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I don’t think it’s possible to realize God from meditation alone of purely strict meditation. I think contemplation is definitely needed along with psychedelics.

@Leo Gura Your blog post about Awakening & Meditation was a good one. You say meditation is like being brain dead and being 100% present. Any thought is a distraction from presence. I just wondered what role contemplation plays in understanding God? Isn’t contemplation the main method for realizing God and Truth? Contemplation is simply direct questioning of the present moment to derive insight, understanding, and truth. Meditation is thoughtless and there is nothing intelligent about that. I meditated for 5 hours straight of breath-awareness and got nothing out of it. My mind naturally loves to contemplate, so I think contemplation for me is the best tool. That’s why I resonate with Peter Ralston because he teaches contemplation as the main path to awakening. I think meditation can be good, but long-term meditation I think has its consequences. There is a certain limit where meditation stops benefitting you, and contemplation typically is a much more in-depth process. I think balancing concentration meditation and contemplation meditation might be the best practice. Contemplation I think yields greater insight and clarity than meditation, whereas meditation I think does better with developing discipline, concentration, equanimity, and tranquility. Like when you are bored out of your mind from meditating, that is a great opportunity to start contemplating boredom. Is contemplation a distraction from God?

With Leo’s recent blog post on politics, he said Soviet Union and authoritarianism was an example of Leftism failing. But I remember Leo’s blog post arguing with Claude AI that Hitler, Stalin, and I think the Soviet Union were examples of conservatism and not leftism. I noticed Leo says the video makes a no-true-Scotsman fallacy, but I have seen this logic used in his spirituality videos saying “this is not true spirituality, philosophy, or meditation.” So it seems like in some instances, the no-true-Scotsman is a valid fallacy but in certain contexts like in spirituality or awakening, suggesting a no-true-Scotsman is a false equivalence. This seems to actually make sense to me because if I have had an awakening and then someone who is a believer preaches the same thing with no realization, then I could say “that is not a true awakening” and I would be correct. I think we need to deconstruct the no-true-Scotsman fallacy because it’s not a true fallacy! (See what I did there? ). I did a no-true-Scotsman fallacy on the no-true-Scotsman fallacy. It’s one of the dumbest fallacy’s out there because atheists will argue with me saying that I’m making a no-true-Scotsman fallacy on atheism, when I am in fact describing atheism in practice. Atheism dismisses the mystical aspect of life even though they want to claim that atheism makes no affirmative claims and is just a neutral attitude of being unconvinced of God.

If they can’t understand the context of when the video was made and can’t bother to listen, then that’s on them and the limits of their mind. Not on the limits of the mask. The mask only reveals the maturity level of your mind. Some minds aren’t mature enough.

We will see if I get them this Wednesday. I’ll keep yall posted if I get them. First trip btw was pretty good. I made another post about it.

Ahh cool thread. Am just now seeing this.

Cool any advice? It seems like it comes in blue honey. Should I just eat them raw or grind them up and do lemon tek like I did before?

My friend got 24g of blue honey PE mushrooms with the date 6/13/23. He might give me some. Any advice for this? I did .9g of lemon tek last time. I was thinking of doing 2-3g of the blue honey. He said he is getting some potent mushrooms. Any advice for my potential second trip? I never heard of blue honey PE mushrooms. I’ll post a trip report if I am able to get them.

Interesting album he has made. Makes me wonder if he had a mystical experience.

I need to get the balls to approach. But not very many women I want to approach.

So you do cold approach then. Where are you meeting them usually? At the mall, restaurant, park or what?

Dude please tell me. You have motivated me and have given me hope that even a 50 year old is still in the game. I’m about 30 and haven’t had any results. Did you meet them on Tinder or what? Where are you meeting them? How do you initiate sex and all that? Are you cold approach or what? Edit: I appreciated you sharing your stories. It was motivating.

Damn dude. Where do you find these women? How!!? Tell me the secrets to unlock the universe!!

Get a Garmin man.

Reminds me of Doctor Strange’s watch.