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Well, they are technically empty suits, only because they all reside in the place you call "I". The place called I is behind the appearance of space and time. Locations appear to it. There could of course never be a perspective from any location other than the place called I. You can turn 360 degrees in every direction trying to change the orientation and locale of I, and find the only thing moving is the appearing world. Nobody else has an I that resides in a different location, nor of course is the I different at all. See yourself in a mirror? Where is the awareness of the person in the mirror? Can you guess where the awareness of the people you talk to is? Uh oh... We just broke our game. Time to go to the mental hospital.

Read this post again. Who wrote it? But you're reading it now. How do you know you wrote it? Who wrote THIS post? Do you only think you wrote the posts you remember writing? If you don't have a memory of writing a post, does that mean someone other than you wrote it? Did you only experience things you remember experiencing? What is the name of the moment in which you experienced every event you have ever known? Oh. Game over.

See how brains are symbols representing the actuality of a person. Of course there is no person without a brain because a brain is what a person looks like when viewed as an object in the world... It isn't responsible for actually producing the thing it is known within, it is a symbol representing the process of person-ing. Person-ing will always "look like" a brain as that is the symbol that accompanies it. It will always "act like" a brain because that is the imagined object which represents "person-ing" in the seemingly external dream world. I.e. the symbol represents "person-ing" in the same way a computer game object represents a string of code. Manipulating the computer game object from inside the game is of course just altering code in reality. The object is not itself creating the code, it can only ever represent that code in interface fashion. The nature of our dream's code is imagination.

Just close your eyes and feel your presence. There we are. That's where I am. I don't reside out here, I'm there. Now do you feel it? We are all there. There is nothing outside of us and we are not an "us" because we aren't plural. We all live there, projecting this world around us. And yet we are somehow surprised we share the same dream, even though it is just your dream so of course it is the same one. Existential crisis? Who can help you? Me? But I'm you... Uh oh... Nevermind, the crisis is an appearance made of thoughts. Let's fall back asleep into our own eternal unstoppable creation. Other people are just you lost inside your own dream (typically), their lives are experienced by you just as this one is. See how we create reality by perceiving ourselves (material is the substance of our dream), see how we create many things from one. See how this is our dream. See how I am you. See how the image of you in a mirror is an appearance and nothing more. See that the place we really reside is here.

Not sure, the state was fleeting and now I lost grasp so I don't know anymore. All "awakening" is appearance, it is reliant on awareness (AKA itself) to know that it "is". It is recognition of itself and nothing more. It is self awareness. There is of course no self awareness in lieu of awareness. When self aware, awareness is not aware of itself as a "thing", just aware of its own being. By itself as mentioned it is not any thing. It is only difficult to name what it is in its purest form because names and words are appearances within it, which are a type of "thing". All words and names are representative symbols appearing within it. Sort of like how no matter what image you project onto a screen, the image will always just be a modulation of the screen (something appearing within the screen). These appearances are empty like awareness itself as mentioned, and so it can't be captured by crafting a word (word = appearance), only by being it which you presently are... To be exact, any projection onto a screen will be appearance, even if the appearance on that screen says "THIS IS A SCREEN DUMMY!", the screen is only noticed by a shift in perspective which sort of looks "through" the appearance to the bigger picture. There is nothing spooky or unreachable pertaining to its wordlessness, it is just that words are always appearances, and appearances must be seen through in order to see the backdrop in which they appear, that's all. You can speak about it easily as it's the only thing you could ever know. There is of course no such thing as knowing without awareness. There is no event which takes place without our singular presence as without our presence there is no such thing as the passage of time or the appearance of space. You have experienced this many times when you have a dreamless sleep, which acts almost like a wormhole from a first person perspective. You might think that the "I" through which I am telling you about the world I perceive is in a different location from the one that you probably feel surrounds you/you feel is behind you. It is not. It is that. Just like the you that you see in the mirror does not have awareness inside of the head of the image in the mirror, the person-symbol you see does not have awareness inside of its head. Space and so also location will always be an appearance in it. The I is location-less... To maintain grip on this is not possible for me at all.

I'm high, I can feel my oneness with others (not really, well, sort of).

Yeah, I resonate with Spira a lot. I'm drunk rn though.

What I mean is, when the mask of Joe Schmoe is removed everyone is absolutely identical.

I only see the aftereffects, which I am.

I experienced no-self directly. Any "thing" which includes the ego and self is an appearance subject to change. Only awareness as pure awareness is unchanging. All elements of self are appearance.

Everyone is awake suckaaaa. Even being asleep is a modulation of the same awareness into form. The only problem with Neo Advaita is not in any form of untruth, just spiritual bypassing. Obviously in the absolute sense it's true.

