@moon777light Good. That was a nice newbie intro. Your mind is still very chaotic and random, which is why you had all those wacky visions.
As you do more, you must learn to focus your mind and contemplate the nature of reality rather than just going on joyride visions.
Visions are fun, scary, and interesting, but what really matters is getting down to understanding what consciousness is, and what YOU are.
So far you got a tiny taste of what consciousness can do: it is infinite imagination -- which is why you're able to have all those wacky visions. But you don't yet comprehend what consciousness in itself is and why it is here, or all of its many facets. You also probably don't understand how conscious in the trip connects with consciousness in "material reality". You have to build an intellectual bridge between your trips and "real life" until you realize that your "real life" is just another trip.
Keep your future doses low. You have much more to learn at these lower doses. Mushrooms can be extremely challenging at the 4g range and above. At 4g+ your old life and reality will start to completely disappear and you will enter the phantasms of your mind. Since your mind is chaotic and impure and lacks nondual understanding, you will encounter all sorts of horrors of your own imagination and you will start to go insane. 2 grams is a good solid dose to do lots of work with without totally freaking yourself out.
Try contemplating questions next time like:
What is consciousness? What is reality? What is God? What is time? What is "other"? What is self? What am I? What is awakening? What is love? What is evil? What is the brain? What is death? What is nonduality? What is awakening? What is Oneness? What is intelligence? What is Will? Etc. The next time you trip, realize that whatever your mind imagines gets materialized. If you start to think of elephants you will see elephants on the carpet. Wonder why does this happen? It happens because you are God imagining the world and the psychedelic removes the shackles on Infinite Mind.
Finally, turn your gaze directly inwards and ask, "What am I?!"
Be prepared for epic strange loops, paradox, and mindfuckery.

That's precisely the problem. Your vision is so limited that you do not even comprehend the simple fact that without pain in your body you'd be dead by the age of 3.
All of the suffering of your body is there to make sure you survive long enough to do spiritual work.
Think of it this way, if you were designing a child from scratch, would you give your child the ability to feel pain? If you say "Obviously no!", you're a fool because that means your child will only be able to survive a year or two at most.
You must contemplate the genius of God's design. Nothing is there willy-nilly. Nothing is there to torture you for the sake of torturing you. If you think something is not necessary, think again. If it exists, it is necessary in the bigger picture. Just keep in mind that the picture is really, really, really big. God's design must account for all creatures, not just your personal pleasure.

Yes, you can do that. Battling the ego can sometimes be a useful formuation, but often not. Often the better approach might be to love the ego to death, so to speak.
You have to appreciate that every formulation will be dualistic. Every teaching will be dualistic, even nondual teachings. True nonduality cannot be spoken.
Christianity is very dualistic in misleading ways.
For example, the notion of being "a sinner" creates a battle between ego and God.
"A sinner" is just a devil, ego, or self. But the sinner is an illusion. There is no sinner and no sin. Most Christians do not understand this. Christians gets trapped in the duality of good vs evil, which itself becomes the source of the illusion of evil. The mind creates evil by imagining it.
When you say, "Look, that Hitler was evil!" << you just created evil without realizing it because you are not conscious of what you're doing. And to make matters worse, you then deny it and attack me for pointing it out to you

Everything you've ever experienced or could possibly experience.
It feels like Infinite Love. Imagine if you loved every object in the universe as much as you love your mother, your children, or your dog. But more! Literally Infinite Love! It is completely unlimited. You Love so much that it grows bigger and bigger and bigger until you realize that it literally has no end whatsoever. By this point your entire self gets annihilated in this love and you literally die as a human self. You die and become God -- which is pure Infinite Love.
That's Death!
Death = Infinite Love
Did you really think God would let you die into some hell? Don't confuse God for a devil. God has ensured that all beings die into Infinite Love. How did God guarantee this? By making Love and Death identical! Ta-da!

Of course we do, because you are an ego. So your definition is deliberately backwards, to protect yourself. That how you survive.
If you had an accurate definition of ego, you'd be dead. The ego's job is to ensure you don't understand what ego actually is.
You could say it doesn't exist. It merely appears to.
So you'll ask, "But what is the reason for it appearing to exist?"
Love!
Yes. Since there is only ONE thing, and it is LOVE, everything must be it, including any appearances or illusions, and everything is done for the sake of maximizing Love.
Which closes the loop of the final duality: Why is there selfishness? To maximize selflessness!
Selfishness and selflessness are identical! Ta-da! Which means: the devil is God! Which means: evil is Good! Which means: there is no evil, only Love!
So in this way God defeats the devil. Not by fighting with the devil, but by leaving no room for a devil to exist. There never was a devil (ego). The devil/evil was always an illusion. There was only ever LOVE.
And all illusions are there to maximize Love, they are the expressions of Love. Without illusion and survival, there could not be Creation. So of course all of your suffering is out of Love.

