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Yes, this can happen, especially with a bad upbringing. But even so, if a person is truly spiritually gifted they should have some sense of it, however faint and obscured it may be by bad social conditioning. These people should feel like "I am just different from other people." They may not know why yet or how, but they can intuit that they don't quite fit in with dumb society."

This question makes no sense. I don't recommend psychedelics for people under 21 and those who are not emotionally mature. The reason I don't recommend it for people under 21 is because they are generally not emotionally mature or responsible. But there are always exceptions. I have not.

If you're asking that question, then you probably aren't, unless maybe you had a really dysfunctional childhood. Generally speaking, spiritually gifted people will have one or more of the following: Find it very easy to meditate or concentrate Are extremely interested in metaphysical and spiritual topics (more so than other topics) Are naturally very loving Really interested in Truth for its own sake Have paranormal abilities: they see auras, angels, and others weird stuff, they have telepathic abilities, etc. Exceptionally intuitive They have spontaneous kundalini activation/awakenings Are wise beyond their years, wiser than all their peers Not all of those need to be present. Just one or two of those is already great.

@Pouya If you want to live in a good society the government must be as conscious as possible. Unconscious rulers become tyrants who spread evil and chaos. Case in point: Trump There is a profound link between spirituality and government. Of course don't confuse spirituality with organized religion. I am not talking about theocracy.

Great! Looking forward to reading a detailed write-up from you once you return. It will be difficult but worth it. Hang in there. Don't give up. P.S. If you have not successfully completed at 2 week retreat, start there! 30 days is REALLY REALLY hard.

@lukej Awesome! Yes, that's awakening. Or at least one degree of it. There's almost always more. The trick also is integrating it into your everyday life and living in alignment with it. Yes, we've had this similar experience.

Well, in that case, just realize that this entire work of developing oneself is all about transcending culture, realizing how toxic, deluded, and dysfunctional culture can be. "Culture is not your friend." -- Terence McKenna At the same time, don't hate culture either. Just become aware of how limited, partial, and artificial it is. There is no liberation or freedom without transcending one's culture.

For me it feels like I am borderline. There's no full ego-death, so the ego can feel uncomfortable as it twists around trying to make sense of things. Those borderline trips can be some of the worst. You want to find a dose that blasts you past the borderline state but doesn't lead to whiteout or overwhelm. That should be somewhere in the 20-25 mg range for plugged HCl. Oxalate is weaker than HCl so if you're using that you might need to go higher. If your substance is not pure, if it's not white-colored, you'll need a higher dose. Any color other than white contains impurities. If you are smoking it, your dose needs to be much lower. Do NOT smoke 20-25mg unless you've done lower doses.

@MM1988 Before you go making such judgments as "this is impractical", you should spend some time actually contemplating and working with what was said. Don't pre-judge your results. Nothing in the duality videos suggests you should stop brushing your hair or wiping your ass. It's much more nuanced than that. It's going to take you lots of experience and contemplation to understand what was said in these duality videos.

I have verified this personally. It's true. Causal chains are infinitely long and have infinite complexity and interconnection.

This could actually be a great opportunity. You could: 1) Use that time to meditate, concentrate, contemplate, or self-inquire. 2) Use that time to start your own life purpose/business. Plan it out at least. 3) Use that time to do something creative like writing a book. I planned my first business at my 9-5 job during downtime when I had no work to do. Ultimately you should design your life such that you don't have this kind of downtime at work, as it's highly inefficient and a waste of one's life. Make very minute of your work connect to your LP.

It will not happen all at once. It will take you years to realize all those facets. The best way to overcome fear of awakening is via a psychedelic. It's not so hard. You will learn to enjoy ego-death. There's honestly nothing to fear but fear itself.

@Key Elements Some people are beyond help. Most people actually.

Bhahahahaha... What a fucking a devil! Allow me to clean up the bullshit of your text: "That does not matter TO ME since I must survive at all costs! Fuck anything that is outside of its relationship to me." That's what you really mean and how you really act. The rest is pleasant bullshit that you tell yourself so you don't have to face your own devilry.

