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- Semen preservation: What differentiates yoga from meditation and self inquiry is that it works with prana. The more prana in your body the better for yoga (and general well-being) (therefore you can also try eating more postive-pranic food). When you ejaculate you lose prana. That would be why some yogis stress celibacy. But from my research: sex, masturbation and (whole-body-) orgasms are all fine as long as you don't ejaculate
- Sushumna Sodhana (lesson 23): The breathless state is probably quite  important if you want to get deeper. How to achieve the breathless state :"When prana gets interiorized in the sushumna, then the breathless state automatically occurs" - lesson 15 yogic wisdom. To me it seems that the sushumna sodhana is by far the best practise to do this. So perhaps consider adding it. 
-deepen the parvastha state: I accidentally found that out: 1. draw prana up and bring it to medulla( or region between medulla and bindu). You can also slightly clench the muscles there and additionally focus on the 3rd eye. 2. feel where you touch the ground. Now imagine that your body is pressing downward (you can actually press downward slightly if you want) while the ground pressing upward. At the same time try to feel/sense/be the space around you. 3. after some minutes/seconds relax. This reliably deepens my parvastha state up to 100%. I don't know whether this works for everyone, but I just somehow found myself doing it and found out that it is quite powerful for me
-breathe slowly: breathe as slowly as possible (while still comfortable). In case this lengthens your routine too much then rather decrease the number of breaths than the duration of breaths
- Mula bandha contractions: Prior to any practice, I usually do a few minutes of perinium and anus contractions (one contraction lasting about 2 seconds), while guiding the prana with the mind through the sushumna. I find this to be most effective in getting the prana up.
- Mula bandha while pranayama (the pranayama of the short books): This noticably increases the amount of prana that reaches the 3rd eye with each breath. I do it only during the first breaths such that I can then fully concentrate on the 3rd eye and exercise one-pointedness
-microcosmic orbit meditation: Doing this prior to yoga already opens the channels a bit, making the yoga techniques more effective as the prana can already move more easily 
-heart chakra: After your routine, you can try out bringing the prana to your anterior heart chakra too itensify your feeling love and surrenderedness.
-too much energy: If there is too much prana in your head or elswhere after yoga (or at anytime) then bring it to your stomache - the storage for prana
- presence: Take it as a challenge to stay present and focused as long as possible during yoga (or anytime) and have as few thoughts as possible. And don't daydream!
- only Now: when you want to end your session prematurely then just remember that there is only this Now, so you actually only have to do it this moment and no longer
- With joy: Doing it with joy and love instead of mechanically makes a big difference for me
- itches: love them uncoditionally and stay focused
- masturbate: If you can't feel energy/prana then you could try masturbating (without ejaculating) prior to your session. That should awaken some of the prana. But I don't know whether this is wise to do long term. Possible downsides: you get addicted, you waste time, you risk ejaculating, you risk getting blue balls (if you are male) and thus risk wet dreams, masturbating could be too gross, meaning that it could diminish some subtle effects of kriya yoga but idk
- Prior to your normal meditation or self-inquiry session, do one or a few rounds of yoni mudra and/or kriya supreme fire 
-Om: Chanting om ( pronounced:aum) aloud (every om as long as possible) (I do it between 1and 9 times) prior to any practice seems to immediately get me into a tiny parvastha state
- Wim hof method: Same effect as chanting om but stronger. Do first wim hof, then chant om and then meditate (perhaps once weekly)

@GreenWoods I once asked Sadhguru's teachers if it is necessary to stop masturbation for his yoga technique. They said no.
Just an interesting factoid.
Of course I agree that not masturbating should be more powerful. But also, don't torture yourself too much.

Haha, this is just a basic physics question.
The Earth shrinks every time you send objects into outer space. If you send a trillion pounds of books to outer space, the mass of the Earth will decrease by a trillion pounds. Eventually the Earth would become so small that it could no longer hold a tree or a rocket. But you'd be dead long before that happened.
Plants leech matter from the Earth. They don't get it out of thin air.

