Shadowraix

@AlldayLoop Therapy with mdma might be a good choice. While it is a substance that must be handled with low frequencies and care, it'll open you up like a book. It's helped me spot traumas I was unaware of. It's being looked into to help those with ptsd.

Spirituality is best practiced when you have your survival figured out so you can dedicate your life to it. It's part why Leo has so much orange stage stuff in his earlier videos. Managing both can be a puzzle indeed. I'm having to go back through orange myself because I skipped straight to green values.

@Serotoninluv Do you think an awakening could rewire this lack of empathy? Surely merging the divide could transition self care to others?

Intense experiences often shut off a lot of mind function in an attempt to shift awareness to the intensity of the experience. This was actually how I brute forced my first awakening. My friend always offers me weed and even dabs out of hospitality. Rarely do I take up the offer because more than one hit off a joint bakes me. When I do dabs it's straight up just lay on the couch journey time.

+1 it's been a year since I've done psychedelics. If anything I've grown since my last trip. It's only bee recently I've felt the calling to experiment again. When you first do psychs I think there is a big drive to do them a lot due to their whacky and unknown nature. It's an absolute blast to explore. Some may stumble on awakening by accident. But that drive relaxes over time. At least that was my experience.

@SFRL I question whether they are even capable of going past orange. Green largely hinges on empathy.

We've been spoiled.

This work does not decrease empathy, but it actually increases it. Just because he has such a trait like not caring be wary to glorify sociopath/psychopath tendencies as something to obtain, there are many nuances here. The binary extremes of care and don't care are very dangerous. Caring too much causes suffering in yourself, not caring enough causes suffering in others.

Many of the psychedelic insights will be displayed through behavioral changes in how I interact with my experience, however the insight does provide consciousness expansion that does not depend on a clear and concise model which can overall naturally deepen the depths one can go with spiritual practices. Its like temporarily receiving 30 years worth of meditation and such an experience may propel your consciousness permanently by 1 year. Or maybe offer faster growth. Doing this is really nice when you catch yourself in unconscious behaviors. Experiences are much more life-changing than mental models. Many of the feelings and experiences of my major awakenings are etched into my memory and just thinking about them can almost mimic a psychedelic headspace. Remembering such experiences that heightened my awareness gives it a little extra push to be completely immersed in the now. I'm not concerned in thought, how long ive meditated, impatience, uncomfortable sensations, its quite blissful. Oh boy, this one is hard to put into words. I think I was a much harder one to push into awakening. I thought everybody was bonkers before it, they would just tell me to do more psychs and it confused me - I had already maybe 20 trips in with no major awakening. I just had nice visuals and a euphoric time. My mind was very locked down in rationality, logic, and materialism. You'll have a lot more luck if you meditate on psychs but I essentially brute forced my mind. I took a high enough dose where the awareness, all of the sensations basically shut down all of my ideology, assumptions, and thought about experience. It forced me into the now and not my ideas of it. Dropping all of this mind stuff was the core blocker to accessing deep insights. This experience was what led to a realization of oneness. My first ego death. Its bizarre but it happens with a *click* sudden shift. Its like realizing you left the stove on. It just hits you. I think very developed people can imitate the levels of awareness and and many insights, my memories can raise mine a little, but nothing ever brings it as high as a psychedelic will. Psychedelics act as an amplifier of sorts. So the higher in nondual consciousness you can achieve sober, the more the psychedelic experience can open for you. Nurturing the psychedelic insights is important though and should always be followed up on sober to properly integrate them. Lots of insights can be lost when you return back into dual consciousness. Happened to me with my first ego death into my next awakening. An only psychedelic path can bring you very far. I have not tried 5-MeO but I have tried NN-DMT and these substances are incredibly powerful. DMT blew everything out of the water for me and I didn't even experience the full depths of it. I didn't get any insights out of it, but I felt it start to bring me into nondual consciousness. It can definitely propel progress, but it won't give you permanent nondual consciousness sober. Achieving that where the insights are accessible to you 24/7 requires a big bulk of the work. Treat yourself and the path with respect instead of tripping every week and you'll be fine. If anything psychedelics is what increased those qualities in me because I actually understood not just mentally but in my being what meditation was for, and how everything I knew was a lie - this led me to put more effort into learning what all of this actually is. I know I didn't answer every single one of your questions, but I tried my best to answer what I felt I could put into words.

These are descriptions of what turquoise already covers. I don't think such a stage will resort to smaller more nuanced changes. Every stage thus far are pretty distinct. Of course all of this is assuming there even is a coral to be had. The most convincing speculation ive heard is coral is when we are integrated with AI and gain processing power we never had before.

Essentially no-mind practice, belief deconstruction, and going against the grain. Exposure therapy does wonders for me. Awareness of when you care then let it dissolve. I still get thoughts that I haven't showered yet, I need to get ready to look good for something as little as going to the dollar store down the road. Dissolve it, accept how I look then I go in a meme shirt and track pants and I see nobody cares what I look like.

Do the work and you'll have your proof. Asking for proof is asking to experience. Not all experiences are as direct and easy as grabbing an Apple off the tree.

