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that is a monitor for analysis not a bidofeedback machine. The purpose of the above is to analyze brain activity while taking a drug. A biofeedback machine gives you an audio sound or visual display which varies according to different brain wave states so that the user can tell when they are in one of these states

Two major types of meditation are concentration meditation aimed at tranquility and awareness meditation aimed at awareness in order seeing things clearly (insight meditation). Which is a higher state is debated and subjective In meditation you remove yourself from outside stimuli and sit still. By excluding outside stimuli if you are a compulsive thinker by awareness meditation you can become familiar with your mental habits and over time learn not to react to them, letting thoughts rise and fall quickly without clinging to them as much. You might pay attention to your breath while doing this and you would notice the irregularity of each breath, sounds in the room, thoughts, physical sensations. You become highly attuned to the present moment and it's impermanence. I assume this is what you already do. Some would say if you keep doing this, it's a higher form of meditation and it will reward you if you keep doing it. At the same time you can learn some cognitive therapy to recognize negative thought patterns, notice them in mediation and then realize how they are distortions an exaggerations of reality not seeing things as they are. Others might say concentration meditation leads to a higher state. You can do both you don't have to choose. But if you are going to do concentration meditation instead of being aware of every unique thing going on, you might instead count the breaths in repetitive sets. And in doing various forms of this meditation separately, gaze with open eyes at a candle flame or with closed eyes repeat a word or phrase over and over again ( often meaningless, just used as an object to focus on) . Your mind might wander put you have selected an object to focus on and this selection reminds you to keep returning to it. This is a repetitious activity. If you expect enlightenment that expectation will be a distraction. Almost more important than this is that remove multi-tasking as much as possible from your life and do written tracking of your progress. In the previous day your write down some time slots for things you will do. So you do these things and after the time period ends you write down a brief comment on the amount of distractions you had. You don't beat yourself up over the distractions. You record them in in doing so over time they will lessen. This will be a repetitious, therapeutic routine done over a long period of time. Enlightenment will come when it wants to , next week or twenty years for now. Right now you need to deal with the compulsive thinking. Enlightenment is far down the road after you start to reduce the compulsive thinking for a while and you can do this by trying a few methods out and then dedicating to one or two for a long period of time. You have realized concentration is one of you weaknesses and that it is a useful tool but it will take a lot of work to get it. There is no way around that and there are two types. One is the meditation form where you focus on one thing, a word, a flame, or count of breaths. There are distractions that come along a way but they will come and go. You have committed a regular time for this and you have established on object of concentration you can keep returning to for that period. The second, just as important or more so is that this is applied to time blocks to do tasks in your life where you stick to doing one task at a time and this might involved multiple different parts but that is accepted. Other tasks must not be done at the same time and if you can sometimes shut the phone off. Reduce distracting habits but don't worry about eliminating them entirely. The point is you have to focus on concentration in all aspects of your life not just in meditation and task concentration is a different type then the meditation form and is very practical. Each form enhances the other. Thinking about enlightenment now is putting the cart before the horse and if you focus on that without having made significant progress in concentration it will manifest as a distraction. Enlightenment may come next month or in fifty years. It comes when it wants to so if you accept that and improve your concentration you will be closer to it. But that is hard work, like doing 100 push ups. It's exercise. But it's rewards are many. It's an essential tool

If you want something up to date also look see Richard D. Wolff on youtube. He also has books

You don't have to by into all of this but there may be one or two things you might use _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yes Nak Khid. I see

