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Awakenings make everyday life better but strip away the peaks of being human. By Awakening your every day life and baseline consciousness will be utterly transformed for the better, this is great. However, the peak experience of being human will mainly lose it's power by virtue of contrast. Having sex with the hottest woman, riding a rollercoaster, partying or going to a great concert, skydiving, vacations, christmas, your wedding, the birth of your child... All of these are great moments, but they'll lose it's psychic magnetic experiencial appeal, as just one serious Awakening make all of these tiny candles in contrast with a shinning sun. Peaks only exist in contrast with the baseline and other peaks, your local mountain of happiness looks huge before you discover the Himalayas. Just wanted to share this insight that might be relevant so that it doesn't catch you by surprise. Yesterday I did an amazing plan in human terms, but at the end of the day, I just know by virtue of contrast, that no human experience can satisfy the way a profound Awakening does.

@Eskilon Hi brother, yes I've experienced kundalini quite a lot and I practice kundalini yoga (I recommend Yogigems from YouTube, she's great). I had classic Awakenings before kundalini but it was kundalini which allowed me to be established in radical new baseline states of consciousness. I did get a few siddhis from this process as well. Kundalini is quite essential to how I do spirituality. I discovered that for me at least, the highest states of consciousness are not accessible without profound inner work with Kundalini. I remember one crazy awakening that I thought I'd be fried like a chicken due to the raw intensity of the Awakening I was having, my whole body and nervous system couldn't hold it. At that moment I realised, oh kundalini is the embodied energetic bottleneck for Awakening. That's what got me into kundalini yoga (much better than Kriya yoga in my opinion, it's more interactive and playful) and working with it allowed me to handle my Awakenings in a much more holistic and grounded way. I have to say it has been a challenging path for me because I have scoliosis and my spine is s-twisted so having intense electrical energy going through it which desires to be straight and healthy has been at times painfully healing. So I'm sure you'll have it much easier than me to work with Kundalini and that in my case it has been extremely useful and crucial. Specially if you're doing psychedelics, good kundalini will protect your body and mind for the peaks of consciousness, working daily on a stable base. Moreover, few things are as powerfully beautiful as a full kundalini blast. Once I had such a crazy kundalini Awakening that LSD paled in comparison, I was ecstatic for days. I know some people struggle with Kundalini, are there any particular difficulties that you're facing Eskilon?

Yes, we are on the same page here.

@bazera Awakenings are the best thing that happened in my life. Just warning that you'll get to enjoy less earthly things for you will have tasted heaven.

No, I said he lacked yogic awakenings which is true because he himself admitted to be a jnani not a yogi or a bhakti. He explained there are many other valid paths like yoga or bhakti. So if anyone is interested to become a master all those paths simultaneously, then I claim, he lacks that. If you want pure jnana and introspection, Ramana is amazing in that. I'm interested in the most holistic and complete levels of Awakening. So if anyone lacks a facet of Awakening I'll point it out. This an import skill, so that you can identify each expert for each thing and can learn from the best. For yoga go to Lahiri Mahasaya, for Self-inquiry to Ramana, for Love to Ramakrishna, to say a few.

How come an Awakening is going to happen if there is no experience there. There is the experience of the Awakening; experience is the same as reality there are no layers here: existence, consciousness, experience, reality, sensations, being, truth, it's one and the same. I did go on for a quite some years in that direction of just pure trascendental Consciousness itself. Separating consciousness from the particular manifestation or state it was in, independent of the dream so to speak. What is consciousness beyond the dream, beyond experience, beyond sensations, beyond highs and downs. Then it dawned on me. I realised that Consciousness and Dream cocreate each other. That Consciousness must be in one form or the other. That the trascendental reality is ever-present immanently shape shifting for infinity. That to pursue Consciousness abstract of its manifestation is impossible, that the ultimate trascendentalism looped back into immanence. That you cannot separate consciousness from the dream and that all direct Consciousness will necessarily be in one way or the other. It's like a TV; this here now is the boundless sentient consciousness field in which all dreams or movies run. If you go for the screen you realise of course its independent of the sensation or experience. In the same way the screen of this device can run all experiences but is independent of it. If you proceed for years on this inquiry line you'll be directly conscious that consciousness itself is always in one dream or the other, in one experience or the other. In the same way that this screen can run all movies or be pitch black or all white, it doesn't matter but despite being independent and transcendental it always is something in particular and immanent.

Yes, Awakening shows you what truly satisfies and then what already disappointed you because of its shallowness, now it will do it even more.