Every time you say the word me, I, my -- those words refer to nothing.
In other words, the human you was never born. It is imaginary.
The trick is figuring out what that means and how that could be.
Life is not being experienced by a "you".
Yeah, it's a mindfuck. But you are not reading this sentence, rather this sentence is reading itself, minus you.
Take the whole world and strip out all trace of you. That is what awakening is about.

Formlessness is not separate from form or human experience.
You need to go further and realize that form and formlessness are one.
This. Now. Here. Is. It.
It is all possible states and non-states alike. But from certain states it is easier to "see".

Self/other is a duality.
You are imagining all beings, including yourself. Living beings have no reality whatsoever. This includes you.
When this is realized, you will be totally alone in the universe. No one can help you, no one can tell you whether you've gone insane. No one can comfort you. Other than yourself.
At this point the notion of reality entirely collapses. You are no long able to distinguish what is real or unreal because there is no difference. Your entire life collapses into oblivion and you find yourself dead yet still somehow conscious.

It's a powerful kundalini activator for some people. The energy it activates can get stuck in various ways and lead to all sorts of spiritual emergencies. Not to mention that any kind of technique which rapidly builds up mindfulness and elevates consciousness can cause people to freak out. The ego-mind tends to resist such efforts in many different kinds of sneaky ways. It can trigger sleepless, anxiety, anger, restlessness, tension, cravings, visions, hallucinations, paranormal phenomena, etc.
You should read up on the dangers of activating kundalini before you start yoga. I have some books on my book list about it. You don't want to be caught unawares.
Basically all the stuff I talked about in my The Dark Side Of Meditation video, but even worse.
To be clear, it's not guaranteed that bad stuff will happen. It's just a possibility.
It also depends on how deep you go with it. If it takes you all the way to enlightenment you can certainly expect all the freakiness that comes with awakening, including the Dark Night of The Soul. Awakening is not all rainbows and daffodils. Some egos have serious freak outs.

Because society has built up a bureaucratic infrastructure through 10,000 years of bloodshed, rape, genocide, theft, torture, and other horrors that you cannot even being to imagine.
Thanks to that infrastructure (which we call government) you enjoy the life you do while being totally oblivious as to how all this works or where it came from.

Yes, all this is normal and great stuff.
Spiritual purification I call it. The body stores a lot of emotional baggage, fear, tension, ego, etc. You're gonna have to release all that shit to reach the highest levels of enlightenment.
The good news is, your next trip should take you much deeper into existential insight. The point of releasing personal baggage is to make yourself pure enough to realize the deepest existential insights.
Next time try contemplating a question like: What is Love? What is God? Why does reality exist? What is intelligence? What is perception? What is consciousness? What is evil? and so forth.
Once you purge all the energetic blocks, that's when the trips become really interesting. You can sit calmly and just contemplate.

Through lots of trail and error I have found this to be true.
It does not make sense to recommend self-inquiry to people who are stuck in monkey mind. They can spin their wheels for years without getting anywhere.
Mindfulness training or Kriya Yoga is great for calming that monkey mind.

Just be aware, taking medications to halt the spiritual purification process is like pressing the gas and the breaks in your car at the same time.
Ideally you let the process unfold naturally without trying to escape from it.
Yes, it can be very difficult at times. The more growth you try to accomplish is the least time, the more shocking it is to the system. So there's a trade-off here. You can spend a decade waking up or a week. If you do it in a week, it will probably be hell.
The most important thing to understand is that in the waking up process, serious emotional and energetic upheaval is quite common and normal. It is not a "bad" thing. Ideally you push through it. But if you feel like it's reaching a life-threatening level, then obviously find some way to back off and come back to it later.
Also be ware of ego backlash. It's coming.

@Meditationdude When you sit, what is your intention? What are you trying to understand or get?
Sits are usually not nearly as effective without a clear intention. It's very important to become clear about what you want out of this work. And there are many things you could be working on / developing / realizing.
If you want to just sit and done nothing, without any objective or goal. Fine. But then make that your intention and be clear about it: "I will just sit here like a cat and be in the present moment."
Sometimes that's effective.
Other times it's more effective to have some existential question you're working on, like "What am I?" or "What is reality?" or "What is Love?" or "What is Truth?", etc.
But understand this: there is way more to this work than merely sitting like a cat. Nothing wrong with sitting like a cat. But if you really want to understand reality, life, and self -- that won't be enough. You need to probe various aspects of life to crack its secrets.
Or you could be working on building concentration skill.

