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@Emre Helps a lot to unplug from society periodically and just be in solitude for weeks at a time. It's like the difference between looking at stars in the city and out in the desert. They are very easy to see in the desert.

Interesting... Have you tried eating weed? I hear that's a trip.

@John You're doing good. It just requires massive amounts of looking. Try to get very clear about what you're identified with as your core self. Is it a feeling in the body? A sight? A mental image of your head? Memories of yourself? A combination of the above? Try to really get clear about that. Notice the mind will waffle and handwave. Push past that to get clarity. Force your mind to specify what it's identifying with. And then when you're clear on that, start to wonder... "Why am I identified with that experience? What if I'm none of that at all? What could I be?" And then just sit there, looking, with a very open mind. It's important that you stop knowing who you are. There cannot be an insight unless you realize first that you don't know who you are. Slowly keep at it. It takes massive persistence.

Yup, that was a first awakening experience. Good work. But there's much deeper to go. What is your sense of self now after nearly a year? Are you now identified firmly with the body again?

Stop creating stupid topics.

Plant-based seems way healthier assuming your plants don't include wheat, potatoes, and heavy carbs like that. There is a reason why most yogis are vegetarians.

Yeah, I get this feeling a lot when walking indoors while tripping. It feels like a fisheye lens. It feels like the world is inside me, rather than I inside it.

@PukkaDanks That's too sloppy. You gotta be strict with your technique. Pick one and stick with it.

@phoenix666 No! Stop concocting problems out of thin air.

You're shooting yourself in the foot. Just drop it. Stop comparing yourself to anyone. Life will be sweet. Just reading your ego-trip post is tiring and nauseating. Not to mention living that way.

@Will Bigger Become mindful right now of what "everything is consciousness" is for you. It's a thought. Right? Isn't that all it is? So... what now? You have a thought which keeps arising which sounds like "everything is consciousness", but that's all that is. A sound in your head. What good is it to you? No good at all. Try to become mindfulness of this point so that you lose your infatuation with this sentence by seeing it as just a sentence. Also notice the following simple fact: everything you've ever encountered in your entire life, you had to be conscious of to experience it, yes? So everything is experience, yes? So everything is consciousness! See? It's not rocket science. Hold up your hand. Look at it. It's made of consciousness. Look at a tree outside. What's it made out of? Well... aren't you conscious of it? So consciousness! What else could it be? The only thing you've ever interacted with is consciousness. Try to name one thing which isn't consciousness. Try real hard!

@Fidelio It's about harmony. Right now the world is totally technology obsessed.

@Gabriel Antonio You might benefit from a more rigid mindfulness practice with labeling, or concentration on breath.

@Joseph Maynor Don't get too hooked on it. You will have to give up all that logical thinking to evolve higher. Engineers are ultimately very ignorant people. Because you cannot solve life's greatest issues with thinking. If the human race dies out, it will because of engineers. Remember that. What we need is more humanity, not more engineering.

@zikzak Yes, which is why I keep telling you guys, don't get stuck on any one teacher or perspective, no matter how good you think it is. You will get a way deeper understanding if you avoid the temptation to cling to any one spiritual approach or teaching. 5-MeO is wonderful, but if me saying that means that all people do to grow is snort 5-MeO, doing nothing else, then it'd be better that I didn't mention 5-MeO at all. You want to set up a well-rounded spiritual practice. Martin knows a lot of stuff, but he's not conscious of everything there is to be conscious of. So if you follow him blindly, that's on you.

This forum is not for discussing such things.

@Fidelio That's definitely NOT it's purpose. Absolute Truth can have no purpose.

@Elisabeth Sounds like fear. I told ya you'd be afraid for your own greatness. The potential there is so GREAT, your mind doesn't even want to go there. Bust through that shit.

@Azrael Have your farts stopped smelling, like Ekhart Tolle?

We are NOT discussing cocaine on this forum. We've already gone out on a long limb. Be mindful of that. People's lives and health is at stake here.

You're right. How else could Ear-Mouse exist if not for humans?

This is what the Buddhists call unskillful means. You ain't gonna get far with this kind of brutish attitude. You will be about as developed as Donald Trump. Some mighty fine Zen-deviling here.

My view is very positive. Mankind dies off, consciousness evolves to great new heights. That's what the universe seems to want. I dunno, but it seems to work that way. The evolution appears to more towards better and better self-recognition. Even enlightened humans still have a limited ability to see everything there is to see. Imagine a computer AI with 1 trillion cameras and sensors all interconnected across the entire solar system. That would be a whole new level of holistic understanding. If humans die off, it will because they are an obstacle to diversity. Think of all the species which don't exist because humans are hogging all the resources in a totally selfish, cancerous way. That can't continue forever. There are a million ways. But most importantly, become conscious yourself. Then whatever you do will likely serve higher consciousness.

@Fidelio Keep your coke stories to yourself please. That has nothing to with growing yourself. This thread is not a license to become a drug fiend. Substance abuse is a very serious problem.

It would need to be very pure. Like 99% pure. If your powder is not white as snow, stay away.