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Nowhere. Memories are forms and are generated in real time in the present moment. There is no container where you save your memories. It's just a conceptualization you make because you take for granted that memories are somehow physical objects and they are saved in another container called identity. But where does identity occur? Nowhere.

So, I actually contemplated these too in a super nonduality rampage. Here are my replies 1) Where do thoughts happen? Why are you feeling them inside your head as sounds? Does it mean they are located in your head? If no, why am I hearing them inside my skull? Are thoughts created from within your identity, so after the perceiver percieve the avatar or are they coming directly from you (the perceiver)? First of all you have to define what a thought is (in a human comprensible way). A thought is a "container" that includes an energetic charge and a content. The content of the thought is added as soon as the energy is perceived and then processed in the form of perception inside of the ego. Each thought therefore contains not only a verbal content, but also a specific energy charge. The energy is exactly the energy coming from consciousness. That is why there are "positive" and "negative" thoughts. By positive and negative we mean the energy charge coming directly from the substrate under the forms (the consciousness). Memories and thoughts SEEM to be separated from the external word. It seems to you they are part of a container called identity (together with the image of your body and many other things). There is an identification with your identity, which has a specific form and specific boundaries. That's why you perceive yourself as separated from the rest of reality. Thoughts are connected to your identity, because for a specific thought to happen, there must be some kind of perceiver who percieves and then transforms the energy as a thought. Because you identify yourself to your identity, thentime you feel that they are "your" thoughts, but they are in reality are just thoughts floating in the void. Therefore, you perceive that sounds are generated by forms, in which you DO NOT identify yourself, because you identify yourself with your "human" ego. If you focus on perceiving from where sounds are coming from (just tip your finger on something), you will notice that those sounds are not really coming from the contact between forms. It SEEMS to you that touching a form with another form causes the sound to happen and that you perceive it, but if you are aware enough, you'll see that what it really happens is that a form is touching another form and then you hear a sound. You as ego add the meaning that touching a form with another form causes the sound to happen. In reality, you'll see that those sounds are perceived out of nothing. They are found in some underground texture layer which lies behind the reality of the forms: the nothingness/consciousness. This means that nothingness is practically creating energy within nothingness which in turn is perceived by identity and channeled under the form of a specific perception inside your ego and perceived in different ways (in the form of sound, smell, thoughts etc.). The thoughts come therefore in the same nothingness where the energy that is perceived as sound, movement, shape etc. is located. They are all generated in real time (in the present moment) and are just floating in the void. This means that there is no difference and separation between your thoughts and external sounds but they are only perceived different due to the degree of separation caused by identifiying yourself in a human ego. 2) Who is then really thinking? The perceiver or the avatar? Thoughts are then NOT created from within your identity, but rather channeled from consciousness INSIDE the ego. The ego interpretes then the energy and percieve it as a thought. So, who is really thinking is the perceiver and NOT the ego. This means you basically have no free will, because the one who is thinking it's not what you believe you are, but rather the perceiver (consciousness). 3) What is the difference between perceiver, perception (awareness) and perceptions (sounds, smells etc.)? Perceiver: the "true" self, the "true" I, the quantum field, consciousness, infinity. It is infinitely full of energy and empty at the same time Perception: Perceiving=being aware. Perception is infinite being. Being = Being aware of itself as a being without forms. Perception can be at the same time finite too, if there is a finite perspective from which is possible to perceive a reality Perceptions (sounds and smells etc): Perceptions are interpretations that take place under finite form (inside the ego) of consciousness energy. They all have precise channels (tactile, visual, auditory, etc.) Perception is something that happens not only in a infinite way, but in a finite form too. If there were no perspective (a form), there could be no perception of reality, because there would be nothing finite through which the infinite can perceive itself in another finite form. So perception is connected to a perspective. You are "the eye" behind your identity (your perspective) and see reality through the lens of your identity (a perspective). There must therefore exist a perspective for perceptions to occur inside a finite reality. Perception itself exist outside the ego and not inside, because it can perceive itself infinitely without limiting itself in a form. This means that perception is an infinite mechanism, but also finite at the same time, because as soon as it percieves reality through an identity, it becomes finite and cannot experience ALL reality, because it's constraining itself under a specific ego and finite form. That's why to experience ALL reality you must die. Because you don't have any finite form anymore. In fact you as a human being, being finite, cannot perceive ALL the infinite but only the finite in an infinite way (plus nondual insights, that are parts of infinity). This means that finite and infinite exist only conceptually and not really. Another thing I discovered is that infinite is infinite not only outside of finite, but inside of finite too. That's why reality is a fractal. A fractal is a finite picture with specific forms where you can zoom in infinitely and obtain the exact same forms from where you started zooming in. 4) Do perceptions (sounds, smells etc.) exist? If yes, where? Yes, they exist in a specific form as soon as they are channeled from Consciousness inside a ego and interpreted (see question 2). 5) Do thoughts exist? If not, why? Same as question 4. 6) Is there a conceptual difference between a thought and the content of a thought? If yes, which one(s)? Nope. The division is only done by you. Another important thing I discovered is that there is a misconception about what forms are. Forms are NOT ONLY things you can see. A form is something finite that's material or not material that can be percieved in ANY way. This means that a sound is a form, a thought is a form, a book is a form, a smell is a form, a picture is a form. They are all forms, because they are finite. Mind is then both the container of finite forms and the mechanism used by consciousness to create a finite reality. So all what's happening is happening within the realms of the mind. On a personale note: I feel I am reaching a breakthrough. Either I am suggesting myself and I made out all these insights or something is happening.

