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@Leo Gura Yeah good point... Didn't realise the irony there!. I'll have to work on getting rid of the need to mechanically conceptualise and compartmentalise these things.

@Leo Gura I have a weekend mindfulness retreat coming up, can you get much real progress from just one weekend? Want to do a 10-day but not possible for my schedule till the end of the year.

Similar experience here myself. I considered myself someone who "had DPD" after doing weed and LSD, which both completely fucked my model of reality forever. I realise now the suffering that it caused was that I clung and wanted back to my old conventional, materialist paradigm of reality. I would always be worrying if life is a dream or not. Ironically what's helped me more than anything is getting into spirituality and non duality via Actualized and learning that hey, yeah life is a dream and reality is not physical but....it's actually a beautiful thing. Now that I don't cling to my old paradigm "DP" never even crosses my mind. I'm planning on returning to psychedelics soon, mushrooms first at a low dose, as I think I will be more mature about it this time from my conceptual understanding and meditation. My advice would be don't identity with DP and stay away from those DP forums as they are cancer....

@Leo Gura Okay thanks. Yeah I've been doing 1 hour SDS a day with do nothing, but I think I'll be able to get more results if I add mindfullness while noting because I honestly feel like I go unconscious for most of the time.

@Leo Gura what is the benefit of noting in addition to just being mindful/noticing sensory experience?

Similar situation here. I used to look forward to fun social situations and getting pissed so much, but now I don't even crave that shit at all. Abstaining from booze isn't even hard anymore.

I used to be a social media addict. What I did was wrote a complex password down somewhere that I couldn't remember, and only login when I had to check up on the basics. So I've gone from someone who looked at Facebook 4 hours a day to less than 5 minutes. Sooo much better, more time to do more productive things. I also used this chrome add on which auto unfollows every person and unlikes every page, so you don't get sucked into the click-bait, shallow like-whory shit on the news feed. I think this approach is good because you still keep those few benefits of having a Facebook account, if it's the most convenient way of contacting someone, going to events, or being part of groups. But you eliminate its harmful aspects.

@Loreena Rupert Spira. Hands down my favourite non-dual teacher. This video is the latest on his channel, it actually gave me my first "a-ha" moment on the non existence of time.

Lol I've done about 100 hours. Already 1% of the way there! Also, SAND seems to have quite a lot of good videos.

I've been meditating 1-2 hours a day and seeing some results, but I'm still nowhere near where I'd like to be. If I go on a retreat or two, do you breakthrough permanently and maintain your new baseline with like an hour a day?

Hey guys, I've never done visualisation before and I'm just adding it to my morning routine. Currently I'm switching goals that I visualise daily for example: 1. Visualise myself being a gun at work 2. Visualise acing uni 3. Visualise confidence with women ect Is it okay to do a rotation like this, or is visualising a goal only effective when that particular goal is done daily?

Just keep going. I've been working on similar issues by meditating a lot, slowly doing more and more. Over the last month I've gotten much more in touch with being, although I still can't sit motionless for an hour. But I was heavily unconscious and addictive before, so I feel I have to work hard just to get to some people's baseline level of awareness. If you break your streak, don't fall into the trap of thinking "oh fuck it, I've already broken my streak so I may as well binge on porn/internet/food ect". I've fallen into that trap many times. You can minimise the damage.

I see Sam Harris as someone who's kind of got one foot in both camps. If you read his stuff on free will and the no self, he clearly sees the importance of direct experience. Like I remember an interview where he explains no free will and he argued it from a direct experience point of view rather than pure neuroscience. And he has studied and meditated with practitioners of Advaita Vedanta and so on. However he still defends the standard scientific, materialist, rationalist paradigm. He's made such a reputation in that camp that I doubt he'd allow himself to be ostracised by his academic mates for admitting non-dual truths even if he recognised them.

The Diet Myth

What does this have to do with spirituality or enlightenment?

Does she claim to be enlightened?

@Leo Gura Do you think you're going to cover bodywork/chakras and purification in the future? It's something I'd love to learn more about.

Hi guys. Anyobody here successfully stopped a porn and masturbation addiction? I first came across nofap 18 months ago and I've been trying to quit the whole time and I just keep failing. Willpower just doesn't seem to work. Anybody have any tips they would like to share?

This guy doesn't seem spiritually inclined or anything, but watch this if you want to hear an interesting anecdote of what 30 hits of LSD is like.

Hi all. I was just doing some meditation (SDS) and I began to enter in the highest state of concentration I've had. I then began to have what I believe was an enlightenment experience, it was fucking intense. Everything became extremely still, and my visual field started tripping out and it began to become like a flat surface, kinda how Leo describes it in his enlightenment experience video. It was kinda cool but I started to freak out and my hands started sweating, heart started beating fast and I had to stop. my question is, has anybody else freaked out from a samadhi state. I've been gunning for higher consciousness states like this but it's dissapointing that it seems my ego can't handle it. Is it possible to gradually adjust your comfort zone to accomodate these experiences?

I'm working on my phone addiction currently. Funnily enough you just gave me the simple idea of just turning it off.... I've also weaned off Facebook, holy fuck I used to waste a lot of time on that.

I've been working on similar issues. Just force yourself slowly to get back from as much artificial stimulation as possible. I am susceptible to addictions, social media, Youtube, porn ect have been big issues for me but I'm making huge progress through long meditations. When you abstain from these highly stimulating things for a while you can feel your brain rebalance out and your dopamine levels become more normal, which allows you to focus on more mundane shit like books. Don't give up, the brain is highly plastic.

This animation makes my visual field wavy and trippy when I look away

@cetus56 helpful response, thank you! I am anticipating more of these states as I've only been doing serious meditation pretty recently. Hopefully next time I surrender a bit easier. @Deep that's interesting, I wasn't aware of the different types of samahdis and their terms. @ajasatya Thanks! I'll be sure to check it out.

Same here, suburb?