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Still waiting for Leo to make a toilet posture video. Perfect example of how western culture is back asswards af

No idea when/if this'll happen but I wouldn't be surprised if he includes some of David Hawkins' work someday (the gentleman / enlightened master on the video he recently posted on the blog). I'd also be interested to hear Leo's take on "Reality Transurfing" by (Russian quantum physicist) Vadim Zeland. Have skimmed through it and listened to what's in English on YouTube. Sick book about nature of reality, manifestation. One key idea that highly resonated with me is that "reality is free to manifest itself in infinite variety". Additionally it's recommends that one quit placing too much importance on things, and instead act as a passive observer. Other great ideas include "intentions", "pendulums", etc.

@Huginn No! From what I've heard peeing in the middle of the night is a sign that something is wrong (don't be too alarmed, it's very common). It could just be that you drank too much before bed. But besides that, a healthy individual should be able to go a full night without waking up to go pee. Frequent peeing at night is a sign of body toxicity. At least, this is what Loren Lockman, huge proponent of extended water fasting, has said. It makes some sense evolutionarily. We wouldn't want to go out at night to go urinate or deficate somewhere when it's dark out and predators are running around doing their thing. In my experience, stopping eating and drinking a couple or few hours before bed makes it more likely that I don't need to pee in the middle of the night, and helps me feel more well rested the next day.

@Huginn most definitely, I'd treat it like psychedelics and ease into it. Test the waters a bit before diving into the deep end (tbf I haven't dove in the deep end yet myself, more like chilled in the hot tub with some 72 hour water fasts and intermittent dry fasting). In fact fasting can have some similar affects as psychedelics, for example hyper awareness, vivid dreams, increased visualization ability, etc. That being said, some have found dry fasting to be easier than water fasting. You don't deal with cold body problems as much, the health benefits are (even) more pronounced, and it's a bit more simple. Excellent time to lay around doing nothing. Also it's valuable to "fast" from all external sources of stimulation, or at least drastically cut down. Great excuse to lay in bed all day. Withdrawal symptoms can be very apparent. But back to fasting, trying some intermittent fasting is safe and doable and less intense, with plenty of benefits (especially over time). For example, stopping all consumption at a certain time in the evening, then resuming at a certain time in the morning, every day or most days. One huge benefit I've noticed is that sleep is way more restful on an empty stomach, and I don't have to wake up and pee in the middle of the night (which a healthy person should be able to do regularly). And for what it's worth, I've heard / read (for example in Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha) that fasting isn't at all necessary for spiritual growth. Of course we all dry fast most every night as we sleep.... but of course, an overall healthy diet and lifestyle, managing stress, etc is more important.

You could try the first rite of the "5 Tibetan Rites" (and all the other ones). At least, it's designed to make you dizzy. So maybe training a movement that made you dizzy would help you cope with daily... dizziness. No idea otherwise. Maybe having an empty stomach would help? Or maybe a slightly full stomach ? Good luck!

Dry fasting is immensely powerful. It creates intense competition amongst the cells in your body, and the healthier cells tend to survive while the damaged / weaker cells do not. There are (supposedly) even mechanisms within cells that cause them to self destruct and release their water and nutrients for other more healthy cells to use. It's important to be well nourished and hydrated in general. But throwing in some appropriately moderate / intermittent fasting, counterintuitively, helps you be more well nourished and hydrated in the long run. Truly works miracles. I'm convinced that ancient healers used fasting / dry fasting a lot. Of course, it's no substitute for a healthy diet and lifestyle.

The best "supplement" I've found for a good night's sleep is blue light cancelling eyewear. Putting em on when the sun goes down / a couple or few hours before bed helps your melatonin naturally rise. And of course destimulating before bed, and sleeping in a cool, dark, quiet room. For food supplements specifically, magnesium is great for relaxation.

@Nahm nice! Thank you for that, I'm glad there are others who have had a similar experience. It was and is super freaky and creepy... like, I couldn't go talk to someone to make me feel better, I would just see them as a dream character / myself. Creepy! And such an immense feeling of loneliness. Like, oh so I'm just a dreamer, eternally alone? And nothing is real... I had intellectually thought / believed that to be the case, in some sense. But when it's shown to you it sure is... freaky and creepy, and part of me wanted to go back to my cozy life of things being real and significant. Getting outside walking in nature did help a bit though. But everything felt entirely pointless. And always in doing this work, in the back of my mind it was largely to make circumstances better for "me", the ego. But I realized that ultimately that desire has to be dropped. It was a significantly humbling experience. But I'm staying positive and all in all feel great and like that was an amazingly cathartic experience, and brought me closer to truth. Everything appears more dreamlike now, succumbing to addictions and temptations seems more repulsive to me, and I'm left with a sense of "okay everything is completely and utterly meaningless. I'm free to go create my own meaning anyway I choose". Also daily stresses seem a lot easier to cope with and like nbd in comparison. @herghly I do believe it was a beneficial experience. Eye opening at least. Just be prepared if you try it to potentially have a similarly intense experience! I know in the future I will be more prepared, less over stimulated, in a happier place etc.

