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@Nahm @zeroISinfinity Grass is always greener. I want to be like zero and FEEL god all the time. I want to cry and feel love. I admit I thought I was already eblighhtebed but now I see I'm not lol ?

@ShugendoRa How did you open your heart chakra?

@fridjonk is your baseline level of consciousness changing from trip to trip?

@Natasha How do you raise your EQ?

What is a clear definition of enlightenment? If someone can provide a definition that maps onto direct experience that would be ideal. I understand words are limited, but i'm curious how people define the concept? How does one know if they are enlightened?

@The observer How do you distinguish awakening from enlightenment then? Like i've had an awakening where i realized i'm god, and i felt just insights being downloaded to me, with bliss coursing through me. But i still felt like a person, and i wouldn't consider that my death but i'm not sure. Is the death of death ego death? If so, what IS ego death?

@Leo Gura How do you transcend judgement?

@zeroISinfinity Okay. Does it make it a difference if I lay or down or sit straight with back up? I think binaural beats are really valuable too, but I want to find one that makes me feel good. Do you think movie soundtracks or mixes could work as well as healing binaural beats? Or are beats better?

@zeroISinfinity I don't feel Heart though. I legit don't feel love lol. My heart chakra isn't opened yet. Do you mean focus attention on the heart area of my body? Like bring awareness to chest. Or do you mean bring attention to the feeling of love? Because i don't feel love yet.

@zeroISinfinity Okay haha. My third eye is cracking and popping like crazy. I remember during my awakening where i got the waves of bliss it popped fully open. You think just sitting and being with these sensations in between my eyes overtime this will lead to enlightenment? I'm not sure what practices to do now, like i do meditate again for like 30 minutes to an hour but i don't know if i'm close to actual awakening again. Kinda getting bored tbh. I feel like i'm in limbo, like i'm so close to actual enlightenment where i feel it, but at same time i am disconnected right now.

Who am i? YOU. who is the one that is observing the typing? I am. But no that's not the observer. I am is just typed language. And the common response of I am the observer doesn't make sense because it's a thought.

@zeroISinfinity They were upset because they thought I was throwing my life away. But as my website progresses and starts making money they will be okay. I am becoming a better person, so I listen more, work harder etc. My parents see the change in me, and I think they are starting to notice and appreciate it. Overall it was a smooth transition, one of my uncles was really mad but he's an idiot and doesn't realize school's for idiots and you can be way more successful doing your own thing.

@zeroISinfinity haha no problem man. Thank you too.

@Hello from Russia My family will support me, I'm very fortunate I have a well off family. The job is just to keep me busy bc they don't want me gaming all day every day

How to play league? Relax, and have fun. No need to be so serious. Just enjoy. All is well, all is good. Paradoxically, this will produce the best results. I want to do my best. So just be yourself. No need for more than that.

I've actually been slacking on formal practices since my awakening on LSD. The practices are great to ground yourself, but i believe making changes in your life and your relationships is where most growth will occur. Like for example, i dropped out of law school recently, and i basically told one of my uncles, who's been a mentor to me for my whole life, to stop talking to me because i didn't like the way he viewed school and i didn't like advice he gave me. Now these aren't practices, but i've felt so much growth from these 2 things. The best practices imo are enlightenment coaching and psyhcs. Meditation, yoga etc are awesome but they need to be tailored so you are getting max benefit. Like prior to my awakening, which was like 3 months ago, i had been meditation for about 3 years. It was somewhat sporadic, but i was doing some days of like 3 hours of just minduflness meditation, plus yoga classes. But none of that got me close to the god feeling i got on LSD. So while practices were invaluable for me because they were part of the causal chain that got me here. I can't say that my success is because i was following strict practices. Right now i do like 30 minutes total of guided meditations, with some wim hoff breathing like 5 days a week. But i've meaning to make major changes to how i approach spirituality so i will likely have better info for you in the coming months. My advice would be find a teacher and work with them as much as possible. Some of the stuff Nahm has taught me i would never have learned just being on the forum and meditating. It's important to work with an enlightenment master to help you, it will make your progress sooooooo much quicker.

