Sempiternity

Of course integration is key. Leo had said that people below Green can filter a Awakening experience through their SD stage, like Stage Blue person thinking they met Jesus when they experience being God. So wondering if a person faced with their imminent death could jump up levels of SD, then if they did experience death and had an Awakening experience and came back, that experience could then be viewed through that jump in S.D. So then the integration would be done at that higher level, and therefore more effective and accurate integration of Truth. Just a hypothesis. If a person is faced with their imminent and assured end of their life, and all their beliefs and concepts about themselves and their life crumble, could that result in a jump to higher Spiral Dynamic stages? I guess a person can achieve this and slide back down, but also people who have such profound experiences are never the same.

Allan Watts talked about a Japanese kamikaze piolet in WWII that went down before he could complete his mission. He was so prepared to die, he ended up having a samadhi experience that changed the rest of his life. So not so much stress, but facing your immediate assured death. I think that can make one jump up to higher levels of consciousness.

You are on a Nonduality forum, that follows the teachings of a Nonduality teacher. Watch his videos to get your answers.

@Shaun What is your goal being on this forum? Is it to just put everything down and spread your distrust? To what end? If you're not here to learn, please just go away.

In all honesty, Enlightenment/Awakening is my life purpose. Nothing at all matters besides this, not relationships, friendships, family, sex, money, status, admiration, desires or comfort.

Most strong Egos: "My version of reality is all I have ever known. Therefore the way I see and think of reality must be right, and everyone who thinks differently than the way I do must inherently be WRONG. Therefore it is my job to stop all those that think differently than I do, at all costs, until they think the way I do." Hence burning down churches, shooting people from other cultures, and so on.

Why do I have the feeling that some ignorant person is going to eventually go after Leo's work, telling authorities that he's telling people to kill themselves or some shit. And authorities being as ignorant as they are, and against free thinking will do something horrible. At the very least get him banned. So if you don't see the value in his work, please just move on and go elsewhere. Leo, I hope you've thought of this and have a plan in place if so.

So great to have this said. There is a growing number of religious folks on this forum. I was a lifelong Atheist (40 years). The moment I learned of Nonduality I gave it up of a belief of truth. You have to unlearn everything. Hardcoded beliefs only get in the way.

Just try it on as a possibility that its all true. If you give it your all, and do the practices, the kriya yoga, mediation, self inquiry, and yes even dedicating yourself to the psychedelics, at worst it is not true and you will have spent some time becoming more peaceful and mindful, that will greatly improve your life. At best you do everything and become God, creator of the universe, infinite love on a scale you can't even imagine, and completely omniscient. That seems like a pretty good gamble to take, don't you think?

@Shaun Look at it this way, God created infinite realities and infinite entities through which to experience reality. It partitioned off a limited perspective, and made itself forget it created all this, so God can experience being a 'human' or whatever. Basically a God created a 3rd person video game and Shaun is the video game character. You the character being operated has no separation from anything else in the game, you are all made of consciousness/isness/ pure imagination. If you the character were to raise his limited consciousness, you would experience more and more of reality. Experiencing yourself as more and more beyond the limited perspective. Becoming the walls and the trees and the sky. The more and more you expand your awareness you eventually 'become' Infinity/every possible possibility.

@Serotoninluv You can say this about pretty much any strong psychedelics. A healthy dose of shrooms, LSD or even 5-MeO and you're not going to have control over what happens. It's going to take you on a ride whether you like it or not. Best to surrender to it and enjoy what it offers whatever may come.

Don't go off of teachings, find out what is True for yourself.

Just taking a shot in the dark here, but Leo has said that mystical experiences are filtered through our Spiral Dynamics. So I'd guess you are stage Blue, so your Ego saw what it thought it would see.

Ever heard of the term 'Peacocking'? If you want to attract attention for the opposite sex (of same if that's your thing), then wear as bright and flashing clothes as you can. The key is to 'own it'. Say to yourself, and in turn everyone else, that you are fucking fabulous and your clothes reflect this. When you walk in a room, you want everyone to stop and stare. Who do you think all the girls want, one of the dozens of boring looking guys who all dress the same as though it's a fucking uniform, or the guy who has the courage to dress like a fucking BOSS. So dress as outrageous as you can. I speak from experience, this works like a charm.

This is a Nonduality forum, so the answers you're going to get are that you are God, you are Jesus, you created the bible, you imagined it all, you are all that there is imaging it all.

Utter bullshit. You're not getting possessed by anything. Aya is your guide. If you do have a bad time, it is you resisting the message being presented. Aya will show you what you need to see. Anything and everything done by others around you during a ceremony will only serve as a distraction from the message being presented to you. Although it nice to have someone clean out your puke bucket, I've been part of ceremonies where it your responsibility to do your own. If you want some social experience, go to a ceremony with lots of people. If you want to go deeeeeeeep within yourself and experience higher truths, then do it solo.

Good luck! I admire the dedication.

I can't speak about how to brew, but as of your question about do you need a guide or shaman, the answer is absolutely not. Aya is your guide. Anybody else is just a distraction from what Aya is trying to tell you.

If so, I could see the possibility of some humorous Laurel and Hardy style misunderstandings. "I'm doing 4-HO this weekend". Who's the Ho?" No, 4-HO". "Who's the Ho for?" No, 4-HO".

Interesting. I'll dive into it with a open mind. Thanks for the share.

Hmm..everyone has their own opinion, mine is this kid is no different than any other deluded hippie that thinks they talk to aliens from another dimension and sells crystals. I personally wouldn't give any credence to every person who smoked DMT and talked with aliens or machine elves. Nothing special.

Ever float or fly in a dream? What we call real life is just another more complicated dream with it's own rules, that was created by God, which is you.

As I understand it Lucid Dreaming is waking up within a dream, but you're still in the Maya illusion. It's like those dreams where you wake up and start to go about your day, only to wake up in your bed to find that too was a dream. Lucid Dreaming is still part of the dream of being human.

Fascinating. Thank you for such thoughtful responses. Lots to contemplate.

What does one do with their life? Do you seek to find pleasure? Do you work towards satisfying desires or accomplishments? Do you even hang out with friends, knowing they are just you and illusionary? If there is no one to worry about, why not sit in a room for the next few decades? Lets say you get diagnosed with cancer. Do you go through the extensive invasive treatments that the doctors recommend, or do you just ignore them as it doesn't matter, as you don't exist to begin with?