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@The White Belt Cool, matey. Love the last photo in your post, where did you take it?

Demons playing jazz in hell and novel characters, Philip Green & Dr. Bombatrônca

Great Article, thanks. @zazed Hehe. Cool story. For me personally, some of these difficuties kicked in hard lately, which is why some of your advice can be helpful. Really good stuff, folks. Right now I'm working on a book & I'll be trying the shrooms in a week or less. I'll be sure to share my thoughts after the experience. Thank you

Hey guys, I have a question I've never done any psychedelics before, and I was planning to do it sometime soon. For the last year I've been doing a great deal of meditation and growing, and finally found a place where I can get some psilocybin mushrooms (I'm aiming at starting with 3/4g), but for the last year alone I've been dealing with some unexpected stuff from my meditation: This idea of having glimpses of what enlightment could be like and ask for some advices on how to handle is hard, so I'll keep short and it will be probably better understood by some of the folks who have some exp and it might sound very far out to others. So here we go - So far, I had at least two or three of these "thought I arrived" experiences, like visuals, or seeing everyone as you or detaching from thoughts, but noticing them too. And I was a bit sad that it didn't stood afterwards. That was fine, except one time I really had to work my way back to the ego because I was too afraid of not wanting to do anything anymore and the second time was very positive. For the second time, even though it was very short, I had this amazing vision of being on the top of the world, looking at the earth as though it was all flat and self contained and I really exausted my mind because I couldn't control my body or think that I was thinking any thought, althought I heard my voice saying "Thank you" multiple times. This was amazing and it defenitely changed something on how I aproached this work, but a few months later I had a crash and any attempt to reacreate that meditation setting became very (very) challenging. Recently when I meditate for long periods of time, I deal with some of the dark side in between intervals (when not doing meditation). Now I'm wondering "should I give myself a brake for a while and do the trip or should I wait and sort that out, putting the trip on hold for a while?". I keep in mind that whatever needs to be sorted out in my meditation will have to be faced anyways. Logicly I was always told to never do mushrooms unless you're all fine and sure, but... Thanks (-:

@Dan Arnautu The Laws of Wisdom by Ryuho Okawa. Ryuho has his own way of communicating and sometimes speaks in language, but there's a lot of good information in this book, especially for acing time and college, also goes into some depth about purpose and creativity. It isn't all that short, but it's presented in various short chapters and sub-chapters. So it's really easy to read on subways and busses. The book Leo talks about in Understanding Awareness video, The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution by P.D. Ouspensky, is very short. And definetely worth reading if you're praticing any sort of consciousness work.

Hi guys, I'm new here This is ubu roi and two telescopes looking at each other with tesla on the background

@Visitor Cool!

@Dan Arnautu Great addition, Dan.

@Samuel Garcia A lot of people without ADHD can't relate to the joy of being either. And even if you couldn't, try thinking your way into some self-actualization. There's nothing to say that you can't become enlighted other than thinking that you can't, but also there's a lot of growth you could do using thinking. I couldn't possibly understand what you feel, but hey, have you ever tried to at least organize some of your thoughts with a journal or at least taking it slower with meditation? The key to meditate is to meditate consistently and not for long periods of time when you're beggning. Do you think you could take it slower? You'd might find the awnser to your question, if anything... I'd say even 10 minutes of meditation a day with just trying to slow the pace of your breath, as much as you can, for a week, could show you weather it's worth or it isn't.

Great and solved topic. The 'why' is simply because it gathers what's relevant for the status quo. You, as the student will take up himself to change how it works. And if you want to change it, you'll take upon youself to change how it works to others. That's the job of a visionary writer or a teacher.

