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I have been suspecting that everyone gets the same message. Is there someone who has got a different answer to that question on a psychedelic?

Hey, we seem similar. I am currently going to college studying management, because I have come to conclusion that I want to help build conscious organizations as my life purpose. The quality of knowledge delivered at the university is mediocre at best. I am getting way more from doing my own reading, devouring books about systems thinking or nature and science. I wouldn't go to college if I had to pay for it. I am only there because of the extra benefits. I hope you will find your way soon. I remember once asking on a psychedelic trip what am I supposed to do in life. The answer was that it's completely unimportant whether I become this or that. The important thing is to keep doing your yoga, pursuing the truth, the rest doesn't matter. Then I had asked, what about psychedelics, are they a part of the spiritual path. The answer was "you tell me" said with a sly smile. So, ask yourself, whether sober or in a psychedelic state, what is it that you should really focus on in life. I suspect your answer will be similar to mine, that is "keep doing your yoga".

Watching paint dry is actually interesting, I encourage you to try it. It's a good meditation technique. @Endangered-EGO You could read Ralston's "Zen-Body Being" and train body awareness every day. The book is available on Audible if you don't have time to read it on paper. I have been listening to it at work and applying the principles on the go.

@Eren Eeager it's the gepard that got deadly wounded in that case, so I guess life is just not rosy on the savanna.

I believe I have seen a torrent with all of the RSD videos.

Nah, I don't think so. But I had read The Red Queen by Matt Ridley a few years ago and this vision was like viewing this book in an actualized version. It's LSD that is ahead of us all

I have had visions about sexuality on LSD, women with dicks, men with vaginas, 50 new genders and organs in all shapes, sizes and possible configurations, and to top it, mammals mixed with insects. It's all relative, there's nothing inherently feminine or masculine to reality, that's the insight.

If your goal is fooling around, then yes. Otherwise I would suggest getting serious about doing the work.

Ego, ego, ego, Wee-oww, wee-oww, wee-oww, The non-dual police is going after you Take on serious reading about non-duality or something. I would suggest starting with Ralston's "The Book of Not Knowing". Or if lengthy books are lame for you then maybe read a comic, "The Universe is a Dream" by Alexander Marchand. Then we will be all able to discuss, right now you have clearly not done your homework.

That's why @electroBeam said sorry and corrected himself to 1987. I don't know what this discussion is about, you guys must have not eaten your breakfast today

You know that after buying the list no-one forces you to read books only from that list? You can still read what you want. I am lately catching up with the list and listening to 2-3 books a week, thanks to a cool trick on Audible that allows you to get 3 books for one credit. Ok, maybe it's not a trick but straightout gaming the system, but you can exchange any book twice and no-one asks a question. Great option for people from developing countries.

Don't give up. Meditate or do yoga everyday, it's worth it.

@electroBeam chill, the deluded people sentence wasn't aimed at you but people who live normal lives completly oblivious to spirituality and are therefore suffering needlessly. My argument was that telling them about Enlightenment is less misleading than saying there's nothing to pursue. You have said you don't know what to do. In my perception the answer is more spiritual practice. Sitting in silence, yoga, journaling, etc. Whatever rocks your boat.

I don't think that the idea of Enlightenment is misleading. It tells you that in a limited time that this body-mind has in its current form it can get conscious enough to grasp the Absolute Truth. At least some degree of it, with maybe becoming happy and loving as a spill-over side effect of that realization. From my perspective telling people who clearly live in a delusion that they are Enlightened is more misleading.

That is not Enlightenment. So keep doing the spiritual work.

Rupert is my favourite teacher. He has some of the clearest explanations of non-duality. I especially like the kind of videos where he describes life from enlightened perspective, like this one: Buddha At The Gas Pump's interviews with Rupert are also great.

I would like to bring fun to Enlightenment work as my life purpose. Not humor, fun. Make it enjoyable. Connect with that child-like nature of human beings. Help to make people their meditation/yoga/self-inquiry practice the most interesting and pleasant part of their day. Help them cope with psychedelic trips, approach them with a light-hearted mindset. Motivate them with fantastic stories, alegories of Enlightment. I am basically thinking of taking deep spiritual truths and dressing them with words into modern myths that include Mecha robots, people with superpowers, aliens, etc. Like craft a story of how you will become God by doing yoga, pack it with outlandish claims that will make it obviously look like someone's imagination, so people can smile about it, it will then make for a bigger laugh when they finally realize that the "becoming God" part wasn't an exagerration. I don't know, just letting my thoughts run loose. I am so lost about this whole life purpose thing.

I know it's hard to trip consistently. I haven't been tripping for almost a year. Maybe schedule a date beforehand and then it will be harder to bail out.

If you have been sitting bored for most of your trips I think you need to up the dose.

Gaia House in the UK. https://gaiahouse.co.uk/ Ecodharma Centre in Spain. http://www.ecodharma.com/

How can a movie throw anything at you? You either are aware it's only a show and accept everything that happens or you are not and struggle. It seems like your understanding is correct, but you need to go waaay deeper. My advice is do more spiritual practice and everything will eventually pan out for you. Or not. That's life.

@SickLuv If I understand you right you are smoking weed for a few years and asking for reasons to be sober? I don't know, get rid of it for 3 months and see how your life unfolds for you. Maybe you will like being sober more, maybe not. No-one will tell you that your use of weed is good or bad. You have to judge that yourself. Personally I wouldn't rely on using any substance everyday unless it was absolutely needed to function. But that's me.

For some reason I hate ebooks. Digital versions of paperbacks are hard to read and make the eyes tired. I have never owned a Kindle, maybe they really are comfortable. The Kindle books are ugly though, the text is formatted like on the web page, I don't know maybe they have improved it by now, I have looked into it last time a few years ago. Paperbacks are art. I read like 70% audiobooks, 25% paperbacks, 5% ebooks on computers. There's a trick with Audible to listen to 3 books a month instead of one. You can return a book 2 times, no questions asked. It's rather obvious, but I didn't think about it when I first made an account there. Not every book is a kind of book that I would be reading again, so I order it first, listen to, then return.

I would go to a normal job at 3/4 time. You would earn enough to live on and still have 2-4 hours everyday to practice yoga. Freelancing is a time stealer. In the beginning it takes way more effort than 9 to 5. You could also take up some seasonal job and have a few months in a year to retreat on.