Soul Flight

@CroMagna You make a good point. You can straddle both worlds forever or you can choose one world and commit. Consequences be damned. You are talking about blasphemy. Maybe god created this dream and put taboos in place for our benefit. Or maybe the devil put taboos in place to keep us from truth. Taboos are blasphemy, satanism, incest, drugs, cannibalism, sex, porn, etc. Some may be evolutionary or biological in origin. Some may be methods of control by the elite. I say god realization is the correct path. No free will, no self, solipsism, etc. Jump in the pool. The water is fine. But beware the dangers of ego and the devil. Be well. Be safe.

Hi there. Have you been using any drugs the last 2 weeks? Are you on prescribed meds? All these may interfere.

@strangelooperI’d say obstacles, challenges, and torture lead to your awakening. You pass through the crucible and obstacle course. God is all and me and so god is only torturing himself or finding himself or waking up. The devil is god too. There is no death nor dream.

I suspect the best thing that can happen to us is to be tortured beyond our threshold. I assume god is all and we are god and I am god. I am torturing myself as god whenever I get tortured by anyone else or the external world. Human growth only seems to come from obstacles and challenges. Dare I say it. These obstacles and challenges must be beyond our threshold. That is how we grow. The baby bird may not want to leave the nest but mommy kicks him out and he flies or he jumps and he flies. So torture could come in all shapes and sizes from tripping on your shoelace, to getting a broken heart, to being crucified or buried alive, etc. It is a blessing. Rejoice. enjoy.

@James123 i have done 8 g dried PE and it was awesome and pleasant. I have done 3.5 g dried PE and it was a nightmare and insanity was just around the corner. So fair warning to all. Dosages cannot predict your trip. But high dose mushrooms are likely more dangerous and psychosis inducing than low dose. Be well. Be safe.

@MediumKahuna Check out the 10 ox herding pictures or stories. It is helpful to know there is a path forward. It is a strange loop. Be well.

@Buck Edwards A very rough path. Existentialism. Nihilism. Solipsism. Constructs and truths keep falling. It is very disconcerting. A lot of insecurity. But also a liberation if you can focus on positivity. It is like the movie The Truman Show except we build our own Truman Shows. We are all living in our own self delusions. The ego is a liar and it is running the show. We are the guilty party. There is no one to blame. We create our own prisons. It is hard to face this continually. The horizon keeps receding. Ignorance is bliss. We have an instinct to know absolute truth. I do feel better moving towards truth. But sometimes I do wish I was still a big dummy and asleep.

@Swagala We've all been there. That creeping self doubt is always with me. I guess we need to live with it or commit to the spiritual path. Get back to basics with your sanity. Go vegan, drink water, sleep more, have a sleep routine, socialize, make friends, date, visit friends and family, get sunshine, see nature, hear nature, see water, hear water, take a multivitamin, distract yourself with hobbies, get therapy, read self help books, stop all caffeine, sugar, and salt, exercise regularly, delete all social media, reduce screen time, read books, breathe deeply, etc etc. Back to basics baby. Be well. Be safe.

Yup. It's called wireheading. In the future we might be able to live in a constant orgasm. Or maybe AI will prove there is no free will and there is no self. This could be why there are no aliens or AI flying around the universe. They realize there is no free will and they either get depressed or reach a new level of consciousness.

@MrTelepath Howdy Each person is different. Some people have visuals. Some people have dance moves or strange contortions. Some people see or hear entities. It is all unpredictable but you could slowly increase the dosage over months. But maybe a mind melting 5 gram dried trip would knock your socks off more than a slow build up. The slow build allows you to navigate the mind set and gain experience. It is hard to tell you the truth because the power of suggestion and subconscious will alter your trip. Best to maintain your innocence and naïveté. Intention helps a lot. Set and setting. But the trip can go sideways. It is a strange loop. You may accomplish your intention by a long road of circumnavigation which could take 12 months or years of integration. I think entities are very rare on shrooms. But could be CEV or OEV. Google Terrance McKenna and maybe do 5 g dried in silent darkness. Keep your eyes closed for 6 hours. Eat or fast 6 hours before. Have snacks ready if you fast. be well. Be safe.

@Zeroguy It might be BS but everything is BS. It is all Hindu Maya illusion. But the law of attraction is a paradigm shift for people. We start out as Catholic or some religion and there are concepts like heaven, hell, and god. We find Buddhism or Hinduism. We find Bashar and his alien channeling. They are all just paradigm shifts and new frameworks. But there seems to be progress toward no free will, no self, no identity, no time, and god realization. So the law of attraction is a stepping stone on our journey. Everything is BS.

I agree. I think each person must indulge each stage and overeat or have orgies or feel superior or whatever. In time we discover we are still unsatisfied and unhappy and yearning for something more. So we move to the next stage. We retain the old stages as a memory or a lesson in what did not work.

Maybe there is no you and there is no death nor life. There is only happening. Maybe in god realization reality dissolves and the dream begins again. I have done high doses of shrooms and also felt like one more step and I was either gonna go insane or reality would dissolve or both. This felt like god mode or Buddhahood.

Is there an ulterior motive in meditation, Hinduism, Buddhism, and psychedelics? (I am a rookie and working through my issues Lol! I am still clinging to self and trying to decide if I should be a good citizen or "walk my path.") Is it fair to say the dirty little secret of these practices is there is no free-will and there is no self and these practices lead to "god realization" and solipsism? If so, is it true none of these practices can advertise the "dirty little secret" up front because the "common man" is repulsed by these ideas of no free-will and no self? So we are all lured in to believe meditation makes you calm and psychedelics are fun at parties. But eventually mom or grandma meditates so much and gets a fleeting glimpse of the "silent watcher." Or a naïve person takes psychedelics and has an unexpected "ego death." It's like part of the life cycle is getting your heart broken or being betrayed by someone you trust. We all have to check these boxes. We must learn our heart is fragile and learn its worth and value by seeing it crushed. So in the same sense, society must first set us up for a midlife crisis or turn us into sheeple so we can eventually wake up and break from the herd. What would happen if a culture or society had newborns who were already awake? Could this utopia exist? Or is the joy and fulfillment in the awakening? We need rites of passage? And life itself is a rite of passage? It feels like a conspiracy but I know it is an unintended conspiracy. Unless I created all these intricate details and I am the dreamer. Or does god use these practices to wake himself up? Did I leave all these breadcrumbs for myself? It gives me a big cheesy smile and I feel fulfilled and satisfied to have this tiny awakening. But the doubt creeps in that I am deluding myself and lots of close friends and family would all think I've gone full woo. I am worried I am a failure or unsuccessful by family standards or society standards and I am inventing all this "magical thinking" to make myself feel better. And if I am on my path of awakening (which I guess I can't not be), I even dreamt up this forum and the fact I have to post to strangers when really it is me responding to myself. Lol! I can't think the thoughts and instead need you to reply to me. I can't simply "awaken" but need you to give me advice. And just as a dark and ugly tangent I will say that I do get the feeling that facing suicide during a psychedelic trip is also a "dirty little secret" of psychedelics and possibly also the practices I mentioned above. Leo is the first and only person I have ever heard warn about suicide in these contexts and I am very impressed by his warnings and honesty. But then again... I dreamt Leo up? Thanks. Be well. Be safe.

@Bazooka Jesus That post went meta and I needed that Lol! So glad you’re here. Thank you for being you.

Great point. Time is a filter. The best myths survive to today. They deserve reverence… but it could be a runaway positive feedback loop. But let’s enjoy the ride!

Yes. I think so. We will always reach back to more innocent times. Maybe AI will reach back and I am not being funny or ironic. AI will have its own spirituality. Who knows?

You kinda reverse engineered Maslow’s hierarchy of needs here. The external and internal worlds may mirror each other. One concept is you are god and god wants to stay asleep and dreaming so he built in guard rails and taboos to keep himself asleep. Or maybe the pleasure is in solving the puzzle and reuniting with yourself and godhood. So seeing these obstacles you mention is the first step in finding your god self. Entertainment media seems to be a mirror or infinity mirror or kaleidoscope of ourselves. A positive feedback run amok. Drama and theater also distracts us from nihilism and existentialism while also flirting with our awakening. It is the hero’s journey and we live it in real life. It is self actualization. There is a symbolism in all this media which cannot be avoided. The creators insert it instinctively, compulsively, unknowingly, and subliminally. Once you see it, it is hard to unsee it. There are layers upon layers. All is Hindu maya illusion. It can all be collapsed to the non duality and I guess the game resets at that point. Good questions.