I did other progresses. I have already replied the 1, 4 and 5. I still have to reply to 2, 3 and 6. I paste the replies as soon as I have them.

So, I actually contemplated this and this is what I found. Thoughts, memories, tastes and your own identity does not have a historical sense of existence, but is created in real time! This means that there is no container and that all these things are "scattered" and are assembled together and mixed with other perceptions (e.g. time) to create a sense of progression, coherence and then identity. But looking for an identity is an attempt to look for a form when it does not exist. So where would this container be located? There is no physical place. This means that your identity does not exist as a container, but "happens" in real time in the sense that there are pieces of them (memories etc.) that are created and assembled and mixed in the present moment. I understood that ALL reality (so not only external objects, but even memories, thoughts, sounds, smells etc) is ALWAYS is generated in real time. To be more specific: in the present moment. There is no past and no future.

To clarify what I am saying: the avatar is your identity. The perceiver is the one behind your identity perceiving your identity. I am asking this too: are thoughts, memories etc external from "external" sounds, smells etc. or are in the same place? I am trying to imagine thoughts, memories, personal tastes, believes etc. as "things that are inside of a cointaner, aka your identity". But are they? Or are they "free"? If they are in this container, then in which container are located the "external" sounds, shapes etc.? Are there in a different nothingness than the nothingness from where you feel your thoughts come from?

Here there is a similar topic that makes me confused too. What's enlightenment then, if there is no difference? How can I detach myself from my identity and stop identifying myself as my identity, if I feel that I am both?

Thank you for your reply. About the first part (translation as sounds etc) are the sounds in another nothingness external from the nothingness from where you hear the sounds? I ask this, because I still feel sounds, smells etc as something external to me that are "somewhere" and that I perceive as external perceptions through my avatar. About the second part (avatar and perceptor), I don't understand your reply. I am confused about that. If I focus on the origins of the thoughts, I see they come from nothingness (perceiver). What I don't understand is if the thoughts are directly coming from the perceiver or the perceiver create them after he perceives the avatar. Perceiver and avatar are so deeply interconnected that's difficult to differentiate between them. If I am both, then there is no difference between avatar and perceiver. Than what's enlightenment about? There should be a difference, otherwise how can you realize your "true" self?