Yes, an asleep God wakes up to realize that he is God.
Nothing other than God can awaken because there is nothing other than God! God is ONE, so who can awaken other than him to himself?
Awakening is nothing other than the realization that there is no "other".
The ego doesn't exist. The ego cannot awaken. The ego cannot learn anything. It is the realization that ego never was -- that it is a total illusion -- which allows God to realize that it was God the whole time.
Ego is the mistaken idea that reality is divided into parts: me, you, her, him, them, animals, Jesus, aliens, God, etc. To realize ONENESS is to end all these divisions and exist as ONE. That ONE is the real God.
If the ego could awaken, that would mean there are two things: ego & something else which it awakens to. That would be duality. But Truth is ONENESS. So there cannot be an ego.
We speak of ego as though it's a thing, but really where's speaking of a non-thing. It's like speaking about a snake which is actually just a rope that we thought was a snake. There never were two things: a snake and a rope. Nor did the snake become the rope. There never was a snake at all! Only rope! The snake was just a confusion. Which leaves us with oneness, ropeness.

Alexander Shulgin, inventor of MDMA, 2C-B, and 100+ other psychedelics, who personally tested and sampled all of them, lived till his 90's.
So by your logic, you should do as many psychedelics as possible to live longer

@Joker_Theory You don't wake up in some new place. You wake up that everywhere is Nowhere, Nothing, Eternity, Love, God, Oneness, Infinite Consciousness, SELF, Truth, Infinity, All.
There is nowhere but HERE and NOW.

@Matt23
The problem is that you are looking. But there is no you.
For awakening, that sense of you-ness must collapse. The mind will do every slippery thing possible to maintain the sense of you-ness. It's basically impossible to imagine what life would feel like without a you.
Try looking at the room, but while imagining you were never born. Notice the room is there without you.
The sense of you is stuck to the room like toilet paper on a shoe, and it refuses to come off, since obviously that would be the end for you.

Yeah, what I'm saying is impossible to imagine from your current state of consciousness. You'd need a radical change of state.
Yes, time and even cause & effect collapse in nonduality such that the impossible becomes possible.
Yes, you can clearly recognize that you are the entire universe happening all at once. This is nondual awakening. No, it's not any analogy or explanation. You are the whole universe happening as we speak.
Just as one example, I once became conscious that I wrote every book mankind has ever created. Not only did I write all the books in the universe, I am all of them too. The pages of every book is made out of my consciousness. And this goes for everything in the universe. I am everything that could ever possibly be. All of this is direct absolute truth. Not explanation or thinking or theory. It is not even perception. It is more true than perception and more true than mathematics.

You are all bodies, all beings, all things.
If you woke up as a kangaroo tomorrow, you'd still be asking, "Why this kangaroo? Why not something else?" And so it would go until you went through every being and ended up right where you are right now. Someone has to be in your shoes. So here you are! Actually, no one is in your shoes. No one is in everyone's shoes, looking through everyone's eyes.
The bottom line is, since you are the only being in existence, you have to be in all places at once. So you are in this place right now. Every place is as important as any other.

I agree we need to distinguish between progressives and neoliberals/centrists.
But how it's done is also important. It's important to recognize that lots of people are neoliberals and centrist liberals because that is their level of development. You can't brow-beat them into becoming progressives. Almost by definition progressives are the rarest ones on the political spectrum.
So while it's important to not confuse a neoliberal for a progressive, attacking neoliberals and centrist Dems is problematic because you just can't convert all Dems into progressives. There needs to be coalition and some mutual acceptance.
My problem with Jimmy Dore is that I feel he's too aggressive. It's like red meat for progressives but it won't work to build a coalition. Being a rabid dog is not a good way to go. Bernie is very progressive but he's not so rabid and obnoxious about it, which allows him to attract people who normally wouldn't call themselves progressives or socialists or whatever.
A very important principle for you to learn is that of meeting people where they're at. This will come up for you over and over again in life if you're going to be an advanced human. A lot of people will not be as advanced as you, and your solution to that cannot be to obnoxiously attack or "otherize" them.
Remember that these are all your brothers and sisters. That is the real challenge. It would be so much easier if we could otherize half the population and lock them up in Montana. But we can't.

