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"I have become comfortably numb" - Pink Floyd

My experience is that if anger arises there is suffering.

Is it possible to be in a state of anger and not suffer?

If you have a real teacher, you are developing authenticity which you can only do with another person. A real teacher isn't transmitting dogma.

Having a human guru, or spiritual teacher, makes sense otherwise you spend your life spinning your wheels and being tricked by your ego. The problem is finding someone genuine because there are so many fakes. The bigger they are, like Sadhguru, the bigger the fake. That is because they have become popular by attracting large numbers of deeply unconscious people. If you don’t have a guru, you can continue to purify yourself with meditation, yamas, niyamas, etc. until you develop the discernment to differentiate the genuine from the fake. You will immediately see through the Massaros and notice teachers that everyone else ignores.

I have found that psychedelics, like Ayahauasca, aren’t as great for healing as the marketing suggests. What they do is stir up the unconscious trauma material, but don’t actually heal anything. People tend to repeat ceremonies, getting worse as time goes on, instead of better. Since it is now a trendy big business, you have marketing propaganda like “ My ayahuasca ceremony was as effective as 15 years of therapy”. This appeals to people from materialistic Western cultures looking externally for quick solutions. Those who come to their senses finally realize that the way out is to adopt a spiritual path with discipline and determination to improve day by day in a sober state in the real world, opting for effort over the simple solutions provided by grifters. In the West, they revert to Christianity because it is the thing they are most familiar with. I prefer techniques from the East which go back thousands of years and have a solid track record of working.

Enlightenment is overrated. We already have a world full of assholes willing to take advantage of vulnerable people. If enlightenment just empowers more psychopaths then shouldn’t enlightenment be made illegal for the protection of society? What good is it, if it just increases suffering?

This is a charming myth propagated by economic schools. But the fruits go to the top who manipulate the financial system and provide no real value in return.

You don't know just how young you are.

You buy a tincture. The psycho active component is muscimol. These are the mushrooms used by Siberian Shamen for vision questions and spiritual rituals.

Amanita Muscara mushrooms are underrated. You take them before you go to bed. They put you into a deep state of relaxation and the mushrooms work through your dreams. I have had vivid mystical dreams with downloads of spiritual knowledge. The best way to get access to your unconscious mind where the trauma lives is with dreamwork. The mushrooms are legal so you can get them anywhere. You can buy a tincture or gummies.

As an American, its an irrelevant question I don't have to answer. I just don't want the wealth and blood of my country to pay for it. Israel is just another foreign nation that can do what they want.

The nightmare scenario is taking too much psychedelics, calling 911, and having the police be your facilitators.

I wonder how this will affect the Ibogaine clinics in Mexico.

This video features a discussion with Douglas Macgregor regarding the current escalation between the United States and Iran. Macgregor argues that the conflict is driven by an 'Israel-first' agenda and that the U.S. administration is misled by advisors who believe air power alone can secure a decisive victory (21:37, 24:33). According to Douglas Macgregor, the rest of the Islamic world and much of the global community increasingly view Israel as a "menace" or "virus" that threatens their survival. This opposition stems from several factors: Expansionist Concerns: Macgregor points to the map of "Greater Israel," which allegedly includes significant portions of neighboring nations such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon. He argues that this geopolitical vision is viewed as an existential threat by populations in the region. (6:42 - 7:42) Alienation: Macgregor claims that Israel is increasingly perceived as a "foreign" or "alien" entity within the region. He suggests that any previous opportunities for accommodation have vanished, exacerbated by rhetoric from figures like Ben-Gvir and Netanyahu. (26:53 - 27:46) Global Sentiment: Macgregor asserts that the entire region, and indeed most of the world, is turning decisively against both the U.S. and Israel, partly because the U.S. is perceived as trying to solve Israel's strategic problems through military force, which he argues is ineffective and damaging to international stability. (16:48 - 17:05)