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@zikzak I should clarify that I mean solo snorting more so than smoking. When snorted, there's no loss of physical control and I find it very physically safe. The dangers are more psychological and energetic. Be careful with doing big intense doses of 5-MeO. It's very powerful energetically and I'm sure it could mangle your energetic system if overdone. Snorting is more gentle. As I learn more about chakras and yoga, I'm becoming more wary of opening energy channels up too rapidly. Faster and stronger is definitely not always better. All good yogic systems are designed to gently unlock your spiritual energies precisely because otherwise there will be problems down the road. I recommend doing 5-MeO only occasionally and supplementing with more gentle and milder psychedelics like LSD. The insights you will gain from LSD after having broken-through to Absolute Infinity on 5-MeO will be epic and much more coherent. And they will be gentler.

Obviously NOT, since you have been transforming long before you learned about enlightenment.

ABSOLUTE INFINITY!

@BeyondForm Yes, enlightenment is facing your very real death. It ain't no joke. Good for you for taking the plunge. As far as Mahasamadhi... I am unsure. Part of me feels those yogi like to exaggerate, and part of me feels that Mahasamadhi is a real thing. I wouldn't be surprised if it was possible. But why worry about it? It's a very advanced thing. It will not happen to you by accident. The whole point of Mahasamadhi is that you make a deliberate choice to do it. Just as a fact: you don't see too many people falling dead at meditation retreats or yogic ashrams. If Mahasamdhi happened accidential (oxymoron) then you'd see a lot more corpses carried out of those places.

You're in for a rude awakening if you assume that. Ha! Look around your room! THAT is consciousness! Everything you've ever seen or perceived is consciousness! Consciousness is the "physical" substance of "the world". The reason consciousness is the #1 value is because it's the only thing there is!

@Dan Arnautu The counter-intuitive move might be to slow down rather than speed up. Try to get your routine down to the bare essentials. As you grow, your routine cannot stay the same. It has to adapt. Some parts of it you will outgrow. Also, be careful with confusing a healthy routine for consciousness. It's easy to get those two confused. Letting go of routines and operating more on consciousness alone can be a great growth opportunity. Also, try loving yourself more especially when you backslide. Shoulding all over yourself in such a case tends to only make things worse. Also notice how state-dependant you've become. You've hitched your happiness and self-esteem to executing your routine. And now you see the downside of that. It's still conditional happiness. Ground your happiness in BEING rather than doing. The good news is, if you've done it for 2 years, you can do it again, and it will be way easier the second time around.

Aim to cultivate a few key friendships with high consciousness people and find a high consciousness gf/bf.

I don't like the idea of banning people for a mere difference of opinion. People here are banned when they violate the list of Forum Guidelines. The amount of flack I would get for banning people who disagreed with my philosophy would be endless. I have to bite my tongue a lot on here, so as not to appear dictatorial. People who don't buy into enlightenment won't hang around here very long anyhow. They will naturally lose interest. The more realistic problem is people creating factions over their favorite version of nonduality while poo-pooing the rest. This is a much more serious problem which has plagued every spiritual community since the dawn of human civilization and spilled much blood. And the sad part is, people still haven't learned the lesson. What we need most of all is tolerance and compassion for other perspectives.

If you guys aren't open to learning, why are you here? I've told you things which are extremely nuanced and profound. This stuff requires years of work to understand. Coming here and acting cocky and flippant is not going to cut it. It's extremely obvious that you have not glimpsed the Absolute or thought deeply about the nature of science or epistemology. Yet here you are trying to advance some position. Be careful not to underestimate reality. It does not work the way you think.

@aEOf I forget now if it was 28mg or 30mg.

Yes, but at some point you will discover why it must be so, and why it is perfect. God left you clueless so that you can experience the thrill of awakening to your own infinite being. If you already knew the punchline, that would be a shame in a sense. You have been given the gift of ignorance so that you could come to know yourself as God.

There's nothing wrong with focusing on getting your life together. Just keep your meditation practice going. It's not a big weight. Plenty of people manage to run their life and meditate an hour a day. Kriya yoga, for example, was designed to only take about 1 hour per day. The instruction was: spend 1 hour per day on yoga and enlightenment, and the rest of your day handling your business and family obligations. You do not need to become an ascetic to become enlightened. Just do your practices more diligently. Quality > quantity. I know people who do 2-3 hours per day of yoga and still manage to run a busy life. A very effective structure is this: 1-2 hours per day of inquiry + four 10-day solo retreats per year. The rest of the time, do whatever business you got. Another option is: take 3 months off and go balls-to-the-wall with inquiry. 24/7. Get your awakening breakthrough and then return to ordinary life, deepening your realization with 1 hour per day of meditation/yoga.

