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@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.

@lmfao Kundalini awakening, chakra opening, and intense spiritual practice. Usually people who get serious paranormal abilities have always has a psychic sense since they were young. It was just usually weak, suppressed, denied, or underdeveloped. Then it gets super-charged. I think most psychics start young. Which is why I say there's a strong genetic component. I doubt you'll become a psychic out of the blue one day in your 40s.

Very common You can still learn from such people. Just don't sleep with them

@ActualizedDavid Research sleep paralysis and astral projection. There's a lot written about it.

@Matt23 If your heart is seriously calling you to do it, then follow your bliss. But, start with a baby test dose. Do a 10 day solo meditation retreat and then evaluate how you feel. You don't want to jump into giant life decisions without testing the waters. You want to have a realistic idea of what you're getting yourself into. The reality of living alone in the woods for a year are probably way different than your mind's fantasy of such.

@ActualizedDavid Those are subtle spiritual realms. The first is some mild psychedelic clairvoyance, and the second sounds like sleep paralysis leading into astral projection. All that is just the tip of the iceberg. Of course weed makes you trip. If you did a true psychedelic you'd see material reality dissolve away. You are not inside in a physical world. You are inside a dream in the mind of God. The "physical world" and "your life" are just one kind of dream. There are a million others to explore.

Don't sell yourself short. Your art is teaching. Take that shit to the next level. Start thinking of it as an art. I do. Actualized.org is my canvas. Mindfucking you guys is my art. Of course, if you're serious enough about it. I highly recommend learning Kriya yoga if you want mystical experiences. You're gonna have mystical experiences up the wazoo. Mushrooms are like the cheat code to life.

The two are not mutually exclusive. A leader can be legit spiritual and have siddhis and run a cult and manipulate people into sex. That's often how it works.

@Gligorije Well, at some point you'd have to accept it and move, otherwise the suffering would be too great. Hedonistic adaptation always kicks in in the end. Studies have shown that people who lose limbs basically return to their original level of happiness after a few years. Same for lottery winners.

That is indeed the case at the highest levels of consciousness.

@mandyjw No, there is no second half. There is no darkness. There is only light. The darkness is not of the world, it is the projection of your not-yet-fully-illuminated ego-mind. Ego-mind is still judging and still assigning negative meaning. You have not tamed the ox yet. It is bucking you off. Which is why it seems there is light and dark. All judgments of good and bad are delusion. That is what must be transcended. It will take a lot of work to transcend it.

@Serotoninluv Well, the classic examples are seeing aliens, angels, devils, auras, etc. But these examples can be distracting when pursuing enlightenment. You don't need to see such crazy stuff to have a powerful mystical experience. Mystical experiences can be sorta plain and ordinary. The coolest mystical experiences are when you realize that the room you're sitting in, is God. It's a profound recontextualization.

That's rule #0 in God's handbook: Life is not supposed to be easy. You can tattoo that one on your chest. It will come in handy for decades to come

Some people can. Depends. Before you make such sweeping claims you would have to run an scientific experiment to see what percentage of people that would work on. It certainly would not be 100% Sometimes spiritually gifted people assume that everyone is as spiritually capable as they are. This is just not borne out by the data.

@Wisebaxter Just rent a cheap motel room on the outskirts of town. You definitely don't want to be tripping amidst that chaotic scene. You can prepare some snacks, like a packed lunch.

@Wisebaxter Psychedelics are profoundly therapeutic. They will help you sort all that shit out. It just isn't always a cakewalk. Sorting some of that shit out can be emotionally taxing. But that's all good. That's exactly what produces true growth. Even the bad trips are good in retrospect. You don't have to worry too much about bad trips. But you do need to follow proper protocol, ensuring your set, setting, and dosages are proper.

The ego is not in control. But life is also not scripted. It's some weird 3rd category of thing. Something mystical, ineffable, and non-logical.

@Wisebaxter Since you're asking, that means you haven't had one yet. Because once you have one, it is very obvious. It's something totally new that lies outside the realm of ordinary material human experience. It's an "impossible" experience. It will seem physically & logically impossible. Just as a hypothetical example: if you were sitting there eating an apple and it suddenly transformed into an orange. That would be akin to a mystical experience. Or, for example, if you experienced what death was like and then you came back to tell about it. That would be another. There are MANY different types of mystical experiences. Seeing the ox is certainly one of them -- and perhaps the most important one -- but it is far from the only one that can be had. The fastest way to have a mystical experience is via psychedelics. Psychedelics guarantee mystical experiences. Mystical experiences are simply experiences which violate the laws of physical reality as you've come to believe in them. You don't want to get caught chasing mystical experiences, but on the other hand, having a few mystical experience is very important in order to show you that there's more to reality than meets the eye, and also to motivate you get more serious about the practices. You're not going to be able to sustain meditating hardcore, year after year, without seeing some kind of results. You will get demotivated and quit. So do whatever is necessary to get at least that first mystical experience. If only just a long session of shamanic breathing. Results in spiritual work are important. Otherwise you will quit.

This is a very tough line to draw. It cannot be drawn conceptually. You must find it through lots of trial and error and failure. You know when you are breaking integrity, violating your own high values. But what makes this so tricky is that blaming and berating yourself only compounds the original problem. Still, as a newbie, you almost can't help but do it. This is all part of the problem of self-control. I have an old video called The Problem Of Self-Control which is pretty profound. You must be both hard-working and disciplined, but also gentle and loving with yourself. Not any easy balance to strike. I also have a video called: The Paradox Of Development Self-Trust, and one called Freedom vs Discipline. They all touch on this topic to some extent.

Sure, ACIM has some great teachings and exercises in it. Its whole Christian angle may be a bit off-putting and non-integral.

Interesting snippet from Wikipedia about Rick and Morty: Therein lies the problem. Classic stage Orange/Green, sucks all the magic and divinity out of life by misunderstanding nihilism. * Facepalm * The emptiness IS the divinity! Is the beauty! Is the joy! Is the meaning!

@zambize One day a highwayman will stop you in the middle of the night in a dark alley at gunpoint and ask you, "Do you know the Kanji symbol for enlightenment?" And suddenly all will become clear

Yes, music can have a powerful uplifting effect. Which is precisely why music is so popular. Most people don't understand that the reason they like music is because it gives them a tiny taste of that spiritual/metaphysical connection to reality which they don't even know is missing. Music is all that stage Orange people know of spirituality. Which is quite sad. But better than nothing. Music is watered-down spirituality for the vulgar and lazy masses. But you ain't gonna get enlightened by it alone. Think of it as a little boost to your spiritual journey.

We had thumbs up buttons but I decided they were too distracting. The ego craves validation and keeps saying things just to get likes. Likes encourage a sort of group-think mentality where instead of evaluating the truth for a statement for yourself you abdicate that responsibility on the herd.