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@Mighty Mouse Now we know how Richard Gere became a Buddhist. The circle is complete.

Really? Why haven't you been able to use rationality itself to reveal the limits of rationality? The scientific paradigm does not even make sense to itself. You just gotta dig a little into it and the whole thing is seen to be house of cards. Matter?? Energy?? Molecules?? Quarks?? Time?? Space?? Reality?? Existence? Life?? Knowledge?? Physicality?? Objectivity?? Evolution?? Intelligence?? What are all these things?? Nobody knows. Yet the show keeps on running as if everything was settled. The scientific paradigm unravels like a poorly-knitted sweater. If you want to be a scientist the key is: pretend like it isn't. P.S. Of course with all that said, science can still be redeemed.

Love it! Encapsulates ego in a nutshell.

Why not? Everything is special in its own way. And nothing like boobs to put a smile on one's face. You haven't realized God until you can find him in a whorehouse. P.S. You'd be surprised how many strippers are into yoga and psychedelics.

Lol There's the rub!

@Truth Addict It doesn't click because the mind is still wandering and conceptualizing too much. The whole secret to self-inquiry is 100-hours of laser focus. It can take 100 hours of sitting and doing nothing just to get the mind to calm down. And then the real work begins. Scheduling week-long retreats is one of the most effective things you can do if you want enlightenment. What I also find very necessary is undermining your entire materialist paradigm of reality. There is so much conceptual baggage there which weighs down your meditation capacity. It's rather pointless to meditate if all the while you sit there holding yourself as a brain inside a physical universe. That illusion of "physicality" needs to be cracked wide open. Of course psychedelics are wonderful for that.

How about a mouse?

No, only you babe. If the body drops dead, all perceptions would cease and the world would disappear -- I would assume. What actually happens after the body dies is technically unknown until you get there. There could very well be bardo states, etc. From my current understanding, upon physical death you will merge into absolute infinity. But I could be wrong. There might a sort of reflection period where you get to integrate all the lessons you've learned in your life. I sort of expect that. But this is just my best guess. The point of enlightenment is that you disidentify with the body, the world, and all perceptions. You realize you are Nothingness, and so after that, you no longer really care if the body and world disappear. In the same way that you don't really worry about getting a haircut because you know you're not your hair. Good for him. The problem is, for you, everything he says is still hearsay. You do not know what he knows. And you do not know if all of his knowledge is accurate or if it will apply to your life. He did his journey from scratch. And so should you. The problem with following great people is that you start to blindly accept everything they say. This is especially problematic with Sadhguru because he's clearly so realized. But that doesn't help you! That opens you up to the trap of dogma and belief. The key to this entire path is independent critical thinking. You can't trust any authority figure. There are no authorities. You have to become your own authority.

There are dozens of different yogic schools. They all have different ways of working with the chakras and kundalini. They are often contradictory. They don't even all agree on the number of chakras. You gotta pick a school and stick to it. Mixing and matching different yogic systems is a bad idea. You'll confuse yourself.

What kind of backhanded compliment is this! You speak as if I've always been a heartless vampire. Lol

@DoubleYou But the right-wing absolutely hated Obama and obstructed him at every step. Yes, worldwide he was liked because he was less selfish. So of course outsiders like that. The problem with modern day right-wingers is that they cannot be reasoned or compromised with. It's turned into blind tribalism. Case in point the Roy Moore situation. For communication to work, people have to be willing to communicate and listen and be openminded. The political situation in America right now is very bad. Worse than most people understand.

@egoless Glimpse deeper

You need a good dose of 5-MeO right up your butt To put the fear of God in ye.

You should definitely be willing to just kick back and watch a football game and drink a few beers. When an enlightened bud comes to town, we go to the strip club. Enlightenment isn't about being ultra spiritual. Ultra spiritual is how you should be on your hardcore meditation retreats. But in everyday life you want to kick back. There's really no reason to talk about spirituality with your friends. As long as the person is positive and gives off a good vibe, you should be friends with them. Definitely don't judge people based on how high they score on your consciousness scale. LOL. "Sorry bro, your consciousness is at level 495, and I only hang out with 500+"

@Dragallur I agree, except it's not about luck. It's about openmindedness and the desire to think outside the box. Thinking for oneself is often the hardest and rarest thing in the world. No one bothers to do it.

@Dan Arnautu Watch some of Matt Kahn's love videos.

I'm not really the best person to ask because I'm quite reclusive. I don't socialize much. But if I were in your shoes, I would expose myself to more of the right environments. Join yoga classes, move to a hip city like Austin, join meditation centers, go to seminars, go to satsangs, etc. If you go to a Tony Robbin's seminar -- for example -- you'll probably meet a lot of cool people there. You can even meet girls at Wholefoods. They are into health. Here's a biz idea: Tinder for conscious people

@Greatnestwithin Many, many of them. Although it's really hard to gauge how deep their penetration was.

To be sure there are always risks. Having a vomit buck handy is a must. I've seen a few other people snort 5-MeO and it never seems to render them totally helpless. They are still able to function safely. But of course some people could go ape-shit nuts. From my own personal experience I don't feel any physical danger. I would be much more concerned with energetic dangers. I experienced a crazy release of kundalini energy through my fingers at 30mg. It didn't feel totally safe. I'm not eager to go through that again. It was a bit traumatic.

There's an old Zen story: Over a thousand years ago a group of young monks were sitting in a Zen monastery doing a hardcore meditation retreat when a stray cat started meowing inside. The cat was so annoying and distracting that the head monk told one of his helper monks to go tie the cat up outside in front of the meditation hall where it could not be heard. That year many monks became enlightened. A thousand years later every meditation hall in that region of Japan would tie a cat outside on the first day of retreat. When asked why, they said, "For good fortune. With this cat we get more enlightenments."

We would be extremely lucky to get a stage Green President. Right now we got a stage Red thug. If we get a stage Green President, he/she will be demonized to no limit as a bleeding heart social justice warrior and Communist.

I have a good kundalini/chakra book on my book list which would be worth reading. I will add more in the future too. Yes, there can be some dangers with opening chakras, especially if you're unaware of what to expect. Opening the 3rd eye often comes with seeing auras, siddhis, and other weird spiritual phenomena which could freak people out if they don't expect it. Overall I think it's all positive stuff. You just have to learn to integrate these awakenings properly with your regular life, which can be tricky.

Thousands of Westerners can enter nirvikalpa samadhi. It's not necessarily that he's lying. It could just be part of his spiritual and cultural tradition. Just because he's enlightened doesn't mean he's shed all his cultural dogmas and beliefs. Those tend to sit very deep. Very few enlightened people transcend their culture. Indian culture has an enormous amount of spiritual beliefs, customs, rituals, and people doing spirituality by blind obedience. I don't see Zen students or masters falling over dead from nirvikalpa samadhi. And they meditate as hardcore as anyone.

@egoless If you glimpse the Absolute, you'd understand perfectly. Until then, not a chance.

Lol, yeah. Me and 7 billion other humans. Surprise, surprise! I am a human with flaws and weaknesses! Nevertheless the party continues. If you're looking for Jesus, that ain't me.