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I have repeated this over the months .I can't have access to ANY psychedelic (including mushrooms) in India because they are banned and illegal. The only option for me is via the dark Web. And I obviously don't want to put myself in legal problems . There is not even weed dealers where I live .so imagine how tough it is to find more potent psychedelics.

Thanks for the response brother . Im just curious..how do you know you are not deluded? What guarantees that you are not falling into epistemic error? Is there an objective instrument that defines what is true and what is false? Or is truth purely subjective? And so we have 7 billion different "truths ".

When does it generate suffering and when does it not ? Where do you draw the line ? Yeah you could think up a million ways of different ways of suffering. Like being eaten alive ,burning with fire ,drowning in the sea and suffocating etc. I would like to make a note ..that Thinking these thoughts (and imagining how you gonna die and the possibility of dying a very painful death) is the biggest cause of psychological suffering. The actual percentage of suffering in our life usually is so small but the mind makes a big deal out of everything and exaggerate things . So as long as you have a home to sleep in ,access to food and water and hygiene..then you are blessed. And you don't need anything else. But the mind always craves for more .that also is another cause of suffering.

its actually only in the ego-mind that we suffer at all. Suffering can't touch the absolute. Only when you're identified as a separate individual. .every tough situation is a lesson to learn so we can do it better next time. but instead of preparing for future we regret the past thus not prepare for next opportunity at all… and as a result we suffer again. not because we're not lucky but because we aint prepared. I think that its good to be prepared but not get the opportunity rather than having an opportunity but not prepared at all. Also ,a question came to mind: do you distinguish between Suffering and pain ? They say the latter is inevitable but the first is optional .

Be free from what exactly? "To escape suffering, you gotta immerse yourself in suffering "?

Not before you tell me who pissed on your soup this morning. You haven't yet

What is meant by God? How do you know that reality is designed and not just randomly pops out of nowhere by mere chance ? Seems impossible? In a way it is ..but how is anything possible in the first place ? Anyways..get to the rock bottom of the free will question..we shouldn't gloss over the notion of "you " .

@Razard86 chillax bro. This is Internet forum. Nothing serious goin' on here . No WWIII. Just some random dudes mentally masturbating over stuff and spiritually bypassing ontological metaphysical superficial controversy ?

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@Razard86 who pissed on your soup this morning?

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Hmmm . . . no. There can be intellectual understanding, understanding of labels in relation to other labels. And from such labeling thinking mind can narrate, to itself and others, stories of “intellectual awakening”, “spiritual awakening”, “science fiction”, “adam and eve”, “Me and My Life”, etc, etc. There are many degree and levels of awakening. Its not a binary on & off switch (you're either awake or full of shit ) I would agree though, that ultimately, at its core, awakening involves awakening to mind and from mind. Awakening from the very seemingly real illusion, “I am me”. There is no relation between the intellect and spiritual awakening of the person. It is all Nature or God's play. Who becomes what is all part of God's play. A low intellect can become enlightened or an high intellect can become enlightened. There is no pattern. Whatever you resonate with .Whatever makes you happy dude .leave me the fuck alone ?

Thanks for sharing. I think The value of intellectual realisations should not be diminished. They are signs that the false ‘solidity’ is starting to crumble, that ignorance is reducing. If these occur they can be anything from joyful to very disturbing for a while. Partial realisations can be disturbing existentially. I’ve had this. I suddenly knew intellectually that the classic object/mind model could not possibly be true but I didn’t have an alternative (after all it was intellectual.) I remained in intellectual existential crisis for years regarding that point

@Holykael what makes you think that you have no free will?

I agree . What the masses are led to believe is dependent upon the people in power .who fund and control even scientific research. So even the theory of evolution might be a conspiracy theory made by illuminati to convince people that the religious story of Adam and Eve in the bible was just a fairy tale . But still ..I think that ordinary people who have no deep understanding of these existential issues can educate yourself via the Internet. We are not living in the middle ages no more .we are in the Internet era where information about Any scientific subject is available. Most ancient tribes believed that the earth was flat .I mean the ordinary people. But a few scientists at the beginning of the scientific revolution discovered that the earth was a globe. Up until about 500BCE, people probably thought what they seemed to see was what is and if you stand on a mountaintop, the ground looks pretty flat By 500, educated people were beginning to realize that the planet was round, they just had no idea how large it was. Aristotle pointed out that when a ship appears above the horizon, the masts appear first, then the hull. That could only happen if Earth was spherical. Also ..Eratosthenes, used geometry to calculate the size of the planet .. that he wasn’t accurate is simply due to the fact that large distances couldn’t be measured accurately. But, at any rate, by the 4th century BCE, educated people knew that Earth is round. Before that, I don't think most people cared about the shape of the earth. There was speculation that it was flat, and it rested above infinite chain of turtles lol. Which should make those modern-day Flat-Earthers feel rather stupid right now.

