Gustav

I have a friend who can sense ghosts. She hasn’t given it much thought other than being uneasy and scared. I have encouraged her, saying she’s one among few who can. Told her she should develop her abilities and that she can help people, dead and alive. Help souls who are stuck to move on. Personally I have no such abilities so I can’t teach her anything. But she says she doesn’t know where to start and needs help. Can anyone help me/us and point in the right direction as to where to start, get more information or how to practice hearing and communicating with spirits/ghosts? How do you become a medium basically. Thanks

Still very diffuse.

So, Karma = conscience ? or Karma = domino effect ?

I'm not sitting in a kneeling position. I'm am trying to sit the yoga way with "legs crossed" with left heel under the perenium. Siddhasana with cushion.

When placing the heel under the perineum and sitting on it in meditation, it hurts and creates a burning sensation on the heel from the pressure. You know similar sensation like when folding your leg under your body and sitting on it; it burns and falls asleep and circulation is cut. It it supposed to hurt or go away after some practice or what?

If you are the mad scientist, please unplug my brain from the vat now please.

How? Who? And why? Someone gotta explain this!! I am talking on a forum. Behind the words is a person like me answering my questions. Of course, as a matter of direct phenomenological experience, I have an idea of a person and simply a screen in front of me. But how is that the same thing as calling it imagination? And in what way is it my imagination? Why would I imagine "a guy on the internet" when it’s a lot simpler to imagine 5-MeO in my hand, which I don’t have. This is solipsistic hell to me.

If you’re talking about life purpose or creating something for others then sure, I think about that. I’m taking Leo’s course and I have some ideas. Probably my field is education in some fashion. Five things could be: reform mainstream education, build a school in Nigeria, write a novel that inspires, donate to charity, coach depressed people. I can get excited by the image of these things. But in this thread I’m not particularly interested in getting more inspired and happy. I was simply wondering what is meant by dreaming and waking up and my role in it or the bearded man in the clouds or whatever... I’m a cartoon with a red chimney on my head reading this.

Sigh... Right. And what do I do with this information?

"I am a trickster? Here we go again, it’s my fault as always" is what I think. I know you don’t mean that, but this is what I hear. Again I would snap my fingers to become awoke if I could.

@Nahm Hmm, you need to elaborate just a bit cause I don’t understand what you mean. I can come up with words like happiness, peace, fulfillment, joy, spontaneity, aliveness, excitement.....

@The0Self I appreciate the advice, thanks! I have just begun taking psychedelics so I’m gonna experiment more with shrooms and LSD first, MDMA maybe mescaline and then work my way up to DMT and 5-MeO. I’ll probably do some trip report then.

@Inliytened1 Well.... yes. But also, no.

This is exactly the kind of words that make me depressed. How can enlightenment come too early? Too early for what exactly? If it destroys suffering, how is that ever a bad thing? And if some kind of anthropomorphic force or demon or Zeus is conspiring and holding me back, what is the point in that? But there is no bearded man in the clouds, or is there? It sure feel like the universe is conspiring against me.

@Inliytened1 Not yet and I play with the thought, whether or not it will do more good than bad for me right now on my journey. I don’t want to destabilize my psyche before I have some basic psychological infrastructure to fall back on as well as meeting "survival needs". Maybe 5-MeO will help with all that and I am mature enough, but I don’t know for sure.