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God Infinity No seer, no seeing, no seen. Ineffable. Dreamt into existence. Loopy, self-defined, self-limited, paradoxical and tautological. Absolute Infinity No

There are days you feel good and there are days you don't feel that good. In life, there are days when you feel better than others. This is The Law of Life. We'll get everything. There are days you know why you feel bad and others that you don't know why. Nevertheless, you feel the way you do, despite understanding it or not. There are days you know why you feel good, and others that you don't know why you feel good. What do you do when you feel bad? This may seem a trivial question, but it's not. All logic and mind masturbation flies out of the window when you feel down. So do you feel aversion to feeling bad and do things to change your state into a more desirable one? Should you just go through it mindfully? Feeling and letting it be the way it is? Should one get beyond like and dislike? Establishing oneself in equanimity? Should one enjoy the contrast of life? Accepting the nature of being human in a full embrace and love for existence? Be mindful of answering from a happy state. Most of those answers don't correlate with other states. You may think they do but they don't when you are in them, you see clearly and you are humbled. If certain conditions are not met your life philosophy just doesn't fly, that's a hard pill to swallow but is nevertheless the case.

I can't express how profound this one lecture has been for me. The psychedelic might have helped but this is spot on

You are doing salvia because it is the only psychedelic legal in your area. But it's not the right tool for you. It is easier to get through the struggle of finding psychedelics, in the streets or in the research chemical market, than dealing with Salvia as your first psychedelic and then just trowing away all this domain of investigation called psychedelics. Because Salvia doesn't feel good, nor it is easy to handle either by newbies or experts. It's always intense and involves a lot of discomfort. The benefits are good but so outside your paradigm and past experiences that you will not be able to integrate them properly. Salvia is not a good option for you. Why are you so much afraid of finding real psychedelics? See what limitations, fears, anxieties are stopping you. Asses mindfully the risks and do your best to find mushrooms/truffles AL-LAD/LSD or even MDMA or Ketamine. All of this are a good entry point, but definetely not Salvia. It is better to wait and not do any psychedelics than to try Salvia and just get the wrong image and taste of what psychedelics are

This feels too much of a personal question that you are trying to divert to the macroscale. This question is about you. How did having the parents you had affect you? How did your economic situation shape you as a person? What can you do to mitigate and grow beyond these difficulties, using them as a trampoline? How can I let go of the envy I have for others that were more lucky in life? How can I heal my inner child that still suffers from all the conditioning in my early years? What is the source of my suffering? What am I avoiding to look at? What is the most painfull aspect of this situation? How can I accept what happened to me? How can I love myself? How can I love my parents that didn't know any better? And so on.. Btw there is a specific answer to your initial question but it is not what will quench your thirst. Doing the work above will.

Thank you all for your answers. I finally figured out what was happening to me. After doing shadow work it seems that pretty nasty stuff came from places I didn't even know where there. Parts of myself that I had denied, repressed, hidden, hated, fought against, changed, silenced... Just appeared again into the light of my awareness. However, before the fragmentations fully came up to the surface, a myriad of feelings came before. Like some ice cube from deep inside the ocean just started rising towards the surface. The purge was unexpected and felt bad honestly. I didn't understand why out of nowhere I felt so empty, depressed, unmotivated, my mind kidnapped by many long forgotten fantasies.... Afterwards, I started seeing those in the shadow fragments of myself that where coming to light. That fragment of me that had to be brutally shut up to keep going on with my university studies and finish what I started even though some voice kept saying that was not meant for me. That lost fragment of myself is being reintagrated now. As Carl Jung says to integrate the shadow there is no easy technique fit for all but rather it's like the art of diplomacy. Shadow integration is then, a deeply personal proccess of negotiation with oneself. Another fragment of myself that popped was just the incredible ammount of sexual hunger for other women, as well as this need of being a player. It felt like this primitive masculine women conqueror drive, long lost and locked up, was for the first time freed. A part of myself that I strictly repressed in my early years of the spiritual path for being unholy and lustful. This fragment of my psyche was even more denied and repressed in order to have a healthy happy long lasting relationship with my woman. Which makes total sense but there is a price in pushing parts of your personality into the unconscious because they are unacceptable to society, family, friends or partner. That price is wholeness and individuation; and finally consciousness, self-awareness, self-understanding, self-acceptance and self-love. The process of negotiation is obviously on, to integrate in a healthy and holistic way all aspects of my psyche. Shadow work is very wild and I'm just dipping my toes in the water. I feel more human and humbled. Discovering that you are not the rigtheous image that you have of yourself is tough. Realising you have this virtuous self image because you pushed all your bad qualities or unacceptable traits into your deep unconscious, is even harder. In the unconscious your monsters and demons grow, pulling the threads and sabotaging your life. Kidnapping your mind and actions for some time, because as parts of yourself they inevitable will manifest sooner or later. When the ego, a fragmented part of your psyche goes back online will not understand why you did what you did. I want to study this career and make this business work, why am I sabotaging myself? This is what I really want! Will say the ego. If I love her why do I feel atraction for other women? I really love her, she means everything to me! Will say the ego. However, the full psyche and human-self, as the compilation of all fragments, is more self contradictory than the little cherry picked psychic parts that ended up making your conscious personality, ego and righteous self image. Till all fragments are not healed, worked through, cried into and out of them, integrated healthily and unified, there is no hope for wholeness and individuation. You will never be yourself, as a human! Not even mentioning anything transhuman. You won't be yourself, wow. That's failing as a human. What job more do you have in here, than to discover who you are and live the best life in tune with who you are? How can you do that if you don't wanna look inside that hidden dark humid closet in your psyche? Maybe its time to clean those corpses you have buried in the shadows...