@Dumuzzi I understand your concern but i'm very happy with my decision. I had a close family member express similar concerns as you, but i think it's coming from a place of fear and not love. I made this decision because i want to be happy NOW. Not in 3 years when i graduate law school, not 10 years when i become partner. I learned to tune into my intuition and trust my instincts. This decision is what i want. And i learned that you really can get what you want in this life. No pain no gain is bull shit. My website is a business. And now that i'm not in school i will have more time to pursue retreats etc to further me on the path to enlightenment. For me life is life. There isn't a distinction between work, life. enlightenment etc. It's just life. And all decisions are about getting more love in my life and being happier. This decision was cold and calculated in the direction of love. My faith is strong. I believe in myself, and trust myself and the decisions that come from me. The website idea came during a 2 hour float tank session, it felt divinely inspired to me.

@John Doe I actually had very similar concerns. I haven't fully transcended fear yet, i think for me next on the path is full ego death where it will feel like literal death, and i imagine there is where i will fully transcend fear. During the peak experience i took LSD, and i was laying in my bed trying to relax and meditate. I just kept breathing and it just felt like my head popped and i felt like a weird oozing feeling coming from my third eye being popped open. So, there was fear of the unknown but it wasn't full on terror. I learning to relax and calm your self is most important. I know i've basically carried around chronic stress from a stage blue indian upbrining and i never addressed it because i thought it was normal. As far as fears of demons, hell etc i can't say i've fully transcended it yet. But i know i'm WAY less afraid of that stuff now as i've gone deeper in the path, then when i first started and realized that a lot of my old beliefs were not fully accurate. I think taking time to address the root of the fear is important. What happens prior to the fear taking over? Maybe there are beliefs about your past, family etc that you are afraid to deal with. A useful exercise could be to fully imagine hell for yourself. Imagine the worst possible scenario you can imagine from your meditation, and then accept it. If you can accept the worst case scenario you can imagine then it will hold less power of you. If there's one thing i've learned so far, it's that the path is good bro. Life is good. When we are afraid, scared etc it's because of thinking and our disconnection form the innate goodness that is within us. TLDR: I had similar fears, but as i progressed on the path with psychs, meditation, coaching etc they just subsided without me actively addressing them.

Good job man. Keep going, sounds like shamanic breathing gives you great insights

@LfcCharlie4 I remember when I first started posting, he would post about love all the time I thought the guy was clueless. I was so wrong. (Thank God for that lol)

@zeroISinfinity I got some grey too and i'm only 24. I think i was going bald young but because of the path and lower stress i think i saved my hair haha. You know Jed is bold. I hope i don't join him there lol

@Derek White No problem. No i haven't, I really need to add new practices, i read some quote about how you have to evolve your practices as you awaken and it's really been true for me lately. I'll look into it thanks man.

@John Doe No i would not consider myself enlightened. But i don't want to be fake humble and say i'm not far on the path. I've had peak experiences where i've felt bliss flowing through me, and everything in the world just made sense and it felt like a stream of insights flowing into my head. But i'm also not awake to infinite love and joy, which to me is most important haha so it's tough. But i bet i can help with questions on the path, just take what i say with a grain of salt. Also, i would consider myself to have an excellent eye as to who on the forum is worth listening to and has advice that can change your life. @Nahm is one of the few, and it's basically his job to enlighten seekers so i recommend talking to him too.

@zeroISinfinity Yeah bro, i'm not a big reader but i liked his book. I always respected soilders and generals etc, if this were another era i'd try to be soilder going for gods glory lol. Yeah i'm excited haha. I am now an entrepreneur, like Jeff Bezos (but I have hair lol)

@John Doe It could be useful to create goals within your practice and track them. Like if you meditate for 10 days in a row, I would consider that spiritual progress Also, have you seen @Nahm;s thread on using a dreamboard? That post is what sparked a major awakening for me, which was about 3 months ago, and since that thread my life has completely changed.