@Lorcan (I edited this post to mention you) By taking on the challange of finishing school, you will have a better time managing your expectations, you see? All this force of will and wanting to act reliably on your plan to meditate two hours a day per year is not a perfect science, because to each one of us is slightly different as we move forward, in your case, your life will change. Not because you're going to get older. I think telling someone they're not wise enough because they're young is sheer bullshit and when I was your age I would've like to punch someone in the nose for that. That said, all I'm advocating is you have to consider the unknown and the passing of time. As time moves forward, you'll be experiencing new things and learning and growing. If you stay in school, you'll only save your self from the possible regret of having dropped out of it. People will surely treat you different when they know, and I assume you don't care about that. Great. But one of the things I tell you these points is because I learned from harsh experience. I considered myself a genius after reading several books and developed the hability to write a book, to have more open mind than everyone else around me and it made me much more creative. One of the reasons it's because I didn't have anyone to tell me "don't drop out of school" and "Hey, this purpose of yours is a whole field of learning that requires a long life commitment to mastery". I just wanted everything too soon. So even though I had a lot of knowledge, I couldn't get anyone to understand what I was doing, why, and lost many opportunities between 16 and 21 (which is my current age). Had I stayed in the academic world I would never have changed my values and I would still have more opportunities and done all of it sooner. See where I was wrong? What you must understand is that it does no good for you to use your time out of school to trying and mastering life at home. Not unless you have no purpose to give back. But hey, you must listen to what I told you before we explored the subject deeper. I'm not here to prevent you from leaving, and if you're sick and tired of it, no one really can. That's why I said it worked out for me, because I paid this cost. I've dealt with it at all costs and, for my carrer, there were many. I can only hope that you know what you're doing, because you'll run the same risk at your own accord. And I wouldn't have, not if I knew all the stuff I know now. I only found Leo and this Channel after making many mistakes and learning from hard experience.

@Dan Arnautu Cool! I learned a lot on guitar by these vlogs when I was young

@Lorcan Staying in school will make everything slower. That means you'll have less time to read all sorts of non-fiction, historys, biographies, self-help, philosophy and even more. And you'll also have less time to meditate, doing the theory and working at what you want. This is good. Not the less time you'll have, but that it will take longer. That means you're not just reading books but at actually seeing how they work on pratical everyday system. The amount of wisdom you'll develop from this is actually orders of magnitude, because you'll be able to reach twenty with a much stronger foundation: both in theory and pratice. Also, you'll have the school if you need to. That's what it all boils down to. The fact is right now you haven't completed it and you think it's going to be a huge waste of time. That's what I mean by being left behind. Means the world actually goes on in the corrupt way that it does and all the theory in the world will not be suficient for you to deliver the great things that you want. Do it the hard way. Do it longer, take the tests, learn as you move forward. If you're right about all of it, you'll have a much stronger foundation after you've completed it (because time do teaches you stuff) and much better planing (because you'll have the theory and the pratical system handled). The only one other thing I'd like to add is that: I did not ever said I doubt your goals and your capacity, but merely tried to show you there is more value on taking the high road. You can think about it like this: time is not going to end in two years, most likely, and if your purpose is as real as you say, it will surive it, grow stronger and really be more helpful to you in the long run. It is not the case that because you're in school you can't read all these books. You can still read them, only slower. And any quality personal development book will tell you that this is better. This might not be the purpose of the school, but you can take your ideias and your age and turn it around to your own benefit and develop true mastery over the fields you like.

@Lorcan I never said you've got time to waste, I said you're 16. There's plenty more for you to learn and you don't want to be left behind. Learn how to deal with it, instead of trying to find the perfect format for your new revolutionary endeavour. This thought your life could end at any moment so you should change everything will very likely stay in your mind until you're dead. Don't take what I said into meaning "you should just embrace the system and waste your life away". Perhaps I could've said "Use the benefit that you're young" and it would have the same meaning I intended. The fact is nobody would urge to convince you to stay at shcool if they couldn't predict the worse results you'll get from personal experience. I also didn't say you should stop following your vision and what's important to you. In fact, one thing you'll notice, maybe today, maybe years from now, is that staying in school will really be more helpful to your personal development and growth. By the way I also remember Leo saying somewhere he did it to the utmost and would never be where he is today had not being the circles he went through in life. That is perhaps one of the most valuable things he can teach you.

@AndreiC That's very good.

