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Awesome stuff dude, I've done loads of organised retreats like vipassanas ect and also I've done almost two years in a self silent retreat at home during the lockdowns. The home retreats I find takes longer to get into it as it requires a lot more self discipline but when you start to get going by your own efforts it's amazing and you can varie it up more and practice different techniques or even introduce other ideas. Maybe start with a few ten day vipassanas then work your way into a retreat at home when you feel ready

@aurum yeah seems to be my experience also. However I've found some insight into having relationships and sex through the years. In an ideal world you'd find a partner who's as commited to consciousness work as you and you can both help eachother take care of basic survival needs like sex but it's not the base of the relationship, consciousness is. Think that's possible to have?

In my experience they were distinctly different, enlightenment is impossible to speak about but if I had to it was like a shift happens where everything you think you know about life and reality just falls away and your left with raw truth/reality, which tbf is vastly different to what I thought it would be like and can see why most people will never be enlightened. God realisation feels easier to describe, god wakes up to himself, and you see how your dreaming life and everything around you. Enlightenment is still contained within god's dream, and I feel like a lot of enlightened master are not god realised.

@koops Humanity is doomed if that statement was true 🤣

@puporing what sort of special powers do you have? Could you record yourself walking on water or turning water into wine? nd post it. If your going to make heavy claims gotta back it up.

@puporing you might of had good experiences with Christians and that's great but I haven't sadly and I have met alot of them. As an example someone high up in the church of England in the UK was abusing children for decades and the church of England turned a blind eye and only recently got exposed when he died.

@puporing I don't think it's jesus himself so much that's the problem but the followers of Christianity and how they behave. As an example I have noticed that almost all Christians I meet are full of delusion and judgement. Sure, the actual jesus prob was a don.

Just look at it's followers, I have found Christians to be extremely judgemental, narrow minded, dogmatic and almost insane. The complete opposite of what it claims to teach. If it was producing masses of god realized saints we would all be following it but it doesn't. Produces the opposite.

@Butters Second this ^ There is absolutely no chance of a global awakening happening right now, it's so far from that its idiotic and naive to think so. Maybe it might seem that way in the guys little spiritual circle, but the world at large? no chance. Go travel to china, North Korean, the Middle East and Africa as an example and you'll see very fast world war 3 is far more likely than any great awakening. I'm very in touch with global society atm and meet lots of people from all nationalities on a daily basis due to my work and I can sadly say I NEVER meet anyone who has a clue on what non duality is. Don't listen to people recording from there smartphones in the woods about what's going on in the world.

I don't know why but for some reason I am very skeptical of Frank Yang, I don't wanna be negative on anyone but I think he's actually suffering from a common trap on the path of delusional self grandeur. I mean he's literally claiming to be as enlightened as the buddha despite not actually proving it in anyway. He claims to have transcended all human suffering. I love to seem him prove that. He's only be meditating for what six years. If you spend time around most monks none of them would claim what he claims despite them having 10x the experience he dose. What he dose have though is a following on YouTube so its prob hard to not fall into your own bullshit when everyone is parsing you. The reason why I feel this is because I have also slightly fell victim to this and everyone started to think I was some kind of buddha. Really what was happening is I was just good at convincing people I was enlightened than actually being enlightened. I still think there is something to be said for showing not saying, he just says a lot. If he really is as enlightened as he says he is do like a week long meditation without moving and live stream it. Also Leo is right, Dmt, 5meo ect if taken enough of blows conventional enlightenment out the water. I have reached high levels of awakening ect through meditation but if you take enough psychs it totally blows all that out the water. Humans are very limited in what they can awaken to, an alien or deity on the other hand can see through the very flaws of human spirituality and that's a good thing as there is so much to explore it never ends.

Was psychedelics discovered back then?

@Vladimir Lovely stuff, only thing I will say is don't be to hasty, yes your unfolding but don't be too surprised if there is something around the corner ready to bring you to your knees again. We tend to thing we have made it then reality comes along to show you more depth. As long as we are in this human form we must endure some level of suffering. I hope not tho and this stays with you. Great stuff and be happy :0

Well you can get alot from Buddhism in terms of how to deal with suffering and their take on detachment and happiness even can be very valuable and practical in day to day life. Maybe what Leo means is with the deeper aspects of its philosophy on what reality actually is. But you can just take that bit with a pinch of salt. Meditation is a great self development tool no questions there.

@Leo Gura while I don't agree with you saying you're the most awake being on the planet, as it looks terrible for your PR and could come back to bite you. I do think you your making good points in the fact no one on the planet has reality figured out and its total self deception thinking otherwise. Good luck even understanding 1%, psychedelics can teach the world this. You are also right in that human beings are very near the bottom scale when it comes to figuring this all out. But we are blessed with some nice tools but we are just dumb species. I once saw the god of god on a trip and I think it was to showcase just how dumb I was.

@Breakingthewall Don't think for one second there not other hardcore psychonauts who have gone as deep or deeper than Leo. I have met loads, some do things with psychedelics you wouldnt dare. But one thing I have noticed with all of them is they loose sense of reality in this world as a human, it's hardly something you would want to replicate. At the end of the day some of the stuff he is saying should raise alarm bells. "I am the most awakened person in the whole of humanity" when in reality I take a shit load of psychedelics. What is so special in that? it's hardly an achievement is it? granted there are intense as hell but anyone can do it and you can easily encourage people to pursue awakening through psychedelics without being arrogant and mean about it, if anything that will just put people off and now with some of the posts recently people are going to see this as a cult with a narcissistic leader, he is fucking up and I hope he returns to normal soon