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@zoey101 That's the spirit!

@MrDmitriiV We used to do this shit when we were kids. The same thing you describe but a friend would come from behind and wrap their arms around your stomach and on the hold breath they would squeeze and you'd pass out.

@Viking Yea that's right. If you run into them by chance just flip em the bird and they will make all your problems go away.

@Viking If you believe the problem is created internally than you need to reprogramme the negative patterns into positive affirmations or else you'll stay stuck in a vicious cycle. If you believe the problem may be due to outside circumstances than you need to consult the I ching. That's what I do when the situation seems like there is no answer to the immediate circumstances. You could be at a crossroad in life right now so what you choose to do could be important for the overall outcome.

@Viking Could be you ready for a breakthrough of sorts. Think of it this way. When a flowing river meets a waterfall, before the waterfall the water becomes turbulent. After the waterfall (breakthrough) the water is calm.

@Viking Well there you go! There must be plenty of lonely 60 year old widows with lots of experiance. They love the young flesh. It makes them feel young again. You'd be doing them a great service. Think of it as volunteer work.

@zoey101 It's a short video but the point made can change your entire life.

@zoey101 I just found this and thought of you.

@SoonHei You can come up with some good questions. Once you awaken you see the truth has always been there. Know this with total conviction: The absolute is all there is. You were asking about contemplating too. Here is something juicy to contemplate. I'm having somewhat of an enlightenment experiance now from contemplating it so just wanted to share so here it comes. None of this is real. I know, a real mind fuck it is. Enlightenment is in plain view but it's hidden the last place the ego dares to look because it will realize that it is unreal. Even the knowing that it is unreal, is unreal. I'm so deep right now I'm partially faded out of existence. This experiance of "I" is temporary. You know this. That is all the proof that is needed for it's unreality. Take a huge step- call it a leap out of this "experiance of reality" and into the absolute. That is what you are. "Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are" -Nis Contemplate that my friend and it will answer your question. Take it in so deeply that only the absolute remains. Liberate the consciousness don't confine it in a tempomporary state of self. Right now the "experiencer" that is me looks to be as if an interference pattern happening on consciousness. Does that make any sense? The word sense makes no sense right now. haha I wanna laugh my ass off. I'm trying to hold a connection here so I'm about 50-50. This must sound like a trip report but it's only contemplation. Contemplate that quote and dissolve into it. Whoa! You'll see.

@Leo Gura I totally agree. It's a meditative silence with a focused attention on a subject. Without the "subject" it would be meditation. The subject in my example was "All is God". For clarification tho it probably would be more accurate to say meditative 'stillness' on a subject.

@SoonHei You mentioning the trip reports. Just a hunch but you may want to search "microtubules". I have a feeling these experiences may be drawing from or connecting with latent information from within the DNA/ cellular structure, ect. Again-just a hunch.

@SoonHei I've heard stories of that too. People often refer to it as "downloads". Never had a direct experiance of that. What i'm referring to is the transcendence of all phenomenal knowledge and therefore all questions cease.

@SoonHei There is a level of conscious awareness where all questions cease because the questioner ceases to exist. Only the identity of a separate self has questions.

@Shakazulu Contemplation is not a conceptual understanding but a deep inner knowing that is found in meditative silence when one focuses their attention on a subject. For instance quieting the mind and contemplating "All is God". "A Buddhist sits is silence and waits for insights to arise" Contemplation goes through stages from gross to subtle that end in pure knowing: Focus on a thought Deeper quiet reflection Intuitive wisdom that is not verbal, visual or auditory Formless knowing

Anyone here like to spends nights out under the stars? I do. I'll put a cot out and lay on that with a sleeping bag/bed roll. And I lay there silently with the infinite vastness of the universe and dissolve into it. A union of sorts. A returning of the self to the cosmos. It works as good as a psychedelic for me.

@B_Naz @pluto @electroBeam @Outer @Dodo @Soulbass @Jack River @MarkusSweden @Joseph Maynor In the late evening- early morning of Aug. 12-13 the Perseid meteor shower will be happening. This year it's predicted to be especially active so if your interested put it on your calendar. You can find the best date and time to watch at your location.

@see_on_see Now that you mention this I did too the other night. I totally forget about it til now. I remember becoming conscious that I was tripping in my sleep.

@How to be wise The 5 senses see only the paint on the canvas". It's the canvas that needs to be explored.

@Sockrattes Here's an interesting little piece from Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/2wxu8r/psychosis_or_enlightenment/

@Steph30 Mantra means a pure sound. The whole existence is reverberations of energy, different levels of vibrations. As there are different types of forms, every form has a sound attached to it or, every sound has a form attached to it. When you utter a sound, a form is being created. There is a whole science of using sounds in a particular way so that it creates the right kind of form. We can create powerful forms by uttering sounds in certain arrangement. This is known as the Nada Yoga, the yoga of sound. If you have mastery over the sound you also have mastery over the form that is attached to it.

@George Fil A small Bodhi Tree would be nice. (Ficus Religiosa)

@A Seeker Yes sensations, thoughts, perceptions are all just floating there in the emptiness. Do they have a foundation other than what you assign to them?

@littleBIG Have you ever seen Hubble Extreme Deep Field? Where would your angle and location be now?

@Feel Good Consider getting more sleep and eliminating the foods that "bring you down" @isabel When you allow what other ppl say or do to affect you, you have enslaved yourself to them.

@littleBIG What if you were floating in space in the vastness of the universe? Would you have a specific location?