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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.

He is the Fountain of joy - Joy and Joy alone is His Being. A state exists in which there is only Bliss, Beatitude, Supreme Felicity. At your level, joy has its opposite; you speak of the joys of heaven and the torments of hell. But where there is Eternal Bliss - Bliss in its own right cannot be expressed. It is entirely beyond such words as "what is or what is not?" To speak means to float on the surface. What language can express that which is neither floating nor diving deep? Man's duty - especially for those who have made the Supreme Quest their one and only aim - is to work joyfully for the uplift of the world, with the conviction that all service is His service. Work done in such a spirit helps to purify the mind and heart. - Words of Ma Anandamayi as recorded by Richard Lannoy. God fulfills the wish of a seeker of truth. He manifests Himself in the way one wants Him and He does whatever He wills. He awakens as well as fulfills the longing of the mind. It is the duty of man to keep the mind in God’s remembrance, japa, meditation, and daily rituals regularly and wholeheartedly. On the path of sadhana, there should be no accumulation of exhaustion in the mind. The more the mind is kept clean, the more it will be helpful to proceed in that (spiritual) path. If anger comes in the mind, try to remove it. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma In the Reality, He who is as being all, without being too, it is He only. Therefore, the distinction of manifest-unmanifest is from the point of view of the individual only. He, who is manifest, it is He only who is unmanifest. Again, He, who is unmanifest, it is He only manifest. Where the devotee, devotion and object of devotion is the same One, what else is devotion but a play? That which is there in the unmanifest, the same, indeed, appears in the manifest. Verily, Reality is everywhere at all times.

Messed it up in the calculations. I woke up today and my mind said nope that's not how it's done have you forgot everything from unviersity. Errata Notice: So Loop Quiet is 26 dB and Etymotic 13dB. This is the formula: Times more powerful=10^(dB difference/10) dB difference=26dB−13dB=13dB Times more powerful=10(13/10) Calculating this, you get: Times more powerful≈20Times more powerful≈20 Let's test it, 10log(x)=13dB; We inverse calculate that x≈20 If the formula is correct we should get 10log(x*20Times more powerful)= 26dB; Is this the case? 10log(20*20)=26dB Yes Let's try with the method that I tried to use before, given that each 3dB is double noise cancelation (as 10log(2) = 3dB) and knowing that the dB difference is 13dB. We'll divide it by 3 to know how many times it is doubled. 13/3 = 4.33 That's the result I gave which is wrong because this is how many packs of doubling not the doubling itself. 2^(4.33)≈20Times more powerful Also you need to take this into account, the loop quiet earphone with 26 dB of noise cancellation is approximately 20 times more effective in reducing unwanted noise compared to the Etymotic with 13 dB of noise cancellation. This is a measure of the devices' relative effectiveness in attenuating or reducing ambient noise, not a statement about the perceived volume of the sound. One is objective and the other is subjective. Sorry for the error, dB is a bit counterintuitive.

@Leo Gura Consciousness can understand itself, but it is already itself, no-distance. Maybe I'm dividing where there is only one, but isn't there beingness and then reflection to itself (understanding), like an arrow going back to itself (conscious of consciousness), to comprehend itself. Haven't you lost at that point the perfect singularity?

Also, let's address the Elephant in the room. You are curios about psychedelics, what do you wanna know? Just put aside your bias and resistance... Ask freely! (Btw, I'm also a big fan of Ramanujan)

I would like to disect your comment. "people brag about getting enlightened from psychidelic" Not all brag but they can certainly have enlightening experiences but not "get" enlightenment, the bragging could come from the difference in consciousness but that does not negate maybe a true awakening experience but now the ego is corrupting it. "but isint that only for 15 min" Imagine you have a car crash and your clinically death for 15 min and then you are reanimated again, for someone to tell you but ThEY wHEre oNLy 15 MiNUteS What does time really matter? Honestly... Intensity cannot be translated with endurance. This is in consciousness as well in sports, you cannot run a marathon with the same speed as in the 100m Usain Bolt Style. Both styles have they are advantages and disadvantages. One thing is base line consciousness and another is Peak consciousness, both have their rules and inner workings. You should be a master of both and explore all paths. "The way i see it you are back on level 1 after 15 min" The mind is like a chewing gum, once it is stretched up to a certain point even when it contracts again it will not return to the same state as before. You jump from a plane or from a flying rocket, just 5min free fall and you are back to level 1? That experience will change you forever. New experiences change you and psychedelics DO change you even though they are short lasting.