@Aeris Most of us have not fully integrated the previous stages nor done any wide research on the states of human development which is why I call it a distraction. Let's focus on fully integrating what's in front of us before we get too ambitious and move forward.

A speculatory distraction.

@Nahm Well I was mainly referring to this solar system. I have no knowledge of much beyond ?

Its also worth asking that most if not all planets represent some kind of spherical shape, why would Earth be the oddball? The only thing that separates us from the other planets really is distance from the sun, and the atmosphere we have that were right for life. If you really want to follow science to debunk this, you can find explanations to debunk every flat earth point. A lot of the criticisms on pictures of Earth are either green screen baseless assertions or the lack of understanding that we take multiple pictures of Earth and stitch them together to produce a higher quality photo. I also question why ancient civilizations who were smart enough to make very fascinating marvels and know deep spirituality, didn't conclude a flat Earth but instead used math and concluded a spherical Earth.

@Robi Steel What do they think mainstream feminism is? The media amplifies the radicalists, but it is far from what mainstream feminism is. This is what I was talking about earlier, perceptions get very warped because the minority happens to be the most vocal ones. If anything, its a sign we need to be more proactive about what actual support of feminist ideas look like and not the toxic version spun off by extremely damaged people who can't maintain a conversation without blowing up.

Deconstruction before you can start constructing again ? tear it down to build the foundation stronger and better than it ever was.

He is writing a book. He's been working on it for a while. A little while ago he made a thread asking for common spirituality objections for it.

Wow. This clicks like a puzzle piece. I already knew we are a heavily masculine based society and that we needed more feminine implemented, but connecting that to feminism never occurred to me.

Yeah, the more I actually read what is being said here, the more I realize my understanding is the surface level one. Until I do some in-depth studying on the topic perhaps a more listening than opinion formation approach is appropriate.

@Leo Gura I hear plugging 4-aco-dmt is different than other methods. Mainly because it avoids the metabolization that occurs which supposedly produces psilocin. Can you confirm?

Yes and no. Ultimately depends on which degree of separation you look at it from. Egoic self separation - you are far from alone higher self no separation - you are alone, there is no distinguishing you and other. Its just all you. Not being alone hinges on creating a separation.

You call his worldview deeply flawed without truly understanding what his worldview is. Most healthy people have not gone deep into this work nor even had some kind of awakening experience. You can not base the validity of this work on what most people would say. You are interpreting it from a level of consciousness where it is incomprehensible. Your ego is clinging to dear life.

I was referring to personal development work, becoming more conscious, not feminism itself. All movements have their dark side. I mentioned in earlier posts about how a lot of woman are indeed toxic, but this toxicity didn't come from nowhere. Woman are constantly on the defense because they have to be. They get targeted a ton by men looking to gain, to be superior, to dominate. Moving woman's rights forward is not saying men's rights don't matter. People again often treat this as some vs thing. This kind of binary mentality is just furthering a divide. I think you would highly benefit by going on a place like Reddit and asking what western life is like for a woman and see what the majority description is like and figure out why they are fighting for rights and where they feel like they are lacking in it. If you'd like I would post it for you. It would make a good contribution to this discussion. The property split on divorce only happens if you don't get a prenuptial agreement. By getting a prenup you can negotiate the divide of property before marriage. I've seen the double standards you mention. Woman not liking to be objectified or gawked at but then go on the FB pages of many guys and gawk and make explicit comments towards them. This is something worth addressing I think. But I think woman act this way because the amount of unwanted attention woman receive is so great it puts a great deal of stress on them. The amount attention men receive is usually a fraction of that woman receive. I'm not aware in the US at least of jobs being reserved for woman. Being denied a job simply for being male would probably go under discrimination. People in the US are *suppose* to be protected under law from being discriminated against by certain qualities like sex, race, religion etc. Although one thing I notice you are doing is every awful thing a woman does your mind instantly goes to "this is why feminism is bad to some degree" We need to create the distinction here between a political movement to treat men and woman under the same ethical, political, social/culture, and economic rules and woman just in general doing awful things. I have not been wronged by feminism, I have had woman hurt me though. If feminism involves taking away something from me and giving it to the woman where the result is now even, then I am all for it. They get upset when we try to jump into the conversation because we truly don't understand the female perspective and try to push what we think about their perspective and call that proper feminism. We try to overtake the perspective of the group we are trying to help. Thats really bizarre. Although that doesn't really mean I agree with actual equality. People usually refer equality as equal opportunity. The rest goes to qualifications. I think all of this job reservation stuff is an attempt at trying to jump start woman and encourage them into bigger fields, but its not really something that could stay around forever. Woman are grouping together because they are unhappy. Instead of trying to argue, and tell them what they are going through, we could actually listen and ask them how we can fix it. Then perhaps they will be much more receptive in understanding how we feel about issues if we stop neglecting how they feel to push our own. People are very diverse and making a blanket statements without consideration for nuance is calling for disaster. The majority of feminists in the US are just normal woman tired of having the system/people always interrupting their normal functioning of life. They want to just get on with it as much as we do.