Nemra

What movie have you recently watched, or are you now watching? I have yet to finish watching the movie "The Irishmen".

@ExploringReality, doesn't solipsism sometimes haunt you? Sometimes during the day, when I'm busy, I remember it out of nowhere and it shocks me to the core, realizing that the other is an illusion, my point of view of experience is absolute, and every day I deceive myself about the opposite. It can get unsettling while talking with others at the same time. I'm more talking about solipsism, which is beyond the human state.

@ExploringReality, I heard about "increasing variation" from John Vervaeke.

It seems that Leo tries to increase contextual variation, which makes us think for ourselves and find out what is invariant.

Responses to sneezing, such as "bless you", etc.

Wasn't baptism the cause of Jesus's awakening? To me, it's plausible that being out of breath under water might cause awakening. However, people made a stupid ritual out of that, thinking if it worked for Jesus, it would work for themselves too. There's a whole culture around Christian parents baptizing their children. People build identity around being baptized. For Christians, being baptized means sprinkling or pouring water over your face with some special water.

The halo assumes that the person is awakened or enlightened.

He's ironically deceiving those types of people. I don't even remember the time when I'm watching the series. I like it so much that I could watch multiple videos of that series that might add up to 5-6 hours in one go.

I want to remind you to watch John Vervaeke's "Awakening From The Meaning Crisis" series, which Leo recommended in his "John Vervaeke's Lecture Series" blog post. For me, it really brings clarity about why awakening has been pursued and the reason that psychotechnologies, such as psychedelics, meditation, etc., have been used. Haven't you noticed that you hear about psychedelics or meditation without understanding why they work the way they work for you?

You don't need anyone's approval of your sexuality.

I love how he has built his series. It's truly captivating and inspiring.

When you start taking responsibility for your life, hard work will be necessary. Life doesn't owe you anything.

He is just awesome.

I found that doing a deep, intense breathing exercise before smoking takes the trip to the next level! It cuts off my negative thinking and keeps me from getting lost in reactive mode. For me, it’s similar to a 5-MeO-DMT trip—clear-headed, with tingling sensations. That exercise puts me into a non-ordinary state, and then when I smoke DMT, the trip becomes insane, imaginary!

In this thread, I will share my DMT experience. The time has come!

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Lately, I watched the above documentary about their prison, and it is mental.

Merry Christmas and may we have more awakenings!

I have been smoking DMT while observing what was happening to my environment. That approach is very limiting, because my ego is waiting to react to what's happening, which makes me paranoid. A few minutes ago, I just zoomed out my attention to everything and OMG, I got blasted into Pure Consciousness and Dream. It's just ineffable. Of course, it also depends on the dose and the frequency of the tokes. I just smoke a very small amount (it's so tiny, less than 5 mg, that I need to do volumetric dosing to understand how much I'm taking in, however, I don't have a vaping device to test it) of DMT after every 2-5 minutes.

Yeah. To be honest, Solipsism can be terrifying beyond the human state.

The first one wasn't too bad. The second one was boring.

@Leo Gura, ok. I think I was worried that if Christian symbols are more salient to you, then you are likely to have beliefs in Christianity. For me, it would be difficult to know if a Christian genuinely had an awakening. Which Christian is open to powerful tools like psychedelics? Maybe very few.

@Leo Gura, I wanted to know whether or not it's because of religious indoctrination or for other reasons. It's interesting that even if you aren't a Christian, you can still unknowingly relate to Christian symbols to grasp yourself.

@nerdspeak, maybe my kindergarten wasn't as religious as yours. Although, I attended church.

@Leo Gura, my sense phenomena get weird when I start tripping, e.g., geometrical shapes form that I couldn't even imagine, melting sensations, etc. Is it possible that my mind likes or relates to the idea of weirdness, and then uses that to grasp itself?