Michal__
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Train your concentration more.
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4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:Well, Infinity is not knowable in the sense that you cannot pin it down with a set of finite explanations or forms. However, you can BECOME it. You can exist as it and be fully conscious of it. It's a sort of meta-knowing which is also unknowing. Sorry for the paradoxical Zen speak but that's just the nature of the beast.
I'm curious what effects on your health that much ketamine use produced. Care to share? Did you notice any deterioration in your physical health or mental function?
I've gone to Buddhist-style retreats such as those hosted by Shinzen Young. I've also met some serious Buddhist students and talked to people who go to these retreats for 10+ years. I've also read plenty of books written by hardcore Buddhist meditators. And the bottom line is that I find all of it very lacking when it comes to God-realization and Love-realization.
Go read Daniel Ingram's meditation book for example. It's one of the most serious modern Buddhist meditation books and you will find no proper mention of God or Love in that book. And this is not an isolated example. So what does this tell you?
If a spiritual teaching does not open and close with something like "You are God, God is Love", I can't take it seriously.
To me ketamine is a great explanation of how this happens. Ketamine puts me into a Zen-like state of no-mind and not-knowing... and that is that. But the God and Love is largely missing. So people who achieve similar states through meditation don't inspire me much. It's cool, but there is something way cooler to awaken to.
What I really want is a spiritual path that takes me where 5-MeO takes me, not where ketamine takes me. I'm sure ketamine gets cooler at higher doses, but I don't see it topping 5-MeO.
Have you read some of Meister Eckhart's sermons? It seems like the top Christian mystics really knew / know that you are God.
Not that I'd recommend going too much into Christianity ofc but if you incorporate dry fasting, and asking "why" about everything (kinda like all day contemplation) it really speeds up your progress.
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Definitely. But you don't need 8 hours everyday.
3 - 4 hours everyday + all day mindfulness is enough to achieve what you're describing. And maybe longer once in a while.
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Try snorting it. Your insides might be clogged up (not medical advice).
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Well I know a guy who's realized omniscience without touching psychadelics (but has used other radical methods) so Leo's obviously not the only one.
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I'm pretty sure most of the most here do it for good reasons. Although there definitely could be exceptions (I'm not here that often so idk). In fact I'm 99% sure there are exceptions by reading these posts.
My perspective is that a person who's into self actualization should find the idea of getting "power" from becoming a moderator pretty ridiculous. If someone needs to feed of that miniscule power moderating gives you then they definitely don't even have their base needs in check.
People should become moderators only if they care about a cause and want to help.
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When you use one substance as your main one you quickly learn how to work with for it to be more effective than when someone uses it only ocasionally.
You develop a "relationship" with it. It´s kind of like sticking with one meditation techniques - it is more important than which technique or substance you use.
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Very high levels of concentration + sex magick + (optional: drugs, ideally psychadelics but even unhealthy ones can be used to manifest) = you can easily get whatever you want.
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I think POIS has a lot to do with subconscious guilt (law of attraction).
I grew up in a Christian household. When I was younger I tried nofap (for more than a month). I did experience POIS probably even before my nofap experiment.
But now (past year or two) my mental clarity, energy etc. are at an all time high and I don't do nofap at all. I've removed a shit ton of limiting beliefs though. I never experience POIS anymore.
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15 hours ago, Kalki Avatar said:Weed can become pretty strong. But you have to have naturally low tolerance and choose a good way to consume it (a joint is not enough unless it's very high quality).
Everytime I smoke weed my vision becomes (physically) panoramic. "360°" vision (you won't see behind yourself but it's as if your whole vision became an object of meditation that you can easily focus on, your peripheral vision becomes as clear as your normal vision. The effect affects other sense doors as well). My description won't do it justice. It's pretty trippy. Buddhists called this state rigpa.
All sense doors can become one sense door. It's very intense when it happens.