Thich Nhat Hanh teaches on Right View

Somebody can recall a dream or a trip. So why is there a threat to insights? There are different types of meditation with different aims. Other types of meditation might be purposed toward having a mystical experience that might be a visionary dream-like experience similar to a degree with artist imagination. In Vipassana also known as Insight meditation but the type of insight they are talking about is different. insight noun. an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding The method in Vipassana is in a way opposite of forms of mediation which lead toward mystical or ecstatic experience (although occasionally they might experience sensations of that type) The goal in Vipassana is to "see things as they are". So when the practitioner sits they still themselves and begin to observe what their body and mind are doing and quickly note them by mentally labeling them, "thought" "thought" "thought" or in noticing an irregularity in one's breath "irregularity" , a stiffness in the back "stiffness" "Stiffness" . Maybe earlier in the day you got angry and remember it for a moment "angry " "angry" "angry" . Etc. etc. You can't stop the mind from bringing up these thoughts and feelings. This process of labeling is a way of letting go of these various things that the mind brings up and trains the mind not to become attached to them. Sometimes sitting still like that for a time some weirder mystical visionary things might happen or profound sense of tranquility might happen, but are labeled in the same way and not clung to, not something to "bring back" . So the type of insight they are talking about here is to become more still to the point where you can become aware of how all of these thing the mind brings up, whether it's an itch on the back, a mystical experience, boredom, an emotion, these are all treated the same way. The "insight" part is not some revelation or intense experience it's observation of how the mind generates reactions to things so that when not meditating one can have a clearer relatively more objective view of reality when not meditating. So sitting and not doing anything, not taking in any outside stimulation it gives you a better situation to notice all the automatic and repetitive feelings, and thoughts that the mind generates. Being human we never fully eliminate these things we just become better at being aware of our mind's little alarms and realize we have the option not to react to them if we don't want to and let them rise and fall more quickly. In the dream state the mind is free to wander and the brain paralyzes the body so it is safe for you not to get up and wander around with your eyes closed. Then when awake another part of the brain engages and it has a survival instinct. This part of the brain does it's best to distinguish real from illusion to beware of threats to one's existence. Suppose you have a dream and you hear a dog bark. So what? But while sleeping there's still part of your brain ready to detect something external if it occurs. You are sleeping and you hear your dog bark. Your survival brain says "you need to check why the dog is barking at 3 A.M., could someone be trying to break in the house? Did the dog get hurt?". So the brain will allow wandering imaginative thoughts to occur if they are internal but not if outside stimuli occurs. If this happens this other part jumps out and tries to distinguish what is real and what is not real. Sometimes a dream gets scary and the brain is not sure if it's real so it might wake you up to check on things. And if you ingest certain chemicals and it could disrupt the brain's ability to make this distinction to varying degrees. One can prepare for that It's subjective and monks are instructed not to say if they are considered to be "enlightened" or not. Some traditions may regard "enlightenment" as a mystical visionary experience or a state of bliss. Others may regard it as the most sober, in a sense, condition possible, awareness, not of the infinity of the universe but acute awareness of the present the sound of an acorn hitting the ground on a Thursday at 6:24, the detail of it.

Why are you troubled by this?

look into gorilla social behavior

We are already God __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ You are God. You Are Nak Khid

what about Kriya yoga? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ You are God. You are Nak Khid

O.k. except for the government part

what method did he use?

