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@Leo Gura Do you have a rough idea of when that might be? like, a year, 5 years, 10 years?

@Leo Gura Yes I get that, but also the other point is that if you can awake to God with 5-Meo temporarily, it will affect your Kriya practice, if not physiologically, just by knowing that this shit is real, it will affect the way you practice it, you'll do it with more passion and intention. I haven't done psychedelics but what I imagine is that it would greatly convinse me to do some kind of manual practice. Because without that, I need months if not years to feel like the practice is going somewhere, and it's hard to stick to it when nothing is happening and you don't even know if any of this is real. I believe psychedelics would help me in that. Yup, I'll do that, I'll see how it goes.

@Leo Gura Isn't 5-Meo a faster way? Or you mean pranayamas are supposed to rewire your mind/brain permanently and slowly, but 5-Meo is just a way of waking up quickly but doesn't stick.

@Dazgwny You can just start practicing Pranayama for 10-20 minutes, and build onto that some other practices if you want after 6-12 months. You can find very practical instructions of Pranayama breathing here in the books: https://realyoga.info/ And here in articles: https://realyoga.info/posts/ You can also ask ChatGPT to give you super detailed no-bullshit instructions of how to do it, and then just do it for couple months straight as an experiment.

@Dazgwny Have you tried Kriya?

@Leo Gura Doesn't daily meditation practice hone the concentration skill slowly day by day? And then using that somewhat developed concentration ability on longer retreats? I mean, if I'm a beginner meditator and go on a retreat, without some background in a sitting practice, will it still work? I'm talking about strictly concentration meditation, the one you can measure the progress in, not some form of just sitting and daydreaming or whatever.

@ZenSwift I've been having that exact same issue for the last 7-8 years when it comes to establishing Kriya practice, and even more years with establishing meditation practice. I mean proper daily practice. I've been dabbling in those practices, weeks on and off, sometimes months but I was never serious enough to stick to it, or practice it with full intention. Now I'm starting my 30s and it dawns on me that if I don't allocate at least 6-12 months to properly religiously practice them, it won't be done ever, like, for the last couple years I've been waiting for some magical moment that will illuminate me and make me stick to practices but that doesn't come. So I will either force myself into them or practice won't occur and benefits won't be there. Even worse, zero benefits plus all the regret of not practicing all those years, double suffering. So, take that seriously, 10 years can easily pass without actually using at least 6-12 months for that. I guess psychedelic awakening would also help as Leo said, but at the moment I don't have access to that.

Happy holidays guys, let's make the best of next year 🎉

@Leo Gura What's the benefits you get from it, all the promised ones? Does it actually help you raise baseline level of consciousness?

Dating and relationships Taking diet and exercise more seriously Taking spiritual practices more seriously @Leo Gura Do you do that now? You've mentioned practicing pranayamas on and off.

@Recursoinominado Yea it looks like the voice is AI generated.

@Leo Gura You said in your post: Why do you think that? Maybe they found a way of manipulating reality in a way that allowed them insane technological advancement, without getting contact with Absolute Truth? Why is that not possible?

@Leo Gura Have you ever had crisis in meaning, like when you lost all the meaning you had and as a result didn't know what to do in your life or felt hopless and desperate? I struggle with that myself from time to time, but as you said, picking a domain (fitness, relationships, creativity, spirituality, etc) and investing daily, weekly, monthly creates that meaning and satisfaciton for sure, but in the end you realize that you create it, if you stop investing, you will lose the meaning, but I guess that's how it should be. For example, when I had a relationship, I stopped investing in myself and in other domains of life and I was leeching most of the meaning for my life from that relationship, which in the end crumbled and I suffered because of it. That was a very hard learned lesson of meaning creation and to not put all the eggs in one basket and distribute, and also I realized the importance of consciously creating meanings in life, as oppose to unconsciusly creating it, like this relationship that I had, I realized that I was leeching all the value from it after breakup, not before. @blankisomeone Every major change in life requires time and patience, plus consistent daily investment over weeks and months, that's just the reality of it. If you have to lose weight, earn money in ethical ways, make yourself more attractive, etc, that's how it works in all of that, for all of us. So if you give up, that means you don't really want those things, because guess what, it's equally hard for us as well who don't give up.

@Leo Gura What about some christians that can also be considered mystics? Can "mystic christian" actually be a thing? By mystic I mean someone who understand their nature as God, but then, how can somebody be Christian if they do? So my question is, can you be Christian and God Realized at the same time? Something like a stage Blue Christian Mystic.

@Leo Gura I've always wondered, what's the use of that? Why should one do it? Do they get something out of changing their name to a spiritual one? Indian words are popular as spiritual names.