Meeksauce

For me it's associating any sound with words in my head - not necessarily hearing voices independent of my own "thinker" speaking independent thoughts to own to me. I've felt I've always had insight into myself and mind - enough to strongly consider these voices aren't real many times - so I don't think I can be classified as classic psychosis. I do smoke weed and cigarettes, but I believe they are only catalysts for underlying trauma of loss in my near family recently, not underlying causes. All of these "big mental health" disclaimers aside let's get to the deep part. If reality is subjective and constructed from mind, there is nothing stopping me from building my own self constructed prison of voices that seem to be real and violate reality. This must be a curse or something my higher self is inducing upon myself to induce rapid growth. Or else it would not be possible.. thoughts? Any similar experiences? Differing experiences?

Try just listening. All the time. Listening puts you in a higher spiritual plane and keeps you grounded. Also, Yoga Nidra is goated for body awareness and this is the best video I've found. When I do this I usually lose the sensation of having a body.

I say yes, all signs point to yes. It is the most simple and elegant solution, as explaining a finite universe is much more difficult. Scientific discoveries will only further point to this over time. For example, the discovery of the universe being curved to such a degree that it is basically flat, which easily lends to a spatially infinite universe (like a minecraft superflat infinite world. If you have a curved universe you will end up in the same spot if you travel long enough in a straight line.) I propose that when the big bang happened the universe became infinite immediately and what we know of as the expansion of space is actually just a "render" that can go faster than light.

Pure mind occurs before location. This is just speaking at a relative level for intellectual curiosity.

Based as usual. To me it seems like reality can have the illusion of appearing in 3d while simultaneously being in 2d - since you have depth perception but on an absolute level there's actually nothing behind the objects you see or no ground, it's like a painting you can choose to step inside of.

Good comment. I'll pose a countering idea - in your oil example, if space is the oil, then what's the water? In other words, shouldn't space be expanding into something? It's hard to imagine a ball or box with an inside only.

I got kbbq earlier with my fiance and while the meat was cooking in front of us I kept singing the Gollum song from Lord of the rings in my head "Our only wish, to catch a fish, so juicy sweet!" This was not on my mind at all at the time, but afterwards we went ring shopping because we recently got engaged. You can read this as a synchronicity, God using my thoughts to operate on multiple levels, or just a very wide subconscious field that subtlety manifested itself. Either way I just thought this was really funny

I realized after I wrote this that arbitrariness is considered one the main ideas of gender, so yeah I would consider that point correct. I think however, that if you completely ignore your birth given sex and just say "chromosomes and genitalia are arbitrary" you are denying some very basic facts about biology. There are studies showing men and women naturally have different personalities, and of course the classic counter to that is "but those differences are due to societal structure!" To which I would say yes, that is partially true, but I would argue there are also inherent personality traits that form before society can get its' grip on you - this is also scientifically backed. But Leo, scientifically backed doesn't mean anything! Did evolution not happen? Does the body you were given, functioning autonomously with an insane degree of intelligence, just appear out of nowhere? Maybe this is a hot take, but I think men and women evolved to live in harmony which results in the greatest survival likelihood rate. But Leo, that's just survival! Yes, the whole point of my argument is that biological and sociological factors play in. The natural difference between males and females may not be huge, but it certainly is there before conditioning.

10 years is a pretty solid guess. Thca is horrible imo anyways It's definitely a cheat code. I would argue psilocybin is more likely to get legalized in the future than 4 aco/amanita blends are to get banned. But yeah, who knows.

You are literally nothing - reality is occurring in a tangential dimension to you. Anything you see and experience, no matter how good or bad, is in a dimension "beneath" you. Yes you are all of it but the true self is kind of like an implosion between internal and external.

It's definitely a cheat code. I would argue psilocybin is more likely to get legalized in the future than 4 aco/amanita blends are to get banned. But yeah, who knows.

Do you ever have a thought, and then as soon as you zone back into reality you have the exact word or idea you thought repeated back to you? To me this is evidence of God and a mental reality, not schizophrenia. Only God doesn't come out to you full stop because he always wants to remain slippery and difficult to find at a base state of consciousness. Also, Leo, have you ever considered adding a like button to topics or replies? Obviously there are group think dangers with that but also benefits.

You can say sex is arbitrary and different from gender, but how would you know that's not an arbitrary and meaningless belief in itself? Just because a lot of people agree on something, doesn't make them right. The entire planet can agree on something and be wrong. I think people can pretend to be whatever they want, but don't force me to believe whatever you want me to believe.

Things tend to be paradoxically "both and neither". And yes language is a construction, but it not required for understanding. When you truly know a thing it is underneath the level of language. The fact that we can find meaning and homeostasis, things that work at the time, even at lower levels of evolution, show that reality is not completely arbitrary. There is meaning and understanding at the subjective level and not-knowing at the absolute level.

It was a road trip 4-aco gummy. Those things hit. Would highly recommend. Also if you don't feel like tripping, just wait for the right time. It could be months, but you'll usually know if it's time. It could also be said that you will never be fully ready and now is a good a time as ever. Balance those at your discretion.

