Azrael

It makes you reconnect with your emotions. You are probably like everyone else running away from them. This process can shift your whole paradigm how you go about that. It changed my self-awareness a lot. So just try it for yourself and find out.

@Memeito, on my personal journey I have found that as your individuated view of the world changes through meditation, realizations and what not, you'll naturally become aware of different things. Think about it like this: Your sensing of the world happens through a lens. When you change your sensing of the world this lens zooms out, so that you become aware of more and through that different connections in nature. This'll lead in some sense to what you call psychic abilities. This will lead to a lot of different things as well, just that when you are at this point in your journey it's not "psychic" any more. It's just a different way of perceiving the world. For example, if you are aware that all of your thoughts "pop" into existence just as anything else you perceive and you can validate this as the Truth for yourself, your whole way of seeing you interacting with the world will change. Through that, you'll naturally discover different perspectives to see what is going on. Also, I've found that at some point you'll be able to talk someone out of his illusion to some degree because you were at his point before and you know exactly why he is not able to see the bigger picture. It's like explaining something to someone that you know very well. You know exactly what the hard part of the idea is and how to come around it. If you are good at talking to people, you can help them a lot one-by-one. I did talk one of my friends into a deep enlightenment experience that changed completely how he interacts with the world now. For him it was especially effective because he wasn't seeking it at will and so the "BANG" was even bigger. To a normal person that might seem like psychic stuff, to others it's their reality.

@Leo Gura Cheers to you!

Nice one!

@Loreena, in my opinion it does to a certain degree. Before I started working in my profession I had just enough money to live my student life. Then, when I began working I got enough money to not care any more how much I spent on my groceries, whether I can go the bar with my friends this weekend, whether I can share a beautiful dinner with a woman and take her out. And this gives at least me some kind of freedom. It supports the life that I want to live, so it's a basis in a sense. However, it won't make you happy in the way you want to be happy. When you share a deep conversation with a friend, when you are in love, when you have a great meditation or an enlightenment experience you tap into a kind of bliss that is so beautiful and spontaneous that you'll instantly recognize that everything material you can possess cannot compete with that.

That's such a beautiful post and quote from you @Prabhaker. Thanks for the effort!

@zazed, you need a passion and a life purpose in your life. Then you'll never be bored again.

Yeah, it does. I broke through a few months ago with 15mg. And it makes sense, if there are less tensions in your body making up your personalized sense of self, you need less gold to make them go away. At least this is how it really feels for me. 5-MeO just cracks the shell over time.

Let's imagine you had a dream. Now, the person in the dream you are is asking your very question: Do I have free will? Clearly he doesn't, because he's automatically happening although it might feel like he has free will. Now, but who decides that it is automatic? Who decides what automatic means at all? Who decides how the dream world looks like? Who decides whether you'll have a good or a bad dream?

If you ever were in real love, you could answer that question yourself.

This stillness - which is actually complete infinity if you go into it - is ever-present in any situation. So it doesn't matter if you sit in a still meditation or whether you are in a loud train, going to work. If you are in a loud train notice that every sound is coming out of something and goes into something. Also notice that when you or your environment moves, the sight comes out of the same thing and goes to the same thing. You (what you call you) come out of that and go into that. It is the ever-changing still present moment that there is. So start noticing it when you go through your day with sound. That's actually quite a give-away. When you got that, try sight, feelings etc. Any perception and thought that you can make out will do.

@Scholar, well you just became aware of the witness. @cetus56 introduced me to that term when I was in your situation. Don't think that enlightenment will be one big breakthrough and then it is done. It reveals itself to you slowly. It shows you more and more aspects of reality and then you kind of fall into it until you cannot really think back how it was just 2 years ago when you were rooted in the normal egoic reality. So, just stay with it. It'll go and come back, you'll try to cling to it and then it comes back when you wouldn't have thought about it. Just follow along. You're on a good track here. Cheers to you, Az

No, it's childish to belief you can get rid of a subset of your emotions (suffering). It's also childish to belief that destroying a part of your motor will solve your problem (dissolution of the ego). Put yourself for one moment in the role of suffering and the ego and realize that you treated them like shit for all of your life. That's why they make your life horrible. As soon as you treat them with respect, they will instantly - and I am instantly - be on your side again and you'll feel awesome. No 10,000 hours of work, no mastering nothing. This is nothing you learn. This is something you deeply know by default. You just need to be shown how to get there again.

I'd suggest that you not only listen to Leo but to a whole set of spiritual teachers. Like for me I mostly listen to ppl like Leo, Alan Watts, Rupert Spira, Mooji, Matt Khan and a few others sometimes. By that I get a lot of attitudes to this journey and can kind of see where the teachings overlap and what I should go after. You gotta see that Leo has his individual way for going after enlightenment that first of all must fit to his personality, will include all the failures that he does on his journey and so on. And every one has such a journey. You cannot pick one and say that this how it should be done. So just chill, look at a few teachings and construct your own.

My current favourite for psychs:

Pro Tip: Don't do DMT with 5 ppl in the room. Do it alone or with one sitter max. Vaporize it (that's a art of itself) and then take 3 big hits and keep 'em at least 7-10 second inside. Put enough in your pipe because especially in the beginning you'll waste a lot by not knowing how to vaporize it rightly. So, if you take 70mg instead of 50mg let's say, you'll get to the other side. And you can't overshoot with DMT. So you're all safe.