Awakenings have all different degrees, content and impacts, so experiencing awakenings do not directly mean ego dissolution. A strong ego dissolution can be only obtained through enlightenment or many consecutive strong awakenings. Total ego dissolution can be obtained only by death. You still have to have many other awakenings and actively work through enlightenment, if you want to have a further detachment from your identity. You can do it for example by practicing self inquiry. Leo has already made a super practical guide here: Give it a read!

I am doing self inquiry and I have found these questions where I cannot clearly reply. What can you tell me about them from your direct experience? 1) Where do thoughts happen? Why are you feeling them inside your head as sounds? Does it mean they are located in your head? If no, why am I hearing them inside my skull? Are thoughts created from within your identity, so after the perceiver percieve the avatar or are they coming directly from you (the perceiver)? 2) Who is then really thinking? The perceiver or the avatar? 3) What is the difference between perceiver, perception (awareness) and perceptions (sounds, smells etc.)? 4) Do perceptions (sounds, smells etc.) exist? If yes, where? 5) Do thoughts exist? If not, why? 6) Is there a conceptual difference between a thought and the content of a thought? If yes, which one(s)?

Welcome to the path!

The goal of this post is to help psychedelic beginners who want to get their first experiences with psychedelics (solo trip at home) to know how to responsible buy psychedelics, avoiding legal complications and impure substances. It's NOT ALLOWED to talk about sourcing psychedelic in the forum. This means I won't provide you with any link, specific websites or marketplaces where you can buy psychedelics. I want to state this too: I DON'T WANT to engage in discussions and debates about psychedelics (open a new thread, if you want to do it) I WON'T provide you with any legal counseling I WON'T help you doing ANY research and i WON't give you any information about sourcing psychedelics I WON'T be held responsible for any legal or healty consequences you may have for buying/trying psychedelics Take EVERYTHING I'll say here with a grain of skepticism and do your own researches. This is YOUR responsability, not mine. I assume that you have already informed yourself extensively about psychedelics and that you've already decided to try them. If not or you're unsure about them, I highly suggest you to watch these Leo's wonderful videos about psychedelics: Let's start! 1) Choose which psychedelic you want to try The first thing you have to do is choose which psychedelic you want to try. There are many psychedelics you can start with. Some are beginners friendly and some are more advanced. I started my experiences with psychedelics with LSD. This is the substance I suggest beginners to start with (alternatively you can try mushrooms too). With beginners friendly psychedelics I mean psychedelics that: Allow you an easier degree of control during the trip Give you insights and information you can generally handle and understand Are not extreme sensible to dosage variations like other psychedelics You can check dosages, effects, trip, dangers, harm reduction practice and other info here: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page I suggest you to don't get cocky and overestimate your spiritual development level and thus you don't aim to difficult psychedelics like Salvia or 5-MeO-DMT or to medium-high dosages. Start low. You can always do more trips, if you like it and improve the dosage. Bad trips are a thing. A real thing. 2) Check the legal status of the psychedelic of your choice After you choose which psychedelic you want to start with and you informed yourself about it, you have to check its legal status in your land. Notice: don't take what I say here as truth! Do your own researches and/or contact an attorney, if unsure! I won't take ANY responsabilities for your mistakes. With "checking the legal status" I mean to check, if the psychedelic of your choice is banned in your land or not. There are different degrees of ban. Your land can ban the consumption, importing/exporting, buying/selling completely or maybe it can only forbide to sell or buy the psychedelic in your land, but not to consume it. This means you can actually buy it in another land where it's legal and consume it in your land. To check the legal status you must know that usually (in Germany and in Italy it works like this) lands don't ban the entire psychedelic class (the main substance and all derivates), but only the single variants. This means you could have to search for variants of that psychedelic, e.g. 1cp-LSD (instead of pure LSD), or 2f-ketamine (instead of ketamine) and that these variants are legal. These variants are there to circumvent the ban. This means, if you ban LSD then you can actually create a variant of LSD with a useless molecule so that you can avoid the ban. Your land could only ban one single variant at the time, so it means that that variant is completely legal to buy. Where and how to check the legal status of the psychedelic of your choice? There are different ways to check it. You can just google something like "psychedelicname legal status landname" (write it in your language, if needed). You will usually find a table with a list of substances. E.g. In Germany you can find this table inside of the "Anlage I BtMG", in the USA you can find it in the "Controlled Substances Act", in Italy you can find it inside of the "Tabelle delle sostanze stupefacenti e psicotrope". If the substance/variant is not listed in the table, than it should be legal (I only am sure it's like this in Germany and Italy, I don't know if it's the same in your land too). This table is usually updated once each year. This means you could check before ordering, if the psychedelic of your choice is still legal. Alternatively you can look in websites about psychedelics (e.g. Psychonautwiki) and check the legal status in different lands. 3) Find the right sources After checking the legal status of the substance in your land and being completely sure that it's legal, you can start searching for websites where you can buy it. You can then simply google something like "buy psychedelichname". As I said, you could have to search for variantes (e. g. 1cp-LSD), so you can google something like "buy 1cp-LSD". After you ordered and received the psychedelic, you can use a drug testing kit (e.g. Ehrlich Reagent Test) to test your batch and see if you received the right substance and if it's a good batch. My opinion is that if you order a labor made psychedelic from good and reliable sources, you don't need to test the psychedelic with a reagent kit (this is my opinion and my experience, you can still test it, if you want). There are super reliable websites in Europe that do worldwide shipping. I cannot say more due to forum rules. This was everything. Hope it helps!

