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@kieranperez I think you're trying to do too much too fast. You gotta keep in mind that the stuff you learn from me is extremely advanced stuff that takes years and decades to put in place. I share a very big picture of your potential, the downside of which is that it can seem impossible to achieve, so far away. This is sort of the curse of a lofty vision. Baby steps man. You are still super young and your whole life is ahead of you. You have plenty of time to create a great life. Focus now on building a vision and cultivating hope. You want to enjoy the process of assembling your life. It's fun. Don't make it a grind.

Here's one Yellow/Turquoise-ish college that I know: https://www.sofia.edu I'm sure you could find others. They will be smaller and non-mainstream.

That's what spiritual practice is for. Your goal is consciousness & awakening.

@Igor82 Excellent first trip. Don't worry, this is just the first step. You don't need to resolve all your answers and get breakthroughs in 1 or 2 trips. You should have the attitude that you will trip 20+ times and in that time you will figure a lot of stuff out and have many breakthroughs. Try to avoid distracting yourself in future trips. Stay away from electronics and note-taking devices. Allow yourself to go fully into the trip. Stop anchoring yourself to your old reality. Do not place a bunch of goals and expectations on a trip. Your #1 goal when tripping should be to go wherever the trip takes you. Drop all expectations or needing it to show you certain things. Deep insights will come organically. Just relax, surrender, and be ready to explore. Metaphysical curiosity is all you really need. When you trip, try not to move around so much. Sit still with eyes open, upright, fully alert -- like a meditation retreat.

No, I don't consider infinite intelligence the Akashic Records. Akashic Records are supposed to be a database of the universe's entire history. Infinite intelligence is devoid of content. It is pure and formless. You will not find any historical memories or events in it. High doses of psychedelics are probably good for accessing the Records. I have yet to verify that. Or it might require some psychic talent. I'm not very psychic.

Personally I have not accessed them. Yet. Then again, I haven't really tried. My focus has been going into other things. I'm still researching the best books on this issue.

Basically self-inquiry.

No higher than 150ug. Even that is really too much for you.

@TheAvatarState Many books have been written about how to access them.

Dude, stop talking about things you do not understand.

@Antonius Great! You might want to start Kriya yoga to strengthen that no-mind-ness and complete the spiritual purification process.

It's real, of course. Well... as real as the hallucination that you were born.

These terms are not to flatter the ego. These terms refer to real stages of consciousness and insights.

@clouffy Roughly Orange, Orange, Green. With lots of Blue still present in older generations.

@Vipassana I am aware of his content, although I haven't watched much of it. I agree he shares some good wisdom and insights. Many cult leaders share valuable insights. I'm all for learning from multiple sources. Just don't join a cult. It's very difficult to outgrow those red flags.

@Vipassana There is no contradiction between cults and genuine spiritual wisdom. Cults are often a mixture of both. It's a common mistake to assume that cults offer no valid spiritual insight. The issue is, spiritual insights via a video or book do not guarantee that the cult isn't a shit-show behind the scenes. Case in point: Osho's commune. Osho was a good teacher but a terrible community leader. Saying advanced stuff into a camera is very easy compared to running a high consciousness community. Narcissistic cult leaders are often exceptionally good at speaking, bullshitting, and putting up fake fronts. That is their Zone of Genius. So you can't take appearances too seriously. Look at their actions rather than their words. If the community leader is taking on multiple wives or asking for six figure donations or has a criminal history -- that's a HUGE red flag.

@Dorotheus Nice!

Kriya yoga is a set of special physical and energetic techniques for rewiring your nervous system. It is supposed to be much more powerful than meditation. Kriya yoga is a bit like micro-dosing psychedelics.

@electroBeam Sounds like you need something much more imaginative than engineering. Engineering work is usually pretty dry and routine. That's the major reason I switched my major from engineering to philosophy. Try looking at more artist careers like creative writing, design, film-making, fine art, etc. That's where you can really flex your imagination. For example, I love the imaginative nature of game design or storytelling.

In practice it's hard to help the world when you are underdeveloped and struggling to meet your basic needs. The point of developing yourself is so that you can become a better tool for helping uplift the world. But also, don't wait to be perfect before you help the world. You can work on both simultaneously. Help out in whichever ways you're able. Don't bite off more than you can chew. The greatest thing you will ever do for the world is to awaken yourself.

@Zec Do the exercises for an entire year at least.

Very common. Do not trust young spiritual leaders to run solid communities. Running a spiritual community requires enormous development, ethics, experience, wisdom, and maturity. Spiritual communities quickly devolve into sex cults if the leader isn't masterful in his self-control, ethics, and emotions. You can almost guarantee that spiritual communities lead by 20-30 year olds will devolve very quickly. They have no idea the challenges. Enlightenment alone is nowhere near enough to run successful spiritual community.

@Cocolove You learned some good lessons attempting that. Failure is part of the learning process. Now you have a bit of a better sense of how difficult it is to pull off a solid meditation retreat. Especially solo. Its takes super-human levels of self-discipline and dedication. Yes, you have to build up to it. Just like you cannot will yourself to bench press 300 lbs. It takes many months of ramping up to that. The value of something like Kriya yoga is that you can do it for 1hr per day and it will gradually strengthen you over the course of a year in a way which you would never be able to achieve with a week-long hardcore retreat. The reality is that it takes time to rewire the mind and build tolerance for meditation. Yes, you need a lot more daily practice. It also helps a lot to hit a point in your practice where you actually enjoy meditation. It's very hard to pull off a retreat if you're secretly hoping it stops. The key is to surrender to the whole process and try to enjoy the silence, solitude, and peace. But that probably won't happen your first few retreats. Just keep practicing and doing as much as you can. Remember, it's not all about quantity. The quality of your practice is far more important than quantity. Quantity without quality will not yield much results. Also be patient. You are young. You don't need to be enlightened tomorrow. It's okay if it takes 5 years of practice. You will still be ahead of everyone else.

Lol Precisely because you want to. Stop holding life purpose as something that NEEDS to be done. It's not about need, it's about desire to play a game. There's no need for Mario run across the screen and avoid turtle shells. But if you WANT, it can be a fun game. No one is forcing you to play Mario. If you would rather sit in your mother's basement and stare at the wall, go right ahead. If you don't want to do anything cool with your life, fine. Then be lame.

There is no such thing as "a reality". Reality is entangled with one's nervous system. Such that every living creature has a different reality. If there is an infinite number of possible ways to configure a nervous system, there are an infinite number of different realities. For example, in some realities the color red does not exist because of how the nervous system is structured. In other realities it is not possible to know that 5+5=10 because of how the nervous system is structured. For example, a donkey cannot realize that 5+5=10. It cannot have that insight. But a human can. And not all humans. Only those with a proper nervous system. A mentally disabled person cannot realize that 5+5=10. Imagine all the experiences and insights you are unable to have simply because your nervous system does not grant you access to them. Your nervous system is like a filter through which infinity is boiled down to a narrow limited finite set of experiences. Psychedelics alter your nervous system, allowing you to access experiences and insights that would otherwise be impossible. Which is why they're so uniquely useful for metaphysical work. But independent of all the above, there is the Absolute Truth, which you have access to if you are normal healthy human being.