WonderSeeker

Straight up. Get the vax and get out there. Start small. Just practice getting in 'the flow' with women. Then take it to the next level. That's what I'm doing. You can do it too. You need a paradigm swing.

@Joyful Silence Interesting idea. I'd market it more broadly as a 'spiritual' app, and then have options for your bio like... Spiritual type A) Fundamentalist B) New Age C) Mystical Gender A) Male B) Female C) Non-bianary D) God (lol) Stuff like that. Give people options or you'll only have 10 people using the app and they will all be from this forum!

@LastThursday Thank you for the advice, I seriously needed that. It's funny how easy it is to build a logic of "If I meditate, use binaural beats, and do breath-work, X-times per week, then I'll become God." Then you crash and burn. I'll give myself a whole month away from all of it. @BlackMaze I do run, and it feels awesome. Haven't gone in about a week though. Good reminder! @karkaore Always the best way to be! Thanks~

Hi all. Normally I avoid posting about spiritual 'troubles,' because I usually assume that it's normal suffering that comes with the path, and that I can resolve it myself. But this time I can really use some pointers. Anything is appreciated. I've been getting bogged-down with deep existential realities lately. I feel a great sense of dread for having chosen this path. Even though I am wiser, and more loving toward others, all of this is taking a serious toll on me. Here are some concrete examples: I am pacing around aimlessly, forgetting what I'm even doing in life all of the time. Doing every-day survival stuff is difficult. Over half of the time I walk into a room and forget why I even did so in the first place. I feel very confused and turbulent, as if I have low-grade dementia. My mind is perpetually in existensial-questioning mode, such that I'm having trouble reading books or working on pet-projects, which I genuinely want to focus on. I just feel a great sense of not-knowing with everything. I feel like I'm on the brink of enlightenment, but there's still that last bit of resistance which is causing a lot of doubt and internal pain. I feel like I want to let out emotions, but nothing is arising. I feel dead inside. My heart feels like it's rotting. My intuition tells me that I'm just tired and need to get more rest. I'm a graduate student, so that's already enough business to take care of. I just began a 2-week break from meditation, since beginning the habit 14 months ago. I'm not really sure what else to do. I'm planning for a psychedelic trip soon to 'reset' my mind and experience love, because I feel like I've been having trouble with that dimension as of late. ~

@Rajneeshpuram No end, only game.

This is my first day trying nootropics. I bought from Double Wood Supplements and took the following with my morning smoothie: 300mg Alpha-GPC , 200mg L-theanine, 200mg Sulbutiamine, and 300mg Uridine. Overall the results have been awesome: smooth cognition, sharp memory, and relaxation. However, I noticed jitters and a faster heart-beat on the come-up. Some small jitters remain after 4 hours. Have any other users experienced these side-effects with this stack? Maybe took too much for the first time? Thank you!!

@Meditationdude A fantastic sign that you're doing the work!

You're right, technically the political spectrum is an unbroken continuum. Unfortunately nobody has the ability to speak in non dual terms. Knowing that, you can still use labels like 'right' and 'left,' but in a more conscious way. As long as you know how you're using language, then you're in good shape. Be careful not to generalize. A more accurate way to frame this is that the right is arguing for free speech only if it's about what they value. Their worldview is losing its collective hold, and that's threatening to most conservatives. On the left, people are arguing for higher-conscious values to be fair. The problem is that they fail to recognize that forcing others into their value system doesn't work.

Survival interdependence or octopus devilry?

You mean like this? http://www.fungifun.org/fanaticus/liqueu~1.htm

@SirVladimir Understood. Do you employ this insight as a strategy for deliberately editing your works when you think you've finished? For example, say you finish a writing draft. Do you then take two weeks off, doing something totally unrelated (e.g., drawing mind maps), and then come back to the draft and clean/dress it up to make it more robust? I'm asking, because I'm beginning to write my first ever book/booklet, and I want to make sure that I don't fall into some silly creative-rut. Much love & keep on keeping on, fellow creator! ~

