The0Self

God. All there is. That's just a good word for what you really are.

God realization is the direct experience that (and how) you're imagining the entire universe, brought on by an explosion of conscious power, generally with psychedelics but not necessarily -- it's unity consciousness taken as far as possible, basically. Abiding nondual awareness is liberation; the irreversible collapse of separate identity; the seeing-through of other and the illusory ego byproduct (separation from everything), brought on by stripping away all layers of the ego structure/apparatus.

Not confidence really, but pride and self esteem sort of. But so is self doubt. If the only movement available from that is to self confidence or self-esteem, it may be a move that actually involves less layers of delusion after the switch. Less layers of delusion generally involves more humility and gratitude though, more prominently than anything I’d call self esteem, but if anything it’s less (no) lack of self esteem.

The interview convo on ZDoggMD? He’s not going to talk that advanced in a mere introduction to awakening / “awakening, explained” video. But yeah, this is not the same thing as God-realization, which basically requires psychedelics, relatively speaking. This is abiding nondual awareness. I believe in the following video, but certainly in several others as well, it is very clear they’re talking about the equivalent of self inquiry and spiritual autolysis. But not just the technique like any other good source on the topic, the actual experience report of what stripping layers of self away actually looked like for a person waking up from the dream of separation from everything — that's not exactly new, Jed McKenna is a good example too, but variety certainly can’t be found very easily.

Definitely not saying that. Emotions and physicality are not separate from each other. An emotion can be said to be an object, just like any physical constituent. And an emotion will of course have a physical aspect / appear to have physical constituents. Everything you call physical is simply consciousness/emptiness appearing physical though. Materiality / Consciousness is a distinction with no real substance whatsoever — literally they aren’t even two separate things. This still fails to describe the indescribable, but there’s just this singular boundless organic intimacy, the absolute, but if a contracted experiencer seems to be in play, this will appear otherwise via an airtight illusion that makes it seem like you are separate from everything and that there’s an “other” and that there’s something other than the infinite / all that is. The illusion is a byproduct of the creation of perceptual filter layers, and the trick added to the reality (added to what’s really going on, in that sense) is not so hard to pull off (by ego), since the appearance is this intimate. Its amazing how it’s actually possible to seemingly truly feel oneself as a separate self even though literally there isn’t one... It’s possible because the appearance is so intimate and limitless, and the “absolute non-resistance”-constructed emotional/logical/sensitive/ego-apparatus is so damn incredibly, ingeniously engrossing.

Sure one could say chemicals are a tool for how reality creates hedonic/etc experiences. But if you're talking about explaining in the context of a materialist worldview, that can actually be directly seen to not be the case -- there is absolutely no actual physical universe separate from consciousness, or separation of any kind. There is simply the infinite and there are no boundaries except in your imagination. If that doesn't resonate, no matter. Don't believe it, it can only be seen directly.

Oh no doubt. 5-MeO-DMT can induce states of serenity and intensity way more powerful than heroin (even IV H combined with cocaine; yes I was indeed an addict) and even 2nd jhana.

As I alluded to in my comment that you responded to: heroin even at near-OD, though it shares similarities, doesn't feel anything near 3rd Jhana even though opioid receptors are maximally stimulated. IV cocaine, though it shares similarities, doesn't feel anything near 2nd jhana even though dopamine and serotonin receptors are maximally stimulated (edit: maybe it would sort of match a very light 2nd jhana, but for me it's never light; if I'm in jhana I get absorbed hard and it gets I would say literally 5-10 times stronger than cocaine/MDMA and that's being extremely conservative, though it's been like 5 years since I last used cocaine so idk). If anything it has far more to do with opening up to cosmic infinite love (through profound non-resistance) than chemicals -- but it's clear that it's not even that, I just can't describe it to you, because it's indescribable. Not saying chemicals don't play a very significant role.

The thing is, I have taken drugs that maximize the release and activity of the chemical systems in question. Heroin, cocaine, etc. And at their absolute peak they are really just nowhere near as intense as Jhanas. So while these neurological correlates may be correct, there's something else going on that has far more to do with steadiness, openness, insight and identity (in a sense), and lack of fabrication... more so than chemicals. But apart from that... yeah, sounds about right.

Probably helps at first but eventually (as a straight man anyway) you just have to intuitively learn what works. Experiment with dynamics. Some things that felt very weird to me at first have eventually developed into automatic sexual habits because the response they provoke is so intense -- I can tell by how forcefully women momentarily produce lube in their vagina. Sometimes I'll say "good girl" (generally in some context) and it's ridiculous how instantaneously wet some women get... especially the older they are. And that's really not something I would have personally ever expected, no matter how much porn I watched.

