Azrael

Don't be so sure that you can direct your path so consciously. If you don't take powerful tools like 5-MeO-DMT you can expect to have an gradual, slow opening with more and more glimpses that will eventually stick and open you up.

Bad moods, yes. Of course. When you work 40 hours a week in 4 days and have massive stress on work, you'll be in a bad mood. So the body will suffer just from the symptom. Psychologically it is not nice, but not comparable to before, because no one suffers from it. It's just stress on the body. Depression, no. But can happen as well. You can have any emotion pre / post enlightenment. It'll just be different because your "you" won't suffer from it because it's resolved. It's kinda like this. Picture you make a house of sand on the beach (your ego) and you play that you live in that house. You play it so damn much and all of the time, that you actually believe that you do. Everybody else is also doing it. Now, at some point your house of sand gets destroyed and you instantly realize that this house was never of real substance + you see what is going on. Now, before your house was destroyed it rained sometimes and you'd get really worried because you thought the rain might kill your house. You are asking me right now: "Does it still rain?" (Do you still experience bad emotions?) Of course. It's just that there is no house no more, that I try to protect from the rain. But it's still rain. It'll still make me wet and cold.

If you do some research (reading books) you will find pretty shocking evidence for most of these spiritual / supranatural phenomena. I once digged into past-life hypnotherapy - read a book about it - and I was shocked by the scientific evidence of some cases. For example, what they did is: They made someone see one of his past-lifes through hypnotherapy and then brought him to a moment in time where he read the newspaper in his past-life. Then they double-checked in the archives what that newspaper said and see whether it is correct. Another one is letting someone speak out loud during the session while he is in a past-life in which he speaks a different language. Then you double-check whether the language - he normally can't speak - is correct. There also is some good research on astral projection and especially remote viewing. Read up, it's fascinating.

@egoless, I think that if you implement these things on the long-term YOU might have a good life (if you want that stuff). But keep in mind that it has nothing to do with enlightenment. One of the realizations I had after my awakening that shocked me for a good 1-2 months daily is: Well, you still gotta do shit with your time. That was so shocking because after the awakening all the mental-masturbation, all the analysis, all the thoughts about myself and spirituality just fell away. And this was a big chunk of my daily thoughts. So, expect to have radical shifts of perspective on these topics with time. None of them might be "it" and none of them will work for everyone, but just go with how it comes. For me personally, I have a long-term plan that I work out. I know that after my studies I wanna move to North America (maybe Vancouver or an American City that is similar), live their, have my own programming project, build a family at some point and have an relaxed life. And that will be fine for me. Another person might want something completely different and that's fine, too.

I found peace, knwoing of who I am and trust in myself.

And God is like: "Pff, bitch whuut? I'm infinite. You can't get me with 12 laws."

@AleksM, that's well and good, but still not scientifically backed. @Berjohansen, cool that you found a paper that investigated that. I'd still not say that this is conclusive, because we know that DMT is in a lot of plants and so could get into the body through that but I think if more studies look into it they could make a case.

I just researched a little bit in the "scholar-ly" side of the internet and it seems to be that it is still an unproven thesis that DMT occurs in the body. I could at least not find any study that says something otherwise.

I have been born another time to prove a last time to myself that it doesn't matter what you try - you cannot fuck with the devil in his own world.

How are we not the brain. That is - especially for us scientific, western ppl - probably one of the hardest things to get over. Because it just seems so self-evident that we are the brain. The normal unenlightened man feels himself mostly to be in the head (although this varies in cultures). Firstly, we have to realize that the brain itself is a relative symptom of the human-alike 3D perspective. That means, that by having the senses you have, you are able to experience a brain. Imagine you'd have another sense that would be "as real" as seeing, hearing, touching etc. but would be in its function completely distinct from all the other senses. Now, look at the brain again. What would you perceive? You'd perceive something completely different and you'd make sense of the brain completely differently. Now consider, that there is not only one other sense to perceive the brain but an infinite amount and that you are just given these few finite senses out of an infinite set to perceive the world. That'll loosen the self-evidence of just being a head a little bit up. Now, I would make the argument that we have a sense that we don't even now of because we only are aware of this sense when we are born and when we die. Everyone who had an real ego death on a psychedelic experience, will know what I mean. And that sense is the contraction of the finite reality we perceive - that stuff seems literally finite. This is a very fundamental perspective that underlies every other sense that we have. Imagine how it would be if everything "opened up" and your normal reality would actually seem like a colourful projection in empty dark nothing-like space. I would also make the argument that you can show to yourself that this is actually the case and that you can empirically prove that to you. These two points can be your start in discovering that the head is not what you thought it to be and that there might be more to it.

Because our relative world works in certain structures. So for example if I let my laptop fall on my foot, I'll feel a very intense feeling in my foot. No reason why, that's just how this dynamic of relativity expresses itself. The very same way when something falls on the ground, as a human with the gift of hearing you hear a sound. So why is hate here? It is here because it's part of a dynamic. And one perspective on this dynamic would describe it the following way: Hate begins to express itself in a human being if one holds on to a concept and it is shown not to be real. Note, that sadness or fear could also arise from that situation. How can that be? Instead of asking why, look at how hate expresses itself, when it and in which dynamic it comes up. Because the human being still doesn't let go of the concept he is holding. So, it can be shown to be not real again and produce hate. Again, look rather at how can something be persistent instead of why. You release hate when it comes up, you recognize it, you ask into yourself "why do I feel hate?", listen to the answer and then release that part of your world view. You can do that with any emotion that comes up.

