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@Prabhaker Sadghuru always talks about yoga and kundalini awakenings as being very dangerous. Hes sometimes acts almost scared of it. I havent done much yoga yet (only taoist and some zen) had no idea it was so old and established and powerful.

Hahaha only 2000 years old.

@Prabhaker Why was yoga so popular in India, when you can just do concentration techniques commonly found in Buddhism? Was it just a cultural norm, or is there more to yoga that makes it more powerful than say visualizing a circle in your head for 30 minutes? Or the famous focusing on your breath?

@Magic There's a lot of bullshit surrounding Chakras on the internet. Though if you look deep enough, you will find some really profound and amazing techniques surrounding them. Loosely related is something called the golden flower meditation Absolutely beautiful form of meditation. You can more about that in Osho's book the secret of secrets. Really magnificent piece of work. Some things you can do with Chakra work: - generate energy in yourself so that you can feel euphoric whenever you need to - activate kundalini awakenings at will(perfect for ego death) - change your emotions at will; say you feel depressed, you can learn to convert it to love or anger or whatever you want. - paranormal activity

@Scholar well get into energy body work, and you'll be able to show the world it but what will happen if you do, is your perspective on this matter will change. Every morning try concentrating on a shapeless object, like space or something, because that's whats required for this work. Then look up chi visualization techniques. You'll be doing it in 3 months. But just remember the aim of spirituality isnt to burn stuff with your hands, its to seek enlightenment. If you really want to impact people, making a video about it, or showing people this stuff isnt going to help them, you need to teach them how to and hope to god their egos wont use it to gain power, or any other cruel thing.

the meditation practice I follows involves me looking at myself in the mirror(gazing meditation) and then asking myself "who is looking at this person in the mirror" anyway this meditation technique is really really really effective! "I" start to forget who the person is in the mirror within 5 minutes, and the discovery of who is aware of the experience becomes very apparent very soon. But this meditation techniques is very very scary. Forgetting who the person is in the mirror/realizing its not you, and then realizing that the 'thing' who is aware of experience is not real, is soooo scary. Its like combining 1000 horror movies into 1. Is there any way of alleviating this fear? I've tried reassuring myself that "don't worry, everything will be ok. Enlightenment is beautiful, this is a good thing" but then eventually the realization occurs that experience is just talking to itself when I try and say these things to myself, and those reassuring sentences loose meaning. This is a very uncomfortable experience to have. Any way of making it less daunting?

@cetus56 mix that with "god seeing through your eyes" while youre staring at your pupils. What are you going to make of that thing in the mirror then, let alone youself. Scary af hahahahaha

@Callum A @Scholar https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dgid-Ag082lo&ved=0ahUKEwi2yoO1p4PTAhWBf7wKHSimCO0QwqsBCBswAA&usg=AFQjCNE52_fbXrZzdCtQ0NDyRgbJkJoQUA&sig2=gq4j1G0ordXz1CQJquGNog Thats really hard to do though, burning an entire piece lf news paper. You need extremely good concentration skills for it. And very good visualization skills.

@cetus56 i was asking because this is what "i feel" at the end of my gazing mirror meditation. This is what causes me fear.

@Callum A some other people have already, ill try and find it

You need to understand the mechanics of deep energy body work to understand why I'm saying its egoic. Bending elements isnt meant to be done whenever you feel like showing off to someone, that mindset produces low energy vibrations that actually stunt your progress. What most of us do in the world is we follow actions that our ego tells us to do, but to build chi energy you need to follow the actions of the tao/god or our inner voice. Your mindset of (we need to show humanity these powers so that they can all be enlightened) is unrealistic and problematic. Get into energy body work, and you'll see what i mean. And m8 trust me, showing the world this energy is equivelant to Galileo showing the church that we dont revolve around the sun(how well did that go?). Theres nothing special about emitting chi into certain elements, unless your worldview denies it. Like theres nothing special about us revolving around the sun, unless your worldview denied it.

I got deeply into energy body and kundalini awakenings/chi energy, and I'm able to burn a piece of paper using it, and make objects move. But I seriously don't want to record myself doing it because A) that's egoic and I don't like that energy, but more importantly B) I seriously am concerned about people either killing me or putting me into a mental hospital. So I would have to say yes it is real. BUT its not as amazing as it seems. Once some paranormal activity is exposed to you, it becomes normal, even boring. Its just apart of nature like everything else. The trick is that it requires at least an existential non-dual understanding for it to make sense, otherwise from a scientific/physical perspective, it really doesn't make sense and seems crazy.

Whose gonna get enlightened????

I use to question girls who were attracted to me in high school, question their personality on a very existential level, while being very indirect. It use to really fuck them up, it wasn't particularly good for them, so honestly I don't think this is a particularly good trait to look for. There is going to be no man out there who has the ability to question you on a very deep level and make you high with insulting you at least once, because that would require knowing your personality, thoughts and feelings more than you do!