It will likely just need to drain. I would presume a thinning out of the mucous and wax would help facilitate this. Some interventions which would induce that include: more fluids, more protein, more exercise. If the tinnitus is a constant very high pitch single tone (rather than the usual white noise sound of silence), particularly on one side, then even though it could be neurological, it's far more likely a perforation in the eardrum, which very likely will heal over time, possibly after any current infection clears up. Maybe get your ears cleaned eventually. One time I had this done. I didn't have any serious ear pain but I was a competitive swimmer with fairly frequent mild ear infections/issues, and so it was suspected there might be some issue... The sheer amount of stuff they pulled out of my ear... It was hard to even believe. I didn't even have hearing issues beforehand which was crazy! They pulled out what looked to be grams and grams of material... and it hurt surprisingly bad when the doc was ripping it out of my ear with tools.

^^^ Very nice resource for whoever wants to know what the process of self inquiry (and spiritual autolysis although I don't think this guy ever read Jed McKenna) looks like.

It's not that hard to find out what his name might be. Jed McKenna (pseudonym), born Peder Remmington Sweeney, later went by Peter Johnson. Apparently, "We know Jed McKenna’s real name because when he registered the copyrights for his first two books, he certified to the US government under penalty of law that his real name was “Peder Sweeney” and that “Jed McKenna” was his pseudonym." https://realization.org/p/jed-mckenna/who-is-jed-mckenna.html (same link the above commenter I'm replying to posted) Copyright claimant listed for first two books is Peder Sweeney. " Putting a false name on a copyright registration would be like putting somebody else’s name on the deed of your house, except it would be even stupider because it would be a violation of the law and would invalidate the registration. If Jed McKenna really did that, he jeopardized his ability to leave the books to his wife or children in his will; jeopardized his ability to sign a contract with a publisher; jeopardized his ability to take legal action against infringers. Nobody who is knowledgeable about publishing and business would do such a thing, and Jed McKenna — call him what you will — is very knowledgeable about business and publishing. "

If you can't see this is an assumption I don't think I'll be able to convince your otherwise.

A quick few examples: Living: Adyashanti Angelo Dilullo MD John Butler Eckhart Tolle No longer living: Jed McKenna (Peder Sweeney) Rob Burbea

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Preaching to the choir. Actually more like speaking what doesn’t need to be spoken. And can’t be. It’s too intimate to describe. Just impossible.

Not going to argue or negate. Cheers

The you that thinks of you as you is not you and won’t know it. You’ll still be where you’ve always been.

The no-doubt, distinctive and very recognizable, "dopamine rush" you describe might have absolutely nothing to do with the chemical dopamine. That is a rather wide open assumption.

Not saying anything that you're refuting is true; you may be right to be skeptical. But as an aside: Consider the possibility that you have no idea whether you can match a physical objective chemical to a consciously felt emotional or hedonic state. And also the possibility (which I'm not saying you don't already maybe agree with) that where you feel an emotion in your physical body has nothing to do with the type of feeling felt.

It'll still just be this. You just won't know it.

I get what you're saying, but I really mean something else. Flyboy's comment just resonated and that's the only reason I commented. I'll concede that the first two Jhanas (maybe 3, even 4) might at least have something to do with chemicals (which come to think of it is not really refuting anything Leight says actually), but as for the later ones? Really to me it's just not even a question at that point. But yeah, in a sense? Sure, makes sense to me. Just looked at the article more closely rather than just glancing. Guess it wasn't really mentioning the later ones. Still though there's something fishy about it that I can easily see but there's no way to relay that information, you'd have to practice the jhanas.

Very much same here. I could totally be wrong though, relatively speaking, just assuming for the purpose of structure (in order to communicate anything) that neurochemistry means anything at all. Also, I'm rather surprised that someone as proficient in Jhanas as Leigh Brasington would have this view. Jhana's very clearly go utterly way beyond mere chemicals in a brain.

"Why?" just wouldn't be in the cards, my friend. If it is "seen" (don't have a better word), it's like "oh THAT'S why it's impossible to describe liberation..." I wouldn't even say it's because it's too close, and it's certainly not complicated, it's not even possible to describe why it's indescribable -- "too simple" perhaps gets closest as to why (except it's not even that). There's basically no "it," and yet it's indescribably different from how it (seemingly) was before (edit: underlined because this really is a mind-blowing paradox...). This attempt at a description doesn't even touch it (and is, I must say, pointless)... but it's almost like everything is exactly the same but with no one home and no separation between anything (or things to be separate from) and no one making stuff happen -- just boundlessness. And miraculously, even choices happen on their own as they always do. It's already right here closer than close, too close to see, but an intuition might clearly see it, or it might not yet. If seen, you simply turn towards that, without even trying to (in fact if there's a lot of resistance and fear, you'll inevitably try not to). Any description is no more or less conceptual a description than any other, and therefore falls flat in describing the absolutely indescribable intimacy of this.