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@Omario You can expect to have your mind blown in ways you cannot expect.

@Philipp https://www.actualized.org/blueprint That was my early attempt at doing what you want. But ultimately I found it a failed project because there is just way too much complexity to this field to make a simple ranked list which will work for everyone.

Consciousness makes everything better. Including women. You haven't really lived yet until you've experienced conscious living. Enlightenment doesn't rob you of anything but your illusions. You can still have sex and play video games after enlightenment. Whether you will still want to or not, is another matter. Don't think too far ahead in this work. Just trust that pursuing the Truth is best strategy, and it will be. When an enlightened yogi stops having sex, it's because he gets way bigger orgasms from his meditation than from sex. Samadhi is way better than sex.

@playdoh Spiritual inquiry is hard work, and sometime it will feel like hell. But not always. There will be ups and downs, as with any serious project or endeavor. It will not be 10 years of suffering That said, you have to take into account the fact that you're currently already suffering a great deal. If you stop the inquiry, what are going back to? Suffering! Suffering! Suffering! The more unconscious you are, the more you suffer. 10 years of suffering is what you can look forward to if you stop the inquiry. That much is guaranteed. So you're damned if you do, and damned even more if you don't. Besides which, if you're already here, you probably already know too much to fall back asleep forever. You can't really ignore enlightenment once it's on your radar screen. What are you gonna do? Go back and live a lie? And be happy with that???

This is a topic that needs to be very seriously contemplated, and not debated or discussed. You have to sit down and force yourself to contemplate your rock-bottom assumptions about reality: Why do I assume reality exist? How can I be sure reality is real? What does "real" really mean, anyway? What is existence? Could I be deceiving myself? Does consciousness exist in a brain? Or is "the brain" existing within consciousness? If the brain is inside the universe, how can the universe be inside the brain? Etc. This contemplation must be done extremely carefully, avoiding all personal self-biases and cultural assumptions. Very few people do this kind of contemplation seriously. And discussing it with people will not help you, but only distract you. It works like doing a mathematical proof. You have to trace through the logic of it to see how the materialist paradigm contradicts itself. And it definitely DOES contradict itself. I can tell you right now, having spent years doing this contemplation, and experiencing the Absolute many times now, there is no such thing as reality. But believing me is totally useless. You need to go through the proof yourself. I'm just telling you what you will discover in the ultimate end. Don't be surprised if this process kills you. That's precisely the point. You are deeply involved in this process. The misunderstanding of reality runs straight through you. Which is why it's so difficult to correct. But it's doable for those who are really serious about life. Good luck and have faith that it will be worth the effort. You will be pleasantly surprised if you succeed

That's not going to work because techniques are designed to address different problems for different people. You have to tailor them to fit your needs. Everyone has different needs at different times in their life. Pickup might be useless to one person, but life-saving to another. Etc. You should take an experimenter's approach, where you play around with different methods and theories and stick with the ones that resonate with you. This field is much more broad and complex than the mind initially expects. There are hundreds of highly useful theories and techniques. Like a good handyman, your toolbox will have hundreds of tools, not just 2 or 3.

@Seed Of course you don't flip the camera screen facing you while you talk, you flip it back. Just talk directly to the camera lens.

@playdoh Notice that "the voice obviously comes from the brain" isn't a brain, but actually just more voice. See my video: Why Brains Don't Exist See my video: Understanding How Paradigms Work See my video: A Rant Against Naive Realism See my video: Reality Is A Strange Loop And make sure you have a very open mind. The reason this isn't making sense to you is because you're stuck in the materialism paradigm. There is no such thing as a physical universe. That's a construct of the mind. And the mind does not reside in the brain. The brain is also a construct of the mind.

@StephenK Reground yourself in the beauty of being. All your good motivations will come back as you make it through this work. Let the fraudulent, inauthentic motivations fall away. This requires courage and faith.

