Shadowraix

@How to be wise You may be some edge case, I have no idea but he says this because people get in way over their heads thinking they have it all figured out until they realize they didn't and it repeats all over again.

This is a leap you are making in resistance to ignorance. You can't force growth. Ignorance is only a bad thing that must be changed if you want it to be that - or you could see ignorance as appropriately serving its purpose in infinity.

"The Principle of Gender (see Lesson I. and other lessons to follow) is manifested on all planes of life, material mental and spiritual. But, as we have said before, "Gender" does not mean "Sex" sex is merely a material manifestation of gender. "Gender" means "relating to generation or creation." And whenever anything is generated or created, on any plane, the Principle of Gender must be manifested. And this is true even in the creation of Universes. Now do not jump to the conclusion that we are teaching that there is a male and female God, or Creator. That idea is merely a distortion of the ancient teachings on the subject. The true teaching is that THE ALL, in itself, is above Gender, as it is above every other Law, including those of Time and Space. It is the Law, from which the Laws proceed, and it is not subject to them. But when THE ALL manifests on the plane of generation or creation, then it acts according to Law and Principle, for it is moving on a lower plane of Being. And consequently it manifests the Principle of Gender, in its Masculine and Feminine aspects, on the Mental Plane, of course. This idea may seem startling to some of you who hear it for the first time, but you have all really passively accepted it in your everyday conceptions. You speak of the Fatherhood of God, and the Motherhood of Nature--of God, the Divine Father, and Nature the Universal Mother-- and have thus instinctively acknowledged the Principle of Gender in the Universe. Is this not so? But, the Hermetic teaching does not imply a real duality--THE ALL is ONE--the Two Aspects are merely aspects of manifestation. The teaching is that The Masculine Principle manifested by THE ALL stands, in a way, apart from the actual mental creation of the Universe. It projects its Will toward the Feminine Principle (which may be called "Nature") whereupon the latter begins the actual work of the evolution of the Universe, from simple "centers of activity" on to man, and then on and on still higher, all according to well-established and firmly enforced Laws of Nature. If you prefer the old figures of thought, you may think of the Masculine Principle as GOD, the Father, and of the Feminine Principle as NATURE, the Universal Mother, from whose womb all things have been born. This is more than a mere poetic figure of speech-- it is an idea of the actual process of the creation of the Universe. But always remember, that THE ALL is but One, and that in its Infinite Mind the Universe is generated, created and exists." ~ The Kyballion Hopefully this excerpt will clear it up for you.

And its good to point out that escaping suffering through enlightenment isn't actually preventing things from occurring to you that you won't like. You just learn to embrace and accept that hardship instead of running away from it. It no longer is perceived as suffering.

If you see somebody that looks all beat up would you care despite you not owning that person? Care and ownership doesn't have to go hand in hand. It sounds more like you are trying to justify jealousy and attachment. Ownership is a survival mechanism because what you control is what is predictable. Why would you want ownership? It sounds like a desperate attempt at not losing control so you can have your way and resist. You are too involved with the ego. Seems like you haven't thought this through enough.

Pretty much this. The opposite to humble is arrogant. When you become arrogant you tend to close yourself off from the world intellectually which stunts growth. But do be careful about fighting arrogance with arrogance.

This seems to be really related to herd mentality.

Its not a matter of what you can do pre/post enlightenment its more you realize what you are already doing.

Personally I always find 500ug my sweet spot but only go that far if you have experience with that kind of intensity. I've always seemed to have a higher resistance to psychedelics as well. 500ug for me is where the fractal geometry really kicks in and I find a great balance in being in my head and still being able to talk.

That something IS nothing.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/metaphysics-vs-epistemology Does good on the topic of knowing.

Definitely great animations. I've watched these on psychedelics many times and it never gets old.

Watch it before you trip or on the come up then contemplate it while tripping.

Drop it.

All those binaural beats, meditation, and chakra awakening music won't inherently do anything for you but it may be a pleasant sound that helps you focus and relax. I imagine it works similarly to mantras. Mantras aren't about the words themselves but the vibrations they create in your body. I would imagine the different frequencies are as close as possible to match the vibrations of certain mantras. Use it with meditation. I meditate with whatever meditation music I can find on YT as im going to sleep and its made for overall higher quality sleep and better more vivid dreaming for me. Helps me get 'deeper' in the meditation. They're just a focus aid, they won't actually get rid of anxieties, fears, or bad energy. Thats what the meditation is suppose to help you with when listening to those.

