There are no fractals unless your are tripping balls.
Samadhi is identical to whatever you're seeing right now. Same stuff is seen, just under a different context.
Samadhi is ALWAYS the case. There can't not be samadhi. The only problem is that your mind is giving your present experience a false dualistic context which makes you unaware of the ever-present samadhi.
Look at your hand for a long time without any thoughts. That is basically samadhi.

@Gerhard I have to slowly build up my yoga because I have some issues with chronically blocked sinuses and sore throat. So yoga has proven challenging for me.
Sure, lots of yoga can work. You just gotta build up to it. And I did not come at this enlightenment thing from a yoga background, I came at it from a self-inquiry background.
But also, keep in mind, a state of Samadhi is not enlightenment.

A) Awakening to Truth does not necessarily end all suffering or pain.
B) Chemical addictions (like alcohol) can be very stubborn and will not change by seeing Truth alone.
C) There are many degrees of awakening. While Alan Watts clearly had some degree of awakening, I doubt he had Buddha-like abiding nondual awareness or a perpetual state of Nirvana.
D) Awakening alone WILL NOT transform or develop the self. It will not clear all the chakras, all the bad habits, it will not fix all the mind's neuroses, it will not make you a good person, and it will not produce emotional mastery or life mastery. Many psychological problems can be distinct from existential understanding.
E) After awakening, life must go on. Boredom can still set in and alcohol could be a nice distraction for some. After all, what is there to do, really? After awakening there is no need to do anything. There is not even the need to do good or be good.
F) You have no control over anything. Whatever happens is inevitable. Alan Watts had no ability to stop anything. Whatever the universe has in store for you, is what will happen, and you are surrendered to that.
Basically, stop expecting enlightenment to make you superman or a saint, or to fix all your Earthly problems.

@Anna1 That is wrong. EVERYTHING is Brahman. Your nonduality is incomplete.
If you have 2 things, that is duality!
The distinction between Brahman and world is something Brahman (You) is imagining.
All difference is God's imagination at work. So if you see a difference between things, you can be sure that you created that difference.
It would be wise of you guys to listen to what is being said here.

This will not fly at all.
You need TOTAL superhuman focus to breakthrough.
You have not even begun the work yet. You are kidding yourself still.
You can keep doing passive inquiry for 1000 years and not awaken. So be very realistic with yourself about how you are wasting your time. You have to be brutally honest with yourself about distrations.
Make a clear distinct between when you are seriously inquiring vs just screwing around.

@leintdav000 It's a phase. In the end you should be much more functional by being conscious.
Of course shutting off the mind disrupts a lot of egoic survival schemes, goals, motivations, and manipulations.
You're not realizing yet that the goal of spirituality is surrender of all reality and practicality. You cannot be liberated so long as you're worried about being practical.
After awakening you can pick some of that practicality back up, but while you are working towards awakening the point is to surrender more and more of it.
Yes, this interferes with becoming successful. But the point is that success is a never-ending cycle of suffering.
But there's also nothing wrong with working on success if you feel you need to. Remember, plan out your life in chapters and phases. If you're young you might want to spend 5 or 10 years working on success before you go heavy into awakening work.
So get clear about what you want and then pursue that decisively.
Of course the devil would say that
That line of reasoning is precisely how the ego maintains itself. You must challenge that if you wish to awaken.
The selfish one is you. You are so selfish you cannot even see your own reasoning as devilry.

Search "George Carlin and bullshit".
He's got some great examples of social bullshit.
But of course that's just the obvious tip of the ice berg.
 

@Javfly33 You're unable to figure it out because the truth is so radical:
You have imagined absolutely everything about your life, including your birth, your parents, your memories, the Earth, the solar system, the 21st century, animals, trees, emotions, thoughts, science, fiction, your death, the past, the future, etc.
And you are imagining right this moment that you are not imagining all of that but that it is "real".
So you're manufacturing all of reality while being in denial about it.
If you weren't doing this, you could not exist and there would be no world or other people. So you cannot stop doing it, lest you die.
The truth is you were never born. You merely imagine you were.
Understanding all of this would give you something akin to a psychotic breakdown. But it is called awakening. When you are fully awake, you can hardly understand how you ever believed you were born. Since birth is just imagination.
You are God.
Ta-da!

When the world disappears, what problems are left to solve?
Problems only occur within the relative domain, as a function of survival. They are important to solve, but only from the relative domain. From the Absolute nothing needs solving.
The most powerful way of solving a problem is by realizing it's not even a problem.

