, are tantra and holotropic breathwork. Hope this helps.

Even doing self-inquiry once can point in the right direction. You'll at least get closer to the truth even if you don't have an enlightenment experience. Just watch the Neti Neti video and follow along with the exercise. It will be so much more helpful than all of this theorizing. Theorize again after you try this lol.

Do you have any important messages for me, my friend?

@Nahm I'm going with red

You are the perceiver, and the perceived. You are just as much the screen in front of you as you are your body or the brain. This confusion is a great sign. Nobody on this forum can give you the answer to what you are. It cannot be communicated. We can only point you in the right direction. I highly suggest you try self-inquiry. You can start with Leo's Neti Neti technique video, and then "how to do self-inquiry".

Thank you so much for sharing. "I don't have to make myself feel good in order to have a pleasant experience. I just have to stop trying so hard to make myself feel bad and simply enjoy the show." This reminds me of something I channeled last year: You don't have to know why you seem to love everything. Love is allowing. I can certainly relate to transcending the duality of resistance and surrender. That happened to me on my last trip. Craziest experience of my life but I'm struggling to integrate that experience into my daily life. What are your thoughts on our capacity (as humans) to use our Will? Can a human being effectively integrate God's Will? Or a better question is, to what degree can a human being harness God's Will.

Just curious, when you had the experience of your foot being infinity and containing trillions of galaxies into infinity, did you see anything? Or was it a direct awareness, or intuitive understanding? Also, what spiritual practices do you do that helped you have such an experience? Obviously, you have conversations with God, I'm just curious about what other practices you have in place. And how long have you been on the spiritual path? Thanks!

This sounds fucking awesome. Way beyond anything I've ever experienced. Thank you so much for sharing. This makes me so excited to go deeper

If the tour happens after this coronavirus situation passes, I will certainly be attending a talk + workshop, if not multiple. I would love to have you anywhere near Cleveland.

I have a very similar block, and I couldn't have described it better myself. Something I discovered in my last mushroom trip much is helpful for anyone dealing with this issue. What masculine energy is, at the deepest metaphysical level, is the primary mechanism of creation. It is the directly manifested beingness of isness. When we repress our masculinity, we repress our self-expression to the core. On ayahuasca, I discovered that masculinity, from a human perspective, is like naturally following our desires, in essence, being ourselves fully and feeling absolute confidence. Absolute confidence can be achieved by non-dual awareness, rather than dualistic confidence, which is fragile because it depends on what you're comparing yourself to. I will definitely try a body awareness exercise to try to help with this.

@Leo Gura For what it's worth, I had an insight a couple of weeks ago during meditation about your thyroid issue (I'm a psychic/intuitive healer). The insight was that the thyroid issue is being caused by a throat chakra block centered around something you are not saying to your parents and possibly your brother. There's something you are not willing to think about and express to them. This is blocking your healing and integration. If you'd like, I'd be happy to do a distance healing session for you and possibly give you more insight. Either way, I'd say it's worth contemplating for yourself.

@Roy Yes, 100% true lol

@billiesimon @Preety_India Lmao that's wild He posted while I was typing, but somehow, I missed the last line until you pointed it out

I also developed healing and psychic abilities after I drank ayahuasca. I still have them. I do reiki, feel other people's trauma, and receive specific insights into their emotional blocks and I channel healing messages. Also, I can certainly relate to your "healing formula". I was tripping on mushrooms a couple of weeks ago and I perceived my cat as more alive than ever as if she was this fragile, majestic, divine creature. I felt so much love and respect for her and I gave her reiki. Since then, she's been my best friend. Thanks for the post.

Are you sure you're not just demonizing @Leo Gura because he's not afraid to say blunt truths that hurt your ego? You can label him as narcissistic. That's fine, but know that it's probably just an ego distraction to keep you from doing the actual work. From my perspective, the fact that Leo doesn't give a shit about coming off blunt or cocky is a massive strength. Altering his message, essentially lessening his truth, because of what you think of him would literally be his ego getting in the way of speaking truth.

@wavydude thanks, brother! I'd highly recommend it if you find yourself drawn to the medicine.

Here are some additional insights for you guys that didn't make it into the video: Resistance is the root cause of all suffering. Each person is a unique expression of God that is perfect. It seems like cliche religious junk, I know, but realizing that each one of us is already divinely perfect, ego and all, was very relieving. On the second night, I also felt like I had a Kundalini awakening. I felt so energized and like I could express myself through my movements, words, and actions like never before. I felt tapped into infinity. For the first time, I had not just a conceptual understanding, but a direct experience that my ego was an illusion. All separation is an illusion. All form is God shapeshifting within itself. Awareness is God experiencing itself. I saw myself as a beautiful expression of God. Hope you. enjoy the video!

I know Leo talked about it, but I'm especially psyched for this one. Part one was a total game-changer for me. In the top 5 videos ever for sure.

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One more really powerful exercise that will prepare you is the letting go technique Leo talks about in "The Power of Letting Go" episode. If you can do that technique with literally any one thing, that is basically what it feels like. It's literally just a shift in focus and consciousness. Not nearly as scary as it sounds. At this point, it really seems like you have all the philosophy and theory down like Judge Joe Brown. In my experience, that theory is the most important prerequisite for ego-death. The next step is an experience. I'm not saying go straight for a heroic dose of 5-meo. The way I experienced ego-death was a slow unraveling that shook a little bit of delusion out each trip. It's not like you'll eat a few grams of mushroom and POOF YOU DONT EXIST. No haha, In my experience, each trip only took me to truths that I was ready to experience. But this is why it's so important to use psychedelics responsibly. Start with a low dose, and gradually increase. That way, you don't have to be afraid of being blasted into truths that you think you're not ready for.

