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And as I walk down the road I realize, I never went anywhere, I am still in the same spot, never was a where, never was a when, nothing but Love, all in the end. All them stories are pretty convincing arn't they

@Thought Art Of course I am sure most people feel very curious and active on psychs. It is good to find a balence between the energy and focus. The best thing you can do for suffering is to listen to it, it is a lost child, light the candle to get them threw the night.

I bealive it is more like you surrender to the love that will bring the manifestation into the actual, psychedelics can make that easier. It is also important to realize your hands are God's hands. Just because you took a psychedelic doesn't mean every insight is going to be solid truth, sometimes wild stuff comes up, that is why it is good to have time to sit after a trip.

@Leo Gura Do you belive there is something else that is more worth your time? You spread so much goodness to the universe!

"Thanks! Might have tasted better in my mouth though!"

A lot of distraction going on in here

@mmKay The confusion is exactly what you must face and work threw yourself. Allow yourself to not know, accept it, and trust that the practices will bring you there. Or here

What needs to be "held together"?

@Gabith Do Nothing is a good one to have under your belt, the non-technique technique. Are you trying to stop the thinking, or are you doing nothing?

What technique would you go for if you were told to "just meditate"? Mindfulness can be a really good one to start with. I would say try not to get caught up on knowing too many techniques right now, but study ones that seem intersting to you and then pick one to really focus on for awhile. Most egos love to get obsessed over knowing a bunch of different techniques and trying to combine them, but that can get really confusing and unhelpful fast.

It is all about intention.

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Sensory deprivation for sure can help one go much deeper into themselves as there is less distraction going on. I have seen many trip reports of people in bath tubs expirencing being in the womb, being reborn and such. Your metamorphasis strategy sounds like a good one for you

Allowing oneself to enter into the peaceful silence is much easier then forcing. Sounds like you had a good session, nice!

@Gesundheit A lost soul can never find the way if they could never see it, identified with the conditioning build up from birth, thinking that you are you thoughts. Trapped in a laberenth of misunderstanding, the light they shine is distored but it is still the light.

Do both? Seach for the truth and make beautiful songs to guide people to the truth.

The way I see contemplation is starting with a question, and observing what is been questioned in the now. Sometimes answers come, sometimes they don't, but what is importanted is when awareness shines threw, what is, the truth is uncovered by the vail of belief. It's got nothing to do with answers, and everything to do with awareness of what the thing being contemplated actually is. Answers are just more thoughts.

Leaves fall from tall, Hikes away the pines stay, Sail if there is wind, Or get an oars, Nothing more. Grow to grow again, Always without end.

Eventually one realizes all their wisdom is just right here, right now, all the time and you start looking to the infinite to bring you wisdom and guidances, the same place they got their wisdom from.

@Chris365 The true explanation is not what you are looking for, what you are looking for is what you are directly conscious of. Conscious presence is the territory, observe it, be it without layering explanations you have learned on top of it. It is impossible to have an objective view on what is going on because there is always an ego layering interpretations, unless in a non-dual state. You have never experienced this “physical” world without consciousness being prior to it. All that is being experienced is the present moment with a explanation overlay, the materialist paradigm. The truth isn’t found threw explanation, it is found in what is. The understanding comes the more you learn, & take the teaching and observe what is being pointed to. As soon as you think you have the right explanation, you stop learning. I can point to something called the materialist paradigm, can you find it in yourself? Watch it working the ego, listen for the assumptions it makes, taste the thoughts that you were programmed with from birth.

@InterruptReQuest To see a limiting beliefs observe the way in which you act. Ask questions about why you doing the things you do. What you are attracted to/ repulsed by? And why? There really is no detaching, just being and realizing you are always being. Being conscious of something is night and day to believing something. Anything that isn’t in the present moment that you think is real is a belief, if you have an idea about what something is, that is a belief. The truth of the thing is always what it is, never thoughts about it.

The more detached one is from the ego and more connecting with awareness the easier it is to sense beliefs going on in the present. The ego is a web of beliefs, and all beliefs are limiting. Notice you don’t really need to believe anything to just be.

Yeah a human invention so that we could all be organized. Something fun to contemplate about is “What is anticipation?”. Most people just use time to anticipate what is going to happen next rather then the allowing flow of presence. Letting go of time will allow more space for intuition to take the lead.

Reality is a projection from the ego so that it has something to call other then itself. Without that distinction all there would be is what is, there would be no ego to overlay judgments onto anything.

@Leo Nordin Yeah, being ready for it is it. One can understand where it is, and how to get there. But the ego will keep ‘shoving it under the rug’ until the trauma of being a human is healed.