Mahyar

Sorry you asked this question from Leo, But I though I might have a good answer for it. It is nothing but a dream. All of it. The thought and the thinker, The seen and the seer. All of it. It's all consciousness, God. Whatever, you name it. It's infinite. It's ineffable. If you want to think in terms of something else other than a dream, you are just making the path that would ultimately lead back to here, Longer...

It's not because you are trying to hide anything from anyone or you are trying to be evil. It's because, when you take the obligation to keep all your progress towards enlightenment Secret to yourself, you are actually preventing from developing the "Self-Describing Narrative". This is another way ego gets on the way of making any breakthroughs during your consciousness work (Meditation, Yoga, Psychedelics). Because it basically wants to prove the world how good it is progressing towards enlightenment and how superior it is to others, it keeps recording the journey and reframing it in a way that want to be nice and share advice with others. I've found it's BS! You don't need to share anything with anyone. Just keep it secret and be laser focused on enlightenment. This culture of secrecy is something that gets focused on exclusively, in mystery schools. Part of it is to prevent the knowledge from leaking and get in the hands of evil people, but another aspect of it is internal and is very helpful in your journey. So this means, this is going to be my last post that I am sharing any insight about my journey. However, I will still be contributing in bringing knowledge and wisdom as I do the self-actualization work.

I had this issue and unfortunately I had no one to help me. So, I stayed away from any mind altering substance to find the sober state. I also started pushing myself back to living the mundane and forget about all the awakening and enlightenment stuff. But I did 2 things in particular that helped me significantly: Angelic Magick rituals - You might argue about that, and I understand where you are coming from. But the point is that, in the state of DP/DR you are really helpless. So, whatever that can help you get out of that state is a bonus. Though, the whole occult stuff, as powerful and useful they are, they carry a high potential to distract you from life and growth. You need to be careful and wise how you approach occult. I read the book : Exit the dream by Lucy Bain. It helped me to gain insight into what actually this condition is, what are the possible causes and what can I do to fix it. DP/DR in my opinion is a really silly ego game. I'm saying silly because the distance between your dissociated state and mindful and present state is only seconds but there is this chronic illusion that you are worlds away from a healthy state. But it is really frustrating because it's such a low state of consciousness that I can't imagine anything below that. For those who are on spiritual path, it probably happens after a glimpse of infinity and truth. The difference between those who get trapped with DP/DR is that those who don't they embrace the infinite ocean while the boundaries start to break, but those with DP/DR resist it and it feels rather traumatizing than liberating. After all, dissociation is a response to trauma or pain. Also, another thing I found was helpful in my escaping from it was that I stopped seeking the reason for why it happened. I was stuck in a cycle of obsessively looking back and reviewing the past few months to find the point before I dissociated, just to reboot into that state, but it never worked for me. The moment I decided to let go of the past and look forward, I started witnessing progress.

Thank you, I think you put it in better wording than I could. That's exactly right. And I am becoming conscious of this game of ego and it somehow annoys myself. I do tho love to share some tips but it takes mastery, as you said, to find that fine line. I have just started reading and posting in this forum and I am hoping that by engaging more, I can gain that level of mastery. Because I think it would be too rash to say no advice at all, while we know there are people who can indeed benefit from our advice. But mastering it is a whole new field.

It’s actually a very good question to ask. It’s a bit tricky and hard to explain. But when you meditate and your consciousness wants to expand, the sense of excitement that you get from the experiences, the similar feeling that you get excited to share your psychedelic trip and try to describe it, actually blocks you and then contracts the consciousness. It’s very subtle. The reason I’m sharing it ? … well if there is any other person suffering from the same thing that I’m suffering, can read this and benefit. Because it’s so subtle, you actually need to put this idea into experimentation and see how helpful it can be in practice. In theory it makes no sense.

Hello, I am starting this topic for a very good reason and that is the complexity of ego! I didn't come to this realization until after 7 months of living in "HELL" while my ego was parading! And the reason was rather simple: I overly underestimated how devil works. So here in this topic I would like to start with sharing with some of my own discoveries on how ego actually distracts and then ask you to share your experiences on your self-actualization journey. I have 2 main reasons for opening this topic: When you read other people's experience facing their ego, you can actually become wiser in your way of dealing with yours, When you engage in exposing your ego, you will automatically become more aware of the traps and you develop a higher level of mindfulness. In other words you become more structure-aware. Bookmark this post and come back often with new ones. I guarantee you, it's endless. There are certain practices that I found helpful in my understanding of how distraction actually works. One of them is choosing daily topics for contemplation and assessing your concentration on that topic. It's actually very simple. I like morning rituals, so when I start my days, I do some magick rituals and do my meditation and then spend 15minutes on contemplating on my own self-actualization. Before I leave home to work, I choose a theme to focus on, let's say today I am focusing on how temperature affects my mood. And then as I move through the day, I keep monitoring my mood and it's relation with the room temperature. Let's say I start the day at 8 and I remain focused until 10 and then I notice I have completely forgotten that I already have a task. Whenever I get distracted, I notice it and then return to the self-monitoring. But before returning, I rewind a little back to figure out how I actually got distracted. For example, I was focused, until I walked into a coffee shop to grab a coffee and I saw a beautiful lady and I started rehearsing in my head on how I would approach such people or even fantasizing in my head about xXx! No judgement. I just become aware of it and return to self-monitoring. I've noticed it just supercharges my concentration as well as helping me to become more and more aware of the distraction mechanism. The good thing about this is that when you do it repeatedly, over time, you actually can go meta. Meaning, for example, when first time you happen to have that experience in the coffee shop and the next day you have a similar in a business meeting, you can conclude that in general there is some sexual issues and if you actually embrace it as some problem that can be addressed, then you can work on it and level-up. The more you practice this, the higher you go in the hierarchy of ego-structure. Now, there are some exceptions for when you can suspend this practice temporarily. For example, you might be doing some focus-demanding task like reading, researching, meditating, contemplating, praying etc. During these moment you can let go of the self-monitoring but once you are done with the task, you return again. Make sure that task itself is not something that ego is fooling you that it is important and therefore you need to forget about the self-monitoring. Also become aware that how ego comes up with argument to convince you how silly this practice is. Think of it this way: Assume you have a pre-defined baseline focus and that is self-monitoring or in this example, becoming aware of the temperature changes and its effect on your sensations and mood. It is represented by "____" (underline) and then the secondary task is something that happens for a known period of time and is represented by "^". Now you all you need to do is to make sure once ^ is done your thoughts are not spread all over the place and you are back to __. And identifying, if that is not happening, what is the reason for why you didn't return to __. An ideal day should look like this ______^____^_^______^__^_____^____^______ A distracted day looks like this: ____^__&(#____#&#%^#$#^#$@#@^___ I hope you get the idea. For this topic to remain clean, I thought I will define some rules so we can all get the most benefit. Here they are: Please don't share feedback on other's reply. Only share your own thoughts Keep it simple as much as you can, just share the mechanisms in an elegant and clean bullet points Good luck!

