VictorB02

This resonates. It's a journey into the abyss.

I'll be 24 in two days. I've never travelled alone and I've never travelled internationally, so there is no way this wouldn't grow me. There is only so much grist for the mill with where you at. Sometimes I think we need to go find new grist!

Good tips here. I plan on getting my hands dirty and not taking the luxury route (I don't have that much money anyways), although I do plan on doing a lot of contemplation and spiritual work as well. This will be my first time actually being alone for an extended period and I want to make sure I use that time wisely to reflect

I feel like its a great reset if used properly as well. Traveling within the states has always done that for me. I'm sure traveling internationally would be even more of a perspective-shifting boost!

That's awesome. That's exactly how I feel about it: that these experiences are waiting for me to actualize.

81 years ago on this day, the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann took the first ever dose of LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide). He had discovered its profound hallucinogenic power just three days earlier, when he accidentally absorbed a small amount through his skin while working with it and similar compounds in his laboratory. On April 19th 1943, he intentionally dosed 250 ugs in his Swiss lab to explore its effects. As the trip came on, he quickly knew that he needed to get somewhere safe as the intensity of the trip was becoming overwhelming. Because of wartime restrictions on vehicle use (WW2), he decided to make a very trippy journey home via bicycle ride. This bicycle ride signifies the first ever documented and intentional use of LSD, and stands as an iconic moment and symbol for psychedelic enthusiasts around the world. Today, “Bicycle Day” is celebrated as a remembrance of the late and great chemist, Albert Hofmann, and also a counterculture holiday of celebration - a day to acknowledge and celebrate the impact psychedelics have had on music, spirituality, psychiatry, and culture at large. - It was just last year that I myself took my very first LSD trip, and it was one of the most transformative psychedelic experiences I have had to date. Here is an excerpt I wrote in my journal shortly after the trip: “A profound spiritual aspect of psychedelics is that they show you no matter how much the contents of consciousness can shift, morph, and change, pure consciousness - The “I AM” - is always stable. It’s like the most profound rock in the midst of an ever changing ocean. It’s rock-solid; and from normal states of consciousness, all the way through radical psychedelic states of consciousness, and back again, IT is there. The light of consciousness is always shining.” - Happy Bicycle Day 2024! Without psychedelics I would not be who I am today, and I would not understand the profound depth and possibilities that mind, consciousness, and the Universe are capable of.

That’s awesome. I feel the same way. I’ve traveled in the U.S. before, with my family, friends, and girlfriend, but never alone, and never to another country. It’s like the perfect challenge for me, and I know this is exactly what I need. I really can’t explain the feeling. It’s a very deep spiritual call.

Hell yeah.

After my recent breakup, I knew I needed a change. So, I have decided to commit to a solo international travel journey, first to Bali, Indonesia - Then to somewhere in Thailand, and then possibly India or Vietnam after. Has anyone here solo-traveled internationally before? I would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions if you have. I'm excited, a bit afraid, and also deeply called to take this trip. I know it will be worth it for the growth, and who knows what cool experiences and people await me. It quite literally feels like the next step on the path to the evolution of my soul. It feels quite mystical, like I'm "supposed" to do this. Thank you in advance for any tips. Cheers!

At the end of his interview with Andrew Huberman, Robert Greene (Author of 48 Laws of Power) discusses how he had a stroke and realized "the self is a construct" and that "the brain creates illusions" I'm sure this flew over most people's heads as Huberman's audience is mainly into science and not deep metaphysical truths, but it was glaringly obvious to me that Robert got a glimpse into true nature through his NDE. Pretty cool. Video starts where he is talking about it:

One of the hallmarks of true spiritual maturity is the deep sense of humility, of just being apart of it all, and not better than any other part of it. It's as Ram Dass famously said: "I was no longer needing to be special, because I was no longer so caught in my puny separateness that had to keep proving I was something. I was part of the universe, like a tree is, or like grass is, or like water is. Like storms, like roses. I was just part of it all."

“It suits the generous man to give money, but truly the generosity of the lover is to surrender his soul. If you give bread for God’s sake, you will be given bread in return; if you give your life for God’s sake, you will be given Life in return.” ~ Rumi Mathnawi 2235-2236

A synchronicity can become a mystical experience if you comprehend deeply and directly what it means and why it has occurred, which is: you are One with the Infinite Mind, the All That Is, and you tapped into a dimension of being higher than normal human consciousness which allowed the synchronicity to take place. If you don’t comprehend that, then a synchronicity is just a synchronicity - which is still really cool and mysterious in nature, but not nearly as profound as deeply comprehending WHY it has occurred. When you see cleary why it has occurred - actually, then that is when you go beyond it just being a cool synchronicity and you enter a mystical experience… a truly divine encounter with the transcendent One.

Hey friends, the past few weeks I have woken up from my nights sleep into pure insight. Literally. I wake up and some truth or insight regarding the mind, my life, culture, relationship dynamics, and things of that nature are glaringly obvious and clear to me. It’s like I can “see” something perfectly as soon as I wake up. It’s feels like God is leaving me little Easter eggs in my sleep, so I can wake up to them sitting in my lap. For example, I woke up a few days ago “into” an insight regarding the ego, and how it can project its own deficiencies and insecurities outward onto the external world in an inverted and twisted way, so that it demonizes the very thing it feels it lacks or is insecure about. Now that’s not too crazy of an insight, in fact I know it’s sort of a a common understanding that the ego projects in that way, but the fact that I immediately woke up from my sleep “into” that realization and the perfect clarity of its truth is what baffles me. I've never experienced this before, and what’s odd is I haven’t smoked weed or done and psychedelics recently. I’ve been completely sober for months. Anyone ever heard of something like this before? All I can do is be grateful it’s happening, but regardless, it’s still very mysterious. Would love to hear your thoughts! Thanks

This is why I can't justify voting for either one. If you vote for Biden you are voting for someone you know is unfit for the position because they are mentally incapable. If you vote for Trump you are voting for someone you know is unfit for the position because they are way too immature and divisive. So, if you vote for either one, you essentially voting to preserve your party's survival and not because you are voting for the person that is the most capable for the position. - To me, RFK Jr. is literally the only option that makes rational sense when it comes to who actually deserves to be the leader of our country. I can't rationalize voting for anyone else. It would go against my integrity and moral compass. - ...If we all voted for the most capable leader - the one who actually deserves it - that's what we would get.