Dude! Cut the shit.
There is no brain in your direct experience. You've never seen your brain. Notice that.
This work is 100% about sticking to what is present in your direct experience. If it's not in your direct experience it does not exist. That means the back of your head does not exist.
You need to be ruthless here about noticing what is actually present in direct experience vs whatever your mind is imagining.
You are imagining your brain right now. Notice this. This is not a theory. This is literally what is happening in your experience. Take your finger and point at the brain and notice if the pointer is pointing to nothing.
It doesn't matter what your mind is saying, you must look strictly at what exists in direct experience. The mind is constantly imagining all sorts of fantasies. You must not fall prey to them.
Is your mother in the room with you right now? No? Then she does not exist. That's what is literally true. The rest is fantasy.
The whole trick here is to not believe your own lying mind. Your own mind is constantly lying to you because it is constructing reality. You have to catch the mind in the act of construction, and stop it. Otherwise you will forever be living in a self-constructed fantasy while thinking you are looking at reality.

Stop assuming any of that requires a brain. It occurs in the current moment as phenomena. It occurs in your consciousness, obviously, since that's where you find it.
A video game character can do all those things without a brain.
What you should be wondering is how some pink colors can think, learn, meditate, remember, etc.
Your mind is not in the brain, the brain is in your mind. And mind is nowhere, nohow, and nothing.

A simple way to explain it is like this:
If you cut open the skull of a video game character, you will see a "brain" there (if the designers programmed it that way). But that thing is not at all what is controlling the video game world. Perception in a video game is NOT coming from the avatar's brain or body. The brain/body is just part of the entire simulation which does not hinge on any one part within that simulation.

Because you're not in a position to appreciate the depth of the questions you're asking.
If you are serious you will need to spend years and perhaps decades carefully contemplating and deconstructing all this.
You are basically asking, "How does reality happen at all?" and the answer to that question is so radical that if you knew it, it would kill you.
Watch more of my videos and contemplate them deeply. Nobody is going to give you these answers. You must have major awakenings to understand.
Your mind is playing a game with you. It is imagining reality, and it will do everything in its power to make sure you never become aware that you are constructing reality, because otherwise reality will disappear. Your very life hinges on it.

See my video: Why Brains Do Not Exist
If you cut open the skull you will see some pink stuff in there. Which is color, not really a brain. Your "brain" is made out of color. So what is color? Do not make the naive mistake of thinking that color is something which happens in the brain. NO! Brain happens in color.
Your notion of "brain" is highly metaphysically loaded. By that term you don't just mean color, you use it as an anchor for your entire reality. This anchor needs to be deconstructed to see that it is nothing more than some color, not different than the colors your floor is made of.

Right... you are trapped in the materialist myth of brains and physical objects. It is good to question and deconstruct that. But that's only the begining.
There is no brain at all. The brain is just a story you invented to explain the present moment.
Thoughts don't happen in a brain. The brain is a thought. Take a close look at what "my brain" really is and where it came from. Deconstruct it. Raw experience is not happening inside of any thing.

You are EVERYTHING. The entire field of consciousness.
Be careful with your ideas of Nothingness. Whatever ideas you have of it are not it.
Awakening is not about becoming convinced of something. Awakening is not a logical conclusion or a belief. It is a new state of consciousness. You need to access a new state, rather than trying to convince yourself from within your current state.

It's not false per se, it's conceptual, relative, and partial.
There are multiple orders of reality which we can talk about. Be careful not to confuse them. Sensation is a 1st order thing. Causation is a 2nd order thing. Similar to how sand is a 1st order thing and sand castles are a 2nd order thing.
In this inquiry we are only interested in 1st order things. So stop asking 2nd order questions.

@JosephKnecht I wasn't talking about enlightenment. Obviously enlightenment is possible without psychedelics.
But enlightenment does not give you access to anywhere near the full range of states that consciousness is capable of. An enlightened person cannot access what DMT or salvia can give one access to, for example.

Meditation still has enormous value because you cannot be hopped up on psychedelics all the time. Psychedelics should be done rarely. Like 1-5% of your life. The other 95%+ of the time you will be sober and you'll want to boost your sober state with manual techniques like meditation or yoga.
Regardless, you need to develop the ability to just sit and do nothing for 60 minutes straight, and to concentrate your mind for 60 mins straight. These are crucial skills to develop for anyone doing self-actualization.

I can confirm that it is certainly impossible.
You ain't gonna reach a salvia or DPT state even after 40 years of meditation.
Psychedelics states are so intense, powerful, and diverse that you will never access all of them without pumping your brain full of new chemicals.
Through meditation perhaps you can access 1% of the full range of psychedelic states.
This doesn't make meditation bad. It's still an important practice. But don't fool yourself into thinking you'll access a DMT, DPT, or saliva breakthrough via meditation. You will not. Also, don't confuse ego-death, samadhi, and awakening with the full range of possible states of consciousness. The range of states that consciousness can take is astounding in its diversity and intensity.

