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I stumbled on Sapien Medicine too, but haven't really listened to these audios yet. I really should start. Thanks for the reminder! So far, I've been listening to the audios by Maitreya Fields. I guess they are quite similar.

@GreenLight wow that's impressive! For me, these youtube transmissions are only very subtle. Except those by Kai Shanti. (But I guess that's only because I combine it with a certain meditation technique of trying to receive the transmission.) From nowhere? Or did you or someone else induce it? Most people with these abilities are born with it. But some aquire them in this life. Either through activation or blessing/grace by someone else or through much effort and practice.

Why wouldn't it be possible lol. Even from the relative perspective it seems quite plausible. I guess on the forum it is already well accepted that you can have an OBE, leave your body, do some stuff and return. If you can return to 'your' body, then why shouldn't it possible to return to a different body. It's not easy because the other body is different and you don't have a connection with it. But a highly advanced yogi should easily be able to do it. I read several reports of people achieving something of the like. Don't know whether their stories are true, though. One person said that by being in someone else's body, he actually became different. He became that person and I think he said that he didn't remember his old body. But I don't think this is like this in all cases. I think it is possible to remain your old self and remember your old body and life. Also, this is basically what possession is. There is countless evidence for possesion, so it's probably true. And isn't changing your body quite similar as what some people experience on salvia (for example becoming a stone or a book)?

If you believe it is bullshit, then it is What makes you a frog? There are certain criteria that must be fullfilled so that you can be considered a frog. And it is 100% onto you to set these criteria. The only authority there is, is your authority. If the criteria/definition which you set (of what is a frog) is met then you are effectively a frog! From your dad's pov, you are not a frog, but that doesn't matter, only your judgement matters. So if you believe that your criteria is met, and when you believe that you are therefore a frog, you LITERALLY are a frog. What else would make you a frog? What would make you be no frog? Not the judgement of somebody else. Only your judgement matters. You live in your own 'universe'. So if your judgement says that you are a frog, then that is what is true for you. If you believe you are a frog, saying that you are a human is completely false.

watch that one too: https://www.actualized.org/insights/sense-organs-are-imaginary

@Someone here If you believe you are a frog, you are a frog. You are the ultimate Authority. Whether your body actually changes and takes the form of a frog, and thus satisfies the common idea of what a frog is, doesn't matter. Human body or frog body, as long as you believe you are a frog, you are a frog lol.

For many people shamanic breathing is strenuous and requires much effort and will power. This might even be the number one reason why hardly anyone is doing it regularly . To solve that, we can make it more enjoyable or find ways that make the effects appear earlier, so less time spent breathing is required. So far I've come up with these ideas: more potent breathing technique running for 2-10 minutes just before starting. (Running has a similiar effect as the first few minutes of shamanic breathing, thus you reduce total breathing time). And, the exhaustion can melt resistance. You could additionally take a quick shower after running. Maybe 30 seconds cold (to pump up motivation and discipline) and then warm/hot so you are not cold for your breathing session. Alternatively or additionally you could masturbate just before shamanic breathing. ( Just edging, ejaculation likely decreases your willpower for shamanic breathing.) And try to spread the sexual energy to your upper body at the same time. That might make the breathing later on more pleasurable (if not all sexual energy dissolves). You could maybe also try to keep masturbating while shamanic breathing. Listening to drumming music or music you like And you could do anything that makes you motivated before starting or do things that reduce resistance, like self love or meditation to reduce ego. Have you come up with tricks? Or any spontaneous ideas?

@BipolarGrowth I did some more inquiry and I think you are right.

Is it possible during night dreams? Then it is possible in this dream too. How? Absolute perspective: God imagines the appearance of a body flying in the exact same way as the appearance of a body walking. Relative perspective: you need more control. Which comes as a result of psychic power + high consciousness.

@levani plateauing is fine. I thought you meant that the benefits went away rather than just plateauing. I never experienced long plateaus because after at most a few weeks of semen preservation I'm usually set back due to wet dreams

@levani ?? I wonder why the positive effects would wear off. Did you have any wet dreams? If you do 4-5 day retentions, then maybe do it like Connor and drink the juice He says he doesn't lose the benefits of semen retention that way. Though I don't see how that would be possible.

Both masculine and feminine energies have their part in spirituality. At the heart of spirituality is surrender, which is feminine. The more you surrender, the more your ego gets reduced. In that sense, masculine energy could be regarded to correlate with ego. But in order to do hardcore practices (which also result in less ego) you need masculine energy. So the best is when you have both energies and are very flexible, so that you can effortlessly tap into whatever energy suits the current situation best. After walking the path for a long time, you will likely have more feminine energy. Because high baseline consciousness is only possible with high surrender.

For me, masturbation with and without ejaculation both make meditation afterward deeper. Due to sexual energy in the body and some kind of exhaustion (from ejaculation) (which results in less resistance and increased surrender). But it is different for different types of meditations. For me, it has a positive impact on most types of meditations. I very rarely ejaculate though, because I usually do semen preservation.

