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Am I reading a forum thread, or am I aware of reading? Neither, there is just reading. No subject, no object.

What psychedlics do you probaly won't achieve through meditatation. Your whole body starts to feel different. Tingly, somewhat unpleasant for a moment. Colors start shifting, what was green becomes blue and so on, and so on. Some geometrical patterns start to emerge on flat surfaces and have that tribal vibe to them. What was standing close seems to be kilometers far away. One second you feel as tall as a building, the next second you are as short as an ant. When you close your eyes the wildest visions appear, so you open them again. After a while everything feels like the most precious material on earth when touched. Heat and love spreads from your heart. Sounds become indescribable. Your thoughts become multi-parallel and intuitive, after sometime you stop using words to think, they are not effective enough. Reality shatters and a lot of incredible stuff happens. What it will be is a highly individual matter. Possible incredible stuff I have experienced: visiting my own personal hell, Enlightment experience, switching bodies, total acceptance and understanding, seeing reality as an endless loop.

You don't need to quit Islam in order to pursue Enlightment. It's totally compatibile, just don't listen to bullshit dogmatic people say that has nothing to do with spirituality, but more with politics. Yes, go and search for life purpose, do all that stuff, have sex, earn your first money, etc. It's 2018, being born in Egypt doesn't mean anything. As long as you desire something, you can achieve it.

Rupert Spira, my favourite teacher, here, too! I would recommend watching one of Leo's video for a good start. For example the one about strange loops or whole absolute infinity series or live enlightment experience. It's at least worth trying.

You may feel a few times like you have already seen what you are reading, because Leo's videos about Enlightenment are partially inspired by Ralston's work. Nevertheless, it's worth it to read and try it out.

Just have some fun. Dropping acid with friends is for that, not for having some reality-shattering realizations. You need a lot of preparation for that. Anyways, it will be spiritual to some extend regardless of what you decide to do.

@zoey101 That wouldn't suffice. Ego and thoughts are not needed for anything in that situation. They didn't thought themselves into existence, so they are not that powerful to explain anything. it's more like everything is already made of consciousness and therefore consciouss to some degree, so you don't need any ego to notice a rock for example, it can be by itself.

You have got it ass backwards. Things exist, they are just non-material. In your way of thinking, you would be better off by saying that the mind is what doesn't exist. Thoughts, emotions, sensations or physical objects are all made of the same material and occupy the same space. They are made of Consciousness and take place inside a Consciousness is a one way to put it into words. The fact that there's no division between physical reality and the mind doesn't mean that only one of those ideas is real and you have to ditch the other. No, they both are wrong and you have to get rid of them both to make a place for a new understanding. Reasoning alone won't get you there, you need to start "seeing" it beyond simple thoughts. Your whole line of reasoning lies on an unsupported assumption that only physical things can collide. Why can't two immaterial things bump? They can.

You probably would have very hard time dealing with a sociopath if you ever met one. That's exactly how they operate. I think the whole topic about him being a zen devil or not is pointless, because regardless of the outcome of that discussion one can't deny that Charles Manson was also a seriously ill person, which makes any conclusions about his behaviour not applicable to the majority of spiritual seekers.

Those are peanuts compared to a real impact of the right kind of practice. Try Kriya Yoga if you are getting no results. That's what contemplation is for, not meditation. You don't examine any thought, nor belief while meditating. If that was your approach then no wonder you have got no results.

I will rewatch his new videos then. I had them playing in the background and it didn't catch my atention.

Get out of your fantasy bubble and stop splurting nonsensical ideas. You are welcome. I don't mean to offend you. You clearly don't understand what Leo means when he is saying physical self if you are making parallels to Jim Jones and death cults. End of physical self =/= stop of life processes in the body.

I supplement my mostly-vegan diet with meat. No joke. I get about 10-20% of my calories from meat. Just like monkeys do. It's convinient.

