You will not think your way out of it.
Psychedelics or hardcore spiritual practice.

When I first realized that God was real, the realization generated a burst of energy so powerful in my heart that it shot out through my fingertips like force lightning and physically scared the skin on my fingertips.
My fingerprints still have tiny hairline scars in them 3 years after.
You've no idea how serious God-realization can get.
Most so-called enlightened people have hardly a clue what God is. They are as ignorant as children.

See my video: What Is Perception? where this is explained.
It was pure Consciousness become conscious of itself.
Good. Here you're asking, "What is Consciousness itself?" to which the answer is Nothing.
But a verbal or logical answer will never be right here. You must Awaken to what Consciousness is. Which you did! But you're still not fully clear about what it is because it's a slippery beast. Pure consciousness cannot be qualified because it is totally empty and without attributes because it is pure Infinity.
It will take you more trips to probe deeper into the nature of pure Consciousness.
Yes, pure Consciousness being conscious of itself.
Next time you trip, contemplate, "What is Consciousness?" until you understand.
Your state of consciousness is lacking. You are in a contracted state of consciousness right now. The psychedelic changes that.
Yes, your state of consciousness changed. You entered samadhi. To do this "sober" requires extremely steady concentration.
As Patanjali says, yoga is the cessation of the wandering of the mind. If the mind wanders, it creates disturbances in consciousness which draw attention away from pure Consciousness itself. A psychedelic puts you into instant yoga/union.

Totally natural. We address this in the course, of course
Humanity may not be ready, but it sounds like you are

Exactly.
You are not ready.
Well, reality is a projection. So machine elves are no less real than Martin Ball.
At the bottom-most level, nothing is real because it's all a projection. But this is NOT the level that most of us are in contact with or live from or even care to know.
But also consider, just because something is a projection doesn't make it inferior or less than. Projections are just as valid as anything else.
Yeah... you project machine elves and Martin Ball. So what? Life goes on.
Once you realize that everything is a projection, you're sort of left right where you began.

@Mert If you get the bottom-most layer of reality you will realize that there is only you, imagining everything and everyone else.
So "objective reality" or "consensus reality" is just a very deep layer of your own hallucination. You need to imagine this layer in order to construct "reality" and trick yourself into thinking there is a world and other people.
In other words, this is how God creates "reality": by hallucinating others and imagining that those others have perceptions and that they can agree or disagree with yours.
It's ALL a fucking illusion. "Objective" here simply means that you hallucinate others who agree with you.
You say you want the Truth, but you can't handle the Truth. You want other to be real.

No, you are conflating various levels of imagination there.
Ultimately, at rock bottom, everything is imaginary. But there are levels of imagination such that imagining a dragon is not the same as the imaginary chair you are sitting on.
Imagination is a very powerful thing. It is creation itself. So don't think of something imaginary as somehow less-than real. It is as real as all real things. Real = imaginary.
But if you go to the deepest levels of consciousness you will become so conscious that you will look at your own two hands and realize you are imagining them.

Right. Of course. You realized that the self/other distinction is imaginary.
The more conscious you become the more all dualities will melt into one Absolute Unity.
If you become infinitely conscious you will turn into a perfect formless singularity of Infinite Love. The material world will disappear and you will just become one infinite conscious forever. You will become one with every physical object and every being that could ever exist. This is Absolute Love. Your Love becomes so total that you literally, physical unite with all material forms as pure infinite potential.
Imagine rewinding the Big Bang until our material universe collapsed into the single point which existed before the Big Bang. That's Absolute Unity/Love. That would be Total Awakening. You'd be so awake you'd collapse the entire Universe. You would undo the Big Bang

Dating is how you find the real one.
Date with a purpose.

@Space I understand what you mean but for me that stuff is secondary. My trips are far more cerebral than bodily, although I do sometimes vibrate and work out kinks in the body. But all that is just to get the body out of the way to go deeper with insight and understanding.
People are different so they trip differently. Martin makes a big deal out of the energetic yoga stuff but that is his style/bias. I don't trip that way at all. I go into silent contemplation.

Fine. Go do it.
Stop thinking of these as unhealthy or egoic things. Frame it as: "I'm working of my career/biz, on having a house, on being financially independent, on building skills, on attracting mates, on dating, on sexuality, on relationships, or physical fitness, on becoming a stronger person, etc.
You can pursue these things in a healthy way. Distinguish between toxic Orange and healthy Orange.
You are so young you can hit Orange hard for the next 5-10 years. It also doesn't mean to abandon your metaphysical/spiritual interests during that time. You can still read, meditate, contemplate, do some psychedelics, etc.

@zeroISinfinity Ever heard of Diogenes the Greek Cynic? They called him a cynic because he slept with dogs outside rather than humans.

It doesn't work without crazy concentration which alters your state of consciousness.
The key is the crazy concentration, not the question. Without concentration the question is worthless.

