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If I did kriya for 3 years, and very occasionally had breakthroughs, and about half the time I did pranayama I would feel energy come up the spine to the top and it felt great and very meditative, am i doing things wrong? I feel like an hour a day for years and I should have got more. After 2 years or so off I've gotten back into it and am focusing on doing the techniques perfectly. But here it seems like Leo is saying I can just focus on doing the pranayama well.

Maybe I'll hire some of you to come help me farm in a couple of years.

@Recursoinominado Yes I know EMF radiation is non ionizing and doesn't damage DNA. But it is still harmful. hundreds of studies have been done showing it lowers function of several organs, from your genetals to your brain, sleep quality etc. This isn't a conspiracy it is widely accepted by the most level headed proponents of holistic health. You really think a bunch of electro-magnetic frequencies not found in nature that override those of nature are really going to just be harmless?

@Yimpa Nothing else to call it but God. @Schizophonia Typically I am trembling in fear before a DMT trip. I still do it and it goes great. But when I am on psychedelics I have already adjusted to such a high state of consciousness, and I effortlessly take a breakthrough dose on DMT. I'd be crazy to not do DMT when I'm already so woke. I also find that the insights stick longer when I'm tripping, one downside of DMT is how quickly it fades. So I have more time to contemplate, and it also enhances the rest of my trip. The deep breakthrough and multi-hour trips just both complement each other so well. The ego backlash can be a bitch but that's a good thing ultimately.

AH yes that raw vegan. I do enjoy watching Dr Robert Morse's videos. Leo has tried quite a few things.

Now I took Mushrooms and DMT Indubian mushrooms are amazing. 3.2 grams felt like 5 of normal mushrooms. Then smoked DMT. I had a very deep awakening. Pure consciousness. I can never die. No point trying to put it into words.

You think wifi is healthy? I don't think that's much of a conspiracy theory the research is pretty clear.

Good book list.@ndm678 Heres the ones I'm reviewing right now: Pastured poultry profits and pig and cow books by Joel salatin are also great Edible Forest Gardens volumes 1 & 2 The living soil handbook, Frost The market gardener, Fortier The new organic grower, Eliot Coleman

Once I grew my own plant. Gave it lots of love and let it grow with compost outdoors. But other than that I recommend knowing one personally. If you don't, just get the best you can. If its weed its weed so long as its not laced with something. Give it the love it needs by doing it intentionally.

Once on a meditation retreat while doing KP3 I left my body and went to an energetic dimension where I felt like a buzzing singularity. One buzz. Visually there were red fractals. Then I had an ego death and watched the ego reform over the course of a minute.

@Yimpa That's quite interesting. My conversative parent would never, my liberal parent is fine with it. No wonder they got divorced haha. @Leo Gura What made you say that? The mixing? Or snorting haha. Ketamine is a once in a blue moon thing for me so I don't mind snorting. It was tested with multiple reagents by my close friend.

every psychonaut should read the way of the psychonaut

@Ayham I just don't do it for that long @Shakazulu also skeptical but very nice.

@cjoseph90 get something organic that you know was grown in a healthy way. Worry about the energy put into the plant by the grower physically and mentally.

Where are you doing this? My life purpose is related to sustainable food production and I do market gardening and permaculture food forestry. I just got 20 acres and am going to probably live there and farm there. I've been farming for a couple of years and got a lot of help from volunteers. I'm located in Minnesota. I've read dozens of books on the topic and after farming for a couple of years I know it's what I want to do. But anyway I think long term I would want to create some sort of community on my land. I am running things as a business and I want to become financially stable and independent and not have to work, so for some time I might offer people a low wage plus a place to live and food to eat to help farm in the summer.

What about your health. Why not use the plant in its original form

@cjoseph90 dont worry about the specific strain just get decent quality. and that doesn't just mean colors and smells, get something organic and with a balanced terpine profile and thc. A couple hits then wait 5 minutes. If you aren't panicking do more. A half gram would be a high dose for someone with no tolerance.

