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Sure Although don't make contemplations always about you. That in itself can sorta feed the ego. Make sure you're also contemplating things which are not directly about you, like, what is language?

By that logic, you should stop doing meditation too. Don't go to amateurs for advice on psychedelics. You might as well be asking Sadhguru for golfing advice.

It's a nice start, but not nearly deep enough. It's still mostly intellectual understanding and the ego is still in near total control of your consciousness. Keep questioning deeper until you stop feeling like you're inside the body or the head. Until your heart starts to pound in terror at the prospect of death. And then keep questioning even deeper until you actually die. In self-inquiry your job is nothing short of collapsing all of physical reality. Keep questioning until the floor beneath your feet disappears. This is a level of questioning most people do not think is possible. It should get very intense. It requires enormous presence and focus. Focus like you intend to burn a hole through a steel plate with your mind. But at the same time also be gentle. Don't strain yourself.

Why you asking us? Go contemplate it!

It can be painful but also not. It all depends on how you look at it. Surrender for me is usually very mellow on psychedelics. I just surrender my life and die. There is no great struggle, no drama, no epic ordeal. But it won't be like that for everyone. The more conscious and developed you are, the less struggle and drama there will be. When it is realized that the ego never existed, there is no struggle with the death process. It feels totally organic and it is no big deal. If you are making a big deal out of death, that is ego resisting, and that is itself the only obstacle, the very thing to surrender. Kriya yoga helps a lot to pacify the ego-mind and all of its drama. The ego-mind will naturally want to turn this entire enlightenment process into an epic ordeal. That's ego being ego.

Becuase Infinity. When you fully experience Infinity, you will understand why.

@Serotoninluv All jokes work through recontextualization. That's the punchline of any joke, which is what causes the laugh. You realize the context was other than what you initially thought. Which is also why a lot of people laugh after enlightenment. It's like the mother of all jokes.

@Pure Imagination Sounds like someone's been trippin balls

@ChimpBrain That is like saying "I meditated for 1 day and saw no results". You know better than that.

It's not dogma, it serves an important physiological function, but you can add it to your routine later on. The most important thing is to get your basic routine into place, so you're seeing results from it and you're happy with it. Then you can add on the extravagant bells and whistles. I would spend a few months building up your basic routine (Mahamudra + Pranayama + Breath Of Fire) before investing a lot of effort into the tongue exercises. You can always add those later. Don't let anything hinder you from building your core routine. The core routine alone is very powerful and you should start to feel it working on your mind within a month or two, which should give you motivation to keep building on top of it.

@MsNobody Happy for ya Welcome to awakening. All hail the mighty Toad God!

Pluck has been banned I welcome criticism of me, but Pluck was just spreading stage Orange ideology. He had no real interest in growing beyond it.

A Jordan Peterson fanboy. Why am I not surprised? If you think you are gonna spread his whiney, crypto-conservative, libertarian, sexual communist nonsense here, think again. I am becoming less and less tolerant of such nonsense. You can go hang out on an Ayn Rand forum.

Shamanic breathing Kriya yoga Psychedelics And many other techniques you could try (as folks have suggested above).

That's certainly possible. Try dreaming of such a candy tonight in your dreams

Leo is an illusion you created. Wakey wakey

I hear Croatia is nice. https://www.google.com/images?q=croatia+nature

I would say it's Blue/Orange going into Orange but in a neurotic, unhealthy way. Maybe it devolves into Red too. The whole show is basically about Walter gaining his independence from society and personal power (which is Blue --> Orange), just in an unhealthy way. It reminds me of the standard PUA arch: lame anti-social guy learns to pick up girls and devolves into a manwhore, corrupted by excessive ego and power.

Black mold is very unhealthy and it will screw up your health and your ability to do consciousness work. It's very difficult to self-actualize when you are unhealthy, so fix all your health issues ASAP.

@Nevon No one can tell you what you are. The whole point of self-inquiry is to discover what you are for yourself. Keep digging deeper and avoid asking others to tell you what are. That is a big trap in this work. The answer cannot be given to you. If it could, I would have already done so and you would already be enlightened. But it does not work that way. No one can enlighten you.

It can be very helpful, but also a potential trap. Some people are much more paranormally attuned than others. Genetic factors probably play a big role. I am not one of those people.

Tip of the iceberg. Keep digging.

@Joseph Maynor How much longer you gonna keep playing this smartass role? Sick of it yet?

That's not the focus of Actualized.org. You can find plenty of New Age channels on YT who focus on that.

@Artaemis Of course, because they are enlightened. To even start approaching enlightenment, stop judging.