SgtPepper

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Try re-taking it? Review notes? Have you read the recommended books? You gotta create your Life Purpose and it's not gonna be easy at times. Sometimes it may involve working at a job you don't love or going to school in order to build capital and finance your freedom. You're only 20 too, spend these next 5 years building yourself in the area you want to go into. Follow your gut, if you find that your life purpose is changing, there is a deeper calling, then follow that!. The best thing you can do is build that inner compass for yourself. No one can tell you what you truly want deep inside. You gotta build that connection and overtime it becomes clear.

The meaning is to Be it. It's to be conscious through all of it.

You are the egg, because the egg is in your consciousness experience. you feeling the egg is the same as feeling your hand. It's all sensations, content within one consciousness.

I would strongly disagree with Christian perspective on psychedelics. Most Christians lack the depth of knowledge required to understand psychedelics history and mechanism. Then on top of that they lack the experience and judge it by fear. The only evil you will see on psychedelics is what is within yourself. Psychedelics are the only reasons why I even believe in God, got interested in meditation, and pursued religious studies. Why would enlightened individuals lie about enlightenment? You would look straight at Sadhguru, Osho, and Ram Dass in the eyes and say they are lying? I think Karl Renz is pointing that from the ego perspective, one doesn't want enlightenment because it involved dropping your selfishness and self-importance.

A lot better and informative people to listen to on psychedelics. I like JP, but he's out of his league when it comes to psychedelics. There's a lot more to it than his one experience on mushrooms and his interpretation of the few studies we have on it. If anything read the material by the scientists actually conducting the studies or individuals who have multiple experiences Roland Griffith, James Fadiman, Rick Doblin, Stanislav Grof, Richard Louis Millar, Terence Mckenna, Joe Rogan, Timothy Leary. Literally so many more individuals who are more knowledgable than JP on this subject.

Do you know if he has done it more than once? and why did he stop? I do think its interesting that the truth he felt faded, but then it must've not been really Truth? The morality practices for me stem from the realization that everything is ultimately You or deeply interconnected with yourself. As a result, it makes little sense from a high conscious standpoint to hurt others because essentially you are hurting yourself. In addition, causing hateful acts, does not fill oneself with authentic deep Love, it is more of a selfish dark-toned love. I still have not unseen this truth and if I lose the truth touch with it, it is because my ego is strong and my mind is making distinctions and valuing the distinctions too. I also know when I am heading in the right direction because you will feel yourself elevate in terms of consciousness, sensitivity, being, and a sense of lightness will grow upon you.

One way to stop caring about what others think is to Love yourself deeply to the point where you find joy and greatness in all of your acts, so much so that the opinions of others become rather trivial.

because you are not even in your mind, you are experiencing a mind.

Yes and No. They don't exist because perspectives or separation of No Self is an 'illusion'. Yes because within the 'illusion' infinite perspective exist. Consciousness or Oneness is paradoxically expressed as Infinity Sort of how you may have two eyeballs that capture different images, but your brain combines them to create ONE vision. -------------- Considering that you are seeing your perspective because you are seeing through a lens that is your brain. Imagine your sensory perceptions are a doorway to your particular small perspective, but the consciousness that is seeing through this doorway is universal. It's like our bodies/brains are different doors or windows to look through, but ultimately its consciousness looking at itself through itself. The strange loop video will help explain that part more-so. Edit: Also contemplate that you have different perspectives within yourself too haha.

This seems to be relevant to what Leo said in the last video "What is Love?". I'll reiterate it here, these individuals appear to have only experienced "No Self", but lack the experience of "infinite love". Honestly, if they haven't tried psychedelics than its very hard to take their experiences seriously for me personally. You can meditate for 10 years and 3 years of those 10 years can literally be poor meditation (monkey mind, distraction, resistance, not understanding what meditation actually is). The other two can be dull stillness experiences, then the last 5 years you are finally perfecting it, but maybe you only have been focusing on one technique. Literally so many variables... but You can't fuck up a DMT trip though. Still, I have experienced deep love within myself through meditation and I am not the most disciplined meditator on this forum. Perhaps they are so focused on objectivity that they ignore the subjectivity of their experience, not realizing that our subjective selves are part of the absolute infinity. Another thing, the problem with these podcasts or discussions of non-duality is that its literally pretty much a waste of time, unless you are a beginner. There is too much thinking, thoughts, trying to define shit that is undefinable lol. If you want to experience non-duality, you gotta literally shut up and be present. Nothing to figure out, you will only "figure it out" through being it. The love comes from recognizing the beauty, intricacy, infinite aspect of reality, its absolutely amazing, that awe and realizing its all from within brings forth so much love for me. Maybe these individuals don't got enough self-love and struggle? who knows. This is why I won't listen to the whole podcast, decades of meditation won't cut it for me. If you don't have DEEP wisdom from consciousness work besides nihilism then it's not a wholesome experience. Here we go, on the video you showed me 41:05 - "we would know they are values, as opposed to something baked into the fabric of universe" ANYTHING THAT YOU EXPERIENCE IS PART OF THE FABRIC OF UNIVERSE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Advaita Also I dare you or anyone to find something more fundamental than consciousness lol.

