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@flume I have near no experience. @Girzo What about like just growing a few things and selling some to get basic necessities for living. I'm looking at this as a way to support a really really simple lifestyle. I'm not claiming that I do know a method of doing this but that's what I plan on researching. What about monks and shit, like the stereotypical ones that live in a cave and everything close to that. I'm not looking to make a lot of money or anything just to literally survive.

I just got back from my 10 day meditation retreat. I signed up for the vippasana ones but got declined the past two years because I'm under 18. I got my mom to let me stay at her cabin for the retreat although I had to text my parents daily. I sat 6 hours a day. 4 hours vippasana 2 hours kriya yoga. I did this because I was sleeping a lot, cooking my own meals, and I wanted time to just sit informally. No fap no distractions so it was a legit retreat. It was a sick location, saw lots of wildlife. The first few days were super hard emotionally but that passed and the rest were brutal too. Halfway through the first day I was just planning when I would leave early. At the end of the second day I was doing kriya yoga and my body was pulsing with energy, at the top of the breath on kriya pranayama. I left my body and just felt a singularity of energy, and saw spinning red fractals. This happened again about half a dozen times. On the 6th day this happened and I think I entered some kind of state of cessation or some altered state. I came back to my body falling to the floor in a state of sheer confusion. It took me a while to figure out who I was or what I was doing. I think this was a result of the cessation of the narrative of the ego because I couldn't remember thinking or experiencing anything in that time. This state emerged after seeing the fractals and feeling the buzzing, and hearing alien clicking I might add, it felt before it like I was going through a tunnel. I also felt extremely, distractingly creative for some times, and experienced some pure joy for a while towards the second half of the retreat. The vippasana felt like a failure. I know it wasn't because I worked through the resistance that lingered through it. Regardless I never got into many deep meditative states from it because of all the emotional resistance physical pain, restless energy. My Question is whether this was a result of the low amount of the technique or if this is all fine and good for a first retreat, i.e. was this an error or part of the process.

Mastering the core teaching of the buddha is great all around. 1000 has some very good models of awakening however I think the book is too poetic and way to autobiographical. I third the book of not knowing. I liked Ken Wilber's integral psychology, also but less integral spirituality. He has some very good insights in application of systems thinking if you can stand the dense repitition. What kind of books are you looking for?

I'm a highschooler reading this forum to look for career ideas

Elliot released a 5 part series on fasting and how to get into it, he talks about spiritual and physical benefits. If you sort the wheat from the chaff he aint all bad. Elliot has always been like this with politics. Back in the day, over 5 years ago he was a big Alex Jones fan. He hasn't exactly changed on this front. I think some of his political points are valid, but they are all so painfully partial. He is certainly teir 1

I used the word farm loosely. I want to have plants and animals on a piece of land.

anyone remember avatar the last airbender

@Beard That's a cute tweet and all but it doesn't have Maslow's top level, self transcendence.

@The Don It lowers default mode network activation

That's the end result of years of work, I've been trying to achieve this for about a year, and I have only realized how deep of a hole I'm in. The ego doesn't wanna do that and it's not easy if you aren't already very close.

if you're a total begginer start with the one that has this description on his list: "This book teaches you the secretive techniques of Kriya yoga"

Freud had some revolutionary ideas that people don't give him credit for since they've been molded into our society. On the other hand he was full of shit. Psycho-dynamic theory is pure gold if you study the right people, like Jung. And from the absolute perspective their is no unconscious but relatively it's true and very useful. Just like the physical world is. You can use ideas of the physical world to cure cancer or fly planes and shit and you can use the relative truths of the unconscious.

I meant that I didn't seem to get results from the vipassana, but come to think of it you can't really separate the two, I'm sure being on the retreat & vipassana put the kriya on steroids. Yea I think I'll try another technique. I have a solid foundation with self-inquiry(which involves awareness of awareness at least how I do it) and do-nothing

@Chi_ Nice! just did my session this morning, keep up the good work

Yea I'll use my actual camera instead of a phone next time. Next time hopefully will be at a real retreat but regardless I'll do 10+ hours

I just posted a retreat report and bolded the part about kriya yoga, which I would like someone to go read and explain to me within the context of yoga, I haven't heard anything about what I experienced with yoga.

This is just an idea. I just watched Leo's blog video on machine elves and i realized that's what I experienced on my second trip w/ 4g mushrooms. I was blown away by it and didn't know how to articulate or conceptualize it. After I realized this is what I experienced I've had chills running through my body for the last 10 minutes.

get the damn book and start the damn techniques. Hardcore is a confusing word. the book has advanced information, it's long, but it's also fun and helpful for everyone. you don't have to go on retreats yet although it'll be hard not to after reading the book. You can just do a daily practice. get the damn book. great damn book

I always try self inquiry during dreams. Never got anywhere except extreme anxiety.

It's great you are doing this series, this election will be my first chance to vote and I want to do it right

why brains do not exist really opened my mind although at the time I just took it as a new belief

I've had levitating dreams my whole life. step 1. fall asleep step 2. levitate with willpower

this post blew my mind because I'm reading man and his symbols right now. As far as I can tell Jung doesn't talk about that kind of stuff. He isn't a nonduality teacher. He is still a genius and I highly recommend him. His take on archetypes, mythology, and psychodynamic theory is very good.

read: Integral spirituality, ken wilber.

@Leo Gura I've been watching JP's classroom lecture playlists from youtube, and they are really good. They are definitely systemic thinking. If you checked those out, e.g. 2016 maps of meaning lectures, I think you would see that there's more to him. It sucks that he's being such a devil. Check out this video of JP extremely passionate about the environment: what changed?