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Confucius say: "When you go fishing, bring dynamite"

@username Of course it's progress.

There is no purpose in debating the effectiveness of yoga. It clearly works. The only question is which kind you wanna do.

So then what do you care about?

Kinda silly to worship yourself. But hey, plenty of people do it.

@Joseph Maynor One enlightenment is just the tip of the iceberg. Chances are you'll still be quite clueless after that first enlightenment. Don't expect to become some kind of Ekhart Tolle or Ramana Maharshi. Ain't gonna happen like that.

@soh If the impact you're making doesn't make you cry, it's not your life purpose. Helping people should be that important to you if you want to be a life coach. Keep looking. Just because you can be good at something, doesn't make it your LP. Put aside all consideration of, "But I need to make a living." << that has nothing to do with life purpose. That is an external condition. You can worry about that after you've found your purpose.

@MiracleMan Not enlightened, but of course you start out without a you If you try to think back, sometime around age 2-3 you created the concept of a you vs other. You probably can't remember. Because there was no you before then.

We are cracking down on useless posts. If you're making a post, be sure it includes a tangible discussion topic, or is saying something of substance, not just vague sayings.

@Socrates You become gradually conscious of all your false identifications. You become clearer about what you are NOT.

@Youssef Sounds like you need some grounding exercises. You're too stuck in your head. Try joining a yoga or kickboxing class. Join a sport like soccer, etc. Get your body grounded. Take a break for a while. Go be out in nature, hiking, etc. The ego will react violently to dramatic growth. Expect some epic ego backlashes on this path. Especially if you try to do it quick and hard.

@5driedgrams The common thread that's revealed in all others is ignorance. Which of course is in you in spades. How this ignorance gets manifest is really irrelevant. For one person it might be anger, for another violence, for another pettiness, for another jealousy, for another greed, for another people-pleasing, for another dogma, for another gluttony, for another drug addiction, for another lying, for another cheating, for another killing, for another preaching, etc. Negativity itself doesn't actually exist. You created it, and projected it onto the world. So yes, you're fully responsible for all the evil you see out in the world. Your mind literally created the category "evil". Without first creating it, you couldn't see it. It really is that simple. Simply to be a self is to create things you hate. This is a core part of self-survival. A self needs to fabricate things to hate in order to survive. That's what a self largely is: a collection of reactions against the environment. If you've taken 5g of mushrooms, you should have seen that Being has no value, meaning, or charge. Ponder the significance of that.

@Max_V 30 to 60 minutes at least. Your mind has to get into a groove and focus.

@Big_D It will just screw up your sleep cycle. You wanna be most alert during your trip, not sleepy. Something like DMT or 5-MeO you can easily do at night cause it only lasts 45 minutes. But I wouldn't do mushrooms or LSD at night. Probably more chances of bad trips at night in the dark.

@AlwaysBeNice Yeah, I'm not sure what the exactly conversion factor is. I was just giving a rough example.

1) I take an alcohol extract. Never tried tea, but hear it works well. 2) Same dose as eating them: 2g to 4g. 2g will be medium-low, 4g will be medium-strong. 4g will blow your reality to pieces. Start with 1g. 3) It's just obvious from your body's reaction. If it makes you nauseous, that's your body telling you you ate something toxic.

@Nahm Truffles are usually weighed/sold raw, not dried. Hence 30g of wet truffles is equivalent to like 3g of dried shrooms.

Yeah, those kinda cases have been reported over the years. Lots of odd stuff like that can be found in the medical case studies. They are dismissed as strange anomalies. If that guy in the picture above drilled a little hole in the top of his head, he could fill his brain hole with Coke, stick a swirly straw in there, and walk around slipping it all day. A handy evolutionary advantage!

@Jordan wang If you haven't noticed, all professional athletes, even the very very best, retire by 30 or 40 and move on to doing something else. It's not just because their bodies age. It's largely because competition like that is unsustainable. It's a real grindy way to live.

@Jordan wang Of course. So get a job, hustle, and save up your own money to start a business. Don't expect anyone to support your life. You are very lucky your parents give you any money at all. Most people don't get that. If you are so smart, you should put your smarts towards supporting yourself, earning a living, moving out on your own, becoming fully independent, and having creating business ideas. If you're so smart, roll up those sleeves and get to work actualizing that smartness. It's easy to talk big, it's another thing to actually do it in the real world, where nobody gives a shit about your dreams.