I cannot help you with that due to forum rules. I wrote this guide (I avoided any sourcing info, so you'll have to do your own researches). Check it out

I decided to open this topic to share some important insights I got after my last psychedelic trip with you. In this trip I reached for the first time a state of enlightenment. Indeed it was partial and it lasted only few hours (so it was only an experience of enlightenment), but this helped me to get a better understanding about enlightenment, common misconception around it and start pondering Love and other deep metaphyisical concepts. I know I am still at the beginning with my understanding (e.g. in comparison with Leo's teachings) and I still have to chop much wood, but I figured it may help many of you and maybe spark interessant discussions Please share with me your thoughts/correction and your own insights. I hope you enjoy it! 4.1 - Self-Love and Love 4.1.1 - What is love? (baby don’t hertz me, no morse) Everything is Love. We created universes with Love. We created different life forms, planets, stars, physical laws, identities and much. This extreme commitment and care invested in creating something unique and wonderful as the Creation is the most elevate form of Love. True Love knows no moralism or judgment: there is no distinction between good and bad. Think about when you do something spontaneous to help someone in difficulty. You do that as an act of love, without judgment or moralism. The same is valid for the Creation. From a higher perspective even wars, rape, violence, mutilation are forms of Love. In our form, we cannot see them as Love, because we have a moral compass and we judge things with good or bad. This does not mean we have to accept violence, rape and murder. This only means we have to accept these things too and find a way to live better with them. E. g. think about pedophilia. Having desire to have sex with a child is as natural as having sex with a woman with big breasts or with a man with sculpted abs. There will always be pedophiles. On their perspectives they have this desire of having sex with children. It’s not good that children are raped, but we cannot ignore the fact that there are pedophiles. If we shift our perspective to one of love, we can find solution to recognize them and prevent them from committing crimes. E. g. trough virtual reality porn with children, which are actually not armed, because they are fake. 4.1.2 - What is self-love? There are two kinds of Self-Love: 1) Identity-related: You love yourself for the one you are with all the bad things you committed (e. g. cheating, killing, raping, lying etc.). 2) Universe-related: Your sense of self expands to encompass others (even bad things as wars, rape, murder etc.) and the entire universe. This is the biggest and purest form of self-love, because you love everyone and everything unconditionally 4.1.3 - Love is acceptance and surrender Love means accepting reality and renouncing to your personal egoic needs to discover more about Love and to love more. To deepen your self-love, you have to let all go, accept yourself and all the bad things you did (most difficult thing to do) and all the bad things in the world. Are you ready to love that guy who stole your bike, the bullies who bullied you and your abusive mother? 4.1.4 - Love has different degrees There are different degrees of Love: 1) Love for someone: This is usually the one with a high degree of attachment and self-deception 2) Love for something: If you love a thing which isn’t even alive, it’s probable that you’ll develop some kind of attachment to it 3) Passions: Passions are among the purest forms of love. Having passion in what you do is really important in life 4) Universal love: This is the highest and purest form of love. This is bondless, formless, infinite and unconditioned 4.1.5 - Love is limited by your form Your identity (and so your body) are limits to reach universal Love. You have to die to return to Source and thus to the universal Love. You can still reach a high degree of Love when alive by spiritual developing yourself (especially with enlightenment). 4.2 - Religion, authority and direct experience 4.2.1 - Religions are based on authority and not on direct experience Religions are based on a sense of authority paired with dogmatism and not on direct experience. Let’s take Christianity. If you ask a random person, if he had even seen God or had some kind of experience to prove his existence, he will most likely say no. So, he is practically believing in the word of the Pope and in what it’s written in the Bible without having experienced God. If you ask him to prove you the existence of God, he will mostly say, that he exists because it’s written in the Bible and the Bible is word of God. If you ask him, how he can be sure that it was the word of God and if he can prove it to you, he’ll say to look in the bible, thus evading the reply. Many other will resort citing miracles, particular experiences happened to someone or maybe even experiences he had themselves, but no one can actually prove that God exists through his direct experience. Many people have even the false belief, that’s impossible to prove God existence. You can indeed prove that God exist and you can prove what/who is God. God is you and thus everything. It’s not a separate entity who is sitting somewhere in the sky (where exactly? Can you point it to me?). Method of discovering it are through psychedelics, deep meditative states and through self-inquiry. 