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I agree. Very true in this experience also. However, I can’t say (ime) it’s related to ego-dissolution, embodiment or is integral.

This thought feels terrible because it’s untrue. The thought “there’s only love all around and within” feels true because it’s actually accurate. If it doesn’t feel great, notice that would actually be because another thought, which is self referential (“about yourself”) arose… and that is the thought which feels discordant. You don’t know your parent’s direct experience. In openmindedness, they might have and do still, love you unconditionally. They might have some conditioning they could work on letting go of, just like you. Certain thoughts don’t resonate because of how off the content is in regard to the love you are. There is no direct experience of anyone else’s thoughts. That thought feels terrible. Because it’s so discordant / untrue. Not because it is true. Accepting or not accepting another or yourself is existential rumination, which is the result of aversion of feeling - and is not the result of actually feeling & understanding the emotions you are experiencing. Not only hard, but impossible, as unloveable and unappreciated aren’t even emotions you could be experiencing. They’re thoughts (rumination ‘ aversion of feeling). If what he just said resonates, as in feels great, resonates in an uplifting manor, awesome. Otherwise, I would definitely stop listening to him because he doesn’t actually understand what he’s talking about.

@Mintberrycrunch If you’re interested, we could have a chat right now.

The hell you mean ‘you people’!?

But of course if there’s no spectrum of consciousness, there’s no death either.

“Backsliding”…? “Ego backlash”…!? “Mindful suffering”…!?!? Some ideologies are ideologies. Probably all of them actually.

I’ve never spent or saved the ‘extra’. Always reinvesting. (Other than a 3 - 6 month reserve for unforseeables)

That is sort of a testimony, no offense I hope, as to what I suggested. You’re already under an impression there is a second source (might seem tediously semantical, but it isn’t) and that one could understand nonduality. That’s a big one so to speak, a colossal misnomer. You don’t want conjecture like that creeping into your foundation when you’re just getting started (IMO). I wouldn’t frame it up as letting go of sources. There is one source, and it is impossible to let it go. That might seem like a small point but imo it’s not at all. “Resourcing” or “multi-sourcing” is undermining of oneself but doesn’t initially readily seem so and makes equanimity harder down the path. I also wouldn’t frame as ‘study’. If you want to read someone’s book about their existential experiences, that’s great… but you’re not ‘studying’ it… they’re sharing experiences… and you’re interested in experiencing that sharing. ‘Studying’ (imo) is applicable to memorizing information for an exam, or similar situations. And direct experience isn’t reliable or unreliable, it’s simply direct experience. That, I would explore until there is not a single question remaining. Until you are so satisfied you’re bliss napping face down on the floor as an orgasmic pile of your infinite self. There isn’t really that line. Any studying is ‘in’ direct experience, or, is direct experience. Direct experience is not found in studying. Given those distinctions… and a great understanding of the emotional scale… I don’t really think you need a trip guide & facility. Advice wise, yes, absolutely, of course you should be safe and as conservative as possible, take every precaution possible, and utilize every resource available to you. Personally, I prefer a long weekend in a cabin in the woods alone. But, so to speak, my understanding of emotion is astute and crystal clear. You could think of that (if you will) as the actuality for what the belief ‘mental stability’ points to. Or maybe we are actually saying the same thing in that regard, idk.

?? You can also of course, focus on something. If you haven’t yet, try going for a walk, and effortlessly (not be any force) pick something way off in the distance in from of you, and visually maintain focus on it. You’ll notice thoughts arising, sensations like the feet on the ground etc, and just continue return full attention to that thing in front of you off in the distance. Thoughts might arise about how you need more focus, or should have more focus, etc. In simply noticing these are thoughts, you’ll begin to experience a certain delightful shift.

@soos_mite_ah I agree with everything you said except having to be yellow, and listening to Leo’s videos on psychedelics. I think those are both misnomers which you’re better off not hearing, in terms of any connotational beliefs & misunderstandings you might pick up and ‘bring into’ your trips.

Some content is good for threads, some is better suited for a journal. Good is of course undefinable, but some pointing might be, something which felt really great or brought much clarity about, which I want to share, that might make for a good thread. Maybe something you’ve been trying to let go of, or contemplating, and you feel stuck. That might be a good thread. General thoughts arising, which aren’t let go, which aren’t contemplative, might make for good journal entries.

Your idea won’t create a universe. We can breathe underwater. It just requires suppression / submersion and a supplemental apparatus for the breath. Therefore this is ignorance, backed with pride of. Own justification, less you be owned by it. Truly it is only that war within that is seen without. There are no conditions within the universe.

Your inquiry started with the assumption there is time, and that it is being denied or could be denied, buts it’s actually just a belief. That there isn’t time isn’t a matter of denial, proof, being right or even proven wrong or being convinced. It’s a matter of inspecting and thus seeing through and being without, the limiting belief.

Wow! That’s one of the most misleading sales pitches I’ve ever seen. Virtually no one will see through a cleverness like that.

@Fearless_Bum It’s like turning water into wine.

@EntheogenTruthSeeker Discordant perspectives and behaviors are reaction, instead stop, focus on yourself instead of dad or anyone else, and give yourself the gift of kindness. If that seems to intangible, think of kindness as other than reactive.

@BenG No, they’re just really into raisin awareness.

@roopepa Value. Like mean-ing and perp-us. It’s more fundamental than just making up money. It’s really about the psychological aspect, the “money” is the result so to speak.

It’s difficult and ultimately impossible to hold that belief when taking mushrooms. The “seeing of separate things’. Inevitably, the experience isn’t of mushrooms as a separate thing, nor is experience separate. This is already the case.

Veilyou.

@Carl-Richard i’ll make a video on it.

This is like saying why only some actors in a movie could be the screen.

@BenG In Reiki they say dried grapes are ideal for this.

@Fearless_Bum Thanks. It’s like some cyclical hoax. ??‍♂️

@Zeroguy ?