Godliness and devilishment It's a duality

I think by traditional he means not a chemically induced temporary state,

à-bas-le-ciel aka Eisel Mazard

1:15:32 "I think I've taken DMT and LSD and mescaline maybe a total of 2,000 times" Nicholas Sand ________________________________________________ Nicholas Sand (born Nicholas Francis Hiskey; May 10, 1941 – April 24, 2017)[ was a cult figure known in the psychedelic community for his work as a clandestine chemist from 1966 to 1996 for the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.[2][3] Sand was part of the League for Spiritual Discovery at the Millbrook estate in New York, has been credited as the "first underground chemist on record to have synthesized DMT" and is known for manufacturing large amounts of LSD.[4][5] Sand was born in Brooklyn, New York City on May 10, 1941.[6] His father Clarence Hiskey, was a researcher in the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory who attempted to spy for the Soviet Union.[6] After his parents divorced, Sand took his mother's maiden name.[6] Sand graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1959 and then spent a year working on a kibbutz in Israel.[7] He graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in anthropology and sociology in 1966.[6] Career Sand became interested in the teachings of George Gurdjieff, the study of different cultures, and various Eastern philosophers.[5] In 1961, he had his first mescaline experience.[1] Shortly after graduating from college, Sand followed Leary and Alpert to Millbrook. During this time Sand also began synthesizing DMT in his bathtub, and he is credited with being the first to discover that it was active when volatized (smoked).[5][8] Sand later started a perfume company as a front for the production of mescaline and DMT.[9] Sand and David L. Mantell were arrested on April 1, 1967 when their truck failed to stop at the Dinosaur, Colorado Port of Entry. The truck was eventually searched and federal agents reportedly found 313,000 doses of LSD and a laboratory-on-wheels.[10] In 1967 Sand was introduced to fellow chemist Tim Scully, who trained under Owsley Stanley until Stanley's legal troubles in December 1967.[11] In December 1968 Sand purchased a secluded farmhouse in Windsor, California, at that time a small town in rural Sonoma County. There he and Scully set up a large LSD lab. Here they produced over 3.6 million tablets of LSD that was distributed under the name "orange sunshine".[2] 1972 indictments A joint state, federal and local strike force called "Operation BEL" was assembled in early 1972. On August 3, 1972 the Orange County, California Grand Jury returned an indictment against 29 alleged members of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, including Sand; the indictment was primarily aimed at the hashish smuggling arm of the Brotherhood.[12] The investigation continued and on December 6, 1972 the Orange County, California Grand Jury returned another indictment, this time aimed primarily against the Brotherhood of Eternal Love's "orange sunshine" LSD system; Sand was included in that indictment too.[13] 1973 arrest and prosecution[edit] On January 19, 1973 "Leland H. Jordan" (later identified as Sand) and Judy Neal Shaughnessy were arrested on drug charges by Kirkwood, Missouri, police, shortly after they arrived from San Francisco. Their residence at 425 North Highway 21 in Fenton, Missouri, an elaborate hilltop home on 18 acres of land, had been found to contain hundreds of gallons of chemicals and elaborate laboratory equipment.[14][15][16] On April 25, 1973, Sand, Tim Scully, Michael Randall, and four other major figures in the LSD operation were indicted by a Federal grand jury in San Francisco.[17] On January 30, 1974 Sand and Scully were found guilty,[20][21] partially due to the testimony of Billy Hitchcock and other informants.[22][23] On March 8, 1974 Sand was sentenced to 15 years in a federal penitentiary.[24] The defense presented at his trial claimed that the defendants had made ALD-52 instead of LSD-25.[25] Sand's attorney appealed his conviction, based on four technical legal issues: pre-indictment delay, refusal to suppress bank records, lack of a taint hearing and use of Swiss bank records. The appeal was denied by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on September 13, 1976 and rehearing was denied October 8, 1976.[26] LSD chemist William Leonard Pickard contributed to Sand's legal defense fund.[27] Sand fled to Canada in 1976, evading imprisonment. LSD historian Mark McCloud reports that Sand then traveled to the ashram of so-called "sex guru" Rajneesh in west India. Sand eventually returned to North America, again producing large quantities of LSD. Sand was arrested for drug manufacturing in 1990 in British Columbia, but as he was living under an alias, police did not determine his identity and Sand fled while on bail. 1996 arrest Sand was arrested again in 1996 in Canada. Refusing to cooperate with the police, it took forensic investigators two months to determine Sand's real identity. Police found 43 grams of crystalline LSD at Sand's lab, approximately 430,000 doses of LSD. The bust also uncovered large quantities of DMT, 2C-B, MDMA, and $500,000 worth of cash and gold. Death Sand died of a heart attack in his sleep at his home in Lagunitas, California on April 24, 2017 at the age of 75

what facts are you facing?

what kind of manual labor?

So if the enlightenment is 30 minutes to an hour or two and you have done it over an over for years it suggests the method does not lead to permanent enlightenment , that there would have to be a different method for permanence

what do expect if you walk into an opium den?

Osho was into whippets , seriously

Oneness

You have to be initiated into Shambhavi