BipolarGrowth

This kinda misses the point though. There were no brains at one point in this line of thinking. Eventually, brains were created, and consciousness emerged in this model. What stops that from happening again? This is the same as all of the things I brought up but with some added steps. I don’t see it as fundamentally different.

There are countless models which are better to look at

I wouldn’t be overly concerned with it. Just keep an eye out for any changes.

Yes this will likely reduce potency of the trip significantly. From my experience, you’re gonna be in that weird space for close to the duration of a typical trip but maybe slightly less time. I’ve had this happen on 5g, and it was basically an Absolute Nausea awakening ?

The simple fact that consciousness is here and nonexistence is incompatible with existence. Nonexistence doesn’t somehow take up space that keeps existence from being there. This is pretty clear after cessation for me. If something came from nothing, why would nothing not produce something again after going back to nothing? If something came from something, why would it go to nothing and never come back to something again? I don’t really have a stance on any of the content of consciousness as it is in this life continuing or not continuing, but it seems most probable that consciousness would return in some form at some point. All of the above is still speaking in the relative sense. In the absolute sense, there’s just what is right now and nothing else.

Vaping is quite likely significantly healthier than smoking. Nicotine is not a carcinogen, and in many ways can be compared to caffeine as a relatively low impact stimulant. The problem with nicotine consumption is that the methods used to get it into the body are often inherently harmful. Smoking is the most obvious case. The act of burning and inhaling anything is a carcinogenic process. I smoked for about three months when I was younger and quickly felt a huge impact on my lungs. I switched to vaping at that time and the issue went away. Some vape products seem to impact my lungs. It’s mostly the disposable vapes that I’ve experienced this with. I would highly recommend vaping over smoking. I would suggest buying juice and a reusable vape if you want the healthiest vaping option. Make sure to change the coils frequently as the cotton in the coils can become burnt if used longer than they are designed for.

I always enjoyed making a vegetable stir fry with tofu added. I’d just put some soy sauce on for flavor. Some cooking oil, margarine, or butter would be added when I did it just to make things not stick to the pan. I’d usually do broccoli, mushrooms with other things added depending on what I had on hand and sounded good. It was very simple to make and impressed some people with how good it tasted.

@softlyblossoming @Michael569 which of the options mentioned above would you consider to have the least potential for negative side effects? I’ll probably start with an omega 3 supplement. Is there one that would be best to try first?

I don’t consider it good evidence although I personally believe that consciousness continues after death. Saying all NDEs report a white light is also overstating things a bit. Not everyone reports that.

It depends how much it distracts from you doing the work. If you spend multiple hours per day on this, those hours could be used differently. I don’t see them as any worse than other general forms of distraction though, and entertainment itself is not a horrible thing if it’s not getting too much in the way of what you’re aiming for.

So by limited perspective, do you mean what you experience right now in its entirety?

I didn’t claim that the appearance generates itself. All I said is that everything is an appearance. Anything someone can interpret as Source is itself an appearance. The idea of anything generating something else relies on the mental construction of there being something outside of what appears to be in this moment or another moment other than this one. When there is absolutely no time at all, there is certainly not time for something such as generation. There is simply what appears to be in the exact moment it appears to be.

Can you start by giving a quick definition of what the words real and imaginary mean to you? Without that, the best anyone here can do is to give an approximate response based on our own definitions.

The idea “loving yourself is great” creates aversion to not loving yourself which is a part of yourself ?

Well, I was mainly speaking from your perspective when I said that I am an appearance. To you, that’s all I am. Anyway, the individual commonly interpreted as “the one who is experiencing” is also just an appearance. There is nothing that can ever be experienced which is not an appearance. Source = appearance.

In my personal experience, I’d be more concerned with the risks of never taking them.

The point was to illuminate some of the absurdity of expecting a response to be solid proof of anything in regard to this line of inquiry. You ask an appearance which by its very design is set up to point to an experience of its own whether it has an experience of its own. When I respond outside of the design of how such an appearance is typically set up to respond, you cannot accept the answer.

I can’t see this post and have no experience whatsoever.

If you were actually going crazy, it would likely be clear to everyone around you and yourself in a few weeks or less. Being a bit confused about metaphysical topics while on the path is a far shot from being crazy. Just keep doing the work, and take Leo’s advice of becoming more comfortable with the confusion seriously.

Good luck with that

You can’t even map the direct experience of the moment right now.

Happy birthday Leo. Really enjoyed the ketamine video.

If you want to develop work ethic, go work on a farm in the summer.

There certainly is a cumulative gain that occurs when practicing very consistently for hours or most of each day. Although this is the case, I think the level of quality of meditation is more important than how much you do. I could’ve meditated for hours 2-3 years ago and gotten less out of it than meditating now for 15 minutes. It’s pretty clear in my specific case that psychedelics had a large role in this. Without them, I’d probably just be spinning my wheels getting hardly nowhere with meditation. I’ll also say that I see sitting meditation practice as heavily overrated and practice outside of formal sits as being heavily underrated. Mindfulness throughout the day is crucial.

We’re already here, so why not enjoy it? ?