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@Breakingthewall It keeps it spicy.

@Breakingthewall Ever have a day where everything seemed to be an incoherent interference pattern?

Night club fire history: The Coconut Grove in 1942. Air conditioning was first being introduced. A big deal at that time with advertising signs stating, "Air Conditioned". But! The ac system used a flammable gas. A leak in the system plus flammable decor and cigarettes ended in total tragedy. Bodies piled up at the only exit. Part of the problem was also due to the exit doors swung inwards not outwards.

Just because it can.

Perhaps the "White Holes" you sometimes refer to need investigation?

@emil1234 I think the biggest takeaway should be that consciousness, something so fundamental to everyday life but yet so often overlooked and taken for granted, be appreciated for what it really is. Everything! And this insight was bought about thanks to those who dared to experiment with psychedelics. Like great explorers set out on sailing ships to discover new lands. Or deep-sea expeditions to the bottom of the ocean. Or astronauts traveling into unknown space all for the advancement of mankind. BTW Have you read any of the books by Robert Lanza like Biocentrism on the subject of consciousness? There he applies mostly physics. How the observer through conscious awareness collapses the wave function to create the material world we know.

@emil1234 One thing did notice is your use of the word 'consciousness' in two different contexts. Here you use it as a means to gauge intelligence. Be careful with that in your paper. You don't want to confuse anyone. Another is more personal preference, but I wouldn't even mention psychedelics. But that's your call. It's your paper. But it gives the impression to the reader that somehow consciousness is something that can only be appreciated during non-ordinary states of awareness when in fact consciousness is fundamental to the very existence and experience of all of reality from birth till death and perhaps beyond regardless of psychedelic use. Perhaps I should ask what the exact subject of your paper is. Psychedelics? Consciousness? Or the diverse viewpoints which can arise within academia with the consciousness argument being used only as an example.

Enough already. Sheesh people. THIS TOPIC IS LOCKED! @Inception God speed brother. Wishing you all the best.

Just be.

@Natasha Tori Maru You'll know before I do since you're living in the future.

@Natasha Tori Maru Same to you. Happy New year! Two more hours to go here.

Same here. I'm no longer searching. If something new comes my way, I'll gladly accept it. But these days I'm more like a frog just sitting on a lily pad basking in the warm glow of the sun. And if a fly happens to cross my path.... Gulp!

I forgot exactly where it was, but it was a big venue. I wonder what the attendance was like. Spent nearly a fortune on advertising for it.

@Miguel1 I cut my teeth on Alan Watts in my 20's and later on Adashanti

He came to a city near me a few years back and I remember tickets being quite pricy. Around $150.00 USD to listen to a spiritual comedian. Gotta love that chuckle after he makes a funny.

My left ear is pretty bad, and I hear no difference using only one ear.

I could see that. One's like parachuting out of an airplane and the other like coming down a really long ladder.

@Oppositionless What I'm referring to is you vanish without a trace. You don't exist; you never existed. Not even an empty mind remains. I don't know all the lingo but when one is in a state of samadhi you surrender to it, and it absorbs you completely. Like a wave that disappears back into the ocean.

Try staring back at yourself in a mirror and see how long you last.

Expect anything. You'll run the gambit. The biggest take away will be the realization that the difference between dreaming and waking reality doesn't differ much.

@Oppositionless Have you ever 'experienced' the non-experience of Turia, or this niroda somapatti you mentioned? Either in deep meditation or 5meo? Just wondering. BTW not sure where you got the information that "deep sleep is from the animal body" but that's not my understanding. In Hinduism deep sleep is known as Sushupti = a union with universal consciousness. And in Buddhism it is seen as a merging with Brahman. Similar to deep meditation without active awareness.

To die into infinity's self-recognition. Complete absorption = you vanish. That is Turia.

I really do appreciate your honest answer. Thanks

@Oppositionless Cool. Were kind of on the same page here. What I'm contemplating is whether infinite consciousness needs an ego to be present to be realized. In other words, if death means the disappearance of the ego/self into infinite consciousness than sugar can't taste sugar -So, to speak. So only by way of the separate ego/the finite, can infinite consciousness be realized? And yes, I was relating that based on what I have heard about the experience of 5 meo

Just for clarification are saying you are aware of infinite consciousness in death.