The0Self

Does the body not appear in awareness, along with all these thoughts? They appear just like the sky appears.

Okay. Splitting hairs I would say. Feel free to ignore this, but I would humbly add: There exists only infinite levels of distortion. I AM is the highest truth and the root delusion, timelessly. Reality is a paradox. Liberation is seeing emptiness -- nothing is ever as it appears; it merely appears, uncaused; neither real nor unreal. Do enough self inquiry and you may change your tune about there being any self at all. To be confused about what you seem to be, there has to seemingly be a you. If there is any judgement at all, there is a seeming you. When there's just what is, there's no room for anything else, it's just gone forever -- what would come back?

I really think people underestimate how powerful meditation can be. When I hear people speak of their meditation experiences (not referring to you, just a generality) and they say things like it was "nice" or "peaceful," my reaction is generally: I can't be the only one... Meditation can be so extraordinarily blissful you may absolutely consider moving to Malaysia to become a monk or something. When you first experience jhana this is a fairly rational response. It takes lots of practice, perfecting technique, listening to others experiences with it, and most of all: finesse. I would highly suggest following a proven system to build the foundation to eventually enter jhanas. My favorite one is TMI. Meditation led to awakenings and completely transformed my personality in stepwise fashion such that 2 years into it, I noticed I no longer had basically any of the problems I used to have.

Yes. The true self = that there truly is no separate self. Everything = nothing.

No problem! Be very careful with DMSA. It's not something to be messed with. MUST take it every 3 hours around the clock for 3+ days at a time -- longer rounds (e.g. 2 weeks) are FAR more effective. I did it for practically 6 months straight, along with ALA, basically with only a few short breaks of maybe a week each -- it literally cured my chronic fatigue -- and later my sleep paralysis went away but I highly suspect that in particular was from getting off Subutex/buprenorphine (I used to be a heroin addict). Search for Andy Cutler's protocol -- I would only trust the info found on a site called "onibasu." The limiting factor in taking DMSA for extended periods is oxidative stress; the limiting factor in taking ALA for extended periods of time is copper toxicity -- copper toxicity can be mitigated by taking 1mg molybdenum and 30mg zinc (picolinate) total per day in 4 divided doses.

And who knows that? If anything is a self, it certainly cannot be the known, because the knower automatically trumps it in that regard. But the knower is also known, or more accurately, assumed. Awareness synonymous with absolute emptiness is the only candidate for a self, but since it is empty of existence it is obviously not a self. However something appears is a dead giveaway it is actually not that way.

Indeed.

Find a better source. That should not happen, even from 1 gram (dried). 6g undried shrooms is only like 0.6g dried. Some serotonergic medications (SSRI's, etc) can prevent you from tripping though, so be aware of that.

Wait, what? 183 cm. That's 6 feet dude. I'm 5 10 and while many people I was competing with in swimming (swimming benefits from height as much as basketball, look at boat length and speed) at a high level were much taller than me, in everyday life I am often called tall. I have literally never once seen my height as an issue and I don't think I would have even if I were 2 inches shorter. The only way to increase height is to take estrogen blockers and/or growth hormone before growth plates fuse -- before finishing puberty. That would actually work, but nothing else will.

Because it interferes with the free will of conscious agents. All conscious agents have the freedom to be malevolent or confused (Rush was at least one of those 2). In my likely somewhat distorted but well-formed view: The only time it is permissible to interfere with the free will of conscious agents is when they interfere (for instance, by murdering, stealing, etc) with the free will of other conscious agents, such that interfering with the free will of the offending conscious agent (for instance, by isolating them in prison) would expectedly result in a net positive increase in freedom for all conscious agents... That freedom must include the ability to display malevolence and/or confusion, as well as (my personal preference) love and/or wisdom. One could maybe argue Rush meets that criteria, but I wouldn't be so sure. And yes, "free will" isn't actually real -- that's not the kind of free will I'm talking about -- I'm not talking on that level.

Idk but after reading some of The Law of One it jived so incredibly strongly with my past psychedelic work I honestly am tempted to believe it's basically entirely legit.