You can start them on my How To Make A Girl Squirt video Although even that video will be too over the head for the average Joe

Well, protection of ego is a very important function. That encompasses all of survival. Do not ignore how utterly important ego is for keeping an organism alive. What I am saying is not simplistic at all. It's infinitely complex. I am not really rejecting the right-wing. All of it is absolutely imporant and it could not be otherwise. The devil must be embraced in love, not demonized. I am just saying the devil is ignorant and deluded. This is not a judgment. This is just truth.

There are definitely left-wing devils. Which is why the low vs high axis is far better than right vs left.

That is what all my work is about. Ta-da!

No, that is not what I said. I said that you must look at the low vs high axis rather than the right vs left axis. You are looking at the wrong axis. Forget for a moment that the right vs left axis even exists. Focus on the low vs high axis. The key question is: how conscious are you? How universal is your identity? Are you conscious that you are Hitler? No? Then you're not very conscious and your politics will reflect this disowned shadow of yours.

We don't have to guess. There are many Jesus-level mystics alive on the planet right now. You can meet them face to face. People would consider most of them "radical left-wingers." The issue is complicated somewhat by the fact that one can be deeply enlightened but still not highly developed on the Spiral. Many Eastern mystics are stage Blue. They will be more conservative. But anyone at stage Green or higher will appear very liberal. Conservative vs liberal is a totally relative designation. It all depends on what you're using as your benchmark. Compared to Jews from 2000 years ago, Ben Shapiro and Fox News is a terrible example of liberalism.

Killing and eating is also you. And every lifeform must kill other lifeforms. This is what you need to learn to love. This is the real test of your capacity to love. Can you love evil? If not, your love is weak and egoic. Notice how conveniently you ignore how many lifeforms you kill to sustain yourself.

@Peo Easier said than done

The bias of a mystic is Truth, Goodness, Love, Consciousness, and Harmony. This does not square well with right-wing or conservative politics because the primary appeal of conservativism is ego and closedmindedness. You never heard of Jesus flipping over the money-lender's table? That was a very political act against the corrupt status quo. For this he was eventually crucified. Truth and Love upsets the political establishment very much, because it is always run by devils. Devils seek power and money. Mystics seek Truth and Love. See, the devil hates it when a mystic points him out as a devil. Because a devil can only stay a devil when he has other people and himself confused. But a mystic sees right through a devil because he is the Truth. So the mystic is the highest threat to devils. So the devil's #1 priority is to silence, demonize, and kill the highest mystics. The devil does all this without knowing he is doing it. Because if he knew, he could not do it. All I'm doing is pointing out devilry to devils. To a devil this might look like a "left-wing bias". More broadly-speaking, do I have opinions and biases? Of course. Every mind does. That's not the issue. The issue is, how conscious are you of your mind's biases? Are you aware of how selfish your mind is? Are you aware that your entire reasoning faculty has been hijacked by ego? See, what I'm talking about is not a matter of left or right, it is a meta matter. It is a matter of one's altitude of perspective. You should not be so much concerned with left vs right as high vs low. Very practically speaking, as you move into Spiral stages Green, Yellow, Turquoise and beyond you will appear to others as much more liberal/left-wing. This is a relative matter. It appears this way simply because high stages of development are very rare and society/culture/politics is dominated by the much lower stages of Red/Blue/Orange. These low stages are extremely mypoic, selfish, reactive, and closeminded. Almost at animal like levels. Visionary, cutting-edge perspectives appear radical to ordinary folks. This has always been the case. Amongst a horde of slave-owners, someone questioning slavery looks very "left-wing." The slave-owners will have no choice but to demonize the person questioning slavery because it is a direct threat to their survival.

This issue is far deeper than you yet realize. Your identity as a human is a false one, but you need it to survive in the social domain. So you play various manipulation games, trying to suit your identity to what has social survival value. This makes it impossible to ever be happy about yourself because all these social identities are pure fiction. The ultimate solution is to awaken out of that false identity to your true identity -- as Nothing/God. For this enlightenment is required. You can make your current identity more authentic and less pathological and less reactive. This will make your life better. But you will never be fully satisfied with that until you finally awaken to the fact that your true identity is Emptiness and formlessness. You are literally not anything. Or pure consciousness without any properties or forms. You are also litterally the entire universe. So how could any human identity make you satisfied?

@Monkey-man If you realized you are God, there would be no struggle. So you are standing in your own way by your attachment to being human. All you have to do is die. But that is the last thing you want to do. Hence the struggle. Struggle is part of survival.