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@NahmI was explaining psychedelics to my aunt and she referenced that Goop show. Great synchronicity.

@Derek White You're a fool. Message me again in 5 years when you do them, and then we can both laugh at the current version of you.

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@Derek White Why not? What are your concerns?

@Mafortu Okay. My point was be careful about judging practices if you do not have direct experience as to their value, or lack thereof. I have done reiki and I have direct experience of it's benefits. It's a "real" practice. But you lumped Reiki in with your list of BS techniques above so I had to correct it.

@Llight Lol you have no idea what you're talking about. Are you as high as you could be on the path? Worry about yourself before you try and act like others' aren't at where you'are at.

@Mafortu Lol i can tell your progress by how you're typing. You're not speaking from your direct experience, you're speaking from anecdotes of your family. What do you know? What have you experienced from these techniques? How far are you on the path? Have you had an awakening? What are your practices?

@Derek White Have you ever tried psychedelics?

@Mafortu You just grouped a bunch of different techniques together and dismissed them all. You are just ignorant. Do the work. Try some of those techniques and judge for yourself. You don't progress on the path by thinking about it. You have to actually do something.

@VeganAwake This is nonsense. Practices are necessary for a lot of people early on the path. These neo-adavita guys seems like idiots imo.

@AwakenedSoul444 You gotta update your journal man! Sounds like you figured some stuff out haha

@Martin123 If you have a problem with @Nahm then just block him. You are seriously deluded though if you think he is the problem in your conversation. Grow up. Or learn to practice humility when engaging in discussions that you do not understand.

@traveler The purpose of practices is to eventually not do practices. The purpose of non-dual teachings is to eventually not need teachings. Have you done Leo's life purpose course? I recommend you find a purpose. I found one and it's made the path much easier. The teachings are only pointers so you can realize your own inherent greatness. You are your own highest authority. I think a change in the relationship with "teachers" is needed here. You are the highest authority. Everything else is in service of your authority, that includes all the teachers you listed. If they are not resonating with you then find a different teacher.

@Nahm I understand the inspection more clearly now yeah. So the more common sense/consciousness I apply to my perspectives the better i'll feel. I noticed this with my trips. When I bring myself back to very basic explanations of everything in my reality it helps me calm down and feel better when my mind starts going off and I feel bad.

@Nahm The only problem is when they do stuff that makes me feel bad. Like my family says stuff to me or they say something about others' and i don't like it, it makes me feel bad. So i don't associate with them. But ultimately I have control over how I feel. So if my emotional state is in my own control, which it is, then there is no issue with them.

@4201 I watched that Sadguru video. He is so off on psychedelics. His perspective on the substances is a joke. You can literally apply his logic to any spiritual practice, and you'd end up with no practices lol. Anyone who is dismisses psychedelics like that without any serious thought is a joke imo. The drugs have so much value if you use them with wisdom.

@Nahm Lol that makes a lot of sense. "I" love doing it this way haha. So judgement is at the root here? I know I judge a lot, and I see it in my family, judgement of self and other is basically the name of the game for all my relatives.

@Nahm Why is there discomfort or resistance to surrender? I understand your point here, I can just be present and allow whatever arises to just be. But it doesn't feel like love/bliss/joy. It feels uncomfortable, and there is a push to go back into thinking/distraction and away from the discomfort of the moment.

@Nahm Yeah I know you are not saying that. I am saying that. I'm talking about if someone watches that video and assumes those two have the game of life figured out. There labels around her condition, the conceptions about the brain, their attitude/disposition. I used to do that, I assumed most people had it figured out and the way they operated was normal and the way to do things. Now i realize that I was wrong, and very few people are living how I would want to live. So i classify everyone not living how I want to live as idiots. I understand that you don't do any of this, but there is also a progression. I cannot go from where I am now to cosmic consciousness over night. I also see the arrogance/ego/toxicity in my own perspective here lol. But i prefer this to my old habit of being overly nice/understanding etc which was completely fake and not authentic.

@Nahm I understand. I don't like these kinds of fake intellectual people I think they are idiot/bs pretenders. Why are you afraid to call people out for not being on the path? When I hear people talk about something that I can tell they clearly don't understand I mentally note that they are idiots. This habit has gotten magnified since I started on the path haha, but it's better than the alternative for me which is assuming people know what they are talking about, and others' opinions about reality should be trusted at face value. I clearly see the problem with their perspectives, and I have no desire to be like either of them. But again lol. I don't understand how this pertains to me, and the inspection work/emotional scale/thinking-feeling relationship. I clearly have misguided assumptions underlying thinking that is creating suffering, but how to see through it decisively is another story. I can puncture the narrative in the mind with presence pretty reliably now, but when i come to the present i don't feel bliss/love/joy etc. I just get relief from being lost in thinking about myself.

I want to learn to access flow states consistently when I play online video games, specifically league of legends. I have a consistent meditation practice, and my attention is good (I can maintain focus on the breathe for 10 consecutive breaths) but I don't reach a state of effortless concentration and flow. I want to master league of legends, and learning to be in flow whenever I play is an important step in the mastery process. Are there specific meditation techniques I should use before playing, or just use in general to help cultivate a flow state? Does anyone have experience with these states in sports or video games where they understand how to access the state? I want a map/process that I can use to help cultivate it, but i'm not sure how to go about it. Is it a good idea to listen to bin aural beats while I play to help cultivate focus? Any other tips or insight would be appreciated. Also, please only give me advice if you're speaking from direct experience of flow states. If you've read about flow states but have not accessed them, or you have got there but don't have any conception of how you or why you are doing it then please refrain from commenting. Thank you.

@Gili Trawangan Youtube, spotify, etc. I would also contact popular youtube/spotify/etc channels that play music of your genre. They can play your music in their tracks and you will gain notoriety. I would focus on content first. The other stuff will come once you have quality content.

@Gili Trawangan Be so good they can't ignore you. Start producing quality music/content, and people will notice. Once you are confident in what you're producing then you can think of different ways of releasing the content. Walk before you run. The content is most important, so make sure you're actually producing quality content that people will enjoy and benefit from first.

@Nahm Okay thank you.

@ivankiss How do you jump from reason to love?