While I love the idea of being the first and greatest, I have read reports of a Western guy who attained mahasamadhi from LSD. He was actually meditating in a cave, did a bunch of LSD, and simply left his body for good.
A guru in India later verified that the dude left his body and didn't simply die by suicide or overdose.
If you believe the stories that is.
Some interesting food for thought.
I am certainly nowhere near that level of consciousness without 5-MeO-DMT.
I also wouldn't call what I experienced as a rainbow body. I would call it becoming an infinite singularity of love forever. It is totally formless consciousness. Like becoming pure potential with no actualization.

Mindfulness with labeling, pure concentration, or Kriya yoga.
You can literally just sit and concentrate on an object for 60 min a day. Doesn't matter what it is.

Infinite Consciousness
What you see is exactly HOW it is happening. Reality is 100% direct. You cannot understand it as a process or a causal chain because it is 100% direct. Being IS the process. Since God is unlimited and creation costs God nothing, God can do without any process.
Think about it, why would an unlimited power need a process? It can just directly manifest precisely whatever it wanted to. A process would imply that God has to follow some rules or limits, but God invented all the rules and limits, so it is not bound by them.
Everything you see is the process unfolding. Nothing is hidden. Nothing is happening behind the scenes. This. Is. It.

Again, be cautious. I am not responsible for your health or death.
But the nice thing with 5-MeO-DMT is that you can plug a tiny amount of it and just feel minor effects and slowly ramp up from there. So you should be able to gently inch your way up very carefully and feel if there is any blood pressure problems or heart problems. You can even measure your blood pressure while you're on it.
5-MeO-DMT makes my body feel good. It actually temporarily frees me of all my health problems. You just have to learn to surrender to it and then it feels amazing. The come-up only lasts from 5 mins to 15 mins. After the 15 min mark you will be tripping hard but the bodily stuff is behind you. Of course this assumes you surrender to it. If you resist it, oh boy... that might be hell. I'm too scared to dare resisting 5-MeO-DMT. Once that thing is in you, you better surrender immediately.
I can foresee some serious heart issues if your dose goes 30mg+. That's when your consciousness will become so infinite that your heart will melt and explode out your chess in Love. There will be kundalini activation and all sorts of crazy shit can happen. But I never go that far. I keep my dose to 25mg max. Which is still crazy strong for me.

Fair enough. I guess if you really want it you can do it.
But it strikes me as odd that someone would become a doctor in order to become wealthy. There are easier ways. Being a doctor should be a career of passion, something you're really drawn towards naturally, otherwise I don't know how you'll keep that up. Business is more flexible. You can start many kinds of different businesses. Being a doctor is a very specific career for a very specific kind of person.
But of course it's possible to become a millionaire simply by getting a six-figure high-skill career. I guess I'm biased towards business because then your earning potential is unlimited. It's hard to earn $10 mil as even a great doctor. But it's relatively easy in business.

@Humanoid Dude, how the hell is a guy working at a grocery store supposed to become a doctor or a lawyer???
Doctors and lawyers make that much because they invested 8 years in expensive schools and have a ton of student debt to pay off for a decade.
The statistics on anyone becoming a millionaire are gonna be low, by definition, because millionaires must be rare in society. When you say you want to become a millionaire you are automatically shooting for the top 2-3% of society. Yeah, that's gonna have a high failure rate because you gotta out-compete the other 98%.
But it's not a matter of luck, it's a matter of working smart and really really wanting it. If you really really want it, you can do it. The problem is most people don't want it bad enough. They aren't willing to work for it. The failure rate is so high because most people who attempt it are just bullshitters. They aren't serious.

He has not done serious meditation or yoga.
Toying around with such practices should not be called meditation or yoga at all. These words have been diluted far too much in the West.

I don't know. I lack expertise in such things. My primary focus is not on superpowers but understanding consciousness. Any superpowers I discover will be side-effects of my search for understanding.
You are talking about cultivating classic yogic siddhis. If you're serious about that, you probably want some serious yogic practice. But also be careful chasing such things. I would focus on awakening and liberation.

The point of being rich is having it be a reflection of how much value and love you provide the world.
Being rich comes naturally once you turn yourself into a massive value provider. Then your riches are not about taking from others but giving to others.
Give so much of yourself that you never have to worry about money again. That is my attitude.

@electroBeam If you do meditation properly it will definitely rewire your brain. There's no maybe about it. The maybe is in your technique and rigor of practice. If your rigor is crap then your results will be iffy.
The brain can be trained just like a muscle. But you have to flex it.

Yes, but rewiring the brain means other things as well such as shifts in your perception, stronger focus, calmer mind, etc. There are many well-documented benefits of neuroplasticity.
The Wim Hof Method, for example, seems to rewire the brain and the body. Then Wim Hof can do cool stuff normal people can't.

@electroBeam Meditation actually slowly rewires your brain in a way that psychedelics do not. That then shifts your baseline state.
With meditation your peaks are not as high but it forces more rewiring of the brain. That's why meditation is so hard and slow.
There is a trade-off here. Fast results are achieved by upgrading your neurotransmitters. But they wear off. Long-term results are achieved by rewiring your brain, but that's very very gradual and can't go as high.