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Sadhguru did some more crazy stuff that resulted in more than just some grey hairs. "I almost aged 25 years in 8 months time".

This post is life changing. I'm utterly speechless

I just had the idea of float tank sharing. For example, 4 people share the costs and each one gets the tank 3 months every year. - The value of having it only for 3 months You either want to have a float tank to use it long term, or to use short term to achieve a goal and then you don't need it anymore. For example, I'm interested in sleep yoga (= being conscious during sleep). For that you must stay conscious while your body falls asleep (and then remain conscious). In terms of float tank sharing, 3 months of intensively using the float tank + applying sleep yoga techniques from my thread " Sleep Yoga: Conscious During Sleep (Guide) " , might be enough to get good enough at the sleep yoga skill that you don't need the tank anymore. In case that works, you would from then on have 2 hours of lucid dreaming each day + 6 hours of being conscious during light and deep sleep which is a damn deep meditative state. Himalayan yogis level. And in that case the tank would be needed only once, thus it could be shared among more people and the costs for each person reduced further. In that case even a more expensive float tank could be considered. Apart from that, you could of course use it for any float-tank purpose, like deep meditation or lucid dream induction. You could regard the 3 months like a retreat. And perhaps do an actual retreat within that period as well. - Costs A high quality float tank costs over $5 000. But one for $2 000 will do as well, I guess. If 4 people share it, each only pays $500. Additionally there are monthy maintainance costs of around $50 and salt costs around $500 every 1-2 years. The salt could be shipped to the other people as well, or each person buys his/her own salt, whatever is prefered. For example the Zen Float Tent costs $ 2 200 and is very portable, so shipping costs would probably be relatively low. It says: "Easy to ship, easy to move. The Zen Float Tent can be shipped anywhere around the world in two small boxes. If you ever have to move or relocate, it's easy to drain the water, disassemble, and move with you." https://zenfloatco.com/learn-more-tent The value of having your own float tank is that you can use it every day (and at any time of the day, including the night!) for as long as you want. That would quickly get very expensive if you go somewhere each time. I'm proposing the idea not necessarily in terms of actualizing now, but as a general possibility for any actualizers now or in the future. What do you guys think of the idea?

