Federico del pueblo

Because you did not dream him up to do so. Just like when you're 5 ft 9 tall you're dreaming yourself up to not be 6 ft tall (as God, not as an ego).

@davecraw I have no idea of Solipsism (as in direct experience) but I'd still like to point out what I think you might be getting wrong (according to what I understand Solipsism means). The way the word Solipsism has often been used here (in my understanding) is as follows: when you are experiencing your life as "davecraw" then davecraw's bubble of perception (or pov) is all there is. Everybody else is a figment of your consciousness. It's like God creating all of your experience out of "dream stuff" (i.e. consciousness) while simultaneously being unaware that it is creating it. When you then awake you become aware of how you're creating reality as God, but in this moment your identity is not "davecraw" anymore, it's everything which you are perceiving. According to this model of reality I'm just a dream character without my own pov, I'm simply however you dream me up to be (you as in God, not the illusory davecraw). I personally don't believe that this is how reality works, but consider that I also don't know how it actually works, I merely have some kind of intellectual understanding of different models of reality. Now I don't know why you'd think that I should be able to tell you your 4 digit code within this model of reality called Solipsism, if anything that would be true for what is typically called "oneness", where reality is just one big thing that includes you and others, at least as illusions. Within this "oneness" model you'll typically hear things like "I am you" "We are all one" and so on. Though it's important to understand that this does not literally mean "Federico = davecraw" in the finite, relative sense. It means something more like this. Any separation between you and me is an imagined limitation. This imagined limitation exists because God dreams it up. One does not simply overcome this limitation by trying very hard to see your 4 digit code in my mind (as Federico) because that's what "Federico" means. "Federico" is just a dude bro, he's not some psychic with paranormal powers unless God imagines him to be this way. Federico could awaken to God though and become God. But if he does that he's not going to be Federico anymore (in the typical exclusive sense) because the imagined boundaries of Federico will have dissolved and then consciousness becomes aware of what consciousness is, which is everything, which is God. But God is then not going to sit there and be like "oh shit...but now I really have to proof to davecraw that I know his 4 digit code - through Federico"...no! God doesn't care about such petty human ego nonsense in its fully awake state, only as an ego unaware of God it would want to do that. Also: God already knows your 4 digit code - as you! Do you know your code? If so, God knows your code. It's more like you are a water molecule in the ocean and I'm a water molecule in the ocean. So we can experience ourselves as that molecule or as the entire ocean, but when we are the entire ocean we're not gonna be concerned about the state of a single molecule. But then please also consider that people actually have experienced very extraordinary things in very expanded states of consciousness where they were indeed not limited by the ordinary limits of time and space. Like someone is on a couch in one city having a high dosed lsd trip, but within this lsd experience travels to a completely different location thousands of miles away, where he can derive extremely specific information about that other place even though he's never physically been there. Or 2 people tripped at the same time and were able to read each other's thoughts and could later confirm to each other what they were thinking during the trip. So crazy "paranormal" things do happen within consciousness too. I hope this does help somewhat.

Those are some pretty crazy experiences you mentioned there. I'd assume that you're balls deep in things like meditation and/or yoga, right? Anyway I wonder if any of these experiences mean anything or if they point to anything. Like in my example with the entity giving me this very specific date and telling me that "I must choose somebody who suffers instead of me", is this complete fantasy nonsense or potentially meaningful stuff?

Excellent! Good idea, had the same experience myself (nothing happening in a holotropic breathing session), but it could in fact take several times. Would be curious to know whether now, after having opened my unconscious mind several times with lsd, unconscious stuff would come to the surface more easily with holotropic breathing work ? Feel free to report back here if either psychedelics or the breathwork yield any kind of results for you.

@Lana Faye I want to add a somewhat more controversial view here, just in case nothing else helps you might want to contemplate whether this stuff could be relevant: If you study the work of Stanislav Grof (a psychiatrist and the "godfather of LSD therapy") you will learn that the process of giving birth can potentially bring up the emotions and sensations you felt during your own birth (which is a type of trauma that virtually everybody has according to Grof, it just won't necessarily create obvious problems later in life because it is repressed and thus unconscious). If you're interested check out what ChatGpt says in the added screenshots:

So you mean "trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad" with TDAH, as in adhd? ? Sure. This suggests that some specific work is necessary, apart from meditation. I don't know how you view the use of psychedelic substances, but I can just quickly tell you about my own experiences with lsd in the context of dealing with a chronic stress condition, which is a dysfunction of the nervous system. In my moderately dosed lsd trips tons and tons of stress come to the surface, it's like I open a barrel filled with stress and then the stress can flow out of it. My body reacts so strongly that I'm lying on the matrice twitching like a fish on land who's struggling because of the oxygen deficiency. I don't even get to where forgotten childhood incidents become conscious again because there is so much current or recent stress that comes up and gets abreacted by the body. It feels very healing though, like the anxiety is flowing out of me. So maybe you'd like to contemplate if that's an option for you too (be modest on the doses though, especially in the beginning). You'd have to research whether with your specific mental health challenge you'd be at an increased risk of suffering adverse effects from psychedelic states. Apart from that, meditation combined with some kind of regression therapy and maybe emotional freedom techniques (Eft) is what I would suggest.