4.2.2 - God will manifest himself in a way that’s understandable to you There are Christians who had experiences of God, like saints and such. These experiences don’t prove that the biblical God exists. There are other examples of people who experienced Allah or other Deities. The thing is that the Creator (You) manifests itself in a form that’s understandable to you, so if you speak Italian and are catholic, he may talk with you in Italian and will have a big beard and a white tunic. 4.2.3 - The importance of the direct experience Direct experience is king. This means that until you didn’t try something in your direct experience, you cannot express yourself fully on that matter. E.g. if you believe that the world is round only by having read that in scientific books/articles or by reading scientist without actually proving it yourself by observation and such, then you cannot say that the earth is round. This means to rely less on authority (other people, books, articles, videos etc.) and to discover, prove and disprove things by yourself. Remember that even if you take for granted what someone who is an authority to you tells, he will tell you those things due to his perspective and agenda. Don’t be lazy and look out the things for yourself and see if they are true in your experience too. Cultivate some healthy skepticism and don’t take everything for true, but strike a good balance between consolidating wisdom and being open to test it out. 4.2.3 - The paradox of the indian culture Indian culture has a richness of enlightened people and a religion which has many elements of nonduality and advanced spiritual depth. The problem is that the Indian culture is built toward the adoration of deities/gurus and spiritual masters. This means that if a new guru on the mountains pops up, people will swarm to him to learn more about him. If a new master comes up, here are the people who will storm him too. Those people don’t usually want to do the “real” spiritual work needed to reach the depth of these masters and decide to rely on them by seeking comfort, security and a sense of direction in these figures. 4.3 - Enlightenment 4.3.1 - Enlightened people have a high degree of acceptance of the present moment and of the reality Being enlightened means that you realized the true nature of yourself. You are God and not a random person with a name and an identity. We can say that enlightenment happens, because at the end there is no one to enlighten and no one is enlightened. Enlightened “people” have a high degree of acceptance of the present moment and of the reality. They accepted reality for what it is: a dream/an hallucination. For you there is no other reality except the one you see in your direct experience. Do you see another one right now? I don’t. Where is it? There is only one reality. People who are highly enlightened are emotionally detached from their identity and thus from their emotions. There are cases of Zen masters who reached a high degree of enlightenment that didn’t feel any pain even if they were physically mutilated. This happens because they have reached a high degree of detachment. At the end it’s only an arm that is being cut. Nothing to worry about, even because it isn’t real and he himself doesn’t exist. 4.3.2 - Common misconceptions about enlightenment Being enlightened doesn’t mean you are not human anymore and you don’t have to do the laundry. What changes is that you reach the realization of your true Self and become much more detached from your identity. Before and after enlightenment the life goes on and you’ll still have a certain degree of attachment to your identity (there are different degrees of enlightenment). So, it’s possible for an enlightened person to scream, being mad at someone and such, even if it’s less likely to happen. You become much more self-reliant and imperturbable. This means you’ll be a lot less reactive and you’ll notice triggers and monkey chatter as some kind of distant voices. You’ll become much wiser, calm, silent and authentic. One problem of the enlightenment is that people see it as a label and have certain believes about it. This can cause enlightenment wars through masters and gurus: who is enlightened and who is enlightened most? You tend to think you’ll have to do a checklist of things to reach enlightenment. There is a high degree of idealization behind enlightenment. The shift that must occur is seen as gigantic from a not enlightened person and as tiny for an enlightened person. It’s true that an enlightened person is superior to a not enlightened person. This is because he “hacked the game” and has a degree of emotional mastery, wisdom and knowledge that a not enlightened person doesn’t have. This doesn’t mean that an enlightened person is “better” than a not enlightened one. Knowledge is useful a lot, but you don’t need deep metaphysical understanding to be enlightened, but you can navigate better trough the insights with metaphysical and spiritual understanding and reach deeper