Levanah Bdolak

Refined Technique The first post was a bit all over the place. This post gets more to the core of the issue. And contains more tricks. So, what we want is that the body falls asleep while the mind stays awake. That means we need tools that make the body as tired as possible and the mind as alert/attentive as possible. 1. Mind Awake Do these tools during your sleep yoga session: - 1.1 Water Shock The basic idea: hold a bottle of water in such a way that it is comfortable enough to fall asleep but if you do fall asleep, you will get wet, which snaps you awake. You want the punishment to be as uncomfortable as possible. Thus you not only have a strong conscious but also a strong subconscious motivation to retain some consciousness (so the water doesn't spill over you). use cold water. Put some bottles of water into the fridge. Use that water to refill your sleep yoga bottle. Put ice cubs into your sleep yoga bottle as well hold the bottle in such a way that the water will spill over your stomach. That's where you least want it So keep your stomach naked Make sure it is warm enough for that reason. Also because you might be too lazy to change clothes and bedsheets every time you spill ice water. You can put some plastic over your bedsheet use any kind of vessel that can hold water: glass, bottle etc. Tape a crumpled up sheet of paper below the bottom of the glass, so that it can't stand. it takes some time to figure out how to hold the bottle so that it is still comfortable enough to fall asleep. Yet in such a way that the bottle will actually spill water if you lose consciousness. If that is too weak, lie in your bath tube with a whole bucked of ice water threatening you. The water shock technique also has the effect that you won't do it half-heartedly. Too often when doing the hold-up-your-hand-at-elbow technique, I'm being too half-hearted about it and fall asleep. And the mere falling down of my hand usually isn't enough to wake me up. Often, I actually put the hand down semi-consciously because I wanted to sleep. Ain't gonna happen with a bottle of water. Waking up to ice water splashing on your naked stomach really sucks when you are sleep deprived. - 1.2 Sleep Sitting starting with the easiest: inclined position with back and neck support resting your head and arms on a table. The way you sleep/slept during school classes only back support meditation posture - 1.3 FILD As described in the first post. Combining FILD with the water shock technique can be a really good idea. FILD can be done with one or two fingers with which you touch the bottle of water. FILD results in even more attention in that hand/bottle area. - 1.4 Nootropics Been too stupid to notice that possibility. I usually am no big fan of nootropics because I don't want to rely on them long-term. But for sleep yoga purposes, it is only short term. Once you have the skill, you can stop taking them. The purpose of the nootropics is to increase your attention, alertness, wakefulness and concentration. I haven't done a lot of research yet but I bought: caffeine. You can use capsulses or cup of coffee. As you desire L-Theanine. If you take caffeine, it is a good idea to take L-Theanine as well. It prevents some of coffeines adverse effects and both somewhat synergize. 5-HTP. There are many reddit reports of 5-HTP resulting in sleep paralysis. ( perhaps 5-HTP should be listed under "Body-Tired tools" idk. And some say you should be careful with 5-HTP health-wise) Huperzine-A. Galantamine is more powerful. but it isn't really legal in Germany I will also use lucid dreaming supplements/nootropics I bought some time ago. I have Dream Leaf and Lucid Esc. I also considered buying Choline Bitartrate I bought the coffeine capsulses today. The rest I will get next week. There are quite some reddit reports of nootropics resulting in experiencing sleep paralysis. Some nootropics like caffeine make it hard to sleep, therefore we need to be very tired (or sleep deprived) to balance that out (takin L-Theanine might do the trick as well). When you are so tired that your body can fall asleep while on caffeine, that's when it gets interesting. Do your research whether you can combine your nootropics. I still gotta research that myself as well. - 1.5 Alarm clocks As described in the first post. Mainly as a means of waking you up if you lose consciousness. -1.6 Anchors As described in the first post. - 1.7 Wake up triggers Meant to wake you up if you lose consciousness. hold your arm up. supported by your ellbow on the mattress sleep sitting without head support water punishment alarm clocks - 1.8 Uncomfortable position sitting on the floor weird positions of your feet and arms holding an arm up, or holding a glass of water bath tube be creative - 1.9 Light Sleeping with lights on makes you more alert and results in light sleep. So you can leave some lights on during your sleep yoga sessions. normal light or red light, as you see fit. -1.10 Brainwave entrainment Anything above 12 Hz should work. - 1.11 Noise As mentioned in the first post. 2. Body Tired Tools that result in a tired body: - 2.1 Sleep Deprivation That's probably the most heavy variable in your sleep-yoga success equation. Just being tired can work as well, but being sleep deprived is necessary if you choose to do some of the more hard-core tools to keep your mind alert. your possibilities: 4-6 hours of sleep and then your sleep yoga practice. You can do a WBTB if you want. And you can do the segemented sleep schedule I wrote about in the first post. But I don't think it is necessary at all. The only real sleep you shall get is a 90 minute or 3h segment. For your SWS needs. If you want to optimize that (which is not necessary) it can be helpful if you do it close to your SWS peak, are in the dark, and use delta binaural beats. The only sleep you get is when you accidentally fall asleep (and are woken up by an alarm clock some minutes later) No sleep at all. I don't recommend doing it longer than 30-50 hours. But it depends on what "Mind Awake" tools you want to use. You can of course try sleep yoga during that time, but have alarm clocks that wake you up in case you lose consciousness. -2.2 Reverse Blinking As mentioned in the first post. - 2.3 Trance As mentioned in the first post. - 2.4 Melatonin Darkness before and during your sleep yoga session. (I don't really notice much of an effect though) Melatonin supplements. ( I don't take them) - 2.5 Binaural Beats Listening to them during your sleep yoga practice. Anything below 8 Hz is fine. But I notice a stronger effect if it's below 4 Hz. - 2.6 Food Food can be a wake up cue. So don't eat during the 1-2 hours before your sleep yoga session. But eating a (large) meal also makes you tired, so you could eat before your session. 3. Other tricks - 3.1 Dark Room Retreat After enough days in the dark, you are closer to the awake/asleep threshold, which makes sleep yoga a lot easier. 2 Weeks ago I tried to do that at home. On day 7 I woke up to a light, which ruined and ended the retreat. It somehow must have turned on itself. If a ever do it again, I will take out the light bulbs in advance. In any case, I didn't feel much of an effect on sleep yoga. I think that would have taken some more days. But perhaps it was because I had some tiny light accidents within the first 4 days. Like one time when I opened a can of beans there was a very smal burst of light due to the friction of the metal. After these accidents I became extremely careful, like wearing my sleep mask almost during any major movement I did. If you do a dark room retreat, definitely do some DMT breathing, that was fun. If you want to supercharge your DMT, also do fasting. When you fast you produce more melatonin and DMT. If you are a very dedicated student and have the opportunity, you could actually do a dark room retreat for 1-2 months + sleep yoga techniques. If you are diligent, you probably manage it by then. Once you are conscious during sleep, solidify your skill and then very gradually (over the course of 1-3 weeks) introduce back the light. Gradually so you keep the sleep yoga skill. Enlightenment within 4 months. - 3.2 Float Tank Sleep Yoga is also easier if you are in a float tank. If you want to buy one but it's too expensive, perhaps you could manage it that way: How about using the float tank during a dark room retreat? 4. Conclusion Experiment and combine whatever tools you like. Sometimes they contradict each other, like lights out vs lights on. So just experiment. The more hardcore your "Mind Awake" Tools are, the more "Body Tired" Tools you need to balance it out. Like a pair of scales. And the farther apart the two scales are, the more powerful your technique becomes. Mind Awake Tools > Body Tired Tools = body can't fall asleep Mind Awake Tools < Body Tired Tools = you fall asleep and lose consciousness My progress hasn't been as expected. Mainly because I practiced far less diligently than expected. The reason is, that my sober awakenings are getting quite deep lately. This decreases the motivation to do these hardcore techniques which have no impact now but yield benefits in an imagined future. But mainly it's been, because my favourite way to contemplate is while lying down, and that ruins my sleep deprivation (which is crucial for sleep yoga) because I often fall asleep without having set alarms, because I don't care about that during my contemplations. But I gotta keep the long term horizon, so yeah I think I will practise with more diligence from now on.

