Leo Gura

Yes, it's very valuable. Just don't become a devotee of any one teacher. Every teacher and teaching has blindspots. You must be capable of exploring a wide variety of perspectives and teachings or you will get trapped.

Obviously

@Jack Walter Leon You must awaken to understand. It cannot be explained to you so long as you've never woken up.

@Lynnel You did good. Some important insights there. Now you should be able to appreciate my Reality Is A Strange Loop video. More trips are required to answer the questions this trip of yours raised. Yes, mushroom trips can be quite twisted and difficult to make sense of. Other psychedelics like LSD or 5-MeO-DMT are clearer. The best way to escape thought loops is to change your state or physical location. Just going into a different room can be enough to break out of a bad thought loop, or going outside, or eating a snack, or turning on some silly music and dancing around for a few minutes. You gotta learn to shift your state. Meditation is also very helpful. If you're good at meditation you should be able to just silence the mind and its thoughts. And when all else fails: just SURRENDER

@Jack Walter Leon The soul as you call it is ultimately made out of spirit. And spirit is nothing. But this is NOT the nothing you are thinking of.

If you bring a dualistic attitude to it, it will appear so to you. But you could also not do that.

Self-inquiry is supposed to be a struggle. Of course you are doubtful and confused. That cannot be helped. The only thing that can ultimately clear up the confusion is awakening. You must do the inquiry and struggle through all the doubts and emotional issues which will inevitably arise. Awareness/emptiness isn't really felt, it is awared. We use the word "feeling" colloquially. Strictly speaking it is not a feeling. But feeling is much closer than thinking or imagining.

@ItO They are the same. Awareness is nothing. Nothing is not inner. It is omnipresent. It feels like its inner because that's what ego has done with it: appropriated it to construct a sense of self. As you do self inquiry that sense of emptiness will stop feeling like it is inside the head/body. It will spill out into the world.

Therein lies the trick. It takes some work to understand the healthy versions of the lower stages.

@moon777light The notion of proof itself is an untennable notion because being is prior to proof. Proof is always a second order thing. All proof is conceptual. Metaphysics is prior to proof. It is impossible, for example, to prove that you exist or that you were born.

Hehe... Precisely so that cocky whippersnappers like you don't get such silly ideas.

Lol That is the epitome of the nondual perspective.

Actually, even if you are solidly at Green it is very likely you still have lessons to learn from healthy Blue and Red and even Purple role models.

@moon777light See my video: True vs False Skepticism. You are misusing skepticism.

@Jed Vassallo A 5-MeO trip only takes 60 mins. Making a lot more practical than LSD or others. You don't need to be in a retreat setting. Just a comfortable undisturbed setting for 60 mins.

Yes, that is prrcisely what awakening and spirituality is about: seeing through all illusions as much as possible. At first your ability to see through illusions is weak. With practice it becomes so strong that you finally see through the illusion of death, time, space, and physical reality. Basically, everything is an illusion. Ta-da! See my video mini-series: Self-Deception Mechanisms

@Aakash No, there is much more that you still do not understand about reality. Self-inquiry is not the only thing to know.

Why are you making such groundless assumptions?? Since there was no one in control to begin with, that means nothing is lost with enlightenment. No-control is not opposed to drive. Drive is done by the universe, not by the ego. The ego is just an offshoot of universal drive. After enlightenment your life purpose becomes a force of the universe -- just like it always was. Nothing changed. Only some egoic delusions of control were removed. You assume that life purpose is an egoic thing, but it does not have to be.

In your Middle East example of course you want to understand the agendas of all sides. This doesn't mean they are all equal though. Those agendas can be categorized along Spiral.

Seems like trolling? Not sure what this thread is.

500ug is WAY too high for most people. That will melt your mind to a puddle.

@Jed Vassallo A) In that case, I would try some more snorting and plugging. Your technique or dosage may just be off. B) HCl can be smoked too. C) HCl can be converted to freebase pretty easily from what folks say. 5-MeO-DMT is not a substance you want to give up on easily. Find a way to make it work. It will be worth it.

@Jed Vassallo It just sounds like you have a moderate immunity but other than that it seems to have finally worked. You will just require an above average dose. Throwing up is solved by taking it on a completely empty stomach. If snorting and plugging don't do it for ya, then smoking certainly should. But you'll have to learn how to properly vaporize it and lower your doses a lot. You have to experiment to find what your mild, medium, high, and breakthrough dosages are. 4 trials is really not enough in your case. It would help a lot if you had done other psychedelics and knew your overall tolerance level to stuff like LSD and mushrooms.

@Time Traveler You will die from astonishment

Both Don't create spurious choices.