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It told you to respect the substance. Because every trip builds on the prior. Those first few trips were merely laying the groundwork for the mindfuckery that is to come in the future. In the future you will experience recontextualizations so radical that you will not be able to tell if were ever born. You ain't seen nothing yet. So watch your step. See, the arrogant ego just stumbles into this stuff thinking that it's a joke. Then it catches one tiny glimpse of Truth and it runs crying for Mommy. You just can't appreciate yet how radical this work is and how deep the rabbit hole goes. The only way you can know is by getting mindfucked.

That is the core lesson of mysticism: reality is irreducibly mystical. You cannot know the Absolute because knowledge is a 2nd order process. Being is prior to knowing. You can BE the Absolute rather than knowing it. Or you can know that it is unknowable. Which is what Osho is describing. Nonduality means that knowing must collapse into being. Which is why the ultimate Truth cannot be spoke, thought, or symbolized. All symbols are too indirect. You must directly become the being of which all symbols are made. Language and thought must be entirely transcended. The Truth is beyond thought, imagination, or even your mind. Ayn Rand was of course an arrogant, egoistical, dualistic, stage Orange fool. The hallmark of the ego-mind is that it thinks it can know everything through linear reason. And in this it is deluded beyond hope.

@Bernard Sounds like you disrespected the psychedelic by taking it willy-nilly without a proper, serious spiritual intention and it kicked your ass to teach you a lesson. From now on, when you trip you will do it with seriousness, good intent, focus, and no more willy-nilly stuff. Psychedelics are not a toy. When you take a psychedelic properly, you set aside the whole day, mentally prepare yourself, and you do it almost like a religious ceremony (minus the dogma). Why are you drinking during a psychedelic trip? Why are you tripping while tired? Why are you trying to avoid the trip through sleep? This shows sloppy protocol and disrespect for the substance. When you take a psychedelic you must in peak form: alert, awake, focused, sober, solemn, at peace, in a positive mood, well-rested, empty stomach, reverent, slightly apprehensive, and ready to be mindfucked.

@mochafrap There are still subtle dualities in your way of thinking about reality. You are assuming there is a material difference between something and nothing, when there isn't from the absolute perspective. What you're calling "differentiation" is otherwise called a distinction. Distinction is NOT a concept! But concept is a distinction! All of reality consists of distinctions, but at the same time all distinctions are ultimately one. This was explained in my longest episode: Understanding Sameness vs Difference Pure beingness is literally nothing whether you drop your concepts or not. Nothing has ever happened. That's reality. Nothing. And everything. Because there is no difference between the two. The difference is only there in your mind. The implications of this are not only important, it is the source of all Creation! This is how God created the entire universe! If you understood what a distinction was, you'd be deeply enlightened and you'd understand how the entire universe came into being. So it's worth contemplating a bit P.S. You would also become immortal as the distinction between life and death would collapse. P.P.S. An object which lacks all distinction is Infinity. And yet at the same time this object contains within it all possible distinctions, thus comprising the sum total of reality. Nothing and Everything in one tiny/huge point. A white hole if you will.

Tripping in nature is great, but in practice presents problems with sun, cold, snakes, bears, people interrupting your trip, etc. Don't go hugging a rattlesnake while you're high

Even under Trump, the US is still becoming more liberal and progress is happening. Evolution & progress cannot ever be stopped. The attempt to stop it is itself part of the progress. So in the end there is no losing, only winning if you are a progressive. It just doesn't happen as fast and directly as your ego might like. Michigan legalized weed today. So there you go

By definition God is all. So asking the question: Is thing X God? is pointless because the answer will always be YES regardless of what X is. God is your entire field of consciousness.

Kriya yoga is commonly combined with Hatha yoga. Of course that are many styles of each. Remember the principle of self-experimentation.

@How to be wise I was not aware. They were scheduled to be released. Must be a bug in the code. I will fix it.

@alankrillin All energy comes from somewhere. It isn't free. If you have a problem paying for spiritual teachings, you don't understand how money works and you've got your priorities backwards. If spirituality is the most important and difficult thing in life you should be willing to pay the most money for it. $1 million per enlightenment would be a fair rate to charge.

Democrats had a fairly strong win. The Senate was never really in play this term. Red states are still red, and they will not change much in 2 years time. Conservatives like Trump so they will not change. The only thing that really changes is independents and moderates, and they seem to be turned off by Trump, which is about as much as you can expect. You can't really expect deep red states to flip all of the sudden. Texas and Florida are red and will stay red for a years to come. From what I can see Trump will find it almost impossible to win reelection in 2020 because he has clearly lost independents and moderates. He only won thanks to them in 2016 because they did not yet realize his true character and Hillary didn't inspire anyone and had lots of baggage. If the Dems put up a good candidate in 2020, Trump should easily lose, assuming he even survives 2 years of criminal investigations. The only way Trump wins again is if the Dems put up a terrible, uninspiring candidate. (Which they could manage to do.) If the Dems put up someone like Sanders, Warren, or Beto, Trump should lose. If they put up Biden...

There is no need to close your eyes. You will get more out of the trip with eyes open. Otherwise it will tend to devolve into just another dream. The point is to let the psychedelic transform your everyday perceptions. So keep your room as it is. Don't make it dark or special.

Free food from source? Lol You mean murder. You can do that as a human too. But be careful what you wish for. Nothing is life is free.

Isn't Vancouver pretty close to Seattle? How far is that drive?

That's doable. Although San Diego is a pretty reasonable drive from LA.

I might be tempted to come by a pet kangaroo

Why do you have no problem with source needing you to spend thousands of $$$ to feed it self? By your logic shouldn't God hand out free slices of pizza to homeless people? And while we're at it why not a free Rolls Royce too? After all, source wouldn't want people to have to get places using their legs. That might produce blisters. And everyone knows driving a Kia is just embarrassing.

Shakipat is a classic awakening method. But it's not gonna work on everyone and like all methods it has its pros and cons. If you think you can shortcut the hard work of inner development, you'll probably be disappointed. Don't forget that awakening ain't development, and development ain't awakening.

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Maybe, we'll have to see. The trick with doing these tours is that things have to be reliable and timely. It can't be like, "I was gonna help you but then my cat died."

@Emerald Orlando is another possibility. I'm not sure which Florida city is best: Tampa, Miami, Orlando, Ft Meyers? Seems like Florida is such a big state it's not practical to drive between all those.

I would love to but that is loooong into the future. That would be hard to pull off.

@Angelite You don't have to be a saint. What you presently are, is already God. You just need to realize that this is so. That is enlightenment. Enlightenment will be the death of "you". After that, there is nothing left to die.

@Hafiz Where in Canada? Canada is massive.

Norway would be cool. That would be for 2020. If I go to Europe that would have to be like a month long trip, hopping from city to city. London, Germany, Netherlands, France, Spain, Scandinavia.