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@LambdaDelta Happy you finally could try it Very good trip report. I really liked your points on Infinite Mind, I'm working on that angle as well. It's so fascinating

Yes, and you?

Thanks, good to know. I felt like this info helped a future self of mine when that happened in the trip.

Meditation is the dance between concentration and relaxation; effort and release; contraction and expansion. For concentrating I do hardcore Vipassana and then I relax with just sitting. It's always better to stay with the effort side and then enter more into the effortless presence of mind. The real trick I've discovered for meditation is reducing to zero the micro-distractions. A cup of water with one hole, loses water, only when it's perfectly sealed that magick happens, in the same way for meditation to truly work at the highest level it has to be an unbroken chain of pure presence

This one is good

The best thing that happened in my life

Going veggie does something very positive to your mind and body, it's a cleansing. So in my life I've been vegetarian for 2 years and not any more. I plan in the future to be again vegetarian for a period. It was easier to meditate and contemplate while being vegetarian, but harder to do lots of sport and be grounded, with intense work in your human life.

@Leo Gura Nice! Questions that come to mind: when is rationality a right epistemic tool? When does it go too far? What are the limits and scope of reason? Why and how is reason co-opted by the ego to justify its irrational biases? Why is rationality so idolized? what the hell is even reason and rationality? Is reality rational, or is reason just an epistemologically useful endeavour but limited? It would be great if you briefly talked about atheism as well in the series. Maybe it merits having his own independent episode, but not having an episode on atheism is such a gap in Actualized.org right now, you should hammer more on atheism. Also in your trilogies you tend to have a very slow start and the first episode tends to be too foundational for my taste, do the founding work it's important but gift pearls as well and get over it, otherwise it becomes a different flavour of similar past material (good for new users but repetitive for the serious philosophers that contemplate your work).

It's better to eat it for spiritual purposes than to smoke it. Regardless, for most people it's an inferior substance than 5meos, which is what you should aim for.

This video is so fucking good. It's giving me value for months and years of contemplation and work, this episode is gold. Thanks for giving a frame of reference, around 37 years old, for achieving Autonomy of Mind. It puts things into perspective for serious fellow travellers of life. I see you better Leo. I like it when you wear a costume because the discussions are often so serious and thoughtful that seeing you dressing funny makes me feel more relaxed and lighthearted. Halloween and Christmas specials are always very near to my heart.

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Great leadership entails being non-conformist

Wait, y'all be using a new one each time???

@Twentyfirst If anything, your comments prove the video's point

Omg the cane moment killed me😂

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Missing the Blog a lot, hopefully the technical difficulties get solved soon. Otherwise maybe posting here?

All these translations are grossly inaccurate but 4, 5 and 7 I don't know it. Just for truths sake this is my Hindu understanding of term translation. 1. Shiva is God or Consciousness 2. Sadashiva is God in its active form doing manifestation, sustenance, rejuvenation, pulling out of delusion and liberation. 3. Ishwara is not only the Deity is God incarnate in a form, or an atma awake to its Godhood becomes Ishvara. 4. Good, but Pure Understanding would be more of an accurate translation. 5. Yes. 6. Kala normally means times, but not 'measuring time' in the sense of past, present and future, but that which is measured by the clock. Saying a liter of milk is measured time, an hour, saying milk, is saying Kala. 7. 8. Purusha in its deepest form is the only I, or the I-principle, which is God. 9. Very wrong, prakriti means nature, the nature of earth. It's usually very linked with the feminine.

Read reports of people being raped. Many they ejaculate but have no orgasm. It's like someone forcibly tickles you, laugh may come out, but you're not having fun. That's an extreme case, but there are more common ones. Another example, if you ejaculate three times in a row, the forth time, something may come out of your dick, but that ain't no orgasm, it's even painful. I've ejeculated without orgasm, just a release, like a muscle tensing up and letting go. No big deal.

I'll give you an extract from Sri Anandamayi Ma on Prayer: Question: Why should one pray to God at all? God 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 or similar boons, he would not remember God at all. To be reminded of God, no matter from what motive, is beneficial. Then there is a stage, especially in the line of Bhakti (the path of Love), 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! Oh Infinite one! When will Thou bless me with Thy Awakening?" It is like a fever that cannot be allayed by anything but union with God. 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. I am your slave. I am an instrument in your hands." 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?" Established in the firm realization and experience that God provides for all the needs of its creatures, that verily God lives through each one of us and everything is at its loving mercy, then one becomes free from needless worry and remains absorbed in deep samadhi. - Ma Anandamayi As the Flower Sheds its Fragrance. Dairy Leaves (Part II: Satsang at Solan May-June 1955). Atmananda

Of course you can. In the same way, you may ejaculate and not have an orgasm.

Shit tests are very very real. I've never gotten a women to see them. If you are mature and grounded, it's very clear to see when there's a problem, she's going through something or if it's a shit test. It blows my brains out they can't see it. It makes me wonder what are the equivalent masculine blindspots, so hardwired in our psyche we are oblivious to them. Pd: A sign of a shit test is if it's intense, it feels real, she touches your buttons, but it's also drama and superficial. If you pass them she's very soon happy again and everything is fine.

https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/5meo_dmt/5meo_dmt_article2_vape_pens.shtml I would make two, a 1:8 for light and a 1:4 Knowing the exact amount of 5meo you're taking with vaping is a bit irrelevant, because you're not chasing a quantitative dose (even 15mg of 5meo may be very different depending on the day you take them), but actually a qualitative state you can reach progressively by taking a hit at a time. It's more common to overshoot with plugging than with vaping. How do you know if the quantitative amount that day will be qualitatively stronger? All these dangers are mitigated with a vape juice. It really is very intuitive. As the biggest potential danger I say top 1 is hitting it casually, don't have it around, neither easily accessible. You could harm yourself. With plugging it's not casual, you know what you're doing, it forces you to have premeditated plan.

You can buy them but I wouldn't do it. Doing them is easy once you know. We can talk the details one day.