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@fridjonk Sounds like he's concluded it, but not directly become conscious of it. Tis good, but still a far cry from realizing Truth.

@Socrates Don't be stupid. You need a miligram scale. This is no joke, you could kill yourself or freak yourself totally out or fry your nervous system.

I totaled my car at 80 miles per hour on the highway. Not a scratch. Of course it didn't roll it spun. It if rolled, I'd probably be dead. So don't drive tall cars. Rolling is nasty stuff.

It's complicated. They are all distinct achievements. Sahaja samadhi would be abiding God-consciousness as I understand. Other lesser samadhis are temporary. They are not abiding. So in that sense they are like a psychedelic peak. Psychedelic puts you into samadhi automatically. Then from that state you can have profound insights and realizations. Liberation to me means totally overcoming the self. Breaking free of all identification and all attachment to the material world, such that you are not driven by cravings or suffering. At this point you would be close to just leaving your body because you are so detached from life. You are basically giving up human life to be formless because you've had enough of form. You are no longer interested in exploring form. You just desire to be the Godhead. Liberation should bring you very close to something like that. No-mind is yet a distinct achievement. Although of course there tends to be overlap between all these. They are all pointing in the same general direction. I would not worry about these nuances for now. Just focus on having a few solid awakening experiences. You'll figure out the rest afterwards. Don't get ahead of your skiis.

@MuddyBoots A spiral is just an upwards moving circle. Human growth is spiral because you circle back around to where you had previous been, but you are now higher, thus a spiral path is traversed.

Absolutely! Set the intention to be more loving in all situations. That will yield huge growth. Stopping judgment is so critical if you are serious about the spiritual path. All judgment is delusion, including the judgment that people should stop judging. Judgment is a direct obstacle to Truth, Wisdom, and Love.

@electroBeam The short answer is something like Einstein, Da Vinci, Newton, Kurt Godel, or Leibniz. They are good examples of integrating science, philosophy, & spiritual intuition. The sad irony is that our top scientists used to be visionary geniuses, philosophers, and mystics. And now we have a bunch of materialist hacks in lab coats thinking they are advanced. Philosophy is badly in need of a renaissance.

Dude, allow some leeway for people to go through a process of discovery and growth. You're being a flippant harpy. More compassion, less harping. I do not confuse mystical experience with Truth/Infinity/Love/Consciousness. Do not confuse 5-MeO-DMT for mystical experience. Love is not something you let go of. Love is the consequence of having fully let go.

Well, you are very wrong. Watch out for judgments and projections.

The word intelligence is confusing to people. Most people think of intelligence as IQ or human mind stuff. That is not the Absolute Intelligence I talk about. No, I would not equate intelligence with awakening. The wiser you are, the more likely you are to see the need to awaken. Let's put it that way. God's Intelligence is infinite, but to you this falls on deaf ears. You must awaken to this fact. This is where 5-MeO-DMT (or other psychedelics) can be so useful. They will help you cultivate a desire for God, Love, Truth, and Consciousness -- which will then make you really serious about this work. And then you will get massive gainz!

@Rebec Brutal story. Brutal. But that's how the cookie crumbles.

@electroBeam All very good questions. Spend a few years contemplating them and you'll probably arrive at some profound answers.

@jivvie So you attribute this to modafinil expanding your awareness? If so, you would absolutely LOVE mushrooms or LSD. And don't even get me started on how much you'd love 5-MeO 5-MeO is like modafinil x100000

@aclokay No Go awaken and see for yourself. It will not be anything you imagine.

For QM, see my video: Quantum Mechanics Debunks Materialism - Part 2

I call that the dialectical nature of life. That's what Hegel called it. Reality bounces back and forth between opposites. War leads to peace. Peace leads to war. Sadness leads to happiness. Happiness leads to sadness. And so it goes on and on in every area. Stock market rises. Stock market falls. etc.

@Beeman You are the most potent example. You are God, yet you are also a devil. Observe your own devilry in action.

@FoxFoxFox I was going to get shaktipat, I even paid for a session, but cancelled at the last minute because I wanted to see what 5-MeO-DMT could do for me and I didn't want to taint my experiment. My heart told me I must pioneer the 5-MeO-DMT path. But I am not opposed to shaktipat.

