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@Alex K Go to Walmart and buy a box of foam earplugs for $3. You could even buy a set of gun-range quality ear muffs.

No-mind is useful too, in a different way.

I don't mean physical suicide of course.

@stevegan928 2 grams be enough to blow your mind. 4 grams will mindfuck you out of existence. Yes, it will guide you to truth. In 1 trip you will learn more than you have from all my videos.

Good... Good... young Padawan. You're starting to see the devil in you. The devil loves to lurk in the shadows of unconsciousness.

@Danny M Start slow. This is a long-term game. It's better to do 15 minutes solidly, consistently, than 2 hours every day for 4 weeks, but then quitting in frustration. Treat this habit as a life-long skill you're developing. So there is no rush. With that said, don't distract yourself either. You should be able to commit to 15 minutes per day if you're serious about truth. You can always increase the time as you get better. Quality of inquiry is far more important than quantity. 15 mins of rock solid, laser-focused inquiry is better than 90 minutes of sloppy, dreamy inquiry.

@Psyche_92 If they were useless, they wouldn't have evolved.

The only way to end suffering is to die. I highly recommend doing so. It's really the damnedest thing.

@Revolutionary Think Peter Ralston told me that's how his daughter was born. He said she didn't cry for a week until he accidentally slammed the door. There's a whole book written about dark births by some doctor. Can't remember the name, sorry.

@Revolutionary Think You know it's very interesting. If the woman gives birth to the baby in a totally dark environment with no artificial lights and noises, no hospital staff and doctors, no drugs, no surgical equipment, the baby will be born without crying. It will not cry for days until something spooks it, like a sudden loud noise or a knock on the head. Our society is so fucked up that as soon as you are born, it's already a neurotic dysfunction in the making: doctors poking you, shining stadium lighting in your eyes, making stupid noises at you, putting you into plastic boxes. And people just assume that's the only way life can be. Watch out what you assume. You just might get it.

@doucey24 Yeah, that sounds like a good plan. What I personally find though, is that I enjoy having more flexibility in my life than following strict routines like that. But as you're starting off in this work, something like that strict habit could really super-charge your results. Later you will want to learn to be more flexible, so that your day doesn't hinge on you completing a mechanical routine.

@stevegan928 Get a SCALE and weigh those bastards and start with 1 gram max. If you can handle 1 gram, then next time (not in the same week), do 2 grams. If you go above 3 grams, get ready to have your ass handed to you so hard that you will forget you ever existed. If you follow that advice, and trip in a comfortable setting, you should do great and have the time of your life. But of course, individual results can always vary. Each batch of mushrooms can have varying potency.

@Wyatt Why did you have a stomach ache? What did you eat before-hand? How long was it before your meal and taking the LSD? If life is so utterly meaningless, why are you depressed about it? That's meaning! Notice this point very deeply. You felt afraid and depressed because most of the stuff you do is a house of cards built on top of an illusion of meaning. So when that rug is pulled out from under you, of course you get depressed. The solution is to slowly dismantle your house of cards. Make your actions and motivations more authentic, more in line with nature. It's like you're a donkey chasing a carrot on a stick, and then one day you realize, "OMG! I was never going to get that carrot! Those bastards!" How would you behave and structure your life if you weren't chasing carrots any more?

That is a gross misuse of the words "spiritual master". You're stretching it a bit too much there. Does Bill Gates have some spiritual intuition? Sure probably. Most people do. But a spiritual master he is not. Not even close. Like really, really not close. That would be like calling me a golfing master because I once went to a driving range and whacked a few balls which veered into the trees.

If you realize that everything is nondual, that means nothingness will incarnate through every manifestation possible, instantly. Which means it will experinece reality from every vantage point possible. Which means reality is perfectly fair. One moment you will experience being shot. The next moment you will experience yourself pulling the trigger. You will experience every horror ever perpetrated, both as victim and victimizer. You will be Hitler and you will be the Jews. You will be the 9/11 attackers, and you will the be World Trade Center families. You will be the lion and the antelope. You will be the human enjoying a fine steak dinner, and the cow getting slaughtered for that steak. Brace yourself for some serious, serious karma! What a rush!

"Children want candy, adults want self-control." -- Rumi

Until you have the direct experience to which it points, yes. Consider, to a blind person, the word Red doesn't mean shit.

