UnbornTao

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. 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. Even then, notice that you still live having thoughts and feelings and, taking them at face value.

Because you live as having thoughts and feelings. What are those experiences? You can trust having an insight into what things are, which are self-validating -- like Archimedes and his "Eureka" moment.

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

What are you doing in your meditation sessions?

Can you notice others' intent before they act?

What is feeling? Is a thought sourcing feeling?

Most likely nobody knows, and there's no use speculating, even though adopting some comforting notion may relieve us of this anxiety. Beyond that, you can contemplate what life is, but becoming conscious of that requires serious work and commitment. An answer is irrelevant. I might as well respond with "banana", and ultimately that would be equally useful to you than an elaborate and convincing answer. In any case, it would leave you with a rumor, an idea, at best a possibility, but believing in it wouldn't change one's condition. This isn't bad or wrong either; it is a shared condition. You can use it to more powerfully inquire into the nature of life.

Health and supplements subforum. Lately I've been adding a pinch of it to a daily espresso.

Red Dead Redemption 2.

"What do you mean what happens in my experience? I’m a highly sensitive person who just became more so after several ayahuasca ceremonies. I actually don’t know exactly what energy is I haven’t really thought how I would define it but I’m going to say it is life force. " What do you see, notice, pay attention to? What do you think enables you to do that?

No drugs needed. How about not over thinking in the first place? It is something you do, so learn to see "where" you are doing that and stop it. Meditation and exercise can help.

What happens in your experience whenever such an event takes place? What would you say affords you that ability? Also, what is energy?