Just don't modify something you don't understand and always test drive your new ideas. Otherwise you loose warranty. Adding breathing to emotion releasing exercise sounds like a good idea IMHO. It's not like you can't stop if it gets too intense. You have to stick to rules mainly to avoid bastardization, like doing Strong Determination Sitting with music playing on. No, you are not meditating that way, you are simply listening to songs. To every practice there are core components that can't be changed and less important parts where there is freedom to improvise. For example, I have developed my own way of sitting for Yoga - there is a very high cushion in my house that staightens my back and gives less strain than sitting in the perfect pose. I guess no master could have recommended it, as they don't know about existence of such cushion at my home.

I think it's because of the very nature of Enlightment experience. Like Peter Ralston said when asked about his deepest realization: "They were all the deepest." It's paradoxical. How do you describe the deeper deepest experience? Just like that? Then what about the next one, would it be a deeper, deeper deepest experience? It can only get more silly from that place. So I still find a value in marking a fact that there is always more to explore, even after seemingly reaching the end.

Start Kriya Yoga practice from reading books. Use the rest of your free time to work on your passion.

You haven't wtitten about it anywhere, but have you tested it with reagents to be 1000% sure it's LSD? Are you aware that if it was NBOMe, taking 3 tabs recklessly could have killed you? NBOMes take around 4-6 hours before they start making ANY effects. With your approach of "no effects = dose more" it's super easy to harm yourself, even with legit LSD. Always decide on a dose beforehand and stick to it, don't ramp it up during the trip.

Me? I am not sure what you are trying to point to. What is meditation for you, @Toby ?

It might be enough. Meditation is a process to become one with everything. You can't do that part by part. Infinity is way too vast to consume it that way, you have to swallow it all at once, so in a sense I understand this approach of disregarding every other outcome than pure Enlightenment, but for how many has it worked that way? Not so many, most people will experience biegger or smaller breakthroughs throughout their practice, if they do it the way it should be done.

Since always. How else can you know that you are doing the right thing and not just sitting on a butt from laziness? The reason for meditation is the Truth, not joyfulness, concentration, peace, etc., I get it. But it doesn't mean that those things can't come up from the practice. Something will come up, you can't know what, but something will. If someone is not getting any results, doesn't notice any change in himself during practice, then I bet my money, 99% chance that person is doing something wrong or not really meditating. There's a reason why only a few are Enlightened masters.

@Xin I was more curious about what you do when for example thoughts arise. Many people just sit and think about random things, but that's not it. It's not also trying uber hard to still the mind. It will happen automatically when you "do the right thing". Possible results? Moments of intense, focused, uniterrupted concentration. Mystical experiences and Samadhis. Clear mind, when you stop and notice the lack of thoughts spontaneusly throughout the day. Random existential insights. Noticing things beyond thoughts and common senses. Overall more enjoyment from every activity like eating, walking, etc. If after a year you have none of that, then it's wise to either improve the practice or do it more often and more consistently. With sitting meditation the thing is to do it as much as you humanly can. If you don't have too much time, then I recommend switching to some kind of yoga or taking holidays and doing a retreat. Psychedelics are also an option, but I am not sure if they are a path for everyone. I am actually very curious about the results of the current Leo's 30 day retreat. If that doesn't work then I will reevaluate their long-term value for myself. Yoga seems to be the most solid way.

Try Kriya Yoga. It's really powerful. The problem with "normal" meditation techniques is that they start snowballing only when your practice is around 1.5h-2h daily and you do a few retreats throught the year. Below that I feel like these are mainly sustaining current level of consciousness instead of growing it. Add to it the fact that most people meditate improperly and you end up with mediocre results. Describe how your meditation session looks like, maybe you are doing something improperly.

@CosmicDNA It can be stopped by customs, although it should be sent foward. 5-MeO is not tested for in any country and is not mistakeable with any other compound. Source: https://erowid.org/chemicals/5meo_dmt/5meo_dmt_testing.shtml

Good, but don't cling to it. There's still so much, much, much, much more to discover.

Sounds good. At some point when you can start to feel that "she's yours" just ask her out or something. Exactly, it's my Achilles' heel and I guess most of introvert guys struggle with overanalyzing. Get out of your head and life becomes much easier. Working on yourself with meditation, yoga, etc. helps in taming the mind. Instant-fix is to stop assuming that you know people and just approaching them with curiosity what their answer may be, instead of creating a whole dialogue tree beforehand in your head.