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That's addressed in the LP Course.

@lmfao It has already been verified to death! The problem is no serious person wants to accept it. Science is not about to admit that their entire materialist framework is a house of cards. You may as well be asking the Catholic Church to admit it's full of shit. It's not going to do that! Collective ego doesn't give a fuck about truth, it cares about self-preservation. You accept science as though it were the word of God without realizing that in reality it's just a giant corrupt bureaucracy run by conservative old men who have children to feed and reputations to maintain. Same as the church. Wake up! Notice, the only reason you have scientific truths in your head at all is because it has been told to you by some old man in a position of power, whom you gullibly believed. If an old man in a position of power does not tell you it, how the hell will you ever know about it?? Through YT ads? Through CNN? Through Facebook? Where are you getting your information? Have you realized yet that all mainstream sources of information are propaganda channels for the collective stage Orange ego? You've lived inside an Orange echo-chamber your whole life! You are like a factory cow that's never seen real grass or sunshine a day in your life. If you ever met a real cow who told you about grass and sunshine, you'd think that cow was crazy. But of course the crazy one is you.

@Andre Quinonez Super common. People like you usually become psychics or they represses that part of themselves and keep it secret. Sounds like you've got some natural paranormal talent and you could easily develop it using books, courses, workshops, and teachings. Read more New Age books and you'll get into that whole paranormal sub-field of the self-help market.

@ULFBERHT The object does not matter much. Focus is a general skill. If you can focus on one thing, you can focus on another. And if you can't focus, you can't focus on anything. The mind jumps around and it makes excuses for why it's good to jump around. Which is why you have not settled on a concentration target. The mind just does not want to.

@7thLetter Then psychedelics are not for you. Psychedelics tend to undercut performance as they reveal the value of being over doing.

You sure he wasn't cosplaying? I would wear a birdman outfit with a glorious glittering flowing cape.

Of course not! They would think I'm a dangerous nutcase who should be locked up for the public good. People like me get burned at the stake for witchcraft. I am a 21st century witch and you are my coven First rule of witchcraft, don't talk about witchcraft to normies.

@Devil Sorry, this forum will not brook your devilish trolling racist nonsense. You demonstrate no desire to learn, so you are being banned.

We need to go to Burning Man and build a giant movie screen playing Actualized.org videos and a buffet of psychedelic drugs

@Finland3286 Lots of remote viewing experiments have been done by various teams and the results are highly positive and beyond statistical doubt. Remote viewing is NEVER a 100% certain phenomena and it does not work the way materialists want it to work. It is probablisitic and hazy. You're missing the depth of this problem: no amount of evidence can convince a closed mind. Period. You can teach yourself astral projection. Bunch of how-to books available for it. It is a settled matter for those who care to know it. The only people who doubt it are the ones who are closedminded and inexperienced.

@ULFBERHT A) It ain't easy. Takes lots of practice. B) Start small. 60 mins is too long. You need quality, not quantity. Try doing 5 minutes of laser focused concentration, like a hawk. Do that for a whole month, then move up to 10 mins, and so on. C) Being addicted to media and smart phone kills your concentration. Realistically you need to disconnect a lot. You're not gonna hit access concentration while binging on YT videos and dicking around on Facebook.

@waking_dreams The biggest thing that turns me off of it is the desert heat and sun. I'm too white for that shit. It would be so much better if they held the event in Sept/Oct.

It's a silly challenge because you are being asked to provide material proof for immaterial phenomena to the satisfaction of people locked in a hardcore materialist paradigm. The issue isn't the proof, but changing what you consider to be proof. Criteria for proof are always paradigm-dependent. The paradigm is the problem, not the proof. You want proof of paranormal? Eat 30 grams of dried mushrooms. Just be careful what you wish for. You might get it

@InfinitePotential The easiest way to test it would be to have 5 different people give their rating of someone like Eckhart Tolle. I would bet a lot of money that all 5 numbers will come out different. But I have not tried it. If you have a bunch of friends, you could try it.

As this post demonstrates, this muscle testing seems way too flaky and subjective to serve as a reliable measure of truth. The biggest dangers with it is, once you accept it, you're all-in, and it can really distort your entire worldview because you take the numbers seriously and think you can know everything this way. I thought a lot about adopting it, but ultimately decided that it is too epistemicly risky. It is more powerful to admit that you don't know than pulling numbers out of your ass and convincing yourself that you know something you don't.

