Arman

There's irony in my previous post that hasn't been completely lost on me. It seems the rigidity/rudeness in my own post has been reflected with a deserved hostility, so I'm not the best example of my own advice. My only suggestion is that there are more effective ways of reaching people than by beginning and ending with insults.

aggressiveness and rigidity invites defensiveness I don't necessarily disagree with your points, but it's tempting to disagree with you purely because doing so would apparently make me an awful person . It is not surprising to find that people aren't receptive when you open a discussion with "There is no counter-argument to my position." If you push against an animal they instinctively resist, you know? If you want to help people you have to relax your energy so you can work through our monkey minds.

Yeah as pluto said, infrequent use can be useful. I have found that using cannabis with little to no tolerance or after a long break can be super effective for healing experiences - particularly purging physiological stuff/traumas, but more frequent use seems to completely reduce the power of that healing property, at least for me. I think continuous use probably has detrimental effects to brain chemistry and the subtle energetic system. I find the day after smoking I tend to feel a little cerebrally exhausted. The properties and how its gonna effect you are gonna depend a lot on the strain too. Cannabis, particularly sativas, I think, also have a tendency to suddenly up-heave suppressed energies of the mind and body, so a lot of repressed anxiety and life pressures can arise and it feels intense and kind of panicky - but that can be a positive experience if you're willing to be there and release it.

pretty cool, but I'd be just as content sitting on a shitty couch with a friend. I like the sense of adventure that comes with lowly places

It'd bring me happiness right now. I'd buy weed and KFC.

I remember the first time I read The Power of Now, there was some exercise involving just taking in your surroundings. It was one of the first times I consciously tried to become 'present'. I remember it vividly... How vividly boring it was. I was like, ok... that's it? I find as the years pass that the simple practice get's deeper and deeper. Eventually it goes from something from a mundane concentration to accessing a field of radiance/intelligence and it is effortlessly relaxing and insights present themselves. Right now the experience you had is a kind of 'peak' (or sneak peak) of higher experience. Eventually, believe it or not that kind of experience will become a baseline of mindfulness that you can cultivate at will as long as you're balanced and well. From there, there are new peak experiences and I think it get's endlessly deeper. It also just becomes nice for no reason, like your body can access more of something. I think a lot of it is less to do with how much insight or wisdom you have and more just to do with how primed your nervous system is to certain kind of states, and I think that priming comes with time and practice. I don't know, but it never stops getting more interesting. I guess they don't talk about that a lot because it'd create attachment for another experience which is counter-productive to being mindful, heh. Glad to hear about your positive experience.

I think whatever you do, as long as your intention is growth then you can't lose.

I'm so enlightened you can't even use the word 'I' in a conversation with me without getting lectured

I can tell you with fair certainty that as it stands, your book is unlikely to be successful, or be of a great degree of quality. This is based on your tone and how you talked about it. Writing a book is challenging. Writing a good book is even more challenging, and writing a good book that reaches people, the most challenging of all. There are thousands of new books written every day. Many of them about adversity and struggle. What makes yours worth writing? You are asking us if it's worth finishing? If you don't know, either find out yourself, or don't bother. I don't mean this to be disheartening. It is just something to reflect on. The way I see it, you have three choices: 1. Keep at it given your current level of energy on the subject, and either not finish the book, or create a low quality product 2. Decide that you don't care if it reaches people or it's successful, and allow it to be something that is a creative exercise that helps you process things, makes you feel good, etc (nothing wrong with this) 3. Decide that it is something you really, genuinely want to do, get realistic about how much work and dedication it takes, and increase the amount of focus, energy, and love you place into it. How inspiring can a book be if the author didn't even know if he wanted to finish it? Consider why you're doing it. Unless it's aligned with serious purpose then it's going to be one more low quality book. If your purpose is aligned and you have enough devotion and focus, then you can make it happen.

its playful sleight of hand like an uncle would do for his niece, they're laughing because it's silly no siddhis here

it's pretty neat

young, gelled hair & ear-ring wearing matt kahn was the best matt kahn

Then there's Awkward Wave - when you thought they were waving at you and so you wave back, only to discover they were looking at someone else

Once I took a shower and went outside without properly drying my hair. According to parents everywhere, I should have been dead several times over.

