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Seems like there's very little consensus here so it's hard to answer such a question, but... I strongly disagree with the red pill / manosphere / incel elements I see on this forum , and I'm basically certain that stuff will prevent both healthy relationships and serious consciousness work.

Doing Kriya I've noticed . If my entire back presses against a chair it's hard to feel the kundalini (as jc Stevens states). However, if just the bottommost part of my back presses a chair and the rest of the back doesn't, I feel the kundalini even more than if my whole back wasn't touching.

Yeah over on r/nonduality I see them practicing a lot of spiritual bypassing around the Epstein files. "This is just maya ignore it" type silliness. I'm also shocked by how many far right people are into this type of work, smh. Not that I'm against a far right person being interested in awakening, maybe if they take it seriously it'll cure them of being far right.

ChatGPT: When you imagine pausing all intense energy work and pranyama for a month do you feel: A: relief B: fear of losing progress C: something else me: 😅😅😅😅😅 also, I've fully decided (actually , it was revealed to me) that I'm going to be a life coach. My speciality will be men going through spiritual awakening. And men who want to improve their relationship with themself (and by extension their feminine), and men wanting psychedelic experience integration. I'm going to get my life coach certification from a 6 month program, as well as psychedelic integration training and potentially yoga teacher training . I want to give people actual spiritual practices that address their goals, not just a lot of talking. As an ENTP with a wealth of spiritual knowledge and nondual experience , I know I will kill it. But not *quite* yet, it's going to take a year or two of further practice. So that's my long term vision but for now I'm gonna keep building servers (maybe moving into software engineering like my degree? Seems unlikely given the market) and working on my awakening. And practicing using this forum and irl friends .

I do a lot of spiritual practices but some of them are closer to hobbies than others . Like tai chi and yoga. Duolingo, smash bros.

I wonder what would happen if you combined this with kriya yoga. I know from Ingram FK is super powerful, and I've verified myself the power of kriya. I was doing holotropic breathwork before my main kriya practice for a short time and that was ridiculously powerful . Too powerful , actually.

🌿 Tai Chi Kriya – Grounding Practice (Revised) A personal fusion drawing from tai chi, qigong, and kriya yoga. Not a formal or traditional system — offered as a practical daily grounding sequence. 1️⃣ Grounding Chi (Arc & Press) Purpose: Connect crown to earth, regulate energy, settle the nervous system. Posture • Feet hip-width apart • Knees soft • Spine tall • Awareness at the crown (Brahmarandhra) Movement • Inhale: Sweep arms out and up in a wide arc to overhead. • Exhale: Unfocus on crown. Turn palms down and press slowly down the midline, fingers extended as if smoothing a wall of air. • Feel the energy descend into the belly and feet. Repetitions: 6–12 slow breaths. 2️⃣ Heart Tapping with Sound (Revised) Purpose: Clear and activate the heart center, balance emotional energy. Posture • Stand or sit upright • Shoulders relaxed • Hands lightly cupped 🔹 Phase 1 – Left / “Ha” • Continuously tap the left upper chest with the right hand. • Keep a steady, rhythmic tapping. • Simultaneously vocalize “Haaaa” continuously for about 1 minute or whatever is comfortable. • Breath releases through the sound. • Let it feel cleansing and clearing. 🔹 Phase 2 – Right / “Yam” • Switch sides. • Continuously tap the right upper chest with the left hand. • Vocalize “Yammm” continuously for about 1 minute or whatever is comfortable. • Let the sound resonate and vibrate in the chest. • Feel expansion and coherence. Repeat the two phases as many times as needed (2–5 rounds). 3️⃣ Archer’s Pose (Dynamic Stability) Purpose: Grounded power, direction, embodied confidence. Posture • Step into a bow stance • Front knee bent, back leg strong • Hips square Arms replacement: • The arm matching the front foot is the bow arm — it extends to the side (left if left foot forward, right if right foot forward), not straight ahead. • The opposite arm draws back at shoulder height as if pulling the bowstring. • Gaze steady over the bow hand. • On the exhale, release — envision an energy arrow of positive intention shooting forward. Breath • Inhale to draw • Exhale to settle and ground Hold 3–5 breaths per side. Alternate 3–6 times. 🌎 Suggested Closing Stand quietly with hands resting on the lower belly. Breathe naturally. Feel weight in the feet and spaciousness in the chest. Tips: “Ha” often ties to heart/lung clearing in sound healing/Qigong traditions; “Yam” is the seed mantra (bija) for the heart chakra in yoga/Kriya. Keep taps gentle—more vibration than force. Stop if any discomfort arises.

@Lazarus93 interesting point about losing the fear of death. I believe this also leads to losing the fear of life, they're one and the same fear, in a sense. Biologically all fear is rooted in the fear of death , so dealing with that helps to remove other fears (although not in a simplistic or all-encompassing way). One of the coolest awakenings I've had was awakening to intelligent design, for me this actually happened on a 7 day meditation retreat, not while on psychedelics. It was really beautiful , the Zen center was in a gorgeous region of northern Oregon, I was looking at the trees and the sky and realized how it was all masterfully constructed by God / universal consciousness.

Omg . Ive never heard it said so bluntly. It makes so much sense . I think it's also about "purity" even though I'm not catholic anymore my ocd still thinks sex is a little dirty.

😊. Right. Who am I to argue with destiny? lol. It's allll goood :).

I did lsd and mushrooms pretty extensively before 5 meo, they definitely motivated me but it was temporary . It has as much to do with where you are in life as the psychedelic. I think any psychedelic would work , depending on the person. Ram Dass began looking for his guru after doing lsd, for example . A hardcore meditation retreat could also work. Anything that gives you a substantial experience of awakening could work to motivate you to commit yourself to practice , in my opinion. I guess the advantage of 5 meo is you can take it more often than other psychedelics ... but that's also the downside, it's very easy to destabilize yourself (as I experienced, I wouldn't reccomend tripping as much as I did). Maybe it was more motivating for me because it more closely mimics the effects of spiritual practices, lsd and shrooms produce something visionary most practices don't, but it depends on the person.

Indeed. It felt so good not having any monkey mind , twice a week for two months, that I basically reoriented my entire life around making that my baseline. That's not to say I don't get discouraged. I'm well aware that after a year of practice I probably will have only raised my baseline by less than 1%. But I still know it's worth it.

@bazera I was doing very unfocused and sporadic practice before the 5 meo. Except contemplation , I have ocd and was doing too much of that. The 5 meo led to a spontaneous desire to do a lot of practices, yes. I became very disciplined about meditation and kriya. Whether it supercharged them I'm not sure, I had some weird experiences for sure, which settled down approximately a month after my last trip.

I think a lot of contemplation can lead to an awakening of the intellect, which is good- a lot of gurus don't have that, but ultimately to raise your baseline state of consciousness and see God requires a discipline of meditation and maybe some other stuff (like breathwork, yoga, etc).

My daily driver is kriya yoga, but taking Av Neryah's advice I immediately follow my kriya with do nothing meditation. In addition I do: yoga nidra (body scan heavy) hatha yoga tai chi / qigong I also went on a 7 day zen retreat (sesshin) and intend to go on another. The tai chi has a big effect on my kriya practice. I find it moves the energies raised by the breathwork very effectively . I also created elaborate metaphysical systems using logic, many many hours of that. I did a lot of 5 meo dmt over the course of two months and it led to me spontaneously doing all the spiritual practices I mentioned.