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That sounds cool. Although, complete lucidity seems to be necessary for you to even think about yoga while dreaming. Can you dream lucid on a regular basis?

It all comes down to why you do it in the first place. Here, its meant to be a useful tool to have spiritual insights, when the classic psychedelics and methods wont work well for you. Thats the main point of this forum section. To share ideas and concepts, which might help someone, who searches. And if you are serious about this work, nitrous wont make you addicted what so ever. At this level of spiritual work, the only addictive thing is truth. Nitrous is not truth. Its a tool to gain glimpses of truth at best.

The argument was about the structure of a fact, rather than the content of a specific fact. I think he took this radical example because he talked about structure vs. content so often that really wanted to make it clear now.

@OBEler depends on your dose. If you took a large dose you can enter absolute nothingness and God realization even when your trip seems to be over. I've never tried it during peak, but even hours after the peak it will completely shatter your materialistic paradigm.

@Leo Gura Of course LSD can be enough - just depends on the dose. But with a common dose of 200mcg of LSD you won't really have an ego death right away. Let alone an entire God realization. And because most people start with low doses, but want to experience the God head anyways, I find this combination very suitable for beginners. And let's face it - most psychonauts are just beginners.

@The0Self thanks for the deep clarification. I have never used it more than once every two months. I will be aware of this issue from now on.

@Thought Art Im 100% behind what you said. But as I pointed out in my reply this combination can't really mess up your trip. Because after about 20 seconds everything is over. There are no long lasting effects. You even forget directly what you just experienced, just this incredible feeling of love will stay there for the rest of your trip. That's the only reason I bring this combination up.

Because God wants to know how it is to be you. Maybe he has a big plan or no plan. Anyways he loves to be you. Thats why God is so persistent in imagining you. He absolutely loves everything about you.

I also want to point out what im usually strict against combining psychedelics with other substances. Only because I have done both substances often enough and many times in combination i dare to propose it here. However do it at your own risk. Be extremely careful with it and do your research about both substances.

If you just want to have fun and enjoy the visuals, get yourself an amazing trip playlist, some fruits and go into nature. If you want to have deep, life altering insights, forget about all that. Meditate, calm your mind and watch the video linked above. Thanks @TheAlchemist for sharing it here - this one on a psychedelic will knock you through the floor. One tool i always have prepared for a trip is nitrous oxide (N2O), which can be consumed out of capsules after about 2-3 hours into the trip with a balloon and a capsule crusher. If you inhale the nitrous out of the ballon for as long as you can (till you really have to breath again), you can have a feeling what 2000 mcg of LSD would feel for about 10 seconds. You will become directly conscious of infinity, eternity, nothingness - GOD. Its legal and its quite easy to consume. However do research at your own and read some trip reports about that. Its worth it.

Of course there is this linear explanation of sleeping for the body to replenish its capacities. And even more important is the role of sleeping as a mechanism to set up your brain for the next day. You even feel this "freshness" in your brain after having a good amount of sleep. But as we know the brain is actually an illusion and doesn't influence our ability to be conscious by the slightest. So i expect there to be a more profound and spiritual explanation to sleeping. Maybe during sleep we have some sort of ego death, which allows our consciousness to re-connect with infinite consciousness for a while, in order to be conscious normally, without getting eaten alive by the ego mind. But as im writing this, there are many more explanations coming up. So I wonder what Leo has to say about sleep and why its such an integral part of our lifes.

Detached self esteem from others. For example their husbands, children and friends. Even though it seems nice to be "help" others, ultimately it stops a woman from reaching her maximum potential of creativity and love - which i find most attractive. This one is hard for most women to actualize, cause women have this strong urge to derive their value and self esteem through how "social" and "supportive" they are. Likewise men derive their value and self esteem subconsciously through how competent they are in being the "breadwinner" and having a powerful influence on others. Both attachments will lead to a decreased growth in creativity, joyfulness and ultimately love.