Not face to face. But I hear they are good. Tibet has some very advanced teachings. Dzogchen is especially good. I think yoga goes all the way up to the highest nondual stage. Depends on which yoga and how you do it. I would not underestimate yogis. They are some hardcore fuckers. I'm about to read a book by a yogi who spent 30 years straight meditating for 8 hours per day. Don't even dare to guess what he became conscious of.

@FoxFoxFox I'm all for kundalini work and activating it. I think awakening must be not only in the head but the whole body. Energetic blockages must be released. Otherwise you might awaken but your embodiment of it will be lacking.

@FoxFoxFox I once asked Ralston about yogis and kundalini. He laughed and said that yogis are not really enlightened. Whatever that means. The bliss you can definitely experience on psychedelics. Very strong doses of 5-MeO-DMT also activate kundalini although I'm not sure if it's being activated safely. On my highest dose ever of 5-MeO-DMT, the consciousness was so powerful that it was too much to handle and I felt kundalini shoot out of my fingertips like force lightening, resulting in skin damage to my fingertips. It was a very freaky experience bordering on the paranormal. I don't think it was healthy. But damn was it powerful. I have never had kundalini activation on 5-MeO-DMT except that one time. That was a very large dose which I would not want to take again. To be any more conscious you'd be so conscious you'd physically pass out.

Ralston is a sneaky one. He's very tight-lipped and coy. He deliberately does not mention God, but he's fully aware he is God. He just won't talk about it because (I assume) he's worried it will get the ego-mind churning with religious fantasies. Kundalini he does not talk about. Not sure why. I think he might consider it a distraction, a relative experience. Losing identification is his whole teaching. He clearly has zero identification with anything. You have to really study his work closely to understand his depth. He might be one the most enlightened human beings on the planet. But his teachings are very advanced. He does not over-explain things for newbs like I do AT ALL. You have to really struggle through his teachings to understand their depth. The only way to appreciate Ralston is to study with him face to face. It's quite an experience. He is deeper than a Zen master. He teaches some very advanced things but they all sound so simple you can easily miss it and he don't give a fuck if you do. It's like an advanced graduate college class where the professor just expects you to do all the work. He doesn't even bother to give you homework or tests or explain much. Seems to me that Rupert Spira also teaches about losing identification, he just might not use that language. The trick with evaluating teachers is that they might not use the language you use. So you have to give them some leeway. Some teachers develop their own systems which do not use the categories and verbiage of classical traditions like Vedanta or yoga or Buddhism. Seems to me that it's possible to awaken without having a kundalini awakening experience, thus people who awaken without much kundalini surges might not emphasize it in their teachings. Teachers tend to emphasize their own path to awakening. But there is more than one path because not all human minds/brains/bodies/personalities are the same. Imagine for example what it would be like for an autistic male to awaken versus a super emotional psychic female. They will have VERY different paths even though the ultimate realization of Truth will be similar after the dust settles. There are a lot of psychic people who have very weird and twisted paths to awakening. It's going to be very hard to understand or evaluate them unless you have had those kinds of extra-sensory abilities for your entire life. It's like being a different species of human. Their brains work differently. Imagine what awakening might have been like for a neanderthal. It is said they may have had bigger brains than humans. Their awakenings would have been different than human awakenings. But of course this does not negate that the Absolute is still the Absolute. People underestimate how much neurology plays a part in the awakening process. This becomes obvious if you do a lot of various psychedelics. You experiences impossible states of consciousness which are totally outside the catalogue of the traditional spiritual literature. Because consciousness can basically be any which way imaginable and there are just things which you will never be able to meditate or self-inquire your way to. Something like saliva you are not going to get through meditation. There are also various kinds of brain-damaged states and brain pathologies which lead to interesting new kinds of consciousness which virtually nobody knows about or understands because all that's really mapped out are the mainstream norms. Not the very weird edge-cases. Imagine what it would be like to awaken as a psychopath or schizophrenic.

@FoxFoxFox What is your understanding of Intelligence, Will, and Goodness? Not as relative things but as absolutes. What is your experience of Infinity? For example, are you able to look at an object like a pen and be conscious that it is infinitely deep? What is your experience of time? Are you conscious that every moment is eternal? Are you conscious of how you create your own body? What is your consciousness of causation? Are you able to be conscious that every object, like a pen, has an infinite chain of causation leading to its current state? Just curious which facets you've experienced and how they line up with stuff I've experienced.

@Betterself Yeah, sure. I've just been too busy.

That's a very deep topic. I address some of it here: