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I've been getting more and more into spirituality to change myself for the better. In the last few weeks I've been ultra focused on being the observer, and distancing myself from the body (e.g. neti, neti method). I figured that the Neti Neti method would distance myself enough that I could act freely in the world and not be inhibited by fear and old habits. However, I've become unbalanced and feel like I'm going crazy now. I've had to take some time off work due to this (and maybe some burn out too). I haven't done a psychedelic in over a year. My mind races and feels unstable and I'm getting small anxiety attacks about "nothing being real". Other than taking a break from spirituality, and doing normal things like excersizing, socializing, and eating healthy, does anyone have any other advice? My doctor recommended chill pills and antianxiety meds and a psychologist. I don't want to go to the psych ward and I want to get back to work. Thank you!

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Thanks good to know! I am assuming you got better?

What kind of help are you referring to?

I know I've started a similar thread. But I was wondering if anyone had further advice of this topic? It is just a matter of taking a break, getting excersize, and eating healthy, reducing stress? If anyone has been in a similar situation and knows how to fix the existential crises I would really appreciate it. I really enjoyed actualized.org and spirituality for the past couple years but I think it's not helping anymore. Also I started to experiment with my own methods a little bit but clearly I was doing it wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

I read it your post on fear. It's great. Thank you so much

I've been deconstructing and contemplating reality. It's causing severe anxiety. I can't go to a doctor and explain it. Any advice from someone going through similar thing?

Thanks everyone. Will the severe anxiety go away on it own?

Thank you

Thanks guys

True, unless you consider COVID might have been a biological attack by China (as revenge for the tariffs).

Lol

It turns the frogs gay lol.

The book and the video goes into all that much better than I could.

It started with the wiping out the natives, then enslaving the blacks, then imprisoning the blacks in the 1990s (using fascist style propaganda to justify it), Japanese interments the Iraq war, and now Trump's possible deportations. Source: "How Fascism Works - the politics of us and them " by Jason Stanley

Leo has called it that. Something about how we are conditioned to have a bias toward sanity for the purposes of survival but truth is so radical it's insane or something like that.

Interesting

SD runs the risk of inappropriately placing people into boxes and feeling superior to others I think. A stage blue 60 year old can be much wiser, smarter, more mature, more emotionally developed, have better relationships than a 25 year old stage green person. Yet the stage blue person is still "less developed". It's a little confusing.

I had this immature notion for a long time that enlightened people are in a permanent and natural "5-meo like" high all the time. This can't be correct or is it?

Great video @Javfly33

Great points here on both sides. What about a hypothetical test tube baby that's grown completely outside of a woman's body @Spiritual Warfare and @BlackPhil ? What day in it's development would you two think it wrong to "abort" it?

Yes @Sea I agree we have to look for silver linings now. Policies that have allowed for almost everything to be made in China has been a disaster for the environment. If Trump slows down the mindless consumption of cheap plastic junk from China that could be a really good thing for the environment.

The polarization is the problem. Polarization brings about the exact opposite of whatever you advocate for.

It's easy to see how Trump is a thief. If politics is built on theft then how is Harris a thief?