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It's not so hard to do all that. Just visualize the prana as an electrical fluid flowing up the center of the spine and hitting each chakra quickly along the way. What is so hard about that? Your sense is vague because this requires months of practice to get is sharp. Even moreso than visualization, I would literally try to FEEL the prana shooting up the spine. FEEL it, and it will become a reality soon enough. This is a case of mind over matter. Don't sell your mind short.

You say this now only because you happen to feel good right now. Let's see how you feel when your dog dies, when your Mom gets cancer, when you lose your job, when you get into a car accident, when someone steals your stuff, when you start to age, when your health deteriorates, when you run out of money, when you have to face death. You have no idea yet just how much life will make you suffer. You feel good right now, but that will definitely not last. Wake up!

@Jkris He was deeply enlightened.

@Serotoninluv Osho came along to disprove your narrative 91 Rolls Royces

This is a total lie. That person in actually unhappy 95% of the time. Be ware of how you are so miserable in life you are too unconscious and scared to even admit your own misery. It is impossible to be unconscious and happy. Period. Ironically, it takes consciousness just to realize you are unhappy. As but one example, notice how you constantly live in fear. Every day of your life you have a constant cloud of fear and insecurity hanging over you. Fundamentally you feel incomplete and incapable of facing life. Fundamentally you feel broken, not good enough, and unlovable. This is not something that happens occassionally. This is the theme of your entire life! Just take a look, if you dare Do not fool yourself into thinking that any external material acheivement will ever change the above sitution. No matter how much money or sex you get, you will still be afraid, broken, and miserable. And eventually you will want to kill yourself because nothing you try will fix it. That is, unless you know about spirituality. The devil lies to himself that he is happy being a devil. Therein lies his tragedy. If only he would admit he is a devil, there would be hope. But he is too blind and arrogant to see it. So he continues living in his own self-created hell, calling it heaven.

Hero With A Thousand Faces was one of the best books I read as a teen. It had a big impact on me and I still have fond memories of reading it. But don't expect it to be super practical like a how-to book. It is abstract, high-level wisdom which takes real thought to implement.

You can grow from Hitler. Everything is grist for the mill if you have a genuine intention to grow.

Paranormal abilities do not work like that. They are not so precise that you can use them that way. It would be like asking, "Can I use my intuition to win the lottery?" No, but you can use your intuition to create a billion dollar business. Stop thinking of paranormal abilities as material abilities.

Hence the beauty of plugging. The dose is as precise as an IV injection. And you get 5-10 minutes to get yourself comfy for the blast-off. And the come-up is silky smooth, yet strong as fuck at a decent dose. And it lasts way longer, allowing for much better contemplation and integration. It also has no nasty smell or taste. I will verify it with N,N-DMT and let you guys know, but for 5-MeO-DMT and 2C-B it works amazing. Folks who aren't plugging are really missing out on a beautiful thing.

@9 Yes, palms up, although it's a tertiary matter IMO. There are all sorts of mudras you could do.

Finding a comfortable sitting position is very important. I would say, just find any sitting position you feel comfortable with which allows you to sit for a solid 60 minutes with minimal discomfort. Right now I've changed up my sitting position to using a Zen-style seize bench with some extra cushioning. So for the pranayamas and breath of fire I am sitting on my knees using that bench. The Mahamudra is done without a bench obviously. That's what I found works best for me. You could even just do it using a comfy chair. Again, don't let technical details get in the way of your core practice. Once your core practice is established you can always fine-tune it, change positions, add stuff, remove stuff, etc. But you need the core practice ASAP.

@axwell Not yet Just get both versions of your substance (freebase and HCl) so that you're flexible in how to administer it. Don't let practical minutia get in the way of your spirituality. A breakthrough is always worth it.

Lol, making it all about you, eh? What a devil

There is no you to protect. Your question is predicated upon egotism. You are looking to survive. But there is no survival from the Absolute perspective because the Absolute cannot be killed. You're not getting yet that death is impossible. The only thing that dies are illusions, so there is no problem -- unless you're identified with being an illusion -- in which case you've got a BIG problem. The solution is to change what you're identified with being.

Because falsehood cannot survive forever. Truth always prevails. How can God not be God?

@cetus56 I don't always mess with magic mushrooms, but when I do, they are real

Have you considered that you might be a devil

@pluto Have you actually done a dark room retreat and what was the net result?

Adam and Eve partook of the devil's Forbidden Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and here we are. Contemplate

Keep telling yourself that, devil. You ain't fooling me.

If you guys refuse to do empirical research, that's not my problem. I told you from day 1 that Actualized.org is an empirical enterprise and that none of your beliefs or opinions mean squat unless you put them to the test.

Modafinil is a standard prescription drug. It's not an illegal drug. No one cares that you're taking it.

@Ampresus Relative to what? Pizza and fries? Questions of healthiness are always relative to what you're comparing to. And canned tuna ain't the same thing as fresh wild Alaskan salmon. The biggest concern with fish is heavy metal toxicity. You shouldn't eat too much of it. Stay away from predatory fish like swordfish, tuna, mackerel, shark, bass, etc. as they contain the most heavy metals. Smaller fish are generally safer than bigger fish.

I would rather have one enlightenment experience than all of Jeff Bezo's wife's money. Careful who you role-model. You just might end up with their miserable life.

@andyjohnsonman Not worth your time. Kriya yoga or mindfulness meditation with labeling will blow all that junk out of the water. What you need is not games but an industrial-grade practice like the two above. At the very least you could just sit and stare at your hand for 30 minutes straight, and that will do way more for you than those so-called brain training games. Life is short and full of suffering, so stop dicking around and get serious.