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Invaluable information if you're going to be playing around with research chemicals. Trip reports, dosage ideas, etc.
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Secular Talk:
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The Majority Report:
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The Michael Brooks Show:
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The Humanist Report:
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Kim Iverson:
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The Hill:
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The Intercept:
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Democracy Now:
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Beau Of The Fifth Column:
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Democracy At Work:
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Vox:
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Vice News:
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Rebel Wisdom:
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Integral Life:
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Joe Rogan:
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Sounds to me like the 5-MeO opened you up and now you're going through a classic "spiritual emergency" as Stan Grof calls it.
This is a normal part of the waking up process. Of course it can feel hairy when you're in the thick of it.
You might want to read up on Stan Grof's work on "spiritual emergencies".  Most people don't get them, but plenty do as they get deeper into this work.
I would try to frame this as a positive. Clearly you were very sensitive and that trip unlocked something in you. The process is just happening so fast that you feel overwhelmed. Try to roll with it and become curious about what is happening to you, rather than trying to stop it or trying to go back to your old life.
The resistance and worry is largely what causes the suffering.
Remember, this work involves undergoing significant change. Have faith in the process. This should help you calm down and roll with the punches.
The 5-MeO is long out of your system. This is simply you starting to wake up. The ego mind can resist the process in all sorts of creative and dysfunctional ways.

@nowimhere If you have not yet reached a breakthrough at 27mg, then obviously 30mg is physically safe. Of course I have no idea how you will handle it psychologically.
Seems like you're fairly tolerant to it, so even up to 40mg might be required. But go slow.
With 5-MeO-DMT there are actually several levels of breakthrough. The first breakthrough is just the beginning (child's play really).
I might get a breakthrough at 20mg but then a crazy new kind of breakthrough at 30mg.
Sounds like you're still far off from that.
Yes, freebase seems more potent per volume.

Soooo I plugged again today. This time up from 26mgs freebase to 27mgs freebase. 
Previously have done 17mgs and 22mgs. Both, which certainly not bring a breakthrough.
Now with the 26, 22, and 17 there was ZERO fear on the comeup. With the 26, I thought I hit breakthrough, but still unsure. So I thought the 27 would be about the same as the 26 and boy oh boy was I wrong. This trip came FAST and STRONG. Faster than any of the other times. (Could feel it hitting about 3 mins in) About 5 mins in... The fear set in. I thought that I got the wrong dose somehow (even tho I have a labratory grade scale) and I thought I was legit going to die. This went on for a few minutes. Pretty sure I let it all go. But then... Nothing. No breakthrough. Just a lot of monkey mind chatter it seemed. 
Considering I got the fear of death... I'll take that as a GOOD thing. But I'll also take that as a confirmation that the 26mgs that I did didn't deliver a breakthrough. 
Now, should I keep going with 27mgs, or try 28, 29 and 30? Pretty sure one of those amounts will hit a breakthrough. As the 27 was likely borderline. And just hanging out on the edge. From all the reading and research, the whole fear of death thing indicates a small dose. And best was to "blast past that" is to simply up the dose and completely pummel the ego mind. 
Any thoughts or advice from anyone would be great, as I still haven't acheived breakthrough via plugging, but hit breakthrough 10 times via smoking (14mgs). Pretty determinded over here to get plugging to work...
Thanks all and much love

Ontology and metaphysics? Lol
That's where he is weakest. He is a dualist. He does not understand what meaning is, what a symbol is, what science is, what religion is, what God is, what language is, what consciousness, what morality is, what evil is, what being is, what mind is, what body is, what thought is, what mysticisim is, what gender is, what ego is, what truth is.
Name one metaphysical thing JP understands.

