AlwaysBeNice

Bunch of wacky nonsense not based on actual experience or logic. You can't damage an aura or subtlebody or what ever, just like you can't damage a dream body, you can only damage an apparent physical body (which these things don't do), all appearances are gifts to awaken to love and growth. All psychedelics are gifts, made by the Self, safe, just don't abuse them, else it will be such a shift that your daily life, mind and body will just have a hard time integrating it.

I've done 5-meo after eating with no issues I'm quite sure (I had eaten) Btw, in hindsight, a scale is not totally necessary, you can simply take a very tiny amount to start with and learn to estimate that way.

This docu is really good https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1478841/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

You cannot damage a subtle body, it's like air, you can only restrict the flow of it through your physical body through unconscious fear. Also I don't buy into stories of possession, perhaps just as in physical reality, unconscious weak minded people can be influenced, and yet even if that would happen, it would ultimately be for the sake of waking you up in the play and won't violate your free will. Not to mention the whole ego structure of conditioned emotional suppression is based on denial, and just as people come up with excuses why they shouldn't let go or be themselves freely, this fits that idea.

Going through the panic and seeing you are untouched nothingness is like the end of the path, so by that standard, I wouldn't say you're a beginner.

Lucid and more spiritual/deep dreams come naturally as a byproduct of your practice. And another good reason to practice continuously, your practice will come into your dreams as well.

The problem is thinking about spirituality/life, it's not something you put a problem solving mind on like were used to, which only ends up in a paradox. You do the spiritual practice and let it serve you, you practice loving, and you just enjoy, that's spirituality.

Suicide comes up a lot here, and understandably so, our lives are often difficult and unnatural as well (no living community, we even work more than we did back in our hunter-gatherer days, we live in cities/small boxes) etc. And suicide is even the goal you could say, but not of the body, but of our attachment to ourselves as a separate body. So here's why the body/physical universe from my understanding has a purpose: - It exists. - You cannot kill the mental body (www.evidenceforthesoul.weebly.com) - In a physical body you can experience the collective human path of transformation/awakening, live a unique enlightened physical life and help and love others. - If you kill the physical body, you will be faced with the still unresolved subconscious: like the potential you still have for bad dreams: So you will then be faced with yourself, a mind reality composed of the mental tendencies of bodily/mental identification of attachment and fear. So if you cannot let go of yourself, you will probably reincarnate anyways. Not as a judgment or punishment, but out of your choice to resist the fullness of God/Self, and you'll come into another body to complete your growth process. (I once asked before I went to sleep about why I shouldn't kill myself with the intent to learn more on this: I had a realistic nightmare of being in a cathedral. Yet I knew it was also a mental realm, so I could use my power to alter the dream. Though I didn't like it there all together, the cathedral reminded me of the fear of God I think, and the raw stone of the raw reality. Then I saw a guy, and I got scared, I thought maybe he would kill or hurt me. So I tried to burn/freeze him with my mind to scare him off/kill him. I got spooked by that realization of me being a killer and I tried to run, and the people came after me imagined. Then I chased women to have sex (though I never have to rape for it in my dreams), for pleasure and it was unsatisfactory because I was still not at ease/afraid.. When I asked this again later, I also had a dream of a grown man in a baby's body, but the man was looking unconscious and a bit dumb, bewildered, frozen in unconscious fear. Which explains why some children are born very bright, and some are not. and of course Buddhism/Hinduism also talk about reincarnating depending on your level of consciousness). One last thing, a teacher I trust based on direct experience as well, namely Bashar, also says that physical life has the purpose of shaping your spirit. You have the physical life experiences under your belt after the life, and that grows you into a unique being, 'like fire to solidify clay'. And so after the physical shaping you can live forth as an (evolved) human spirit. -- Here's a cool excerpt from an awakening and of really amazing life story: And I just heard: 'For this, you're born.' I think btw suicide is different if the body is like old and sick and stuff and you do it with consciousness, you can say your goodbyes and love properly too. After all, everything is Self created, there will never be an outside source judging you. Peace

