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Gold. Absolute gold.

I’ve posted about psychedelics, their benefits, and my spiritual journey with them on my Facebook and YouTube. My approach is radical honesty. My parents hardly ever mention it to me. They’ve both watched plenty of the videos I’ve made of the upsides and downsides of psychedelics, so they are pretty aware that it’s not some simple issue.

Self Love is how I avoid guilt. Accidents are not conscious choices. There’s a clear difference there as well. This comes down to having both compassion for yourself and other things. If there was a serious infestation of spiders in my house, I’d probably call an exterminator. It’s not about always putting everything else above your own feelings, wants, needs, etc. It’s about being as compassionate as you reasonably can be and realizing when you fall short that hating yourself or feeling a disproportionate guilt response is just going to lead to more problems for both yourself and others down the road. None of this means that the compassion you can give is somehow the wrong move.

20 minute video. I think it’s quite good. Check it out. Or not. Opening a discussion on your takeaways/differences in opinion/etc. would be appreciated.

How so? What are the mechanics of this?

I’ve done things like that with people. It’s not necessarily a wise path to generating the highest compassion. This video talks about a situation I got into when I let a homeless close friend stay with me. His addiction issues ultimately caused him to do things to make things completely unsustainable. A spider won’t limit my ability to be my best self and help more people at the end of the day and still treat myself with self love. It takes a lot of resources to be able to help people in these situations.

The only math you need is 0=1. The most concise Absolute Truth pointer you can get IMO through a logic-based system like math. The equation is both right and wrong. The more you understand how both are clearly occurring in ever-increasing detail, the more awake you are becoming.

Have you not heard of those practices yet? That’s surprising…

Yeah I have no reasons to be for or against tripping in the morning or afternoon on any of those. Ayahuasca is also more of a medicine in my experience. This is another reason for me preferring the idea of ceremony. Not necessarily some trip producing machine, although it can be. It cured my depression for a while which was teetering on being suicidal when no antidepressants or even other psychedelics were working. I didn’t even trip lol. I just got nauseous, went to sleep to avoid the nausea and less than one hit of weed psychoactive effects, then woke up a completely more authentic and happy me. Happened both nights. Then it lead to some intuition that brought me to develop myself in other spiritual domains that I could’ve never predicted.

He can experiment with tripping on ayahuasca at home, but acquiring it or making it on your own is a pain in the ass. The ceremony really added immense value for me. His issues are far more related to the A&P to Dark Night shift that I mentioned in my opinion based both on many experiences of mine and what a clear expert has indicated is an inherent part of the awakening process. Sleep is great. Being aligned with natural circadian rhythm are great. Regardless, they’re probably like a few buckets of water poured into an Olympic swimming pool. It’s not likely to be the factor that makes or breaks this occurrence for him. Nothing really stops this process. It’s worse for some more than others, but no one gets to significant levels of awakening without facing some Dark Nights. Being equipped with knowledge of what’s going on and how to move through the cycle of insight can pull a lot of the suffering out of it overall though.

I doubt losing the benefits of ceremony for an earlier trip would be a net gain for him. This is way beyond sleep or circadian rhythm.

I am is another way of pointing to what I say when I say subjective present moment experience. I just prefer the pointer I use as it seems to have less confusion around the self/Self interaction. “you” exist as much as the text on the screen indicating that I am a real conscious entity. You’ll never experience my consciousness and yours at the same time. Everything is your field of conscious experience. The ego is a tiny part. My appearance to you is also a tiny part. Both are completely real, but if you don’t get the ego out of the way, you’ll lose ability to truly connect to Self to see how we are both real on the level of perception yet ultimately the conceptions of us only point to assumptions.

Neither existence nor nonexistence is one of my favorites. As Lao Tzu said in the Tao the Ching, “It’s older than God.” He was referring to the Tao. There’s an important reason why many Buddhists have an attitude that God/Self is not an ultimate answer. Lao Tzu combined these two seemingly opposing ideas in a way beyond anything I’ve seen in modern teachings.

