Heart of Space

I'm always kind of confused when people talk like this. Happiness is a state of your biological brain and can only be temporary. So, you're just trading one type of happiness for another arbitrarily because you think that one is worth more than the other. I mean whatever floats your boat, it's your life and your decision.

Well, by that given definition you kind of have to buy into the idea of death if you are a rational person. Death is just the name for when there is a cessation "of the biological functions that sustain" your body. And I'm sorry, but what? Communicating with the dead, like how? Are you certain you haven't just deluded yourself into thinking that you communicate with the dead?

This is NOT a thread trying to promote the use of illegal drugs. I scoured the user guidelines to make sure this is a Kosher topic for this board and it is to the extent that we talk about spiritual growth so keep that in mind. This is a topic I am very interested in and I know a lot of people in this community are as well. My first experience with psychedelics was the single most mind blowing experience that I had ever had up until that point in my life. I believe that these experiences can raise your level of self-awareness significantly and show you the most detailed inner workings of your mind. You become separate to yourself and are able to objectively evaluate everything as if you're looking at things from the perspective of a newborn. The knowledge that I've acquired on these experiences is why I'm here on this forum part of the community. Leo has repeated very precisely and consistently things that I've learned with these experiences, which confirmed to me that he is legitimately a very self-aware person. People who've actually seen, for example, that there is no free will are very few in number. I understand that this point of view is met with skepticism from those who haven't had similar experiences. You absolutely should be skeptical on this topic, but make sure it's a healthy skepticism and that it's not a negative view of drugs in general that taints your view. It's also not an easy pill to swallow (pun intended) for those who've spent hundreds of hours meditating to know that the knowledge they've acquired could have been received by simply ingesting a small amount of a chemical which alters your brain chemistry. I abstain from psychedelics now, and have for several years. I strictly use meditation as a form of self-exploration. I will probably continue down this route, since meditation allows for more meaningful changes in your mind and life in general. There was someone who had a great analogy for when comparing psychedelics and meditation practice. Psychedelics allow you to look from an outside window into the house of enlightenment. Meditation allows you to live in it. Anyways, I'm really interested to hear opinions from both sides. Whether you think these experiences are just delusional drug highs, or you agree that they are tools that allow you to see deeper into reality.

I saw this topic and fapped right after, thanks OP. I've done no fap before for a solid 3 weeks. I didn't notice much tbh. I don't watch porn, I think that's the true culprit, not fapping. At best, you don't get those random urges to fap as much which allows for better concentration. Idk, I may give no fap another shot at some point.