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I'm curious to hear more about this. These are blockages/patterns I'm working on, too, and there's a lot of healing that wants to take place. How have you found out about these "issues" as in how did you experience the insights into them? And how has your healing/loving process been so far?

That's a beautiful insight! When in the "just being" orientation of meditation, which is the meditative stance I take as well (combined with contemplation), it has often happened to me, sometimes over the course of a few days or weeks, that I become more and more head-centered. In these cases, I started to feel that "I don't get it", that something is missing. What has been helping me to ground that experience is 1) to feel the body fully at all times, but not in a highly focused way, but rather in a sense of awareness engulfing all experience including the body, an expansiveness, an inclusiveness, and 2) to gently focus on the heart area. Just a few moments of that can open a door that I beforehand hadn't even noticed, and as soon as love is flowing, it deepens awareness in a spiralling, relaxing manner. Also, I sometimes start a meditation just focusing on the heart space. That is often enough

Amen ?? It's as simple as that, so all thoughts about how love would act don't matter. Love IS. Love acts as us, through us - as undistorted as we are a clear channel, a pure vehicle, a transparent modulation of Self.

This is why glimpses into the truth are so powerful, because they can show you that you can trust in reality absolutely, totally, completely. You are held, you always will be, there is no possibility of you being abandoned, separated, annihilated - only illusions can go, but that is not a problem at all. Nothing can be lost, ever. Even though this trust can be forgotten, it can also be remembered Without trust, we will defend ourselves all the time

Absolutely. When I worked in a night club pre-Corona, I often had night shifts, like from 2am to 11am. I went home in the blazing sun and sleeping was nearly impossible, so I did Yoga Nidra for 1-2 hours. It was obviously not enough to replace all the sleep, but it kept me through the day until I went to bed at night. I also use it when I have tiny time frames in which I need to rest.

I've heard something like 30 minutes equals 2 hours of sleep or something in that ballpark. After several years of practicing, I can confirm. Often times I do it right before sleep, and it's not only making me more rested the next day, but I feel like sleep quality goes up as well. It's very important not to move at all during the session though, so the body actually goes into that state of deep rest. What I've also heard and can confirm, is that by proactively deepening your relaxation during the practice, you are more relaxed than even in deep sleep

@erik8lrl I see what you're getting at, and I agree! For example, I have this simple desire to understand politics, because I'm really under-educated in this regard. What I've been doing recently is research books on politics, history, and political history (and as you said, related topics that came up, like anthropology). I spent a lot of time trying to find out which books are highly regarded by academics, which ones aren't, and why, so I can understand what is worth reading, what drawbacks (regarding to specific people) I can expect etc. I compiled this into a big research list which I want to tackle now. So although an anker point is to understand the situation right now, I'm also just fascinated by how everything works in general, and that's why I want to dive deep into this stuff, history and all. I think I might learn quite a lot along the way. I also plan to research every phrase that I don't really know, like reading the whole Wikipedia article on a war that I'm not really familiar with.

I agree! I'd say they effectively can get you into extremely high states of consciousness, which fosters purification, insight, and an understanding of where consciousness is headed in its overall tendency to develop itself ever more self-aware.

Of course you can, that's why I said maturity and responsibility are crucial.

Where is the relevance of that? Who said that the stronger the experience the better? Again, you think because you had a grand experience that you now know the whole range (all salvia experiences, all psychedelic experience), you don't. Yes, that would be deluded, too, but this is not my position. A glimpse won't get you anywhere (in which case you're right, it doesn't hep), but repeated glimpses, combined with purification, contemplation and utter surrender, deepen and deepen and deepen and imbue your being in more consciousness. Thinking that this doesn't aid the awakening process in any way is simple ignorance and lack of experience of said journey. That "place" has infinite facets, infinite depth, you never cease deepening your realization of it. That's what makes psychedelics powerful, they can get you extremely deep the longer you work with them maturely.

I doubt that you know that nearly as well as you make yourself believe. You don't know what is possible. Even if you tripped 100 times, that doesn't in the least mean you know the possibility spectrum of what these substances make possible. I certainly don't know, and I've tripped a lot in the last 4-5 years. There's this simplistic arrogance in people who are defending the standpoint that psychedelics "are not helping you advance spiritually", of actually believing tripping once or a few times makes you an authority on the subject, as if you knew it all just by dipping your toes in the water. As if by reading the introduction or first chapter of a book makes you knowledgeable about its whole content. It's so obviously grasping for a strong opinion. I'm telling you: I've experienced lasting effects first-hand, the most mind-boggling insights that shaped my life afterwards, and I'm a bloody beginner on this journey. There's so much more to come and there are hardly any pioneers in this work. Tripping does not equal tripping in a contemplative manner - tripping a few times, even in that contemplative manner, does not equal doing so methodically, strategically over many years. If you want a taste of what's possible, read "LSD and the Mind of the Universe".

