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@cetus Theres an argument for God called the fine-tuning argument. It says that the fundamental constants of physics are so precisely tuned that if they were different by an absurdly small amount , not only would there be no life but there wouldn't even be complex particles . Unfortunately this argument isn't taken seriously as it should be because it's usually religious people using it. The best materialist argument against fine tuning seems to be the multiverse . That there are infinite "dead" universes and we just got lucky . It's interesting because the OTHER multiverse theory , based on quantum mechanics, is to avoid the observer effect and collapse of the wave function in quantum mechanics. In short, materialists seem to invoke the multiverse for two discoveries in nature that point to idealism / God. And these are different types of multiverse , so for it to work for both you would need infinite universes branching into yet more infinite universes. To be specific , the multiverse used to argue against fine tuning is based on string theory , and the one to explain quantum observer wave function collapse is the Everett multiverse. Yet idealism explains both, and it explains consciousness.

Ever since 5 meo weed can trigger 5 meo type experiences . Where the thinker falls away and there's only being . It doesn't last long . It was freaky , still kind of is, but overall it's a good feeling. NN dmt had more pronounced after effects. I spontaneously began having astral projections and samadhis when I was using it. If I could get some more I bet it would happen again, but I find NN more intimidating than 5 meo. My full blown, what I see as my deepest awakening, was a visceral feeling of the world being generated from my heart , and occured not during but the day after vaporizing a lot of NN

Curious- do you know whether this was a psilocybin gummy or a 4 aco / other 4 sub gummy? I have 4 aco gummies I've been sitting on for awhile , a bit nervous to try them bc my mushroom trips have always been crazy intense , way more alien and freaky than other psychedelics.

nothing exists without consciousness but consciousness also doesn't do anything . The One Mind has both awareness (emptiness) and generative properties (shakti, nous)

@Hojo material reality is a way for consciousness to invent an explanation for the Absolute

There no reason to only read the books on Leo's list .

This next year I'm going to prioritize my health over all. I've decided to give up the alpha ideal , cancel my gym membership and instead spend my money on physical activity I actually enjoy (yoga classes). Gym is quite boring to me but the alpha programming told me I should try to get bigger.

@Miguel1 Ive deepened my realization of God more this year more then any other but in the human domain I still have so much self hatred . It's a strange place to be.

Lmaooo Okay but still , it's very easy to get 4 subs at smoke shops in the US

It's almost certainly a 4- sub tryptamine. 4 pro dmt is being used in some lately instead of 4 aco, there's also 4 ho met which is quite distinct from mushrooms.

My favorite for researching is grok. Claude still glazes sometimes .

@cetus I think there's an intrinsic difficulty in comparing psychedelic vs meditative experiences that is responsible for our apparent disagreement , because I relate to exactly what you just said now . It's just that in the case of the psychedelic it's accompanied by more "extra" energies, primarily a feeling of intensity leading up to the ego death .

I've experienced emptiness of mind and loss of identification with experience (this might be Turiya depending on your definition) but not the total cessation of experience as in Niroda , or Nirvikalpa samadhi. Im working on my humor so I say things sometimes specifically because they make me laugh , but what I really meant when I said b sleep is from the animal body is sleep is merging with Brahman by decreasing consciousness and awakening is merging with Brahman by increasing consciousness.

I'd reccomend looking into Jean Gebser's stages of consciousness , and the YouTuber Formscapes' videos on them. I find that model more useful than SD.

God is just consciousness... wrong ?

It gave me the impression that death is the end of illusion because it's the end of the ego. And that the only non illusory state is the highest state . I'm not confident what that entails in terms of fine details, like duration or what comes "'next"

Okay, but that's not deep sleep . Deep sleep is from the animal body, it's not ultimate . Buddhism has niroda samapatti which is complete loss of consciousness Whatever the highest state of consciousness is is what happens after death; not the lowest, sleep, looking to the physical world ,

Yes . That's what my 5 meo dmt experiences have indicated. And some, but not all, NDEs culminate in infinite consciousness. But it's not you being conscious of infinity, it's more like infinity's self-recognition. It could be different , obviously I haven't physically died, but that’s how these experiences (5 meo, some NDEs) are often interpreted phenomenologically, and how I interpreted my two breakthroughs on 5 meo.

Not a ghost. God / infinity. Another way of saying it is, yes the ego dissolves in both deep sleep and death , but in sleep that dissolution is accompanied by zero consciousness while at deaths it's accompanied by infinite consciousness.

TL:DR Math helps you understand the manifest world , but not the unmanifest source. -------------------------- This is somewhat tangential, but have you noticed that when people argue for idealism it's usually to explain some of the parts of reality that materialism cant seem to explain? Such as consciousness , or remote viewing, or near death experiences, or the observer effect in quantum mechanics. Those are all valid reasons to be an idealist but I think another equally valid reason is that idealism explains basic physics better than materialism . Physics doesn't really describe matter , it describes math, and math comes from mind . Math is a different kind of experience than sensation. It's internally generated. It can provide insight into the physical world, almost like reverse engineering how God constructs the world. But it can be a source of delusion too. Because reality and intelligibility are infinite , illusion is also infinite . There's a place for intellectual understanding, but peace and absolute truth are found in non coneptual being. If math can teach you about the Saguna Brahman , God with qualities, pure being can teach you about Nirguna Brahman, God without qualities.

If anything, you might be able to plug the liquid if the nasal route doesn't work. I ended up doing that, but it seemed to have made my butt dry for awhile , ymmv.

I think deep sleep is actually the complete opposite of death. In deep sleep the filter is at max power, in death the filter goes away. And in waking life the filter is at like 50% power.

Deep sleep is so weird to me. If everything is God / consciousness I'm not sure how deep sleep or anasthesia could even exist, so I thought what if there's really just an unbroken chain of experience from falling asleep to waking up . Death could be the same, although I don't exactly see why it should necessarily be anything like sleep, sleep occurs while the brain is still active. Comparing death to sleep is natural but not really grounded in anything but assumption.

Oh yeah dude my first purchase of 5 meo was nasal spray and it ended up being a big waste of time in terms of having a breakthrough dose ... if you try to take a full release dose in that form you're in for a bad time, I came very close to puking , absolutely foul liquid . But I can see how it wouldn't be too bad if you legitimately just wanted to microdose . Probably even better for microdosing than a cartridge.

Also I don't see the Absolute as a moral agent in itself . Rather, the absolute contains both good and evil , and good is actualized when an individual realizes the absolute.