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People have this weird habit where they see an act of real magick, acknowledge that it's real and then suddenly suppress the memory so it doesn't destroy their worldview. Or they just might burn you at the stake... Or they might try to convert you into their stupid religion.

I literally grew up in the church and know that seeing an omniscient Christian is as rare as seeing a golden turd.

That's literally about nothing compared to what true Christian mystics do. Presence training, all day different kinds of contemplation, physical exercises like fasting. Everything in similar doses like you'd see in a Zen monastery. As I said previously - serious Christianity can lead to omniscience. Going to church, reading the Bible every morning and praying for less than an hour a day will do literally nothing to get you closer to God union. That's as absurd as thinking that meditating for less than an hour a day can lead far. ---- Combine that with all the dogma they accumulate by not contemplating the texts seriously and you have a recipe for crippled metaphysical understanding.

No, it isn't. Or at least only very rarely (maybe one in 10000 Christians does worthwhile training in a meaningful dose or probably even less).

Also, Christianity was supposed to be a serious metaphysical system not the bullcrap you see in churches. Go to a Christian monastery and maybe, just maybe if you're very lucky there will be one rare person who has reached omniscience. At least temporarily.

A gay character in a book has nothing to do with teaching gender fluidity. Banning that is just weird. Come on, this kind of bitching about "the gay" should be done only by middle schoolers or people with slow ego development. Not by a serious politician. Yeah, some progressives go too far and try to tell children that they can just choose their gender like they'd choose a shirt but that's not the majority.

I really liked this video. Very helpful. Even though I was hoping for some alien stuff this made me ... very happy anyways.

If you guys want to try something weird that can be easily misperceived as just new age nonsense but can literally cut down your sleep need by a few hours, make you feel very vital and full of energy and literally multiply your vizualization ability while altering your perception of time. Don't believe / try it out yourself / do your own research. Just don't blindly reject it like a dumbKant because it's unconventional. - food combinatorics (eg no starches with meat etc - Google is your best friend - the point is to make your digestion as easy as it's on more restrictive diets (like meat only or vegan). This alone makes a huge difference. An example of what you might eat during the day: breakfast: fruit only, maybe some honey, lunch: meat, eggs, vegetables, dinner: beans + another slow carb source Ofc you have to make sure you get enough calories. - no dairy and no gluten (try it even if you don't test for allergies) - coffee enemas (most people have parasites they don't know about, this will pull them out) - bee pollen - high dose vitamin D - adaptogens (like ashwagandha, rhodiola rosea, gotu kola and many others). I would choose at least 3 and use them every day. The effects compound over time. - Mucuna puriens - vitamin k2 high dose - iodine - organic tumeric and organic black pepper consumed with a meal containing fats - food grade diatomaceous earth - bentonite clay - activated charcoal - methyl b 12 - magnesium - zinc

Can't wait.

God's infinite love is making your ass itch

Chance manipulation is good for any life goal by definition.

You do you. Keep in mind you should be GAINING wakefulness. Not just maintaining. After the first hour you should feel like you're on modafinil.

You should switch to walking meditation everytime you begin to lose wakefulness etc. And slowly increase the ratio of sitting:walking. Walking is not less effective when done properly! Take wakefulness as a metric of whether you are doing it right. And ofc the walking meditation counts towards the total daily goal time. - That way you still build solid technique without wasting a year by doing only 30 minutes a day. - The part where you talk about time going faster/there being less resistance is where you began to do it right ? . - Extending the gym metaphor by Leo: yeah, it'd be dumb to try to bench 500 lbs the first time you go to the gym but should not be used as an excuse not to try to bench 225 lbs during the first year, which is perfectly doable with the right regimen.

1) Set aside a specific time (the same everyday) for only productivity. That is way easier than having a different schedule everyday. 2) A lot of concetration = crystal clear mind.

That's good if you're okay with making your life temporarily worse (in that case it will first get better, then worse, then wayy better). I got most of my personal life stuff done when I was doing just concentration on the breath for 3 hours a day.

I'd advise you to stick to breath counting/breath observation. Do nothing will inevitably lead to you having to face negative states too. Also, literally all productivity is based on concentration. Strong determination sits is a good idea. Except with a different technique than do nothing if your main goal at this time is to have a better life. Especially in a high dose.

If your goal is to become a better person then stick to a concentration technique. That is amazing for that purpose. Don't do Vipassana until you build up your life, that will inevitably make you experience both spiritually pleasant states and spiritually unpleasant states (dark night of the soul) before being able to observe both with equanimity. Serious contemplation should be done after having some sort of a base too.

Btw if you guys want to use exercise to increase mindfulness / maybe even get into altered state you should try high rep squats (100 reps). Or you could use rest pause (a long set where you are allowed to pause for 5 - 10 seconds) and increase weight every time you hit 100 reps. That will basically force you to observe your emotions / thoughts and realize that they are different than the movement itself and can have the same effect as strong determination sits except faster. Combined with mindful stretching afterwads it should be at least as good as yoga.

It's all about concentration. High enough concentration/vizualization = Harry Potter level magick. You become whatever you concentrate on. Since your concentration won't be that high most of the time you're basically limited to manipulating chance. Concentration is the act of becoming one with X. So magick is actually about making your experience more and more direct. How manipulating chance works in practice: Eg. If I perform a working to get money and then buy a stratch off ticket, I will probably win a nice amount. If I perform a working to fly I will probably fly in a dream or fall off a building IRL if I didn't do any protection measure. Since there are no routes of manifestation where I could actually fly in real life with my current level of consciousness.

Just completed it.

Or just have relationships based on whatever the people in the relationship perceive as the best way and stop telling people how their relationships should work. Only people who should advise in these things are those with lots and lots of deep experience (one night stands or a long crappy marriage don't count as deep experience).

No. I just test how it feels. You would know if it was something else assuming you are sensitive enough and test multiple sources. And even if it was something else (unlikely) what matters is the effect and side effects.

https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-iii-the-samatha-jhanas/29-kasina-practice/ I would probably take all the instructions from this very packed summary. If you really wanted to change something because you'd like it that way slightly different with trataka it probably wouldn't matter much because there's not much you can do wrong. Also microdosing and maybe some modafinil will definitely kickstart this practice. If you do the variation where you straight up visualize from the start there's nothing wrong with that either. It will lead to the same place but the process will be different.

I think he's like 40. He describes how to attain a permanent deep no self state. That's not shallow by any metric.