Shadowraix

Nobody can tell you that but you. Experiment and find out what it is.

You gotta really look at your own case. You may find yourself using more or less over time but its not about some number. A number won't tell you much. But look at what the impact is. Is the frequency having a positive or negative impact on you? You could drop once a year and it still have a negative result. Your body will tell you, just gotta learn to listen to it. For me I just follow my desire when it pops up to do psychs instead of doing it every opportunity like I used to in fear of it being my last time. I do it much less frequently but the quality of each trip is always very beneficial.

Why would it imply that? Yes consciousness is the most fundamental form of everything. Reality is a manifestation of it. Laws and principles simply describe some reoccurring pattern. If you find the law of attraction to be true in your experience then use it. it'll be useful.

Leo has mentioned it before but one thing I always found funny about many nihilists is they assign a negative meaning to meaninglessness. Its quite the trap many people and even I albeit only briefly found myself into.

Thats the cost of experimentation, your time. Decide if its worth it for you or not. Nobody can tell you the correct path to take.

The illusion of free will comes from not knowing. Which is why it is ever present in your relative perspective. From the absolute perspective, everything already is occurring simultaneously. So yes its all scripted and predetermined. But yet God can still experience this scripted story genuinely through you.

I see a lot of people who are depressed also have some frayed connection with the world around them. Starts with a negative repeated outlook then repetition sinks you further and further in until it becomes increasingly difficult to break. For me, my realizations repaired such frayed connections. I let go. I stopped resisting which dramatically reduced my suffering. I was no longer restricted to such one sided perspectives which allowed me to regain control. Enlightenment and happiness it is true it isn't necessarily connected but through the process of enlightenment your own personal development can go up repairing yourself.

I very much resonated with this. Thank you for that. Well I don't know if they will always care even if it is direct experience haha. But I would say the majority of what I say does come from direct experience. I try to be mindful if I ever veer out of direct experience, but I don't think its really cut back the 'you're crazy, insane' etc comments. It comes off as pseudo-science to many. A lot of those around me in person noticed dramatic changes in how I am and they seem very receptive to learning about how I have changed, but thats not going to be a factor people can see in many online discussions.

All the time I am finding people discussing things that are sorely off track. I know monks and gurus often let the seeker seek their knowledge out instead of going directly to them. There have been many times I have spread such knowledge and it gets heavily rejected - which is fine. They are at least now aware of it. I no longer pursue to change minds, just spread knowledge. But I do wonder if that effort is better spent on those who directly seek my advice and myself. How far do you go to spread what you have learned?

People may present seemingly green ideas but the motives definitely aren't always green. You look at the actions and it reveals lower stage thinking.

This sounds like a big conflict on what 'enlightenment' is to you and the 'proper' way to seek it. To me it doesn't matter what the motive is for this 'enlightenment' because the further you go in your journey such a motive will evolve with your personal development. We all start somewhere.

Why don't you find out, This isn't about blind belief like modern religion promotes, everything that is talked about you should be verifying through your own direct experience. You will receive many benefits hence why it becomes smarter to follow it. But there is no correct or incorrect path. Its just a path.

A friend and I want to set up a passive income project but its gonna need a lot of advertising/marketing knowledge to do it. Any books on such subjects? Anything that could benefit as someone who has never done this shit before would be useful. Thanks!

Make sure to read all the more peaceful trips too so you don't skew your perspective. Not to mention this was a combo of shrooms+weed+alcohol+mdma which will give a much higher intensity than just the shrooms by itself. Just as it was written, this was an irresponsible experience. Be responsible and it will go a lot smoother.

@Equanimitize I have a couple of outlets in which I can bounce my realizations off of which are quite receptive to it. Even some real life friends. Its mostly random internet conversations in which they are talking about something and I try to point them in the right direction and I get totally shut down. But you can easily lead yourself in an endless amount of conversations of people not ready to be receptive to what you give them. Which like I said I am content with since I stopped trying to change minds, but it can become tiresome to respond to every off track thing you see and ends up a major distraction at that point. I'm mostly trying to learn the criteria in which you guys decide to engage in such conversations.

The ego doesn't exist. But when talking about ego and what we are trying to point to via then is more just about becoming more aware of yourself. To be aware of what you are once blinded by, not rejecting it. I like to visualize the ego as some routine in your 'program' that you can override, tweak, and manipulate.

I get exactly what you mean. Finding such value in the bodies seems like an oddly materialistic thing to me. I don't need the body to remember or grieve. I didn't care about the body, but the personality and connection I formed I did care about. When it is no longer present with the body then it became like any other inanimate object. But from the absolute I see what I formed a connection with is not done for and is ever present in everything that exists.

Seems to be more of a personal development problem than any sex/gender issue.

Yesterday I had my first experience with salvia. And oh man, was this a wild ride. Definitely not for the faint of heart, It is an intense mind fucking confusing experience only to leave you in hysterical laughter post trip at the pure 'wtf' feeling of the substance. I took a pretty light hit of 20x concentration and that was enough for me to really start feeling this substance. What I do remember, I had felt like I was living another life like my life was just a story in a book in which I felt myself literally folding on on myself as if I was a book turning a page. My perception of what I was seeing was super whacky. Almost indescribable. As I peaked, I started wondering what I was doing. I wanted to go out and do things, live out my story to which I found the effort to get up, I walked to my friends ready to say something then it hit me that im not feeling like how I usually do which prompted me to go and lay back down. But this perception of the world i was in was fully believable at the peak. No doubts about it. I know if I had smoked more I would have dissolved into the infiniteness and experience some alternate reality as something else. It was an experience that I think can give insight to whats out there and what you are beyond this body and ego identity. I definitely intend to try it again with full spiritual intent.

Independence is great, being able to be on your own. Its going to help you a lot flow with reality when people leave your life. A key word here is a strong need which I question what you mean by this. Desire? Necessity? I definitely desire building relationships for others simply because I enjoy it and they help me grow. If there ever comes a point they leave my life, so be it. Desiring something and feeling like you need it to thrive or the world will end seems to be different feelings. The value of something is whatever value you assign to it. If there is less value for it to you, then thats fine. The key thing to me here is that you aren't suffering from a lack of interpersonal relationships. Although you may find it valuable to know how to build them when you do want them for whatever purpose and not worry so much about all the shit you learn in psychology.

Attraction isn't that simple from my experience. I've met girls and initially found them unattractive and through getting to know them I actually start finding their physical features attractive. Its like connection building can reprogram your attraction to them.

Sounds like your realization is some personification of karma.

I think the ego likes to build attachment to things to keep you trying to preserve it. A survival mechanism. When that attachment is broken the reaction can be huge and explosive resisting what happened which again cycles back to keep you trying to preserve it.

Try to not take Leo too literally all the time and look at where his words point to. When teaching something a new trick you start simple.

Just taking a best guess, I think it mostly comes from people seeing other cultures as weird and a sense of tribalism. People may often think you should conform with the culture you are born in and getting into other cultures is being what you are not. Which they tend to shun those that don't act or behave like them.