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@cetus56 No, I'd imagine they would be appropriate for shrooms, so I never bothered, did you?

and the fact that they actually worked with it so precisely and had so much mastery over such a subtle form is amazing! Wow they healed people through this perspective. Its hard enough to just experience it...

@Nahm latest video Nahm hahaah

Yeah almost, I've had experiences similar to "reality morphs into a single infinite field". This experience was very similar, yet less profound. It is of a different flavor to the experience you're describing. The experience you're describing is more of a merging with god directly. In the contrary this experience wasn't necessarily a merging with reality (felt more like the pre stage, or the stage that's directly prior to the merging) and the objects in the scene were not recognised as being apart of absolute infinity, but rather of a different form. It was like seeing an optical illusion (the one where the square changes direction). The tree changed from being a tree, to (I can barely remember now as the experience has no words in english) now I'm going to just try my hardest to describe it (this is definitely a map rather than the territory haha) as if it was apart of an eternal source, a source that had access to other forms of the world. This to me was percieved as a spirit, because it was connected to a 4th dimension so to speak.

Too hard to answer with good judgment since this is the first time I have done it. But the best answer I can give you is, I believe the beauty of the nature around me helped collapse some of the views I had about objects in the 3D world. The tree was particularly important, and catalyzed the experience or realization. I could sense that, without that stimuli, the experience probably wouldn't of been as profound, or at the very least very different to what I witnessed.

I actually agree with you on thar point. Its true, if you want to take spirituality ro the limit, you need to base a career around it. A spiritual job can involve teaching, but also healing. Like reiki or old school siddha medicine. Really if you contemplate, you will notice that all jobs in the world generate an income by somehow affecting people in a certain way. Most jobs do it in a shallow sense, but spirituality does it in a deep sense. Now there are more options out there except for teaching that affect people in a deep way: theres also councelling and healing, and other more esoteric methods. For example, I'm currently working at a startup, but I intend this job to just be a stepping stone to my next job. My next job is to extend the work of Franklin Merell Wolff. He used something called mathematical yoga, and im going to use that method to further develop techniques that will help people navigate their 5th dimension (yogic sense) more easily. Also I intend to generate art using mathematical formulas, which will provoke people to look deep within themselves. And I'll use a range of constructive logic techniques to design that map for people. This isn't a teaching job, but it does infect people on a deep level.

The more consciousness work i do, the more I notice that, intuition seems to make better decisions than cognitive thought. Even in cognitive related subjects like mathematics, computer programming and physics. And in the inverse, the more monkey mind I use to make decisions, the worse those decisions turn out to be. Has anyone else observed the same phenomenon? I have doubts though - surely cognition is better at, at least some situations. But my experience is telling me otherwise. Also Sadhguru is under the impression that intuition is not that smart, and isn't to be relied on. So I'm doubtful and possibly being deluded.

@Truth +1 been feeling the exact same way as you! And I've failed to really devise a plan to both obtain psychedelics, and use them. Its trickly to find people who are into spirituality and psychedelics. Really we need to focus on treating our yoga and meditation as if they were a psychedelic trip, to give them full potential

For those of you who use to do tradition meditation and yoga, then added or switched to using psychedelics, do you feel like your daily(PERMANENT) state has become more meditative, or do you understand reality better? If so how much of an impact has it had and where would you be if psychedelics didnt exist.

@Aimblack 1. I come from the southern hemisphere, so its the opposite for me. 2. Differences of opinion 3. Actually, Nimis is much more reliable than J.C. Stevens, every serious spiritual teacher will tell you that and if you do cntr + f and type in "24 breaths" you will see Nimis instructs you to (of Lahari's words) to start with 24. 12 is absurd, that wont get you anywhere, that's like 1 minute of work. "To start, you will practice 24 breaths. In time you will increase by 12." page 96 I'm not saying this to dispute you or argue, but to show you that your interpretation is not the correct one(mine isn't either), but a different one. I was instructed specifically by a teacher to face west because we are from the southern hemisphere, and my zen teachers I've had in the past had different views of what chanting was. I wont bother to continue my questions here, because I can see it will just turn into a debate rather than useful advice, but I'll just put this out here to show that just because someone practices a different branch doesn't mean they aren't following Lahari's teachings.

@AMS wait, all of that happened only in 1 week?

@Aimblack Already did, useful insights in there, but doesn't answer any of my questions. I tried to not half ass yoga by trying really hard to follow all of the steps exactly. I even got out a compass and faced west because that's what Lahari strictly said to do. But honestly following everything to the nth degree seems impractical and even impossible, hence why I asked these questions on here.

yep sure is just another source of external happiness, just like your external desire to eat food, have showers, go and earn money, and feel important.