Thanks for the kind words

@electroBeam This is how I've been conceptualizing it: - Awakening What people talk about on here. It has many degrees. - Full Awakening This is what I believe people like Krishna and Babaji had. If someone puts a gun to your head, it makes 0 difference. So if some devices were screening your body, they would show data that is exactly the same as before. All the way till the bullet hits you. (I agree that no one on the forum has that level of awakening) Yet the body/mind can still function, make survivial decisions and there is not total dementia. If someone put a gun to your head and said "you decide" then you probably decide for not being shot. You are able to do mahasamadhi instantly at any moment So basically physical death is 100% honestly accepted, yet, in most cases, physical death is avoided, and the game continued. For no reason other than playing the game for it's own sake. That decision is already gaming yourself but you do it for the sake of gaming. The assumptions I made are: It is possible to be so awake that you 100% honestly accepted physical death. Yet, it is possible, that this doesn't necessarily mean you physically die. That means it is possible to continue the game. So the assumption is that making decisions like eating when you are hungry can happen, even when physical death is honestly 100% accepted. living like that is possible even without full dementia - FULL AWAKENING Mahasamadhi So these were my assumptions before reading in this thread. You say, this is bs. What I labeled "Full Awakening" is bs. The assumptions made are bs. Only actual mahasamadhi is real awakening. Do I understand what you are saying?