@Recursoinominado is it general sort of vague anxiety or specific anxiety in response to specific triggers/situations? In general meditation is said to be effective in reducing anxiety, mostly due to neuroplastic changes in the brain, like a decrease of activity in the fear center of the brain (the amygdala in the limbic system) and strengthening of the prefrontal cortex which is involved in the down regulation of irrational fear responses from the amygdala. So basically your brain becomes more balanced from meditation. But it's important to understand that if your anxiety has significant roots in traumatic incidents or developments (especially during childhood) then you will probably also have to do more specific work, like trauma release techniques, UNLESS you become extremely advanced in meditation, because these memories and the formed associations are a root cause of your current anxiety even if the anxiety seems vague and unrelated (random).

That is progress my friend!

Thanks for being so honest bro. It's a relief to see that also you can admit that you don't know whether Solipsism is true or not even though in the past you were convinced that it was true. I don't know it either but I think that there are some experiences that might contradict Solipsism, like "people" who have had 100% authentic experiences of identifying as someone else (temporarily), to then come back to their normal pov. Even if the limits of someone's pov (the boundaries of the body, the ego and their sensory limits like sight and hearing distance) might be imagined, this doesn't mean that there can't be several (or many) of these limited "pov bubbles" so to speak.

@Husseinisdoingfine If you get immense value from the Buddhist books, then why do you care about what Leo says about Buddhism? Leo also tells you to think for yourself. What is helpful to you always depends on what your current level of development is. Leo basically tells you that Buddhism is just a map and that it "must" be transcended at some point, maybe also that there are certain traps or errors within the teachings, so you must stay careful and think for yourself. When you are very proficient at riding a bicycle then the support wheels are bullshit to you. If you're a 4 year old trying to learn riding a bike then support wheels can be a good initial help.

Not making sure I had a good setting, which lead to a bad trip of the kind where you don't benefit in anyway (as opposed to a "good bad trip" which promotes healing).

@integral I think mostly that you already start disconnecting from the outside world, i.e. all kinds of worldly distractions, a few days in advance, especially social media and low conscious by. In these days do sober what you will be doing on the substance the next day. Contemplate and meditative, become clear about your intention. Maybe check whether you still have certain fears regarding the psychedelic state and clear them out.

@Bazooka Jesus or live in timelessness ?

@Razard86 I'm stunned by how much time you have to write all these essays. Wow Bro!

@Bazooka Jesus

@RebornConsciousness to whom did you reply?

@Theplay ? haha...you guys are just...special...to say the least

@StarStruck @StarStruck lol! ?

And yet I'm loving it... it's all just love too. Infinite love ❤♾

@Yimpa Ok, consciousness is imagining all this. Though, "nobody" is simply gonna transcend their entire human story by knowing that it's imagined (unless it's an actual awakening experience). E.g. if you have trauma, then your consciousness is affected by the trauma. You don't just unthink your trauma just because you understand that it's "imaginary". So I would rather provide somebody with concrete steps to overcome their trauma as opposed to repeatedly telling them "you're imagining your trauma", simply because it's more practical and helpful. I feel on this forum the insight of "everything is just imagination" is often just used either as a way to justify spiritual bypassing or as a way to say "I don't know the solution for your problem so I'll just tell you it's imaginary", probably often even by people who haven't even realised these things for themselves and are just parroting what Leo says in his videos.

So just so I understand you right: if I ask you "what did you do yesterday?" and let's say you try to give me a normal, relative (I.e. not the nondual "only the eternal now exists") kind of answer. When you go in your mind to remember what you did yesterday this is the only actual time you experience whatever you think you did yesterday? Your memory is just pure imagination/an invention of the mind and your yesterday's experiences never happened?

@Hojo makes sense!

@Someone here I think that we can't. You must believe something like "my body needs water to survive" to actually drink it. Probably the fact that it has worked well so far (you've been drinking water and haven't died from thirst) is enough for you to believe it's true. Imagine where it would take you if you were deeply doubtful about these most basic things ?

I was aware that they had been raided, but I think it must have been unwarranted. They are the only ones (that I know of) that provide different vendors with the lsd analogues and you can still buy these substances from different vendors without any problems even though that raid was already like half a year ago.

https://lizardlabs.nl/ Lizard labs seems to be completely back to normal business. Where do you have the info from that they exported tons of heroin to the US?