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@meow_meow in my opinion, it’s better to do spiritual practices you have more desire to do and meditate more once the desire arises. Of course you’ll still get benefits from forcing meditation, but what’s the point? You can get just as deep or deeper following your heart in spiritual practices you enjoy rather than being some modern day ascetic and dictator to your ego. The easiest way to quit something is to force too much disciplined action on yourself when there are realistically no huge short-term punishments for quitting.

Writing in a flow of consciousness style can be very beneficial. I’d almost suggest this over meditation at times for some people.

I have had this same insight many times as well. Is it right? I hope so lol. It’s a lot more grand that way imo.

I have had this same insight many times as well. Is it right? I hope so lol. It’s a lot more grand that way imo.

Human existence is ALWAYS a brain hallucination any way you cut it if you are operating in this paradigm. Using this type of materialistic approach, we are literally a bag of chemicals/drugs interacting with itself and it’s environment our entire lives. Even with this model, almost no one can be expected to have the same perception or experience. The only question is how well does my hallucination align with yours or that of others? Is my bag of drugs working the same as yours? Is multiple bags of drugs working the same way any evidence toward absolute truth? Not really. But for relative truth this is certainly helpful. Nothing in reality is how we perceive it using the materialistic model. We are always off.

Serotonergic psychedelics. That’s your best shot imo. You are fighting an uphill battle against your ego, and the tool you are using to try to win this fight is your ego. A high-dose trip, or several, will most likely act as a huge catalyst in your attempt to return to this state of spiritual progress and attunement. The love experience you seek to set things back in order can quite likely come from psychedelic experiences if they are done with intent and taken seriously.

This is probably against what you’re looking for, but I think it is important for you to consider. My tip is for you to not hide yourself. Being “high consciousness” and inauthentic by hiding who you really are at the same time seems like a recipe for disaster to me. Consider it like this — if every gay person kept their sexuality a secret in the way you’re doing with your spirituality, we would have an even greater stigma against it, more people committing suicide from it, and likely still laws against it. Maybe your friend who asked about your level of happiness might also want to experience that himself. Maybe you could be a crucial part of facilitating his rise in consciousness if you were honest. You not wanting people to think you’re crazy now for your positive and rare development is precisely the kind of activity that will maintain the status quo of people like us being stigmatized, judged, etc. Beyond that, your influence could get people to your level of consciousness or even higher. It could greatly reduce their suffering and reduce the amount of suffering they create for others. Who is it really helping for you to stay in the closet? Is it really even helping you?

@Mips here are some top mentions for me

The Bhagavad Gita describes it.

Pro-tip: If you don’t have time, you can try my trick which is listening to videos as you’re laying down for bed. There are no distractions at this time, and if you’re like me, you’ll get a good 20+ minutes of quality listening each night before you start to fall asleep. Start the video around the last point you clearly remember the next night and continue as long as you want. Why not start by watching what seems most useful and interesting to you? Earlier videos tend to be more practical to basic survival goals. Later videos are typically more abstract and spiritual. All of them can be useful. The spiral dynamics series stands out as something that might help your development quite a bit.

Send me a PM if you want some detailed accounts from me about this. There certainly are people with genuine abilities, but this doesn’t mean they are perfect in their understanding and theories. Don’t take it negatively that people charge money for it. Free service could mean more genuine motivations or it could simply mean they aren’t good enough to charge for it.

This is actually almost perfectly along the lines of some contemplation I’ve done recently. The only issues I see is he is too attached to logic, reason, mathematics, and thought as absolutes. These things are not the basis of anything really. They all exist within awareness of consciousness. Otherwise he has some very good points.

@Dazgwny thanks for the kind words. I hope some more people take the time to watch as you did ?

0:00-33:50 is me describing personal goals/progress and mainly creating automated income (solid stage orange foundation) and some talk on my current approach to improving my mental health. 33:50 onward is about the information in the title of the thread. Update on My Life Goals & Progress + The Most Important Ideas I Could Possibly Share (Spirituality)

I say we instead get him an Aston Martin due to his enjoyment of James Bond lol.

This is fucking great.

How about the millions of natives/ancestors who fucking loved psychedelics to the point they were in many cases central parts of their culture? Stop giving a shit what these disconnected & ethnocentric “nondual” teachers say in all scenarios. They have a system or ideology to promote and are aligned against anything outside of that whether they are awakened or not. Just one example — the Aztecs called psilocybin mushrooms Teonanácatl. This means either flesh of the gods or flesh of god.

Both.

I’m planning to make a tea from 5 dried grams tonight. I make tea because the taste of the mushrooms is something I don’t do too well with. I’ve also heard some people say this can help lower the nausea. The last few times I took shrooms several months ago I had horrible nausea. I’m fasting the entire day today in hopes to reduce the nausea. I’m planning to stop drinking water about two hours before the trip. I have a mild prescription anti-nausea medication on hand. Should I go ahead and take a pill or two of this when I drink the tea? Any other suggestions would be well appreciated.

Yes. This is a completely different facet of awakening. You can watch the video in my signature for one description of this. It’s about halfway through I think.

First, doubt if the entity is actually negative. Get a second opinion, and tell them nothing of the first experience.

@Gesundheit because what is being sourced is illegal in many cases. I have not found any good sourcing anywhere on the regular internet. Posts about it on practically any website are very quickly removed. Silk Road was known for sourcing illegal things. Look at what happened to it.

Why must there be anything beneath the appearance of phenomena? Why is it not possible for the appearances to simply be? Where is the need for a ground? Is appearance, being, existence, whatever you want to call it not enough of a ground on its own? Is this any different from the God he speaks of?

Yep. He’s right.

It would make it quite likely for potentially the whole website to be shut down I would guess.