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@Osaid You too? I can also visualize things almost to a High Definition standard, although I admit some hard work was involved. Mind sharing what that's like for you and if any work was involved what it's like?

@Camerong @remember @Consilience @Osaid @electroBeam I just started a journal about visualization, feel free to try out the exercises and share your experiences.

Also, depending on your visualization skills, you can focus on an object you construct in your mind and achieve the same if not similar state.

I've remembered reading something about the yogic path having mainly two paths: Celibacy, and celebration. The idea with celibacy is to renounce material pleasures gradually, and eventually one attains enlightenment. The other path is the path of celebration, where you celebrate more of that desire and keep increasing that celebration to the point you gain enlightenment. Both approaches aren't newbie advice but are worth considering.

Nice! I've experienced similar while staring at a corner of a room until it became vivid.

I hope you get out of this rut your in. Been through worse, so hang in there.

@Rasheed Has porn ruined Leo's life?

@SoonHei (Deep inhale)...10.

@PlayTheGame Life is full of paradoxes. For you to even see an object, your mind had to invert an image that your eyeball captures from light. Anyways, how are you doing so far with your DP/DR?

@ilyas dolliazal Hi there! I'm doing fine so far. We've had some progress since that time.

The ego runs as deep as the run in Spider's Solitaire.

I wouldn't recommend Datura to my enemies. That's how dangerous it is. Either Psilocybin mushroom for the visual hallucinations, or Salvia for understanding deeper psychosis in those patients. Angel's trumpet tea is probably enough. Thanks for correction.

@pluto What you just described is almost true. Depending on the energetic fields around the ego, that field repels/attracts certain entities. Interactions with natural/artificial substances can complicate these interactions further, and some substances can allow invocations of entities when taken on high concentrations ( machine elves on DMT, insectiods on Saliva and sentient locations on Datura). I wouldn't be surprised that one day, a synthetic man made substance, delirium or otherwise, could act like the behelit from Berserk, forcefully ripping open a gateway for a variety of entities to invoke fully into you, across many dimensions. And the sacrifice is you and your surroundings, for that many Insights to happen.

@andyjohnsonman That's ok, let yourself explore other options. If contemplating is putting too much tension and headache, go do letting go/ do nothing meditation. It isn't a long journey for nothing.

@mp22 You've raised a good point. I didn't noticed that before...

I voted neutral, but actually it's been quite good for me. I'm introverted and mostly keep to myself, and this year I isolated myself a bit more from people so I don't really freak out over the lock down here. I also have some OCD over cleanliness so it's weirdly normal for me to isolate and explore myself all over.

@andyjohnsonman That's good! The LSD trip acted like a preview to what your journey looks like later. It took something like LSD to briefly untangle these mental strips this 'I' clouds all over the place to appreciate how your life or this world isn't just dualities, it's more than that.

@andyjohnsonman Nothing wrong with the drawing, but thinking makes it so.

@andyjohnsonman For a newbie, it's A. For someone that's intermediate, it could either be A or B for Them. For an expert, beginning to be more into liberation, either both A and B are true, or A and B are neither the case. Keep going in this journey, and every possibility of AB and not AB were contingent on a belief of 'I', and no 'I' makes it at least more clearer than when you were at in the beginning.

It's only feeding your subconscious mind more bullshit. In this case, disturbing bullshit. At some point, you might want to cut this stuff out, because it's easy to desensitize yourself and create an addiction to it.

Isn't this a breaching privacy guidelines?

I've done this challenge for 90 days and I do recommend giving it a go. I've experienced lots of energy and freshness while it lasted. Just be careful not to jump straight to freezing temperatures without the gradual exposure, you'll get frost bite and severe aches in you joints ,and for men, sudden shrinkage of penis. Any women reading feel free to share.

@PlayTheGame Salvia isn't really a psychedelic, it's a delirient. It's like confusing cocaine, hard drug, for Psilocybin mushrooms, a psychedelic, and guess how dangerous that would be to misidentify some substance. It's not good to take if you do have severe DP/Dr of any other disorder. Delirients are poisonous plants as well. Datura is a classic delirient that's lethal.

Before awakening, type box, make videos. After awakening, type box, make videos. Also, the void written isn't the void.

I'm happy this thread has managed to tackle awakening without going into a non duality war.