Using his Yoga Nidra recording since about 4 years, deeply healing:

@erik8lrl Quality response, I appreciate the effort and detail! I agree with what you're saying. The "problem" for me personally is, as you pointed out, that I don't have the time to research everything that interests me to this degree, I don't have time to directly experience all that could be experienced to understand an issue from all necessary perspectives - I could never do that, for nearly everything is interesting to me right now. That is why I'm looking for the highest quality meta sources. It is baked into the nature of the matter that there is no completely unbiased source, and there doesn't have to be. To me, Daniel is a high-quality meta source, Leo is one, Ken Wilber is one etc. So coming from this angle, I'll adjust the question: What are the highest quality meta sources you personally appreciate and trust to a certain degree, which help you to make sense of the world? I'm not just talking about simple media coverage - whatever you deem systemic, meta, holistic, highly educational and high-consciousness. I'm interested.

The whole path we're taking is maturing, which includes waking up spiritually, though this is not the only thing that constitutes the maturation process. These psychedelic experiences clearly and undoubtedly have the potential to transform and mature a human being in spiritual, psychological, emotional and energetic ways. They foster clarity, insight, understanding, reflection, intelligence, energetical and psychological purification. And that, of course, advances one on the overall path of maturation and helps being ready for deeper realizations. Who says the only role of a psychedelic would be to hold you on a high level of consciousness indefinitely? Too simplistic premise to begin with in my opinion, it's the wrong kind of discussion.

@RMQualtrough Nothing to feel weird or guilty for, taken at the wrong time, these substances can damage some people, that's just the way it is. I know someone who went absolutely clinically crazy after one DMT experience, for months on end, he lost all friends and all hope for a future, I don't know how he is now - but, he was not very mature or spiritually aware to begin with, which is what gives us a more secure base to start from. DMT has given me a lot of difficult experiences that sometimes verged on the side of madness, definitely traumatizing stuff. What helped me was reading Martin Ball, because he revealed that that is to be expected if one does not go all the way, and why it's so important not to stop when in such a phase when trauma bubbles up, but is not fully released yet (I know this is not as simple and up for debate, and depends on intention and substance in use, but it helped me going one step further and releasing all that could potentially traumatize me, into Oneness) . All of you who've taken 5MeO know what I'm talking about - the existential terror that crushes you completely. Without breaking through, the mind is left confused and potentially fractured in an unhealthy way. For some, it might rarely be that way, and even for me, the positive experiences clearly outshine all struggle. But there is a responsibility and sobriety that is necessary to accept the territory we are dealing with - and in some cases pausing for a long time or forever.

Better than most, does that mean you know equal or better sources? Would you mind sharing those?

I've seen the interview, this quote and how he said it stayed in my mind for quite a while

Will do then, thanks! I'm also intrigued by his book on Jung's metaphysics.

@tuckerwphotography I really need to finally read her full paper... This stuff is so good! @bmcnicho One developmental branch within me has been dipping into yellow for years, but lately I'm having this intuition that I'm in the middle of finding myself really piercing through the dynamics that define this stage. What I personally see as signposts for that (and I could be wrong) are the following: - I love thinking. After years of observation and an attempt to still the mind (which is still relevant and important), I deeply cherish the thinking process and its development into the lucid, revelatory sense-making tool that it is. Thought has its limits but I now appreciate how high that limit is and how far away I am from knowing what the upper bounds may hold. Most importantly, I honor the ability of thought to reveal truth, to interpret truth, to make sense of the world and to navigate it. - I deeply desire to understand. Everything. Utterly, completely, to the fullest. And although I know it's impossible as a cognitive task, this desire is burning like fire. It's a clear drive towards ultimate truth, but also towards the relative truths of the world. I am researching the very best books to read on any subject that I find interesting, and it's just too much. My list of books to read just keeps growing. Everything is incredibly fascinating, especially because I see how little I know. For example, I'd love to know everything about history. Everything. Africa's history. Europe's history. The history of the milky way, the history of the dinosaurs, of the physical universe at large, everything! All the big picture understanding as well as the zoomed in focused understanding. I want to understand why the world is exactly as it is right now, both metaphysically and from the perspective of cause-and-effect. Basically, I deeply desire to be all that is at once and to synthesize all experience into THE understanding. I know only the ever deepening fall into God realization is the way here. This leads to humility, the deep dive into spiritual work, but also into an interest to study what I can in this lifetime. - People like Daniel Schachtenberger or Leo, great meta sources, are the ones who attract me like crazy right now. Maybe you can relate to some of that. Despite it being just a model, I feel like this is one facet of stage yellow.

Been eyeing that one, currently listening to his interview with Kurt. I have read "Why Materialism is Baloney". Would you say considering that and the interview, is there enough new insight to justify reading the book?

In my experience, reading A LOT and listening to eloquent people A LOT does the trick. Also, writing and talking in the language, even though it's uncomfortable. I'm talking to myself, it's like verbal journaling. When I come across a word I don't know during reading, I look it up - the translation and the English definition. I often forget them and have to look them up again later, but at some point, due to understanding the word in context, it just sticks.

Come to Berlin! I actually wanna move to Norway at some point, at least it's a long held idea in my mind. You just move into my flat, I'm taking yours

Good for you

@WonderSeeker Simply far away from a high consciousness resource, and not even a good one on seduction, that's just my opinion. I've almost watched the entire video.

I have, most terrifying thing there is, but beyond that terror... That picture though, damn is it accurate (and beautiful)