Unconditional Love definitely has a feeling to it, too.
You're simply missing a mystical experience of Love. Try contemplating what love is on a psychedelic. You're disconnected from Being, and thinking about love in the abstract is not going to be enough to reconnect you. You need a direct experience to jolt you awake.
You might also want to optimize your brain health, mental health, nutrition, energy, etc. to make sure that some chemical imbalance or energetic block is not obstructing you. Get blood work done. Check for vitamin deficiencies, heavy metal toxicity, etc. Dial in your health because it is the foundation for everything else.
For example, if you have too much lead or mercury in your brain, you may not be able to feel love the way you otherwise could.
If you can't feel anything, that shows me some deeper underlying chemical or health issue. Or possibly some energetic blockage. That is not normal. Start researching your symptoms.

That even taps into a Turquoise way of thinking.

Only in the eyes of an ignorant person trying to prove his machoness.
Empathy is part of Love, the greatest strength.

That was your comfortable ego-world of self-constructed meanings being revealed to be relative, biased, and imaginary.
Ta-da! You constructed "reality" to suit your survival.
It's like you've were born a rich kid and lived in a gated community your whole life and then one day you accidentally venture outside the gate and see poor people living in misery, toiling to put food on your banquet table.

You can cycle practices throughout the year, to keep things fresh and yet not overwhelming.
The point of trying lots of practices is to find those small handful which you will commit to. And also to have ones in the back pocket for when your life takes a turn in the future and you are in need of some specific one. These practices will be useful throughout the rest of your time at different points.

Obviously systems would need to be put in place such that there is no chance of a tyrant controlling the world government. There needs to be robust system of checks and balances and a robust impeachment process for any high level leaders. There need to be independent ethics boards with power to investigate and also to remove corrupt leaders.
Basically we need a World Constitutional Convention as we had in America back at its founding where all the countries agree on a set of rules and norms for how the world government will function, with a set of checks and balances to make sure it is protected against devirly and manipulation.
All of this will happen, but probably not in our lifetimes. Citizens aren't developed enough yet to see the wisdom in such a system. People are too xenophobic, prideful, and nationalistic still. A world government can only work when a large amount of citizens have a global identity. People would have to stop seeing themselves as Chinese, Hindu, Jew, American, Japanese, German, Christian, Muslim, etc. and just see themselves humans.

Well, you know John The Baptist -- the guy who trained Jesus?
You know why they called him John the Baptist? Because you came to him to find God, he would hold your head under water until you were near-drowned and dead, then he would pull you back up at the last second.
If you were lucky you got a Near Death Experience.
And so we got Baptism.
Try doing that today and see how fast you get sued.
And people complain Actualized.org is dangerous. Hehehe...
In India some yogis would do the ring of fire: where they sit you down naked in the middle of the hottest noon sun, then they light 4 fires around you, to the North, South, East, West, and have you sit through that for hours.

@actualizing25 Overall you got a bad attitude about life. You are taking life soooo for granted.
It's not that those things won't make you happy, rather all things should make you happy.
Right now you are looking for some escape hatch from life via awakening, but the thing that awakening will reveal is that the escape hatch leads right back here! There is nowhere to go since here is already nowhere and nothing. The secret to happiness is simply taking great interest and joy in the tiniest things, like holding a glass of water in your hand or feeling the texture of your shirt as you put it on in the morning. 
The magic and joy is found in Being itself, not in any destination.
Life requires passion. Awakening requires passion. Stop waiting around for passion to come from outside. Generate it from within by starting to notice how amazing reality is at every corner. Don't take anything for granted.
Cultivate a curiosity and passion about reality. Then awakening will be possible.
Take a psychedelic to remind yourself how magical being is. You have lost touch with being. And being and awakening are one and the same.

I'm into personal development. I don't want some monkey on my back. You don't learn PU well when drunk. I have never had an interest in alcohol. It's like the opposite of a psychedelic: a stupid man's drug. It's also terrible for you. And here in Vegas drinks cost $10-$20 each! For $20 I can get a lap dance from a hot ass stripper who will rub her tits in my face.

Yeah, Vegas gots to makes its monies. The fancy hotels don't pay for themselves
Micro-dosing a psychedelic would be far preferable to drinking. Cheaper, healthier, and more fun.
Modafinil is also a nice supplement for PU. Increases verbal skills and creativity.

That's right, the stronger your focus the more psychedelic your visual field will become.
That's a tiny taste of how psychedelics work.
Imagine that multipled by 100.

Illusion is that which is, but isn't.
Another good word is hallucination: an appearance without any underlying substance.
Or, of course, a dream.
Illusion = hallucination = dream

@MrDmitriiV Well, when all tricks fail, confront the devil head-on with mindfulness.
By this I mean, just sit there and mindfully suffer the sound until you surrender.
Sedona Method should also work well. See my Letting Go video. In the end you're gonna have to let it go one way or another.