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That's what I think too (based on how time seems to work). Leo says there aren't simultaneous experiences. I've seen his blog and he's been getting a bit over the top with the drug use. He's getting super high on research chems and having one on one conversations with God about how they're both narcissists, and how that's a great trait, or whatever. He's going to completely lose his mind if nobody says like, you know, maybe don't do drugs. He smokes DMT in nightclubs. This will become dangerous lol, I don't think he's in a good place mentally rn.

People are rewording for Leo to turn his belief into just basically normal Advaita or Buddhist tradition. I listened to his entire video, and all the posts he's made here. He explicitly does not believe in simultaneous appearances. Just what he is aware of presently is the only thing. He said explicitly other people aren't seeing at the same time.

He said that you don't wake from a dream wondering if the people you hurt in your dream felt pain. I'm pretty sure he's equating all of us to essentially, robots of his own making, where no matter what he does to us there is no suffering that happens. As only what Leo is aware of is real. If not, it is a very easy thing to explain the oneness you are talking about. If he meant that, he would have said so. He has also previously believed he could gain magical powers like healing and telepathy, so he's not infallible to losing his mind to all the hallucinogens.

I know that. Leo's message from his videos and posts is that if he shoots you in the foot, no feeling happens, but if you shoot him feeling happens.

That is the only but most critical piece of information. It is whether a person is a solipsist as in "I am seeing my screen, but you aren't seeing yours", which is demonstrably false as you are yourself aware; or whether they believe you may well be seeing your screen but that the "dreamer" is the one doing so. You probably know about p-zombies? I think Leo is of that belief. Although he could also be thinking of each moment laid out in a linear line such that you can go through each life and see from each apparent PoV. I managed to catch his video and did not find him clear on this but I think he believes we're p-zombies. You have to use this terminology to have a conversation but in the usual mystic way, and in my own experience, there was nothing saying other people must be p-zombies. More like a tree with many leaves. It has nothing to do with the people being separate from what is whole and one, this is just the terminology to have a conversation (terms like "you" or "others").

That is not what Leo is saying, he is saying he believes what you think you are seeing right now is a lie, as only what he sees exists. People are watching this guy lose his mind from drugs and encouraging it? It doesn't seem like a good thing to do for someone lol. My ego would not care much about other people, I'm basically a hermit. Feeling at one with inanimate walls and cars was what bothered me. In my own experience, the existence of moments outside of this one right now was never shown to be false somehow. It's very difficult to remember as this is an experience from April or May 2020... But it was more like a sense that WE are one and are existence itself, since when I came back I wrote a trip report to other people rather than thinking they're p-zombies. So I guess as in, like I'm currently "talking to myself" whereby I post this, and then I read it from your end. Anyone who gets "there", I wrote shortly following, is completely equal such that a lifelong monk and serial killer are completely equal because all monkness and killerness is gone "there" and only their shared "beingness" remains. Something like that. I did not even know about nonduality at this time, so I called it Monism and it's only following this that I Googled for Monistic religions and found Advaita... My analysis that I wrote was of a tree, where we can believe we are leaves or realize ourselves to be the tree. Pushing any further on the dosing is blackout or whiteout city. I did not learn anything from exploding into neon and then blacking out on DMT. It was like being anaesthetized.

Birth and death as a cycle is not considered as your physical birth and death only, but every single moment, as it is ever-changing. If you identify with a self, it is subject to constant change and is thus constantly dying and being reborn. However, if you do not identify with any self (Anatta) and recognize there is no self, and hence nobody to live or die, the cycle is broken. The cycle continues but you recognize you are not what is living and dying. It's legit as simple as that.

He is stating clearly that he realized everyone (such as you and me) are imaginary p-zombies. He's being very clear. Read between the lines, he's talking to himself. He does not believe you are reading anything he's posting or watching any video he makes. I also took shit tonnes of drugs, nothing like that occurred, and it also never occured to Buddha or w.e. The usual mystic solipsism differs from Leo's, as they concede others are not p-zombies, but merely that the experiences of others are had by their Self or nothingness, depending on tradition as there's no-self in Buddhism.