Just be ware that many of those negative trip reports can be very misleading. For me the experience is purely positive and pleasant.
Dosages on PsychonautWiki seem to be pretty accurate. Rectal doses are similar to smoked dosages! Making it very potent.
For me, rectal doses go like this:
Light: 20mg-30mg Medium: 30mg-40mg Heavy: 50mg+ But I'm pretty sensitive to all psychedelics, so you may need to dose higher.
Your starting dose should be no higher than 20mg to get a feel for the body load and vibrations.
With rectal administration the trip will start within 15 minutes, hit strong by 25 minutes, and last strongly until 2h30m. After effects tend to linger for quite a long time, at least a few more hours but you'll be out of the breakthrough zone by 2h30m.
Be very cautious with anything above 50mg. It will melt your reality.
DPT does not seem to come in any other form but HCl. The freebase version of DPT is oily and not suitable for storage from what I hear.
Oh, and DPT HCl refuses to dissolve in water at all. You can still make a suspension, but the actual DPT particles will not dissolve. This isn't a problem per se. It absorbs into the body just the same. But emptying the oral syringe is a bit trickier because sometimes the particles tend to stay in the back of the syringe requiring a bit more effort to deliver the full dose.
How To Plug Psychedelics video:
https://www.actualized.org/insights/how-to-plug-psychedelics

I will soon be renaming this thread to: The DPT Mega-Thread
This will be our go-to thread about DPT related questions, tips, techniques, etc.
As usual, no sourcing questions.
Here are some good reference links:
https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DPT https://erowid.org/chemicals/dpt/ https://www.bluelight.org/xf/threads/dpt-subthread-dpt-dosage-methods-of-administration.399044/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipropyltryptamine https://www.reddit.com/r/researchchemicals/comments/8y7k3j/dpt_dipropyltryptamine/

It's unlikely such people will give you the spiritual support you seek.
This is why, traditionally, shamans and yogis would go off on their own. They leave their friends and family to pursue the spiritual path seriously. Then they return back home with newfound wisdom and know how to handle the situation without needing anything from those people. And/or they make new friends who are on their level.
Being a shaman is not easy! Precisely because you have to go against the grain of society and you will not get emotional support from those closest to you. You must be independent-minded to be a shaman because others will think of you as a witch.
Become as self-sufficient as possible. That's a great way to grow. Later you can swing your pendulum back towards socializing and relationships.
But a shaman needs to be really comfortable being alone in the silence. The emotional support you seek will come from cultivating your connection with God.

This substance seems better suited for that goal. It tends to penetrate deeper than 5-MeO-DMT. 5-MeO-DMT it just a bit too fast, it tends to come and go. This new substance seems to rewire the brain more. Or at least I'm able to use my will/intention to tell it to rewire me. This requires more testing to see what could come of it. Seems like a promising tool so far. I can see this being a tool to purify a lot of baggage, thus leading to better embodiment in everyday life.
I see a lot of potential in it if used properly with the right intentions by an experience student of nonduality/spirituality.
Of course I don't know how well it works for other people. I just know it works great for me.

I said eyes open!
Open your eyes when you read
Look, I'm just giving you my way. Your way may not be my way. Do whatever you want.
The fact that you consider the world of form "a dualistic distraction" is precisely why I'm telling you to keep your eyes open. So your visual field can be recontextualized into Nothing.

Freebase plugs just fine, just as easy as HCl.
It does not burn at all.
Freebase is actually slightly more potent per same volume.
I highly recommend plugging freebase.
If you need help dissolving it, just add a few drops of ordinary household vinegar before adding water.
Freebase actually dissolves easier than oxalate.
Freebase is thus the best form of 5-MeO since it both vapes and plugs great.
Although maybe oxalate stores better. Not sure but my guess is that oxalate will store forever. That stuff looks invincible!

It is does not overload the body and it expands consciousness so much that you are actually able to heal your body through pure imagination. At least my initial trials suggest it can be used this way. How you would use it I cannot say.
It feels very healthy to me. No nasty side effects. I find it very pleasant and therapeutic. It doesn't have any hang over or exhaustion for me.
Of course if done the right way.
Misuse can surely happen and most people would freak out on this substance. It will turn your whole reality inside out. So this one is only for the most hardcore and experienced psychnauts and spiritual seekers.
If your mind is impure, you will be taking a trip straight to hell with this one. If your mind is pure, it will be a 2 hour trip straight to Nirvana.