There's a kind of common cliche amount spiritual types that says that everything is god... except money. I struggle to articulate my thoughts on this subject, but I have noticed one thing - those that offer lots of value to the world through products, hard work, humanitarian efforts etc, these people have no problem with the idea of making money. Yet those who are adamantly against 'spiritual knowledge' being connected to money seem to offer very little. Books, seminars and every system of insfastructure that is used to spread this kind of knowledge wouldn't exist if people didn't make money to expand. People have no problem with charging for services like physical massage, or food - but if someone is starving then what is more truly in line with 'spirituality' - giving him food, or teaching him how to become enlightened? People create an arbitrary distinction between spirituality and the rest of reality. If there wasn't money connected to these things, most of the people complaining about 'charging for spiritual information' wouldn't have been exposed to the very information they claim is sacred. Making money teaching "spirituality" might equip someone to do it full time and radically expand the amount of exposure to their work. Money is just energy, and just because someone is making money doesn't mean it's ego driven. Now if you'd like to learn more about this subject and radically increase your wealth, health, and happiness, then take action NOW by signing up to my mega infinity course $397 for the diamond package only for 48 hours!

You can get the e-book with full instructions by Yogananda for like a buck here, I think you can also get it for free if I remember right. https://www.amazon.com.au/Kriya-Yoga-Swami-Yogananda-ebook/dp/B00BWF3XHY I haven't practiced Kriya as Yogananda taught it but I used to practice a spinal breathing pranayama which I'm fairly certain has been adapted from Kriya. I've compared the lessons and think it's the same thing so I feel some authority to say that I believe it might be one of the most accelerated technologies for spiritual advancement on the planet. I suggest you take a look at aypsite.org for their spinal breathing pranayama

for sure I think the good news is that actually that it integrates by itself without you trying to do anything, and even if the excitement fades and the mind tries to fruitlessly capture the experience, still on a deeper level it does change you - even if it's hard to say how that is and life challenges remain. Almost like on a physiological level or something.

Lol this perfectly illustrates these experiences. You have a grand revelation, experience great love, wonder how it will change your life, then you step outside your home with open arms and somebody tells you to go fuck yourself soon you will be back to your baseline and it will be just another memory... what will it mean then?

There is a quote by Ram Dass.. actually it is a quote of him quoting his 'disembodied' nonphysical friend Emmanuel, who somebody channeled. Emmanuel said not to worry, that death is "Perfectly safe. Like taking off a tight boot."

guilty (thank you) I like it. I got a soft spot for whimsical stuff

here's a poem I wrote years ago. it is my lifes work bugs butts bingo and bears knives forks kitchen chairs alligators at the door he doesn't like you anymore 2-4-6-8 hopscotch through the gate 7-8-9-10 the poem starts all over again

Try flipping the script and seeing him as the victim. I think when other people behave mean and aggressive, it can be upsetting because we subconsciously think they're 'getting away with it' and somehow getting the upper hand. If you can release your emotions on the subject or while it's happening and observe him then you'll probably feel sympathy for the guy. After all you only have to experience him temporarily, but he has to live with himself every waking moment. There is no way that passive aggression can stem from a place of ease and self love. Imagine how much more happiness he would feel if he could relax into himself and connect with people. Teaching others aught to be a great joy. but he can't. Sad, no? By being non-reactive and breathing into the emotions that arise you can use it as an opportunity to grow and be more grounded in yourself. As men if we're going to be thrown off balance by external energies (and really, passive aggression is pretty low on the scale of things that can be thrown at us) then we're not going to be very effective in life, are we? In that regard use it as an exciting opportunity to grow. When you stop the reactivity, you actually aid to break the cycle for both parties. On an energetic level aggression can only exist if it has its reacting counter-parts, and when aggression is directed into a grounded field (awareness, spaciousness, your own patience and willingness to go beyond reactivity), it actually dissolves the aggression and helps to liberate the aggressor. While this sounds very airy and pleasant on paper, in reality it may not be a flip of a switch and suddenly you love him. I wouldn't worry about being loving - the central work is the difficult feelings that arise in the body. For that a certain prerequisite level of concentration or awareness is needed.

I haven't read Light on Yoga but I've heard it recommended countless times to high acclaim. If you want a good yoga path/program/structure I highly suggest aypsite.org - it will be all you need and it has a very helpful community.

Thanks for the report. I've found nbome/25i to be kind of hard on the body. I felt really gross coming up when I took it and it was just generally kind of intense. I can see it being a very useful tool if handled right, but then I wouldn't recommend it over the usual suspects (lsd/psilocybin) - especially given that it's a newer research chemical and hasn't been quite as time tested. Also as you mentioned it can kill people as it has a very, very low LD50 at least compared to other psychedelics. Just curious, if it was sold to you as LSD, how did you find out it was 25i and figure out the exact dose?