Neo

Surely someone must have told the Naked Reality guy that Leo is into psychedelic drugs?

@Elzhi WTF? I was talking about your critique FFS.

No-one mentioned the search for "truth". This features quite highly in Leo's videos so is no doubt part of why people put so much effort and time into following this "pursuit". @Elzhi It's quite important to see critique of views here.

Although not quite the same topic, I woke up in the night and while half asleep thought, this is an opportunity to watch my thoughts, and then with in seconds felt the rapid eye movement of my eyes from inside the eyelids and only after a while this bothered me that I shouldn't be doing it or it was some fit, or such like that I abandoned it by opening my eyes. I would have never thought it possible to see the sleeping brain like that. One thing is for sure, although it take many people a long time to get break throughs they really want, here certainly is no other way to gain mastery over your mind.

Enlightenment requires being quiet for a minute... (joke) hehe (runs for cover)

Maybe you are looking for a deep introspective answer, but on a practical level, I feel like that if I'm cold, the house is too cold, I'm lacking nutrition, (I suffer IBS) hungry, tired.

I'm so grateful to you.

@Prabhaker Any tips on when the mind takes you with it? I mean, you are deviated from watching the mind because you keep going off on little tangents with your mind away from the task at hand? I have made other posts saying I keep falling asleep and this maybe the same problem - tiredness. I have taken to self enquiry with eyes open which helps, but then I'm not getting to do that meditation.

Cat problem My cat likes all the flavours in a multipack apart from Beef. The multipack works out a lot cheaper so I buy it and each week try the cat on Beef. Once a week when we try the beef, the same thing happens. The cat sniffs at the food, tries it, leaves it. Comes begging in the kitchen making a nuisance. Get locked out. Other cats come looking for food. Cat gets into stand offs with other cats. Becomes more nuisance. Other cats eat his food. By dinner time he is even more hungry so we put the other half of the beef out and the same thing happens all over again. He gets more and more hungry and doesn't learn from one week to the next that if he doesn't eat his food - there's trouble ahead. Am I mean to the cat? Is it me that is stupid because the cat isn't being fussy, but this is a survival instinct to only eat what it likes (thinks is safe) - if so, why do all the other cats eat it. Is the cat really the intelligent one, because he fears not for his next meal. If he doesn't like it, he doesn't link these events to the previous weeks occurance like a human would do? He also worries not for his next meal. He simply doesn't like it - so doesn't eat it? Are my criticisms of the cat actually a reflection of how a human would be neurotic over what occurred from one week to the next - and the cat SIMPLY DOES NOT CARE OR THINK ABOUT IT?

I hope you don't see my opinions on this as taking sides or an ideologic fight. I have actually considered trying shrooms simply because of your videos and have never done so before, although it won't be in the near future; I would have to learn to grow them first. I was really shocked when you went down this path, the week you made everyone wait for what it was, I thought you were going to come back and say, "the drug was fresh air because that's all you need." REALLY. Secondly, I'm not sure you really considered how difficult to obtain and illegal 5-MeO-DMT is around the world not to mention people popping up on the site asking for it who really don't sound mature enough or capable of being safe. Finally, have you really considered that the subject matter itself is fairly divisive in it's own right? There's those who are saying in the forums, they were not a religious person until they found these videos, and yet that seems to clash with the drugs videos (not in Leo's mind and definitely in many peoples) but instead of understanding that nuance, above you've blamed those not willing to try drugs as being of "low quality consciousness."

"Thank God there's someone talking sense around here."

@Parki I don't know which country you are typing from, but as a class A drug in most countries, you need to also understand you could get a criminal record for buying this and the implications of that on your life.

You sure got that right Leo, I was thinking that earlier when I first read it. The original poster was asking in another thread if the meo drug concerned cures "shyness." No-one said this drug CURES ANYTHING AT ALL. And if you can recall me from my other comments Leo, I'm still slightly disturbed you went down this route and fully comprehend how drugs are regarded in different countries around the world, however important they are to your / or my path.

When I experienced this, I had no idea what it was, and thought, god I've just experienced happiness for the first time in a long time and I thought it was to do with the smell and the flickering light through the trees. I was actually on my motorbike at the time, but it was the feeling of oneness with self and being caught in the moment with no words to explain.

@Prabhaker You could write a book on this.

Apparently, the more enlightened you are, the more disinterested in a forum you'll become until you will completely disregard it / avoid it, so not being guru/budha/Christ, advice around here comes from the initiated but unqualified. Another thing, someone once told me you can learn a lot from an idiot, so I can give you whatever "pearls of wisdom" I can muster up - and you can take it or leave it. The Neo name is purely egoic.

To me, there doesn't seem to be a paradox here. Maybe I'm not enlightened enough. But you want to be the best you can be in life and enlightened? Or just a real waste of space that everyone dislikes, completely unable to hold down a job, and enlightened. OK, so some may say "it doesn't matter." Jesus said, if you're going to build a house, don't build it on sand. Build it on the rock. You don't need me to explain what happens if you build your beautiful oneness with reality on sand?

He has already. Get with the program man!!!

Mikey, this is only meant out of genuine concern and there's no easy way to say this, but are you taking meds for anything, because it sounds like you might be relapsing and in need of a doctor?

Heeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyy Because you as a human is one way in which reality manifests itself here and now. Don't be in such a hurry to destroy the ego.

It is illegal in the UK.

What about other experiences? I have one I wouldn't have naturally thought of as an Enlightenment experience, but I had it again just a few minutes ago. You are busy doing something and then you freeze and it hits you like I tonne of bricks, "OMG I actually exist", and it's as if the true self cuts right through into your reality. For many years, I thought this was "me" saying I actually exist, but I realise now, "I" doesn't actually exist at all, so it must be something else saying, "wow - I exist!"

@Parki Work on confidence and forget Shyness. Shyness is built in to make you run somewhere familiar when there is unfamiliarity ahead. You can't do away with life's built in safety function until you have something to replace it with - confidence. Confidence is your brain saying "it's ok I can deal with this."

Yes, it was a "Devils Advocate" question, and as I typed it I realised that you still act according to your environment and a deterministic action does not mean a random one.

You have to be careful that people will take it literally what you say in any circumstance, anywhere in the world. Firstly a "government sanctioned medical research program" is going to use properly quality controlled processes and tests. All the test kits banded around such as by Leo are basically checking you haven't been ripped off and sold a bag of crack or something else. Where the substance is illegal (most of the world) it's made by the same people that churn out other drugs, and you hear stories when they get the purity wrong, or the whole bloody formula. There are no checks for other contaminants such as heavy metals or toxins. And then there are unsavoury conditions under which the items are made and stored, and other bacteria can be introduced. If you're buying this off the guy on the street corner, where do you think he shoves this stuff when the police are coming up the street?