Tim R

"Does everything happen for a reason?" Three concepts (and their implicit assumptions) that need to be questioned before you can proceed to find an answer.

Purpose is like playing. You don't have to do it, but you can do it in ways that are very entertaining. When you play a game, it's nice (and essential!) to forget that it's a game, because that way, things can become truly entertaining. To pretend that it really does matter is a great thing. And to be able to pretend so thoroughly that you forget about the game - bravo!

This man is blind since his early childhood. I just found this fascinating ted talk where he talks about blindness and the terror we have associated with being/becoming blind, i.e. unaware. But he has developed an incredible mechanism to "see" his surroundings; he uses clicking sounds, like a bat to "echolocate". It's quite amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHYCs8xtzUI

Good point. There's a great book by Erich Fromm "To Have or To Be" . It's fascinating how we use the word "have" in contexts where people once used to build sentences with "be".

@Adodd Your question "what is time" is pretty damn vague too... it depends on what you mean by "time".

@levani dude, 200ml of vodka is enough to get you seriously sh*tfaced. 200ml equals 10 shots. One shot would be enough to make things weird, but 10? I highly recommend you don't do it. 200ml is waaay to much. Even for dilution for preparing small dosages. 200ml for 200µg is a factor of 1000x. That's too much.

The first barrier you need to overcome is "should". "Should" is bullshit. There is nothing you "should" do (which is btw not the same as saying "you should do nothing"). You can't really help people properly if you don't want to. If you help them because you feel you "should" do it, you might as well not do it at all. The problem you're facing is what is meant in the bible with "thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself". See? "You must love" - but this can't be done, you can't force yourself to love. Either you do or you don't. My advice is to first investigate your feeling of "should help people" -what is it in you that makes you think that you should help people and how you feel when you don't help and or love people. Investigate, accept and embrace. Love and compassion will come naturally from within. There's no need to pretend or to force anything. But you will find that the more you know, accept and love yourself, the stronger your compassion for others will develop. And then, there won't be any "shoulds", but an honest desire to help others.

...something wrong with being an unconscious fuck? Yes? Then maybe you're one of them. If such aliens had the technology, they wouldn't decimate all the "unconscious" people, they would simply alter their brain to make them more open-minded. Because that's really all you need.

@BipolarGrowth lmao dude, that's perfect??? When I read the title and saw you crying - I felt that❤

@BipolarGrowth "Leading where?" is the question you ought to ask

@Mafortu The point is to realize that in reality, there are no "things". Yes, "everything" and "nothing" are identical, but believe me, people don't understand the meaning of either word. When we talk of nothingness, people immediately have an image in their mind of what this nothingness might look like. Using the word "everything", people also have an image in their mind; an image, which contains very many things. It's important to remember that both images are neither nothing nor everything, but rather like "something". I'd rather have you think about the universe being nothing, because 1. it balances your view that the universe is only something/everything 2. in nothingness, there are no boundaries. Which is also the case for "everything", but it's probably easier to see in nothingness 3. it simply wouldn't appear to say anything so say "reality is everything" instead of "reality is nothing".

People actually fall for this sh*t??

No self, no other - and no "conscious entities", in other words, no one with a separate consciousness (which some of you apparently like to call "mind" like Rupert Spira did in one of his videos). There is no "your" experience and "my" experience. There are no two experiences, neither of the same nor of anything different. You are all like fingers on the same hand. Got that? "I'm the only finger around and only I am real, only my consciousness is what exists", says middle finger. "Fuck you man, solipsism ain't real and we are all fingers on our own!!" shouts thumb. While the index and ring fingers watched the two of them in complete confusion, little finger stood next to them all and had a great time. Because little finger had sat his ass down, done the work and realized who he truly was - and at the same time who everyone else was! Be like little finger.

@mp22 There is no contradiction at all. You simply haven't yet understood what "meaninglessness" actually is and how deep it really goes. If you think that meaninglessness is a problem and that therefore now you should end your life, you haven't understood. What happens, when truly everything becomes meaningless? Well, obviously the fact that everything is meaningless becomes meaningless too. And in that way, meaninglessness flips inside out - the moment you realize what 100% meaninglessness is, man.. That's liberation. That's a true gift. And you say "thank god this is just an illusion!" But you see, the illusion is real. If you think that "illusion" is a bad word, you also don't understand what is meant by saying "the universe is an illusion". Please be careful. Because it seems to me that you have adopted some of the things Leo or someone else said as a philosophy and then turned it into a prescription for what to do. But that's not how it works. Be very, very careful with rationalizing ideas like meaninglessness or suicide. It can develop into some seriously nasty problems.

Nope, you won't get any real answer for the hard questions, not on any forum, not from anyone, not in any words. Either you get platitudes as answers for asking hard questions, or you ask simple questions and get "comprehensive answers".

@EntheogenTruthSeeker I think your understanding of what it means to "ground" yourself is a bit off. To ground yourself means to get in touch with survival and life again, but in a conscious way. Find ways of literally getting in touch with different things or people. It might be friends, family, nature, animals, your body, exercise, diet, etc. I'm really not sure if fasting is a good way of grounding yourself, maybe someone else with fasting experience can say a few words on that? Same goes for float tank and dark room retreat, they are not good ways for grounding. To be grounded in yourself and life means to feel stable. You need to simplify your life, not introduce float tanks, fasting or some impoverished meat diet. You need to feel like someone who lives and works on a farm, who has a very direct and firm grip on life. Grounding also means to take it easy. You don't want to strain yourself, either mentally or physically. And all the things you listed will not make your life easier, on the contrary.

Hello and welcome to the forum✌ Could you explain what exactly is your confusion?

Here you go.

Just look for "Solipsism". Because that's at the core of your question. But I can tell you this already: solipsism is not real. However, "other people" are also not real. To understand what this means, you really need to do some consciousness work and contemplation. Consciousness is, but no one who is conscious. And by the way, before you dig through the old threads: there's a lot of speculation and mental masturbation going on in some of those threads, so watch out for that.

@look_inside Use the search function. There are many, many threads about this sort of question already.

Microdosing is between 6µg - 15µg Macro dose depends on how sensitive you are. For some, 50µg is already a good trip, but 100µg is generally the standard macro dose.

This question is based on the assumption of "one's best interest". But what is one's best interest? Aka "what do I want". That's the key question. Because look, whatever the answer is, you're still going to act in your "best interest", whatever that might mean for you - even when you think you act contrary to your "best interest", because whatever you do, you're doing it out of the motivation of "this is what I want to do". But this is a very counter-intuitive thing to see. Especially when on the surface, it seems that one is not acting in "one's best interest" (again, you must watch out for what you mean by that) and that one does something one "doesn't want to do". After a certain point, what I want and what I don't want is a duality that can collapse. You can see this quite clearly with self-destructive behavior patterns. To go back to your question: should you pursue anything? No. "Should" is arbitrary and also based on the assumption of "best interest". The point is to realize that whatever you do, you can't get out of "I'm acting selfishly". Then you try to stop acting selfishly but you find that this is also selfishly motivated. So you get to the point of utter and complete frustration (if you really try hard), and there you can see through the whole thing and realize: I cannot not want, but I also cannot want - and both are hoaxes anyway, because I didn't know who I am.

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@spiritualryan If you are located inside your head, then how come you can experience things which are outside your head? Think before you answer, it's not as obvious as it might seem. Language is a very tricky thing. Edit: and after that, observe what "inside" and "outside" your head actually are and whether such places even exist.