@Stenne When you are being most fully yourself, you are not being self-conscious. You are actually acting without egoic calculations in the moment. You are not thinking. In fact there isn't even a self in the moment. Which is why it feels so good. But these moment are rare because mostly you're thinking and calculating so much.
Think of a moment when you are laughing hard with friends. In that moment the ego is absent. In that moment your personality shines the most.

@Inder Human survival is not primarily about physical survival, it is about survival as a unique persona. That's what ego is mostly doing: surviving the complex social persona of you. And it's doing it perfectly. All of your thoughts are about that.

Sounds like a form of autism. There is an autism spectrum. I have a good book on my book list about it in the Sexuality category.
It's not a bad thing, but you have to learn how to fit in with society.

It's not bad, but it will simply never work because you are assuming reality is a static objective thing when it fact the very language you use constructs reality and no two people live in the same reality.
See video: Why People Seem Crazy

Language only works for sharing common experiences. You cannot communicate something which another person has never experienced. So what we need to get more people having more mystical experiences easily.
Which is why psychedelics are the best way of creating a common spiritual language. But of course they are demonized precisely for this reason.

Yes, it's all God's imagination. But you are God, so it's your imagination.
It's not all "ego stuff" any more than you seeing a cat walking down the street is "ego stuff". That's not ego, it's the "world".
Some people who trip can of course do so in a dualistic way, where they might see an alien and assume that this alien is somehow "other" to them. But that alien is just like any other being in "real life". It is BOTH an entity other than you, but also it is you, since all people are you.
If you look at the world dualistically, other people are not you.
If you look at the world nondualistically, other people are all your own projections.
There's really no contradiction. Both are true in a sense.
Of course if you trip with a weak spiritual foundation the ego can co-opt the trips and do a lot of egoic stuff and projecting. So you have to be careful about self-deception. Just like you do in "real life."
But seeing a DMT entity is not ego any more than seeing a cat is.

It does change you for sure, but in subtle ways.
Mostly what I have gained in not equanimity but understanding, humility, love, God, authenticity, wonder, and overcoming the fear of death. The body is more at ease too.
But I still have much work to do on myself. My equanimity is not great and I still have plenty of cravings.
Without 5-MeO I would not have the understanding of God's mechanics as I do. To me that was the most delicious and important thing. I care more about understanding God than I do about anything else. And so for me my deepest desire was fulfilled with total omniscience.
So according to your definition of enlightenment Christ was not enlightened until after he was cruxified and died?
You don't see some absurdity with such a definition?

Of course. I don't see people confusing those two.
Someone who has a few awakenings is not a master. But also this should not be used to disparage or deny their awakenings -- which are genuine and important, although incomplete.
No one is claiming this either. Self-deception is always at work. Perfect clarity is not how this work works. We are doing the best we can under conditions of limited knowledge and various biases.
The issue I have with your advancing of "enlightenment" is that you're stuck on this notion of mastery or total enlightenment as you've chosen to define it, and dismissing anything shy of it.
Virtually no one here is going to become a master, so talking about total enlightenment is basically pointless here. It's so exceptionally rare that it is irrelevant. If someone is serious about becoming a master, they ain't on this forum, they are in a cave or forest meditating full time and they don't need any outside guidance. They understand how to do the work.
Dude, chill. By shamanic work I was simply referring to Martin's sessions where he guided clients.
You get really hung up on technicalities without seeing the bigger picture of the conversation.
What Martin was doing is just a variation of shamans offering medicine. Call it what you will.
I have read his books, I'm just not hanging on his every word as you seem to be. I read his books and quickly moved on to greater things. I am not interested in following his books as a step by step instruction manual. Precisely because I have other perspectives to consider and I saw problems with some of his methodology, including the dismissal of insight and intellectual integration of trips. I was also not interested in energetically overloading myself. I asked him about the possibility of energetic overload in an email a long time ago. He said it wasn't a problem at all. And I decided for myself that I don't believe that. It is a legit problem from my POV. And I take that into account whenever I trip and with how I suggest others trips. Because it's pretty obvious to me that disregarding energetic overload can be dangerous and reckless for other people if not for oneself. Which is why I developed the plugging method.
I don't blindly follow people, I learn from them and adapt it to suit myself. I recommend you do the same, otherwise you might end up following someone off a cliff.