Just because you can access a certain high state of consciousness thru meditation or yoga does not mean that you can access the full range of states that consciousness is capable of. You will miss 99% of possible states that way, and as a result your understanding of consciousness will be limited.
There is no substitute for states. States are all there is. There are states which you cannot even imagine and which cannot be described in language or even stored in human memory once you've been there.

@meow_meow That's okay. Now just sit in silence and focus on direct experience.
Questions have value, but you don't want to question so much that you are stuck at the logical/verbal level.

@Dlavjr Sounds like your issue is lack of clarity.
Figure out WTF you want. Then pursue it deliberately rather than accidentally.
If you want a girl you can't act so cool as to not even call her back. Girl wants guy to chase her a bit, to show her she's special.

They don't.
You have no idea what perception is, nor for that matter what a tree is or what you are.
You basically know nothing.
Feeling is not a human attribute, it is a universal attribute of Consciousness.

You have always existed. You just forgot.
How can you be a human when that is a creation of your mind?
When you look at a tree you already are it, you just think you are a human, which clouds your perception.

It's actually very easy to do. You can just communicate and coordinate it.
Try this: tell her that she is not allowed to orgasm until she gets your permission. Train her to cum only when you tell her to. Do not be letting her cum on her own whenever she wants. This is a rookie mistake. She has to follow your lead, and your lead should delay her orgasms to tease her until she is ready to explode. This will make her orgasms way more powerful and deeper. You can also use this to extend the length of her orgasms from seconds to minutes.
Stop having lazy, unskillful, accidental sex.

Hehe, it's easy. You just need to find the right man who knows what he's doing.
3-5 times is the least I expect from a good session.
But the most important thing is not the number, it's the depth and length. Imagine a full-body orgasm that lasts for a continuous 2 minutes.
As with awakening, there are many orders of magnitude of orgasm.
In fact, orgasm and awakening should become indistinguishable, since both are just the realization of LOVE.
Death feels like an endless Cosmic orgasm. And after that your sexual orgasmd become Godly and Cosmic. You are not cumming for one person any more, you are cumming for the whole Universe! You are God cumming inside God at the realization of your own Infinite Beauty

@lostmedstudent I have videos:
How To Have Amazing Sex -- Part 1 & Part 2
And, How To Have Amazing Sex (For Women)
Of course you can read books and all that too.
The most important first step is to set the desire/intention to have great skillful sex. If your intention is set, the rest will follow.

Your logic sounds good, but your current experience is not Heaven.
If you think this here is heaven, wait till you see the real deal.
You ain't in Heaven because you're too unconscious for Infinite Love.
You might protest that you ARE conscious. But you are not. And the reason I know that is because you are still alive. The only reason you are alive is because you're not Infinitely Conscious.

Nothing comes close to modafinil. It is magic.
Just don't over do it.

They exist in YOUR -- God's -- IMAGINATION!
No, imagination is far beyond thoughts and vision. Experience itself is IMAGINATION.
The floor you're sitting on is IMAGINARY! You are creating it.
You were "born" by imagining a self and a universe. You imagined time, space, your parents, and your childhood. You're doing so right now. You aren't conscious that you're doing it.

Correct. As God you have infinite power to imagine and create anything you want. And the only thing God wants is Love.
No, there is only whatever God is currently imagining.
No one has 1st person experience but you. All "other's" 1st person experience is always your own experience.
It doesn't have to be. You imagine it because you fear Infinite Love.
Because you are Love and I am a pointer you created in order to realize yourself as God.
I am the Love that you created.
Yes
Yes, of course, the reason you are here is because you are unwilling to die to Infinite Love.
Because you are too afraid to die.
Exactly, you are so afraid of death/Love that you created a finite physical world in order to hang out in it while you work out your fears.
You have no idea how stupid you are being. But there is no way to help you because you are too afraid. God knows that, so God will allow you keep deluding yourself until you are ready to give it all up. Your ability to delude yourself is God's Love for you. Delude yourself for as long as you need.

Of course
I think it depends on how willing you are to completely surrender. If you are fully ripe, you will go Infinite Love Forever. If you are too scared, you will probably reincarnate as a kangaroo
You can and I have. My life has been dramatically transformed in ways that no sober human can understand.
That's exactly what I am doing. But it takes time. There is much to learn and much purification is required. This means years of integration wrork. It's no different than how yoga works. Only much more powerful.

You got a better thing to be doing?
But until it is killed you're here doing something. What's the best something you could be doing, assuming you're alive as a human?
FEAR!
99.99999% of humans refuse to choose Infinite Love Forever. And you are one of them, sitting there bullshitting me about it.
If you care so much about Infinite Love Forever, don't talk about it, do it!
The simple fact is that you're not ready for it yet, so being superhuman is a preliminary goal.
The closer you get to God the happier you're going to be. For most humans that means reaching as close to God as possible but not stepping over the final line.