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It looks like Nahm is on a humor streak. Seen it more recently. Carry on ❤️

Yeah the 360 degree bubble is a hard thing to describe or understand. It seems to me that after the bubble pops you are not limited to being a bubble. Focus can go to anything/any configuration and still be unlimited. At least that’s my experience, but maybe I’m not at that stage he is talking about. Quite hard to tell as it’s all limited by language.

Untangling perception to the extent where you’re always both dead and alive simultaneously. Dissolving the solidity of the separate self 100% (quite hard to do). Love. Absolute nondoership. Completely collapsed into the present moment with no ability to escape. Full access to both the infinite/Divine and the mundane at all times. But second best described as ___________. Best described as .

@Psych2Awak3n I treat it mainly as spiritual social media. That perspective may be of value to you. Doing the work yourself is #1.

It was maybe a moderately high priority goal for 7-8 years with the last 3 years being much more serious with it being my #1 goal at that time. I built my own (with a business partner) real estate investing company 4 years ago when personal finance and financial independence was my main goal. Before that relationships were #1 from age 18-22 so 7-8 years ago to 4 years ago. Psychedelics made me go stage green and back to relationships and spirituality.

Just thought I’d make a more positivity-focused video today for anyone feeling discouraged on the path. I believe in you ❤️???

I was going to link a Frank Yang video as well. He’s a great source for vipassana related stuff. Also check out this book. https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-v-awakening/37-models-of-the-stages-of-awakening/a-revised-four-path-model/

This was made 7 years ago, a good bit before I ever found Leo. But I even made a thread joking that I was the #1 Leo copycat. You can look it up lol. The goal has always been just to share what I’ve learned, my various philosophies, and try to help others in the process. It used to be focused a lot more on bipolar disorder before I discovered more advanced spirituality and my focus changed.

The Buddha’s teachings have both simple and very complex elements to them. Both are very useful.

Psychedelics do have a cumulative effect of raising baseline consciousness. It’s just much less pronounced than many other methods in my direct experience and what I’ve heard from others. Leo has certainly hit more or less permanent shifts in how his brain processes psychedelics from so many trips. Why I think THC has been so effective for me is natural gifted genes (mainly from bipolar disorder) + lots of spiritual work to activate the higher capacities of THC (others with strong serotonergic trips report similar things) + USING THC VERY OFTEN ONCE I REACHED ITS HIGHER CAPACITIES. The reason, or a main reason, I think psychedelics struggle to affect baseline consciousness as much as other methods is that people simply do not spend as many hours under the influence of psychedelics while this is happening in the context of serious spiritual work. I could use THC pretty much 24/7 at many points this year at this level of heightened spiritual effectiveness, and this basically put me in a unique position to be flying along at crazy levels of consciousness for essentially months on end. Daniel Ingram once said in an interview that psychedelic trips aren’t growing dendrites due to the limited time they’re affecting someone’s brain consistently compared to meditation. It is pretty difficult to live a normal life on serotonergic psychedelics. If you can unlock THC in this way of heightened effectiveness, it can synergize with normal life allowing you to create a snowball effect on your neurochemistry. The consistent use is key IMO. Maybe other compounds out there can do this too, but I don’t see any better alternatives right now. THC also affects the whole body with cannabinoid receptors all over the place. I think this works incredibly well with chakras and kundalini energy which was actually one of my main focuses this year both before and slightly after hitting stream entry. Regardless, from both my direct experience and reports of many others, nothing impacts baseline consciousness in such a crazy snowball effect like hitting stream entry. I don’t know much about the ganja yoga, but it sounds like I’ve been doing it at least partially. I mostly combined Bhakti yoga with the THC as a practice rather than any Hatha yoga, and it was unbelievably effective for me. The strongest manipulation of spacetime reality came while I was connected with a specific deity while in a bipolar manic episode and “delusional” by many people's evaluations if I were to explain the story. Absolutely reckless levels of faith in one’s beliefs and taking every minute sign in reality as a sign from the Divine resulted in me “teleporting” (although it’s not like I entered a portal knowingly or something, hard to describe — more like some odd warping of spacetime) maybe roughly 250 miles in THIS reality. I didn’t know how to control this or how it occurred. Just sharing it with you as I know you’re really curious about such things. It seems as if you really have to break ALL fear and doubts completely to access such a thing. I had objects teleport as well around this period in my life such as an item being left at a friend’s house maybe 150-200 miles away then ending up in my house as soon as I arrived home. As your “frequency” as they say rises, the chance for such supernatural things to occur in actual reality rather than just some psychedelic mental realm seems to increase. How you reach such a frequency is a mostly individual journey, and be prepared for it to possibly ruin many other more practical and normal things in your life. It certainly appears there are prices to pay, at least from my direct experience. Also, a last note on the THC use, most people run into tolerance very quickly on THC. Whenever I would start to hit tolerance increases, it seems like I got what I call a “Divine upgrade” where THC became more effective than even before the tolerance started to kick in. A lot of that process does not just seem to be a neurochemical progression but also affected heavily by Divine Grace. Frank Yang says that to reach full enlightenment there’s ultimately no way to even do something to get there. It just does itself. Even all of your spiritual strivings fall in this category, but you most likely have not realized nondoership to the degree to fully comprehend how this occurs in your direct experience. It’s neither free will nor determinism. Some type of odd automated process in which the free will itself was just created and operates by the conditions of Existence. It sounds like something you can grasp with the mind, but I assure you that living in that space with it locked in is completely different. As different as intellectually hearing about God Consciousness and it being present 24/7. Hope this cleared things up.

