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@Emerald Oh how we love to hate

Doing 2g + 5g back to back will definitely leave you beat, probably with a hangover the next day. Yup, mushrooms are very animalistic and tribal. Makes you feel like a monkey in the jungle.

@Serotoninluv Just think about it: nonduality means: not two. So any time you think of two parts to the world, you're not fully nondual yet. If there was a distinction between the formless state and your present formed perception state, that would be a duality. So you know that cannot be ultimately true. The final duality to eliminate is the duality between nonduality and duality! The snake must eat its own tail until nothing remains. Mu is the formless void state but ALSO the whole shebang: all of formed creation. Take a moment to look around the room you're sitting in right now. That is none other than Mu. To be fully nondual is to be conscious of Nothingness all the time, everywhere, no matter if you're in a formless state or eating breakfast. That is true awakening.

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That does not contradict what I said. In the end, the devil surrenders to God.

A closed mind will never take a psychedelic seriously.

@Strikr Stay tuned for Part 2

2C-B is surprisingly powerful and profound for me. Although my faves so far are 5-MeO and LSD.

@Extreme Z7 Because he's got an Orange audience to cater to. Also because Goop does some ridiculous things and comedians thrive on the ridiculous. The Ultra Spiritual YT channel is all about ridiculing Green, even though I'm pretty sure the guy in the videos is himself Green.

My bad. He's not a moron. He's...

@Serotoninluv Yup, that's Mu. It cannot be explained because explanation requires distinction/duality. Sounds like you still haven't experienced infinity though. Infinity is the other side of the Mu coin. Also, it's important that you have the insight that Mu is not other than everything you see around you right now. Mu is not limited to that null void state. It also includes the entire domain of form and perception. This insight is paramount, otherwise your realization is half-baked.

@Elisabeth No-self is a relatively weak version of enlightenment. There are deeper stages of which few people are aware. Martin's work is good (for an academic), but it's certainly not fathoming the full depth of nonduality. I posted about Martin on my blog some years ago. Martin's problem is that he's still not really understanding what science is and its limitations. He's still trying to demystify and rationalize everything -- as scientists are trained to do.

You guys are being sloppy with your Spiral assessments. All you have to do is read Goop.com's About page to clearly see they are promoting Green values: https://goop.com/whats-goop/ An Orange person would never write that. The name of the company alone screams out Green. No Orange person is gonna name their company Goop. The reason Goop is ridiculed in mainstream media is precisely because it is too Green relative to the Orange center of gravity of mainstream culture.

@Outer That's right, consciousness creates the brain. Changing the brain is changing consciousness.

No! That's the kicker! Nonduality is not a paradigm. If it were, it would be duality, not nonduality. You are making the mistake of confusing the map for the territory. Just consider: for there to be a paradigm at all, there must exist something prior to the paradigm -- the substrate so to speak -- which itself is not a paradigm. That substrate must be inaccessible via thoughts because thoughts themselves are a 2nd order phenomena of the substrate. Paradigms only occur at the level of thought. A paradigm IS a collection of thoughts. No thought, no paradigms. You can stop thinking an reality will still continue. But all paradigms will be destroyed.

@Finland3286 God is not a belief or a probability. Truth is not a matter of probability. Nor is the issue of evidence relevant because God is prior to the epistemic possibility of evidence or even human perception. I understand your skepticism. It feels justified and "scientific", but when it comes to consciousness of the ultimate origin of existence, it just won't cut it. Skepticism is a fear-based reaction of the ego-mind. The irony is that atheists hold the belief that atheism is not a belief. But if you introspect, you can become conscious that it is a belief.

@Capital Don't worry, 99% of people who watch valuable videos never put them to use

You guys cheating on me?

This is Green Don't forget that Green can still be a business. You don't have to be a communist to be Green. Green can be very commercial.

@Finland3286 Technically it is an ideology or belief. Both are misguided beliefs. Both are closedminded beyond help in most cases. Both are egotistical. Atheism NOT a lack of belief. It is just a negative belief. The belief is obviously there if the atheist just bothers to introspect self-honestly. Atheists believe that God is absurd, irrational, impossible, imaginary, and unscientific. An opiate of the masses.

I didn't say JP is Hitler. I used those extreme examples to illustrate that merely having a life purpose is not automatically a good thing. The details matter. Passion and intelligence are a double-edged sword. You can be smart, passionate, and wrong or pathological. When intelligent or passionate people are wrong, they tend to get really stuck in it. JP has some good teachings, just be mindful that they are a Trojan horse for stage Blue/Orange conservative political ideology. Which is what made him so popular. Without the Trojan horse you would not know who he is.

@General 2 I struggle with that myself.

@Haumea2018 Celebrity & success are like ego crack. Sam Harris is too famous to really seek deeply. Same with JP. If Sam Harris ever came back from a retreat and told his cult-like rationalist followers that God is actually real, they would turn on him like a pack of hyenas. Sam's whole market base is stage Orange atheists who want validation of their atheism and rationalism.

https://www.actualized.org/articles/how-to-harness-your-intuition

@General 2 That's tricky. I'm not sure what the causes of that were for you. It could of have been egoic resistance to living up to your full potential, or it could have just been that it wasn't your true passion. There are various solutions. Personal development and spiritual inner work is usually the answer for dissolving egoic resistances. I still have resistance to following my life purpose after 5 years. It's not easy to be at the cutting edge of your potential. Sometimes you just gotta act despite the fear and excuses. Obviously you shouldn't physically overwork yourself. Try not to work more than 40-60 hours per week, otherwise it becomes unsustainable.