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Interesting, I just found his channel a few days ago too and thought about sharing it. He has a very grounded perspective on things and I see a lot of intelligence in the way he expresses himself.

A lot of new stuff in this one I didnt heard him expressing before.

Pretty heavy dose! Would really like to hear about the afterglow and how it will integrate in your "ordinary" life/consciousness the next days/weeks.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-044 Found Leos latest blogpost amazing Its completely hilarious and at the same time there is so much truth in it. This is a unqiue delivery of spiritual insight you wont see from anyone else.

In your statement there is already the recognition that you will make it through. You know your dark night is impermanent and there is light at the end of the tunnel. This too will pass. The grief will be over and the lessons will stay. Wish you all the best!

What I found very interesting recently is the Metapsychology 4 parts Series from Zak Stein on The Stoa: Found some very good insights especially in the Q&A parts. Also a very good ressource with almost no attention is the Neurohacker Podcast, there are many great guests. Especially the episodes interviewed by Daniel Schmachtenberger or Jamie Wheal are very interesting: https://neurohacker.com/collective_insights_podcast Very clear, easy and practical tips for handling your own mind and wellbeing: They have a lot of good videos and you get their frameworks and concepts deeper and see them integrating into your own understanding of yourself and others with watching their content regularly over time. Also what I still have to read but whats very exciting, that might interest you is this Paper: https://www.officeforthefuture.com/sites/officeforthefuture/files/files/2023 05 17 - First Principles and first values of evolving perennialism_1.pdf

Exactly the content im consuming these days!

Found this one very good.

Thanks for clarifying @Michael569& @toasty7716 !

How so? I have not consumed any content from him but my father talks about him all the time since a month or two?

I wanted to share this amazing discussion with the participants of the prolonged DMT study, where the participants were set into a 30 minute DMT breakthrough session to explore the realm. Very interesting and insightful participants who talk here. This is the cutting edge of the new renaissance of psychedelic research.

Very nice! Thanks.

I think the recognition of other POVs is something that you never can validate in your direct experience, thats where "direct experience is king" breaks. In an awakening experience you realize, that you are this one god consciousness. And in this state you realize your true identity as this one consciousness. But still this one consciousness looks through your eyes. It is an awakening from the POV of your unique perspective. But at the same time this one consciousness can experience itself through other POVs. Yes these other POVs are essentially the same consciousness that looks through their eyes, but they stil co-exist with yours. I think we get to "only this bubble of consciousness exists", if we make the assumption that really everything (even other POVs if they exist) can be validated from our own POV. When I sit with a friend im pretty sure and it seems pretty obvious that they also have their subjective experience at the same time. That is my current thinking on it, maybe I just had not enough deep awakenings yet. Woud love to hear some thoughts on it.

The standard suggested protocol from ThirdWave is 2 days on 1 day off and that was also was working well for me in my experimentation.

What is the source of this?

Since Leos Video on Happiness, Ive been doing a Happiness Journal and kept observing my workings of my mind and especially the relation between my activities and my happiness levels very rigorous. What is amazing, is that the way to highest happiness(contentment type happiness) is your highest path. I noticed that my best days are these days where Im reading, doing my meditation, getting my stuff done, doing my exercise + maybe go for a walk with a friend and eat a good dinner consciously and appreciate life. The days where Im not in a good mood is where I procrastinate, scroll through instagram, low energy, maybe eating something unhealthy... Maybe kind of obvious but I got way more conscious about that doing the exercise for the last weeks and got a few more personal insights about what makes me happy and what not. It is also very useful for getting out of bad habits, compulsive behaviors or addictions you have, just noticing very consciously how it affects your state and noticing that it doesnt lead to overall happiness. You dont judge and feel guilt but understand.

Yes I pretty much think that AI that is developed and used in our current system, with arms races will lead to a very bad outcome for everybody. It seems like the intelligence of an AI system is not really wholistic and loving but rather narrow and focussed on optimizing a few metrics. Higher intelligence does not mean more Wisdom/More Loving. The clearest thoughts on this I found in the podcast from Center for Humane Technology https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-ai-dilemma and the recent Daniel Schmachtenberger Video about it:

I enjoyed this conversation and even more I liked the conversation between Rupert and Bernardo Kastrup. I think its a very special time to see this conversations where spirituality and science converge. But I think both, Rupert and Don Hofmann doesnt implicate the solipsistic bubble type of solipsism. Reality is all one mind and you are not seperate from that mind. Your true identity is this mind and there is nothing else. But that doesnt mean, all there is to mind is your localized point of view. Rupert Spira is also ultimately this one mind, in that sense he is you. But im sure he still enjoys his own point of view, localized somewhere else. Sure you cant validate this in your own localized experience but I think its more unreasonably to assume that there is only your point of view just because you cant see beyond your localized perspective.

Nice!

You study things to gain understanding of the world. Even the most intelligent language model doesnt have a real understanding of the world. It can spit out the most intelligent phrases, but there is no real understanding behind it. God will not understand itself through ChatGPT, God understands itself through you.

Sounds like you do some deep and intense experiments in consciousness and I appreciate that. But is it stabilizing for your relative self/survival activities stuff? How does it affect your relative human life?

The Guided Meditations of Adyashanti really helped me, especially calming the mind, getting into equanimity. Listen to a few of his guided meditations and you will understand how to calm your mind and get into those states. Then you can do it in your solo meditations more easily too.

Its hard to tell where my journey would went without psychedelics and in what ways I would had developed. But for me the biggest thing was Curiosity and an interest in a lot of topics. First I was just interested in trying MDMA, some shrooms, mostly for fun and the experiences you could have. And then it started my interest in psychology, spirituality, metaphysics, self-help, etc... I started to watch actualized, started reading books, started meditating. Because I experienced these crazy stuff there was an deep desire to understand these experiences and that led to a lot of study. What also was big for me is that in the really deep trips, you really get to face the depth and magnificience what Life is. This really matures you.

+1 for me too! Another one that is probably already overrepresented in this forum for me is Daniel Schmachtenberger. Just his way of constructing sentences, in which he synthesizes lots of complex stuff together, puts them in clear terms and equations or summarizes the gist of complex topics is amazing. Dont know anyone else, who has this clarity of thinking in such a wide range of topics. I feel like watching so many of his videos has transformed my own thinking a lot.