@Salvijus I'm glad you enjoyed, I laugh a bit thinking back on it and even laughed a bit during like WOW this is no joke. As for whether the two should be mixed, I'm really not sure other than to say follow your heart. Both are extraordinarily powerful, and I realized through first hand experience that this spiritual journey truly is about dying and surrendering your life to something greater than yourself... so not for the faint of heart but I have faith that ultimately this endeavor is worth it. At the time, I felt (not entirely, but) quite unprepared. Which is why I kept pleading for God to go easy on me ?. There's still so much work to do, but this experience I feel has significantly jump started my spiritual awakening and started a new chapter in my life. It remains to be seen how well I can integrate the lessons into daily life. Safe tripping!

1 tab al-lad and 1.5 tabs 1p-lsd (had been 2 weeks since last trip, and had microdosed with 1p-lsd ~15 micrograms once the day before and once several days before. Kriya yoga seemed enhanced with the microdoses as well). The insanity started after I also smoked a small amount of cannabis (which I've realized is far too big a part of my life) about 3.5 hours after dosing. (EDIT: I also ate a good amount of "sprinkles" off my fingers which has a more psychedelic effect than smoking, and I feel likely contributed to the experience). This is what led to feelings of insanity. In the future I will be trying to use smaller doses, as well as focusing on improving my life and spirituality all around, and using these substances less recreationally. (That rocket league game got pretty darn spiritual and profound though tbh). I could also add that a big theme for me was that it felt at times like everything in my visual field was looking at me, so to speak, and that everything was me, or an extension of me. And my thoughts / attitude / ability to surrender directly influenced how pleasant / horrifying the faces and things were. Also what the guy says 10 minutes into this video was highly accurate for me, at least as accurate as can be explained. Though I can't really see his drawing. The rest of the video is great too (and I wonder if having had some mild, non breakthrough dmt experiences in the recent past made this trip all the more intense).

Wow, it's funny you ask I have tried this recently and feel like "deadly combo" is a highly accurate description. I was tripping hard, listening to music and playing rocket league. It was hitting me how absolutely insane it was that I was alive in that moment, with all of the incredibly beautiful colors and music and how immensely fun it was, and felt an intensely deep feeling of gratitude as I had the most real sense of "melting into my experience". It was absolutely amazing and pure bliss. I stopped and thought it would be a great time to do some Kriya yoga, as something of a sacrifice and to show my appreciation for the life I've been handed. I was performing the first Kriya initiation (for what it's worth I wear grounding straps when doing yoga), only got to Om Japa when things started getting really weird... I was in the corner of my room, sunlight coming through the windows and mini trampoline in front of me... and it started feeling like I was floating up high above in some sort of nature scene (despite being inside my room). And that everything around me was "mind stuff" and a dream which had quite literally been thought into existence by me (maybe reading Arthur Eddington's section in Quantum Questions prior to tripping intensified this feeling). The floating sensation was intense, it felt like I had absolutely nothing to hold on to. It felt like I was sorta floating over a road (again was inside) kind of about to leave earth. It was at once really cool, and then the next moment really freaky and scary. It felt like the first lucid dreams I'd had, in which I would immediately get scared once I realized I was dreaming. I tried to have pleasant thoughts about it, as it felt like I was sort of floating in nothingness, with all of this mind stuff surrounding me. I started feeling like I was leaving my body, and it hit me hard (whether or not this was an accurate description of what was happening), that I was dying. I was like oh so this is it, I'm having a death experience. Kriya became too powerful, and I asked sorta fearfully like "should I be laying down for this?" I did lay down for a while and it continued, as I sorta went back and forth from something of a non dual state to "real life" (which was seeming more unreal than it ever had before). My breath felt like my connection between me, awareness (aka source or whatever you wanna call it) and me the ego. I felt intense purging of negative emotions as I tried to let go and surrender. I was a bit too freaked out so I got up and started walking around in my apartment. Pacing back and forth felt like I was walking through infinity. I felt trapped and like I'd been running around for an eternity. What was "killing" me was that I'd completely lost it, and felt completely insane and like there was no going back from this. It still felt like I was dying. Like there'd be no return to normal life after this. I was a bit tired and thought to nap, but it occurred to me that going to sleep would kill me. It was all a bit much for me at the time, it felt like external forces were leading the way and I was helplessly trapped in eternal moments, and that in one breath I would feel and think soooo much. I kept thinking that it would pass and I would be back down to earth eventually, but that wasn't very consoling. I was thinking like "please go easy on me" and "this is a lot for me, I'd be okay with more slow spiritual growth through yoga and meditation, and right living." It felt like the external forces (my higher self? Aliens?) were communicating to me through my heart. I would ask questions about what to do in life, some things I've been struggling with going back and forth on having cognitive dissonance over, and my heart would start beating super fast as I thought about different answers to my questions. I felt intense sorrow for the wrongs I'd committed in my life, and the most overwhelming feelings of hoping the absolute best for everyone and all of existence. And to be purified and to only have the most benevolent intentions, and to do whatever was best for the highest good. I decided to get in bed for 20 minutes. Put my sleep mask on and closed my eyes. It felt almost eternal. Feelings of existential despair ensued, it wasn't super pleasant. But I found comfort knowing it was extinguishing karma and would pass. Eventually the 20 minutes were up. I was still in this feeling dead state, but tried to go about my day. Got a more thorough walk in which felt great, some healthy food, meditated deeply later at night, and went to bed. It was profound to say the least and something I'll not soon forget. Trip safely!

