How to be wise

One thing I disagree with Leo is his solution to the mind-body problem. He said that the reason why the brain controls your perception is because the brain is a ‘special’ perception itself. I disagree with this point. The reason is that the fact that ‘the brain controls your perception’ is itself a belief. It doesn’t matter what physical proof you have. The brain having anything to do with your perception will always remain just a concept. So the real solution to the mind-body problem is that there isn’t any mind-body problem to begin with! That problem was itself created by the ego. Do you guys disagree with this reasoning? If you do, I would love to hear your thoughts on this.

@Leo Gura what about sulbatiamine? Is that stronger than armodifinil?

I see a lot of people are being banned. The number of threads that are being closed are bigger than ever. A desperate crisis. I advise @Leo Gura to return the ‘speculative’ thread so that people can talk their own theories there. I doubt that you can make people stop sharing their theories, so I suggest you give them a corner for just that. Earlier you said that people should come here to learn and not to teach others. But if everybody comes to learn, who will they learn from? A lot of people just want to share there ideas about spirituality and so forth. Granted a lot of those people don’t know what they are talking about, but they will share it nonetheless. The best way to deal with this is to return the speculative science and philosophy thread. When you closed that thread before, you said just post that stuff into the self actualisation thread now. But clearly that was a mistake. They are polluting the self actualisation thread. If you don’t take measures, people will become fed up with this. You said that you were stage Yellow thinker, so show us how you will deal with this problem.

@Angelite The soul is a concept. Question it.

Lol. I watched the life purpose course recently. He said life purpose IS SECOND to enlightenment. Not the other way around.

This week’s video was quite good, and I agreed with most of it. But one part I didn’t agree with. Leo said that the brain is a special perception because it can alter your perceptions. The example he gave was that if you snort some psychedelics, then your perceptions change. However, isn’t the statement that “the brain controls your perceptions” itself another concept. It doesn’t matter if the fact holds that if you hit somebody in the head they will go unconscious. Still, it can never be more than a belief that the brain is any more different than the stomach, and that it can somehow control your perceptions. Correct me if I’m wrong, but this is how I see it. I’m a super skeptic.

And can you really know that? Really?

But can you really conclude from this that the brain or stomach have any effect on our perceptions. Can you really know that that's true?

Some spiritual teachers say that non-duality is an illusion. Is this a lack of understanding of non-duality, or is it an even more deeper realisation, where somehow non-duality goes full circle and eats itself. What do you guys think? Is this not non-dual enough, or too non-dual?

Giving him what...?

Some people suffer a lot more than others. How can we know? Easy. People who suffer a lot usually will complain about suffering or how bad their lives are. Someone who doesn’t suffer a lot will just carry on with his life. If a rich businessman suffered a lot, you would see him trying to lessen his suffering by taking drugs, alcohol or other distractions. Yet many of those businessmen are clean and you don’t see them complain about anything. If somebody suffers so much, you will see the tiredness and frustration in there faces. When suffering accumulates to a certain amount, it tends to sap all of the person’s energy. And yet some people are smiling, look quite open and happy, they go everywhere, they never complain about life. How then can you say that everybody suffers the same? Common sense.

I wasn’t very convinced in the past that Obama was a stage yellow thinker until I saw this video: If more people in Congress were like him, lots of problems would be better managed today.

As I carry on doing consciousness work, I am having an almost constant fear that I am going to vanish. I’ve tried to ignore this fear for a few weeks now, but these days it is getting stronger and stronger. I worry that this will affect my practice. I’ve tried watching Leo’s 2C-B trip report to try and convince myself that death is the most beautiful thing ever, but it is not working anymore. How to deal with this fear?

I understand that when taking psychedelics, you can become conscious of many facets of the absolute, like God, Infinity, Love, intelligence, perception is being, and nature of time. But how much of that is possible for permanent awareness. Is it possible to become permanently conscious of any one of those facets? And I mean 24/7 awareness for the rest of your life. What is the highest thing that you can become conscious of permanently?

@Leo Gura Some spiritual teachers don’t like giving too much importance to kundalini:

There have been no podcasts released for the past two episodes? Why not? @Leo Gura can you fix this please?

@Nahm How would you know?

Really? Do you really think that a Buddhist master is living 24/7 in 5-MeO consciousness: If that were true, why are they talking about “no-self” so much. There’s far more profound aspects to awakening that they should be talking about.

@John Lula Leo has a channel in iTunes.

@Serotoninluv What I mean is, if somebody did conciousness work for fourty years to expand their consciousness, what is the most they could be conscious of permanently. How does that compare to a 5-MeO peak experience? Which one is higher?

@Ampresus Personal Development is easy: 1. Find a problem you are facing currently in your life. 2. Do research on how to solve it (Leo’s booklist). 3. Use the book and its exercises to solve it.

@Leo Gura Are you aware that the last two episodes are not in the podcasts?

The writer ‘Bernardo Kastrup’ says that between Idealism and Solipsism, the latter is just too sceptical. But isn’t that the more correct one? The more skeptical we are (the less beliefs we’re willing to entertain) the more correct the theory should be, right? What do you guys think about this.

@Superfluo Jesus, how can I read such a long thread! Please summarise the main points.

You can only forget a thought, never reality.