Soul Flight

I follow Joseph Campbell and Allan Watts mostly. So reality seems to be that absolutely everything is a metaphor and/or a symbol. Your skin, bones, dirt, flowers, houses, sky, sunset, planets, etc. It is all a metaphor. Everything is mythology also. Everything is a movie or the "hero's journey." Everything is derivative and a blur. So ancient man or culture is a blur and a smear into today's modern life. We retain a lot of "pagan" elements. Nothing is pure. It is all contaminated. Following Lex Fridman and artificial intelligence, maybe everything is math, language, or information. It is quantum physics. It is all a dream and we are god. The Hindu concept of maya. It is all illusion.

@Leo Gura Hola sir. Maybe you could give us a vague idea about how we might damage our bodies. Nasal issue from snorting? Any anal issues from plugging? Or did you just fall and hurt yourself? Thanks for all your content.

Does awakening require transcending gender? Should we eliminate the duality of gender? My god realization is I am god having a heterosexual male experience? I guess the Buddha eliminated all desire and thus suffering and was no longer interested in sex? So is Leo interested in sex? If I awaken will I lose my libido? Did Leo as God imagine a world where he sticks syringes (DMT) in his bum to slide that slippery slope to gay sex? Did I as god imagine Leo and DMT as a gateway to gay sex? Did we dream up this entire universe just to stick something in our bum? Thanks

Bumping this post. Does Leo's journey move him/us closer to bisexuality? Our journey from high school macho heterosexuals to psychedelics seems like a journey to at least move closer to bisexuality and non-duality and a focus on love and a move away from the stigma of societal norms and roles. All this talk of expanded consciousness and alien consciousness seems to imply a move toward tolerance and receptiveness of transcending gender norms and our own orientation. Is it a move toward Burning Man orgies? Thanks

Please remember it is unpredictable. Anywhere from 3 grams and up can tear reality and send you to the moon or to hell. Be prepared to self soothe or pace or wait for 3 hours to peak and then try to salvage the trip. Can you notify some friends you may call or text them in crisis? Can you get a trip sitter? Fireside Project has a support line which you can use. A heroic dose in the dark with earbuds and an eye mask can really amplify the trip. You travel inward. You are immersed in the oceanic boundlessness. Each trip can be incredibly different. The mush lures you into a false sense of security and then takes a hard left turn. Respect the mush.

Thanks for sharing. Some of us have been there Lol! I have had crazy trips anywhere from 3g to 8g of dried shrooms. There are many cool images of awakening. There is one where a guy has a bird cage for a head and the little door is open and the bird has flow the coop. Try a google image search to see if you can find your photo.

Howdy. So I assume Leo is a multimillionaire and has time to plug DMT maybe 100 times in a year. Maybe more. Maybe Leo can explain if he does it every other day or once a week or what. Or Leo can give us a recommended schedule of plugging. Most of us are working 9 to 5 and can only plug DMT on the weekends. But maybe Leo is even busier than us putting together all this content and doing research. But the average Joe could only plug DMT once a week or less I assume. Should the average Joe abandon his life and sit beneath the Bodhi Tree with his bum in the air? Should the average Joe pursue other methods like meditation? Should the average Joe accept a much slower pace of awakening stretched out over 50 years? Thanks.

I have not experienced an eyes open standing up waking experience of time stopping. But I have experienced similar things in the dark with my eyes closed. If you want to continue the journey, listen to Terrance McKenna and Alan Watts and take psychedelics and lay in bed with your eyes closed in the dark for 6 to 12 hours. Heroic doses will get you there. It does seem to be the monad or enlightenment or satori or the cosmic one. I also recently started to pray but more to please my inner child. I also begged the universe to show me the ultimate truth when I was on mushrooms. The mushroom showed me. The mushroom seems to be slowly revealing answers to me with each new trip. It is more like the first domino was knocked over and now they will slowly continue to fall. Be safe.

Thank you for the apology Leo. I am so proud of you. Anyone notice the "strange loop" aspect of Leo's journey? We do all this work only to return to the beginning and just be nice and be human. T.S. Elliott: "We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring. Will be to arrive where we started. And know the place for the first time."

Does Leo expect marriages and households to crumble on the path to awakening? Will Leo have children? If Leo expects us to face insanity and even flirt with the risk of suicide (plugging DMT), will a relationship survive these strains? Thanks

I can relate. The more psychedelics open my heart and open my mind, the more vulnerable I am. I would say I have slightly more anxiety from psychedelic use just because I seem to be more of an empath now. I was living in an ego fantasy before. So it is the price we must pay. You may have triggered a PTSD event. Give it time. Sleep, eat healthy, exercise, drink water, see water, hear water, see nature, meditate, avoid caffeine, sugar, and salt, pray, etc.