I take full responsibility for this mix-up, I thought the Reddit post read "insane", which is what I was agreeing to and thought I had copied and pasted into my post (and am now acting like the Redditor meant "insane" even though we all know he meant "inane"). Some of Leo's claims ARE silly and inane too though.

Exactly! I mean how about a little proofreading... some people are so oblivious.

Yes!!! Your gonna achieve some serious pineal gland gains with that stuff. Enjoy the vivid dreams. And wow that sounds great, now I want to eat some brain. What have I become....

Seems to me that Connor from the Quora post has some personal issues with the notion of spirituality in general. As for scientific theories not having anything to say about the fundamental nature of reality... this is the "shut up and calculate" approach (what Feynman had to keep reminding his graduate students to do because they were freaking out about all the ramifications of QM). Sure if you want to solely be pragmatic we can treat scientific theories simply as useful tools that help predict outcomes of experiments, that's one way to go about it and is perfectly valid and useful. But the questions remains... what is the fundamental nature of reality? And how is it that quantum phenomena can be? There is such weirdness and nonlocality in QM (i.e. the appearance of space between objects is entirely illusory, there is no such thing as "time" and "space", they are instead emanations of some more fundamental underlying "stuff"), that it really paints a weird picture in our mind as to what the theory could be telling us about reality.... I mean, if space isn't real then where th is the universe and when did it happen. It's almost like it's an infinite singularity or something??? And like it's entirely relative???? And that's just one aspect of quantum weirdness. But of course, QM doesn't fully capture the fundamental nature of reality. Like Leo points out continuously: "The map is not the territory". The Reddit post and Rational Wiki article both suck and did nothing to "debunk quantum mysticism". The rational wiki article just showed examples of people making unjustified (in rational wiki's opinion) claims about quantum mechanics and how people can be motivated to do so. The Reddit post was just an example of how some people can be lame haters. But I do agree entirely with the Redditor when they said: "This point is so inane that I don't even know how to criticise it."

Wow skate liver oil... what an obscure and unusual recommendation . Such great advice! Lots of great ones in this thread, I'll add...... brain. There are supplements sourced from grass fed cows (quite expensive unfortunately), or if you can get your hand on the meat itself and cook it. I would think that eating brain (from a healthy grass fed cow) could support good brain health. I mean, if your brain is missing out on any nutrients that brains need to fully function (like phosphatidylserine), maybe eating brain can provide that for you. I'm trying it out myself (for 3 days so far). There is some promising anecdotal reports online, but unfortunately it's difficult to research this because if you search "is brain a good nootropic", or "is brain good for your brain", you'll mostly just find brain nootropics like modafinil and the like. If none of that interests you, consider phosphatidylserine. Potent cortisol inhibitor, great for memory mood focus etc.