Rough quote: “At first the drop (ego) gets absorbed into the ocean (Self). Next, the ocean gets absorbed into the drop. Lastly, they both get absorbed into each other and evaporate.” -Frank Yang

Not sure what the apology is for? ? Anyway, best wishes ❤️??

Why would an answer to this help you be more present and awake NOW? ???❤️ In some other configuration, maybe you’ll be asking this about why God make you One when there is also the Truth of Multiplicity? The Buddha said not to ask metaphysical questions but existential questions. Investigate what’s right in front of you. Or not. You’re just having fun either way.

I’ve found it helpful at times. As Leo said, it’s cheap as fuck lol. Just try it. Do you go on a forum to ask everyone before you order a $12 sandwich which you think could be great or could be bad? Hell, watch their free content on YouTube and see if it resonates. The quality on the paid version is very similar. If there are red flags, you should trust your own judgment to not fall into the stupid shit if you find it. There’s still plenty of worthwhile nuggets to gain if you have discernment.

Agreed. If your presence isn’t helping people while you’re in line at McDonald’s, there’s more embodiment to be done.

Falling into the Leo trance is just as much of a lesson from God as any of the teachings at the end of the day. It’s fine to fall into, just make sure you complete the assignment and move on to your own power and authority when you outgrow his current teachings.

Lol I had a trip on a moderate dose of smoked dabs/concentration THC which was 100x stronger than anything else I’ve ever reached about 4 months after SE. It was also 100x stronger than my “Big Bang” experience of Absolute Infinity>8th Jhana>cessation too. 100x is obviously hard to actually put in numbers, but it still feels authentic as a valuation. I was probably 2nd/3rd path at that time. Hitting one hit from a THC vape, when added with vipassana or other techniques (or even sometimes no techniques or just going out to eat or something), it can easily hit stronger levels than psychedelics ever got me to prior to SE, and not only are they stronger, they are more conducive to building lasting insight/enlightenment progress. The highs are much more clean/pure too. Now I can walk around in these ridiculous states and live them instead of being reduced to only experiencing them in my house and out of control in psychedelic states. I’ve been already following that method essentially which I discovered intuitively. Nice to see Frank suggested it too.

I haven’t done 5-MeO, but I’ve had hundreds of psychedelic trips and even more psychedelic trip-strength experiences. What do you want to know? The video in my signature isn’t a bad place to look btw.

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Now try to examine nondoership. There is no I controlling the dance. There’s really just the dance, speaking from my direct experience. Also, keep dancing — it’s great for flow states which allow for no mind. The mirror is also great. I hit my first strong experience of No Self while recording a video and realizing that the head on my body and head on the screen both had an equal connection (as far as self goes) to the experience which was occurring.

Sure there are. Go look at Buddhism ? Ask me in a PM if you need specific sources. Getting stream entry here guarantees permanent progress at least in the strains of Buddhism which entertain the idea of next lives, which most still do.

