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@Elysian Kriya yoga has various tapping and visualization exercises for the front and back of the navel chakra to gently open it up. Do not be ignorant about kundalini. Read the books on my book list about it.

Don't throw away the canoe before you've finished crossing the river. Surrendering the desire for enlightenment should be the very last thing you surrender, just as enlightenment happens. If you are not yet enlightened as fuck, you are getting ahead of your skiis.

@Solace There is a need for both. Development is not awakening and awakening is not development.

Western values aren't superior. You can reach high stages of the Spiral under different value systems. There can be stage Turquoise Islam or Hinduism or Japanese values. To think that Western culture is superior to Hindu culture is brazenly ignorant and self-biased. A person could only hold that position because they have not studied Hindu culture. Hindu culture is extremely advanced in certain ways, like spiritually. A 6th grader is not superior to a 2nd grader. They are just at different levels of growth. One had a head start. Don't mistake that for superiority. All superiority is relative anyways. Superior according to who? Superior towards what end? You can't really talk someone out of ignorance. They must outgrow it by experiencing new perspectives and experiences which shatter their limited enthocentric worldview. A great way to become Green is through travel to exotic non-Western countries. Watch some Anthony Bourdain.

You are treating it as a means to another end, while I am talking about being a bricklayer as its own end. Imagine you laid bricks for the rest of your life. Not to advance to some other position, but just because you loved the art of laying bricks. Obviously bricklaying is not YOUR LP since you want to do big picture stuff, but that is not clear for OP. The ultimate question isn't about means but ends. Where do you want to end up?

In practice Orange is still not far enough out of Blue. Orange will have a sense of superiority and insensitivity. For example, the US Constitution was a stage Orange document crafted by stage Orange elites, but it still tolerated slavery. Folks like Sam Harris or JP still hold a sort of sense of "Western culture and values are superior" which is not quite racism, but it is still a subtle sense of superiority and self-bias. Orange still doesn't grasp the full extent of relativity. Orange still believes in objective external truths. As if there is one way the world is.

@Jcent I've tried something similar to it but I did not get your kind of explosive results. For me it was far more subtle.

Mostly Blue and below, and some Orange. Green transcends identification with one's race, realizing that all races have equal merit.

@kieranperez 23? You are still a baby. You've got plenty of time to iron all that out. Have hope. But get to work.

@Socrates 300ug can be difficult to handle regardless of where you are. Even 150ug can kick your ass. So watch out. Sounds to me like you're asking for a bad trip because your attitude towards this substance is way too light. 300ug outdoors can go really wrong. This doesn't mean it will go wrong every time, but it certainly CAN go very wrong unless you are extremely careful and know what you are doing. If you do it a dozen times, I can almost guarantee something will go wrong. So watch out. You are playing with a loaded gun.

@How to be wise There is no limit. You can become conscious of pretty much anything permanently. But it will take a lot of focused work in most cases. Of course your neurology will be a limit a lot of times, but you can change your neurology both through external and internal means (like psychedelics and diet or yoga and long meditation sits). The point is that spiritual practice of any kind rewires your brain. Psychedelics and meditation ultimately do the same thing, one is just more short-acting while the other is more long-acting. Psychedelics are also more powerful because they can change your neurology is crazy ways, but the effects are rarely permanent (which is actually a good thing) otherwise you could really damage yourself with a bad trip.

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@cle103 Just keep at it. Eventually you will break through. There's not much of a trick to it other than brute force. Psychedelics help enormously with this issue. Once you've died a few times, death stops being a big deal. The ego just goes quietly. But not at first. At first it makes a big drama out of it. Eventually you will discover that all fear is illusion. Especially the fear of death.

@1x0 That's right, there is a trade-off between being a technician versus being a big picture thinker. Project leads do very little actual coding. So you have to decide what you want out of life: Do you love coding so much that you want to be a master hands-on coder, or do you love other things more, like management, big picture thinking, business strategy, etc? In that case, you must surrender your desire for hands-on coding. It's sort of the difference between being a bricklayer and an architect. If you love to lay bricks you shouldn't become an architect. There is no right or wrong answer. It is perfectly acceptable to just enjoy the art and science of coding or bricklaying. It's not always better to be a project lead. You can just be a master coder. Then again, coding can be quite dehumanizing and a waste of life. Do you really want to be sitting behind a computer screen for 12 hours per day? Is there something more fun and valuable that you could be doing? Does the world really need another code monkey? Or could your creative talents be put to better use? But it's not just about getting more money for your time. You must enjoy the thing you're doing. So if coding is what you genuinely most enjoy, then do that. The trick is, there are probably other things you enjoy more but haven't discovered yet. So then your task would be to discover that. Personally I don't enjoy management so I avoid positions where I have to manage lots of people. I would rather be working independently, doing my art. But that's me. Some people love to work in groups and manage others. It all depends on your personality type.