Peter Russell has an excellent free (or pay as much as you want) meditation course with explanations for how to meditate followed by guided meditations. Focuses on effortlessness and letting go and not trying. Highly recommended, unfortunately you gotta wait a week between lessons before you get the next one ?no quick fixes here http://www.peterrussell.com/HMWET/index.php

My thoughts on this are: so assuming the teleportation device is a contraption the guy walks into which destroys all the information within the teleportation device in room A and then restores the information at the teleportation device in room B... there's a problem with this. The problem is, the information in the teleportation device in room A includes that the guy is in room A, and indeed the entire state of the universe with the guy in room A. Like Leo talked about in the QM video and like QM has shown us, you can't separate an object from the rest of reality. So, the guy emerging from the device in room B would NOT be a perfect clone of the guy in room A. For all intents and purposes, he might look exactly identical. But if we could look very closely, say at the protons which make up the guy (that, in Nassim Haremein's theory contain all of the universe's information in a 2d surface surrounding the proton), we would see that this is Room B Guy, and we destroyed Room A Guy (sorry Room A Guy) (but then Room A Guy will argue rightly that information cannot be destroyed, so that really all we did was kill him, sorry again Room A Guy). If we WERE to create a perfect clone of Room A Guy, we would have to restore the entire universe to the state it was in when Room A Guy pressed the teleport button... i.e. he would still be in Room A and not teleport and nothing would happen (or I guess, the entire universe would travel back in time a Planck time or so, from Room A Guy's POV). Either way, I'm never stepping in that kind of teleportation device (I'm good with wormholes though). We probably won't be able to ever read the information surrounding a proton, so the guy will just come out saying "wow that worked! This is me, the original", when the original was actually killed in Room A a la The Prestige.

One exercise that has for me resulted in some a-ha moments / glimpses / shifts in consciousness / awakening experiences is to "ignore everything". Ultimately, everything is concept. Even enlightenment, even that "everything is the same", and all conceptualizations and "explainings" of reality. The goal is to go beyond concepts into a state of no-mind, or no concepts. So to elaborate, a great exercise is to: sit in meditation. Forget everything you know. Forget enlightenment, forget that you're trying to achieve something, or "figure anything out". Now gently but thoroughly "ignore everything". Any sensation/feeling/perception that you become aware of, "look the other way" with your attention. Just like if there were an annoying noise you might ignore, ignore EVERYTHING. Thought arises in awareness, ignore it. The sight of the back of your eyes, ignore it. Sounds, feelings, ignore them. Become completely and utterly disinterested in your experience, nothing in it is what you're looking for. The next thought you have isn't going to be the one that figures everything out for you. Let your attention rest and don't place it on anything in particular. What might happen is that thoughts and sensations are sorta flowing around you but you're just there ignoring all of it, til all that's left is the sensation of you ignoring things.... ignore that. What's left to place your attention on when you've ignored everything?

I think Rupert Spira has a lot of good content about this on YouTube. It's all about being aware, but not of any thing or object in particular. Objectless awarneess For me, I often notice a weird shift when I ask myself "am I aware" (one of Rupert's teachings), and check whether or not in that moment I am aware. It's especially useful after moving my awareness around a bit and getting a feel for the "muscles" involved in doing so. I do something like the following: I ask myself am I aware of X (X could be anything... my thoughts, sounds, feeling in body, visual field etc). And I sort of scan through everything so... am I aware of the sounds around me? *actively check if I am* (important part). Yes, I'm aware of the sounds. am I aware of myself thinking this sentence? *actively check* yes I am am I aware of the feeling in my chest *actively check* yes I am now... "am I aware". *actively check*... yes I am. And in that moment when you actively check if you're aware, awareness becomes aware of itself. Not of an elephant or a measurement or the state of a system or any qualities whatsoever other than pure awareness. It will remain a challenge to see elephants and everything else as infinity, but exercises like that can give you a glimpse. As for "we affect things by observing them", that's really a consolation to human intuition. It's not ultimately the case that this is true. Really us observing the thing is itself an observation. We're not collapsing the wave function, the wave function is itself collapsing into a reality where such an observation is being made by a subject "you". It's like, okay the scientist collapsed the wave function of the particle by observing it, but who collapsed the wave function of the scientistist making the measurement by observing him/her? And who/what collapsed that wave function? Ultimately there's just this universal wave function describing states that the universe could be in. It's not that the scientist caused the particle's wave function to collapse, it's that the universal wave function collapsed into a scientist making the measurement. And it's anyone's guess as to why a wave function collapses into a particular reality. Quantum mechanics offers no explanation as to why the wave function collapses the way it does (i.e. why the particle ends up here when we measure it rather than over there). It's pure magick.

