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Hehe, every once in a while I start watching a few oh his videos and apply his teachings a bit. It's tough stuff. I'm not sure if I missed it but I think his videos lack a bit the love part. But it's still helpful though.

@Blackhawk The thing I observed is that such experiences are so convincingly real that the ego makes stuff up afterwards and denys it in order to conserve its sense of reality. One thinks about reality with a conditioned mind which means that those thoughts are not yours. So everything one thinks is not the real thing and alters the experience inevitably. So no one can know the truth. Might be better to stick with direct experience and inquiring the nature of thoughts and that means observing the thinking as it happens. For example you can the pov where your thoughts are just a learned reaction to certain previous experiences like other thoughts or feeling etc. I hope that this is helpful.

To answer the question. Yes but you'll need a huge amount of psychedelics that you forget you've taken them or maybe if your suicidal or depressed and realize this experience is just one and is followed by another. It's gonna be less likely if you see the love in existence and trust. I'd say when you slowly dose up and get some experience you'll be quiet safe. But with the other tryptamins i dont know. I know someone who jumped from a roof of a small building. So handle them wisely and carefully..

@allislove Thx. Often I feel like I am in my own way. @CultivateLove Yeah, that's why I'm usually quite reluctant to opening a thread and also because I don't want to post nonsense. Oh, and a few minutes ago while listening to music I recognized that there is only a imaginary difference between nothing and something. It's a ever changing continuum. There is ever present knowing. So nothing and something are the same. I didn't see that listening is unity. ? Maybe that post will help someone else a little bit

Holy shit. During my meditation I started to notice that the duality between the inside world and outside world is just a point of view. You could easily say that what we see is an outside perspective and the silence is inside. But on the other hand you can easily switch and say that what we see is inside and the silence (you know what I mean) is outside. It's the same when I say what we perceive with our senses is everything there is and the silece is nothing there is, but because it's the other side of everything it's every thing. In a sense it is the same with life and death. The moment you see something it dies but the silence is also a form of death from the opposite point of view. The same goes with something and nothing, they are also interdependent and we know exactly what nothing is. During meditation the mentioned pov's started to oscillate and became in a sense one thing. Then the mind became restless and I felt the urge to write it down before I'd lose it. Hmm… shit when I read it over it doesn't make sense anymore and I feel quite confused. Am I on the right track though? Best regards

As @Adam M mentioned Wat chom tong is a nice place with a lot of foreigners and a very good place to learn vipassana. You might there or in one of their meditation centres do a 3 week vipassana course. That might be even better to see if the technics match to your preferences (You have to take that into account). When there's no corona I occasionally visit a temple of their tradition in germany.

There are so many theravada temples all over the united states and across europe. once or twice a month I usually take the 8 precepts and stay in white clothes in a thai buddhist monastry for 2 days or so. I would recommend you to do the same in order to get a taste what it is like if there is a monastry near you. You might also email a temples further away and ask if they know a temple where you could go to. But I'd rather pick one with experience with foreigners cuz there might be a some cultural differences. Once I had a friend in university and he went to a temple in order to ordain for 4 weeks and he was rather disappointed due to his idealism and high expectations.

@NOTintoxicated I want to point out that the thing might be that you ironically relfect in your writing a similar mindset as the person you wish death upon. You seem to be lost in mistaking the concepts of things like love with the real thing and project all sorts of things into others to justify your behaviour. We all do that more or less in some way or another. This should a reminder to inquire into ones own mind

To answer your question. In the first days you'll have only the short positive feeling after it. You'll have to really invest in that at least 5 min daily. But it will really pay off. It has many positive effects on your mind. There is actually so much about it, but I'll try to keep it short. Not only is it that this thought feels good, it even feels better and more true over time, the feeling grows stronger the more attention you give. Then this subconscious thing. Then one positive thought tends to pull other positive thoughts after it. You might want to think consciously other positive thoughts and replace negative ones that dont feel good to you. Think about peace and love and acceptance and the better you will feel. Due to the fact that there is no seperate person, only thinking, you can consciously create those thoughts and therefore this personal traits and you will better get along with the present moment which is yourself and get less distraction. Ive been doing this for almost a year and there's still lots of negative thoughts and work to do but it got so much better and slowly I realize how happiness is created. The thing is other thoughts change how you see and interact with the world. I'd recommend Leo's series on emotional mastery.

@AdamR95 Okay. Then why the worry? maybe you can deal with this situation by letting go. The mind always invents things to do. In such situations I'd try to be mindful, then it's recognised that's just conditioned thoughts and it feels unpleasent because its just how this thought feels and you don't have to be afraif of it. you created it so to speak and If you dont believe it and turn away your attention the thought disappears, no more problem. Maybe you could try to deal it this way too and make it an exercise? I know at first it's not that easy but how else do you want te get peace?

