The0Self

Almost. Yes, you are God, and dream the entire universe... But there aren’t humans period. It’s not just that there aren’t other humans. There is just no real position (as you say), but an apparently real position may be dreamt in order to experience (just a story; there isn’t actually cause and effect).

@billiesimon It’s as if, on top of that story-less void, sits the mind of God — unknowing knowing the unknowable into existence.

@Heart of Space LOL ? dude!.. I was totally blanking earlier... Now I remember that movie! Yeah, it was a spiritual masterpiece. Perfect allegory of seeking and enlightenment.

So I can now clearly extend my consciousness into a psychedelic state while sober. It's much more clear headed, but it's just it. Follow: What is this? Typing apparently happening? Happening in what? Happening as this. What is this? Time appears -- it's only a thought. What is this? It's everything. Why can't I see it? Oh yeah, who would see everything? It wouldn't be everything if it was seen by someone apart from everything. But I'm seeing it now. Oh wait, it looks like "I'm here," so I must be that someone... who I just determined doesn't exist apart from everything. Oh yeah, this is just what is; there is no where else, there just might be a thought that someone is here in a part of this everything. Here it is: There is only everything -- all times and places, with or without identification thought outcroppings -- these outcroppings are unneeded and imaginary. There's no need for anything to happen. Nothing is moving. This is just all times and places and an apparent person might extend from one of them to find itself. There is only all. Nothing moves. Ever. Again, this is all times and places, stationary. You aren't there, and this isn't moving. Again, this isn't moving. Everything is stationary. It's complete. There's nowhere else. There's nothing in it, or apart from it. This is everything

This is actually somewhat similar to what mine used to be like. Now it’s never anything like that — it’s always oneness; void; God; timelessness; infinite empty stationary appearance; decontextualization; entire universe obviously right here; etc.

The more perfect the pointer, the less it says anything of substance. Here’s about the emptiest possible lol: “Just is, but doesn’t need to be.” Pointless pointer.

No problem! I’d say energy went from a 6-7 (out of 10) average and sometimes a 2, to an 8-9 avg and sometimes a 5. The extremes of tiredness were basically eliminated. And less hallucinations upon going to sleep (narcolepsy). And contemplation became more effective but that could have happened despite the chelation. Its hard to judge before and after. The main thing is I just “felt better” to a degree.

Heart conductivity issues. And eventually on a fast, your blood pressure will crash unless you consume a lot of sodium — which is basically perfectly antagonistic against potassium so you’d just be detracting from what you’re trying to achieve with the sodium.

Right on brother! I’ve never been too isolated from a success mindset, though success hasn’t been a high priority for me, but now...it is.

Ultimately, there’s no observer, nor observed, nor even a process of observation. There’s only what appears, devoid of any value or need.

Psychedelic ego death for me I’d usually describe after the fact as a recontextualization and/or falling-away of all context (including the personal memory bank), associated with all substance abruptly and instantly emptying from what appears, including awareness, meaning, and time, such that there’s just what apparently happens, with nothing in it, and it is what it is, but doesn’t need to be what it is, because there’s no context. As if all there is, is the raw infinite starting empty-but-full canvas of experience, floating in and as emptiness, “prior to” any movement, separation, or fixed position of any kind.

A very special one — subjectivity. It’s not real though, so no it’s not really an object.

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However, the subject is actually a kind of object. The question isn’t definitively answerable.

It’d be a story to answer this. Observer is the observed. Except that’s false from a particular perspective. There’s no such thing as a real perspective.

Oh yeah, that's a glimpse. Someone read my mind and gave a trip report? lol That's exactly what happens to "me" on disso's man. Small world .

Preferably to be done on psychedelic, but you can give it a try whenever. Notice apparent time passing. Practice taking a mental snapshot of your moment to moment experience. Not just of vision, but of all 5 senses and mind and the whole shebang exactly as it is. Just take some of these snapshots. Take a snapshot. Ever let go of a helium balloon outside and just watched it just get farther and farther away? Watch that snapshot get farther and farther away. Keep watching it. Imagine hearing the jeopardy theme song playing in your head as you do this.

Call it serendipitous... ? But no, it's not integral.

I plan to start actually caring about this kind of stuff again. Seems it might be wise.

I didn't get side-effects at any dose even a single bit. Maybe slightly increased energy lol. Apparently not everyone gets them, though I probably didn't have much heavy metal in my system -- I just wanted to get all traces out. It seemed to have clear positive effects on the psychedelic experience, meditation, fatigue, etc. Also it seems it made astral projections far less frequent, which could be considered a profoundly negative side-effect, but astral projections are associated with REM sleep, which I as a narcoleptic have to pass through every night before losing consciousness, and the chelation seemed to mitigate the effects of narcolepsy.

There is no need whatsoever to do this, even if they're asking for it. Certainly not when they're not asking for it. How do you even know you'll like enlightenment? You won't even be there to experience it.

Damn certain you are mistaken. Even I have achieved this. While of course using DMT now would produce a much higher state than mostly anything possible sober, states I can produce now "sober" (without chemicals/plants/substances) blow DMT-5-years-ago out of the water. The same thing is probably true for Frank Yang. Pretty sure he can enter 8th jhana at will -- I've never been there once. Honestly I feel like you may not have heard that, or realize just how wrong you are about what you said (just saying, not judging or anything). Even 3rd jhana blows DMT (as it's usually experienced) out of the water. If you have the consciousness to get into 3rd jhana, you can probably manufacture the experience on DMT into an even more profoundly high state than that, but jhanas in general are insanely higher states than most peoples' DMT experiences, and full insight into emptiness is in a sense, even higher.

My thoughts exactly.

That's a great practice. "2. Whenever you’re aware of an intention to control your attention, drop that intention." -- drop (relax) that intention is still an intention. It's congruent with what I wrote (the first part, anyway). Perhaps. Witnessing is kind of a damn high state though. Even jhanas usually come before it. It's often confused with enlightenment. It's on the edge of the end of experiencing. It's almost certainly what Shinzen refers to as the "figure ground reversal." But yeah, perhaps. It's quite undeniable when it happens.

Simply, I think that was rather a case of seeking going too far.