There is no "alive". I was using that word for the sake of conversation. Peace

Why do you keep insisting that I seriously believe in these stories? God is God. Imagining these stories makes no difference. And as I mentioned, without imagining some of them, the James123 body/mind wouldn't be 'alive'. For You, illusion doesn't go on. There never was one. But the body/mind keeps acting to some extend as though there is illusion. Which is fine, because You aren't the body/mind. Yes

"Exist" is a concept, so yes I agree, "existence" is stripped away. Yet, there are still appearances (even if they are not real or exist). Raw appearences remain. Yet really, these raw appearances are no different from mahasamadhi. Mahasamadhi isn't less empty, as it can't get any emptier. So I guess in that regard we agree. But even though THIS right now is ultimately no different from mahasamadhi, there is still some relative/illusory value in imagining the concept of mahasamadhi. The value is for survival. Survival is of course an illusion so that concept is illusion as well, but that applies to all concepts/projections you imagine, and you do imagine many, otherwise 'you' wouldn't be here writing posts but long have starved or died in a different way. So why are concepts of paying the bills fine, yet mahasamdhi isn't? And the concept of mahasamadhi is important for survival, otherwise accidental mahasamadhi will eventually occur (which is of course 100% fine). Yes, I should have written "deconstruct the illusion of reality". But yeah I know even that isn't precise. Ultimately, there is no illusion to deconstruct. What is considered as "illusion" (or "projection" onto 'raw existence') is itsellf just pure God. I agree.

I have periods of no-thought and being conscious of Truth and all that stuff. But I'm sure mahasamadhi hasn't happened. During that period of no-thought this "I'm sure mahasamadhi hasn't happend" doesn't arise, only afterwards. During that period of no-thought, the concept of mahasamadhi doesn't exist. Yet phenomena still exist and that is what later on makes me reason that at that moment there was no mahasamadhi happening. 'You' can deconstruct reality so much that all phenomena can no longer, by any extent be considered to exist / to be there (with eyes open). That only the 'pure' Godhead exists. Yet technically, the phenomena still exist, are still there, you just have deconstructed so much that it can't be considered to exist / be there any more. (and there is obviously no 'considering'). Are you refering to that?

That sounds like regular awakening. No one achieves mahasamadhi, yet it happens.

But that word is pointing to something. If the physical body dies as a result of too much consciousness, then that's mahasamadhi. Mahasamadhi does not depend on there being a self.

@electroBeam Thanks for sharing! Very interesting to read. For a few months, when I read trip reports, I sometimes somehow seem to pick up some of its energy/actuality to such an extend that it has a noticable effect on my state of consciousness. This report has had the most effect so far. trippy reading

I think so. Definitely in the sense that for example every imagined space kangaroo actually exists. But what about for example this statement: "In every single version of Reality, birds are unable to fly." Is this possible? I guess it works similar to what Ethan explains here: minute 18:40 - 22:00

It seems obvious to me that being conscious of different experiences simultaneously is possible, given the nature of Infinity. So I don't care too much whether some random reports in this random version of reality are true or not.

