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I still believe RFK would make the best president. The most important reason is that he would reform US foreign policy. He would kick out the warmongers and the neocons who are dedicated to forever wars. We could cooperate again with China and Russia. A divided world is going to stop economic progress and also make global climate change agreements impossible. RFK also respects everyone and hence is the best person to bring America together and heal the divisions. The two party system has become corrupt and serves the billionaire doners and not the people. Money rules. This is the root of Trump’s popularity, that he at least pretends to be interested in what the people think. RFK also taps into this sentiment. Fuck the establishment.

I microdose Bufo Alvarius with Meditation. But I think that an intensive retreat in an isolated environment with a skillful facilitator guiding the process could be powerful.

I have been investigating Iboga. Most of the places that do ceremonies are in Costa Rica. Mexico does Ibogaine in a clinical setting. Combining Iboga with Meditation in a retreat for the purpose of awakening sounds really interesting. Are there any of these retreats coming up that use Iboga?

The Taliban managed to defeat the United States as well as all of NATO using vastly inferiour weapons. I am personally impressed by their warrior abilities.

In a literalist religion like Islam, you have the belief in life after death. If you follow the dogma you are assured a pleasant eternity. This belief can make men brave. Thus, in history, these religions have offered a major advantage in war and conquest. The religion also gives comfort to the Palestinians in the face of enormous sacrifice and suffering. Without Islam, the resistance would not be possible, because their collective will would have been broken a long time ago. It makes me wonder that if literalist religions die, will the world end up in tyranny, because only a literalist religion can successfully lead a resistance. A modern population habituated to the material comforts of capitalism have little desire to fight oppression. Be careful about looking down on ancient systems. They have survived this long for a reason.

Keep asking the question and don't accept an answer too quickly.

Lately, I have been microdosing Bufo. I still go into a full trip, but it is for a shorter period of time. I also seem to be developing a reverse tolerance – less does more. I think that the heroic dose is overrated. I have been listening to spiritual teachers who say that unnaturally pushing your energy without it being ready can have bad consequences. Nobody likes to be pushed around. I focus on having a calm journey without fear.

You are lucky to not have STDs. Bad boys don't use condoms.

Hitler was not a conservative. He was a radical way outside the system. At the time he lived in Germany, the aristocracy were the conservatives. Hindenburg was personally opposed to Hitler. The aristocracy only submitted after Hitler took over Germany.

We know from the four noble truths that suffering exists and that there is an end to suffering. That an end to suffering is possible is all you need to know. Talk of “God” is mostly conceptual in nature. Focus on your practice.

It is a common argument of the neocons to make a reference to Japan and Germany and World War II. I have even heard this basic argument in an interview from Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The argument: we bombed Japan and Germany to rubble to get rid of the bad guys, but not to worry because in a few years it was all rebuilt. We can do the same here. I believe that this is a dangerous and distorted analogy and ignores important differences. Like that Israel is surrounded by a billion Muslims and they are rapidly improving their military and economic power while the US, Israel’s protector, is growing weaker in a multipolar world. Realistically, Israel’s slim hope of survival depends on making peace with its neighbors. Force alone simply won’t work.

You are reacting to the doctrine “desire is suffering” which is a poor translation into English of what the Buddha actually said. Of course we need desire. We can’t live without it. If you don’t desire food you will starve. You also need the wholesome desire to awaken. Much of the objections fade away when you look at Buddha’s actual teachings and not the poor translations of Western teachers. The Buddha also never said the ego is the enemy, which many Western teachers promote. Many hours are spent criticizing a strawman.

