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I am is another way of pointing to what I say when I say subjective present moment experience. I just prefer the pointer I use as it seems to have less confusion around the self/Self interaction. “you” exist as much as the text on the screen indicating that I am a real conscious entity. You’ll never experience my consciousness and yours at the same time. Everything is your field of conscious experience. The ego is a tiny part. My appearance to you is also a tiny part. Both are completely real, but if you don’t get the ego out of the way, you’ll lose ability to truly connect to Self to see how we are both real on the level of perception yet ultimately the conceptions of us only point to assumptions.

Neither existence nor nonexistence is one of my favorites. As Lao Tzu said in the Tao the Ching, “It’s older than God.” He was referring to the Tao. There’s an important reason why many Buddhists have an attitude that God/Self is not an ultimate answer. Lao Tzu combined these two seemingly opposing ideas in a way beyond anything I’ve seen in modern teachings.

Read this book. Completely free yet one of the most precise and practical meditation manuals focused on the direct goal of enlightenment that exist. Maybe even the best. That’s a matter of opinion. https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/ Implement the meditation techniques described in the book as they feel to align with your goals and desire to awaken. Use your intuition to try other spiritual techniques as they feel right to you. Being willing to go deep into psychedelic territory can speed up a lot of this, but ultimately baseline shifts in consciousness come from things typically beyond psychedelics unless you can find a safe and sustainable way to trip very regularly. You probably will struggle to find that with typical serotonergic psychedelics. It’s much easier for people to get the large amount of hours of intense spiritual work that are needed for permanent shifts in a sustainable way through meditation than psychedelics. In my experience it really does come down to hours of practice. You can cut down the hours needed by adding the intensity of psychedelics to the mix, however, a good number of meditators get to 5,000, 10,000, or even more hours of effective practice. It’s really hard or maybe almost impossible for psychedelic-only people to reach that many hours of significant tripping. A ton of other methods you’ve probably never heard of or most likely think are bullshit to some degree can help you awaken much faster. In my experience, the intuition is a great guide to discover some of those additional methods.

I’ve spent a lot of time over recent months working with these maps and others. When you add the psychedelic path to it, it adds way more than the meditators usually want to admit. There’s a lot of bias on both sides. IMO someone cannot possibly have a fully accurate insight and opinion into their models without accessing their territory quite comprehensively. I was lucky enough to have my first cessations (temporary attainment of Nibbana/Ultimate Reality/etc.) on 5-28-2021 which opened me to going deeper and deeper into their whole system. It’s been way more baseline consciousness progress than anything the psychedelic path gave. Regardless, I consider all of the people doing meditation only to be severely limiting themselves in growing to the deepest capacities of Infinity. If you want to talk about this kind of stuff in more depth, shoot me a PM, and we can get in touch.

Glad to see it worked. It definitely takes some open-mindedness.

I saw this video when I first opened YouTube. I’ve been giving advice to people who ask or seem to want it that following intuitive signs and where life takes you can be quite effective in spirituality. This whole year has just been a spiritual journey that no book, course, enlightened teacher, single spiritual system, or really anything or anyone who exists could have given me even a half decent road map to. It was a fusion of so many techniques, some completely self-developed, that is too rare for me to have discovered by doing anything but following my intuition to degrees that would certainly scare most people. You have karma. Your free will is inherently linked to nature and karmic conditions. Something brought you here seeking for Truth. This process can unfold with way more intelligence than you could ever plan for. Don’t think you know more than life about what’s going to bring you to your deepest desires or highest good. Anyway, here’s the video. At first I was skeptical, but I saw some comments on the video which were describing some powerful effects. I know my chakras are kicking pretty hard, especially the crown, so I felt pretty confident I’d sense something unless all of these people commenting are bullshitting and the creator of the video is fake. That didn’t seem too likely to me, but who knows? I felt some strong activity with twitching and rapidly shifting sensations in the root and sacral chakras. My heart chakra felt quite expansive with some added energy and sensitivity. My body as a whole felt very open and spacious. I felt to be so light in my bed that it was a bit like I was floating separate from it. I have been told that my lower three chakras are a bit unbalanced from the top four with the top four being more “open.” It’s good to feel some more activity and energy going into the bottom two. I’m planning to check out a lot more of her videos and look more into the new age space. I think it overall can get an over reactive bad rap in spirituality which is unnecessary/unhelpful. I had an ex girlfriend who made ridiculous spiritual progress on only stage green style methods for the most part. This style of spirituality tends to suck in a lot of spiritually-gifted people who just don’t want to pursue Liberation in the more direct ways many of us here discuss. They can do some pretty amazing things to help. Plenty of these stage green methods and ways of viewing things can help at certain points to bring one closer to Liberation.