There is no difference between the earth and this body. I can even eat by placing (the food) on the ground or anywhere. The rules of conduct, devotion, cleanliness, dutifulness, etc. are needed for your learning; that is why things like these happen in me. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

You may want to remove this body from your mind. But never will this body go away, goes away, and had gone away. One who loved this body once cannot wipe out the remembrance of this body even if he tries a hundred times. This body is ever in his memory and will remain as well. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

Totally agree, it's very dangerous if done without care. It's a tool with its lights and darkness. It's good to point it out because I know most people would misunderstand it. One tool more in the tool box, that's all. Thanks for acknowledging my point. It's rarely done in general. It says a lot about you.

What a polarization of answers. I'm just trying to investigate weed but there is many noise surrounding the topic as you might have discovered by now.

This Documentary is really good. I really recommend it to get a bigger picture of Cannabis in regards with medicine, science, psychology and business.

The Knower of Brahman becomes Brahman I have found many westerners to be allergic to connecting with God via a Guru form, due to conditioning as individualism and French Revolution hangover. I have no such restrictions, and I have found that it is a potent facet and tool for awakening that most people just miss. Which is funny because it is the way people have been historically awakening for millennia. The same way you catch a cold, you may easily catch glimpses by being near a high consciousness being.

But the most consistent theme which can be taken as Ma’s continual message was the repeated statement that all is a manifestation of the Divine. All that we experience, see or hear is only God in His manifest forms. “The Universal Body of the Lord comprises all things — trees, flowers, leaves, hills, mountains, rivers, oceans, and so forth. A time will come, must come, when one actually perceives this all-pervading Universal Form of the One. The variety of His shapes and guises is infinite, uncountable, without end. Just as ice is nothing but water, so the Beloved is without form, without quality, and the question of manifestation does not arise. When this is realized, one has realized one’s Self. For, to find the Beloved is to find my Self, to discover that God is my very own, wholly identical with myself, my innermost Self, the Self of my Self.” “In all forms, in all diversity and disparity is He alone. The infinite variety of appearances and manifestations, of modes of becoming and states of being, of species and types, all the numberless distinctions as well as all identity are but He Himself. All things are but an expression, a guise of the One.” - Anandamayi Ma The Teachings Swami Mangalananda

The Great Void (Mahashunya) is only His manifestation. The great void is not synonymous with nothingness. What is, what is not. Again, everything is there and not there. Negation of naught. Negation of everything. To obtain everything by way of losing everything – that too is required – MA.

