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@Breakingthewall i agree with this. reality is infinite potential, and consciousnes is just part of that potential. but everything that can be has to be conceived by consciousness, to quote leo, so in that sense reality is consciousness

all organic matter or even all physicality are bound by one unifying property; change or decay. notice how your body is changing literally every second. you may lose a couple of hairs, your skin cells are getting replaced, stuff like that. NOTHING in physical reality is unchanging, change is a law of physical existence. Notice that your senses have decayed during your life time. Your sight might have gotten worse, maybe you use glasses by now. Your hearing may have gotten worse, likewise with your taste. but your consciousness IS EXCACTLY THE SAME as it has always been. it hasnt decayed one fucking bit. I honestly think this is an extremely strong indication that consciousness is transcendent of physicality

@Leo Gura yes, the only objections i have to this are semantics. but i think the fact that something exists which doesnt decay, is a very strong indication of its transcendence of the physical, since all physical is bound by decay and change

@Princess Arabia i dont resonate with the idea of "low" or "high" consciousness. i think what people mean by this is level of comprehension, understanding and involvement with existence. what i mean by consciousness is simply the fact that existence is. and that fact has never changed, i dont claim there is anyone who claim to be conscious, im saying existence is. it doesnt need an owner. im curious whats your definition of consciousness? because this is pretty much mine. @Sugarcoat pretty much answered ur question here as well

@Sugarcoat i reject this, it doesnt account for why consciousness doesnt decay. you could apply the same logic to the senses. your brain constantly replaces cells and that stuff, yes, to maintain the sensory functions such as hearing or sight. you could argue the neurons responsible for your hearing has been excactly the same your entire life, however even so,your hearing is still subject to decay, just like your skin cells are, they are decaying and being replaced all the time, and when you get older, your skin might start to get wrinkles consciousness has 0 decay and 0 change

@Sugarcoat but thats the point. YOU ARE in the video

i resonate. the day after i had my solipsistic awakening was the day after new years eve, and i was reading the news about all the people who got injured from fireworks, got limbs blown off and stuff, and i thought; fuck, thats me. ill have to endure that shit

I like the idea here, that EVERYTHING exists, infinity. and the brain is sort of a limitation upon the infinite. were it not for the limitations of the brain, infinity would be. so given we all have different brain configurations, neurons and stuff, when we ingest psychedelics and alter our brain chemistry, we are able to access more of infinity, because we soften the limitations of the brain. this theory accounts for the connection between the brain (physical) and infinity (non-physical)

this is a question ive been wondering myself, to what degree genetics / biology / brain activity influences psychedelic trips. ive definetely had experiences where i was 100% sure i had left my body entirely, at which point the brain wouldnt really have any impact, id assume..but dont know man. breakthrough on dmt definetely feels like seperating entirely from the physical, meaning genetics and biology would have a limited relevance. although some ordinary cognition still seems to be there. i was able to think quite clearly. so yea i guess the conclusion is i have no idea just my thoughts

@Water by the River keep selling that water bro. good stuff

yea i like frank yang however i think hes metaphysics are pretty off. but this artem guy man. narcissistic is the perfectly fitting label to be honest

i couldnt resist and i watched some content with this artem guy. he seems very dreadful

@Bufo Alvarius i mean i can confirm this artem guy is straight out wrong. he says during the interview that the universe is not one, that its just a projection of the mind. now this of course comes across as a personal anecdote, but i have experienced a non disputable interaction with my friend through the web of the universal consciousness, so i know for a fact that unity is an ontological truth. this is also why the yogis abide in the universal consciousness, because miracles happen when you do. read autobiography of a yogi, when you master the universal consciousness you can literally manipulate reality. i dont know if this artem guy is straight out lying, or if hes just wrong. neither way hes not speaking the truth lol

damn this forum loves a good bit of solipsism HAHA. all solipsism posts get heated

@enchanted imo its a depressing approach seeking to reduce suffering, when you should be seeking to maximize joy.

@Water by the River no he literally said several times post his final shift that hes not even sure that the universe is one

@Water by the River i mean frank yang doesnt even experience oneness, which is VERY typically induced by psychedelics. so its not that his state is already that of a classic psychedelic experience

this has to be a lol. so you're saying their experience of reality is completely independent from their brain activity? if you alter their brain receptors and neurons, their perception of reality will not be altered, because their "personal consciousness has merged with reality"?

@Water by the River thats not what i meant, it has 0 metaphysical implications if enligthenment increases tolerance to psychedelics im not trying to discredit enlightenment at all, i just dont see why its relevant if it increases tolerance to psychedelics

"theres 3 more to go". this is super arbitrary, you could make levels in an infinite number of variations. waking state. dreaming state. deep sleep. infinite consciousness, god consciousness, solipsism consciousness. nondual consciousness, scitzophrenia, psychotic, ALIEN CONSCIOUSSNESS. wheres your jhana for out of body experiences, or traveling to other dimensions? no states are any more valid than the next one, but some are more valuable for certain things. completing the buddhist jhana journey and enlightenment leads to a cessation of suffering (allegedly), while there are other states of consciousness which are more valuable in accessing truth. some states of consciousness allow you to access telepathy. some states allow you to fucking walk on water or move shit with your mind. you're stuck in a buddhist paradigm

i mean why the fuck does it even matter if enlightement increases tolerance to psychedelics?

i second this. absolutley blown away

yea ill also be happy to point out that that artem guy seems fake as fuck. i dont know why he started popping up everywhere i look, i try very hard to avoid him lol

so yesterday i did mdma for the first time in 7 years. back in the days i used to do A LOT of mdma, me and my friends. back then we always had this thing that we used to call the "mdma personality", because you would always enter your own individual specific personality everytime you did the drug. we were quite young, immature and inexperienced back then, like 18 years ish. so what was very interesting yesterday, is that i was expecting to enter into the same "mdma personality" as i did 7 years ago, however thats not actually what happened. my mdma personality had changed, and i realized that MDMA truly brings you into complete peace and harmony with your current subjective "i thought" personality. i just become a complete embodiment of the character that i am today, which was actually very confirming. it was pretty insane observing how much my personality had changed during the last 7 years, actually quite fucking mindblowing. it reaaallly made me get in touch with my human character "small self" personality, which was really delicious actually. i really wasnt expecting any insights like that, back in the day we used to do it just because it was fucking fun. but yesterday turned out as a super fucking valuable lesson. mdma REALLY brings out your true personality, however still quite ego identified. yet still very valuable because its the true character that you are right at this point in time just wanted to share also have anyone experienced a better body feeling ever than MDMA? like isnt this the fucking top of the cake in terms of that? holy shit that shit is delicious.

@bambi i definetely agree that it shouldnt be taken more than at MAX a couple of times a year, since it has high potential for abuse and it also fucks the body and mind in the long run. however i think theres a HUGE difference between the true personality revealed by alcohol and MDMA, they're not even in the same category. and i live in denmark, where we drink a lot of alcohol lol. but yea, i also view it as a recreational drug, not at all as a tool for self development. however i must admit that yesterday was an extremely valuable experience, which i really did not expect. i think what did it was the 7 year gap since my last trip, which allowed me to observe my own personal development that happened in between the two trips