Demons are most likely real. Most people just aren't able to perceive them. Be careful with your intentions. If you want to do shadow work, rephrase your intention to something like "meeting the part of me which I most fear".

That's not true. Some reasons why an awakened one wouldn't teach if acting from the absolute perspective: others are imagination there will be no future there is no good or bad In that sense, there is no reason to teach. However, by the same 'logic' there is also no reason not to teach. That's the mindfuck I'm currently struggling with (not only in terms of being selfless, but doing anything at all). And knowing that there is no self to decide either way only adds to the mindfuck. If that paradox gets integrated, teaching others can happen even from the absolute perspective. There is only Love. Love is the only 'reason' to do anything (or nothing). And even though Love loves unconditionally, good and evil equally, I still feel like there is a tendency towards selflessness and maximizing Love. It's hard to put into words, and I might be deluded here, but that's what it seems to me. This is what happens if the paradoxes are integrated and transcended. It might seem contradictory, and in some sense it might be, but what I'm trying to point to is beyond logic. @freejoy Maybe this is also an answer to that question/situation:

Love loves unconditionally. No difference between selflessness and selfishness. Only from the ego's pov. When spiritual teachers advocate moralism, they act from a relative perspective. If they acted from the absolute perspective, they wouldn't be teaching in the first place.

Thoughts don't necessarily prevent that realization. When thoughts have no more illusory power, it doesn't make a big difference whether they are gone or whether there is some background mind chatter. Then, thoughts prevent realization as little as water streaming in the background. Of course?

Exactly?

Not for me. If thoughts stop, there is still illusion, ime. Through a sublte feeling/belief, without mental words / thoughts. Maybe your definition of "thoughts" is larger. Does your defintion include these subtle feelings/beliefs? If it does, then your advice of "stop thinking" is very good advice, but also very difficult to actualize. Even with insane meditation skills or a big psychedelic dose, you don't completely stop these sublte feelings/beliefs. For there to be no difference between deep sleep and life, requires a very radical deconstruction. Not merely of mental words / thoughts but all subtle mind phenomena like feelings, beliefs, etc must be completely stopped or completely seen through. I doubt this is the case for you. I don't even think it was the case for someone like Buddha.

Plugging the holes of Maslows Pyramid, as well as having an awakening experience and directly realizing the ENORMITY of awakening would both help. Did you watch the Matrix movies? Neo was offered a red pill (= harsh truth and exiting the matrix) and a blue pill (= getting lost in illusion again). Some people would take the red pill no matter what, no matter how tough the truth might be. They just want to know the truth. While other people's number one priority is happiness. They would choose happiness over Truth (blue pill). You might be in some alien matrix right now! You know nothing about reality. You have a good conceptual understanding of nonduality, but it's basically worthless. Its only value is as a pointer towards a potential truth. But you have no idea whether it is total bs or not. It doesn't matter how many people tell you what Truth and Reality is, in the end you are just imagining these stories. And are left wihout a hint of Truth. You can't trust any teacher whatsoever. They could be evil aliens in disguise, trying to keep you in the illsuion! Reality could be completely different!!! I am dead serious!!! I'm not just refering to "yeah it's still just a concept until you get it". I'm pointing to something more radical than that. What enlightened people say has no value for getting an idea what Truth/Reality is. It could be completely different. That it might be completely different, has the same probability, from your pov!!! Do you realize the significance?? You are completely clueless. And so deep in illusion that you think you know conceptually what Truth/Reality is. You could be in a matrix, in an alien lab, seperate from God, an experiment of an evil God...... You have 0 idea. If you get this, this should give you chills. Doesn't this make you curious? You could go and actually figure out what Reality/Truth/God is. The red pill is 5meo. ?

That would be possible if the ego were God. The ego is not God. You are God.

I used these words to point to 'something'. ? Unless thoughts have been stripped of the illusions they usually bring along, and are 'seen' for what they are. True. Relative perspective is a thought.

Ultimately, this right now is the same as mahasmadhi. Thinking or no thinking makes no difference about that. From the relative perspective, this right now is not mahasamadhi, and stopping thoughts also makes no difference about that. At least not for 'me'.? IME, there is no significant correlation between normal thoughts and the solidity of the illusion. (unless I completely void the mind, even every subtle surface thought/mindtendency. Plus immense focus. If I do this I enter a dissociative state. But I don't think this is what you are referring to). What happens in 'your' experience when 'you' stop thinking? Does it make a difference?

In most OBEs where you have a body, you have eyes the same way your physical body has. (which is no eyes, until you look into a mirrow. Actually you don't even have eyes then. The mirror has lol). In some OBEs 'you' are just a point of awareness, without body. (actually, there are just appearances, and one appearance is the sensation/illusion of being located as a point of awareness). And yeah, there are still visuals, no eyes needed.

you are right, I'm sure scientists would come up with another story? But the story ot physical eyes is pretty convincing for most people. Hard to beat that.