That's what everything is though. Rationalisations at most.

U mirin' son? But srs last time I went out some randoms I met talked about DMT with me.

Good, good, let the good posts flow through you. (Saved, thanks).

This should help illuminate the teaching of Advaita Vedanta regarding ideas of Self etc. which is prevalent among various teachers of the nondual tradition (as this is being discussed here currently), where every "thing" and every "nothing" is the same "substrate" so to speak.

Of course, please forgive me Herr Himmler. This thread is locked for further replies.

Leo had one awakening, which was from SMOKING a full dose of 5-MeO-DMT. He proceeded to make a video about the "absolutely infinite!!!!"... Then he decided to instead use it like a reccy drug almost, plugging threshold doses and jacking it to porn in the tub. His actual insight was from vaporizing a release dose of 5-MeO-DMT. He's never had a "further awakening". He never came back from that first trip which was the real deal. All this further shit is delusion. Srs. Check his blog and his trips on this weird shit are chatting with God about narcissism. And now the Tai Lopez cult type crowd of weak pauper tier pilgrims are coming in like "omg Leo I took 1/10th tab of acid and realized I'm alone then an angel appeared and said 'it's not a bug it's a feature' and I saw how it's all love and I'm creating this. P.S. $1000 is too low, charge me $100,000 daddy."

This will explain it entirely.

Base consciousness is nil and void. The only thing that can actually change is the appearances within that void, like images on a screen. This is one of only a few overtly verifiable facts. There aren't "levels" of consciousness and there never could be. What must be meant is does it alter the pattern of appearances. It does alter it, but not necessarily in an illuminating way. When a heavy and very intense trip ends, you can expect aftereffects for a while, but eventually the memories and such wear off and you will find yourself back where you started. Trying intellectually to somehow maintain a grip on that old fleeting state of being.

IME when the mask dissolved I felt to be one with what I now understand would be termed Brahman. As the ego came back and I gained the ability to talk again, I felt a split where my ego self was simultaneously there and was below Brahman, and yet I as sheer awareness was Brahman entirely. I hallucinated a goddess at that point. I spoke to the goddess. I mention this as the goddess entity I spoke with felt to be above my ego self which I spoke to it through, but below and part of what had been behind the ego mask. That's my own encounter with what I felt to be the divine.

Don't just on faith parrot some random dude who gets high on threshold amounts of drugs and jerks off... See for yourself what you think. (Leo's first trip with 5 was an actual "release dose". The video is titled Leo becomes infinity or something. I don't know if he's ever done that again since then which was years ago). My interpretation of the experience was aligned with Vedanta. On Leo's last video (maybe deleted?) I'd say he hasn't achieved some magical place beyond anyone else who goes through intense high dose psychedelic states. My interpretation was that there could never be anything outside of Brahman. When my mask was removed I felt to be one and the same as Brahman. As the ego slowly came back, I started to feel simultaneously below Brahman (the ego self as it came back online), and yet also Brahman in totality (the maskless consciousness which was temporarily the only thing when the ego mask dissolved). The more the ego came back, the less I felt to be the totality of Brahman. I interpreted it exactly like a tree. I did not then know about all this bullshit, that was an unadulterated interpretation, no influence from external expectations.

He understands it well. He is teaching the Advaita Vedanta tradition. What he is saying, is that there is nothing outside Brahman. That is our true nature. In Vedanta they have an "Atman", which is the Self. And Atman (the Self), is Brahman. Everything is Brahman. Atman is an expression of Brahman. Close metaphor would be a tree as Brahman, and the leaves as Atman.

Did you delete this audio? I've seen him discuss similar topics before. Solipsism does not align with the type of monism I encountered... How do you describe experiencing oneness with "Brahman"? Maybe analogous to having a mask removed which was this person. If everyone had their mask removed we are the same entity which is Brahman. Something like that. The ego and the appearances are finite. A solipsist will take, say, a measly 5 senses and some contrasts, and think that clearly limited appearance is the totality of all possible appearances contained within infinity. It doesn't make sense.

At the time, I was addicted to using psychedelics so very used to handling higher intensity trips. On 5 tabs I was near paralyzed, when I did get indoors (I went walking while waiting for it to kick) I could barely operate my key to unlock the front door, was falling left and right like a drunk going upstairs, and collapsed onto my bed. I had the DMT and vape pre-prepared. I used the MIGHTY so it was just press a button, wait, and inhale. I took two big drags and that was it... Now I can barely handle 1 tab, physically speaking. The nausea etc is bad.