Porphyry Fedotov

Same here. 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the evening. Sometimes I do walking meditation, but not regularly.

Once I too had similar experience when I was doing self inquiry with open eyes - I started seeing changing fractal like patterns. Maybe it was an acid flashback though because I had an LSD trip a week prior.

I googled it and apparently it's only illegal Hungary so far. Interesting. Technically it's legal in Russia.

Great example of an outdated harmful tradition. They don't need these dolphins to survive and yet they slaughter them every year. For those who don't know - fish is the main export of Faroe Islands (like 90%). So basically they already catch so much fish that they have to export it somewhere

From my experience it's expected that you feel overwhelmed by emotions during trip, especially the first one. Basically psychedelics act like a scalpel opening your abscesses. After a while it gets easier

Wow I've never even heard that there is such a thing. Blackout contact lenses sound ideal for an improvised dark room retreat. It's weird that they are mostly used in a BDSM community lol. How come nobody uses them for a spiritual sensory deprivation?

As people evolve toward green everywhere in the world, the old outdated narratives get replaced by the new ones, more compassionate and nuanced. That's how it goes Of course there will be a public outcry because some people aren't ready for such development. If this information is legit, then the USA textbooks are indeed in dire need of a replacement: By the way, here in Russia our own history textbooks are full of one-sided bullshiterry as well.

Hi everybody. So I tried about 0.027g of 5MeoDmt salt the other day by plugging. Felt very severe heart palpitations at an increasing rate and sound and panic, then nothing. Afterglow felt cozy and consciousness was kinda smeared all around me a little bit, but nothing serious. Not much with 0.030g in an hour or two. Today tried 0.030g as well (I thought yesterday second failure had to do with a tolerance) I understand now how to be calm in such hard come-ups - and I managed to stay calm and relaxed, but there was nothing apart from very light palpitations. As a side note - I don't have any heart conditions. I also tried snorting 0.040g to no avail. Anyone having such a problem? It's like I'm resistant to DMT-like compounds. I had the same thing with DPT, it took 162mg to give me something similar to a breakthrough. My weight is about 65kg for a reference. My sister was catapulted into a complete non-dual state by mere 0.020 from the same batch - so, it's not a potency problem. Feel a bit bummed out, it's such a difficult stuff to come by. Never had such problems with other psychedelics, like mushrooms for example. They work like clockwork usually. Even if you take not much there's something to work with. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks. Hope your mom feel better soon.

My fever broke yesterday btw, so I had it for about 5-6 days. I think there's a possibility that your mother had some form of seasonal cold when she got her vaccine and your brother caught it from her. It's apparent that your mom being vaccinated has nothing to do with your brother's fever

Got my first shot of Sputnik V 7 days ago. My advice to everybody - don't get vaccinated if any member of your family has severe cold or something like this. For 4 days I've been having mild fever, sore throat and mild cough. It's easy to catch something from people close to you when your organism weakened by vaccine.

Leo bashed Buddhists a bit in a video but Zen master Huang Po had a similar epiphany: "Q: Does the Buddha really liberate sentient beings? A: There are in reality no sentient beings to be delivered by the Tathagata. If even self has no objective existence, how much less has other-than-self? Thus, neither Buddha nor sentient beings exist objectively."

Check out Fall of civilizations podcast. It covers events from different eras including ancient and medieval times. Some topics are obscure and not much known about like the episode on the Songhai Empire. The other one on the Mayan collapse is also very great and tells a story of a civilization that was ended by the ecological disaster it had caused https://open.spotify.com/show/44DE64rRpX1cFIQUlqQtvi

For me it takes 2 weeks to reset the tolerance. If you wanna have the same effect after 1 week you must double the dosage.

Well, how about experiences people have during the Kundalini awakening? Take for instance Swami Muktananda. In his book "The play of consciousness" he describes pretty wild visions. The whole ordeal lasted more then one day...

Is coconut butter a healthy substitute for butter?

Would it be still effective if I practice this course without asanas (except for basic like shavasana or naukasana) or drop some of them? I have a back pain and some stuff from lesson 1 seems to make it worse (like churning the mill, dinamic spin twist and utthanasana) Apart from that everything is alright. The full yogic breathing and relaxation are amazing. Also i already can seat in a full lotos, so do I really need to practice all these stretching techniques?

So I've been browsing the thread with examples of turquoise and found this guy - Matt Kahn. O boy, what a powerful message does he have. I've heard about gratitude practice - but he reframed it in such an interesting and powerful way. Also the other day somebody posted a video about Permission slips and I kind of went down the rabbit hole, watched a whole bunch of Bashar videos, his documentary included. In one interview he stated that we are constantly shifting from one parallel universe to another. I had exactly the same insight in one of mine mushroom trips. Mind-blowing. I don't know whether this alien guy Bashar exists or not (though it would be nice if he does exist) but I find the stuff he says to be very interesting and practical. These 5 laws of creation which contain pretty clear non-dual message. And his prediction about possible contact that probably will happen between 2025 and 2030 looks very intriguing, especially in the light of those UFO videos released by The Pentagon. What do you guys think about all of this?

I think while both SA and Iran are mostly red/blue, Iran has more orange in it. Check this out: 'A 2020 Online Survey by Gamaan found that 8.8% Iranians identifying as Atheist and a large fraction (22.2%) identifying as not following an organized religion and only 40% self identified as Muslims.' Also Iran has a huge transgender community. "As of 2008, Iran carries out more sex change operations than any other nation in the world except Thailand. The government provides up to half the cost for those needing financial assistance, and a sex change is recognized on the birth certificate" Saudi Arabia doesn't come close in such regard. Their most recent progress in the area of human rights was allowing women to drive lol Maybe we even witness some sort of transition of Iran towards embracing orange values in the next 40-50 years. It's only natural that USA would stop supporting SA at some point. Plus how on Earth would anyone trust Saudis after Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi?

That's just outright depressing that neighboring countries are sending Uyghur refugees back to China. The whole situation is a textbook example of unhealthy blue

Isn't the point of do nothing meditation to let your mind loose? If your monkey mind keeps telling you stuff - so what? In this particular type of meditation it's perfectly normal. You can even daydream during session of do nothing meditation. I don't think that awakening has anything to do with convincing yourself about anything. It's more about finding the truth

He also said this: "I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace".

Keep it up, man. Four days is a decent progress.