The ego can only bring suffering if you misplace its position in your world. If you dream, and you know that you dream, there is nothing bad about the dream whatsoever. However, if you dream and you don't know that you dream, the dream might turn into a nightmare very quickly.

If you have a real experience of infinity it is necessarily surrounded by a few things. First you'll have a mental breakdown (if you're still stuck in egoic consciousness) because you cannot experience infinity with a finite machine. So it has to die. When all of your normal mental palest is gone it's quite natural to experience infinity because its the natural property of this reality. It's just that we are in our normal egoic state firmly convinced that we are this person stuck in a body with tasks to do in this world. If you find out that you don't have a body (I'm serious), that you are not able to think, that your ego goes as deep as perceiving this reality to a large degree, that all of what you know is knowing itself, the shift that happens is so dramatic that you are likely to completely go nuts if you are not trained and prepared to experience this. Because you instantly recognize that the state I'm talking about is reality and your normal state is a dream state. So yeah, if you experience infinity and you are still able to tell yourself that you have a body and are a person trapped in a body, it's not real infinity. If you are not able to normally think any more, are overwhelmed by being and just go through infinity, it's more likely that you experience the real thing. Cheers to 5-MeO, Az

5-MeO-DMT. Just that it'll be real infinity, not imagined one.

Your life purpose stems from your authentic values and personal strengths. You could say it stems from your authentic individuated properties. This can easily become a role you play and to some degree I'd say you can't help it because as soon as you get into something with passion and drive you'll get attached to it in some way or another. The difference here is this life purpose game / role you play comes originally from something that is sacred to you, your highest values and strengths. It incarnates your authentic inspiration and is not something you do to impress others, be a certain way (to be accepted) or to push your ego only. It goes deeper but yes it's a role. It's a lifelong balancing act not to get to attached to it and still completely embody it and use it. That's a paradox right here to embrace. As stated above, if the role stems from your deepest values and strengths it is something good and not detrimental. Just be aware that it's a role and don't get to attached. I've you can do that you've really mastered it. If it's a passion, go for it. If it made you better in some way it's probably just a temporary phase and it'll fuck you up later because every role has its limits. Be aware of that. Every role you play to be a certain character because you like it that way limits you and will come in your way eventually.

Go with 20. In my experience the difference between 15-20mg is quite drastic. If 15mg makes you feel uncomfortable - that's good. Bring it up until you reach the breakthrough. Be careful and act wisely.

It might be an anything goes approach if you look from the typical ego "I must achieve something" perspective on it. That's perfectly fine. This is indeed the most anything goes approach if you look at it that way, it's completely lazy. No goals, no development, you're killing it from the first second to the last second of your practice. Will this method get you anywhere? No, it's meditation. It doesn't get you anywhere at all, that's why you do it. To realize that there is nothing to do and that you are already there. No, don't get me wrong here, I know that I'm as ass saying this, but it's important to get that. The moment your practice will get second nature and you stop seeking anything in particular and it just becomes your life - your practice melts into your life - in that instant you'll make real progress because you stop trying and start being. Please think about that. But to answer your question, yes it will increase your level of concentration because it will completely unify your conscious attention with what is happening either way. That's your problem, you try to always get one up on yourself. And this method will merge the one who is trying to overcome the other one in yourself. Because that's an illusion. This implicates peace of mind, and through that access to unconscious territory, concentration how you've never experienced it before and a lot of other stuff. Intense purging, as well. At least that is what I was and am experiencing with this method. It's my fav. But there are a lot of great ones, so look around and try and you'll naturally find one that you connect with the most.

When you are self-aware, choose to rest in an sensation like concentrating on the breath or on what you see/hear/feel. If your mind wanders, let it do that. When it comes back home - and you get self-aware - rest in an sensation consciously again. Don't try to frantically hold it there. Just bring it back there until your mind decides to go on its own journey again. This conscious resting in an sensation might only last for 2-3 minutes in an one hour meditation, thats fine. I had times in which there was 0 conscious resting and just the mind wandering off and this was one of my most important purging periods. Everything that happens in meditation is okay, when you are given the choice what to do, rest. When you don't have the choice, don't try to get it. That's a key principal in my practice. If you get lost in a thought story you should be fascinated by how skilful you are. Going from empty space into another dimension - your thoughts - and playing crazy games in crazy worlds. That's a pretty damn fucking skill, I'd say. You're gifted, my friend. Any kind of meditation will stir the mind in your daily life. My meditation consists basically of the fact that I sit down. I don't have any rules or so. I just watch from time to time what happens and come up with some mental framework for it. But in the end it's all just phases that change from time to time. If you sit down once a day and stop moving, you're on the right track. The rest will happen for itself. Meditation should be an opportunity to sit with nobody bugging you, just sit, quietly. Melt in the silence and relax. Become your inner child. That's meditation. Everything else is an implication that comes from doing that and shall never be confused with meditation's only purpose - to sit.

I'd suggest to sit down and open and close your hand for some time and ask the question who is doing that? There is something that is happening and on its level of reality it is completely free and spontaneous indeed, but if you go down to our normal human egoic level, there is no will at all. It's just a tension that appears in that moment mixed with some emotions and thoughts that you are doing that. If you find that out, you will be able to be as light as a feather.

There isn't an environment separate from you in the first place. It's something we make up.