An old writing I had on this. It’d be a bit different now after a lot more insight but a lot of the fundamentals are similar. Solving the mind-body problem by understanding dreams When you go to sleep at night, you often find yourself in dreams. In these dreams, most people will still have a human body. In waking reality, there is an unsubstantiated claim or story given by people that consciousness is somehow generated by the brain. The experts aren’t so sure, or at least they don’t have any solid evidence. Look up the “hard problem of consciousness” to understand how this is unsubstantiated. In the dream, you typically do not think along the same lines. If you were to lucid dream, you would certainly not think you were the dream body or somehow generated by the brain in your dream head. I say you, but I need to clarify exactly who you are. You are consciousness. Consciousness is the only constant you can find in all realities. In the dream, you are literally everything perceived in the dream. It’s all generated by your consciousness. We understand fully that everything created in our dreams comes entirely from us and is an extension of us. Surprisingly enough, there’s no solid argument against this being exactly the same case in waking reality. Your brain, body, and mind are all generated by consciousness in the same fashion consciousness generates the entire reality in dreams. Beyond your mind, body, and brain, you as consciousness generate this entire reality. This entire reality IS consciousness and nothing else. It’s the same way in a dream; nothing is separate from you as consciousness. You as consciousness are the sole source for everything in the dream. No one thinks everyone in their dreams are conscious, separate entities once they’ve come back to the waking state. It’s the same in this reality. There’s absolutely no way you can actually be shown something outside of your consciousness. There will never ever be proof that other beings are conscious separately or outside of your consciousness. Even if you merged consciousness with another being in the waking state as a way to somehow prove the existence of another consciousness, guess what it would be? It would be fully engulfed in exactly one thing: you as consciousness or otherwise put your consciousness. You are the source of everything that exists in your consciousness, and your consciousness is the entirety of your universe and always will be. Nothing can ever exist outside of your consciousness. Existence relies completely on perception and consciousness to even be relevant. What is the difference between a fairytale land in a book, the black void people typically conceive of as nothingness or nonexistence, and a reality you imagine exists like heaven? They’re all just imagination. The only thing that’s real is what you can experience in this very moment. As soon as something exits consciousness, it exits existence. There’s no proof for something existing outside of consciousness, and there never will be because the most fundamental building block in any proof is, you guessed it, consciousness. Before using reason or logic or any other conceptual tool to prove something you use precisely one thing first: consciousness. Even if you and I are both conscious entities, we live in completely different “universes of consciousness.” Precisely, that is to say that one consciousness can never be shown another consciousness to exist without perceiving the other consciousness through the lens of the original consciousness. As soon as one consciousness comes into the other, the secondary consciousness immediately becomes an aspect of the primary consciousness. So if you were to completely merge your consciousness with mine, your consciousness would be held within my consciousness, and it would be the same for you if the process were done from your perspective. This is a clear mechanic of consciousness. We can never know if the person sitting across the lunch table from us is conscious. We can only assume one way or the other. Anything imagined to be separate from the perspective of the original consciousness will always just be one more aspect of the original consciousness. In this way, we are entirely alone as consciousness. We are not alone as human beings. There are plenty of humans walking around. You can clearly perceive that, but by the very nature of perception, consciousness cannot perceive another consciousness without it immediately becoming another aspect of itself. Consciousness cannot perceive another consciousness as some sort of separate thing. Once the “other” consciousness is viewed, it only exists as long as it is in contact with the primary consciousness - the point of perception, and it is only truly the primary consciousness the entire time. In this way, you can never truly share space with another consciousness. You cannot perceive another consciousness. Anything you perceive is just you. You are consciousness. Everything is you. Everything is consciousness. It will be this way for eternity. You as consciousness will likely visit innumerable dreamt up worlds that you’ve created. You’ll perceive yourself as some kind of avatar or character as far as we can tell. You’ll at first see all the rest of the characters in your dreamt up creation as separate from you, but in truth those dream characters are just as much you as your primary character is. They’re just characters held within consciousness. One, your primary character who you at first feel to live inside, simply exists in your consciousness more of the time than the others. Ultimately neither the other characters or your perceived primary character is you because you are the consciousness that permeates all aspects of the dream world including its laws of physics, characters, objects, and everything else. You aren’t the characters any more than you are the objects or the laws of motion that govern that reality. You are all aspects of that reality. You are all aspects of all realities. A reality can only exist within you. Something is only real to you if it is held within your consciousness. No realities exist outside of the one you are experiencing right now. This waking state planet Earth does not exist when you are in a dream. Your wife could tell you that the world still existed while you were asleep, but you have to see how this is exactly the same as if your dream wife told you the dream reality was there while you were asleep. It means nothing because you as consciousness were not there. That seems to be the pattern in what we can verify between both the waking state and dreams.

How can I move from 3rd path in Theravada Buddhism to 4th path? (The designations for the paths I’m suggesting are coming mainly from Daniel Ingram’s system in Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha. I know everyone else has their own versions of what makes or doesn’t make an Arahant, so it’s in his system specifically where the question comes from. Disregard the others for now although general advice is always acceptable.) https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-v-awakening/37-models-of-the-stages-of-awakening/a-revised-four-path-model/

“I am” Cut that one off, and you’re good to go soldier.

Work to develop your own energy even more while on your own. Don’t push it too hard or the ability to raise your ability will go away. The energy is coy in a sense. It doesn’t want to be chased too hard, but still it wants some desire for it to be there. Kind of like seducing a romantic partner actually. At least that’s how it was for me. I’ve been wanting to teach people how to do this stuff for a while, so feel free to send me a message if interested. The issue is it takes a certain level of development before the teaching can even begin. Sounds like you might be there.