UnbornTao

Is this guy AI, Leo?

AInception?

Am I too paranoid, or is this guy fucking AI? Weird facial expressions. One of his eyes does funny things. Constantly looking down. Heavily edited video. His articles are from 2026. LinkedIn account from 2004, profile picture changed a year ago. The whole thing smells fishy. Fuck, I hate this.

Lol

No awakening needed for not being a gullible fool.

Tell the others, then. Especially the ones who believe Leo. You'd have to have as many awakenings as me to discern charlatans, and I'm not kidding. What I'm talking about is way beyond a psychedelic state. You think I'm playing games with you.

If anything, this alien business has proven how gullible most people are. They'll eat up anything that sounds remotely spiritual and transcendental, with no real interest in asking what's actually going on for the person claiming such things. If certain terminology aligns with your views, and it comes from a worldview you favor, then it must be true. Before taking people's word for it, pay attention to his failure to record such a video. The implications of that failure are bigger than you think.

You ignored my points. I deliberately used the term awakening so that you couldn't weasel your way out of this one. Even then, whatever you call it, it is not an experience either way. We might as well call it Banana. You still assume that taking a drug "increases consciousness." You still tacitly hold the matter as an experience. You were equally self-assured with the recording. Knowing you've fallen into the psychedelic path, I think it's safe for me to say that's not what I'd call whatever you're pointing to. From what I can tell, you're referring to some kind of subjective state to which you've given the status of "Truth."

How come you couldn't make the recording (regardless of what's claimed)? We often mistake subjective states for "the Truth." I'm more interested in investigating the source of that inability (and perhaps the refusal to publicly acknowledge it). This is precisely how "everything is absolute" and "everything is imaginary" can both be marshaled in favor of any argument you like. At some point it devolves into conceptual games untethered from actual experience. We don't call clipping our nails an awakening. Perceiving something is not the same as becoming conscious of it. Having an emotion is not enlightenment. Feeling a feeling is not an awakening. And so on.

What category do you think in, such that you think you can record yourself turning into something that you can't, on camera? Could it be that you took an experience for something it was not? This is a good case study to reveal what's actually assumed behind one's claims.

Did he try Salvia, though? Did he have the right genetics?

You said it is an experience, not me. Why? Again, this clarifies some things.

You are mistaken. If you think it is an experience, that explains a lot.

What isn't? Nor is it any kind of experience, but here we are. I'm serious, too.

You're going off Leo's script about INSANITY and all that nonsense. I like to bring up Ramana. What do you think happened to him? He just recognized the truth of his nature, and profoundly so. We have a lot of romantic ideals about these matters. And we certainly conflate experiences with consciousness all the time. Becoming conscious promotes freedom, and what you mention may occur as side effects of intense practice, but I was talking about "awakening," not spirituality or psychedelics. The effects you talk about are a function of the mind doing it. If they're negative, that may hint that it isn't really a breakthrough. What's true is true already, and you're doing fine. The effects can occur even without any breakthrough, so one can convince himself or herself that since he's experiencing the prescribed effects, he's having awakenings.

No, don't spread nonsense. You just realize what's already true.

There's Discourse as an option.

Mental breakdowns are not awakening. Take some time to ground yourself, and don't take your beliefs so seriously.

Oh, this is great for studying systems of belief. It can go either way - I'm X or Y (Or I'm not X or Y.) I do agree with the sentiment - admitting one's experience and not trying to superimpose notions onto it, pretending that they're true for you. I bet there's A LOT of that going around. As far as I'm concerned, the whole field of spirituality is based on these kinds of affectations. Do we know the difference, though?

Shit, my condolences. I'm sure she had a loving life. Dogs are the best.

And honestly? That's rare.

I thought that was a good thing?