Do I understand this right that this implies that it shouldn't be possible for a human to be conscious of other beings' experiences, regardless of the number of other experiences? Because that is clearly not true. There are other people who report being conscious of several experiences at the same time. Here are some reports/accounts from that happening during lucid dreams and astral projection: "In my dream I was both flying a plane and watching myself fly the plane, i was on the ground, and in the plane at the same time, watching myself fly, and in the plane trying not to crash, it was a VERY vivid and strange dream, I will never forget it." https://www.dreamviews.com/general-dream-discussion/124481-split-consciousness-dream.html "I was one person, but in two places experiencing two different things. One 'version' of myself was playing xbox, holding the controller and watching my avatar on the screen. My other self was the avatar in the game, physically running through a forest chasing after someone. I experienced both selves in the first person, at the same time but independently - it wasn't simply as if two views were superimposed. At the time, it seemed perfectly natural to be aware of being two people at once, but after waking up, I soon gave up trying to remember exactly how it felt." https://www.dreamviews.com/general-dream-discussion/124481-split-consciousness-dream.html "Basically you split yourself into 2 separate dream bodies, separate awareness. Not mere clones but bodies with which you can perceive the world through separately. Both bodies have completely separate vision, hearing, touch, ect. If you can do this, then you can effectively split into 2 and have 2 completely separate dreams simultaneously. In short, you can have 2 full and separate dreams in the same time frame as you would normally only have 1 dream. You can then continue splitting your awareness to increase the amount of content that can be perceived in the same amount of time." https://www.dreamviews.com/dream-control/101908-time-dilation-techniques-2.html (2nd page, 3rd post) "(...) we can manifest those multiple selves in a dream. Rather than simply having our attention divided, in dream we can divide into different, simultaneously existing dream bodies." - book: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tenzin Rinpoche, page 122 "There are times in dreams where I control multiple people at once, and I’m quite confident that I could superposition my awareness between many different areas if I could be free to do so, which I believe would come with practice/experience ." https://www.reddit.com/r/Damokian/comments/b2z98e/astral_projection_is_the_key_to_everything/ "When I had a dream the other night (non-lucid) it was all sort of jumbled up and I remembered parts of it, and they seemed to overlap. It was quite a long dream, and it felt like I was in more than one place at once in some parts of it." https://www.dreamviews.com/beyond-dreaming/33935-split-consciousness.html https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/comments/ttt5r/splitting_consciousness_in_dreams/ " You have therefore, the possibility of not just experiencing here and there simultaneously, but also here and there and there and there and there; the only limit really being the inherent power of your own consciousness." John Kreiter, in his OBE book page 73 " Such journeys can also include the ability to experience life as a multidimensional gestalt of selves, each seperate and distinct. At this point the limits of the single ego-self are broken so that it is possible to experience a multitude of different identities existing within one body, each having its own ego identity and each fulfilling its purpose completely without disturbing, but actually uniting and empowering, the entirety of the gestalt that they are all part of" - John Kreiter, in his OBE book pages 181,182 " Inhabit two bodies at once" - Michael Raduga, book the Phase page 58. Apart from that during OBEs, there are also people who have this experience 24/7 like Ethan, just not infinite experiences like him, but only a few instead. Leo posted somewhere that he has met such people.

I have some questions: 1. There is an infinite number of versions of Leos who have taken 5-MeO-DMT every single day for 100 years straight. Can you dial-in on one of them and tell us his insights? I know there are infinitely many different Insights these Leos came up with, but I guess some insights have a higher probability and thus happen far more often. Can you tell us some of them? 2. The experience of experiencing infinite realities is the exact same at every moment, right? Because Infinity already includes everything, including all past and future experiences, thus nothing new can be added. 3. Can you explain the 6th dimension? Time being the 4th dimension and parallel timelines being the 5th dimension makes a lot of sense. 4. Someone getting enlightened is basically you (God, not Ethan) dialing in on that person more, right? 5. And if Ethan becomes very skilled, he can do that too and instantly awaken anyone, right? 6. In one of your videos you said that a person being more conscious and a person being smarter is both the result of God dialing in more on that person. Why does dialing-in often result in more consciousness without more smartness? And vice versa. I guess the variable is the unique set up of the person? Or are there different kinds of dialing-in?

Wow!!! Absolutely Minblowing. Thanks a lot for sharing your experiences and making these youtube videos! They are brilliant. Love them