Be careful contemplating widely, it can easily turn into bizarre overthinking. Try to get more grounded in being through silence and the present moment.

I am with @abrakamowse on this. That is pretty much how I interpret Devil's wrongdoing. I should also mention @Torkys that last year I also seriously considered the idea of becoming a Christian or Muslim and following scriptures. I own a copy of the international version of the Bible and an English translation of the Quran. Admittedly, I did not read all of it, but I read pieces and I still plan on reading them in the future. I was also listening to lectures as well from well known religious individuals such as: Nouman Ali Khan And Joel Osteen (who honestly I still really like, despite the controversy): But I ended up not following through due to the intolerance of my method of spirituality which involves psychedelics. I also found religious people to be close-minded to whatever was not already claimed by their scripture. Did not feel right, but I implore you to explore and respect you for being open-minded. During the process I also found Stevens videos and found his testimony interesting.

Thank you for the reply that is informative! Not directed at you, but I can add that I have seen this line of reasoning used by other Christians when it comes to use of psychedelics. they would claim that psychedelics leaves one open to attacks by the devil or evil spirits. I appreciate you answering and this is not necessarily directed at you. This line of reasoning only leaves me with more questions such as: 1. How does one explain individuals such as Sadhguru who have spent their whole lives "emptying their minds" (I prefer the phrase 'staying present') and yet they do not appear to perform explicitly evil acts. We would have to define what are evil acts as well... 2. Isn't this what happened to Jesus in the desert? Isn't facing the devil and then denying his temptation going to bring you closer to God. 3. There is still the mystery of what Jesus did before he took on the role of messiah. Christians claim he was carpenter with no evidence. 4. How is devil's doing not God's doing considering that God is the creator of everything, knows everything, and IS everything?

Best description of love I have found: Love is real, real is love Love is feeling, feeling love Love is wanting to be loved Love is touch, touch is love Love is reaching, reaching love Love is asking to be loved Love is you You and me Love is knowing We can be Love is free, free is love Love is living, living love Love is needing to be loved

Ya'll should stop labeling and boxing men and women. It's literally a waste of time and your downfall. Yeah, there are some nice guides, but ultimately, it's dumb because everyone is different.

what is this nonsense? I have a minor in Neuroscience and this guy's grasp of Neuroscience is straight up laughable. He simplifies all experiences to be the work of dopamine and tries to reduce the complexity of meditation and mystical experiences with terms such as alpha and beta waves. Are we not gonna consider that neuroscience is still in primitive times and that the brain is a lot more complex than dopamine and alpha waves? Plus where is his citations about these studies he is so called talking about? Didn't even mention the title of a paper, the journal, nor the scientist. If you're gonna talk scientifically at least back it up with scientific data. I also think his grasp of meditation is wack. Meditation isn't about getting into a sleepy trance... That's an indication that your meditation process is WEAK. you should be alert, awake, and aware when you are meditating, otherwise you are pretty much wasting your time, doesn't matter how long you meditate. The whole point of emptying your mind is to get all of the distraction of ego out of the way, so you can tune in to reality in a purer way.

explain?. Meditation is just self-reflection.

Go to social events, talk to people, find someone who you like, if you are hitting it off with someone, ask them if they want to engage in a casual relationship.

definitely this. Also BREATHE. whenever you're feeling anxious, you need to acknowledge your breathe flow and notice if its shallow, then proceed to take big wholesome slow-relaxed breathes. and get inside your body, relax it all. Body awareness video will be very helpful. Then just be yourself and be aware of everyone's facial expression, body language. Don't overthink it, just be aware of it.

This stuff is nuance. But essentially, as a male you want to be comfortable with your skin and fully into your emotions and feelings. However, you also gotta be independent and not whiny. It's the tone of your expression, you feel me? Don't think women do not like emotional because they definitely do, you think men are emotional in music? Still think women don't like emotional guys? You just have to learn the balance of it. Men are emotional creatures. and wow. This is dramatic and pretty much nonsense. some girls do like funny, self-confident, muscular, socially skilled, and dominant guys tho. Nothing wrong with that either.

lmfao. To OP, you are definitely not alone, I myself have experienced this stuff. They usually happen at random too kind of like how you describe it.

Alcoholism is terrible. Drinking at social events is fine. I do find drunkness to be kind of against mindfulness overall, but I have been drunk and felt mindful.

Very cool, I love it when others transcend themselves. But musically I ain't feeling it, it could have been a lot more authentic and emotionally driven like her older music, but thats just my opinion