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Notice that becoming too mechanical with your habits actually promotes unconsciousness. Scheduling every part of your day with productivity tasks and self-help techniques is not necessarily the way to go. For one thing, it's gonna be very hard to sustain.

@Afonso Nothing that bad. Although I have no idea what your physical health is. I am not a doctor.

@Afonso Be more gentle about it. Perhaps a massage.

You might want to try shaking it out. Tapping your head, etc. Get that energy out of there. You don't want energy blocked up there.

I've experienced what Buddha is for myself. I AM the Buddha. You do it for yourself, and then you'll know. You're speaking about enlightenment as if there is a Buddhist version of it, and then Hindu version of it, etc. That is NOT how it works. When you FULLY grasp what Absolute Reality is, you will know who is and who isn't enlightened just by listening to them talking for a few minutes. The kinds of things Sam Harris says, clearly indicate he hasn't experienced Absolute Reality. Nothing wrong with that per se. I'm not here to make the guy look bad. It just is what it is. 99.99999999% of people have no idea. If they do, they're probably monks or mystics or nondual teachers. Or you'll never hear about them. It is nothing that could ever make sense to the ordinary mind. Not even to a long-time meditator.

@Erlend K It's precisely because you don't see it, that I issued that warning. You and Sam are grossly underestimating the depth of this thing. His success is irrelevant, and in fact a major distraction. What I say is Buddhism at its purest. Your understanding of Buddhism is shallow. Be ware that this path is a minefield filled with 100s of mines. And rationalists are extra-susceptible to stepping on them. The tendency for rationalists to believe they are less-susceptible to ignorance, is just one more landmine. Such is the trickery of the mind. Investigate the matter for yourself. Nothing against Sam Harris, he's an interesting guy. But if you want the deepest level of human attainment, he's not gonna lead you there. At least not in his present level of development.

Consciousness = awareness. Notice that your level of awareness varies throughout the day. Just to get a feel for this, right now, become conscious that you are going to die. Sit there for 5 minutes and just focus your awareness on the fact that you will entirely cease to exist, FOREVER, upon death. And just sit with that for 5 mins. Then notice how your consciousness has elevated, compared to where it was just 5 minutes before, or where it usually is when you're going about your day or watching TV. Now imagine you can become so conscious, you walk around realizing you are already dead all the time. Your death is existing in the very same place as your life! You're already dead, you just aren't aware of it. You're dead right this minute! Try to notice that. That gives you a LITTLE taste of higher consciousness.

@Afonso Nice! Didn't know that. @username I have a cousin in Russia who's been a heroin addict for over 10 years. He's just getting out of prison. Sad story. I recommended Ibogaine to their family, but who knows if they'll listen. I'll talk more about the massive therapeutic potential of psychedelics in the future. The research is remarkable!

@zunnyman Surrender is a very easy thing to understand. Just imagine that someone pulls a loaded gun to your head and is about the pull the trigger. And you just feel okay about. You say, "So be it." Without any resistance, without fighting to have your way. You just surrender your self. You're gonna have to do it as one point in your life no matter what. So might as well bite that bullet and do it now. Die before you die.

@Shin All drugs are legal in Spain Spain has decriminalized everything.

@Anna1 Ayahuasca and 5-MeO retreats are done in Peru for example. Totally legal and it's a very healthy shamanic sort of thing. Part of their tradition and culture for over 2000 years. If you tried it, you would totally change your mind. 5-MeO is also legal in Spain. The illegality of psychedelics in the USA is really a violation of the Constitution. It's a freedom of religion issue. But our government is just too ignorant and corrupt to understand this yet. They lie with propaganda against psychedelics all the time. It's scientifically proven that psychedelics have medicinal uses. https://www.actualized.org/insights/the-despicable-war-on-drugs In the next 10 years, in the USA, we will see the legalization of treatments using some psychedelics, because they are too effective to deny much longer, costing thousands of needless deaths each year from depression, anxiety, and opioid addiction. 5-MeO and Iboga are the two most effective cures for hardcore heroin addicts. MDMA is the most effective cure for PTSD, anxiety, and depression. Mushrooms and LSD are the most effective form of psychotherapy, which has been clinically demonstrated. Ayahuasca and Peyote is also legal in the USA as part of Native American rituals and the Santo Daime church, which you can join and go to.

Yeah, of course that will happen. Did you see my video: The Dark Side Of Meditation? It's all about this topic. VERY weird stuff can and will happen when you meditate a lot and deeply. You shouldn't be worried, but excited! This means you're meditating properly. Expect a lot energetic shifts, expect to see colors and lights, expect full-on hallucinations. The fast-heartbeat I can easily explain: you're at the brink of ego-death, and the body is reacting to it with primal fear. You will have to surrender to it at some point to get your enlightenment. And if you feel like you're going insane, you're definitely headed in the right direction. Don't be surprised if you fall through the floor of your house one day The only thing you really need to do is mindfully observe all these phenomena with curiosity. Maintain your desire to see the TRUTH. And practice self-love and surrender. All of that stuff is the Devil leaving your body, and sometimes he don't go quietly

Good work. Your next trip should be smoother, allowing you to go deeper. All that shadow work stuff is you purifying your ego so that you can drop your personal baggage and really go full-on existential. Some people have a lot of shadow work to do. Keep at it. It will get better at some point. And then the real magic will start to happen. Mushrooms are good, but they are wild and chaotic. You might also want to consider AL-LAD or LSD. They are easier to make sense of.

He's a warning case for any of you staunch rationalists out there. Don't skim the surface, when you can merge into the ocean. EVERYTHING must be relinquished -- including rationalism -- to get to the Godhead.

Be careful about spreading false rumors. I did not say he molested children. I said he was accused of molesting his Zen students. It should also be noted, that a hardcore Zen master might do something unorthodox like grab you by the balls, just to prove a point. Which many California Westerners would get offended at and consider "molesting". While the master would consider it a good lesson in Zen. If a 100 year old man yanking on your balls doesn't enlighten you, I dunno what will The problem here is idolizing your teachers. It's a very common problem. Stop doing it.

@Echoes You can materialize God in whatever Avatar you want, with enough determination. Of course they are all you.

@Ilya Self-survival

There are no instructions. It's a secret mantra they want you to pay for. Most forms of yoga require formal initiation and secrecy.

Peterson has some good ideas. He's one of the better academics out there in the zeitgeist and worth studying. And his mystical experience is a good step in the right direction. But he didn't go past the barrier of insanity. So, understand the Ultimate Absolute he does not. The Absolute is beyond any mortal's puny notions of meaning. It's so meaningless it explodes with infinite being!

@Charl It's simple. Don't enter debates. When they start, leave.

@Danka That's what workshops and retreats are: bootcamps. They are incredibly effective.

@Socrates How can one fragment of reality be superior to another if all is ONE? Contemplate! Become deeply conscious that your position is simply untrue.

@Edita Did he actually have a breakthrough experience himself? Or is he just talking about it academically? There is an infinite gap between those two. Of course it's nice to see awareness of psychedelics spreading through universities. But that alone does not really mean that people understand the full existential significance of them. Not even close. People like Sam Harris, who've done psychedelics, still do not talk about them properly, and have never really gone deep with them. And still do not understand the ultimate nature of reality.

@cetus56 Don't be too quick to answer every question with, "God did it." Origin of life is a good question for science to answer.

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