The practical benefits of awakening are rather subtle, like giving you a higher perspective on life. You will have a higher perspective on all your human problems like money, sex, relationships, family, business, education, health, politics, etc. But awakening will not obviate the need to take specific action on all those fronts.
It's kind of like getting a good university education. It doesn't really solve anything concrete, but it does give you a great foundation from which to approach all problems and projects, so it certainly pays practical dividends for the rest of your life. But it's not as direct as a university education solving your money problems or career problems.

Yes. One of the biggest benefits I've gotten from all my awakenings is massive clarity into my human self, my human character. It is much clearer now to me what things are most important to me, so a lot of confusion and frustration is eliminated. Life becomes more streamlined and essential.
Emotionally I am much more grounded and mature, so dramas are less of a thing. More general understanding of everything, so less conflict.
Also, a huge improvement in caring how others think of me. I have become so solid in myself as GOD that I can hardly care what anyone thinks of me. It's just noise.
Decisions are easier to make. There is much less manipulation of reality and people, which makes decisions much easier. I have stopped even trying to manipulate myself and my emotions.
Much more confidence overall in everything I do.
I don't fear death per se, I even look forward to it, but I still don't want to die for some stupid reason, because I see life as a miracle that should not be wasted.

The way it worked for me was, I went through a phase of toying around with those ideas, but then emerged out the other end and now when I trip I have zero suicidal thoughts because I just see them as silly nonsense. My mind has stopped even "going there" because I am focused on much grander things.
But there was a phase of maybe a year where my trips would include some suicidal thoughts. Not too serious, but still unnerving. It's a hump I think everyone will have to get over at some point of they trip a lot. Because you cannot avoid facing your own human mortality in this work. At some point you have to confront it. The key is simply to make a commitment to yourself never to physically act on it.

Massive transformation comes slowly.
What else do you suggest? As you can clearly see, Progressives are not having many political victories. Yelling about it won't change it. The bottom line is that Progressives expect too much too fast.

The point of freedom is to use it to allow yourself to commit to -- and pursue like a motherfucker -- your top values.
Freedom is not for sitting around playing games and jerking off. Freedom is about being free to be highly creative in the way that is most meaningful to you.

It kicks in within 3 minutes. At the 4 minute mark it feels like you are in a new reality, although the room still looks the same. The shift in consciousness is so dramatic that you start to feel sick and nauseous. It feels like you are no longer yourself but some kind of higher-dimensional being.

1) Very few Buddhists or spiritual teachers are actually monks.
2) Being a monk is a very rare thing that is not suitable for 99% of humans. Which is why less than 1% of humans are monks.
3) Yes, monks have zero ambition. That's key to being a monk. You are basically deciding to throw your whole life away in order to attain meditative states. This is not necessarily a good thing. You have to want that.

There is a big difference between proper and improper use of rationality. Rationality is a good thing when properly used. But it is badly abused in our culture and the academic and scientific communities.

You need a life purpose or some creative project to work on so you don't have free time to watch junk.
Be extremely careful of wasting your life just watching endless junk on YouTube.
The best thing for you would be to seriously undertake pickup and socialization. Then you will have no desire or time to watch that junk, and you will be actually getting success with girls.

I mean, in regular dream, there are so many illogical things happening that you realize you are inside a dream a lot of the times. Places changing their appearance, persons changing their faces, jumps in time, etc.
Why is this reality dream so consistent that not a single illogical thing ever happens or single little detail ever changes? Every day, you wake up and your surroundings remain the same.

Yup, both good.

There are many, many levels of mental derangement. You are nowhere near the level where this guy was at.
If you are physically assaulting random strangers on the subway, that's some serious mental derangement. Don't be offended, this does not apply to you. There is a big difference between having mental illness and being peaceful vs having mental illness and engaging in criminal acts. If you engage in criminal acts, don't be surprised if you get killed in the process. This is how society has always worked. Nothing new here.

No, at this point I just follow my feelings. I do as I feel rather than following any kind of mechanical rules.
With that said, today I meditated for about 3 hours. Because that's what felt right.

More precisely: Self-Love!
Why would a woman want to sleep with a man who doesn't love himself? That would be so stupid of her, since a man is made or broken by his level of confidence. A man without confidence is like a horse with 3 legs.

It's mostly BS. What they mean is spreading economic benefit to the US.
But in plenty of cases democracy does benefit the US. Democratic countries are better for business because they are more advanced and also less hostile. No one really wants to deal with a dictator if they can avoid it.

