SpaceCowboy

How high was your dose? I am also planning to have my first LSD trip soon.

No, I don't say that to feel better about myself, that would be way to easy and lead to nothing in the end... You're right, there are many perspectives and neither is right or wrong, it's all relative. But most people are not conscious of what they are doing (and I don't necessarily exclude myself from this). People don't know who their are, why they exist and what life is about BUT they are convinced that they know and act like they know. This is where all of the worlds problems and suffering come from. This is not freedom, but enslavement to the individual and collevtive ego. I sincerely hope that people will wake up and finally be free.

I agree! It's absolutely astonishing how many people are living their lives and never realizing that they are part of the rat race and basically wasting their live every day. Do you have a theory why this is the case? Why aren't more people realizing their foolishness? I personally only know one friend who has nearly the same mindset as I have. All the other people I know in person take societies bullshit for granted. I think the reason why I had to become more conscious than most people is because I have suffered so severely for many years (because of personal circumstances) that my only chance of survival was to really look for what is true and what isn't. By now, I feel like I can't really connect to people in my immerdiate surrounding any more, feels like they (or I) am from a different planet somehow . Glad this forum exists!

Crying is actually a very good thing. I've been crying a little daily in the past couple of days and I could really feel the physical and emotional relief immediately. Along with that, some chronic tension in the back of my neck, which has plagued me for many years, seemed to dissolve along with the emotional pain. So welcome crying anytime

Thank you very much, great video on the topic

Hi people, I want to start this thread to discuss and hear your guys opinion on what psychedelics really are and their link with metaphysics?! Let me elaborate a little: Science regards psychedelics as chemical molecules belonging to the group of neurotransmitters, because they transmit information through their molecular structure and in collaboration with neuroreceptors. The molecular structure of 5-Meo-DMT looks like this for expample: When this molecule docks into a suitable receptor, information in the form of electrical signals are forwarded to the respective areas of the brain, where altered neural activity influences our cognition and the content/state of our consciousness. 5-Meo-DMT is said to be a doorway into the absolute because of its potency and energy. But what is it that makes this neurotransmitter so powerful? Wouldn't it be too reductionistic and materialistic to say it just alters a little bit of our brainfunction so that we can then perceive the absolute? Leo said that he experienced a spontaneous Kundalini awakening during one of his trips (not sure if it was 5-Meo-DMT though). This could imply that the use of psychedelics changes the interaction with primordial energies (Kundalini, Shakti, whatever) in some way. What do psychedelics tell us about the nature of reality? Why do they work the way they do? What makes them different than powder sugar for example? Is it just a change in neural activity? Is spirituality just a change in neural/energetic activity? I know that we are reaching the limits of logic and language at this point, but perhaps some of you are just as curious as I am regarding this issue. Would like to hear your opinion on the matter :).

I understand what you are trying to say. Yet there seems to be some kind of causality that every time you use this substance, you experience absolute infinity or nothingness. The better we understand these processes, the more target-oriented is our use of psychedelics and our spiritual practice in general.

I can recommend doing hatha yoga from your home with youtube videos. The channel "Yoga with Adrienne" provides amazing content for beginners/intermediates as well as many playlists like "30 days of yoga" or "yoga camp", which will keep you motivated until you get a habit going.

Thanks for the input! Makes sense to me and I could recognize myself in your elaboration. Definitely want to watch out more for negative frames in the future!

@Leo Gura How would you know that the Absolute is actually absolute? I'm sure enough fish in an aquarium are ABSOLUTELY sure they are swimming in the endless ocean..

@zedprotect I've also been questioning this topic lately. What I struggle most with is that a lot of the stuff we talk about in spirituality such as consciousness, awareness, the ultimate, kundalini, nonduality, spirit, god, samadhi, bliss, presence etc. bla bla doensn't necessarily contradict the paradigm of a (physical) world we know. Because a physical world does not exclude subjective experiences. For example: Recognizing that you're not your thoughts, but the observer/awareness behind the thoughts, doesn't automatically mean that consciousness is fundamental and that you are in essence "the absolute" (whatever this is). This could solely be the process of a physical brain becoming aware of itself. How the fuck can you know that what you're conscious of is of any trustworthiness? How do you know it is not any subjective bullshit experience? Same goes for psychedelics. How the hell would you know that what you're experiencing is not just a simple halluzination? Yes, I get it: It seems like your whole world collapses and this altered state seems super real to you. But guess what, your brain can make you believe anything it wants! And yes, there is the Ego with all it's selfish needs and wants and inferior motives and self-deception. Ok, but this doesn't prove anything about a spiritual dimension. Kundalini could be just some regular neural stimulation that affects the brain in certain ways Spontaneous epiphanies or "awakening experiences" could also be just brain stuff It seems to me like a lot of this spirituality stuff is the ego's way of trying to construct a new illusory reality for itself, in order to be free of suffering. Can't it just be that if you tell our moldable brain long enough: "Hey, I am not this human body, I am the whole universe" (which in a sense is true because all is the same physical matter) it will eventually believe it and thus relieve the "person" of suffering because of the depersonalization process that has taken place. And the possible illusion that you might be the ultimate consciousness or whatever could also be welcome by suffering brain. What if there really is a physical universe (which we do not yet fully understand, and probably never completely will) and the emergent brain phenomenon "consciousness" of an evolved lifeform in the person of Eckhard Tolle is telling somebody just this very moment: "you are not your thoughts, you are infinite awareness bla bla"... This, of course, it just some input to think about. I always try to keep an open mind and be aware of the possibility that truth might be beyond my accessibility. But maybe not.

@Outer Thanks for your answer. But this still doens't explain the interplay between the brain, mind and consciousness. If consciousness is fundamental, why does it seem like we need a brain to experience reality? Can't consciousness just be conscious without a brain? Were you conscious before you were physically born? Not really, right? This could imply that indeed a brain is needed to generate (or maybe "tune in" to) consciousness.

I'm a little bit confused about this brain thing right now. On the one hand you said that there is actually no brain in one of your videos ("Have you ever seen your brain"?) and on the other hand you engage in discussions about the interconnection between brain states and enlightenment. Can you please elaborate on that? I've also heard other people like Shinzen Young talking about certain consciousness work practices having an effect on the brain circuitry (e.g. "do nothing" or mindfulness meditation), consequently the brain supposedly plays a big part in creating our experience (this is what science says basically). Doesn't this statement imply that consciousness is an emergent byproduct of the brain? Other people say consciousness is fundamental and the brain/mind is a mere experience. As you have seen the absolute recently, please be so kind to shine a little light on this topic