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  1. The teacher Maharishikaa says that enlightenment is an out of date practice of the past and a new way is needed to fit the current culture. She mentions enlightenment gurus in India like Ramana Maharashi could only survive because he had devotees who took care of him. She calls neo-advaitas space cadets. It’s good to hear another perspective that goes against the crowd.
  2. It appears that neither Romania or the UK have sufficient evidence to convict, which adds credibility to Tate’s claim that the prosecutions were politically motivated. However, that doesn’t mean he didn’t do anything. I think the UK authorities really dropped by ball and were incompetent. Maybe the women could still bring a civil suit.
  3. A shaman from Mexico has been teaching me to use mushrooms to equilibrate my energy. He says that everything in the trip is just our own energies and we can go on any level of journey by forming a calm center that coexists with and accepts the energies. The psychedelic journey is training the mind to be calm and in a state of equanimity. In my last journey spirits appeared to me saying “we are not energy, we are real” and they convinced me because the visions were so high fidelity, vivid, and as real as ordinary reality. But I just focused on my mantra and remained calm. In ordinary reality, we are constantly triggered by our environment. The triggers are activation of our energies. So we train the mind to be in a calm state, focused always on the present, letting the energies move without affecting our equilibrium. Our ordinary waking consciousness is also a form of imagination which convinces us it is real, just like the visions in an altered state. So it is not dissimilar.
  4. I don’t think anyone knows, especially all the fake shamen running around, or pundits writing books. The scientific bureaucracy is now finally researching the issue, with studies at their institutions like John Hopkins, and believe that they can put psychedelics in a reliable box. Good luck.
  5. The problem is that profound spiritual traditions are being taken out of context and transformed into commodities that can be sold to a materialistic culture. So you end up with the shallow nonsense of neo-Advaita and non duality. Or even meditation, which doesn’t work for most people because they aren’t going through the necessary preliminary purification needed to make it work. The one thing that I have found to be still useful even after translation is Yoga. Even when you reduce Yoga to a purely physical exercise, it is still enormously beneficial to the body.
  6. Professional wrestling is a strange breed. I remember seeing a revealing documentary of a professional wrestler. He talked about his childhood where the old man would fight the boys in the basement and you would hear screams of pain as they were being taught to fight. They worshipped their father. It sounds almost spiritual. Professional wrestling is accused of fixed fights and being fake entertainment. But the men who wrestle are still way tougher than the rest of us. That part is real.
  7. I said observe not study. But it is more of an actual feeling and embodiment and total acceptance of what is. Any insights come out of this non conceptual process.
  8. I find cannabis to be useful in meditation. The yogis use it in India and called in Ghanja. The cannabis amplifies my feelings considerably which allows me to observe negative feelings that my mind in an ordinary state easily suppresses with the ego defense mechanisms. However, it can be a very challenging meditation if you aren’t prepared to sit with the suffering. An undisciplined mind can easily tip into paranoia.
  9. This is the part I recognized as true. Because I went to the Amazon and did a plant diet with a real shaman, and got exposed to the real practice, and I realized that 2 weeks wasn't enough time, and the plant medicines are only a component of a lifetime practice. But Westerners are taking the Ayahausca out of context and turning it into a commodity. So you just end up with a lot of space cadets.
  10. The questioner seeks Maharishikaa's blessings for Ayahuasca and psychedelics to attain higher states of consciousness, and for spiritual progress. Maharishikaa explains the impact of Ayahuasca and other psychedelics, and their relevance to spiritual progress on the path of Self-Realization.
  11. At the time it was widely reported in the US press. Even President Kennedy commented on it. It's in many history books.
  12. A Buddhist monk set himself on fire in 1963 during the Vietnam war, which made a lasting impression on the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thích_Quảng_Đức To the modern, materialist mindset this is viewed as crazy. But when the crazy call you crazy, does that mean you are sane?
  13. This is an interesting talk which breaks psychedelics out of the box of non-duality dogma and presence obsession.
  14. I always have tears of gratitude.
  15. I believed in scientific materialism, until the day I took Bufo Alvarius. When I came down, I instantly realized that scientific materialism is a limited point of view that trapped me in a small box. The change was permanent.