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@bslpiontds Maybe instead of yoga you should just sit on a bed of nails.

You can buy chunks of San Pedro on eBay. No need to grow it. Just keep in mind, potency of San Padro is highly variable. Depends on how much sun it gets.

I like to rest my hands near my knees, palms up, totally relaxed. You can also do that but hold a mudra like touching your thumb and index finger together in a circle, with the other fingers straight out. Yes, gazing up at 3rd eye is straining. It gets more natural with practice. Do it gently.

How dare you, sir! I am no such creature.

@starsofclay I would use a pure synthetic mesacline, not a cactus extract. Plugging catcus extract would be even harder.

@Scholar That's good. You're definitely on to something there. Seems like you're becoming conscious of the immediacy of reality. That nothing is hidden. That every object is hollow, like a hologram. Appearance is reality. But! You still haven't answered the question, Who am I? What am I? You have yet to awaken to the fact of no-self. Inquire into what you are. Not objects, not the body, not thoughts, not emotions, but YOU! What is doing the observation? What is looking out your eyes? What is being aware?

@sarapr Not really. Big picture understanding is the deepest understanding there is. The deepest depth comes from wholeness, not from technical specialization. It's deep because it encompasses everything, interconnecting more dots. Big picture understanding produces wisdom and vision which technical specialization cannot. Yes, you can do both. Although there are obviously tradeoffs between where you allocate your time and energy. For the most business/career success, you need to specialize in one thing. For the deepest personal development, you need to go broad and understand many things.

I was being sarcastic.

I made a post just last month on my blog: https://www.actualized.org/insights/modern-humans-are-350000-years-old Homo sapiens are at least 350,000 years old, if we are to trust current science. Neantherthals had very different brains from us. They might even have been far more spiritual, but got killed off by the more egotistical and pragmatic humans. Just speculation, but quite plausible. Homo sapiens may also have been genetically far more spiritual in the past. The spiritual ones would have easily gotten killed off by the bloodthirsty ones, like dodo birds.

I always knew Jesus spoke in a high-pitched British accent.

How is the simulation possible and why does it exist? And what is the relationship between subject and object? Don't let clever words mask the underlying ignorance.

@Cesar Alba Start with just reading, taking notes, and thinking about what is possible -- get your bearings. Order 20 good books and read them a bit each night over the next year.

The distinction between science and pseudoscience is nonsense. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. 100 years ago x-rays were pseudo-science. Today, it would be pseudo-science to deny their existence. 400 years ago, telescopes were pseudo-science. Today, you would be called insane if you say, "Telescopes are a tool of the devil meant to deceive mankind." Yet that is exactly what the good scientists of the day told Galileo. No! Empirical evidence does not matter at all when you're dealing with a dogmatic person. That's the whole point! The evaluate evidence properly requires total openmindedness. Stop assuming that scientists have it. Not even close. Yes, it will. And it has. And we have it. But so what? It will not become a part of mainstream cultural knowledge or mainstream science because they are the gatekeepers and will throw it away. It will just become religious myth. No, he won't. He will be ridiculed as a fraud or delusional religious kook. And in the rare case where you do succeed in getting a lab to study him, that lab will get discredited and their results thrown out for "improper procedural methods." Obviously the methods must have been improper, because everyone knows that stopping the heart is physically impossible. You're still not grasping the depth of this problem.

@electroBeam The materialist paradigm exists, just like Santa Claus.

Hahahaha... You give scientists WAY too much credit. Do you realize that scientists are masters as explaining away and ignoring anomalies? That's what they do for a living. The scientist's first choice is always to reject any data which doesn't fit his metaphysical paradigm. Because obviously the paradigm is right, and the data must be erroneous. And in the rare case where one scientist is successfully convinced that the whole paradigm is wrong, what do you think will happen?? What do you think his colleagues will say when he runs over to them and say, "Look guys! I found a man with no heartbeat! All our theories about human physiology were wrong!"? Will say hug him and say, "Wow! Great work! Let's admit to the public we were fools all this time. Let's re-write all the textbooks and tell all the doctors we taught them lies for 100 years. Yay! Hooray! All our reputations are going down the toilet! Yay!" They will just ban him from the university for talking woo-woo pseudoscience. They will say he's been hanging out with religious kooks and has turned to a New Age believer. His reputation will be destroyed, no serious scientist will ever want to work with him, and all of his grant money will be pulled. You don't get it yet. Science is a political game. For a thing to be accepted as true, it must win a long political battle. It's not about truth, it's about self-preservation. "Black matter" isn't a problem for them because it fits the paradigm. It's "matter". Try to get them to fit "God" or siddhis into their paradigm and see what happens. They still don't accept the full ramifications of quantum mechanics. The greatest professors at CalTech still do not know the difference between a math equation and a cheeseburger! What wisdom can you expect from such a dense person? It's like explaining a joke to a donkey. There is no substitute for having a sense of humor. And there is no substitute for consciousness or radical openmindedness.

@electroBeam Super Mario World is so consistent! Look! Mario is affected by gravity and he doesn't fall through the floor! And fast-moving turtle shells really hurt! Therefore, Super Mario World must be real. QED #RationalistGenius

@Shanmugam I would bet that human beings have been independently experiencing nonduality for 50,000+ years. Way before any kind of written surviving records, languages, or traditions. Psychedelic mushrooms grow on every continent. And they would have certainly been eaten.

Yes, all enlightenment or spiritual practices ultimately lead there. Self-inquiry Contemplation Meditation Yoga Psychedelics Etc. You don't really stop seeing the elephant. You rise to a new level of consciousness where you realize that the elephant was always also a non-elephant. The non-elephant exists in exactly the same place as the elephant! An elephant is a non-elephant. Get it? No. Mind cannot go there. Some form of meditation is required. If you eat some mushrooms, you'll see it.

Lol, it doesn't. Oh, the tradgic irony...

@Krishna Siva Wasn't this answered by the 3 videos about self-deception?

@egoless That was revealed here: https://www.actualized.org/articles/how-to-develop-big-picture-understanding That is also sorta what my book will be about, going into the enormous depth of it. But that won't be ready for years.

The trick is finding a good way to administer it without vomiting your guts out. I want to plug it, but that will require sticking half a gram of powder up the butt. Not sure about that... For the sake of science, I guess...

@MM1988 Well, when they hooked Sadhguru up to an EEG machine, it registered him as clinically brain dead. Science has done a poor job of researching yogis. If a serious scientist measures a yogi with no heart beat, what do you think will happen? Do you think he will say, "Oh! Look! All of our understanding of human physiology is wrong!" or will he say, "Oh! What a fluke! This is just some strange anomaly. I can't explain it, but this obviously can't be real so let's get back to studying normal people." Any scientist who starts to validate mysticism will be outcast by his peers and called a mystic himself. It's a political game you cannot win. So most scientists have learned not to even approach this domain of investigation. All scientific evidence of the paranormal (and there is much of it) is automatically dismissed as impossible. Because it doesn't fit the materialist paradigm. And the paradigm is what's king. You can only "see" evidence which your paradigm is open to. You're thinking about this whole thing backwards. It's not evidence which supports the paradigm, it's the paradigm which creates or denies the evidence.

Daily stretching might help you. How comfortable postures feel depends on many factors, from your weight, to your age, to your body shape, to your flexibility, to your circulation, etc. Find a posture that's comfortable enough so you can sit for at least 30 minutes and focus on your Kriya techniques. If you are too distracted by pain to do the techniques, that's no good.

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