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@softlyblossoming And btw it’s a bit of a poor choice of words on my part to say abide in I am. Since the only way to actually do that is to ceaselessly search for the I am thereby withdrawing attention from all objects indiscriminately in a rather momentous way. Technically if you’re just “abiding” in I am then that’s a concentration practice upon the object labeled I am / abiding in a false objective I am that is currently masquerading as the true I am i.e. the self. What you want to do here is look for that I am, not find it, since if you find it then that’s not it. This method is just a tool and that’s how it works.

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Disregard everything as merely a springboard for abiding in I AM, including even the idea or experience of abiding in I AM since if you notice it then it isn't I AM since I AM is the subject and not the object. When done with a lot of power and steadiness the I AM will be deprived of its sustenance/objects as you'll be ignoring them all (increasingly more subtle objects and in the end, dualistic experience itself). There will be confusion. No matter. Keep going until there is no question; persist with constant repeated applications of effort (to find what is aware of what is seemingly experienced) until the burden of effort is taken from you without your consent (the efforting I dissolves).

"Atoms" are thoughts or appearances of consciousness. No one looks. There isn't anything separate from the appearance of everything, and there isn't anyone conscious of that from a separate standpoint -- it's an illusion that there is. This merely points, it isn't something that can be believed in and in fact if you do believe it then it certainly isn't what's being pointed to. There aren't two realities. You're confusing absolute consciousness with finite mind of an apparent individual.

Oh, most definitely spot on. Also ability to enter jhanas. And experience with proper self inquiry and witnessing etc. Just the whole consciousness development thing. Eventually the ego was seemingly holding on for dear life without any substances or even intentional spiritual practice for that matter. Like full-on "this ain't what I signed up for" type stuff.

Such incredible results from meditation that attempting to discuss it wholly debases it.

Such a question is rather individual and megavariate. As a teenager, I routinely took up to 700ug and it was great fun... However, once the spiritual glimpses and such were in full swing, 200ug would have been utterly insane overkill -- more like 110ug per God Realization.

Let go of my ego Ego freed from "my"

There is nothing apart from what simply is -- one could call that consciousness. The issue for you, is that you seem to be confusing consciousness with your own finite mind (which itself is merely an appearance of consciousness).

Freedom from delusion Destruction of the illusory sense of personal doership End of the identification with seemingly real finitude i.e. a born separate being who will die Un-realization of the untrue / No longer mistaking the untrue for the true Permanent no-other-ness

The very same Being appears as all minds, but there actually aren't any minds.

Actually, in a sense, yeah. In my view the most important facet of spirituality (consciousness development) is being clear on what you want. If you want to stay up late, do so... but if you simultaneously want to go to sleep early but also procrastinate and stay up late, this will result in suffering and contraction -- contraction which can be alleviated by being clear on desires. Creating (art; music; writing; etc) seems to be associated a bit with desires becoming more clear. Mindfulness in daily life + doing what you enjoy seems to be a no brainer, but that's not like an authoritative prescription or anything.

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@WokeBloke It’s simply that nothing is actually happening. Did Romeo and Juliet actually suicide? Sure they did, but only in a play. Is typing actually happening? Sure, but only in the story of space and time. There’s just what appears, but that doesn’t even mean that anything is actually appearing — in the end, because there’s no one separate from the infinite to know that.

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What you're describing here is that you aren't any thing in particular, you just are. Not any "thing" that is present. Just "I am" -- as in not any particular existent thing.

Bhante Vimalaramsi's technique. Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation, as he calls it.

^^^ @Ulax I approached Metta in quite a similar way to Nahm's comment. Learned from Bhante Vimalaramsi. TWIM is the practice I'd recommend if one has already decided to practice Metta, fwiw. It seemed to be associated with very highly agreeable side effects. Just good all around.

Something implies finitude, which is not actually something that exists beyond an appearance of the infinite. "Nothing" is just an idea. "Absolutely Nothing" (but not merely the idea of such) might as well be infinity (by definition and by necessity, all there is) since it has no qualities and therefore has no limits.

I don't have much experience with salvia, but I have plenty of experience with both ketamine and 5-MeO-DMT -- they can uncover the same glimpses, but via radically different experiences.