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No one said you can "have" health. Health is not a static thing. I said "pursuing" health. Stop being dense. You can't "have" anything in life. Everything in life is impermanent.

@pluto8 You are a devil and full of BS. Watch my 3 part series on Self-Deception. That's what you're doing here.

@TKP If you have to ask us to verify it for you, you didn't properly awaken yet. Getting a little high is not enough to understand the full depth of awakening. Be careful with ketamine. It is a dangerous substance. To fully understand you need 5-MeO-DMT.

You know what a melted rock is called? Lava Granite has a melting point of: 2,219–2,300 °F

That is already known about Octavio. He's worked with something like 5000+ people. Yeah, out of 5000+ people you will have one or two terrible cases, especially when smoking it outdoors. A normal person is never gonna die from plugging 20-30mg of 5-MeO-DMT at home. 5-MeO raises heart rate for newbies. So if you have a bad heart condition, then it might be a problem. Although that raised heart rate is really only an ego reaction to facing ego-death. For example, if I take 5-MeO now my heart rate can stay pretty calm because I am used to the ego-death experience. It happens very gracefully now. I think forcing newbies to smoke 5-MeO (as Octavio does) is bad practice. Smoking is far too harsh for many newbies to handle. I can see that some of them might totally freak out. The best method for newbies is plugging synthetic. I would only suggest smoking to advanced psychonauts who already had a 5-MeO breakthrough.

@herghly Longer-active substances like LSD or mushrooms can be very good for getting answers. 5-MeO doesn't give sufficient time to really answer all the questions. Especially if you're smoking it. I did a lot of integration through LSD and mushrooms after 5-MeO.

It is possible to pursue things out of avoidance of pain, or out of joy or higher consciousness. If you are pursuing health out of avoidance of pain, you're doing it wrong.

You can't compare these directly to each other. This notion of "awareness" is a very loaded notion, changing depending on context. You could say awareness is there all the time. You could say awareness doesn't exist at all. Both are true simultaneously. You have to know what is being pointed it. Also, my newer video: What Is Consciousness? is a more accurate explanation than the video of mine you linked above.

@herghly Yup, that's how it is. And there's still deeper levels. After a 5-MeO breakthrough, most other psychedelics become very 5-MeO-like. So watch out. Lower your dosages. Allow some time to pass so you can integrate. I took me months, and probably over a year, to fully integrate my biggest 5-MeO breakthrough. And I've had numerous other breakthroughs afterwards which also took some weeks/months to integrate and make sense of. You ain't ever gonna make sense of it all in 1 week. What now? Become that conscious 24/7 Memories of it aren't good enough. You want to develop yourself to a state of permanent nondual awareness, AKA, Sahaja Samadhi.

@Paul92 Sounds like you've gone sane

Take a stone outside your house and try to melt it in your oven.

Soft metals like copper, tin, or lead can be easily refined via natural means. The first furnaces were made out of stone or clay.

Very good. Some good truth-nuggets there.

@Orcoda The most important thing is that you must find a location where there are lots of attractive women. The top locations are: nightclub, bar, daytime cafe, busy sidewalk, mall, crowded restaurant area, college campus, etc. The bigger the city you live in, the better the locations will be. Small city locations suck. Then it's just a matter of seeing ones you like and doing a direct genuine approach with a light-hearted, positive vibe. My favorite opener is: "Hey, I just saw you walking by and I found you attractive so I decided to come meet you. So here I am."

You're still not getting it: duality IS unity! The distinction between duality and nonduality is a duality you imagined! The nature of duality is nonduality. The nature of nonduality is duality. When you make a distinction between duality and nonduality, you live a dualistic life. When you make no distinction between duality and nonduality, you live a nondual life. And if you make a distinction between these two lives, you live the dualistic life.

@Kazman I don't think you're understanding what the concept of Small Bets is. It does not mean being a cowardly uninspired hack.

That fear is a good sign and totally expected. But also, be open to outside-the-box career configurations. In today's world there's no reason why you'd have to do live performance unless you wanted to. For example, you could set things up such that all of your music is digital and no one even has to know your real name or face. You could even wear a mouse costume. Hell, you could even wear a moose costume Be creative, be clever, be unique, innovate within your field, be the vanguard. Show us something new.

