BipolarGrowth

Why would you ever want to debate someone anyway? Share perspectives with each other, sure, but another person is not some entity you have to sway to your beliefs. Every human being has wonderful genius within them and many unique capabilities and strengths. I’m quite happy there are so many materialists running around making survival easy for me through their addiction to productivity. I’ll work on experiencing unimaginable higher consciousness states while you make the main products/goods and services I need better and more affordable. You get to have more digits in a bank account while I get to experience and generate Infinite Love. What a great deal! I’m sold!

Nice. I’m starting to see limits to the spiritual use only attitude toward psychedelics. If you’re a spiritual person, it likely cannot be only a recreational experience for you. You obviously spoke much of the spiritual effects of this “recreational” use. The trick that I have found is to find a way to make your spiritual work a recreational thing as well. I LOVE contemplation and radically different states. I LOVE talking with people about spirituality. As these things have become my favorite activities, I’m always practicing in at least some way or another, and it is mostly quite effortless. Not everything has to be serious. One of the main reasons you’re here is to play ?

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-I haven’t heard of anyone with this specific situation. -It sounds similar to what I experience in some aspects of mania or hypomania. The euphoria can snowball itself, and the brain ends up finding usually unhealthy ways to continue to supply itself with more and more dopamine. -Avoid stimulants if possible. Use the methods you’ve already found to have some benefit in as balanced of a way as possible. The trick is to get yourself to do as much of the right activities as you are likely to sustain. Going too restrictive on yourself in an attempt to completely solve things can just make a relapse type occurrence all the more likely in the future.

Just psychedelics alone won’t do that much in many cases. It’s the synergistic effect of multiple techniques that seems most effective for me. Once you realize the core truth of it all, this solves a lot of things. It puts Liberation in a light where it’s recognized to always be there so fully that pushing the ego to perform activities to reach it in a permanent way in one human lifetime seems like a guy on a picturesque mountain train ride who is yelling at the conductor to go faster toward the destination.

As the ego loses its grip, the superego naturally takes to the captain’s chair. Of course you’ll want to act selflessly as you become more conscious.

It is a possible cause for serotonin syndrome which can be fatal. Mixing an SSRI with an MAOI such as the ayahuasca vine can be fatal. This is the medical consensus. Find out the half-life of your current SSRI and multiply that time period by 5 to know when your system is sufficiently clear of the SSRI. Some psychiatric medications can be combined with certain psychedelics, but you should always look into possible interactions. Search the name of your medication and the psychedelic you plan to take online to look at potential interactions. Another recommendation would be to ask your doctor about the interactions. It can be unwise to stop psychiatric medications to use psychedelics in many cases, but this is ultimately an individual decision. Be smart about avoiding potentially dangerous interactions by doing a solid amount of research before experimenting. Many people have found the psychedelic experience worthwhile or even positively life changing even though they have a mental illness. Don’t be surprised if you become unstable due to this experimentation.

You speak of “your body.” Who owns your body? Does the body own the body? Your consciousness... who is the “you” who owns this? Is it separate from this consciousness you speak of? Have you ever experienced it without using this consciousness?

Your overall average probably falls somewhere in the green range from what you’ve said.

I’m almost 18 minutes into this video, and I haven’t heard her say that states don’t exist. So far, she has said that states are part of the dream essentially. Judging any state as higher or lower is ultimately informed by the dream character’s assessments and biases. Her teachings seem decent so far. There’s certainly some value in them. There are seemingly infinitely different perspectives which would make any of our current assessments of higher/lower irrelevant. Our assessments in this regular life on Earth are of course valuable while here, but eventually you’ll be forced to discard them. You could do it in advance if you wish.

What separates Ultimate reality from relative reality? Isn’t that the ice wall everyone’s talking about?

