erik8lrl

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  1. This is happening for me too. Things are not flat-out getting deleted, but they are either demonetized or pushed way down the search so people can't find them.
  2. It is necessary. The virus itself is alright, what's serious is how contagious it is and the economic and social impact it can have. Most people have a good chance of surviving if they are treated, but if the number of cases is too much for the healthcare system to handle, you will start to have more deaths. The only way to stop the spread of this virus is by limiting contact/lockdown. The sooner you go into lockdown and contain all spread, the sooner you will be able to recover and return to normal. If you have an overwhelmed healthcare system and more people are spreading, then you will not contain the virus, thus creating more economic and social crisis. Read this thread:
  3. The death rate is around 5%. The 21% is not counting those who still have symptoms but only those who either died or are fully recovered. I have family living in China and China's number is real, they went into total lockdown nationwide since January. They took the virus extremely seriously, had tests at all places, and built hospitals to contain all those who are infected. The numbers in other countries seem so much worse is because they can't take the same degree of action as China to prevent the spread. So the healthcare system gets overwhelmed while more and more people spread the virus. The lack of equipment for healthcare workers and the sheer amount of cases will lead to more deaths because people are simply not getting treated. I think this is why the death rate might be higher for some countries than for others. For example, Singapore has a case number of 1,189, but only 6 deaths (.5%). While Spain has 126,168 cases and 11,947 deaths (9.4%). Source:
  4. The definition of the word Yoga is "Becoming one" or "Unification". No matter what method, all different Yoga are pointing towards the same direction. Life/existence as a whole is the process of Yoga.
  5. This is my experience. The good thing with a ceremony is how supported you are (if you are going to a good one). They usually have many medical staff and shamans, and so you feel safe. They might have people with a lot of experience with the medicine, so it is easier to integrate the experience afterward. Also, being in a ceremony means you get to meet other people who are on similar paths. Tripping with many people at the same time will change the experience, you might even interact with others inside the trip. Most of the time, people have very deep connections with each other after the ceremony because of healing and love. Just make sure you are going to a place with good people who respect medicine.
  6. @Leo Gura I had a very similar trip from Ayahuasca. All my visual, sensory, and motor functions were gone, with no ability to think or remember anything during the trip, absolut selflessness. Just absolute infinity. Infinity of infinity of infinity... It is all me and is all you and is all us, and that is me, and it just keeps going infinitely. Reality becomes infinite points of more infinite points of infinity, and I am all of it, but not, but I am, but not, but that's me too, and so on. All the dimensions were folding onto each other. It is like a shift in perspective like you would from a square to a cube but infinite times onto each other. At the most fundamental level, reality/existence is just itself. It is infinite self-reference and self-definition and self-copying and self-creation. All human concepts are gone, become you became all of it. When you become all of reality, there will be no sense of reality because you are it. During the trip, I will have moments where I come back, and when that happens, it's like you as reality/infinity moving into forms of more infinity from yourself. This is how visuals are formed. These infinite points of infinity form more infinity, and it causes an infinite chain reaction with itself to form this moment of existence. When I am back in this reality, but in infinity at the same time, I have no control or incentive to act like a human, because I am not. This caused me to do things that could danger my life, but of course, that concept doesn't even exist during the trip. It is only the next day after I regained my sense of self and reality that I realized what I was doing. One point of the trip, I was trying to crawl into a fire pit, and the shaman and people at the ceremony had to hold me down. I was told later that three grown men couldn't hold me, and I am not a strong person. So you can see how much I was trying to merge with the fire. (Which during the trip was me) I was going so deep that the shaman used rapé twice to bring me back. During the whole trip, I was infinity/existence, so I was experiencing everything from the perspective of everything. I was the shaman and the fire and the air and everything in existence, like being all the characters in a movie at the same time. So when the shaman did the rapé, in my direct experience, I was the shaman, the Rapé, and my body, and everything, and infinite infinity. So from the perspective of this human experience, if you are not careful, you can easily harm yourself or even die from psychedelic. However, everything is so perfectly created/imagined/experienced that it is all for infinite self/love. I just thought I'd share my experience.
  7. @Jed Vassallo This is not common at all, I am extremely sensitive to psychedelic, and almost no one I met has had a similar experience. And my dosage isn't even that high on this trip. Ayahuasca, for the most time, is very safe, but there are many things that can influence the experience. Everyone I know who took it reacts to it differently.
  8. It is very hard to write or describe anything from the experience because in this reality things are separated, and you need to choose a perspective when describing which will never be what it actually is since it is all there is.
  9. Read this book "Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World" by David Epstein .
  10. It is quite simple, you can live, and you can die, so why not live? Death makes life meaningful; without it, you wouldn't need to make any choices or be afraid. But it is fear and loss that makes love so much stronger and beautiful. Life is so infinitely meaningless that you can give any meaning to it; it becomes infinitely meaningful at the same time. Why would you live life if you have infinite time? And why would you die if you have only 80 some years to live? It is perfectly designed so that love is experienced to its fullest. And experience, is why you exist, simply to experience existence, and it's infinite beauty.
  11. Time is love/god's infinite awareness of itself.
  12. @Petals The continue seeking and awareness of love in every moment, as more you do it, the more powerful it becomes. Until the distortion of ego can no longer have an effect (the loss of power). The purification of being. Meditation. Unification.
  13. Both beingness and contemplation are needed for awakening and it all depends on the person. Both ways can get you to truth and neither one is easy. I had to do both. But currently, the collective consciousness is much more focused on intellect and desires, I think Leo is fitting his teaching to that to avoid confusion and increase accessibility. Most spiral dynamic orange and blue people don't care about beingness, and they cover most of the world.
  14. Thus all karma ends when the separation between you and everything ends.
  15. Absolut truth can't be truly described. Everything is referencing everything else. It is prior to logic and reason. Leo speaks in duality because is the only way for the ego to understand.
  16. To the ego, the concept of enlightenment is a goal to achieve. But to those who are enlightened, enlightenment is not a goal, or an experience, or something you can attain. It is what you are, it is beingness, it is all of it, it is existence. Everyone is on the path to realizing this, no matter what path you are on, and every body's path is there to increase the amount of love in the entire existence. You are shitting on this form because you want love, and others who constantly seek enlightenment in this form also just want to love. Without the experience of suffering and hopelessness, you can't have true hope and love, because they are one of the same. Psychedelic can give you experiences, but it is you that have to change the fundamental state of your being in order to be "enlightened".