Individualism vs collectivism is a duality.
Neither one is an absolute good. They must be balanced of course.
But practically, in American society there is a massive cultural resistance to stage Green collectivism and over-glorification of individualism. Ironically this resistance is itself collective.
So when I push people towards collectivism, it's not because I think collectivism is the end goal, it's because I'm trying to balance out the stage Orange libertarian and capitalist attitude which has lodged itself in the minds of many people today.
It is a mistake to worry too much about the excesses of collectivism when right now our society is reeling from the excesses of individualism. So while you speak of balance, you're out of balance.
Sometimes reality is rude to one's fantasies.
When we talk about conservatives we are talking in gross generalities. It is simply the case that *on average* the conservative mind is less developed and less conscious than the liberal mind. If you disagree with this, you need to make a deep study of the conservative mind and developmental psychology.
This seems unfair to you -- I understand -- but you have to stop assuming false equivalencies.
This is not a left vs right issue. This is consciousness issue.
Again, you must be very careful not to project your self-bias onto what I'm saying. Your self-bias is going to make it seem like I am being self-biased. Don't confuse your self-bias with my own.
All of this is extremely advanced stuff. It's extremely self-deceptive. I am not making partisan points here even though it might seem like I am. I am talking about meta things which, for the most part, no one on Earth understands or has ever talked about. It will take you years of study and consciousness work to understand the things I'm saying and why I say them.

This thread is not the best place for that discussion.
In brief, I agree that Yang and Sanders should not be fighting each other. Nor are they. Their ideas largely dovetail. Sanders is too advanced even for the 21st century. We are nowhere near "passed that". We are just warming up. Yang is part of the warm up.
Yang is not going after corporate corruption as directly as Sanders is. Yang's over-focused on UBI as a cure-all at the expense of a solid welfare system.
Again, I am not opposed to Yang per se. If he were president that would be a huge step forward for America. But I see Bernie Sanders as an MLK or FDR type figure who can lead a true social movement unlike anyone else. He has the balls to do it. The status quo is most threatened by Sanders. Because they intuit that he will call out their selfishness and greed unlike anyone else.
The polar opposite of Trump is not an Asian guy who knows math. It's Bernie Sanders -- who will attack the very heart of late-stage capitalism. This attack is badly needed to shift the center of gravity of our culture.
If you want to discuss this further, start a dedicated thread.

There is value in learning about masculine and feminine ways of life.
But also, that is just one way to partitioning reality. So be careful not to get hung up on that daulity. It is a duality in the end.
Consciousness itself is not masculine or feminine. But from a human perspective it is useful to experiment with masculine vs feminine approaches to life and spirituality.
A heart-centered, love-based path can be very powerful. But it also needs to grounded in direct realization of Truth.

Again, the problem is with how you're defining "I". The I of which you speak is the illusory ego.
The true I, God, has an infinite number of lives because it is all things.
Your life is imaginary. It isn't really yours. You've mistaken the universe for yourself.
It's sort of like when you say, "This is my cat." But in truth, that cat does not belong to you. You can't really own a cat. Only in your imagination.

Again, causation is a dualistic notion. To have causation requires you divide the world into causes and effects (duality).
To say there is no causation is the same as to say there is infinite causation, because zero and infinity are identical.
Every object has an infinite chain of causes and an infnite chain of effects. Reality is an infnite fractal of cause and effect. Every point in the web is both the beginning, the center, and the end.
Or you could say that everything is uncaused. It's the same thing.

You are all things at all times. You are incarnated as all living being simultaneously. There is nowhere to go because you already are everywhere and nowhere.
THIS. IS. ETERNITY!

He's critical of Green from above. And he's mostly talking about Green as it crops up in academia.
I think the thing he's overlooking is that our national politics is nowhere near as advanced as academia politics.
So while it makes sense to criticize Green academia from above, this creates confusion if people try to apply this more broadly to our national discourse. The national discourse is so regressive that it's got miles to go before it reaches solid Green. By over focusing on criticism of Green Ken might inadvertently play right into the hands of the status quo and the right-wing.
It's important to not draw a false equivalency between stuff like Fox News and excesses of academia. Whatever criticism academia deserves, stuff like Fox News deserves x10 more.