In my experience, sitting still, awake and seated, meditation is probably gives the best results. But if you practice a lot, you might feel burned after some time, perhaps conscious napping will be of aid. I have found to it to be an easy yet still effective tool for consciousness work. It's underrated maybe because we might associate it with laziness and feel guilty about it. - So here's how it works: go lie down, go into semi-sleep states, keep your attention with awareness, so try not to fall asleep to easily, and just meditate throughout the waking or dream state. It's different from wake induced lucid dreaming because with LDing, you try to focus on going into a dream world, but here we focus on who we are. - Here are some elaboration based on my own experience (and having studied LDing for some time). Also, it will be subjective so follow your own experience or intuition. -Lying down on your back is probably easiest to stay remain as awake as you can, but lying on your side can be just fine as well in my experience. -Try to be as still as possible and rest the attention in the still Feeling Being that is I Am (awake stillness is the gateway to the absolute (awake stillness = same as not knowing). -At some point you will feel good/relaxed, at that point, you're probably close to falling asleep: now you must watch out that you don't enter sleep unconsciously out of habit. So do something to keep yourself awake, though just noticing it might be enough, I tend to focus on my body and do some deep breathing, or open my eyes, but also try not leave your relaxed state. Now you try to remain awake and enjoy the relaxed state to continue your spiritual practice in, at some point you probably will fall into a dream, yet maybe you can even continue the spiritual practice in your dream (to me this always happens because it's what I am always doing when awake). -Use waking up also as a practice to see the similarity between the dream/waking state: an arising in the mind. Peace

I would say just meditate and study non-duality, find a good teacher. Maybe after a few years of meditation do psychedelics if you are sure, if you feel like taking it, because doing this from a young age is powerful as it is. But schizophrenia is just higher weirder degrees of believing in thoughts/ego. And sometimes unresolved trauma/suppressed emotions, manifesting out of the subconscious, as hallucinations, and sometimes mixed with psychic senses opening up.

If you know how much weed or thc is in your edibles then you should be able to dose just fine. Great tool imo, a psychedelic light, good for self-inquiry imo, but just try it out yourself. Might want to get something with CBD (indica strains have more of it afaik), because studies have shown it can lower anxiety

Silence ranks nr 1 Then 4 infinities lower comes David Spero at nr. 4∞1

From my understanding, if you end the body with a mind that's still filled with rejection/attachment/fear, that's what you'll be faced with, and if letting go of it all will be too hard then (which I can imagine, after suicide especially), you'll be given a new life through workout the growth process.

Yeah, if it begins, it ends and enlightenment is not about beginning and ending. I know a teacher who spend from a young age doing a lot of meditation, for decades. He become really really good at tuning into 'peace, bliss, God, love' etc. He thought he was awake. Then at some point, it was as if he was almost swallowed by a black hole, and there were seemingly none of these blissful qualities there, he sensed death, and he become terrified. He lost all hope in spirituality, in all gurus, he was a mess, and had to hold onto to his chair at night so he wouldn't kill himself. How could that be? Well, what happened, he had build up a really subtle ego, and he could experience blissful things at will. But it was still his bliss, his God, his emptiness. And he always, which also troubled him deeply at the end, got back to his egoic self, still with subtle arrogance, fear etc. He explained it that he didn't want to be truly still, he did not want to give up his thinking, and he put his attention on formlessness, he still was moving away from himself, moving chasing 'heavenly' experience, and ended up in hell. So enlightenment, freedom, is not about heaven or hell, in fact, both are there to help you to let go of false self. And then everything is heaven because it's all a gift then to simply be enjoyed and your totally free from it. - Personally I've experienced something quite hellish on mushrooms, which seemed like forever, and I thought it would at the time, and it was horrible at times (it shifted from 'this is TERRIBLE', to 'whatever it's fine' (when I came closer to stillness) (I've already had been practicing meditation/self-inquiry for a few years, surely if I hadn't, the panic and despair of being seemingly 'tortured' like that would have been much much greater). But getting out of it, you see it for what it was, your confused mind, and you see it really only appeared bad.

