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I take Bufo Alvarius on a regular basis, with a guide and by myself. A lot of the “deepness” of psychedelics is illusory. You aren’t really connecting like you think. It is just stimulating your imagination. I recently completed my first Plant Diet in the Amazon. I learned that the Plant Diet is actually a rigorous ascetic discipline. You purge and cleanse yourself every day (including vomiting for 5 to 6 hours at a time) and only then do you take the master plant Ayahuasca. If you are worthy, she will share her wisdom with you. In other words, the Plant Diet is just as rigorous as a real meditation. You get nothing for free in life. The magic pill is the real illusion.

He does and is not afraid of the word "God". But his life purpose is to make meditation something rigorous that is accepted by Science, so I believe he downplays talk of God for that reason.

I studied with Shinzen many years ago and heard the story of his first enlightenment. He was accepted into the monestary of a Vajrayana Japanese Buddhist sect. He had to meditate by himself for six months day and night. Every morning he had to pour ice cold water over his body. This was in winter, and these place have no heat. The way you make real progress in meditation is by putting in the effort. It is effort. Not genetics. Doing a half ass meditation for 40 years gets you the results you should expect. It is just going through the motions and make pretend.

A Bodhisattva is not playing that game.

The universities are already a farm where they teach sheep to be sheep.

The jungle would be better.

I recently returned from the Amazon, and they have plants that enhance the dreaming state like Bobinsana and Clavo Hausca. This is a good way to go. Your dreams can go deeper into your unconscious mind than psychedelics.

Universities have turned into a debt slavery scam for millions of young people. They get useless degrees, especially in the liberal arts, and then can’t get a job and have to hope for debt foregiveness. The system needs to be rethought. It should not be a place where everyone automatically goes. Most people should go to some kind of trade school and learn a specific skill. I studied philosophy on my own. How can anyone seriously contemplate the meaning of life in an environment where you attention is focused on receiving a grade for regurgitating a professor’s opinions? Does anyone else see the absurdity of this?

I recently returned from the Amazon and did a proper plant diet with a shaman. I discovered that the plant diet is actually a rigorous ascetic discipline. I did it for two weeks, but real shamen do it for 30 days to six months. During the diet you only eat yams, rice, beans, and what you can kill in the jungle. There is no salt and sugar. You drink water from the stream. You make a bed with sticks so that you sleep above the ground. You spend all day purging and cleansing. During a purge you will be throwing up for five to six hours straight. You take chiric sanango which feels like ants crawling over your body. It’s only after the rigorous preparations of the plant diet that you take Ayahuasca. If the plant finds you worthy, you will receive her wisdom and visions with clarity. So to sum up: the proper use of Ayahuasca is a rigorous discipline equally demanding as meditation. There are no quick fixes. There is no magic bullet. Psychedelics by themselves will do nothing for you. There is no magic key. This is fantasy.

I found a great resource. On this webpage, you can download free pdf's of medicine songs and spiritual songs. The song books have the lyrics along with the cords that you play on a guitar. I suggest starting out with the Ibiza Sagrada songbook. https://songfisher.org/book.html

It takes strong determination to succeed at meditation. I know a monk who meditated in Burma and he spent several months sitting up while he slept, and his sleep was only for a few hours a day. He wouldn’t sleep laying down. That is the lengths people go to make meditation work. It isn’t easy. Nobody does that in America, so people just see the results and say it was a natural gift.

The Buddhists believe that Buddha had been working on himself for multiple reincarnations in the past. That could be confused with genetics, which is a recent explanation of scientific materialism.

I just got back from two weeks in the Amazon. It was highly useful. The jungle changes you. Nature has a different rhythm than modern life, which is noisy and chaotic. Everything flows, moves slowly with focused attention. It is a community,( the plants, insects, animals) that moves and flows together like a dance. No one in the jungle gives orders and commands. Everyone wants to eat you. Being in nature gets you in contact with the Tao.

Just lower the dosage. You can micro-dose 5-meo and use it to teach you how to meditate.

Who cares if he has powers? What good does that do for you? Shouldn’t that question be: can this person teach my something useful? All gurus are fake. They are followed by lazy people who don’t want to put in the effort.

You learn to be shy. It is a type of learning. You had traumatic experiences when you were a child and your mind decided that avoidance is the best strategy for survival. If you accept this model, there is possibility for change. You can learn social skills and intentionally expose yourself to social situations that your mind is screaming at you to avoid. You can unlearn the behavior and learn better strategies to survive in an adult world.

I have a friend who trained in a monestary as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He introduced me to the practice of the Green Tara. He believes in her so devotedly that he can manifest visions of her in front of his eyes. But at the same time he realizes that she is just a symbol in his mind pointing to compassion. He plays with the belief system. He is not attached. The real Buddhist are so beyond the triteness you find on the Internet.

All beliefs are bullshit, including the non duality fad. That's why the real Buddha provided a practice, and not beliefs. If you want to see who is real you have to make personal contact. The Internet is a bullshiter's paradise.

The Buddha didn’t read books. He followed a path of direct experience. My impression of Wilbur is that he likes to synthesize and create grand systems. So he can read 400 books and synthesize the knowledge. He can take 400 mind castles and create 1 mind castle. But his system doesn't go beyond the opinions of 400 authors. He has no direct experience. I am not awake either. But I know that I have to be 100% honest with myself and live with the unknown to get out of the trap of my own mind and other people’s arbitrary opinions.

Reading books is not an accomplishment.

Your dad is right.

My ex-wife was from Colombia. I have been there dozens of times. It just shows he is picking up women of ill repute in order to get layed and has no ability to judge character. More proof that all PUAs are frauds.