So awakening is god realization and I have dreamed up Leo and plugging 5 Meo DMT and genders and heterosexual sex and I should enjoy my dream? If enlightenment is one step beyond awakening, would the Buddha have zero libido? In enlightenment I am all matter and all genders and all people? In awakening I am god dreaming up all these men and women and I am having sex with myself when I have sex with my girlfriend?

Howdy. I am seeing an issue with Leo recommending DMT but most of us working a 9 to 5. We may get pretty zonked or weird and may cause concern with our behavior at work. I am worried Leo is forgetting we are not multimillionaires and we must report to work Monday at 9 am. Leo seems to suggest doing psychedelics hundreds of times but I suspect he has a lifestyle which accommodates that. Could you explain your race car bicycle metaphor? Leo is the race car and DMT is the bicycle? 5 Meo is the race car and DMT is the bicycle? Thanks.

In many of Leo's videos he seems to suggest doing psychedelics hundreds of times. So maybe 52 times a year or less with 52 weeks in a year. But we are all pretty busy so maybe 3 times a month which is 26 times a year or less with 12 months in a year. I suppose the expectation is we may pursue our truth and abandon our career or change careers or abandon our relationship or find a new relationship. I suppose I am clinging to the idea of keeping my job and my relationship but somehow also becoming awakened. I am referring to 5 Meo DMT which I believe can be plugged. Thank you for all your responses.

It is a tough question. I would stop doing it. Detach from it and possibly detach from your friends. You are forming a habit to view the world through a critical lens and a humorous lens. It is a distraction. It is an addiction. Is it time to grow up and move on? Something inside of you is telling you to stop. Just food for thought here. I am on your side. But maybe your parents ridiculed you and your friends and now your inner child ridicules strangers. Are you all covering up insecurity and anxiety? Should the analysis and ridicule be turned inward? Does like attract like? Are you on this vibe or frequency and will the universe reflect it back to you? Are you nihilist or existential and feel there will be no repercussions? Small minds discuss other people. Big minds discuss big ideas. Your thoughts become your words become your actions become your world. Get it out of your system. Good luck.

And I'm pretty sure Freud would say it is a dream about you having sex with your mother. Lol! Just kidding. And Carl Jung would say it is the mythological archetypes and shadow self and collective unconscious.

And I will be more specific and say it is Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Chile (slight return) version at 5:14. Not the long version. I think the lyrics are different.

Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Chile. "I'll stand up next to a mountain. Chop it down with the edge of my hand." I can only guess. Maybe you are the mountain? Your brain is the mountain? Why is it carved out? Are you missing something? Are you making space for something? Has an outside force moved into your brain? All the individuals could be your moods or split personalities or potential life paths. The high priests could be your ego or shadow or subconscious. They are giving the orders. Maybe the mountain is your conscious and the carved out space is your subconscious. So there is an internal tension between all your control centers. Maybe all theses entities are your memories. There is a struggle. Something is wrong if it looked like hell. Your subconscious is scared and sending you a message. Your true absolute self has the bird's eye view.

I can only guess. If you watch the original WoodStock film I think Wavy Gravy or someone gets on the microphone and announces the "brown acid" is bad and users can go to the medical tent to assist a bad trip. There have been many names for acid like window pane, purple haze, LSD, lysergic acid, tabs, gel tabs, sugar cubes, liquid eye dropper, blotter, Lucy, etc. But really it is all the same molecule. There may be isomers or chimeric versions like left hand or right hand versions of the same molecule. It is on Wikipedia. There are 4 isomers but only 2 are psychoactive. They are chiral compounds with 2 stereocenters. So in theory these could bind differently to our neurons and synapses. So it is probably more about your health and well being, mind set, emotional state, dosage, stomach contents, surroundings, astrology, season, time of day, sleep patterns, etc. Your acid could be different purities, strength, age, etc. Be well. Be safe.

In no particular order: 1. Set and setting 2. Prepare the day before with mindfulness. Clean the house. Do laundry. Look at pretty pictures or save them to your phone. 3. Have a good 24 to 72 hours free. Enjoy the vibes and afterglow. 4. Prepare a list of weblinks to guided meditations, music, chill step Alan Watts, etc. Your phone may become difficult to use when tripping. 5. Test your stuff to confirm it and also screen for fentanyl or contamination, 6. Take a heroic dose on shrooms at 5 grams dried (Terrance McKenna). Lights off. Eyes closed. Lay in bed. 7. Charge your earbuds and phone. Have a charger handy. 8. You may want to record yourself or type notes to yourself or record a voice memo. 9. Fast 4 to 6 hours prior. Have snacks ready. 10. Exercise, drink water, eat healthy, sleep prior to use. Live a healthy lifestyle. 11. Be prepared for anxiety or panic attacks. 12. Your hands may shake, pupils dilated and darting, restlessness in your body. 13. You may not be able to control your thoughts and free association will run wild. It is very uncomfortable. You cannot find peace or calm down or self soothe. 14. Be prepared for your life force to be in danger. Be prepared for purgatory and time stopping. You may disassociate from your body and surroundings. Reality may feel torn or broken or a grotesque mockery. 15. You may feel nihilist or existential. Life may seem a game or a joke. It may all seem meaningless. 16. Try to have access to nature, water, birdsongs, etc. if you feel the desire to be in nature or be pure and uncontaminated. What I learned: I learned I am god and we are all one and there is an absolute and a non-duality.

