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@FlyingLotus Haha good one! That last boss challenge is certainly nothing for a spiritual couchpotato, that's for dang sure! That pic is quite awesome^^

Exactly so. It may even take a stone buddha to pull it off. Or.. One could just get another couch:-)

Oh shit! Someone must have been contemplating alot on that one. And probably reached enlightenment by now by the looks of it^^

With a short glance at this thread I first thought that the question was "Should I have 2 couches?". I mean... Yeah man go for it, sometimes you need to switch it up, change your position, sit down and relax into another point of view. So the answear to your question works for either one, whether it is about couches or coaches doesn't really matter in the end as you see..;)

Truth: It is. So it has always been so.

I'd say that we can trust the psychadelic experience to the extent that it is capable to show us and ground us into a deepers state of love in our sober day to day life.

Allow your curiosity to lead the way. When you stumble onto some new age stuff. Ask yourself the following questions : Is this really for me? How can this serve me? In what way is this helpful to my curent understanding?

We first and foremost rely on our memory inorder to branch out further from the singularity that conciousness entails. Not to mention how convincing a apparent causality becomes as it get's ingrained daily from any activity you do. Here is a little thought experiment. Imagine if you where to drink until you barely could stand up straight. And that you had someone following you that documented your drunken journey that day by filming you. The result would be blackouts in your memory, as if what you did that particular day didn't even happen. And even when you can remember something, it's quite the illusory process in terms of evidence of something. As memory always are a residue from the past experienced in this eternal moment. Your memory is always relative in it's quality, but usually taken for absoulte truth as it arises.

I agree with this description. To see it like dreams feels like the most grounded yet effective way to go about it, inorder to not create unnecessary delusions from one's past experiences out of assumption.

Alright, thanks!

You tell me. It is in your making.

Well, you are right about that it is all thoughts. But claiming what I believe or not is your own thinking at work here.

Obviously not, since I am the one answearing it. I don't question my own answears, I only question the context to which I am about to respond to. Ok enough of this. I say Yes to your question. I opened my eyes this morning. What about it?

If the answear always are the same for you, then you implied that you already know it. So why ask in the first place? And how is your question relevant to my first response? You got me curious here

It depends in what context you ask the question. You seem to be into word games I see.. hmm

I think the realness, is contained in your inspired inner motivation. And should not be mixed up with the realness that a physical wall provide in relation to your actuall body. After all, it is a body/mind experience to be human. But the motivation behind a certain action will in a sense always be more real than the physical boundaries that the world provide. If you sort out and align your inner motivations and apply them in a good holistic use in relation to the physical world. Then you should get closer to what real means in a absolute sense, as in contrast with chasing tails and promises that are disguised under the lable future.

Sounds more like you can't distinguish between thought and silence if that was to happen. Most people are not aware when they are thinking, so for them it's probably already identical as you suggest. But that doesn't exactly make them enlightened. When thinking subsides, then there simply is no thinking any more. So no thinking doesn't mean that the silence suddenly are identical to thinking, or that is should be. The only common ground thought and silence share, is that only one of them can take place in this moment.

That may be so, but for a good reason I assume. If someone are scared from a bad tripp, then that sure require some sober contemplation, as in contrast to those who seems to tripp tirelessly to shase after the next big high.

Yes, that groundeness is what most people need to explore from. But the irony of it all, Is that the more experience someone may be with a particular substance, the more egoic they often can become from their vivid experiences. As Alan Watts famously said. "When you got the message, hang up the phone." But how many are willing to do that really? Also, how many tripps do one need inorder to become enlightened then10? 500? 1000? 10 000? I think it's to easy to get lost in belief that a drug will do it for you at some stage. Psychedelics may help to break your stubborn fundamental misconception about the material reality, but that is also the main message most people may need. If you tripp to much, then you probably are at a higher risk to replace your curent beliefs/delusions with even more trippy and confusing beliefs in the end.

I think it would be hard to know for sure what other underlying conditions it would be that could be the other half of the case for a so called covid death. Death by obesity for example, would probably not fly as an explanation of a cause of death, even though that would be a huge long term contributing factor most likely. I think that covid labled death can be somewhat misleading, but mostly so in individual cases. One must take into account for general statistics when it comes to large number of people rather than looking to much into unique individual cases. I think they reason as such, that if a person dies who had covid, chances are that covid could be the actual tipping point despite underlying conditions. Because underlying health conditions are in general also long term conditions, as opposed to covid that speed up the whole process to a earlier death. So it's probably not as black and white as one may initially think. Also, the video you provided is done with intention to inform the public on how they count, so it's quite transparent information that is easy for anyone to digest.

First of all I'm sorry, this is a 8 min long video. But it's just too good not to share here, so if you have 8 min to spare, then just watch it. It is gold!

Exactly, it has to be baked potato. And a word sallad as a side dish

@Waken @Nahm @The0Self Guys guys, this is not a fruitful pursuit.. ;-)

Adyashanti didn't make any controversial claim in this vid at all. All he said was, that he wasn't persuaded by most of those who had taken something to boost their own spiritual progress. He also didn't deny the potential usefulness aid that a drug can be. I have not listened to much of Adyashantis talks, but he seems exceptionally grounded and clear minded from what I've seen. And that can sometimes be triggering to anyone with grandious and rigid ideas.

@Johnny Galt It is not to far fetched at all to assume that someone that was already in bad health, or had other health issus was passing away earlier as a result of covid. It has been common knowledge from the very beginning that older folks naturally are at a higher risk. That is pretty much what she confirmed in the video, but with other words. A fragile immune system, can shut down in various ways if it is pushed into overdrive from something like covid.