Read this book. Completely free yet one of the most precise and practical meditation manuals focused on the direct goal of enlightenment that exist. Maybe even the best. That’s a matter of opinion. https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/ Implement the meditation techniques described in the book as they feel to align with your goals and desire to awaken. Use your intuition to try other spiritual techniques as they feel right to you. Being willing to go deep into psychedelic territory can speed up a lot of this, but ultimately baseline shifts in consciousness come from things typically beyond psychedelics unless you can find a safe and sustainable way to trip very regularly. You probably will struggle to find that with typical serotonergic psychedelics. It’s much easier for people to get the large amount of hours of intense spiritual work that are needed for permanent shifts in a sustainable way through meditation than psychedelics. In my experience it really does come down to hours of practice. You can cut down the hours needed by adding the intensity of psychedelics to the mix, however, a good number of meditators get to 5,000, 10,000, or even more hours of effective practice. It’s really hard or maybe almost impossible for psychedelic-only people to reach that many hours of significant tripping. A ton of other methods you’ve probably never heard of or most likely think are bullshit to some degree can help you awaken much faster. In my experience, the intuition is a great guide to discover some of those additional methods.

I’ve spent a lot of time over recent months working with these maps and others. When you add the psychedelic path to it, it adds way more than the meditators usually want to admit. There’s a lot of bias on both sides. IMO someone cannot possibly have a fully accurate insight and opinion into their models without accessing their territory quite comprehensively. I was lucky enough to have my first cessations (temporary attainment of Nibbana/Ultimate Reality/etc.) on 5-28-2021 which opened me to going deeper and deeper into their whole system. It’s been way more baseline consciousness progress than anything the psychedelic path gave. Regardless, I consider all of the people doing meditation only to be severely limiting themselves in growing to the deepest capacities of Infinity. If you want to talk about this kind of stuff in more depth, shoot me a PM, and we can get in touch.

Glad to see it worked. It definitely takes some open-mindedness.

I saw this video when I first opened YouTube. I’ve been giving advice to people who ask or seem to want it that following intuitive signs and where life takes you can be quite effective in spirituality. This whole year has just been a spiritual journey that no book, course, enlightened teacher, single spiritual system, or really anything or anyone who exists could have given me even a half decent road map to. It was a fusion of so many techniques, some completely self-developed, that is too rare for me to have discovered by doing anything but following my intuition to degrees that would certainly scare most people. You have karma. Your free will is inherently linked to nature and karmic conditions. Something brought you here seeking for Truth. This process can unfold with way more intelligence than you could ever plan for. Don’t think you know more than life about what’s going to bring you to your deepest desires or highest good. Anyway, here’s the video. At first I was skeptical, but I saw some comments on the video which were describing some powerful effects. I know my chakras are kicking pretty hard, especially the crown, so I felt pretty confident I’d sense something unless all of these people commenting are bullshitting and the creator of the video is fake. That didn’t seem too likely to me, but who knows? I felt some strong activity with twitching and rapidly shifting sensations in the root and sacral chakras. My heart chakra felt quite expansive with some added energy and sensitivity. My body as a whole felt very open and spacious. I felt to be so light in my bed that it was a bit like I was floating separate from it. I have been told that my lower three chakras are a bit unbalanced from the top four with the top four being more “open.” It’s good to feel some more activity and energy going into the bottom two. I’m planning to check out a lot more of her videos and look more into the new age space. I think it overall can get an over reactive bad rap in spirituality which is unnecessary/unhelpful. I had an ex girlfriend who made ridiculous spiritual progress on only stage green style methods for the most part. This style of spirituality tends to suck in a lot of spiritually-gifted people who just don’t want to pursue Liberation in the more direct ways many of us here discuss. They can do some pretty amazing things to help. Plenty of these stage green methods and ways of viewing things can help at certain points to bring one closer to Liberation.

You don’t need to go deep into a questionable mixture of math and philosophy to reach deeper shit than this guy has. I’ve followed his stuff for a while. He’s interesting and has some good points, but it’s still surface level.

We are no more figments of imagination than the “you” is. This imagination is not self imagination. It’s Self imagination. The idea that you’re imagining something is a pretty intermediate stage in the understanding of this. It’s here immediately. There’s no imagination process you can verify, even for yourself, without completely relying on the flickering and ever-moving subjective present moment experience. As soon as it’s verified, it’s in the past. It’s gone and just beliefs.

Buddhist teachings I’ve read say it’s more closely the case that thoughts are actually sensations. Rather than the sensations being physical, they are in the mind, but the physical/mind duality is mostly transcended when you grasp it.

A movie with no antagonist sucks.

Go watch Star Trek.

Beautiful man. Sounds like you are really growing over time. Keep it up ??

If I had to answer it, it’d be pretty damn close to your answer. Considering you’ve sort of spoiled the pot by giving such a “good” answer that aligns with my direct experience and biases, I don’t see it necessary or very useful to move synonymous words around to say essentially the same thing ?

Do you think such strict rules for this could be stemming from neuroticism and/or perfectionism? Not telling you to deviate from your plans, but it’s just a question to ponder.