Javfly33

I think it´s important to diferenciate between ego, and personality. You are referring to personality, but to who this personality occurs? To the one who thinks is a separate, different, unique self, to the "ego". A "mind" can act different. A "body" can move different. But an ego? Ego is the "lie" itself. Ego is the misperception itself. The misperception is the same in all beings! For example, imagine that this being started confusing the red with the green colour. Whether you are black or white, you live in a america or australia, or you are a men or a woman, the "confusion" between red and green colour is literally the same. I am saying the confusion, the miscerpetion that we call "ego", is the same. Is not personal, how can a mere confusion could be personal?

There is just one "ego", really The lower self "you" is nothing more than the ego. For example, what is difference between my body and your body? The idea that you consider my body is a kind of part of "me", and your body is a kind of "you". But this is absolutely not true! The ego is not in the body! In the same sense, does a rock in Australia have a different "soul" than a rock in California? Why do you assume some any different to human bodies then?

You already dead! No need to harm anything. Observation and a quiet mind is the skill you´ll need to master .

In Yoga a lot of Kriyas and Pranayamas have the mere single goal of traning your concentration . The why is your hability to raise your state of consciousness depends much on your concentration. If the mind is not concentrated, then consciousness can´t neither be "concentrated" (you get me?) Another term for concentration is "mind focused on only thing". That´s why many spiritual practices also they are simply just "focus on this single point for the most amount time of stuff". The mind slow downs, internal dialogue slows down, so energy instead of being diverted in 1000 things, it start to get focused on One thing...so an opportunity is created for "things to happen".

Oh man I had some really special moments while running through nature too, I thought I was the only one haha. I gotta go back to doing it

Well, yeah, technically depending on what we understand by "living his life". I meant that in the sense of living as a human identity withouth wanting to go any further.

Depending on his development (and age) Some people probably will be better off living life than pursuing awakening tbh.

Now that´s what I call an excellent set and setting I´happy for you! You are me. Good that you remembered who you are

I suspect you would have to use it in combination with a MAOI, to make the duration long enough. But please do your research, I´m in no way a chemist.

No idea.

LOL I can see myself going down the same path. Funny story for sure. I´m going to save that one for the future.

I can tell you my own personal anecdotical evidence, one friend of my father did stop using methadone (which is even nastier to quit than heroin) after just 1 session of Bufo alvarius, so I´m pretty sure Leo´s story is legit, other story is how my father´s friend is now... usually people need to start transforming their lives after such experiences, is not just take a pill and you are done. But the mere fact it gives you that opporutinty is already gold ill give you that.

When thoughts are arising instead of you thinking the thoughts. When they arise you can choose which thoughts you give them energy/find them interesting, and which not. When you are the thoughts, or the one thinking the thoughts, then there´s no possibility to choose, you just go where the mind wants to go.

I do have pictures of yoga exercises but unfortunately the explanations are in spanish. You can always try using a translator so with the help of the pictures, you can basically sort out how to do all the exercises pretty clear. I think it´s worth it. I can PM you the pictures if you like.

Isn´t this just eating once a day at night? PD: Not trying to de-motivate you btw, I actually encourage you to try fasting it will surely be good for you, and yeah meditation + eating less they go hand in hand for better results

Bro I don´t see a problem with it I actually have basically the same vision BUT the difficult thing is how to survive with so little. One strategy could be getting a remote job, so the rest of the day you can spend it meditating. Then once you have saved enough off that remote job, you get youself some basic self-sufficient home technologies like solar panels and some other stuff like that, and then you reduce living to the absolutely minimum to be able to spend the rest of your live meditating with those savings. Once you have some savings, I actually don´t see it so difficult, as long as you don´t spend absolutely anything and you eat very little (which won´t be a problem once you have high levels of consciousness). The question is will you have the balls to actually do it. Is easy to say it from home, but making the decision to actually do it, and living the risk of living off basic survival (once you have quit the remote job and you are living on savings) will require that you are actually serious with this. Also, let me point one risk and that would be the elastic curve of inflation and unpredictable economy. Who knows how money will be 20 years from now? Maybe the dollars from today won´t value as much. In this case to avoid this risk you could get yourself some land and some animals but then you are fucked because then you´d depend on society.