I asked ChatGPT and Grok which one is better. They both said themselves. Even though they are bots, their programming reflects the political bias of the environment in which they were created and is a direct metaphor to point of view bias - you don't know what you don't know. Although I will say - Grok is further right than ChatGPT is left. It's unhelpful to think of politics in perfectly symmetrical polarities, I think usually the true answer to problems takes multiple points of view into account and is never a hard right or hard left, nor perfectly in the middle. There is no completely pure, untainted knowledge coming from anyone on this planet so to assume your one source is the right one is the same as saying your one religion that you grew up with and is the only thing you have ever known is absolutely correct.

I think we have a lot of common ground - I would further your argument by saying there is a logos and understandability to reality - and that is one of the deepest existential topics you can contemplate - as Einstein said, "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."

Buddha taught that karma is how the architecture or imprint of mind transfers from one life and creates the next. In other words, the state or quality of your mind when you die directly transfers over and generates the next experience. It's not that action=consequence, rather action=long term imprinting on your own mind that generates the next "house" or reality you will live in. It's like dreaming at night - whatever your mental state was before crossing over greatly influences your dream and its rules. He said beings could be sent to hell realms for this reason, not by way of hanus acts being wrong in and of themselves. The lowest of which, Avīci, he said to last unimaginable yet not infinite time spans. Beings sent there, were not sent, but rather their own minds dreamt that hell realm after a previous life of committing atrocities which conditioned it into that state. Karma is said by Buddha to take an extremely long time to exhaust, which is why the punishment feels unproportionate to the crime. In the Pāli Canon, he says "This existence is a disease, a boil, a dart". He also claims it is not safe to be here due to the hell realms that can last for 10^40^40 years (that's the modern number, but in his words it was something like "the amount of time it takes to wipe out a mountain if you wipe it with a rag every 100 years".) For this reason liberation/ending of the rebirth cycle should be sought.

Omen or nah?

After 100+ dmt trips and two breakthroughs, I've concluded that somehow it has a lot to do with how reality is constructed. Most trips are more or less similar - rapid, chaotic, inner parts of your subconscious playing out at lightspeed, but every now and then something will happen that shocks you. A smile will spiral from across the room and land on your face, an 8k shooting star with a kaleidoscope stream slowly shoots across your room, you travel to an alien universe where they connect you to their "internet" and suddenly you can understand everything they say, you're able to control the decor and arrangement of your room with your mind instantly like it's the sims - all of these things have happened me, but the craziest part is the aliens. They appear to have hyper-human intellects. As real as things feel in the third dimension, it feels equally real or realer in the dmt dimension (which I think is just a brain link to higher dimensions/aliens. If you've done a sufficient dose of it you would know that it's not just the intensity of the experience - something is really going on with dmt that constructs our reality. My hypothesis is that higher dimensional beings have a play in creating our reality in the third dimension. And yes of all this can be possible within solipsism. If you were a celestial being or advanced alien and had a good sense of humor and wanted to tease humans because you thought they were cute going into dmt through quantum entanglement or some advanced nanotechnology would be a great way to do it. I'm just sayin'.

I listened to Osho fervently for years, I didn't find out he was a perv cultist until after I got tired of him, but here's the best tip I got from him, from his book of secrets - Do not move your eyes. If you keep them still, you can turn everything you see into one solid block. That's nonduality. It's amazing that nobody just lays it out this clearly if they already have it but here it is. I was walking in central park when I had my first "oh shit, awakening is real" experience. I was in a meditative-like trance from walking 5+ miles and when I stopped moving my eyes, I saw all of the reality in front of me as a horizontal flame of light, like an unsheathing of God's sword. The best way I can explain it is my field of view slightly increased, I was acutely aware of the edges/ blackness surrounding my visual field and the strange loop or NONLOCALITY of experience became obvious. The "turn it into a solid" comes from Fred Davis - sometimes it's difficult to distinguish noise from real truth with him but that was the most instantly awakening pointer I've ever heard, as well as the "keep your eyes still" tip. If you keep your eyes still constantly around other people you'll look like a weirdo, so make sure to just do it in your private/meditative time.

When I do DMT I found a simple way to increase the visuals is to close my eyes and push in on my eyes with my fingers. Not to the point of pain, but a certain amount of pressure on your retinal receptors stimulates them and you get a ton of visuals. This can be done while falling asleep too.

Agreed, the whole concept of a civilized society is to transcend pure barbarian survival instincts into higher domains. Sadly humanity today overinflates how much we have actually done that.

It's a complex mating ritual. If it didn't work for 200,000+ years, it wouldn't be a viable survival strategy. By saying something like "I don't find you attractive/like you but I still want to fuck you" you are almost guaranteeing an insta no from the girl. It's a sad reality, but one deeply encoded into male instincts.

Yes the local self is not even there but we always need to be careful not to collapse relative and absolute into one thing. Your human self thinks and operates in the world on a relative level, so it makes sense to instill thought patterns that strengthen the nervous system. Meanwhile the higher self imagines everything, so the universe is not "doing anything" to you. You're doing things to you.