The0Self

They are the truth. You are the truth. There is no truth. That's the truth. The truth is not the truth.

I'd recommend at least 5g if you had no difficulties. Feel free to disregard that recommendation, however. I've taken 7 grams quite a few times and that's the point where ego death becomes quite likely. Though it's actually quite a bit more likely on even mild doses of 5meo, or even 110ug LSD -- perhaps because mushroom visuals kind of keep you grounded to perception, even if it isn't normal perception.

Being separate from your idea of "all of reality" is inherently unsatisfactory. There's always something that seems "needed." This unsatisfactoriness is both the problem and also the point of existence. There can be no existence without this apparent separation. Existence isn't real. Or unreal. You think you know things, but can't, because there's no separate self that could know something other than itself -- thus, there is just infinity; emptiness; love.

Unconsciousness is impossible. That's all you need to know. Possible objections include "but what about deep sleep?" You aren't unconscious in deep sleep -- not even close. THIS is "after life/death;" this is death; life; before life; the afterlife. It's just what is: indescribable (perhaps disguised) infinitude.

Probably... In all seriousness though I've noticed almost no distinction between men and women in actual maturity. Sure, women are far more apparently mature at any given age, but they're also just as ego-driven as any man. This is coming from an abundant perspective -- I haven't felt "slighted" by anyone in probably half a decade. There's just what seems to happen, and I have no fucking clue how to describe it. The man/woman dichotomy is a funny thing, isn't it?

Fast Silence (plus the sounds of nature) You’ll be good to drive in like 6 hours probably but play it by ear Prepare with whatever relaxing spiritual practices you do, if any Significantly less than 1 gram could induce anxiety due to a sort of “one foot in the door; one foot out” phenomena so I’d err towards ~1g or more

You don’t think, thoughts arise. I’ll assume you’re past that though and can play along: perhaps try thought replacement in the form of Metta and self-compliments. Or just meditate, but don’t full-stop meditating when you arise from the cushion. Recharge that mindfulness throughout the day and when each meditation session (even if it’s 5min) ends, try to continue it somewhat in your daily activities. Or just relax, not that “you” can, but if you could, that would be a pretty wise action.

I think trying to make something inherently dualistic (namely language) into something it's not will leave you disappointed.

I never noticed any correlation between masturbation/porn and success with dates, personally. Maybe a tiny bit, but it would be what one could consider expected given placebo from all the talk of nofap being so beneficial and all. I rarely look at porn or masturbate, especially when I have a gf (my last gf and I had sex multiple times a day for a year, and I just broke up with her), but I used to a lot more -- hell, I'd masturbate right after I got home from their place, or even right before seeing them, sometimes. I really, really don't think it matters but I could be wrong.

I had a hypnotherapist years ago. A very good one. It was fun. Didn't really help my life though. Just my experience. Maybe I just didn't have a lot of trauma at the time, so there wasn't too much to heal. idk.

I'm thinking of leaving evolutionary biology for transpersonal psychology.

Fuck yeah. Studying for my ecology exam can wait.

Insight after unconditional love insight, is not insight. Unconditional love insight before other insight, is not unconditional love insight. After insight into unconditional love, it's all over.

Not that it'll be anything revolutionary, but don't go overboard with it. I had quite a bit of meditation skill, so maybe that's why it worked too well, but anytime I would experience anything remotely disagreeable, I'd lean into it and try to intensify its unpleasantness, which would counter-intuitively make it disappear. I thought I'd discovered the holy grail... But every time I did this I had the hidden agenda of escaping suffering, which the mind then caught on to and so it didn't work for a while. It caused issues...

Emptiness (Unconditional) Love Nonduality All basically the same.

Depends on how paranoid these thoughts are. The more associated paranoia, the more it can help to pretend to maximize the fearfulness of the thoughts. They are driven by aversion to fear. Turning-up (counterintuitively) an imaginary dial of scariness/fear may dissolve them.

@Raptorsin7 In meditation, just from the focused attention and associated lack of mental activity in all the “normal“ places can induce incredible samadhi-like states. Basically there’s always “more.” Until there’s nobody there that could get more, at which point it’s realized: there was never anybody there. There’s only what seems to happen. No actual meaning or context to anything.

Yeah it can help you bust through a plateau maybe, but if you’re already killing it with jhanas and such there’d be no need, therefore I’ll assume you haven’t attained jhana, and as such I’d recommend following an established technique like TMI for at least a 1 hour sit every day. Jhana isn’t awakening but it sure as fuck makes whatever you’re not doing seem laughable if you do in fact attain it. It’s obscenely pleasant. So what? But if you feel you’re lacking well-being in meditation, I would recommend doing what you can to manifest 1st jhana if you haven’t already.

Meaningful suffering is an illusion though. But yes, you’re right in that “what is” does not give a fuck about “you.”

Oh I see it the same way now. I don’t see suffering in that way at all. I’m just channeling my past self who apparently did, and could relate to most people, so I assume most people experienced suffering in that way if they are still afflicted by the possibility of suffering in the future. Consciousness + suffering = impossible. So be conscious.

Liberation is not an experience. Does it feel like experience sort of turns inside out and you’re looking IN (rather than OUT) at experience from an infinite transcendent god-like nothingness? Nothing can touch you. You’re God. Awesome experience, right? If that’s the case, that’s “The Witness,” or the spacious mind, or the vastness of awareness. It ain’t the true self, because there isn’t one. Yeah total liberation could happen when doing literally anything, but if you’re trying for the goal of self inquiry (Realization) it usually takes 6-24 months for one to realize they’re done. Just trying to give an indication of the diligence required.

Yeah, the ego says it wants truth but can’t possibly want it, because truth is the ego’s absence. I don’t recommend it either, but I sure hope it happens more. It’s the most profoundly amazing awakening possible. Honestly I hope it happens by other means but I’m coming from a perspective that sees suffering as instrumental. Even if suffering isn’t instrumental, the diligence required practically counts as suffering, or at least luck.

Teachers are in the dream. There isn’t actually a dream though. Any “enlightened” teacher is only appearing to teach. There are no teachers. Ramana never taught anything. Have you ever performed self inquiry to its end? Just how many people do you think went through that ordeal? Not many. Anyone who actually did it was going to do it anyway, even if via literal suicide by gunshot to the head, which people do all the time. God would never stop the rape of a child, because there is only infinite everything. Infinity doesn’t just put things into perspective, it destroys any pretense of separation.

There’s just isness. I think the Buddhists call it rigpa? Idk I’m not a Buddhist but I used to follow that path and rigpa seems closest to no-self.