Thanks for sharing. I like that analogy. I had an insight while reading it. Identifying as the blank awareness as viewing everything as external, if done completely, in theory, would be identical to identifying as everything or God. Also, identifying as consciousness is identical to identical to identifying as nothingness which is identical to Everything. It always comes full circle.

Preface: I know nothing. What is knowledge? To know something, the way the word is traditionally used, means that you believe something. What is belief? To believe something means that you are labeling a concept in your mind as being an accurate representation of reality. Our minds are constantly building a conceptual model of the world. We also create distinctions within this model. These distinctions are the only way in which we are able to "know" the world. If we were to perceive everything as one indistinct thing, we would not be able to build this conceptual model of reality that is so helpful for our biological survival. The distinctions we make with language and concepts only have meaning relative to the rest of reality that is being distinguished from. For example, the word "banana" only has meaning because it distinguishes an actual banana from the non-banana parts of reality. If reality was actually just one infinite banana, the word "banana" would have no meaning. It would be identical to saying God or Reality. This metaphor breaks down a bit because an infinite banana is not Absolute Infinity. Nevertheless, even the words God or Reality, no matter how sacred you hold them, only point to concepts in your mind. It's just something that you are distinguishing. Again, we cannot conceptualize something that is indistinct (nondual). We can only be it or be conscious of it. The moment we think about God, we get diluted. The capability of our dualistic minds doesn’t allow for it. The Universe in nondual. Being is nondual. It's our mind activity that makes it dualistic. It must be this way because our minds work with symbols, not raw reality. The human mind is Being's way of processing Itself dualistically. The domain of working with raw reality (Being) is consciousness. One of the most fundamental distinctions we make in our minds is the distinction between self and other. Just like we build a conceptual model of the world, we also build a conceptual model of ourselves. This is the ego. This is who we think we are. Let's take a look at some common lines of distinction between self and other. Let's say that I consider all of my skin to be part of me, but the air right next to my skin to be not me. Seems legit. But what if we consider the heat coming off my body. Is that heat me? Is my hair me? What about the hair that the barber just cut off? What if my pinkie gets cut off? Is that pinky still me? What if a surgeon reattaches my pinky? Did it go from being me to not me to me again? Are my thoughts me? What about when I dream that I'm Harry Potter. Am I actually Harry Potter in that dream? Am I no longer David? Or maybe you don't actually believe that you're the body or the mind. Maybe you believe you are consciousness. Are you contained within the body? Again, what about when you dream? What if you had a samadhi experience where you become another object? I would seem as if all knowledge is ultimately delusion. Knowledge is basically the art of a mind convincing itself that it has a grasp on truth. We must remember that these concepts and beliefs are not the actual truth. They are just a rough, simplistic model that exists as a mental image/movie and words. At the end of the day, knowledge is stored symbols. This contemplation seems to support my insight from my last mushroom trip (see my trip report) that everything is infinite delusion. More accurately, all knowledge is delusion. The Truth is Being. Of course, we have to remember that delusional beliefs ARE also Being. So at the same time, they are delusion, they are Truth. But hey are the map, not the territory. They are the menu, not the mango smoothie. But remember that the menu still exists and it is just as much a part of being as the smoothie is. In conclusion, I have just one thing left to say. All heil the Banana.

Funny, I was just talking about this yesterday with my mom. I had pretty much the same thought process until I had my first couple of enlightenment experiences last week and this week. We're already in paradise homie. Your entire life is a perfect gift to yourself, from yourself. Especially if you're on the path of awakening, this lifetime will be unfathomably beautiful for you my friend. When we're looking forward to something, that's a sign that what we're experiencing right now is somehow inferior in our minds. As you become more conscious, you'll realize that is wrong. This life is the greatest gift you could possibly give yourself. Life is like a song. If we spend the whole time waiting for the beat to drop, we miss 99% of the music.

@Heaven You can start with a microdose. With Penis Envy mushrooms, which are very potent strain, I started with a gram, then a week later, I ate two grams, and 10 days later, I ate 3 grams. I had an awakening from that. and then 10 days after that, I ate 3 grams again and had a much deeper awakening/enlightenment experience. You can increase by one gram at a time until you find your breakthrough dose. Or, if you want to be more conservative, only increase by .5 grams per trip. Give yourself at least a week, ideally 2, to reset your tolerance and integrate each trip. It's important that you contemplate the shit out of each trip to integrate it.

I'm not sure that "ego death" is the best phrase because there is really nothing that dies. It's more like you realize that it never existed in the first place. It's funny, from your perspective, it seems like some big scary thing that changes everything, and your life is over. Brother, this couldn't be further from the truth. As soon as it happens, you'll realize that there's nothing to be afraid of. You honestly sound ready already imho. It's more like a deep understanding that just makes so much fucking sense. To me, it felt like I was purging delusion and it felt so good. I can honestly say that listening to Leo's videos on ego and enlightenment is probably the best prep course on earth for ego death. Aside from that, meditation and self-inquiry won't hurt. Also, if you're going to use psychedelics, which have helped me reach incredible awakenings, start with a low dose and work your way up gradually until you have a breakthrough. It's a lot less intimidating this way and you might find it easier to surrender to the experience. Best of luck brother. You are in for so much beauty and awe. It's not as scary as you think. All of that fear is an illusion anyway. You'll see. You are ready.