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Don't like this idea of going somewhere in order to be spiritual I see this with many SD green folk. They think they have to sign up for a spiritual retreat, travel to india, be part of a new age commune etc. in order to be spiritual. But that is the opposite of what Spirituality is. You are making a distinction between a retreat and your home, which is not very spiritual. Turn your place into a retreat, that would be my recommendation I mean if it was something like a dark room retreat, where you would need help from an outsider, alright. But with a normal meditation retreat, I don't see the point. Although probably still a cool experience

Reality being infinte means it is one The reward is Selflessness/Heaven. But selfishness is the opposite. How can you be "rewarded" with Selflessness when you are busy being selfish? Like I said in my comment above, there are no devils in heaven Also when we are talking about "being selfless", we don't necessarily mean "acting selfless" in the world. You can act selfless in the world and not be selfless. When you sit down to meditate, that is >not< you being selfish. We have to distinguish these two. When I say selfless, I don't care much about how you behave in the world. Acting selfless in the world is a result of being selfless. Not the other way around. Just wanted to make that clear

Selfishness is the "punishment". When you are selfish, you are not being truthful. Therefore existing "outside" of truth which then creates suffering. Suffering is a reminder that you are being stupid. The suffering is proportional to your degree of selfishness. But most people take on a victim role when they suffer, not understanding the suffering. They externalize the reason for their self created suffering which turns them even more into a victim. It is a vicious circle. They want to be selfish and get away with it, which of course is a fools approach to life. There are no devils in heaven. Heaven is a devil-free zone, reserved for angels only When you are extremely selfish, you are indirectly saying >no< to yourself as God. And God won't give it's full Love to you, when you say no to it. You will only get 0,01%

Because in order to define something you need contrast. Without contrast you can not define anything. God is undefined because it is a singularity. Imagine if everything in reality was panited in white. You wouldn't be able to define white as white. Because what creates white is the contrast between white and something non-white

I wouldn't mix substances

If you are doing low to mild dosages, i would say no. But once you go into the high to very high territory, yes

@Gregory1 Don't do 5g, you will loose your mind

I went from 2g to 4g of golden teacher. It was so intense. Everything was coming to an end in the most solipsistic way. No other, no universe, no reality. I remember cursing at you. 1 year later and am still recovering But the good news is, many things were realised in that single trip including that I am teotl

@Gregory1 mushrooms take a bit longer to come up. give it another 15 minutes

@Roy Ok and you watch the hubris of telling people that they are thinking they "get it" while others "don't". The "get it" was not a reference to me. I am not placing myself above him, it's just frustrating That's not how it works. You don't have to do anything for the insight. The insight is not bound to your sense making. You don't have to be an intellectual genius. In the moment it is crystal clear. It's like existing. Existence is not dependent on your sense making. Existence effortlessly exists. You don't have to think your way to it. The camel has to think calculus through in order to get it

You got it backwards. First you do the research and then place the order ? Room temperature (20-23 degrees celsius) and somewhere with a shadow

Oh boi, you ruined chocolate for me...

To me, Joe Rogan is spiritually underdeveloped. How can you experiment so much with psychedelics and still not "get it". He is not connecting the dots. At this point he should understand that death is not possible but he doesn't. It's like they are having those experiences without insights

Hannover, Germany

@Random witch agree to some degree

Right, the map is not the territory. But ideas about awakening is the map, of course you will get tired of it Totally understand what you are saying. The question is what does it mean to live life to the fullest? Life is happening on a level of being and spirituality is about getting you to those high levels. You can't really enjoy and take in this experience if you are not "highly conscious". It would be like wanting to enjoy a beautiful sunset with only two percent eyesight. That's what people generally don't understand. Instead of improving their "vision", they are busy hunting after the most beautiful sunset. No matter how beautiful the sunset gets, the magic of it will not get through to you due to your lack of vision

beautiful!

A transmission is a duality

That is one of the functions of philosophy By being an outsider, you become an insider of the Universe

"All that is required to realise the Self is a good dose of magic mushrooms" Ramana Maharshi

@Tim R yeah, seems like that book contains a lot of speculation. But the little boy in that picture is Wittgenstein. In the article it says that they artificially aged his face and the result was that it actually is him. No idea how that works haha

Whole foods

Well this test assumes that being unaffected when it comes to social rewards is a bad thing. Acting in a way where you know that other people will approve your behaviour seems more psychopathic to me. Adapting to certain rules and ways of behaving is necessary for a healthy society but I think most people cross a line where they overadapt without realising. The need to be normal and average can become so intense that that itself becomes pathological. The term for it is normopathy. The problem with normopathy is that most people are that way, so it is not even seen as a mental disorder

Are you Hannibal Lecter, Sir?