I want to also apologize for how the tone of my first post impacted this communication. I could’ve been more careful and loving with my word choice. You made me realize how being sloppy with such things can immediately trigger the ego of both parties and remove any productive outcomes. As long as you are conscious that you’re using the same structure as them, it’s not much of a problem to do so. I wasn’t reacting to the negative words. Notice how everything I put in bold in my first post here was just highlighting the dualistic elements. It’s just as problematic to talk about something being good as it is to call something bad. The more time we spend in an experience without all of these dualities, the better we can approach dualistic and relative situations with a higher level of effectiveness. Of course you and I, as well as probably everyone on this forum, can grow in this. It’s likely that none of us are true masters of this yet. You obviously have the intent to help others, and I wish you success in doing this ❤️ You have shown your well-developed understanding of this situation in your posts here. Welcome to the forum. I hope to have more positive interactions with you in the future. I’ll leave you with a quote from the Tao Te Ching which relates to this: “Do you want to improve the world? I don’t think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can’t be improved. If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it. If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it. There is a time for being ahead, a time for being behind; a time for being in motion, a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous, a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe, a time for being in danger. The Master sees things as they are, without trying to control them. She lets them go their own way, and resides at the center of the circle.” Yet Lao Tzu authored a book all about how to ultimately improve the world in some way. This is our nature. Allow yourself to express this noble nature, but always remember the perfection that is. We love to reduce suffering, but if suffering were truly eradicated for all, would it be a victory? If darkness was destroyed, would the light truly shine as bright? Even support or fostering of that with no sides is ultimately a picking of sides. You’re right. There is infinite nuance here.

On some real shit though, I’ve experienced one of my higher manifestations which is a cephalopod goddess with infinite capabilities in nonphysical forces like telepathy. Being able to alter the course of existence... This is probably 7th density kind of shit. She lives inside me always. One of my spiritual guides. We’re all far more powerful than we think when we consider things such as spiritual alliances. At least I am, and I don’t think I’m all too different from everyone else. We all have powerful beings watching over our development. The life of a 3rd or transitional 4th density being is so interconnected to truly vast forces in the universe due to their impact on other beings both on their level of consciousness and others. I’m sure the Love experienced between myself and this aquatic, alien-like goddess meant very much to her as well. These beings have a vested interest in us. People are far too unaware of the fact that the right practice could give them the ability to connect in spiritual-bliss telepathy with any being that you love or appreciate. Jesus, God, your grandmother, it’s all well within your reach. It’s your birthright. We are all infinitely connected. This is the only reasonable conclusion. Even science shows this. And we’re to believe that our imagination cannot alter reality. That’s funny.

If you realize that both your own body-mind and all others are not conscious, it can be a great spark of compassion. This can be an incredibly inclusive experience.

Make a list of your main goals, values, and how you use your time. Then we could attempt to make a judgment, but it would likely still be far too simplified.

Nice. This does a good job to use rather neutral words while also creating multiple links between self and other.

They will certainly try. It’s funny how when they usually say things like “under the supervision of experts” they are referring to people who often have little to no experience with taking a psychedelic themselves.

The whole point of my response was to show you the similarity between the way the people you are describing create their own problems and how a new set of problems is being created when you view the situation in the dualistic way you were describing. Pay attention to this type of thinking. I’m not above you or “exhalted.” I was viewing this from a problem/solution lens as well, or I wouldn’t have replied.

A true solipsist would not ask such a question ?

If the color red didn’t exist, would we have words for it in virtually every modern language? An illusion still has to exist for it to be an illusion at all. An illusion is something which leads to incorrect assumptions or conclusions. Ego is not just a thought. It’s also an experience generated by a belief. If this were not the case, why would experience change when this belief is fully vanquished (awakening)?

Going from living in the U.S. to Europe and Canada were cool. Going to China while only knowing how to say hello in Mandarin gave me an almost completely consistent no-mind experience for about three days. You’d be surprised how much not being able to talk to anyone or read anything impacts your consciousness. It was a great experience beyond just that, but it was nice to experience some spiritual side effects from travel too.

We’ve seen how that one plays out.

is a popular story circulated around spiritual circles. Concepts are made from being just as much as your hand is. The idea that one is more true than the other is a beautiful sign that your ego thinks it has figured out nonduality by accepting a new duality as its new and most noble distinction.

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“This is a truth of human nature that I see so often: Humans complain and suffer. Their culture draws fictional constraints on what is "okay' and "not-okay." Their mind then internalizes them like those distinctions are actually real. By doing so, the mind MAKES THEM REAL. A guy like me or Leo comes and tells them "hey, here is the solution, but it is counter-intuitive, and you probably never did this."They have no open-mindedness.Their mind has fully ingrained and accepted the cultural constraints. As such they dismiss the saviour and the cure.They continue to suffer. Their suffering mind begins to ruin the world with bad choices coming from an unholistic perspective.Now others suffer from their selfishnessThe others that suffered then get a guy like Leo or me telling them a solution, those also reject it and go ruin the world The CYCLE REPEATS in a nasty strange loop of destruction.” Do you see how “nasty” and “destructive” your view of this is, or would you like further explanation? Without a problem, there is no solution. If you grasped your “solution” to a high enough degree, you would see that you are not nearly as far from these people you are using as examples as you think you are.