Yes, I needed some time to recompose myself and work everyday on it. Yes, it could be framed in that way.

@LambdaDelta Thanks for taking the time to answer. I liked the video you shared, it's a classic message always good to be remembered. It's just that the magnitude of the spiritual path can make most peak moments of human life pale. They are still beautiful but they lose it's epicness so to speak. Human life becomes divine, but the best of human life pales with Awakening, Consciousness, God and Infinity. You know that and you've also always enjoyed reality from a quite unique playful approach.

Can you have direct Consciousness without experience? I consider what you say very seriously. I've contemplated things you've said for weeks. Have you done the same with me? It's just another tool. I'm not dogmatic about psychedelics, I pretty much do all spiritual techniques out there. Adi da said the same about all techniques by the way, it's not that psychedelics are specially wrong. You are always already it as he used to say. I'm sharing what is the case. When I had only a few I shared what was the case. You can make the distinct between pure consciousness and the experience that "seems" to arise or be the case. But after many years it dawned upon me that consciousness must be in one experience or the other at any case, it must be something, a particular state, always. Because when you are having your "direct consciousness" you are indeed experiencing that. And yes psychedelics are potentially deluding, like meditation, yoga, and the rest of spiritual practices, of course. We're never free of self-delusion.

@AtmanIsBrahman It's an interesting dimension to add into the contemplation. It might affect each psychological attitude in different ways. Although each person will still have their inner contrast system, which will be outcalibrated by Awakening.

Both, the trigger is irrelevant Awakening is the point. I'm talking about Awakening, Reality, experience, the mechanics of existence and my unfolding of life. Anyone who's had 30+ Awakenings knows what I'm talking about. I'm trying to warn those going up the ladder, in the same way I listened in the past very helpful advice and I still do. It doesn't matter if you haven't touched a drug in your life, what I'm talking about is a very documented topic in mysticism. Saint John of the cross writes: “All the beauties of creation… are but a trace of the Beloved.” And: “The soul now sees that all things are nothing in comparison.” Likewise Saint Teresa of Ávila in The Interior Castle says after experiences of divine union says: “Everything one sees on earth seems a mockery compared with what has been seen.” In Sufi mysticism, Jalal al-Din Rumi repeatedly describes ordinary joys becoming insignificant before Awakening. "Compared with one glimpse of God, paradise itself is dust." Ramakrishna again said that after tasting Awakening: "The pleasures of the world taste like straw."

I wanted to share this video on war:

@JoshB From One seed a trillion seeds blossom, One life in all, One Consciousness, One dream, God is an infinite fractal replica of itself.

Great substance, had a very beautiful trip. I liked it more than 4-AcO-DMT. More stable, conscious and grounded

@JoshB Others exists as long as I imagine so.

@UnbornTao I'm just gonna pretend I didn't hear that. Take care brother

? What a completely uncalibrated call.

Sure, I can't wait! And I can't help it either! You're a big source of inspiration and transformation for me. We started the race at different times that's the lag in understanding and consciousness, but I’m far more advanced now than you were at my age. Part of my multidimensional success is because you're making the way for the next generation much easier and direct. I'm already having fun Although, I still learn a lot from very high IQs, I like to study powerful minds operating, even if they are intelligently deluded. I'll surely study Sabrina Pasterski in the following days.

500 IQ is totally false and clickbait Lately I'm studying deeper polymaths and geniuses and I got to the same conclusion, despite their intelligence and brilliance they end up getting the final questions wrong. This recontextualized this forum and the people who do get it, even at low to medium levels they do get it, and kid prodigies with PhDs don't.

Shadow work?

It's exciting to see such a creative outburst this year, back to interviews, the psychedelic retreat, the actualized.org vault. I encourage you to keep getting out of the box! As food for thought on this vault, consider ways to optimize, automate and make it more scalable. This could be a great business branch but without the proper architecture quite a pain in the ass over time. Setting the right system is crucial for the organic growth and value generation process of the Actualized.org clip vault.

Thanks for sharing. 4-HO-MET has been sitting on my shelf for too long, might give it a try soon.

That's an insanely profound question. Where there is a will there is way. Ultimately it requires grace, it's an acausal realisation like getting hit by a lightning bolt you do your best, eventually a storm happens and you run with a metal stick and pray for it to happen. Beyond the absurd metaphore I've just said, it requires insanely high degrees of consciousness and mastery over the many facets of Awakening.