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@Concetta Do what feels right to you. It's your life, no one can tell you what's right for you. Write the word "consciousness" and burn it. You just confuse yourself with it.

@butcho Reintegrate into the real world. Why would you want to transcends culture? Why go into mountains. It's all right here.

@Joker_Theory Write "full void" on a piece of paper and burn it. Then, write every theory you've heard and burn them all. Burn all theories. Stop confusing yourself. Remove all the theories. You don't need any of that. You have been deluded. The path can be explained in 5 minutes. It's way simpler.

@LastThursday I cannot be be 100% or know that it's true. It's just a model to describe reality. We use models to describe the world. Models are approximations of the world, they are not "truth", they point to reality. The model of "human primate" very accurately describes us and our experience. There is a lot of evidence for it, based on the scientific method and peer-reviewed science. The model "consciousness in meat-soup" can also be used to describe the world, however there is pretty much no reviewed evidence for it and the same phenomena can be described much simpler using the "human primate" model.

@LastThursday Beliefs and thoughts arise from the organism, from the biology. Beliefs is thus a subset of your biology. Biology has control, beliefs have influence on your actions, so they are also in control

Write the word "enlightenment" on a piece of paper and burn it. Challenge everything you believe about enlightenment. Enlightenment is not what you were lead to believe. It's much simpler

@LastThursday Your organism and biology have a lot more control of you than you probably think. Look into biology, evolution and neuroscience

Seek professional help immediately. Therapy, psychiatrist, hotlines. Please get help. New age, enlightenment, meditation are not the answer. Please get professional, licensed, scientific help. You are suicidal. Please get professional help first. It is obvious: if that person seems strange to you or if sitting for 4 hours is not your things, then don't do it. Enlightenment is not what you think it is. Write that word on a piece of paper and burn it. Get professional help please. Do it right now. Suicide hotlines: https://ibpf.org/resource/list-international-suicide-hotlines

@Eph75 It seems that a lot of people have built a mental maze for themselves and over-complicated everything. The path is simple and can be explained in 5 minutes. You don't even need any models. Models can help, but clearly in this case they just cause more unnecessary confusion

Alternative perspective: Consider burning the whole model. Write "spiral dynamics" on a piece of paper and burn it. Forget about this whole thing and simplify your life. It's just a model. You've build a maze for yourself and complicated it.

Do you have a skill you could teach others? Are you an expert in one area? If no, it will be very hard to build a successful course business. There are already a lot of experts and self-proclaimed experts selling courses. Much better for a vast majority of people is to actually get a job, learn a skill and become good at something in this job. And only then possibly consider if you want to do business again. Realistically, most people will never make more from a business than they would in a job in the long run.

University might teach you critical thinking and the scientific method. Not taking random thoughts and imaginations of someone / oneself for truth. University could push you to look into perspectives which you might have never considered / might think are "wrong". Not just living in a self-reinforcing bubble of spirituality. Maybe look into studying biology, evolution and neuroscience. The cutting edge research in these areas is very interesting and might shatter a lot of beliefs you have about spirituality. This might be exactly what you need

Cutting-edge neuroscience research

How do you know all this?

If someone broke their leg, I think the first step would be to get professional help: go to a doctor right away. I don't doubt that you can help. But I think the responsible advice to some who says "But i see no other ways. Besides blowing my brains out" ie is suicidal, is to get professional help. Only then he can maybe look into help on forums

@zeroISinfinity Why is he not a human primate? Isn't there a lot of peer-reviewed evidence that we are human primates?

She could look into biology, neuroscience and the human organism. All these experiences are valid and are created withing the organism of a human primate.

Yes that's interesting. Nature, biology and evolution are fascinating.

@purerogue This is very dangerous advice to someone who is suicidal. The first step is to get help from a professional who is licensed and has dealt with other patients in a professional setting. He needs 1on1 help to save his life, not some bogus advice on a forum. @Svartsaft Please get professional help. Please consider to stop looking for answers on this forum. You won't find the help you need here. Here is a list of international suicide hotlines: https://ibpf.org/resource/list-international-suicide-hotlines

@purerogue Most organisms hibernate to some degree. Most complex organisms sleep. Which point are you trying to make?

You are a human primate. Your organism is creating that kind of feeling. You can't change what your organism creates. You could try to sit with that feeling and just be with it, without wanting it to change. Don't try to surrender, try being with it and accepting it as it is

The answer to "Who am I?" is simple and obvious. Don't let anyone anyone delude you. Find your own truth. Look into biology, evolution, human primates.

Seek professional help. Therapy, psychiatrist, hotlines. Please get help. New age, enlightenment, meditation are not the answer. Please get professional, licensed, scientific help.

Both are produced by the organism of a human primate. During a psychedelic experience, the chemical affects the biology and certain things happen. Sleep is part of the living organism of a human primate, where certain things happen. These experiences can have some similarities due to both originating in your organism.

A chemical produced a feeling of 'void' inside the organism of a human primate.