@Vladimir It's a nice idea, but it will not work. The way you're proposing is what causes the corruption of all spiritual teachings and created all sorts of religions and cults. Consciousness CANNOT be mainstreamed or done collectively. This is a huge ego distraction in disguise. Consciousness must be pursued individually. Please don't start groups about this. Just muster the wisdom so work quietly on yourself. When you deeply awaken, then you can start teaching, if you really desire that. Notice that all the time to spend organizing, is all the time you don't work on yourself. This is not an accident. The ego craves this distraction. It wants to mobilize others without to avoid working on itself. I could easily have turned Actualized into a religion/cult/group/organization long ago. Could have earned more money that way. It was deliberately not done. Teaching consciousness is a very dangerous thing. Without great care, it is guaranteed to turn disastrous, and actually spread unconsciousness. As history shows us. Much of the evil in the world was created in just this way, with people who wanted to spread consciousness, with good intentions, but lack of understanding of the traps involved.

@Sagatarius Your life purpose is perfect. Just go do it. It's not selfish in the way you think. Don't drag enlightenment teachings into this. Keep them separate.

@Himanshu Of course. Every single part and video is a compromise.

@Loreena I am a chimp too. The only difference is that I know I'm a chimp and I have laid plans to become less chimpish.

Don't blindly listen to any one teacher. Don't place any one teacher or teaching on a pedestal. Corrupt teachers are no problem when you are pulling from 100s of sources, as you should be doing if you care about Truth and understanding. And you understand the dangers of the epistemology. All schemes for quantifying consciousness are very limited. Don't take them too seriously. You cannot understand higher levels of consciousness without actually going there yourself. It's like trying to tell a blind man about the color red. Nothing can be said. It's a very complex and technical topic which would require a lot of detailed explanation. 1) No idea. Not a valid question. 2) Well, of course I am a teacher, because I teach stuff. Maybe in the future I will travel around more and do some live talks/meetups. But not right now. 3) I'm a lone wolf type guy. I don't like personal support from anyone. I like to do things myself, or not do them at all. 4) Not really, it's become just normalized. I don't really do the work for you, I do it for me. 5) I consider all the videos leading to sagehood for those who are serious about it. I'm not tied to the notion of being a sage. It's just naturally the direction I'm pulled. Actualized.org is the sage school. Doubt, as in thinking it's untrue? No. I've experienced beyond a shadow of a doubt now that nonduality is factually the case. Do I backslide into old bad habits and struggle with embodying nonduality? Of course. How could it be otherwise? That will only be fixed with decades of work. You gotta accept the backsliding and not beat yourself up over it. You can only grow so much so fast. Nope, no light. No, I doubt that. You're not going to trick the system. If there is reincarnation, it's there for a reason. You're not going to shortcut consciousness or trick the universe about your level of consciousness. It knows. Just because you died on a psychedelic high, your base level of consciousness was still very low. If you die on a psychedelic, you'll probably be reincarnated as a jackass Sure, anything could in theory be used for growth. But I wouldn't expect serious growth from a fiction book. That's be way to easy. I like to be conservative in my planning. Then I can be pleasantly surprised with any excess Sounds like it. I may need to take some time off to work more deeply on myself. But then I think I'd return. I like giving advice. But it does distract me from doing the deepest work on myself. That wouldn't happen for some years. Too much on my plate as it is. No, they tend to be toxin and unpleasant. I've got better stuff to try. 1) There's lots of nuanced and basics-type topics. 2) I covered many of them in my recent Paranormal Phenomena video. There's a lot of weird occult spiritual stuff to research. A lot of weird stuff within psychedelics. 3) The extent to which our society, marketplace, food industry, drug industry, media, marketing, business, government, education system, and politics is corrupted by capitalism, dogma, ego, and money. If people only knew... There would be a bloody revolution. Shinzen Young is really good at teaching that. A little, but mostly they don't care, so I keep it to myself. I don't think they watch my videos much. They live an ordinary, chimp-like existence.