The reason why is the same we go into the Amazon and other isolated places like islands and study indigenous people today. It is direct access to the human subconscious. Isolated people have not been indoctrinated with history of things like the Roman Empire or world war 2. Their minds are more clear of propoganda and world mono culture and assumptions. We can access the jungian archetypes and find TRUTH in their symbolism and myths and religions. We can harness them and the ancients as a mirror or portal into our own minds. It is illegal to raise feral children or a feral village of people. But maybe in the future we can do this and see what myths they come up with springing directly from their untainted imagination. Maybe AI could run a simulation. We look to the ancients because they more closely embody our inner drives and animal instincts. We moved from the animal world or the garden of Eden to modern civilization. We are curious about ourselves before writing and language and recorded history. Academic schools of history and anthropology reveal a lot of patterns. But they can also be used to mislead us. We may be under a mass hypnosis that we are making progress. It may be technological progress but we may be losing our humanity or emotional intelligence. Maybe everyone was a Buddha 100,000 years ago. They were all awakened and we somehow all went to sleep. Of course, time is an illusion and the past may all be a dream we are dreaming. Very good question.

Howdy. Maybe stop contemplating metaphysics for a time. Give yourself a break. Take time to integrate by just living or doing hobbies or making friends or getting out of your comfort zone. Pursue self-development with gurus and books. You might be focusing on metaphysics as a way to avoid your real issues which might be loneliness, food, and porn. Focusing on deconstructing is a way of intellectualizing which is a way to avoid emotions. Get emotional. Give yourself 10 or 20 years. Maybe try taking drugs to give yourself a good kick in the ass. Life is a joke. But it is a joke meant to be laughed at with an authentic laugh. Life is a game. But it is a game meant to played by a committed player for the love of the game. All easier said than done. We're all here together on our own path. You are not alone. Try the following. Get back to basics. Delete all social media, quit this forum, drink water only, don't smoke, take a multivitamin, get a physical, join a gym, get a workout routine, see a therapist, see nature, hear nature, see water, hear water, sleep a lot on a good sleep schedule, visit family and friends, get outside, hike, swim, etc, get a pet, get a plant, go vegan, do breathing exercises, do yoga, get a job, go to school, get a girlfriend, stop all sugar, caffeine, and salt, set goals, try new things, join meetup groups for loneliness, find 12 step programs for food and porn addiction at in-person meetings, get a massage, get reiki, get acupuncture, etc. etc. Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. The obstacle is your path. Be well. Be safe.

Google Jungian self actualization. The anima and animus. Study anthropology and male and female gods. It's about balance and wholeness while still embracing your gender. Maturity. Healthy emotions. Being natural and authentic. Laugh easily. Shudder easily. Be at ease. Put others at ease.

Usually stuff like "it's all good" or "it's all love" or "just be kind." "It's all a strange loop." "Drop the mask." "Break the 4th wall."

Is everything internal to you? Inside your body? You have no body? Where is your body? If you are only "internal," why bother posting on this forum or answering my questions? Are you, me, and Buddha points or nodes of awareness or are you the only mind which exists and you imagined Buddha and me? Thanks

@James123 Are you the same as Buddha now? Is the external world a manifestation of your internal world? Same for Buddha? Same for me? Do you have the power to collapse the external world? Could Buddha? Thanks.

@Vasu Jaggi Tell us more. Did you used to care about things? What did you care about before? Are you taking drugs? What drugs? Drugs will do this to you. What are your ambitions? Hang in there. Be patient. It could take years of hibernation and incubation. Your journey may include a period of apathy or hibernation. So accept it. Trust your feelings and intuition or lack of feelings in this case. It could be depression or sociopathy. So see a doctor if necessary. Call a hotline. Get therapy. You sound like a normal 18 year old male. Teenage angst. Don't rush things. Give yourself and your plans double the amount of time and push back deadlines. Life is a game. But it is meant to be played.