UnbornTao

Communicate what you became conscious of, if anything. You being in the exact same "place" as the thing realized, its nature.

OK, call things by their name. Stories are stories. You misunderstood the part regarding intellect. It points to an insidious and prevalent dynamic of conflating belief, conclusion, state, drug-induced or not, with direct consciousness.

What is being conveyed? What is the purpose of the storytelling and the rhetoric? If it is thought of as a direct encounter with the nature of something, such encounter doesn't produce that kind of communication. It is something else, likely a conflation.

It seems to me like you confused a drug-induced state and your stories about it with a direct consciousness of the nature of something. I'm not saying there's isn't any wisdom there, but it is clearly coming from intellect. What would you say did you become conscious of?

Perhaps. Also, people like to talk and call anything "awakening." By paying close attention, whether they're being authentic or not can become clear by the expression used since it gives clues as to where their minds are coming from.

It could also not be a direct experience, so the deception might start there.

Survival is your life. Yet we tend to view it negatively -- something beneath us or external to us, perhaps an activity we choose to engage in when our "lower self" wins the battle. But the question is: How could your experience not be based on survival? It is designed for exactly that. Can it be transcended to a degree? Yes, and it requires understanding what it is.

OK. And setting the storytelling aside, is there some real insight there? If so, what is it?

You need to calm down. Then, set aside all that, as it is worthless and not true. Seriously. You've believed your way into a disempowering state. Stop taking that crap seriously, that's the solution. Nowhere is there a realization of anything; it is but a belief system you've adopted and convinced yourself of. Consciousness is freeing and leads to greater openness and bliss. So take that into account.

Thanks!

No sourcing. That drug is extremely dangerous; stay with the safer psychedelics.

Don't imagine what the experience of other animals is like without having even looked into yours. An insight is an apprehension of some objective or true fact or reality, as with the Archimedes example, or Newton and the apple falling on his head. Speculate and be skeptic all you want -- you still experience something that you call "thought" and "feeling." Contemplating what that is about is what's required. If you don't hold that it is possible to find out what those are, then there's no reason to investigate, study, nor contemplate, and we're stuck not knowing what anything is. In any case, notice that you still live having thoughts and feelings, taking your experience of them at face value.

Because you live as having thoughts and feelings. What are those? An insight can be trusted.

You can, and contemplation is needed. Hence the questioning.

What are you doing in your meditation sessions?