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I think Yimpa was spot on here. I recommend you to do shadow work. This playlist can be a good entering point. It's good to remember that shadow work cannot be done with personal development nor with awakenings. It is its own unique area that needs to be worked on. This has been confirmed by Ken Wilber and many others. Shadow Work is a must, no matter how awake and no matter how SD advanced you are, you will be doing shadow work but in an extremely inneficient way, side effects of side effects. Shadow Work is the biggest bottleneck for the development of this forum and specially in the spirituality area. It is very much recommended to work on it directly and with appropiate tools https://youtu.be/RROQJYl2jo0?list=PLEOPJybHeNYymvytxsEZLWCcEGFZh4LTE

I was in the Vatican contemplating this two thousand years old statue: I looked at it. The artistic perfection, the pain and struggle in their faces, the vicious snake suffocating and bitting... Suddendly, like a lighting bolt, I stuttered: It's all the same stone, all the same stone... All the dramas in the world are made from the same stone. You're just too engrossed with the form, with your biased form of what you call love, then you think I am pointing to another form, but it's in the Stone the real love and freedom. Let's consider another case. Reality is a universal theatre play, God playing all the roles. In the same way, the actor seems to suffer and be happy and all the spectrum in the scale. But it's just a play, a play of the fluid Stone for it's own entertainment and sake. We are talking of Jesus Christ in the cross style of Love.

Not at all, I'm not saying that. There are so many degrees to the game, to each principle of reality. Love is not concerned or bounded to the DOING domain, this must be understood. To do good or to do bad, to question or not to question, to give love or not to give it. This is skin deep only, valuable at one point but superficial. Love operates in the BEING realm. Existance itself, reality itself, consciousness, aliveness, awakeness, direct experience, thisness... For something to BE it must be LOVE. Beingness=Love You are trying to deduce your way to it, but that's not gonna do it because this is advanced. You need to wake up to what existence is. Then wake up to what love is. Both at a deep enough level, then you need to have a simultaneous & glorious awakening of both facets, Love & Reality. Then make sense of the peak and follow to all of it's ramifications and implications in all domains. Clear your shadow and bias in a myriad of experiences that trigger you... Not your Rupert Spira stage green individual. Also consider this, if you did not have a sense of personal-human-separate "I", there would be no problem, at all.

“In God’s kingdom everything is possible. He is omni­potent. It is none of your business to question what He does for anyone. Why should He always do what pleases you? He is the Lord. What He does - whatsoever — is all for your real good: this is the attitude to be taken.” ~ Anandamayi Ma

If love doens't include pain and suffering it is not love. Love is all inclusive, so inclusive that it doesn't care to do what it wants. Unbiased love, loving both opposites. Simetrical Love, equanimous love, cold love, brutal love, merciless love. I mean this topic is such a huge entanglement of human psychology, shadow, ego, metaphysical understanding, existential love and awakening that it just can't be fully expressed in a few forum answers. You will have to discover it, beyond bias and for yourself, what love is. For the moment I have this quote for you: “In God’s kingdom everything is possible. He is omni­potent. It is none of your business to question what He does for anyone. Why should He always do what pleases you? He is the Lord. What He does - whatsoever — is all for your real good: this is the attitude to be taken.” ~ Anandamayi Ma

Warning: Take care of your survival, no matter how awake you are; your body needs to perform certain activities, which need to be done without omission. Having said this, write a book if you feel like it. I know a close friend which is doing it and has found great meaning in such a pursuit. Also don't worry about the pointlessness of writting a Magnus Opus about Reality. It came to my mind Saint Thomas Aquinas which one day after a mystical experience (awakening) abruptly stopped all writting. When someone asked why such a change in his behaviour he answered: So whatever, do what you want and enjoy this year my friend, be a leaf dancing in the wind of God

There is nothing in this universe that may be treated with disregard or contempt. He acts His divine play in infinite ways, through infinite forms, and in an infinite variety of settings. ~ Words of Anandamayi Ma.

The last sentence remembers me of the saying, if just a speck of dust missed in the universe, it would collapse. The above quote is very condensed, read it many times to get what is being said.

Yes please. Such a whole in his teachings. He's been promising for years to make the Shadow Work Video

It depends on what we say words are. Do you believe you are seeing this shapes and colors called letters or are you actually seeing them? Spirituality is direct consciousness, DIRECT But if we are talking about stage green or religious spirituality, that could fit. Also you need to understand that your whole worldview and sense making is a web of believes. Tonight, when you go to bed you believe so much that you are going to wake up next morning, otherwise you wouldn't be able to sleep in reflections of the uncertainty of death. You believe there is an earth and billions of other humans you have never seen, you believe you were born and so on. So believe is the bread and butter of constructing reality, so if believe can be used to destroy believe, whatever who cares? At some point you believed another human telling you that awakening and enlightenment is possible, and you believed it! Yet that believed destroyed many believes and ultimately will ground you in a state of full consciousness of your believe making. This is an age old concept that Leo has called going Meta. Whatever tool used in the end needs to be transcended but if we don't have tool to begin with because we know it's a limitation in the ultimate sense, we are stucked. Ramana Maharshi used the metaphor of making a funeral pyre. He suggested that just as a funeral pyre consumes everything thrown into it, the stick used to build it finally is also thrown into the fire. As Frank Yang also says, we use one ground to dissolve another ground. In the same way believe is it's own trap but can be used to liberate as anything else if taken to the last step of Meta.