You don’t need to go deep into a questionable mixture of math and philosophy to reach deeper shit than this guy has. I’ve followed his stuff for a while. He’s interesting and has some good points, but it’s still surface level.

We are no more figments of imagination than the “you” is. This imagination is not self imagination. It’s Self imagination. The idea that you’re imagining something is a pretty intermediate stage in the understanding of this. It’s here immediately. There’s no imagination process you can verify, even for yourself, without completely relying on the flickering and ever-moving subjective present moment experience. As soon as it’s verified, it’s in the past. It’s gone and just beliefs.

Buddhist teachings I’ve read say it’s more closely the case that thoughts are actually sensations. Rather than the sensations being physical, they are in the mind, but the physical/mind duality is mostly transcended when you grasp it.

A movie with no antagonist sucks.

Go watch Star Trek.

Beautiful man. Sounds like you are really growing over time. Keep it up ??

If I had to answer it, it’d be pretty damn close to your answer. Considering you’ve sort of spoiled the pot by giving such a “good” answer that aligns with my direct experience and biases, I don’t see it necessary or very useful to move synonymous words around to say essentially the same thing ?

Do you think such strict rules for this could be stemming from neuroticism and/or perfectionism? Not telling you to deviate from your plans, but it’s just a question to ponder.

I like this. Good response.

Honest answer ? I’ve found it quite insightful to find yourself in a state of Love where the mosquito’s sustenance is seen as more important than the minimal pain and risk of disease you incur. On the other hand, if you get West Nile virus, maybe it makes you less capable of bringing more Love to the world as a whole.

I second this. Don’t try solo trips without a good amount of personal experience first.

I second this. Ayahuasca in ceremony can be truly magical. The ceremony atmosphere, integration, and support from facilitators can really upgrade the experience heavily.

Not a bad point, but I’d say if he’s feeling guided to do this it may be right for him. It’s definitely not a clear case of me saying “Go use psychedelics now!” Being hesitant to make that decision should be embraced. He’s got to really consider if this is right. If anything I came to this thread with a similar reaction to what most here have been saying. I only posted this line of thinking to add more holistic understanding. Blowing away of the ego also doesn’t typically occur at the lower doses I suggested trying if he feels inclined to work with these tools this early on. We really have no ability to project with any certainty if this will be a negative or positive outcome, so caution, research, and clear consideration is definitely encouraged for our friend here.

Both great suggestions. I’d say your dose might just be too low for your personal neurochemistry if it’s not giving noticeable changes.

People saying not to do it before this or that age do not understand how brain plasticity relates to psychedelic use. Your brain is more plastic at a young age. Plenty of cultures have been using psychedelics in younger demographics with no negative measurable differences that have been backed up. The idea that psychedelics must be used after 21, 25, etc. is a novel idea from mainly western cultures rather sparsely exposed to psychedelics themselves. Keep the doses very low especially as you are getting your feet wet. Go listen to this expert if you disagree. If you’re an expert in this area with solid data, feel free to bring up an argument against what he reveals.

This is described very in depth in the stages of insight in Buddhism. You were almost certainly in an Arising & Passing away insight stage experience during the trip then fell into a light form of the Dark Night of the Soul insight stages upon seeing all the blissful and fun stuff prove to be impermanent and therefore unsatisfying. You can learn more about the stages of insight here if you’re interested: https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-iv-insight/30-the-progress-of-insight/3-the-three-characteristics/ Shoot me a PM if you want to go more in depth.

Subjective present moment experience is the only household for Absolute Truth that can be imagined, known, constructed, detected, verified empirically, etc. Anything claiming against that notion is occurring within the subjective present moment experience and just pointing right back at the truth of the first sentence. This dream, that dream, this reality, that reality, past, future, whatever way you want to think of it, always occurs as subjective present moment experience. You don’t go to one place that is “The Truth” on psychedelics. You get pointed in the direction of concluding that all dreams occur within Absolute Truth which is always here and now. To put it very roughly…

I built a real estate investing company starting at 22 mostly thanks to PD. The business went from $60k invested to $180k net worth in less than 4 years working on it about 1 hour a month average. Money is a hollow goal for the most part. When you get into the deeper stuff money is seen for what it is. I’d rather be homeless with the spiritual/perceptual gains than rich without them. Downplay the higher tier stuff if you want. Shooting yourself in the foot is fun to some people I guess? But really you’re probably not meant to be pursuing those “higher” goals right now if you’ve got this mindset. Go get some money and relationships and see that it doesn’t ultimately satisfy. Or maybe it does satisfy for you. Either way, it’s a win for you.

All one can know for certain is what is in their subjective experience at the precise moment being sensed. All conclusions made from what is being directly sensed are a foundation of shifting sand. The final claim at the end of your post also relies on there being anything you could ever accurately call a “you.”