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  1. Posted · Edited by Michal__

    I had tons of OBEs in the past 2 years. Stopped counting after 1000.

    Less than 10% is practically useful. Maybe closer to 1%.

    Although if you did concentration techniques for 4 hours a day 90% of them would become useful ;-).

    And even without that every single one of them will make you understand magick better.

    Another way to make them useful for selfish purposes would be 1 - 2 hours of concentration + micro/small-dosing.

  2. Posted · Edited by Michal__

    I went through something similiar five years ago.

    While it was terrible, it kickstarted my spiritual life.

    For me it got better because I started doing a lot of concentration excersises.

    In Theravada terms you experienced A&P (arising and passing - amazing spontaneous, enjoyable spiritual experiences) and the dukkha nanas (the dark night of the soul, in Christian terms).

    The bad news is that this cycle will repeat itself again. And again. Many times. With changing intensity, length etc.
    The good news is that if you get all this mental content out of your head with tons of meditation, contemplation and psychedelics you will permanently lock in a state that is comparable to the Buddhas enlinghtenment.

    Read "Contemplative Fitness" by Kenneth Folk (a short, very useful text, that will explain what is going on).

    If you have more time then read Mastering The Core Teaching of The Buddha by Daniel Ingram. Not an easy read, but useful, since his awakening was spontaneous too (similiar to yours and mine, with the bad parts too) and he took meditation extremely far and pernamently flipped a switch.

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    3 hours ago, Katerina Riverside said:

    I was on cca 4 hours of sleep on a Pranic retreat where we were not eating any physical food but feeding ourselves with pure Pranic energy. We used tools like meditation, visualisation, qui-kong, breathwork to increase the Prana in our systems. I was lucid dreaming as well that week, it was quite a psychedelic experience (no psychedelic medicines were used, but on day 6 I started to feel like I was on acid). It was a beautiful week! ??

     

    Disclaimer: my daily life, my job, my company, my kids, other stressors were not present on the retreat so it was easier to be well rested with so little hours as well.

    Generally the less toxines & stress, the more oxygen & healthy habits will help to decrease hours of sleep needed.

    I started eating physical food after the retreat again. But I now need cca 6-7 hours. It changed me permanently somehow.

    Good job. I can see how that would work.

  4. Posted · Edited by Michal__

    19 minutes ago, Water by the River said:

    Yes. As a very experienced meditator with longterm-practice and seasoned in Awakening one can do two things

    a) completely shut off the thought-flow: A high-speed cut-off at the beginning stage of a thought-emergence. The thought doesn't look like a thought in this earliest emergence phase of it, more like a ripening "seed" that is cut off. Lots of training until that point... And to continue that high-speed-cutoff of emerging thought "capsules" can stop the thought-flow completely. Until having had it, hard to imagine.

    b) second, and much more important: Staying lucid while thinking, "riding" with ones awareness on the thought-stream. Pretty impossible to describe, stems partly from the ability to do a) . That skill allows to carry the meditation/awareness into daily life.

    It also causes (due to its momentum in daily life more so than a), since one cant act/work without a thought flow running) the Awakened States of nonduality/one with the visual field, mere appearance (solidity of visual field removed), timelessness (time is imagined right here in THAT), boundlessness (any limit would be imagined in THAT. All of the states that psychedelics also cause. But "without the pill".

    And it also it cuts the separate-self-contraction in the head which just dissolves, opening up a flow of bliss that is so strong to just overpower the suffering that the remaining separate-self tends to cause in cycles.

    These are "hard" states of consciousness, not some wishful thinking or some soft states.

    The separate-self/ego main-building block is regular suffering/being unsatisfied, rejecting or wanting something that is not present in that state, seeking it, getting it or not getting it, and suffering again. 

    Water by the River

    You can "see" what's outside of thoughts by having cessations. 

    You might have experienced that.

  5. Posted · Edited by Michal__

    While I'm not a Buddhist and I personally do a mix of Leo's methods, heavy meditation and other methods I think it's important to note that Buddhists are not into stopping thinking at all! No serious Buddhist actually claims that!

    They want to remove all emotional resistance from thinking/seperate thoughts and emotions from the rest of sensory experience.

    Even those "masters" that claim not to think eventually admit that it's actually more accurate to call it "thinking not thinking" - taking non identification as far as possible 

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    The coughing always precedes a strong experience.