levels of knowledge. Becoming enlightened is connected to mind your own life more, because you recognize how important and precious your existence is and you don’t want to waste it doing mindless stuff or with wrong people. Some enlightened masters are seen therefore as assholes. You have to keep in mind that enlightened people are still humans AND that their “assholesness” is just a behavior that they had due to having really high standards in their lives and have nothing to do with you. 4.3.3 - Some practical tips to reach enlightenment Detach yourself from your identity and thus abstain from moralism, judgments, speculations, interpretations, emotional triggers, mental chatter (monkey mind) and memories. You must live in the present moment. This is the only thing there is. The sense of time is just an appearance, a mind distortion to create coherence in reality and give you a sense of progression. Avoid massive multitasking and focus on one thing at the time. Practice both active meditation in blocks of time every day (e. g. 30 minutes a day) and mindfulness in your everyday life. Be as much present as possible, trying to avoid distraction, future projections, daydreaming and monkey mind. Focus yourself on experiencing life through direct experience rather than relying on third hand information. Accept reality for what it is and not for what it could be/could have been if. This means practically that you have to accept responsibility for your actions and your word and don’t waste any time saying: “I should have done this or this”. Once it’s done, it’s done. You can only control the present moment. Live in the present. At the end nothing matters. It’s all a game, a simulation, a dream. Don’t take life too seriously. 4.3.4 - The focus-on-the-touch technique to relieve stress and quickly improve presence in the present moment If you feel yourself stressful, you can use the focus-on-the-touch technique to relieve stress and quickly improve presence in the present moment. This technique is really simple: 1) Touch something (e. g. a table surface) 2) Shift your focus to your hands and particularly to the sensation of the surface on your fingertips and on your palm 3) Focus solely on the touch feeling and keep your mind clear You can expand this exercise by using other senses, e.g. hearing or seeing. You can then focus on particular sounds (e. g. you can tap with the pen on your desk) or on watching a light or simply watching your hand. 4.4 - Perspectives and reality (one vs infinite perspectives) 4.4.1 - The mind is NOT in the brain The mind is not in the brain. This is a common materialist misconception that’s derived from the assumption that consciousness = brain cognition ability = can be measured through IQ. In reality mind is a tool that’s used by infinite consciousness to divide itself in finite forms and is not in the brain. The brain IS part of entire consciousness and a subproduct of the mind. Consciousness is infinite and it’s all there is. 4.4.2 - Reality is fluid, there is no one single reality Reality is not a giant immutable block, but a fluid energy field in which forms appear and disappear. It cannot be a single block because of the existence of perspectives. What I mean is that 1 perspective = 1 reality and that each one’s reality is different from the others. To prove this fact let’s take two people: one who is colorblind and one who is not. Let’s bring both people in front of a green pine and ask both which color the pine’s leaves are. The colorblind person will say the color is red and the other one will say it’s green. Who is right? Which perspective/reality is the right one? They are both right! Reality mutate under observation through the colorblind person to perceive the same shared reality in another way. This means that reality is fluid. We can shift this example to other people with different believes. They all perceive their reality in their own unique ways. 4.4.3 - One perspective vs multiple perspective There is an existential dilemma whether there is one single perspective and all other perspectives are imaginary and therefore don’t exist or if they are infinite perspectives. In the first case it means that you are the only living being who is existing and that others are just fruit of imagination. After you died, life will not go on, because you’re the only thing that exist (you = your perspective) and there is no shared reality. In the second case it means that each human/living/not living being has its own perspective and that there is a shared reality. This means there are infinite parallel reality which are deeply interconnected one with each other. After you die, life in the shared reality will go on. You will eventually reincarnate in another thing (reincarnations are a belief, but I feel it’s highly probable that they occur). 4.4.4 - Breathing is not necessary to live During the trip I had much less need to breath. My lunges were full of air, even if I breathed very few for a long time. The idea you have to breath to live is just a belief. The most ethereal and light your ego become, the less attachment to your identity and to your survival needs there is. This has a profound meaning, because many believes we held about our survival are just not true.