On my lsd trips I stop and stay nothing for eternity and then it is decided to come back again to enjoy the whole show as if nothing has ever happened. Sometimes there are different lives and dimensions imagined with a lot of time equivalent spent there before "I" continue this life. It's always the love and the wish to continue which brings me back. There is no difference between what happens and "my" wish. Suffering arises from a lot of misunderstanding and from action upon that. One wants this life.

@universe thank you very much. that's what I was looking for. ?

That's a tough question because most monasteries and ashrams have their own spiritual tradition and rather strict rules. Why not try a buddhist monastry for a few days or weeks and see if it fits? But consider that these are communities and they'll expect you as part of it to follow their teachings and to be committed. Nothings for free.

In my trips I realized that everything is vibrating. That means it goes on and off, like sound and silence which is the same thing btw. Even between thoughts or visual pictures there is an off which is also nothing. You can become aware of that in direct experience during meditation. Just stay with a feeling or a sound for a while and it appears and disappears and you'll notice that you are the empty space. Hope that this was kind of helpful. Maybe somebody else has a more elaborate explanation.

Vernom Howard offers you a rather tough perspective on those things. At least his lectures.

I think it depends heavily on the actual situation. Imo the OP is right in the sense that some people who are in need of therapy and use spirituality to avoid it might be better off with some kind of therapy to at least stabilize their problems before it gets too bad. Some people are in a phase were they are too stuck in depression and despair to start mindfulness techniques to change the situation and are bot able to do this work. Other people can do both and again others can handle their issues from the present moment for example by using the emotional scale and picking better thoughts. The trouble with therapists though is that they tend to be blind to a lot of nuances and the way thoughts actual work which might be an obstacle as the therapy proceeds. You have to meet the level where the person is at. For some works sufficiently.

This music has really nice warm vibes. I love it. ?

It's clearly just the opposite. I just listened half of it and as in Harris' other talks, he can't stop trying to use his concepts and doesn't get what Jim is pointing to. There is a huge difference in depth of understanding which Sam obviously lacks.

Exercise that on a rainy day: First slow down your mind a little bit and become present. Then look at the window and watch the single drops of water sliding down the window and see them merging and seperating from each other. Notice it's all happening by itself and ask yourself when exactly is the separation of the drops happening and what's changed. If you want to go further you can ask yourself what's that expercience in common with the experience of breathing. Do this with as little thinking as possible. Just observe and do this for at least half an hour.

Never mind, just work on yourself. Look up shadow work on youtube and try to watch your thoughts and after some time you will see some repeating behavior patterns. I think it is a mistake to assume that you know islam by just looking at it mostly in your country and wahabism. But fact is that it is in every country a little bit different. The formalities night be the same but religion goes far deeper than that. One has to include the comunity work that is done as well as the society and education and even if you live in a poor part of the city or a village. You can check that up on youtube or by watching al Jazeera english. Look where I live there are a lot of muslims from very different parts of the world and when you get to kniw them a little bit closer you will notice most of them heavily differ on the degree of believing and what they believe and even how they believe. thats a matter of the things I mentioned above. .

I am sorry to say that but I want to point out to you that you have basically the same mind set like those fundamentalist people you were complaining about in your other threads. Just listen to what almost every one ever replied and look what that might imply. Maybe there is a slight chance you will learn from it..

Thank you fore teaching me mental gymnastics at work. The thing is, you developed further than many people in your country, but in order to understand the other afore mentioned perspectives you've got to grow alot more. Maybe it's better to be more self aware. All the way alobg the line it gets more sophisticated and appears more true. Btw, Enteties are as real as everything in your mind. One can learn techniques or a strong trip on dmt or shrooms or salvia etc and check how helpful they might be. Regards

If he really channelled an entity then there is a huge difference between what Mohamed said during the day and what he's got from this entity because one was the words he got from an external source and the other his interpretation and others maybe just his usually character traits that were recorded and not embodied

You are too biased how history works. For example the wikipedia article writes that after 12 years the final book was written and thereby an implicit interpretation of his successor who ruled back then and by the way, there is huge evidence that every closest companions started compiling their own holy book and as history show the one which became the official one was the one of the winner, the caliph then and declared his own as the only official. And it isn't necessary to mention that those people were just selfish people who cared about power and had their own agenda. Fact is, you don't know and me neither. Might be truer sources were killed off because they did not fit into the scheme. You should study other holymen and see how their teachings were twisted even after a short time. The ego likes to shape things to fit into their believe system.