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Leo I think you underestimate a daily meditation practice for producing mystical states. But I think that's bc as you said in one of your other posts, you're not very mentally loose, so you need a more hardcore practice like kriya yoga. But for someone who is loose I think kriya yoga can actually be too much.

Scientists are currently giving people IV drips of dmt to see what happens when someone is in hyperspace for long periods of time . One of the goals of the project is to attempt to have a "veridical dmt trip." Veridical meaning the participant acquired information they wouldn't have otherwise known, this could prove that the realms and entities encountered on dmt are real, or at least, as real as this realm.

Plenty of western studios teach real yoga.

The Monroe institute has classes where they claim to teach you spoonbending in 6 hours

@Hyperion that's very inspiring . Meditation helped you deal with your Dhukka? Did you need external help as well therapy etc? I did kriya yoga daily for some time but eventually it started feeling demonic like tapping into dark energies , sometimes I'd feel a presence in the room after doing it.

@Hyperion yeah I try to do 2 a year haha I wish! Meditation doesn't come naturally to me at all . I have to fight and work my ass off just to sit for 20 minutes lol. It gets easier on a retreat but still a pain.

Zen retreat (sesshin). I don't go to those 10 day vipassana retreats because they're too long (at least for this part of my path). A sesshin is usually 4 or 5 days.

yeah more or less. Never been sick that long before.

Ive been sick for almost three weeks now. Thankfully the acute fever only lasted two weeks . But damn, this sucks. Totally has made me recontexualize health.

After this last retreat I went on, I think idealism might just be the final stepping stone before you can finally embrace direct realism. The realization I had is that phenomena simply exist . I already knew they didn't come from a brain; but I was still attached to the idea they come from consciousness. Even writing this I'm doubting it, but the realization on retreat was obvious : phenomena exist, nothing creates them, not even consciousness. Ironically direct realism is the unconscious view we all had as babies, so when you deconstruct your conditioning, you come back to the natural viewpoint . This is a very recent development for me but I wanted to share bc it's profound. When I think about it it doesn't make sense , I'm not sure the intellect can understand it. The intellect assumes cause and effect , that everything has a source .

I've started to realize that all psychedelics, no matter how good the trip is, lead to emotional instability for me in the following days and weeks.

A thought I had last night . People will shit on mainstream music while taking mainstream science at face value .

sometimes when you're at a point of absolute desperation and misery, on the verge of giving up, something will come up, it might feel like a sign, to get you to keep going. that to me is the essence of manifestation. Most of the really big "manifestations" I've had , have been when I was at rock bottom . Lol.

Two days ago I made fun of my friend for being a valley girl, a day later ended up on a date with a literal valley girl.

It's pretty easy to breakthrough with a cartridge on 5 meo (unlike NN).