The0Self

Her writings are amazing. I haven't even read that much of it, but I can tell her writings are up there with the most significant spiritual writings of all time.

Complete enlightenment guide: Objects = -> I = } Attention = red/big ; Ignoring = green/small Normal: ->} Inquiring: ->} Let every -> simply remind you of }, and turn away from all -> in favor of } at all times. The only significance of any -> is that it occurs to }. Do this with constant effort until the effort is taken from you like a thief in the night. Wherever you aren’t doing this = your attachments; the things that you care about more than truth. Or merely surrender the idea that there is an individual separate self who is doing action or inaction. Surrendering it to something such as God or a purpose can help. You can theoretically do that all in one stroke... but more likely, a little bit at a time. That’s inquiry and surrender. And ultimately they’re the same process from two different perspectives, so it may be best to try both — one may resonate with one character more than the other. You attempt to do either one at all times while awake, which is impossible at first, but the culmination of the process is synonymous with it automatically happening at absolutely all times, because it’s recognized that it was always already the case. The third way: First, simply develop the art of finding out what you authentically desire, and either 1. coax that desire toward the desire for truth alone, or 2. recognize that you want something other than enlightenment and stop wasting your time (perfectly valid). You always get what you authentically desire, in the end. Then, once you desire truth above all else, this marks the beginning of the awakening process, and you will be just equipped enough for the daunting task of figuring out what you know for sure, until nothing is left but truth. You must desire truth above all else for this because without that desire, the unknowing; unlearning; giving-up of the ideas about your self; life; others; teachers; etc that you cling to will simply be too painful to go through with. If you’re seeing an other anywhere — i.e. seeing two — then there’s still further.

Belief is married to doubt. Whereas true faith is the absence of doubt, and therefore also the absence of belief. Just the way I see it. But it can start out as belief in what seems to likely be a fact -- taking a risk by diving into a new paradigm.

If there is only Heaven, it would be unknowable whether one is in Heaven or not, because there would be no contrast -- and that is precisely the case. In knowing, heaven and hell are just the play of opposites which allow for the dramatic aspect of the absolute/Heaven: the divine play.

The wholesome forms of faith, as I see it, are as follows: Ultimately, surrender to truth. In the context of practice, faith is withdrawal from the useless unanswerable doubt, so that one can remain single pointed in their goal.

The material associated with consciousness to onlookers or your self at a different time from when you’re unconscious, is rendered temporarily dormant. Either through virtual disconnection via neuronal receptors, or some other apparent mechanism — this is an explanation, and no explanation (nor mechanism) is actually ultimately true. From the first person perspective, there can never be unconsciousness. General anesthesia essentially induces unconsciousness. Deep sleep isn’t unconsciousness — you still feel like time has passed, there’s just no memory of what happened and there probably wasn’t really anything to see anyway... but during general anesthesia, it’s actually unconsciousness which is why it’s perceived only after the fact as basically instantly time traveling to the future with no gap. But if course that’s only the case for onlookers in the story, not the one associated with the body that appears to be unconscious.

Judgement. They can happen a lot when the mind begins to truly get quiet for the first time as well. Just let it happen and observe without judgement. When no one is listening to them, they tend to not arise very much, and when they do, no one cares.

It can definitely happen. You know how in nonduality meetings, when someone asks how they can get enlightened, the speaker will say: "You'll have to go elsewhere for that." ? Well, in a sense, they're actually not kidding... Though, of course, at the culmination of the process, it will invariably be obvious that there was no process. Some ways to avoid bypassing are 1. self inquiry (and/or viewing yourself as already being fully surrendered to activity) and most importantly, 2. the art of determining exactly what it is that you authentically desire. That's sort of the whole game, in my view.

In the sense that they're not separate. One is, the other isn't -- if the you referred to is the individual.

I doubt it. In my experience the psychosis from dopamine and serotonin overload is more like hearing voices in white-noise-like-sound such as air conditioning noise, buying into far more synchronicities than usual, feelings of aliens watching or communicating with you, etc. Or here was a big one for me: a certain thought comes up, and right after that, the house randomly creaks, and you immediately feel that the universe is telling you that thought had some kind of importance... Dead giveaway

The desire for truth + self honesty, especially if you don’t really desire truth — admitting that would be the first step to openness to truth, and in that sense of desire (authentic desire), you always get what you want, you just have to know what that is — and it’s easy to not know. Knowing what you want is an art in itself — deeply intuitive — I couldn’t tell you the how but that’s the what.

When the answer to this question is arrived at, it will not be answered in the usual sense. It’ll be the dissolution of the framework within which such a question makes sense.

I am aware = the irreducible datum of personal experience. Ultimately, there is no I am to be aware — there is only pure awareness and any thing or object that appears is merely that pure awareness appearing to take form. Only appearing to take form. If objective appearance is mistaken to be real, it will seem that there is an I or subject who is aware of it. I am that I am = the only truth is that there is truth (or consciousness).

Beginning stages of psychosis from dopamine and serotonin overload. Or access to ways of seeing that are normally not available. Take your pick.

L-theanine works pretty well too

The question only arises from ignorance

Sounds like you have a lot of integrity, self awareness, and experience, but this idealistic approach of yours is no small impediment and you’d be well served to not place so much importance on sex. Do you want 1. sex to retain its meaningfulness in exactly the way you describe, or 2. do you want to find the best long term partner? It’s not like you can’t try to do both, but if #2’s importance eclipses #1’s (not saying it does for you), then act accordingly. And be aware when you are acting from fear of your heart getting broken. Oftentimes facing your fears gets you what you really want.

Bananas and peaches do this to me. It could be related to a deviated septum as well (especially if you’ve ever broken your nose), as it was in my case.

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Just make sure that whenever you eat, you’re eating protein — that’s the main thing. Intermittent fasting does not appear to have benefits outside of calorie restriction but at least for some it’s a very effective way to do that with ease.

It’s a health supplement as well as a performance supplement. One of the safest and most effective dietary supplements. May even have cognitive benefits for the elderly

Lead and mercury are the primary concern — that’s basically what is meant by “heavy metals.” Especially mercury. Cadmium and arsenic to a lesser degree as well but even those aren’t nearly as problematic as lead and mercury. The main reason to take DMSA (and/or ALA) is to attempt to lessen or rid the body of lead and mercury.

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If you burped, would you be full? Not unless you ate prior. On the other hand, if duality is seen through, a side-effect is no longer believing you’re special. But the side-effects of seeing through duality probably can’t themselves be used to see through duality. Seems like a nice cheat code — if only it would work. To see through duality, you simply have to see through duality. How? Simply by desiring the truth more than the false. That’s basically all that’s required. This could maybe be cultivated through attempting self inquiry (or surrendering voluntary action and inaction) as much as possible, until the frustration of not getting anywhere with it prompts you into doing it literally all the time. The activities that seem to prevent you from doing it are simply the attachments standing in the way. In the end, you can’t actually do surrender, because you already are fully surrendered, and that’s exactly where the frustration comes from — you’re trying to do what you are; what is already the case. Healing trauma is definitely worthwhile though.

Nice! Ketamine can be more powerful than 5-MeO-DMT but in an entirely different way. Definitely one of my favorites. Don’t settle for cheap RC dissociatives like deschloroketamine — standard RS-ketamine is where it’s at. Or methoxetamine from what I’ve heard, but I think MXE has basically vanished from the face of the earth.