I made a post about Spinoza: Usually ends up with the same general ideas being taught in their own way.

The further you develop yourself the more you can start digging up the root of your desires and really follow how you want to live. As you raise your consciousness and have many realizations what you do to follow your desires will change as there has been radical recontextualizations. So ultimately they don't do those 'evil' things because they don't desire to. That is really all there is to it. Even your sense of 'good' and 'bad' ultimately form out of desire. Its sort of a mask for it. Equates to 'I approve' or 'I disapprove' (non-cognitivism) Imagine a painting. You can pinpoint all distinctive colors, images, and shapes, yet it is still one painting. Separation through distinction all comes in the way you perceive it. But that separation is illusory. Its only half the story.

The answer to this varies in what you mean by that. Our experience from the ego perspective is always interpreting what is going on, and that can easily be changed as drugs have shown. Its like showing a thousand people the same symbol but you get hundreds of different answers on its meaning. Not only do people conceptualize their understanding of the world different due to different experiences, the body may also process the senses in different ways.

If this was truly a good thing, we wouldn't even need a ban on plastics, people would just be not using plastic. But we probably still have many decades before people truly care.

On the topic of drugs: It is a common assumption for people that the default state of the mind is the most correct state, but is that really true? The brain at default is no different than drugs. Its all chemicals that is being used to interpret information. By this all interpretations are equally valid if you don't ride on an appeal to popularity game. All drugs give you some bigger picture of reality itself. Some people get too caught up in one aspect and forget the previous. But if you build a bigger more holistic view, you can rise up above both. Remember that science is a model of the the reality we experience. Science measures patterns but there is no guarantee reality is following the patterns we measure or that it will continue to be consistent. So using science as the holy grail of describing reality will fall short and lock you into ideology. No model can fully encompass something infinite in its fundamental form. When you talk of the universe you are creating a separation here - how much of the universe there is we do not know. Consciousness expresses itself in every way possible which results in infinity. This is simply one story inside the infinite story. But hearing this from me and believing it is all bullshit. The whole point of meditation and self inquiry in this work is for you to directly experience it. To rise above the ideological confines of being 'human' and to realize you are everything. Psychedelics help people realize this faster which would take much longer without it. LSD showed me separation is an illusory concept. Salvia showed me how illusory perception is. DXM gave me a higher understanding of nothingness. These are all experiences that go alongside the sober experience. You are always tripping. Thats the whole point of a hallucination. Everything I am saying though is just words, concepts, and imagination that do not compare to the indescribable experiences. Believing in just words and concepts is how you get modern religion. So use your skepticism to delve deeper to question deeper. We can only offer intellectual understandings to point you where to look, but you must still look beyond the concepts.

Crazy is just another box people put you in when your stance is radically different than theirs these days. Focus on your negative perception of being crazy as perceived by others.

I did 500ug LSD with 200mg MDMA I got so caught up in the mindfuck of reality I got myself into a thought loop. Although the visuals were beyond amazing. Pure orgasmic shit. For a bit I felt infinite. Its a really fun combo more manageable in lower doses I imagine. But you should definitely be mindful. MDMA makes me follow thoughts with less filter and LSD influencing those thoughts more can cause issues if you can't stop yourself.

All you've done here is express anger and deny what you don't like. If you never directly experienced what you were told LOA is then you turned it into dogma. This is why you've gotta do the work. Sounds like your ego is lashing out because it feels hurt.

Sounds like this is all coming from an experience you had that you haven't fully accepted yet. 'mental gymnastics' 'common sense' this is all you just projecting your resistance to accepting the things you don't like. What the word 'love' points to when people talk about spirituality and love as spoken by your average person are very different ideas. In spirituality love and consciousness are one in the same. Love as seen by the ego (what you are describing) is something else. To embody what you are in the illusion entails unconditional love - loving what prevents and causes suffering. But see the ego rejects suffering when it is a critical part of this reality. Love is not something easy. People love to cherry pick one side to indulge the ego. If you want Truth then you simply can't do this.

No. Virtual reality has a lot of problems to solve. 3D graphics still looks synthetic on top of that. A company did make a huge glove that can translate to simulating touch on your hands and resistance to the fingers. But its design is currently impractical. We'd be hitting Sword Art Online levels of VR for what you are describing. Directly manipulating brain waves to hallucinate.