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The tones in the replies cracked me up a little.

I have had sleep paralysis more than 50 times and only been scared a handful of times. I’ve learned to enjoy it, to be curious about my hallucinations, curious about astral projection as a result. It doesn’t have to be negative experience at all if you just relax. You will see scary things if you’re scared but if you’re relaxed it will reflect and you might not see anything

Instead of feeling a ~need~ to understand this you could accept not knowing and yet approach it with curiosity. It’s like: you don’t NEED to figure things out but you’re curious naturally. It’s a more relaxed state of doing contemplation from. It’s where I feel I am Sorry if what I said doesn’t apply to you. What I kinda mean is that the mind creates this massive complex story about one’s life, and it seems damn there’s so much stuff going on, so much to figure out, but in actuality there’s not a need for that. It’s possible to live with more presence than that in the midst of the turmoil of the mind Also spiritual work can be disorienting because the self and the mind is not inherently this super stable structure so your paradigm is bound to break a little or even collapse sooner or later when you start questioning things and doing things that rewire brain like meditation. But trust in that when the old identity, paradigm dies away, something new and perhaps deeper and more exciting might await….thats how it was for me usually

Do you know if there is benefit to pushing body extremely hard like ultrarunners who run sometimes 24 hours? I have tried to run hard but I give up too quick

Ok coach🫡

This thread 😂😂😂😂

I can relate to that first part. When I took 5 Meo (low dose, I was a bit scared to go higher) I experienced it like “dead” and “empty” like I couldn’t possible live my life in that state because it’s so dead, it wasn’t rich at all, it’s like you reach the end of a reality, it wasn’t full, so I wanted to have my self back when I was in it. So I wonder how higher dose would be like, or a different kind of experience

I can relate to that when I tried

I’ve had spiritual experiences during sleep paralysis so maybe there’s something to it

@Petals sorry I’ll stop

lol you’re gonna bully me but I lowkey wanted to change to change to “Slavicimpostor” 😂because I’m Slavic and impostor is kinda mysterious and like I’m not what I seem

I picked the name (which I don’t like today it’s ugly) because of something like that, like I’m hiding or something

I feel 5 Meo dmt does that erasing of the border. At least when I tried it; but I did low dose so it was still a little ego left. I imagine higher dose is full erasing of border. Do you feel the openness on 5 Meo is different than the one you can achieve naturally or not?

Hahah funny but no. I don’t remember why I picked the name, I don’t like it I’d like to change it

A near death experience for me is when my self was almost dissolved

All I am familiar with is the process of disintegration of the self and it ended up with me feeling like I was approaching nothingness. I guess I haven’t done the opening aspect so its hard to grapple what that is- maybe it’s only obvious when it actually happens Yea I would need the direct experience to make sense of this. Sometimes I don’t even know what state of consciousness I am in. Because I’ve been through profound permanent shifts but I barely even know what they were about. For me it definitely seems almost impossible to dissolve the self 😂 It’s like you need to do something significant to the brain to achieve it

I meant it might be wrong

That’s your view

I did solve some issues but other different issues appeared yes

No

Lol Weird occasion to say “thanks”

I still have trouble distinguishing judgment, labelling, identifying and assigning meaning. But it’s ok

I do agree to a certain degree because I found some of my stress used to be about having my own internal experience in the spot light all the time. But counterintuitively it was precisely this inward focus that led me to permanently solve those issues

It could also be the opposite. You pay attention to something scary because it aids your survival. You want to get rid of that scary thing. You could flip it upside down and say that means we have desire to survive. Then we could ask the question you said

That’s such a broad question. For example big difference between attention moving towards pain in the body and attention moving towards someone with a strange outfit walking past you