It likes to play fancy dress where our masks are the ego and self. Some psychedelics take the mask away and you understand that everyone is one there, as being there requires the mask go which leaves only pure being. So the Pope and a serial killer, when "there", are literally the same. Everything Pope about the Pope and everything killer about the killer is part of the mask that necessarily shatters before you can reach "there". Lifelong meditation is kind of a joke because as soon as you're "there", which we all reach because the self WILL die, none of that person who did all the meditating is there anymore. They're fucking GONE. Completely. Eviscerated. NOTHING of them remains, and all of their years of reading and practicing is gone. And that's how they get "there". I've been "there" once, that is why I ever ended up somewhere like this.

I'd like to know the answer but the question stops occuring at breakthrough... Then I don't ask any questions, or know any answers either... It's the strangest thing that in the highest states of actual knowledge, there isn't any knowledge. Knowledge ends, only "being". But then when we come back, inevitably we want to understand what happened. And our memory is pretty good so it's not like a total non-starter, but it's still describing the state and is not the state itself... Pretty obvious really, you can describe the sensation of riding a rollercoaster to someone in as much depth as you want, it will not be the same as actually being on the coaster. That's what can't properly be transcribed.

I have yes. I was addicted to psychedelics for a good period of time. One of my DMT trips gave me actual PTSD. Another one fucked me up to the point of yelling and crying, and literally flushing it all and ending the chapter completely. Though fortunately only one of the two gave me PTSD. In no trip I have ever had however, and I have tripped really hard (combinations of high doses of acid and DMT and ketamine etc), have I EVER felt love. I felt an MDMA type rush once, and awe/astonishment some other times. But never love. I barely feel it in sober life either, or on MDMA. I do love my family but I know my ability to experience love is very muted.

Thanks for the job you do. I knew a firefighter captain (or was applying to be a captain?), he was the dad of some good friends of mine. Really wonderful and friendly guy. Always remember him doing "emergency driving" in his people carrier for us when we were young. Anyway, back on topic it should be possible. Theoretically it IS just a reaction of the mind. If someone could turn off senses like hearing or seeing etc, they should be able to turn off feeling too.

I don't ride the train much, but when in a very busy spot like that it is easier to imagine removing perceptions from the world. E.g. you can close your eyes (which isn't the same as being blind, we see black, but still), and then notice the entire audience sound is like when you zoom in on the people on Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 or Zoo Tycoon or something (lmao), and imagine if you removed hearing and went deaf, and see how people just vanish. And you can see that you are looking at nothing but a product of your own mind. Even a materialist understands that what we experience is a product of the mind. It's interesting to seriously realize it sometimes. Especially in crowded settings like that.

Careful, or you'll be sent off to the gulags.

Never forget, Leo is God and could have changed this girl's fate.

This is his career dude, and he lives in Vegas partying and such. He can't retire unless he goes Kaczynski-mode hermit in the woods lol.

If Leo was God, he'd save the little girl in "Bridge to Terabithia".

Look into a mirror. You know the person in the mirror is just the image reflected in the mirror, you know it is not a sentient being. You don't find awareness in the head of the image of the person in the mirror, you find it here. When looking at other people, that is also where they are. There is NO NEED to rob them of their lives and perception as Leo has been teaching. As long as you understand it is happening "here" and NOT in the image's head. The person is just an image... You think you experienced more than whatever finite set of experience is on your mind right now: e.g. if you aren't currently looking at green, you believe you have experienced green in the past and that it was experienced by you from the perspective of here. The only way you can attach you-ness to that memory of seeing green once is because you remember it. And that is when people believe in p-zombie solipsism, when they believe in linear time and also neglect the memory function. See another person's perspective is just like your perspective last week, except you don't remember it. This is allowed for by there not being any real linear time. Linear time is the only way the infinite can be experienced (if you overlayed a bunch of separate colors, none of those individual colors remain as they all intermingle).

"Noticing The External World Doesn't Exist" That is obvious, as you know everything you have ever known or ever could know is a projection of your own mind. Anything that's a "thing" will always rely on some form of perception. Perception is what gives things thing-ness. Without perception everything is nothingness, like how mathematics is not made of some sort of "substance". There IS no substance at all. There is only apparent substance (thing-ness) by perception.

