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@inFlow Good work. You saw the Ox. Now to catch and tame him.

@kieranperez Ralston can definitely focus like a motherfucker. A normal human cannot focus like that without rigorous training. That's what concentration practices are for.

Yes and Yes. Yes, it will override the left hemisphere. Yes, there is no brain.

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You need to go deeper. The shallow version of these insights can feel empty and hollow. The deeper versions of these insights are full love, beauty, joy, and radiance. Deeper! And also remember The Dark Night Of The Soul. You might be going through that phase. It will pass.

There are times when I work a lot. There are times in life when you need to work a lot. But this should be done strategically, in bursts, not as a chronic habit in an attempt to avoid spiritual work (which is what Elon Musk is doing -- avoiding spiritual work). Work will NEVER make you satisfied. If work made people satisfied then Elon Musk should be the most satisfied guy in the planet. And yet he is clearly miserable. He has turned work into a neurosis. I find that if I work too much I start to feel like a robot and I lose my creativity and passion for life. The times I am most creative and connected to life is on my days off.

I use the word contemplation somewhat differently than he does. He explains his version of contemplation in his book. It sort of includes concentration, meditation, and wondering. It requires extreme concentration. So extreme that it does not work for me. You need concentration so strong you can bore a hole through a brick wall.

"Oh God! I wish I worked more." What no one said on their deathbed, ever.

Youths are the ones who do most of the killing.

500 years in the future they will be looking back at this thread to learn how masturbating oxes became a religious technique.

This means nothing. You are still totally lost in concepts. It does not mater what you believe, the fact remains that you are under the delusion of being a self. Thinking you are not a self is not the same thing as actually not being a self. It is the difference between thinking you are a millionaire and actually being one.

@Angelite Be careful not to discount what modern government has produced for you. Even the worst modern governments are far far better than anything that existed 500 years ago. Never forget that 40% of ancient Romans were slaves. People take modern government so for granted.

@Pilgrim If it was easy you wouldn't wake up. You would become lost in The Land of the Lotus-Eaters. By trying to make life easy, it actually becomes hard.

That is what democracy and multiculturalism are doing. Why are you trying to reinvent the wheel?

Lol, you can't falsify truth! You're still not getting it. Enlightenment not an idea or a belief. You are God. I'm not saying that poetically or metaphorically. It is the case. You created the entire dream you call this universe. And now you're acting like you didn't. You cannot falsify this because it is true. All you can do is realize it or not. Enlightenment is not a sensation. And cause does not exist. Your mistake is that you think you can think your way out of this problem. But you can't.

There is no such thing as "peaceful". What is good for you is bad for someone else. Even the Buddha cannot take a step without killing life. And without a survival drive those robots would all be easily destroyed by people.

The whole point of a good democracy is that it protects minority rights. In any other system the minorities would be killed or enslaved.

The detachment isn't a bug, it's the key feature. Stay mindful of how the mind assigns negative meaning to meaninglessness. Try to see the good in this, the pure beauty of being.

@Speedscarlet And who is gonna decide which people count as "properly educated"? The Christians will say it's their clergy. The Muslims will say it's their most fundamenalist clerics. The atheists will say it's people like Richard Dawkins. The white nationalists will say it's their Aryan brothers. The post-modernists will say it's people like Jacques Derrida. The oil companies will say its their well-paid anti global warming shill scientists. The tobacco companies will say it's their tobacco doesn't harm people shill scientists. If the materialist scientists are given control of the government they will outlaw all religion, spirituality, and mysticism and you will be enslaved by robots, AI, and corporatism. See, you guys are underestimating the depth of this problem. Who is gonna arbitrate what is true and good? See, you assume truth and goodness is just an objective given, but it isn't, it's relative.

Lol, and then all those islands rape, pillage, and ensalve each other. That's called human history circa ancient Rome. You can't have neutral robots. There is no such thing as neutral. Those robots will have their own self-interest and will ensalve everyone else. Or whoever built those robots will just build even better ones to kill the old ones and enslave the other islands. Democracy and multiculturalism are the solutions which evolved to solve this thousands years old problem.

@GabeN If you're using 5-MeO what more do you need? There it is. Ask to see the ox next time

@EternalForest God is always here, always talking, but your eyes and ears are closed. See, the trick is, YOU ARE GOD! So if you don't see that, who can ever help you? The ox can't come to you for the same reason that you can't find your eyeglasses if you are already wearing them!

Satori is the ox. How can you be past catching the ox if you've never even seen an ox? I don't fit well on this map because I've done a lot of crazy psychedelics. The map was not designed to account for psychedelics. I've definitely seen the ox very deeply a bunch of times. But I haven't permanently caught the ox yet or tamed it. But there's something to be said for very deep seeing of the ox, even if it's just temporary, it still changes your view of the world. You're never quite the same again.

@lmfao Next time take half the dose. A whole pill is too much. It will be to stimulating for most cases. But 1/2 or 1/4th is just right. Try combining it with L-Theanine which should reduce the monkey mind. 1 whole pill of Armodafinil is like not even 1/20th as strong as a mild dose of psychedelic. A decent dose of psychedelic will literally melt the walls of your room. A decent dose of 5-MeO will make you forget you or your life ever existed. You will expand to fill the entire universe.

@herghly It's an impure, natural version of 5-MeO. Probably not worth it if you can access pure synthetic 5-MeO.