Adi Da is a Titan of Consciousness. He messed it up with his community though, which just made his teachings unpopular. Which just goes to say, how hard it is to manage people even though you may be a God-Head walking arround. His teachings are rather advanced but just try to get his vibe and his process to guide someone. Another unsual thing about him is that in his last years he decided to talk as God or Consciousness itself, which also makes it even harder as you are used to listen to people talking from the standpoint of being a human, so you can misinterpret him as egotistical, when after many years he decided to be just authentic and talk like God. Well anyway, if you are interested it takes some time to get what he is saying and get used to his style. I've studied up to this point so many masters you wouldn't believe and I can say that Adi Da is an absolute Titan of Consciousnes.

@BlessedLion Try reading his first Magnus Opus Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution before going to his second.

Having an Awakening is to wake up to a completely new state of consciousness never before accessed. Insight is to see clearly into the nature of something. To see something for what it is. Direct Cognition. Pure Understanding. Becoming conscious of something which you were previously unconscious of.

Happy to learn more about Malta. I visited the country many years ago and really enjoyed the military christian architecture. Normally or you have a military design or a religious/christian design but Malta has a unique blend of military religious architecture that I enjoyed very much. It's probably the country with the best stairs of the world. As it was for centuries a heavily militarized zone, people used to wear heavy armor arround the city. Poorly built stairs were a huge problem as ankle sprain were common among soldiers. This lead to an altogether peculiar detail on stair design that has been carried up to modern times. It seems stupid but Maltese people really have superb stairs. I haven't been able to look stairs in the same way after going to Malta. I also talked with an elderly man in the street. He explained me how everything was much better when the british were arround. To which a young girl walking by said, oh yes the same old discourse. It was funny to understand the politics of such a country and see that many things correlate among nations. Also be careful, don't go drinking tap water on your hotel or you could end up staying there for the rest of your vacations! It's a good place for tourism but it's a little island, so you may feel claustrophobic if you stay too much.

On Prayer Question: Why should one pray to God at all? He in any case does all that is necessary. Mataji: Yes, this is also true on one level. But prayer is good, for to pray means turning one's thoughts to God. There are various kinds of prayer. At first, man prays for material things like wealth, health, family, position, etc. On that level, if he did not pray for these and similar boons, he would not remember God at all. To be reminded of Him, no matter from what motive, is beneficial. Then there is a stage, especially in the line of Bhakti, when prayer spontaneously flows from one's heart. One yearns and pines for God and cannot help praying: "I cannot bear to be without Thee, reveal Thyself! When will Thou bless me with Thy vision?" It is like a fever that cannot be allayed by anything but union with Him. The first type of prayer is of the ego; the second is still of the ego, but of the ego that is about to disintegrate; when its prayer is fulfilled, there will be no other prayer. There is another state when one prays: "Do what Thou wilt with me. I am a tool in Thy hand, only vouchsafe me the strength to endure whatever Thou mayst require of me." There is a further state when one does not pray at all. One feels: "God does all that is necessary, so, for what am I to pray?" Then in the firm belief that He provides for all the needs of His creatures, one becomes free from worry and remains absorbed in deep meditation. - Ma Anandamayi As the Flower Sheds its Fragrance. Dairy Leaves (Part II: Satsang at Solan May-June 1955). Atmananda

Only God is there, in the form of truth, happiness and bliss. The bliss of the ultimate reality is not conditional on anything except atmanand (bliss of the self). Nothing else can stand. If there stands anything that too is illusory – MA.

Flowers and fruits come into existence only because they are potentially contained in the tree. The tree comes into existence only because it is potentially contained in the seed. Where do seeds come from? Please tell me Therefore, you should aim at realising the One Supreme Element which will throw light on all elements. This world is itself but an embodiment of want; hence the heartache due to the absence of fulfilment must needs endure. This is why it is said that there are two kinds of current in human life: one pertaining to the world in which want follows upon want, the other of one's true being. It is the very nature of the former that it can never end in fulfilment; on the contrary, the sense of want is perpetually re-stimulated. On the other hand, the latter aims to bring to completion the activities of man's true being, to establish man in his divine nature. Thus, if he endeavours to fulfil himself by entering the current of his true being, this current will eventually lead him to the perfect poise of his own true being. - Dailogue and Discourses with Ma Anandamayi. (Richard Lannoy)

This is the best that science has done to understand the visuals and geometry present in psychedelic trips. So definetly something exciting to check. When science and psychedelics trips intertwine, this is the result.