Joseph Maynor

I’ve done LSD three times now, all with four tabs. Here’s some advice. Do it alone. Don’t worry about freaking-out. You need to learn to detach from thoughts, don’t let the thoughts suck you in too much. Start to see how reality becomes very neutral. Start to realize how impulsive the Mind is and how it rarely wants to just surrender to the Now. Notice when impatience arises, that’s you living in the Mind. Just try to be in the present moment and be aware. Take everything in in the Now. Be like a spectator. Do some journaling in writing during the trip if you feel like recording insights. Pay attention to changes in how you are feeling from what normal consciousness is like. You might become more caring and more loving.

All of this resonates with me. Thanks!

After about a year of meditating for 1 hour per day you should start to see some profound results in your awareness. That’s my experience.

The Mind resists enlightenment and makes it look like a very unwise route. Psychedelics are stigmatized. In the West we have been blocked from Indian and Chinese Philosophies. Religions keep people up to their eyeballs in the Ego Paradigm. Hippies and liberals and new agers are stigmatized as bratty children instead of listened to for their wisdom.

Pick the story that resonates best with the Higher-Mind, but don’t cling to any story too tightly. Technically all meanings are false. Language and thoughts are entirely metaphorical. So, yes we can work on our theories, but our expectation that we’re someday gonna find the true one is false. “All Science starts as Philosophy and ends as Art” — Will Durant. You do stories, don’t let them do you.

I was religious for about a year before I started to have enlightenment experiences. I now consider my move from athiest to theist as a step in my awakening process. Then I lost the theism part when I started to shed my beliefs. But theism was a step towards mysticism for me. It was a symptom of the Ego breaking down and the Shadow integrating with the Ego. That was happening over the course of about a year and a half for me. Then I started to transcend the Ego entirely, which is where my theism went bye-bye on its own. I’ve studied Judaism, Christianity, and Islam pretty deeply. I’ve also studied Hinduism, Chinese Folk Religion, and Buddhism.

Wake up. Take my meds. Relax in bed for a while and check my Actualized account and the daily news. Read my mission statement. Make and eat breakfast. Take my supplements and drink my protein shake. Take shower, get dressed. Walk to my office. Get my coffee and get my work day organized. Work on my job related stuff and my personal admin related stuff. Meditate. Work on my Personal Development stuff and participate on the forum. Listen to some music. Walk home. Eat dinner. Read a little bit. Read some personal development materials. Go to sleep.

Like any other kind of teaching profession, it seems people wanna see evidence of credentials before trusting you. So, because you’re basically inventing your own curriculum, you’re gonna be asking people to open their wallets without really knowing what they will be getting for the money. That’s a risky up front proposition. I’m not saying that’s a deal breaker, it’s just you might have a tough sales and marketing burden on the front end. But if this is a true passion of yours, you’ll find a way to make it work. Have you done Leo’s Life Purpose Course yet?

I posted two strings of videos on Life Purpose in my Personal Development Journal about a month ago.

You already visualize all the time. Just become more mindful of that. I used to do visualization sessions where I would sit down with a timer and all that — and I’m not pooh-pooing that practice because it has its use. But what I do now is when the Mind wants to consider something, I’m very polite to it — and I say ok, let’s deal with this since you are trying to care for me. And at that time, I’ll visualize and deep-dive the issue with the Mind to try to gain some awareness so the Mind feels better and drops the issue. This may seem basic — but watch how often you will try to ignore the Mind or shove it’s issues under the rug. And we wonder why we have Monkey-Mind! You gotta be nice to the Mind, it really is trying to help you. It means well, it just doesn’t always have full awareness at hand.

Do an hour per day for a year.

Why are you against liberals? You have some kind of block there. You might want to sniff that out. I’m not saying it’s negative, but it’s a rigidity that you should explore. You are clinging to ideology.

1) Lack of Knowledge of the principles of Personal Development. 2) Using drugs and alcohol to cope with negative feelings. 3) Stuck in victim mentality. 4) Pursuing goals that are not aligned with the Authentic-Self. 5) Lack of a big, compelling goal for your life. 6) Desire to remain in comfort-zone. 7) Failure to tie what you do in a day to making money.