The only problem here is that the concept of solipsism carries with it a slew of misleading associations. Yes, all there is, is the Infinite Self. But thinking of it as solipsism will mislead you. Solipsism makes the ego feel more real, which is the opposite of what we want.

@David_eh Nihilism? That would be your judgment. Death is the ultimate, infinite beauty. P.S. Obviously don't shoot yourself in the head. Attain death through existential inquiry.

@Psyche_92 Schedule x4 10-day solo meditation retreats per year. That will auto-correct your problem. Cutting internet is not a viable solution. The solution must come at the level of your consciousness. Psychedelics help a lot too for this.

Lol Maya at her finest.

@Source_Mystic You're underestimating enlightenment. The distinction you make between symbolic and actual is a duality, and it will collapse. See, you're assuming physical existence has reality to it (materialist paradigm). But it doesn't. You were never alive to begin with. That is a self-deception. Once all dualities collapse, there will literally be no difference between life and death. I said what I said precisely to puncture this illusion of physical existence which was assumed in the questioner's question. The problem here is a misunderstanding of what "death" means. "Death" isn't about the body, so much as it is about the idea of "you". This was explained in the Self-Deception episode. Stop thinking of death as a physical process. Death is a mental process. What death really means is: death of the idea of you. Because the truth is, there never was a you to begin with. So the only thing that can die is the idea of you. Death is not a problem of physicality. Death is a problem of false identity. See, you're sort of like an insane person who thinks he's Napoleon. Of course he isn't really Napoleon, but he believes it so much that to him, if he ever stops believing he's Napoleon, that will be his death.

Of course

@MM1988 You're not getting it. Enlightenment IS death. Once you're dead, will you still worry about death??

@egoless The answer is simply: Absolute Infinity. There is nothing to stop it. No, it has no personality. It is emptiness.

That's right. It's a strange loop. It is struggling to control itself.

There cannot be any points when everything is ONE.

Christopher McCandless was only starting his spiritual journey. His insights were not very mature yet. Unfortunately he died before we could realize enlightenment. You could be the last surviving person on Earth and still be perfectly happy. In fact, it might be easier! What you will realize at the deepest levels of enlightenment is that you are all alone. There is no one in the entire universe but yourself! So who are you sharing it with? Only yourself. All sex is masturbation. All of life is God masturbating furiously to himself. P.S. But of course, that's me speaking from the ultimate perspective. From a more relative, pragmatic, human perspective, Yes! Sharing happiness with other people is rewarding and satisfying, so don't be too much of a loner.

Or maybe just one out of infinitely many

Of course that won't persuade them because they are deluded. So when the execution's axe is just about to slice your neck in half, you can remind yourself, "This is all just a dream." That should take some of the sting out of it.

@Alien Something tells me you will be extra pleased when you finally glimpse the Absolute

@Alien Well, of course, if you're into this work, that already makes you rather exceptional. My theory is, some people just naturally like to get their mind fucked. Those are the ones who gravitate towards nonduality. I'm like that. With that said, even though I love a good mindfuck, I also love my ego. So a tug-of-war must happen. The real test of how much you love a good mindfuck is: if there was a mindfuck so deep the only way you could glimpse it was by killing yourself, would you do it? The only reason you're gravitating towards it right now is because your mind doesn't really understand the extent of the mindfuck. You like little mindfucks. But you do not like big mindfucks which will totally obliterate you. The big mindfucks will take you totally by surprise, and it's good they do because otherwise you would probably never approach them. The whole problem here is that you are being asked to kill yourself. And of course you can't want that. 3 billion years of evolution are pushing their finger on the scale. But we can sucker you into it by having you believe that it won't be real death, but just like an mini "ego-death" -- which your mind can rationalize to itself as being "cool" and "good". But, then one day you will discover much to your shock -- No, we were talking about actual death! But then it will be too late. You will already be dead. And you will be pleased. But not in the way you expect. In other words, we have to use the mind's self-deceptions against itself to escape itself.

12mg would give most people a panic attack.