It's not the highest teaching . Leo's teachings for example (or even Nahm for that matter) is much better. What is cessation?

My whole life is a dream. Gosh how liberating that is. When you realize that this entire infinite cosmos is nothing but a figment of Your imagination. It's exactly the Same as falling asleep at night, dreaming a dream, and watching two people in the dream have a conversation, a disagreement, perhaps even an argument. Perhaps, you don't just watch but join in. You argue with them too, and perhaps do so lucidly. But perhaps they make good points, perhaps they change your mind about something. Or perhaps you just have fun arguing with them, with yourselves really. In the deeper realer reality, we are not three people having an argument but one big transcendental brain having a dream. It is one playing as many. You will not find the singular brain in the dream where you find the many different people with many different thoughts having an argument. You can look to the left or right, or look up or down, but you will never see it with your dream eyes from your dream body. And yet you can become lucid and easily see that the singular unified dreamer dreaming the dream is undeniably much realer than anything in the dream. It's even realer than whatever ever-changing thing you see when looking into a mirror in the dream at any given moment. And what happens always all the time if you fall from the balcony and hit the ground and seemingly die in the dream ?.....you wake the fuck up.

Yes I'm seeking answers to what Is . Because "what is " is extremely mysterious. You can't help but ask questions and seek to understand it . You suggest to drop the mind and the intellectual contemplating and just focus on being OK with everything (surrender). Both complete each other .if you go into any side of them too much it becomes extreme and toxic . So you gotta strike the right balance between seeking and surrendering.

To have your curiosity frustrated is an uncomfortable feeling, but on the greater scale of things it’s good because this feeling of discomfort drives people to discover some of those elusive truths. If your curiosity about the universe is a really significant thing for you, you can attend a university or some online courses and learn about astronomy and cosmology. You can be provided with truths as quickly as you can assimilate them. Many (believe they) have already found it, and are striving to spread it all over the world, by means fair and foul, peaceful and painful.

OK fine ..what's your "Truth " anyways ? I'm interested to hear ?.

So you think that cultural differences can alter your worldview to the point of believing the earth is flat ? Is that how severe the Cultral brainwashing can be ?

You may have different thoughts about last year. For some it may have been a success while for some it may have been not so a success. But i value you being here for a whole year, despite your ups and downs. You all contributed in valuable discussions throughout the last year and helped to flourish this forum . And I take this opportunity to thank you all for that. I wish you a very happy new year ? ? and at the same time I would like to invite all of you to be with me (for which I know that you do not need invitations) Thank you once again. I recently visited tajmahal with my girlfriend. What could have been better than visiting epitome of love with love of my llife? I went to Agra few days ago before the Christmas.( Agra is the city where Tajmahal is situated). I went to visit Tajmahal this morning. Took some photos. I heard that you have to stand in long queue to get a ticket for Tajmahal. So I already booked tickets online which saved my time. Ticket charges were 45 INR Per person to enter into Tajmahal. If you want to see mausoleum of Mumtaj Mahal and Shahjahan, you need to pay 200 INR extra. I hired a guide. Guides are very easy to find outside of Tajmahal. People who don't hire a guide while visiting a historical place, miss a lot of small and important details which doesn't connect to them with the place. As soon as I entered into Tajmahal, I was awestruck to see the beauty of this place. My wish for the new year is to move closer and closer to my life purpose (achieving financial independence ,quit cigarettes completely, have more active sex life and social life ,more friends etc). Not so much of a new year resolution . What about yours ? .

And I said I agree with you about the last point . But still..humans can and will keep discovering more and more from the universe. There is no limit to the human curiosity. Look at how science advanced exponentially in the last century. Whereas animal's curiosity is all about food and sex .

If we take two people from different cultures, different religious beliefs, different agriculture, etc and survey them on whether the earth is round or flat? Would you agree that their answers will vary depending on these factors that I mentioned?

Nope .Leo is so much higher consciousness than these human chimps . The guy gets information downloaded into his mind in real time as he speaks to the camera for hours on end . The dude is in a whole new level. Have you awoken to alien love yet ?