    If I don't cough with HHC it will be weak.

    Vaping gives the best effect but I might have to use mainly edibles if I don't want to risk long term lung damage. Or using sprayed flower in a pipe. That also hits nice, especially if it is 30+% HHC.

  8. Posted · Edited by Michal__

    If I do 3h+ of concentration and have a bunch of cessations (what I think are cessations anyway) my sleep need reduces dramatically. It goes back to normal when I practice only one hour a day.

    But during these periods of intense practices I feel like the guy from limitless 24/7 and sleep only for 2 - 4 hours a night.

    No stimulants (except green tea) either.

    If I meditate for 90+ minutes before sleep there is a huge chance I wont be tired enough to sleep.

    And it was like that every since I tried longer sessions. I did not know that other people had similiar experiences. If someone wants to comment something dumb like its autosuggestion from watching dharma videos - go fornicate yourself with an iron stick.

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    27 minutes ago, SQAAD said:

    @integral

    I cannot go back to sleep.

    How do you really know that 3 is  not enough? It maybe be enough for survival but not enough to remember everything that happened the previous day.

    I did a 90 minutes meditation session in the evening.

    Couldn't sleep for more than a few hours afterwards. I'm full of energy.

    Other people report that too.

    It's probably all the concentration...

  18. Posted · Edited by Michal__

    6 hours ago, PenguinPablo said:

    either delta-9 from disposable pens from vape shops or the ones that have the THC-C or THC-A

    wanna get away from that shit as it fucks my lungs. but the real shit is illegal here so I stick to what I find at vape shops. 

    Buy sprayed flower and use a pipe.

    It's almost as strong as a vape except it's much better on the lungs.

    You can get as high for the same amount of money, just gotta smoke more than with a vape.

  22. Posted · Edited by Michal__

    If you already have experience with fasting I would definitely kickstart the practice by not eating for the first few days.

    I just meditate on my bed, without backsupport, in a cross legged position. At least most days. 

    If someone else is home I usually just spend 4 hours during the day + 4 hours during the night meditating. I still work on clients projects even during retreats so I only get about 4 hours of sleep. Which is not a problem because mindfulness => meditation => wakefulness.

    On the days where I dont waterfast I do IF.

    I drink water whenever I am thirsty. Ideally there should be a period before and after food where you dont drink (1 hour is enough) to aid digestion.

    Mostly kasina. Mixed with weed and sometimes holotropic breathing. Tonight I did a LSA, HHC and holotropic breathing trip while meditating from 21:00 to 3:00 AM. I am not even on retreat, just had some spare time. 

    Also, if your concentration is already strong enough you should listen to dharma stuff in the background as a peripheral object that gives you transmission at the same time.

    Yeah, I talk to people.

    I am used to having very intense experiences often, so I do not really take many precautions. Just feel it out and adjust as I go.

    I do about two of these for 1 - 4 weeks per year. 

  23. Posted

    22 minutes ago, MAHAVATAR_-_BABAJI said:

    I have seen UAP's two times, years apart, both roughly around 4am when I get up to do yogasadhana. 

    Maybe I'm deluded. I feel like they are watching me.

    I have to banish twice everyday due to paranormal activity.

     

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    Tried to off myself not to long ago. Pulled the trigger 3x and the firearm clicked but nothing happened. I cocked the chamber and 1 bullet flew out. I said holy fuck, took it as a note to get my attention. Idk why but the future will show me why. My reality is so alien to regular humans it's practically impossible to communicate with them anymore. My only goals are to become a famous musician(or a veterinarian), track down UAP's, and commit Mahasamadhi as my way out(Yogananda style).

     

    When that happens do at 4 am do you go to bed again? Do you awaken more times?

    If that's the case read the book "The Phase" but completely ignore his metaphysical views.

    Have you ever used any mantras or done any visualization exercises?

  24. Posted · Edited by Michal__

    9 hours ago, Heart of Space said:

    I'm in the process of opening my inner emotional channels.  It's extremely painful, but I'm far along.  

    I have some bisexual tendencies, but after some emotional maturation I have realized I'm hetero with submissive sexual tendencies.  

    I don't see men attractive in the same way I do with women.  

    The only way to truly find find out is to test out both exactly the fantasies you have with women and exactly the fantasies you have with men in real life. No matter how weird they may be :P.

    Speaking from experience.