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Really deep Intelligence is unintelligible and does not fit in such linguistic categories well as a result. As far as approximations go, your journal isn’t bad.

Stop asking linguistic questions and start looking for the feeling of a self at the level of sensations. Body scanning is a good way to do this at the beginning levels. Asking linguistic self-inquiry questions did pretty much nothing for me personally. You can of course start the inquiry with a linguistic question to get the sensation-based inquiry rolling. This is the best thing I’ve seen/used in regard to self-inquiry over the years other than tweaks to it I’ve developed personally

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You can still do spirituality and philosophy while tending to the more basic parts of life as a priority to build a foundation. Doing a bunch of psychedelics at 17 is probably a bad move in most cases for example though. If I hadn’t started my own business and seen it succeed before getting more hardcore into spirituality, my life would likely be far worse than it is now. I was doing spirituality and philosophy years before starting a business, and this was fine as I hadn’t taken it too deep until after the business was doing well. This wasn’t really a strategic move on my part. The dominos just happened to fall in the right order. I encourage you to build a foundation with meditation while you set your survival situation more in order. Build your credit, save money, find a decent job or go to college, invest your saved money, live below your means, build social skills, focus to a degree on relationships and growing in that area, etc. Doing all of these things before going too deep into spirituality has served me quite well. If you succeed to a high degree with spirituality too early, you might sap yourself of the motivation and ability to develop these more basic things. I’ve seen it happen to multiple friends from this very community firsthand.

Greater holistic understanding and the multiplication of skills in different areas can lead to far “higher” states of consciousness

If someone thinks “I am God” somehow equates to control, they are a noob.

I like Jim Newman. He seems to get it.

Worst movie of my life

I could post this to the spiritual memes megathread, but my potential bias based on my personal forum usage is telling me hardly anyone pays attention to those megathreads anymore. Ah, well now I’ve found a reason to make this a poll as well. These memes were all made by an Actualized forum user who for some reason has an aversion to being given credit for her own work. I guess we can’t all be perfect in all ways.

Nothing wrong with enjoying a church.

This. Also, I’m too lazy to discuss it right now in the detail it deserves. You can go watch my recent videos on my YouTube channel if you want an idea of what it’s done for me.

This is exactly how it’s been for me as well. I prefer doing fire kasina meditation or vipassana for the strongest experiences. Vipassana has been stronger for me. Building meditation skills while on your favorite substances has been quite transformational. People treat psychedelics like a guy taking steroids who sits on the couch all day. Start using the performance enhancing drugs to actually get better at doing the practice is my advice if you want to learn how to do it well completely sober if you want to see this skill develop anytime soon.

@Michal__ my first cessations were on THC as well. Delta 8/delta 10 THC mixture to be precise.

These are the only things worth spending much time on ?

Now why did you share this?

What is overwhelming you in specific? I’d suggest starting by pinpointing the main causes for this. Then you can start to really ask yourself “do I need this?” in regard to each item. Beyond that, give yourself more time without obligations. Obligations almost always bring seriousness with them in a nearly unavoidable way in many cases. What do you like to do for fun? Don’t worry about distractions. The easiest way to remove distractions is to stop seeing things as distractions. Seeing distractions everywhere is for middle aged bald men who take even drugs seriously ? An awakened master was once asked what the point of life was. He said the point is to play. We know this as children innately when survival is taken care of for us, but we forget it over time as we must do more and more to sustain our own survival. Stop focusing so much on survival. It’s gonna happen either way. Focus on living. If you want an exercise, go run, but not as a physical exercise. Run like you’re a child on a playground. And laugh at yourself for how goofy it feels and why such a thing even needs to feel goofy.

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This was a great exercise for seeing how ignorant journalists are when they report on something. If the guy had done five minutes of research, he could have discovered 5 MeO can be created synthetically and actually helped those toads he seemed so concerned about. Also, telling people exactly how a crime is committed is a pretty stupid thing to do. Lol.

The only way you’re limiting yourself is foolishly convincing yourself that this is somehow a limitation.

The Holy Spirit is one of the best fruits one can gain from any spiritual work. As someone who was raised Christian, has experienced the effects of the Holy Spirit firsthand and had it verified by Christians, and has a friend from Actualized who has become Christian and denounced other forms of spirituality, this phenomenon is really no surprise to me. People go to spirituality actually wanting a difference in their day-to-day lives. As much as Christianity fails in providing this to people at times, all of the other spiritual practices fail to provide this to people at times as well. I think the issue is that people do not go deep enough into eastern spirituality or new-age stuff to see it actually make a solid and unshakable impact on them that they can’t possibly deny. This is caused by bad practice. Then they revisit Christianity, and it actually works because they are actually open to it and prepared to get some real benefits from it when they really weren’t in the place to be likely to feel the Holy Spirit when they might have tried Christianity before. Now, I think the sad thing is that almost everyone on both sides of this fence fail to see that a relationship with Jesus is not at all against other forms of spirituality, regardless of what the Bible says or what any other spiritual schools and belief systems say. IMO, it is a failure to take spirituality far enough that leads to this switch where people throw out much if not everything they learned from other forms of spirituality when they decide to go into fundamentalist Christian mode. It is a failure to take Christian mysticism far enough that leads people to go full-on new-age or only into eastern spirituality and act as if Christianity is not quite a potent tool to connect to Truth. The main issue we have with the state of modern Christianity is that herd mentality has run amok to the point that the deeply useful elements within Christianity are not utilized well and no one thinks for themselves. Spiral dynamics is judgmental and flawed. So is every other finite way of looking at and compartmentalizing the world which certainly includes modern Christianity. An individual human being is more complex than the entire system of spiral dynamics, and people fail to see this time and time again and start to create a new culty belief system around it which in turn brings out the system’s flaws when it gets taken too far.

I guess the plant’s spirit thinks I’m cooler than everyone else and wants to be pals since I had great experiences with it. I think it probably is better to chew it from what I’ve heard though.

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I remember seeing you on TikTok once and immediately thinking “this guy has certainly seen a fair amount of Leo” lol. I guess I wasn’t wrong.

Nothing is simpler than I am, but not if you have to say nothing. This work, in my opinion, is more about dis-identifying from everything, nothing, and anything in between or outside of that. This is not about creating an identity. It is about “deleting” identity while all functional programs operate themselves. And identity is one of those functional programs that keeps running on its own, but it’s not likely to happen until the “memory wipe” takes place. If you want more shmistical language, we can say that you are detaching from samskaras which lead there to be a strong felt sense of an individual “I” in order to actually have a deeper felt sense of the “I am” you are referring to. It looks like you’ve been asking questions which are more likely to lead you somewhere fruitful, so good job on the change unless I’m confusing you with someone else.

You’ve gotta love it when things get taken out of context to be put into new context for the sake of humor. Dare I say, recontextualization? ?