Egoity of mind is the hell realm, self obsession, bodily confusion, fear of surrender.

Usually people need decades of unsatisfied painful living to make the change that goes against the norm of culture and fear. Actually lifetimes. That's why I think, and in my case was, and still is, very helpful to get glimpses so you know what you Which at the beginning were caused by psychedelics for me, which show you the load of shit you keep dragging yourself in, and show you maybe a taste of freedom, if you're not too caught up in your theory fantasies.

If you feel like you could be practicing more, and want to, but can't find the drive, maybe this can help. I find this youtube channel very inspiring, such beautiful unique people, whom couldn't fit in into society and whom are living on the streets. Now, to think that you, after your self-realization, heart opening, etc. can mean so much to these people for example, I find really inspiring. To know that this is not just for yourself, but for everyone whose life you may touch, is powerful !

Right, there is only the changing light-sound-sensations (maya) existing in pure consciousness (reality). No God, no punishment. Intelligence, yes, Heart fairness, yes, Self-imposed challenges, yes. It's a good thing to know.

These are the typical new age fears that have no basis in reality, fantasies of 'holes' that make your energy poor out, 'bad energy'. There is only one energy, it's perfect and there are no holes in it. There is only the contrast between fear/contraction/disharmony, and allowance/freedom/flow. And there's physical caution you can have, which does correlate also with your state of being (being in a disharmonious unpresent state creates a disharmonious reality (for the sake of teaching you to come to your Self again)).

I've spent the last 6 years reading trip reports and watching the community of psychonauts online, and for some reason, this never has really popped up aside from Leo's report. And from my own experiences, (12 regular trips medium dosed trips, a bunch of weed, and 7x 5-MeO trip or so (highest was 30 mg plugged)), energetic overload it never seemed to be relevant in anyway Even though I went to states of high energy, close to surrendering, and then going back into ego contraction, which you would think might be difficult, but the energy always attuned appropriately (it is a reflection of your openness/holding on anyways). I think it's that life is so tuned to this process (like literally, spiritual growth/awakening is the main point of physical life), it just supports you, and if you walk the path earnestly, you'll see the wind is blowing in back constantly. So taking psychedelics, because you want to open up/grow (as apposed to escaping, using them for ego reasons like looking cool, identifying with experiences), I don't think there's really ever the danger as long as you're not being irresponsible. And anyways, this is not about physical well being or pleasant sensations at the end of the, awakening is taking you beyond it anyways (though the physical gets nicely balanced and flourishes because of it).

Really cool

Well given almost all rape and murder is done out of fear (a calling out for help), that makes it unlikely the someone who knows it's oneness would hurt itself, given it would not see any benefit in it. But I guess it can occur in some scenario's though there would be no ill-feeling in it, no judgement or hate, so still very different.

No one can assure you enlightenment exists, though you can meet people who've claimed to have awakened and speak/be with them (and experience glimpses of their state), and that's the best evidence you can get. However, we can know what un-enlightenment is, and there are degrees of it: being identified with beliefs, thought, and body, which we know can diminish (so it can end completely), and unenligthenment is constantly thinking, which can stop as well.

From what I know it was a good place in general, Osho's cool, and the followers I met were good people. A few things to keep in mind: he was extremely popular all over the world, and he taught not only non-duality but also sought to piss off all the status quo's, making fun of everything, including his followers and his own views. Now, especially back a few decades ago, that doesn't rime well, and given how toxic people are, you can't expect less than a huge pile of reactive vomit around it, both from the hyped or frustrated followers themselves and from an more frustrated world. This is the trailer by the way, actually surprised to see a majority support Osho still Also, he didn't buy any of Rollce Royces himself