They always do. There's no way around that. It will sting like a bitch for at least a few weeks. Then it goes way.
A breakup is literally just a chemical reaction.

No worries, you're just not used to it.
Synthetic is better than bufo, so that is not the cause of your negative experience.
You just have to trip more to get acclimated to the radical shifts in state of consciousness. The more you trip the more comfortable you'll get.
You were just spooked off because it was so radical.
I recommend you plug 5-MeO rather than vaping it. This will make your trips gentler.
You can take some time to integrate and settle down.

If in 2023 you don't realize that crytpo is giant scam, not sure why you are investing at all, cause you will soon lose all your money.
Real estate and stocks are the best investments.
I do own some Bitcoin but I don't even recommend you buy it unless you got money to burn.
The key to investing is buying rock-solid things.

Of course. If you got the starting capital.
I don't want to give specific investment advice. That would not be responsible.
New York is very overpriced. Generally, good investment requiring finding things that are not hyped up and not overvalued. Which means staying away from the most popular stuff. Your goal is to be ahead of any trend, not on the height of it. Don't invest in things that every other fool is investing into. Look for greener pastures. Things that are hot are usually not good investments.

So I just watched Actualized.org's Introspection video!  It was great!  I am just going to get right to the point, I think that rationalism is a better guide than feelings (please prove me wrong).  As much as I want to agree with Yoda when he says "search your feelings," I just do not see how we can trust our feelings. Our feelings are arbitrary and random. Rationality has been my way to cope with my feelings.  My feelings are not always rational, and I think the best way of introspecting is by examining your own mind and contemplating it.  You can examine your feelings, but our feelings are impermanent.  They are always subject to change, whereas rationality is more constant and in our control.  However, I do acknowledge the criticism of how can do we know what is rational?  What is the difference between rationality, and how can we know if rationality is the best way?  These are good criticisms because we cannot use rationality to verify whether it is the best way because that is biased, but this objection also works with feelings.  
I think we should feeling into our emotions, harness intuition, but truthful rationality is our instrument to guide our introspection.  Rationality is not about following some mathematical or logical formula.  Rationality is just using our thoughts to verify our experience on a deeper and impartial level.  Rationality is best when it is free and not bound by rules because to think outside the box, we have to be willing to explore the territory that is beyond logic.  Logic is a structured way of thinking, whereas rationality is more just about exploration, questioning, wonder, not-knowing to verify what is true.  Feelings can be influenced by events that are random and maybe irrational, but true rationality is able to see through the bullshit, and even it's own limitations.
Many people say that they "feel the holy spirit."  But if you were that person, how would you know that you felt the holy spirit and not just something else?  I think rationality helps us observe things impartially.  As soon as we bias our rationality to serve our beliefs, it becomes irrationality disguised as rationality to the person who thinks their beliefs are rational and not just beliefs, but the Absolute Truth.  
So this is my argument, please help me out here because I am more of a thinker than a feeler.  I have used Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT), which is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) on myself my whole life.  I used my rationality to influence my emotions rather than my emotions influencing my rationality.  I think this is very important because emotions can influence how we rationalize things, but the rationality I am talking about is more like contemplation.  I see contemplation as basically rationalizing or questioning things at a deeper level to understand it.  
Thank you!
 

The mind will play all sorts of games and it is easily traumatized or freaked out.
Very high states easily result in a freakout.

The best example is when you're sleepy, tired, or in a food coma -- you are less conscious than usual.
No. Consciousness is a state you are in, not any information you know.
You can think of consciousness as your level of mental sharpness. To lack consciousness is to engage in behavior without self-awareness.

What?
If a girl is sleeping with you she will naturally talk to you about deeper things than she talks with other guys about. It's rare to talk to people about deep things if you aren't sleeping with them.

I have never heard of a PUA getting shot. So yes, it's very safe.
You could get shot just walking through a Walmart. So this has nothing to do with pickup.
All Vegas clubs have metal detectors and very good security. Vegas hotels have some of the best security in the world.

@DrugsBunny The trap you're falling into is that you preceive any questioning of this trans phenomena as an attack. But since it is a new phenomena, it requires lots of questioning. You cannot change something as fundamental as gender and not expect people to question it. That's an absurd expectation. Calling everyone a transphobe for having questions is not an intelligent or workable position.
People are legitamtely freaked out by this trans stuff. Because when you see a woman with a beard, it's fucking weird. And no amount of logic or studies changes that.
If your son comes to you and says he wants to be a girl, you should rightly be concerned. Because that's a serious obstacle to his survival. And none of your woke progressive self-righteousness changes that. To be encouraging such behavior is not wise.