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@Shadowraix No, there's more to it than that.

@Staples Most psychoactives don't work for all people. Brain chemistry is a tricky business.

@TheAvatarState That's the paradox. I'm still working on understanding it.

@abrakamowse Of course, and they do much worse. They will use the results of your priavte auditing sessions to blackmail you. Sort of like if a Catholic priest used your confessionals to blackmail you.

@Black Elephant Sorry to rain on your parade but it is not possible for an ego to stop worrying or have peace of mind. Worry is fear. Fear is fundamental to your entire way of life because you are committed to stay alive. There is only one way to eacape fear and worry, and that is to die. Which is precisely the whole point of enlightenment and spiritual practice. Peace is an escape from suffering. You will never escape suffering as an ego. The eacape from suffering is what the Buddha sought and discovered for himself. Which gives you a clue about what it takes to get peace of mind. The trick is, the moment the Buddha escaped suffering is the very same moment he died. But good... at least you have finally discovered the spiritual path.

@28 cm unbuffed The Essential Difference

@Shadowraix It is still not entirely clear to me how Infinity is reconciled with Beauty and Perfection. Beautiful design precisely requires that certain possibilities be excluded. Randomness is not beautiful design. Our world is not random. Infinity is NOT just a random collection of all things. That's the paradox of it.

@Serotoninluv Since I haven't taken Adderall I cannot say. When you are on Modafinil or Armodafinil you are good. You don't need more focus. If anything, it's too potent. Too much of a good thing becomes a bad thing.

No, I don't think so. The "physical laws" are held in place because they are necessary to have these kinds of human experiences we are having. Maybe if God wanted to be a 10-dimensional hyper-slug it wouldn't hold our physical laws. And that probably happens. But so long as you are human, to be human is to play within our physical ruleset at least to some degree. Otherwise you stop being human and become some kind of hyper-slug alien thing. But in a certain sense it does because evolution slowly weeds out devilry. That's its whole point! There is a Grand Design at work. I don't see God giving devils unlimited power. There are constraints on devilry. An unconstrained devil would turn all of creation into an ugly shitshow, spoiling the Beauty and Perfection of the Grand Design. You can't exactly allow Osama Bin Laden to materialize a nuclear weapon with his mind. At least that's my best guess so far. God's creation has exquisite balance. Perfect Divine Balance!

That's your own doing. You assume that it's LSD which does this to you when it's actually your own mind that does this to you. A calm mind can take LSD and not experience this peaking. Your own fears are the cuplrit here. If you are sacred of ego-death you can trigger a panic attack through self-inquiry or meditation. Hell, some people suffer from panic attacks while sober! That's how touchy their egos are.

@Schahin Your understanding of Buddhism and Nirvana is limited. Yes, Nirvana is to cease to exist, which is identical to pure existence, which is identical to God, which is identical to Nothingness, which is identical to Buddha-mind, which is identical to Love, which is identical to Truth, which is identical to 5-MeO-DMT. Death is Nirvana/Heaven. Death is a dip into the infinite ocean of pure consciousness. The ego cannot properly understand this because it thinks death is terrible. There is no such thing as non-existence! When you say non-existence what you're really talking about is the end of the ego. Which was unreal to begin with, so nothing is really lost! 5-MeO can reveal all this to you, and more! If you ground Buddhism up into a fine snortable powder, it would be 5-MeO-DMT. P.S. Consciousness is already nothing, so it needs no cessation, nor can it be ceased. There is only consciousness, only nothing. You guys are confused because you have not yet reached ultimate nonduality, the ultimate unification of formlessness with form. Form is not other than "cessation". Whatever deep sleep state you are imagining is not other than the waking state you are in right now. You are not properly understanding Buddhism because Buddhism cannot be properly understood without full nondual awakening. Buddhism is teaching extremely advanced things which even most Buddhists do not fathom. How could they? You cannot read this stuff in a book. And meditation is rarely enough. As the Buddha said, no one will understand.

A stage Blue devil with a massively repressed Green shadow. Worse than JP.

From what I understand he was not enlightened. Don't forget that it's easy to ape genuine spiritual paths and to create your own fake, distorted paths for the purposes of power, sex, money, etc. That's what he did. Even in a cult's teachings there are kernels of truth. That's precisely how the devil opperates, he mixes truth with bullshit until you can no longer tell them apart. This makes the bullshit easier to swallow. Hubbard was a sneaky devil who built a nest for devilry.

This is precisely why you are not given access to such power, devil.

@Serotoninluv I have never taken Adderall nor do I intend to since it is basically meth. Don't take things which screw up your body chemistry, like antidepressants.

More broadly, force does not exist. Force is just a made up human idea to explain stuff going on around him. There are no actual force vectors on objects the way you might draw them in physics class. All of that is a projection of the physicist's mind. Actual being happens magically and amechanically. Reality does not need math or forces to happen. It just be's whatever it wants because there is nothing outside itself to limit it. Think of it this way: a king who had absolute power could materialize a chair out of thin air. He would not need to go saw down a tree and fashion a chair piece by piece. He could just imagine the chair into existence. And that would be the most efficient and direct way to make things. That's what absolute power allows: EVERYTHING! Ta-da!

That's like taking steroids for a boxing match, LOL. It's a serious performance boost. It would definitely up your score. But you shouldn't take it unless you experience no side-effects. Modinfinil is like that movie Limitless, but less extreme and far less negative side-effects. The SAT's should really start drug-testing students because this is a huge exploit. Of course you still have to study to know how to answer questions. But your recall times and focus will be a lot better, which is important for tightly-timed exams.

Yes, proper note-taking takes more time than reading the book itself, which is why most people never do it. But it can also get several times more value from the book, and you can return to those notes years later without having to re-read the book. Usually I just underline passages in the book. This is very fast compared to true note-taking, and it allows me to re-read a book very quickly, within 15-30 minutes by just reading the underlined sections. I never read a book without underlining it. Via underlining I basically condense a book down to the top 5% of its insights. Since most of the books words are just filler. You want to extract that 5% which is gold. Once a book as been properly underlined it becomes 10x more valuable. To the point where I've even thought about how I could sell my underlinings to you guys. But it's not practical. If I had an ashram, I would have a library of my underlined books which you guys could browse.

Yes, consciousness definitely helps ground you and be more detached and authentic. But it's also not a cure-all. Approaching is a very specific skillset which needs to be honed, just like golf or tennis. Consciousness helps with all skillsets but doesn't replace training the skillset. I would not be immediately in state.

@Shadowraix Uptown Dallas is great on Fridays and Saturdays. Swarms of hot girls looking for fun.

@Shadowraix Life is a mixture of Heaven and Earth. Don't be so Heavenly that you forget to touch the Earth.

@Ethan_05 How old are you? If you're still in school, you should even out and become more stable as you get older and practice more. As you build more positive habits and shed negative habits you should have less erratic ups and downs in your life. But the more you try to bull your way through issues, the more backlash you should expect. So maybe less bulling. Read the book Mastery to learn about the difference between the obsessive mindset and the mastery mindset. The mastery mindset is stable. The obsessive mindset is erratic and prone to catastrophic collapse. It's also important that you are fueled by positive rather than negative motivation. Negative motion tends to produce a yo-yo effect, defeating itself. Positive motivation is more stable. If you're motivated by avoidance then you'll get all of frustrating yo-yoing. For example, avoiding being overweight or avoiding being poor.

You say that but you probably got one of those lucky souls of a T-Rex who used to meditate all the time

Congratz!

@Amadeusz Improv classes are great. I used do an improv class in Dallas. Fun times. Really pushes you out of your shell.