Very interesting. I'm on board with you on that JP has gone astray and I'm still trying to figure out what keeps people like him from developing further. Maybe the toxic fame he received some years ago or maybe it's more complicated than that. But what I have been noticing recently which was really interesting, was that whenever I was drawn to JP talks it was somehow a reflection of my own level of consciousness. Without going any further, I want to draw this conclusion: The whole moralizing and demonizing people like JP can be a great barrier on our own growth. It can be a distraction! It can be a good reason for an uneducated ego to get blown up. After all, however idiot JP seems to be, he has a decent understanding of psychology even though he might not be conscious of half of it. Let's work hard on ourselves and not repeat the history with ignorant people like JP.

I took the Life Purpose Course in March 2021 and was shocked by how much I could potentially discover about myself. It was around the same time that I also ventured into the world of psychedelics. I got distracted by it and it actually ended up really bad. My ego (which I had never conceived of having - I used to always see myself as an angel) got blown up to the point that I was ridiculously arrogant and it pushed me to very dangerous realms. Thanks to that experience which was like 7 months in "Actual Hell", now I am willing to negotiate with myself and find a good point to set foot on the ground. Although I am strongly resonating with all that is in my Me sheet which I am going to share, there are some barriers that seem to be too big for me to handle. So I thought I will share it here and hear your suggestions and thoughts on the following questions: - The field of psychology is such that you need to be really on top of the game so you can make a decent money to support the actualization of such a serious goal. It is also difficult to structure a business by only relying on Psychology. So my question is: What are some complementary skills that could be learnt alongside with psychology in order to increase the marketability of your work? Any Examples? Any clues? - Are there any start-ups or movements that are already focused on this specific purpose or even similar, that you know of? If so, could you please list them here? and finally this question which @Leo Gura would probably be the best person who can shed some light on: - Another question that could be added to this me sheet would be: "What business model can you conceive that would incorporate all these aspects as a converging point?" Here is my question: Is contemplating with the aid of psychedelics (by psychedelics I am referring to low dose of LSD) going to help with breaking free from the box and get creative with some new ways and angles of thinking about the question above? How do you exactly contemplate with psychedelics? How is it different from contemplating with sober mind? What is the recommended dosage range for contemplation only? Thank you in advance for your guidance.

Perhaps, it would be much better to invent another word instead of using the word "God". The word "God" has so many background ideologies drilled into our minds from society. To understand what is being sought here, I found it easier to self-enquire without using language because language is also an invention of humankind and will impose limitations, but when you want to understand this stuff, you are going far beyond just humankind. It's much easier to make sense of it only if you detach from all the words and ideas that carry some charge from the past. it's about feeling and experiencing it. Any endeavour to "Know" God will fail you. It can only be felt and experienced. Also, this life and all there is, it's not "Created", Creation is something that requires another dimension which is time (And maybe some more), However, the "God" that we are looking for, has not created because it "IS", not made or created. Another way of thinking that I found very helpful, is having a sense of self-control and not rushing into just understand god, but releasing yourself from knowing just god. It's all about understanding what is this being like and approaching it from a different angle, it's like you are stepping into asking yourself infinite questions and suddenly something will click. If you also realize the interconnectedness of everything, you also realize that you (The human) is creating everything. and there is only one direction which everything is moving towards and only one thing can push one thing into a single direction. Another way that I found very helpful in understanding God, is letting go of any fear and surrendering yourself (Ego). You need to stop fearing any consequence from knowing god. "God" will not punish you for trying to know it. It in fact will reward you for trying to know it. And the reward is humbleness and your utmost love for everything. Stop looking into an unknown future from the point "now" and instead start looking back to a known lifetime from the point of "death" and once you do it, you realize you are creating everything. After all, becoming independent in your way of discovering Truth, and having confidence that you definitely can do it, will help a lot. I hope you find this helpful.

Hi Leo, It would be great if you could : - Make a video, Or - Recommend books On how supernatural phenomena is possible. I'm in the grey zone in believing in that stuff but I am fully aware of the reality and truth that you have been explaining in your videos. The only thing that sometimes pops in my head as an obstacle when I'm becoming conscious of the same reality that you talk about, is the justification of how could it be possible to dream about something that actually happens in future or for example how could it be possible for two people to pick the phone up at the same time after years and call each other. Is it related to astrology or ... ? I'm guessing, justification of that, would require the understanding of the fact that the higher the consciousness we achieve, the more things we become capable of doing. Or that's not something that we do and we are only interpreting them within our field of understanding?