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Maybe I'm projecting but when I sucked at everything what helped me the most was concentration meditation, modafinil, reading lots of books and witchcraft.
I wouldn't recommend to waste your time with going to university. You said you studied one for three years and then didn't finish - why the hell would you try to spend another three years there when you've already learned most of the stuff that you can learn from there.
You just need to learn to build your own business. If you have any rich friends (preferably those who've built their own businesses) try to talk to them and get some advice.
Once you have basic finances handled you can focus on relationships etc. (I'm not saying you shouldn't have friends right now, but it probably shouldn't be a top priority when you don't have the basics handled).
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Ego is not omnipotent but it can become verypotent with the right training
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Well, higher consciousness feels & performs 1000x better than normal consciousness so who cares if someone calls it a delusion?
Btw it's not a delusion, but that requires a lot of contemplation - you'll know why it's not a delusion when you realize x insight.
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Acutane cleaned up my acne completely. And I had it even worse than you.
But it has serious side effects.
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15 hours ago, WelcometoReality said:Phone bug
Buddha (or any other enlightened being) can still enjoy material pleasure.
Renunciation (that's not too overdone) is just meant to be a tool BEFORE awakening.
Zero attachment to material pleasure doesn't mean you can't enjoy having nice cars, sex, alcohol etc.
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Nihilism = incomplete awakening.
When you awaken even more, you'll be so nihilistic that you'll stop being nihilistic.
Everything is meaningless = everything is full of meaning.
If you had a higher awakening your moment to moment experience would feel infinitely more interesting than that of a normal person. It'd be so amazing that there would be no point to nihilism.
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Higher consciousness = more synchronicities.
Synchronicities can truly be messages (from yourself to yourself), that's why some people interpret them as "angels" and other funny stuff. And also - higher consciousness = easier manifestation.
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1 hour ago, bambi said:I get all that, honestly I do, I've done psychedelic profusely for over 15 years, but this still doesn't address my original question.
Quite clearly there is a body that is being imagined that at some point will cease to exist, and something else will be imagined, I don't understand why your being so obtuse on this forum, you speak about these topics in your videos quite clearly, but for some reason aren't willing to engage in the discourse here? In your videos you insinuate infinite re-incarnating machine. etc etc. If you would rather abstain from answering no problem, no need for the convoluted process
Death is neither real nor unreal.
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Being very mindful is painful to the ego.
It's easy to lose yourself (lose mindfulness) in your phone. That's why monks avoid material pleasure - you can get some awakenings just by stopping trying to lose yourself.
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There are degrees to channeling / speaking with the dead.
At the lower level it can feel like something guides what you say and is borderline wishful thinking.
At the highest level you can talk with the (historical) Buddha that can literally sit in front of you and speak with you just like a physical person would. (While you're completely awake, I'm not talking about some half asleep state)
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Have you read the books on Leo's booklist? If not, then do so. Just 1 - 2 hours of your day so it doesn't steal away the time you're supposed to use for working on your shekel making business and chasing pussies.
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7 minutes ago, r0ckyreed said:I will try the opposite memento mori after I have fully deconstructed mortality. I feel like memento mori can be a trap that prevents one from deconstructing mortality.
That's a good idea but I highly doubt memento mori would be a trap in anyway. The end of your current life has nothing to do with immortality.
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If you have to move out soon you'll probably have to get whatever job you can at least until your business takes off.
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Just pay someone from Fiverr a few hundred bucks to download and reupload your Vimeo videos to a different platform.
Edit: I haven't really thought out that they first have to be able to access the videos, so that probably won't work lol.
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This.
And besides just programming you should also learn things like UML, Agile, documentation etc(basics of software engineering) - if you want to make it a career.
Also - read Clean Code so you know about the best practices right from the start and don't build up bad habits.
And maybe some math if you ever plan to create video games (doesn't have to be everything they learn at universities but it would be nice if reading some vectors while watching a "how to create ____ game" doesn't give you a headache).