Bro don´t ruin my excitement for the discovery Let me enjoy the shock and awe i´m in, while it lasts.

The most i have reached is the sense "I Am". The good thing is that "I am" is previous to any categorizing of the mind. I am is literally who you are. You are. Therefore there aren´t any questions really for me, because the mere substance of reality is that what you are. All kind of perceptions and sensory stuff happens within this substance.

Who is this "we". There is no "we". There is only One playing games here.

I am conscioussness experimenting myself. Conscioussness have infinite dreams, and I am one of it's dreams. You are too, but "you" doesn't make much sense. Because there's no "you", just conscioussness. It feels like a dream because it can't be anything else but imagination and creativity. LOL

Start by doing the practices and then later in the future you´ll worry about if you stop doing some of those low-consciousness activities.

Yeah i support this. @Christer Although I must say, I was also afraid of the dark, (way less than you), and it wasn´t until I encountered a "dark set and setting" with several psychedelics in low doses that I had to face my fear. When nothing is pushing you to the fear you just keep procrastinating. The weird thing is, I don´t know yet why I had that fear. I would say it has gone away like 70% of it, but I had no idea what it was lol. For the OP I would suggest very low doses if you decide to go ahead with psychs

I read that book, but I´ve found in my research that a lot of ED too is related with psychological issue, not so much with the fact of jerking off to porn. Although I´m sure some people do have ED due to abuse of porn, I just think the whole no-fap movement haven´t told all the truth, and I think it´s important since for lot of people (I included myself) it was easy to use porn as an excuse for all your sexual or social problems. But your advice is inherently good, I am not going to argue that. Defintely rationalizations can go backwards and part of my message might have been as a way to justify my abuse which I´d like to be less HAha. That being said, at the same time I know the pure reason why use too much social media or if watch too much porn one week, it´s really not because of being dopamine hijacked but because of deeper reasons like my anxiety or lack of accept the present moment. But I mean dopamine is a "thing" to represent some stuff in the brain, I just think some people use it totally as an scape goat, like in a "deterministic" way of why his life its why it is, so they can feel justified about their acts.

I "think" so. I just leave the mind and body to do what it wants. Since I am not it, the only thing that is a problem is when I believe I am them. That´s why I just care about doing the practices and being conscious, the rest of the day "I plug out". The more conscious I become the more the illusory identity "falls apart" like you like to say. Sometime shadow work must be done but a lot of others times much of the issues are related straightly with the identity,so if the identity stops being feed, the issues are just seen as non-sense things which just stop being re-conditioned.

I'm not sure about that. Last year I was very deep into quitting porn because I felt almost sure how bad it was because of the dopamine release but then I'll realize much of it was psychological. (once I read that porn was so bad and it was the responsible of my problems, my mind absorbed and belief all of that dopamine bro-science as absolute and seriously think I did some serious nocebo effect on me). I realized much of it was psychological, in our super stimulated world if you don't get stimulation from porn or social media you'll end up getting in other forms in the internet, doing push ups and listening to techno music (lol)... etc. Sure, doing push-ups and socializing is definitely a way more healthy mechanism of releasing dopamine than watching porn or scrolling throughout YouTube and Instagram, but, the point is the mind in either way in all those cases will be and crave be distracted with external stimulation. And particularly in my experience I am not noticing a very straight line between success in consciousness practices, and abuse of social media/internet scrolling addiction (that's what I call it LoL). In this days of quarentine I'm literally checking Instagram like 20-30 times a day, also this forum and lot...etc and it is mainly because I find myself I can't go out and the mind gets anxious... however at the same time I'm reaching levels of concentration in my yoga and meditation practices which are being absolutely amazing, like I've never have reached in my life. I must say, when i did abstained from porn and Internet scrolling, i did felt quite more calm and less anxious overall, but also more bored. I wouldn't say it improved my practice, I just felt a little with more patience to enjoy boredom (I guess with some consciouss practices this could be an advantage, but I think you don't want to get bored doing meditation or yoga because then you're probably doing it wrong)