Too long to explain here.
I talked about my 1st in an old video.
Sorta, but it's so much more radical than what people usually mean by LoA. I don't like that word applied to God's creative capacity.
It doesn't even need to think. It is totally direct, even prior to thought. It is pure being.
God's "thinking" is just being. It is immediate manifestion via no mechanism whatsoever.

I have never claimed that 5-MeO will clear you of all defilements or produce mastery. My claim was much more humble: that it produces genuine and very deep awakening experiences which are helpful and healing.
If you want to purify all defilements that will obviously require far more work and it is not likely to happen through psychedelic use alone, although psychedelics ARE very effective at curing certain defilements. But probably not all of them.
To cure all defilements would require lots of daily, near minute to minute practice. It could not be a peak experience. There is value to peak experiences as well as more gradual and mundane daily work.
All of this was quite clear from day one. I don't know why anyone would assume that 5-MeO would do all that work for you. That was never it's purpose. It is not a replacement for inner work, it is a catalyst. Which I have said from my first videos on psychedelics.
Be careful with setting the wrong expectations.
Awakening is not the same as moral perfection or being Christ-like. Awakening is literally just this: becoming conscious of the true nature of ultimate reality. It is not behavioral reform. If you still crave smoking, that's a separate issue.
Many of you guys are talking about mastery, which is something that will take you a lifetime of work.
It is foolish to equate enlightenment with mastery. And no one has ever said that Martin had mastery. This was quite obvious.
Buddhist maps are also poor at taking into account psychedelics. The psychedelic path requires drawing new maps. Actually what psychedics reveal is the inadequecy and partiality of Buddhist maps. The Ten Ox Herding Pics do not work well for psychedelics.

It doesn't necessarily gain any ability. Any siddhis gained are an independent factor.
Awakening alone does not clear up all energetic issues, or shadow, or ego, or emotional issues, or bad habits. Nor is it development. So there are many factors herw besides awakening.
All of this I have stressed in the past.
Many awakened teachers have weird personality flaws and shadow issues and pathologies.
Awakening does not mean there cannot be a pathology. As history shows.

@Paulus Amadeus
This is significant, but also keep in mind that this is just one case study, and people can be very different, especially when it comes to health issues.
Awakened people can have health complications and even mental issues or energetic issues or shadow. Do not expect them to be impervious to stress, and under enough stress even an awakened person should be expected to crack at some point.
Again, a lot of this confusion is caused by having overly simplistic and binary notions of awakening/liberation, where you guys think that it's total and there is zero suffering and you are a Terminator. That's a very cartoonish understanding of awakening.
It is not clear what the cause of Martin's issues are. So don't jump to hasty conclusions.
Let's monitor his case and see how things turn out for him and what larger lessons his situation holds, if any.
It seems like this might be part of his spiritual path. This might be his way of purifying himself even further to reach deeper levels of self-mastery. Or it could be some rare health condition. It's hard to say.

@Arcangelo If you are self realized why bother what jesus said buddha said ? what it has to do with christian,muslim,man,woman?
Throw away all what you read heard.
Hell heaven are just stories.
Everything is happening its happening.
You as self - nothingness is just one aspect of the Infinite.
You as a human or form dont have any control over whats happening.You dont have creation powers.
Enlightenment doesnt give any answers about Creation,Why evil nature is created and infinite questions mind will keep poping up.
Enlightenment is supposed to bring the wisdom that all questions are futile.
All knowledge is ignorance and will not bring peace.
Try to go to samadhi as often.
Abide as self and be at peace.
Live as a liberated uncared soul free from every emotions,suffering.
Peace,Equanimity at all situations is that what matters.
This is my understanding so for.
-  I am not realized.
 

It might happen. We'll see. But don't get attached to it happening, as that just creates more suffering.

Unfortunately happiness cannot be attained as an external condition or even an internal condition. Happiness is simply accepting whatever arises, however it is, no matter how "bad" it is.
Meeting me will not really make you happy. I wish it were that easy.
Rather than trying to get out of your mental state the counter-intuitive move is to just accept it, make peace with it. And that is what ends up making it okay.
Then again, you can also act your way out of a funk. Like going outside for a jog or listening to some music. But that is not a permanent solution.
Sometimes this work is just fucking hard.
* hug *

Of course if you are not conscious then no amount of words can help you. But by chasing consciousness you cut yourself off from the very perfection which you are seeking.
It's the classic paradox of spiritual seeking.
How do you walk a path which has zero steps? And yet you would be a fool not to walk it.
So in practice we must do some kind of practices.

