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@Spider Jerusalem Actively seeking succeeds quite often. Don't get caught in this non-seeking trap. People get enlightened very day using seeking. Hardly anyone gets enlightened non-seeking. You just have to understand what seeking means, how to do it properly, and where it's pointing to. Your problem is not over-abundance of desire for enlightenment, but the severe lack of desire. It takes decades because people are generally clueless, and seek in stupid ways. If you seek directly, with great desire and clarity of purpose, it will not take decades.

@Gabriel Antonio Interesting. Do you brew your own Ayahuasca or what? How often do you use it?

Why didn't you succeed at pickup? How many girls did you approach? Also, pickup isn't the only way to attract girls you know. 99% of men do not know pickup, and yet they still manage to get laid. What is the crux of your problem with attracting girls? Are you highly introverted and anti-social? Do you have social anxiety? Do you have confidence problems? Speaking problems? Appearance problems? The single most important factor for attracting girls is simply being near them. If you sit at home all the time reading books and playing video games, then yeah, it's very hard to get laid. You need to find ways to bump into girls your age. Try to brainstorm ways to get more involved in social activities like yoga class, dance class, workshops, seminars, music festivals, parties, networking events, Toastmasters, events on college campuses, etc. What city do you live in? It helps a lot to move to a hip city like Austin, LA, NY, Miami, Vegas, London, etc. It's much easier to find girls in those kinds of cities than in someplace like Kentucky.

@MM1988 You're missing the obvious: Go get laid. Learn to attract girls. Not every problem in life is meant to be meditated away. Meditation is an advanced tool, for mature people who've already taken care of the basics of life. It is not a crutch to avoid the basics of life like food, money, shelter, health, relationships, work, family, etc. You wouldn't tell a starving child to meditate his hunger away. You would tell him to go make a sandwich. If you don't know how to make a sandwich << that's the first-order problem right there. Learning to make a sandwich is a lot easier than learning to meditate.

It's becoming Absolute Infinity. You are it.

Never hurts to start with half your dose. After you have one horrible bad trip, you will start to appreciate the wisdom of such precautions for each new substance you take. Psychedelics are so easy to underestimate. Increasing you dose in half-dose increments is the safe way to go. And even then, you will be thoroughly mindfucked.

@Samuel Garcia All the nondual theory in the world probably won't help you. At your age, just go out and make friends, have sex, get into some relationships. Consciously. This is probably just a Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs thing. Once you get some friends and you exhaust that game, you'll be ready for deeper work, bigger fish to fry. Just don't get lost chasing friends forever. For example, the more sex I have, the less I feel like I need it, or that it's important at all to my happiness. But it doesn't work this way for all people. Not sure why. Some people get stuck on it even if they get lots of it. Point being, don't be that person.

@spicy_pickles Good But they don't guilt you. You guilt you.

@kieranperez Yes, understandably. But it will be a concern regardless of when you do it.

@kieranperez Another option is to do the opposite. Focus on getting off it now, while you're not so reliant on earning success. Once you get wrapped up with a job and earning success, it will all the more difficult to find time off to deal with your drug problem. But I'm not you, so I'm not telling you what to do. Just offering ideas.

@kieranperez Yes, it might. The thing you gotta keep in mind is that you've been taking these drugs for so long that they've now solidly become your crutch. So there's little chance you'll get off them unless you're willing to take a temporary hit in terms of time, energy, productivity, emotions, and body feeling. Like a heroin junkie, coming off won't be easy, but then again, what's the alternative? A life of addiction?

@Max_V I don't need to go to the Netherlands to trip.

I other words you're a junkie

@electroBeam You gotta learn to read the intent of the proverb, not to read it literally. You are using the word "experience" in a different context with a different meaning. "Experience" here should be read more like "suffering". Finger pointing to the moon.

Being aware of a thing is one thing. Behaving in a cute and cuddly manner is a totally different thing. There is some correlation, but it's a loose one. Just because someone is a good mathematician (understands math) doesn't mean he can't also be an asshole. So why do you expect that someone who understands Truth would immediately behave like a saint? The problem here is over-idealization of enlightenment. Strictly-speaking enlightenment is nothing more than knowing what reality is. You are then free to act however. You could decide to become a cannibal and there would really be no conflict.

@Monkey-man Generally speaking, yes. Key word there being "generally". And there are many half-baked enlightened folks out in the world.

@egoless All those people worked much harder than me. I'm actually pretty lazy.

@Serotoninluv You haven't woke up yet

@Adam M Good work. Keep it up every day.

A good opportunity to notice the mirror for what is. Some folks on here do mirror meditation deliberately. Push yourself a bit.

@Monkey-man Because enlightenment is strictly-speaking NOT about being loving or caring. It is about being conscious of what reality is. You can be conscious that 1+1=2, and still be a rapist. Purifying all facets of the mind is a much harder task than enlightenment alone. You could get enlightened in 3 years, but stopping being an asshole can take a lifetime of work.

@Lauritz On 100ug of AL-LAD, you will be able to function mostly fine. Just don't drive a vehicle.

@Kallan If you don't have access to lesser psychedelics (mushrooms, LSD, etc) then just ramp up your self-inquiry and meditation practices. You could also do a truffle trip in Amsterdam prior to your 5-MeO.

@phoenix666 There are definitely some ways which are objectively more effective than others. The trick is, discovering those ways, and then making sure they actually work for you. Just because a method is highly effective on the average population, doesn't mean it will be effective for you. Your cultural upbringing plays a big part is how effective some methods will be. Enlightenment teachings must always be tailored to the culture and the era of the audience. Teaching enlightenment to a scientifically-inclined urban Westerner is very different than teaching enlightenment to a rural Hindu.

Becoming a millionaire via your gf's business is not a life purpose. That's just the path of least resistance. And anyway, it's sounds sketchy. You can't depend on other people setting you up with stuff like that. What happens if you two have a fight and break up? Your entire life goes down the drain? What you need to focus on is facing your fear and finding yourself. You have no idea what you want out of life and you're already 21! That's a big problem. You should have spent the last 10 years already working to develop mastery in your passion of choice. Now this means you can't really create anything. You're just a leaf blowing in the wind. There is still time to fix it, but you're way behind, so there's no time to lose. Invest a lot of time and energy getting clear about what you want, what you don't want, and where your passions lie.