@Lorcan Yes, that is all true. But is not what I said. I only meant, in the end, you'd might like to have finished those two years. Or not: When you start to get a hold of the pratical stuff, you'll realise LEARNING is all about learning to be patient and especially when you're young. Also that there will be plenty of time once you've finished with the more worldly, borning, useless stuff. Because just as inside of every system not all of it ends up being useless to your purpose. Again, on the other hand, I did exactly what you want to do. And it worked out well. Just please reconsider it a lot before you actually drop out of it. I don't believe in any way Leo's Advice was for you to drop out of school. It was very literal and objective: get everything you need handled, so that you can benefit from whatever you want. If that means you drop out of school, drop out of school. All this theorizing will not really help you and what I'm suggesting is that you place your expectations on long term plans, like that, with caution. The reason is because you're at a very good age to waste some more time. This might sound strange to you, but one of the best things you can do at that age is to endure the system, as you develop yourself, at the same time. It won't work to run away from it as you try and develop your ressources at home, unless you're already an independent genius and an artist. And even then, you'll say: "shit, there's so much time left, and I'm far behind, but I still don't want to do it". Then also, you might ask this question: "why are you telling me not to do something that you claim to have worked well for you?" Literally because of this: I was fucking lucky, it was way harder & in the end, it was completely unnecessary to work on my life purpose.

Look, I hear you out and I dropped out of school at the age of 16 with the same standards. What I found out is that is harder in the long run and inevitably the world will always ask you that cost. If you feel it in your heart that you must drop out of school, make sure to develop a plan to get your degrees later or save a lot of money and invest in your life purpose thoroughly. Also be reasonable and ask your self very honestly if you cannot change your mind later. If I could come back in time I would've stayed at school. Even though my life purpose paid off like I imagined, it gave me a lot of headache when I got older. The world values results and hardly values knowledge alone. Better to have someone less suspicious drop a line, because I did developed my passions and studied a lot after I gone off school. But word to wise, I would have much preferred to stay if I knew about Self-Actualization back then. Good Luck (-:

@MIA.RIVEL There are lots of reasons to study: learning, growth, expertise, teaching, etc. But I think what's the most important to me is to handle life better. And of course, you can be a better ressource at whatever you do.

A great topic, thanks. I was looking for it. At this point the greatest challanges for me are ego crashes or false starts, if i can put it this way. This means I have some beautiful insight or experience which ends up gone. Then I'm right were I started. I backslide a great deal, especially when my meditations are getting deeper, or getting back to normal after a spiritual "high" (compassionate reasoning and relating to others as you relate to your self, deeper insights and etc); About A year ago I decided to not take action when I sense homeostasis, but rather follow the advice on how to deal with strong negative emotions, not particularly on strong negative emotions, but all emotions, as much as I can and especially on thinking about homeostasis. It seems, in time, it gets better because you can think of it this way - it's a ton of mindfulness work and labeling that you're doing both in and outside of meditation, and it grounds itself really nicely, just as the homeostasis does. You can become more conscious of homeostasis and the stuff you feel as old patterns come about. Still I'm not perfect at it and sometimes I do crash and freak out or even cry. But it's not much of a problem anymore. It's often just a wrong expectation & I'm usually back on track the next day, better than ever And yes, always forgive yourself. Just notice how you're already headed in the right way and keep at it, one foot in front of the other.

I think all posts here are good ideias, but I'd like to add: Remember that growth looks far out to ordinary people and they'll always resist it when you share it. I live alone, but whenever I hang out with my friends & family, for long periods of time, they'll see me as an introverted vegan nerd, even though, in fact I know this is the most helpful "personal development" lifestyle I can work with right now. I don't think at all about being worried on how others see me, but as I grow, I do develop massive compassion for wanting to share good habits and techiniques with people. One way you could do that is by trying to listen and figure out how to explain these things in a lenguage they understand. But, as I said here, try doing what they do with them, unless you can't stand it. They'll have a much better time knowing you're building the right habits and being responsible if you're also there for them, every once in a while.