@Leo @Leo Gura Do you actually use the term 'OM' in Kriya Pranayama? I tried it for 2 weeks, but I don't understand the meaning, so I switch to instead of chanting OM, I visualise and feel into a heap of energy, because that's what OM means in english. Also I get extremely frustrated during Kriya Pranayama. Because its so hard to simultaneously do all of the stuff needed, while making sure you're feeling into the chakras rather than just visualizing it. I only do 24 sets as well. Is frustration an impediment? Or is it ok to be frustrated? Also it takes me probably 10 seconds to go up the spine, because if I do it quicker, I'll either miss a chakra, not feel into it properly or forget about visualizing the ball of energy there, or forget to do it within the 3rd eye. Should I worry about these things and just be quicker anyway? Because I'm so slow I hold my breathe half way through my spine because I don't have 10 seconds of inhalation space. Also I haven't been getting any results from the practice. The only thing I've noticed is sometimes I feel very still and the ego dissolves, and the practice just happens, but this isn't really a mystical experience. Maybe this is a sign that I'm doing it incorrectly? Or this path doesn't suit me? I've been doing it for at least 3 weeks now.

When you have a strong desire to do something, do you see it as something you must actualise or a distraction? Without actualising your desires, your quality of life decreases, which makes the spiritual path unbearable at times. But Desires never end, we always want more, so in a way if you follow your desires you'll end up not getting anywhere at the end of your life.

@Shanmugam +1 I've had the exact same experience. When I do yoga, all it does is put me into deep meditation or occasionally a samadhi experience, but self inquiry is the thing that is most potent, problem is its so potent that its very easy to get caught in intellect. But I find that yoga helps with stopping yourself from getting into intellect when doing it.

I can't help but think that the CIA and KGB are too materialistic to every be successful with these types of experiments.

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Don't do what's right and see what happens. I guarantee you that if you don't do the selfless act (moral thing) you will suffer. Because selfishness is myopic, it feels good immediately, and feels horrible in the long run. But there's a difference between you believing me, and you realizing it, so go and do it. Go and be immoral and unethical for 3 months, go to jail, experience it all, and you will come out of it with less suffering in the end. Maya is a snake eating it's tail.

@Shin Btw Shin, your 'feel your body' technique you posted ages ago has really helped boost my jnana practices. The emphasis of feeling reality, while not saying or projecting anything really helped. Thanks for that +++++1 EDIT: A good technique that has given results is a slight modification to Shin's technique. Whatever strong beliefs you have about reality, try and compare it to the present moment, and see if it is as 'strong' or as 'truthul' as it. So when someone insults you, ask 'who is insulting you' then compare that belief to awareness, empirical evidence (in front of you), reality, what you're seeing ONLY, etc. Then see how different those 2 things are, and how hologramish that belief really is. It kind of feels like god is shining his light onto satan and destroying him.

Everything said in that reddit post isn't wrong, its just that he's arguing about a completely different thing. Inside the realm of classical mechanics, everything he says is correct. But if you want to know the 'truth' then of course he is missing the point. Its like this guy is saying "what Leo is insane, of course harry potter has black hair! Harry potter's hair isn't false, the tv screen doesn't disprove his hair being false" If you really want to get to the bottom of whose right and whose wrong in these 2 dialogs, don't try and figure out which beliefs are better, but question the reactions from both Leo and the redditor. Why is the redditor saying the stuff he is saying? Is he saying it because he's correct? Or do you smell fear like i do?

I've had 2 - 3 occasions where during sleep I felt extreme existential terror, and it felt like the whole world was slowly fading away. I felt like I was going into just nothingness, it felt like drowning in idk nothing. The ofcourse I would wake up and just remember the experience as a weird dream. I actually posted about one of them on here, but I think the description I wrote was too weird for anyone to comment on, so it was just a post rather than a discussion. EDIT: here is the post

no agent smith is a johovas witness, pretends that he's on the truth's side when he's not. Very deceptive and manipulative. Uses statements that look and feel true but actually arent

totally depends upon what you think noble is. I think noble is creating innovative, creative ideas that others can use to reach their potential in life. But your idea of noble is different to mine, so what we suggest to you wont be noble. Here's a tip: Go to an art museum, look up inspiring biographies, go to meditation centres and experience the people there, and pick out what touches you most and make a purpose around it.

@TheEnlightenedWon When I practice this, I feel like I run out of awareness juice. For example, my daily practice is, throughout the day, I ask questions (as the day unfolds) who is driving? Then feel reality for an answer, who is drinking this water? etc. But after 2 hours I feel like I run out of juice. For the first 2 hours its great, there's no one driving the car, its just happening, there's no one drinking the water, its just happening, but then 2 hours later my mind says its me! I'm doing it! Is this a problem you experience and if so how do you solve it?