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You should read Om Swami's book from my book list. It will clear things up for ya about how to become a monk.

@Frylock Sounds like a life purpose opportunity

So become a monk or yogi. Plenty of places around that will take you. Search around online. Just don't join a cult.

@Akim God is not a concept. God is an Absolute direct consciousness of the nature of reality. After your cognize God, you will know what the word means. Until then, you do not know. Not even close. All ideas of God are wrong. I am not speaking hypotheticals here. I am speaking of things I've experienced. 99.99999% of Christians have no clue what God is. This cannot be resolved with discussion. You must realize that you are God.

That's for noobs. A real master poos in full-lotus

Haha, the whole point of society is to help people collectively avoid looking at their shadow. 70%+ of marketing is about triggering your shadow. How is business gonna control and exploit shadow-free people? You exploit people by appealing to their weaknesses, fears, hatreds, greed, and depravity. Notice, the mainstream doesn't offer any root solutions to any problems. It's all band-aids and opiates. The job of society is to construct a reality -- and to distract people long enough so they never realize that reality does not actually exist.

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This is false. Why do you assume this a priori without empirical validation? Rather unscientific of you. Have you examined all of reality? Then why jump to that conclusion? What percent of reality have you seen or understood? <0.000000000000001% The problem is that you are using science unscientifically, turning it into an ideology. That is a bastardization of science. What you're not understanding about science is that it only studies one dimension of reality, at one level of consciousness. At higher levels of consciousness, science is untrue. In fact, it is impossible to reach truth with science because the map is never the territory. Please stop believing in Sam Harris and his ilk. Their understanding of reality and consciousness is very crude and demonstrably wrong. They are not even close to understanding reality, consciousness, or science. It's just another ideology. Despite the title of his book, Sam Harris is not awake and he does not understand what awakening really is. He is a dogmatic rationalist. And his fanbase is a rationalist cult. It's just another religion. If you really care about science, you should start to study philosophy of science and epistemology. And contemplate the foundations of all knowledge. You are not conscious yet of what knowledge or science are. Just to trigger the Sam Harrisite in you, what if I told you that you can access deeper facets of reality with witchcraft than science? That happens to be true. Check out witchcraft

No, that's only true of exoteric versions of any religion. The esoteric core of every religion recognizes that God and world and self are all one. The problem is, most people just can't fathom it. Jesus was God. How more nondual can you get? The kindgom of heaven is within he said. Jewish Kabballah is nondual. Sufism is nondual. The separation only exists in the minds of the separated. If God is infinite, how can you be separate from him? Lol. Infinite means EVERYTHING, including you!

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The trouble with all religion, in general, is that it mixes truths derived from genuine mystical experience with a political system of control. It's a bit like mixing caviar with poo. That's what distinguishes religion from mysticism. Mysticism is pure spirituality, without hierarchy or a political agenda. Religion always has a political agenda and seeks to establish a ruling authority. Mohammad was a mystic, but ALSO, he was a political leader who sought to unify warring tribes within Arabia and spread knowledge of the existence of Allah. As a political leader, of course he had to do a lot of evil stuff, otherwise he and his tribe would have been killed. Unification isn't all rainbows and butterflies. Political unification requires war and bloodshed to force people to submit under one banner. Harems were standard practice in Arabia at that time.

@Truth You don't really need 5-MeO. Any lesser psychedelic will change your life forever. LSD is particularly amazing for consciousness work for me.

@herghly If you play with fire, don't be surpised to get burned.

Yes, it usually does. But as Terence McKenna famously said, "Psychedelics don't work on stupid people."

Because even when engaging in the lower Jihad, as Sam Harris does, or the United States as a whole does, for example, it is still none other than fighting with oneself. If everything is nondual, and all human beings are you, then who are you fighting with? Who you judging? All enemies are just projections of the ego. The struggle is always with oneself, even if you trick yourself into thinking you are fighting some external enemy. "We have seen the enemy, and he is us." Self/other is one. God is always in a struggle with itself, that's all. The Lesser Jihad simply amounts to slapping yourself in the face, then getting upset, and slapping yourself back. There really is no difference between igornance and walking the spiritual path. It's just a question of directness, which is a question of karma. To find Allah, some people will have to blow themselves up. Because that is their karma. To find Allah, some people will have to waste 5 lifetimes debating, arguing, judging, doing violence, being politically active, etc. Some people only wake up after enormous self-inflicted suffering or stupidity. Some people need to hit rock bottom before they are willing to surrender to Allah. But in the end, Allah will win over that ego. There is no escaping the Truth. The only question is, how long will you stall out the clock?

@Space There are several deeper variables at play: 1) The baseline level of consciousness you were born with. 2) The degree to which you've deconstructed your mind. How much you've contemplated epistemic and metaphysical issues. 3) Your brain physiology. 4) Your karma 5) Your geunine degree of curiosity about reality. My theory is that all of these factors are more important than dose or substance.

@egoless Discover for yourself by doing the practices.

@egoless Everything is God. Everything is infinite, intelligent, and alive. The finger and the hand are one.

Only everything.

@egoless No, that was LSD. 5-MeO is WAY more profound than that trip. 5-MeO is so profound, I don't even bother filming it. I just say, "Fuck it, there's no way I'm gonna explain this to anyone. The only one who will ever understand is me and God."

DMT is like Mario breaking out of the screen to realize he's the player holding the control.

Just for some context, I spent a good 10 years working on my life before discovering psychedelics. I also spent about 3 years doing meditation and self-inquiry every day before touching a psychedelic. And there was much growth from that. Then I discovered psychedelics and experienced ungodly levels of growth over about a year or two. The psychedelics were the gasoline on the fire. But I spent a lot of time stoking the fire, and that was well worth it. So don't feel bad if you can't do or don't want to do psychedelics. Then again, psychedelics will totally change your life if you do them properly. So really, try to see it as a glass-half-full situation. We discovered an incredible tool for which we should be very grateful. Grateful that we are alive in the 21st century where these chemicals are widely available at all for the first time in 1000s of years. This shouldn't depress you. This should make you super motivated. P.S. Yoga is a close second in power. You can achieve amazing things through yoga alone and other "natural" techniques like holotrophic breathing, etc. There is no shortage of techniques out there, so find what suits your style and budget.

@egoless Mu

@Space Seems very weak for 20mg. You should be able to safely dose higher. For me 20mg is an epic mindfuck beyond the likes of which most people have ever experienced. 25mg is unspeakably profound. And 30mg is...

Nothing more can be said here. You have been given all the pointers. Sit down and figure it out. Or don't.