Today i've gone through several God-Realizations, with a near death experience included. The love and the compassion for reality are just bursting now. Feels quite remarkable to remember the illusory nature of this dream again. But still, im completely in love with dreaming into illusion again. This time with a little more baseline consciousness. My question now: Do you guys also have this incredible desire to show your loved ones (parents, siblings, friends) this God consciousness? This is my ultimate goal right now, to bring consciousness and this immense love into the lives of everyone. So be welcomed to share some examples how you've already helped others to increase their consciousness

@Bodhitree thanks a lot for your words. Especially what you said at last me happy and joyful. I'm so excited to see what life is ultimately up to

Seems like someone got a little wiser here The even cooler part about this duality is, that there are many more truths you can discover about the duality of pleasure and pain - this game of becoming an inch more wiser about reality keeps playing for ever

@Thought Art Sounds fantastic. To intuitively know that health, calmness and "a good posture" in life is important for enlightenment to happen is one of the main signals, that enlightenment is happening right now. I wish you the best brother to find a creative way to teach that

I experienced similar synchronicities and strange patterns, while tripping. For example right after i had a huge insight during a heavy LSD trip, the music box on my wall formed into a friendly face which smiled to me and said something like: "yeah you got it! congrats!" and vanished directly after. However, be aware that your mind has an incredible capacity to interpret reality and make meaning out of it. Especially on psychedelics this "interpreting muscle" gets on steroids, if the dose is not too high or too low. Do you know about the "Rorschach Test"? Its this test, where random patterns of ink are splashed over paper and people tell what they see. They recognize animals, faces, plants and even their own family or friends. But guess what never happened? That people actually found no interpretation. Because the mind hates to "not interpret" reality. That is his function. Thats why it has been made. To a certain point psychedelics charge up this interpreting mechanism, and after a "critical dose" your mind will lose its job. Which is also known as ego death. And if you crank up that dose even more, you will eventually enter the infinite mind, which doesn't judge if something is good or bad, threatening or pleasant, which just is. In its pure infinity.

Struggling with that as well. Eckart Tolle said boredom is the groundwork for distraction. And distraction serves the ego mind, in order for it to have a job. After all, what's the point of the ego, when you are completely fine with doing and thinking nothing. So boredom is the first line of defense of the ego for it's survival. However, embracing boredom and "making friend with boredom" leads to being completely fine with doing and thinking nothing. But there are many ego backlashes and distraction periods ahead, before someone reaches that level in our distractive environment. There are many sources, which claim that boredom is actually a good thing. It boosts your creativity, makes you more conscious and more sensitive for the beauty of reality.

Billions of people were murdered, tortured and gave their life for religious ideas and believes. And even today billions navigate their life's after religious ideas. Most of these ideas are just corrupted mystical insights massacred by the human ego mind to serve it's survival. So how exactly can billions of people have been so wrong about the basic truth "you are god".

@peanutspathtotruth you're probably right. Tolkien also re-used a lot of stories and pictures from mostly middle-northern European mythology. This phenomena of someone telling partial truth can be dangerous if this someone is not a fictional author. Especially in self-help circles, teachers can have a deep understanding about some topics and talk with the same seriousness about other topics, which they don't understand the slightest. I have fallen into that trap a lot in the past. I hope this fallacy is diminished here at Actualized.org

@RMQualtrough Exactly. Thats the function of your human ego mind to limit your ability to experience infinity (every perspective there is) to only your finite first person view. However here I'm just parroting Leo. I've never actually experienced infinity yet. I just realized how my first person view is completely imaginary, and how even other human beings are just completely imagined. I come back when I discovered my/your/our infinite nature.

I knew about the deep Silmarillion lore already some time ago and wondered if Tolkien was enlightened to tell his story about the nature of his fiction similar to how our actual reality functions. Some serious genius this man.

Open your mind to the possibility, that every human being, including your parents, your siblings, your friends and even Leo are just imaginary. Your human mind won't surrender to that reality so easily. High levels of consciousness are needed. A thousand hours of videos about Solipsism won't reveal this truth to you. This can only be experienced outside of the conceptual mind, which your mind doesn't like. On that path your mind will tell you that this is just wishful thinking or some funny concept someone found interesting. Don't be distracted by that. That's the game.

Today i discovered "Tempeh" as a very nutricious and delicious protein source as an alternative to meat and fish. Its made from fermented soy, but tastes more like buttery fried potatoe. It has about 20 grams of protein per 100 grams, which is important for me in order to grow some muscle. Its not cheap, but affordable. About 1,70€ for 100 grams. We are just so used to the cheap processed meat, so its hard for any new product to match these prices. There are also good meat alternatives, which are made out of bean protein. But its pretty regional, where these alternatives are sold. We are just at the beginning of the meat revolution. So please let me know, if you guys have other cool protein sources, which are healthy and affordable. The taste is not extremely important for me right now. Although if it tastes great like Tempeh, than its a must have for me.

I'm the one with the monk haircut ?‍? But know how it is, I'm the other one as well ❤️