Sincerity

When you didn't have to wait 50 years after all.

@StyxNStone @NewKidOnTheBlock I remember you guys. You playing?

I was posting such cool trip reports on the forum back in the days. 🥲 How nostalgic. That really was something... Leo has always been so encouraging to me. All the Good work! 's, advice and stuff - I can't appreciate that enough. And the words that always still ring in my ears... "But there's more. "

Interesting. Thanks so much for the response. I’ve often been in negative territory on LSD. My assumption has always been that I can work through it - not per se by force/control, but through understanding what causes the entries into negativity and recontextualizing what arises, or integrating things into myself. Just last week I was processing some difficult feelings that arose on my LSD trip 3 months ago, which brought me down. Also, before that particular trip I created a list of the most common feelings that were spiraling me into negativity on trips (dreads, paranoias, etc…), and imagined more positive attitudes/reactions towards them. It helped then.

Interesting. I’m just curious why you think that happens to you. Obviously you are very experienced in the field, so I wonder what things could be arising for you that still feel troublesome - in a let’s say standard-dose LSD trip. If that’s too personal, please disregard.

Great show. And yes, kind of relevant.

Have you ever had the feeling that once you enter a psychedelic high (eg. on LSD), you are resuming your business in that state of consciousness? It's as if you have a different life in that state and once you enter it again, that life comes back to the foreground, and the "normal" life in the dream state is something so other to you. The "dream life" feels like it's not yours and you might not even want to come back to it. I had this feeling on a few of my LSD trips. The business I was resuming was some incomprehensible channeling shit. Like, I could be doing things I was truly not understanding, acting like some sort of antenna. I felt as if I was communicating with aliens/entities, as skeptical as I am of this. At times, I was scared by my behavior. Anyway, does this resonate with anyone?

I don't know. Like I said, it was incomprehensible to me, and quite scary.

What does that mean for you?

Bedbugs are a bitch, man. So we’ve noticed bedbugs in our place like 2-3 weeks ago. Didn’t know these were bedbugs at first because we didn’t come across them before. We thought it was mosquitos biting us. Turned out that our neighbours from downstairs have had a bedbugs nest at their place. Some older couple who hasn’t dealt with it for a LONG time. Man. I met my neighbour from upstairs by accident in the elevator this week and he laid out the lore for me. Apparently, he’s had to deal with this shit 3 times now, performing serious disinfestation at his place. So have other neighbours as well. This week we had the disinfestation performed. Fortunately, it was covered by our landlord. But it’s been SUCH a god damn hassle… so much cleaning to do. All clothes needing to be washed, while my gf’s occupation is fashion related, so she has a fuckton of clothes lol. ALL surfaces were sticky after we came back to our place a day later (yesterday), after everything was sprayed with the chemicals. It’s been exhausting. But again, at least our landlord is paying for things. I’m pretty sure she’s feeling guilty for not telling us there was a problem with bedbugs in this apartment complex before we moved in. Next time we move in somewhere, this is something I will keep in mind to ask. You reading this, remember that as well. We’ll be performing 2 more disinfestations in the coming weeks. Hooray! 😂 I see this experience as a lesson though. Teaching me resilience, and leadership in my relationship. My girl’s been grateful to me for handling the majority of things related to this process. I’m da man;)

Or, you just went passive-aggressive due to insecurity. And no, it ain't helping no one - not you, not others. I'm being harsh on you, because I don't like frauds. "You" are clearly here and it's easily seen. The passive-aggressiveness is a clear instance of that. So it's best to just be honest with yourself and quit the clown act. Btw, "I" am clearly here as well. And I love it.

„Brother”, these posts of yours here scream passive-aggresive. You are not above ego in the slightest, even if you say so. A sprinkle of self-awareness and dropping this poor act would be nice.

See this:

Well, okay, to clarify: you sense genuineness (or lack of it) when you have some insight yourself already. The guys in the cult and the cult leader would be the blind leading the blind. You and I wouldn't fall for a cult leader, right? Right???? hihi.

Your words are very le non-dual, "Truth-pointing" and stuff, but your charade is seen through. The hurt is yours. Like I told you previously: it's best to be real, try it. You won't be judged for your past pretensions, it's okay, happens to everyone. 🤷‍♂️ There's some truth to that. But again, I think genuineness can simply be sensed in what is being said. Or you have the users' track records in memory if you need some validation. It's not that complicated.

@PurpleTree Sometimes people speak from experience and thus can give more credible advice Sometimes they say things they would like to hear themselves - that's much less credible Sometimes they just write whatever comes up, carelessly It varies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Many people here were directly conscious of the solipsistic nature of experience, for example, including myself. That gives them some credibility to speak of it. With the note of course that always "there is more". I keep a private list of users who I know have had genuine spiritual insight coming from experience. It can be sensed from their words. They are the "authorities" for me, as in: I hold what they say in a higher regard. The list is not that long. A fair bunch of impostors on the forum as well. Sense your own "authorities". And reevaluate from time to time.

"Just pointing out what the Truth is"? Bro, you can't be serious. I think you're getting lost in your own non-dual slop. God damn Nahm 2.0 hahaha.

Still making me laugh.

Reading this shit be like 🤦‍♂️

Yup, that’s right. Sorry I said it a bit unclearly. I also meant to say that currently my aim is really developing the 3rd chakra, and that pursuit is what is spiritual for me now. Simply because that is the resonating step in my journey at this moment. And also because I’m conscious that I’m doing this, and I’m focusing on understanding this energy and applying it. I guess you could say that anything you do, if you’re doing it consciously and with understanding of it’s purpose, it becomes spiritual. That’s my view at least.

It's nice to hear (and see) you've been doing the work. The retreats you've done sound especially interesting. It shows from your writing that you have genuine insight and a developed perspective. I think perhaps "spirituality" and "survival" could be seen as a spectrum. While I view the lower chakras as holy/spiritual as much as the higher ones, there is some truth in that the higher ones are "more spiritual". It's basically 2 perspectives, both true but looking from different angles. I prefer the former one, as currently in life I've been committed to really developing the 3rd one, and I indeed see it as a very spiritual pursuit.

Sounds like you're very clear about what you want and don't. Moreover, I think it's cool that you're taking responsibility for yourself and deciding to move when your environment doesn't suit you. Good work! Keep it up.

@Carl-Richard Sorry, I don’t wanna spend another hour replying to this. Like you mentioned, I probably don’t qualify for the second criteria anyway, so I’m no true „crypto-materialist”. Regarding Sheldrake: no I didn’t say anything about chance being the factor, I work in data science man, I understand. No I didn’t say they are necessarily fabricating results. When I read that paper you linked a week ago, I tried to think of some potential objections to the experiment or some explanations, but ultimately came short. I don’t care enough to dig into this („the SCIENCE”) extensively, really, and the criticisms. It might be true. There can be serious evidence of aliens, OBEs, telepathy with phonecalls and others, but frankly I don’t concern myself with that. I understand you care about that, perhaps for the purposes of your own scientific endeavours, and that’s cool, worthy of respect imo.

Not my experience. I can never precognize when someone will respond to me. Very often I open the forum after some time, thinking I'll get a notification, but I don't. Or, I get a notification unexpectedly.