Once you see you cannot unsee It is better to have seen and not to see again than to never have seen

Many factors. I want to try it orally by some extracts, I have the intuition it will make the experience much better as in the shamanic context of Mexico is the first psychedelic they introduce the student shaman to. So the 4 dangerous factors for me are: 1 Total Loss of memory. 2 Total Loss of body movement 3 Salvia feels Alien 4 Nasty visceral Ego-deaths. It's called the backdoor of Death So, why is memory a problem? You forgot you took any drug, you are tripping balls you don't remember life being any other way, what is, is the only explanation you have, and it feels weird and unnatural. Scientific studies show that they trigger the same receptors of craving that heroin addicts have, among many other things, so the experience is Truly Amazing but there is this strange background noise that you cannot put your finger on. 2 You can crack your skull open while your POV is an elve mechanic world. In DMT that could happen but body stays (usually) calm and relaxed lying down. You can find crazy videos in the internet of people absolutely losing control of the body and doing the weirdest things you can imagine. 3 It feels weird man. Like 5meo is hella crazy but feels home you see. Salvia is hella crazy and feels weirdly exotic like it has nothing to do whatsoever with anything in the Human-frame. 4 You think you've had an ego death till you have an ego death in Saliva Extra: They call it the yonqui humbler, imagine how strong it is. I don't have more than 10 Salvia Trips under my belt but I took the decisions to leave it aside. Just for the one reason that I couldn't make any sense of it, so unique, so itself. In fact, I'm in love with salvia, it's such a profund mystery that only a handful of humans have gone into.

I thought like you but later found out that approach to be less efficient than other methods, but I could have come to wrong conclusions. Let's agree to disagree.

@Squeekytoy Meet people where they are. We all see through buddhism (hopefully) but there is a natural unfoldment in Awakening. If you are in university you can explain anything from High School. Instead of bulshitting people where they find themselves in, you can raise them up from that level by shining light and expertise about how you actually awoke from it. I see a huge communication issue in this forum that could just be easily cleared up by some awareness of where people are and some simple love to them. Treating them as you would like to be treated while being integrated to Truth.

This is part of the buddhist wisdom about suffering. Through that lens, let's inquiry, what is suffering? Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. Suffering is the resistence to the what is, to reality, to existence, to the here-now. The more you are at peace or in love with what is, the less resistence there is to life, the more love and bliss we fill. This is the theory, let's ground it in practice. Right now ask yourself this question, what am I resisting to feel right now? Close your eyes, see and when you notice, directly feel that, and open it. Nice, for example I noticed I'm resisting to feel hunger right now because I should have had breakfast some minutes ago but still wanted to be more in the forum, so I supressed hunger to keep being here. Now I feel that and will go to have breakfast after it. What are you resisting or unconscious in your body right now? Close your eyes and look, open and release. I notice that thoughts come in the way to fully feeling my body but as they come they dissappear. I feel that I'm contracting my stomach and perinneal region. Noticing actuamatically makes me relaxed and more in the body. I also feel some pain in my ribs from playing football which I am resisting. There is pain, (unavoidable) but I was resisting pain (avoidable), now that I'm conscious of this, I have pain but no resistence to pain, I allow everything to be as it is. What are you avoiding in the space you are right now? I'm resisting to clean but also I resist things being unclean. Which is absurd in itself, rather I clean or be happy even if it's unclean, oh we are starting to see through suffering! Is there suffering without thoughts? (Why are you waiting for my answer I could be deluded, see 4 yourself) Mostly there isn't. Without the improper use of the egoic mind most of the suffering disappears. Still some suffering realities are not directly mediated by thought, like contractions in the body or just unconscious wiring that is present without expressive thought in the moment. Is there suffering without the human I ? (Let's link impermanence, no-self, emptiness and nirvana) As one sees that nothing really lasts in the world, surrender to the now naturally emerges, allowing everything to be as it is. As one sees through the stupidity of suffering, clinging and unnatural attachements... all created by the egoic mind. Which assumes that there is a human, inside the body, somewhere, to whom pain, suffering and thoughts all occur to. There are thoughts but no thinker, the thinker is just another thought, there is pain and pleasure but they arrive at no one and arise from nowhere. As everything is impermanent you see that what you think you are is never graspable but an optic illusion that seems there, but upon closer inspection... Oh there is no human without resistence to the now! This makes you feel hollow and empty, there is no substance to your human self, yet something is, however is cosntantly fluid. You come to realize that you are free from yourself, entering into a deep present open and peaceful state called nirvana. Characterised by desirelessness, which is heaven, because whatever happens to be here and now, there is no aversion and no clinging, no resistance and no acceptance, no resistance to resistance & no acceptance to acceptance, whatever is just is

It's a transition, trust the proccess but don't self indulge too much either, a balance has to be struk. For the moment, your whole ego and mind is getting transformed, like reforming a house. Let things settle down, then you will be fine. Allow the settling and act once it's done, and do what you can in the meanwhile. But neither act in the reform, nor stay passive after it.

That seems so paradoxical, like clapping with one hand Isn't even self reflection lost at this point?

I'll confess that when I saw that video years ago in my egoic state I said: On that full moon I'll take MahaSamadhi... like a badass yeah

This probably is not going to help much but it's the truth. You need an Awakening to see it, to recognize. It honestly doesn't still make full sense how it all works out the way it does, but when you experience it directly for yourself, again and again for years... well we could say that something changes in you and there is a paradigm shift.