Fasting Coconut oil Lots of carbs (controversial) Well-cooked potato with butter Gelatin / hydrolyzed collagen -- especially to balance out higher quality protein -- ~100 grams of protein per day is required for optimal body composition (and so is lifting weights) but that may make some feel a bit unpleasant from all the inflammatory and psychoactive amino acids, especially if at least 10-20g of that isn't coming from collagen/gelatin. And yeah, chewing food a lot more than feels necessary -- this can help a lot. And turning the shower on cold for some time before you get out. If some foods, particularly eggs, make your stomach feel bloated, it could be the result of your body not processing choline effectively -- perhaps try a phosphatidylcholine supplement. Quote I found from a user on an unconventional health forum: "If you've got a defective PEMT gene like i have, you can't convert the choline into the phosphatidylcholine that you need to reverse fatty liver. Just as a test, try taking a capsule of phosphatidylcholine. Five minutes after ive taken it my stomach shrinks from bloated to completely flat. its amazing." https://raypeatforum.com/community/threads/im-done-looking-for-a-method-to-lower-body-fat-without-caloric-restriction.24996/page-2

Just bumping this thread. Aaron Abke is awesome. The Law of One / Ra stuff (https://www.lawofone.info/) is incredibly interesting and mind-blowing.

The prettier the girl, the less apparently needy the guy selected. Dumb and shallow often means detached and seemingly un-needy. That's not the only way to be (or seem to be) un-needy, it's just the most common way to seem so, which has led you to your incomplete conclusion.

Even though awakening often occurs after a whole lot of spiritual obsession, I'm not convinced that means the awakening was the result of that. In fact, upon awakening, it's recognized it was always that way -- there was never anyone there. Just identification with an idea of who you are. "I am awakened" is an example of a perfect oxymoron.

Just take enough. Over-preparation and thinking you can do anything to guide the experience on a high enough dose is misunderstanding the potential power of psychedelics. Enlightenment is nothing more than the unrealization of "I am x" -- associated with the permanent destruction of the sense of personal doership and all the ideas about who you really are. Essentially meaning, right and wrong become meaningless. This is why you hear people like Byron Katie saying stuff like "killing is just a murderer's job."

Absolutely agree. The levels are there though, and they do go on forever. That imo is more amazing than enlightenment itself -- which is arguably simply transcendence of the current level, and the realization of I AM... in the sense of unrealizing: I AM X.

100% Godhead for a human is not really 100% Godhead. 100% Godhead will take quite a number of lifetimes in the higher dimensions/realms/densities. 100% Godhead means you start over btw, as you'll be completely selfless -- you'll be everything, even the trees and the rocks. And the quarks. And the quantum foam. And allness. 100% Godhead means you're a God among men. But you're an insect relative to the next level. The levels never end -- that cannot be comprehended. There are beings in the next level that are privy to your exact state of consciousness, and my own, at this very moment, and they are completely beyond time. They seem to sometimes let me in to their social memory complex when I achieve very high states of consciousness. They are insects relative to the next level above them. And so on. Forever. This of course means you already achieved that true Godhead, an infinite number of times. You're just doing it again. What did you think the realization of the infinite fractal nature of consciousness meant?

consciousness = awareness = knowing (or "seeming") attention = focus consciousness + intention = attention

Jhanas arise when the mind is very still, opposing intentions in the mind harmonize, and the result is out-of-this-world-intense bliss. It happens via both insight and concentration meditation, but mainly concentration -- not concentration as in sticking to the object, but through intentionally cultivating a sense of satisfaction every time you realize your attention is not as still on the object as you would like. No need to focus on the object to the exclusion of anything else, just allow your attention to rest on the object and your only intention at first should be to be on your toes to intentionally cultivate a sense of satisfaction every time you realize your attention is not as still on the object as you would like. Eventually mind will still itself and rest on the object -- because eventually from doing this, the awareness of the quality of your attention never goes away, and becomes monitored in real time and under conscious control. And then those competing intentions in the back of your mind (imperceptible) will calm down and you'll see what they were inadvertently covering up -- intense overwhelming satisfaction. It is unlikely to reach jhana without at least 45 minute sits every day -- preferably 1-2 hours. If you begin to feel a very intense pleasant body buzz, often (but not always) beginning in the hands or sometimes the face/smile or chest, ignore it and continue the breath/etc meditation until the buzz is impossible to ignore, then shift your attention in one motion to the buzz itself... it will dissipate or get stronger. If it gets stronger, you will soon be in the 1st jhana, at which point it's all over -- you're officially addicted to meditation, lol. The 2nd jhana (doing the same thing except switching your awareness from the buzz to the happiness it brings) is even better, and so on up to the 8th jhana. The first time you enter jhana it may scare you. That's normal. It won't hurt you. The pleasure is so intense you might feel like you can't breathe. Just be aware that's normal. Rather useless info, until later: Entering 3rd jhana: happiness -> peace (the rapturous buzz that is central to the 1st jhana and peripheral to the 2nd jhana disappears entirely -- happiness without the buzz that it seemed to arise from = peace) 4th: peace -> beautiful stillness (abandoning pleasure for something more exalted) 5th: stillness -> boundless space 6th: boundless space -> boundless consciousness (this is an incredibly intense mystical experience) 7th: boundless consciousness -> perception of nothingness 8th: perception of nothingness -> mind not landing on anything, not even nothingness Nirvana: lights out; perceived after the fact as a gap, like jumping forward in time with no space in between.