@bazera we all die in the end anyway. We loose everything in the end. You didnt miss out on anything. Everyone goes back to the same state they came from. If it happened, it was meant to be.

.....Well, I've currently set myself a goal that i have to go to at least 1 party per week, because i have felt unsocial/autistic/nerdy in the past. I wonder how I should take that paragraph? Woah... aren't you being a little radical? If you dont go to school it could fuck up your life forever. Same with work?? What types of PD were you referring to?

Why dont most modern day people notice the paranormal activity, and it colliding with their worldview then? If it is truly there? No one in the west are being hung anymore.

@Emerald if god wanted you to transcend the ego, he would make that a reality. He has the power to. But its not happening in your case. Imagine how limited the universe would be if everyone was happy and enlightened. Is that the true nature of an infinite, eternal god though?

Does enlightenment go further than that, or is that enlightenment? I mean if one was in that state 24/7?

@cetus56 Losing yourself in nature is certainly fun. That's definitely a good practice. But sometimes nature is so exciting that I'll get caught up in the sensory experiences, and that'll distract me from finding the creator of the sensory xperiences. How would yoy avoid that? Haha true a face is very strange, but realizing it doesn't belong to you existentially tends to freak an ego out.

@Callum A Wont going into the unknown cause the dark night of the soul and send people into a deep depression? Sure people can surrender right now, but there are real consequences, its not like its all just a joke. I do find gazing meditation to be especially effective though. Like maybe even as effective as shrooms(which I have consumed shrooms 4g before).

What Leo Gura said was pretty funny, but I am still seriously looking for advice on how to alleviate existential fear, so if anyone has some, still post here.

@Nahm I know someone who took NN-DMT and then stared at himself in the mirror questioning his existence. He got PTSD . This is where my inspiration comes from to do this. I have a feeling that @Prabhaker has gone all the way. @FirstglimpseOMG That creepy feeling you got in the shower is a tiny taste of what its like. BUT What if you also forgot who you were completely? And that forearm was attached to a ghost that was once you, but you're now dead? Or maybe you thought that arm was yours, but then you realize it never was yours, and that you're actually dead like what happen to the guy in sixth sense, or fight club? ooooooooo

@FirstglimpseOMG just a few pointers: - go into a really quiet room with a mirror, devoid of the world and distraction(even beautiful scenery distractions). - stare at yourself in the eyes. - Start off by detaching yourself from the world: tell yourself you don't want anything from your sensations, that discomfort feeling? Its beautiful you don't want to change it. That beautiful light breeze in the room? You don't want anything from it, you are fine with it leaving. - eventually when the mind is super quiet, as yourself who that thing in the mirror is. If you're like me, you'll start to hallucinate, and your face in the mirror will start changing shape and your eyes will seem to move around, it will seem like another entity/another person staring at you, maybe even wanting to kill you, maybe even a ghost/a hollow thing, maybe youre already dead, and other really creepy shit. - then that face will start to look foreign, like you have never seen it before(existential terror = over 9000). - then if your brave enough, ask yourself, "who is aware/who is staring at this foreign face?" Don't get too caught up in the ideas that the sentence/question will produce, visualize yourself in the world staring at a mirror, really feel like its real. - then really go meta on that thing staring at that foreign face which was once yours, but now you have no idea who owns it. It seems empty and hollow, like it never existed. IDK what happens next because im too scared, but I'm going to take a leaf of Prabhaker's advice, and have the balls to do it. Goodluck, you'll need it. EDIT: btw I know you're excited to try this, but if done correctly, this isn't going to be pleasant.

@BeginnerActualizer I don't 'meditate' in the sense of what people refer to in this forum. My meditation is an expression of a way of life I follow. I don't just meditate 20 minutes a day, and the fall back into my usual patters for the other 23 hours of the day, I continually watch my thoughts and contemplate my identities 24/7. And dude honestly, it might freak you out to think that you have been wasting your time because of some article on the internet, but you need to really start understanding what truth really is, and appreciating the value of empirical evidence and egoic traps. Meditation might be a trap/waste of time, but so might not meditating. You can't rely purely on articles on the internet, and even purely on scientific methods to guide your actions and work out truth, you have to start looking into the present moment and distinguishing between delusion and truth from that place. Otherwise society/science will fuck you in the ass. There are ego traps everywhere, get use to/even accept the fact that you might be deluded and you may be wasting your time, because guess what(assuming here, but im pretty sure due to how most people are), you're already deeply deeply deeply deluded, just like me and everyone else on this forum. I was like you once, scared about being deluded, but you have to let that go, that's the only way you'll actualize.