Yes indeed

Here is my recipe which I believe can deeply awaken you - both peak awakenings and baseline consciousness - without psychedelics, or OBE psychedelics. With deeply awaken I don't mean being conscious of all the facets of awakening, but being deeply conscious of them. So that they are your full-blown living reality. 1. Main Tools: - RASA People disagree on whether RASA fully enlightens you. I guess it depends on how you define enlightenment. If you define it as being baseline-conscious of all the facets of awakening, then yes. Since I'm at LOC 1000, I've been conscious of all of them. But only subtly. If you define enlightenment as being deeply, FULL-BLOWN, no-mercy conscious of them, then you still have a long way after LOC 1000. Nevertheless, RASA is powerful. It would have taken me many many years of daily meditation for what happened with RASA in half a year. Meditation is sooo inefficient when you are a newbie. Currently my meditations are on steroids, partly because of LOC 1000. RASA is the best tool to raise your baseline consciousness up to a certain 'level'. It's like a car that gets you a good way up the mountain. The rest of the journey to the peak of the mountain must be done walking and climbing (other techniques) though. - Trance It's very beneficial (but not required) to be able to change your brainwaves. Most people are almost exclusively in beta all the time. When you do normal meditation you are in alpha, if you are advanced, you get into theta, delta or even epsilon. As well as some high gamma and perhaps even lambda brainwaves. Imo, by far the most efficient way to get into these brainwaves is through hypnosis and brainwave entrainment like binaural beats. Here I wrote in detail about it: A side effect of trance work is that your baseline during-the-day brainwaves will be more and more in these powerful frequencies. I wrote about that here: This has massive benefits. Your consciousness will be naturally more non-dual. But the biggest benefit I notice is intuition. (more on that later). - Self-Inquiry Doing Self-inquiry while in deep trance, like the Esdaile State will be insane. (When you are in the Esdaile State, you are so deep in trance that you could have a heart surgery without you noticing it. This was actually demonstrated and used). Self-inquiry and Trance perfectly complement each other. They are the only meditation techniques you need, imo. Also the most efficient. Normal meditation techniques are way to wishy-washy. They cover too much and to shallowly. For example, 99% of all meditators will never be able to get into epsilon brainwaves. For epsilon, you need trance work, which is specifically designed for that goal. (The only exception might be yoga. This is a valid alternative, but I still believe that self-inquiry and trance are more efficient for awakening, because they are more direct). -Intuition Intuition is important for self-inquiry. But it has way more benefits. One is telepathy. Do you remeber Leo's two videos where he recorded himself while on 5meo and directly downloaded information? My every-day consciousness is somewhat like that, but not as intense. it's mindblowing nevertheless. Telepathy also allows you to communicate with your spirit guides, spirits, saints, yogis,.... That means you can have astral mentors like Jesus or Buddha. They can give you insights, but also directly help you to awaken, like by giving grace, transmissions or their blessings. It's not necessary, but I do recommend you try to contact the spirit world at some point. This can be of much help. If you do the "main tools", your telepathic skills will eventually be good enough. But you actually don't need telepathic skills, just talk with them, give them your thanks, and perhaps humbly ask for help, they will hear you. Perhaps get a book like "Angels, Spirit Guides and Goddesses" by Susan Gregg. lt lists angels, saints, ascendet masters and deities. Flip through the pages and see who you are intuitively drawn to. Another benefit of intuition is that you will intuitively know what to do. Like what practices. As well as knowing what your blocks are etc,... A good way to improve your intuition is by doing things you need intuition for, like inquiry. Also, I believe Trance work (and to some extend RASA) significantly increased my intuition. - Law Of Attraction These are the things I do: strong intention Knowing: Deep unwavering knowing that you will completely awaken, going all the way. Not a fraction of a doubt. Know this all the time, consciously or subconsciously Visualizations: I have found that when I visualize having deep awakenings, the likelihood of having one in the days afterwards is noticibly higher. I recently started daily visualizing having deep peak awakenings and a deep embodied baseline awakening. Fake memories: The past never happened. All you have of the past are memories, which are imagined right now. So, just visualize/imagine having a deep awakening (or deep embodiment) and then try to make it a fake memory. Go perhaps 1 week into the past and implant that memory on a particular day. Visualize what actually happened before the fake awakeing and then insert the fake awakening. Visualize it. Then visualze what actually happened afterwards. Do and believe this till you more or less managed to bs yourself. Whether you have a deep awakening or not depends to some extend on your subconscious. If your subconscious believes that you already had many awakenings, and that this is normal, to be expected, then it will be easier to have deeper awakenings. I actually haven't tried it yet, it's a very recent idea, but I'm sure it works (if done skillfully). All of the above-mentioned "main tools" are potent. But the real deal happens when you do all of them, then they may synergize. 