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Of course. But that assumes you're lucid. How lucid are you right now?

@zeroISinfinity How can love be missing when love is all there is?

Most people who do hatha yoga in the West are Orange transitioning to Green. But they still have a lot of work to do before they become solid Green. And their politics could easily be one stage lower simply out of political ignorance.

My point was, the effectiveness of your training will depend a lot on your pre-existing spiritual attunement and how your brain/mind functions. Imagine doing the same amount of practice but your progress is 100x less. That is more like the reality for many peeps. The average person cannot climb 10 stages in 1 year. That's pipedreams. But of course you'll never know until you try, so don't prematurely limit yourself.

The key difference is that the awake person is conscious that he is God. The depersonalized person is not. The depersonalized person also is not conscious enough to see how he is assigning negative meaning to no-self and no-meaning. No-self is not what people think it is. No-self is only half the story. The other half is Cosmic Self. The depresonalized person is missing consciousness of the Love of God.

What have you been doing your whole life?

Good God! Toxic masculinity.

Yeah, at higher doses mushrooms really demonstrate the power of imagination. It's like being in a dream.

It's really hard to put an image on it. To me DPT feels like a mix of 5-MeO-DMT & Mushrooms.

Depends on how you go about it.

@Goodpeace That looks super suspect. Test it with a test kit. Make sure it's an indole substance at the very least. I doubt that is 5-MeO-DMT. It should be dry and white-ish. Like this: https://www.dissidentreality.com/articles/books-about-5-meo-dmt/

@Dan502 Survival is a relentless mechanism responsible for keeping you alive every day. So it's really a wondrous thing to observe. Notice that theories are also survival. And of course hurt is all about survival

Obviously Culadasa is supernaturally gifted. That's the trick these masters never tell their students about. They act as though it's pure practice and skill. No, they largely coast off their supernatural concentration abilities.

You're not yet understanding what I meant by survival. You are thinking of survival as some biological evolutionary theory. That is not what we're talking about here. I mean something much more direct and viceral. To understand you must turn to your direct experience of life and observe how every micro thing you do is a function of survival. Don't speculate about it, observe it happening in you. It's happening every second.

Great! The trick is understanding what it is.

We already had too many of these debates. They lead nowhere because people all have their own opinions and personal definitions. You must do the practices to discover what such spiritual words mean.

@Hardkill Inside the book list

@Hardkill It's got "charisma" in the title. Do a ctrl+F search.

@Identity Just notice what you're really asking for. If you become all of it, then you will no longer be a human having a life.

I recently added a book to my book list about how to develop charisma. It explains what charisma is.

@outlandish It's not that way for me at all.

Yes, this seems to happen. Don't worry about it. Go for nonduality.

1g of mushrooms or 100ug of LSD Is great to start with. Don't go beyond 2g of mushrooms or 150ug of LSD as a newbie unless you have a high tolerance.

The blissful stage doesn't always come. The blissful stage is the end result of the ego surrendering. If the ego refuses to surrender don't expect a blissful stage. If there is psychological baggage you must deal with, that won't be blissful, that will be taxing and challenging as you work through it. Then, on future trips you'll be primed for a blissful stage. Taking psychedelics to experience bliss is not the right attitude. Rather, take them with the expectation of doing emotional work, whatever work is necessary for you to get closer to Truth. The more inner work you do, the more baggage you clear out, the more likely bliss will be in the future. Think of psychedelics like a therapy session. Challenging stuff should come up. This is how you grow.

@ardacigin Very cool. Glad to see some folks on this forum actually doing the practices and developing their concentration skills. This is how it's done folks! You need to do the practices if you want to be spiritual. Pick a practice and stick with it until you get good at it. Practices must be done methodologically and consciously, not mechanically to get results.