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@Adam M Never re-dose during a trip. You're breaking protocol and that will come back to bite you in the ass one day. Being desperate to trip is asking for trouble. Decide on your dose ahead of time, then take it, and whatever happens happens. Do not re-dose. The point is to do a controlled experiment and see the full effects of whatever dose you decided on.

@realname Discover for yourself what is true. I'm just a guy sharing ideas.

@Samurai Y Well, you have to be wise enough to care more about truth than you do about people. Then, one day, you may discover that that will come full-circle Don't frame ordinary life as separate from truth. Rather, align your ordinary life with truth so that one reinforces the other. Talking about enlightenment all the time is not necessary. That's what I do because that's my job. For you, just do the self-inquiry and go about enjoying your ordinary life as best you can.

It's a rather loose term. But as you hit higher states of consciousness, you'll start to notice energy flowing through your body in weird ways. That's usually called Kundalini energy or Qi. Body energy work is an entire sub-domain of self-improvement. There's Reiki masters you can go to, energy healers, etc. They can actually manipulating the energy around in your body. It sounds New-Agey, but it's pretty cool when to actually experience them working on you. Stuff shifts for you. Energetic blockages are common causes of ailments like chronic fatigue, back pain, anger, etc. The body and mind are a highly interconnected system. Stop thinking of them as separate things. Most of your emotions transpire in your body, not your head.

@Edvard No... actually the situation with science is much worse than I have yet described. I have only pointed out the tip of the iceberg. The fact that people defend science so readily, just goes to show the depth of the problem. People defend science in precisely the same way that Republicans defend Trump or Roy Moore, or Catholics defend pedophile priests. It's not an issue of truth, it's an issue of self-bias and partisanship. Science is incredibly difficult to criticize and reform precisely because it is held by our culture as the one standard of truth that all sane, intelligent people agree on. But the fact is, 99.99% of all the science you know is purely hearsay, purely belief-based for you. It only feels truer than religion because it's YOUR particular brand of religion. And as you know, people defend their religions to the death. Well.... surprise, surprise! That's precisely what you and folks like Sam Harris are doing. You just aren't aware you're doing it, because you've set a double-standard for yourself which excuses all your unjustified, faith-based beliefs as "but that's science!" Science is an ever-evolving cultural norm despite it being highly useful for manipulating reality. Precisely because it is so useful, you are willing to defend it to the death.

@Soulbass There are literally thousands of body exercises to shift around energy and stuff like that. You could spend your whole life studying that field and still not know them all.

Let's see what tune you sing when someone pisses in your soup.

@Ether Yes, of course. You're free to do whatever you want. Just don't come here crying when you hate your life. Cause I will then say, that's just your opinion and you are free to suffer.

@Soulbass No idea what that is.

That is not real yoga. I'm not talking about physical yoga here. Yogananda's organization still sends out Kriya yoga instructions through letter mail. You can sign up for it. Although I think the book I suggest is better. It reveals Yogananda's personal techniques plus a bunch more.

@Greatnestwithin Search for "Kriya" in the Consciousness category.

@Max_V With that book, you could, because it is a step by step manual. But usually you'd want guidance. There are yoga centers all around the world. Probably even in your city. Sadhguru offers intiation trainings all over the USA for example. With yoga, you don't want to be lazy about it. If you're serious, it's worth going to a live training. It's a life-changing thing. You have to understand that the deepest things cannot be learned through videos.

@Greatnestwithin Yoga practices are usually kept secret and only disclosed through face-to-face training. Yoga is a highly technical art. You cannot learn it through videos. But lucky for you I have a book on my book list that discloses every secret Kriya yoga technique! It's a killer book. Could change your entire life if you actually do what it says. The only trick is, it requires radical openmindedness to comprehend.

@Brandon Nankivell Step #1 to understanding consciousness: Never cite RationalWiki ever again. A rationalist wouldn't understand a chakra if his life depended on it. You want to understand chakras?Try doing Kriya yoga every day for a few years. Then let's talk.

@Ryan_047 You have classic low self-esteem. That's a big obstacle that you need to seriously work out before you can move forward with other work. Do all the exercises in Nathaniel Branden's books on self-esteem. That's your solution. Take the exercises seriously and do them daily for a whole year. That should lead to a significant improvement. Also, I would recommend a few years of daily Holosync for you.

It's a phase one goes through. It might be necessary for some. But in the grand scheme of things it is quite immature and silly. Like I said, when you've got nothing better to do with your life, it will look very appealing and like a good use of your time.

@ppfeiff Outline looks pretty good. Thanks for posting it here for Mac users. After you've used it for a week, write us a mini-review.

Imagine your entire life ending. Like you woke up from bad dream. That is enlightenment. It is the end of life as you knew it. So yes, "you" will fear it. It is the mother of all fear. You entire life is designed around NOT finding enlightenment. Because that is what "life" is, unenlightenment. This is only a path for people who really care about truth, at the cost of death. This is hardcore stuff. It's very radical. This is not some feel-good Tony Robbins motivational mumbo-jumbo. This is deadly serious. You pretty much have to be willing to throw your entire life away to see what lies beyond. Which requires enormous curiosity and wisdom. Once you discover what lies on the other side of life, it will be so shocking, it kills you. The whole point is that you will not survive this process. But then again, you aren't gonna escape life alive no matter how you slice it.

@beastmode I'm not anti-science. I am merely pointing out its limits and blindspots. The meaning of the universe's mystical order was realized thousands of years before the invention of mathematics.

@egoless Chronic fatigue is a very common issue that has hundreds of possible factors/causes. It's not an easy thing to sort out. Many books have been written on the subject. You'll have to take things into your own hands, do the research, and troubleshoot the problem one factor at a time. It can be frustrating, but if you can find a cure for yourself, it will be worth the effort. Energetic blockages are something to look into. Heavy metal toxicity is another thing to look into. Physical ailments are not just physical. They are often psychological in origin. Especially something like chronic fatigue.

@beastmode Even experience is ultimately illusory. Although it's preferable to concepts.

@egoless You set an intention for what you want to know, and you apply your keen observation skills to the issue. As you observe a thing with an open mind and genuine intent, the answer will be revealed with time spontaneously. See video: Learning = Observation Boredom is usually just an illusion you have to bust through by becoming more curious about the thing at hand. It sounds like you lack discipline, focus, and follow-through. Without those, you will never succeed at anything. You must learn to discipline yourself to have a work ethic. Or accept that your life will forever be mediocre.

@egoless By being self-aware.

Get a blood test to check your thyroid hormone levels. Under-active thyroid is one of the most common causes of chronic fatigue.

That was before I even started Actualized.org Yes, of course there is much struggle behind the scenes which you guys never see in the videos. That's the nature of being on the hero's journey. There will be threshold guardians every so often. Sometimes you shoot the perfect 90 minute video only to realize you forgot to click the record button.