Awesome! Will have to come back and read this more thoroughly. Definitely want to go.

@Callum Milner Lol You have turned Hawkin's work into self-delusion. I warned you in the review not to take LOC too seriously.

And to those reading this who might now be scared of doing Vipassana or meditation -- just remember that the things described in this thread are very rare. This is not a reason to avoid serious spiritual practice. Nor is this a condemnation of Vipassana. You just have to know where to turn to if complications arise. Whenever you're dealing large numbers of people -- tens of thousands -- rare complications will always arise. Even routine surgery and medications have like 1:100 or 1:1000 serious complications.

Excellent video! This is the solution. @Gryner Do your research and try to find a mentor who has first-hand experience with these kinds of experiences. You should read the Youtube comments under that TED talk psychosis video. They will give you some hope. Going to a Holotropic Breathwork retreat might also be very useful for you.

Psychedelics are clinically proven treatments for depression. What you have to understand about depression is that it is self-created. You can get depressed about anything if you put your mind to it. It's all about how you're interpreting reality. Psychedelics tend to deconstruct reality. This can make you depressed if you are attached to various fantasies, illusions, and neurotic ways of living. Your prioritzation of work performance over truth and fulfillment is problematic. That's the wrong approach to life. And psychedelics will rudely awaken you to this point. Which might make you feel depressed if you have built an entire lifestyle and identity around it. Remeber, sometimes to grow you must pass through a dip. Growth is rarely always up, up, up.

@CroMagna Sounds like your criteria for selecting a career are extremely shallow. But if you really want to do it: Lynda.com PHP & MySQL are two the most versatile and well-paid web skills. A good web developer needs to know HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and Linux web servers.

Of course not. That misses the point.

Not a true psychedelic, but people often like to think of it as one and tell themselves they're using it as one. It's important to distinguish between recreational and non-recreational uses of substances. I do not encourage recreation usage. These substances are to be used for metaphysical investigation. Which means you trip hard and deep, rarely. As opposed to mild pleasure highs every other day. Pot also affects people differently. Some people report more psychedelic effects.

@Gryner Sorry to hear of your suffering. What you're describing is definitely highly unusual. Although not unprecedented. The human mind is a very complex thing. Not all human minds are alike. Some people are much more spiritually attuned and have access to psychic and paranormal realms that very few other people can access. Of course some people are also mentally unstable. Something like what you're describing is pretty rare. You could be legit mentally unstable. Or, you could just be very paranormally attuned and you're discovering this realm for the first time in your life and it comes as a shock and your rational mind does not yet know how to navigate these realms. You could also be repressing some kind of deep past trauma like abuse, molestation, rape, death in the family, etc. If I were you I'd read up a lot more on other people who've had similar experiences. Don't expect quality answers from most Western doctors / scientists. They will just think you're crazy. You need to research transpersonal psychology, psychic stuff, the work of Stan Grof, New Age books, etc. You will probably find some answers there. There are paranormally gifted people you could find who can help you understand what is going on with you. Try searching for some in your area through Yelp.com Don't be to quick to judge this experience a negative. It might turn out to be a blessing in disguise, a gateway to a whole new dimension of reality and the beginning of a powerful life purpose. Do a google search for "vipassana psychosis" and other similar phrases that might describe your experience. You also want to be very careful and precise in describing what happened to you so you and others don't jump to the wrong conclusions. For example, some of my deepest psychedelic trips on 5-MeO-DMT were so deep, with insights about the nature of reality so profound, that if I did not have a rock solid theoretical foundation, I could definitely see myself feeling like I went insane. If most ordinary people were exposed to such insights point-blank with no preparation they would start to lose their grip on reality in a negative, dysfunctional way. You could also read books on psychosis to see what that means and how it works. Make sure you read a diversity of books from different perspectives, not just the standard Western academic perspective. Your ultimate intention should be to figure out what happened to you and why. P.S. Traditionally, many shamans in native tribal cultures develop their abilities after a traumatic psychotic break. So fear not. You are not alone.

@FredFred Start with something lighter, like 1g of mushrooms or 120ug of LSD. 5-MeO will freak you the fuck out if you've never done psychedelics. You will not know the difference between life and death on it.