The real Buddhism is all you need. All the blah blah blah …. infinity, I am God, it’s all imagination .. is just words that increase the ego. Buddhism gives a balanced path for living in the world. One third of the path is dedicated to practicing morality and learning to live in harmony with the world. That part gets totally ignored by the Westernized spiritualities dedicated to speed and an easy path. Thanissaro Bhikkhu is a legitimate Buddhist teacher and all his materials are free. https://www.dhammatalks.org/

The teacher Maharishikaa says that enlightenment is an out of date practice of the past and a new way is needed to fit the current culture. She mentions enlightenment gurus in India like Ramana Maharashi could only survive because he had devotees who took care of him. She calls neo-advaitas space cadets. It’s good to hear another perspective that goes against the crowd.

It appears that neither Romania or the UK have sufficient evidence to convict, which adds credibility to Tate’s claim that the prosecutions were politically motivated. However, that doesn’t mean he didn’t do anything. I think the UK authorities really dropped by ball and were incompetent. Maybe the women could still bring a civil suit.

A shaman from Mexico has been teaching me to use mushrooms to equilibrate my energy. He says that everything in the trip is just our own energies and we can go on any level of journey by forming a calm center that coexists with and accepts the energies. The psychedelic journey is training the mind to be calm and in a state of equanimity. In my last journey spirits appeared to me saying “we are not energy, we are real” and they convinced me because the visions were so high fidelity, vivid, and as real as ordinary reality. But I just focused on my mantra and remained calm. In ordinary reality, we are constantly triggered by our environment. The triggers are activation of our energies. So we train the mind to be in a calm state, focused always on the present, letting the energies move without affecting our equilibrium. Our ordinary waking consciousness is also a form of imagination which convinces us it is real, just like the visions in an altered state. So it is not dissimilar.

I don’t think anyone knows, especially all the fake shamen running around, or pundits writing books. The scientific bureaucracy is now finally researching the issue, with studies at their institutions like John Hopkins, and believe that they can put psychedelics in a reliable box. Good luck.

The problem is that profound spiritual traditions are being taken out of context and transformed into commodities that can be sold to a materialistic culture. So you end up with the shallow nonsense of neo-Advaita and non duality. Or even meditation, which doesn’t work for most people because they aren’t going through the necessary preliminary purification needed to make it work. The one thing that I have found to be still useful even after translation is Yoga. Even when you reduce Yoga to a purely physical exercise, it is still enormously beneficial to the body.

Professional wrestling is a strange breed. I remember seeing a revealing documentary of a professional wrestler. He talked about his childhood where the old man would fight the boys in the basement and you would hear screams of pain as they were being taught to fight. They worshipped their father. It sounds almost spiritual. Professional wrestling is accused of fixed fights and being fake entertainment. But the men who wrestle are still way tougher than the rest of us. That part is real.

I said observe not study. But it is more of an actual feeling and embodiment and total acceptance of what is. Any insights come out of this non conceptual process.

I find cannabis to be useful in meditation. The yogis use it in India and called in Ghanja. The cannabis amplifies my feelings considerably which allows me to observe negative feelings that my mind in an ordinary state easily suppresses with the ego defense mechanisms. However, it can be a very challenging meditation if you aren’t prepared to sit with the suffering. An undisciplined mind can easily tip into paranoia.

This is the part I recognized as true. Because I went to the Amazon and did a plant diet with a real shaman, and got exposed to the real practice, and I realized that 2 weeks wasn't enough time, and the plant medicines are only a component of a lifetime practice. But Westerners are taking the Ayahausca out of context and turning it into a commodity. So you just end up with a lot of space cadets.

The questioner seeks Maharishikaa's blessings for Ayahuasca and psychedelics to attain higher states of consciousness, and for spiritual progress. Maharishikaa explains the impact of Ayahuasca and other psychedelics, and their relevance to spiritual progress on the path of Self-Realization.

At the time it was widely reported in the US press. Even President Kennedy commented on it. It's in many history books.

A Buddhist monk set himself on fire in 1963 during the Vietnam war, which made a lasting impression on the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thích_Quảng_Đức To the modern, materialist mindset this is viewed as crazy. But when the crazy call you crazy, does that mean you are sane?