In the city I'm currently living, people are generally pretty green, being eco-conscious and ready to protest something at a moment's notice. However, we have a pretty serious and subtle problem that nobody talks about, which I call "unintended litter." I live in a very windy city, and every Wednesday when people take out their garbage to the curb (in these open bins), the wind topples the bins over and blows the trash all over the place. Although there are implications this brings for the quality of the ecosystem at large (this city borders a large lake which is already polluted), there is a meta-problem to consider: "Whose responsibility is it to clean up?" (At the root, everybody living in this city is responsible for this, because it's a process-related issue. The way we dispose trash is not in congruence with the weather we receive, and therefore not in congruence with what we value: a clean habitat for ourselves and wildlife.) The problem is, how do we get people to become aware and take responsibility so that we can create a better process, as well as clean up what has already been dumped? I've called our mayor's office but haven't heard anything back yet. Even though activism is strong in this city, I have always thought that holding up signs doesn't really do anything to solve any problems. I want to work on a creative solution, but am having trouble creating the right mindset to most effectively get this problem solved. On the one hand, I think it would be cool to design a new process through the creative process. On the other, I want to see if I can work with local government and the I think that so few of us on this forum want to get involved in societal issues, as we are preoccupied with our own development. In a way, I understand that strategy, because the more developed you are, the more effective you can be at solving problems, therefore raising the consciousness of others. However, I think more strongly that the old saying of "chewing bubble gum and walking too" has a place here. What do you think about approaching societal issues such as this one? Looking for inspiration.

Nice post. Can you elaborate more on what you mean by a 'logical/efficiency-driven environment' as opposed to spending time on a project? I'm probably misunderstanding what you mean, but a logical environment sounds tiresome and unbalanced for the mind.

@Swarnim The duality collapse between "being on a psychedelic trip" and normal, mundane life. You can become conscious of the fact that you are literally tripping right now, as you read this, even if you did not pop any mushrooms. I first noticed this while experimenting with psychedelics. I would take say 100ug of LSD. I'd then spend the next hour trying to figure out where the border between tripping and not tripping lie. Now, being a scientist I know that neuroscientists would say, "Well technically it's when x-chemical first hits the 5-HT2A receptor in the brain." But of course, that's different from personal experience; none of us experience receptors or anything like that. You've got to feel for it. What you'll find through experience that it is impossible to tell when you actually start to trip. Sure, you'll start to become conscious of certain feelings. Aha! You cannot, however, distinguish between feelings that were "caused" by the psychedelic versus those you would have had otherwise. I like to describe this "not-knowing of when it starts" experience as an invisible sheet being slowly draped over your head. It feels like something that was there all along, yet you can't remember how it got there or when. More recently, I've been having visual hallucinations, where objects will seemingly 'pop' or 'rise up' into existence when I turn my head to look at them. Also, I've been noticing 'tracers,' which are common when one takes a psychedelic. All of this is sober by the way. At this point, it clicked at an even deeper level that "holy mind-fuck," this trip never ends (or began)!! You are always tripping.

@aurum The used materials that are getting blown around are recyclables (I should have worded that more accurately). But you're right; we dispose of waste far more than we renew and recycle. Would you say that using more reusable personal containers for things like food and hygiene products could be part of the alternative? Many people don't want to sacrifice convenience, but I don't see many other solutions yet. If everybody understood this, ...

@Elevated Agreed. One of the biggest bottlenecks to moving up is shadow material. Fixing the lower will allow the higher to flow in more naturally. Trying to move up with the lower in shambles is like trying to crawl out of a trench during a bloody war!

