You mostly take back insights, understanding, wisdom, memories, a new worldview, lessons, purification of the body/mind, etc.
Your baseline state of consciousness doesn't change much. Maybe a tiny bit.
It's sort of like being dropped into a warzone. What do you take back? You're not gonna in that fight-or-flight state when you get back home. But you will return home a different man, forever changed. People will feel something different about you. But it will be subtle.

@UnconsciousHuman Great work! That's real learning right there! That's how all growth work should look. Empirical and not based on ideology or self-serving theory.
Just keep in mind that attraction online is very different from attraction in-person. Your looks matter far more online. If you're an above average looking guy, online will give you an advantage. If you're below average, stop doing online and focus on in-person.

No, I never said that.
My top concern has always been understanding and accessing the highest levels of consciousness, not escaping suffering or maintaining a moderate sober state.
So that's what I pursued. And I feel now that I've gotten to the top of it: Infinite Consciousness.
Now my plan is to see how closely I can get to that in sober life. I'm very far away from that at this point.
It's quite ordinary. Nothing fancy like you want.
Right. What you want is a basic enlightenment.

@Camerong That is the cost of Infinite Consciousness.
Do you truly want to be so conscious that you have total omniscience over reality? If so, you'll need 5-MeO-DMT. You won't get there sober.
If you just want to be at peace and out of the ego-mind, that you can do sober.

Without passions, what will you do once you awaken?
You see, after awakening life still continues. Chop wood, carry water, follow your passions.
There's really no good alternative to following your passions. The alternative is a dull life.
Do not make the mistake of thinking that passion and awakening are somehow mutually exclusive. Just the opposite! The greatest spiritual masters are passionate people! And their passion is not limited to teaching or talking about reality.
This is why my LP Course is still valid, even if you pursue enlightenment.

But if you only have 1 passion in life, to me that means something is wrong. Out of all this stuff you can do in life, you're only passionate about 1 thing??? This is so limited. You should have more passions than you have time in the day to follow up on them.
FALL IN LOVE WITH LIFE!
Imagine if someone only had 1 favorite video game and refused to play any others. We'd think this is so limited and sad. That's my reaction when someone says they only have 1 passion.

I said your experience was a lesser samadhi. But not mahasamdhi, since you're still a human.
You can reach levels of infinite consciousness and return to your body.
You don't retain mahasamadhi. Mahasamadhi means your body is dead.
You can have other samadhis which don't require you to leave your body forever. That would be traditional enlightenment.

@traveler That ain't mahasamadhi. Mahasamadhi is when your body drops dead.
You don't come back from it to this life.
What you're describing is a lesser samadhi.

With such an attitude, in practice, you won't reach permanent nonduality.
Of course you could get lucky. But I wouldn't count on that.
If you want LSD levels of consciousness sober, you're gonna have to devote your life to it.
One of the reasons I trick you guys into trying psychedelics is so that you realize what is possible if you get serious about this work. Without the LSD you would have never taken the work seriously enough to see what is possible. Now you know what's possible but you are still too lazy to actualize it.
Maybe one day that will change. Or not. Up to you.

Who really knows, since the science is thin.
It probably does to some degree. But you have to do a ton of meditation for get significant effects.

Bottom line is: it changes your state of consciousness.
Your current state of consciousness is totally inadequate for spiritual understanding.
You need some way to change your state, whether that be psychedelics, concentration, fasting, breathing, whatever.

That's not going to work.
You need a change in your state of consciousness. You can contemplate from your current state of consciousness for 100 years and get no closer.
Do a practice that changes your state. Everything else is a waste of time.
The compassion is that I'm trying to save you 40 years.

Ego is a state of consciousness.
Like being a kangaroo is.
You don't merely believe, feel, or think you are a kangaroo. It's a complex state of consciousness.
Right now you are in a state of consciousness which we otherwise call "being a human". If this state changed enough, you could become a kangaroo, a coffee table, or even God
But of course, God is all states. But not all states recognize themselves as God. Only some do.

I generally agree. Feeling is deeper than thought.
Being human is basically a kind of feeling. You can shut off all thought, but you will still feel human. It has to be that way since most animals don't think. But they do feel. Feeling is more basic and more essential. A baby feels before it thinks. You can survive without thinking, but not without feeling.

Well, for example, Sadhguru's wife is said to have done mahasamadhi on a schedule and in front of many people who watched her, including, I assume, Sadhguru.
This is far from the only well-documented public case of mahasamadhi.
https://isha.sadhguru.org/us/en/wisdom/sadhguru-spot/mahasamadhi
Please be careful. This is a very serious and radical possibility. This is not for average seekers.
I only speak of it because I felt that I was coming close to it. So this is more of a warning to you guys.

Try just sitting for an hour and visualize the color white. That's it. See how long you can keep focused on it.
What you visualize is not as important as your ability to hold it steady in the mind.

You guys are making a mockery of skepticism.
Countries that do social distancing, testing, face masks, and strict quarantine have far less cases and deaths. It's not some global conspiracy to enslave you. It's basic common sense.
I got some shocking new for ya: Government is actually looking out for you! OMG! Can you believe that? That some strangers might actually care about your life? I know, it's crazy, right?

Puking will definitely happen if you don't trip on an empty stomach. But I have not puked in over 100 trips because I observe proper protocol.
People fall into depression and have ego backlash for all sorts of reasons unrelated to 5-MeO-DMT. Any serious spiritual work can bring that about.
Yes, expect some ego backlash if you trip deep.
I have never been loud. Nor has anyone I've trip-sat. But of course some people will kick and scream.
For me it is too deep an experience for words. I trip mostly in silence.

Lack of self-love.
Due to lack of consciousness that all is Self and all is Love.

All memory is imagination.
You are imagining your childhood right now, which grounds your sense of self. Otherwise you would not know how you got here or what you are.
God is dreaming that it is a human. This requires constructing a backstory.
You are imagining your heart right now

@ivory Just do it and face your fear.
It's like taking a cold shower. You just do it.
Then you will get used to it and enjoy it.
5-MeO-DMT is a very benevolent psychedelic. It doesn't screw around.

@r0ckyreed Yes, empty awareness. You ain't ever gonna find a "thing" behind the eyes. All you will find is degrees of emptiness. And emptiness is not behind the eyes, it is equally in all places, since it is nowhere.

@actualizing25 There is no clear answer. It depends a lot on you. It's a good idea to be open to exploring various methods to find those which resonate with you. Allow this to be a process of discovery and experimentation, that way you can stumble upon new stuff, new methods, new teachers, etc.
Psychedelics will give you some solid glimpses but they will not be enough by themselves to embody awakening. You will need some manual practices. Developing your concentration ability is crucial. It think this holds people back the most. They can't focus the mind long enough to awaken.

@r0ckyreed In practice you ain't gonna awaken without psychedelics and/or crazy concentration ability.
The point of meditation, contemplation, yoga, self-inquiry is to develop very strong concentration ability which is necessary to break through.
Concentration is the key. It changes your state of consciousness when done rigorously and for long periods of time. Psychedelics make concentration much easier. Otherwise you gonna have to train your ass off manually.
Questioning beliefs is good, but it won't be enough by itself. Your state of consciousness has to change.

You're not a person at all. You are God/Love/Consciousness/Everything which has confused itself for a person.
It is okay to be however you are and it is okay to make mistakes in life. Don't be so hard on yourself.
Self-Love is the ultimate teaching.