I see you mention it many times. Do you mean a vision board?

And others = Psychedelics. Fastest way to have mystical experiences and breakthrough. You must have a certain degree of self-development first, before taking psychedelics. They are not for everyone.

Problem of procrastination are due to these reasons (at least one of them): 1) Missing vision/LP (huge game changer) 2) Not enough emotional mastery, clear planning and discipline 3) Not enough personal/spiritual development 4) The things you are doing are not authentic or you are not doing them with real authentic intrinsec motivation

Well, I agree that entertainment will certainly turn off the monkey-mind, but it is a huge distraction too and there is a big potential for abuse (e.g. watching too much Netflix, IG etc.)

How can you expect to not be in a hurry or to have certainty and structure about what your workflow will look like, IF your job is designed to be so much flexible and thus unpredictable? Either you find a way to adapt and cope with this kind of job or you simply find another job. What do you want to do?

It all depends on which role videogames play in your life. Personally I spent I think over 20.000 hours in my life playing videogames and I see that they are (at least in my case) in the end something that holds me back in my old self. That's why I decided to quit entirely playing. If I start playing, I will very soon backslide and have massive playing hours which eats up all my time. To me it's a matter of priority: vision and LP vs playing videogames. I rather have the achievements and that sense of progression in "real" life than in a videogame

1) I said that indian culture has this problem. I did not say that every indian person is like that 2) Psychedelics are not "drugs". They don't cause any addiction 3) Psychedelics are just tools to do part of consciousness work. You can decide to use them or don't. I use them and have great benefits. If you wanna spread anti psychedelic propaganda, please open another thread

I do this too! I can confirm the effectiveness

Nice achievement bro! Better later than never!

I never stated anything like that. I never compared psychedelics to spiritual work while sober. Don't know what you're talking about, man. And then he'll see them and will say like in his enlightenment video: "Who is this" ?

Don't take note while tripping. This will turn on your mind and diminish your awareness and your intuition. Instead, try to use voice memos. The journaling part must be done after the trip ended by extracting Info from your voice memos and typing down what you remember outside the memos. Until then just focus on the trip and record your voice. Remember: it's impossible to remember everything. Don't try to note every insight you get. Just focus on the ones that are most compatibile with your trip intentions.

Agree! I love especially the deep ambient you music!