Has anyone else experienced this "Uno reverse card" in thinking? When I first started doing practices to discover my true nature, I scoffed at and scrutinized Leo's videos, thinking "Well if it's really true, how the fuck can a person even know it?! That's impossible!" Deep down I felt like it was really possible, I was just resisting. In the beginning, I thought "how can reality feel different than the 'separate self' way, as a human body 'here' and the world 'there,' that I am familiar with?" There's a lot I could say about the middle part of "my" journey, but let's just fast-forward to today. Over the past few days, I've had a feeling that I am the whole entire experience arising in front and behind my face, complete with ZERO control. It reminded me of the jokes people make about awakening: "It's like jumping out of an airplane and never having a ground to land on." But now, I am thinking, "Wait, how come 'this' isn't obvious?! It's the most obvious thing ever! Once you've crossed that non-existent boundary between not knowing 'this' and knowing 'this,' you have the feeling that it should be common knowledge that we are 'born' with. Complete reversal from "You can't know that," to "How do you not know that?" Shocking paradox... Can anyone relate to this? I've been having lots of internal resistance to these deep insights over the past few days. I do not consider myself enlightened, but I've had some big and small glimpses, and last night was one of them. My mind was blank, I was speechless, and I felt like I couldn't do any "practical human stuff." Is there anybody reading this who thought they awakened 'too early in life.' (I know that might be a silly question for a number of reasons, but I'm seriously questioning whether I should take a break from spiritual practices for a bit. On the one hand I feel like it's too late and 'my life' has already ended. I am D-E-A-D, and I just need to accept that. On the other hand, I feel like I'm going insane because I'm constantly thinking about awakening-stuff, when I have all of this human stuff I want to focus on too.) Much love~

@Uchral Okay so you don't want an authentic answer to your question; your mind is already made up. You are seeing the appearance that forum users are defending Leo because you are only here to look for people who agree with you without a discussion. To have a discussion of substance is to genuinely care about the truth. The opposite of a discussion is to isolate your beliefs and try to tug people over to your viewpoint. Anything that people say on this forum that doesn't fit your belief system is more evidence that this is a cult. I told you to watch out for confirmation bias...

@Uchral I don't blame you for thinking that initially. My advice is to keep open the possibility of this not being a cult. Do lots of research. Scour his website. Check out his cult psychology videos. Try to figure out the main messages behind his content. Is there anything shady here? Does it seem like Leo is trying to hide anything? Try to do this is a non-judgmental and non-biased way. Watch out for confirmation bias.

Solo trip dosage 50-200ug for the first several trips. Not everyone will agree, but keep it relatively low so you don't freak yourself out. I like to sit on my bed, with a blank sketchbook (UCreate brand) and colored pens (Pilot G-2s). I'll usually go to town, writing down insights, doodling, and most of all, jotting down my highest visions (i.e. life purpose). It's highly satisfying as a process, and really rewarding to read what you created post-trip. Also, prepare and eat the healthiest foods you can possibly find for the trip. I usually eat straight fruits and veggies and keep some water bottles handy. If you have a clean house, clean body, clean mind, you're bound for some awesome trips. ~ Also here's a small taste of the kind of notes I take (for fun ).

@vladorion I see why you'd think that, but for the most part that's just not accurate. First of all, we are way over-generalizing here. There are certain aspects of the left-wing collective that are indeed like that of people like Ben Shapiro. For example, both are still entrenched in survival needs. But buy-and-large, left-wingers are WAY ahead of Shapiro in terms of overall consciousness. The quick-phrases that Hawkins's system uses (ex. anger-pride) can quickly make two groups look the same even though they're fundamentally different. Make sure to look at what's driving these different groups, what values each hold, etc., not just the exterior expressions of each.

@levani If you really want to get serious about binaural beats, check out Centerpointe Research Institute. I've been in their 'Holosync' program for two months and it's already been very effective. It basically heightens and accelerates you through the emotional stuff that you'll go through if you have a meditation habit. There are both highs and lows, but I'd say if you've got the money this product is worth researching and investing in.

@1liamo78 Indeed. Here's an anecdote to help you set expectations. I became conscious of "no free-will" this back in October 2020, and it still puzzles the shit out of me. Just this morning I was contemplating it. Isn't it strange loopy and spooky as fuck that I can utter the words "I had no control in saying this sentence"?! And it's true!! And no matter how loudly I yell it, it doesn't resolve anything. But again, it's the process that helps. I know you'll eventually get it; your curiosity will be the ignition to get you there.

@charnini All I can do is point at the Earth and it's intricacies. The work of seeing, feeling, and understanding its beauty will be up to you! @Pericles This made me laugh.

@Javfly33 The purpose is to create, discover, and love. What else is there to this dream we have?