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No it can be, you just gotta find people who have been able to paradigm jump between perspectives rather than focusing on Non-Duality all the time. Its a Consciousness forum so everything is included not just Non-Duality. Understanding how beliefs in general work will get you some results.

Realize its not the other person, it is your mental interpretations which you are reacting to about them. Projecting onto them. Our minds seem to immediately cognize perceived information about someone based on our own judgments of them when we read their body language and micro expression as well as sense an emotional state they may be in. This creates an internal reaction of our own conclusions of the other person. So in a literal sense your psychically attacking yourself we may say. What you do is, identify the reaction within YOU, and then decide how to RESPOND to it, It isn't always immediately possible to control reactions but responses you can manage which will provide some relief.

Overall yes, Tier 2 however is different, It certainly is gradual, yet there really is an experiential shift within your mind that takes place from my experience, in which thinking is noticeably different. As if a kind of realization of the mental processing in how you understand things expands to a system like nature. Its as if the ability to connect things becomes an automatic way of the thought process. Things seem less individual and more apart of a whole. Its not like a sudden "Wam" and it hits you but its like one day you suddenly catch a significantly qualitatively different kind of insight of your thought process and realize how its functioning, As well as your aware of it as a system of its own function.

Instagram and Youtube and Facebook uses whats called limbic hijack and ESPECIALLY Tik Tok. Stay the fuck away from that one! lol. , so as Ora stated your dopamine is being hotwired, reinforced to the specific stimuli and creating a pattern as with all your addictions. Everyone's post here so far are all great answers. Definitely adhere to their advice, as the most effective methods have been stated so I wont repeat them here. Awareness Alone is Curative and I would add with Intention. You need to Intend to quit. You cant half ass it or you stay stuck. Theres going to be a duel desire present. Quitting vs Continuing. The one you feed more becomes stronger.

@John Iverson In Mastery he talks about visualization of the skill, So what that means is you picture in your mind yourself doing the skill. It would be helpful for you to tell me what specific skill you intend to develop for this technique , but ill give an example. Ive done this in my own life with success. So I wanted to do a Wallflip, (That is running up a wall and doing a backflip.) I would imagine in my mind every action ill take, so imagine myself running to the wall envisioning lifting my right leg up to the wall stepping, pushing upward, lifting my opposite leg, placing on the wall and pushing up and backwards with much force as I leaned backwards. Foot kicks off the wall as I pull my knees to my chest and hands tucked to my knees, which rotates my body and I land on both feet. I would repeat that in my mind as I stared at this wall, then actually imitated directly what i imagined and the skill was learned. Thats a more physically mechanical skill. However I assume the technique can apply to anything. The more variables the harder it may be to account for those factors but generally its pretty straight forward.

Yeah I agree. It takes meeting someone in person to understand for ourself.

I think your Aura turns all white actually, to those who can perceive it. Not that Aura and spiral dynamics colors are the same. But I think you understand what I'm saying. So I wouldn't doubt if they continued the spiral to have a max level possible to put into language, that white would be appropriate.

States and Stages are the terms we use to talk about the levels of spiritual development.

There is no "grey" level. It was Purple, Red, Blue, Orange, Green, Yellow, Turquoise. Leo mentions he is in Turquoise. So we can assume he's primary top of Orange, Green, alot of Yellow, and alot of Turquoise. We are never fully one color since it's a spectrum.

@Flowerfaeiry Very well, thank you for your input! I'll definitely be ceasing use of it indefinitely then. It will be missed lol. I'm going to research into restorative solutions if any are out there.

Feeling what? Emotions?

Well thought is a subset within reality. You gotta have a reality before you can have a thought.

What exactly does it desensitize your brain to? Ive taken MDMA multiple times, 2 years ago I did some Consciousness work trying out the Hippy flip, Candy flip, and Soul Bombing and documented my experience. I usually spaced it out 3-6 months in between. ( I know you said not to mix stuff so it was a one time experiment.) How ever, this year and last year I been making it a New years eve only thing, as im aware of the damage but not the permanence of it, I thought neurochemical levels recover and renormalized, so some concern arose after I read your comment? Should I discontinue use of it even as a New Years eve only trip?