If you're still experiencing, find out who does it. Repeat. Whatever you experience is precisely not what you're looking for. Look away from experience -- allow attention to collapse back in on itself. It cannot be overstated just how simultaneously subtle and taxing this technique is. There is no rest in self inquiry, until you get to the witness. Just so you know, this isn't even mentioned until stage 8 TMI... That's 2 full stages after intentionally entering Jhana's becomes possible. Self inquiry is a very, very advanced technique. It can be done on its own, but expect great difficulty without already having cultivated very stable attention and very powerful mindfulness, and more or less perfect general meditation skill. If you've never entered at least the first or second Jhana (you will know if you have, it's obscenely pleasant), I'd implore you to at least consider working on that first. The "halfway point" of self inquiry is what some have called The Witness (Rob Burbea called it The Vastness of Awareness) -- it quite closely resembles the 6th Jhana, a state many are lucky to get to after many 10+ day retreats. Though I will say, the 6th Jhana does take quite a bit more work to get to than the witness. Even just doing standard noting for a solid hour or more at a time (about 1 note per second for the entire hour) at least once a day for a few weeks is actually somewhat likely to get you to the witness by itself, as long as you eventually tend toward looking at experience through a lens of not-self... so I'm definitely not saying it isn't very attainable -- it just might require you to take your practice to a new level and get a bit more diligent about it.

Some of God's antics include wiping its memory on occasion in order to run experiments, learn deep lessons, and know itself in new ways.

If you want the most effective program without having to stress over it; without causing fitness to take up a significant portion of your life/development... 3 nonconsecutive days a week (i.e. Mo/We/Fr), stop 1-2 reps (3 tops) short of failure, add weight (preferably) or reps every time -- if you fail to do this 2-3 sessions in a row for a specific exercise, take off 10 percent of the weight (for that exercise/movement only), go to 5 reps, and start the ascent again. 2.5 (1.25x2; microplates) or 5 lb jumps for most exercises (10 lb if you started too low / got over 10 reps), 5-20 lb for squat, 10-20 lb for deadlift. Always use weight that would have you failing no later than the 15th rep, but preferably by the 10th rep. 3-4 movements, same ones every single training session: Push -- barbell overhead press OR dips (NOT bench press unless alternated with overhead press, to avoid rotator cuff issues and imbalances, but then you'd be doing them less often, so it's probably best to just choose dips or press and stick with it) -- 2+ (ramped) warm up sets of 5, 3 work sets of 5-10 Pull -- weighted chin-ups (underhand grip) OR bent-over barbell rows -- 2+ warm up sets of 5, 3 work sets of 5-10 Lower -- deadlift -- 2+ warm up sets of 5, 1 (ONE) work set of 5-10 OR squat -- 2+ warm up sets of 5, 3 work sets of 5-10 Curls (optional) -- 2 warm up sets of 5, 1-3 work sets of 5-15 30 min low-impact weight-bearing cardio 3-6 days a week (i.e. Mon-Sat) -- stair climber OR max-incline treadmill walking (preferably with weight vest / pack) At least 2 meals a day (preferably 3-5) At least 100g protein a day -- 0.9g/lb bw is optimal (though not required) for fat-loss/cut/recomp (162g / 180 lb bw) At least 125g carbs a day (thyroid may crash below this) (keto not recommended imo but it probably isn't going to kill you) Limit vegetable oils If you would like to lose weight, or you don't mind skipping breakfast in general, intermittent fasting can be a VERY powerful tool for many -- limit eating hours to 8 per day (i.e. don't consume anything other than water outside the hours of 2 PM to 10 PM) -- for some it can be somewhat of a holy grail, as it allows you to basically not even have to think about portion control, provided you eat enough protein and do a proper lifting protocol.

https://www.lawofone.info/ Generally I’d be the first to dismiss any such thing as airy fairy bs but after copious psychedelics, spiritual labor, mistakes, and run-ins with the ineffable, I can proudly and calmly state that the Law of One has more to offer you than I ever could. Regardless of what exactly it is. It’s an understanding accelerator, imo.

If there is no problem, then there is no mind.