I’m gonna show you how to make a simple, healthy chili that will dazzle all your tastebud zones. You gotta learn something about jazzing simple foods up if you wanna increase healthy eating in your life. Start to build a little collection on vinegars, oils, and spices. Don’t go overboard though and buy too many spices at once because they do go bad and you want your spices to be as fresh as possible. But these are like your painters’ palate that you can use to jazz up or enhance any food you have Mind to experiment with. Get a good olive oil to have on hand. A couple of years ago I really got into cooking and I learned a lot about how to add the right dimensions of flavor to foods to really make the tastebuds sing. The reason why the bad foods are bad is because they taste good haha. Not so fast though — if you know how to use herbs, spices, vinegars, and oils — you can make almost any ingredient be the star-of-the-show in a dish. So, let me show you how to do-up black beans, which are a superfood. I make my black beans in a pressure-cooker — which is how I recommend you do it. The beans have a kind of gravy to them this way. It takes me about 1 hour to cook a whole pot of black beans in the pressure-cooker, and I don't have to do any soaking beforehand. Ok, so start with a full plate of black beans. Beans should be hot, so microwave beforehand if you need to. Here’s what you do to the pile of beans on the plate: Apple cider vinegar — hit it with a few splashes of vinegar for some acidity. Low sodium soy sauce — circle the circumference of the pile of beans with soy sauce. Don’t put too much, but not too little either. This adds salt and umami. Pink Himalayan Sea Salt — add pinch of salt for taste. Onion powder — give a nice dusting with onion powder for depth of flavor. Garlic powder — give a nice dusting with garlic powder for depth of flavor. Dried marjoram leaves — give a nice dusting with marjoram for herbaceousness. (Substitute with oregano if you must.) Smoked hot paprika — give a nice dusting with smoked hot paprika for heat and depth of flavor. Ground coriander seed — give a nice dusting with coriander seed to give herbaceousness and depth of flavor. Ground white pepper — give a light dusting with white pepper to add heat and herbaceousness. Dried rubbed sage — sprinkle some sage around for added herbaceousness. Ground turmeric — give a nice dusting with turmeric for depth of flavor. Dried amchur powder — sprinkle in some amchur powder for a nice tangy, sour note and for depth of flavor. Ketchup — give a couple shots of ketchup on top for sweetness. Now, stir everything loosely together a few times and eat! // BOOKS THAT WILL TEACH YOU THE PRINCIPLES OF COOKING SO YOU CAN DO WITHOUT USING RECIPES This means you can learn to make anything taste good, which is why you eat all the bad food — because it tastes good. I recommend these two books if you wanna take charge of your diet, nutrition, and heath. They teach you the principles of cooking and flavors so you can cook much more intuitively. (1) ‘Culinary Artistry’ by Dornenburg and Page https://www.amazon.com/Culinary-Artistry-Andrew-Dornenburg/dp/0471287857 (2) ‘The Flavor Bible’ by Page and Dornenburg https://www.amazon.com/Flavor-Bible-Essential-Creativity-Imaginative/dp/0316118400/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=433D8P40S9T8AGCFCM3S // ONE OF MANY LISTS OF SUPERFOODS https://greatist.com/health/25-greatist-superfoods-and-why-theyre-super

It depends on whether it's an authentic value of yours and where it stands in relation to your other authentic values.

Here's a model to use to clarify, if this is what you mean: Psychological liberalism refers to a readiness to challenge authority, convention, and traditional values. In its most extreme form, psychological liberalism can even represent outright hostility toward rules, sympathy for law-breakers, and love of ambiguity, chaos, and disorder. Psychological conservatives prefer the security and stability brought by conformity to tradition. Psychological liberalism and conservatism are not identical to political affiliation, but certainly incline individuals toward certain political parties. I got this language from that free Big 5 Personality Test.

Just work on raising your awareness and reality will clean itself up for you over time.

The more awake I become the happier I become. That's what is motivating me to do this work is I keep getting happier and happier. Not joking! I was thinking about this the other day -- increasing happiness is the best source of motivation. Even when you act badly, that's because the Mind thinks it's pursuing happiness, but it's internally conflicted and confused. When you build awareness, you can train the Mind to get aligned with the right kind of happiness. You gotta show the Mind what the Good is. It's been improperly trained by culture! Video to watch:

When you start to trip, try to steer your thoughts to some subject, like Life Purpose.

It takes a lifetime to develop a good bullshit detector.

This happened to me too. You will go through a period like this where you lose all your interests. They will come back to you though in a few weeks. Be patient -- your passions are not going to be gone forever.

I have a love-hate relationship with someone else's take on Enlightenment. It can be misleading as well as inspiring to me.

One video that is conspicuously missing from the video arsenal is one on shadow work.

I would be the guy whose career is to help people improve their lives while improving his own too, getting happier and happier and happier as a result.

You might have a lot of baggage that is bouncing around in the subconscious mind. What meditation and psychedelics do, in part, is to open your mind so that that baggage either gets purged or dealt with. So, it’s a good thing that you got demons bubbling up. You got a lot of stuff in there that needs dealing with. You’re on the right track — keep meditating like you are.