It depends. Enlightenment is radical shift on multiple layers. It's like you take a seed and watch it grow. Psychedelics are like fertilizers. They can speed up the process a lot yes, but it takes a lot of other things like intellectual ground work, explorations of your body and physique, understanding relationships to yourself, other people and your reality ... to get everything down. So yes, 5-MeO-DMT especially will bring you the most growth when it comes to enlightenment, but there are way more things involved that you need to be mature in your understanding.

Can't talk about business here. Find out for yourself. Re-FUCKING-search.

From my own experience with different strands, they are not that different. It's like with weed or alcohol. If you have done it a lot, you'll be able to recognize differences and like certain strains over others. For beginners, I'd say that keeping an eye on dosage is way more important.

I think that if you have to ask, you are not ready. Because this is a decision you can only know for yourself. You know "how you are", how able you are to confront very difficult situations. So it won't help you if I hypnotize you into believing that you can do that. I can bring up a ton of reasons that you can do psychedelics with a family background of psychological illness, I can also bring up a ton of counter-arguments. In the end, it doesn't matter, because I don't know you. And just reading how you write, you seem not to be too confident with this topic and because I know that it takes some balls to start with this and that you can seriously fuck yourself up with it, I say "no". It would be (in my reasoning) foolish to just say "Ahhh, you'll be fine", because probably you won't. Nothing personal man, but I just don't know you and psychedelics can be fucking dangerous.

Well, this is an important topic for everyone who wants to start and has no experiences with drugs in general. When I started out with psychedelics I had a good amount of experiences with altered states of consciousness. I did a lot of weed when I was in my teens and I did molly (MDMA) a couple of times + speed like one time when I was younger. Plus I smoke. So I know how it's like when you take something and suddenly your world beings to shift. Psychedelics still - even for me - were and ARE a big thing every time I do them because they fuck with you on such a deep level and they require so much letting go from your side. So here is my recommendation for someone who never did drugs and wants to start with psychedelics for personal development / enquiring one's own nature. First substance you should try is weed. Not in a social setting, but just get it, smoke or vape it and see how you take it. While being stoned see how it changes you and see whether you can deal with it. After you have smoked / vaped it a few times, eat it. Eating pot will give you a totally different experience and it'll go in a psychedelic direction if you have good weed. Read on dosages and research it as you please do with every drug you take. If you can stand weed I'd actually recommend to try molly (MDMA) before you do real psychedelics. Again, please read up about dosage, risks etc. Molly is a chemical and can potentially fuck you up. I think it's good to try though because you can a) have stunning insights and experiences if you do it on your own + it'll introduce you to serious chemical substances, how it is to come "on" and "off", how to handle it etc. After having done molly a few times, you can choose your first real psychedelic substance. I haven't done AL-LAD so far, but @Leo Gura speaks highly of it, so it is probably a good choice for starters. Start on low dosages and then work yourself up. After you have had some real psychedelic breakthrough on the normal substances like AL-LAD, LSD, shrooms, 2-CB you'll know for yourself how ready you are. On the way you'll discover your favourite psychedelic and maybe work with it. I like shrooms a lot and I work a lot with them, other people use other substances. As long as you take your time for this process, research everything that you do and start on low dosages and slowly increase, you can be safe. If you have some physical or mental conditions that can come into your way, you should research whether you should do this at all. In the end of the day though it'll take some big balls, wisdom, courage and trust in yourself to do something like 4g shrooms. You'll not get around that. That's needed for any big change. I would highly suggest that if you've done all that and you are somewhat experienced in the field with the normal substances, that you try normal DMT before you try 5-MeO-DMT. First of all, normal DMT is heavy enough and secondly it'll introduce you into the "WHAAAAAT THE FUUUUCK"-Land + quick onsets. If you are able to do normal DMT and you have done all the other stuff, are wise and research a lot, you got at least all the measurable requirements that it takes to think about 5-MeO-DMT (at least in my opinion). And even then ... with all the research and experience ... it'll fucking blow you away like you never would've thought. It's just well-advisable to be able to fly a jet plane before you fly in outer space.

That you forget yourself throughout the day should be a hint that there is no you in the first place. Don't train yourself to be "there" all the time. FInd out through your lack of persistence that you are fake in the first place and by that destroy the illusion. You'll end up at the same place of silence.

That was a metaphor. I spoke about that it doesn't matter what happens while "Do Nothing". Whether you have monkey mind or a 5-MeO-LIKE sitting.

Nope, there is no goal. Really. There isn't. Nowhere to get to, nothing to do. Doesn't matter if you have monkey-mind or a 5-MeO like sitting. Just sit. With time you'll understand why there is no goal. And yes, eyes open, son.

No, stick with meditation.

https://www.wimhofmethod.com/

1x LSD 1x Ketamine 3-4x 5-MeO-DMT 5-6x shrooms

Thanks for the share. Interesting video!

As long as you have to ask, you are not there.