Yeah you know what, I have noticed that. Thoughts do appear as a separate sensation if you will, during reading. Almost like above or behind the sub vocalization. Yes I actually will sometimes need to visually represent the words in my mind when spelling and listening to others under certain circumstances. Its very useful for spelling. Its also funny you pointed out the aspects. During Martial Arts training tonight, I actually noticed how my mind runs multiple layers of thinking at a time. There are aspects of thinking that represent what i am hearing or listening to the instructor sometimes subvocalizing repeating after him, what i am seeing thinking about exactly what i see and visualize in my mind, and interpreting the concept of the techniques, thought aspects of observing those around me which is different from just the seeing of them its almost analyzing like, as well as an additional layer monitoring my own body, All at the same time. It complex AF lol.

Would you consider reading just mental activity then? I often thought subvocalizing was the process of thinking in words?

Well my mom passed away when I was 23. i didnt take it well..So i experience a what i understand now to be an egoic deconstruction because i had so much of my identity tied to my mom. It sort of lead me to a more spiritually oriented mentality because then i started question reality. Then I found Leo and been following ever since, since he provided many answers to questions I had since my perception of reality was breaking down and i was having trouble trying to understand wtf was going on. Post Traumatic Growth I believe its called that i went through.

Thats really cool, I think id prefer that. For example when I read as I am reading your message and replying this mind has to listen to the words internally or subvocalize. Its not much of an apparent choice there is. Sometimes I can skim quickly and still know the words without having to "say" it in my head, Meditation seems to be the primary training tool for this. Do you have any recommendations? It wasn't always like this tho. For me the subvocalizing didnt come online till I was about 24. Im 31 now. My mind was completely silent before that? More images.

What are the things called "ear worms?" When you have a song "stuck in your head" Would that be thought?

Thinking is Thought? We think in words and Images. Via internal voice. From my experience. maybe your perception differs? is that so?

@Leo Gura I appreciate your responses! Comprehension has many degrees right lol. Thank You! Amazing!

I was on 5MeO DMT, I was sitting in the passenger seat of my friends car as we chilled in a parking lot, He helped me light the pipe. I inhaled fully, held it..as I exhaled this white almost yellowish rushing light fully engulfed my entire perception. There was only the awareness of my breath and the rushing light. Then perception of being in space as if I was the entire planet floating there appeared before my eyes. I could see sun rays shining from my left but not the sun directly, unable to move or look anywhere, I could see what appeared to be other planets or moons off in the distance. Certainly an "outer space" appearance, The feeling felt Overwhelmingly familiar! Very pleasant, I could hear thoughts repeating "This is so familiar?" Like Ive been there before? Like Home with a capital H. There was no sense of time but eventually sitting back in the car rematerialized in front of my eyes, the parking lot my friend and this body materialized back into my perception.

@Leo Gura Leo, You mentioned "materialize a planet with mere thought", it reminded me when I was on 5MeO DMT, I had already been following your content for awhile and your videos about 5MeO encouraged me to try it for myself. I was sitting in the passenger seat of my friends car as we chilled in a parking lot, He helped me light the pipe. I inhaled fully, held it..as I exhaled this white almost yellowish rushing light fully engulfed my entire perception. There was only the awareness of my breath and the rushing light. Then perception of being in space as if I was the entire planet floating there appeared before my eyes. I could see sun rays shining from my left but not the sun directly, unable to move or look anywhere, I could see what appeared to be other planets or moons off in the distance. Certainly an "outer space" appearance, The feeling felt Overwhelmingly familiar! Very pleasant, I could hear thoughts repeating "This is so familiar?" Like Ive been there before? Like Home with a capital H. There was no sense of time but eventually sitting back in the car rematerialized in front of my eyes, the parking lot my friend and this body materialized back into my perception. Could you explain anything about this experience to me? Was that the Absolute? Then back sitting in the car is the relative? Are those good reference points to refer to understand? What facet of awakening was revealed to me? Its literally the single most important experience in my life, as it has recontexualized my mind and allowed me to understand all of your content more deeply. Any feedback would be GREATLY appreciated!

Dumb is not an opposite of intelligence. Its on the same "scale" since its infinite. Dumb is relative. just my opinion.

At that time he could only operate from the current level of consciousness he was at. The option to open up was not available to his train of thoughts. When he grows himself more those options will come online for him. From you current level of consciousness that option is obvious to you, and for him it just wasnt the cards he had on hand lol.

Actually its more likely because he got stuck in his own mind. He most likely thought you were interested in him, as guys will normally assume this when complimented by a woman, so he became self conscious and unsure of the proper response. He most likely felt the need to want to make sure he said the right things which created the inner resistance.