Consider a meditation bench. It's not one of the suggested poses in the Kriya book, but it's provides a straight upright spine, and I gotta think if sitting is allowed then this would be. And it's very comfortable and doesn't require much flexibility. Only troublesome spot is the ankles, but putting a towel or blanket under your feet solves that problem. And unless you're using your hands, resting them on your thighs or in your pockets is very comfortable

Keto diet is amazing for some things, not so great for others. For anyone eating a typical SAD kinda diet, a temporary ketogenic diet is extremely valuable (several months to however long it takes to get rid of excess fat). It allows your body to learn how to better use fat for fuel. And for fat loss, the keto diet is incredible. It's also great for skin conditions, mental acuity, etc etc. However, for most people I would personally recommend only doing a ketogenic diet temporarily (and dipping into ketosis regularly via exercise and fasting). There are just too many nutritious carbohydrate rich foods out there. Besides tasting amazing, carbs also support a good mood, are protein-sparing (i.e. muscle preserving), good for hormonal health etc. I think what's important is to just become "fat adapted", so your body can switch between fat and sugar as fuel (without going through weeks of "keto flu"). A cyclical ketogenic diet is also something you could look into. Look up "leangains", it's an intermittent fasting protocol that basically advocates fewer carbs on "rest days", more carbs on "training days" (perfect for body composition). And if a keto diet is calling to you, I highly recommend going for it. There are a ton of benefits to be had, including cellular autophagy, euphoria, effortless fat loss, energy, mental clarity, etc. And it's perfectly natural....certainly many of our ancestors went through periods where carbohydrate rich foods were incredibly scarce. For example wintery months, or during ice ages when we were running around hunting mammoths..... Good luck!

Would using a meditation bench (and kneeling posture) work as well for the kriya yoga exercises?

Consider fermented veggies rather than a probiotic pill... Some raw sauerkraut juice would contain WAY more bacteria in a WAY more bioavailable form. Also look into different PREbiotics (resistant starch like raw potato starch or green bananas, as well as plenty of fruits and veggies) I also second shilajit from above, incredible stuff. Not sure if you're vegetarian but collagen, bone marrow etc is very important, as well as organ meats (there are some great supplements for liver, heart, brain, etc every organ). Another great animal food "supplement" is raw egg yolks (high quality eggs). Unbelievable amounts of nutrition including plenty of cholesterol (a good thing!!!) Ill also throw in mucuna pruriens - amazing herb containing l-dopa. Great for mood, energy, motivation, even sensory clarity raw cacao powder - amazing for mood. Great for seretonin lovers black ant powder - potent energy tonic that's great for hair skin nails and sexual vitality edit: have to include medicinal mushrooms. Cordyceps is my personal favorite but lion's mane, reishi, Chaga and others are great too edit: also a trace mineral supplement is among the most important. Also for a multivitamin recommendation, look up garden of life's multivitamins. They're great because they're capsules with real food (nothing synthetic). It's nice popping in a pill and knowing you're getting some broccoli spinach apple beet carrot tomato strawberry ginger kale etc etc etc just like that

Just to put my $0.02 into the mix...... Perfect diet (for health AND for consciousness): I can fully sympathize with those that are against meat consumption, however if you totally exclude all animal foods you are certainly forgoing a TON of incredibly nutrient rich foods such as organ meats, eggs, etc. And while many people eat WAY too much meat (bodybuilding community), eating some is perfectly healthy and natural and is something humanity and it's ancestors have been doing for millions of years (imo, YMMV). Especially if you are exercising, getting some meat in helps a ton with energy and vitality. That being said, protein is the hardest macronutrient for your body to digest and utilize (only does so with about 70% efficiency, whereas carbs are around 85%, fat is around 99%), so it's probably best to eat it in the middle of the day far away from bedtime. Just be sure to make it as karma free as possible and feel some gratitude to that animal for its life force..... I'll also add something that has been working amazingly well for me lately: go to bed on a relatively empty stomach. I've been trying to stop all consumption (food and water) around sunset, and resuming about an hour after I wake up (for a 12-14+ or so hour dry fast). My dreams have been (even) more vivid, and I feel incredibly well rested and AWAKE in the morning (and throughout the day). I'm fully in on the intermittent dry fasting bandwagon.