Trading stocks is a bad idea overall because you are not actually generating any value for the world. So the likelihood of failure is enormous.
Make yourself valuable. Become a massive value provider if you wish to break free of wage slavery.

@Merkabah Alone vs together, one vs many is a duality.
Guys, watch the dualistic framing of your questions very carefully.
Sloppy framing leads to poor understanding.
Just by framing your question as me vs you, that's already wrong.
Me = you
By distinguishing me from you, you create my ego and your ego simultaneously. Self/other is the very first duality.

@electroBeam You are assuming there is a difference between me being real vs you imagining me.
But there is no such difference when everything is imagination! Unless you imagine there is, in which case there becomes a difference for you.
Ta-da!

@Etherial Cat Yes, that's why integrity is such an important quality in a good leader.
Which is why Trump is such a terrible leader. He does not even know the meaning of that word.
Bernie has amazing integrity. High integrity comes with consciousness. So as our society becomes better as elevating the consciousness of all citizens, we will have more high-integrity leaders (and followers).

Both of course!
You ARE experiencing my perspective! That just means you are living my life and have zero knowledge of ever having been you. Which is literally what I am. I am just you minus all your memories and experiences, plus all of my memories and experiences.
My life is your life. Your life is my life. When you become me, you become fully me! Which means no more old you.
God is an infinite multi-parallel processing hallucination. It has no limits.
 

@7thLetter Much more conscious forms of manipulation are of course possible, and the whole point of our work here.
Actualized.org is a collection of more consciousness self-manipulation strategies which ultimately point the way to transcending manipulation.

1) You haven't seen the full depth of it. Not even close.
2) People need to understand how radical this work is. Otherwise they are deceived. It's important to properly communicate how it FEELS from the subjective POV of the ordinary human. To play it off cool is just dishonest. It is incredibly radical. And it is dramatic. It is not a walk in the park to realize God. So let's not pretend it is.

Notice, the final arbiter of that is you. It is actually you who is decided if he is a bot. If solipsism is true, then you are the only thing in existence, and you call all the shots. So the only one who determines whether he is a bot or not is you. So if you tell yourself, "He isn't a bot", that's what becomes true for you.
Whatever you imagine is true, is what is true for you. Since you are God imagining the whole world. If you believe this world is real and not imagined by you, that's you imagining that you aren't imagining it, therefore making it real for you. If you stop believing this world is real, it will stop being real.
The problem is this: because you have a dogmatic position that solipsism cannot possibly be true, you do not realize your own fully authority as the creator of reality. You have literally cut yourself off from your own authority, projecting this authority onto an imagination "other" or "world". And of course that is precisely how you create yourself as this limited human puppet. You have actually managed to convince yourself that there is an external world with physical laws which were not created by you. But the truth is, you created the whole world and then cut yourself off from the fact that you created it. And thus a human being was born. You were not born as some biological creature. You simply imagined your parents and hallucinated a life backstory for yourself. In truth, you were never born. You just tell yourself you were.
So right now you are imagining that solipsism cannot be true and I'm full of shit. And so that is what becomes true for you.
All of your childhood memories are things you're imagining RIGHT NOW! They only seem to have happened because you think so. And so that becomes true for you.
Ta-da!
Those are the true mechanics of reality. There never was a physical world at all. Nor was there a human self. Nor are there other people. It is ALL YOU! All by yourself playing this twisted game of infinite imagination.
Neat, huh?

The problem is more tricky than that.
The problem is this: a conscious politician would be a decent human being. By virtue of this, he/she would not be very manipulative nor stoop to dirty and unfair tactics. But an unconscious politician would not be limited in this way. He/she would manipulate to the max and act like a devil. This devilry would give him a huge advantage against the conscious person when it comes to capturing the public's attention.
This is exactly what Trump and far right-wing people do. They have no shame because they are unconscious and absolutistic in their ignorance. And even in the rare case when a highly conscious leader manages to get elected, he is usually quickly killed or demonized to the point where his reputation is tarnished beyond repair.
And in this way, devilry and falsehood sustains itself. It always loses in the long-run, but the short-run it can be very powerful.
This is a profoundly deep and difficult problem. It has no easy resolution, requiring us to go through war, conflict, violence, debate, anger, etc. Which is why human history has been so violent. War is a feature, not a bug.
Ignorance cannot help but be ignorant.