Actually, if you nearly get run over by a bus (a near death experience) you will quickly awaken to the fact that materialism doesn't matter. The busyness of "everyday life" cements the zombified stupor of unconsciousness.

He was fairly conscious for a scientist. But still, he did not grasp the ultimate nature of reality, which is possible to do.

@Pierre Of course God isn't a bearded man in the sky. God is Nothingness.

@Serge That is exactly right. BTW, science has gotten to the bottom of matter over 100 years ago. What is matter? Science says it is nothing. Just go look at quantum mechanics. It says that matter doesn't exist. Everything is made of "fields". And what are fields? Infinite scalars, made of nothing but raw mathematical values. And what are values made out of? Nothing.

@Pierre Modern science defines evolution as occurring through random mutations and natural selection. Scientists will get very angry at you if you try to float the idea that mutations are non-random but intelligent. They will immediately reject that as superstitious nonsense. Also, natural selection is not the same thing as intelligence. Natural selection actually works through a fairly dumb mechanism. It actually IS possible to use natural selection to select for useful traits. What is NOT possible is to use natural selection to invent a new useful trait. Because selection needs grist for the mill, so to speak. It needs a pool of already existent inventions to sort through. So modern science has natural selection right, but random mutations wrong.

Of course there is evidence. For one, try writing a computer simulation which uses random numbers to generate a useful invention of any kind, like writing an original 10-page research paper. You will find it is impossible, because the odds against it are larger than the number of atoms in the known universe by several hundred orders of magnitude. If you left a super-computer running for 1 trillion years, it would still not be enough time to produce one original 10-page research paper, let alone something as complex and delicate as a mitochondria or the photosynthetic cycle. Evolution happens, but it is highly non-random. It is intelligent as a motherfucker. As information theory says: you cannot use noise to create information. Noise destroys information.

I know it's tempting, but you're shooting yourself in the foot here. NEVER ask someone to help you choose your life purpose. They are not you! They have zero access to your deepest desires, yearnings, and intuitions. They cannot help you at all in this. The whole point is that you have to do some deep soul-searching, connect with what you really want out of life. You cannot do that by asking someone else: "Hey, should I become a farmer or a scientist? What are the pros and cons of each? Which one will earn me more money? Which one is more realistic?" NO!!! That is not life purpose. That's just you choosing the path of least resistance, lazily selecting the lesser of two evils. The whole point of life purpose is to connect what you want most, with what you'll be doing in your life. If you don't know what you want, that's okay, but sit down and actually contemplate. Don't come here asking us what you want. If you're posting for advice about finding your LP, you should start by posting us a long list of your deepest desires, and things you find most meaningful about life, and how you envision transforming the world. Then maybe some good advice can be given to you. NEVER ask another person, "Hey, I think my life purpose is to become a chef. What do you think about that? Good? You think it will work out?" No! No! No! A person who's found his passion doesn't think like that. He/she knows what he/she wants. The only hesitation is how to make it happen. When you connect with your life purpose for real, you should be here screaming at the top of your lungs, "I don't give a fuck what any of ya'll think, I'm becoming the best damn chef in the world because that's my God-given mission in this life, and I won't let anyone stop me! Now give me all the advice and techniques you know for how to do it. I don't care how difficult the technique is, I will master it if it helps me reach my goal. And if you don't have any techniques to give me, I will find them myself anyway! And if no techniques exist, I will invent my own." You don't ask people what you're passionate about, you tell them. You tell them not like a sheep, but like a roaring lion. To become a roaring lion, you must get clear with yourself what's important to you in this life. What is worth dying for? And if you think there's nothing worth dying for, WAKE THE FUCK UP!!! Look around you! You're inside an actual, infinite living-breathing miracle! The problem isn't that there's too little interesting stuff to do, but too much! Everything is infinitely interesting. And don't confuse life purpose with a business project or a money-making scheme or a way to pay your bills.

Not in practice. Moreso only in theory. There is a big gap between the ideal of science (our cuture's myth of science) vs how it's actually practiced and held. Scientists are no less dogmatic than most people. Good luck trying to get one of these "humble, open scientists" to seriously consider that evolution is non-random, for example, or that consciousness isn't happening inside a brain.