The key delusion of the ego is that it thinks it's in control. That's how it justifies it's perpetuation. It's sort of like a tyrant who keeps insisting the country would die without him. He will conjure up all sorts of phony evidence to show that he's working really hard to keep the whole thing together. But the key question is, why would you believe the tyrant when he has a clear conflict of interest? Of course the fox guarding the hen house will say, "I'm needed to protect all these chickens! Without me, someone's gonna eat them all."

Because it's abso-fucking-lute. You won't understand until you see it. The ordinary mind is incapable of knowing it. It only makes sense at the moment of enlightenment. If you knew it already, you'd be enlightened and we wouldn't be having this conversation. If you want a quick and guaranteed way to grasp this, find some 5-MeO-DMT. Or spend a few thousand hours meditating towards it.

He didn't contradict anything I said. He's using the word PRINCIPLE there in a particular context. He's talking about the "physical world" and pragmatically how to operate effectively within it. He's speaking about relative truths there, for purpose of teaching martial arts. What people normally consider "gravity" is a very tricky thing. It's a highly abstract concept which they mistake for something out there in the "physical world", which is also another concept. See, there is big difference between something like "a cat", and the actual furry creature sitting on your couch. "A cat", "a creature", "a couch"... these are also abstractions. Obviously no such things exist. You've never see "a cat", you've only seen specific animated colors and shapes which your mind then constructed into "a cat". Saying what I'm saying doesn't make "the cat" disappear. It just highlights taken-for-granted conceptual projections which the mind casts upon the world. Imagine being a newborn baby. He does not see "a cat". He sees something, but it ain't "a cat" and it doesn't come with all the conceptual baggage that your notion of "a cat" comes with. The whole point is that words and concepts like "cat" or "gravity" are not isolated things, they are part of an infinite semantic web which makes up your entire worldview and sense of reality. Pull on these concepts long enough and eventually your entire sense of reality will unravel like a knitted sweater, and you along with it. Because you too, are a concept. You speak of things you do not yet comprehend. Watch out for the trap of making this about me. Whatever your feelings or assumptions about me, that's YOUR stuff. Finger pointing at the moon.

I've read some trip reports of people passing out for like 30 minutes or becoming red-in-the-face from lack of oxygen. I can't imagine that is healthy or safe. But then again, people do very stupid things, like eyeballing doses of 5-MeO without a miligram scale.

This work takes a certain kind of maturity. You're not ready for the full implications of nonduality yet. What you call nihilism is just a fear of becoming groundless. Yes, reality is meaningless, but what you fail to understand is that nihilism goes full-circle into divinity and infinite love. It's precisely because everything is meaningless, that it can be unconditionally loved. Drop your ideological positions and petty personal needs. Then the true beauty of reality will be revealed to you. Or don't, and stay stuck in your egoic, contracted paradigm. Either way is fine.

Yes. That's why it took a genius of Isaac Newton's caliber to invent it. Spirituality leads to Absolute Infinity. It's ABSOLUTE. It contains everything possible. Period. It is not a cognition, perception, or perspective. It's what remains when all perspective is abolished.

Spirituality needs to be balanced with mastery of the mundane world. Unless your plan is to live in a cave. Navigating ordinary life requires constant learning and growing. Survival is a tricky business, and it's best when you teach yourself how to do it artfully -- given as how you're here surviving 24/7 until your death. People who become too mystical, too spiritual without grounding themselves in mundane reality have money problems, relationship problems, housing problems, family problems, etc. That's not how you want to be. A decent guru will refuse to teach you spirituality until he sees that you have managed to handle ordinary life well. If you cannot pay your bills, what chance do you have at enlightenment? Learn to walk before you fly.

Nothing wrong with being a fool.

@Speedscarlet I don't see how. Kriya is about going straight for the Absolute. The Absolute is faceless and formless.

@Speedscarlet Of course there are highly specialize techniques. Entire mystical schools and traditions have been created around this. Many different kinds of yoga, meditation, mantras, prayer, etc. It's a very technical subject. Tibetan Buddhism is big into it. As is Shaiva Tantra.

@NoSelfSelf That's what they say. I cannot confirm or deny. But I have switched to fluoride-free toothpaste.

@Samra Solo is the best. You just have to know what you're doing (by doing the online research) and follow the guidelines I've outlined in my How To Use Psychedelics video. Then again, if you're too scared, this isn't the path for you. You need to be very mature and responsible to follow this path successfully. But, damn, is it awesome!

@Epsilon_The_Imperial Because you haven't experienced "the Void", you can't appreciate what it really means. It's not merely "the Void". It's ABSOLUTE INFINITY! That means, it includes everything possible simultaneously. There is nothing you can dream up which isn't already there. There is nothing beyond the Void because the Void is literally EVERYTHING! Can you even begin to fathom how significant that is??? No, you cannot. Not without it killing you.