Oppositionless

I've thought about this. It sounds great to have one person im in love with plus a few groupies . But unless I also let my girl have groupies I'm a hypocrite , and I dunno if I could do that, so I'll prolly stick to monogamy.

That's why I said NDE is the bardo . According to the Tibetans the bardo is a hallucination. Not a hallucination happening in a brain ofc. But a hallucination before whatever comes next. What comes next can't be imagined or conceptualized, when you lose the reference point of being an individual it's beyond description.

NDE experiences map really well to the Bardo as described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Bardo is a transitory realm, not the true "afterlife."

Leo gura

Fuck no dude. In fact if you have a craving all the more reason to stay away. Maybe if you didn't have a craving (still would be a terrible idea) it could be fine. even something as benign as weed can ruin your life if you're a real addict. And the only way you know if you're a real addict is by doing drugs. And then if you are you're fucked.

even if they have zero chance of happening, the fact that those positions are stated hurts their candidates (even tho the candidates don't care for them), unfortunately.

Good. For sure I think several of DSA's positions are stupid, but overall I like them a lot better than the status quo.

26 and I've been around since I was 16. I feel younger now than I did a few years ago bc I've dealt w much of my trauma.

@Meeksauce doesn't sound like you asked her out. Maybe she doesn't even know you're into her? Is this someone you've known for awhile? Chances are she has no clue you're interested or maybe she sort of suspected it but now it's been so long she assumes not anymore. I make the same mistakes tho. I have this mental block where I don't ask women out, altho part of it is the women I'm attracted to are part of my spiritual community, and if I go to bars I usually get too shitty so I avoid them at least for now . I'm a bit too passive I think , I want them to come to me. I think if I just had a sober wingman it would be so much easier

@Jirhl didn't say you're psychotic what I meant is that what I experienced when I was psychotic was an elevated version of what you're experiencing . The pattern matching , the overblown signicance. It's a very similar mechanism , the difference is the extremity.

That's prolly the scientific explanation but maybe there's the same. I might read the book dharm4 mentioned at the top of this page to work up to it maybe then it'll be chill. Sprinkinling it in for me looks like doing Nadi shodhana and Maha mudra before doing do nothing zen meditation.

No I understand what he's saying even tho I disagree with his conclusion. Experiencing telepathy when you're psychotic having a bad trip is traumatic . I believe in psi because of the research but I don't necessarily want to experience it, at least not in the context I mentioned.

The point is that whatever field you want to pursue , awakening will make you better at it. Unless your field is unethical.

Seals are my favorite animal so I'm glad they're getting more popular thanks to Neil. cats are a close second

I've been psychotic and there are def some superficial similarities but I'd say when I've been psychotic it's very much the ego being God at the exclusion of others whereas in awakening the ego isn't present at all so it's just God. Also awakening is rly peaceful psychosis is pure chaos, at least for me. To be clear I think psychedelics can do BOTH so I really am cautious with them now and haven't tripped in months.