Carl-Richard

7-10 hours vs. 8-12 hours. Not a big difference.

I think of the final letting go as entering a black hole: You can't imagine what is actually on the other side. Whoever enters it, no information can be transferred to the outside. When you approach it, space and time starts collapsing.

He is trying to communicate a feeling that when he looks at other people, the feeling of them having a "personhood" is weakening, which is a direct result of his own feeling of personhood also weakening. "Other" is always constructed together with a "self", and saying that "other people are imaginary" or "I'm imaginary" are just different ways of communicating the same thing: that the duality of self & other is collapsing.

"You" aren't real.

Egocentrism places ego above other. Not the same as saying there is no other.

Accept what you fear.

Listened to them a lot for a while.

I've been through exactly what he is experiencing, and there is no help. You either take the plunge or you deny deny deny for 2 years straight.

There is no me.

Do you have your own perceptions, thoughts and feelings? Well, based on the fact that when I pinch my skin, I'll say "ouch" and then feel pain, and when you do the same, you will also say "ouch", it's a safe inference that you experience the same pain as I do. I have other experiences other than pain that also show the same correlations as mentioned above, so it's also a safe inference that you have your own perceptions, thoughts and feelings just like me. However, consciousness is not just inherent to perceptions, thoughts or feelings, but also that which is not those things. This fact is verifiable through direct experience, not just through inference.

"We" are each our own patterns of perceptions, thoughts and feelings, that seem obscured to each other in some way, but which still occur within the same field of infinite consciousness. Each perception, thought or feeling is also infinite onto itself, and you can choose to dive into the infinity of either of those things and unite the infinity of form and formlessness.

Drink tea instead Become a monk.

You gotta do sumthin

Not being upfront with your therapist, let alone on a psychedelic. Wow.

What did you do to not smoke?

I'm on this layer: I'm sorry

Yep.

I won't doubt a person's awakening unless it's painfully obvious.

Just balancing out the cynicism.

@Raptorsin7 Awakening is a very individual process.

Why?

Yes. It's incredible how changing the stimuli-reward dynamic for just one occasion can change your behavior forever. It's literally the case that the feel-good dopamine signal strengthens the neural pathways that lead up to that signal, while the feel-bad anti-dopamine signal makes you want to avoid whatever lead up to that signal. Naltrexone is an opioid receptor antagonist which effectively reduces dopamine signalling.

Your absolute identity is infinite. Your human identity is finite.