It's fairly natural that if you follow me, like my work, and shell out $250 for my course that you will be similar to me in many ways. At the same time, you will be different from me and your LP will not at all be expressed in the way I express my LP. Just look within and make sure you are staying true to yourself, not just aping me. If you are being true to yourself and it happens to look like what I'm doing, that's not a problem. Also make sure that you are partaking of other sources beside myself. The problem with relying too much on one source is that your mind isn't given enough variety of input to produce a truly original output. Copycatting is a problem of lack of diversity of input. For example, an aspiring film director who's in love with George Lucas films so much that he only watches George Lucas films is doing himself a great disservice and will end up a copycat. Creative people need to vastly diversity their inputs, otherwise their output will be unoriginal. That's one of the reasons that I literally study 100s of obscure sources. I have no interest in being a cookie-cutter Tony Robbins clone. Teach yourself how to be creative outside the box. There are so many different ways to express a common set of values or even the same career choice: like being a life coach. You can be a totally unique life coach if you do it right.

@andyjohnsonman There is no Kirya yoga without pranayama. Why are you guys making this so complicated?

@PetarKa If you haven't tried, then you don't know and will never know until afterward. Stop trying to know things beforehand. You are putting the cart before the horse. Either do, or do not. You might as well be asking, "I've heard of roller-coasters, is going on a roller-coaster a good thing? What if it goes off the rails?" "I've heard of microscopes, is looking into a microscope a good thing? What if a bacterium pokes my eye out?" "I've heard of music. Should I listen to it? What if it gives me ear cancer?"

If you're serious about spirituality, read the top rated spirituality books from my book list. That's all you need. And then PRACTICE! Be careful with this idea of "studying" spirituality. Spirituality is not meant to be studied, it's meant to be lived. The ego-mind loves to study stuff without actually changing itself.

@Ross Labby Sounds like you're on the right track. Don't stop now! You don't necessarily have to settle this question immediately. You might want to give yourself some space to explore your top 2 or 3 possibilities with some small bets (see video about Small Bets) and see which one you like more. You could also potentially find a way to integrate several things together, like becoming a consultant or artistic director, which would allow you to have your hand in multiple cookie jars. Honestly, though, it sounds like you're overlooking the obvious: music. Your heart is telling you MUSIC! but your mind is scared to actually do it. By definition making a decision means cuts off certain possibilities. By choosing music you are saying No to other things. And that's how it should be. That's what creates a clear sense of purpose. Otherwise you're unfocused. Re-watch the videos in the course about FEAR. Fear is one of the biggest obstacles here.

That is correct, but it will probably take A LOT of looking to get it. It's too obvious to get.

Don't get ahead of your skiis here. For practical purposes, yes, you CAN rely on your intuition and follow your genuine passions and your heart. We might call this the "higher self" or "the soul". This is still not the full True Self, but it's good enough to bootstrap your life. Yes, it is okay to want to make the world a better place, just don't go overboard. Don't turn it into a mad crusade. And don't neglect your inner work, the Greater Jihad. Yes, it can be useful to explore your subconscious mind and to integrate various fragmented parts of your psyche. It's not the ultimate solution, but it's a decent starting point. You have to realize that this work has many parts. Not everything is about awaking up. There are also more practical aspects to life and even to your mind and psychology which need to be worked on. For example, maybe you have some childhood trauma that needs to be ironed out. This not going to enlighten you, nor will it end all your suffering, but it's still important to do because all of that psychological baggage adds up and constricts your ability to awaken. There is no escape from the devil. The forces of devilry are always at work. So you must always stay vigilant and study the devil's ways. But at the same time, don't get paranoid. Generally speaking, follow your heart. Sometimes the devil will trick you even when you try to follow your heart. That's okay, you will get better and better at avoiding his tricks. And with some deep enlightenments, the devil's grip over you will significantly diminish. Not totally, but significantly. See my video: The Paradox Of Developing Self-Trust

Abso-fucking-lutely I have not discovered any limits yet. Every trip goes deeper with no bottom in sight.