Nice. Just curious. Was this your first MDMA experience? Were you fasting prior? When did you eat prior? How do you know the pill was 200mg? How long was the experience? Are you still having sensations a week later? Are you crying or having emotions a week later? Thanks.

Hello all. If we are god or god is dreaming all this, are we supposed to have an awakening or get enlightened? Is the point to embrace Maya and not go meta and acknowledge Maya? Are we gonna be angry with ourselves in the afterlife of non-duality because we went through all this trouble to have a good dream and we ruined the dream and kept trying to notice the dream? Or was our plan to have a dream and see if we could wake up from it? Is the goal to be a Holy Fool or Idiot Savant and enjoy this dream and Maya? Are we on the path of a strange loop to go through all the steps and in the end arrive at being the Holy Fool or Idiot Savant? Would god (us/me) be more pleased with Holy Fools or with Buddhas? The Holy Fool embraced the dream. The Buddha woke up and annoyed the dreamer. I was never a Holy Fool or Idiot Savant but I have a gnawing splinter in my brain and I feel compelled to strive for enlightenment or god realization or an awakening. Are we a glitch in the Matrix? Are we better off accepting our dharma? Thanks.

Howdy. Thanks to all the replies here. I appreciate it. @Ajax I am sure you are a nice person. I have a lot to learn. I need better vocabulary. Thanks for your questions. 1. I first discovered Hinduism and the concept of Vishnu dreaming all realities and the concept of Maya as the dream or the illusion. My feeling is Leo accepts this also. 2. I'm not sure what Leo says about awakening or enlightenment. But I suspect once I see it, maybe it is bullshit in that Zen Koan kinda way. The Zen Master's seem to wink and giggle and laugh at the apprentice once he awakens. It seems like I need to have the realization and experience that I was enlightened all along and I was god all along. I feel like Maya is the false reality or the dream or illusion. I am wondering why should we wake up from the dream? It would be "meta" to acknowledge Maya. I would be happier as a Holy Fool immersed in Maya. Right now I am intellectually acknowledging Maya and I have gone "meta." Ignorance is bliss so maybe it is better not to notice Maya. But I like what @Moksha said above about direct living and not being attached to the outcome of our pursuits and being at peace if we can get enlightened. My phrase "afterlife of non-duality" means "the absolute" or unity or death or the cosmic oneness. I wonder if when we die, we merge with "the absolute" and we might be annoyed with everyone on this forum trying to wake up from the dream/Maya. Is the point to be the Holy Fool? Maybe enlightenment is a mistake and a glitch in the Matrix. I hope that clarifies my posts.

@Moksha Thanks for the response. Is it fair to say "the absolute" has no agenda and is unconcerned whether we are holy fools, un-awakened, or awakened? All roles are equal? For some reason, those of us on this forum feel a compulsion to awaken and that is our dharma? I get the feeling the Holy Fool and the Idiot Savant are the pinnacle achievement. They enjoy life and accept Maya. If I awaken, I will simply be a Holy Fool who knows he's a Holy Fool and embraces it and therefore I will be "the absolute?" It is a strange loop for a Holy Fool to realize he is a Holy Fool and then be "the absolute" as a Holy Fool. I guess I'm just asking what is the point of awakening? It's perfectly ok to remain un-awakened right? We all have our dharma? If we pursue awakening for egoic purposes or to end suffering, is that greedy and these motivations will derail us?

This is more like 2 trip reports but on 5 g penis envy mushrooms I was Vishnu dreaming all realities and I saw Lakshmi caring for me as I dreamt. I saw how all emotions are great and everything is perfect. I swear I was never exposed to Hinduism or any of the polytheistic Hindu gods. I swear this must be an archetype from inside me. Another time I was on 2 tabs of LSD and I saw Krishna and Radha dancing the lila or maybe the rasalila. They were composed of stars and galaxies and they were very big and then I realized I was them and I was a single proton or quark in infinite time. We were all one. Once I again I swear I was never exposed to Hinduism. Only later did I google these experiences and find images and stories which matched my trips. These were mystical experiences.