I'm listening to the video again right now as I only got to an hour or so when the video was up. It's getting off of a nondual realization and into something that reminds me of Creationism where "it" inherently has traits, such that it makes up history and chemistry because it has a "desire" of some sort to trick itself... I can see intermingling with typical 5-MeO-DMT realization, that you've never experienced anything but your own mind. "You ARE experience" etc. but that is literally just nondual teaching, and it isn't related to the rest of what is being said. Basically it's P-Zombie ideas in with nondual teaching. As he says, if you kill someone in your dreams you don't wonder if they suffer, as you know they aren't real. I KNOW I am aware so he is admitting he himself is a P-Zombie and the rest of you are too, if I took that message to be true then suffering never happens if I shoot you all. I'm not "attached to dreaming" myself, I'm pretty bored of this life. A few more seasons of my fave cartoon, maybe, I don't much care for anything else. I'd rather re-dream the same sense input types (I enjoy pretty colors) but better. Or just re-dream I'm IN one of my favorite shows. I'd do that right now if I could.

Lol I was actually being serious... I've definitely noticed that Bipolars are prone to spontaneous awakening experience, with or without "learning" things. There is a Bipolar on this board who will surely confirm @BipolarGrowth and also Frank Yang has Bipolar disorder. And also on many non-spiritual self help related videos, there is a personality type where it's just like "omg my entire life is changed by this video!" flooding comments. I'm very curious as to the relation. I enjoy psychology a lot.

Are you diagnosed with a mental illness? I've noticed that people with specific mental illnesses have a very easy time having epiphanies just from things like watching a video.

The thing is, if that is what he thinks then you have direct evidence that he has gone crazy, of course, as you are aware. I noticed in his video he maybe was using time in an odd way, and just a few things that he said made it unclear. Which sucked because I wanted his clear opinion on whether he believes in NPCs or merely every experience being had by the same nobody. When he said for example, that others are not seeing simultaneously to you. Well, simultaneous kind of works within the confines of time. As we actually experience time, we only experience "now", and in our experience, that "now" moment changes in content. If you were at the beach a week ago, that experience is being had "now" just like whatever content has filled that space. If you had no memory of that event, and no ego, that experience could as well be ascribed to another individual. There is no difference between an experience you had but don't remember, and another person's experience in this moment... As it is all "now" and simultaneous as such. It is the apparent passage of time that spreads it out like the pages of a flickbook when the entire flickbook exists as a single unit, already whole and complete. In terms of NPCs, when you look at a person, everything about them is a construction of mind, their appearance is a hallucination, etc etc. Their true "appearance" is nothingness. As there is not really anything "out there". Also true when you see your own face in a mirror. The person in the mirror does not have experience from the side of the mirror, no image has experience and all people including your own reflection are images. All experience takes place in the same HERE and NOW. Literally the "perspective" from which you view everything is the same precise location from which the images of other people standing in front of you also see the world from... But to confine it to one ego etc, it is very peculiar. It's more like all people are you experiencing the world (also you - nothingness) via different masks and egos built upon a story of memories. You are experiencing me typing this in the same way you experienced an event you remember from last week. It is all now, all simultaneous.

I only came here due to drug revelations, it is the sole reason I have any interest in nonduality at all. The trips I had strip ego and do all sorts of bizarre things alien to our daily lives. I think very mentally unwell people seeking "help" from spirituality will probably just drive themselves into psychosis. As such if you need advice you should probably see a medically trained psychiatrist. I don't believe OCD and schizophrenic people read some "spiritual" stuff and are suddenly well. The highest I ever got was taking 5 hits of acid and then smoking a breakthrough dose of DMT at the peak. That is when I reached a place where the ego was left behind, and coming back from that were several realizations... E.g. the irony of monks meditating for their entire lives, when all monk-ness to that monk is just part of the separate self, and in actuality that monk is equal to a murderer child rapist junkie, because it is just existence itself and alone. The monk and murderer and all of that, is like a mask on top of pure being that falls away like all things. That is the type of solipsism I encountered personally. That is the type of solipsism discussed by figures like Rupert Spira, and ancient mystics. "No others" is not meant to mean that everyone is an NPC but you. That is when the ego, which is of course limited (ALL appearances are finite, infinity = nothingness substantially) attempts to comandeer control of the infinite. Which is impossible because it's like a character on a screen trying to somehow comandeer control of the screen. Appearance trying to somehow become the infinite which is inherently total nothingness, non-appearance. It's just an appearance, zero causative power of any kind!!!!

I've done more than enough. Solipsism where every experience is had by you, is not equivalent to NPC theories. This is the only thing that matters when discussing solipsism, and it was not addressed. Or it was hinting at NPC theories. There is not any sound reasoning to believe in NPC type solipsism at all. This is not the same as your girlfriend being made of nothingness, this is not the same as your girlfriend's thoughts being had by you...