As this body always speaks of the single self, where is the question of separation and distance? ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma "What fear is there for a man whose one and only object in life is the supreme quest? The One who is the goal of the journey is all-pervading. What is needed is His revelation. Nevertheless, the longing for Him must become genuine. If He manifests as longing, He will certainly also manifest as fulfillment. ” Question: What does Mataji consider to be the most essential thing in life? Ma: To try to find out “Who am I?” – the search after God. But first of all one must conceive the desire to know oneself. When one finds one’s own Self, one has found God; and finding God one has found one’s own Self I mean this is it, what else do you want? The Perenial Teachings, Know Thyself & Tat-Tvam-Asi (You are God)

@Carl-Richard shared this video in the topic: "What happens when you measure the brain of enlightened people?" and found it relevant to be posted here.

Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed it! Very impressed with Ken Wilber honestly, casually entering into Nirvikhalpa Samadhi in seconds is badass

No, till I find my use of 5meo has gotten me to a pretty good energetic opening and I have solid skills in my consciousness to navigate such strong experiences. You will remember my words when your body & reality starts unzipping! Let me give you some resources to help you do it the best way, as I see you interested and I would like you to take care of yourself. So I can give you one of my old trip reports and more info Video of Leo talking on his trips on Salvia: https://www.actualized.org/insights/what-its-like-to-smoke-salvia Then a little bad trip to scare you also If you are searching for a high quality written source then I recommend you Sage Spirit - Salvia Divinorum and the Entheogenic Experience from Martin W. Ball One of the few books written on the subject but you can find others also

Whatever you make up your mind reality is, that it becomes for you. Self-Deception goes on forever. Plug 30mg in yo ass it will save you decades at this rythm

I almost fall from the chair with this one

An interesting factor that I've noticed is that people near you also start waking up and becoming more conscious, both in transcendental and human realms. In the beggining you would want to do this but it didn't happen, later it happens misteriously on it's own accord and law. Everything is blessed in your presence as you recognize things for what they are and EVERYTHING FALLS INTO PLACE. Unluckily I'm not awake. Consciousness is already awake at least that I can say.

Lately I've been more interested in this topic. I have a little personal playlist for this, I plan to keep expanding it

When you discover that God being formlessness is also a form you worship due to your belief system! All forms are my form and I have no form. It is beyond form and formlessness. No such questions arise as God

I don't use them outside my home but I know that you listen much better to people while having them in the disco. Also your ear adapts to the sound while having them on, ear is peculiar, it balances subjective hearing level to medium after a while. You don't subjectively hear as strong the music when you enter the disco than just before leaving, the same way with earplugs, it all ends up balancing itself, both in the highs and the lows, but with earplugs no physical damage is produced while subjective experience remains good. It all sounds a bit twisted but 1 direct experience and you get all of this and more

There is a high quality brand called Loop Earplugs, I have been very satisfied with their product. I bought the Loop Quiet, which offers the best noise reduction in the market for earplugs (26dB) for just 20€ Take into account that each 3dB is double cancelation noise due to the logarithmic scale. So in comparison with the Etymotic, they have 4 times more noise reduction. I use the Loop Quiet for sensory deprivation and meditation, they are comfortable and functional. They also have options adapted for partying that you might consider: Loop experience and Experience Plus (same but 5dB more than the normal). It is said that many DJ use them at nights, as it is designed to keep the whole musical spectrum while protecting your ears. Comfortable and made for moving your body and sweating! They have other products that you could be interested in, here is the link: https://www.loopearplugs.com/collections/all I don't like to promote things but I'm very happy with the product and I know many people can benefit, so here it is. Bonus: If you are into sensory deprivation consider trying Mindfold mask, designed by artist and psychonaut Alex Grey for his LSD trips.

@Yimpa I liked that sponge bob video more than what I'll admit

I think this 2 points are key. They may be 20years+ doing sadhana for 18h a day to get that experience lol Can it be done? There is that possibility but contrast it with having it in 5min, there's no comparison. His mind and body was ready for the experience that's why he kept it more less cool. Maybe got there before, a few times in his life, but it's not as reproducible as 5meo. It's just a more efficient tool overall, all these sadhus would be much more awake with 5meo that's clear, with all the work they put in, literally they spend all their life in the streets doing yoga and meditation. With that dedication and 5meo, they would arrive much faster.