2. More Tools: These tools aren't necessary but you can add them if you like. - Psychedelics during OBEs Taking psychedelics during waking life is somewhat replacable with taking them in OBEs. So in some sense this should be number one on the list, but I think I hyped it enough in the past and this thread was meant to list straightforward tools that are - when combined - a realistic alternative to psychedelics. The problem with taking psychedelics in OBEs is that it takes very long till you are skillful enough till you can reliably have an OBE which is stable enough to take them. My advice is to first learn to go into the Esdaile State (I explained that in my Hypnosis thread) so your number one practice would be trance work. Even when you have crazy OBE skills, psychedelics in OBEs still have disadvantages to waking life psychedelics, like the issue with dream recall (though I guess these issues can be solved also, with some or much effort). For me personally, I don't think I require OBE psychedelics. But because I do trance work, I will, sooner or later, be able to easily go into the Esdaile State, which means reliable OBEs, which means tripping every night . That will give an extra boost to the awakening process. - Breathwork After psychedelics, breathwork (like shamanic breathing) is probably the most reliable way to achieve peak experiences (though it obviously can't seriously compete with psychedelics). How deep you get mainly depends on the intensity of your breathing, the overall duration you breathe and your baseline level of consciousness. - orgasms Whole-body orgasms can get you peak awakenings as well. If you are a woman you are lucky, if you are a man, you first need to teach your dick not to ejaculate. You need non-ejaculatory orgasms. Look into tantra and daoism. Perhaps start with Mantak Chia. I managed to have non-ejaculatory orgasms a few times, but never went as far as getting a mystical experience from it. - More Fasting, sensory deprivation tank, dark room retreat, sleep deprivation, exhaustion, mantras,... 2 days ago I inquired deeper than before (sober, just lying in bed and inquiring). To best explain it, I would try to compare it to the peak of this trip. In some sense, the peak of the truffle trip was definitely deeper than my inquiries 2 days ago. Because then I probably lost consciousness (for a brief moment) and then had no access to my memories (for a short time) and was unable to eg walk. But in terms of depth of awakening, I believe the inquiry 2 days ago was a lot deeper. I couldn't stabilize my baseline consciousness at this peak awakening, but I didn't drop back all the way either. I perhaps dropped back 75% (so I kept 25% of the peak) (wheras I almost completely dropped back after the truffle trip). Currently I'm doing a lot of trance work and inquiring. I believe I can stabilize my baseline consciousness to around 80% of the peak from 2 days ago, within a few weeks of furtheŕ inquiring. I'm telling that to illustrate why I think it's realistic to go all the way without psychedelics. I guess it's rather unlikely that you will for example lose consciousness without psychedelics (but stuff like being unable to stop crying and unable to walk and talk is possible), but I believe you can achieve the same depth of awakening. At least that's what it seems to me. And only if you do the right things. I believe I could have done normal meditation 3 hours a day for 10 years and would have made less progress than I did using the tools I listed under "main tools" for one year. These tools seem to be perfect for my awakening journey, the tools for you might be different. But if you want to get fully awake without psychedelics, I believe they are very worth considering. I might actually take more psychedelics in the future, but currently I don't have smooth access. A daily workplan for using the "main tools" might look something like this 40 min trance work with brainwave entrainment and optionally hypnosis 30 min inquiry 10 min LOA stuff If you are new to meditation and start using brainwave entrainment and train 40 min a day, your plan might perhaps look like: 5 months alpha brainwaves, 10 months theta, 15 months delta, and then epsilon and lambda. And gamma as much and when you feel necessary. If you combine it with hypnosis you might do it in half the time, idk. But I have little clue how long it actually takes.

@b_woo Thanks Yes kinda. My posts have been like a documentation of my quest to discover the most powerful tool for awakening and life mastery. This post is the current outcome. Most of my previous posts are basically outdated.

@electroBeam I've seen you already have experience with sleep yoga. Great post, it gave me an additional motivation boost! I link your post here so other sleep yogis see it as well:

@LfcCharlie4 It was quite enjoyable working with him:) And his advice helped me resolve some issues.

Sleep Yoga: Conscious During Sleep It's hard to learn, but once mastered, it might perhaps be the most powerful tool for enlightenment. You can spend your usually wasted sleep hours in deep non-dual awareness. Or taking 5meo in OBEs.