Yellow: I went to my cities local psychedelic society lots of times 3 years ago and lots of people knew Ken Wilber and about awakening it was very tier 2. Green: I went last week and the speakers that day were all deeply stage green, the negative excesses really triggered my green shadow. Some interesting stuff and some absurd, but it is just so dull compared to tier 2. Orange: Funnily enough, the green people were very upset -tier 1 culture wars- about the orange corporatism and scientism in the psychedelic renaissance, which is certainly more harmful than green.

He does santata gamana as well. For me that stuff enhanced my stevens routine so much. I love how 5 years later we're just name dropping the book, while 5 years ago Leo was keeping the book title a secret so people would buy the book list. The marketing got to me lmao.

Who'se still on the kriya yoga? got the booklist books 5 years in im regularly getting great results.

Nature is the best game.

This morning I was in the middle of a tropical rainforest on a hike. Randomly I felt a very strong urge to get away from other people and listen to the birds. for a few minutes it felt like I was on mushrooms, the noises were strange and very beautiful. Then it hit me, I realized everything is completely perfect, felt a deep bliss, perhaps the best experience of my life without psychedelics, started thanking god and telling god i love you and then i felt that god felt it back. Went on crying tears of joy saying thank you and I love you to god for creating reality out of love. then i realized i am god and we are thanking ourself. I am out of the state of consciousness now so it's really weird looking back, just like a trip. It lasted like 30-60 minutes, I just realized everything is perfect, completely okay, and there is nothing to ever worry about. God is it, God is you, God is me. God is every single you it and me. At the start I had my personal identity, then I felt god's love, then it just switched and my identity was god creating me. Having some ego backlash now, very strange it happened spontaneously, not even while meditating.

Wake up, meditate and stretch outside for at least two hours, eat nothing, dose, go outside, once it's getting crazy go lay down in bed in silent darkness. Be prepared for complete insanity and death, if you are afraid of these things you will have a horrible experience resisting. After 50+ high dose trips I've only had a few bad ones and once I let go it got better. Take time to integrate and let psychedelics improve your life and meditation habits, which will in turn improve your trips. I started using them lots at a young age, which I think is fine but you might need to take years to integrate if you trip lots. I wish I'd known how important it is to be alone and do it in a setting where you can get the best result. If you do it somewhere with others you may take the same amount and be the same person but have completely different results then if you lay in silent darkness and practice self-inquiry. I've had some pretty tough ego backlashes. When you do psychedelics, you are signing up to do a lot of rapid growth, which is hard and you need to be ready for. Otherwise you will have a backlash resisting the actual work and go in circles instead of improving. Turn off your phone, and all electronics, even when you're done tripping, you should give yourself a day before and after the trip to barely use them. Like Leo has said, living a clam, pure, non-hedonistic life the week before the trip is very important. Face all the negative emotions you have been avoiding so you aren't just tortured by them during the trip. @Phil King Alone is crucial but I think a tripsitter is smart for new substances or new doses just so you know you can handle it and aren't predisposed to a very negative reaction. I like the perception and actuality videos, or the guided exercises for before trips. Has the same effect as getting into a good self-inquiry groove beforehand.

I completely went fully insane for about an hour of my 4 gram mushroom trip today (plus DMT). I have been very worried generally that I'll do something stupid. But every time this happens I just lay there and let go. I think you have to be resisting very strongly or something. Doing it irresponsibly or not knowing what you're getting into. But I've always wondered why this happens to some people ever since someone did something pretty traumatizing to me off 3.5 grams of mushrooms. I considered having a tripsitter today but it's just so much better alone. Realized I was God after the madness though. It's nothing like you conceptualize it, everything just is and you project this whole story about an external world and an ego. I only had it for like 5 minutes though.

You just have to jump in the creeks every 30 minutes haha. Nature would be better. Our minds are built to apreciate the sounds of birds, the wind, etc. Think about how that affects mindfullness, ability to see love and beauty. But a jail cell may help you focus much better if you don't have much to do but meditate.