Psychedelics + Nootropics + Kriya yoga Kriya yoga is very effective at shutting down the monkey mind through brute physical force. Also, if you have the money, EEG neurofeedback training. You can find a center near you that offers hourly sessions. It's great for ADD. Just 5 to 15 sessions can make a lasting impact.

@cle103 In other words: https://www.actualized.org/insights/enlightenment-retreat-fail

@Bernard In a few months you will forget all about it. The cure for bad trips is 1) Learn the lesson it was trying to teach you, 2) Let a few months pass, 3) Then try a different substance to clean your palette. Only then return to the original substance. By this point your trip will go very differently. You will be much more mature.

Regardless, Kavanaugh is definitely a liar and an ideologue. Which should be enough to disqualify him from a Supreme Court position. It would be good if no partisan or ideologue was ever allowed to even apply for that job. The most important requirement for a judge is to be non-biased. That judges are liberal or conservative is silly. Judges must be neutral and openminded. But of course, that would de facto make them rather liberal, which conservatives would never abide. The thing is that openmindedness is not acceptable to conservatives. Their entire philosophy is based on closedmindedness. Which is why self-actualization and conservativism are like oil and water and not just my personal political bias. Conservatives are neurologically wired to be more closedminded, as studies seem to show. Which doesn't mean they are always wrong but let's just say they fall more on the losing side of history, like dodo birds.

You're welcome to wake up at any time

As Socrates famously said, "I know that I know nothing." That's enlightenment in a nutshell. But it's still not what you imagine it to be. By knowing nothing you know everything. Things go full-circle in an unexpected way. You should also distinguish carefully between absolute vs relative knowing. We are talking about knowledge of the Absolute Truth in this context. Relative knowledge abounds, but it is relative. Absolute knowledge isn't really knowledge, it's Being. But we colloquially call it "knowledge" because most people do not understand a word like "being".

Ego is terrified of losing control. But all sense of control is illusion. You are INFINITE! Just think about what that means. Why do you seek control to avoid your very self? Notice how the ego wants to escape its full nature. The ego wants to stay confined and limited. But TRUTH is unlimited. Your work is to stop trying to limit the unlimited. Do you think the people tortured in the Spanish Inquisition got a say so? And said YES? Do you think the gazelle on the savannah gets a say so if it should be eaten by a lion? And it said YES? If you're not gonna be Hitler, who will? Is there someone here other than you who can do the job? Like maybe some homeless person you think?

Hehehe... That's why I keep saying you must hone an genuine desire for TRUTH! Not pleasure or joy, but TRUTH at all costs! There will be terror. The joy comes afterwards. If TRUTH was so easily enjoyable, every fool would have found it by now. The trick is precisely that the greatest joy lies behind a veil of your greatest fears: death & insanity. You must have enough wisdom and vision to confront your greatest fears, intuiting that they are merely paper tigers. It is not possible to realize God without dying. A bigger dose of psychedelics helps here. A dose so big that you have no choice but to surrender. But not so big that you physically harm yourself.

Except you were. Since there is no one else here but YOU Time is relative. Everything exists simultaneously from a high enough elevation. In fact, every experience exists eternally, forever. Including this one right now. Here it is! Eternal! But you're stuck in relativity so you aren't aware of the eternity. See, that's what happens when your mind gets attached to particular forms.

Of course Spinoza knew what's up. He was a Western mystic. Apparently a hero of Einstein's. Check out Bishop George Berkeley too.

@Bernard Inquiry is a good idea. Just keep in mind that the end result of solid inquiry is a solid mindfucking. Maybe that's because reality is groundless Just what exactly do you think inquiry will reveal? That you are a cosmic kangaroo? That Void is your Absolute nature The ego (you) is not going to survive this process. You still haven't grasped how serious this is. You are like the dog that caught the bus.