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Go far away and then come back.

That's a very valuable POV. I agree with what you say Mandy. Good point and thanks for sharing it. I am always trying to have another mystical experience and you made me remember that this is not about that kind of experiences. We need to let them go.

While searching I found this article https://qz.com/1196408/scientists-studying-psilocybin-accidentally-proved-the-self-is-an-illusion/

@Natasha I think so, because the shrooms they use for consciousness work have psilocybin which is the ingredient that can make you have mystic experiences. The problem is that people in my country just use it to be high, not so much for spiritual purposes. I really didn't know a lot about them until I learned about them here.

I didn't have idea about the berries definition @Natasha very interesting. In my native country there's a lot of poppy plants, I never tried them. In Spanish their name is Amapolas. Now I want to try them lol.... There's also the "Psilocybe cubensis is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose principal active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin" (wikipedia), its popular name is "Cucumelo" and it grows in Uruguay and Argentina and probably in Brasil too.

Lol

No, we only follow Gurus who confirm our preconceived biases.

@Sadalsuud

@Anton_Pierre When I went to a local church some years ago and I talked to them about the epiphany I had, they looked at me as if I was crazy. They have no idea about truth. It's sad... No one talked to me about how to rationalize what was happening, nothing... finally I ended in a mental hospital and there I realized churches were not the place for me.

@Inliytened1

@zeroISinfinity Thanks Zero! I am going to write about it in my journal, I don't want to derail this thread. But is amazing how everything changes when the I is not there anymore, or at least when you can see things from a universal perspective, not so much from the narrow POV of the ego. I know I'm not still completely there, but I think I am on the correct path thanks to all of you in this forum. Leo and everybody.

Yes, I know... It was a way to "explain" more simply why there's suffering, but suffering is not true. So, just talking from an Ego POV. Of course! :-P That's in what I am working on, everyday new insights are arising and they are showing me how wrong I was... it's turning the world upside down really. :-) No sorry, I appreciate it!!! Thanks!!! :-)

I am just realizing @Javfly33 why we create our hell, in fact it happens because we limit yourselves (as Leo and others say) to experience "a world". If we didn't create those limitations we wouldn't be able to experience all the things we are experiencing. But in fact that is an illusion, we are not experiencing anything. The hell you are living is being lived by our true nature, the problem are the thoughts and the attachment that is making it "our hell" when there's no hell or heavens, only what IS.

@Natasha @DrewNows Now I wanna run like her Lol... it's a great exercise too Lol... hahahahaha... that's so true!

Maybe he saw God and he went crazy, poor bird.

@Natasha I discovered that I don't wanna be an actor. I want the real thing.

I am becoming more aware of the emotions, how they change so much and I am observing the impermanence of my personality or ego. I am not the same person, I am all the time changing, I am change. Constant change. But that I am is the one that I am now identified with, the true I am is unchangeable. It doesn't change, is always there observing how my character change, the character that I play in the movie of life.

@theking00 Maybe you can stay in that feeling until you feel confortable to let it do whatever is going to do. I really would like to experience it. Fear is the reaction of survival of the ego.

Explain in detail what you feel. How do you know you are about to die?

@Natasha They have pretty much everything there hahahaha... the good, the bad and the ugly

It is not... Truth is not easy for the ego.

hahaha... really funny. That video become viral in South America, I think he's from Brazil hehehehe...

This one is a great Pink Floyd cover

So, I wasn't so wrong... 1 + 1 = 1