I discovered a new psychedelic which is as powerful if not more powerful than 5-MeO-DMT.
It is: DPT
Here is my DPT Trip Report video: https://www.actualized.org/insights/dpt-the-other-god-molecule
This will be our go-to thread about DPT related questions, tips, techniques, etc.
As usual, no sourcing questions.
Here are some good reference links:
https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DPT https://erowid.org/chemicals/dpt/ https://www.bluelight.org/xf/threads/dpt-subthread-dpt-dosage-methods-of-administration.399044/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipropyltryptamine https://www.reddit.com/r/researchchemicals/comments/8y7k3j/dpt_dipropyltryptamine/ Summary:
DPT is for highly experienced users only. It's very powerful DPT can produce horrific trips for some people, so be careful The best way of taking DPT is rectally DPT lasts 2.5hrs at least For me, rectal doses go like this:
Light: 20mg-30mg Medium: 30mg-40mg Heavy: 50mg+ I am very sensitive to all psychedelics so your doses may need to higher.

@Peo Sit down and don't have sex for 6 months. And suffer through the hell of not getting what you want.
There is no shortcut here. You're gonna have to suffer until that ego finally gives up and dies. The ego will not just give up its most important desires without massive struggle.
To achieve this you're basically talking about giving up your entire life. It's harder than suicide. Which is why virtually no body does it.
The solution is the very thing you've been avoiding your whole life: death.

Probably not consistently. That kind of level of bliss is probably not chemically sustainable for the brain. Which is why MDMA isn't sustainable even if you keep taking large doses of it.
But you can definitely make yourself feel amazing with enormous amounts of yogic practices, spiritual purification work, and multiple enlightenments. Once all that stacks up, you'll be on top of the world. Although not like raw pleasure and constantly being "up". It's more like tranquility, deep gratitude, and appreciation of the beauty of reality.
This is a huge trap. The problem is that people are chasing experiences and states. But enlightenment/Truth is outside of all experiences. And so in fact by chasing bliss, you will stiffle yourself. That motivation is largely rooted in delusion (Maya).
Liberation (which is what you ultimately want), is not a blissful spiritual state, but freedom from all experiences and all states. All states and all experiences must ultimately come to an end, and therefore must ultimately cause you suffering. So WATCH OUT! Don't get seduced by Maya too much.
A high quality emotional life will naturally stem from Liberation and continued spiritual purification work.

@lennart You're never gonna be naturally as high as MDMA makes you. That's sorta like expecting to be on a constant heroin high. Not gonna happen.
But doing years of Kriya yoga might best the closest thing, if you open your heart chakra and deeply awaken.

Love without consciousness of the Absolute will not work. Your ego will co-opt it.
Dismantle the self and love will result.
By shooting for love, you'll likely end up with ego.
The problem with shooting for love is that its easy to bullshit yourself into thinking you're being loving while deep down the ego is pissed off because it is unable to sustain true love.
It's the same problem as trying to be good/moral while still unenlightened. Religious people try that all the time and it doesn't work. They end up being more evil.
This is very counter-intuitive stuff. So watch out.
If you really care about love, forget about love and sit down and do what the Buddha did. Then you will have love.

1) I take an alcohol extract. Never tried tea, but hear it works well.
2) Same dose as eating them: 2g to 4g. 2g will be medium-low, 4g will be medium-strong. 4g will blow your reality to pieces. Start with 1g.
3) It's just obvious from your body's reaction. If it makes you nauseous, that's your body telling you you ate something toxic.

Classic yogi diets are highly recommended for clarity of mind. Which means:
No animal protein No dairy No sugar No onion, no garlic, no potatoes, no tomatoes, no hot peppers No wheat No boxed or processed foods No caffeine, no alcohol, no stimulants As much raw, uncooked food as possible As much organic as possible It's NOT an easy diet to maintain long-term in our society. You will be hungry a lot and it will cost you about double or triple what the SAD diet costs.
If you're gonna eat animal protein, fish is best, then pasture-raised eggs, and lastly pasture-raised meat.
The upside is that your clarity of mind will skyrocket! A lot energy is wasted on digesting the wrong foods.

@Wind I got my first sober enlightenment experience through Vipasanna.
The whole point of Vipasanna is enlightenment. It's like you're asking, "Can a hammer be used to hit a nail?"
The major limitation is that you spend 20 years practicing mindfulness but you never apply it to the root of matter: What are you? What is awareness? What is reality? What is existence itself?
The key to enlightenment is that you must apply mindfulness to your IDENTITY as a physical being (or whatever the fuck you believe you are). If you're not questioning your physicality, you're not hitting the nail on the head, you're just sitting around waiting for a hammer to accidentally fall out of the sky and hit that nail square. You might be waiting for a while there.

@MM1988 Alcohol is an unhealthy, consciousness-lowering substance and doesn't have any personal development value. Psychedelics are the opposite.
Reason they're illegal is because people are ignorant about what psychedelics are and what benefits they can provide. And because they lead to questioning of epistemic foundations, upon which all of society is predicated.
The fundamental problem is that no one who was responsible for outlawing psychedelics has ever personally experienced them, or done objective research into the scientific and clinical evidence.